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On the night of March 30, about six kilometers away from the main positions of Maoling Mountain and Yanchi Mountain, the southern slope of Tanuki Mountain. About 700 sappers wearing steel helmets with big ears and yellow uniforms were sneakily lying in a large wooded area on the hillside. All of them stared nervously at a Japanese army on the winding mountain road at the foot of the mountain. There were about a thousand Japanese soldiers, more than 100 mules and horses carrying heavy loads, and marched slowly in the darkness in a long marching column.

This industrial battalion was brought to Jinan by Sun Liren to help the Anti-Japanese Allied Army repair fortifications and lay mines. Originally, they were supposed to retreat overnight to a railway station on the Jinan-Pudong line, more than 20 kilometers away, and then take the train back to Xuzhou to end this frightening and dangerous combat experience. However, these young men who experienced the war for the first time seemed to be a little too excited, and they didn't hurry to leave this place of right and wrong, but also found a place with a good line of sight in the mountains south of Jinan, and prepared to watch the soldiers from a distance, especially the "famous anti-Japanese general" Sun Liren, and deliberately climbed the tree, took a six-fold military telescope produced by Zeiss China and looked around, and the result was ...... I found that there was a team of unknown numbers, unknown identities, and who looked like Japanese devils from their height, taking advantage of the night to slowly crawl along the mountain road

In the end, he is a famous general in history, and his observation ability and eyesight are superb. On such a dark night, with just a little moonlight, it was the Japanese army that could be determined, not a "friendly army", and it was really not simple to find that there was prey sent to the door, Sun Liren immediately gave a combat order to the commander of the Engineer Battalion, Major Ren Tianmin, who graduated from the third phase of the Huangpu Engineer Section, he decided to ambush this Japanese army, uh, this "lieutenant colonel engineer" really dared to give an order, and the tall engineer battalion commander who seemed to be quite clever actually obeyed...... So hundreds of sappers who were a little excited, but didn't know that they were afraid, quickly planted dozens of mines on the mountain road, and then crawled in the woods on the southern slope of Tanuki Mountain to prepare for an ambush.

As the Japanese army slowly approached, the group of sappers in the woods who did not know whether they were alive or dead were also making final preparations. Probably because Song Meiling was a shareholder of the China Military Industry Corporation, Lao Jiang "generously" equipped all the sappers and baggage soldiers with rifles and light machine guns, and each industrial battalion also had two 60mm caliber "sapper barrier-breaking mortars". At this time, several Min-15 light machine guns (of a caliber modified from the Czech) were set up in the best firing positions, and the planes pulled the bolts with great care, and could fire only one order; Two 60mm mortars were placed in the middle, but I wonder if the ammunition used to "break the barrier and clear the mines" can kill people? In addition, each rifleman was given ten grenades with wooden handles.

"Attention, prepare for battle...... Ready to fight......"

I saw that the Japanese brigade with plaster flags had already entered the firing range and was slowly approaching the dozen or so mines. The officers of the Engineer Battalion lowered their voices to remind the soldiers to be ready for battle, and the sound of pulling the bolt of the gun converged into a film. Immediately after that, the squad leaders of each squad began to install their own combat arrangements for the soldiers under their command -- the current army has been trained for more than a year by more than 1,000 moral advisers who are always with straight faces, who look unkind and unreasonable, and they are indeed more elite. Seeing this scene, even Sun Liren, who has never looked down on domestic officers, could not help but bow his head, and the combat skills and battlefield organization displayed by this ordinary engineer in front of him must be much stronger than the current loose and crumbling US Army infantry

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A dull explosion was followed by a deafening cry, well, an unfavorable Japanese soldier stepped on a mine and blew his foot away. At the same time as the explosion sounded, several hundred rifles and twenty light machine guns also opened fire at the same time, and sporadic or strings of bullets flashed orange-red as they flew at great speed from the ambush positions in the woods to the Japanese marching brigade. Almost at the same time, the two mortars placed behind the infantry also began to drop ammunition at a very high speed at the panicked Japanese crowd, and the flames rose inexhaustibly in the ranks of the Japanese army, and the scattered fragments of shells swept across the crowd, sweeping the Japanese invaders to the ground.

