After Gu Liangmin ordered concentrated artillery fire on the 13th independent mixed brigade position on the Anjiazhuang front line, Morita Masanori was confused at first, thinking that the Jiaodong Group Army was going to launch a general offensive from the north, and hurriedly ordered the field artillery brigade to turn the muzzle

, suppressed the artillery fire of the Fourth Division, and ordered the four infantry brigades that were preparing to assault southward to leave two brigades to counterattack the Jiaodong Army's attack south of Anjiazhuang, and the remaining two brigades quickly reinforced the northern positions to guard against the Jiaodong Army's attack.

After struggling for a long time, the Jiaodong Group Army did not launch an attack. Morita Masanori felt that he had been fooled. After contacting Lieutenant General Maeda Haru of the 35th Division, he learned that the Jiaodong Group Army had launched a blocking battle on the Dawen River line.

, and after a brief blockade, the Jiaodong Army's blocking troops retreated.

Morita Masanori immediately realized that the Jiaodong Army had discovered the 35th Division's sneak attack intention and began to retreat. Morita Masanori immediately sent reports everywhere, requesting the commander of the 12th Army, Lieutenant General Hisao Tani, to immediately urge the aviation force to take off and intercept the retreat.

The Jiaodong Army requested the 35th Division to speed up its advance, catch up with the Jiaodong Army, and cooperate with itself to completely defeat the Jiaodong Army.

At this time, Hisao Tani had discovered that Jiang Qiang was about to launch an attack on Jinan, and knew that the situation in Jinan was critical.

This is also a normal situation. Hisao Tani ordered the commander of the 34th Division, Guan Guizhi, to send more small units for investigation. Guan Guizhi naturally carried out the task resolutely. Jinan is the base camp of the Japanese army in Shandong, and there are particularly many traitors and spies.

Dogs, as long as they have a little bit of national justice in their hearts, they will not fall down and become traitors. At this time, these traitors are still actively cooperating with the Japanese army in investigations. Although the Jiaodong Army has strong camouflage and concealment capabilities and strong anti-investigation capabilities,

Most of the little devils and traitors in the reconnaissance team have been beaten to death, but there are always fish that slip through the net. The main force of the Jiaodong Group Army is so huge, and under the all-round investigation of the Japanese army, it is impossible to avoid being discovered at all.

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There is another major factor here, that is, the Jiaodong Army used large-scale smoke retting for air defense. Japanese reconnaissance aircraft pilots can basically infer where the Jiaodong Army has gone from the smoke area. This is the two-sided nature of things. If there is an advantage, there will be another.

Disadvantages.

Although Hisao Tani is the sworn enemy of the Chinese people and extremely cruel, he is indeed one of the best generals in the Japanese army. After comprehensive investigation from all aspects, he has determined that he has eliminated the 108th Division and the 33rd Division.

After the regiment, Jiang Qiang had already launched his main force towards Jinan. Of course, neither the small reconnaissance team of the Japanese traitors nor the aerial reconnaissance by reconnaissance planes could figure out how large the Jiaodong Army was when it arrived near Licheng in the east of Jinan.

, whether the vanguard has arrived, or the entire main force has arrived, and it is even less clear when the Jiaodong Army will launch an attack on Jinan.

After all, Hisao Tani had just assumed the post of commander of the Twelfth Army and was not very familiar with the situation. Although he knew that Jiang Qiang's main force was going to attack Jinan, he still had a trace of luck in his heart, thinking that Jiang Qiang's main force had just ended a major battle. According to common sense,

, no matter what, you have to rest for a day or two to reorganize and reorganize the troops before fighting again. Besides, it is a 400-mile journey from Gaomi to Jinan. Even if Jiang Qiang desperately marches, it will take two to three days to arrive.

.They are going to launch an attack on Jinan, and it will be four days later.

Hisao Tani thought that in four days, the Jinan city defense could be further strengthened, and the 34th Division and the Jinan garrison could further integrate and improve their combat effectiveness.

Both divisions can reach the vicinity of Jinan. By then, with the solid city defense and the elite divisions reinforced from the north and south lines, they will be able to annihilate Jiang Qiang's troops under the city walls of Jinan.

