Chapter 1094 Prelude to the Great War (continued)

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After the main force of the Shanxi Eighth Route Army launched the Zhengtai Road Campaign, all units enthusiastically participated in the battle, far exceeding the number of troops scheduled by the headquarters to participate in the battle. The main force is fighting, and the local armed forces and militia are not willing to be defeated, so how can the main force and the local armed forces look at it? As a result, there were more than 100 regiments of the main force participating in the war alone, plus 200 regiments of the local armed forces and militia, and the destruction of Pinghan Road, Zhengtai Road, Tongpu Road, and Beining Road was completely paralyzed.

Because the devil did not expect that the Eighth Route Army would be able to launch such a large-scale offensive operation after experiencing the anti-friction campaign, the Japanese First Army in Shanxi was completely stunned, and the troops placed on several lines of communication fell into a passive situation of fighting their own battles ().

In a telegram to Tada Jun, commander of the First Army, Yoshio Shinozuka, the commander of the First Army, wrote in despair: "Since the second capture of Taiyuan, the Shanxi battlefield has not been as desperate as it is now. After three years of fighting, the Eighth Route Army fought more and more, and the casualties of the imperial army became larger and larger. The existing strength of the First Army is simply not sufficient to meet the operational needs. Judging from the current situation, if it does not receive strong support, it is very likely that the First Army will lose its active position in the Shanxi battlefield and will even be driven out of Shanxi. ”

Shocked, Tada Jun put forward the idea of carrying out a war of destruction against the Shanxi Eighth Route Army, and decided to mobilize the 37th Division of Deshi Road, the 41st Division of the 41st Division withdrawn from Luxi to Dezhou, the 11th Division that rushed to Dezhou from southern Hebei to assemble, the 14th Division in northern Henan, the independent mixed 5th Division stationed in Shimen, the main force of the Mongolian Army, and the main force of the puppet Mongolian Army to counterattack the Eighth Route Army, and in one fell swoop to eliminate the main force of the Shanxi Eighth Route Army that was implementing traffic sabotage tactics.

Tada's determination was mainly stimulated by two factors: First, after the Konoe cabinet came to power, in view of the achievements of the German army in the European theater, Foreign Minister Matsuoka Yoyoyo accelerated the pace of negotiating and concluding an alliance treaty with Germany and Italy, and soon Germany, Italy, and Japan would form an axis alliance. The second is that the new Japanese fighter Zero fighter has been successfully trial-produced, pulled into the battlefield, and joined the 14th Air Force. At noon on 13 September, the 14th Air Force dispatched planes to conduct a large-scale air raid on Chongqing, and when it returned home, it discovered the Chinese Air Force fighter formation over Bishan in pursuit, and the fighter formation composed of 30 Zero fighters immediately turned around, pulled up to an altitude of 6,500 meters, and launched a thunderous attack on the 30 fighters of the E15 and E16 formations of the third and fourth groups of the Chinese Air Force that were in pursuit. As a result of the battle, the Japanese planes shot down 13 Chinese fighters, damaged 11 fighters and forced landing, killed 10 Chinese pilots, and wounded 8. Kondo, commander of the 14th Air Force of the Japanese Army, immediately announced that he had obtained a 30-0 battle report that 30 Chinese fighters were shot down and that there were no casualties of his own. In this way, Tada Jun had a good idea of the combat effectiveness of the Zero fighters, and immediately requested that the Zero fighter formation be transferred to North China, and no longer worried that the Eighth Route Army Aviation Brigade might carry out air strikes on Japanese airfields at a critical time.

Stimulated by these two factors, and thinking that he had besieged Liu Yimin's forces in central and southern Lu with heavy troops, Tada Jun began to wave his army to Shanxi, determined to save some face for the North China Front Army on the Shanxi battlefield.

The Japanese army reprinted the photos of the head of the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army and the heads of each division and distributed them to each infantry squad, and printed the rewards for killing and capturing officers at all levels of the Eighth Route Army into a single page and sent them to each soldier, hoping that the First World War would solve the problem of public order in Shanxi.

