Although after capturing Lianyungang and eliminating the main force of the 116th Division, the heavy army group of the Yue Army was transferred to the front line of Xuzhou, the danger was not lifted. Whether the whole layout can be successful in the end depends on whether the operation can achieve the expected purpose. Therefore, although Liu Yimin was anxious to return to Shandong to preside over the overall situation, he had no choice but to stay for the time being, and together with the cadres, carefully study the marching route and action plan again, and design every detail as reasonably as possible.

It was busy until late at night that Liu Yimin felt more satisfied, so he ordered Liu Jianli to quickly return to the station, prepare for one day, and launch the whole line the next night, all the way to the south, and eradicate all the pseudo-forces along the way. The momentum should be made as big as possible, the action should be fast and fierce, and it should sweep southward, so that the troops stationed in Yangzhou and Nantong should feel the pressure and keep asking for help, so as to attract the troops to move south quickly.

After the deployment, just as he was about to rest, Li Lingfeng sent a telegram recording of the press conference held by King Twist Yan of Dongjiuer Palace in Xuzhou, Liu Yimin saw it, and slapped the table into firewood with a palm of his anger, and asked Li Lingfeng to immediately send a report to Qian Zhuangfei and report to the headquarters, asking the headquarters to provide the content of the press conference held by King Twist Yan of Dongjiuer Palace in Jinan.

Li Lingfeng saw that Liu Yimin was angry, so he persuaded him to calm down, the little devil is full of spew, it is all slander, which Chinese does not know that the division commander is dedicated to the country and resists? Those messy things are made up too dirty, and a discerning person can know that they are disgusting at a glance, and they are not worth mentioning. The little devil suffered a defeat on the battlefield, and he didn't have the ability to win back, so he began to play tricks.

After Liu Yimin calmed down, he knew that what Li Lingfeng said was reasonable, waved his hand and asked him to go down to rest, and he didn't sleep anymore and walked in Qingyan Garden.

When I was walking, I thought about it carefully and felt that I was still a little soft on the little devil. The devil of Xiangji Shouichi should have died a long time ago, and he has been thinking that killing him will be useless, and the little devil will send someone to be the commander of the North China Front Army, and the war is seriously not launched by any one person, it is the inevitable result of the long-term development of militarist ideology and system. Now it's a good thing, the old devil Terauchi Shouichi has run away, and I don't know if he will come back from Germany and come to North China to be a commander for a period of time like in history. If he comes again, he can't leave North China alive in any case.

Originally, I only thought that King Tsugahiko of the East Gyuer Palace was an old playboy, and he had been in France for many years when he was young, so he should have been somewhat influenced by French culture, which was different from other little devils. I didn't expect that this old thing was also so despicable and shameless, and he dared to pour dirty water on Lao Tzu! There is also that old ladyboy Wang Kemin, I'm afraid that I'm tired of it, so I made it like this, arranging Lao Tzu into a silver stick to reincarnate, I just don't know how to write dead words!

Liu Yimin thought about it and walked to Hefang Academy. At this time, the lotus leaves are in the field, the night breeze blows, and the lotus leaves sway with the wind under the bright moon, which makes people feel cool in their hearts.

Seeing such beautiful lotus leaves, Liu Yimin couldn't help but think of the way Jingjing recited "Moonlight on the Lotus Pond" when he was looking for coal mines in Yulin, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but smile a little, and the anger in his heart disappeared a little. Again, Tang Xingying, Ni Hua, Zhao Xiaoman, Jingjing, including the sacrificed Chen Yaoguang, which one is not a good daughter of Bingqing Yujie! The likes of King Tsugiyan and Wang Kemin of the Dongjuer Palace said that they could have as many sins as they had, but to slander these women who were so good was to damn it! Especially slandering Zhao Xiaoman and Jingjing, that is slandering people's innocence! If the two of them knew about this, they didn't know what they would be wronged! There are also two female reporters in Shanghai, who didn't even look at them, and the little devil who said that he didn't even let them go, and poured dirty water on the two little girls.

It seems that if you don't kill Lieutenant General and Wang Kemin of Dongjuer Palace, the little devil won't know what to be afraid of!

Thinking about it, I laughed when I thought about it, and I felt stupid, what era is this? It's a war-torn period of resistance, what is polite to the little devils! How many bad things the little devils have done in China, and any one of them should be damned! Those commanders are especially damned! As long as you can eliminate the devil and the Han annihilation, what means can't be used? Not to mention, Dai Li thought very clearly about this, didn't he send someone to assassinate Wang Kemin? It just didn't work out. If he took the special combat team to Beiping, ten Wang Kemin would also die!

