At the same time that the security department made a major breakthrough on the Russian side and the Left Route Army of the Northern Expeditionary Army entered the Shanxi area to fight, there was a very fierce debate within the Northern Expeditionary Army on the Shandong battlefield.

This controversy was unprecedented, and for the first time, Bai Chongxi and Jiang Baili had major differences.

"Jiansheng, we are going to have a big problem with your approach, have you considered the political impact and risks?" Jiang Baili was just taken aback by Bai Chongxi's plan. Lao Bai is Lao Bai, his ideas are really wild, and the original battle plan has been completely denied by him. According to the original plan, the Youth Army took advantage of Jinan, a place that the Japanese army must attack, to concentrate superior forces to carry out a defensive operation, and strive to consume the Japanese army's vital forces to the greatest extent. But when Wuhan decided to liquidate it all at once, Bai Chongxi quickly rejected the original plan. In its place was a bolder and more terrifying plan, at least that's what Jiang Baili thought.

According to Bai Chongxi's strategic thinking, the original defense of Jinan eventually turned into a siege war and a war of annihilation. Specifically, Bai Chongxi planned to use Zhang Zizhong's first division as a bait to continuously attract the main force of the Japanese army to Jinan, and then pretend to lose the big bait of Jinan to the Japanese army. As soon as the Japanese army entered Jinan, all units of the Northern Expeditionary Army immediately carried out encirclement operations against it, cut off its lines of communication, and controlled the key terrain around Jinan.

It is precisely because of this that Bai Chongxi did not have any wavering emotions in response to Jiang Baili's questioning: "What political impact can it have if we lose a Jinan, and our final annihilation of the Japanese army is one of the main goals of this war." I believe that the big marshal understands, as long as the answer sheet we hand in at the end is satisfactory to him, he will not care about the previous details. ”

Jiang Baili knew that Bai Chongxi was essentially a stubborn person, and he would not look back on what he recognized. He sighed and said, "What about the people of Jinan?" More than 100,000 people. ”

"All were transferred, the city was fortified, and at the same time our troops began to build defensive positions facing Jinan to the west and south of Jinan, and the artillery calibrated the firing elements. In addition, the armored forces and the air force have entered a state of readiness, and I estimate that even if the Japanese army is on the orders of Zhang Zizhong, they will not be stupid enough to drive all three divisions into Jinan, and the logistics support line will inevitably focus on defense. But they are too arrogant, three divisions, such a long line of communication, even if I don't show my tricks, just the gang of bandits under Sun Meiyao is enough for them to drink a pot, I have never met such a stupid opponent in so many years of leading the troops. ”

Jiang Baili shook his head in disagreement and said: "Don't think that people are easy to deal with, even if the Japanese army makes a strategic mistake, we may not be able to bargain for anything at the tactical level, and we are the ones who accidentally suffer." Jiansheng, defensive warfare and siege warfare are completely different ways of playing, you have to think carefully, the number of casualties alone is very different. ”

Bai Chongxi said with great disdain: "How can there be immortals in war?" What's the point of a few dead people? ”

"You ......" Jiang Baili was choked up and speechless this time, and he suddenly remembered what kind of person Bai Chongxi was. All the way from the Minyuan, Bai Chongxi, who holds the title of the first general of the Youth Army, is full of white bones of soldiers on both sides of the enemy, this is a guy who will do anything for victory.

The upper echelons reached a consensus on strategic decision-making, and the orders conveyed to Zhang Zizhong were much clearer, with just two words: "lure the enemy."

This lure is easier said than done, but it is extremely difficult to do, it is too unbelievable, after all, the youth army is prestigious, if you are about to collapse at the first touch, it is estimated that the commander of the Japanese army will give up the pursuit. In the same way, it is not good to be too fierce, in case the performance is too violent and destroys the young hearts of the imperial army, the consequences are also very bad. If the Japanese finally retreated to Qingdao and could not defend it by relying on the superiority of naval firepower, it would be enough to give the entire youth army a headache. So luring the enemy is really a technical job, and not ordinary people can play and play well.

Zhang Zizhong is obviously not as loyal and honest as he seems on the outside, he has already drawn up a complete set of plans to lure the enemy, this set of plans is absolutely unprecedented, so that as soon as it was thrown out, Zhang Zizhong's subordinates were amazed.

However, Zhang Zizhong had already established absolute prestige in the entire First Division through a series of military exploits, so although everyone expressed serious incomprehension of his orders, they still chose to carry them out.

On November 19, the vanguard of the Chinese and Japanese sides had an encounter, which lasted only fifteen minutes, ending with the withdrawal of Chinese troops from the battle. In total, the Japanese lost 21 killed and 35 wounded. To Honjo's great shock, the fact that the soldiers did not leave even a single corpse behind shows how calmly their retreat was. In the following two days, the Chinese and Japanese armies fought eleven battles, all of which ended in Japanese victories without exception, but the casualties also increased, and the Japanese casualties in the largest battle reached more than 120 people. The only thing that made Honjo Shigeru happy was that although the Shina army fought very tenaciously, a large number of corpses began to appear on the battlefield, which shows that the Shina people have lost their previous calmness.

