430 Jinan Defense War two New Year's Eve for votes

March 30, 1928, 7:30 a.m.

Outside Zhangqiu County. A long yellow dragon as far as the eye could see was rolling forward, infantry, cavalry, baggage soldiers, mountain artillery and field artillery pulled by eight large mules, heavy artillery pulled by trucks, and people in old cotton jackets who had been forcibly requisitioned, drove the pack carts all the way to the west. In the middle of the procession were the flags of the rising sun fluttering in the wind. This army is the Japanese Sendai Second Division, codenamed "Yong", which is recognized as the first elite division of the Japanese Empire and is also the vanguard of this invasion of China. The march of the 27,800 army had no other noise except for the sound of "ho ho ho ......", and it was indeed an elite and a terrifying aura of slaughter, which permeated the entire marching procession.

Suddenly, an unusual sound destroyed this solemn aura, a kind of "buzzing" roar, faintly coming from a distance. Getting closer, louder and louder......

Dozens of small biplane planes flew slowly from the west, which were light dive bombers of the Army Aviation Corps of the National Army, but the more than 20,000 elite Japanese devils didn't seem to think so.

"That's the invincible war eagle of the Great Japanese Empire," I don't know which Japanese officer who was not particularly bright-minded shouted at that point.

"Hooray, hooray, hooray" The elite people stopped and cheered at the planes that were hovering overhead to form a bombing formation...... If the Navy had reacted much faster.

Probably frightened by the fierce spirit of Japanese militarism and not afraid of death, the small planes in the sky circled a few more times. After a little hesitation, I finally confirmed that these guys below who were wearing khaki military uniforms and looked a little rusty were really the Great Japanese Imperial Army.

The voice of Li Wenhua, the leader of the group, finally appeared in the headphones worn by those Kuomintang pilots: "Students, uh, comrades, now you are starting to drop bombs, follow me one by one in order." ”

Then the Japanese devils who were cheering below saw a small biplane suddenly rushing down with its big head and planting it at an angle of 70 or 60 degrees, as if it were ...... Broken? This is so ridiculous, how could an aircraft produced by the Great Japanese Empire be broken? Just when everyone thought that the plane was about to be planted in the marching ranks and cause a tragedy, the plane suddenly pulled up again, but there was an unknown thing that fell into the artillery queue below, and then it was...... A boom of fire rose into the sky, and a Taisho four-year 150mm field howitzer was lifted into the sky along with a dozen unlucky artillerymen.

The plane...... What exactly is the work? At the same time that more than 20,000 Japanese devils were thinking about this somewhat complicated issue with their mouths half-open. After the last plane dropped the bomb and flapped away...... the shouts of "air raids, air raids and quick concealment" sounded one after another in the marching columns of the Sendai 2nd Division, the first elite of the Japanese Army, and the entire marching column was suddenly thrown into chaos.

Uh, to clarify. The emergence of such a chaotic situation is definitely not to say that these Japanese devils are not elite, in fact, it must be similar panic to be bombed by the Eighteenth Division, which is the most powerful division of the Kuomintang. You know, it's still fashionable to bomb in 1928, especially with the ridiculously accurate dive bombing. Never before had a bomb dropped so accurately in actual combat, and the Japanese were the first humans to be fortunate enough to witness dive bombing. What is the price...... That is, half of the divisional field artillery wing.

In less than 10 minutes, a Kuomintang aviation bombing brigade and 40 A-1 light dive bombers dropped 40 bombs weighing 100 kilograms on a group of stunned Japanese artillerymen, blew up more than 20 cannons of various calibers, detonated more than a dozen vehicles full of shells, and killed and wounded 3 or 400 Japanese who were not fast enough, while they themselves ...... Not a single casualty was actually the 12 anti-aircraft guns assigned to the Japanese 2nd Division before they could be erected, and the bombardment was over.

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Jinan, Wanzhuyuan.

