431 Jinan Defense Battle Three Greetings Asking for Votes Every Year

"Shelling concealed ......"

As an orange-red fireball rose into the air on the main position of Maoling Mountain in the east of Jinan, the defense of Jinan officially kicked off. As Luo Yaoguo analyzed, the Japanese army was aware of the threat from the air, so it was very wise to put the attack into the night.

At five or six o'clock this afternoon, the Sendai Fourth Wing, the vanguard of Japan's Sendai Second Division, arrived on the open plain east of Mount Maoling. Probably "ravaged" by the Kuomintang planes for a whole day, the morale of these little devils seems to be slightly low, and their actions are more cautious. Instead of immediately attacking, they carefully began to build up positions outside the range of the defenders' fire. It was not until seven o'clock in the evening, after the night had completely covered the entire battlefield in the eastern suburbs of Jinan, that thousands of elite Japanese devils, under the organization of the officers, sat quietly in the trenches that had just been dug with long bayonets, holding the 38-type rifles with long bayonets, waiting for the order to attack.

Like them, more than 1,500 officers and men of the 1st Brigade and 2nd Regiment of the 1st Division of the Kuomintang Coalition Army on the main positions opposite Maoling Mountain and Yanchi Mountain have also made all preparations...... Before dinner, each soldier received a few fiat coins with a denomination of one dollar, and then collectively prayed to God's grandfather under the leadership of Wu Huawen. Well, after Commander-in-Chief Feng attended the wedding of Lao Jiang and Song Yujie in the fifteenth year of the Republic of China, he gave up GCISM and changed back to Christianity. After praying, I ate the fragrant pork stewed vermicelli. In the end, the black-faced commander of the First Brigade, Han Fuyu, also personally announced the battlefield discipline, and there was a supervising team with a scary ghost head and a big knife in front of them, and the Han brigade commander will personally lead these supervising teams to press the formation on the front line of Maoling Mountain and Yanchi Mountain, and anyone who dares to retreat without authorization, no matter who it is, will kill one when he sees one, of course, behind the Han brigade commander, there is also the supervision team personally led by the commander of the first division, Lu Zhonglin, and behind the Lu division commander is the commander-in-chief Feng who sits in Jinan Dongguan, and behind the commander-in-chief Feng is said to be the bright eyes of the people of the whole country, in short, it has come to this point, I'm afraid it won't work if you don't fight......

After a few test shots, the Japanese artillery finally began to rain shells on the entire defensive positions of the eastern front in Jinan. On the Japanese artillery cluster position about three kilometers behind the starting position of the Japanese attack, nearly 200 mountain guns, field guns, and howitzers of various calibers were neatly arranged, all of which were raised high and pointed to the western sky. As the flag directing the bombardment was waved downward, a shiny cannonball filled the chamber and then spat out. The high-speed rotating shells carried a long orange-red tail flame, like a meteor that streaked across the sky and headed straight for the positions of the National Alliance

"Boom, boom, boom......"

The ensuing explosions began to pound the ground violently, and the powerful shock wave formed a hot wave of air, and countless tiny metal fragments were like a death scythe that harvested life, spinning at high speed and flying in all directions, sweeping across the entire defensive position. The earth began to shake violently, and even from the starting position of the Japanese attack, a strong shock could be felt, as if the whole earth had been distorted.

Hideki Tojo, the new commander of the Fourth Wing of the Japanese Army, was standing behind the position of the Fourth Wing at this moment, holding a sixfold military telescope to observe the main position of Maoling Mountain opposite. Seeing that the opposing line of defense had been shrouded in orange-red skyrocketing fire, a slight smile of contempt slipped over Tojo's long-gloomy face.

"Ishihara-kun." Putting down the binoculars in his hand, Tojo turned around and smiled faintly at Ishihara Waner, a staff officer of the Dispatch Army Headquarters: "Those guys in the artillery are avenging the bombardment during the day, maybe when our Fourth Wing attacks it later, there will be no surviving Shina people there." I'm afraid that your feint, outflanking, and surprise attack has been done many times, right? In my opinion, how can it be so troublesome to fight these people, just rush over from the front and drive them away, with our invincible second division, it is no problem to fight to Wuhan and capture Sun Yat-sen alive......"