It was the first few seconds that would determine the outcome of this ambush. The Japanese army is of course a highly trained "samurai", but these guys also need a reaction time when they are hit by a sudden impact. In the few seconds that had passed, the rigorous training they had received would have done their job, and all of them would have dispersed at the first moment, each looking for cover, or simply prostrate on the ground, and then they would start to fight back. Therefore, the first bullet fired by every rifle in the industrial battalion, the first firing of each machine gun, and the first shell fired by the two mortars are the most powerful, and to maximize the power of this raid is inseparable from the rigorous training of peacetime. Although these people are engineers, they also have 500 to 1,000 rounds of live-ammunition shooting experience, and the entire army now uses as much as 500 million rounds of ammunition for training every year, and even if reloading ammunition is used, the expenditure is still as high as 60 million yuan

Of course, that is a requirement in training, and in actual combat, it is almost a 30% hit rate. That is, 600 rifles, 20 machine guns and two mortars killed and wounded more than 200 Japanese in the first few seconds of the engagement. Among them was the captain of the group on a tall horse, Izumi Nakasa, whose skull was hit by a 762mm rifle bullet, and half of his skull was lost, and his white brain was splashed on the ground. In addition, most of the officers of this brigade also "became gods" in these few seconds, who made them wear beautiful uniforms and carry command knives, so that people could see at a glance that they were officers?

Under the impact of sudden firepower, although the Japanese troops at the foot of the mountain suffered heavy casualties, they quickly woke up from the shock. Almost without the orders of the officers or officers, all the Japanese soldiers quickly dispersed, lay down, set up their machine guns, raised their rifles, and began to return fire.

"Retreat, retreat, retreat, retreat now......"

Seeing that the battle might fall into a stalemate, Lieutenant Colonel Sun Liren, the "engineer" who actually commanded the battle, decisively gave the order to retreat.

The retreat was also placed in advance, and the first to retreat were the machines, which were the main targets of the Japanese mortars and grenadiers, so they had to run first; followed by riflemen; Finally, there were the two mortars, which fired frantically for a whole minute, and were destroyed by the gunners with grenades after all the ammunition was gone. It took only one minute for the entire ambush to disengage from the beginning of the firefight, and more than 700 soldiers disappeared into the night in a panic, leaving only the devil brigade on the mountain road with heavy casualties shooting indiscriminately at the target of the hillside marker......

This ambush battle, which was exaggerated by propaganda agencies as a "one-minute victory", paid the price of six people killed, twelve wounded, and two mortars lost. According to the casualty figures released by the Japanese army, 58 people were killed and 115 were wounded in the Izumi Brigade of the 11th Japanese Wing, of which the list of casualties also included the captain Junichi Nakasa himself

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Although the "one-minute victory" was a great tactical victory, it could not change the dangerous situation in the entire Jinan Campaign.

When Sun Liren took the jubilant industrial battalion and walked a few hours on the mountain road to return to the battlefield in the eastern suburbs of Jinan, what he saw was a defensive ground that was about to disintegrate.

Half of the main positions of Maoling Mountain and Yanchi Mountain have been lost, and the unrecognizable Yanchi Mountain Heights that have been bombarded by the Japanese heavy artillery are hunting and fluttering in the wind. And the Maoling Mountain Heights are also in flames, the sound of guns and cannons, shouts resounded in the sky, obviously a life-and-death decisive battle is being staged at this time, the northern section of the eastern suburbs of Jinan is no longer there, Liu Yufen's Second Division of the National Alliance Army was taken by the Japanese Sixth Division in less than two hours, and even after receiving reinforcements from Li Mingzhong's Third Division, it was not able to stabilize its position, and the two divisions of nearly 20,000 troops were on the plain in the eastern suburbs of Jinan. The 6th Division of Kumamoto of Japan, which had 27,000 men, was defeated in one blow, even if Commander-in-Chief Feng Yuxiang personally led the Guards Brigade to supervise the battle, it could not recover the decline. A weak defensive ground was established on a six-kilometer front.