Tada Jun believed that the equipment and combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi were far inferior to Liu Yimin's troops in Shandong, and he was confident of victory.

The Japanese army reinforced Shanxi in a large way, and Liu Yimin knew that what he wanted was this opportunity. It is a pity that the Japanese army only transferred the 37th, 41st and 11th Divisions in the Dezhou area and the 14th Division in northern Henan, and did not mobilize the Japanese troops around central and southern Lu, which shows that Tada Jun was always preparing for a sudden attack by the Eighth Route Army in central and southern Lu. In this way, how to fight this battle has to be carefully pondered, and the Eighth Route Army can't attack Jiaoji Road, let the Japanese army attack Luzhongnan from Longhai Road and Jinpu Road, and copy the back road of the Eighth Route Army, right?

The purpose of the Ludong War was twofold, one was to cover the Shanxi Eighth Route Army from a sabotage war to an anti-sweeping operation; The second is to annihilate the main force of the Japanese puppet army in Miji Ludong.

Before the campaign was launched, Liu Yimin thought twice and believed that the first tank division of the Japanese army was stationed in the Gaomi area, and this unit was the killer weapon of the Japanese army. As long as our army's tactics are properly applied and the rhythm of the battle is well controlled, it is entirely possible to create a false impression for the Japanese army and attract the Japanese First Tank Division to cooperate with the 32nd Division and the puppet Li Wenli Department to carry out a retaliatory attack on our army. In this way, the 1st Tank Division may fall into the trap of the preset positions of our army. As long as the 1st Chariot Division faces annihilation, the Japanese army will go crazy, not to mention the 36th Division in the Zhoucun area, and even the 7th Division in Qingdao may be quickly reinforced. Our army can completely expand the results of the battle and further annihilate the living forces of the Japanese army.

It is not difficult to get the Japanese 1st Tank Division to send reinforcements or assault, but the difficulty is how to block the rolling wheels of this steel monster and trap it into a preset position without moving, which is difficult.

Chaigou this place, the west is close to the Wulong River, then to the west is the Wei River, to the east is the Zhugong River, and then to the east is the Jiao River, the four rivers flow from south to north, it is a natural battlefield to besiege the First Tank Division, if the anti-tank fortifications are assisted, the main force of the Japanese First Tank Division is likely to fall into the preset battlefield of our army, unable to move.

Liu Yimin's ideas finally won the support of Luo Ronghuan, the Central Committee, and the General Headquarters.

This is the battle of the Eighth Route Army's special operations tactics to attack Chaigou ().

In order to cooperate with the Ludong War, Liu Yimin and Luo Ronghuan issued an order for the Ludong Campaign, ordering the 12th Column of Nanhu and Tang Liang, the kings of southeast Lu, to launch an active attack on the 2nd Division and the 3rd Chariot Division of the Japanese Army in the eastern section of Longhai Road, and ordered Hong Chaoyuan and Hu Xuerong of Lunan to launch an active attack on the 9th Division, 3rd Chariot Division, and 27th Division of Lunan, and ordered the 9th Column of Wang Jian'an and Zhang Haitao, who were stationed in the Taiyi Mountains, to launch an active attack on the 12th Division of the Japanese Army on the first line of Zhangqiu and the enemy in Tai'an. The combat units in the above three directions must preset anti-tank positions in advance, and when the Japanese counterattack, they must resist step by step, delay the speed of the Japanese army's attack, and gain time for the victory of the Ludong War.

In view of the fact that the heavy Japanese troops near Dezhou west of the Yellow River had been transferred to Shanxi and were on the way to march, Liu and Luo ordered Liu Jianli, Chen Shiqu, and Zhang Hongtao to command the second, sixth, and tenth columns of the Eighth Route Army to covertly engage the enemy, and planned to launch an attack on the Jinpu Road from Dezhou to Luokou the day and night after the Ludong War began. This time, Liu and Luo gave Liu Jianli a death order, which must annihilate a wing-sized unit of the 40th Division of the Japanese Army and a group of the puppet North China Public Security Army.

