Hua Fei asked Jiang Baili, Zhang Xiaojun and others, "How many night battles have you started?"

Jiang Baili obviously didn't understand why Hua Fei asked this question, and immediately replied quickly, "The winter night is cold, and the soldiers' attacks during the day are very hard, and the night battle restrictions are very large. Therefore, we rarely launch large-scale night battles except for some reconnaissance and small-scale harassment at night!"

Hua Fei had known this situation for a long time and then asked, "So what actions do you think the Japanese army will take if we continue to launch an attack tomorrow?"

There was silence at the scene, and Zhang Xiaojun was the first to speak, "If I were the Japanese commander, I think after encountering our daytime attack, I would definitely be discussing how to deal with our tanks. According to my inference, there are not many solutions, and it may not be effective. First, use large-caliber artillery, steel or armor-piercing shells to attack. However, first, there are few Japanese artillery left, and second, they may not have armor-piercing shells at all, so we don't need to worry that they will take this method to deal with us tomorrow! Second, set up obstacles and prevent them from doing so.

Our tanks are advancing! From the moment, the Japanese mines cannot pose much threat to our tanks. So they can only dig wide trenches or set up large obstacles to block the tanks from advancing! But these two measures are simply impossible to complete overnight! Three, like the last battle today. After our tank infantry enters their positions, they charge by hand and blade, fight us close, seek to repel us again, so as to find counter-attacks for them, and wait for reinforcements, and create time!"

Hua Fei nodded repeatedly, and Zhang Xiaozhun said in great detail, which was beyond his expectations. It seems that since the last time he conducted live tank exercises for them on site, Zhang Xiaozhun has begun to think about how to counter the enemy if the enemy owns a tank. The reason why Hua Fei asked more and more questions at the meeting was related to his recent thoughts.

After he got sick last time, Wang Meng, a guard, was in chaos and almost caused a lot of storm. This was even more so in the Shandong battlefield. Before he came, the battle situation was in a stalemate for more than three months without progress. When he arrived, he won such a big victory in the first battle. Although there was the power and function of tanks, Jiang Baili and the others had airplanes, cannons, tactics and tactics before, but they still could not get rid of the traditions of the existing world.

Sometimes, the outcome of the battlefield does not depend on the advanced and advantages and disadvantages of weapons, but on the concepts and thinking of people. Just as the tactical theory of "offensive" pursued by France and other countries before the outbreak of the European War. It was like advanced weapons such as heavy machine guns, artillery, and even tanks, which were extremely unattracted by all countries at the beginning. Even Britain, where the tank was invented, gradually lost the advantages of their founders after World War I, and instead allowed the Germans, who suffered from tanks in World War I, to use blitzkrieg to sweep across Europe in World War II! The reason is the problem of human philosophy and the strategic vision of the commander decision makers.

Jiang Baili, Zhang Xiaozhun, Li Qianyu, Shen Tongwu, Yang Yanchang, Han Hui and other generals were either from prestigious schools or following Hua Fei through many battles. However, due to the inherent knowledge and vision issues, they could not become commanders who could stand alone. Hua Fei can now come to Shandong to command the decisive battle, but if he fell ill last time, how long would this decisive battle be delayed? So Hua Fei changed the previous meeting and let the generals discuss it, and then made a decision method to him constantly ask questions to induce and cultivate the ** thinking consciousness of the generals.

These people are the best elites in this country. Hua Fei believes that as long as they are given time and experience, they will definitely be able to grow rapidly.

"In a short period of time, it is impossible for the Japanese army to find effective means to counter the tanks. My only concern is that when the attack is launched tomorrow, the Japanese army will still take hand-to-hand combat against us. In that case, the casualties we pay will be very heavy. In today's daytime battle, nearly half of the casualties are in the final hand-to-hand combat!"

The worry of Huaxi is not unreasonable. The fastest way to restrain tanks is to use anti-tank weapons. But it is not possible to be equipped with ground and armor-piercing shells in a short period of time. Not to mention whether the Japanese army still have armor-piercing shells. They only have the number of guns left. It is not a threat at all. The only convenient way is to set up obstacles and wide, low and deep anti-tank trenches. But Huaxi also has many ways to deal with this.

