Chapter 718 Wind and Thunder

The Jilu border is in danger!

After receiving Liu Yimin's telegram order, Li Qing, the commander of the Third Brigade of Jiao, who had already been waiting in the eastern Ludong area, immediately understood that the Hebei-Shandong border base area was under unprecedented pressure. Because with Liu Yimin's command style, it is all about planning and then acting, and every battle is bound to be won. The reason why he ordered himself to lead four main brigades to hide and wait in Ludong was to reoccupy Qingdao and seize the supplies of the Japanese army. The reason why the troops are now required to quickly launch an attack on the enemy in front of them, and to demand that it must be launched within two days, must have been done as a last resort, and the purpose of the operation is only to force the Japanese troops encircling the Hebei and Shandong borders with an iron wall to divide their troops, divide their troops, and divide their troops again. Abandoning Qingdao and not fighting, going to fight the puppet Ludong and building the ** Li Wenli Department shows that the strength of the Japanese army in Qingdao has been strengthened and there are no fighters.

Thinking about the terrain of the Hebei and Shandong borders and the enemy situation reported by the division commander, Li Qing was as anxious as fire, for fear that he would not be able to play a role in responding to the Hebei and Lu border operations if he started late, so he immediately deployed the campaign to encircle and annihilate the puppet Ludong and build the Li Wenli Border Peace. As a result, after communicating with several brigade commanders, Lei Ming, the commander of the Fourth Teaching Brigade, sent a telegram, telling Li Qing bluntly that the Li Wenli Department would be dealt with by the Fourth Teaching Brigade and asking the Third Brigade, the Seventh Brigade, and the Eighth Brigade to concentrate their forces on reinforcements.

Putting down the phone, Li Qing laughed when he thought about it, what kind of thing is Li Wenli's Ludong and Pingjian**, where can the four main brigades be used to deal with it. If Lei Ming let other troops help deal with Li Wenli, he wouldn't have to be the commander of the Fourth Brigade.

Considering that the Qinghe Garrison Brigade, Jinan Garrison Brigade, and Luzhong Garrison Brigade commanded by Tan Zheng, Yuan Guoping, and Xu Guangda were ordered to launch an attack on the Japanese puppet army in the Jinan area, Li Qing sent a telegram to the three of them, making it clear that the three garrison brigades under the command of the Ludong Command Headquarters were attacking the Japanese puppet army in the Jinan area, and that the Japanese puppet army in Luzhong and Ludong was in charge of the four main brigades that were concealed and waiting in Ludong.

Li Qing immediately ordered the Jiaodong Garrison Brigade to launch an attack on the Japanese troops on the periphery of Qingdao, causing our army to reoccupy Qingdao, forcing the enemy's 36th Division stationed in Weifang to send reinforcements, and the 3rd, 7th, and 8th Brigades of Jiao were to set up positions between Gaomi and Jiaoxian, and ambush the enemy who was aided by Weifang to the east. The battle was first started by the Jiaodong Garrison Brigade, and after the enemy in Weifang came to Gaomi, the three main brigades launched an undulating battle to eliminate the Japanese army's eastern reinforcement troops. After the ambush began, the Fourth Brigade launched a campaign to encircle and annihilate the Liwen Rite Department. The purpose of the campaign was to eliminate the main force of the Japanese garrison in the eastern Ludong area and force the main force of the Japanese army on the Jilu border to move eastward quickly.

Li Qing's thinking is correct, as long as Jiaoji Road is cut off, Qingdao will become an isolated city again, and the devil can't save it if he wants to.

Li Qing thought so, and Tan Zheng and Hong Chaoyuan, who received Liu Yimin's order, all thought so.

Tan Zheng is a senior senior political leader of our army, and before he was transferred to Shandong, he was the head of the cadre department of the General Political Department of the Eighth Route Army. After arriving in Shandong, before he had time to have a deep discussion with Liu Yimin, he was sent to Ludong to take charge of the construction of base areas in Jiaodong, Jiaolai, Ludong, Luzhong, and Qinghe.

