After receiving a request for help from the defenders of Dawenkou reporting that they had been attacked, Major General Mizuno Nobu, the commander of the 10th Brigade of the Reading Power Mixed Brigade, felt a sudden cry in his heart. He knew that he obeyed the order of Lieutenant General Tsugayan of Dongjuer Palace, and asked all the infantry brigades stationed in Dawenkou to search and sweep in Beiteng Village, which was regarded as selling Dawenkou.

At the thought that he might face accountability, Major General Mizuno Nobu felt that his scalp was tightening, and he wished that he had not given the order to send the defenders of Dawenkou. Now, he is sitting in the command headquarters, his eyes are full of Venus, and his mind is full of shaking images, one moment is the corpses of the imperial army all over the ground near Beiteng Village, the other is the desperate face of the railway garrison soldiers who stayed at Dawenkou, one moment is the destroyed railway, and the other is the Dawen River railway bridge that was blown down. These images kept overlapping and changing in the mind of Major General Mizunobu, making his head as big as a fight. At this time, he understood why the 13th Brigade of the 13th Brigade, which was so elite in the Kwantung Army, regarded Tai'an as if it were dead, and after the defeat of the battle, he hurriedly withdrew to Jinan.

Frustration is frustration, irritability is irritability, but the matter of Dawenkou still has to be dealt with, but how to deal with this has to be seriously considered, and if it is not done well, it will cause big trouble. According to the arrogant temper of Major General Mizuno Shin, it was to immediately lead the troops to attack Dawenkou and gather the Tubalu to annihilate at Dawenkou. But there is a capital to do business, and it is empty talk to say anything without capital. Now the reading power mixed into the tenth brigade is not just formed when the full reading force mixed into the tenth brigade, has twice lost two infantry brigades in Dawenkou, full of three infantry brigades, plus the artillery, engineers, cavalry, baggage soldiers attached to the brigade, it is a little more than 4,000 people, but also to undertake the north and south of Tai'an dozens of kilometers of railway, highway traffic line security tasks, if to attack Dawenkou, the number of troops is definitely not good, if the nest out, then who will protect this line of communication?

What would happen if we didn't attack Dawenkou and recapture it? I can't think about this question, and I shudder when I think about it. Because he knew that the main force of the army was outflanking Xuzhou, the goal was to eliminate the main force of the Chinese political axe army in Xuzhou, and the 200,000 army was fighting on the front line. At this time, there is no need to be in peacetime, if you can't let Jinpu Road be reopened to traffic, it is estimated that within three days, the military police will directly send you to a military court.

After thinking about it, there was no way, and on the one hand, Major General Mizuno Nobu ordered the troops stationed in Jieshou, Tai'an, and Beijipo to assemble and stand by, and on the other hand, sent a report to the commander of the Second Army, Lieutenant General Dongjuergong Tsukihiko Wang, reporting that he had received a request for help from the defenders of Dawenkou, and that he had now cut off contact and asked for instructions on how to deal with it.

This telegram Major General Mizuno Nobu took a lot of effort, he did not directly say about the loss of Dawenkou, nor did he say how to deal with it, but said that he had lost contact with the defenders of Dawenkou, so as not to be angry with King Tsukihiko of Dongjuer Palace, and put all the blame on him, and directly use him as a scapegoat. In this way, there is room for relaxation, at least there is a buffer time to find out the situation, that is, the king of Dongjuer Palace wants to clean him up, and he also has a chance to find someone to intercede. Another layer of meaning is to kick the ball to the king of the East Gyuer Palace, whether to go to reinforcements or not to reinforce is decided by the commander of the Second Army, Lieutenant General of the East Gyuer Palace King Tsugihiko, that guy is a royal family, the tree has big roots and deep roots, and there is a wind and rain that can withstand it.

Sure enough, as soon as Lieutenant General Higashijueriyaki received the telegram from Major General Mizuno Nobu, he was furious, and directly ordered the chief of staff, Major General Suzuki, to send a telegram to Major General Mizuno Nobu, ordering the entire 10th Brigade to be dispatched to recapture Dawenkou and ensure the smooth flow of the Jinpu line.

Major General Suzuki was sent by Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzo to deal with the attack on the Jieshou Station last time, and he still had the bloody picture of the Jieshou Station in his mind, and he always had scruples about the appearance of the mysterious and powerful Zhong[***] team near Tai'an. It's night, and General Terauchi has a ban on our army from moving at night. ”

As soon as Lieutenant General Tsukihiko of the Higashijuer Palace heard Suzuki's suggestion, he felt a sudden shock in his heart, yes, what if there was another accident? You can't just make a joke when you first come to the Second Army as the commander, and then let others look down on you!

