Luo Ronghuan's guess was true, Liu Yimin was worried, and Lieutenant General Tada Jun, the commander of the Japanese North China Front, was also worried

Since the Japanese army landed in Yancheng in northern Jiangsu on October 27, this heavy sweep of DNG, which was directly planned by the Japanese army base camp and commanded by Tada Jun, has been going on for 22 days. The result was that the Japanese army basically occupied the main transportation arteries of Shandong Province, not only opened up the Jinpu Road, but even opened up the roads between most of the county seats, which was equivalent to basically completing the comprehensive occupation of Shandong.

If this had been fought against the regular Kuomintang army, the battle would have been declared victorious. However, no one dared to declare the victory of the battle, whether it was Tada Jun, Nishio Shouzo and the demons of the Japanese army's base camp, because they knew that the target of the battle was not the Central Army of the Nationalist Government, but the Eighth Route Army. After 22 days of fighting, the Eighth Route Army never defended a county town from beginning to end, and turned the county town into an empty city and a dead city before the Japanese army attacked the city, and then quickly retreated. The Japanese army not only did not destroy the main force of the Eighth Route Army, but on the contrary, it also lost the main force of the 38th Division and lost so many fighters.

From the moment the Japanese army launched the attack, the news media in Japan began to report the news of the North China public order and rectification operation in a series of articles, and the newspapers and radios were full of news of the Japanese army's victory in attacking the city and pulling out the village, and the ordinary people of Japan, who had been a little war-weary by a series of fiascos, were also encouraged again, and those who soaked in the hot springs and taverns were talking about the war in North China, about how brave and invincible His Excellency Tada Jun was, and about how to judge Liu Yimin if he was caught. A pictorial magazine even published a special issue, taking the form of a comic strip, imagining what to do with Liu Yimin after he was caught. On the screen, there is first a scene of Liu Yimin's Japanese army rushing to land on the beach under the cover of aircraft, then a scene of groups of Japanese troops attacking and advancing, and then according to the reports sent back by front-line photojournalists, the scenes of the Japanese army capturing the counties of Shandong, northern Jiangsu, and southern Hebei are drawn. Finally, there is the scene where Liu Yimin was captured and escorted to Tokyo for disposal. 1 Xiao "Day" really has a fantasy, Liu Yimin on the picture is wearing a tattered military uniform, crouching in front of a pile of firewood and grass, a Japanese cavalryman wields a knife to rein in the horse, and the front hooves of the war horse rise into the air, as if to trample Liu Yimin into meat sauce. Then there is the scene where Liu Yimin, his wife, and son were escorted to Tokyo for trial, the solemn courtroom, the majestic judge, Liu Yimin knelt in the courtroom, trembling all over, and snot in his nostrils. Then there was Liu Yimin, his wife and son kneeling in front of the palace gate, adding the feet of passing officials.

The mood of the Japanese people has been stirred up again, and the streets of Tokyo are plastered with slogans in support of the Greater East Asian Holy War, and the Japanese people are eagerly waiting for their army warriors to bring back good news for them, and to bring back grain, cotton, salt, coal, and ore from North China. It's a pity that as soon as the guns rang out in the Battle of Southwest Lu, it shattered the dream of the day himself.

After a few days of silence, someone wrote an article in the newspaper and began to question whether Tada Jun had the ability to lead the North China Front. What's more, a guy actually imitated the disgusting behavior of the disgusting Terauchi Shouichi who was only worthy of sleeping with an ugly prostitute, drew a cartoon, called "The Pain of the Xing Incompetent", and printed it and posted it all over the streets of Tokyo. Passers-by took a look, it turned out to be a set of comic strips, the man in the picture knocked on the door and entered a tea house in Tokyo, and teased the proprietress of the half-aged, the proprietress half-pushed, pushed and shoved to get to the bed, but the man was weak at a critical time, kicked out of bed by the proprietress, knelt in front of the bed and cried bitterly. Careful passers-by saw that the man's bald head and face like a knife were not His Excellency Lieutenant General Tada Jun, commander of the North China Front of the Great Japanese Army?

