The Chief of Staff of Umemura Takema went and returned, which attracted the attention of Sasaki Toichi, and he asked with a strong spirit, "Umemura-kun, why are you back again?" ”

Umemura Takema first said his own deployment, and seeing that Sasaki nodded in agreement, and was not dissatisfied, he continued: "Just now the signal corps reported that there are Zhina troops in both Tai'an and Zichuan, and we are afraid that we will be attacked on three sides. ”

Sasaki was a little disheartened when he got to the book, and he was completely desperate when he heard it, and he almost spit out a mouthful of old blood.

Seeing Sasaki's pale face, Umemura Takema hurriedly asked with concern, "Your Excellency the division commander, are you okay?" ”

Sasaki took a few deep breaths, waved his hand, and said, "I'm fine." ”

Meicun Zhuma pondered for a while, but still spoke: "Your Excellency General, the war in Jinan has been extremely unfavorable to our army, what should we do next?" ”

Sasaki was silent for a while, and instead of answering, he asked, "I don't know what Umemura-kun think we should do?" ”

Plum Village Bamboo Horse wanted to say his true thoughts, that is, Jinan and even the entire Yellow River, the Taishan defense line has become undefendable, and the base camp is now unable to send reinforcements, so it is better not to defend it, save the elite troops, and quickly retreat.

As for whether he can hold on to that piece of land after retreating to the Jiaodong Peninsula, he can only do his best to obey the fate of heaven.

However, he suddenly found that Sasaki's seemingly empty gaze had a hint of hideousness, and he immediately shook his head and bowed his head and said: "Everything is based on His Excellency the General's horse, whether to fight to the death, or to preserve strength and retreat, all listen to the commander of the division." ”

Sasaki nodded slightly in satisfaction at this time, swept away the bald expression just now, and said awe-inspiringly: "As an imperial soldier, I will never retreat without authorization, let alone allow anyone among my subordinates to escape."

For the sake of the common prosperity of Greater East Asia and the national fortune of the empire, we have only one choice, and if the war really reaches the point of no return, then let us use our lives and blood to be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor! ”

After speaking, Sasaki was so impressed that the momentum of the whole person changed, he stood up suddenly, and shouted loudly: "Order the cavalry wing and the chariot unit to prepare for the attack, and once the people of China have set up a pontoon bridge and started to cross the river, they will immediately join the 40th Wing of the Infantry and other units to launch a counter-charge against the river-crossing troops in China."

At all costs, wipe out the damn dirt eight roads in its entirety! ”

Feeling the murderous aura exuded by Lieutenant General Sasaki, Umemura Takema was frightened, and naturally did not dare to disobey, so he bowed his head sharply and responded, turned around and quickly led the order to leave.

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Without the obstruction and sabotage of the Japanese army, the engineers and baggage soldiers of the Dragon's Tooth Column could start work at full speed, and the pontoon bridge took shape at an astonishing speed.

After about an hour, a sturdy pontoon bridge for tanks and tanks to pass through finally crossed the Yellow River, and the reason why it was possible to build a pontoon bridge across the lower reaches of the Yellow River in such a short time.

In addition to the relatively narrow section of the river chosen, the most important thing is that the Dragon's Tooth Column is well prepared, first of all, they have hundreds of large and small boats that were originally used to storm and cross the river, and the baggage troops of the 3rd Division have carefully prepared all kinds of sufficient equipment and materials for nearly half a year.

I had been preparing for so long, just for the time when the battle began, and now it all came in handy.

When the pontoon bridge was built, the commander of the front immediately sent a report telegram to the former enemy headquarters of the 3rd Division in Qihe County.

After Wu Ming learned of this news, he immediately ordered: "Pass my order, the tank regiment is in front, the 1st Infantry Regiment is followed, the heavy artillery brigade and the air defense brigade will extend the artillery fire to provide cover, and immediately launch an attack on the south bank to seize the Japanese army's field positions along the river."

After that, the whole army quickly passed through the Yellow River, defeated the main force of the Japanese army, and then surrounded the city of Jinan! ”

Deputy division commander Zhao Youde personally led the order to the confidential room and passed on Wu Ming's deployment.

After receiving the order, the officers and men of the tank regiment and the first regiment of the Third Division, who had been waiting for a long time, immediately dispatched one after another.

Most of the artillery of the heavy artillery brigade had just stopped, and the continuous heavy shelling of the previous hour or two had already made many artillery breeches hot and needed to "rest".

However, in order to cover the crossing of the river by the attacking troops, Cheng Youming, deputy commander of the heavy artillery brigade, still ordered all 105mm howitzers to continue firing, and extend the artillery fire as deep as possible towards the south bank at the maximum firing angle, so as to avoid the artillery fire from hurting their own troops crossing the river, suppress the Japanese puppet army on the opposite bank as much as possible, and provide fire suppression for their own troops.

Under the cover of the full support of their own heavy artillery brigade, hundreds of No. 4 tanks of the tank regiment immediately began to rumble onto the newly built pontoon bridge with the coordination of thousands of infantry in the first regiment.

As tanks and groups of infantry successfully crossed the pontoon bridge and reached the south bank, the heavy artillery brigade stopped the shelling in time.

The tank crews drove the tanks to charge forward, guiding their main infantry, and taking advantage of the situation to capture the Japanese riverside position, which had been almost razed to the ground.

In the fragmented Japanese position, occasionally some wounded soldiers of the Japanese puppet army wanted to resist, but they were all shot by the Longya infantry who charged with the tank, and then they were crushed by the huge No. 4 tank, turning into a puddle of minced meat, and the blood stained a large area of land, which was particularly eye-catching.

When a regiment of infantry was about to completely occupy the entire Japanese defense line along the river, two tank squadrons of the Japanese army, a cavalry wing, plus 3,000 or 4,000 Japanese infantry and tens of thousands of puppet troops, had been quietly assembled a few kilometers away, forming a huge mixed counteroffensive group, and quietly launched a counter-charge towards the riverside position.

"Brothers, the little devil is here, full firepower, give me a fight to the death!" With the order of the regiment commander Sun Mingzhuang, hundreds of No. 4 gram chariots set up their positions one after another and fired fiercely at the counterattacking crowd of the Japanese puppet army.

Hundreds of 75mm caliber tank guns were the first to fire, followed by general-purpose machine guns installed on tank vehicles, and then a regiment of thousands of infantry with various weapons, all of which opened fire.

In an instant, a dense network of firepower was built, and because the speed was the fastest, thousands of cavalry of the devil cavalry wing rushed in front of the tanks and infantry, and this time it was completely poured blood mold.

Hundreds of high-explosive armor-piercing shells, tens of thousands of various machine gun and rifle bullets, and even grenades of various calibers fired by infantry guns and mortars poured down.

The devil cavalry crowd suddenly had a series of violent explosions, countless devils and even people and horses were blown into stumps and broken arms, countless scorching bullets rain roared, bringing up a bloody rain, the devil cavalry turned on their backs, screaming again and again, in just a few minutes, thousands of devil cavalry almost killed and wounded, the strength of the dragon's tooth column firepower can be seen.