"Very good, as long as we are united, don't think about the little devil's conspiracy!" Jiang Qiang smiled at everyone, immediately walked to the sand table in the command room, drew a circle and said: "The devil has laid such a big pocket array for us, most of our back roads have been targeted by the devil, even if we retreat immediately, we will guarantee that we will not fall into the devil's other trap!" If that's the case, the geographical advantage we have lost will definitely be more passive, rather than that, we should stick to the help, let the little devils fight the battle, and see who can have the last laugh! ”

Retreating without a fight is not Jiang Qiang's style, since Jiang Qiang can't care about cherishing his feathers, he can only meet the brave and win in a narrow way, and see how powerful the little devil's teeth are! "Chief of Staff, raise troops for a thousand days and use them for a while, we will fight how you say! It's a big deal to break the net with the little devil! "yes, I'm afraid of a ball! Kill one without losing money, kill two and earn one! ”

Huzi and Li Jinglin soon entered a state of rage, and the only worry and panic they had before were completely thrown into Java! "That's right! What Chief of Staff Jiang said is extremely true, it is the duty of a soldier to protect his home and defend the country, and now that the little devils have invaded our Shandong, our Shandong children will never agree! "For the sake of the hometown fathers and elders, for the survival of the Chinese nation, why should we die!" Yun Qichang and the others were also impassioned and prepared for the worst!

"Well said! Since we have all decided to fight the little devil to the end, let's immediately start preparing to strengthen the defenses and be fully prepared! Jiang Qiang nodded and elaborated on the calculated defense strategy, and then said with some embarrassment: "It is fate for our soldiers to shed blood and sacrifice to defend their families and defend the country, but the people in the city are afraid that they will suffer a catastrophe!"

How many people are still in the Great Wall, if possible, I suggest that they be evacuated to other places in advance, the little devil is cruel and completely inhumane, and he will not show mercy to innocent ordinary people! Jiang Qiang knew very well that in the original history, more than 40 households with surnames such as Xiaoximen Chenggu, Gao, Zhang, Li, and Chen in Dezhou were almost killed, and all the houses were destroyed by Japanese artillery fire. When the Japanese army entered the city, with the expansion of the control area, they searched extremely strictly in the vicinity of the Health Department Street, Ma Dao Street, and Baxian Temple.

If this time according to Jiang Qiang's plan, he will defend the war of resistance in Dezhou City and Ling County, and even fight with the little devils in the streets, not to mention that the little devils will slaughter the people frantically after the city is broken, even if the city is not broken, the people in the city will suffer serious casualties! Yun Qichang nodded again and again and said: "What Chief of Staff Jiang said is extremely true, I immediately organized manpower to evacuate the people, isn't it just to protect the family and defend the country to ensure the safety of the people's lives?" "Well said! Then let's sit down and do a good job of totaling! ”

Jiang Qiang smiled, since he had made up his mind to be tough, he had to make a perfect strategy and use all the resources in his hand to deal with the devil! "What? The little devil is so insidious? Unexpectedly set up such a large pocket array specifically for us? "Afraid of what? The chief of staff told us to be tough, and we will be tough! "Haha, that's right! Then let's not hurry up and follow the instructions of the regiment seat to strengthen and arm! "That's right, it's over!"

After receiving the telegram from Jiang Qiang, Yang Chengliang, the commander of the first regiment of the Jiaodong Independent Brigade, Ren Yixiong, the commander of the second regiment, Yao Tian, the commander of the artillery regiment, and others, instead of a trace of fear, became extremely excited and ready to do a big job! "Ah, Brother Jiang, is this going to be a little devil? Sister, what should I do? After waiting for an hour, Yu Yanluo received a call back from Jiang Qiang, and when she saw the message, the whole person was not good!

Zhuang Tao hurriedly picked up the message and read it carefully, then sighed deeply and said: "It's a blessing or a curse, it's a disaster that can't be avoided!" Chief of Staff Jiang is now well-known, and even if he is not ambushed by devils this time, he will encounter such a thing in the future! We are all laymen when it comes to marching and fighting, and we can only wait and see what happens for the sake of the future, and I believe that Chief of Staff Jiang is not a reckless person, and there must be a reason and reliance for doing so! ”

It is worthy that Jiang is still old and spicy, although Zhuang Tao is very worried in his heart, he is not flustered, and his heart is full of expectations for Jiang Qiang, because he knows that Jiang Qiang has never been a master who is willing to suffer, not to mention that there are unfathomable means! "Alright! Then go to Captain Wang Yong and ask him to prepare in advance! If the situation is critical, even if we fight hard, we will take Brother Jiang and them back! Yu Yanluo bit her lip, she had already prepared for the worst in her heart, it was a big deal to fight to the death with the little devil, anyway, if Jiang Qiang had three longs and two shorts, it would be meaningless for her to live!