Ishihara Waner had several relationships with the legendary "Shina Military God" Luo Yaoguo, so he was brought to his headquarters by Muto Nobuyoshi as a staff officer. This time, a plan was also drawn up to encircle and annihilate the "Jinan Corps of China", and it was also approved by Muto. According to this plan, the 2nd and 6th Divisions of the Japanese Army would launch a feint attack due east of Jinan to attract the main forces and reserves of the Chinese army. The Hiroshima Fifth Division, on the other hand, had to lightly carry out the mountainous area south of the battlefield, through the Coffin Mountain, Tanuki Mountain, and Zhuzi Mountain, to the south of the Jinan City defense line, and surprise attack the Qianfoshan position defended by the Anhui army. After succeeding, he bypassed the outer city wall of Jinan and directly attacked the commercial port of Jinan, cutting off the retreat of more than 100,000 Chinese troops in Jinan, so as to achieve the goal of annihilating the defenders.

However, this perfect battle plan was unanimously opposed by the top and bottom of the 2nd Division. It is estimated that the Kuomintang dive bombers were tossed and miserable during the day today, right? At this time, they were holding back their evil energy, wanting to enter Jinan City to take revenge, and then take the lead by the way, so Ishihara had no choice but to rush over from Weixian County in person to do the ideological work of the Second Division. Well, in fact, Muto asked him to scold the leaders of the Second Division to vent his anger. It's just that this Ishihara is not a character who can be a gas bag? His poisonous mouth is not angry with others, and it is already good.

"Hey." Ishihara listened patiently to Hideki Tojo's nagging, and then smiled coldly: "According to intelligence, the Kuomintang in China has a thousand planes, I don't know how many of our invincible second division can shoot down?" ”

"The Imperial Japanese Army also has planes, as long as our planes are dispatched, those backward Chinese planes will only end up being wiped out," Hideki Tojo glared at Ishihara fiercely, almost slapping him in the face. Today, the Second Division did not shoot down a single plane, and after a day's bombardment, hundreds of guns were hung up, and almost a cannon of an artillery wing was lost, but the fact that the enemy suffered zero casualties was almost regarded as a great shame by the top and bottom of the Second Division...... This Ishihara was unceremoniously sarcastic in front of Tojo, which was really unreasonable

Ishihara glanced at Tojo, who was in a state of rage, with a gloomy gaze, and said coldly: "Baron Tokugawa (Tokugawa Yoshitoshi) has admitted that all the aircraft currently owned by the Imperial Army and Navy Air Force are outdated, and they are not the opponent of the Kuomintang Air Force at all, and today's air raid by the China Air Force on the Second Division has shown the great role of air superiority in modern warfare. This time, the Kuomintang army, which had air superiority, was actually invincible"

"Nani" Hideki Tojo opened his mouth half-open, his eyes widened, staring at Ishihara Waner in front of him, and only after a while did he scold again: "Do you know what you're talking about?" Do you think we're going to lose......" Speaking of this, Tojo hurriedly looked around, and then lowered his voice and reprimanded: "Ishihara, are you still a samurai of His Majesty the Emperor?" How can such a thing be said...... How can you do this, if I were you, I would be ashamed to cut my stomach by now."

Ishihara burst out laughing, shook his head and sighed, "Tojo, you really don't have a problem with your brain, right?" It seems that there is such a thing as strategy in the Army University, have you forgotten it? ”

"You" Tojo unconsciously pressed his hand on the katana, looking like he was about to cut someone......