In the end, even Mrs. Tada Jun knew about it, and took her children to tear up cartoons all over the street, scolding the people who drew the pictures while tearing them despicable, and insulting the army of the Great Day.

The first day it was torn clean, but the next morning the street was plastered with cartoons again. Mrs. Tada cried profusely, and then went to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department to report the case and demanded that the criminals who insulted the commander of the North China Front of the Japanese Army be caught and brought to justice.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department also attached great importance to it, and immediately filed a case, and detectives went out to search and arrest the suspects. The matter should have ended here, but Mrs. Tada Jun was holding back her breath, eating and sleeping was not sweet, feeling that her husband was fighting with the murderous Liu Yimin on the front line, but some guys in China who didn't know what to do were hurting people behind their backs, and the War Department and the General Staff Headquarters pretended to be deaf and dumb, and didn't care about it. Is it tolerable or intolerable?

Mrs. Tada Jun went to Lu Xiangyan Shunroku and the chief of the General Staff, Prince Miyajihito, and wanted them to put pressure on the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department to catch the criminals as soon as possible and throw all the fish in Tokyo Bay to feed. As a result, Hosojun Roku and Prince Lou Ren of Xianyuan Palace were not pointed, they were in a meeting. The War Department,

The two section chiefs of the General Staff Headquarters repeatedly assured Mrs. Tada that the dignity and honor of the Army would not be tarnished, and that the criminals would be punished severely.

Mrs. Tada Jun finally felt a trace of warmth in her heart, but when she was leaving, the section chief of the War Department said as if she was absent-minded: "No wonder, the war in North China is really worrying!" ”

This understatement made Mrs. Tada very sad, and when she returned home, she sent a telegram to Tada Jun, reporting to her husband the appearance of cartoons on the streets of Tokyo.

After receiving the telegram from his wife, Tada Junqi's hands and feet were cold, and he couldn't imagine that the humiliation suffered by Terauchi Shouyichi fell on his head, and his anger was like thunder.

The pressure on Tada Jun was not enough, and the commander of the Dispatch Army, Nishio Shouzo, kept urging him to end the campaign as soon as possible, because the Dispatch Army was eager to launch the Battle of Guinan and completely cut the international supply lines of the Nationalist Government, so as to coerce Chiang Kai-shek to surrender as soon as possible. Moreover, there is a shortage of troops in East and Central China, and the 6th Division, the 15th Division, and the 11th and 12th Brigades of the Mixed Division urgently need to be returned to their formations.

The base camp was also constantly calling, sending telegrams several times a day to ask about the progress of the battle.

These troubles are nothing, Tada Junxing is resolute and not afraid of any pressure. After the Eighth Route Army eliminated the main force of the 38th Division, Tada Jun sent a telegram to Emperor Hirohito requesting approval to apologize for his crimes, but the result was the same as Tada Jun guessed, His Majesty the Emperor did not approve it, and asked him to treat the crime and make meritorious contributions, eliminate the main force of the Eighth Route Army as soon as possible, and restore law and order in North China. Now, Shandong has basically fallen into the hands of Tada Jun, but the main force of the Eighth Route Army is like a yellow crane. Tada Jun has been thinking, where did Liu Yimin flee?

Before Tada Jun could think of the "answer" case, the police report from Liaoxi came. Lieutenant General Umezu Yoshijiro, commander of the Kwantung Army, said in a telegram that Liu Yi's main force had arrived in Liaoning, echoing Yang Jingyu's anti-coalition forces in the Changbai Mountains and making a big fuss in Liaoning. The main force of the Kwantung Army must be immediately returned to Liaoning and the main force of Liu Yi's people who rushed into Liaoning must be eliminated. Otherwise, the safety of Shenyang cannot be guaranteed.

The base camp also sent an urgent telegram, ordering Tada Jun to quickly return all divisions of the Kwantung Army to the establishment and eliminate the Eighth Route Army that had rushed into Liaoning.

Manchuria was the foundation of the interests of the Great Japanese Empire in China, and Shenyang was the base camp of the Kwantung Army.

