The National Defense Forces' pursuit offensive has not stopped, and the troops are still fighting bravely towards the south.

The Xishan Peak position of the northwest defense line of the 6th Division was captured, and the road to the 18th Division was blocked in the south. Kano Ou Mitsumon received a desperate telegram from the 6th Division of Kumamoto almost the first time. As the commander of the 50,000 expeditionary force, Kano Ou Mitsumon made the right choice he thought he was right and ordered all units of the 6th Division to break through as much as possible. He personally led the main force of the 18th Division to escape from the German defenders in Qingdao, concentrated the last shells, and broke through the defense line arranged by the 33rd Division in the east.

Because the 6th Division's previous defensive gained enough time for the 18th Division, the 18th Division had completely given up capturing the Qingdao Fortress and concentrated its forces to fight towards the Laoshan Bay where they landed.

In order to break through the defense circle of the National Defense Forces as soon as possible, to Laoshan Bay, and obtain supplies from the sea, the Japanese army took out all their ambitions and brute force, and even bet on their lives. The 33rd Division first collided with the 18th Division, which had red eyes, were the soldiers of the 107th Regiment. Although these young people from Shaanxi and Gansu were very brave, they still underestimated the Japanese's madness on the brink of despair. After a round of artillery bombardment, they did not leave much time to call for reinforcements for the 107th Regiment. The soldiers of the 18th Japanese Division, who had red eyes, began to attack the simple position of the 107th Regiment. This happened in

The battle in the night did not last long, and the Japanese army was fearless and fearless. Under the bullet tactics, the 107th Regiment only defended its position for less than an hour, and this organization was almost completely transformed by the new recruits. The National Defense Force continued for a short period of time, and the result of rapid expansion was that the quality of the soldiers could not keep up. In the case of serious unfavorable situation, some new recruits finally collapsed and gave up their positions. They did not know where to escape in the dark. Although some officers and soldiers still kept their mission in mind, the 107th Regiment was soon captured by the Japanese army, and the 18th Division was still thirty-eight miles away from the nearest beach.

The 201st Regiment, not far from the 107th Regiment's position, immediately discovered the explosion next to it, but the above issued a death order, and each unit had to defend its position to prevent it from leaving loopholes for the Japanese army trying to escape. Therefore, the 201st Regiment, which was worried that the Japanese army's feint attack, sent a telegram to the division headquarters for inquiries. After receiving the reply, it had passed more than half an hour. After the 201st Regiment received permission, it immediately dispatched a battalion of reinforcements to the 107th Regiment. Unfortunately, when they arrived, the 107th Regiment's position had been captured by the Japanese army, and the 18th Division quickly discovered them. After realizing that something was wrong, the reinforcements immediately fought and retreated. The battalion commander gave up his war horse and sent a staff officer to report the news that the 107th Regiment's position had fallen through the telegraph of the 201st Regiment's headquarters to the 33rd Division.

After twenty minutes of losing the position of the 107th Regiment, Cai Yin got the latest battle report from the 201st Regiment. He found that the 18th Division might be about to escape. He was shocked and ordered the 97th Brigade to immediately shrink the position and block the 18th Division. Cai Yin, who returned from studying in Japan in 2007, is already 31 years old this year. He was born in Jiangxi and has some influence in the Jiangxi military circle and extraordinary ability. In the panic of the 33rd Division, he sent a war report on the possibility of the 18th Division to the pre-war command of the Military Region in Weixian. Before the Weixian meeting order, he sent a telegram to the 23rd Division and the 25th Division next to him, requesting the cooperation of the two units to shrink the defense line and encircle the 18th Division to prevent him from escaping.

The 97th Brigade's mission is very heavy, because the Third Division had to draw troops from the front line of hundreds of miles, and it was inconvenient to march in the dark. However, in order to prevent the Japanese army from escaping, the President successfully completed the order to wipe out the two major Japanese divisions. Cai Yin gritted his teeth and asked his fellow countrymen and friend, Liu Yanda, the commander of the 97th Brigade, issued a death order. In any case, the 97th Brigade must hold on for three hours, and no matter what, the 18th Division cannot escape. And they also need several hours to mobilize troops to encircle the Japanese army again.

Seeing that Tianming was only two hours away, Liu Yanda, the commander of the 97th Brigade, promised Cai Yin that he would never let the 18th Division break through their defense line before the Qiming period. Then, he personally arrived at the front line near Songshan Village to command the 97th Brigade to block the 18th Division's 18th Division. After receiving the request of the division headquarters, the 97th Brigade held their positions tightly and blocked the 18th Division's escape to the sea. Although the 18th Division launched several charges, it was still firmly blocked in front of the 97th Brigade's position. The Japanese lower-level officers who led the charge on the front line

I just couldn't understand that this was not the Yonggu Fortifications like the Lushun 203 Highlands, and the enemy was not Russia, one of the European powers. The army, the Imperial Army, had already given everything to the rush to the sea, and their firepower was no longer stingy with shells, even though the 18th Division had already had very little inventory. But the enemy had just completed the temporary civil fortifications and trenches, which had been smashed to pieces. How could these inferior Chinese troops be nailed to the front and fight to the death without retreating, and they had a most sacrificing hand-to-hand fight with them without fear?

