After receiving the report that the Eighth Division and the 13th Brigade of the Reading Force had regained Tai'an without firing a single shot, General Terauchi Shouichi, commander of the North China Front, was not overjoyed, but on the contrary, he was worried, feeling that he had been swept away by Liu Yimin again.

Although the battle report of the current [***] team does not state which unit fought against the imperial army in Tai'an and southeast Lu, and he once believed that the battle of Xiazhuang Town, which led to the shattering of Major General Tsuchiya Soldiers and Horses, as advertised in Chinese newspapers, it was Liu Heiqi and Zhang Buyun who rebelled against the water and caused the defeat of the imperial army, but now the situation has changed, and the combat style of these battles has proved that it was the instructor of the Eighth Route Army who arrived in Shandong.

Terauchi Shouichi is worried about the future war situation in Shandong, with Liu Yimin here, I am afraid that Shandong will not only not become a strategic base for the imperial army, but will become a death trap for the imperial army. Now there are bad signs, and in less than two months, only between Tai'an and Dawenkou and in southeastern Lu, the number of losses of the imperial army has reached the number of losses in the battle of Taierzhuang. Shouichi Terauchi knew that behind the boring numbers were the lives of young people who were alive. If this development continues, the imperial army will simply become Liu Yimin's transport team, and every time he fights, he will provide Liu Yimin with a batch of weapons, ammunition and baggage, so that he will have the capital to further expand the troops. Fighting back and forth, the imperial army is constantly losing troops, but Liu Yimin's troops are fighting more and more, what will be the result in the end, General Terauchi Shouichi shuddered when he thought about it.

The more General Terauchi thought about it, the more irritated he became, and he felt that he really underestimated China, underestimated the will of the Chinese to resist, and underestimated the [***] team. Now the war situation is chaotic like this, needless to say in North China, because the first division returned to the Kwantung Army system, the sixth and eighth divisions were transferred to the Xuzhou battlefield, and the Xiangyue Qingji only had the 20th, 25th, and 109th divisions and the eighth and ninth mixed brigades, which lost their offensive ability and could only take a defensive position in the face of the aggressive attack of the Eighth Route Army. Fortunately, the Datong-Linfen section of the Tongpu Railway has been opened up, and they can support each other and maintain the balance of power on the battlefield for the time being. The central and southern Hebei regions of the North China Plain have become the world of the Eighth Route Army, not to mention the imperial army, and even the armed forces of those native imperial army friends cannot survive there. All this is thanks to Liu Yimin and the Eighth Route Army. The most terrible thing is that there is also a big problem in Shandong now, and the defense comes and goes, and it actually allows Liu Yimin's troops to cross the Yellow River to the hinterland of Shandong. At the risk of being accused of aggression by the people of the world, the imperial army fought back and forth, but made a pot of food for the [***] Eighth Route Army, allowing them to come out of Shaanxi and flourish in North China. Even the battle situation on both sides of the Yangtze River is not optimistic, Nanjing was taken, but the attempt of the main force of the [***] team in Nanjing to gather and annihilate failed to happen, and the public security situation on both sides of the Yangtze River was also chaotic. Now the Xuzhou battlefield can not appear in the Nanjing battlefield situation, if the main force of the [***] team escapes, this war does not know what year and month it will be fought.

Thinking about it, Terauchi Shouichi felt that under the current situation, the imperial army should take two steps, one is to adhere to the strategy of the base camp, concentrate all efforts to fight the Battle of Xuzhou, and it is best to capture Wuhan in one fell swoop after gathering and destroying the main force of the [***] team, and completely destroy Chiang Kai-shek's will to resist. Second, it is necessary to understand the operations of the Eighth Route Army from a strategic level, and it is necessary to study and deploy the Eighth Route Army as the main combat object of the imperial army. The top priority at the moment is to ensure the victory of the Battle of Xuzhou and even the capture of Wuhan, as long as the campaign objectives are achieved, we can concentrate all our forces to carry out a large-scale purge of the Eighth Route Army in North China and completely destroy the Eighth Route Army.

Terauchi Shouichi calmed down and sent a telegram to the base camp, first, in view of the interruption of the Tianjin-Pudong railway, the supply of the Xuzhou front line has become a problem, and the base camp is requested to carry out emergency supplies to the troops of the Xuzhou Battle by sea through Lianyungang to ensure the victory of the Xuzhou Battle. Second, in light of the actual needs of the Chinese battlefield, General Terauchi Shouichi suggested that the base camp should form at least 10 divisions and regiments and immediately go to the Chinese battlefield. Otherwise, it would be very difficult for the Great Empire to win the war against China. Third, it requested the base camp to immediately dispatch the special operations forces that are being formed to North China for operations against important combat targets.

After sending a telegram to the base camp, General Terauchi Shouichi called Wang Kemin and Qi Kuiyuan again to inquire about the progress of the expansion of the North China Public Security Army.

