Devil's Army

Chapter 1752 Shandong Campaign 1

At this time, Commander Zhang of the Independent Brigade was caught in a dilemma.

If the troops retreat, the Japanese army will take advantage of the situation to attack Dezhou, which has already been recovered.

If the troops do not withdraw, they will likely be surrounded by the superior Japanese army.

Brigade Commander Zhang sent a telegram to Gray Wolf to report his predicament.

Gray Wolf instructed: Hold on to the Japanese attack, reinforcements will arrive soon.

At this time, the 1st and 2nd Regiments of the 15th Brigade were attacking Zibo City to the south from Liaocheng, and the 3rd and 4th Regiments were also surrounded and attacked by Japanese reinforcements when they were attacking Dongying City to the east.

Relying on the excellent military qualities and sophisticated weapons of the soldiers, the independent brigade withstood wave after wave of attacks from the Japanese army.

While the regiments of the independent brigade were fighting a desperate battle with the Japanese army, the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army advanced into the column, and the 6th Teaching Brigade of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army rushed to support and launched a fierce attack on the Japanese army from the flank.

The Japanese army had to divide its forces to block the attack of the Eighth Route Army, and the pressure on the independent brigade was immediately reduced a lot.

At this time, the 19th and 21st Regiments of the 6th Division of the Hebei-Shandong Military Region also rushed to support.

At the Shijiazhuang Airport, all capable fighter jets of the First Army Air Force took off.

Part of the Shijiazhuang Air Force participated in the battle against the Japanese air forces at Shandong Shiqiao Airport and Qihe Airport.

Another part participated in the battle to support the independent brigade, the 15th Brigade.

Then the Eighth Route Army's Shandong Qinghe Military Region in Binzhou also rushed over to join the battle.

The main forces of the Eighth Route Army that the Shandong Japanese army had been looking for suddenly appeared overnight. However, they were no longer able to encircle and suppress these main forces of the Eighth Route Army.

After several days of fierce fighting, the Japanese reinforcements not only failed to repel the 1st Army Independent Brigade and the 15th Brigade, but also lost a large area of ​​towns outside Jinan City, Dongying City and Zibo City.

What made the Japanese army even more headache was that the 12th Brigade of the Devil Force suddenly joined the battle and joined the 15th Brigade of the Devil Force to attack Tai'an from Liaocheng.

Once Tai'an falls, Jinan, the provincial capital of Shandong, will be surrounded on all sides.

It was impossible for the Japanese army in Shandong to let Tai'an fall, so the Japanese army in Jinan dispatched elite troops to reinforce Tai'an.

Gray Wolf was also worried that the Japanese army would hold on to Jinan and perish together with them, so he went with the flow and devised a strategy to lure the enemy out of their hole.

The Japanese army in Jinan attacked the 12th and 15th brigades of the Devil Force that was besieging Tai'an from the directions of Daolang and Jieshou.

What surprised the Japanese army in Jinan was that the blocking troops of the 12th and 15th Brigades of the Devil Forces were not as capable as originally said.

The elite troops of the Japanese army in Jinan quickly repelled the blocking troops of the 12th and 15th Brigades of the Devil Forces and entered Daolang and Jieshou.

At this time, the elite Japanese troops in Jinan realized that their nightmare had begun.

The 12th Brigade of the Devil Force set up ambushes in many high places and dangerous places such as Daolang Sanguanzhai, Laowujian Peak and other peaks.

The Japanese troops entering the Daolang Mountains were attacked by multiple ambushes of the 12th Brigade of the Devil Force.

The reinforcements outside Daolang Mountain were bombed and strafed by the Shijiazhuang Air Force, resulting in heavy casualties. Only a small number of Japanese troops fled to Tai'an.

Another elite force from Jinan, which was led to Jieshou by the defeated soldiers of the 15th Brigade, was fiercely bombarded by the artillery of the 15th Brigade and the Shijiazhuang Air Force on the open Jieshou Heights, more than ten miles west of Mount Tai.

After more than an hour of bombing by the First Army's artillery and air force, the open area in front of Jieshou was already in ruins.

The commander of the 15th Brigade took the opportunity to sound the clarion call for a general attack and completely wiped out this elite force in Jinan.