Suddenly, a bomber was very unlucky. Just as it was pulled up from the ground, a shell of a Type 92 infantry gun hit the wing of the aircraft. The aircraft was immediately blown up, and the fuel and aviation bombs on the aircraft also exploded. The debris produced by the explosion hit a bomber behind, which also resulted in the destruction of the aircraft.

At this time, more than a dozen bombers had taken off. The remaining bombers saw the wreckage of the planes scattered on the runway, so they could only stop taking off and wait for the ground crew to clear the runway urgently.

Du Shengxi received an order from Zhang Quan, asking him to speak directly with the Air Force and provide the Air Force with the location of the Japanese army.

Du Shengxi called the commander of the Air Force and told him that he was now his own people on the top of the hill north of the airport, and on the hillside, the valley, and the north mountain opposite, were all Japanese.

The brothers of the Air Force were stationed in Taohua Mountain all year round and were very familiar with the terrain around Taohua Mountain. After they took off, they directly found the Japanese army's location and threw air bombs from the air.

In order to prevent accidental injury from their own people, the bombers almost flew close to the top of the mountain. With their naked eyes, they could clearly see the dense Japanese on the hillside and the Japanese artillery positions at the foot of the mountain, and accurately dropped the bombs.

The Japanese on the hillside were blown away by blood and flesh. They could not withstand such a violent blow and rolled and crawled towards the bottom of the mountain.

At this time, there was no supervision team behind them, because the supervision team was also blown away by bombs, and even the military law chief of the Japanese 9th Division, who served as the commander of the supervision team, was killed on the spot. They didn't even have time to dodge bombs, so who could still take care of the supervision?

In addition to some bombers bombing the Japanese army on the hillside, the air force commander focused on the Japanese artillery positions.

They circled repeatedly on the top of the mountain, and whenever they saw the Japanese artillery positions, they threw the air bombs down.

The Japanese officers and soldiers recovered from the chaos of being bombed by planes at the beginning, and many people shot into the sky.

A bomber was a little unlucky and was hit by a string of machine gun bullets. It immediately caught fire and exploded, and fell to the ground, just in time. The fuel and aviation bombs on the plane exploded violently, directly causing casualties to more than 100 Japanese officers and soldiers.

Soon after, the bomber had finished throwing the bomb. The air force commander knew that there were now wreckage of the plane explosion on the runway of Taohuashan Airport and that they could no longer land here, so they flew to Nanyang Airport.

After this round of fierce bombing, the Japanese artillery was basically destroyed, and the firepower of the guerrilla artillery had an absolute advantage. The Japanese army could no longer launch an attack like before and could do nothing.

At this time, the air force of the Taohuashan guerrillas at Nanyang Airport and Kaifeng Airport also received Zhang Quan's order to take off urgently and come to Taohuashan to bomb the Japanese army.

Shigeru Fujita was paying attention to the overall situation of the battlefield. He focused on the attack operations of the 9th Division of the Japanese Army. He was always paying attention to their progress and the emergence of the guerrilla air force.

It made him feel very bad, and he felt that this combat operation might fail again.

Sure enough, the Ninth Division reported to him, and the content of the report made him very frustrated. The Ninth Division now has more than 10,000 casualties, and the artillery, especially the 240mm heavy mortar, have basically been completely destroyed.

The commander of the Ninth Division was injured during the bombing of the enemy air force. If it weren't for the loyal guards around him who protected the commander of the division with his own bodies, the commander of the Ninth Division would have died long ago.

Despite this, under the violent explosion of the aviation bomb, he also suffered internal injuries and had vomited several mouthfuls of blood. The doctor was urgently rescued him.

The commander of the 9th Division was reluctantly supported and said to Shigeru Fujita: "Chief of Staff, this battle cannot be fought any longer, please withdraw your troops. Otherwise, if the enemy's planes come to bomb again, we will all die without a burial place."

Shigeru Fujita looked at the continuous mountains of Taohua Mountain, and felt a deep sense of powerlessness, and he was very unwilling to accept it.

Now they have already fought in front of Taohua Mountain Village, but they are helpless against this small guerrilla team.

He knew in his heart that the 9th Division commander's words were right, and he had no choice but to withdraw.

Jinan City.

