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7:50 a.m. on April 1, 1928.

After nearly 40 hours of fierce fighting, the sound of guns and shouts on the battlefield in Jinan finally stopped temporarily. After a night of hard fighting, although the inner city of Jinan was hit one after another, the city wall was also covered with bullet marks, especially the east gate of the inner city of Jinan in the main direction of the Japanese army's assault. The walls of that area were all gently piled down by heavy artillery or explosives one after another, but each gentle slope was stacked with the corpses of soldiers on both sides, almost as high as the original city wall, and a red flag or five-colored national flag was now fluttering in the wind on these "city walls" made of corpses, announcing that the winner of this night's bloody battle was the Chinese army in the city

Feng Yuxiang stood on the half-collapsed city gate tower of the west gate of the inner city of Jinan, holding a telescope and looking out. As far as the eye could see, there was a smoke-filled ruin, but there was not a single Japanese soldier in sight. The Japanese top brass seemed to have guessed the Chinese army's intention to break out, and when the last onslaught was repulsed, all the Japanese troops withdrew to the walls of the outer city of Jinan, preparing to use the tall walls of the outer city as a cage to trap the anti-Japanese allied forces preparing to break through.

Under the city wall where Feng Yuxiang stood, more than 30 75mm mountain guns of the 13th type and 70mm infantry guns of the 16th type of the Red Army artillery division were already neatly arranged, and the muzzles of the guns were slowly flattened, all pointing to the outer city wall of Jinan, which was two kilometers away. These mountain guns were the only remaining artillery pieces of the artillery division after a day and two nights of hard fighting

In front of the artillery positions, the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army and the Kuomintang Allied Army had already begun to assemble and set up offensive starting positions. These officers and men of the Red Army and the National Alliance were armed not with bayonet rifles, but with submachine guns. In order to open up the survival of the army in the shortest possible time, Feng Yuxiang and He L both took out the most elite troops. This time, Feng Zhi'an's Guards Brigade and Chen G's cadre regiment will be the first to enter the battle. A total of 5,000 carefully selected elites, all wearing steel helmets, holding submachine guns, and two rows of grenades hanging from their waists, quietly waited for the order to attack.

"Brother Huanzhang, listen" Deng Yanda, who was standing beside Feng Yuxiang's temporary "chief of staff", suddenly shouted, his voice slightly excited. A "buzzing" roar faintly came from afar, getting closer and louder. Is that...... The roar of the aircraft motors and the planes of the 1st Division of the Kuomintang Army Aviation arrived on time

The high-ranking members of the anti-Japanese alliance on the city wall all exhaled softly and looked up at the sky one after another. Dozens of small black dots have appeared in the southern sky, flying slowly. He L, commander of the Red Second Front Army, picked up the six-fold military binoculars in his hand and looked at it, and what he saw was indeed the kind of small biplane called A-1 or F-1 by the Kuomintang, and there were about 50 of them. The black pressed piece is quite shocking. Looks...... In yesterday's morning's battle, as soon as these buzzing small planes took to the sky, the Japanese artillery immediately fell silent, and if the airfield had not been captured by the Japanese, it might have been the Japanese army who would have fled now, right?

Feng Yuxiang just glanced at the plane flying in the distance, and began to silently look at the battlefield in front of him where both sides were holding their breath. I don't know why, but I always turn somewhere else...... The Kuomintang is strong, but after all, it is too selfish, and it only wants autocracy. The Bong are simply a bunch of bandits with modern weapons, which are not worth mentioning, and China's hope is not in them. It seems that for the sake of the country and the nation, only China GCD is bent on realizing democratic constitutionalism and national independence. However, his descendants have gone to six or seven in this battle, and he has to find a way to supplement it after the war, otherwise he will not be taken seriously when he goes to Zhong G. And if you want to replenish it, I'm afraid you will have to move the Anhui system, and they seem to have 20,000 remnants of the defeated army......

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At the same time.

