"It's so good! We've been waiting for this day for a long time! "Yes, if you don't work with the little devil with real knives and guns, you're about to fade out of a bird!" "Hehe, it's been 4 months, it's addictive enough!" "Raise soldiers for a thousand days and use them for a while, and it's over!"

As soon as Jiang Qiang's voice fell, the officers in the auditorium all screamed, recuperating for many days, and everyone held back their tendons. The people who felt that they were full of strength had long looked forward to leading the troops to charge into battle, drive Japan out of Shandong and China as soon as possible, and even one day land on the Japanese mainland across the sea to wipe out these hateful Japanese devils!

At the same time, what makes everyone excited is that military merit in the Shandong Group Army is a hard assessment indicator, and where can you "get promoted and get rich" if you don't fight? "Excellent! Military heart is available also! Jiang Qiang nodded with a smile, and then continued: "The operational strategy of this autumn counteroffensive has been determined by me and the chief of the general staff after many discussions, so let the chief of staff give you a detailed explanation, so that everyone can have a bottom in their hearts in advance!" ”

Professionals do professional things, and this autumn counteroffensive is nothing more than some tough bones, and there is not much content at the strategic level, and it is completely about the troops' ability to attack tough battles. Therefore, Jiang Qiang does not plan to participate too much in specific tactics, what he has to do is to coordinate in the middle and ensure that heavy fire support, air supremacy, troop scheduling, ammunition supply, food supply, medical logistics and other work do not fall off the chain.

After the meeting, all the officers quickly returned to the garrison. As soon as Chen Zhengnian, Zhao Zhengbi, Yun Qichang, Li Sancai, Shi Tongnian, and Gu Liangmin returned to their respective military headquarters and division headquarters, they immediately presided over a military meeting to discuss and deploy specific tactics! This time, Jiang Qiang determined the six main attack directions in Lunan, and then decided by drawing lots on the offensive direction of the First Army, the Second Army, the Third Army, the Fourth Army, the Fifth Division, and the Sixth Division.

As for how to deploy the tens of thousands of troops under their command, who is the main force and who is the auxiliary, that is their own problem! Since this time he would not concentrate on the use of armored tanks and heavy artillery, Yang Fan simply divided them into 6 parts, which were attached to the 1st Army, 2nd Army, 3rd Army, 4th Army, 5th Division, and 6th Division as infantry cover and heavy fire support.

The special operations division and the Flying Tigers are used as mobile forces, and they go wherever they are needed. Although the division of labor of each offensive line is clear, they all belong to the Shandong Group Army, so they naturally have to coordinate and fight as a whole in a game of chess, and it is absolutely impossible to fight in isolation and take care of each other!

At five o'clock in the morning of 6 September, the autumn counteroffensive of the Shandong Group Army officially began, and the Flying Tigers of the Tiger Army of the Shandong Military Region began to frequently dispatch bombers and fighters to intensively bomb and strafe the Japanese positions.

When the bombing was completed, the heavy artillery units began to continue to exert their might, and the range of the heavy artillery using the bottom row of ammunition far exceeded that of the field guns in the Japanese defensive positions, coupled with the deterrence and protection of the Flying Tigers, the artillery units did not have to worry about their own safety at all, and they were full of firepower as soon as they entered the field! After the bombardment by aircraft and artillery, the infantry, under the cover of dozens of tanks, began a formal attack on the Japanese positions. For a time, the Shandong Group Army blossomed in all directions, and the offensive was extremely fierce, and it had the spirit of recovering Shandong's hegemony in one fell swoop.

"Yaga! The Shandong Group Army is not good at coming this time! After reading an urgent telegram, the commander of the Twelfth Army, Oji Uchitoshi became extremely ugly. With despicable and shameless tricks, Jiang Qiang threw himself into a rat trap, and after a few months of "good life", but the good times did not last long, and the powerful offensive that suddenly broke out suddenly made the 12th Army feel unprecedented pressure again!

Kobayashi Asaburo nodded and said: "This is inevitable, the Shandong Group Army has been recruiting troops and horses in the past few months, constantly expanding its military strength, and the most hateful thing is that the Shandong Group Army has opened up routes with Britain, the United States, France and other countries!" Although it was ostensibly only a business transaction and did not buy arms and equipment, who knew that there were no arms hidden inside?

