In the early morning of December 11, in Zichuan, not far from Linzi, the 18th Infantry Wing of the 36th Infantry Brigade of the Japanese Ninth Division was stationed here. The wing commander of the wing, Masao Nishino, is said to be an orthodox samurai background, and he is very strict with his subordinates. Under his command, nearly 4,000 little devils of the wing worked very diligently to build fortifications according to European standards. Although the superiors do not pay attention to the Chinese army, as a subordinate, they are out-and-out when carrying out the local defense order, and no one will think that they are very smart and play some tricks or something. This is one of the national characteristics of the Japanese, and we can only say that this is the luck of the Japanese and the great misfortune of the Chinese, but fortunately, we can also find this excellent quality in some Chinese, so China is still immortal.

A patrol team of the Japanese army insisted on patrolling in the cold wind, and the sky was gradually beginning to clear, but when the patrol team looked out, what they saw was still a vast expanse.

But when they stopped to rest, a soldier named Koji Nakamura noticed that something was wrong: "Nani, why is the earth trembling?" ”

Jun Cao, who was in charge of leading the team, shook his head and said, "Don't be nervous, it may be an earthquake!" ”

The Japanese, who are accustomed to earthquakes as if they breathe, have obviously made an empirical mistake: where did the earthquake come from on the impact plain of Shandong?

Sometimes, mistakes are unforgivable, and these patrols, which are less than 300 meters away from the positions of the wings, fail to detect the enemy in time, and nothing but tragedy awaits them.

Just yesterday, when Bai Chongxi inspected Boshan, Jiang Dingwen, commander of the Second Tank Assault Regiment, suddenly suggested: "Chief of Staff, it is recommended to take advantage of the characteristics of the snowy day, and our army is all plain, so that the possibility of being discovered by the Japanese army in advance will be greatly reduced." ”

Bai Chongxi was overjoyed when he heard this, and announced on the spot that Jiang Dingwen would be promoted to brigadier general and rewarded with 1,000 Chinese yuan. However, this white camouflage will be difficult to get together for a while and a half, and then Jiang Dingwen reminded again: "Report to the chief of staff, the shirts of our officers and soldiers are all white. ”

So the most inhumane order was given, the officers and men were ordered to wear all their shirts outside, and at the same time all the white sheets of the field hospital were covered with tanks and armored assault vehicles, so the Japanese patrols were colorblind.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, all the assault troops quietly approached less than 500 meters from the Japanese position, and if they went further, they could easily be mistakenly injured by their own artillery.

Bai Chongxi gave an order and opened fire.

The artillery assigned to the 30th Division, as well as the artillery of the 1st Division, which had been replenished by several other divisions, a total of 100 French heavy guns, unceremoniously began a devastating artillery bombardment towards the territory where Nishino Masao's wing was located.

God is so playing tricks on people, when the shelling began, Masao Nishino was holding a meeting with several team leaders at his wing headquarters, the old house of a wealthy family in Zichuan, to discuss the issue of expanding the patrol radius. Perhaps it was the manifestation of the ancestors, and the first batch of cannonballs for test firing hit this old mansion impartially, and several captains standing in front of Masao Nishino were ordered to return to Japan to see Amaterasu on the spot. And Masao Nishino's ears were cut off by fragments of shells, and he fell to the ground on the spot and could not get up. In addition to several major officers, the staff officers of the wing headquarters, the communications corps, and the radio station that decided the outcome of the battle were also hit. It was precisely because of the damage to this radio station that Yuheng Yicheng failed to get in touch with the 32nd Infantry Wing at the first time, and he was unable to make tactical adjustments in time.

Although the chain of command was inexplicably disconnected, the regularized quality of the Japanese army was soon manifested, and the squadron leader, squad leader, and officer at the rank of Juncao began to organize the soldiers around them to count the ammunition and resist on the spot almost without orders.

But soon they will despair......

The first thing the Japanese soldiers who were holding guns and preparing to resist saw were white behemoths pressing towards them with a strong tremor of the earth, what kind of monster is this? Most of these soldiers from ordinary Japanese peasant families were dumbfounded for the first time.

The tank is not an unknown thing for Japan, but the problem is that it is impossible for the Japanese who know this thing to lie in the trenches, so the Japanese soldiers can only be unknown, and there is a great fear of the unknown.

But the inertia generated by strict training makes them frantically pull the trigger in their hands, stopping the monster from advancing as much as possible. The bullet hit the monster with a crisp sound, and it couldn't stop the monster from moving forward at all. Since the rifle is useless, then use a grenade, it is still useless. At this moment, the Japanese soldiers were completely out of action, they were already fighting according to the requirements of the army's drill code, but it was obviously useless. Wait, what's the last trick of the canon combat method? That's right, on the bayonet.

The soldiers of a Japanese squadron in the first trench jumped out of the trench without hesitation, led by the officer, with a bayonet, and then rushed towards the monster with the heroism of a samurai.

