"Sir, Zhang Lingpu's 58th Division has broken through the first line of defense of the Japanese army and is currently continuing its in-depth assault on the Japanese position." Zhao Zhi's contact point on the rear flank of the 58th Division sent back the latest battle situation. Wang Yaowu's 74th Army consisted of two divisions, 51 and 58, Zhang Lingpu's 58th Division was arranged by Wang Yaowu to act as the first assault formation in the front, while the 51st Division was retained by Wang Yaowu as a reserve and stayed on the right flank.

"Don't pay attention to the battle situation of the 74th Army, tell our troops to be ready, and once the 58th Division really tears through the Japanese defense line, immediately order the Burmese troops to assault on all fronts." Zhao Zhi handed over the Burmese mercenary troops to Wang Yaowu for command, but Wang Yaowu had no choice but to return the Burmese troops to Zhao Zhi because of the language barrier. Zhao Zhi knew that this was Chiang Kai-shek's arrangement, and he didn't say anything about it at the moment, but after the 74th Army set up a position, he quietly mobilized the Burmese troops to the left flank of the 74th Army.

Compared with the 74th Army, which was equipped with all American equipment, the Burmese mercenary troops, with more than 200,000 soldiers, had no advantage except for the large number of soldiers, but after a while they would face the Japanese army who also used bolt-action rifles, and Zhao Zhi believed that with the number alone, the Burmese mercenary troops could defeat the Japanese army fighting against them. Zhang Lingpu, who commanded the 58th Division, was worthy of being a fierce general under Wang Yaowu, and after the artillery group tore through the two outer defensive lines of the Japanese frontal position, the 58th Division, which was pressed on the whole line, quickly went up and got mixed up with the Japanese army.

In order to suppress the Japanese defense line and destroy their heavy artillery positions, Zhao Zhi mobilized fighter troops to help in the battle, but the Japanese army's heavy weapons were more than this, knocking out their heavy artillery wing, and the Japanese army still had mountain artillery and field artillery in their hands. Killing and mixing with the Japanese army can effectively prevent the Japanese artillery bombardment, and the 58th Division is now equipped with American-style weapons, and in the close-range shooting battle, Garland is obviously much better than the 38th rifle.

"Division commander, the army commander has an order, your task is to command the battle, and you will not be allowed to go to the battlefield to fight in close combat." Seeing the hot fighting in front, Zhang Lingpu, who stayed behind the 58th Division, was itching in his heart, and he grabbed the submachine guns of the guards around him and was about to go into battle shirtless. But where did Zhang Lingpu's guards mess with him, five or six guards with big shoulders and round waists rushed up and directly hugged Zhang Lingpu in his arms, and also moved Wang Yaowu's name out to persuade Zhang Lingpu.

Zhang Lingpu is a leading general in the army, and when the regiment commander fought in the Nanjing War, he personally led the death squad to kill the enemy, and there were many scars on his body. Wang Yaowu knew Zhang Lingpu's character, so he gave a secret order to those guards at the beginning of the war, and ordered them to be optimistic about Zhang Lingpu and not allow Zhang Lingpu to fight. "Let me go, I'm going to shoot you guys." Zhang Lingpu struggled hard, but no matter how energetic he was, he was only one person, and there were five or six guards around him, no matter how he scolded, those guards just wouldn't let go.

"Report to the division commander, our troops have broken through, did you send a signal to the military headquarters to request the 51st Division to participate in the attack?" Zhang Lingpu was in a stalemate with his guards in the command headquarters, and the combat staff officer with a scorched face and a smell of gunpowder smoky slammed in. This was the smoothest battle fought by the 58th Division, according to the infantry and artillery coordination tactics taught by Zhao Zhi's officers, the attack steps of the 58th Division had been fully launched before the smoke of the mountain artillery salvo had dissipated, and when the Japanese army hurriedly opened fire to block the attack, the forward regiment of the 58th Division had already entered the Japanese defense line and began close combat, and the soldiers of the 58th Division who followed up took advantage of the situation to expand the results of the battle and scattered the Japanese army's outer defense line.

"Immediately contact the military headquarters and ask the 51st Division to come to take over the defense, and our department will continue to assault." Zhang Lingpu did not ask the 51st Division to participate in the attack according to the original plan, but regarded the 51st Division as a reserve to stabilize his rear. According to Zhang Lingpu's order, the officers and men of the 58th Division who broke into the Japanese defense line marched all the way, and the Japanese soldiers who were beaten with strong firepower were holding their heads and running away, so that Zhang Lingpu, who was forced to stay in the rear by the guards, could be seen by the people on the opposite side.

"Nani? What did you say? The Chinese army has already broken through Qingzhou? "Okamura Ningci, who was stranded in Jinan, was shocked, and the resurgence of Tuba Road in Hebei had not been cleared, and the Chinese army in Jiaodong began to take the initiative to attack Qingzhou, which made Okamura Ningci, who had been thinking about Zhao Zhi, not know how to deal with it for a while." Immediately mobilize troops from Zibo to support the Qingzhou defense line, the Qingzhou defense line must not be lost, if Qingzhou is lost, Zhao Zhi of Jiaodong will attack the whole of Shandong in an all-round way. After thinking about it, Okamura Ningji ordered to mobilize troops from Zibo to rush to the Qingzhou defense line to rescue.

