Xiao Siming's suggestion is indeed a stroke of genius, but there are also risks, mainly because he doesn't know which division the Japanese army will send back to North China and when it will arrive in Jinan!

That's the disadvantage of not having accurate intelligence!

If Yan'an and the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army can issue an order to advance to Yimeng Mountain as soon as possible, and the logistics materials and arsenals far away in Leling and Wudi can smoothly arrive at Luokou at the appointed time, and before the elite divisions of the Japanese army returning to North China arrive in Jinan, they will unknowingly cross the Jiaoji Railway and enter the mountainous area of Luzhong, it will definitely be a stroke of genius!

If the order of the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army and Yan'an to march into the Yimeng Mountains is late, or if the equipment and materials of the arsenal cannot arrive at Luokou on time due to the large-scale reconnaissance and search bombing by Japanese planes tomorrow, and the troops fail to cross the Jiaoji Railway and enter the mountainous area of Luzhong before the elite divisions of the Japanese army return to Jinan, it will be very dangerous. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Time, the key is time!

When Xiao Siming was anxiously waiting for the division headquarters, headquarters, and Yan'an to call back, a regiment, a battalion, and a cavalry battalion had already slaughtered Luokou Town.

The Japanese squad stationed in Luokou Town had been wiped out on the bridgehead, and the puppet army guarding Luokou had also fled, and the first battalion and cavalry battalion easily controlled the ships on the pier.

So far, the battle to capture Luokou has ended perfectly.

Time was losing minute by minute, Xiao Siming stood at the east end of the Luokou Bridge, looking at his watch for a while, looking at his watch for a while, anxiously waiting for the division headquarters, headquarters and Yan'an to call back.

Entering the hinterland of Shandong and creating a base area in Yimeng is a strategic issue, and it is not a matter of decidedness. Xiao Siming was anxious by the Luokou Bridge, but he didn't know that the leaders of Yan'an and the Eighth Route Army Headquarters had been very excited by his suggestion, and they all stood by the map with horse lanterns to look at it.

It was not until more than 1 o'clock that Xiao Siming received a telegram from the Yan'an Headquarters and the Eighth Route Army Headquarters, agreeing to march the main force of the eastward advance detachment to the mountainous area of Luzhong and create a consolidated base area in Luzhong, southwest and Lunan. But the execution is suspended! The most urgent task at the moment of the eastward advance detachment was to smash the impending heavy siege of the Japanese army, to re-anchor the Japanese army to the line of communication as much as possible, and to turn the elite divisions of the Japanese army into local garrisons.

This indicator is equivalent to letting go of Xiao Siming's hands and feet, and putting pressure on him.

After reading the instruction telegram, Xiao Siming pondered for a while, and felt that Yan'an and the leaders of the headquarters were also right. At this time, the main force of the eastward advance detachment advanced into the Luzhong Mountains, which was indeed a good opportunity. However, as soon as the main force of the eastward advance detachment left, the five detachments that had newly arrived at the Jilu border were not familiar with the place, and the Wudi Independent Regiment, the Yanshan Independent Regiment, and the Deping Independent Regiment that remained on the Jilu border were relatively weak in combat effectiveness, and they had to suffer a big loss in the heavy siege of the Japanese army!

Moreover, the eastward advance detachment went east to the Luzhong Mountains, and it was also unfamiliar. In case it is discovered by the little devils, the heavy army group will follow up and besiege, and the troops will only be able to go around in the mountain nest, which is also very dangerous.

Forget it, let's smash the siege of the Japanese heavy army group first!

As for Yan'an and the headquarters, it is best to re-fix the elite divisions of the Japanese army to the communication line, which is naturally the best policy.

Think about it, if the Fifth Division can re-garrison the Jiaoji Railway, the Tenth Division garrison the northern section of Jinpu Road, and let the Sixteenth Division garrison the Xuzhou-Shangqiu or Kaifeng section of Longhai Road, what else will the little devil do to launch the Battle of Wuhan!

