Liu Yimin was not worried at all about whether the Taixi Group would be defeated by the little devils, he knew it in his heart. Although the Taixi Group is two garrison brigades, it is equipped with excellent cadre strength. Not to mention Huang Su, he participated in the provincial and Hong Kong strikes and the Guangzhou Uprising, served as a member of the executive committee of the Chinese Soviet political axe, the political commissar of the Red 12th Army, the Red 34th Division, the Red Eighth Army Corps, and the 1st Division of the Red 1st Army. Chen Shiqu, Tang Liang, and Wang Jian'an, not to mention, are all famous founding generals in history, and everyone has a legendary story. When it comes to the Chen Tang Corps and Wang Jian'an, who doesn't know and which one doesn't know? is the regiment commanders and political commissars under them, except for the famous martyrs in history, most of them are founding lieutenant generals. There is such a cadre team, as long as they are authorized to fight in a mobile manner, no matter how ghostly the little devil is, he has to drink the footwashing water of these famous generals of our army.

After sending the telegram, Liu Yimin told Zeng Zhongsheng and Cai Zhong to hurry up the deployment, urge the brigades to make preparations before the attack, and pull Luo Ronghuan out of the Hudi Catholic Church to go to the artillery brigade and the first brigade to do pre-war inspections.

This is not Liu Yimin's partiality, but the war is about to begin, and he is not relieved, and he wants to personally check the preparations of these two troops that have decisive significance for the battle.

Luo Ronghuan was relieved that he could not take the Lunan War and the Taixi War, and criticized Liu Yimin for not leaving the command post at this time.

Liu Yimin patted Luo Ronghuan on the shoulder and said, "Okay, my political commissar and brother, don't worry, the old devil Shouyi in the temple is cunning." He launched an offensive in Lunan just to contain our army, of course, he also dreamed of breaking through our army's defense line in one fell swoop and going to the southeast of Lunan and the central base of Yimeng to end our old nest, but that was just his wishful thinking, and it was impossible to do it at all. Think about it, Hong Chaoyuan, Wang Nanhu, and Zhang Haitao are the masters who are easy to talk to? With it, one of the 114th Divisions and 20,000 or 30,000 puppet troops want to defeat my Fifth Brigade, the Ludongnan Detachment, and the Tai'an Detachment? Too naïve, right? Hong Chaoyuan only sent a report asking for adjustment of the deployment, that is, he wanted to concentrate his forces to knock the devils and the puppet army fiercely, and change the strategic situation in Lunan. I judge that as long as we occupy Jinan, the little devils in Lunan will immediately retract to their starting positions, and I am afraid they will run faster than rabbits! As for Taixi, don't worry, Huang Su's qualifications are older than yours, Chen Shiqu, Tang Liang, and Wang Jian'an are all backbone generals of our army. What happened to the garrison brigade? I have never regarded them as local troops, there are no weak soldiers under strong generals, there are tiger generals such as Chen Shiqu, Tang Liang, Wang Jian'an, and Xu Shiyou, and after a few battles, the garrison brigade will also become an elite division. ”

Luo Ronghuan knows Huang Su, Chen Shiqu, and Tang Liang better than Liu Yimin, although he doesn't know much about Xu Shiyou and Wang Jian'an, but he also knows that they are the great generals of the Four Front Army, and they are not much worse than Chen and Tang. Listening to what Liu Yimin said, after carefully pondering whether this is indeed the truth, he didn't say more, and followed Liu Yimin to the artillery brigade and the first brigade.

Since the elimination of the 21st Brigade of the Fifth Division of the Chinese Army in Qi County, Li Chang, commander of the artillery brigade, has become more and more addicted to commanding a large-scale artillery group to eliminate devils, and now his biggest regret is that the caliber of his cannon is too small, and he urgently needs to build some large-caliber heavy artillery.

Seeing the division commander and political commissar arriving together, Li Chang and political commissar Wang Shanzhu greeted them together.

Li Chang, this guy, is neither big nor small, he just saluted in a pretentious manner, and as soon as he put his hand down, he was not honest.

Holding Liu Yimin's hand, Li Chang said strangely: "Commander, why can't I see it?" This hand is fleshy, with fine skin and tender meat, and there is not even a callus, it is obviously a pair of hands that play the piano and touch a woman! If you want to say that these hands make a little move, those fairy-like girls will be fascinated, I believe. said that these hands used brushes, pencils, and pens to nail the old devil of Xia Yuan Xiong Mi to the wall, and we Lao Li didn't believe anything. Commander, it's not like they're being foolish! ”

Luo Ronghuan and Wang Shanzhu laughed when they heard Li Chang's words.