Qi Kuiyuan was single-minded in expanding his force, and for this reason, he paid bribes to Terauchi Shouichi and Okabe Naosaburo. Seeing that General Terauchi asked about the expansion of the North China Public Security Army, he knew that the opportunity had come, so he hurriedly stood up and gave a standard military salute to General Terauchi Shouichi, and then reported the basic situation of the North China Public Security Army, especially emphasizing that the reasons for the small size and low combat effectiveness of the North China Public Security Army were insufficient funds, insufficient officers, and insufficient military resources.

After hearing this, Terauchi Shou believed that Qi Kuiyuan's report was basically true, and immediately ordered Wang Kemin to ensure the funds for the expansion of the public security army, and decided to transfer a group of officers from the army, increase the number of advisers in the public security army, set up the advisers of the army at the level of the public security barracks, and demanded that Qi Kuiyuan recruit troops on a large scale in the occupied areas and apportioned the number of conscripts according to the number of conscripts. At the same time, Terauchi Shouichi ordered Qi Kuiyuan to immediately open an officer training team and a non-commissioned officer training regiment, and the officer training team, as a supplement to the one-year education of the Tongxian Military Academy, mainly recruited the old officers of the Kuomintang who had been separated and underwent a two-month intensive training to train them to become officers at and above the company level of the public security army. The Sergeant Training Corps mainly recruits young people with primary school education and trains sergeant squad leaders. In short, within two months, the security force should be expanded to at least 40,000 men to cooperate with the imperial army. After that, the military academy was expanded once for each batch of students graduating from the one-year program, until the public security force was expanded to be able to read and undertake the task of public security in North China.

When Qi Kuiyuan heard this, his laughing nose was wrinkled, and he hurriedly stood up and saluted, and did not forget to learn the posture of the army, and kept saying yes, yes, that look, like a leper dog.

After Wang Kemin and Qi Kuiyuan left, Terauchi Shou ordered the 27th Division stationed in Beiping to immediately mobilize and prepare for battle. He also ordered the 23rd Division on the Pinghan Road to strengthen its vigilance and take over the defensive tasks left by the 22nd Division after filling the 14th Division's defensive ground in northern Henan.

After all this, General Terauchi Shouichi sat down and wrote down the "campaign concept on the implementation of the overall law and order suppression of the Eighth Route Army in North China."

As soon as I finished writing the title, Kita Seiichi came in.

As soon as he saw Kita Chengichi's face full of spring breeze, General Terauchi Shouichi knew that there was good news, and hurriedly got up and gave Kita Chengichi to his seat, and asked the guards to call Miss Masako in to pour tea.

Sure enough, after Miss Masako came in and poured the tea, Kita Makoto took a sip, praised the good tea, and said, "Your Excellency, Commander, there is good news and bad news. ”

General Terauchi Shouichi thought to himself that the good news must be about the Eighth Route Army Air Force, and the bad news must be the matter of Liu Yimin's tutor wandering to Shandong, so he smiled and said: "Xiduojun, your great hard work, first tell the good news, and then talk about the bad news." ”

Kita Seiichi concentrated on intelligence during this time, and finally had a harvest, his happy nose and eyes were smiling, and he completely forgot that General Terauchi Shouichi had slapped him, and his demeanor became relaxed when he spoke: "Your Excellency Commander, this first good news is that we have found the exact location of the airfield of the Eighth Route Army Air Force and the Shaanxi Military Factory of the Eighth Route Army. ”

When Shouichi heard it one by one, he sat up from his chair with a "whew", and his excited voice became a trill: "Really? Tell me where it is! ”

Xi Duo Chengyi took out a military map of Shaanxi from his purse, spread it on the table, pointed to Mianxian County with his finger and said: "This is the location of the arsenal of the Eighth Route Army, not only the arsenal, but also the steel plant, power plant and other factories and mines supporting the arsenal, it is said that Liu Yimin built it single-handedly, the source of the equipment is not clear, but there must be equipment from the Taiyuan Arsenal in Yan Xishan." The weapons and ammunition of the entire Eighth Route Army system were produced here. Then, Kita Seiichi pointed to Zhou Zhixian and said: "The airfield of the Eighth Route Army Air Force is deep in the mountains here. They were very good at camouflage, and they built several fake airfields, and the imperial army air force bombed them several times, and they bombed all of them, and the planes they blew up were all fake planes that they built up with wood and paint. ”

Terauchi Shouichi's heart was about to jump to his throat, and he took a sharp breath and asked, "Is there an accurate geographical indication?" ”

Seiichi Kita replied, "Yes! ”

Seeing that General Terauchi Shouichi had already turned around and walked to the desk, Kita Makoto hurriedly followed, and wanted to talk about the detailed process again, and asked His Excellency the Commander to write off the 200,000 oceans spent in order to buy the bandit leader who knew the situation, and report by the way that according to intelligence analysis, the main force of Liu Yimin's instructor had entered Shandong and so on, but unfortunately General Terauchi Shouichi was no longer in the mood to listen to this, he had already grabbed the telephone on the table, and ordered the combat staff officer to immediately notify the commander of the North China Air Force Group to come to his office immediately.

