Although the dense firepower of the Kuomintang army is still spraying all kinds of firepower. Although I don't know where the shells flew from, they are still plowing the sea of Japanese soldiers over and over again. Although the screams of the Japanese assault infantry, which suffered a large number of casualties, were overpowered by the sound of shell explosions! Eventually, however, some Japanese officers and soldiers rushed into the first trench of the Kuomintang army, and there was an inexhaustible stream of Japanese officers and soldiers surging out of several city gates and rushing towards the gentle slope, which was not too tall. Thus ensuring the absolute numerical superiority of the Japanese army on this front!

"Free fire! Throw grenades! Throw grenades! The shouts of the officers of the National Revolutionary Army burst out in the trenches as if they had exhausted all their strength. Except for dozens of machine guns on the position, which were still spraying frantically, no one from the other infantry fired any more, but frantically threw grenades. Dense explosions rang out right in front of the trenches. The Japanese assault formation was hit head-on by this, and immediately fell down screaming, and almost all the soldiers who rushed to the front were blown down!

Brutal hand-to-hand combat finally unfolded in the trenches. Seriously. In this time and space, the military quality of the Kuomintang army in all aspects has been improved in a galloping way compared with the original, except for fighting bayonets! Well, the Germans themselves are not very good at fighting bayonets, and naturally they will not teach the Kuomintang army to be experts in fighting bayonets. What's more. The current hand-to-hand combat is not a one-on-one heads-up at all, but tens of thousands of Japanese devils who are almost half crazy, howling and pounced! Most of those people are here to die! They simply don't defend at all. Use the life-for-life style of play and fight the squadron on the position. This kind of play is irrational in terms of the population base of China and Japan, and it is doing stupid things, but in terms of the battle for this position, it is still very cost-effective. In the end, the Chinese were just a regiment of more than 3,000 people, and the Japanese could open a way of life even if they exchanged two for one and lost 7,000 lives, plus they were killed by the dense fire of the Kuomintang army. However, more than 10,000 people were killed, and the remaining 40,000 people may all break through!

"Broke through.. Muto Nobuyoshi put down his binoculars and sighed softly: "This war should be a draw, right?" ”

Akai Harumi also put down the binoculars and shook his head slightly: "The price of this draw is too big!" Of the 80,000 loyal and brave soldiers of the Imperial Army, I am afraid that only 40,000 can stand out! Plus the five thousand killed in the 4th Division. There are also the losses of the three divisions on the Eastern Front, I am afraid that there will be 100,000! Your Excellency, what a tragic casualty..

Muto smiled slightly: "It's worth it... He pointed to the Kuomintang positions that were about to be broken through on the opposite side: "They taught us how to fight, and also let us see their true strength." It also pointed out the target purpose for the future growth of the empire, and also let His Majesty directly lead the army and navy! In the future, the day when His Majesty will lead us to take revenge should not be far away! ”

"Day of Vengeance?.. Mu Dazhi on the side muttered softly and shook his head. If this battle is fought, he should retire in humiliation, not only should he not think about the rank of general, but also spend the rest of his life as a defeated person with dishonor. As for the restoration of the Japanese Empire... I'm afraid it's just talking. Will the Empire still have the courage to take the initiative to face such an enemy for the second time? At best, it's just a soft persimmon like Zhang Zuoshuang in Manchuria, and you have to be careful not to provoke this behemoth in South China!

Jinan Chengnan. Thousand Buddha Mountain.

The sound of Japanese artillery together. Bai Chongxi, deputy adviser Liu Fei, and German adviser Kluge couldn't sit still. Ordered the communications adviser to pull the field Hotline out. The three of them stood on the roof of the main hall of Heungguksa Temple, holding binoculars to observe the situation at the front line. It is about five kilometers away from the battlefield in the north city of Jinan in good visibility. With a high-powered telescope, you can see the battlefield clearly. Therefore, they also saw that the Japanese army flocked to the defense of the third infantry regiment of the Kuomintang army like a tide, and also saw that all kinds of firepower on the battlefield were intertwined into a huge fire net, knocking down the Japanese army in front piece by piece, and the rear quickly made up for it, and finally they also saw the defeat of the third regiment, the first and most critical position has been usurped by the Japanese army!

Lieutenant Colonel Kluge put down the binoculars and shook his head slightly, and said to Bai Chongxi in English: "I seem to have returned to the time of the Somme, and we Europeans used human lives to consume the enemy's bullets!" In that battle, we suffered a total of 1,340,000 casualties with Britain and France! ”

Bai Chongxi watched his carefully planted defensive ground being destroyed by the sea of Japanese soldiers, but his expression was unusually calm, and he smiled faintly: "In this war between us and Rimu, both sides almost paid a total of 1780,000 lives.

No.... We have four to five hundred million people. And they only have sixty or seventy million! ”

Lieutenant Colonel Kluge understood what he meant, and he nodded: "That's politics, and politicians are sometimes even more crazy and brutal than us soldiers." They do it for something that seems ridiculous. He threw millions of lives into the battlefield and turned this furnace to ashes... A world war is like that.