This so-called defensive area of more than 3,600 meters is actually just some sparse foxholes, there is not a single trench at all, there is not an inch of iron wire, only 8,000 soldiers of the Fourth Division of the Second Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, and it is precisely these Red Army soldiers wearing blue-gray military uniforms and octagonal hats who withstood round after round of attacks by the 6th Kumamoto Division, the most elite of Japan, with the simple weapons in their hands, and created and discovered one battlefield miracle after another

"GCD members and Komsomol members rush with me"

This loud slogan was shouted by Jiang Xianyun, commander of the 4th Division of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, and then the young GCD man did not hesitate to pick up a bayonet-mounted Min 13 rifle and rush to the fast-approaching 13th Wing of the Japanese army. Behind him, countless Red Army commanders and fighters in gray-blue uniforms also held rifles with bayonets and shouted to advocate a counterattack. In the blink of an eye, thousands of Red Army soldiers and almost the same number of Japanese troops were wrenched, so that the Japanese army's firepower superiority immediately became useless.

The white-knuckle fighting between the two armies began in the bloodiest and most brutal manner, and although the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army in this time and space participated in fewer actual battles, the training received was much more formal. At the beginning, it was the officer corps headed by Deng Yanda, and later the Soviet military advisory group led by General Galen, both of which taught the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army all the interests of the First Division of the Guangdong Army and the Soviet Red Army without missing any omissions, and white-knuckle warfare was the combat style that the Russian Army and the First Guangdong Division were best at. The Chinese Red Army, which inherited the superiority of the two armies, naturally attached great importance to the training of white-knuckle combat.

Although compared with the level of white-knuckle combat of the Japanese army, the Red Army soldiers were still slightly inferior. This is not that their training is not hard enough, nor that the Soviets are inferior to the Japanese in white-knuckle warfare. Rather, the Red Army soldiers were visibly emaciated, and due to the barren land in the Soviet districts, supplies were difficult. The Red officers and men were visibly poorly nourished, and many even suffered from night blindness, and could only barely fight by the light of the fire and the inexhaustible flares. Therefore, this white-knuckle battle between the Red Army and the Japanese army was carried out in a two-to-one or three-to-one exchange ratio...... Seeing that the Red Army was about to gradually fall apart.

Jiang Xianyun, the commander of the Red Fourth Division, was also in crisis at this time, and he encountered a Japanese officer wielding a long katana on the battlefield. The guy was short, stocky, with a meaty face and a messy beard. And it seems that he will also order "kendo", and in the blink of an eye, he killed six or seven Red Army soldiers and then found Jiang Xianyun.

"Looks like you're going to dedicate yourself to your career, right?" Jiang Xianyun was hurriedly parrying, while secretly thinking to himself: "It's a pity that the day of victory is not coming" Probably due to the distraction of his thoughts, Jiang Divisional Commander tripped over some tool under his feet, fell to the ground, and threw out the rifle in his hand without holding it, while the bearded Japanese officer laughed, raised his katana high, and saw that it was about to be chopped off

Suddenly, pop pop ...... Shots rang out. Several bullets flashing with orange-red light flew from a distance at an extremely fast speed, piercing the skull of the Japanese bearded officer at once, and also saving Jiang Xianyun's life.

The gunfire continued to sound sparsely, and rows of orange-red rays came from behind the Red Army soldiers, most of whom accurately hit the Japanese officers and soldiers who were engaged in white-knuckle combat. Jiang Xianyun looked back for a moment, and a pomp that made people laugh and cry appeared in front of him. There are about a few hundred officers and soldiers wearing steel helmets with big ears and ears, shooting from a distance in a kneeling and lying position. It's still so far away, and it's so dark, what should I do if I get injured by mistake?