The First Army can be regarded as the elite of the National Defense Forces. The loss of any soldier is extremely heartbroken for Hua Fei, let alone fighting with the Japanese army in hand-to-hand combat.

All the generals fell into deep thought. The entire conference room seemed extremely quiet for a moment. Someone couldn't help but ignite the cigarette. However, Wu Tao quickly walked over and took it off and glared fiercely. Only then did they remember that the commander's body had not recovered. But he couldn't stand the smoke and fire.

"I want to launch a night attack to capture the last line of defense in front of Jimo City. What do you think?" Hua Feidi's voice not only shocked Wu Tao. The generals at the venue raised their heads one after another.

"The commander and soldiers fought a daytime war. At this time, they were extremely tired. Besides, only the First Army had a little training in the night war. The newly formed Second Army and Third Army were almost unprepared for the night war. In this way, we will lose the support of artillery fire, which will greatly increase the accidental injury. It will not be worth the loss!" The first place to speak this time was Fang Dingying, the commander of the Second Artillery Regiment.

Most of the others didn't say anything, but looking at their expressions, I think they still support Fang Dingying's meaning.

"We are tired, and the little Japanese are even tired than us. We at least won the battle, and at this time the Japanese trenches were filled with wail and frustration. They would never have thought that we would launch a night battle, so for us, it was called unpredictable and unexpected! You said, how can we let go of such an opportunity?"

Hua Fei's relaxed tone, especially when talking about the wails of the Japanese army in the Japanese trench, made everyone's minds. Yang Yanchang even cursed hatefully, "I deserve it, who can't let these bird eggs stay home well, let's go here to shoot."

"A raid was launched at night, and even if it could not seize the last line of defense of the Japanese army, they would still be nervous and exhausted. From today on, we will take advantage of our number of people to launch continuous attacks day and night, exhaust them, drag them down, and occupy Jimo at the smallest price and the shortest time! Now who do you tell me how to cover the noise of the rumbling engine when the tank attacks at night?"

"Fire the artillery, before attacking, we fired violently at the enemy's position to cover up our tank sound!" Xia Song of the heavy artillery regiment immediately suggested.

"As soon as you fire, wouldn't you tell the Japanese that we are going to attack, so you're still not ready to attack!" Yang Yanchang said angrily.

"That's true..." Xia Song touched the back of his head embarrassedly, sat down and continued to think.

"Airplane, we can use the sound of the plane to cover the noise of the tank!" Sun Tianbo, an air force officer who rarely spoke at the meeting, could not bear it.

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"Oh, please tell me in detail!" Hua Fei immediately looked at Sun Tianbo and encouraged. There were not many senior Air Force officers, and they were all young people with very little qualifications. Therefore, they rarely spoke in many military meetings. Although in Hua Fei's view, the air force and air supremacy are very important, among many officers in the Army and Navy, they obviously regard the Air Force as an affiliated branch and a support force.

Sun Tianbo, who was encouraged by Hua Fei, immediately said, "We often organize reconnaissance planes to conduct reconnaissance on Japanese positions at night.

Today we will win the battle. We can continue to organize intensive reconnaissance aircraft, and even send bombers to bomb the enemy positions. When we drag them down, our army will take advantage of the situation to launch an attack. With the sound of aircraft covering and attracting attention, the tanks will definitely attack the front line quickly without them reacting!"

"Very good, can our oil reserves support this plan?"

Staff Officer Zhang Zhizhong said unhappyly, "Report to the commander, shortly after our daytime offensive battle ended today, Fang Railway Station limited our capacity on the grounds that they needed a large amount of arms. We mainly replenish ammunition, medicine and food. In addition to sufficient diesel, the aircraft's oil can maintain a comprehensive and large-scale bombing at most!"