In the area of Urging Madian, about 15 kilometers southwest of Jinan City, the Japanese Hiroshima Fifth Division had already spread out on both sides of the Jinpu Road, establishing a defensive line no more than a dozen kilometers long. Dozens of hills on both sides of the Jinpu Line that are not too high make up the main points of this defensive line. Trenches and anti-artillery holes were dug on each of the heights, a large number of civil fortifications, machine-gun firing points were erected, and several barbed wire and mine arrays were hastily laid out at the front of the positions. The main points are connected by shallow traffic trenches, and two winding trenches have been dug on the main road through which the Jinpu Railway passes. Although the entire defense line is not complete, it is also beginning to take shape.

About 25,000 officers and men of the Fifth Division of the Japanese Army were transferred to the southwest of Jinan City yesterday afternoon by the commander of the dispatch corps, Muto Nobuyoshi, to build a defensive line and prepare to block the Kuomintang reinforcements. The terrain around Jinan is narrow in the east and wide in the west, with the impassable Taishan Mountains in the south and the wide Yellow River in the north. The Jinpu Railway passes through the foot of the mountain on the west side of Mount Tai and enters Jinan from the southwest. The hilly terrain on both sides of the Urging Horse Shop was the last pass to block the Kuomintang reinforcements from entering Jinan. Beyond here, the flat western suburbs of Jinan are no longer in danger.

As long as the Fifth Division is stuck in this opening, it can wait for the Fourth Division and the Tenth Division, which arrived overnight, to be thrown into the Jinan battlefield. As soon as they arrived, the total strength of the Japanese army on the Jinan front line was as many as five divisions, nearly 1340,000, in addition to Zhang Zongchang's more than 20,000 puppet troops who fought for the tiger, including more than 5,000 White Russian mercenaries who were not weak in combat effectiveness. The Kuomintang army in the north was only five infantry divisions, plus some local security forces with little combat effectiveness, and the total number was only 1670,000. As long as the Japanese army destroys the remnants of the 100,000 anti-Japanese allied troops trapped in the inner city of Jinan, the Japanese army will basically win this battle.

On the contrary, if the reinforcements of the two divisions of the Japanese army had not yet arrived, before the 100,000 Chinese troops in Jinan had been wiped out. The Kuomintang army broke through the Fifth Division and responded to the remnants of the 100,000 anti-Japanese allied troops who broke through and fled. Even if the Japanese army gets the city of Jinan, it is afraid that it will inevitably fall into the north-south attack of more than 200,000 or nearly 300,000 Chinese troops, and the situation will be difficult to say at that time

German Military Adviser, Guntel. Hans. Feng. Lieutenant Colonel Kluge stood behind the Kuomintang artillery position outside the town of Gushan. As far as his eye could see, there were 162 cannons, including 108 105mm light field howitzers of the Min 16 type and 54 150mm heavy field howitzers of the Min 17 type. This is all the artillery belonging to the divisional artillery regiments of the three infantry divisions belonging to the northward column of the Kuomintang army. Lieutenant Colonel Kluge knew that this configuration was not inferior to the current Wehrmacht, and the officers and men who operated these cannons were also strictly trained according to the standards of the Wehrmacht, all the officers had graduated from the artillery department of the Kuomintang Central Military Academy, and the three artillery commanders had just graduated from the Army University. They are all very good professional soldiers, of course, there are still many gaps compared to the elite of the German Wehrmacht. But...... Isn't it enough to deal with the Japanese on the other side?

Thinking of those Japanese, Lieutenant Colonel Kluge looked back at the busy Gushan Town Railway Station not far away, and a slight mocking smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. Those Japanese actually did not destroy the railway line here, and all the heavy weapons and baggage of the entire northward column were transported by train to the front line of Gushan Town...... At this time, a large area around Gushan Town had also been controlled by the Kuomintang security forces, and the logistics support of the army should be safe. Based on this alone, the young and unspeakable Marshal Luo is still a bit worthy of his name. Fighting a war is fighting logistics, and with this railway and those dive bombers, this battle has almost been won.