These hundreds of people who shot indiscriminately from dozens of meters away were naturally the industrial battalion that Sun Liren brought back. These sappers, who had just fought a beautiful ambush, were feeling good about themselves, and each of them felt that they were gods who had taken a hundred steps. Just now, I was watching the battle from the sidelines, and when I saw that the Japanese army seemed to have the upper hand, I actually picked up my gun and started shooting, regardless of whether I would accidentally injure a good person......

On the roof of a farmhouse about a kilometer away from the defensive area of the Red Fourth Division, He L, commander of the Red Second Front Army and commander of the Red Second Army, witnessed this somewhat nonsensical battle through a telescope.

Putting down the binoculars, He L shook his head, and calmly asked Zhou Shidi, the chief adviser beside him: "What part are they?" How did it come to be presented on the battlefield? ”

Zhou Shidi furrowed his eyebrows and shook his head. At present, this anti-Japanese alliance army was originally a hodgepodge, and the armies of the Nationalist Alliance, the Anhui faction, and the Chinese and G factions were temporarily put together. Although nominally they accept the unified command of Feng Yuxiang, in fact they are not subordinate to each other, and no one can command the armies of others. And tonight's battlefield is obviously a little chaotic, the northern section of the defense collapsed, countless Nationalist coalition troops were defeated in all directions, and on the other side, Yanchi Mountain was lost and the whole line was swinging, only the Red Army still connected and calmly supported the whole situation. Just those friendly forces......

He L took a deep breath and said with a wry smile: "They shouldn't be enemies, right?" Send someone to bring their head over and see ...... Can you get them to join our team? These people's marksmanship is really good, and they can still connect this state in such a chaotic battlefield, they should be veterans of battle."

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At the same time as the Chinese and Japanese armies were fighting to the death under the city of Jinan, the banquet in the county government of Weixian County, Shandong Province was also interrupted by sudden bad news.

A Japanese adviser suddenly crashed in, his face solemn, and he was still holding a telegram that had just been translated: "Your Excellency Commander, the commander of the Fifth Division's Mudazhi Division is in an urgent message. The vanguard of the 5th Division, about a division of the same branch near Tanuki Mountain, was killed by the commander of the brigade, Junichi Izumi, and the 11th Wing suffered more than 200 casualties."

"Nani" Muto Nobuyoshi turned his head sharply and looked at the advisor with a displeased expression: "Didn't Mu Dazhi specifically encounter which division of the Shina Army?" And how's the battle going? ”

The adviser woke up like a dream, snapped upright, raised the telegram with both hands and handed it to Muto: "Your Excellency Commander, the Fifth Division did not encounter that army, and it did not inform the victory or defeat of the battle, but the enemy army has retreated, it should be our victory, right?" ”

"Didn't you destroy too many enemies?" Muto frowned slightly, and a bad premonition suddenly came to his mind. The war seemed to have presented too many surprises, first the 2nd Division was bombed by bombers. Now there is another branch division on the front line of Tanuki Mountain...... Who could that be? The Red Army of the Chinese GCD or the Kuomintang Army of Feng Yuxiang?

"The Fifth Division did not report the number of enemies destroyed, so it must have not been counted yet, right?" The advisor replied with a shake of his head.

Muto lightly clicked the telegram and asked him to leave a wing to take on the guard, and the rest of the army continued to complete the roundabout task, and it must be taken tomorrow, oh, before noon today."

"Hi" the advisor bowed slightly, turned around and left.

Muto Nobuyoshi shook his head, turned his head and said to Kawashima Yoshiko with a smile: "Sister Fangzi, it's troublesome to go to Xuzhou, please tell Marshal Luo Yaoguo." The empire has no intention of fighting with the other side, this time it is all for the protection of overseas Chinese, if the side is willing to pay 20 million silver dollars in compensation, the imperial army will evacuate Shandong...... And it can also be returned to Qingdao and Jiaoji Railway

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