Because of the fake telegram sent to Yue Jun, Zhang Haitao judged that it would be impossible for Yue Jun to immediately determine what happened in Tai'an for a while, so that he might make a big fuss in Tai'an for a while. Unexpectedly, one of the military columns passed through that night and was captured by our army at the head of the boundary. This is a good thing, but in the immediate situation, a good thing becomes a bad thing. Because the military train has time, the devil will definitely notify the stations along the way, so that the fact that our army occupies Tai'an cannot be covered.

Zhang Haitao thought about it and felt that he had to deceive again, and it was hard to say whether he could deceive the devil. As a result, Zhang Haitao sent a report to the devils in Ciyao Town, saying that although the entire Dawenkou to Tai'an section of the railway has returned to normal, Tuba Road has also been damaged between Tai'an and Jieshou, and about 200 meters of steel rails have been stripped off and stolen. The commander of the Mizuno Shin Brigade has sent troops in pursuit, and it should be possible to recover the lost steel rails and sleepers soon, and it is estimated that the railway will be repaired after dawn. The military train sent from Jinan to the front line has now arrived at the first station of the Jieshou and will depart again after the railway is repaired. Please notify Ciyang County Station from Ciyao Station.

After sending the telegram, Zhang Haitao thought about it and felt that this matter could not be hidden, what if the devil plane reconnoitred after dawn? But they couldn't think of any good way, so they had to send a report to the Taixi Garrison Brigade, asking them about their location, and asking them to escort the Formation and Training Headquarters, the First Branch of Kang University, and the Central Cadre Regiment to Tai'an as soon as possible, and cross the railway into the mountains.

At this time, the Taixi Garrison Brigade and the training headquarters led by Yuan Guoping, the first branch of the Kang University, and the Central Cadre Regiment had arrived in the Taixi area, and joined the cadres of the four regiments sent by Duan Junyi's Taixi Special Committee and the instructor, and initially completed the organization of the troops.

After receiving Zhang Haitao's telegram, Huang Su and Wang Jian'an learned that our army had captured Tai'an and completely annihilated the 10th Brigade of the Reading Force of the Yue Army.

Wang Jian'an was a tiger general of the Red Fourth Front Army, a political commissar of the Red Fourth Army during the Long March, and later studied at the Red Army University. This time, he was trained as a tutor, and he served as a brigade commander when he first came, and although it was a garrison brigade, Wang Jian'an was also very satisfied. Soldiers, as long as there is an army that can fight, where is there so much to talk about. Therefore, Wang Jian'an was bent on going to the Jinpu line, and he would do the devil first. It is a pity that the Taixi Garrison Brigade is a new unit, and the soldiers are all adapted from the original Northwest Lu People's Army, although they have been trained by the Formation and Training Headquarters, they are still a new recruit unit, and the only desirable thing is that the cadres are the backbone of the instructors, and the weapons are all called weapons. Wang Jian'an felt that as long as he trained for a while, ran in for a while, and fought a few more battles, the Taixi Garrison Brigade could become an elite force.

Huang Su is an old man who teaches the instructor, and he knows that although Liu Yimin gave them the task of attacking the devils on the front line of Yanzhou and Jining, it was just an attack and harassment, and it was to train troops through small-scale battles. As far as the current situation of the Taixi Garrison Brigade is concerned, Liu Yimin's arrangement is undoubtedly correct. In this regard, Huang Su has a painful experience, he will never forget the fate of the Red Eighth Army in the Battle of Xiangjiang during the Long March, and knows that if the recruit unit does not go through high-intensity training and the test of war, it will never be able to become the main force.

Compared with Wang Jian'an and Huang Su, Duan Junyi's qualifications are much shallow. He is only 28 years old this year, joined the party in 1936, is a student leader in Beiping, went to Xi'an Central Party School in 1937 to study, and went to Shandong with Guo Hongtao.

