At this time, the commander of the Central China Dispatch Army had changed generals, and General Matsui Ishone, the commander of the Central China Dispatch Army, who commanded the capture of Nanjing, was angry because he had captured an empty city. However, at this time, Liu Yimin had already led his troops to win the victory of recovering Taiyuan, and Ni Hua did his best to expose the atrocities of the Yue army in the United States. A large number of reporters who sympathized with the Chinese people led by Aban were encouraged by the achievements of the Eighth Route Army, and they continued to report and expose the beastly behavior of the Yue army, so that the base camp of the Yue army had to recall Matsui Ishine on March 5 and replace it with General Shunroku Hata as commander of the Central China Front.

At the end of World War II, the only one of the three marshals of the army was on trial, because Marshal Sugi committed suicide in fear of crime, and Marshal Terauchi Shoichi, commander of the Southern Army, died of illness in Singapore prison.

The two big devils of Terauchi Shouichi and Hata Junroku all went to China, one commanded the North China Front, the other commanded the Central China Front, and as soon as the two like-minded guys met, the Battle of Xuzhou and Wuhan were inevitable.

After the great victory in Taierzhuang, the people of Yuben, who had already been made a little nervous by the main force of the Fifth Division and the Chahar Corps and the loss of Taiyuan and Tianjin, were in an uproar as in history: the fanatics of the main battle were clamoring for revenge all day long, and kept publishing articles and speeches in newspapers and radio, calling on the people to support the holy war, urging the emperor to expand the army and troops, threatening to expand the army by 50 divisions and regiments, expanding the army by one million, and completely flattening China, and threatening to change generals, and that the incompetent and unlucky should quit the active service of the army. so as not to smear the face of the Imperial Army. Those who do not support the expansion of the scale of aggression do not dare to say much at this time, for fear of arousing public anger. Those who did not have a clear opinion flocked to the taverns and keenhouses in Tokyo to drown their sorrows with alcohol. The most typical example comes from the "Women's Club" sponsored by the National Defense Women's Association, which has a report in this magazine, about a retired officer of the Japanese army who participated in the Russian War, who was so angry that he ran to a notebook and found the oldest and ugliest female in the academy, stripped naked, climbed up, and shouted "I'm the unlucky guy Terauchi Shouichi, I'm the unlucky guy Terauchi Shouichi!" I'm incompetent, I'm weak, I only deserve to sleep with the old memories that others look down on! In the end, the magazine distributed an editor's note, saying that the enthusiastic and charming Yamato beautiful girl had been mobilized, not only actively engaged in military training, production movements, and economy movements, but also ready to go to the front line to comfort the Yamato warriors. It's a pity that General Terauchi Shouichi lived up to the expectations of Yamato beauties, and he only deserved to go to the low-level Jiyi Academy in Tokyo to find the oldest and ugliest girl to seek satisfaction.

As soon as this article was published, it became a hot topic. When General Terauchi saw this, he was furious, saying that the magazine "Women's Club" had insulted the dignity of the Yamato warriors, and asked the military department to urge the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department to immediately seal it down. Who knew that at this time, the Tokyo police, due to the successive defeats of General Terauchi Shouichi, had already lost respect for him, and not only called back that the article in the "Women's Club" reflected the sentiment of the people, but also provoked General Terauchi Shouichi, saying that His Excellency the General was not ready to make another farce to make trouble with the Osaka Police Department and safeguard the dignity of the Imperial Army?

Of course, the end result was that the chief of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department was beaten up and could not take care of himself, and his family was threatened to let his family go to Tokyo Bay to feed the fish if he dared to talk nonsense. The magazine "Women's Club" also had to urgently print an additional issue, and on the cover published a photo of a 16-year-old girl presenting flowers to Admiral Terauchi Shouichi, with the caption "Look, how bright the Imperial Pillar Terauchi Shouichi is smiling in front of the girl and the flowers!" ”

This incident deeply stimulated Shouichi Terauchi, who directed his troops to attack according to the plan drawn up by the base camp and Lieutenant General Naosaburo Okabe to encircle Xuzhou, while reviewing the reasons for the series of defeats. After reviewing and reviewing, he found two reasons, one was that Liu Yimin's tutor was the culprit who caused him to bear the title of "unlucky egg", and the other was that the senior generals did their own thing and did not strictly implement the order. Not to mention the first reason, Shouyi in the temple has already made a plan, when the battle of Xuzhou is over, if he can go straight to Wuhan, let Liu Yimin and his instructor live a few more days, and then clean up Liu Yimin after the capture of Wuhan. If the Battle of Xuzhou is over and you can't go straight to Wuhan, then immediately mobilize the elite to completely eliminate Liu Yimin's troops. The second reason, Terauchi Shou scolded as soon as he thought about it, if it weren't for the incompetent Itagaki who was bold and arrogant and didn't listen to orders, where would there be a matter of the elite 21st Brigade Regiment. If the 21st Brigade was not broken, the firepower of Liu Yimin's troops would not be strengthened, and he would not dare to attack Taiyuan, resulting in the three reading forces of the Chahar Dispatch Army being mixed into a brigade and collective jade shattering. If Taiyuan was not lost, he would not dare to attack Tianjin with Liu Yimin's hundred guts. If it weren't for the loss of Tianjin, Liu Yimin's troops would not have swept away the munitions and weapons and equipment stored by the North China Front Army, and turned the rich Tianjin into a burden of poverty, and he did not dare to argue with the 50,000 troops in Jizhong with the imperial army, and even easily wiped out the 21st Division and the 4th Brigade of Reading Force, and then inflicted heavy losses on the 23rd and 24th Divisions.

