Sixth, fourth, and third, the octopus bites

The bombing and dive strafing of the devil planes did not cause much damage to Qiu Fuxi's company, because the firepower points were all hidden bunkers, and the Japanese infantry would not open fire if they did not attack the Eighth Route Army, and the firepower points would not be exposed, and the devil planes could not find their targets, so they could only wreak havoc on the communication trenches between the positions. Of course, the artillery fire of the little devils is so intensive, and a lot of aerial bombs are thrown, and there are always times when a live cat meets a dead mouse, and two points of fire are directly hit by the shells and bombs of the little devils. Fortunately, the positions were built in accordance with the standards of anti-heavy artillery and anti-aerial bombs, and there were no casualties.

Finally, the devil's plane flew away, and Qiu Fuxi looked through the lookout hole in the shelter, Mom, the little devil is going to make Lao Tzu's dumplings

It turned out that the little devil not only attacked from the front, but also made a detour from both wings. Especially on the front, the devil dispatched twelve tanks and pressed them up with tongues of fire.

Qiu Fuxi immediately ordered the fire support platoon to remove its camouflage, and all the grenadiers began to shell the left and right flanks to block the devil's detour troops. Ordered the whole company to open fire and stop the devils.

The biggest advantage of this plum blossom array is that it is a triangular formation in every direction, and it is like a hedgehog after the fight, and there are thorns everywhere, so that the little devil can't put his mouth down.

The first company already had seven grenadiers, five heavy machine guns, and nine light machine guns, but just now it captured six grenadiers and six light machine guns from the devil's squadron, and the firepower was further strengthened. Captured grenadiers are not used, there are not so many gunners, as long as there are enough grenades for grenades. Light machine guns were given directly to the points of fire, which strengthened the firepower.

Fighting a war is like this, the side that always has a strong position has the advantage. If it hadn't been for the firing point of the dark fort that had been built in advance, a company of 17 or 80 people would have been crippled under the artillery fire of the devils and the attack of the aircraft just now. For another example, if they are carrying a big knife to meet the devil's firepower and launch a charge, with the little devil's firepower and marksmanship, it is estimated that it will not take 500 rounds of ammunition to completely solve the first company. This assumption is based on the fact that the broadsword team of the 29th Army during the Great Wall War of Resistance was famous all over the world, but that was only useful in night battles and stabbing battles, and it was obvious that the soldiers would be sent to death if they faced the devil's tanks, artillery and planes on the plains like they are doing now. Song Zheyuan won the title of anti-Japanese hero during the Anti-Japanese War on the Great Wall, and after the Lugou Bridge Incident, he ran away as soon as he heard the gunshots, which is worth studying.

Qiu Fuxi didn't have time to talk about these gossips, now was the time to be desperate, and the little devils rushed towards the line like a flash flood when there was a big flood. Needless to say, the commander of the devil thought that the position of the first company was basically empty after being bombed by artillery and aircraft, and he wanted to use the tactics of crowds to completely submerge the first company.

With Qiu Fuxi's order, all the weapons of the company were fired, and the light and heavy machine guns formed a fire network, rushing towards the attack formation of the little devils, and the 7 grenadiers began to fire 10 volleys at the little devils who were outflanking the left and right wings.

The little devil never dreamed that after the indiscriminate bombardment by artillery and flying aviation, the firepower of the Eighth Route Army did not weaken but increased. Five heavy machine guns, fifteen light machine guns, seven grenadiers and more than 100 rifles formed a firepower network in the small devil attack queue that was implementing the tactics of the sea of people. Coupled with the constant explosion of those mines and land mines, the surrounding position of the company became a Shura field, which was dedicated to devouring the lives of little devils.

The devils are a large-scale charge at the wing level, going forward one after another, the front ones keep falling, and the ones behind are still shouting slogans and charging upwards with bayonets, looking at the posture to flood a company of positions with corpses.

Qiu Fuxi saw that the little devil tanks had set up battle formations one after another, and began to adjust the position of the turret, preparing to use artillery fire to approach the firing point of the dark fort, and with a wave of his hand, he ordered the detonation of electric explosives.

An earth-shattering explosion sounded, and a huge wave of air threw all the little devil's armored vehicles, soldiers, and weapons into the air, and even those devil tanks close to the position were blown up, and they hurriedly began to reverse.

Two bazooka groups played, and the fighters simply stood out of the shelter and chased the little devil's tank. One rocket is a tank, and by the time the two groups have finished firing two each, the little devil's tank has already begun to turn around and flee.

Qiu Fuxi wanted this opportunity, and immediately ordered to stop shooting, lay mines and explosives bags in the position, and then quickly retreated along the communication trenches.

When Qiu Fuxi and the others ran out of five miles, they looked back and saw that the little devil had raised a hot air balloon in the sky and commanded the artillery to start shelling again.