When these three people met together, it was necessary to have military affairs and theories, plus the cavalry brigade had been developed in Taixi for a period of time and laid the foundation, and there was no problem for the troops to survive and develop here. As soon as the three of them discussed, they decided to reorganize the Taixi Anti-Japanese Self-Defense Regiment into the Fourth Garrison Regiment of the Taixi Garrison Brigade in accordance with Liu Yimin's order. The troops first concentrated on training for a period of time, thoroughly ran in as one, and then began to fight in rotation, one regiment at a time, first fighting small battles, and using combat to train troops. After the combat strength is raised, it will adopt the method of combining guerrilla warfare with mobile warfare, take the initiative to attack, and seek out the bad luck of the devils.

After receiving Zhang Haitao's telegram, Huang Su and Wang Jian'an's eyes lit up and they knew that the fighter plane was coming. The reason is very simple, our army occupies Tai'an and cuts off the Jinpu line, the army will inevitably quickly organize a counterattack, and under temporary circumstances, it is impossible for our army to stick to Tai'an and fight to the death with the army, and the main force will inevitably be transferred to find another fighter. After the army recaptures Tai'an, it will inevitably sweep everywhere and wipe out our resistance forces along the railway. In this way, the Taixi Garrison Brigade can hide near the railway line, and the devil army will ignore it when it comes, and if it is a devil in a squad or squadron, it can be used as a whetstone to polish the troops.

After the two of them discussed, they left the Fourth Garrison Regiment to mobilize the masses with Duan Junyi between Feicheng and Dongping, expanded the troops, and led the first, second, and third garrison regiments of the Taixi Garrison Brigade to rush to Tai'an to meet the Tai'an detachment.

After the Taixi Garrison Brigade and the Tai'an Detachment rendezvous, ammunition, food, and medicine were replenished in Tai'an, and Huang Su, Wang Jian'an, and Zhang Haitao discussed the possible actions of the Yue Army, and decided to carry out the clearing of the fields on both sides of the Jinpu Road to prevent the devils from retaliating. As for the merchants and residents of Tai'an County, try to solicit their opinions, and those who want to withdraw will be evacuated to the mountains with the troops, and those who don't want to withdraw are not reluctant, and it is expected that the devils will not carry out crazy retaliation in Tai'an County, after all, they also need to maintain a certain economic environment.

In the end, Huang Su, Wang Jian'an and Zhang Haitao decided to join forces to fight, the devils swept to the west of the road, and the Tai'an detachment launched an offensive operation to contain the devils. The devil swept towards the mountainous area east of the road, and the Taixi Garrison Brigade attacked Jinpu Road, grabbed the devil's hind legs, and forced him to return to the army. It is also necessary to send more small troops to sabotage railways and cause rollover accidents anytime and anywhere. All in all, it is necessary to let the devils neither left nor right, and they must not be panicked to ensure the smooth progress of the Luzhong Campaign.

After several people discussed it, they immediately organized the troops to carry it out separately.

On the morning of the 13th, the enemy situation came from the direction of Jieshou Station and Dawenkou.

It turned out that the commander of the Second Army of the Japanese Army, Lieutenant General Dongjuergong Tsukihiko Wang, had a good night's sleep, and after getting up the next morning, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that the reprimands and insults he received from General Terauchi Shouichi last night were simply detrimental to the dignity of the imperial family.

But how do you get out of this breath?

Lieutenant General Tsukihiko of the Dongjuer Palace thought about it, and felt that he was a newcomer, and he didn't have time to show his talent, so he made General Terauchi Shouichi look down on him, and insulted himself under the pretext that it was normal for the 10th Brigade to rescue Dawenkou overnight. It seems that as the old Chinese saying goes, horses are good at being ridden, and people are good at being bullied.