All of their people were filled in this direction. The elite soldiers of the 18th Division of the Japanese army were almost covered with the trenches here. The opposite side was wearing blue-gray uniforms, messy shooting skills, and very unfamiliar with the Chinese army, which was obviously the new recruits, and they still did not retreat! During the fight, the Japanese army read from every pair of eyes of the other party what kind of determination this was. For this evil neighbor in the East, the Yangyang China had tolerated humiliation for twenty years. The battle here may be the horn of the national counterattack. No matter what method the counterattack war was used and how long it would take, the national awakening power represented by such an army will be until victory is won. Death on the battlefield on the national counterattack front is their most sacred choice.

"I am born, the national humiliation. I am destroyed, the country prospers."

The eight short words summarize the three spirits that the National Defense Force is promoting, namely patriotism, sacrifice and risk. The 97th Brigade is different from the vast majority of the recruits of the 33rd Division who have only experienced brief training. There are a large number of soldiers and officers here who are allocated from the Fifth Division. As an old organization that has been in the army for several years, the Fifth Division has been remembered by many soldiers of the Fifth Division with the efforts of many instructors, and now the seeds of faith have been brought to the 33rd Division by them.

Liu Yanda was on the front line to command. The 97th Brigade resisted the Japanese infantry's crazy-torn attack with resolute courage and determination. Their machine guns kept spitting flames outward like fire snakes, and attacked the Japanese infantry that followed. Because of the Japanese army's desperate attack, many soldiers from the front line positions had already fought hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese army. The mortar troops of each regiment did not care that it was difficult to determine the enemy's position in the dark. When the Japanese artillery was still firing fiercely, they set up mortars. The sound of the "bang" mortars being released was added to the singing of various firepowers of the front line National Defense Forces.

The fierce battle lasted for more than an hour, and it was already four o'clock in the morning. After an hour at most, it was about to dawn and the National Defense Forces planes were about to be dispatched. In a hurry, Mitsumon Kamio ordered a more fierce charge against the position of the 97th Brigade. The engineer corps was also dispatched by him and joined the charge with red eyes.

Whether the Japanese attacking infantry outside the trenches, they were resolutely counterattacked by the 97th Brigade. After persisting for another half an hour, they watched the Qi Mingxing rise, and the dark curtains gradually became more bright. It is said that they were in a row and then declining. The 18th Division encountered unfavorable battles for two days. Today, the whole army implemented food rations throughout the day. Most soldiers were fighting on hungry. They could never break through the defense line of the 97th Brigade. However, the 18th Division felt that they could not bear it.

Liu Yanda, the commander of the 97th Brigade who had been commanding on the front line, soon discovered the abnormality of the Japanese army. He recruited his adjutant and issued an order to not be stingy with bullets and artillery shells to each regiment. After he fought to the front line under the protection of several guards, he touched the front line to calm the morale of the army. Several people braved the deafening sound of artillery from time to time, especially Liu Yanda, who was forward and ordered the troops to fill it up, stabbed the Japanese army on the opposite side and suppressed the Japanese army on the opposite side.

!The Army Major General completely forgot the smoke columns of fire that were stirred up high around him, and the soldiers of the 97th Brigade were like huge waves that kept surging westward, harshly colliding with the Japanese army head-on! The muscles of each soldier were tense, and the sound of shouting and killing squeezed out of his chest accompanied their stormtroopers until their bayonets penetrated into the chest of a Japanese soldier that they felt a little venting the blood that was stimulated by this fierce battle in their hearts!

A young Japanese lieutenant officer had already killed his face with blood. They finally finally captured several defense forces fronts. Seeing that his troops in the trenches were driven out by more and more defense soldiers, he took a step forward and inserted his command knife to the ground. He just shouted: "Jeopards, let's die at the position of this saber!" He was accurately hit by a mortar shell, and there was no trace of scum left in the loud explosion.

Liu Yanda rushed to the front line and was commanding the troops to move forward with the fire. He happened to see the fate of the Japanese officer who died without a burial in the melee. When he was cheering with relief, a 105mm heavy howitzer shell exploded not far away from him. Several shrapnel ripped open his body hideously, and the air waves threw his people away.

He graduated from the third phase of the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School and is currently the brigade commander of the 97th Brigade. After Li Han annexed Jiangxi, Major General Liu Yanda, died in battle. He was 33 years old and was also the highest-ranking officer of the National Defense Forces who died in the Shandong Battle.