Based on this idea, Hisao Tani made a detailed report on the detected situation and his deployment to Juichi Terauchi and the base camp, and asked the reinforcements to move quickly, rush to Jinan as soon as possible, and eliminate Jiang Qiang's main force in one battle.

After receiving the report from Major General Morita Masanori of the 13th Independent Mixed Brigade, Hisao Tani immediately realized that a fighter plane to defeat the Jiaodong Army had appeared, and he had to seize the opportunity. Unfortunately, his Jinan City could not live without its defenders.

Otherwise, Hisao Tani would have to personally lead the 34th Division south to attack the Jiaodong Army's western Taipei force.

Hisao Tani immediately sent an urgent telegram of 100,000 to Lieutenant General Toshiro Kinoshita, commander of the North China Front Army Aviation Group, asking him to immediately dispatch a large fleet of aircraft to intercept the retreating Jiaodong Army troops in the middle and south of Feicheng. They must defeat them and assist the 35th Division.

The independent mixed 13th Brigade completely destroyed the enemy in front of them.

Now it was lively. After Hisao Tani reported his deployment to the North China Front Army Headquarters and the base camp, these old Japanese who were extremely depressed after being taught a lesson by Jiang Qiang all went crazy, and their eyes were fixed on the small fat city in the Western Taipei region.

Anjiazhuang.

The Chief of the General Staff of the Japanese Army, Prince Kanin Miyazaihito, and Prime Minister Sugimoto Yuan changed their dejected image after being captured by the 108th Division, the 33rd Division Yusei and Odaka Kamezo, as if they had been given blood.

Full of arrogance, he sent a report to Kinoshita Toshi, Morita Masanori, and Maeda Osamu, ordering them to cooperate closely and attack resolutely. They must destroy the Jiaodong Army's Taixi troops and avenge the shattered Imperial Army warriors.

Prince Kanin Miyazaishin was very explicit in his telegram to Morita Masanori. He promised that as long as the Jiaodong Army's Taisei Force was eliminated, the base camp would make an exception and promote Morita Masanori to the rank of Lieutenant General of the Japanese Army, and he would become an independent general of the Thirteenth Brigade.

Immediately expanded into a division. For Maeda Haru, Prince Kanin Miyazaihito promised to transfer him back to the base camp to take charge of the procurement, development and deployment of artillery units of all the artillery of the Japanese Army. To Kinoshita Toshi, Prince Kanin Miyazaihito promised

The North China Front Aviation Group will no longer be held responsible for its unfavorable operations and excessive losses.

Not only that, regardless of the outcome of the battle, Prince Kanin Gong Zaijin immediately instructed his staff to draft a press release about the Shandong victory and prepare to publish it in major news agencies and newspapers tomorrow. The press release also swore that the Great Japan

The Army has caught the tail of Jiang Qiang of the Jiaodong Group Army and can annihilate him within a few days.

The attention from the highest level of the Japanese army made the blood of Kinoshita Satoshi, Morita Masanori, Maeda Haru and others boil. Kinoshita Satoshi immediately ordered all aviation forces in North China to take off urgently. Fighters were responsible for protecting the airport and escorting pseudo-bombers, and reconnaissance planes kept a close eye on the entire territory of Shandong.

After search and reconnaissance, the bomber group immediately headed to the Feicheng area to bomb the Jiaodong Group Army.

Morita Masanori and Maeda Haru never thought they could get a promise from the Chief of General Staff, and these promises were things they dreamed of. They would not hesitate to adjust their deployment immediately and begin to pursue the retreating Fourth Division.

Of course, Masanori Morita is not stupid. He has already seen clearly that the Jiaodong Army must retreat to the mountainous area to the north. If he pursues directly north at this time, he will inevitably encounter a tenacious blockade by the Jiaodong Army and the casualties will be huge. He

The losses of the independent mixed 13th Brigade have been heavy enough, and it cannot afford greater losses. It is better to attack southward and form a pincer attack with the 35th Division. It can pursue the retreating Jiaodong Army and launch a tail attack.

It can also coordinate with the north and south of the 35th Division to avoid falling into Jiang Qiang's trap.

Therefore, Morita Masanori left behind the field artillery brigade and an infantry brigade, and the baggage brigade guarded the front line of Anjiazhuang and exchanged fire with the Jiaodong Army in the north. He personally led four infantry brigade to launch an assault southward under the cover of tanks and armored vehicles.