After receiving Liu Yimin's telegram order, Tan Zheng discussed with Yuan Guoping and Xu Guangda whether in order to reduce the pressure on the Hebei and Lu borders, whether they wanted to make the scale of the campaign larger and the momentum a little bigger, and strive to let the Japanese army transfer troops back to Jinan from the defenders of Jinpu Road north of the Yellow River as soon as possible, so as to respond to the breakthrough of our army on the Hebei and Lu borders.

Although Tan Zheng was not a military cadre, he was Chen Geng's brother-in-law, and he was instigated by Chen Geng to participate in the Northern Expedition during the Northern Expedition. After the Autumn Harvest Uprising went to Jinggangshan, Tan Zheng became the first secretary of Máo Zedong, and followed Máo Zedong to fight for a long time, listening, watching, and learning was enough, but he never commanded a specific battle. No, what he said has increased the momentum of the battle in the Jinan area, and he is well versed in the way of using troops.

Yuan Guoping and Xu Guangda are different, they are both famous generals of our army who graduated from the Whampoa Military Academy and went to the Soviet Union to study, and they have a high level of military theory and rich experience in actual combat.

The three leaders of the Ludong command have a characteristic: they all speak softly and elegantly, without a single dirty word, and they are standard intellectuals.

When Liu Yimin went south, he once gave an order to the Ludong Command, and the military command was determined by Yuan Guoping and Xu Guangda. Tan Zheng consulted with the two, in fact, he also urged them to act as soon as possible, implement Liu Yimin's orders, and plan to fight our army on the border of Hebei and Shandong.

Yuan Guoping was a little better, he worked for a long time as a tutor, and he single-handedly created the training headquarters, and he had a high prestige in the various units of the instructor. Xu Guangda came late, and the instructor's record was so brilliant that it was difficult to get the recognition of the cadres and fighters if he didn't fight a good battle.

As soon as Tan Zheng finished speaking, Xu Guangda picked up: "You have to make the momentum bigger." The commander's order was very clear: to launch an offensive operation against Jinan, and make every effort to clear the Japanese pseudo-strongholds on the periphery of Jinan, so as to cause our army to reoccupy Jinan. That is to say, we should concentrate our forces, attack with all our might, and focus on striking at the outlying strongholds of the Japanese puppet army in Jinan, so that the momentum of the large army gathering in Jinan, so that the devils could not help but send troops back to Jinan. This time, we are going to raise our eyebrows, in order to raid the Jilu border, the Xiǎo devil transferred the 32nd Division of the Japanese Army stationed in Zhangdian and Zhoucun and the 41st Division of the Japanese Army stationed in Jinan to the north of the Yellow River to engage in the Jinpu Road defense line. The Japanese army in Jinan did not have many troops, and according to intelligence, only one wing was transferred from each of the 32nd and 27th Divisions to garrison Jinan. In this way, the strength of the Xiǎo devils in the strongholds in the outlying areas of Jinan must not be many, and most of them are puppet troops. It's a good time for us to fight the devil's soft underbelly. Zhangqiu, Zhangdian, Zhoucun, Linzi, and Qingzhou were suddenly empty due to the transfer of the 32nd Division. Although the Japanese army supplemented the Jiaoji Road garrison, that amount of strength was simply not worth mentioning. However, the xiǎo devil must have secretly transferred troops again, which is not terrible, the newly transferred troops are just a newly formed independent hún brigade of the Japanese army, which is a group of new recruits. As soon as the guns rang out, these xiǎo devils were afraid that they would be niàokùzi immediately, and they would definitely not reinforce Jinan. I guess that Shanshan Yuan will not let the newly formed independent hún brigade to reinforce Jinan, and he can only transfer troops from Chōu north of the Yellow River to reinforce Jinan. ”

