While waiting for Kita Seiichi and Tokugawa Yoshitoshi, Lieutenant General Naosaburo Okabe reported his disposition to General Terauchi Shouichi, that is, he ordered the Fifth Independent Railway Brigade to hold the stronghold between the Yellow River and the Luokou Yellow River Bridge, and ordered the Third Railway Brigade to shrink to the railway line to prevent a sneak attack by the Eighth Route Army. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Okabe Naosaburo's intention to deal with it like this, Terauchi Shouichi can see it clearly at a glance, that is, to sacrifice the Fifth Independent Brigade of the Railway to delay the attack speed of the Eighth Route Army and buy time for the Japanese army to transfer troops. As for the Third Wing of the Railway, Naosaburo Okabe judged that it was a wing after all, and the Eighth Route Army could not eat it in one bite.

Okabe Naosaburo begs His Excellency the Commander for guidance on whether to urgently order the Fifth Independent Brigade of the Railway to urgently shrink its forces, abandon the Plains, Yucheng, and Qihe, and shrink its troops to the Luokou Bridge to ensure the safety of the bridge.

This is because after Naosaburo Okabe judged that the Eighth Route Army that captured Texas was the mysterious force that made them cry without tears, he was timid and frightened, for fear that the Eighth Route Army would once again stand out and seize the Luokou Railway Bridge on the Yellow River, and the troops would point to Jinan and threaten the safety of Jinan. Therefore, he wants to lose his pawn and protect the car, and would rather give up the three county towns of Pingyuan, Yucheng, and Qihe!

From Dezhou to the Luokou Yellow River Bridge, it is far away, and it will take two days for the infantry to march quickly. In the minds of ordinary people, the Luokou Bridge is absolutely safe for the time being, and it is impossible for the Eighth Route Army to put on its wings and fly over. However, Terauchi Shouichi and Okabe Naosaburo are not ordinary people, they are the commanders and chiefs of staff of the Japanese North China Front, and they are the best at engaging in intrigue and trickery, so it is normal to be able to take this into account.

Okabe Naosaburo said this, which means that his thoughts have changed at this moment, and he no longer thinks about sacrificing the Fifth Independent Brigade of the Railway to delay the attack of the Eighth Route Army, but is worried that the Eighth Route Army will directly penetrate the Luokou Yellow River Railway Bridge and control the Luokou Ferry!

If the Eighth Route Army controls the Luokou Bridge, not to mention that the Eighth Route Army may attack Jinan, it is to let the Eighth Route Army jump into the land of Qilu, is it not the same as fishing into the sea?

Take 10,000 steps back, even if the Eighth Route Army has limited strength, it is impossible to attack Jinan, and it is not possible to go to the hinterland of Shandong, as long as they blow up the Luokou Yellow River Railway Bridge, it will be very troublesome, and Jinpu Road does not know when it will be able to resume traffic!

Lieutenant General Okabe Naosaburo's suggestion should be feasible from the standpoint of the Japanese army. The problem is that the main force of the eastward advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army is not in Dezhou City now, but in Lingxian, can he let the Fifth Independent Railway Brigade shrink its forces at this time and go to garrison the Luokou Yellow River Bridge?

General Shouichi Terauchi is definitely older and more insidious than Lieutenant General Naosaburo Okabe!

No, General Terauchi shook his head after hearing this, saying that it was too late, if the Eighth Route Army wanted to attack and occupy the Luokou Railway Bridge, it would be too late for the Fifth Independent Railway Brigade to shrink its forces and return to defend the railway bridge. Without waiting for their main force to arrive, the Eighth Route Army may have arrived first.

When Lieutenant General Naosaburo Okabe heard this, a thin layer of sweat suddenly appeared on his head, which was particularly obvious under the light.