Terauchi Shouichi was like Mr. Lu Xun's sister-in-law Xianglin, nagging back and forth, staring at the commander of the Second Army, Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzo, thinking that Nishio Shouzo was a bull temper and could not faithfully carry out his orders. The Front Army ordered the Second Army to go south to attack Xuzhou, and Nishio Shouzo took it upon himself to divide his troops and sweep the entire territory of Shandong, resulting in the 21st Division and the 4th Brigade of Reading Li miscomprehending the combat intentions, and the lone army rushed forward, and the collective jade was shattered. There is also this battle of Taierzhuang, which buried the Seya detachment alive, and to put it mildly, it was all Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzo who was stubborn and lived up to the trust of His Majesty the Emperor.

General Terauchi Shouichi had already thought about Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzo, but Lieutenant General Naosaburo Gangbe, chief of staff of the North China Front Army, who went to Jinan to study and deploy the Battle of Xuzhou, also sent back a secret report, saying that Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzao had smiled at a pair of sister flowers provided by Ma Liang, the governor of Shandong Province, and it was a wonderful anomaly. Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzo is now singing every night, killing two birds with one stone every night, and he is as happy as a fairy.

This secret report completely shattered the residual sympathy in Terauchi Shouichi's heart for Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzo, who was also the backbone of the unification faction, and no longer mentioned anything to support each other, and advanced and retreated together, and in front of him for a while was the stump fragments of the imperial soldiers flying in the sky, and for a while it was the filthy image of Nishio Shouzo galloping across a pair of sister flowers, and he couldn't help but send a secret telegram to the emperor and Prince Zaihito of the Idle Palace. Of course, after all, they are all generals of the unification faction and the vanguard of the invasion of China, Terauchi Shouichi did not impeach Nishio Shouzo, nor did he ask him to be held responsible, but after explaining Nishio Shouzo's performance and responsibilities clearly, he asked the base camp to transfer him back to China and take up the post of army education director left by Shunroku Hatata.

Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzo is not stupid, after knowing the news that Terauchi Shouichi recommended him to be the director of education of the Army, he initially thought that General Terauchi Shouichi cared about him, but after a little pondering, he knew that General Terauchi Shouichi was driving him out. However, this is exactly what he wants, Liu Yimin is hiding in Luxi and southern Hebei, and Shouyi in the temple is only besieged on all sides, who knows when that guy will get out of the siege and give the imperial army a ruthless one?

As soon as Nishio Shouzo thought of Liu Yimin, he felt that it was better to leave quickly. However, after all, he was a veteran general, and before leaving, he still made up his mind to replenish the strength of the 6th Brigade of the Reading Power Mix, and once again ordered the 108th Division to be stationed in place, or to retreat to the railway line, but it was absolutely not allowed to penetrate into the hinterland of Luxi with the strength of a division, where there was a tiger that could swallow a division in one bite.

After receiving the reinforcement of the troops of the two brigades sent by Lieutenant General Nishio Toshizo, Major General Tsuchiya Hyoma, the commander of the 6th Brigade of the Reading Force, was so happy that he shouted yo Nishi. After shouting, this guy became restless, because he knew that at this time there were no [***] regular troops in the southeast of Shandong, but those guerrillas of all kinds were surging, and there were as many as cows. Major General Tsuchiya felt that as the commander of the garrison in the southeastern region of Shandong, he had an obligation to eliminate these guerrillas and ensure the rule of the imperial army over the southeastern region. As a result, Major General Tsuchiya Soldiers and Horses formulated an operational plan for Mo Zhengmin's troops stationed in the vicinity of Xiazhuang Town, Juxian County, and mobilized troops to begin implementation.

