After the Japanese army's heavy siege of Shandong was ordered, Fujii Yotomo finally understood the cleverness of Tada's order for him to hold on to Cao County. In particular, he was appointed commander of the Luxi Group, responsible for the unified command of the 15th Division, the 1st, 5th, and 7th Brigades of the Independent Mixed Division, and the 38th Division to sweep southwest Lu.

In any case, after all, Yochi Fujii is a bitter haha in the Japanese army, and he can't change his cautious nature no matter how arrogant he is now. He had clearly judged that the Eighth Route Army in southwest Lu lacked heavy weapons and did not have the ability to eat his 38th Division in a battle, otherwise, the Eighth Route Army would have launched a counterattack against Cao County long ago. On this basis, Fujii Yochi was determined to take the opportunity of this heavy gathering of troops to completely annihilate the main force of the Eighth Route Army in southwest Shandong in one battle. It was precisely on the basis of this guiding ideology that Fujii Yotoshi formulated an unusually conservative operational plan, and he divided the entire southwestern Lu operation into three stages: In the first stage, the 15th Division and the 1st, 5th, and 7th Brigades were the main independent mixed brigades, and a wing of the 38th Division responded to the east and captured Shanxian County. The purpose was to join forces with the troops of the Lunan group that had set out from Xuzhou to attack the Lunan region in the north to capture Fengxian and Peixian, straighten the defensive line, and establish a second line of defense north of the Longhai line. In the second stage, Chengwu, Dingtao, Heze, and Dongming were captured, and the hinterland of southwestern Shandong was occupied. In the third stage, the troops swept east and north to completely sweep the southwest area of Shandong west of the canal. The 38th Division was the left flank, the 15th Division and the 1st and 5th Independent Mixed Brigades were the center, and the 7th Independent Mixed Brigade was the right flank. Among them, the 7th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade maintained the connection between the Southwest Lu Group and the Lunan Group, which attacked Lunan along the west bank of Weishan Lake, Zhaoyang Lake, and Dushan Lake, and covered the security of the main flank.

On 5 October, when the Japanese army was attacking and advancing towards the Lunan area, Fujii Yotoshi's Southwest Lunan Group did not move, because the battle plan of the North China Front Headquarters stipulated that he would act one day late. The reason why this is the case is that Tada Jun is too cunning, he wants to observe the movements of the main force of the Eighth Route Army in the southern Lunan area, leaving the southwestern Lunan group to act late for a day and can be used as a mobile force to make up for the battlefield at any time.

The scouts of the Eighth Route Army attacked everywhere, and at once they brought Fujii Yotomo's "Xing" to life.

He judged that the Eighth Route Army in southwest Lu was probably aware of the impending catastrophe and attempted to disrupt the offensive rhythm of the imperial army with night raids. Immediately, a telegram was sent to order all units to hold their positions and launch an attack on all fronts after dawn.

On the night of October 5, not only the Eighth Route Army in southwest Shandong was launching a night attack, but also the Eighth Route Army in Shandong and even North China was fighting at night. Moreover, Yu Xuezhong's troops in the Sulu Theater, who were stationed in the Taierzhuang area to defend the first line of the canal and were beaten by little devils during the day and retreated step by step, used the cover of night to gather troops, took advantage of the night to break away from contact with the Japanese army, smuggled across the canal between the Japanese troops, and rushed towards the Longhai Road. By the time the Japanese army found out, Yu Xuezhong's troops had already reached the suburbs south of the canal and north of Longhai Road, and the junction area of Tongshan.

Destroying Yu Xuezhong's main force in the Sulu Theater was the first operational goal of the Japanese army's Lunan group, and the Japanese army naturally would not watch Yu Xuezhong's troops retreat south. The Japanese army could no longer care about the prohibition of holding their positions at night, and immediately mobilized troops to surround and intercept them. Liu Yimin, who received the report at a critical time, ordered Hong Chaoyuan, commander of the Lunan Military Region of the Eighth Route Army, who insisted on the Lunan Mountains in the mountainous area of Lunan, to command the troops to counterattack on all fronts and cover the retreat of Yu Xuezhong's troops. The Japanese army defended the enemy on its back, and under the cover of night, the officers and soldiers of Yu Xuezhong's department knew that life and death were at stake in this move, and they could no longer care about preserving their strength.

The 57th Army and Wu Huawen's new Fourth Division were all concentrated, and they simply tore a gap between Nian Zhuang and Bayiji on the Longhai Line and broke out.