"Tojo-kun." Ishihara shook his head and smiled: "This time it is our war with the Kuomintang, not our war with the Kuomintang, do you understand?" It doesn't matter if we can't win the Kuomintang army in China, as long as we can get a big enough victory from the northern branches, and then ...... It would be enough to make peace with the Kuomintang. Therefore, this time, we must annihilate the defenders of all factions in the city of Jinan, and we must show in them the strength and invincibility of the Imperial Japanese Army, so that some people in the Southern Branch Kuomintang will be afraid, and we will be able to obtain a decent peace, which is also what Nagata-kun meant. ”

Hearing that it was the big brother Nagata Tetsuyama, Tojo Hideki's hand slowly left the katana, but he was still at a loss: "If you destroy the Shina army in Jinan City, you can get the ...... that the empire wants."

Ishihara sneered: "Of course you can, everything about war is to intimidate the enemy and make it obey your will"

……

Jinan, Dongguan.

Feng Yuxiang is now standing on the towering city wall of Dongguan in Jinan, looking at the battlefield of the eastern front of Jinan shrouded by Japanese artillery fire with a blue face. The city wall where he was now located was more than four kilometers away from the main positions of Maoling Mountain and Yanchi Mountain, which were being subjected to heavy shelling. But he could still clearly feel the earth trembling, still heard bursts of dense and loud roars, and seemed to feel the heat wave carrying the strong smell of gunsmoke coming to his face......

Deng Yanda put down the telescope in his hand and shook his head slightly: "The Japanese shelling is so fierce...... It's unthinkable, are they planning to wipe Mount Maoling off the map with cannonballs? ”

Although these two were famous generals on the stage of the Chinese Civil War, they had never encountered a strong enemy like the Japanese army, let alone seen the power of a salvo of more than 200 cannons. Well, Deng Yanda never disdained to observe the flashy exercises of the National ** Army, otherwise he would have been able to enjoy the thrilling scene in front of him earlier, even more terrifying than this.

Not far away, a group of Kuomintang army aviation generals wearing blue military uniforms also moved small benches and sat on the high walls of Jinan City to watch the battle. Well, one of them was the commander of the Red Army Air Force in an octagonal hat, Feng Dafei. Commander Feng was now quite familiar with this group of Kuomintang counterparts, and he also witnessed an air raid on the Japanese army in a reconnaissance plane converted from an A-1 light bomber. To be honest, Commander Feng still admired the flying skills of these somewhat reactionary guys in front of him. Flying an airplane down from an altitude of two or three thousand meters and dropping bombs on the heads of the Japanese was not an easy task

Li Wenhua and Liu Yongyao put down their binoculars at the same time. Liu Yongyao frowned: "There are three divisions? ”

Li Wenhua smiled heavily: "It is also possible that there are two divisions and regiments plus a field heavy artillery wing. Looking at the density of the shelling, it seems that there are about 200 cannons, and there are 150mm howitzers in the sound, which should be 150mm field howitzers of the Taisho four-year type, and the performance of that thing is similar to that of our Min-17 type. The artillery wing to which each Japanese division belonged had a brigade of twelve guns, but there should have been one division that was temporarily gone. ”

Liu Yongyao glanced at Li Wenhua, who was a little proud, and snorted: "You just blow it, General Feng Huanzhang and our General Deng Zesheng Deng don't believe it." ”

Li Wenhua glanced back at Feng Feida beside him, and smiled bitterly: "General Deng who we reported doesn't believe it, but General Deng who is reported by Brother Dafei doesn't believe it." ”

Feng Dafei glanced at the two of them and shook his head: "It's not that General Zesheng doesn't believe it, he just ...... It's just that he is more rigorous and serious, and his intentions are good. Oh, listening to you, it seems that you are also very knowledgeable about artillery? ”

Feng Dafei was actually born in the Guangdong Army, attended the Guangdong Army Surveying and Mapping School and the Xijiang Lecture Hall, served as a lieutenant in the Guangdong Army, and had a close relationship with Deng Yanda. It was Deng Yanda who brought him to Yan'an to create the "Northwest New Army", which was later the veteran of the Red Army. After that, he joined the Central G, and was sent to the Soviet Union to study at the Moscow Higher Aviation School and the Army University. After graduation, he returned to China to serve as an instructor at the Red Army University, and was selected by Zhou Elai not long ago to serve as the commander of the Red Army Air Force, which currently has only one aircraft.