The third column, the seventh column, and the eighth column in the north of Jiaoji Road had already covertly engaged the enemy, and Liu and Luo ordered them to seize Weicheng and Fangzi after the main force of the 32nd Division counterattacked on the front line of Guanzhuang, Jingzhi, Jinggou, and Chaigou, and then seize Weicheng and Fangzi, and oppress the 32nd Division and the puppet Li Wenli Ludong and Pingjian**, and block the escape channel of the Japanese First Tank Division to the north.

After the main force of the 1st Tank Division of the Japanese Army was attracted to the front line of Chaigou, the main force of the cavalry brigade with reinforced anti-aircraft guns and bazookas advanced north along the Jiao River, cutting off the connection between Jiaoxian and Gaomi, and assuming the eastward escape channel of the 1st Tank Division of the Japanese Army.

The 11th Column of Xu Shiyou and Gao Jinchun, located in Jiaodong, seized the opportunity of the main force Ludong to annihilate the enemy and launched a full-scale attack on the Japanese puppet army in Jiaodong, forcing the main force of the 29th Division to not be able to reinforce the Ludong battlefield.

In order to accomplish the campaign objectives, the Political Department of the Shandong Military Region of the Eighth Route Army sent a mobilization order for the Ludong Campaign to commanders, commanders and fighters at all levels, ordering all units to mobilize urgently.

The capture of Chaigou cleared the first obstacle for the Eighth Route Army to kill Gaomi.

Just after the Eighth Route Army captured Chaigou, the Fourth Column of the Eighth Route Army, with the cooperation of the Special Operations Command, launched an attack in the direction of Anqiu, directly captured Jingzhi Ancient Town and Guanzhuang, and cleared the passage to enter Anqiu County, approach Fangzi and Weicheng ().

After the 1st Column and 3rd Brigade joined forces with the special operations squad led by Li Lingfeng and Tang Xingying, they eliminated the main force of the Japanese Inoue Brigade besieging Chaigou, and then occupied the Japanese defense line. Chen Jinxiu, commander of the Third Brigade, immediately ordered the troops to strengthen the fortifications and make preparations for holding on.

Immediately afterwards, the artillery brigade and the air defense brigade drove up and set up positions between the Weihe River in the west and the Jiaohe River in the east, and the core position was between the Jiaogong River and the Wulong River, and Chaigou and its surrounding villages became the core fulcrum of the entire defensive position. Liu Yimin wanted to wipe out the Japanese First Tank Division here.

Under the command of the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, a group of former migrant workers came up and cooperated with the troops to build fortifications.

The captured soldiers of the Second Brigade of the Puppet Ludong Peace Construction ** Special Agent, after undergoing emergency battlefield transformation education, were also thrown into the army of building fortifications.

Liu Yimin, Luo Ronghuan, and Cai Zhong led the military region headquarters from Zhucheng to Xiangzhou Town overnight, which was only a few dozen miles away from Jingzhi Ancient Town, Guanzhuang, Hejinggou, and Chaigou, which was convenient for command.

The entire communications battalion was dispatched and pulled telephone lines overnight to connect the headquarters and contact the troops.

"Xiangzhou Street is famous, nine squares of public virtue and filial piety, stone people, stone horses, stone lions, the emperor personally gave the southern imperial funeral, Tang Huai and Song Baiyong recorded, the millennium pine and cone to the sun, the shops along the street are a good set, and there is a school within a radius of 100 miles."

This is a poem written by the ancients to praise Xiangzhou Street, saying that Xiangzhou has a splendid civilization and outstanding culture.

This time, Chiefs Liu and Luo will command the Ludong War here, writing an indelible chapter in the history of Xiangzhou Street.

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