Due to the arrival of Liu Yimin, Nishio Shouzao launched a great purge in Shandong. It is said that Zhang Zongyuan relied on the 1,000 puppet troops he recruited in Andong in the northeast, and took the opportunity to massively absorb the rest of Zhang Zongchang and a small group of bandits in Shandong, and established the puppet Shandong Autonomous Alliance Army, which was organized into two divisions. Seeing that these two divisions were rabble and had low combat effectiveness, Zhang Zongyuan specially transferred Zhao Baoyuan's division of the puppet Manchurian [***] from the northeast. In this way, Zhang Zongyuan's puppet Shandong Autonomous Alliance Army has become the largest puppet army in Shandong now.

During the Republic of China, Shandong was the region with the most bandits in the country, and these bandits basically had a certain combat effectiveness. In addition to bandits, there are also a lot of guild gates in Shandong, and it is said that there are 150 guild gates of various famous halls. Historically, during the Anti-Japanese War, [***] adopted an attitude of using the bandit armed forces and the Huidaomen armed forces in Shandong, first using them to resist, and later using their [***]. He also used bandits and Huidaomen to arm himself, and the Red Gun Society in Xiangyi County received a lot of support from the Yue army, and organized the congregation to practice martial arts day and night. Zhang Wuhai, the first of the Laiwu Central Dao, claimed to be the reincarnation of the copper-headed iron Arhat, gathered more than 10,000 disciples to surrender to the army, and was organized into the Ninth Brigade, which is a typical example. In the early stage of its history, our army in Shandong also actively mobilized armed bandits and armed men to resist the war, and also achieved certain results. However, these armed forces are often capricious, and one moment the head of the world is reorganized, and the next moment they surrender and are hypocritical. Therefore, in the later period, our army adopted the method of resolutely cracking down on bandits and Huidaomen forces.

The 16 th Division carried out a large-scale sweep in the mountainous areas of central and southern Shandong, and before the Sixth Brigade was mixed into Ju County, it cooperated with the marines in Qingdao to pursue Shen Honglie's troops and carried out a sweep of the counties along the southeast coast of Shandong. Zhang Buyun's troops, which were entrenched in Zhucheng County and Gaomi County, surrendered to the devil in advance and joined Zhang Zongyuan's puppet Shandong Autonomous Coalition Army battle sequence.

Major General Tsuchiya is now short of troops, the two brigades sent by Nishio Shouzo have not yet arrived, and his 3,000 men and horses are scattered in several prefectures. So, Major General Tsuchiya Bingma set his sights on the puppet army. He ordered Zhang Buyun of Zhucheng to lead his troops south, and Liu Guitang of Linyi to lead his troops north, and cooperate with his Juxian defenders to flank Mo Zhengmin's troops.

At that time, the transportation was inconvenient, the march was on foot, Major General Tsuchiya soldiers and horses waited for two days, and the two puppet armies moved to the designated place, and even the two brigades supplemented by Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzo also arrived by car from Zaozhuang. As soon as Major General Tsuchiya counted the troops, there were more than 2,000 people in the army under his control, more than 5,000 people came from Zhang Buyun's department, and 2,000 people from Liu Guitang's department.

This Mo Zhengmin was originally the commander of the spy company of Zhang Buyun's department, after Zhang Buyun surrendered to the army, he did not want to be a Han annihilation, left the team and returned to his hometown of Wulian Mountain in Zhucheng County, and pulled up a team of 30 people. At this time, Wang Naizheng, a member of the [***] and son of Wang Jinmei, a famous martyr in the early days of our party, returned to his hometown of Beixing Village, Zhucheng County, and established a branch. After asking the provisional county party committee of Zhucheng County, it was determined to cooperate with Mo Zhengmin to pull a team, and Wang Naizheng and Wang Dongnian were responsible for forming the political organs of Mo Zhengmin's department.

By the end of 37 years, it had grown to more than 1,000 people, and after the development of Ju County, it had grown to 5,000 people in just two months. However, the weapons of the troops were all collected from the civilian population, and the soldiers lacked training, so their combat effectiveness could not be improved.

Early in the morning of April 28, Mo Zhengmin, who was having breakfast in the headquarters, faintly heard the sound of gunfire and felt that something was wrong. Just as he was about to go out, Wang Dongnian, deputy director of the training department, came and said that the puppet army had launched an attack.

This Mo Zhengmin is a legendary figure, after pulling up the team in history, he once wanted to join [***], and later obtained the consent of Wang Dongnian, a member of the [***] party of the army, and others, and led the troops to join Gao Shuxun's new Sixth Division, serving as the commander of the second brigade of reading power. Later, when the [***]** rose, he drove away the [***] members in the army, and he was captured by the army and surrendered to the devils, and later when our army launched the Juxian Campaign, Mo Zhengmin led his troops to participate in the Eighth Route Army anyway.

As soon as he heard Wang Dongnian say that the puppet army had begun to attack, Mo Zhengmin was in a hurry, and hurriedly sent cavalry heralds to the major teams to convey orders, asking the major teams to hold on to the spot, organize counterattacks, and repel the enemy's attack.

(To be continued)