General Haneda, the commander-in-chief of the Japanese army, has been paying attention to the battle situation in Taohua Mountain. Although he was anxious, Fujita Shigeru was commanding on the front line, so he was not inconvenient to ask too much.

Seeing that it was dawn and there was still no news from Taohua Mountain, he felt that the combat operation to attack Taohua Mountain might have failed.

General Haneda waited until 8 o'clock in the morning and couldn't help it anymore, so he sent a telegram to Shigeru Fujita.

However, no one paid attention to him. General Haneda's feelings became worse and worse.

Shigeru Fujita commanded the remnants to evacuate Taohua Mountain. He no longer had his original ambitions and did not want to continue to attack southwestern Shandong. He directly led his troops back the same route and fled towards Jinan.

Of course, Gao Jiu and others could not afford to take advantage of this Japanese army. They followed the Japanese marching brigade and launched continuous attacks, while indicating targets to the Air Force and bombarding the Japanese army indiscriminately.

Gao Jiu and others were chasing the Japanese Kwantung Army for a full 80 kilometers. Because there was only a small amount of oil and ammunition left, they stopped chasing.

In this Taohua Mountain offensive and defensive battle, the Japanese Kwantung Army First Division and the Ninth Division suffered heavy losses. Most of the equipment they carried were blown up or discarded, and the casualties of more than 17,000 people were actually more than 17,000. Such casualties were the largest since the establishment of the First Division and the Ninth Division.

This does not include the annihilation of the Second Brigade of the Tanks.

The situation of the Taohuashan guerrillas was also very bad. The troops participating in the war suffered more than 2,100 casualties, of which more than 430 casualties were killed or killed. This was the largest number of casualties since the establishment of the Taohuashan guerrillas.

Gao Jiu returned to the mountain village and heard bursts of crying sounds coming from inside.

In this battle, there were too many casualties among the guerrillas in Taohua Mountain. Facing the pain of losing relatives and comrades, the team members made heart-wrenching crying, and the entire mountain village was wailing.

Seeing Gao Jiu coming back, the grief and grievances in everyone's hearts reached their peak instantly, and many people couldn't help but burst into tears.

Gao Jiu and every guerrilla in Taohua Mountain are basically familiar with each other and can remember their names, origins, enlistment time and performance in battle. It can be said that every guerrilla player is regarded as his brother.

After losing so many relatives and friends all at once, Gao Jiu's heart was filled with sorrow, and his tears couldn't help but flow down.

Gao Jiu wanted to comfort everyone, but the grief in his heart was no less than everyone else. He knew that any words were pale at this time. He did not speak, and went to visit every sacrificed comrade and their relatives, bowed to them, and expressed deep condolences.

After a long time, people's emotions gradually stabilized.

Gao Jiu ordered to hold a funeral for the sacrificial guerrillas.

Taohua Mountain Village suffered a great loss this time. Not only did so many guerrillas sacrifice, but the airport was also attacked, several bombers were lost and a large amount of weapons and ammunition were consumed. The beautiful Taohua Mountain Village was bombed into a mess.

This is simply unbearable for Feng Xiucai.

He was full of anger and said to Gao Jiu: "Boss, the damn Japanese are full and full, come and beat our Taohua Mountain. This revenge must be avenged. Leave the funeral to me. You can take your brothers to seek revenge on the Japanese."

At this moment, the people in Taohua Mountain had the same thoughts as Feng Xiucai. No matter men, women, young and old, everyone clenched their fists and shouted: "Avenge, revenge."

Gao Jiu also knew that no matter how the funeral was organized, it would not be possible to eliminate the anger in the hearts of the families of the sacrificed comrades. Only by eliminating those enemies who invaded Taohua Mountain would they be the greatest comfort.

Gao Jiu said, "Brothers, don't worry. Since the Japanese dare to invade our Taohua Mountain, they will definitely make them come and go.

Now the brothers who can fight will all pick up weapons for me, catch up with the abominable Japanese Kwantung Army, and resolutely and completely eliminate them."

Hearing Gao Jiu's orders, everyone immediately started to act.

They picked up their weapons and began to gather.

Gao Jiu looked at the teams of guerrillas in front of him, without any nonsense like mobilization, and said directly, "Go set off immediately."

Jinan City.

