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Feng Yuxiang, commander-in-chief of the Anti-Japanese Allied Army, was walking up and down in his headquarters at the moment, shaking his head and sighing irritably.The telegram sent by Zhou Enlai asked them to break out decisively to the northwest under the cover of Kuomintang bombers tomorrow morning!Then make plans after crossing the Yellow River.

"Brother Huanzhang, right now we can only trust Luo Yaoguo! If he is still a Chinese, he probably...wouldn't have the idea of ​​destroying us by the hands of the Japanese, right?" Deng Yanda's words lacked confidence. .Uh, he also knew that if he, General Deng Yanda, was the only one in the inner city of Jinan, Luo Yaoguo would definitely not come to rescue him!I just don't know what is the relationship between Feng Yuxiang, Duan Qirui, and He Long and Luo Yaoguo?

Feng Yuxiang turned his head, his eyes were full of worry, he smiled bitterly: "...Luo Yaoguo won't have such thoughts, it doesn't mean others don't! Who can make an appearance in China's current troubled times is not a hero Ah! It's you and me, if we encounter such an opportunity, will we let it go? If last time, Luo Yaoguo capsized in the "gambling game" between Shanghai and the Japanese...would you not step on his foot? Hehe, sing Who doesn't know how to say beautiful things in a high-profile way? But right now is a chaotic world, a chaotic world where heroes compete for the throne!"

Deng Yanda took a deep breath, his face turned pale without a trace of blood, and he smiled miserably: "Is there any other way out for us now besides trusting him? Is it possible to defend Jinan... There may be a chance to break through tomorrow morning , At worst, let’s fight the Japanese! Vigorously is also a national hero.”

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Weixian, Shandong, the headquarters of Japan's Shandong Expeditionary Army.

General Earl Muto Nobuyoshi didn't feel sleepy at all tonight, he just stood in front of the large map hanging in the headquarters, his brows were tightly knitted and his face was livid.Holding a telegram just received in his hand, it was sent by a Japanese spy disguised as a reporter, informing Yoshiko Kawashima that Yoshiko Kawashima had been arrested!Now being imprisoned in the headquarters of the Shandong Front Army of the Kuomintang... It seems that he is going to be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor!Sakanishi Rihachiro stood beside him, his face was ashen.

The room was quiet, and the staff members who came in and out also moved lightly, trying not to make a sound, so as not to annoy the Earl, who seemed to be in a mood, and bring unreasonable disasters to himself.

After a long while, I heard Muto Nobuyoshi's inhaling voice: "Sakanishi-kun, how do you see Miss Yoshiko's arrest? What kind of message is this young Marshal of China telling us?"

Rihachiro Sakanishi shook his head lightly.He has been in China for more than 20 years, and he thinks that he has a very accurate grasp of the psychology of Chinese military and political figures.But... this Luo Yaoguo is definitely an anomaly, he never plays cards according to the routine when doing things.For example, the sudden arrest of Yoshiko Kawashima is like this. Yoshiko Kawashima and him are considered "rain couples" and they are also "messengers" of the Japanese army.No matter how you look at it, you shouldn't be arrested!That doesn't conform to the rule of "two countries don't fight each other"?

"Your Excellency, do you think that Luo Yaoguo wanted to use the arrest of Yoshiko Kawashima to show us that he would definitely rescue the Chinese army in Jinan? It's just... why did he do this? Is he challenging us, or forcing us to step up our attack? How about destroying this 'alien' army as soon as possible?" Banxi frowned, thought hard for a moment, and said, "The attitude of Luo Yaoguo right now is very important, if...he wants to rescue Jinan, I'm afraid No one can stop it, Your Excellency must be vigilant."

"What?" Nobuyoshi Muto turned his head, with a trace of doubt in his eyes: "Couldn't it be okay if Sun Yat-sen gave an order? This time, the Japanese legation has already informed Wang Jingwei of the Kuomintang of the empire's 'sincerity'. He should be there on the [-]st Shall I inform Wuhan soon?"