In fact, during this period, the three garrison brigades of Qinghe, Luzhong, and Jinan under the command of the Ludong Command Headquarters have been in battle. Although no major battles were launched, xiǎo scale battles took place every day, and several times a day. The reason is that the Japanese puppet army in Jinan is extremely rampant, following the fall of the counties along the Jiaoji Road, the Japanese puppet army occupied the counties and market towns around Jinan, and constantly organized sweeps, established strongholds, and encroached on our base areas. In accordance with Liu Yimin's instructions, the main task of the Jinan Garrison Brigade is to persist in guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines in the Jinan area. In this way, the active attack and ambush warfare of the Xiǎo troops became the main form of combat of the Jinan Garrison Brigade against the Japanese puppet army. The Qinghe Garrison Brigade and the Luzhong Garrison Brigade were tasked with guarding the Gongshan Base Area and the Qinghe Base Area, and after the Japanese Army in Luzhong received the support of Li Wenli's Department, like the Japanese puppet army in the Jinan area, they maintained an offensive posture against our base area. Fortunately, the focus of the Japanese army's attack was not Luzhong and Qinghe for the time being, otherwise a major battle would have to occur.

Of course, the situation in Luzhong improved later, since the Fourth Brigade was ordered to stabilize the situation in Luzhong, although the number of the Fourth Brigade was not made public, and no major campaign was launched, but with the main force, the pressure on the Luzhong Garrison Brigade was reduced, and the Japanese army in Luzhong began to take the initiative to attack the Japanese army.

Yuan Guoping listened to what Xu Guangda said categorically, so he smiled and asked Xu Guangda if he couldn't hold it back and had itchy hands?

Xu Guangda asked rhetorically: "If you want to hide the main force without affecting the overall strategy, and you have to face the aggressive offensive of the Japanese puppet army, don't you feel that you are holding your breath?" ”

Yuan Guoping is from the fourth phase of Huangpu, and Xu Guangda is from the fifth phase of Huangpu, and now they are working together, they have the same mind, and they are very easy-going when they speak.

Yuan Guoping looked at the map, pondered for a while, and said, "Two, this battle is not easy to fight. You see, this time the Japanese army increased its troops in the Jilu Border, and first sent Xiǎo ships up the Yellow River, cutting off the connection between the Jilu border and the Qinghe area. In this way, we can not only prevent our army from moving to Qinghe, and our army in Qinghe can reinforce Jilubian, but also launch a surprise attack on the Qinghe area at any time. Therefore, when we were planning the campaign, we should not only think that the Japanese reinforcements would come from the direction of the Luokou Bridge, but also that the Japanese army would directly launch a surprise attack on the Qinghe area and copy our rear route. If that's the case, we're passive. ”

When he said this, Tan Zheng and Xu Guangda began to ponder. In the end, the three of them reached a consensus that the Qinghe Garrison Brigade remained in the Qinghe area and was responsible for preventing the Japanese army from raiding the Qinghe base area. The Luzhong Garrison Brigade and the Jinan Garrison Brigade concentrated their forces on sweeping the Japanese puppet strongholds in the Jinan area, and the county brigades and district xiǎo teams in the Luzhong area launched raids and harassment operations against the Japanese puppet troops on Jinpu Road and Jiqing Road between Zhangqiu and Qingcheng to contain and monitor the Japanese troops in Luzhong.

After the operational concept came out, the battle plan was quickly drawn up, and the Ludong Command immediately ordered to launch a full-scale attack on the Japanese puppet army strongholds around Jinan.

Hong Chaoyuan led the Fifth Brigade, the New Fifth Brigade, and the Ludongnan Detachment to have been waiting in hiding in Ganyu County for some time. Now there are the New Fourth Brigade, the New Eighth Brigade, and the Tai'an Detachment guarding the mountainous area between Tai'an and Zaozhuang, as well as Shen Honglie's guard unit Wuhua Cultural Department cooperating, and the Xiǎo devils want to capture the Lunan base area, but there is no mén. Hong Chaoyuan confidently and boldly led the main force of Lunan to Ganyu, ready to launch an attack on Lianyungang at any time.