"Your Excellency, the commander of the division, our 1st Brigade has arrived at the predetermined area for fortification, completely blocking several communication arteries from which the 243rd Brigade and the Independent Brigade of the Chinese Army fled, and the heavy artillery brigade and tank brigade will be able to reach the city of Texas in 5 hours! The China Independent Brigade has become a turtle in an urn, and this time they will not be able to escape from the palm of our hands! ”

At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the chief of staff of the 10th Division of the Japanese Army, Tsutsumi Bujia Gui Osa, happily found the division commander, Lieutenant General Ryosuke Isoya, with a villain on his face! "Yo Si! Well done" Ryosuke Isoya nodded with a smile, and then asked, "What is the current situation of the Jiaodong Independent Brigade in China?" Are there any signs of a breakout? ”

Chief of Staff Di Bugui hurriedly replied: "According to our reconnaissance, the Independent Brigade and the 243rd Brigade are strengthening the city defense and repairing fortifications, and it seems that they do not know that they have fallen into a heavy siege and are trying to hold the city in a decisive battle with our army!" "Yo Xi, these things don't know whether to live or die! This Jiaodong Independent Brigade is so arrogant that it is still dreaming of repeating the Battle of Fengtai! It's a pity that they don't know the great power of the heavy artillery brigade of the Great Japanese Empire! ”

As soon as he heard this, Ryosuke Isoya showed ecstasy on his face, and ordered fiercely: "Order all the troops participating in the battle to hold their positions, and never allow a soldier to be let go, otherwise they will commit suicide like His Majesty the Emperor to apologize!" At five o'clock tomorrow morning, we will officially launch an attack on the entire line of Dezhou City and Lingxian County, where the Chinese army is entrenched, and this time we must annihilate them all with the force of thunder, and not a single one will be left! ”

Because they knew that Jiang Qiang's intelligence work was very powerful, the Japanese army did not dare to be too ostentatious and lay heavy troops along the road in advance, but waited until Jiang Qiang rushed to the front line in Texas before daring to make a big move to outflank him! So this time and again, it took a whole day to completely form an encirclement, leaving enough time for the Jiaodong Independent Brigade to prepare for war! "Haiyi, please rest assured that the glory and victory will always belong to our tenth division!"

The chief of staff of the devil is not a nobleman, and Dazuo nodded with ambition, as if the Jiaodong Independent Brigade was already meat on the chopping block and could be slaughtered! "Governor Han, it's not good, it's not good!" Zhang Shaotang's face was full of panic, and he trotted all the way to find Han Fuyu, and said breathlessly: "This time the Jiaodong Independent Brigade is in danger!" Governor Han, this is a telegram from the front line, and I would like to ask Governor Han to take a look! ”

"What? The devil has conquered Huangheya and Zhengjiakou, and has interspersed the southern part of Lingxian County and the northern part of Pingyuan County in a roundabout way, so wouldn't it have put the entire Dexian and Lingxian into the encirclement, this little devil wants to eat the Jiaodong Independent Brigade in one bite! "Half a month ago, Han Fuyu still thought that the Japanese army would only attack tentatively and would not fully invade Shandong, because now the Battle of Guangdong is in full swing, and Japan's most elite troops have been transferred to Guangdong to participate in the war!

However, in the past two days, all kinds of bad information have come one after another, and the strength of the Japanese army has skyrocketed from one brigade to one and a half divisions, with a total strength of more than 40,000! Immediately afterwards, before Han Fuyu came to his senses, news came that the devils were attacking in a big way, attacking the city one after another, and surround the entire 292 Brigade and the Dexian and Lingxian counties garrisoned by the Jiaodong Independent Brigade! Zhang Shaotang wiped a handful of sweat with his hands, and said quickly: "Dexian can be lost, Lingxian can be thrown, but the Jiaodong Independent Brigade can't be eaten by little devils like this!" Otherwise, it will cause a serious morale blow to our Third Route Army! ”

With short hands and soft mouths, he has received the benefit fee of Tang Juwu General in Shanghai for many years, and he thinks that Jiang Qiang will have more powerful protection in Shandong, Zhang Shaotang really doesn't want Jiang Qiang to end up like this! "That's it! I know, the little devil is menacing and has a lot of plans, and we have to guard against it! We can't let the little devil build the plank road in the dark, and take this opportunity to break into the Luokou Yellow River Railway Bridge!

