When the defense of Madang Fortress was in full swing, Xiao Siming and Wang Lushui commanded the main force of the eastward advance detachment and began the operation that swept through the Taixi area!

Knowing that the Japanese army was going to reinforce the Yellow River defense line from the north and south of southwest Lu, Xiao Siming deduced that when the Japanese army found that the pontoon bridge was destroyed and could not contact the Japanese army defending the bridge, they must have known about the eastward advance detachment crossing the Yellow River and entering the hinterland of Shandong. Apex M. Fastest Update Terauchi Shouichi quickly changed his mind and ordered the mixed 3rd Brigade and the mixed 13th Brigade to turn to Jinpu Road to strengthen the defense of Taean and other important cities.

Knowing that the Japanese garrison in Jinan and Tai'an was small, Xiao Siming had no idea of capturing Jinan and Tai'an. The reason is very simple, there are indeed not many Japanese troops garrisoning Jinan and Tai'an, but there are many puppet troops, and the Japanese puppet army combined, the strength is not small. Moreover, since the Japanese army knew that the advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army had crossed the Yellow River eastward, it would definitely shrink urgently and focus on garrisoning Jinan and Tai'an. Losing the premise of a sneak attack, and then attacking the fortified city defended by the Japanese army, it is not in line with the operational principles of our army.

The combat target that swept over Taixi was identified by Xiao Siming as a scattered stronghold and grassroots regime that swept away the Japanese puppeteers!

This is a typical pick-up soft persimmon pinch!

However, this style of play is absolutely correct. You must know that during the entire Anti-Japanese War, there were many heroes in Shandong who resisted Japan with iron and blood, many ordinary people who supported the Anti-Japanese War, and at the same time, there were also many traitors and puppet soldiers. Sweeping the Taixi region is to fight those traitors and puppet armies and destroy the foundation of Japanese puppet rule!

If the traitors can be greatly reduced, the Japanese army will become blind and blind, struggling to move forward, and being beaten passively everywhere!

As for the sabotage of the Jinpu Railway, don't worry, after the eastward advance detachment completes the task of sweeping Taixi, when the main force enters Yimeng Mountain, it will be easy to do it by holding grass and beating rabbits!

After the Lugou Bridge Incident, the Shandong Provincial Party Committee called on party members to take off their long shirts and go to the guerrillas to organize their armed forces.

The Taixi region is bordered by Mount Tai in the east, the Yellow River in the west, and Jinan is connected, so the strategic location is very important. Shandong Province appointed Zhang Beihua, Yuan Jingcang, Cheng Chongyuan, and Ge Zhenqiu to Taixi, and together with Taixi's old party members, organized armed forces and launched an uprising.

Before the Japanese army captured Jinan, all counties in Shandong had county security brigades and district security teams, and towns and towns also had a varying number of armed forces. After the Japanese army captured Jinan, Han Fuqu fled without a fight, and most of the Kuomintang security brigades and district security teams in the counties in the western Taixi region were scattered, and the guns were scattered among the people, creating conditions for pulling the troops.

On January 1, 1938, Zhang Beihua, Yuan Jingcang and others launched an armed uprising in Taixi and formed the "Shanxi District People's Anti-Enemy Self-Defense Group". Zhang Beihua served as chairman of the Self-Defense Corps, and Yuan Jingcang served as director of the Political Department.

This team was very weak at the beginning, only about 160 people, but from the day it was established, it was not afraid of strong enemies and raised the sword of revenge against the sun. In the first battle of Feicheng, he braved the snow to attack, captured more than 20 traitors, and executed Fan Weixin, the puppet maintenance chairman of Feicheng; In the second battle of Jieshou Station north of Tai'an, more than a dozen Japanese soldiers were hacked to death, and two pistols and one horse pistol were captured. During the Battle of Taierzhuang, Zhang Beihua took the initiative to contact the Zhanshutang Department of the 81st Division of the National Army, borrowed several boxes of explosives from the Zhanshutang Department, and blew up the Wande Bridge on Jinpu Road, making Jinpu Road unable to open to traffic for a week. Immediately afterwards, the Shandongxi District People's Anti-Enemy Self-Defense Regiment set up an ambush near Beijipo Station in the south of Tai'an, blew up a Japanese military column, and killed and wounded more than 20 escort soldiers. On April 3, the Japanese army entered Feicheng again, burning, killing and looting along the way, doing all kinds of evil, arousing the anger of the people, and the local red guns would fight with the Japanese army with broadswords and spears. Zhang Beihua led the Self-Defense Regiment to rush to the aid and fought fiercely with the enemy, killing and wounding more than 20 Japanese soldiers. In this battle, the People's Anti-Enemy Self-Defense Regiment of Shanxi District paid great sacrifices, and Comrade Yuan Jingcang, the director of the Political Department, the main organizer of the Taixi armed uprising, and one of the initiators, died heroically!