Little devils, dogs, you are the ones who provoke Lao Tzu, don't blame Lao Tzu for being black!

After thinking about it, Liu Yimin's anger also went down, and Shi Shiran went back to sleep.

On the morning of the next day, Liu Yimin met with Han Deqin, member of the Jiangsu Provincial Political Axe Committee and director of the Department of Civil Affairs, acting commander-in-chief of the 24 th Group Army, and commander of the 89 th Army, in Qingjiangpu.

After Liu Yimin arrived in Qingjiangpu, he knew that Han Deqin's headquarters and Jiangsu Provincial Political Axe were temporarily stationed near Cheqiao, and he originally wanted to visit him, do united front work along the way, and give Han Deqin a good cheer, so that he could unite with our army to resist the war. Later, due to time constraints and considering that the troops were only luring the enemy to the south, they did not go to see Han Deqin. As a result, Han Deqin saw that the Eighth Route Army was here, and he couldn't figure out what the Eighth Route Army wanted to do, and he knew from the radio that it was Liu Yimin, the instructor and division commander of the Eighth Route Army, who had come to Qingjiangpu, so he personally came to visit.

As for Han Deqin, Liu Yimin originally learned about it from books, and it was difficult to think about the famous friction generals. It's different now, because during the Battle of Taierzhuang, Han Deqin led the 24th Group Army to fight desperately in Gaoyou and Baoying, and contributed to the victory of the Battle of Taierzhuang.

At this time, Han Deqin was in his prime, and he was forty-six or seven years old, dressed in a military uniform, and looked very Confucian general. However, Liu Yimin knew that although the commander-in-chief of the Han Dynasty graduated from the sixth phase of the Baoding Military Academy, he did not have much goods in his stomach, and when he met Mr. Chen and General Su in history, he was defeated again and again, and finally had to flee to Anhui to become the chairman of Jiangsu Province.

After thinking about it again, I was relieved, it wasn't that Han Deqin was incompetent, he fought very well in Gaoyou and Baoying this time. The key is that when he fought with the New Fourth Army later, the opponent he encountered was too strong, who was Chen Su, that was the marshal and general of the Republic. Especially Su Yu, who is a military master who is called the same as Peng Dehuai, [***], Liu Bocheng, and Xu Xiangqian, and his military exploits are prosperous, and he is catching up with [***]. How can a little Han Deqin be his opponent!

It is no secret that Liu Yimin came to Qingjiangpu, and there was no fuss about Han Deqin's visit. However, after meeting Liu Yimin, although Han Deqin had already known Liu Yimin from other people's descriptions, he was still surprised. Because Liu Yimin is indeed too young, he is just like when Han Deqin first entered the Baoding Military Academy.

After the two met, they saluted and greeted each other, and after the politeness, Liu Yimin asked Han Deqin to sit down and drink tea.

Originally, Liu Yimin's public position was only the instructor and the teacher, and the instructor was not a regular division of the Eighth Route Army, but belonged to the local armed forces in Shaanxi. But the instructor's record is there, and Liu Yimin is a lieutenant general publicly awarded by the National Political Axe, and his military rank is as high as Han Deqin's. Therefore, when Han Deqin came, he didn't expect Liu Yimin, the division commander, to be so respectful to him, the acting commander of the group.

Things are really the same as Han Deqin thought, after a little politeness, Liu Yimin began to say: "Commander Han, now that the army and heavy army group are gathering on the front line of Xuzhou, they will immediately launch a large-scale encirclement and suppression of northern Jiangsu and central Jiangsu, please go back immediately to arrange, issue a mobilization order, organize the people to clear the wilderness, and move to concealment." It is necessary to immediately transfer the political axe organs, and remember that the intellectuals who remain in northern and central Jiangsu must be transferred first. At the same time, I would like to remind you that the strength of the army this time is even larger than that of the last Battle of Xuzhou, and in order to hold on to the losses, please immediately organize the troops to adopt the method of attacking and harassing the war, attacking the devils, and covering the transfer of political axe organs and people. ”

Liu Yimin said this, Han Deqin was a little unhappy, this doll teacher, why did he give orders as soon as he came up? Therefore, Han Deqin's tone was a little displeased: "General Liu, I'm afraid this army is to pursue your army, right?" As far as I know, your army's defense should be in Shanxi, right? Even if you come to Shandong later, you shouldn't come to northern Jiangsu to grab territory, right? Not to mention these, even if your army arrived in Jiangsu for the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the army followed behind, and with the combat effectiveness of the famous instructor of the Eighth Route Army, it should stick to northern Jiangsu and repel the attack of the devils. If General Liu leads the athletes of the Eighth Route Army to fight to the death with the Yue army in northern Jiangsu, the contemptible people are willing to mobilize the elders of northern Jiangsu to fully support your army in the war. ”

