Three days later, the airborne division received good news, and with the cooperation of the Eighth Route Army in Texas, they flanked the 14th Division of the Island Army in front and rear and annihilated it. Bayi Chinese Network ≈≠=.=8=1≥Z≠≥.≈C≤O≥M≈

Four days later, good news came from Jinan, Chu Zhongtian carried out tireless harassment and sniper warfare against the island army during the day, and constantly sang the island national anthem and shouted at night, which destroyed the island army's will to fight, and the troops broke through from all directions, and finally reached the high command of the island army.

Isamu Kinoshita, deputy chief of staff of the Island Army, and Heisuke Yanagawa, commander of the Tenth Army, committed suicide by disembowelment, ending their shameful and sinful lives.

Chu Zhongtian did not break his promise, and on the afternoon of the day of the liberation of Jinan, he gathered all the captured soldiers of the Daqiandao Army, all the officers above the rank of commander were sentenced to death, and all the soldiers who had been on the battlefield in China for more than a year were beheaded to the public.

Those who can successfully escape to Jinan are the elite of the island army, where are there still soldiers under a year old, so seven or eight thousand people were killed by him and only about 2,000 people remained, and most of them were puppet soldiers.

The corpses on the side of the Yellow River, which were only used as a place of execution, were strewn with blood, and the entire Yellow River was dyed red.

For this reason, Chu Zhongtian was severely reprimanded by Jiang Haoran, not only was he demoted by one level, the lieutenant general became a major general, but also received twenty military sticks.

Jiang Haoran had already strictly ordered the prisoners to be killed, not that he suddenly had mercy, nor did he consider violating the spirit of Yan'an, but that the continuous wars had destroyed too many cities, and all kinds of waste were waiting to be rebuilt, these prisoners were the best free labor, and it was better to let these beasts do the dirty work, until they were exhausted to death one by one, and it could be regarded as recovering a little interest.

Chu Zhongtian's killing doesn't matter, what he lost was a large number of laborers, and it is no wonder that Jiang Haoran is not popular.

Fortunately, there are many people in the headquarters who intercede for Chu Zhongtian, otherwise I don't know what it will be.

At this point, other troops undoubtedly did much better, such as Yang Sen and the New Fourth Army of the 27th Group Army, who were ordered to encircle and suppress the remnants of the First Army of the Island Army, and successfully completed the task, not to mention, and brought back more than 20,000 free labor to Jiang Haoran.

Ten days later, the Battle of Shanxi came to an end.

After the recovery of Pingyao, the commander of the 12th Army of the Island Army, Niu Daoman, hurriedly transferred troops to retreat, but the Jin Sui Army and Wei Lihuang's troops immediately pursued and attacked them fiercely, and then the two group armies of the Fifth Theater crossed the Yellow River and carried out a dragnet attack on the enemy along the Pinghan Railway, and with the cooperation of the Eighth Route Army, it took only five days to clear out the enemy on the periphery.

The island army that fled from Huoxian and Yonghe to Taiyuan lost its armor all the way, and less than one-third of them successfully escaped back to Taiyuan City.

Subsequently, under the fierce attack of the Eighth Route Army, the Jin Sui Army, and Wei Lihuang's First Theater troops in the direction of Xinkou, the stubborn Ushijima Man finally did not wait for the reinforcements of his dreams, and was beaten into a sieve by the soldiers of the Jin Sui Army who rushed into the headquarters.

This die-hard element of the island country's fascists, who was rated as "excellent tactics" by military critics of the island army, and who committed many crimes against the Chinese people, finally got the end he deserved.

Less than two days after the end of the Shanxi Campaign, the Shandong Yimeng Campaign was also nearing its end.

Li Pinxian's division, the three divisions of the Eighth Route Army, and most of Han Deqin's troops, nearly 300,000 troops fought to the death with the seven divisions of the 12th Army of the Island Army in the Yimeng Mountains.

Eitaro Yamauchi, commander of the 12th Army of the Island Army, took advantage of the complex geography and preconceived advantages of the mountainous area to focus on guerrilla warfare and ambush warfare to hold back the advance of the Chinese troops.

But he took the 32nd Division, the 35th Division, the 59th Division, and the 2nd Guards Division all the way, fleeing in the direction of Rizhao.

The island navy had already invested a large number of transport ships along the coast of Rizhao, mainly at night, and snatched them away in batches, and these four divisions became the fish that slipped through the net in this campaign.

At this point, the Battle of Xuzhou was all over, which lasted two months and eight days, and the squadron dispatched nearly two million troops, annihilating more than 500,000 island troops, more than 300,000 puppet troops, and capturing more than 100,000 island troops and puppet troops at the cost of more than 300,000 casualties.

Countless guns and artillery fire were captured, more than 300 tanks, more than 40 helicopters, and thousands of armored vehicles and automobiles.

The entire territory of Shandong, Henan, and Anhui was recovered, and most of Shanxi and Hebei were recovered, and an unprecedented victory was achieved.

The earth-shattering news soon spread throughout the world, and the Allies rejoiced and the fascists mourned.

What encouraged the Allies even more was that Nazi Germany's offensive in the Soviet Union was also extremely unsuccessful.

In order to fool the island army, Hitler replaced all the elite units that had promised the island army to be transferred to the Chinese battlefield with the Soviet puppet army, and the weapons were also defective products captured from the battlefield, in order to concentrate superior forces to destroy the fighting spirit of the Soviets in one fell swoop, and to defeat or even eliminate the Soviet Union in the shortest possible time.

However, with the arrival of the Chinese air force to aid the Soviet Union, Hitler's dream was shattered, and the momentum of the German offensive was immediately blocked, and 200 jet fighters laughed proudly in the sky, and it only took a few days to defeat the German air force in pieces.

Immediately, the huge air group of the Soviet Red Army was fully dispatched and carried out a frenzied retaliatory bombing of the German ground forces along the entire line.

Having lost air supremacy, any torrent of steel on the ground was not enough, the Germans were forced to go on the defensive, and the USSR was able to breathe.

On 15 July, Jiang Haoran convened a high-level domestic military conference in Wuhan, attended by all high-ranking generals of the group army and above.

Not only the generals of the Kuomintang, but also a number of senior commanders such as Zhou Gong and President Peng from Yan'an came.

This time, Yan Laoxi did not pretend to be sick, he and Wei Lihuang came together, and arrived in Wuhan a day early, and it is said that both of them had a secret conversation with Jiang Haoran, the content of which is unknown.

It is worth mentioning that Zhang Kui, commander of the Fourth Theater of Operations in South China, also came, along with Liu Si, commander-in-chief of the 42 nd Group Army, and Jiang Muwen, deputy commander-in-chief.

After a long journey of more than a month, the 42nd Group Army was divided into two routes, and arrived at the front line of Lechang and Hezhou respectively 20 days ago, and then launched an attack on Shaoguan and Huaiji, and the Western Route Army captured Shaoguan in only five days, defeating the enemy's two divisions all the way, and the main force fled to Fukuoka and Qingyuan.

The Eastern Route Army also captured Huaiji 10 days ago, and the two armies were advancing with all their might to attack Zhaoqing and Qingyuan, and a semi-encirclement of Guangzhou had already formed.

During the whole process, Zhang Kui's Fourth Theater troops were almost watching the play from the sidelines, originally thinking that this group of recruits would suffer from the island army as soon as they went up, but who knew that their courage made Zhang Kui and them stunned.