Liu Yanda's accidental death hit the morale of the 97th Brigade, causing the 97th Brigade to miss the opportunity to take advantage of the situation to counterattack and severely damage the 18th Division. However, thanks to his death, he had just issued a perseverance order to each regiment before he died. Although he was in chaos due to the loss of command, the 97th Brigade was once in chaos, allowing the 18th Division of the Japanese army to calmly escape from the battle. However, in a panic and uneasy, the 97th Brigade finally did not collapse due to the death of the Supreme General.

As the Japanese artillery positions gradually stopped shooting due to insufficient ammunition, the artillery group of the 97th Brigade finally stopped shooting. The brief but unprecedentedly tragic and bloody battle finally stopped. The 97th Brigade defended the front line. Although it suffered heavy damage, they still blocked the 18th Division's escape route.

The sun came out again, and the pale sunlight shone on the battlefield where tens of thousands of soldiers from the two countries fought to the death with steel and flesh last night. On the front facing the 97th Brigade, the more than 5-mile fronts were full of signs of shell explosions, corpses all over the ground, broken limbs and broken arms, ragged clothes, and wreckages of various weapons. Blood and ice in the craters were mixed together, forming the most shrill color. In the trenches that the 97th Brigade had almost been flat, the bodies had almost filled the trenches, and the soldiers of the National Defense Forces and Japanese soldiers were piled in this trenches in various postures. The surviving soldiers sat blankly in the pile of corpses, as if they had not realized their victory. At this time, it was difficult to tell whether they were dead or alive.

This battle was later called the southern battle of the "Fight of the Early Morning of the Twenty-Seventh" by the National Defense Forces and the northern border. According to the wanted post-war. On that night, only the 97th Brigade was killed 73 officers, brigade commanders, 1,735 soldiers, and 2,857 wounded. 1,437 Japanese 18th Division were annihilated, which prevented the 18th Division's plan to escape to the beach, and strengthened the immortal contribution of the National Defense Force to encircle and annihilate the 18th Division.

By October 27, the National Defense Forces launched a long battle around Qingdao and finally achieved phased results. Their great victory not only caused a sensation in the whole country, but also shocked the situation in the Far East. With the defeat of the Japanese army, how the Chinese and Japanese governments responded to it has become the biggest concern for people who are concerned about the situation in the Far East. How would the young President Li use his current advantages to fight to the end with Japan or choose to negotiate? And what would Japan react after suffering such a crushing defeat? The situation is still developing downward like fire.

At noon 28, a group of National Defense Forces officers with straight uniforms walked on the battlefield around Qingdao Fortress Area, including field officers, army officers, civilian officers from the General Staff and headquarters, and some foreign officers with high noses and yellow hair. However, there is only one person surrounded by the crowd, which is Li Han, the current interim president of the Republic of China and the supreme commander of the National Defense Forces of the Army and Navy.

He looked very good. After the Sixth Division was completely wiped out, the reason why the 18th Division has not yet been destroyed was because the main bombing aircraft of the Land Airlines were transferred to cooperate with the 6th Division. President Li ignored the threat from Japanese Minister Hiraiyi and issued an order to attack the Land Airlines, which had been resting and supplying for a night, revitalizing its combat effectiveness. They will launch an attack on the 18th Division today, and strive to destroy another major Japanese force within today.

With the efforts of German engineers, the railway has ensured that several sections of railways that were destroyed in the war have been restored after one night of emergency repairs. President Li took a train from Jinan to the Qingdao front line this morning. His purpose was to avoid the Japanese envoy who had arrived in Jinan and put diplomatic pressure on him, and continued to command the various units of the Shandong National Defense Forces to expand the results; second, formally handed over Qingdao's sovereignty with the German Governor General Myerva in the name of the Supreme Commander of the National Defense Forces; third, he accepted the surrender of more than 2,000 British and Indian troops who had cooperated with the Japanese landing. These proud British people were unwilling to surrender to the Germans. They would rather surrender to China, a weak country they looked down upon, than to admit their defeat to the Germans.

President Li was obviously happy to accept the surrender of these British and Indian soldiers, even if they would receive supplies within three days after completing the surrender ceremony and go to the British Concession of Weihaiwei under the "escort" of the National Defense Forces. This is also the tacit understanding he reached with the British ministers in the past two days. China will not report on this matter to the outside world and downplay the British as much as possible. The defeat of the army in the Far East is even if it is just their colonial army. In return, the British minister will contact the ministers of France, Russia and other countries as soon as possible to lead the way for China and Japan to negotiate on the issue of peace in Shandong.