Waiting for General Terauchi Shouichi to put down the phone, Kita Makoto hurriedly took the opportunity to say: "Your Excellency Commander, this information is mainly obtained by bribing the bandit leader I mentioned last time, and I said that I would give him 200,000 oceans, and I have already prepaid 50,000 oceans of gold bars, and there are still 150,000 oceans of gold bars to pay. You see? ”

General Terauchi Shouichi waved his hand: "Just kill him and feed the dogs, how can there be so much verbosity!" ”

Kita Seiichi's body trembled, he glanced at Shouichi Terauchi with a solemn face, and touched the round bald head with his hand for a long time, and said with a cruel smile: "High, the commander is really high!" ”

Terauchi Shou grinned: "There is an old Chinese saying, called the cunning rabbit dies, the lackey cooks, you think about it." ”

As soon as Kita Makoto saw that Terauchi Shouichi was in a good mood, and that the commander of the North China Airlines Group had not arrived for the time being, it was a good opportunity, so he reported: "Your Excellency, the bad news I want to report is that it is very likely that Liu Yimin has gone to Shandong. The last time Liu Yimin fought with the 39th Wing near Zaozhuang, although our army suffered heavy losses, a woman accompanying Liu Yimin was killed. Later, newspapers on both sides of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party published memorial articles, and Liu Yimin himself wrote an article "The White Lotus Blooms in Lunan in Spring", calling this woman his wife. According to information from the Kuomintang, this woman turned out to be an undercover agent sent by Dai Li to Liu Yimin's side, and was rebelled by Liu Yimin. Chiang Kai-shek and Dai Li, staged another contemporary drama of losing their wives and soldiers. I carefully studied the relevant information, and at that time, Liu Yimin and his guards were advancing north in the area east of Jinpu Road, and our army was closely searching and intercepting them, but there was no news of Liu Yimin, indicating that Liu Yimin was very likely to stay in Shandong. Recently, the head of the Jinan organ, Hidemitsu Nakano, received reports from many places in Shandong, saying that [***] has suddenly become active and is pulling troops to build up armed forces in various places. And those bandit armies were either wiped out by the forces of [***], or fled into the area controlled by the Imperial Army. Especially in the Hebei-Lu border area, the troops of [***] were particularly arrogant, and after the 7th Brigade returned to defend Dexian County, this area basically became the world of [***]. Their team was called the 31st Detachment of the Einsatzgruppen Army, and 3,000 of Mu Jincheng's men were wiped out by them. Coupled with the misfortune that happened near Tai'an, we have to report to you that it is likely that the main force of Liu Yimin's tutor secretly ran to Shandong. ”

As soon as Liu Yimin was mentioned, Shouichi Terauchi hated the upper and lower teeth fighting, and blurted out a vicious curse: "Liu Yimin and his instructor are purely a rogue army, they fight and run, and they dare not admit such a big achievement." And also made up lies, one moment what Chinese military police cooperated with the Tang Army to fight the head of the line, and the other time it was the special army that captured Dawenkou, and this time the capture of Tai'an and disguised the defenders of Beijipo to send a report to the second army, I have never seen such a despicable and shameless army. Coward! Liars! ”

After General Terauchi finished scolding, Kita Seiichi reported again: "Your Excellency, the problem is that there is indeed Liu Yimin's main force in the Luxi area, which shows that Liu Yimin's troops have been divided. It is possible that part of his troops entered the east of the Yellow River. ”

Terauchi Shou nodded, and besides, the commander of the North China Aviation Group had arrived. Shouichi Terauchi asked Kita to hang a map on the wall, and the three of them began to study the specific air raid plan.

At this time, Chiang Kai-shek, who was far away in Zhengzhou, was not having a good time.

When Liu Yimin was in Xuzhou, he exposed the attempt of the army to encircle [***], and the Fifth War Zone and the First War Zone also made serious preparations. Now that the army has really implemented the strategy of outflanking and advancing north and south, it stands to reason that this is the perfect time for [***] to concentrate forces to encircle and annihilate it all the way. It is a pity that all the troops participating in the war this time are the elite troops of the army, with extremely strong combat effectiveness and very high mobile surnames, Liao Lei's 21st Group Army once wanted to concentrate on defeating a wing of devils, but as a result, the devil's reinforcements arrived quickly, not only did not achieve the goal of annihilating the devils, but they were almost bitten by the devils.

(To be continued)