Jiang Qiang didn't know, nor did Gu Liangmin of the Fourth Division, that in the blink of an eye, the enemy situation had changed so drastically. The first one to be bitten by the Japanese was the Third Regiment of the Fourth Division.

The leader of the Third Regiment, Guo Zheng, is a native of Xintai, Shandong. He is 23 years old this year. He joined the Third Army in July 1933 when he was 15 years old. He graduated from the Jiaodong Army Military Academy and served as a battalion commander, regimental commander, and staff officer at a young age.

After the formation of the Jiaodong Group Army, he has been teaching the brigade and training the headquarters. When Jiang Qiang established the cadre structure of the four regiments in Zhaoyuan, he was transferred out. When the Fourth Division was established, he served as the third regiment of the Fourth Division.

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After receiving the order to retreat, Guo Zheng ordered his troops to immediately lay mines and booby traps on the mountain and on the road. Then each battalion took turns to cover and evacuated quickly. Finally, at 6:30 in the evening, Jiang Qiang waved his hand and issued the attack order.

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In an instant, five hundred field artillery pieces from ten artillery regiments of the Jiaodong Group Army and the mountain artillery let out an earth-shattering roar. The shells flew across the newly darkened night sky, blooming like fireworks, beautiful and enchanting.

From the wide Japanese position in Wangsherenzhuang, the temporary county seat of Licheng County, there was a continuous sound of shell explosions.

The little devils on the battlefield never dreamed that when their ugly lives were coming to an end, they would see such a fireworks party specially held for them. They all straightened their necks, stared with frightened eyes, and even hid themselves.

I forgot about the shape, and looked stupidly at the beautiful curved traces created by the cannonballs passing by in the sky.

A little Japanese seemed to be scared out of his mind. He suddenly tore off his clothes and ran wildly on the battlefield, shouting: "Mom, mom, I want mom, I want to go home." Until a shell exploded next to him, the frightened

The shouts followed his broken limbs and merged into the vast night.

The bombardment lasted very short, and each gun only fired three rounds before the bombardment stopped.

The next scene shocked all the people who were awakened by the sound of gunfire: under the vast night, hundreds of car lights and countless flashlights and torches suddenly lit up, and dozens of tanks lined up in a row, guiding the same movement.

Armored vehicles, cars and countless war horses were lined up in a row, crushing and trampling the Japanese positions.

The ground was trembling, the little devil's heart was trembling, and even the little devils stationed on the hilltop in the distance were frightened by this majestic power and panicked. They all picked up the phone and kept shouting, "Moxi, Moxi."

In the face of such a huge torrent of steel, all resistance seems so pale, so futile, so powerless.

The little Japs who were lucky enough to have escaped the shelling just now, but who were afraid of being crushed into a pulp, were in a mess: some hurriedly picked up the rifles in their hands, the machine guns started shooting in a daze, and some picked up the explosives.

They packed their bags and packed grenades and rushed towards the sudden appearance of the tanks. Some simply raised their bayonets and rushed forward, fighting the Eighth Route Army tanks with their bayonets. There were also some cunning little Japs who turned around and ran away, trying to run back to Jinan City. Please ask for help.

Get temporary shelter.

It's a pity that in the artillery fire just now, the Japs' position has been ravaged beyond recognition. Most of the Japs have gone back to Japan to report to Amaterasu. The remaining Japs, whether fighting or escaping, are in the armored cluster.

Under the illumination of the light, they all become like monsters and monsters, extremely ugly.

The motors were roaring, the tanks were advancing, the armored vehicles were advancing, and the cars were advancing. Even the artillery groups that were roaring just now began to advance. The rolling iron currents overflowed the Japs' positions and rolled towards Jinan City. Everything

The muddy water, fish, turtles, shrimps, and crabs were all submerged and swallowed up by the rolling torrent, leaving the vast white ground so clean.

In fact, before the artillery group roared, the Second Division had already taken action at Luokou in the north of Jinan. The Luo River originates from nowhere in the world, and white jade pots gush out from the flat ground. This is a famous line in the poem "Baotu Spring" by Zhao Mengfu of the Yuan Dynasty.