Liu Yimin is already an old face now, and he is not annoyed at all after listening to Li Chang's words. Besides, Liu Yimin is young, leading such an army, every day before and after the people are extremely majestic on the surface, and in his heart he is also very eager to live a little free, a little free, just like before the crossing, and a few dead friends go to chat on the weekend to watch beautiful women. That's what young people live by.

Li Chang's joke is actually very much to Liu Yimin's taste.

Liu Yimin looked at Li Chang with a smile, and with a little cotton strength in his hands, Li Chang's hands were shaken off.

Li Chang is an absolute human spirit, seeing Liu Yimin's smile, he knew in his heart that Liu Yimin must be under a lot of pressure, his words were eighty percent to his taste, and no matter how his hands were shaken off, he took a step forward, put his mouth to Liu Yimin's ear, and whispered: "Is it still seven or eight times a night?" But you have to be careful, no matter how beautiful Tang Xingying is, you have to take it easy, don't flash your waist. ”

After speaking, Li Chang didn't wait for Liu Yimin's reaction, and quickly retreated and hid behind Luo Ronghuan.

Luo Ronghuan didn't know what Li Chang said to Liu Yimin's ears, but he knew that it was definitely not a good word, and he must be holding Liu Yimin's little two to be happy, and looked at Liu Yimin with a smile and didn't speak.

Liu Yimin looked at Li Chang who was hiding behind Luo Ronghuan, and the smile on his face became more and more intense: "Brigadier Li, don't hide behind the political commissar, come here, I'll tell you a message, do you listen?" ”

Li Chang said loudly: "Good words don't avoid people, avoid people without good words, I won't go over, you can tell me if you have any news!" ”

Liu Yimin said slowly: "The plane we escorted to Odaka Kamizo has arrived safely in Shaanxi, and we will be able to return to Shandong tomorrow or the day after tomorrow." This time, there were six people on the plane. What the leaders mean is that they want to transport some rockets from the original Mianxian Arsenal to replenish our army. What I mean is that I want to bring back the families of several brigade-level cadres. Brigadier Li, do you mean to transport rockets or people? ”

Li Chang jumped out from behind Luo Ronghuan at once, opened his mouth and said: "Fools know that people are more important than rockets." We now have anti-aircraft guns, which have a much longer range than rockets when placed flat, unlike bazookas, which can only shoot at close range, and are easy to sacrifice soldiers. Of course, the family members were brought in! Such a smart division commander can't even figure out such a simple question, stupid to death! ”

Liu Yimin pretended to sigh and said embarrassedly: "It's difficult! As soon as the family members of so many cadres heard that they could come to Shandong for a reunion with their husbands and wives, they all went to the chiefs to ask for it. But the plane is too small to fit so many people! Who is this going to let and who is not going to come? ”

Li Chang suddenly sobered up, and the division commander began to retaliate again. It's still the same, and there's nothing new!

Li Chang ignored Liu Yimin, didn't answer the conversation, turned to Luo Ronghuan and said: "The political commissar is the fairest, the contribution of the artillery brigade is there, I don't care who comes or not, anyway, my willow leaves must come." If the division commander dares not to let my willow leaves come, I will pull a few comrades-in-arms to listen to the division commander every day in the future, so that the two of them will not be able to sleep! ”

Luo Ronghuan laughed so much that tears came out, the lenses were blurry, and he couldn't see anything clearly, so he quickly took off his glasses and took out his glasses cloth to wipe them.

Li Chang hurriedly took Luo Ronghuan's glasses, and said while wiping: "Political commissar, you won't have to do the matter of wiping your glasses, my hands are idle and idle, just to help you wipe your glasses." Catch up with Ming'er, my willow leaves are here, and I asked her to make dumplings for you and your sister-in-law to eat. You don't know, my willow leaves are skillful, the dumplings are thin and beautiful, and you can eat two big bowls in one meal. ”

Liu Yimin watched from the side and smiled, Li Chang, this guy is a living treasure, he wants to go crazy with his daughter-in-law!

After Luo Ronghuan put on his glasses, he stopped smiling, his face turned pale, and he said: "Stop joking, hurry up and take a look at the pre-war preparations of the artillery brigade, we still have to go to the first brigade." ”

Li Chang stopped playing treasure at this time, but he still said to Liu Yimin, "Don't be full of men, don't know that hungry men are hungry", and then began to report to Liu Yimin and Luo Ronghuan on the firepower configuration of the artillery group.

