After receiving an urgent telegram from Sasaki to Jinan, the Japanese flying squadron stationed at the Qingdao military airfield immediately took off, and a total of 13 fighters and bombers formed a mixed group and rushed towards the Jinan battlefield.

Although they are nominally under the jurisdiction and command of the 3rd Air Regiment of the North China Front, now that the North China Front Army exists in name only, they still cannot ignore the orders of the commander of the Northern Shandong Corps.

Moreover, the military situation is like fire, and they are not the navy that is working against the army, but the land-based pilots subordinate to the army, so naturally they cannot ignore these 100,000 urgent orders.

Therefore, after receiving the order, the captain of the devil's flight squadron chose to carry it out without hesitation.

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Qiao Youhua and Zuo Quan and others, after a rapid march, finally arrived in Dezhou City, with them also arrived with the regular army of the 80,000 Eighth Route Army and the 2nd Division and the 4th Division of the Longya Column, the main ace troops such as the guard regiment directly under the column, a total of more than 100,000 troops.

Qiao Youhua and Zuo Quan had already discussed, and set up their headquarters in Dezhou to command the campaign to attack Jinan.

Qihe County, which was the headquarters of the Third Division, of course they would not go.

Because they want to command the battle from a strategic perspective.

The 4th Division, led by Deputy Division Commander Li Yunlong, immediately set out from Dezhou and rushed to the Qihe front, where it formed a frontal attack group with the 3rd Division and the 10,000 Eighth Route Regular Army, and the heavy artillery brigade, air defense brigade, and tank armored brigade were all assigned to this group.

Wu Ming served as the commander-in-chief of the group, and Li Yunlong and Zhao Youde served as deputy commanders at the same time, and were fully responsible for the battle of attacking the Japanese defense line in Jinan from the front.

Subsequently, he ordered Ma Biao and Zhou Dasheng to lead the 2nd Division with 50,000 regular troops of the Eighth Route to march west from Dezhou, rush to Liaocheng, and then cross the Yellow River from the south of Liaocheng to directly attack Tai'an, an important town in Taishan, which will make it difficult for the Japanese army in Jinan to take care of it, plus the partial division that crossed the river from Binzhou to attack Zichuan.

In this way, the Dragon's Tooth Column and the Eighth Route Army formed a situation of advancing in unison on three fronts and attacking the Japanese army at the same time, which was absolutely irresistible to the Japanese army, which had few troops.

As for the remaining more than 30,000 regular troops of the Eighth Road, Qiao Youhua asked them to stay in Texas and stand by, one to act as a reserve for the front-line troops together with the guard regiment, and to raise money and save money, once the Japanese army's Yellow River and Taishan defense lines were breached.

Then the next step is to divide the troops and regain the northern part of Shandong, and even the vast lost territory in central Shandong, and when the time comes, the troops on the front line will chase and fight the Japanese army in front, and the aftermath and public order work will depend on them.

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Qihe County, the headquarters of the 3rd Division, Wu Ming and Zhao Youde have received the latest telegram from Qiao Anbang and Zuo Quan, and have been informed of the above deployment.

Putting down the finished message, Wu Ming asked Zhao Youde: "How is the pontoon bridge erected now?" ”

"Because it's freezing now, the progress is slower than usual, but fortunately, our artillery fire has completely suppressed the enemy army, and in another hour or two at most, the pontoon bridge will definitely be completed!" Zhao Youde replied.

Wu Ming was a little dissatisfied when he heard this, almost an hour had passed, and the progress of the pontoon bridge was so slow, and he was a little worried at the moment: "Now the Japanese army in the direction of Jinan will definitely not be willing to sit back and watch us build the pontoon bridge, so we still have to strengthen our defense, so I ordered the air defense battalion to deploy all the anti-aircraft machine guns to the shore to protect the bridge sappers."

If any devil braves our artillery fire, he will beat me to death! In addition, I ordered the air defense brigade to also move the air defense positions forward to the front line, and set up 88mm anti-aircraft guns for me in case of contingencies, so that I could not only defend the air but also attack the ground, so that I would not be afraid of devils coming to sabotage.

"In addition, it is still necessary to give orders to the front-line sappers and baggage soldiers, asking them to do everything possible to speed up, but if it doesn't work, send some more people over."

"Are all the air defense brigades transferred? Then we won't have air defense here. ”

Wu Ming said: "I'm afraid of a ball, even if the devils have the strength to attack now, they will definitely attack our bridges and attack troops as soon as possible, besides, we are not the general headquarters of the column here, just a forward command post, not the first target of the devils."

What's more, the little devil also has to know Lao Tzu's coordinates and location. Therefore, don't stay in the air defense brigade, all go to the front line, as long as the devil dares to send fighters to attack, give me a hard beating of his son of a bitch, and make sure that they will not come back! ”

After listening to this, Zhao Youde nodded happily and said, "Yes, I'll arrange it." With that, he turned and strode away.

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In this way, almost as the main force of the air defense brigade set up anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns on the riverside positions on the front line, thirteen Japanese planes appeared at full speed from Qingdao.

With four fighters in the lead, six bombers in the center, and the remaining three fighters escorting the right and left, the devils formed a huge group of air attack planes and swooped towards the engineers and baggage personnel of the dragon's tooth column who were building bridges.

The air defense brigade was all in place and had already made preparations, so after discovering the target, Zhou Zhixiang, deputy brigade commander who was in command of the former enemy, immediately made a decision and immediately ordered all antiaircraft guns and antiaircraft machine guns to open fire.

"Pass the order, all the anti-aircraft firepower of the brigade will be fired, and Lao Tzu will let these little Japanese fighters come and go!" Zhou Zhixiang shouted angrily.

The three air defense regiments of the air defense brigade, with hundreds of 88mm antiaircraft guns and hundreds of large-caliber antiaircraft machine guns, opened fire one after another at once, and 10,000 bullets were fired in an instant.

The four fighters headed by the devil were like encountering a raging storm, and the dense anti-aircraft fire exploded one after another, turning into a ball of dazzling flames, and the entire air disintegrated, and the planes were destroyed and people died.

Da Da Da ...... Tom tom tom ...... Boom, boom, anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns kept roaring, and a large rain of bullets formed a dazzling chain of intertwined fire, flying across the sky.

After the anti-aircraft armor-piercing shells flew into the air, they exploded in volleys one after another, emitting a dull earth-shattering loud sound, and clusters of red light bloomed in the air.

For the Japanese fighters, countless deadly shrapnel quickly followed the fire in all directions, and the six bombers immediately followed by the fighters were not spared, and before they had time to drop the bombs, they were hit by the sudden dense anti-aircraft fire, one by one or fire, or smoke, or volley explosion.

You must know that the anti-aircraft fire of the Dragon's Tooth Column was very sudden, and even the faster fighters could not dodge it, let alone the slow-moving bombers.

Therefore, in addition to the three fighters who escorted and covered the left and right in the rear, six bombers and four fighters were hit by intensive anti-aircraft fire, exploded and crashed, and suffered complete losses.

The pilots on the three devil planes were all heartbroken, hurriedly pulled up and turned, and before the dense anti-aircraft fire covered them, they turned their horsepower to the maximum and quickly fled.