Even without armaments, the vehicles, gasoline and steel imported by the Shandong Group Army alone would be enough to make their war potential grow! Hearing this, Terauchi Shouichi scolded extremely angrily: "The most ridiculous thing is that those officials and old men have turned a blind eye to this, and the dignified Imperial Japanese Navy did not dare to stop the British and American merchant ships!" ”

"Well, who's to say it's not? If you don't cut off the foreign aid of the Shandong Group Army, you will only raise tigers and let them continue to grow bigger! Kobayashi Asaburo wailed: "Now that the Shandong Group Army has expanded to more than 200,000 troops in 10 divisions, our 12th Army only has more than 70,000 people, and there is no air support from the Imperial Air Corps, how can we hold it?" ”

"Yaga! If it really doesn't work, I will continue to use the strategy of the last time to tie up those Chinese fools together and see if they will blow up their own people together! Terauchi Shou's eyes flashed with a ruthless color, although the Twelfth Army has been greatly replenished these days, he no longer has any confidence to resist the powerful three-dimensional attack of the Huaxia Tiger Army! Therefore, Shouichi Terauchi couldn't help but think of the yin trick he used before. "I'm afraid not!"

Kobayashi Asaburo shook his head and said: "Almost all the county towns close to the Shandong Group Army Defense Area have become isolated cities, and the surrounding Chinese people have run out, and they can't catch them if they want to!" The last time we were under too much pressure, now that the German allies have opened up the European theater, the international situation has changed dramatically. The attitude of the United States towards us has also changed, and if we provoke the United States again, we will really be sanctioned! ”

"Doesn't that mean that we can only use our lives to fill the planes, heavy artillery and tanks of the Shandong Group Army?" Shouichi Terauchi scolded extremely unhappily in his heart: "Yagaya Road! When did the lives of Imperial warriors become so worthless? Kobayashi Asaburo could only comfort himself: "Maybe it's not that bad, after all, we have already strengthened the defense lines in various places for more than a year!"

Presumably, even if the Shandong Group Army attacked with all its might, it would never be so easy! Jiang Qiang is too sparing his life, as long as the casualties of the troops are too large, maybe he will stop the offensive and continue to be his soil emperor! "Yaga! I can only hope for that! ”

Terauchi Shouichi sighed helplessly, whether it was a knife or a knife to shrink his head, and for today's plan, he could only grit his teeth and carry it, and resist desperately with the help of strong fortifications.

"What? Jiang Qiang has started a full-scale counteroffensive again? , this guy can't be idle! After receiving the telegram, the chairman of the committee, who was anxious in Chongqing, finally had a good face, and at this time the Japanese army was organizing the Changsha offensive, and the first battle of Changsha was about to begin.

The Chairman had been closely following the development of international events, and he was initially extremely pleased with the outbreak of the Nomenkan War. However, what made him feel sad was that the stimulation of the Japanese army by the Nomenkan War and the outbreak of the European War not only did not contain the Japanese army, but increased the pressure on the Chinese army to resist the war and deepened the cruelty of the Sino-Japanese war.

The Soviet Union, in order to concentrate its forces on the Western Front against the Germans, concluded an armistice in Moscow and Japan. Immediately afterwards, the Soviet Red Army crossed the border line on a large scale and went straight to Poland.

At this point, the Japanese army began to devote itself exclusively to the Sino-Japanese War, and the Japanese Army in China reached 25 five divisions and 20 independent mixed brigades, which were converted into 35 divisions and regiments, totaling more than 922,000 troops, plus the navy, air force and other units, and the Japanese army in China greatly exceeded 1 million.

It was at this time that Okamura Ninji's Eleventh Army began to attack Changsha. At this time, Chongqing is still scorching hot, and on the south bank of the Jialing River, 10 kilometers from downtown Chongqing, on a sunny hillside, there is a small Western-style two-story building.

This building, called "Huangshan Villa", is the official residence of the chairman of the CPPCC National Committee in Chongqing. If there are no memories, and there is nothing to deal with in the organs of the Military Council, the chairman will work here and rest. Early in the morning, the Secrecy Bureau sent a report from Wang Pengsheng of the International Affairs Research Office of the Central Military Commission.