"Limit our capacity, hum!" Hua Fei slapped the conference table, but in the end he was patient and did not get angry. He was not sure what Yuan Shikai meant or the private decision of the Beiyang Army generals in the Fang area. He didn't dare to no matter who it was, they had only one goal, to slow down Hua Fei's National Defense Forces, achieve greater victory, and accumulate more military merits. These bastards!

"The order is that in addition to the necessary guards, the entire army will rest immediately. Air Force reconnaissance aircraft are divided into twenty-four shifts, each shift responsible for the enemy's one-hour reconnaissance mission. In addition, from now on, by four o'clock in the morning, Air Force fighters will maintain machine gun strafing and harassment of enemy positions."

"Yes!" The Air Force officers stood up and answered the order.

"Order, at 3:50 a.m., with the tank regiment as the vanguard, the First Army as the main force, and the Third Army as the reserve, launch a fierce attack on the last line of defense of the Japanese army again! Order the Second Army stationed in Qingdao to launch a feint attack on Jimo to attract the attention of the Japanese army and disperse their troops. Be sure to occupy all the enemy's third line of defense at seven o'clock in the morning, and complete the encirclement of Jimo City before dawn."

"Yes!" All the generals present stood at attention and received the order. Although most of the people were very tired after a day, no one opposed Hua Fei's decision to launch another raid in the early morning. The reason why the National Defense Forces have such strong cohesion is not only because of Hua Fei's personal charm, but also because of Hua Fei's characteristics and personality of the army. It is bold, direct, fierce, and fearless!

"Commander, you're going to rest!" Everyone went back to rest or deploy orders, and Wu Tao was no exception. At night, the General Staff carefully selected a female student named Shen Liangyue in the medical school. She was not only responsible for Hua Fei's health supervision, but also worked as a part-time life consultant of Hua Fei. Although she had been in contact with Hua Fei for many days, she was still a little scared and restrained in front of Hua Fei.

Hua Fei tightened his coat tightly, drank the Chinese medicine handed over by Chen Liangyue, and turned around and said, "You go to bed, I'll have something to do when I go out!"

"Where are you going?" Chen Liangyue put down the medicine bowl and hurriedly chased after him.

"Go to the rear field hospital and visit the wounded. Don't go, go back and rest!" Hua Fei said irritably for no reason.

"No, I'm going, this is my mission!"

Hua Fei paused, but finally didn't say anything, and lowered his head and drilled into the deep night.

After the Japanese position in Jimo suffered a great defeat in the daytime, the rear was so sad that it was so sad. Countless wounded soldiers were crowded outside the battlefield hospital. As for the slightly injured soldiers, find some gauze to wrap them and go back to the trench.

At this time, the Japanese soldiers were lingering nightmare sounds again from the direction of the National Welfare position, and a group of enemy reconnaissance planes flew over them. At night, the enemy rarely launched an attack. Some Japanese officers who had been in bed and rested quickly got up and ran into the trench in disarray and shouted, "All fight, all warn fight, the Chinese are going to attack again. Bastard, get up, the Chinese are attacking, do you want to die? Get up quickly, you stupid pig!"

Fighters and reconnaissance planes flew over the Japanese positions. At such a dark night, there was almost no amount of intelligence to be detected. The Japanese army only had those pitiful dozens of planes, which were destroyed in ashes during the daytime bombing.

Loose air defense firepower soon emerged from the enemy's formation. It would be fine if you didn't fire the gun, but the position would be exposed as soon as you fired it. 2 The fighter pulled the wings and rushed down at high speed, dada dada... The machine gun swept violently, and bullets suddenly shot out on the ground, and several light machine guns suddenly silenced.

Two reconnaissance planes flew over the Japanese battlefield hospital, looking at the brightly lit below, and countless temporary tents were filled with minor and serious wounded patients waiting for treatment. When these wounded and sick people heard the planes in the sky, they suddenly ran away nervously. The seriously injured wounded were also crawling on the ground with pain on their faces. Several new recruits guarding the hospital held rifles in panic and fired at the sky. In fact, they also understood that this was a waste of bullets. But if they didn't do so, they could not relieve their panic and depression.