You immediately notify Deputy Commander-in-Chief Yu, Deputy Commander-in-Chief Shen, as well as Commander Sun, Commander Gu, and Commander Cao to attend the military meeting, we must plan carefully! The capital Jinan is located on the edge of the Yellow River, and the Yellow River Railway Bridge on the outskirts of the city is the only railway bridge across both sides of the Yellow River in Shandong!

The bridge is located about 7 kilometers north of Jinan City, Shandong Province, started in July 1909 (the first year of Xuantong of the Qing Dynasty) and was completed on November 29, 1912. The length of the bridge is 1255.2 meters, the truss width is 9.4 meters, the pier is built on the adhesive fine sand layer, and its foundation adopts pneumatic caisson and reinforced concrete pile foundation, with a total cost of 11.66 million German marks, equivalent to 4.5456 million taels of silver at that time. Obviously, if the Japanese army wants to quickly invade Shandong, this railway bridge across both sides of the Yellow River is a battleground, and what Han Fuyu is most worried about is that the devil suddenly drives straight in, which is a big matter of life and death!

If things really get out of hand, Boss Han will definitely blow up this railway bridge without hesitation!

As for the safety of the 292nd Brigade and the Jiaodong Independent Brigade, Boss Han can't take care of it now, after all, the main forces are south of the Yellow River defense line, and even if both brigades are killed, they can't hurt Boss Han's vitality! "Husband and wife are birds of the same forest, and they fly separately when disaster comes", not to mention that Boss Han and Jiang Qiang are only subordinates in terms of interests, and when faced with a choice between life and death, Boss Han is naturally a friend of the dead and not a poor man!

It was five o'clock in the morning on October 13, 1937! "What a quiet and beautiful autumn morning! I can't bear to break it! The chief of staff of the Japanese army, Tsuki Bujia, took the telescope and looked at the ancient city wall of Texas shrouded in darkness, and sighed hypocritically. Lieutenant General Ryosuke Isoya, the commander of the Japanese division, said with a cruel smile: "Then let the Shina army be relieved in the sweet dreamland!" Order the artillery unit to concentrate its firepower and shell it with all its might, today we must take the city of Dezhou and Lingxian, and cut off the head of Yang Fan, the commander of the Chinese army, to comfort the imperial warriors who were martyred! "Hello!"

Di Bugui raised his head and pouted his buttocks, nodded respectfully, and then turned around and left to convey the general attack order! Soon, dozens of artillery pieces of different calibers began to fire and assault, and countless flashing ballistics cut the dark sky to pieces, and then converged into two cities, forming a magnificent and cruel fire field. Boom, boom, a shocking explosion of martyrdom continued to explode one after another like fried beans, and the ancient city of Texas and Lingxian County were ruthlessly devastated!

The force of the explosion collapsed the ancient city walls, shattered the houses, crackled and burned in the city, and the pungent smell of gunpowder smoke filled everywhere, and everything was drowned in the earth-shattering explosion! This time the intelligence showed that the Japanese army had mobilized a heavy artillery brigade, but this was not the case, and this time only 20 heavy cannons of the Taisho seven-year 150mm caliber were mobilized! A standard heavy artillery brigade has two heavy artillery wings, including 30-40 heavy cannons of the Taisho seven-year type 150mm caliber, 20 heavy cannons of the 90 type 240 caliber, 10 heavy howitzers of the 96 type 305 caliber, and some heavy artillery brigades are also equipped with 3-6 mortars of the 98 type 320 caliber.

The main reason for this is that Japan is very short of resources, and the heavy artillery brigades are already strategic troops, and the Japanese army only has a total of 6 heavy artillery brigades during the entire World War II! At present, the existing heavy artillery brigades are either guarding the homeland, or defending the Soviet Union in the northeast, or have been transferred to the Songhu battlefield, and now they can mobilize 20 heavy cannons of 150mm caliber is already their limit! It's also a loss, otherwise Jiang Qiang would really have lost all his money this time!

You must know that caliber is justice, during World War II, artillery was known as the god of war, and the power of 150mm caliber heavy cannon is not comparable to that of small-caliber guns. Even if only 20 heavy cannons were mobilized, the heavy firepower of the 10th Division, as an elite armor division, should not be underestimated: an artillery wing under its jurisdiction has 48 75 mm to 105 mm guns, and hundreds of infantry guns, mortars and other small-caliber guns! "Mary's next door, the little devil is really still an old routine with a three-board axe! Hehe, but this time you're going to bleed! ”

Jiang Qiang and others had already dug safe and strong anti-artillery holes in Dexian and Lingxian counties, and hid in the caves early, leaving only a few observation posts in the peripheral areas! And for the sake of safety, Yang Fan also asked all the troops to carry gas masks with them to prevent the devils from directly releasing gas bombs! Therefore, the artillery outside rumbled and trembled, and the officers and men of the Independent Brigade and the 243rd Brigade did not suffer serious casualties, and the vast majority of them were listening to the artillery sound steadily!

