"To put it mildly, I'm worried that it's not the Japanese who want to back down, but a delaying tactic by them."

Jiang Baili couldn't help but say that just a few months after the war, the Feng army was far from recovering, and this was the time to attack the supreme authority, and it was really inappropriate for the Feng army to start another war with the Japanese.

However, Zhang Tinglan insisted on fighting at any cost, and Jiang Baili was very puzzled at first, but when Zhang Tinglan revealed his thoughts, Jiang Baili had to agree.

Although the Feng army was not ready, after all, it was still wrapped in the majesty of a great victory, and the Japanese had not yet come out of the shadow of defeat, although several divisions and regiments had been rebuilt, but the combat effectiveness was far from forming. Even after suffering heavy losses, the Combined Fleet may not dare to fight in China's coastal waters.

The two sides are beaten by hemp rods, and both sides are afraid. Based on this judgment, Zhang Tinglan decided to take a gamble and put on the jiashi of the big war, forcing the Japanese to take the initiative to abandon Qingdao. This is certainly a very risky proposition, but it also means that the success is amazing.

Now that the Japanese have put forward a request for negotiations, things have begun to develop as expected, but Jiang Baili's reminder is also very reasonable, so Zhang Tinglan said with a smile: "No matter what tricks the Japanese have, we must maintain enough pressure, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs can contact the Japanese, but the army's preparations should not stop for a moment." Another tank regiment and an artillery regiment were transferred to the customs. ”

Zhang Tinglan thought for a while, and then said: "If you want to scare people, you have to take some real guys and send armored trains and siege heavy artillery." ”

Since the capture of Russian armoured trains, the Fengjun army has also carried out related developments, and recently produced eight armoured trains, each with a 76 mm gun at the end and twenty heavy machine guns on the carriages, four of which were specially modified. It is dual-purpose and can have a certain air defense capability, let alone deal with infantry and cavalry.

To put it bluntly, an armored train is a moving fire hedgehog, although the armored train has quite a lot of drawbacks, but it is undeniable that it still has great use, and if you want to fight against the Japanese army in Shandong, you must control the Jiaoji Railway. The armored train is the artifact that controls the railway.

The armored train not only has great practical value, but also has a great deterrent effect, and if it is taken out now, it is naturally to put pressure on Japan to convince them that the Feng army is really preparing for a war. Accompanied by two armored trains heading south. There are also eight 240-mm howitzers that are mobile against the railway. On the Korean Peninsula, such artillery has already shown its might. At this time, they were also sent out. Also to increase the pressure on the Japanese.

The strengthened Feng army took the initiative in Shandong, and Li Jinglin commanded the troops to encircle Jinan from three sides, giving only one way for the Japanese in the city to flee to Qingdao.

Of course, this seems to be the only way to live, and it is not so easy to walk. The people of Shandong have been organized, and along the Jiaoji railway, there are a staggering number of militia units that can destroy the railway at any time. Blow up bridges. Not to mention the fact that Mukden still has a firm grip on air superiority, and fighters and bombers can blow up the road at any moment.

Just when Li Jinglin was actively preparing for war, Huang Xiansheng led the tank regiment to the periphery of Jinan in accordance with Zhang Tinglan's order. The soldiers unloaded these steel monsters from the train and lined them up, as if the beasts of the wilderness had been resurrected, and the steel roared, shaking everyone's hearts.

"Commander Huang, does the commander have any instructions, when will the war start, the brothers can't wait."

Huang Xiansheng spread his hands and said with a wry smile: "I'm also looking forward to going to war, but I heard that we are in contact with the Japanese and strive to get them to hand over Shandong peacefully, but I don't know if the little devil will be obedient." ”

"Alas!" Li Jinglin sighed: "I have saved up enough strength and want to fight in Shandong, but I took the flag of a hundred battles sent by the students." Who knew that these Japanese would be cowardly, it is simply unreasonable! Our tens of thousands of troops, just staring at those little devils in the city? ”

"When the big man came, he had a special explanation, and of course we couldn't let the Japanese have a good time. The marshal has already authorized, as long as the first shot is not fired, whatever we toss, it is better to make the Japanese unbearable, take the initiative to give up Jinan, the next step is Qingdao, if this can be done, the negotiations are left! ”

When Li Jinglin heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up, Zhang Tinglan's order opened up a new idea for him. Fighting a war does not mean fighting with real swords and guns. There are other measures that can be taken to make the Japanese uncomfortable.