After receiving Liu Yimin's telegram order, Hong Chaoyuan laughed and said to Hu Xuerong, commander of the New Fifth Brigade, and Wang Nanhu, commander of the Ludongnan Detachment: "Guys, it's our turn to drink and eat." The devil dared to raid the Jilu border with heavy troops, so we went to capture Lianyungang. This time, I guess I won't have to worry about the troops' ammunition and rations anymore this year. ”

The new Fifth Brigade was originally the unit of the Fifth Brigade, and Hu Xuerong had always been the political commissar of the Fifth Brigade. The southeast Lu detachment is different, since its establishment, it has been guarding the southeast Lu base area, the last time it participated in the Taixi Campaign, it was a test of the knife, and the troops were also replenished after the war, and the whole detachment was screaming up and down, waiting to attack Lianyungang.

Therefore, after reading the telegram, Wang Nanhu heard Hong Chaoyuan say this, and directly asked for battle: "Brigade Commander Hong, Commander Hong, this time to capture Lianyungang, the Fifth Brigade and the New Fifth Brigade are responsible for sending reinforcements, and the southeast Lu detachment is responsible for the main attack. ”

Hong Chaoyuan laughed again, and beat Wang Nanhu around: "Okay, you Wang Nanhu, you still want to eat alone, you are beautiful!" Let me tell you, now the Japanese army in Xuzhou only has the 114th Division and the Xuzhou garrison, and the puppet Manchurian Defense Army has been attacked by our army continuously, and only 20,000 of the 35,000 people remain. Therefore, Lao Tzu did not distinguish between the main attack and the assist, and taught the Fifth Brigade, the New Fifth Brigade, the Southeastern Lu Detachment, and the Northern Jiangsu Detachment to rush to Lao Tzu, and quickly resolve the battle and transport all the arms and materials in Lianyungang. When we capture Lianyungang, if the Japanese puppet army in Xuzhou dares to aid eastward, haha, we will fight his ambush and expand the results. ”

The instructor has several main brigade commanders, and all of them are very distinct. Like Hong Chaoyuan, between his demeanor, he is heroic. Guarding Tongguan and fighting in the Qing Dynasty, swept southeast Lu, and every battle was fought very jīng彩, which won Liu Yimin's appreciation, and was always used as the main general of the town defense side.

After listening to Hong Chaoyuan's words, Wang Nanhu thought that this was indeed the case, the Japanese army was now jealous of the main force of the instructor, and they were not absolutely sure that they would not take the risk of reinforcements. The reason why they raided the Jilu border this time was because they had an absolute advantage in troops. According to the past routine, once the Japanese army learned that our army had captured Lianyungang, it was bound to shrink quickly and stick to Xuzhou. It is indeed difficult to fight their ambush, unless the connection between Xuzhou and Lianyungang is cut off in advance, so that it is possible to ambush part of the Japanese puppet army when it retreats to Lianyungang. As for the Japanese army in Xuzhou, I am afraid that they will not leave the city easily.

Wang Nanhu suggested again: "Brother comrade, if you want to fight, you will fight hard." After taking Lianyungang, our tens of thousands of troops quickly attacked westward, showing a momentum of capturing Xuzhou. In this way, the main force of the Japanese army will quickly move south to reinforce. ”

Hu Xuerong listened to the two of them, and said lively, and couldn't help but say: "Xiǎo devils are learning jīng now, even if we start in Jinan, Ludong, Lianyungang, and northeast Anhui at the same time, Xiǎo devils have to divide troops and reinforce." But I estimate that the xiǎo devil will still be a group of several main divisions huddling together, advancing in unison. In that case, we still don't have a chance to fight a war of annihilation. If you can't destroy the devils in a group, this battle will be boring. Moreover, we still have to let the xiǎo devil take revenge. Once the main force of the Japanese army moves south to reinforce us, we will have to quickly deploy defenses, but don't be overjoyed and let the xiǎo devil slap you back again. ”