General Terauchi Shouichi did not look at Lieutenant General Okabe Naosaburo's expression, and ordered bluntly: "Okabe-kun, the task of the Fifth Independent Railway Brigade remains the same, and it is necessary to defend each garrison stronghold. Immediately ordered the two brigades of the Second Wing of the Mixed Brigade of the North China Garrison Army garrisoning Jinan to dispatch and urgently transport the Luokou Yellow River Bridge. The first brigade crossed the bridge and guarded the north end of the bridge, and the third brigade guarded the south end of the bridge to prevent the sneak attack of the Eighth Route Army. In particular, I would like to tell the officers and men of the Second Wing that this Eighth Route Army is the best at camouflaging the sneak attack of the Imperial Army, and it also has anti-tank weapons, so they should be on high alert and not be fooled! ”

Okabe Naosaburo immediately asked, "Your Excellency Commander, what about the defense of Jinan City?" ”

Yes, as soon as the two brigades of the Second Wing of the North China Garrison Army Mixed Brigade are transferred away, Jinan City will become an empty city!

The First Army of the North China Front Army is in the Shanxi battlefield, far from the water can not quench the thirst of the near, the Second Army and the troops directly under the Front Army, basically all on the Xuzhou battlefield, the main force is in the southern section of Longhai Road and Jinpu Road at this time, the strength is insufficient, and the Kwantung Army has been transferred from the Kwantung Army to mix into the third brigade and the thirteenth brigade into two emergency formation troops, Jinan is empty at this time, where did Terauchi Shouichi transfer troops back to Jinan? Where did they transfer troops to compete with the Eighth Route Army for Texas?

Terauchi Shou didn't think about it, and directly ordered: "Transfer the independent mixed into the third brigade to return to Jinan!" ”

The 3rd Independent Mixed Brigade and Regiment followed the 5th Division to pursue the troops of the 5th Theater retreating from Xuzhou, and they are now located near Bengbu in Anhui, and if they are to be transferred back to Jinan, even if they are transported by rail, it will be impossible to return to Jinan tonight. I can't get to Jinan tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. The reason is very simple, the 3rd Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade is not staying at the Bengbu Railway Station waiting for loading, but all the units are pursuing and fighting, and even if the pursuit is stopped, they are scattered and stationed at various key points in the occupied area.

Not only is this the case with the Third Independent Mixed Brigade, but also the Second Wing of the Mixed Brigade of the North China Garrison Army garrisoned in Jinan, which is also part of the garrison in the city, and most of them are stationed at key points around Jinan.

Okabe Naosaburo reminded General Terauchi Shouichi that it was too late to transfer the independent mixed into the third brigade to return to Jinan to defend Jinan, so it was better to transfer the troops stationed in Tai'an nearby, and then transfer the troops from Tai'an to Jinan back after the independent mixed third brigade rushed back.

All in all, it's all the trouble caused by the lack of garrison troops!

Originally, in order to prepare for the Battle of Xuzhou, Terauchi Shouyi used all the troops that could be used, and the rear garrison was already extremely weak. Now that Xuzhou has been occupied, the main division is still making great strides in pursuit, and the garrison in the occupied area of Nuoda is even weaker. In the entire hinterland of Shandong, from Weihai and Qingdao in the east to Lianyungang and Xuzhou, and then from Jinan to Longhai Railway on the east bank of the Yellow River, in such a vast area, apart from the three independent railway brigades of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Railway Garrisons of the Jiaoji Railway, the only field troops capable of fighting were the 114th Division and the 5th Independent Mixed Brigade. After the 5th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade captured Lianyungang, it was deployed on the Longhai line from the east of Xuzhou to Lianyungang, and from Jinan to Xuzhou, there was only one 114th Division, and the strength was greatly diluted.