Deputy Chief of Staff Haneda, the commander-in-chief of the Japanese army, has been paying attention to the situation in Momohua Mountain. In order to strengthen communication and liaison, a liaison team was stationed in Shigeru Fujita's command center to report the situation of the Kanto Army to him in a timely manner. The reason why Chief of Staff Haneda has not received the report was because Shigeru Fujita sent someone to monitor the liaison team. It was not until the Kanto Army retreated in a hurry that the liaison team found an opportunity to send a telegram to Chief Haneda.

General Haneda heard that the Kwantung Army's troops had two divisions, plus a chariot brigade, but they did not take down Taohua Mountain and were beaten to the point of urination. The 2nd brigade of the chariot was destroyed, and the two infantry divisions had suffered heavy casualties. Now they have fled back towards Jinan.

Although this result was as expected by him, he was still very frustrated when he heard such news. He knew that he had caused big trouble this time, so Gao Jiu would never give up.

He hurriedly sent a telegram to the commander of the Komura village and Yoshihiko Hamada, suggesting that the Japanese army in Shandong temporarily shrink their troops and stop implementing the original combat plan to avoid heavy losses.

Hearing this news, the commander of the Hong Kong Village felt very depressed. He had originally given great hope to the Kwantung Army troops, hoping that they could take down Taohua Mountain and severely attack the morale of the anti-Japanese armed forces.

Unexpectedly, a small Taohua Mountain was so difficult to fight. Two infantry divisions of the Kwantung Army and one chariot brigade had a total of 70,000 troops. Not only could they not be able to defeat Taohua Mountain, but they were also beaten to flee in a panic. You can imagine how terrible this Taohua Mountain is.

He knew that the Kwantung Army troops were defeated, and the Japanese troops originally in Shandong had suffered heavy blows from Gao Jiu before, and their morale would definitely drop greatly. If they continue to fight according to the previous battle deployment, they basically had no chance of winning.

Therefore, he agreed with General Haneda's opinion and decided to temporarily cancel the original combat plan.

Hamada Yoshihiro had expected this result. He sighed and said, "Gaojiu's Taohua Mountain Mountain has been standing in southwestern Shandong for so many years. If it could be defeated, it would have been defeated. I participated in the attack on Taohua Mountain back then. At that time, Gaojiu did not have such a large force and so many advanced weapons. Not only did I not defeat it, I also lost my troops and generals.

Now Gao Jiu is no longer the same as before. He has a large number of advanced weapons and ammunition, and even has air supremacy in the air force. The Kwantung Army's people underestimated the enemy so much that they led to such a disastrous defeat.

I think General Haneda's suggestion is more realistic. I agree with his opinion and temporarily stop implementing the original combat plan."

Komura asked: "How do you report to Minister Too Feiyuan?"

In terms of human character training, Hamada Yoshihiro's level of sophistication is greater than that of the commander of Minamura.

He said: "There is no need to report to the Minister. Those of the Kwantung Army suffered such a great loss, and they will report to the Minister directly. Now the Kwantung Army is powerless to fight again, and the Minister also knows that the original combat plan cannot be implemented at all, but he is embarrassed to admit the failure of his plan and is also worried that the troops will suffer greater losses. Therefore, we will directly issue an order to stop the battle plan. The Minister will not have any objections, but will secretly thank us."

The commander of Komura nodded and said, "Hamada, what you said makes sense. After all, our North China Front Army has appealed to the Minister in advance and advised not to implement this combat plan.

If we ask for instructions again, it will indeed make the Minister unable to save his face. Then let’s just issue orders to the Japanese army in Shandong.”

Hamada Yoshiji said, "I'll send a telegram to General Haneda now."

After receiving a telegram from Hamada Yoshihiro, General Haneda issued an order to retreat to the 3rd Division, the 112th Division and the 132nd Division of the Japanese Army.

As Hamada Yoshihiro expected, Shigeru Fujita was defeated and was full of anger. He believed that he had not captured Taohua Mountain, but the Japanese army in Shandong did not cooperate with them. He originally went to attack Taohua Mountain with confidence, but suffered a crushing defeat. He could not afford to lose his face, so he complained directly like Tu Feiyuan, saying that the Japanese army in Shandong did not provide them with accurate information and did not cooperate during the battle, so the Kantong Army suffered such great casualties. He asked the North China Front Army to bear the consequences of the failure of the Kantong Army.
Chapter completed!