On the morning of the 21st, not only the eastern and northern fronts opened fire, but also the southern front.

Since the Taixi Group fought the 35th Division and the 13th Independent Mixed Brigade on the front line of Anjiazhuang, the commander of the 35th Division, Masamu Maeda, and the commander of the 13th Independent Mixed Brigade, Morita Masafumi, have become heroes in the Japanese army. In particular, after the Japanese army knew about the death of Huang Su, the supreme commander of the Taixi Group of the Eighth Route Army in the Battle of Feizhong, the Japanese army publicized this battle as the greatest achievement since the battle with the Eighth Route Army.

Osamu Maeda is an artillery expert, a technical general in the Japanese army, and he is more pragmatic. When the news of the Eighth Route Army's capture of Jinan came, Maeda Osamu knew that he was very lucky, and if General Terauchi Shouichi was a little late in his retreat order, it was very likely that the main force of the Eighth Route Army's instructor who had captured Jinan would quickly move south and encircle and annihilate his 35th Division. He had already figured out that the Taixi Group of the Eighth Route Army, which he attacked in Feinan and Feizhong, was formed by two garrison brigades. Just by looking at the two words of security in front, you know that this is not the most elite unit of the Eighth Route Army. If Liu Yimin's department had such a firepower configuration as the Taixi Group, then the solid Jinan city wall would not have been opened in a short period of time.

Maeda had this kind of thinking, and after retreating to the front line of Yanzhou, he was terrified every day, for fear that the main force of the Eighth Route Army instructor would go south, and while urging the troops to build fortifications, he constantly wrote letters to Prince Zaihito, the chief of the Japanese army's General Staff, asking His Excellency the Chief of the General Staff to fulfill his promise and transfer him back to the mainland.

It's not that Prince Kanin Miyazaihito doesn't fulfill his promise, the problem is that Maeda has now become a hero of the Japanese army and a model for the generals to follow, and Emperor Hirohito personally awarded the medal, and it is impossible for Prince Kanin Miyazaihito to transfer him back. Maeda Osamu later figured out this truth, and when he was so angry that no one was there, he took out the medal awarded by Emperor Hirohito, looked left and right, looked front and back, and then slammed it on the bed. He didn't dare to fall to the ground, for fear that he would not be able to explain if he broke it.

Osamu Maeda later thought of a way, so he wrote a letter to ask his wife to enter the palace to meet Empress Ryoko, and comb her hair with tea, thinking that when Mrs. and Empress Ryoko had a deep relationship, Mrs. would intercede with Empress Ryoko, and ask Empress Ryoko to blow the pillow wind to His Majesty the Emperor, so that His Majesty the Emperor would realize that Osamu Maeda was an artillery professional, and being the commander of the division was a bit condescending, which would affect the development of the artillery of the Japanese Army.

The relationship between Madame and Empress Ryoko has not yet been cultivated, and the order for the North China Public Security War has been issued, and Maeda Osamu has no choice but to carry out the order.

The idea of Lieutenant General Morita Masafumi, the commander of the 13th Independent Mixed Brigade, was exactly the opposite of Maeda's thinking. This old devil, An Jiazhuang gained fame and fortune in the first battle, was awarded a lieutenant general, and won a medal, but the difference was that Prince Zairen of Xianyuan Palace promised to upgrade the 13th Brigade into a division regiment independently.

Don't look at this item, Morita Masaho cares a lot. The reason is very simple, Morita Masaho is personally indignant that he has to be under the command of the 35th Division when he cooperates with the 35th Division in combat. is also a lieutenant general, why did Osamu Maeda, that crepe guy, order him?

Morita Masahomi felt that as long as there was one more battle, a battle like the last battle of Anjiazhuang, the 13th Brigade could be expanded into a division and regiment independently, and he would become a veritable lieutenant general division commander, and he would no longer have to accept Maeda's orders. Therefore, he was full of desire for the war of law and order in North China, and also wanted to lead the troops to attack Jinan City first and win the first prize

The reason why Morita Masatomi has this idea is that some time ago, the Japanese army rested and replenished, and the 13th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade was supplemented and strengthened due to its combat exploits, and an independent tank squadron and an independent armored vehicle squadron were added, and the combat effectiveness was improved. Not only did he independently form the 13th Brigade, but the 35th Division was also strengthened, not only making up for the battle losses, but also expanding the division from about 12,000 to 18,000, and its combat effectiveness was also improved.

Morita Masaho, this guy, forgot how his independent mixed 13th Brigade was originally organized by the Kwantung Army and the five independent infantry brigades died in Beijipo, and he really doesn't have a long memory.

In accordance with the operational order of the North China Front, the 13th Brigade and the 35th and 14th Divisions were independently mixed to form a southern front attack group, under the unified command of the new commander of the 12th Army, Lieutenant General Iida Sadagu, and launched an attack in the direction of Jinan along the Jinpu Road and Highway in the early morning of the 21st.