"Sun Yat-sen would not give such an order." Rihachiro Sakashi shook his head, and said with a wry smile, "Sun Yat-sen would only give hints but not openly give orders, and even the hints would not be clear, but let Luo Yaoguo figure it out by himself. This is called 'Xizhi'. If Luo Yaoguo pretends to be confused, he can still send troops to rescue Jinan."

"It's really complicated!" Muto Nobuyoshi shook his head and smiled coldly: "Let the Chinese people figure out each other... The Fourth Division and the Tenth Division have arrived now, and they can go into battle tomorrow night. I won't I believe that the three divisions of the Kuomintang army can break through the defense line of the fifth division in one day and rescue the Chinese army trapped in the inner city of Jinan!"

"But what if...the Chinese army in Jinan breaks out?" Banxi suddenly had a flash of light in his head, and he almost guessed Luo Yaoguo's plan!He took two steps, picked up a red and blue pencil and drew on the map: "Your Excellency, if the three infantry divisions of the Chinese Nationalist Army attack the Fifth Division's defense line with all their strength and attract reinforcements from the Sixth and Second Divisions, Then use the air force to cooperate with the Chinese defenders in Jinan to break through the siege... It seems that there is a certain chance to save some troops, right? Our plan to wipe out the Chinese defenders is about to fail!"

Nobuyoshi Muto frowned, stared at the map for a while, and said with a chuckle: "Sanxi-kun is too nervous, can the Kuomintang army in the southern branch have this kind of attack power? Can three divisions defeat Hiroshima No. [-] in a few hours?" The Fifth Division asks for tactical guidance? According to my estimation, the combat effectiveness between the Southern Branch Kuomintang Army and the Imperial Army is at most two to one. The three Southern Branch Divisions are equivalent to one and a half divisions of the Empire, and the Fifth Division It is based on the defensive position, and it will definitely be able to withstand it, so you can rest assured!"

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"Boom——" There was a loud noise like the earth was shaking, and another section of the city wall in the inner city of Jinan was blasted by Japanese engineers with explosives to make a huge gap!Immediately afterwards, there was an earth-shattering cry.

The collapsed city wall formed a gentle slope, and the Japanese army's stand-up team and the Chinese army's death squads rushed up the gentle slope at the same time.On the Japanese side, bayonets were attached to the long [-] rifles, and the white blades gleamed coldly and moved little by little.

The Chinese army facing this time is armed with a machete!The one who rushed to the front was a strong man with a strange appearance. He was born with a big head and narrow eyes, and his beard was like a steel needle.It turned out to be Ji Hongchang, the number one general in the national army!General Ji Hu went into battle this time shirtless, shirtless, revealing his tendons.Holding a special machete, it always looks like it weighs thirty or forty catties!But dancing is as light as nothing.These death squads with big knives were not reckless. When they were about to rush to the top of the slope, they suddenly stopped, pulled out grenades from their waists, pulled the fuse and threw them out.Unbiased, all fell on the heads of the Japanese soldiers who rushed up from the other side!Since the gap in the collapsed city wall was not very wide, the charge formations of both sides were quite dense. After a rain of grenades, there were corpses lying on the side of the gentle slope.However, the surviving Japanese army did not stop, but continued to rush to the top of the slope and fight with the Broadsword team led by Ji Hongchang!

The two sides collided and wrestled into a ball.The scraping sound of the bayonet stabbing into the human body, and the puffing sound of the big knife cutting into the body rang out continuously.In the middle, there were still shrill screams one after another.Soldiers from both sides poured forward continuously, and their fresh lives were constantly consuming each other.Ji Hongchang's heavy machete was undoubtedly the most formidable weapon in this hand-to-hand combat. When the machete was swung, it was a rain of blood. Everything in front of the blade, whether it was the barrel of a rifle or the human body of the Japanese army, was completely indifferent. Without exception, it was chopped into two pieces!A wounded Japanese officer limped forward, waving a samurai sword in his hand, looking completely insane.Ji Hongchang sneered, approached from the side, waved the big knife lightly in his hand, and a big head flew into the sky, but the body without the head still struggled to walk a few steps, and the samurai sword in his hand waved feebly After a few strokes, he fell to the ground with a plop!