Wang Pengsheng is an expert on the Japanese issue, a man of profound knowledge, and an effective aide to the chairman. This report reported the latest developments in the Japanese side: After Wang Jingwei defected to the enemy and committed treason, Japan saw another possibility for the government to surrender, that is, to intensify the efforts to induce surrender and use military offensive as an auxiliary means of political inducement to surrender.

The report not only mentions that the Japanese base camp has given the invading Japanese army the task of overturning the local army and isolating and attacking the central army, but also mentions the latest developments in the puppet state of Manchukuo. Chairman Chiang was quite attentive in his report, and after being fascinated, he couldn't help but read it out loud: "In order to cooperate with Wang Puppet in establishing a political power structure and to exert continuous military pressure on the Chongqing government, Okamura Ninji, commander of the Japanese 11th Army, has drawn up a Hunan and Jiangxi operational plan with the Central Army of the Ninth Theater as the target, and the plan is being intensified to be prepared and implemented. ”

The chairman frowned, picked up a pencil and drew a red bar under this passage, then stood up and moved, opened the wooden door connected to the large sunny window, and walked up to the balcony to look into the distance. The field of vision here is broad, and Chongqing, the foggy capital, is particularly quiet and fresh at this time, lying under the brilliant red sun.

Downstairs is the flowing Jialing River, and the sound of turbulent water can be faintly heard, which is very beautiful and refreshing, but Chairman Jiang frowned, and his mood was doubly depressed. In accordance with the will of the Japanese invaders, after Wang Jingwei returned to China in mid-June, he intensively prepared for the establishment of a puppet government.

Recently, Wang Ching-wei convened the "Sixth National Congress of the Chinese Kuomintang" in Zhuhai, which was attended by all Kuomintang members who had defected to the enemy, and made preparations for the establishment of a puppet regime. "Alas, the Japanese are trying to draw wages from the bottom of the kettle, and while annihilating the living force of the Chinese army, they will weaken our foundation to support the War of Resistance!"

The chairman of the NPC National Committee sighed lightly, saying that since the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression entered the stage of stalemate, he realized that the three provinces of Hunan, Hubei, and Jiangxi would become the main battlefields of both China and Japan. And now that the war has really burned here, the Ninth War Zone has naturally become the key point of the current War of Resistance.

"It's time for the Ninth War Zone to come up with a concrete plan!" Thinking and directing action, the chairman immediately returned to his desk, picked up the phone and asked for a phone call from Xu Yongchang, director of the Military Command Department, and ordered him to convey to Bai Chongxi, deputy chief of staff, who was summing up the Nanchang Battle in the Ninth Theater, that he must quickly formulate a military deployment for the Japanese army's "Hunan and Jiangxi Operational Plan" and submit it as soon as possible.

"Commission, good news, Director Chen called, saying that Jiang Qiang and the Japanese are fighting again, and this time the scale is very large!" As soon as he finished making the phone call, Lin Wei excitedly took a telegram to the chairman of the committee. "Great!"

After reading the telegram, the chairman of the committee quickly turned cloudy and clear, this news came at the right time, if Yang Fan can really launch a counterattack at this juncture, the heavy damage to the Japanese army will undoubtedly have a great impact on the current situation!

In addition, what reassures the chairman the most is that Jiang Qiang has not been influenced by Wang Pseudo, and he has not engaged in a "tacit war" of mutual non-aggression with the Japanese! There is such a big nail in the hinterland of the occupied area, which is undoubtedly a great joy for the Nanjing government.

Lin Wei nodded and agreed: "At present, many scum who are greedy for life and afraid of death in the party-state are colluding with Wang Jingwei and vigorously advocating the theory of saving the country by curves, which is simply shameless!" Wang Jingwei's theory of "saving the country by curve" is one of the famous theories of surrender, and its main content is to propagate that China's strength is inferior to Japan's, that the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression will be defeated, and that military resistance will only destroy the country.

Wang Jingwei advocated the adoption of peaceful and cooperative means, first relying on Japan to strengthen its own economic strength, and then gradually advancing the peaceful liberation.

This proposition bears a resemblance to Gandhi's "non-violent non-cooperation" movement in the design of the ultimate national salvation plan, but it is essentially a proposal for surrender. In addition, the chairman of the NPC National Committee also put forward his theory of saving the country with a curve, which is different from Wang's version.