"Hehe, of course I do." Liu Yongyao laughed, pointed to the pilots around him and said with a smile: "Most of the people here graduated from the first four artillery courses of Huangpu, and later changed careers to the aviation force. I, Jixian (Li Wenhua), and that good gentleman Ye Yifeng (Ye Qiu) have all been artillery commanders."

"Oh, I didn't expect you to be an artillery expert" A voice with a slight Huaiyin suddenly came from behind everyone's voices, and everyone looked back, it turned out that Zhou Elai didn't know when he also appeared on this city wall. However, at this moment, his face was slightly solemn: "Then you analyze, can the Japanese rely on this kind of firepower to defeat our defense line?" ”

"Can" answer this question is Ye Qiuye Yifeng, who is known as Mr. Yes. This aviation colonel, who had fair skin, a slightly high nose, a pair of upwardly raised sword eyebrows and a pair of sharp eyes, stood up and walked up to Zhou Elai, shrugged his shoulders, and sighed: "Two hundred really useful cannons, plus about six hundred mortars that can be used correctly, and tens of thousands of infantry who have been strictly trained and know how to cooperate with artillery...... The Japanese should be able to launch a very powerful artillery attack in a coordinated manner, and Feng Huanzhang's Nationalist Coalition Army may not be able to withstand it for long."

Zhou Elai nodded slightly, and his thick eyebrows locked and glanced at the flaming battle line in the distance. If it can't be supported there, the Red Second Army of Central G will have to go up......

……

Han Fuyu and Wu Huawen are now suffering, it is the torment of shells, this is not something that can be experienced by watching the battle from a distance with binoculars, Wu Huawen, commander of the Second Regiment of the National Alliance Army, and Han Fuyu, commander of the First Brigade of the National Alliance Army, who is sitting on the front line to supervise the battle, are huddled in a lane located on the halfway of Maoling Mountain. Wu Huawen sat cross-legged at the bottom of the alleyway, his expression calmly closing his eyes. Han Fuyu's face was like ashes, and there were words in his mouth, as if he was praying to some god not to let the damn cannonball hit the exit of the alley. In fact, this probability is very low, according to Sun Liren, there is only a 1 in 10,000 chance. However, Han Fuyu multiplied this 1/10,000 by the number of shells the Japanese army had...... I've been praying.

I don't know how long it took, but the sound of the tsunami-like shelling finally turned from dense to thin, and after a few minutes, the night sky suddenly became quiet, and the Japanese shelling finally ended. However, Han Fuyu and Wu Huawen both knew in their hearts that tonight's battle had just begun.

Wu Huawen opened his eyes, glanced at Han Fuyu, whose face was pale, and sighed softly: "Brigade, brother...... Let's go first, if the brigade can pass this hurdle, don't forget to burn more paper money on your brother's grave, don't let your brother suffer and be poor below, and then go to eat the army's meal. After saying this, he was about to cry, and after speaking, he saluted Han Fuyu again before turning around and leaving, commanding the next battle.

"Fuck up, get up, get ready to fight, give me all the panting, where is the energy when you ate meat just now?"

In a few moments the loud shouting began to be heard, and quickly spread across the trenches. The junior officers of the National Alliance Army, who were prostrate in the trenches, stood up one after another, urging every soldier who could still move around them to go to the combat post. The soldiers who were trembling before were forced to move obediently one by one. Some fastened the steel helmets on their heads, some picked up the newly reloaded Min-13 rifles, and some pushed the heavy machine guns equipped with steel baffles and wheels into predetermined positions. The whole trench suddenly became busy, and the tense atmosphere quickly spread.

"Pop Click......"

The gunshots rang out one after another, and as soon as the National Alliance troops on the position entered the combat post, vague figures appeared in the distant night. The first wave of the Japanese offensive seems to have begun

At this time, Wu Huawen also entered the "artillery observation post" on the top of Maoling Mountain, and the name of this place seems to be for artillery. However, Wu Huawen waited for a long time and did not see any artillerymen come here to observe, so he occupied this solid-looking reinforced concrete bunker as his former enemy command post.