According to Li Chang's deployment, he concentrated all the artillery fire and bombarded the position of the devil defenders on the front line of Wangshe Renzhuang at a frontage of 10 kilometers to cover the breakthrough of the main force. Then divide into five artillery groups and cover the troops to attack the city.

The artillery regiment of the 4th Brigade commanded the 1st Medium Mortar Battalion, the 1st Flying Thunder Artillery Regiment, and the 1st Air Defense Regiment and 1st Battalion to cover the 4th Brigade to capture the hills east of Jinan.

The artillery regiment of the cavalry brigade commanded an antiaircraft artillery battalion of the air defense brigade and the second battalion of the flying thunder artillery regiment to cover the cavalry brigade's capture of the airfield.

The 1st and 2nd Field Artillery Regiments and the Mountain Artillery Regiment command the 2nd and 3rd Battalions of the Medium Mortar Regiment, the 3rd Battalion of the Flying Thunder Artillery Regiment, the 3rd Air Defense Regiment, the 1st Brigade Artillery Regiment, the 3rd Brigade Artillery Regiment, the 6th Brigade Artillery Regiment, and the 7th Brigade of the Seventh Brigade to form three artillery groups to carry out artillery bombardment from the east, south, and southeast of Jinan City to provide fire support for the siege troops.

Then, according to the map drawn up by the Jinan Working Committee and Wang Laohu, Li Chang showed Liu Yimin the positions of each artillery group one by one, and clearly reported the mixed use of different artillery pieces one by one.

After Liu Yimin heard this, he felt that Li Chang's deployment was very thorough, and with such an artillery configuration, the gap in Jinan's city defense would be opened at the first time. After explaining that Li Chang was fully mobilized and quickly set up and transferred the artillery group positions, Liu Yimin and Luo Ronghuan went to teach the 1st Brigade.

When he arrived at the First Brigade, Liu Yimin listened to the reports of the brigade commander Gao Yuan, political commissar Cheng Cuilin, and chief of staff Zhou Yi.

Gao Yuan reported that all the units of the 1st Brigade had arrived at their designated positions and had completed their concealed rest, and were already waiting for the order to attack the city.

Cheng Cuilin reported on the combat mobilization of the 1st Jiao Brigade, and at the end, told Liu Yimin and Luo Ronghuan that the division commander should rest assured that the powerful 1st Jiao Brigade would absolutely guarantee to attack Jinan City first.

Liu Yimin praised Zhou Yi for his willingness to use his brains and make great contributions. However, he reminded him that after the capture of Jinan, how to defend Jinan is a big problem, and he was asked to communicate more with the air defense command and help the air defense command improve the air defense operation contingency plan in the base area. You must know that smoke cannot last long, and it always relies on smoke to conceal it, and if it lasts for a long time, it will not only affect the production, life, and health of the military and civilians in the base areas, but also waste firewood and grass. You'll have to figure it out.

Liu Yimin originally wanted to teach the first, second, and third regiments to see the mobilization of the troops, but Cai Zhong called, and told Liu Yimin in a choked voice that Comrade Huang Su had died honorably in the transfer of the commanding troops, and asked the division commander and political commissar to return to the headquarters as soon as possible.

Liu Yimin was stunned all of a sudden, and he didn't even know that the telephone in his hand had fallen to the ground.

When Luo Ronghuan saw Liu Yimin's demeanor, he immediately realized that something was wrong, and hurriedly picked up the microphone and asked Cai Zhong to report again about what happened.

As soon as he heard Luo Ronghuan's voice, Cai Zhong choked up on the phone and reported again, Comrade Huang Su, deputy director of the Political Department of the instructor, deputy director of the Political Department of the Shandong Military Region, political commissar of the Taixi Garrison Brigade, and political commissar of the Taixi Group, was bombed by a plane and died heroically in the process of directing the transfer of troops. Please ask the division commander and political commissar to return to the headquarters as soon as possible.

Luo Ronghuan put down the phone, picked up Liu Yimin and left.

Liu Yimin still underestimated the determination of the little devil to pursue the Taixi group.

After Chen Shiqu ordered concentrated artillery fire to carry out artillery bombardment on the position of the 13th Brigade Regiment on the front line of Anjiazhuang, the old devil Morita Masatan was at first confused, thinking that the Eighth Route Army was going to launch a general attack from the north, so he hurriedly ordered the field artillery brigade to turn the gun port to suppress the artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army, and ordered the four infantry brigades that were preparing to attack to the south to leave two brigades to counterattack the attack of the Eighth Route Army south of Anjiazhuang, and the remaining two brigades quickly reinforced the positions in the north to strictly prevent the impact of the Eighth Route Army.