At this time, the Japanese mortars also began to assist in the battle. Dozens of 60mm and 80mm mortars were set up, aiming at the death squad led by Ji Hongchang, desperately tilting ammunition, trying to stop the reinforcements of the Chinese army.However, another team of the Japanese army came up with bayonet-mounted rifles, shouting... The bitter battle in the inner city of Jinan continued all night!

Chapter 0426 Breakthrough ([-])

It was seven fifty in the morning on April [-], [-] AD.

After nearly forty hours of fierce fighting, the sound of guns and shouts on the Jinan battlefield finally stopped temporarily.After a night of hard work, although the inner city of Jinan was hit one after another, the city walls were also covered with numerous bullet marks, especially the east gate of the inner city of Jinan, which was the main attack direction of the Japanese army.The city walls in that area were all gentle slopes that were bombarded by heavy artillery or explosives, but each gentle slope was filled with corpses of soldiers from both sides, almost as high as the original city wall!Red flags or national flags of five colors are now fluttering in the wind on these "city walls" made of corpses, declaring that the winner of this night of bloody battle is the Chinese army in the city!

Feng Yuxiang stood on the tower of the half-collapsed west gate of Jinan's inner city, holding a telescope and looking out.As far as the eye can see, there are ruins smoking with gunpowder!However, there was no trace of a Japanese soldier.The high-level Japanese army seems to have guessed the intention of the Chinese army to break out of the encirclement. After the last onslaught was repelled, all the Japanese troops withdrew to the city wall of the outer city of Jinan, preparing to use the tall city wall of the outer city as a cage, trapped and ready to break through Anti-Japanese Allied Forces.

Under the city wall where Feng Yuxiang was standing, more than 30 civilian 75th-style 70mm mountain cannons and civilian [-]th-style [-]mm infantry cannons of the Red Army Artillery Division were lined up neatly, and the muzzles were slowly leveled, all pointing at Jinan two kilometers away. The outer city walls.These mountain cannons are the only artillery left by the artillery division after a day and two nights of hard work!

In front of the artillery position, the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army and the National Coalition Army of the brigade have begun to gather and have begun to establish an offensive starting position.These officers and soldiers of the Red Army and the National Alliance Army were not armed with bayonet-mounted rifles, but all submachine guns.In order to open up the army's way out in the shortest possible time, both Feng Yuxiang and He Long brought out the most elite troops.This time Feng Zhian's Guard Brigade and Chen Geng's cadre regiment will be the first to go into battle.A total of [-] elites were carefully selected, all wearing steel helmets, holding submachine guns, and two rows of grenades hanging from their waists, quietly waiting for the order to attack.

"Brother Huanzhang, listen!" Standing beside Feng Yuxiang, Deng Yanda, the temporary "chief of staff", suddenly shouted, his voice slightly excited.A "buzzing" roar came faintly from afar, getting closer and louder.That's... the roar of an airplane motor!The plane of the First Division of the Kuomintang Army Aviation Corps arrived on time!

The senior leaders of the Anti-Japanese Allied Army on the city wall all let out a sigh of relief, and looked up at the sky.Dozens of small black dots have appeared in the southern sky, flying slowly.He Long, the commander of the Red Second Front Army, took a look at the six-fold military binoculars in his hand, and what he saw was indeed the kind of small biplane aircraft called A-1 or F-1 by the Kuomintang, and there were more than 50 of them.A dense piece of blackness, quite shocking.It seems that... the Red Army will also pay attention to the development of the air force in the next stage!In the battle yesterday morning, as soon as these buzzing little planes took to the sky, the Japanese cannons immediately misfired. If the airport hadn't been captured by Japan, maybe the Japanese army would be fleeing now?