This is the origin of Jinan, the spring city.

Jinan was called Luoyi in ancient times because all the springs in the city merged into Luoshui. Later, the Qi State changed Luoyi to Lixia. In the Western Han Dynasty, because it was located south of Jishui, Jinan County was established, and the name Jinan began.

"Luo", "Shuowen Jiezi" notes: "The water between Qilu and Lu is also the sound of music from the water." Because of the water, it is named Luoshui, which shows the ancients' love for Jinan's pearl-like clean spring water. Luoshui is north of

The place where it flows into Jishui is called Luokou.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, Jiaodong Group Army Lu Xi commanded, and the Second Division Commander Zhao Zhengbi and Brigadier Liu Jianli were in a dry reed marsh on the north bank of the Yellow River five miles away from Beiluokou, holding up a telescope to observe the movements on both sides of the Yellow River.

The scouts of the Second Division had already had a clear idea of ​​the situation at Luokou Ferry. Liu Jianshe was worried and took the chief of staff along for a final close-up observation.

At this time, the ancient ferry on the Yellow River was still quiet. Occasionally a train passed on the railway bridge. There were many ships on the ferry, most of which were parked there quietly. There were only a few ships flying the sun flag carrying cars, carriages and

Various goods and passengers shuttle back and forth.

The situation was consistent with what the scouts reported. The Japs did not discover that the 15,000 athletes of the Second Division were hiding in the ditches and reeds along the Yellow River, ready to launch a sudden attack at any time.

Liu Jianshe began to show off his knowledge: "Sir, do you know that the Yellow River in front of us was originally the Daqing River, which was the ancient Jishui River?"

Liu Jianshe has been with Jiang Qiang and Chang Yuan for a long time, and he has become fond of learning and refined. Zhao Zhengbi is not like this. Although he is a member of the Third Army, he has nothing to learn except fighting, but he and

We spent little time with Jiang Qiang, and he did not develop Jiang Qiang's habit of loving learning, delving into research, and asking why everything happened. Therefore, when he heard Liu Jianli show off his knowledge, Zhao Zhengbi asked: "Is Jishui very big?

Is it famous?"

Since Liu Jianshe was just showing off, he would just show off to the end. Anyway, since there was no time to attack now, he could use the Longmen Formation.

I heard Liu Jianshe say that Jishui originates from Taiyi Pool on Wangwu Mountain in Jiyuan, Henan Province. The source water flows eastwards through underground rivers for more than 70 miles, and gushes out from the ground in Jidu and Longtan. It reaches the northwest of Wen County and is named Jishui.

.Afterwards, it flows underground for the second time, crosses the Yellow River without being muddy, and miraculously emerges from the ground again in Xingyang. When the Jishui River flows through Yuanyang, Nanji flows three times to Dingtao, Shandong, and merges with Northern Ji to form Juye Ze. Ji.

The water disappears and appears three times, and flows into the sea in hundreds of twists and turns, making it mysterious and unpredictable.

The ancients called rivers that have independent sources and can enter the sea "Du". The four rivers mentioned in "Erya": Jiang, He, Huai, and Ji are the four ancient rivers that flowed into the sea alone. "Ji" refers to

It is Jishui. In ancient times, emperors worshiped famous mountains and rivers, namely the Five Mountains and the Four Rivers. In the Tang Dynasty, Dahuai was called Dongdu, Dajiang was called Nandu, Dajiang was called Xidu, and Daji was called Beidu.

Legend has it that the emperor fought with Chi You, and because Chi You could spit fog for ten miles, he retreated to Mount Tiantan, the main peak of Taiyi Pool in Wangwu Mountain. On the third day of Qingzhai, the Yellow Emperor prayed to the Emperor of Heaven at the Qionglin Terrace on the top of the mountain, asking for help in defeating Chi You. As a result, the Emperor of Heaven ordered the Queen Mother to surrender.

At the Temple of Heaven, he called Qingtong Jun of the East China Sea and Xuannv of the Nine Heavens, and gave the emperor the strategy to defeat Chi You. The Yellow Emperor followed his orders to kill Chi You in Ji. From then on, every August 15th, the Yellow Emperor went to the Temple of Heaven to set up an altar to worship heaven, so it was called the Temple of Heaven.
To be continued...