Daming Lake in summer should be full of tourists, but recently Daming Lake is completely under martial law, the Japanese soldiers who used to show off their might and power nervously blocked anyone who tried to enter this area, and on the flat ground by the lake, several heavy guns pointed into the distance; The city was littered with barricades, and behind them were nervous-looking Japanese soldiers. /。 \\

On the streets of Jinan, the number and frequency of Japanese patrols have increased significantly, their slightly panicked and frightened eyes look around vigilantly, the vigilance at the city gate has been significantly strengthened, the material warehouses located in the outer city are moving to the inner city one after another, the city gate is crowded, the vehicles entering the city and the Chinese leaving the city will block here, and the military police forcefully push the Chinese away, letting the cars entering the city go first. Chinese who could not leave stayed at home as much as possible, excitedly and quietly passing on various gossip news.

The railway station became the busiest place in the city, and the trains from all over the country stopped at the platform, and the soldiers rushed down from the cars, and the soldiers filled the station slowly, and the officers shouted in all directions, gathered the soldiers together, and then quickly led them out of the platform, out of the city, to the west.

The Japanese garrison headquarters in Jinan continued to recruit laborers, the Japanese military police and the puppet police knocked on the door door from door to door, as soon as the door was opened, the sturdy men inside were immediately dragged out, and then sent to the outside of the city to build fortifications, the Qianfo Mountain, Maoling Mountain, Yanchi Mountain, and Queshan Mountain around Jinan were all under construction, and the Japanese soldiers patrolled around with guns, and found that some people were lazy, and they were punched and kicked at the lightest, and they were shot on the spot.

However, in this chaos, the headquarters of the Japanese Second Army in the outer city did not move, and the headquarters was also heavily guarded, and it used to be only 20 meters in front of the door as a forbidden area, but now it has expanded to one block.

There were seven or eight cars and motorcycles parked in the compound of the headquarters, patrolling sentries everywhere, and the building was so quiet that even the officers who knew each other only nodded their heads, except for the occasional ticking of telegraphs and the rapid ringing of telephones, and the roaring commander upstairs.

"Tell Nobuo Kobayashi that Xuzhou is sticking to it, do you know, stick to it, and don't retreat?"

Matsui Ishone's somewhat dry face was bruised, and in a fit of rage, he slapped the table loudly, Teragaki Tadao turned pale, and tried his best to persuade him, and the commander of the 60th Division, Kobayashi Nobuo, called several times, reporting that the Chinese army was attacking fiercely and asked to retreat, but the North China Dispatch Army Headquarters and the Nanjing Dispatch Army Headquarters both called, strictly ordering that Xuzhou must be held.

Tadao Teragaki understood the difficulties of the commander of the Kobayashi Division, the 60th Division said that there were two brigades, but in fact there were only six brigades, and the artillery was not a wing formation, but a brigade establishment, which was not the most critical, the most critical thing was that Suxian, Huaibei and other places were its defense areas, and the strength of the troops in Xuzhou City was only three brigades, plus the directly subordinate troops were only more than 6,000. Moreover, what made the generals of the 12th Army, including Matsui Ishine and Tadao Teragaki angry, was that the 60th Division had only been assigned to the combat sequence of the 12th Army in the last half month.

The demarcation of the two parts actually starts from the Huai River, but does not include Xuzhou, which belongs to the Central China Dispatch Army, and when the squadron is on the defensive, such a deployment is not a big problem, at most, the local guerrillas run from Shandong to Jiangsu, or from Jiangsu to Shandong.

But after the first team began to counterattack, the weakness of this deployment was undoubtedly exposed. Nanjing could not support Xuzhou, and in North China, Xuzhou was not their defense area, and they did not know Xuzhou's defense plan at all. Nishio Shouzo noticed this and included Xuzhou in the combat area of the Twelfth Army, but after all, it was too late, and Matsui Shigen only had time to send the communication code to Kobayashi, and the counterattack of the squadron was about to hit Xuzhou City.

After the purpose of the attack of the squadron was revealed, the telegrams of Okamura Ninji and Nishio Shouzo flew like snowflakes to Matsui Ishine, who did not care at first, thinking that this was just a trick by the squadron to lure the enemy, and the purpose was to mobilize the imperial army on the north bank of the Yellow River to Shandong.

But when it was found out that the number of the squadron appeared on the battlefield, Matsui Shigen and everyone in the headquarters were stunned, and just by calculating the number, it was possible to know that the number of troops invested by the squadron in the Shandong battlefield was as high as 600,000 people, which was already seven or eight times the total strength of the 12th Army.

Okamura Ningji's order was very clear, abandon Xuzhou, establish a defensive line on the front line of Mount Tai, delay and consume the squadron, but Matsui Shigen couldn't accept it.

This is the second time that Matsui Ishine has entered China after the Lugou Bridge Incident, and the last time, as the commander of the Central China Dispatch Army, he led his troops from Shanghai to Nanjing, but when attacking Nanjing, the southern front troops suffered a crushing defeat, and was transferred back to China after the war, and was transferred to the reserve a year later.

The Battle of Nanjing opened the door to the defeat of the Japanese army, before Nanjing, the Chinese soldiers had a sense of fear of the Japanese army, after the Battle of Nanjing, although the Chinese soldiers were still weak, but they were no longer so afraid of the Japanese army, and a small number of troops dared to take the initiative to challenge the Japanese army. The Battle of Nanjing became a great shame for Matsui Ishone, and after being transferred to the reserve, he was engaged in many activities, preferring to be demoted to the commander of the 12th Army to go to China to save his reputation.