Tossed and turned, and after doing it for a long time, he didn't see the Eighth Route Army attacking, and Morita Masahomi felt fooled. As soon as I contacted Lieutenant General Maeda Osamu of the 35th Division, I learned that the Eighth Route Army had started a blocking battle on the front line of the Dawen River, and after a short blockade, the blocking troops of the Eighth Route Army retreated.

Morita Masatsu immediately realized that the Eighth Route Army had discovered the intention of the 35th Division to sneak attack and began to retreat.

Morita Masatom immediately sent a report everywhere, asking Lieutenant General Tani Shofu, commander of the 12th Army, to immediately urge the aviation to take off and intercept the retreating Eighth Route Army, and to request the 35th Division to speed up its march, catch up with the Eighth Route Army, and cooperate with himself to completely defeat the Eighth Route Army.

At this time, Gu Shoufu had already discovered that the Eighth Route Army was about to launch an attack on Jinan, and knew that the situation in Jinan was critical.

This is also normal. Gu Shoufu ordered Guan Guizhi, commander of the 34th Division, to send a small force to investigate, and Guan Guizhi naturally resolutely carried it out. This Jinan is the base camp of the army in Shandong, and there are a lot of Han Jian's spies, these dogs, if there is a trace of national righteousness in their hearts, they will not be willing to degenerate to be Han Jian. At this time, these Han annihilators still actively cooperated with the army to conduct reconnaissance. Although the instructor has a strong ability to disguise and conceal and a strong anti-reconnaissance ability, most of the reconnaissance detachments of the little devils and Han Jian's are gone with meat buns and dogs, but there are always fish that slip through the net. The main force of the instructor is so huge, and under the all-round reconnaissance of the army, it is impossible to be completely undiscovered.

There is another major factor in this, that is, the instructor made smoke on a large scale for the sake of air defense, and the pilots of the reconnaissance planes of the Chinese army were basically able to deduce from the smoke area where the Eighth Route Army had gone. This is the two-sided surname of things, there must be advantages and disadvantages.

Although Gu Shoufu is the mortal enemy of the Chinese people and is extremely murderous, he is indeed one of the most famous generals in the army. After reviewing the investigation in all aspects, he had already determined that after eliminating the 108th Division and the 33rd Division, Liu Yimin had already waved his main force and pounced on Jinan. Of course, whether it is the small reconnaissance team of the devil Han Jian, or the aerial reconnaissance of the reconnaissance plane, it is not clear how large the Eighth Route Army's troops reached near Licheng in the east of Jinan, whether the vanguard has arrived, or all the main forces have arrived, and it is still less clear when the Eighth Route Army will launch an attack on Jinan.

After all, Gu Shoufu had just served as the commander of the Twelfth Army, and the situation was not very familiar, although he judged that the main force of the Eighth Route Army was going to attack Jinan, but there was still a trace of luck in his heart, thinking that the main force of the Eighth Route Army had just finished a big war, and according to common sense, he had to rest for a day or two to reorganize and recuperate the troops before he could fight again. Besides, the 400-mile journey from Weicheng to Jinan would take two to three days for the Eighth Route Army to march desperately and forcefully. They were going to launch an attack on Jinan, and it would be four days later.

In Gu Shoufu's mind, in four days, Jinan's city defense can be further strengthened, the 34th Division and the Jinan garrison can be further run-in, and the combat effectiveness can be enhanced, and the 14th Division and the 1st and 2nd Divisions of the Kwantung Army mobilized by General Terauchi Shouichi can all arrive near Jinan. At that time, with the strong city defense and the elite divisions reinforced from the north and south, it was enough to gather and annihilate the Eighth Route Army under the city of Jinan.

Based on this idea, Gu Shoufu made a detailed report to Terauchi Shouichi and the base camp on the situation he had detected and his own deployment, and asked the reinforcements to move quickly, rush to Jinan as soon as possible, and eliminate Liu Yiming's cooking force in a battle.

After receiving the report of Major General Morita Masahomi of the 13th Brigade of the Reading Power Mixed Brigade, Gu Shoufu immediately realized that the fighter plane that defeated the Eighth Route Army all the way appeared, and he had to seize the opportunity, but unfortunately his Jinan City could not be without defenders, otherwise Gu Shoufu would have to personally lead the 34th Division to the south to flank the Taixi troops of the Eighth Route Army.