Lieutenant General Kazuhiko of Higashijuer Palace felt that it was imperative to fight a good battle and let the old bastard Terauchi Shouichi see his level and ability. Now is the opportunity, according to the battle plan of the base camp and the front army, the net of the battle of Xuzhou has been fully opened, and now it is waiting to be closed. At this time, Shouyi should be urged to do so, and there is no need to let the Fifth Division, the Tenth Division, the Sixteenth Division, the 114th Division and the [***] team in Xuzhou go around in circles, and they should press with all their strength and capture Xuzhou in one fell swoop. And the sooner the better, if it's late, the [***] team may be alert, in that case, they will run away.

After Lieutenant General Tsukihiko made up his mind, Lieutenant General Naosaburo Okabe crossed over to Okamibe and sent a direct report to General Terauchi Shouichi, saying that since there was no problem on the Dawenkou line, the 5th Division, 16th Division, 10th Division, 114th Division, and 6th Division should be ordered to cooperate with the 3rd, 9th, 13th, and 110th Divisions on the southern front to quickly encircle Xuzhou and annihilate the main force of the Central [***] team around Xuzhou in one fell swoop.

This telegram from Lieutenant General Tsugayan of the Dongjuer Palace was purely superfluous, because on the 12th, the 14th Division of the Yue Army had crossed the Yellow River from Puyang, opening the prelude to the Battle of Lanfeng. Therefore, General Terauchi Shouichi read the telegram of Lieutenant General Tsukihiko of Higashijur Palace, scoffed at it, and sent a telegram ordering Lieutenant General Tojuergu Tsukihiko to concentrate on directing the operation in accordance with the battle plan and not to cause any trouble.

Lieutenant General Tsukihiko of Higashijuer Palace poured a scoop of cold water on the head of General Shouichi Terauchi, and his passion was completely extinguished. Depressed, this old devil actually spent a day in front of the map in the war room. Until the evening, the troops of the 114th Division who stayed in Yanzhou sent a telegram reporting that all the three military trains that should have arrived in Yanzhou normally had not arrived, and they had received a report from the 10th Brigade of the Reading Force Mixed Brigade stationed in Tai'an, which was transferred from the Ciyao Station, saying that the first section of the railway cup from Tai'an to the boundary was destroyed, saying that it could be opened to traffic in the afternoon, but I don't know why it has not been opened to traffic so far, and the 114th Division has no affiliation with the 10th Brigade of Reading Mixed Brigade, and asked the Second Army Headquarters to ask the Reading Power Mixed 10th Brigade and Regiment, why Jinpu Road has not been opened to traffic so far? When will it be opened?

After reading the telegram, Lieutenant General Tsukihiko of the Dongjuer Palace was shocked at that time, he had never received a report of the interruption of the Jinpu Road, where did the report of the 114th Division start?

Lieutenant General Tsukihiko of Higashijur Palace is the leader of the royal family, although he is a playboy, he also studied all the way from the Army Non-commissioned Officer School to the Army University, and he is not an incompetent person. The reason why he made bad moves and was reprimanded by General Shouichi in the temple was not because he was incompetent, but mainly because he was not familiar with the tactics of Liu Yimin's instructor. After receiving the report of the 114th Division, Lieutenant General Dongjuer Gong Tsukihiko woke up at once, and carefully recalled all kinds of things after receiving the telegram from the 10th Brigade of the Reading Force Mixed Brigade about the ambush encountered by a squad of the defenders of Dawenkou in Beiteng Village, and he felt that there was a great deal of strangeness in this.

Lieutenant General Tsukihiko of Higashijueriyaki asked the operational staff officer to bring a telegram from the 10th Brigade of the Reading Power Mixed Brigade, and read it carefully and carefully. After reading it, the doubts came out, why did the infantry brigade of Dawenkou set off to retaliate against Beiteng Village and Dawenkou was attacked by Tubalu? Why did Major General Mizuno Nobu report that he had lost contact with the defenders of Dawenkou? Why did he order Major General Mizuno Nobu to lead the main force of the 10th Brigade to reinforce Dawenkou, and the defenders of Beijipo sent a report directly to him? Why didn't Major General Mizuno report it since this telegram?