When Liu Yimin heard Han Deqin say this, he laughed in his heart and told Han Deqin bluntly that Chairman Jiang had already said that the fifth division is north and south, and everyone has the responsibility of defending the territory and resisting the war. The Eighth Route Army's anti-Japanese war in Shandong was agreed by Chairman Chiang, with the purpose of delaying the devil's westward advance and saving eastern Henan. As for going south to Jiangsu, there are many reasons, and there is no time to elaborate now, in short, where there are devils, the Eighth Route Army can go to eliminate them. The purpose of this expedition was to attack the defense line north of the Jiangbei River, mobilize the army, delay the speed of the army's attack on eastern Henan and Wuhan, and gain time for the defense of Wuhan. It is said that the army is indeed going south this time to pursue the main force of the instructor, which is also necessary for the anti-Japanese strategy, and the instructor is to drag the devil to the east and west, and strive to drag the little devil tired and thin. There is no need to say anything now, whether it is the Eighth Route Army or the 24th Group Army, they are all the middle [***] teams, and they must unite to resist. Please ask Commander Han to hurry back and deploy, you can temporarily avoid the enemy's edge, the army is about to be launched, and it will be too late if it is too late. The 24th Group Army is an elite opponent of hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops, so don't be encircled by devils, that will be troublesome.

Han Deqin woke up and realized that all the information was accurate, the little devil was going to fight in northern Jiangsu or central Jiangsu, and their target was the instructor of the Eighth Route Army in front of the doll division commander in front of him, but don't fight around, the little devil didn't take advantage of the Eighth Route Army, but gave his troops a pot of stew, that's what it called the pond fish!

Han Deqin didn't bother to talk to Liu Yimin about anything else, so he hurriedly asked in detail about the strength of the army, the attack route, and how the Eighth Route Army would deal with it, and asked Division Commander Liu to share his views on the direction of the transfer of the 24th Group Army.

is also an anti-Japanese army, Liu Yimin never wants Han Deqin's troops to be eaten by the army. Seeing that Han Deqin had finally learned a little smarter, Liu Yimin pulled him to the map, explained in detail the offensive route of the Yue army that he had judged, and asked Han Deqin to immediately gather his troops, move west with the organs and logistics units, and strive to move to the west of Jinpu Road. The little devil is bent on chasing and destroying the main force of the Eighth Route Army, and the attack speed should be very fast, it is very likely that they will not stay in northern Jiangsu and central Jiangsu this time, and after the devil's heavy army group, they can bring the troops back to northern Jiangsu and persist in the war of resistance behind enemy lines.

Liu Yimin said it so sincerely, Han Deqin also listened to it. However, he proposed that without an order, the 24th Group Army could not withdraw from Jiangsu at will. Can we rely on the counties to resist step by step, and then gradually retreat?

Liu Yimin immediately told him that this was the heavy army group of the Chinese army, with planes in the sky and tanks on the ground, and with the strength of the 24th Group Army, it was better to turn behind the enemy than to confront it head-on. It's okay if you really don't want to leave northern Jiangsu, but you have to do a good job of concealment. As long as they dodge the attack of the Yue army, they can attack the logistics and baggage troops of the Yue army, and the capture will be even greater.

The military situation was like fire, and Han Deqin stopped being wordy, and quickly said goodbye and went back to deploy.

Liu Yimin originally wanted to talk to him about the correct handling of relations with the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army, but after thinking about it, talking to him would not have any effect, and no matter what he said, he could not match Chairman Chiang's secret order. It's going to rain, and my mother is going to get married, so let him go.

After Han Deqin left, Liu Yimin went to the city to take a look, and saw that under the mobilization of the soldiers, the residents had begun to close the door and pack up their things. He was ready to leave Qingjiangpu with Li Lingfeng, Wang Tongsheng and the first battalion and start to return north.

On the evening of 11 July, the Second Brigade of Jiao, the Luxi Garrison Brigade, and the Southwest Luxi Garrison Brigade began to march in unison with regiments as units, moving south from the Yanfu area and the Huai'an area, and slaughtering in a mighty south, aiming directly at the Yangzhou and Nantong areas occupied by the army.