In this battle, the Xuezhong Department suffered heavy casualties, and the little devil did not get much benefit. After all, it was night, and the little devil never expected that Yu Xuezhong's department would give up the defense line and break through strongly in the face of the devil's offensive arrow, and was caught off guard. Tada, who received the report after dawn, severely scolded Lieutenant General Kiichiro Tongkou, who commanded the Lunan group. However, Tada Jun did not order Kiichiro Tongkou to divide his troops to pursue Yu Xuezhong's troops, which was not his main combat goal, and he had to concentrate on destroying the main force of the Eighth Route Army. If the main force of the Eighth Route Army is allowed to come out of the shell again, Tada Jun's plan will be completely defeated. As for the breakthrough to the south, Yu Xuezhong's Tada Jun ordered the 17th Division, which was responsible for sweeping the Suzhou-Anhui region, to command the independent mixed 22nd Brigade and the independent mixed 23rd Brigade to continue the pursuit, interception, encirclement, and suppression.

Tada Jun didn't know that the Eighth Route Army had prepared a surprise for him, and he was about to let him taste it.

As soon as Yu Xuezhong's department acted, Liu Yimin, Luo Ronghuan, and Liu Ronghuan, who were far away in Zhangwan Town, west of Dingtao, southwest of Shandong,

Cai Zhong already knew. The Eighth Route Army had a working committee in the Xuezhong Department, equipped with a secret radio station, Xie Peiran, that is, Xie Fang, who ranked first among the founding major generals in history. With such a big operation, he naturally wanted to immediately report it to the leaders of the Shandong Military Region, Liu and Luo.

Before Liu Yimin rushed to southwest Lu, he judged in Pingyi that Yu Xuezhong's troops would go south to the Henan-Anhui Soviet region at a critical juncture and break away from the Shandong battlefield. But when he really learned the news, Liu Yimin still felt a little uncomfortable in his heart. Yu Xuezhong's department did not hold out in Shandong for so long as it did in history, and I don't know if there will be a chance to reorganize this army in the future, and I don't know if Wu Huawen, Rong Ziheng and others will be Han Jiān as they did in history. But in any case, Yu Xuezhong's department is currently a team dedicated to resisting the war, and it must not be surrounded and annihilated by the little devils like this, Liu Yimin did not hesitate at all, and resolutely ordered Hong Chaoyuan to command the troops to counterattack the devils and cover the breakthrough of Yu Xuezhong's department.

Luo Ronghuan and Cai Zhong did not have such complicated ideas as Liu Yimin, but felt that it was a good thing for Yu Xuezhong's troops to evacuate Shandong. In the future, there will be no main force of the Kuomintang in Shandong, and there will be no more big waves.

Yu Xuezhong is gone, and the war in Shandong has to go on. Cleaning up his mood, Liu Yimin stared at the movements of the Japanese army's Southwest Lu Group, and issued an order to launch the Southwest Lu Campaign with the elimination of the 38th Division as the main combat goal.

This time, Liu Yimin synthesized all aspects of intelligence and judged that the Japanese army in southwest Lu was about to launch a large-scale attack on the morning of the first day of the Sichuan month. What he wanted was this opportunity, to punch the little devil when it had just been launched, and to give the Japanese army a head-on blow.

Now, the hostile situation in southwest Lu is very clear. In addition to the 38th Division in Cao County, in front of Shanxian County was the 15th Division of the Japanese Army, the 1st Independent Mixed Brigade, and the 5th Independent Mixed Brigade. On the east side of the 15th Division is the 7th Brigade of the Japanese Army. This brigade is tasked with liaising with the Lunan Group and the Lunan Group. In addition, in the Shangqiu area south of Cao County, there is the 39th Division of the Japanese Army, which can go north to reinforce the 38th Division at any time. In the north and south of western Luxi, across the canal are the 37th Division, the 4th Feng Division, the 41st Division and the puppet North China Security Army of the Japanese army in southern Hebei and western Luxi, which can also go south in time to reinforce.

To the east of southwest Lu is the Lunan Group of the Japanese Army, which can also be reinforced from the west. Therefore, the battle to destroy the 38th Division must be quickly resolved and won cleanly. The Japanese army was dumbfounded.

After the end of the Lunan Campaign, the 38th Division of the Japanese Army voluntarily retreated to Cao County, and due to the repeated blows of our Southwest Lu Garrison Brigade and the Second Luxi Garrison Brigade, Fujii Yochi had to command the troops to sweep up, basically controlling the communication lines and important market towns in Cao County, and began to encroach on Shanxian County, Chengwu and other places. However, no matter how much Fujii Yochi tried his best, he could not get rid of the predicament of being attacked and harassed by me everywhere, and he had to continue to not shrink the defensive line, and put the main force along the highway from Cao County to Longhai Road, relying on the county seat, and encroaching on the east and west of the county seat.

Now that the war is imminent, the Japanese army has completed the concentration of forces and is deployed around the county seat, so that it can concentrate its forces to attack north at any time.

This situation of the Japanese army shows that the Japanese army did not realize that the main force of the Eighth Route Army had arrived in southwest Lu, and was staring at Ricao with fierce eyes!