Of course, this is just an idea, and whether it can be realized or not depends on the results of the struggle of all units of the Eighth Route Army!

However, one thing is certain, the Japanese army's major strategic goals will not change, and they will still launch the Battle of Wuhan. It is impossible for the elite divisions of the Japanese army to return to North China to stay in the North China Plain forever.

Xiao Siming thought for a while, and after sorting out his thoughts, he felt that what he had to do was to consume as much more elite Japanese troops on the North China Plain as possible, and delay the time for the Japanese army to attack Wuhan for a while. At the very least, the North China Front had to be allowed to have no strength to draw other troops to participate in the battle except for the Second Army's participation in the Battle of Wuhan.

In other words, it is necessary not only to avoid the tragedy of the Nationalist * Army opening the mouth of the garden and causing the tragedy of the Yellow Flood Area, but also to achieve the effect of opening the mouth of the Garden and diverting the water of the Yellow River to resist the enemy!

This task is not ordinarily difficult!

Xiao Siming, who had a certain idea, immediately forwarded the instructions from Yan'an and the headquarters to Wang Lushui, and then ordered a regiment and a battalion to garrison the Luokou Bridge, urgently mobilize in Luokou Town, organize boatmen, and drive all the ferries to the mouth of the lower reaches of the Yellow River to hide, including the big ships of the ferry, and transfer them together, with the purpose of avoiding the bombing of Japanese planes.

Xiao Siming himself, with an armored battalion, a heavy machine gun, an infantry artillery battalion, a rapid-fire artillery company, and a cavalry battalion, was on the east bank of the Yellow River and waited in concealment.

For the time being, they can't go east into the Luzhong Mountains, and they can't attack Jinan City, but it doesn't mean that they can't further create panic for the Japanese army, prompting them to suspend the Battle of Lanfeng as soon as possible, and quickly transfer elite troops back to North China!

Originally, Xiao Siming also wanted to take advantage of the cover of night to lead the troops to fight the Japanese army's Jinan airfield. However, considering that Jinan Airport is a large airport with the same status as Taiyuan Airport, and the Japanese garrison is sufficient and the firepower is also strong, Xiao Siming dispelled his idea and prepared to wait in concealment near the east end of the Luokou Bridge to see if he could find another opportunity to knock on the devil and get a little cheap before leaving.

Early the next morning, the Japanese troops mobilized planes from Jinan, Tianjin, Shijiazhuang, and Beiping airports and rushed to the area between Dezhou and Jinan.

The villages in this area are in bad luck, many of them are full of smoke, collapsed walls, and cries.

At this point, the commander of the second wing of the mixed brigade of the Japanese army in North China still judged that the main force of the Eighth Route Army was on the periphery of Jinan, waiting for an opportunity to capture the city of Jinan!

The captain of the Devil Wing kept sending reports to the headquarters of the North China Front, asking for urgent tactical guidance!

General Terauchi Toshiichi and Lieutenant General Naosaburo Okabe, chief of staff of the North China Front, were looking forward to the Fifth Division's rapid return to Jinan, and asked the Fifth Division to report its progress almost every hour. Helplessly, from Bengbu to Jinan, the railway mileage is 485 kilometers, and the highway mileage is even farther. Even if the Fifth Division was a mechanized division, it was speeding in a four-wheeled car, and it couldn't rush back to Jinan in a hurry.

In desperation, Terauchi Shouichi and Okabe Naosaburo did not care that Japan was a resource-poor country and that aviation gasoline was so precious, and ordered the Provisional Aviation Regiment of the North China Front to carry out multiple batches of uninterrupted reconnaissance and bombing between Dezhou and Jinan, with a focus on the outlying areas of Jinan, and at least to ensure that the Eighth Route Army could not launch an attack on Jinan City before the troops of the Fifth Division rushed back to Jinan.