The intense shelling lasted for nearly an hour before it completely stopped, and the little devil really spent a lot of money this time, especially the 150 mm large-caliber shells were worth a lot of money! Under this round of saturated shelling, both the ancient city wall of Dezhou and the defensive positions of Lingxian County were seriously damaged, and many anti-artillery holes were directly hit, and the officers and soldiers hiding inside were either killed or wounded!

Under such a stormy bombardment, although the anti-artillery holes of the Jiaodong Independent Brigade were very thick and solid, it was difficult for human bodies and spirits to withstand such a long period of saturated shelling, and many officers and men were shocked to the point that their mouths were covered with blood, and some were even shocked to death. "Order all troops, enter the battlefield immediately, the little devils will soon start attacking!" "Quick! Fast! Fast! I squeaked while I was still alive, and I got up and got up and worked! ”

As soon as the sound of the devil's artillery stopped, the officers and soldiers who were hiding in the anti-artillery holes everywhere came out one after another, and rushed to their respective defense posts according to the predetermined defense plan, and everyone's faces were full of determination and anger! "Shuffle, it's dawn, and the end of the Chinese army has arrived! Order the troops, start the general attack, and be sure to annihilate all the Chinese army in one go! After the bombardment, Lieutenant General Ryosuke Isoya, the commander of the Devil Division, saw through the telescope that most of the ancient city walls of Texas had collapsed, and there was no shadow of a single soldier on the city wall, and he immediately gave the order for a general attack in a good mood!

After climbing the collapsed city wall, posing and waiting for about ten minutes, Jiang Qiang saw in the telescope that the devil's warship came out of the early morning mist, followed by the devil's infantry brigade! Under the cover of 20 Type 97 Zhongtan, 12 Type 95 Light Tans and 6 Type 1 artillery fighting vehicles, the Japanese army launched a general attack on the four directions of the southeast, northwest and northwest of Dezhou City at the same time!

The circumference of the Texas City Wall is 10 miles and 180 steps. A fully formed 3,000-person full formation, only a 5-meter gap can be guarded by one person, not to mention that the devils are only 2,400 people, which is enough for them to set up a formation and continue to approach the ancient city wall like a tide. In order to alleviate the pressure on the first and second regiments of Lingxian County, Jiang Qiang deliberately appeared on the city wall yesterday wearing a major general's uniform and holding a telescope, exposing himself to the field of vision of the little devil scouts and commanders on the opposite side!

Therefore, the focus of the devil's attack this time was on the city of Texas, not only used 15 heavy artillery pieces on the Texas side during the bombardment, but also mobilized sixty and a half percent of the chariots during the siege! "Hehe, the devil is really still an old trick, but this time you have found the wrong person!" Seeing this, Jiang Qiang immediately said to the tiger beside him: "Inform all the troops, don't panic, put the devil within 30 meters and then beat it hard!" This time, we're going to have to make the devil suffer! ”

The tactics of the Japanese army are actually very single and rigid, and they usually have a three-board axe tactic when encountering positional warfare: attack at night without fighting, first bomb with aircraft and then heavy artillery, and then pull out the charge under the cover of tanks! As soon as the Japanese army charged, the Chinese army would inevitably use heavy machine guns to suppress it, and at this time, the Japanese army would use flat-fire guns to shoot machine guns and knock out the fire points of the Chinese army!

A large number of heavy machine guns of the Chinese army were destroyed and consumed in this way, so later they fought, and many Chinese troops were accustomed to adopting white-knuckle combat tactics, and when the devils shelled, they did not need artillery to return fire, and they did not use heavy machine guns when the devils charged! But when the devils rushed closer, the Chinese army swarmed up to fight bayonets with the devils to prevent the devils from bombardment!

But for Jiang Qiang, a local tyrant who is accustomed to the supremacy of firepower, this does not exist at all, the German cloth ripper heavy machine gun is only 100 wealth points, and the ammunition is even cheaper. "Order! Brothers, don't panic, the chief of staff has an order, put the devil within 30 meters and fight again! ”

"Listen to it, let's fight when we get closer, if anyone shoots indiscriminately and delays the fighter, don't blame the brothers for turning their faces and being ruthless!" "This time I will definitely make the little devil pay for his blood debt!" "Please rest assured that our 243rd Brigade has no seeds!" "Damn, it's a big deal to die, I'm afraid of a ball!"