Thinking in his heart is the same thing, his mouth is still very tough, and Lieutenant General Tsukihiko of the Higashijuer Palace directly reprimanded Major General Suzuki and said: "What is the ban of General Shouichi Terauchi?" Now the military situation is like fire, our army is fighting hard at night on the Xuzhou front, and the Jinpu Road is interrupted, thinking that our army will lose ammunition and heavy supplies, and the danger is great! The night battle itself is the strength of the Imperial Army of the Great Empire, could it be that the 10th Brigade of the Reading Force will not recapture Dawenkou because it is night? ”

After reprimanding Major General Suzuki, Lieutenant General Tsugahiko of Higashijuer Palace softened his tone and said: "Of course, it is also necessary to let the garrisons in the direction of Yanzhou and Jining cooperate in the attack on Dawenkou. However, the main force of the 114th Division stationed in Yanzhou had already moved south to attack Xuzhou, and Yanzhou was also empty. In my opinion, the 13th Brigade of Reading Mixed Brigade, which is about to be sent in the direction of Linyi, can temporarily delay the departure in the direction of Linyi, let them turn on the spot, go directly north from Zaozhuang, and attack Dawenkou. The only people who captured Dawenkou were the Tubalu guerrillas who emerged from the Yimeng Mountains, and these people were peasants with hoes a few months ago. There are two Reading Power Mixed Brigade Brigades to attack from the north and south, and they can't run on the dirt eight roads, and they will be wiped out quickly. ”

Suzuki actually wanted to remind Lieutenant General Tsukihiko of the Higashijuer Palace that it was not easy for this Dirt Eight Road to wipe out an infantry brigade of the Imperial Army in one fell swoop. You must know that an infantry brigade will not suffer a loss against a miscellaneous division of the Shangzhong [***] team, and it is inferred from this algorithm that how many soldiers and horses should there be on the Tuba Road in the Yimeng Mountains? Besides, the city wall of Dawenkou Town is strong, and the fortifications of the defenders are very complete, how can Tubalu be said to be conquered? There are many questions in this. But looking at the arrogant face of Lieutenant General Tsukihiko of Higashijur Palace, Major General Suzuki swallowed his spit in his stomach, said Hai, and went to send a telegram.

When sending the telegram, Suzuki thought about it and felt that he couldn't meet Lieutenant General Tsukihiko of Higashijure Palace, he was a royal family, and no one could do anything about him if something happened, and when the time came, maybe he would find a scapegoat in order to save face, and this scapegoat was likely to be Major General Mizuno Nobu, the commander of the 10th Brigade of the Reading Power Mixed Brigade. If Major General Mizuno Shin is also broken like Major General Tsuchiya Bingma, then I am afraid that he will only be the scapegoat.

At this time, in order to facilitate the command of the Battle of Xuzhou, Lieutenant General Naosaburo Gangbu, chief of staff of the North China Front Army, set up a headquarters in Jinan to coordinate and command the actions of the North China Front Army in the Battle of Xuzhou. Since Major General Suzuki did not want to be a scapegoat, and he did not want to be verbose with the commander Lieutenant General Higashijueriya, King Tsukihiko, after sending the telegram, he went directly to the Jinan Headquarters of the North China Front Army and urgently asked to see Lieutenant General Naosaburo Gangbe.

Lieutenant General Okabe Naosaburo listened to the report of Major General Suzuki and felt that Suzuki's consideration was reasonable, so he directly called Lieutenant General Tsukihiko of Higashijueriya, asking him to immediately order the 10th Brigade of the Yomito Mixed Brigade to stop marching to Dawenkou overnight, and let the aviation force reconnoiter clearly after dawn before deciding how to recapture Dawenkou.

Unexpectedly, Lieutenant General Tsukihiko Wang of the Higashijuer Palace did not buy the account of Lieutenant General Naosaburo of the Gangbu at all, saying that the military situation on the front line was like fire, and the Tianjin-Pudong Railway could not be interrupted all at once, otherwise who would bear the consequences? Let the Reading Power Mixed with the 10th Brigade go south, and the Reading Power Mixed with the 13th Brigade go north, and attack from the north and south, not to mention the Tu Eighth Road, even Chiang Kai-shek's most elite troops, the Tang Corps, are here, and the two Reading Power Mixed Brigades can also be defeated calmly.