By this time, the People's Anti-Enemy Self-Defense Regiment in the eastern and western districts of Shanxi had grown to 2,700 people, and more than a dozen brigades had been organized. It's just that the composition of the troops is complex, the sources are different, and the combat effectiveness is not high.

In addition to the Shandongxi District People's Anti-Enemy Self-Defense Regiment, there are also two anti-Japanese armed forces controlled by our party of several hundred people in the Taixi area, one is the Feicheng County Security Brigade, 500 people, 400 guns, led by Yu Huichuan, the head of the Feicheng County Anti-Japanese Democratic Government. This is the armed force pulled up by the ** people themselves, but it is just the title of the Feicheng County Security Brigade in the past, and it is different from the Feicheng County Security Brigade in the past, which has long been dispersed. The other armed force was the Feicheng County Independent Battalion, which was pulled up by Wang Zhengnan, a progressive youth from the Second District and a graduate of the Army School.

It is a pity that after Yuan Jingcang died, Li Guanyuan, vice chairman of the People's Anti-Enemy Self-Defense Corps of the Shanxi District, was ordered to report to the office of the Eighth Route Army in Wuhan. In addition, Yu Renzhi, the newly appointed special commissioner of the Shandong No. 1 District, took up his post in March, and supported the local powerful factions, which affected the further development of the people's anti-enemy self-defense regiment in the eastern and western districts of Shandong, and the phenomenon of poor discipline and attrition of troops appeared in the troops.

Fortunately, in May, Guo Hongtao went to Shandong to take up the post of secretary of the provincial party committee, and when he passed through Taixi, he listened to Zhang Beihua's report and decided to establish a special committee for Taixi, with Dong Junyi (Duan Qunyi), Zhang Beihua, He Guangyu, Sun Guang, Wan Li, and other comrades as members of the special committee, Dong Junyi as secretary of the special committee, Zhang Beihua as military minister of the special committee, and concurrently chairman of the self-defense regiment, and He Guangyu as vice chairman of the self-defense regiment.

The newly established Tessie Special Committee is strong and powerful. Among them, He Guangyu was born in the Red Fourth Front Army, followed the Long March of the Red 25th Army, became the head of the Red Army after the Battle of Zhiluo Town, graduated from Kang University, and later became the founding major general. Others, such as Duan Junyi, secretary of the special committee, and Wan Li, were all well-known politicians in later generations. As for Zhang Beihua, who is also an old party member, he once served as the secretary of the Jinan Youth League Municipal Committee and the secretary general of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee, and was later imprisoned. It was not until the Lugouqiao Incident that he was released from prison, connected with the Shandong Provincial Party Committee, and was sent to Taixi to develop the armed forces.

After the establishment of the Taixi Special Committee, it began to carry out rectification and training of the people's anti-enemy self-defense regiment in the eastern and western districts of Shandong, further strengthened ideological and political work, purified the ranks, and carried out military training.

With such a foundation, the operation of the eastward advance detachment sweeping Taixi in the Taixi region will definitely be half the effort!

Yan'an, the Northern Bureau, and the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army all sent telegrams to the Shandong Provincial Party Committee, informing them of the news of the eastward advance detachment's march into Shandong, and instructing the Shandong Provincial Party Committee to respond to and cooperate with the eastward advance detachment's combat operations.

The 115th Division's eastward advance detachment is now the most outstanding unit in the squadron. Such a main force crossing the river and marching eastward into the hinterland of Shandong will surely become the mainstay of Shandong's War of Resistance!