The Jiaodong Independent Brigade, which was equipped with walkie-talkies, soon received Jiang Qiang's order, and then conveyed the order to the 243 Brigade brothers around him! "Hehe, the Chinese army must have been blown to pieces by the heavy artillery of the Empire!" "Yes! Until now, I can't even see a ghost! "I hope that when I enter the city in a while, I will be the first to find the body of the commander of the independent brigade!" His head is not only worth a fortune, but it is also a great achievement! ”

"Hello, then it's up to each of you!" "The Great Japanese Imperial Army is onboard!" "His Majesty the Emperor is onboard!" The devil infantry followed closely behind the tank with 38 big covers and light and heavy machine guns, and the road was smooth sailing for a kilometer or two!

Seeing that it was less than 400 meters away from the city wall, and the devil troops were still not blocked, many devils began to make up their minds arrogantly, and they were very confident that the saturated artillery bombardment in the previous hour had caused serious casualties to the Chinese army! When they reached a distance of nearly 350 meters, the Japanese tanks and tanks stopped advancing, and the grenadiers of the Devil Machine Gun Team stopped and began to quickly build a position, aiming their guns at the top of the city wall.

And the devil's mortar and infantry artillery had already stopped a thousand meters away, and at this time the artillery position had been built and entered a state of readiness! The devil had suffered a big loss at the hands of Jiang Qiang, so despite the carpet saturation bombing, he still seemed extremely cautious. After stabilizing the forward position, the devil infantry broke away from the cover of the tanks and swarmed towards several gaps in the city wall! "Damn, the devil is really good at learning! It's not a lot of fun now! ”

Looking at this posture, Jiang Qiang is a little big, no matter how many devil infantry in front of the powerful automatic fire network is a dish, but the devil's tank is no longer within the range of the anti-tank bazooka, which is a bit embarrassing! What's more, there are hundreds of devil mortars around the city wall, and those things don't know how to eat vegetarians!

"No matter, let's eat these devil infantry first! Order the troops in the north of the city to open fire, and the other three directions will be determined according to the situation! Soon, the devil infantry touched within 30 meters, Jiang Qiang was no longer used to it, and his eyes narrowed and aimed at the shiny red star steel helmet of the devil heavy machine gunner! Jiang Qiang's fingers snapped lightly, and a high-speed rotating metal warhead whistled out!

Bang, a muffled sound followed, and the devil's heavy machine gun helmet 300 meters away directly pierced, and the devil's head was killed on the spot! In the process of developing the steel helmet, Japan borrowed the mature technology of the French steel helmet, and because this steel helmet was in service in 1930, it was called the Type 30 steel helmet. Japan is a country with scarce steel resources, and in order to save steel as much as possible, Japan has come up with many ways.

Even the steel helmet is no exception, the thickness of the Japanese Type 30 steel helmet is far less than that of the steel helmet of European countries, and it is also doped with a large amount of iron, which is actually about the same as the iron helmet. Therefore, the Japanese Type 30 steel helmet is far from sufficient, and it may be able to defend against shrapnel, but it can't stop bullets at all. In the battle of the Nuo Threshold, most of the soldiers who were shot in the head by the Japanese army were shot by the Soviet army in the middle of their helmets. The steel helmet used by the Japanese army at that time had a large red star in the center of the front, which was the symbol of the Japanese army.

Red was the most striking of all the lights, so the Soviets could spot the Japanese soldiers from afar and aim at the red star and open fire, causing more casualties among the Japanese soldiers wearing steel helmets than Japanese soldiers without steel helmets. It was not until the Pacific War that the Japanese army used the method of applying coal tar to the steel helmet to improve its reflective properties to some extent. "Haha, the brothers are getting to work! Hit me hard! "Kill!"

Jiang Qiang instantly started the slaughter feast as soon as a gunshot rang out, and the Chinese defenders in the four directions of Dezhou City pulled the trigger one after another, shooting the deadly warheads towards the devil infantry! "Lie down! Shoot! "Shoot, Sassan, Sathaga, ......"

The devil infantry was caught off guard and was instantly knocked down nearly 100 people, and those devil infantry who reacted immediately lay on the ground and organized a counterattack on the spot! Immediately afterwards, the devil tanks, light and heavy machine guns and grenadiers in the rear began to suppress the firepower, and in an instant, the guns and cannons on the kung fu battlefield roared, and the battle entered the front of you and me!