He turned around on the ground a few times, and then said with a smile: "Commander Huang, you have to work hard, the tank regiment will immediately give me a tour under the city of Jinan, so that the Japanese in the city can take a look and scare their bitter gall!" ”

Huang Xiansheng hurriedly nodded in agreement, he led the tank regiment, and immediately followed Li Jinglin's order to circle around the city of Jinan, the Japanese soldiers in the city could clearly see these behemoths, and they were also shocked by this powerful war machine.

The tank drove in, kicking up a huge amount of dust, covering the sky and the sun, in the dust, a steel beast, fiercely rushed out, the thick and slender muzzle showed unparalleled majesty and liliang, it seems that as long as an order, it can break through the city defense of Jinan, and wipe out all the Japanese inside.

The loud roar was like a nightmare in my ears, and it lasted for a long time. On the one hand, Fengjun arranged to negotiate with the Japanese, and on the other hand, he used all Liliang to start attacking the Japanese, and this contest of wills finally began.

Since it was intended to attack, harass, and intimidate the Japanese, the Feng army would certainly not use this method. At night, the Bong army would quietly approach the Japanese positions and set fire firecrackers to a sudden explosion like machine guns.

The sleeping Japanese would wake up immediately, hurriedly dressed and ready for the attack, but there was nothing but firecracker debris in the spot, as if mocking their stupidity.

This is just pediatrics, and if you try your best to pass it more times, you can barely do it, but there are some things that you can't prevent at all, and that is the bombers of the Feng army. The roar of the engine is quite a terrible noise, and in later generations, people who are relatively close to the airport will usually have some mental problems.

The Feng army also used the planes, and the bombers flew over Jinan at low altitudes from time to time. The roar is like thunder in the ears. Especially in the Japanese garrison that was focused on by the planes, the loud noise tormented the nerves of the Japanese, making people unable to sleep all night.

Of course, there are also some Japanese who have become smarter, and they plug their ears with cotton and cloth strips to avoid the harassment of sound. However, the harassment of the Feng army also escalated. The soldiers made special modifications to the wings, adding huge whistles to them, which multiplied the noise.

The shrill and poignant whistle was incessant, the sound was indescribable, and it was useless to block the ears. The sound seems to travel from the bones, enveloping the whole person in the sound waves. There is simply no way to hide from it. The Japanese soldiers were suffering more and more insomnia, they became more irritable than ever, and everyone was under great pressure.

At night, the Feng army not only carried out these raiding actions, but also carried out various exercises around the city, the sound of gunfire. Dense and violent, the disturbed Japanese could not sleep at all.

No one knew if the Feng army would suddenly launch a siege campaign in the middle of the exercise, so these Japanese troops had to increase their attention. Consumes the spirit of the already overdraft. More and more Japanese people appeared to be unprecedentedly irritable, shouting loudly at every turn, and in the army, there were more and more incidents of fighting, and the morale of the army was fluctuating.

At this time, the negotiations between China and Japan also reached a critical moment, and the attitude of the Chinese side was very clear: Japan must return Qingdao unconditionally and withdraw all Japanese troops. The Japanese side denied it in every possible way, and they simply had to postpone it for five years and then negotiate the issue of ownership.

Feng Jun resolutely disagreed with this unreasonable demand, and Zhang Tinglan continued to increase troops to the front line, assuming a posture of encirclement of Qingdao and Jinan. In addition, Zhang Tinglan mobilized 15 torpedo boats to go south along the coastline, not to mention the small size of the torpedo boats, but in near-shore operations, they can often play a role in making a big deal with small ones.

The current means of reconnaissance are not comparable with later generations, small torpedo boats are fast and small, and they are very difficult targets to attack, and the volume of tens or hundreds of tons determines that these little guys can even hide behind the waves and quickly approach large warships.

Once close, the torpedo is fired, which is a nightmare for a large warship, and the Japanese have already experienced that the Nagato was almost sent to the bottom of the sea by these little things, and is still being repaired in the shipyard.