At this time, most of northern Jiangsu was in a vacuum zone, except for the Longhai Road and Yanfu areas. Since there is no railway here, the army only occupies a few county seats, and most of the county towns are still in the hands of the [***] team. The [***] troops and local security teams along the way had already received Han Deqin's order, knowing that the Eighth Route Army was going south to attack the Soviet-Chinese army, and the large army of the army would arrive later, and they were all busy moving, and no one paid attention to this imposing Eighth Route Army.

It was only after the Eighth Route Army marched south that the commander of the Central China Dispatch Army ordered all divisions and regiments to begin their separate pursuits.

The army was already annoyed and embarrassed by the instructor's play, and after receiving the order, the divisions and regiments acted very quickly. In particular, the left-wing attack group, consisting of the 5th Division, the 14th Division, the 1st Brigade, the 5th Brigade, and the 7th Brigade, under the command of Ando Toshiyoshi, commander of the 5th Division, made a rapid detour attack from Guanyun to the Yanfu area to Nantong in an attempt to outflank the main force of the Eighth Route Army's instructors from the left flank.

This Fifth Division, formerly known as the Flower of the Imperial Army, was one of the three motorized divisions in the Imperial Army, and was originally the most elite unit of the Imperial Army. Since the 21st Brigade, the Cavalry Wing, and the Field Artillery Wing were eliminated by the instructor, they were re-added to the Guards Reading Mixed Brigade, and their combat effectiveness has recovered well. As a result, in the battle of Zhoucun, the 21st Regiment was taught a lesson by relying on the fortifications of Zhoucun, especially before the 21st Regiment broke through the siege, it used the wind to release poison gas bombs, and gave the field artillery wing of the Fifth Division to the company's nest, plus the battle losses along the way, the troops were greatly reduced, and the combat effectiveness was greatly reduced. Fortunately, the Fifth Division is the trump card of the trump card of the army, and the base camp is given priority to replenish, and the replenishment is all local garrison troops, and there are no recruits, so the purpose is to ensure the combat effectiveness of the Fifth Division.

Since Toshikichi Ando took over the Fifth Division, he was ambitious at the beginning, bent on destroying the main force of the Eighth Route Army and washing away the shame of the Fifth Division. But fighting back and forth, not only did he not destroy the main force of the instructor, but he was beaten to the bone every time. After the battle of Zhoucun, Ando Toshiyoshi originally applied to drive the Fifth Division back to Yuben for rest and replenishment, but although he was not allowed to return to the mainland, the replenishment was in place. In addition to replenishing the troops, the base camp also transferred three brigades of reinforcements. This time, Ando Rikishi's waist pole was straight again.

According to Ando Toshikichi's idea, a part of the troops should be drawn back to help Xuzhou and Lianyungang, and the main force should be concentrated to completely eliminate the Eighth Route Army in Jiaodong first, and then avenge the revenge of Zhou Village. However, the battle plan of the base camp was just the opposite, leaving a part of the troops to encircle and suppress the Jiaodong Eighth Route Army, and the main force poured out of the nest and went south to pursue the main force of Liu Yimin's instructor. Ando Toshiyoshi couldn't understand, wasn't the unit that could inflict such heavy casualties on the Fifth Division in Zhoucun the main force of Liu Yimin's instructor? Will these idiots in the base camp fall for Liu Yimin again? Don't go forward a few more times, let the troops follow Liu Yimin's baton and wander around, and in the end they will end up disgraced and fruitless.

Ando Toshikichi was really right, and when the army arrived in Xuzhou, the Eighth Route Army evaporated again, and gave the army a riddle. Fortunately, the answer to this riddle was soon revealed, and the Eighth Route Army once again broke out of its shell and ran to the Huai'an area. As soon as he thought of this, Ando Toshikichi shook his head depressedly and smiled, a Liu Yimin tossed the army of the Great Empire like this, if there were more, what would the Great Empire do!

This time he joined forces with the 14th Division, and there were also Reading Power mixed into the 1st Brigade, Reading Power mixed into the 5th Brigade, and Reading Power mixed into the 7th Brigade to help, Ando Toshiyoshi had the heart of Wang Ba again, and actually wanted to rely on the strong mobility of the Fifth Division and the 14th Division to make a quick detour, and then gradually narrow the encirclement, completely encircle the main force of the instructor into the encirclement, and rely on powerful firepower to completely annihilate the instructor of the Eighth Route Army in one fell swoop. Therefore, the slogan he put forward was "Reward for killing Liu Yimin, shame on letting Liu Yimin go!" "This guy didn't even mention capturing Liu Yimin alive, and was bent on killing Liu Yimin.

(To be continued)