The room was full of senior generals of Feng Yuxiang's family, including the five division commanders of the First Route Army of the National Alliance; Lu Zhonglin, commander of the 1st Division; Liu Yufen, commander of the Second Division; Li Mingzhong, commander of the Third Division; Song Zheyuan, commander of the Fourth Division; Zhang Zhijiang, commander of the Fifth Division. fifteen brigade commanders; Han Fuyu, commander of the 1st Brigade; The commander of the 2nd Brigade passed the outline; Sun Liangcheng, commander of the 3rd Brigade; Zhang Weixi, commander of the Fourth Brigade; Fifth Brigade Commander Shi Yousan; Shi Jingting, commander of the 6th Brigade; Commander of the Seventh Brigade, Tong Linge; Commander of the 8th Brigade, Chen Yuyao; Commander of the Ninth Brigade Ge Jinzhang; Liu Yushan, commander of the 10th Brigade; Guards Brigade Commander Feng Zhi'an; Liu Ruming, commander of the 1st Garrison Brigade; Commander of the Second Garrison Brigade Men Zhizhong; Wang Zhenhuai, commander of the 1st Cavalry Brigade; Artillery Brigade Commander Sun Lianzhong.

Everyone was solemn and silent, and all eyes were on Feng Yuxiang, who was sitting in the middle of the horizontal head of the conference table. There was admiration, admiration, hesitation, doubt, fear, and slight disgust in this gaze Feng Yuxiang just sat there quietly, facing these gazes, his face full of anger, as if to declare his absolute authority to everyone present.

These five division commanders and fifteen brigade commanders represent the entire strength of the First Army of the Kuomintang Alliance Army under Feng Yuxiang's lineage. In fact, twenty people here are twenty small warlords, no matter how Feng Yuxiang calls himself, and no matter how Zhong G characterizes his group. In fact, Feng Yuxiang is also a warlord, and his group is a real warlord group. It's the kind of clique where big warlords coax small warlords. It's just that...... Feng Yuxiang has always been relatively strong in this group, and he rarely has a good face towards those small warlords. And those little warlords were more or less afraid when they saw Feng Yuxiang, and this fear of Feng Yuxiang was actually the source of the combat effectiveness of the Kuomintang Alliance-because they were more afraid of Feng Yuxiang than they were afraid of the enemy, so they had to fight hard so as not to be punished by this boss who was not good at talking

The room was quiet, the atmosphere was oppressive, and even the bright* light from the window became a little dark. I don't know how long it was, when everyone hung their heads in front of Feng Yuxiang's sharp bayonet-like gaze.

Only then did I hear Feng Yuxiang snort softly: "Ruibo." The voice was shivering.

"Humble duty." Where did Lu Zhonglin dare to slack off in the slightest, he stood up in a hurry, and respectfully saluted Feng Yuxiang.

Feng Yuxiang smiled faintly: "Ruibo, the defense line of about three kilometers from Maoling Mountain, Yanchi Mountain to Hongshan is in charge of your first division, right?" You have to hold on for five days anyway, and after five days I will let Xiaodong's (Li Mingzhong)'s third division take over you. If anything......"

Lu Zhonglin snapped a straight upright, saluted Feng Yuxiang again, and said loudly: "If the front line of Maoling Mountain, Yanchi Mountain, and Hongshan is lost within five days, I am willing to come to see him."

Feng Yuxiang glanced at Han Fuyu and Guo Zhigang, the two brigade commanders of the First Division, just sneered twice, and waved his hand to let Lu Zhonglin sit down without saying anything. He turned his head and smiled dryly at Liu Yufen twice: "Lanjiang, I handed over the battlefields on the front line of Maoling Mountain, Yanchi Mountain, and Hongshan to Lu Ruibo." The 4.5-kilometer line from Maoling Mountain to Xiaoqinghe is garrisoned by your second division, so you can hold it for a few days? ”

Liu Yufen's bald head suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, but he took the lead in betraying Feng Yuxiang in the fourteenth year of the Republic of China, although he later "repented", but after all, he was already different. Therefore, his second division was currently the weakest in the first line of the Nationalist Alliance, and this time it was assigned to defend the defense line from Xiaoqinghe to Maoling Mountain in Pingchuan. No matter how you look at this, it's a bit of a communiqué for personal vendettas......