These torpedo boats were concentrated in the south, making the Japanese Combined Fleet more and more afraid to rush to the shore of China. On the one hand, the troops were dispatched, and on the other hand, the attack and harassment fortifications of the Feng army were also strengthened, and the Feng army began to throw a large number of Japanese newspapers and pictures on Jinan and Qingdao, which were printed with scenery from all over Japan, as well as a large number of pictures of geisha.

This immediately aroused the homesickness of the Japanese, especially the pictures of those geisha, which made the Japanese soldiers who had been depressed for a long time more and more depressed. They gathered together in twos and threes, talking about all kinds of meat jokes, and then looked forward to the scene after returning home.

Since the throwing of these photographs, the amount of straw paper in the Japanese barracks has been rapidly depleted, and the speed has become more and more alarming, and the state of the soldiers has become more and more confused.

The Japanese soldiers, who were guarding the position, suddenly heard a familiar melody wafting from the camp of the Feng army opposite, and the folk song of their hometown sounded in their ears again, and a young soldier heard the voice and couldn't help but hum softly.

"Yaga!"

A Japanese officer rushed over and slapped the soldier a few times, who knew that after these slaps, the soldier did not keep saying hi as before, but lay on the ground, crying in pain, and kept chanting the name of his fiancée, and the other soldiers saw this, and they also showed deep sympathy.

These movements of the Japanese army were also reported to Yubi Koe, the Japanese general, who was also extremely worried. In a desperate battle with the Feng army, their chances of victory are not high at all, and Japan can no longer afford defeat, and it is precisely because of this that in the face of the harassment of the Feng army, they can only try to refrain as much as possible.

This is a battle of wills, depending on who can't stand it first. Gu Weijun led the Chinese delegation and Japanese Foreign Minister Yasuya Uchida are also engaged in a fierce debate.

"Qingdao can be returned to the Chinese side in advance, but in Qingdao, the empire has a large expatriate and special interests. Because we are required to set up a consulate in Qingdao, and at the same time, we must retain the organs to manage the expatriate. In addition, the empire also has a large amount of investment in Shandong, which must be protected, and only when this is done, the empire will consider the question of withdrawing troops from Shandong. ”

"Mr. Uchida, you said that a thief stole a sheep from someone else, and then fed it for a while, and this sheep gave birth to a lamb, so can this lamb belong to the thief? Obviously, it can't, the Japanese side illegally stole Shandong, and then the immigration and investment were all illegal, since it was illegal, we had no need to protect it, Shandong must be thorough, complete, and leave no tail to China. ”

Uchida looked angry and said loudly: "Mr. Gu, you are choosing war. ”

"Mr. Uchida, you are mistaken, there is a country that has gone to the land of Shandong and made war against the Germans, despite the opposition of China. From the moment the troops were dispatched, it should have been clear that the Chinese military and civilians would never agree to such a thing! ”

Uchida and Gu Weijun quarreled, obviously unable to find anything cheap, and the defenders of Shandong faced the continuous harassment of the Feng army, and the situation became more and more unfavorable to Japan. Unless it is to mobilize a few divisions and regiments to fight with the Feng army in Shandong, then don't want to continue to control Qingdao.

The negotiations reached an impasse again, and at this time Zhang Tinglan was in the arsenal again, no matter what time it was, war was a means of zuihou, and only by sharpening the spear in his hand could he have a chance of winning.

"Dashuai, we have recently launched two new products, if they are used well, they will definitely make the Japanese suffer a lot!" Tao Jiping smiled and introduced to Zhang Tinglan: "This is a magnetic mine just made, we have done experiments in Peter the Great Bay, the effect is amazing, after sinking the mine, as long as there is a warship passing by, it will touch the mine, and then it will explode, if this thing is placed outside Jiaozhou Bay, the Japanese fleet will come, and it will be enough for them to suffer heavy losses at once." ”

Obviously, Tao Jiping was very satisfied with the performance of the magnetic mine, and Zhang Tinglan was also very happy when he heard that this kind of killing weapon had been developed.

"Well done, we have used ordinary anchor mines a few times, the Japanese have already taken precautions, if you want to achieve results, you have to be surprised, magnetic mines are a good thing!"

Originally, the magnetic mine was developed by the Germans before World War II, and it had made the British suffer enough, and seventeen warships were sunk. (To be continued......)