In the morning, the transfer ceremony of Qingdao's sovereignty and the simple sword handover ceremony of British surrender were soon completed. According to regulations, the German army and government agencies will evacuate Qingdao within a month, and China and Germany are still negotiating the issue of more than 6,000 soldiers and officers in Qingdao's defenders. Germany has now lost all overseas colonies, and no cargo ship can transport these thousands of soldiers back to China under the threat of the Allied warships. China obviously will not agree that these soldiers will be

The Chinese side could not accept the German soldiers stationed in Gyeonggi, Tianjin and other places, and even in the German concession such as Hankou. The two sides are now neglecting about this issue. The Chinese side is very envious of these more than 6,000 veterans who have been enlisted for at least three years. Li Han meant that if Germany was willing to let go, he would be willing to pay the military pay for these soldiers for Germany before the end of the European War, but in exchange, these soldiers were temporarily hired by China and trained new soldiers for the National Defense Forces as instructors.

Of course, the two sides are still in negotiations for this proposal. If the Germans have any "requests", President Li will only have one instruction to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and all the equipment will be removed and discounted into cash for compensation. Wherever you like, go!

The sea breeze blew in front of him and hit Li Han's face. After a while, his face became a little wet, and a layer of water was covered with drops of water.

President Li was in a good mood, although the country now called on him to stop when he was better and proposed peace talks to the Japanese, and no longer chased and beat the Japanese army, gradually emerged.

There are always some bad things. The National Defense Forces are afraid of losing, and they are afraid of winning. Of course, President Li does not deny that many of them are not because they are afraid of the Japanese, because the loudest calls are politicians. Now, with a big victory in Shandong, the Republican Party has become the largest party in the Congress and formed a cabinet with an overwhelming advantage. At the same time, President Li’s “temporary” hat will be removed for up to one month. At this time, what they are afraid of is no longer the Japanese, but the Li!

In fact, some people said it well, but it is indeed a bit risky to continue fighting now. Breathing the slightly fishy air on the seaside, President Li's thoughts floated far away. Now he is still a little confused about Japan's domestic policies. He doesn't know if Shandong hurts the Japanese and will cause excessive rebound. Japan cannot be viewed normally. As soon as the Meiji Restoration began, a few broken ships dared to invade China. The army with only more than 200,000 in the Russo-Japanese War dared to wrestle with Russia, which has no less than one million troops. For this country that has made crazy moves at the time, it is impossible to say that it is not scruples.

After more than a month of battle, the arms imported before the war and the arms produced by several arsenals have been consumed 50% or 60%. Don’t think there are still many. Don’t forget that Shandong is only one of the many provinces and regions in China. The National Defense Forces have to look at more than this one. The four southern feudals and the black lamas in Xinjiang, and the consumption of domestic stability maintenance troops is only a small gap, but the real big gap comes from the Northeast. The 150,000 garrisons in the northeast should be suppressed, facing Russian garrisons, and facing Manchuria garrisons. Beware of the Liaodong Peninsula and the Japanese garrisons in Korea. This big hole is no less than Qingdao. Now 30% of the domestic military capital is tilted towards the Northeast.

In a few months, the arms and other combat expenses, if it weren't for some black gold channels controlled by the Bureau of Investigation overseas, and using the chaos in the foreign exchange market to cash out a stolen money, the government's local finances will definitely be deficit this year. The casualties in the troops were also severe. The 2nd Division, 4th Division, 23rd Division, 33rd Division, and 49th Division all suffered more than half of the casualties. In almost a month's war, the National Defense Forces suffered more than 21,000 people, and nearly 30,000 people were injured. You have to admit that Japan, which has been Westernized and modernized for decades, has a quality of the army far surpassed the National Defense Forces. When fighting with the same equipment, the National Defense Forces will need at least five brigades to resist a Japanese A-level division, and the war loss ratio of soldiers is almost as high as 2:1.

With the total number of troops, firepower and from the sky, the National Defense Forces were still in this way. This result really stimulated President Li. He understood that he could only beat the Japanese with a stick to win a period of peace. He defeated the public and rejected the proposal from the government's top leaders to use the 18th Division as a bargaining weight and ordered a general attack to the besieged army.

When he comes, don't think he can go back so easily. He was also ruthless, leaving thousands of seriously injured Japanese troops to negotiate. As for the others, they should stay in China as a lonely ghost.

With the intervention of Britain, the United States and other countries, the Japanese would make a big splash, which would challenge the international order set by the whites. The Japanese finances did not allow the government to do whatever they wanted, and there was the opportunity for great economic development of the European War. The National Defense Forces eliminated tens of thousands of Japanese forces. I believe that the Japanese should be quiet for a while!

At this moment, his thoughts surged. The air floating in the sky was filled with the smell of gunpowder. He looked around in a daze and saw the tragic scene of the battle. In any case, China won this battle! The soldiers had already done their own accusations, so let's see these politicians below!
Chapter completed!