On the morning of December 18, just dawn, the Chinese Tiger Army launched an attack on eight counties and cities including Linyi County, Fei County, Xintai County, Laiwu County, Yidu County, Shouguang County, Ye County, and Jimo County.

The main attack directions were Yidu County, Shouguang County, Ye County, and Jimo County. From the beginning, a large number of heavy weapons such as aircraft, cannons, tanks, etc. were used to conduct a frontal attack.

The attack strength of the other four counties is not small. Although the number of cannons and tanks is relatively small, especially with only more than ten tanks as fire support and infantry cover, the momentum is not bad at all!

Because of the fact that "there are few porridges and many monks", in order to avoid everyone's shouting unfairness, Yang Fan adopted the method of drawing lots to determine the targets of each army, among which Gu Liangmin drew a piece of fat meat: Jimo County!

Why is Jimo County said to be a big piece of fat? It is because behind Jimo County is an important port city, Qingdao, which not only provides materials for the Japanese army to land on the docks and fleets to moor the military port, so the Japanese army's subordinates guard Jimo County!

Yesterday afternoon, Gu Liangmin dispatched more than 5,000 people from two main groups to Jiao County. As soon as the offensive order was issued today, the bomber group and heavy artillery troops took the lead and launched a fierce shelling attack on the Japanese Fengjiaping position!

After the shelling was over, 1,100 fully armed infantry launched an attack under the cover of 40 tanks, 5 armored vehicles, 4 self-propelled cannon howitzers and 5 self-propelled anti-aircraft cannons!

Since the landforms in Jimo are generally low-mountain hills, the ground elevation is mostly between 20-100 meters above sea level, with an average altitude of 54.47 meters. The terrain is roughly high in the southeast to be low-mountain hilly areas, and low in the northwest to be plain depressions.

So when the attack was first started, the 6th Division, which had strong field capabilities, was actually quite sufficient, and the advancement was extremely smooth, and it was completely like the autumn wind sweeping away the fallen leaves!

The Japanese army was also very aware of the super strong field capabilities of the Chinese Tiger Army, so they did not send heavy troops to defend these plains and depressions that were not dangerous. There were only a small number of Japanese troops and puppet troops stationed at the artillery towers of the strongholds!

However, these fortifications cannot provide effective defense under the heavy firepower of aircraft, tanks and cannons!

In half a day, the 6th Division pushed it to the vicinity of Jimo County.

The commander of the 15th Brigade, Major General Ning Chunxiao, stood on a high ground behind, and could see the county town in front with his naked eyes. He immediately felt in a very good mood and said to Gu Liangmin beside him:

"The division seat has airplanes, cannons and tanks in hand. It's refreshing to fight when fighting! The Japanese don't dare to fight with us on the plains! Thinking about it, it was completely a world!"

Gu Liangmin nodded with a smile on his face and said, "That's natural. The Japanese are not stupid. They have suffered so many losses in succession. If they still want to defend themselves like before, that would be a hell! Haha!"

Major General Li Zhanbiao, the commander of the 16th Brigade, smiled and said, "It's a good thing that the teacher was wise and found a way out in advance. If we hadn't come to the Hu Ben Army, we might be able to be cannon fodder in where we are now!"

Shi Tongran, deputy commander of the 6th Division, laughed and said, "This is called "The Great Same". The good people have their own appearance! I heard that Cao Fulin was very miserable in the Fifth War Zone. Not only did he have to be cannon fodder, but he had to be transferred. He was not beaten to death by the Japanese, so he was exhausted first! Haha!"

Major General Tao Qinghai, chief of staff of the 6th Division, snorted: "This guy relied on joining Chairman Jiang. He not only wanted to annex our division, but also put on small shoes for the division seats. Now I have to see how he ends up!"

"Okay! It's better not to mention these old things. After all, they were my own brothers before! Now they go their separate ways. Sometimes it's a pity to think about it. I don't know if I can meet them again in this life!"

Gu Liangmin sighed lightly and said, "Recalling all the past, it makes people sigh. In just two or three years, I feel like I have a different life!"

Li Zhanbiaoshen nodded and said, "Who said it was not? A year ago, who would have thought that the chief officer could have such ability and get so many heavy weapons and advanced equipment!

In the past, we used our lives to fill the Japanese planes and cannons. Often, before we saw the Japanese soldiers, we would suffer heavy casualties. That was really cowardly!"

"Haha, this is called thirty years of Hedong and thirty years of Hexi. Feng Shui is changing! I just hope to get Shandong back as soon as possible and drive the Japanese out of our Shandong! At that time, we will be worthy of the world!"

Tao Qinghai sighed softly, remembering that he took the initiative to give up the Northern Shandong Plain under Han Fuju, and then gave up the Jinan Provincial Government without any help, and fled to southwest Shandong!

Tao Qinghai felt that it was a stain and humiliation for his whole life. Over the years, I don’t know how many times I was scolded in my dreams, and how many times I dreamed of those innocent people who died in vain in slaughter by the Japanese army to come to find him!

"Haha, are you thinking about it so much? Just by the guys in our hands, what's the difficulty of taking back the entire Shandong area?"

Li Zhanbiao smiled optimistically and said, "I firmly believe that under the leadership of the General Office, we can drive Japan out of China and even counterattack to Japan in the future!"

"Don't be arrogant when you win or lose when you lose. Don't be too happy too early, and don't underestimate the enemy! Our combat mission to attack Jimo County has just begun!"

Gu Liangmin put down his telescope, turned to look at Li Zhanbiao and said, "This county is the first hard bone. There are more defensive positions carefully constructed by the Japanese in the hills and mountains behind the county town! The task of your 46th Regiment today is very arduous!"

Li Zhanbiao saluted with confidence and said, "Please let go of the teacher. The 46th Regiment is the main force of our 16th Brigade. The 2,500 brothers have long been looking forward to fighting the Japanese army head-on. Today you can see our performance! Haha!"

"Okay! OK! The so-called raising troops for a thousand days is used for a while. I also want to see what kind of performance we have been training for so long and now have such excellent and powerful weapons. When we encounter the hard bones of the Japanese army!"

Gu Liangmin nodded gently and had been in Yang Fan for more than a year, but there was not much chance of head-on confrontation. Just during the Battle of Taierzhuang, two regiments of troops had fought a strong battle with the Japanese army!

After more than half a year, the 6th Division has been in training almost all the time. Today is the first time that it has independently taken on a frontal main attack mission.

Therefore, Gu Liangmin is looking forward to the army's impressive performance, and hopes that his direct troops can surpass other brother troops!

At this time, Kong Xiangsheng, the commander of the 46th Regiment, was riding in an armored command vehicle, and with the main force had arrived at the outskirts of Jimo County.

After Kong Xiangsheng figured out the situation through the radio and observation mirror, he immediately ordered: "Order the armored troops to suspend the attack, and the engineer company began to dig trenches on the spot and build a defensive line!"

Kong Xiangsheng is not in a hurry to launch a general attack. Steady and steady action is the king. Anyway, the "icebreaking operation" formulated this time has been as long as one month, so there is really no need to rush to achieve success!
Chapter completed!