When Hong Chaoyuan heard this, he waved his hand: "That's the next step." Fighting devils is equivalent to training soldiers, and without the tempering of fighting devils, where can we train first-class troops? Let xiǎo devils come, we're not afraid of those dog days. This Lunan and southeast Lu are not the endless plains on the border of Hebei and Lu, the méng mountains are high and the water is long, and the xiǎo devil has arrived here, hehe, it is to fight mountain warfare. Our army fought from Jinggang Mountain, and in mountain warfare, we are not afraid of xiǎo devils. ”

Wang Nanhu couldn't wait, and urged: "Quickly give the order, start the action tonight, take Lianyungang before dawn, and scare the old devil of Shanshanyuan!" ”

The devil's heavy troops are raiding the Jilu border, and the devil's eyes are also on the Jilu side, at this time, the earth is recovering, the wheat seedlings are returning to green, and the troops are easy to camouflage, and the risk is more than in winter. Hong Chaoyuan immediately issued a combat order, and at the same time reported to Liu Yimin: "Capture Lianyungang tonight!" ”

In March, the 1st Division, the 2nd Division, and the armored brigade departing from the county seat of Cangxian County had already entered the border of Yanshan County, and the Japanese Guards Division, the 5th Division, and the 35th Division, which had landed in Bohai Bay, had divided their troops and marched all the way west along the Yellow River, cooperating with Japanese warships to completely blockade the Yellow River and sever the connection between the Hebei and Shandong borders and the hinterland of Shandong. The main force marched in unison, attacking and advancing towards the hinterland of the Jilu border, forming a north-south offensive with the southward troops of the Japanese army on the center of the Jilu border base area. Coupled with the Jinpu Road defense line that had been formed, the Japanese army had completely encircled the Jilu border.

The battle reports of the various units flew to the base camp of the Japanese army and the headquarters of the North China Front Army like snowflakes, and the word that Sugi Sugimoto, Yamashita Fengfumi, and Muto Akira said the most was Yo Sai.

In the evening, Sugi Sugimoto was in a happy mood and sent a report to the base camp that was going well, and Jiāo waited for Yamashita to order all troops to strictly guard the defense line to prevent the night attack of the Eighth Route Army, and then went to accompany Naoki Hoshino and Kaya Koki to dinner.

During the banquet, Naoki Hoshino and Koyi Kaya first congratulated Shanshanyuan on the successful raid on the Jilu border, and then revisited the issue of resolving the financial crisis in North China discussed in the morning. This time, the conversation was more detailed.

Kaya reported to Sugi that due to China's intensified propaganda, the international reputation of the Greater East Asian Holy War was becoming worse and worse, which directly affected Japan's foreign trade. If one day the United States and other countries cut off trade with Japan and cannot import steel and oil, the prospects for the holy war in Greater East Asia will not be optimistic. Therefore, it is necessary to increase the development and utilization of mineral resources in North China. For example, the iron mines, copper mines, and coal mines in Shandong have to resume production as soon as possible and send raw materials to the mainland. There is no way, the Great Japanese Empire is too short of resources.

He Wu Xingyi then provided Shanshanyuan with a list of enterprises that had to resume production, and asked the North China Front to assist in resuming production.

Naoki Hoshino provided Shanshanyuan with a specific plan for the war against poison, and made detailed plans for the area of opium cultivation in various provinces in North China, opium production plants, monopoly institutions, and the number of tobacco houses in major cities.

After Shanshan Yuan saw it, he sighed and told He Wu Xingyi that things had to be done slowly, and it would take a process for the industrial and mining enterprises in the areas occupied by the imperial army to resume production, mainly because the Eighth Route Army in North China was too rampant, and he especially liked to fight the Jiāo line of the imperial army. Not to mention that it is difficult to resume production, even if production is resumed, safe transportation is also a problem. It must wait for the end of the Second North China Public Security Operation before it can be considered.