Nanjing's version of the curve salvation theory is that the Chinese Red Party is the great enemy of China and the source of the country's destruction; But in the political context of unity against Japan, Chiang could not be blatantly anti-red.

Therefore, he put forward the theory of curvilinear national salvation, and instructed the troops of the national army, which were difficult to hold out in the battle behind enemy lines at that time, to surrender to Japan, and to encircle and suppress the anti-Japanese armed forces of the Chinese Red Party under the command of the Japanese army, so as to achieve the goal of "saving the country."

As soon as the theory of "saving the country by curve" came out, it was immediately warmly welcomed by the Kuomintang troops who were behind enemy lines or at the intersection of enemy and us, and became the most fashionable term for those Kuomintang generals who were "very lonely." The consequence of this was that during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, there was a situation in which "the surrender of troops was like a tide, and the surrender of generals was like Mao".

This theory of "saving the country by curve" completely violates the criterion of saving the country by curve, and it is not saving the country at all, but betraying the country! However, the miraculous thing is that after Japan's surrender, all the puppet army units were "taken in" by Chiang Kai-shek, and the puppet army generals were appointed to senior military positions one by one.

As a result, Shen Honglie, deputy commander of the Lusu Theater, created a set of slogans: anti-red first, anti-Japanese second; The sun can not resist, and the total must not fight; Rather banditry, not red; It is better to die in the sun than to die in the common world. "Okay, don't mention these bad things!"

The chairman waved his hand and said: "Call Yan Ji back, let him pay close attention to the movements of the Shandong Group Army, it is best to find out Jiang Qiang's combat intentions and goals, and put enough military pressure on the Japanese army!" "Yes!" Lin Wei replied solemnly, and then turned to leave.

Yang Ruifu said loudly with a solemn expression: "Please rest assured, now that there are such advanced weapons and equipment, and we have learned such advanced tactics in the military school, if Dongying County can't be defeated, where will we still have the face to continue to be a soldier in the brigade!" ”

"Excellent! The Third Brigade has always been a sharp knife unit known for fighting tough battles, and when we received the flag of the Third Brigade from Brigade Commander Xie Kangquan, this honor and responsibility fell on our heads! Therefore, at any time, we must not insult the number of the Third Brigade, let alone the title of the Shandong Group Army! ”

Xie Jinyuan nodded, and then said: "The ground troops have begun to attack, you now return to the regiment headquarters to command the operation, you must fight this battle beautifully today!" Not only the brothers of our brigade are watching you, but even the brothers of our whole army are watching you! "Guaranteed to complete the mission! If there is a bad pool, come and see you! Yang Ruifu saluted heavily, then turned around and left.

Soon, Yang Ruifu came to Xiaowangzhuang by car, where the temporary command post of the Seventh Regiment Headquarters was set up.

Half a year ago, under the crazy "three-light policy" of the Japanese devils, the villagers of Xiaowangzhuang were slaughtered, and the houses were almost burned down. "Tuanza is back!" "Tuanza!" "Any new instructions over there?" As soon as Yang Ruifu walked into the regiment headquarters, several officers surrounded him.

"There are no new instructions! Just told us to use our brains more in the war, not to be brutal, this battle we not only have to conquer Guangrao County, but also have to fight a beautiful battle! Yang Ruifu responded with a smile, and then asked the deputy head of the regiment, He Wuxiang, "What is the situation of the troops now?" How's it going? ”

He Wuxiang immediately replied: "The first battalion, the second battalion, and the third battalion are currently attacking the three directions of the east gate, the north gate, and the west gate with all their might, and the devils are resisting extremely stubbornly, and our army has not made much progress for the time being. According to aerial reconnaissance, the devil defenders in Dongying County showed no signs of abandoning the city and fleeing, but on the contrary, there was a tendency to fight street battles with our army by stubbornly defending the county seat.

It seems that these little devils are determined to eat the scales, and they want to play jade with us! "The main intention of Jiang Qiang's autumn counteroffensive is to expand the strategic space and drive the Japanese army out of the Shandong border, and at the same time, in order to prevent the devil dog from jumping over the wall and slaughtering the people in the city, Yang Fan asked all troops to take the principle of recovering the lost territory as the principle, and did not emphasize how many enemies to annihilate.

