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Chapter 655 Big Event
The battle of the Lunan Detachment was a little more difficult. Although they received support from rocket launchers and mortar shells, Yang Qingfeng still felt reluctant to destroy a bunker all at once. He could only organize troops to besiege the area from all sides. If they could not take it down, he would use heavy firepower.
At the blockhouse outside Pizhou City, the soldiers quickly dispersed according to Yang Qingfeng's deployment and surrounded the blockhouse.
The enemy discovered the Lunan Detachment's actions, and the machine guns in the bunkers fired wildly, with bullets raining down all around. Yang Qingfeng directed the soldiers to find shelter while observing the terrain around the bunkers. He noticed that there were no enemies in the trenches on the bunker side, so he ordered the anti-aircraft machine guns, large-caliber heavy machine guns and sharpshooters to provide cover, and led hundreds of soldiers into the trenches.
The mortar blew away the barbed wire and flattened the minefield. Several agile soldiers immediately rushed forward carrying wooden planks.
The other soldiers concentrated their firepower to attract the enemy's attention. These soldiers advanced quickly in the hail of bullets and finally reached the bottom of the bunker.
After they placed the explosives, they quickly evacuated. With a loud bang, a gap was blown out of the bunker. The enemy troops inside were immediately thrown into chaos. Yang Qingfeng took the opportunity to shout, "Charge!" and led the soldiers to rush into the railway line.
Countless grenades were thrown into the gap, successfully taking over this sturdy bunker.
Yang Qingfeng was now gasping for breath under the ruins of the bunker. We couldn't fight like this! The losses were too great.
The order was passed down, and the Lunan Detachment took advantage of the detour that had destroyed the north side of the bunker to avoid great losses. They arrived at the bunker and opened fire to cover the soldiers' earthwork excavation. The trenches dug by the Japanese completely blocked the firing range of the machine guns. When the earthwork reached the trench position, they began to fill it with soil. When it reached one-third of the height, they continued to dig. One night was enough to dig under the Japanese bunker, and the rest was just a matter of seven or eight stacked explosive packs.
Jinan Zhangzhuang Airport is in a state of emergency, Jinan city is in a state of emergency, the middle section of the Jinpu Line is in a state of emergency, all cities in the middle section of the Jinpu Line are in a state of emergency, and all the bunkers and county towns on the Longhai East Line, except Lianyungang, are also in a state of emergency.
The commander of the North China Expeditionary Army was terrified, and the commander of the Central China Expeditionary Army was equally desperate. The two men urgently mobilized troops, not thinking about retaking the captured cities and railway lines, but about ensuring the defense of Xuzhou and the Yellow River line in the north.
In Lianyungang, the Japanese army urgently dispatched another warship to the point where they already had two. Two cruisers and a destroyer blocked the port. There was no chance left. The 3rd Regiment had to move away from the port city and dismantle the bunkers more than ten kilometers west of the port from the East China Sea.
The sky finally brightened. The Japanese army retreated on all fronts. Most of the troops stationed in Jinan were annihilated, and a small part escaped to the north of the Yellow River. The North China Expeditionary Force took off 120 planes from the Beijing Airport, determined to blow up the entire Zhangzhuang Airport in Jinan.
After working for half the night, the airport set up hundreds of anti-aircraft guns. When the Japanese planes dived towards the first rays of sunlight in the morning, hundreds of ammunition chains carrying tracer bullets came towards them. The first echelon of the initial attack exploded instantly, and the second echelon had no time to dodge. Two planes exploded and one escaped with serious damage.
The captain of the Japanese flight team revised the plan in time. The fighter planes made a feint attack to attract firepower, and the bombers dropped bombs at low altitudes.
The machine guns below were continuously firing. The effective range of the large-caliber heavy machine guns was two to three thousand meters. After losing nearly ten planes, the Japanese army finally caused damage to the planes on the runway. More than one hundred planes on the gun track were destroyed, but more than sixty of them were destroyed even though the oil was drained and the ammunition was removed last night.
The Japanese planes finally left, and the machine gun positions below also suffered losses. Two machine gun positions more than 100 meters away from the oil depot were flattened. An out-of-control bomber made a suicide dive and exploded in the open space above the hangar, only more than 300 meters away from the hangar, which was very dangerous.
Zhang Liang urgently mobilized a large number of Japanese equipment from the urban area of Jinan, together with the more than 30 Type 92 heavy machine guns seized at the airport last night. Their mission was to block the low altitude. It was too terrible. If the bomber in the morning had really hit the oil depot, half of the airport would be gone, and there would be no planes left in the hangar. The entire airport might be scrapped.
At 9:30 in the morning, thinking that the Japanese planes would arrive soon, the airport guards were on high alert, but the Japanese planes did not take off again.
The commander of the North China Expeditionary Army had his considerations. There would not be much air support in the Chinese battlefield in the future. The direction of the entire battle was shifting eastward and southward. Aircraft were strategic weapons. If they were all lost, who knew what would happen to the three or four cold-shooting airports. After all, every attack they made caused great casualties to the imperial army or tactical targets.
Chen Feng was studying the next direction of attack in Mengshan. Except for the railway lines fifteen kilometers near Lianyungang and ten kilometers northeast of Xuzhou, all other positions were captured. The reason for the attack outside Lianyungang was the Japanese naval guns, and the reason for the attack outside Xuzhou was the heavy artillery battalion in the city. Those things were too fierce and could not be filled even with one's life.
Most of the Japanese troops in the middle section of the Jinpu Line retreated to Jining City, and most of the Japanese troops near Xuzhou and the Longhai East Line retreated to Xuzhou City and Lianyungang.
According to real-time statistics, the Japanese army lost at least 20,000 of its 40,000 defenders in two directions last night. Next, the Longhai East Line will form a concave-shaped defense with Xuzhou, Suqian and Lianyungang.
The middle section is centered on Jining, connected to Dezhou in the north and Xuzhou in the south to build a new defense system. It is difficult to fight, and the losses of various units are relatively heavy this time. After all, they are facing siege and railway defense systems. Chen Feng decided to stabilize for a period of time, sort out the situation in the newly occupied areas, and at the same time move forward to threaten the new defense line of the Japanese army.
On August 1941, 8, the long-lost Captain Leng Qiang invented a coded message, the content of which was simple and clear:
Last night, our troops joined forces with the Lunan Detachment to launch an all-out attack, occupying the city of Jinan and successfully defeating the Japanese troops in the middle section of the Jinpu Line and the Longhai East Line, and occupying several cities along the line, including Lincheng and Tengxian. We will not leave this time and are prepared to defend Jinan and the two railway lines to the death.
Big event! The Fifth War Zone and the Kuomintang-controlled area were rarely silent. Although Jinan City did not have the strategic significance of Qingdao, it was the capital of a province after all, and it was located at a key position on the Jinpu Line, which directly cut off the main artery connecting the Japanese army to the north and the south.
Those who understand understand that this is going to be a big deal! The desperate defense mentioned in the Leng Qiang telegram is likely to become a reality. Most people are somewhat worried that the Leng Qiang team will suffer too many losses in defending the city.
However, the North and South sides did not think so. Since Leng Qiang dared to occupy and garrison, he must be fully confident. Envy! However, it was also unexpected and reasonable.