Just like on the North China Plain, in the entire Pingjin area, what can really fight is the first wing of the mixed brigade of the Japanese army stationed in North China. From Qingxian County to Luokou Bridge, such a long line of communication is only the Third Wing of the Japanese Army and the Fourth and Fifth Brigades of the Railway Independence, and the defense line is very weak. The result was that the Eighth Route Army was broken as soon as it was stabbed, and the Battle of Dezhou easily eliminated the Japanese puppet army in the city of Dezhou, and completely annihilated the Fourth Independent Brigade of the Railway that returned to aid Dezhou and the Second Brigade of the Second Wing of the North China Garrison Army that came to recapture Dezhou.

According to the current defensive posture of the Japanese army, strictly speaking, it cannot withstand the attack of the Chinese army. The problem is that after the Battle of Xuzhou, the main forces of the Fifth Theater were transferred, and only Shi Yousan's 69th Army and the Marines who had retreated from Qingdao and Weihai remained in the Lunan Mountains. The Marine Corps was originally small, and after the loss of the Linyi defense battle, only a few hundred people remained. And Shi Yousan's 69th Army, now also called the Advance Army, has a total of two divisions, of which Shi Yousan's 181st Division, which is also the division commander, is composed of three security regiments of the Northern Hebei Security Command; The new 6th Division, of which Gao Shuxun was the division commander, was formed by the Hebei People's Army pulled up by Gao Shuxun. This unit was originally a regular army of the nature of local armed forces in a hurry, and Shi Yousan was cunning like a ghost, relying on them to guerrilla behind enemy lines, so it was really a guerrilla without attacking. Unless they are surrounded by the Japanese army and need to break through, they have to fight, and it is impossible for them to take the initiative to attack the Japanese army, that is to die!

In the hinterland of Shandong, it was the Eighth Route Army organized by the Shandong Party organization that really attacked the Japanese army. It's just that at this time, the Eighth Route Army in all parts of Shandong was in the period when they had just launched an uprising and pulled the troops, and they were still very weak and did not pose any threat to the Japanese army.

As for Terauchi Shouichi, he is also a representative of the Japanese army's theory of quick victory, belonging to an offensive general who advocates a quick victory. He believed that "the Chinese army, after the Battle of Shanxi and the Battle of Nanjing, was close to the brink of collapse; In any area, as long as there is a wing of troops, the task of sweeping can be completed. In the future, the Chinese army will not be able to fight, and it will be enough to sweep and sweep. ”

The reason for this is that Terauchi Shouichi estimated that Chiang Kai-shek's Central Army suffered too many losses in the early battle, that is, it reorganized the troops, and there were also shortcomings such as insufficient military resources and lack of lower-level cadres, and it could not become an army for a while; As for the local troops, as long as they go through the operation of "threats" or "inducements", they can be completely dismantled.

It was precisely because Terauchi Shouichi advocated a quick victory that since he became the commander of the North China Front, the North China Front has repeatedly disobeyed the orders of the base camp, repeatedly broken through the offensive stop line drawn by the base camp, and expanded its aggression.

Not to mention, this old devil has succeeded!

Beginning with the capture of Pingjin, the North China Front launched the northern section of the Jinpu Road, the Pinghan Road operation, and the Taiyuan Battle, each of which was carried out on the premise of violating the orders of the base camp. Including the Taierzhuang battle, it was also Terauchi Shouichi who made his own initiative, violated the orders of the base camp, and let the 10th and 5th divisions actively defend to the south, which hit the guns of the Chinese army in Taierzhuang and Linyi, and finally led to the defeat of the Laigu detachment of the 10th Division.

Now, the base camp ordered the troops sent from Central China to participate in the Battle of Xuzhou to move towards the Huai River, and ordered the North China Front Army to expand the results of the Battle of Xuzhou, roughly stopping at the east of the connection line of Lanfeng, Guide (i.e., Shangqiu), Yongcheng, and Mengcheng. As a result, the Central China Dispatch Army faithfully carried out the base camp order, but the North China Front ignored the base camp order and sent the 10th and 16th Divisions of the Second Army, with the mixed 3rd Brigade and the 13th Brigade drawn from the Kwantung Army, to quickly pursue along the Longhai Road, with the goal of joining forces with the 14th Division that captured Lanfeng, taking Kaifeng and Zhengzhou directly, controlling the Pinghan Railway, and then moving south along the Pinghan Railway, and together with the Central China Dispatch Army, to attack Wuhan.