Lieutenant General Tsukihiko of Higashijuriya, who had many doubts, ordered the radio station to immediately send him a report with the code that he had contacted Rear Admiral Mizuno in private, asking him to quickly report why the Jinpu Road was interrupted.

With this report, the problem came out completely, because waiting left and right could not wait for the reply of Major General Mizuno Shin. Lieutenant General Tsukihiko of the Dongjuer Palace immediately understood that something had happened to the 10th Brigade of the Reading Power Mix, and something had happened to Tai'an!

Of course, what Zhang Haitao seized was the radio and code book of the defenders of Beijipo, and the radio station and code book of Major General Mizuno Shin had long been destroyed by the artillery fire of the 1st Brigade, and this telegram was naturally not answered or replied to.

After receiving a telegram from Lieutenant General Tsukihiko of Higashijur Palace, General Terauchi Shouichi suddenly sat down in his chair and could no longer get up. He knew that the last thing he wanted to see happened, it must be Liu Yimin's troops who had arrived in Shandong, at least part of his troops had arrived in Shandong. Only this reason can explain what happened in the Tai'an section of Jinpu Road and the southeast area of Lu in the near future.

General Shouichi Terauchi used the most vicious language he knew and scolded Liu Yimin. After scolding, Terauchi Shouichi immediately adjusted his deployment and ordered Lieutenant General Tojuergong Tsukihiko Wang to command the Eighth Division in Jinan and the 13th Brigade in Zaozhuang to immediately recover Tai'an and repair the Jinpu Railway. The aviation unit was ordered to dispatch immediately after dawn to carry out reconnaissance in the Taean area, and it was necessary to ascertain the situation and provide uninterrupted air fire support for the 8th Division and the 13th Brigade of the Reading Power Mix. As for the next move after the Eighth Division and the Thirteenth Division formed by Reading Power to recover Tai'an, General Terauchi Shouichi did not give a clear order, because he had no idea whether he could recover Tai'an. Besides, since this instructor Liu Yimin has arrived in Shandong, the next operational deployment of the army must be revised, and it cannot act according to the original deployment.

Considering that Lieutenant General Tsukihiko of the Dongjuer Palace had just arrived in North China and did not understand the tactics and strength of the instructor Liu Yimin, General Terauchi Shouichi ordered Lieutenant General Naosaburo Gangbe in Jinan to be responsible for explaining the combat situation of the instructor Liu Yimin to Lieutenant General of the Dongjuer Palace, preaching several prohibitions on his fighting with the instructor, and supervising the operations of the Second Army.

On this night, Lieutenant General Tsukihiko of the Dongjur Palace stayed in the war room of the headquarters for the night. As for what he was thinking, outsiders had no way of knowing. However, the 8th Division in Jinan, the 13th Brigade in Zaozhuang, and the 114th Division in Yanzhou were all urgently mobilized. Among them, the 13th Brigade of the Reading Force Mixed Regiment in Zaozhuang was ordered to immediately rush to Yanzhou by car to join the troops of the 114th Division who were staying in Yanzhou and stand by; The 8th Division received an order for the entire division to urgently mobilize and attack Tai'an in the morning.

At five o'clock in the morning of the 13th, both the 8th Division and the 13th Brigade of the Reading Mixed Brigade received orders to immediately advance by car to attack Tai'an. The order also said that, according to various indications, the Tai'an section of the Jinpu Road has been interrupted, and the 10th Brigade of the Reading Mixed Brigade stationed in Tai'an is likely to have been collectively shattered, and it is judged that part of the troops of the Instructor of the Zhina Sect have arrived near Tai'an, and the 8th Division and the 10th Brigade of the Reading Mixed Brigade must maintain a high degree of vigilance when attacking and advancing, send more search troops, and immediately report the enemy situation when they are discovered, and the aviation will provide uninterrupted air cover.