In the end, Lieutenant General Higashijueriyaki Tsukihiko even said to Lieutenant General Okabe Naosaburo that this must have been reported by Major General Suzuki and Michi, and he didn't like such a chief of staff, so he decided to report to the base camp and asked for a change in the chief of staff of the Second Army, and Major General Suzuki could stay at the front headquarters to help, and there was no need to return to the headquarters of the Second Army.

Okabe Naosaburo not only commanded Lieutenant General Tsukihiko of Higashijur Palace, but also caused the chief of staff of the Second Army, led by Major General Suzuki, to be unable to do it, and he was extremely angry in his heart, and greeted all the female surnames of Lieutenant General Tsukihiko of Higashijur Palace, and directly hung up the phone to General Terauchi Shouichi in Beiping, asking His Excellency the Commander to directly intervene in the operational command of Lieutenant General Tsukihiko of Higashijueriya of the Second Army. Unexpectedly, after the phone was connected, the staff officer on duty at the headquarters reported that His Excellency the commander was enjoying a Peking Opera performance with a group of people from the Provisional Political Axe of the Republic of China. Lieutenant General Naosaburo Okabe directly ordered the staff officer on duty to immediately report to His Excellency the Commander and ask him to return to the headquarters to listen to the report.

Recently, the army has been progressing smoothly on the battlefield in Xuzhou, and the great detour strategy is about to achieve substantial results, and General Terauchi Shouichi is very proud, and Wang Kemin, who is the puppet provisional political axe of the Republic of China, reported that the China United Reserve Bank has been operating well since its opening, and its branches have opened as scheduled, and it has been initially recognized by the market.

Of course, there is another layer of deep meaning to General Terauchi's move. On March 28, the Central China Front, that is, the Central China Front, as I said, set up a puppet "Republic of China Restoration Political Axe" in Nanjing, with Liang Hongzhi of the Han Dynasty as the executive premier, under the jurisdiction of the three provincial political axes of the Soviet Union, Anhui, and Zhejiang, and the two special municipal axes of Shanghai and Nanjing. General Terauchi was very dissatisfied with this incident, believing that it was because the Central Chinese Front Army had suffered from pink eye after seeing that the North China Front had supported a provisional political axe of the Republic of China, and was fighting with the North China Front for the actual control of China's central political axe. Therefore, Terauchi Shouichi decided to attend Wang Kemin's special theatrical evening in a high-profile manner to show the attitude of the North China Front.

On the stage, the actors are singing babblingly, and off the stage is Wang Kemin, Qi Kuiyuan and other Han slaves Yan Wan's flattery, General Terauchi Shouichi feels like he has returned to the feudal era of the pre-Qing Dynasty, as if the purpose of all people's survival is to flatter themselves, as if they can change a person's fate with a sneeze, this feeling of conqueror, the feeling of being an emperor, is really good!

Shogun Terauchi, who was full of joy in his heart, while enjoying the performance on stage, reached out and explored carefully in Masako's kimono, his face full of smiles, looking like a lord of the Edo period in a kimono.

Shouichi Terauchi was about to turn his head and tell Wang Kemin to send the bewitching horn to the headquarters after the play, when he saw the adjutant hurriedly walk in.

After listening to the adjutant's whispered report, General Terauchi Shouichi reluctantly glanced at the amorous Danjiao on the stage, and gently twisted Masako's sensitive parts, teasing Masako couldn't help but moan, and General Terauchi Shouichi laughed and got up to return to the headquarters.

After returning to the headquarters, he answered the phone call of Lieutenant General Naosaburo Gangbe, and listened to the deployment of Lieutenant General Tsukihiko Wang of Higashijuergu to order the 10th Brigade to attack Dawenkou overnight. ”

After scolding, General Terauchi Shouichi went straight to the map and climbed to the map to examine it carefully.

At this time, General Terauchi Shouichi actually had a lot of doubts in his heart about whether the main force of Liu Yimin's tutor was still in southern Hebei and Luxi. Because of the successive battles of Jinpu Road, which eliminated the main force of the 13th Brigade, the battle of Dawenkou, which stole the planes of Dawenkou Airport, and the battle of Xiazhuang, which eliminated Major General Tsuchiya and Liu Heiqi and Zhang Buyun, not a single soldier of the imperial army escaped alive.