The Provisional Air Corps of the North China Front Army is also tasked with supporting the Longhai Road Operation, and as a result, Lieutenant General Tokukawa Yoshitoshi has no choice but to exert all his strength to send out all the fighters of the Provisional Air Corps to carry out combat missions.

For a time, from the Lanfeng battlefield to the Shangqiu battlefield, and then between Jinan and Dezhou, the Japanese planes raged in the sky and did not stop.

In this case, don't say that Xiao Siming doesn't have enough troops to attack Jinan City, even if he transfers all the four main regiments of the detachment and the Wudi Independent Regiment, the Yanshan Independent Regiment, and the Deping Independent Regiment, it is impossible to storm Jinan. Is the loss too great!

Xiao Siming judged that the Japanese army would not attack the Luokou Bridge at night after suffering losses, so he ordered the armored battalion, the infantry battalion of the artillery regiment, and the rapid-fire artillery company to cross the bridge, converge with a regiment and a battalion, establish a concealed position on the west bank of the Yellow River, and lay explosives on the Luokou Bridge, prepare to blow up the bridge, and take the cavalry battalion and go straight to Jinan City.

At this time, Jinan City was already in the wind. The Japanese army imposed night light control and martial law throughout the city. In the distance under the starlight, the darkness became more and more dark.

Xiao Siming asked the cavalry battalion to prepare torches during the day, and at this time he ordered the cavalry battalion to raise torches and gallop around Jinan City, creating an illusion for the Japanese army that the Eighth Route Army was about to attack the city.

The artillery, light and heavy machine guns of the Japanese garrison all opened fire and intercepted the cavalry of the Eighth Route Army.

It was only an attack and harassment operation, and the cavalry battalion would never be within the range of the Japanese light and heavy machine guns. Even the artillery fire of the Japanese army was powerless against the cavalry straggler line with such strong mobility and suddenly wasted shells.

Xiao Siming himself, with Wu Peng, deputy commander of the cavalry battalion, two people and two horses, and then covered the night, quietly covered near the Jinpu Road overpass in Jinan, killed the two devil sentries with two shots, and then got on the horse and retreated, and rushed to the Xiaoqinghe wharf with two shots, and killed the two sentries with two shots, which made the little devil panic, and then beat the horse back, and took the cavalry battalion through the Luokou Bridge and returned to the west bank of the Yellow River.

After joining up with the troops, Xiao Siming inspected the embedded explosives and the wires connecting the explosives packs, and inspected the camouflage measures of the armored battalion and the car.

The tanks, armored vehicles, and 50 cars of the armored battalion were all dressed in green uniforms woven with green gauze tents, and when they looked at it at night, they were all integrated with the undulating small earthen bags along the Yellow River.

At the west end of the Luokou Bridge, along the bank of the Yellow River, there are ready-made fortifications left by the national * army or the Japanese army, which saves the Eighth Route Army a lot of trouble!

Across the Yellow River, needless to say, pistols, rifles, and grenadiers are useless, only infantry guns, tank guns, and heavy machine guns can inflict casualties on Japanese troops who may rush to the opposite bank!

Twelve tanks and eight armored vehicles dressed in camouflage lined up, with their fronts facing the east bank of the Yellow River, and their muzzles and vehicle-mounted machine guns all facing the east bank of the Yellow River.

The infantry guns of the infantry artillery battalion were also camouflaged, and the muzzles of the guns were pointed diagonally to the east bank of the Yellow River.

All the light and heavy machine guns of the heavy machine gun battalion, the first regiment and one battalion, and the cavalry battalion used the original fortifications on the west bank of the Yellow River to establish positions, and the muzzles of the long machine guns were all aimed at the east bank of the Yellow River.

Everything is ready, just wait for the little devil to serve the food!

It seems that Xiao Siming wants to be here and give the Japanese reinforcements another surprise! (To be continued.) )