This is the advantage of base operations, the troops are convenient for concealment, and can completely block information.

It is impossible for the small search force of the devils and the Han jiāns to spy on the important information of our army.

Although I don't know the Japanese army's operational plan, the first step of the Japanese army is to sweep Shan County, and the 15th Division, the 1st Independent Mixed Brigade, the Fifth Independent Mixed Brigade, and the 7th Independent Mixed Brigade on the flanks of the Japanese elite troops placed in the south of Shan County are all referring to Shan County.

On the morning of October 5, the Japanese Luxinan Group, under the cover of aircraft, began to launch a fierce attack on Shanxian.

There is no main force of the Eighth Route Army stationed in Shanxian County, only local armed forces cover the transfer of villagers.

Down the tunnel. The Japanese army advanced rapidly, and it was evening. The Japanese army captured Shanxian County.

On this day, the Japanese army besieging Lunan was progressing smoothly, due to the withdrawal of Yu Xuezhong's department, the Japanese Lunan group successfully crossed the canal and captured the first line of Taierzhuang.

Yi County. After crossing the Yellow River, the Japanese Nishi Group under the command of Yasui Toji began a large-scale attack on the area around Jining. The Taixi Garrison Brigade and Tai'an Detachment of the Eighth Route Army, which were fighting with the Japanese army north of Tai'an, were in 11

On the 5th, he was also ordered to withdraw from the position after launching a night attack on the Japanese army, the Tai'an detachment turned to the Taiyi Mountains, and the Taixi garrison brigade withdrew to the Taixi base area, using the tunnel network to persist in the struggle. After dawn, the Japanese Fifth Division, the 27th Division, the Fourth Cavalry Brigade, and the 16th * Regiment of the Independent Mixed Army, not knowing that the Eighth Route Army had withdrawn, launched a frantic attack on the Eighth Route Army's northern Thai defense line under the cover of aircraft. As a result, a lot of aerial bombs were dropped, a lot of shells were hit, and all of them hit the open ground. When the little devils finally rushed to the position of the Eighth Route Army, they found that they were greeted by mines buried in trenches, air-raid shelters, and shelters, as well as mines made of hand grenades. That's it, the little devil's northern front troops can be regarded as gained, before dark, the trembling little devil entered Feicheng County and Tai'an County. The Japanese East Group is also progressing smoothly, and the Eighth Route Army let go of the mountainous avenues in central and southern Lu, and let the little devils advance to the plain area of central and southern Shandong, within a day, small

The devils occupied several county seats.

At 6 o'clock in the afternoon of the 6th, the Japanese Army's North China Front publicly published for the first time on the radio a report on the Shandong Public Security and Rectification Operation, saying that Shandong had achieved unprecedented results in the public security and rectification operation, and that the Japanese Army had recovered the southern Hebei region, the western Lu region, the Jiaodong region, and the southeastern Lu region, and launched a major sweep in the Xiaoqing River area and the Jiaolai area north of the Jiaoji Road. As of this evening, Yu Xuezhong, the commander of the Sulu Theater of Operations, fled from southern Lunan after his troops were defeated, and fled to the northern Jiangsu region south of Longhai Road, where he once again fell into the encirclement of the Japanese army. After the main force of Liu Yimin's division of the Shandong Military Region of the Eighth Route Army, Yu Xuezhong's department fled, it fell into the encirclement set up by the Great Japanese Army in the south-central region of Shandong, and its destruction was imminent. The Great Japanese Army will soon resume its occupation of the entire North China Plain, Shandong, and Suzhou-Anhui regions.

After the war report was published, Tada Jun immediately issued a radio statement, calling on Liu Yimin and Luo Ronghuan to lead their troops to surrender and cooperate with the Japanese army to jointly build the North China Economic Circle.

Tada Jun said very benevolently on the radio: "General Liu Yimin, the Great Japanese Army has great admiration for Your Excellency's bravery and good fighting, and Your Excellency fought bloodily to defend the interests of your country, and it can be regarded as fulfilling the duties and duties of a soldier. But how did your government and the Kuomintang treat the generals? Chiang Kai-shek ordered the revocation of the Guijun number, ordered the return to Shaanxi to be reorganized into a local security force, and demoted the general from lieutenant general and division commander to second lieutenant trainee platoon commander, which not only wrote off the general's military exploits, but also insulted the general's personality. To use an idiom in your country, it is too much to deceive people! Is it tolerable or unbearable! ** It was no better for the general, who criticized the general's political ideas and the measures of governance in Shandong in the newspapers that were publicly distributed, accusing the general of marrying Chiang Kai-shek's wife and cousin and colluding with Chiang Kai-shek. It is conceivable that once the general withdraws to Shaanxi by the tragic means of the intra-party struggle, he will be relieved of military power, tried in secret, or even executed in secret. At present, the general is in an extremely difficult situation, facing not only the heavy encirclement and suppression of the Japanese army, but also the abandonment and revocation of the number and dismissal of Chiang Kai-shek, and the suspicion within the country. I think about your Excellency, instead of stubbornly resisting being captured or killed by the Japanese army, or being secretly executed, it is better to think about yourself and your wife and children. As long as the general is willing to abandon the darkness and turn to the light and cooperate with the Great Japanese Army, the commander of this command is ordered to solemnly promise that he will grant the general the right to command all the Central ** teams in North China that are willing to accept the reorganization of the Great Japanese Army. The General is ready to hold talks with the General on restoring public order in North China and developing the economy in North China at any time. ”