At this moment, the sharp whistle suddenly sounded in all directions of the artillery position, and Kluge looked down at the pocket watch in his hand, and the hour hand was about to point to the Roman numeral eight, and the shelling was about to begin

Suddenly, the group of 162 cannons on the position shook at the same time, first spewing out fire, and then deafening roar in a continuous stream. More than 100 rounds of 105mm and 150mm caliber shells slashed through the air, emitting a sharp and piercing whistling sound, and slammed straight into the main positions of the Japanese troops at Kaishan and Qishan 5 kilometers away.

Boom Boom Boom ......

With a series of loud explosions, a large column of smoke and flames suddenly rose from the Japanese position. The fragments of the shells swept over the main positions of Kaishan and Qishan like a storm. Looking from the trenches launched by the Kuomintang attack, at first you could still see fragments of civil engineering fortifications and various obstacles flying in all directions, and faintly fragments of human bodies were lifted high. Then it gradually blurred, and only blue-gray smoke could be seen covering the entire battle line, and columns of smoke continued to rise into the sky.

At the same time as the shelling began, a group of forty-one A-1 light dive bombers and twelve F-1 destroyers also flew over the Japanese positions, circling ill-willedly. Their task is to find and suppress the Japanese artillery group, as long as the twelve 150mm howitzers belonging to the Japanese Fifth Division dare to fire back, the forty-one bombs weighing 100 kilograms are kept so that they can all be reimbursed in a few minutes, if the Japanese artillery group still shrinks its head and does not return fire after half an hour of shelling...... These planes were to fly to Jinan City, more than 10 kilometers away, to help in the battle and take over the other group of planes that had dropped the bombs.

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On the inner city wall of Jinan, everyone saw the pillar of smoke raised high in the distance, and naturally they could guess that the Kuomintang army's siege relief troops had arrived on time. Feng Yuxiang sighed softly, and a little smile appeared on Tie Qing's face: "Okay, they finally arrived, then...... Let's get started too."

Last night, the headquarters of the Anti-Japanese Allied Army and the Kuomintang Shandong Front Army Headquarters in Xuzhou had agreed by telegram that today's battle would be fought first by the Kuomintang army's encirclement relief troops. Then the Allied forces in the city of Jinan, with the support of the Kuomintang air force, began to break through.

With Feng Yuxiang's order, several signal flares shining with bright red dazzling light rose high. In the sky, 41 A-1 light dive bombers painted with blue sky and white sun markings also quickly climbed high and discharged the dive bombing formation. Their task now is to use 100-kilogram bombs to blow up the tall outer city walls of Jinan and open a passage for the breakout troops.

"Brothers, follow me one by one, but you have to see it and then blow it up" The voice of Deputy Regiment Commander Ye Qiu came from the pilots' headphones.

Then a small biplane was planted towards the western city wall of the outer city of Jinan under the gaze of about hundreds of thousands of eyes, and at the moment when the plane looked like it was about to crash, it was suddenly pulled up again, and a bomb weighing 100 kilograms accurately hit a section of the rammed earth and brick city wall...... With a loud bang, this section of the city wall, which was barely strong in the era of cold weapons, collapsed under the blow of the huge shock wave burst out from the explosion of a hundred-kilogram bomb, and the cage that trapped the 100,000 soldiers of the Anti-Japanese Allied Army was torn open, and the first gap was opened, followed by the second, third, and fourth planes...... In the end, all the dive bombers braved the fire of the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery fire and rushed down without hesitation, dropping 41 bombs on the city wall of Xicheng in Jinan and the surrounding Japanese positions, blowing up the entire section of the city wall and the surrounding Japanese positions.

"Long live, long live, long live...... Seeing the tremendous power of the bombing, the Chinese troops on the battlefield could not help but shout loudly, and the cheers like a tsunami of mountains and mountains actually covered up the loud sound of the bomb explosion.