As for Naoki Hoshino's plan to feed the war with poison, Sugi Sugimoto stated that he would immediately organize and implement it, but he reminded Naoki Hoshino that the cultivation of opium had to be carried out quietly and could not be known to the Eighth Route Army. Otherwise, it will be publicized everywhere by the Eighth Route Army and become a stain on the face of the Japanese Empire.

He Ya Xingyi complained that the North China Front did not protect Japanese-funded enterprises effectively, and many Japanese businessmen and entrepreneurs made a lot of money in Manchukuo, but it was very difficult to make money in North China. For example, the Japanese-funded enterprises and banks in Tianjin and Qingdao have lost money. In any case, I would like to ask Your Excellency the Commander to find a way to protect the safety of the businesses and merchants of the Empire of Japan in North China. Like Zaozhuang's Zhongxing Company, the coal output is very large, and there are Jinpu Road and Jiaoji Road for convenient transportation, which can be directly transported to Japan by railway to the port, and even directly transported to other countries in exchange for foreign exchange and strategic materials. However, now the railway is often closed, which seriously affects the normal transportation. Your Excellency the Prime Minister is very anxious about this, and I would like him to convey on his behalf that he must support the Cabinet's efforts to stabilize prices and meet the needs of arms production.

Shanshan Yuan is clear about these situations, and there is no need for He Wu Xingyi to rap, but there is no way.

Shanshan Yuan took a bite of food, took another sip of wine, and said slowly: "He Wu-kun, Hoshino-kun, there is an old Chinese saying that rice should be eaten one bite at a time, and things should be done one by one. In order for North China's economy to flourish and contribute to the country like Manchuria, it is first necessary to support North China's law and order operations. For example, today's raid on the Jilu border was very successful. I believe that in a few days, the Jilu border will be full of Japanese flags. When the harvest is harvested, cotton, wheat, sorghum, and fishery products from the Jilu border will be transported to the north in a steady stream. If central Hebei, western Hebei, southern Hebei, and northwestern Shandong can all achieve this state, the grain and other commodities shipped to China from the North China Plain alone will greatly ease the pressure of domestic inflation. After the problem of the North China Plain was resolved, the main force of the imperial army would carry out a divisional clearance of other areas of Shandong to completely restore public order. Finally, it was moved to Shanxi to completely solve the Tuba Road in Shanxi. In this way, in addition to oil and rubber, the steel, coal, grain, cotton, and other materials urgently needed by the Japanese Empire could be obtained from North China. ”

Saying this, Naoki Hoshino and Koki Kaya were all happy and began to toast Sugi Sugimoto.

After Shanshanyuan finished drinking, he raised the question of whether he could mobilize major consortia to donate money to the North China Front. Because Shanshan Yuan made it very clear that the army in North China was gathered, and the military expenditure was huge, and the financial appropriation of the Great Japanese Empire alone could no longer meet the needs.

Naoki Hoshino and Koki Kabaya couldn't imagine that Sugi Sugi would ask for money, and the scene was a little cold.

Shanshan Yuan was not in a hurry, nor did he look at Naoki Hoshino and Kaya Xingyi, and said to himself: "If you want to truly restore law and order in North China, you can't rely on the imperial army alone, and you need to use Chinese to deal with Chinese." This requires money. The North China Front has drawn up detailed incentives to encourage the surrender of the squadron and the killing of the common people and the Eighth Route Army, and it is believed that it will not be long before a large number of squadrons surrender in North China. The problem is that the North China Front is now poor, and there is no money to cash in rewards for such a good method, which seriously affects the combat results. If the North China Development Joint Stock Company and the Japanese-funded enterprises in Manchuria had been able to make a temporary advance of money, the activity would soon have begun to work wonders. ”

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