"Total seat. The army has begun to attack our second line of defense again! Liu Fei, deputy adviser to the Shandong Front, seemed to tremble a little.

"What's going on with Li Renchao? Why not bombard the Japanese with heavy artillery? Why is his heavy artillery still shooting into the city? Seeing the chaotic situation on the battlefield, Bai Chongxi couldn't help but frown slightly: "For Zhang, you hurry up and give Li Renchao a call and let him use heavy artillery to bombard the front line of the defense in the north of the city."

Bai Chongxi gritted his teeth and watched as the Japanese army began to break through the second line of defense of the Second Brigade, and the yellow crowd of the Japanese army extended from the corner of the inner city of Jinan to the south bank of the Xiaoqing River, still surging forward inexhaustibly. There are tens of thousands of people who are responsible! And simply lost the inexhaustible fireballs and columns of smoke of the lost arm. At this time, the heavy artillery regiment of the 1st Division, which had been ordered, also joined the battle to bombard the Japanese crowd, but it was a pity that the 54 guns of the heavy artillery regiment had been firing continuously for more than half an hour, and the barrels were already hot. At the moment, it seems that it will be difficult to kill all the Japanese who are like the trend by bombarding them at a continuous rate of fire of one or two rounds per minute.

At this time, the war on the eastern front of Jinan City had also been completely won, but it was a little chaotic.

Under a series of shocks, the three divisions directly under the command of the Japanese Shandong Dispatch Army have now been beaten to the point of dizziness. The spirit of most of the Japanese army became hysterical. Morale is not enough to say that it is disintegration, but it is just a bit self-defeating. In complete despair, the officers and men of Hichikusa disobeyed the orders of the commander of the dispatch army, General Shirakawa Yoshinori, and refused to flee the battlefield quickly, but shouted all kinds of strange and incomprehensible slogans to the slowly pursuing Kuomintang troops to the death. Charge! As a result, the Kuomintang army gained a lot of gains.

At the same time, some of the weaknesses of the National Revolutionary Army, which are not too small or small, are now being revealed, that is, they are moving a little slowly. It seems that this army is not capable of a real blitzkrieg, but only uses the shock power of tanks to break the weak flanks of the Japanese army, as the heavy cavalry of the European Middle Ages often did. The impact is strong, but the speed is not fast. Those small Renaults and tanks were just crawling slowly on the battlefield, not much faster than the infantry advancing on foot.

Three infantry divisions were similarly slow. The main reason is that there are too many heavy weapons, and the current road situation in Shandong Province is too unexpected. However, the Kuomintang army now seems to be fighting too much on heavy weapons, and the infantry does not seem to be able to fight without artillery, large and small, as if without a burst of accurate and fierce artillery bombardment, they will not be able to take any position held by a handful of desperate Japanese troops. Therefore, the small troops who were sent to the palace or sent to death by the Japanese high-level actually slowed down the pursuit of the Kuomintang army greatly.

In addition, even the Army Aviation of the National Revolutionary Army, which shone in this war, also presented problems at this time, mainly because there was no good coordination between the air steps. Lacking effective means of communication, in the entire battlefield that has evolved into a melee, the soldiers of the double skills are all wearing khaki military uniforms, and it is really impossible to distinguish between the eyes of the pilots in the sky... So the more than 200 dive bombers could only circle and circle in the sky. Often, there is no body to throw the bomb out until the end.

And in the afternoon, the good weather, which had been sunny for days, suddenly changed its face. I don't know which gust of wind it blew over Jinan. After a while, a drizzle began to fall. A storm on the side. The small biplane planes of the Kuomintang had no choice but to reluctantly leave the sky, and they didn't even have time to drop a few more bombshells on the iron bridge of the Yellow River in Luokou!

Seeing this drizzling rain, Muto Nobuyoshi, the commander of the Japanese First Army, who had broken through the two blockade lines of the Kuomintang army with his army and fled to the edge of the Yellow River, let out a sigh of relief. He had been worried that the Kuomintang planes would completely destroy the Yellow River railway bridge, and at the same time completely cut off the remaining 30,000 people of the First Army.

"Your Excellency, Commander, we have finally escaped. It's just that the price is too painful" Lieutenant General Matsuda, the commander of the Fifth Division, was with Muto Nobuyoshi throughout the breakout, and the headquarters of the First Army was also covered by the Fifth Division. At this time, Mu Tatsuyuki had just finished counting the losses of the army, and stood behind Muto with a blue face: "There are still more than 12,000 people in the Fifth Division!" All the wounded who were not able to move were in charge of another wing, and the queen of the palace had been written off. ”

Muto Nobuyoshi smiled bitterly: "The numbers just reported by the Second Division and the Sixth Division are about the same, and our First Army has lost at least more than 20,000 people in this battle!" Plus the previous battle damage. It's already over 40,000! Counting the losses of the main forces of the 4th Division and the Dispatch Army. I'm afraid it's around 100,000 people, right? The entire first and second days of the Russian war lost 110,000! When I get back, I'm going to ask Your Majesty for guilt....