Therefore, taking into account the actual situation, the Seventh Regiment adopted the tactics of encircling three and one when attacking Dongying County, the main purpose of which was to break the will of the Japanese army to resist, and at the same time to prevent thousands of people in the city from being slaughtered by desperate devils.

Although Jiang Qiang made great efforts to evacuate the surrounding people, it was impossible to turn the county seat where the devils were entrenched into an empty city, and there were still many people in the county who were trapped in the city for various reasons. But even so, this battle must be fought head-on, and you can't never fight with the little devils because you are afraid of hurting the people, right?

"Since the little devils want to find death, then we will fulfill them! The devils want to fight with us in the streets, can we still be afraid of them? Just practice with these little devils! Okay, a few of you stay at the regimental headquarters and keep in touch at any time, I'll go to the front line now! Hearing that the devil will not retreat, Yang Ruifu is not shocked and happy, if he easily scares the little devil away, then it is called meaningless.

"Tuanza, how can this work, if you want to go, a few of us will go!" "Yes, Tuanza! You are the head of a regiment, and you should sit in the center of the regiment headquarters! ”

He Wuxiang and others naturally tried their best to dissuade them, although they said that their side now occupies the absolute initiative, and it is theoretically safe to go to the front line to check the military situation, but the guns have no eyes, and the ghost knows if they will be suddenly attacked by stray bullets? "Less nonsense! Have we experienced less bullets in the past? I'm giving orders, not asking for your opinions! Yang Ruifu didn't listen to the advice at all, he didn't have a real knife or a real gun to fight a tough battle for the little devil for almost two years, and listening to the non-stop gunfire in front of him, his heart was already itching.

Although Yang Ruifu is now in an important position, he really can't take the lead in rushing to the front line like before, but there is no problem in going to the front line to take a look! After speaking, Yang Ruifu walked out of the regiment headquarters directly with 4 guards and walked briskly towards the position of the first battalion that was attacking the east gate of Guangrao County. After walking for more than ten minutes, Yang Ruifu came to the headquarters of the first battalion and met Wan Lianqing, the commander of the first battalion. After a brief exchange, Yang Ruifu picked up the telescope and looked forward.

At this time, more than 160 soldiers of a battalion and a company were attacking the Japanese positions outside Guangrao County under the cover of 12 tanks and 2 self-propelled guns. The front-line offensive troops have long completed the latest redress, not only wearing body armor, but also the latest tactical helmets and goggles, and all kinds of light and heavy firepower configurations are not the best, only better.

Dongying County is located in a plain area, there are no highlands and mountains around to defend at risk, and the only barrier for the Japanese army is the carefully built and reinforced fortifications inside and outside the city! In particular, a large number of urban buildings in the county have long been carefully transformed by Japanese devils, forming a network of crossfire. Since the strategic focus of the base camp at this stage is to annihilate the living forces of the Central Army and induce the Nationalist Government to surrender, the 12th Army can only grit its teeth and carry it to death.

The commander of the official Tai Shouichi could only strictly order his subordinates to hold on and not retreat to carry out a war of attrition, and the Japanese defenders stationed in the surrounding counties and fortresses of the Shandong Group Army could only "be in the position, and the people would die in the position."

The Japanese devils stationed in Dongying County were the Takimura Brigade of the 5th Brigade Regiment that was independently mixed, and the captain of the brigade, Akira Takimura, gave up the illusion of retreating too early and was ready to fight the Shandong Group Army in the city to the end. In this regard, I have to say that the Japanese devils are very hard-headed, especially those Japanese veterans!

Throughout this World War II, basically not many Japanese devils surrendered, especially in the Pacific theater, in the face of these killing machines that are not afraid of life and death, even the Americans who are armed to the teeth have suffered a big loss, and once suffered from phobia! "Hehe, the little devil has made a lot of bunkers and turrets, we have some to play today! Hurry up and hit the kinetic bomb and fuck it! Quick, the heavy artillery that the brothers are waiting for is coming! ”

Xue Dong was the commander of the self-propelled artillery, and this time he was ordered to cooperate with the infantry to attack Dongying County, and at this time, the self-propelled artillery followed the tank unit to the outside of Guangrao County, and the field of vision and firing range were excellent. The pillbox in front of him should be a main fort of the devils, not only with heavy machine guns, anti-tank guns, but also battle defense guns, and the fire is extremely fierce, so that the front-line troops can't raise their heads.