Feng Yuxiang just glanced at the plane flying in the distance, and then began to silently look at the battlefield where both sides held their breath.I don't know why in my mind, but I always turn to other places... The Kuomintang is powerful, but after all, it is too selfish, and it only wants dictatorship.The Feng family is simply a bunch of bandits with modern weapons, not worth mentioning, and China's hope is not on them.It seems that only the Chinese Communist Party is really dedicated to realizing democratic constitutionalism and national independence for the sake of the country and the nation!After passing this hurdle, you can no longer be half-hearted. You must follow the Communist Party wholeheartedly. Only then will China have hope and you will have a future.However, my own direct lineage had lost six or seven percent in this battle, and I had to find a way to make up for it after the war, otherwise, I'm afraid they wouldn't be taken seriously when they went to the CCP.And if I want to add, I'm afraid we have to move the Anhui faction, they seem to have [-] remnants and defeated generals...

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at the same time.

In the Cuimadian area, about [-] kilometers southwest of Jinan City, the Japanese Hiroshima Fifth Division had deployed on both sides of Jinpu Road, establishing a line of defense that was no more than ten kilometers long.Dozens of not-so-high hills distributed on both sides of the Jinpu Railway constitute the main points of this line of defense.Trenches and bomb defense holes were dug on every high ground, a large number of earthworks and machine gun fire points were built, and a few barbed wire fences and mine arrays were hastily arranged at the front of the position.The various key points are connected by shallow traffic trenches. In addition, two winding trenches were also excavated on the main road where the Jinpu Railway passes.Although the entire line of defense is not complete, it is beginning to take shape.

About [-] officers and soldiers of the Fifth Division of the Japanese Army were transferred to the southwest of Jinan City by the commander of the dispatched army Nobuyoshi Muto yesterday afternoon to build a defense line and prepare to block the reinforcements of the Kuomintang.The entire terrain around Jinan is narrow in the east and wide in the west, with the impassable Taishan Mountains to the south and the broad Yellow River to the north.The Jinpu Railway passes through the foot of the mountain on the west side of Mount Tai and enters Jinan from the southwest.The hilly areas on both sides of Cuimadian are the last pass to prevent the Kuomintang reinforcements from entering Jinan.Beyond this place, the flat western suburbs of Jinan are no longer safe to defend.

As long as the Fifth Division sticks to this hole, they can wait for the Fourth and Tenth Divisions who came overnight to enter the Jinan battlefield.As soon as they arrived, the total strength of the Japanese army on the front line in Jinan was as many as five divisions, nearly 2 to 5000!In addition, there are more than [-] puppet troops of Zhang Zongchang, including more than [-] White Russian mercenaries who are not weak in combat effectiveness. all the same.The Kuomintang army going north is only five infantry divisions, plus some local security forces with little combat effectiveness, the total number is only [-] to [-].As long as the Japanese army wiped out the [-] remnants of the Anti-Japanese Allied Army trapped in the inner city of Jinan, the Japanese army would basically be sure of winning this battle.

On the contrary, if the reinforcements from the two divisions of the Japanese army have not arrived, the 20 Chinese troops in Jinan City have not been wiped out.The Kuomintang army defeated the Fifth Division and broke through here, responding to the words that the remnants of the 30 Anti-Japanese Allied Army broke through and escaped.Even if the Japanese army captured Jinan City, they would inevitably be caught in the north-south pincer attack of more than [-] and nearly [-] Chinese troops, and the situation would be difficult to predict.

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German military adviser, Lieutenant Colonel Gunther Hans von Kluge, stands behind the Nationalist Army artillery positions outside the town of Gushan.As far as he could see, there were 160 two cannons neatly arranged, including 105 Min 150-type 54mm light field howitzers and [-] Min [-]-type [-]mm heavy field howitzers.This is all the artillery belonging to the division-level artillery regiments of the three infantry divisions belonging to the northward column of the Kuomintang Army.Lieutenant Colonel Kluge knows that this configuration is not inferior to the current German Wehrmacht, and the officers and soldiers who operate these cannons are also strictly trained according to the standards of the German Wehrmacht. All officers are from the Central Military Academy of the Kuomintang Graduated from the artillery department, and the three artillery regiment commanders have just graduated from the Army University.They are all very good professional soldiers, of course, there is still a lot of gap compared to the elite of the German Wehrmacht.But... it should be enough to deal with the Japanese on the opposite side, right?