The Shandong Provincial Party Committee, which received the notice, immediately established contact with the eastward advance detachment and assigned the local party organizations and local armed forces in Lunan to meet the new regiment of the eastward advance detachment, the baggage battalion, and the front detachment to cross the Jinpu Road and enter the mountainous area of Lunan. The Fourth Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Detachment of the Shandong People, which was holding on to Mount Tai and Culai Mountainous Area, was also ordered to assemble troops and secretly move towards the Jinpu Road, preparing to meet the main force of the eastward advance detachment to cross the Jinpu Road and enter the mountainous areas.

Dong Junyi, secretary of the special committee, Zhang Beihua, chairman of the Shandong-West District People's Anti-Enemy Self-Defense Group, and He Guangyu, vice chairman of the special committee, immediately rushed to join Xiao Siming and Wang Lushui.

When I met the leaders of the Taixi Special Committee, the eastward advance detachment had already deployed its main force and began to sweep the Japanese puppet strongholds between Pingyin and Dong'a.

Xiao Siming pointed the first wave of attacks around Jinan. The reason for this is to further mobilize the Japanese puppets and put on a posture of attacking Jinan, forcing the Japanese puppet army around Jinan to shrink into the city of Jinan, and at the same time attracting the Japanese army to quickly reinforce Jinan and cover the real intention of the eastward advance detachment to sweep the Taixi region.

Several leaders of the Taixi Special Committee, including Zhang Beihua, are not very old, and the oldest is in his 30s. When I saw the 18-year-old Xiao Siming, I was still a little surprised, because Xiao Siming was too young, a standard doll commander!

The leaders of the Taixi Special Committee briefed Xiao Siming and Wang Lushui on the situation of Taixi's struggle and the development of the armed forces.

At the beginning of the operation that swept Tessie, Xiao Siming and Wang Lushui were very busy, but they still listened carefully to the briefing of the Tessie Special Committee.

After listening to this, Wang Lushui put forward three suggestions in light of the experience of the eastward advance detachment in opening up the base areas along the Hebei and Shandong borders: First, the strategic position of Taixi is important, and it is necessary to build a consolidated base area and communicate with the base areas in the mountainous areas of Luxi, southwest Lu, southern Lunan, and Yimeng. The second point is that the first task of the Tessie Special Committee is to establish political power and mobilize the masses. Because without political power, it is impossible to coordinate the funds, food and grass needed for the War of Resistance, the supply of troops cannot be guaranteed, and there is no way to talk about fighting devils. Third, it is necessary to concentrate forces on reorganizing and training the armed forces, and the people's self-defense regiment in the eastern and western regions of Shanxi should be regularized, and it should be trained according to the standards of the main force to enhance its combat effectiveness. At the same time, vigorous efforts should be made to develop local armed forces, and county brigades and independent battalions should be established in all counties, district squadrons and district squads should be established in all districts, and militia units should be established in every village.

The situation in Taixi is different from that in Jilubian, which is close to Jinan and Tai'an, and the Japanese puppet army has already established a set of political power, and the Kuomintang Shandong Provincial Government has also sent Yu Renzhi, a special commissioner of the first district, to appoint county magistrates to support the development of armed forces by local powerful factions, and is also carrying out guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines.

In response to this, Wang Lushui asked Xiao Siming to give some ideas to the comrades of the Taixi Special Committee.

The Battle of Wuhan has just begun, and the whole of China is united, and all forces behind enemy lines should be united!

Xiao Siming said that it is necessary to unite Yu Renzhi to actively resist Japan. However, there is no need to worry, after the eastward advance detachment swept through the Taixi area, the Japanese puppet forces will suffer a serious blow, and even if the Japanese heavy army group sweeps away Taixi again and resumes occupation, it will be impossible to quickly establish a puppet government and puppet organization as before, and they will have to work hard. As for Yu Renzhi, the commissioner of the first district, after our army swept through the Taixi region, we will have an understanding of the strength of our army, and our thoughts will be shaken. Taking a step back, even if he still wants to restrict the development of our army, he can't do it. Because after all, he has few soldiers and no strength.

In the end, Xiao Siming boiled down to five words in one sentence: "Don't pay attention to him!" ”