Gu Shoufu immediately sent a 100,000-strong telegram to Lieutenant General Kinoshita Toshita, commander of the North China Front Air Group, asking him to immediately dispatch a large-scale group of aircraft to the central and southern parts of Feicheng to intercept the retreating troops of the Eighth Route Army, to defeat them, and to assist the 35th Division and the 13th Brigade of the Reading Force to completely destroy the enemy in front of him.

Now it was lively, after Gu Shoufu reported his deployment to the headquarters and base camp of the North China Front, these extremely depressed old devils who had been taught by the Eighth Route Army were all crazy, and their eyes were all staring at the small fat city and the small Anjiazhuang in the Taixi area.

The chief of the general staff of the army, Prince Zaihito Miyaji, and Lu Xiangshan Sugimoto, changed their image of being dejected by the capture of the 10th and 8th Divisions and the 33rd Division, and they were full of spirit, as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and sent a report to Kinoshita Toshi, Morita Masaho, and Maeda Osamu, ordering them to cooperate closely, resolutely attack, and be sure to destroy the Taixi troops of the Eighth Route Army, and avenge the warriors of the Imperial Army.

In a telegram to Morita Masaho, Prince Zaihito of the Imperial Palace said very explicitly, promising that as long as the Taixi troops of the Eighth Route Army were eliminated, the base camp would be exceptionally promoted to Morita Masaho to lieutenant general of the Great Shoben Army, and the 13th Brigade would be immediately expanded into a division. For Osamu Maeda, Prince Zaihito promised to transfer him back to the base camp to take charge of the procurement, development, and deployment of all artillery and artillery units of the army. With regard to Kinoshita Toshi, Prince Zaihito of the Imperial Palace promised not to hold the North China Front Army Aviation Group accountable for its unfavorable operations and excessive losses.

Regardless of the outcome of the battle, Prince Zairen of Xianyuan Palace immediately instructed his staff officers to draft a press release on Shandong's great victory and prepare it for publication in the major news agencies and newspapers of the Ming Dynasty. The press release also swore that the army had seized the tail of Instructor Liu Yimin and would annihilate him within a few days.

The attention of the highest level of the army made Kinoshita Toshi, Morita Masaho, Maeda Osamu and others boil.

Kinoshita Toshi immediately ordered all the air forces in North China to take off urgently, the fighters were responsible for protecting the airfield and the pseudo-bomber escort, the reconnaissance plane was to closely search and reconnoiter the entire territory of Shandong, and the bomber group immediately went to the Feicheng area to bomb the Eighth Route Army.

Morita Masatsu and Maeda Osamu never thought that they could get the promises of His Excellency the Chief of the General Staff, and these promises were all things that they dreamed of.

Of course, Morita Masatomi is not stupid, he has already seen very clearly, the Eighth Route Army must retreat to the mountainous areas to the north, and if it pursues directly to the north at this time, it will inevitably encounter the stubborn resistance of the Eighth Route Army, and the casualties will be very large. The losses of his reading power mixed with the 13th Brigade were already big enough, and he could not withstand even greater losses. It is still to attack to the south and form a flanking attack with the 35th Division, which can not only chase the retreating troops of the Eighth Route Army to carry out a tail attack, but also echo with the 35th Division in the north and south, so as to avoid falling into the trap of the Eighth Route Road.

As a result, Morita Masatomi left the field artillery brigade and an infantry brigade and a baggage brigade to defend the front-line position of Anjiazhuang and shoot at the Eighth Route Army in the north, and he personally led four infantry brigades to launch a surprise attack to the south under the cover of tanks and armored vehicles.

Liu Yimin didn't know, and neither did Huang Su and Chen Shiqu, the leaders of the Taixi Group, know that in a blink of an eye, the enemy situation had changed so much.

The first to be bitten by the devil was the 3rd Regiment of the Taixi Garrison Brigade.

Guo Zheng, commander of the third regiment of the Taixi Garrison Brigade, is a native of Taihe, Jiangxi, 23 years old this year, joined the Red Army at the age of 15 in July 1930, graduated from the Red Army School, and served as a battalion commander, regiment commander, and staff officer at a young age. When Liu Yimin formed the cadre shelf of the four regiments in Nangong, he was drawn out. When the Taixi Garrison Brigade was established, he served as the commander of the 3rd Regiment of the Taixi Garrison Brigade.

After receiving the order to retreat, Guo Zheng ordered the troops to immediately lay mines and trickery mines on the position mountain and main road, and then each battalion took alternate cover and quickly evacuated.

(To be continued)