"Humble ...... The humble duty can be kept for three days at most" Liu Yufen gritted his teeth and reported for three days, but he was really not sure about five days.

"What if you can't hold it?" Feng Yuxiang looked at him with a smile.

"People are in the position, people are in the position, and people are in the position......"

"People can't die if they die" Feng Yuxiang stood up suddenly, and looked at the generals with a blue face: "This battle is a matter of life and death for our people's army, and this prestige will be erected, and no one will dare to pinch us in the future." If I don't fight well, Feng Yuxiang will die in Wanzhuyuan and die with the city, but I promise you that before I die, I will send you on the road one by one, do you understand?"

"Humble listen to understand" How dare the twenty younger brothers below say that they don't understand? Hurry up and shout at the top of your throat.

Feng Yuxiang swept the generals and said with a smile: "Right now, people from various factions have donated a sum of money to us, with more than five million fiat currency, and when the meeting is over, people will give you a point, and the brothers below will also share a little, okay, so be it." After saying that, he glanced at everyone again, and then stood up and walked away under the arch of the guards.

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"Air raids, air raids, concealment, quick concealment, and ......"

The Sendai 2nd Division of the Japanese Army has now learned to deal with air raids, and in fact it is already included in their training subjects. And the big guys are also practicing seriously. It's just that this morning's bombing came too suddenly and too bizarrely...... There has never been any such thing as "the rise of China" in the newspapers in Japan. Unless they were serving in places such as the Ministry of War or the General Staff Headquarters, ordinary middle- and lower-ranking officers and soldiers of the Japanese army did not believe that China actually had airplanes and that they had built them themselves.

It's afternoon... Bell, the 2nd Division is about to be bombarded by the fourth round of bombardment today, and this time only a faint "buzzing" sound can be heard. The division commander Akai Harumi was like a ghost who was afraid of death, and immediately jumped out of the car screaming, and at the same time ordered the staff officers of the division headquarters to go with him into the farmland by the side of the road. Like their division commanders, the entire marching procession of the commanders of the 2nd Division was scattered and lying in the fields on both sides of the road. Only a long list of various cars, carriages, artillery ...... was left Waiting for Li Wenhua's dive bombers to destroy. Oh, and there were also some brave anti-aircraft artillery men scrambling to unload the anti-aircraft guns, trying to fire a few rounds before the air raid was over.

Akai Harumi's face was gloomy, holding a steel helmet, and he raised his head to look at the dozens of small planes slowly flying in the sky with the blue sky and white sun signs. Waiting for them to blow up the heavy weapons of their troops one by one with damn bombs...... This is just a few dozen planes to make a mess of themselves, if hundreds of planes swarm and drop bombs, their second division is afraid that it will collapse in the first round of air raids, right? It seems that this invasion of China is really a stupid thing, and without even seeing the enemy's face, it has already lost hundreds of people and dozens of cannons, so what will you use to fight Jinan in this way?

"Boom ......" with a loud bang. A routine bombardment has begun again.

The first to be bombed were the brave anti-aircraft artillerymen, who had just set up a few bulky Taisho 11-year 75mm anti-aircraft guns, and before they could reload and aim, they were bombed and went to see Amaterasu's big sister. The anti-aircraft guns equipped with infantry in this era are all such bulky heavy anti-aircraft guns, which are used to fight large horizontal bombers, and it is completely dependent on character to fight small dive bombers.

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Alarm Disalting Alert Disarming Lifting ......

The bombardment, which lasted less than ten minutes, ended quickly, and there were few casualties, but the heavy weaponry destroyed was still very impressive. In particular, the artillery equipped with the Second Division obviously became the focus of the Chinese bombers, and the three rounds of bombardment before and after almost destroyed more than half of the more than 100 artillery pieces of various types of the Second Division. Fortunately, it was already approaching dark, otherwise a few more rounds of air would have changed the Japanese 2nd Division from infantry to riflemen......