But after circling over the hospital for three weeks, the two planes returned openly. It was not that the reconnaissance planes were not equipped with machine guns, nor that their machinery had failed. Instead, there was a provision in the new local soldiers' code formulated by the National Defense Forces not long ago. Hospitals, schools, religious places, and monuments shall not be targeted by soldiers unless there is a direct order from a general or above.

Not only the doctors in the hospital, but also the wounded and sick who were still wailing, staring at the sky at this moment, as if they didn't understand what was going on. At this moment, the Japanese officers and soldiers who were extremely nervous in the Japanese position discovered that it turned out that this was just a harassment operation of the Chinese people to investigate the plane, and they showed no sign of attack at all.

A false alarm! It was night, every hour, the National Defense Forces planes would always harass each other, which made the exhausted Japanese army nervous. Later, due to extreme sleepiness and numbness, many people curled up and went to bed without caring about it even when the plane was flying over the sky. As long as the lights were not exposed, the Chinese people were just wasting bullets.

At the same time, the German Kulle, who was captured by the Japanese army and held in Jimo, will never forget what happened that night. As a Japanese prisoner, the treatment of Kulle and others can be imagined. They saw that the National Defense Force Air Force attacked near the battlefield hospital, and the hospital was brightly lit, which was a significant target. In order to attract the attention of the plane, the Japanese actually turned on all the prisoner camps. Just when everyone thought that the doomsday was coming, the National Defense Force plane left.

Everyone was excited, no matter what the Germans felt and impression of China before, but after the death left them, they could not help but pray to their God. Later, the rescued Kule went to the autonomous region and visited the training of the National Defense Forces.

After the end of World War I, the governing region returned to China and wrote a book called "The Eastern War Fields are overwhelming the entire Western society. It has become a book that introduces the military, economy, and culture of the China Autonomous Region in a relatively accurate, fair and detailed manner. In particular, some memory descriptions of the Shandong battlefield in the book have become the first-hand material for historians to study the war in the Far East. The rumors about the Hua Enclave and the subsequent contacts between Kule and Hua Fei have become the focus of Western women and young people, rushing to pass on. This is a later story.

At 3:50 a.m., eight reconnaissance planes flew over the Japanese positions again, occasionally pulling the trigger and firing machine gun bullets aimlessly. Many Japanese soldiers were sleeping, and even the noise of the planes roared, it seemed that they could not wake up their dreams. The soldiers on duty also curled up coldly, looked up at the planes in the sky in a hurry, then shivered and smoked cigarettes, carefully blocking the light with their hands to prevent the planes in the sky from discovering them.

More than ten minutes later, the planes in the sky showed no sign of leaving, and some planes even began to hover at low altitude. Several Japanese soldiers on duty were very upset and started to yell. One soldier stretched his head out of the trench and looked out. But he was more than ten meters away from him, and he seemed to hear the terrifying sound, the steel monster!

"The monster is here, the Chinese subway monster!"

The gunshots sounded, but this gunshot seemed so insignificant in the roar of the plane. Until the entire earth began to vibrate as the tanks advanced, until the plane dropped the flares. The heavy artillery regiment behind them exerted its might again, and countless high-explosive incendiary bombs poured down, instantly turning the entire Japanese position into a sea of ​​fire.

The fearless tank rushed into the sea of ​​fire, and the machine gunner stared at the scorching flames and fired wildly in the enemy's positions. As long as you saw the figure, a series of bullets were straggling over, leaving behind a tragic howl.

"Come on, kill!" The shouts of killing sounded overwhelmingly, and hundreds of charges were blew together. Even the German Governor Melwadek, who was far away in Qingdao, woke up from his sleep. His first reaction was whether the Japanese army launched a counterattack?

"Report, the Allied Forces will launch all attacks on Jimo!"

"Attack again?" Melwadek couldn't react a little, his mind was a little confused, "Why didn't they inform us?"

"I don't know, but most of the Zhong** team stationed in Qingdao have long left the city and attacked Jimo City!"

"Why are we not at all informed?" Melwadek was shocked. Although he was stationed in the district with the Chinese, but they mobilized at such a scale that the German scouts could not receive the news!