After the Japanese army's war report was published and Tada's speech was published on the radio station, the common people in the rear learned that the Japanese army had launched an unprecedented sweep of the anti-Japanese base areas behind enemy lines in North China.

Many radio stations immediately reacted, condemning the crimes of the Japanese invaders and expressing solidarity with the Shandong War of Resistance. However, some people had different views, and one of the radio stations interviewed Dai Jitao, a veteran of the Kuomintang, and asked him to comment on the war situation in Shandong. Dai Jitao said slowly on the radio: "The reason why the Shandong war situation is so erosive is that the Eighth Route Army does not obey the orders of the Central Army, blindly expands its strength, and affects the unity of the War of Resistance. If it weren't for this, with the instructors of the Eighth Route Army and the Sulu Theater joining forces, the Japanese army would never have been so rampant. Now, within a few days, the Japanese army has captured southern Hebei, Luxi, Jiaodong,

In the border area of Jiangsu and Anhui, he also captured many county towns in central and southern Shandong. Wherever the Japanese invaders go, they will surely kill my people, plunder my wealth, and insult my daughter. I weep for the people of Shandong! In the past, Han Xiangfang supported his own troops, disobeyed orders, collapsed for thousands of miles, and was executed by the Military Commission. Today, there is Liu Yimin, the head teacher, who also disobeyed orders and was also ruined. Han Xiangfang and Liu Yimin, who are also afraid of the enemy like tigers, retreat thousands of miles together, and disobey orders are really the same and should be dealt with the same!

I ask the China Civil Affairs Commission to severely punish Liu Yimin and make an example of him, so as to set an example! ”

Dai Jitao had just made a big statement on the radio, and some people over there were unwilling. Mr. Huang Yanpei, who had been to Shandong Labor Army, also accepted a radio interview and immediately refuted Dai Jitao's nonsense. The Japanese army said that the Eighth Route Army was surrounded in the Lunan area, and General Liu Yimin was commanding the troops to fight against the Japanese army. What does it mean to violate military orders and government orders? Could it be that Chairman Chiang dismissed General Liu Yimin, who had made great achievements in war, and that such an order should also be carried out by General Liu Yimin?

The two immediately quarreled on the radio. However, it attracted a lot of listeners, which greatly increased the listening rate of the radio that night.

Liu Yimin was not in the mood to listen to this kind of controversy.

That night, after dark, in a courtyard house in Zhangwan, Liu Yimin gave the order to launch the Southwest Lu Campaign.

Liu Yimin said in the order: "Commanders, commanders and fighters at all levels of the 1st Brigade, the 1st Brigade, the 1st Brigade, the Cavalry Brigade, the 4th Brigade, the 8th Brigade, the Southwest Luxi Garrison Brigade, the 2nd Luxi Garrison Brigade, the Artillery Brigade, the Engineer Brigade, the Daozhong Brigade, and the Air Defense Brigade: The Japanese army's heavy encirclement and suppression of Shandong began on 27 October, and as of today, it has been carried out. In this Sichuan, the Japanese army mobilized the main force of the Kwantung Army, the main force of the North China Front, the Sixth Division subordinate to the Sichuan Army, the 1st and 2nd Guards Divisions stationed in Japan, and the Taiwan Mixed Brigade stationed on Hainan Island.

The Suzhou-Anhui border region launched an unprecedented heavy encirclement and suppression. Everywhere the Japanese army went, they frantically burned, killed and looted, and committed many crimes, which are too numerous to mention! As of today, the Japanese army has basically captured most of the areas of southern Hebei, Luxi, Jiaodong, Jiaolai, Qinghe, southeastern Shandong, and southern Lunan, and occupied the communication lines and most of the towns in these areas. All units of our army and various local armed forces and militias are fighting bloody battles against the Japanese invaders and defending our base areas with blood and lives. Now, our army's strategic intention of mobilizing the Japanese army to pounce on the communication line in southern Lunan has been initially realized, and the time is ripe to launch the campaign in southwestern Lunan! Chief Liu Luo decided to immediately launch the Southwest Lu Campaign, eliminate the 38th Division of the Japanese Army, and give the Japanese army a head-on blow! ”！。