Originally, each of these three battles reminded General Terauchi Shouichi of Liu Yimin, but because the information obtained had nothing to do with Liu Yimin, Terauchi Shouichi temporarily dispelled his suspicions and kept urging Major General Kita Seiichi to figure out the movements of Liu Yimin's troops as soon as possible. As a result, Kita Seiichi reported that the Eighth Route Army in central Hebei was a unit of the 115th Division [***], and the troops in southern Hebei claimed to be Liu Yimin's instructor, but it was very doubtful because the investigators did not see the armored vehicles, tanks, and automobiles of the southern Hebei team. Lu Xi is indeed Liu Yimin's troops, and it is Liu Yimin's most elite troops, and the weapons and equipment are different from the Eighth Route Army in central and southern Hebei.

This kind of information made Terauchi Shouichi a little suspicious, because he knew that Liu Yimin's instructor had a strong army, and the Eighth Route Army was accustomed to taking advantage of the fierce battle between the imperial army and Chiang Kai-shek's political axe army to send troops to mobilize the people and grab territory.

In fact, General Terauchi Shouichi most hopes that Liu Yimin's instructor is still hiding in southern Hebei and Luxi to recuperate, in that case, when the army completes the battle of Xuzhou, he can return to the division and annihilate them all. General Shouichi in the temple even thought that as long as Liu Yimin honestly stayed in southern Hebei and Luxi, it would be to cooperate with the imperial army, even if it was to give his youngest daughter or eldest granddaughter to Liu Yimin for him to enjoy. It's a pity that this Liu Yimin is stubborn and refuses to negotiate with the imperial army. This stupid Kita Chengyi still can't tell where Liu Yimin is, how can this make the troops attack!

After thinking about it, General Terauchi Shouichi felt that no matter where Liu Yimin and his instructor were now, one thing was certain, that is, there was a danger in the Dawenkou area, and the fool of Lieutenant General Tsugaihiko of the Dongjiuer Palace dared to disobey his own ban, not only to challenge his authority, but also to bury the 10th Brigade of the Reading Force. Since Tubalu can swallow an infantry brigade in such a short period of time, it has the ability to deal with the 10th Brigade of Reading Force, which now has only three infantry brigades.

Terauchi Shouichi no longer hesitated, and ordered to connect the phone call of the Second Army Headquarters, and directly insulted Lieutenant General Tsugahiko Wang of Higashijur Palace, and after scolding, General Terauchi Shouichi ordered Lieutenant General Tsukihiko of Higashijur Palace to immediately withdraw the order to send the 10th Brigade to attack Dawenkou overnight, and wait until dawn to make a decision.

General Terauchi Shouichi didn't know that it was during this time that Major General Mizuno Nobu left two garrison squadrons and a battalion of puppet troops to defend Jinan, and he led the main force to quickly go south to attack Dawenkou. General Terauchi Shouichi didn't know that at this time, Tai'an City had fallen into the hands of the Eighth Route Army's Instructor Teaching the First Brigade and the Cavalry Brigade.

Since the 1st Jiao Brigade went south to southwest Lu, it has been in a state of concealed development in accordance with Liu Yimin's orders. The battles fought are all petty fights, and there is a squad that is packed up today, and another squad is packed up tomorrow, and the cadres and fighters all feel that using the first brigade in this way is simply a waste of elite troops.

After receiving Liu Yimin's order, the 1st Brigade quickly gathered its troops and marched north. However, the first brigade has a high degree of mechanization, and it is bound to be discovered by devils when marching during the day, and if you drive the lights when marching at night, it is okay to walk in the base area, and if you are easy to leave the base area, you may be detected by the devils and Han annihilation. The plateau had no choice but to reduce the speed of the march, hurry up and hurry, and rushed to the vicinity of Tai'an according to the time requirements.

After arriving at the destination and joining up with the Hu Laohu Cavalry Brigade, Gao Yuan sent a reconnaissance company to reconnoiter the vicinity of Tai'an and closely monitor the movements of the Tai'an defenders. Later, he connected with the underground party in the city, and the situation was even more thorough, and he waited for the attack order.

It's ridiculous that Major General Mizuno Shin didn't know that the killing god hid around him, and he dared to order the army brigade stationed in Dawenkou to go to Beiteng to search and sweep, and he also dared to carry out the order of Lieutenant General Tsugaihiko of Dongjiuer Palace, and handed over the task of Tai'an garrison to the railway garrison and the Imperial Army, and led the main force out of Tai'an to march towards Dawenkou overnight, leaving an empty Tai'an city to gluttony.

At this time, if he didn't take the opportunity to capture Tai'an, the 1st Brigade would be in vain to be called the first-class main force of the instructor, and Gao Yuan would not be worthy of commanding such a powerful force.

(To be continued)