At 7 o'clock in the morning, the planes of the army arrived in Tai'an, and soon sent back a report, saying that after detailed investigation, there were three military trains parked at the first station of the Jie, and the supplies on the military trains were missing. South of the Jieshou to Dawenkou, all the railways were destroyed, and the Dawen River railway bridge was completely destroyed. However, no corpses of the battlefield, the Imperial Army, or the Tubalu were found.

At this point, the situation has been completely clear, and the 10th Brigade must have been completely shattered, otherwise the railway would not have been destroyed to this extent. In this way, Lieutenant General Donggyur Palace Tsukihiko became more and more cautious, and ordered the Eighth Division and the 13th Brigade to be mixed with Reading Li to fight steadily and steadily, and quickly send search troops to search along the road, and the main force must form a group and seize key points along the way, so as not to give any opportunity to the instructors of the Shina Sect.

After Zhang Haitao received the report that the Jieshou and Dawenkou had discovered the search force of the devil's cavalry, he knew that the devil had discovered the loss of Tai'an, and judging from the fact that the devil acted so cautiously and the planes were flying all over the sky, the devil had made a lot of money this time. Fortunately, yesterday there was an extra day and one night, and not only did we capture two more trains of baggage, but also the work of clearing the fortified walls was basically completed, and the troops were basically withdrawn. If you don't leave now, when will you stay?

Therefore, Zhang Haitao issued an order to retreat, to stay in Dawenkou and Jieshou to monitor the enemy's small troops into the mountains in concealment, and he also led the guard troops out of Tai'an City and hidden in Mount Tai.

At this time, it is the time when the grass grows and the trees are green, the large army has retreated, and it is very convenient for the small troops to evacuate.

By the time the devil search force entered Dawenkou and the head of the realm, the town was empty, and it was not until Tai'an that I saw people welcoming the imperial army with white flags. Without exception, these people shouted welcome slogans while accusing the evil of Tubalu, and begged the imperial army to make decisions for the common people.

After receiving the report of the search team that the Tuba Road had run away, the 8th Division and the 13th Brigade of the Reading Force Mixed Brigade accelerated the pace of the attack and joined forces at Tai'an in the afternoon.

Of course, under the city of Taean, the devils found the corpses of Major General Mizuno Nobu, the commander of the 10th Brigade of the Reading Force, and his fish soldiers and shrimp generals and Han annivers. The corpses were neatly arranged, and they were covered with some grass and leaves, so the devil's reconnaissance plane did not find them.

The Eighth Division and the 13th Brigade of the Reading Force Mixed Formation had suffered great losses at the hands of the Eighth Route Army, not to mention that General Terauchi Shouichi and Lieutenant General Higashijueriyaki King Tsukihiko ordered them to be cautious, even if they ordered them to attack and advance quickly, they would not listen. What if I fall into an ambush by my instructor? Therefore, after the division, Lieutenant General Maeda Toshiwei, commander of the Eighth Division, and Major General Morita Masaho, commander of the 13th Brigade of the Reading Force, both chose to hold the Jinpu Line and repair the Jinpu Line.

Since the puppet regime in Tai'an was completely destroyed, and the Han annihilators were also beheaded by the shining sabers of the cavalry brigade, it was difficult for the army to get accurate information. After consulting with Lieutenant General Maeda Toshiwei and Major General Morita Masafu, it was decided to re-establish the Taian Maintenance Association, and then investigate what kind of troops attacked Taian. It's a pity that after investigation, those ordinary people admitted that it was indeed the Eighth Route Army that killed the devil, but most of these Eighth Route Army wore ordinary people's clothes, and there were very few people wearing military uniforms, and the guns they held were the same as those of the Imperial Army. As for where they went, these ordinary people were also very happy, saying that they had all entered the mountains.

Seeing that nothing could be done during the investigation, Lieutenant General Maeda had no choice but to send a telegram to the headquarters of the North China Front, report the results of the investigation, and then concentrate on building the railway.

(To be continued)