This time, the 14th Division was added as a permanent division, and the 14th Division was also equipped with the heavy artillery brigade of the First Army, which was all howitzers and cannons towed by cars, and was also equipped with an anti-aircraft artillery wing. With such strong fire support and the support of the 14th Division, Maeda finally cheered up and made a careful plan to prepare for a surprise attack on the position of the Eighth Route Army, and after defeating the Eighth Route Army that confronted the Imperial Army in person, he would pursue it with victory.

Maeda was a good student, and on the afternoon of the 20th, he ordered the news to be blocked. As soon as it was dawn on the 21st, an attack was ordered. However, it was neither the troops of the 35th Division nor the 13th Brigade that were independently mixed into the 13th Brigade that were responsible for the first wave of attacks, but the brigade attached to the puppet Manchurian Wehrmacht under his command.

Maeda's idea was very simple, the puppet Manchurian Defense Force was well-trained, and except for the accident that the firepower could not catch up with the imperial army, the soldiers' combat skills were not weaker than the imperial army. There is another advantage of letting them be the vanguard, that is, they are all Chinese, and maybe the Eighth Route Army will not deal with them as they do with the imperial army, maybe they can use this relationship to expand the results of the battle, besides, although the commanders of the Manchurian Defense Force are already officers of the imperial army, the soldiers are all Chinese. It doesn't matter if the Chinese die more, as long as they can save the lives of the imperial soldiers. As soon as the Manchurian Defense Force brigade launched an attack, it collided head-on with the bomber group of the Eighth Route Army and was blown apart.

After receiving the report, Maeda immediately sent a report to Lieutenant General Iida Sadagu, commander of the 12th Army, saying that if air supremacy could not be guaranteed, the 35th Division would become the target of attack by the fighters of the Eighth Route Army, not to mention the recovery of Jinan, and I was afraid that if it could not reach the city of Tai'an, it would be bombed by the fighters of the Eighth Route Army, and it would have to withdraw from the battle.

Lieutenant General Iida Sadagu was promoted from the commander of the Guards Division to the commander of the 12th Army, and he did not accept Maeda's system at all, and strictly ordered him to carry out the battle order, otherwise he would be punished for battlefield disobedience.

Only then did Maeda understand that although he was the commander of the lieutenant general division, the 35th division could not enter the eyes of Lieutenant General Iida Sadagu, who was born as the commander of the Guards Division. If you don't move forward again, it's likely that you'll really be punished by that bastard Iida Sadagu.

Maeda immediately adjusted the deployment and reduced the brigade of the puppet Manchurian Defense Army to a regiment, which was assigned to the command of the 13th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade and assumed the task of frontal attack. He personally led the 35th Division to cover the two flanks and provide fire support, and launched an attack on the position of the Eighth Route Army.

Not bad, the North China Front Aviation Group soon sent fighters and bombers, and there was no shadow of the Eighth Route Army fighters in the sky over the battlefield.

This fight, Maeda Osamu couldn't help but be overjoyed, the strength of the Eighth Route Army was not strong, and there were no field artillery or mountain artillery to participate in the battle, it was clearly the troops of the Taixi Group during the Battle of Anjiazhuang, relying on fortifications to fight with the imperial army.

At this moment, Maeda Osamu received a secret telegram from the North China Front Army Headquarters forwarded by Iida Sadagu, saying that according to intelligence analysis, Liu Yimin did not have the information that the Imperial Army had transferred additional armored brigades, guards divisions, sixth divisions, and sixteenth divisions to join the Eastern Front battlefield, and judged that its main force should be concentrated in the area of Weixian in Luzhong and prepare to ambush the Fifth Division of the Eastern Front. The garrison strength of the Eighth Route Army in Jinan was weak, and its blocking troops on the southern and northern fronts should be partial divisions with weak combat effectiveness, the purpose of which was to block the attack speed of the delayed imperial army and conceal his true intention of ambushing the Fifth Division. The headquarters of the front army ordered all divisions and regiments on the southern and northern fronts to concentrate all their efforts to destroy the enemy's resistance in front of them and attack Jinan, and they must occupy Jinan before Liu Yimin's forces return to Jinan, and then attack the east and west with the Eastern Front Group, and concentrate and annihilate Liu Yimin's forces and the area around Luzhong. If the offensive of the various units slows down a little, Liu Yimin will probably quickly return to Jinan to meet the southern group or the northern line group after discovering that the eastern front is not a fifth division but four elite divisions, and then the northern line group will inevitably be blocked on the west bank of the Yellow River, and the southern line group will still be in danger of being attacked.

Maeda Osamu suddenly got the hang of it, it turned out that Liu Yimin's strength was not here, and the firepower and combat effectiveness of the blocking troops were limited, so when would he not attack with all his might?

The fish bites