Now the opportunity has come, and it is the same general of the Shina who humiliated him in Nanking who commanded the attack on Shandong, and he, Matsui Ishine, the samurai of the Yamato nation, will definitely and will be able to defeat the disgraceful, vicious, imbecile, and despicable Shina people

Okamura Ningji asked him to retreat to Mount Tai after holding Xuzhou Jining for a period of time, and organize the defense line of Mount Tai, but Matsui Shigen has his own plan, although Mount Tai can rely on the geographical advantage, but the army of China wants to attack, but it is not necessarily to go to Mount Tai, it can go to Linyi and Juxian; It is also possible to take the line of Linyi and Mengyin, and most of the areas of the two lines are already the base of the Chinese army and the GC army, and the Chinese army can pass through this area without difficulty.

Therefore, the battle plan drawn up by Matsui Shigen was that the 60th Division would hold Xuzhou, the 10th Independent Mixed Brigade would hold Linyi, and the 17th Division would hold Jining and not retreat, and then the 5th and 6th Mixed Brigades, the Marines from Qingdao, and the 21st Mixed Brigade from Lubei would be quickly mobilized to assemble in Jinan.

What made Matsui Ishine depressed was that the GC Army in Jiaodong and the guerrillas of the Chinese government began to become active, they were divided into dozens of roads, hundreds of roads, large-scale sabotage of roads and railways, the transportation of the fifth and sixth mixed brigades was intermittent, and the peace rescue ** that succeeded them was still on the way.

The 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army and the First Division of the New Fourth Army on Yimeng Mountain suddenly assembled, Chen Guangluo R Huan led the Eighth Route Army to break through to Jiaodong, and Chen Ysu and Y soldiers divided into two routes to launch a counterattack against the Japanese army, continuously breaking through the Japanese stronghold, approaching Qingzhou, Luzhong to Jiaodong, and the entire Shandong land was fighting everywhere.

What made Matsui even more resentful was that the 1st Division, which Okamura Ninji promised to transfer from North China to Shandong, could not be in place for a long time, and the fighting on the periphery of Xuzhou had already begun, but only the vanguard of the 3rd Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade had arrived in Jinan.

However, to Matsui Ishone's relief, the Fifth Division and the Fifth Division on the north bank of the Yellow River had been assembled in Dong'e, and the vanguard of the 110th Division and the 125th Division had also arrived in Dong'e.

"Commander, the Chinese army has surrounded Xuzhou," Teragaki Tadao looked at the markings on the map and said calmly: "Xiaolin can only hold on to Xuzhou, however, commander, the situation on the northern front is even worse, the canal defense line has nothing to rely on, and it is pointless for the 17th Division to stay in Jining, it should immediately retreat to Yanzhou to induce the Chinese army to advance eastward, so that Nakajima-kun's counterattack." ”

Matsui Shigen's face still had a layer of angry red, he spewed out a rough breath from his nostrils, staring at the marks on the map, the Chinese army surrounded Xuzhou in four ways, and the other two Chinese troops were rushing towards Zaozhuang and Linyi.

"Commander, from Yanzhou to Zaozhuang, our army is weak......"

Without waiting for Tadao Teragaki to finish speaking, the door of the war room was pushed open, and a staff officer hurriedly came in, Matsui Ishine was furious, and without waiting for the staff officer to speak, he stepped forward and slapped him twice, and the officer hurriedly stood solemnly, and Hai continued.

The officers in the war room looked at the situation in front of them indifferently, and Matsui Ishine asked after the fight, "What happened again?" ”

"Report, Zaozhuang is lost, all the jade pieces of the garrison" The officer handed over the telegram in his hand with both hands.

Matsui Shigen grabbed the telegram, the telegram was sent by the Zaozhuang garrison, Zaozhuang is an important town on the Jinpu line, the garrison has 600 people, and there are more than 2,000 peaceful rescues, two days ago, the peacekeepers were ordered to evacuate, and there were only more than 600 Japanese soldiers left in the city.

After the squadron occupied Jiawangtaierzhuang, the Japanese army in Zaozhuang focused its defense on the south, but it did not expect the squadron to smuggle across Weishan Lake, and the first wave of landing was a division, capturing Xuecheng in one fell swoop, and then non-stop along the railway line to Zaozhuang, and at this time, the 55th Army of the Zhina killed along the Jinpu line also killed, the two troops joined forces to attack, and the 600 Japanese troops in Zaozhuang were unable to resist at all, and all the jade was shattered in only one day.

Zaozhuang was lost, the weak lower abdomen of the Japanese army was pierced, there was no Japanese heavy army from Zaozhuang to Yanzhou, Yanzhou only had a large number of troops, and it was impossible to stop the attack of the squadron, and once Yanzhou was lost, the retreat of the 17th Division was completely blocked, and the squadron could also take advantage of the situation to rush to Qufu Tai'an.

"Eight grids" Matsui Ishine cursed through gritted teeth, he turned and walked to the map: "Where is the 53rd brigade?" Why haven't you arrived in Yanzhou yet? ”

Two days ago, without waiting for the troops to be assembled, Matsui Shigen transferred the 53rd Brigade from the 59th Division to Yanzhou. But two days have passed, and the 53rd Brigade has just arrived in Tai'an, and it has not even finished half of the road.

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