Thinking of those Japanese, Lieutenant Colonel Kluge looked back at the busy Gushan Town Railway Station not far away, with a slightly mocking smile on the corner of his mouth.Those Japanese did not destroy the railway line here, and all the heavy weapons and supplies of the entire northward column were transported to the front line of Gushan Town by train... At this time, a large area around Gushan Town has also been taken by the Kuomintang security forces. Under control, the army's logistical support should be safe.Based on this alone, the young and outrageous Marshal Luo is somewhat worthy of his name.War is logistics. With this railway and those dive bombers, this battle has almost been won by [-]% or [-]%.

At this time, sharp whistles suddenly sounded around the artillery position. Klug looked down at the pocket watch in his hand. The hour hand was about to point to the Roman numeral eight, and the shelling was about to start!

Suddenly, the artillery group consisting of 160 two cannons on the position trembled at the same time. First, flames spewed out, and then there was a deafening roar that joined together. More than 100 rounds of 105mm and 150mm caliber artillery shells flew through the air, making a sharp and piercing whistling sound, and went straight to the main positions of the Japanese army Kaishan and Jishan 5 kilometers away.

boom!boom!boom……

With the bursts of huge explosions, a large column of smoke and flames suddenly rose from the Japanese army's position.The fragments from the shell blast swept across the main positions of Kaishan and Proshan like a storm.Looking from the trench where the Kuomintang army launched its offensive, at the beginning, fragments of earthworks and various obstacles could be seen flying around, and there were vaguely fragments of human bodies being lifted up high.Then it gradually became blurred, and only the blue-gray smoke could be seen covering the entire battle line, and rows of smoke columns kept rising up to the sky.

Just as the shelling began, a fleet of 41 A-1 light dive bombers and twelve F-1 destroyers also flew over the Japanese positions, circling maliciously.Their task is to find and suppress the Japanese artillery group. As long as the twelve 150mm howitzers belonging to the Fifth Division of the Japanese Army dare to fire back, 41 bombs weighing [-] kilograms will be kept and they will all be reimbursed within a few minutes!If after half an hour of shelling was over, the Japanese artillery group still shrank their heads and did not return fire... These planes would fly to Jinan City, more than ten kilometers away, to help in the battle and take over from another team of planes that had dropped the bombs.

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On the city wall of Jinan's inner city, everyone saw the smoke column rising high in the distance, so they could naturally guess that the Kuomintang army's relief troops arrived on time.Feng Yuxiang breathed a sigh of relief, and a little smile appeared on Tieqing's face: "Okay, they finally arrived, then... let's start too!"

Last night, the Anti-Japanese Allied Army Headquarters and the Kuomintang Shandong Front Army Headquarters in Xuzhou agreed by telegram that today's battle will be started first by the Kuomintang Army's relief troops.Then the Allied forces in Jinan began to break through with the support of the Kuomintang aviation.

Following Feng Yuxiang's order, several flares with bright red lights rose high.In the sky, 41 A-1 light dive bombers marked with blue sky and white sun also quickly climbed out of the dive bombing formation.Their current task is to use bombs weighing up to 100 kilograms to blow up the tall walls of the outer city of Jinan and open passages for the breakout troops.

"Brothers, follow me one by one, you have to see it before you blow up!" The voice of the deputy commander Ye Qiu came from the earphones of the pilots.

Then, under the gaze of hundreds of thousands of eyes, a small biplane flew headlong towards the west city wall of Jinan Outer City. The moment the plane looked like it was about to crash, it was pulled up again. The 41-kilogram bomb accurately hit a section of the city wall covered with rammed earth and bricks... There was a loud rumbling sound. It collapsed under the blow!The cage that trapped the [-] soldiers of the Anti-Japanese Allied Army was torn open the first gap!Then came the second, third, and fourth planes... Finally, all the dive bombers rushed down without hesitation under the sparse Japanese anti-aircraft artillery fire, and dropped [-] bombs on the city wall of Jinan West City and its surroundings The entire section of the city wall and the surrounding Japanese positions were blown up to pieces.