"Most of their troops were stationed outside the city, and we found that they were mobilized and sent people to inquire. They said they were ordered to change defenses. Since they were our friendly forces, they did not report to the Governor!"

"I want the latest battle report, no, prepare a car, I want to go to Jiaozhou, the Chinese command post!"

In the early morning of this day, the entire land of Shandong seemed to be shaking in the sound of explosions. The Japanese army suffered sudden attacks had almost no resistance. Those who died, those who fled, and most of the injured or completely desperate Japanese army surrendered at the gun of the National Defense Forces.

The general attack, which was originally scheduled to end the battle at 7 o'clock, ended the battle at 6 o'clock. The 20,000 Japanese troops deployed on the third front in front of Jimo City, except for four or five thousand people fled back to Jimo, were either shot dead or surrendered and captured. After this battle, the Japanese troops in the entire Shandong battlefield, the original more than 40,000 people were reduced to less than 10,000 people, and their strength was greatly weakened. They barely retreated into Jimo City and carried out the final stubborn resistance. But they didn't know that Jimo City was their last cemetery of death.

It was dawn, and the soldiers of the National Defense Forces were cleaning the battlefield while strengthening the original third line of defense of the Japanese army. When Melwadek came to the Jiaodong Front Command Post again, he only saw groups of Japanese prisoners along the way. The war was over? Their coalition attacked the Japanese positions that had not been less than four months, but ended just two hours after the second general attack. If it had not seen it with his own eyes, if it had not seen it with his own eyes the bravery and ferociousness of the Chinese team in the first decisive battle, Melwadek would definitely not believe it. This would be a fact.

Later, in an interview, when Melwadek talked about his feelings about the world's various teams, Melwadek said that in this world, except for the German team, the army that can convince him and admire him extremely is the only Chinese team and the National Defense Forces of the China Autonomous Region!

After launching the general attack, Hua Fei fell asleep. It seemed that the earth-shaking war scenes outside could not wake up his dreams at all. If Melwadek had not visited, he would have been greedy in bed and would not want to get up. But the first time he got up, he was not the general attack victory, but the collapse of the negotiations in Manila. The Japanese naval fleet launched a fierce shelling on Qingdao a quarter of an hour ago, and blocked the Taiwan Strait again, prohibiting all ships from traveling in the autonomous region. Consuls of Britain, the United States and other countries also issued a note to the autonomous government, expressing strict protests.

"Commander, I think we should stop at the right time. If the negotiations collapse, it will not be a good thing for the economy and trade of the autonomous region!" Advisor Zhang Zhizhong suggested while washing his face in Huafei.

"Zhi Zhong, you have to understand that the armistice negotiations are never on the negotiating table. War is a political continuation, while diplomacy is the result of the war. Can we agree to the conditions for the Japanese to be slutty? What should we do if we don't agree? So there is only one way, which is to eliminate all Japanese troops in Shandong!"

"There is nothing to negotiate. I will send my order. First, let the Iron Blood Military Newspaper release detailed data of our H-2 Blue Bird bomber. Note that it can be exaggerated appropriately, especially on the range. Second, let the Iron Blood Military Newspaper release more details of the decisive battle report, especially the photos of tanks, so that Britain, France and other countries can soften their attitude! Third, issue an ultimatum to Japan, requiring all their army in Shandong to surrender, and the dignity of sovereign territoriality cannot be negotiated! Requesting them to lift the maritime blockade and stop the shelling of Qingdao, otherwise it will be regarded as a declaration of war on China again. In that case, we will reserve the right to declare war on Japan. In addition, in the newspaper, we can even join the German allies camp in order to fight against Japan. Once we declare war on Japan again, our H-2 bombers will carry out key bombings on Japan!"

"..." Even though Zhang Zhizhong had seen Hua Fei's toughness and iron fist countless times, he was still shocked by Hua Fei's words. Joining the Allies' camp? Wouldn't this completely offend Britain, France and other countries? Can the negotiations continue? He wanted to persuade the commander again, but the commander would not have thought of this.
Chapter completed!