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At the same time that the Japanese invaders advancing westward were subjected to a sudden air attack. In the western, southwestern and southern regions of Shandong Province. Another long-planned "invasion" is also proceeding according to plan.

From the point of view of the Chinese nation as a whole, it is more appropriate that this invasion should be called "reunification". From the point of view of the poor middle peasants in Shandong, who did not have enough to eat and did not have enough clothing, this invasion represented "liberation". And for the group of high-ranking generals in the Xuzhou Garden Hotel, who were almost cold-blooded, this was nothing more than dozens of arrows and small needles on a military map inserted into Shandong from three directions at the same time. Then little by little it pushes east and north until it reaches the sea and the edge of the Yellow River.

On the lands of Luxi, Luxinan, and Lunan, groups of Kuomintang soldiers wearing steel helmets and covered in dust advanced continuously for several kilometers and kilometers. These armies were usually battalions and were poorly equipped. The stride soldiers carried nothing more than a rifle on their shoulders, while others carried a replica Czech light machine gun, in addition to two 60mm mortars per battalion. There were sixty-nine such battalions, with a total strength of about 35,000 men. As soon as they crossed the Shandong provincial border, they quickly divided into more than a dozen units according to the pre-planned direction and rushed straight to the county seat of more than a dozen counties.

They were joined by a special organization called the "Kuomintang Land Reform Task Force," which consisted of civilian officials of the Nationalist Government's Land Reform Commission, agents of the Investigation Bureau of the Kuomintang Central Party Committee, and agents of the Kuomintang Military Intelligence Bureau. Their task was to establish local power in Shandong within a short period of time and to complete the "Kuomintang-style" land reform as quickly as possible. In addition, it was necessary to command the dozens of security battalions to wipe out the bandits and landlords' armed forces in Shandong and confiscate weapons to ensure public order and the reactionary rule of the Kuomintang.

The first day of the Kuomintang's "invasion" of Shandong was basically a slow, dull, and risk-free advance. After a day of dust on a dusty road, it is common to reach a certain county before dark. Then wave the blue sky and white sun flag to intimidate, and sometimes you need to fire a few shots into the sky. Usually the gates of the county town will be obediently opened, and the common people, who are obviously a little uneasy and frightened, are organized by a group of "gentlemen" who are also trembling, and welcome them with all kinds of food on both sides of the streets of the county...... In the end, the battalion commanders and the leaders of the land reform team can also get a big red envelope, according to the order, they must accept these "bribes" at the first time and with the most sincere attitude, it is said that if they don't accept them, people will be worried and unable to sleep, but after that, the money will be divided equally between the entire battalion and all members of the task force.

The 20,000 officers and men of the 9th and 12th Anhui Divisions, which were supposed to resist this "invasion," received orders from Zang Zhiping and Wang Yongquan, the commanders and masters of the division, in the early morning of that day, telling them to lay down their arms and accept the reorganization of the Kuomintang. The officers and men of these two divisions will be scattered and integrated into the 69 security battalions of the Kuomintang, and will become part of the local armed forces of the Kuomintang in Shandong.

When the sun went down that day, the huge military map of Shandong Province in Luo Yaoguo's office had painted the signs of the blue sky and white sun next to the county seats of 19 counties, including Rizhao County, Ju County, Linyi County, Tancheng County, Fei County, Yi County, Teng County, Yutai County, Shan County, Jinxiang County, Cao County, Chengwu County, Dingtao County, Heze County, Jining County, Juye County, Jiaxiang County, Pu County, and Yuncheng County, to show that they were already under the rule of the Kuomintang.

But now Luo Yaoguo's eyes are not looking at those counties that have just been "conquered" by the Kuomintang, but are staring at the red arrow representing the Japanese army in the east of Jinan City, which is only one step away from Jinan City, maybe there will be a dragon battle tonight.