"Long live! Long live! Long live..." Seeing the tremendous power of the bombing, the Chinese troops on the battlefield couldn't help shouting loudly.

Zhu Rui, the commander of the Red Army Artillery Division, adjusted his gold-rimmed glasses and looked at the planes that had just dropped bombs and were shooting at the Japanese with machine guns with somewhat complicated eyes.At this time, the artillery expert of the Communist Party of China has faintly felt that the future battlefield will definitely be dominated by aircraft!Without air supremacy, the artillery would not be able to exert a strong destructive power at all, and it would even be just a target for enemy aircraft!But right now the Red Army's air force has only one passenger plane...

Zhu Rui took a deep breath, calmed down, grabbed a signal flag from the gunner next to him, raised it high, waved it down again, and shouted with all his energy in his dantian: "Comrades! ! For the victory of the Chinese revolution, for the liberation of all mankind, open fire!"

The Red Army artillerymen who had been waiting for a long time picked up the shells and pushed them into the chambers, pulling the matchlocks one after another, and each muzzle spewed out flames!

The artillery positions of the Red Army were only 2000 meters away from the outer city wall of Jinan, which was defended by the Japanese army. It was the best distance for the artillery to shoot directly, which could exert the greatest power and provide the highest accuracy.Even the poorly trained Red Army artillery could accurately pour shells onto the Japanese positions.Pillars of smoke suddenly rose from the Japanese positions, and went straight up to the sky in different postures.

The bombardment lasted only 10 minutes, and nearly [-] shells have been fired.Almost [-]% to [-]% of the ammunition inventory of the artillery division of the Red Army was consumed, and the artillery positions were full of copper shell casings.At [-]:[-], the shelling stopped abruptly.Chen Geng, head of the cadre regiment of the Red Army, and Feng Zhian, brigade commander of Feng Yuxiang's guard brigade, straightened up, raised their hands forward, and the infantry rushed out behind them!A total of [-] elite soldiers holding submachine guns and wearing steel helmets poured out from all directions, forming a huge wave, forming waves of dense skirmish lines, shouting and rushing forward...

Hundreds of heavy machine guns also moved up with the assault team, and were erected on the commanding heights behind and on both sides of the assault team.Soon it also started to fire, one after another, the ammunition chains were loaded, and quickly spewed streams of fire towards the opposite side.The firing trajectory of the machine gun was raised, flying over the head of the surging wave of infantry.Immediately, pillars of smoke were aroused on the city wall guarded by the Japanese army.

Suddenly, in the dense skirmish line charged by the Red Army and the National Alliance Army, there were clusters of flames and pillars of smoke!It turned out that seeing that the Kuomintang plane had temporarily left the battlefield, the Japanese artillery group hidden around the battlefield finally took off their cover and showed their muzzles.Shiny cannonballs were pushed into the barrel by the ferocious Japanese artillerymen with white cloth strips wrapped around their heads, and then spewed out, roaring across the sky, and fell straight among the charging Red Army and Nationalist Alliance soldiers.The huge shock wave brought by the shell explosion swept across the entire battlefield with countless tiny metal fragments engulfed in it!Turning this place into a life-swallowing Abi Hell, the orderly and dense charge formations were blown out of large and small gaps, and the screams of the assault infantry with a large number of casualties overwhelmed the sound of shell explosions!However, these brave Red Army and National Army soldiers did not have any fear or hesitation in the face of death. They just accelerated the pace of the charge and continued to charge against the Japanese artillery fire!

Seeing the scene of flames and blood flying in front of them, the Nationalist coalition and Red Army generals who had moved to the temporary shelter to oversee the battle were all pale and frowning.The success of today's breakout battle depends to a large extent on this first wave of charge!The Red Army and the National Coalition Army have put in their best efforts for this charge, and even elites such as the Guards Brigade and the Cadre Regiment have also been brought out!As long as the [-] elite soldiers armed with submachine guns rushed into the Japanese army's position, relying on the melee power of their automatic firearms, they would definitely be able to open a way out for the army!But at this critical moment, why did the Japanese heavy artillery, which should have been suppressed by the Kuomintang planes, rang again?