In other words, although Terauchi Shouichi and the base camp were consistent in the overall strategy of expanding the invasion, they were inconsistent in the specific execution. The base camp also considered seeking stability, and Terauchi Shouichi was a mad cow who went berserk, completely mad, blindly attacking, attacking, and attacking again, obsessed with destroying the main force of the Chinese army, and forcing the Chinese government to surrender with strong force.

In other words, the fact that the Japanese army was able to occupy the entire North China so quickly was the result of the ideological guidance of Terauchi Shouichi to fight a quick battle!

It is precisely because of this that he made a desperate bet and used all the troops that could be mobilized, and single-mindedly eliminated the main force of the Chinese army through the Battle of Xuzhou, so that the Chinese government no longer had the capital to continue the war of resistance.

Speaking of which, Terauchi Shouichi's idea of a quick battle and a quick solution is most in line with the thinking of the middle and lower rank officers and soldiers of the Japanese Army. Those guys, all of them have been brainwashed by militarist ideology, relying on the Japanese army's aircraft carriers, planes, tanks, and artillery, and looking at the Chinese army wearing straw sandals and carrying old sleeves, just like looking at Hanako, all of them have their nostrils facing the sky and their eyes are above the top, and they always think that the Japanese army can be used as one as ten and one as a hundred, and that attacking the Chinese army is like a live-fire exercise, so it should be quickly decided!

The reason why Terauchi Shouichi enjoyed a high prestige among the Japanese army is because of this!

Now it's okay, Terauchi Shou didn't care about his head, he only thought about a quick attack and a quick decision, forgetting that the war was a matter for both sides, not a unilateral decision. No, the main force of the First Army of the Japanese Army was trapped in the Shanxi battlefield and could not be pulled out, and every time the Eighth Route Army base area was besieged, it would suffer a big loss! As for the troops directly under the Second Army and the Front Army, they all went to the Xuzhou battlefield, and then began to pursue in great strides, far away from the North China Plain, leaving a rare space for the development of the Eighth Route Army in the Central Hebei Plain, the Southern Hebei Plain, and the Hebei-Shandong Border Region. By the time he came back to his senses and engaged in public security operations, the Eighth Route Army had already gained a firm foothold, and it would be a fool's dream to completely drive the Eighth Route Army out of the North China Plain!

At this moment, let Okabe Naosaburo remind him, and the brows of the dead hand were furrowed, and the two eyebrows were twisted together.

What Okabe Naosaburo said was the truth, it was the current reality of the North China Front, and Terauchi Shouichi had to think about it!

If, if the Eighth Route Army that captured Dezhou was a little more bold and planned to repeat its old tricks, smuggle across the Yellow River, and attack Jinan before the independent mixed third brigade was transferred back to Jinan, it would be another gap in the army, and Terauchi Shouichi would be embarrassed again, and the North China Front would be embarrassed again!

After a while, Terauchi Shouichi agreed to Okabe Naosaburo's suggestion and asked Okabe Naosaburo to give an order to dispatch troops from Tai'an's 114th Division to Jinan to take over the defense.

As for the question of Tai'an's emptiness, Shouichi Terauchi and Naosaburo Okabe didn't think much about it. After all, Tai'an is too far away from Dezhou, and there are two brigades of the Second Wing of the North China Garrison Army Mixed Brigade guarding the Luokou Bridge, and the eastward advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army that captured Dezhou will not be able to cross the Yellow River in any case, and Tai'an is absolutely safe.

Okabe Naosaburo went to give the battle order and came back, and then asked Terauchi Shouichi a question: What to do with Texas? (To be continued.) )