On November 22, less than five miles from Linzi, the Chinese and Japanese armies engaged in a large-scale fierce battle. During the battle, Zhang Zizhong's 1st Division used heavy artillery to bombard the Japanese army, and a Japanese captain and two squadron leaders were accidentally hit and went back to see their Amaterasu. In this battle, the Japanese casualties directly broke 500. However, the Chinese army obviously had problems with the use of firepower, and soon their infantry line was broken through, and the two French heavy guns were killed by the Chinese army before they could retreat. On November 23, despite the fatigue of the Japanese army, he ordered an attack on Linzi.

Zhang Zizhong ordered to defend to the death, and the battle lasted for two days, and the Japanese army took Linzi after paying the price of more than 1,000 people. Zhang Zizhong organized the 1st Division to continue the retreat. Honjo was so angry that he had not been able to defeat the No. 1 combat force in South China, and he could not wait for the two divisions that were still on the road, and he was determined to continue the pursuit.

However, they immediately suffered a big loss, because Zhang Zizhong did not have much appetite for the Honzhuang Fan Division.

The battle took place in Zhou Village, and this battle actually had to be fought. In the past five days, due to Zhang Zizhong's order, the First Division has lost its territory all the way, and the officers at the top know that this is to lure the enemy into depth, but the officers and men at the bottom do not understand this. What's even worse is that the cultural literacy of the officers and men of the 1st Division is generally higher than that of other divisions, which also makes their obedience to the orders of their superiors less blind. They were very dissatisfied with the continuous retreat, you must know that these guys rely on themselves as soldiers of the First Division on weekdays, and see that other brother troops use their nostrils, and although the other brother troops hate it, they have no choice but to endure the outstanding achievements of the First Division. If the First Division loses all the way this time, then it is estimated that it will be their turn to look at other people's nostrils in the future, and the officers and men of the First Division, who are arrogant and arrogant when they think of this, will not do it, and they will find their respective officers one after another, asking for a good fight with Little Japan.

The military spirit is available, and Zhang Zizhong, who is worried that Honjo's lonely army will eventually destroy his overall situation, also decided to deal a heavy blow to this arrogant Japanese division.

Zhou Village, a place not far from Linzi City, became Zhang Zizhong's first choice, and he summoned officers above the battalion level to lecture: "We must give little Japan a head-on blow in this place, lest they become too arrogant and sabotage our plan to lure the enemy deeper." I ask you to be in the best shape and give little Japan a lesson that they will never forget. ”

When the Miyaki Brigade, the vanguard of the Honjo Division, appeared in Zhoucun, it was first subjected to a salvo of various artillery pieces of the 1st Division. For the first time since the landing in Shandong, the soldiers of Miyaki's brigade felt fear, and they really couldn't imagine that the firepower of the Chinese army could be so fast that they could not bear it. It was this first round of artillery bombardment that immediately killed and wounded more than one-fifth of the 500 Japanese troops of the entire Miyaki Brigade, and the entire marching army column was also in chaos.

Immediately after that, the 1st Division dispatched the 103rd and 104th regiments to launch a charge, directly on the road where the Miyaki Brigade was located, and beat the Miyaki Brigade again, which had not yet figured out the situation.

The power of grenades and bayonets has always been advocated by the Japanese army, but this time it was used on the Japanese army without exception. The grenades of the Chinese army rained down on the Japanese army like raindrops, and Captain Miyaki himself was hit by a grenade in this round of grenade rain, and was thrown into the sky by the impact of the explosion.

The Japanese army was indeed tenacious, and after losing the captain, they still stubbornly searched for all shelter and tried to fight the Chinese army that was pouring in. They frantically pulled the trigger and desperately fired the bullets from their rifles, and when the soldiers of China got closer and closer to them, they would roar and jump up again knowing that they were in danger, and bravely use their bayonets to play with the people of China. It's a pity that they are like stones thrown into the Lang tide, and they disappear as soon as they arouse a little Lang flower.

The battle lasted only fifteen minutes before it ended, and the 1st Division also set a tactical precedent this time, Zhang Zizhong ordered all the MP18 submachine guns that had just been issued to be used intensively, and this tactic later became a common means for the youth army to face superior enemy forces in an offensive and defensive manner. The Japanese army was the first batch of victims, and the effect of the concentrated use of 200 submachine guns was very obvious, and those brave Japanese soldiers were unceremoniously knocked to the ground by submachine guns as soon as they jumped up, so that all 500 officers and soldiers of the Miyaki Brigade had only the collective jade shattering life