Zhu Rui, the division commander standing on the position of the Red Army Artillery Division, lifted his gold-rimmed glasses and looked at the planes that had just finished dropping bombs and were strafing the Japanese troops with machine guns. At this time, this artillery expert of the Chinese G already faintly felt that the future battlefield would definitely be dominated by aircraft, and without air supremacy, artillery would not be able to exert powerful destructive power at all, and even only be a target for enemy aircraft, while the Red Army's air force at present has only one passenger plane......

Zhu Rui took a deep breath, calmed down, and suddenly snatched a signal flag from the hand of a gun commander beside him, raised it high, and waved it down again, lifting all the dantian qi and shouting loudly: "Comrades, for the victory of China's **, for the liberation of all mankind, open fire"

The Red Army artillerymen, who had been waiting for a long time, picked up the shells and pushed them into the chambers, and the fire ropes were pulled one by one, and each muzzle spat out tongues of fire

The Red Army's artillery position was only two kilometers away from the outer city wall of Jinan, which was held by the Japanese army, which was the best distance for artillery direct shooting, which could exert the greatest power and provide the highest accuracy. Even poorly trained Red Army artillerymen were able to accurately pour shells onto Japanese positions. Columns of smoke suddenly rose from the Japanese position, rising into the sky in different postures.

In less than 20 minutes of shelling, nearly 2,000 shells had already been fired. Almost seventy or eighty percent of the ammunition stocks of the artillery divisions of the Red Army were consumed, and the artillery positions were full of copper shells. At 8:20, the shelling came to an abrupt halt. Chen G, commander of the Red Army cadre regiment, and Feng Zhi'an, commander of Feng Yuxiang's Guards Brigade, straightened up and raised their hands forward, and the infantry behind them suddenly poured out a full 5,000 elites with submachine guns and steel helmets pouring out from all directions, converging into a huge wave, forming a wave of dense skirmish lines, shouting and rushing forward......

Hundreds of heavy machine guns also moved up with the stormtrooper, erecting on the commanding heights behind and on both sides of the stormtrooper. Soon it began to fire with a clatter, and the chains were loaded up, and they quickly spat out streams of fire to the opposite side. The firing trajectory of the machine gun was raised, and it flew over the head of the surging infantry giant*. Suddenly, columns of smoke were stirred up on the wall guarded by the Japanese army.

Suddenly, in the dense straggler line charged by the Red Army and the Kuomintang Coalition Army, a column of fire and smoke rose up, and it turned out that seeing that the Kuomintang planes had temporarily left the battlefield, the Japanese artillery group hidden under the battlefield finally lifted the cover and showed the muzzle. One after another, the shiny shells were violently pushed into the chambers of the Japanese artillerymen with hideous faces and white strips wrapped around their heads, and then spat out, whistling across the sky, and falling straight down among the charging officers and men of the Red Army and the Nationalist Alliance. The huge shock wave brought by the explosion of the artillery shell carried countless small metal fragments, swept across the entire battlefield, turning this place into a life-devouring hell, the neat and dense charging queue was blown out of large and small gaps, and the screams of the heavy casualties of the charging infantry were overpowered by the sound of the shell explosion, but these brave Red Army and National Army soldiers did not have a trace of fear and hesitation in the face of death, but only accelerated the pace of the charge, and continued to charge in the face of Japanese artillery fire

Seeing the scene of the flames in front of him and the blood and flesh flying, the generals of the Kuomintang Army and the Red Army who had been transferred to the temporary shelter to supervise the battle were all pale and worried. The success of today's breakout battle depends to a large extent on the fact that the first wave of charging Red Army and the Nationalist Coalition Army have put in the greatest efforts for this charge, and even the elite of the Guards, brigades, and cadre regiments have also taken out, and as long as the 5,000 elites armed with submachine guns rush into the Japanese position, relying on the melee power of automatic firearms in their hands, they are absolutely sure to break through a way for the army, but at this critical moment, how can the Japanese heavy artillery that should have been suppressed by the Kuomintang planes sound again?

Thinking of this, everyone raised their heads one after another, looking at the sky in the distance, looking forward to those somewhat reactionary but powerful planes, and quickly returning to this battlefield where the life and death of 100,000 troops were concerned