After only a few steps of rushing out, they saw a large number of Shina soldiers in ill-fitting shirts less than a few meters behind the monster. It's the enemy, a soldier shouted loudly, and the Japanese immediately decided to kill people first and then work together to deal with the monsters.

It was too late to say that it was too fast, the machine guns equipped with the tank opened fire, and what was even more terrifying was that the rifles in the hands of the soldiers in white shirts were not long, but the rate of fire was very amazing, the ......gunfire was dense and the flames were everywhere, and the Japanese troops of a squadron were wiped out by the murderous weapons created by human industrial civilization in less than a minute, and even the assault soldiers of the tank brigade did not expect that the weapons in their hands were so good.

After the first line of defense was successfully breached, the sappers immediately stepped forward and filled in 24 passages with firewood enough to accommodate the tanks through the trenches. Soon after the tank successfully passed through this defensive line, nearly 200 Japanese soldiers who did not know whether they were alive or dead rushed up, and the result was naturally all shattered.

If Wang Zhenyu was present at this moment, he would be surprised to find that the tank brigade fighting the Japanese army was as easy as playing a game in the future life. In other sections, relying on armored assault vehicles, the breakthrough was no less easy. But armored assault vehicles were clearly inferior to tanks, and in the frenzied to the almost suicidal resistance of the Japanese appeared damage to vehicles and casualties. But compared to the cost paid by the Japanese army, these casualties were almost negligible.

After receiving a simple bandage, Masao Nishino decided to personally go to the front to direct the counterattack, and before leaving, he suddenly glanced at his own wing flag, which was personally awarded by His Majesty the Emperor. After thinking about it, he said very solemnly to the only young health soldier in the command who did not follow him: "Please be sure to protect this military flag." ”

Since he didn't believe that he would be defeated, Nishino forgot to tell me that if my army accidentally finished playing, you kid should remember to burn the military flag.

As soon as Nishino, who had participated in the study and discussion of the experience of the Japanese army in European warfare, saw the tank that had revealed his true face, he knew that he was in big trouble this time. He shouted in horror: "Yaga, how can the people of China have this thing? ”

"Your Excellency, what is this thing? Have you seen it? What should we do about it? The only staff officer who survived the explosion of the test projectile asked cautiously.

Nishino then remembered that he should stay calm, he glanced at the staff officer who asked the question and said: "This is a tank for Europeans, it is estimated that the branch was bought from the Europeans at a high price, the quantity is definitely not much, this thing is very bulky, it is not difficult to deal with." Immediately organize a death squad and blow up its tracks with bundles of grenades, and this thing is no threat if it can't run. ”

This order is correct, and it is also very useful in European warfare, but don't look at Wang Zhenyu's tank is not very advanced, but the tactics are advanced, and the infantry following behind the tank unceremoniously used the powerful firepower in their hands to nail those Japanese death squads who were not afraid of death less than 15 meters away from the tank.

Nishino didn't have time to be annoyed, because the Shina army also appeared behind him. Zhang Zizhong's first division commander first rushed into Zichuan, and from the flank rushed into the front of the 32nd Wing, the 32nd Wing was now completely disorganized, although there was still almost half of the troops, but it could not organize any effective resistance at all. Personal bravery has no effect on a dime at this time, Nishino has to work hard to collect troops to resist, maybe this can buy some time for the division, the tank is estimated to be unable to deal with the division commander, this is the last thing that Nishino Masao thought of before he was killed. He was hit by a stray bullet while transferring the command post, and this time he had no luck with the shelling, and the bullet entered his back and pierced the heart......

A young officer named Nobuyuki Ando, a quartermaster of the 32nd Wing, who witnessed almost the entire battle, wrote in his diary: "At this moment, I miss my mother and my wife very much, they were still praying for me before the battle, I really didn't feel the need at that time, I just followed the invincible imperial army to punish a group of bandit-like troops." But the current situation is really bad, we have been beaten to pieces by the Chinese riot army, who would have thought that an entire wing would be defeated in less than an hour from the beginning of the battle to now. The soldiers are very brave, and the officers are not afraid of death, but why can't we get rid of the doom of defeat, I feel like I'm going to die here, but I really don't want to go to the Yasukuni Shrine......"

In the end, Nobuyuki Ando did not become a god, and a misguided mortar accidentally helped him, and he was buried by the collapsed wall, and when he woke up, he was a prisoner of war and a coolie.

After a stubborn battle, the Nishino Wing was completely annihilated within two hours, and a total of 3,689 of the 3,780 Japanese soldiers in the Wing were missing, and 91 were captured, of which 74 were seriously wounded and died. The total casualties of the youth army were less than 500, and the largest casualties occurred in the attack on a house, where more than 120 soldiers were killed.

Such a disparity in battle loss ratio was something that no side could have imagined before the war, but this was only the beginning of the bloody Battle of Jinan, and the tanks were once again rumbling and being launched