Okamura Ningji thought that Zibo was the closest to Qingzhou, and as long as the reinforcements arrived in time, he would definitely be able to relieve the danger of Qingzhou, but what he never expected was that Zhao Zhi had been waiting for him for a long time, and more than 500 Thunder mercenaries and 4,000 elite Burmese mercenary soldiers had already quietly sneaked to the periphery of Zibo. This group of American-style equipment, they have only one task, that is, to wait for Zibo to send reinforcements, and take the opportunity to cut off the back road of the Zibo Japanese puppet army, so that some of them will not be able to return.

It is obviously impossible for more than 4,000 people to interrupt the retreat of the Zibo Japanese puppet army, but these people are all soldiers who are good at mountain warfare, as long as there is terrain that can be used, I believe that it can be done in a day or two to intercept the Zibo Japanese puppet army. "Okay, since the 58th Division has torn apart the Japanese defense line, let's arrange for our troops to also participate in the battle, and the more people there are, the better it looks." Zhao Zhike didn't care about Zhang Lingpu's careful thoughts, and immediately ordered those Burmese mercenary troops on the left flank to be killed.

Excluding the 100,000 Burmese troops who were placed in the defense line of Zhucheng, Zhao Zhi divided the remaining 100,000 Burmese into several assault formations according to the battalion and regiment structure, and completely copied the Japanese army's pig assault tactics, using an uninterrupted attack sequence to continuously carry out assaults on the defense line of the Japanese puppet army. Zhao Zhi believed that even if the Japanese puppet army shot all these Burmese, they would be exhausted half to death, not to mention that these Burmese would not stand there stupidly and wait for the Japanese puppet army to kill.

The Burmese mercenaries who could not be seen began to charge, which reminded Zhao Zhi of the scene of the German army fighting with the British and French forces in France, but at that time the German army and the British and French forces had thousands of tanks and artillery, and now he only had more than 200,000 Burmese people with bolt-action rifles. The guns on the battlefield rang out, each explosion would take several or even a dozen lives, the front one fell, the back followed by the top, the soldiers on both sides were hysterically shouting and desperately shooting and brandishing bayonets, and the whole battlefield seemed to be stained red with blood.

The "board-loaded" shirtless Japanese officer brandished a command knife to lead the dead soldiers to counter-charge, and the death squad has never been the patent of the Chinese army, and when the Japanese army is surrounded and has no hope of breaking through, there will always be some Japanese officers and soldiers who are bent on death will hold bombs to fight back. "Fire, they're death squads, you can't let them over." The wealthy 58th Division is not what it used to be, and the machine guns equipped with them alone can already be equipped to the squad, not to mention that the chief and deputy squad leaders still use Thomson submachine guns called small machine guns, and in the face of such firepower, the dead soldiers of the Japanese army have not even had a chance to get close to the 58th Division to attack the cluster, and they have all become blood gourds.

"Fuck, it's still this American comfort, little devil of dog days, look at how arrogant you are." The officers under Zhang Lingpu were smiling, if the former 74th Army wanted to put down so many Japanese troops so happily, then I don't know how many casualties it would take. "Give Lao Tzu a charge, go directly to Zibo City, say that his mother is cowardly, and Lao Tzu immediately shoots him." A lot of military exploits are in front of him, and the officers under Zhang Lingpu are all red-eyed, and two regimental officers even follow Zhang Lingpu's original appearance and directly lead the troops to the forward position.

"Commander Wang, according to the information we have received, Zibo's reinforcements have been dispatched, and the 51st Division can now be put on the table." Seeing that the 51st Division of the 74th Army was still being left behind by Wang Yaowu to eat ashes, Zhao Zhi sent someone to the military headquarters of the 74th Army to spread the word. The Japanese puppet army on the Qingzhou defense line was only about 30,000 troops, and if you put away the indiscriminate and indiscriminate Imperial Allied troops, the actual Japanese army strength was less than 20,000, which was quite equal to the strength of the 74th Army. At present, the Japanese puppet army defense line in Qingzhou is crumbling, and it is the best time for the army to press.

"My sir has already deployed all the Burmese mercenary units on the left flank of your ministry as auxiliary troops, and just now, my sir has ordered the Burmese troops to attack on all fronts, and asked your 51st Division to go to Qingliu Town to take Zibo directly, and our army is responsible for the combat cooperation with the 58th Division." It was Luo Ying who was sent by Zhao Zhi to pass the word, and after being nurtured by Zhao Zhi's side for more than three years, Luo Ying had already taken off his original immaturity, and in front of Wang Yaowu and his officers, Luo Ying, who was talking about everything, was not afraid.

"Put it all on? What about Jiaodong? Left no troops to guard the back road? Wang Yaowu was stunned by Zhao Zhi's arrangement, only the 74th Army and those Burmese troops in Zhao Zhi's hands were stationed in the Jiaodong territory, and the 74th Army served as the main attack task of the Qingzhou defense line, and now Zhao Zhi released all the more than 200,000 Burmese troops under his hands, once the Japanese puppet army attacked Jiaodong from Zhucheng, Jiaodong's trouble would be big.

"Please rest assured that Commander Wang Jun has made arrangements at this point, my husband has already made arrangements, and he has already set up a position for the Japanese in Zhucheng, so I won't shoot them now." Luo Ying naturally couldn't tell all the things that Zhao Zhi had arranged, but he could give Wang Yaowu a breath first, so that the people of the 74th Army could relax and deal with the Japanese puppet army.