Tada Jun knew in his heart that it was not Liu Yimin's troops who entered the northeast, but probably the headquarters operating in the Jireliao region. He believed that Umezu Mijiro also knew in his heart that it was not Liu Yimin's troops. The problem is that all the elites of the Kwantung Army are fighting in the Guannei, and those who remain in the northeast are all newly formed divisions and garrisons, and if the Eighth Route Army really occupies Shenyang, the responsibility will be too great.

Tada Jun can think of Umezu Mijiro's panicked appearance, and he also knows that if he is the commander of the Kwantung Army, he will also panic at this time. However, the war in Shandong has not ended, and Liu Yimin's main force has evaporated from the world since the end of the battle in southwest Lu, and it may suddenly appear at any time and launch a thunderous attack.

Whether it was the Kwantung Army, the Sixth Division, or the Fifteenth Division, Tada Jun did not dare to let them all go.

Tada Jun sent a telegram to the base camp requesting that the Kwantung Army should be allowed to leave two or three divisions behind to assist the North China Front in the battle.

In the telegram, Tada Jun analyzed the current progress of the public security operation in North China, saying that it had now occupied most of Shandong, which was tantamount to destroying the base area on which the Eighth Route Army depended. In two months, we will be able to build Jinpu Road and various highways, and use railways and highways to divide Shandong. Divide into squares, restrict the activities of the Eighth Route Army that went underground, clear up the divisions, and completely eliminate the forces of the Eighth Route Army in Shandong.

The base camp agreed to Tadajun's request, approved the temporary transfer of the 11th, 12th, 28th, and 29th Divisions to the command of the North China Front, and ordered the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 7th, 23rd, and 24th Divisions to quickly return to Manchuria to eliminate the Eighth Route Army that had rushed into Liaoning and restore law and order in Liaoning. At the same time, the base camp ordered Tada Jun to concentrate his forces and quickly search for and suppress Liu Yi's main force.

After receiving a telegram from the base camp, Tada Jun immediately ordered the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 7th, 23rd, and 24th Divisions, which were in southwest Lu, to end their combat missions, and to quickly concentrate on Lianyungang, transport them to Dalian, and return to Liaoning, with the Second and 23rd Divisions as the forerunners.

The main forces of the Kwantung Army are gone, and the fighting must continue. Tada Jun knew that the 6th Division, the 15th Division, the Taiwan Mixed Brigade, and the 2nd Guards Division could not stay in North China for a long time. He is a person who has served as deputy chief of staff and president of the Army University, and he has to focus on the overall situation when considering problems, and he cannot always speak from the standpoint of the North China Front. Central and South China need troops, but it's not just North China that needs troops. Therefore, it is necessary to seize the opportunity of these troops in North China to find the main force of Liu Yi's people and eliminate Liu Yi's main force.

In Tada's office, Yoshizumi Ryosuke and Hirata Masatsumi were standing in front of the battle map on the wall, their eyes glaring like cows' eggs, as if they wanted to find out the location of the main force of the Eighth Route Army from the map, so that they could wave their army to pounce and annihilate it in one fell swoop.

To tell the truth, Yoshizumi Ryosuke and Hirata Masashi are far worse than Terauchi Shouichi's chief of staff, Naosaburo Okabe, and far worse than Sugi Sugimoto's chief of staff, Yamashita Fumi, and deputy chief of staff, Muto Akirai. Naosaburo Okabe and Yamashita Fengfumi are both famous Japanese generals who have become generals in history, and Muto Akira is also an unambiguous strategist in the Japanese army, one of the seven Class A war criminals who were hanged in the Tokyo Trial in history. Yoshizumi Ryosuke and Hirata Masashi are much, much worse than them.

Yoshizumi Ryosuke and Hirata Masashi were puzzled, Liu Yimin's main force was obviously in southwest Lu, why did it suddenly disappear? Are they all burrowing tunnels like rats? Will you escape into Taihang Mountain?

Yoshizumi Ryosuke and Hirata Masashi were ordered by Tada Jun to go to southwest Lu to supervise the deployment of various troops and strictly prevent Liu Yimin's sneak attack. The task of arming was completed, but the fish in the net were released. These two guys were anxious and anxious, and they couldn't wait to catch Liu Yimin and slap him now.

Yoshizumi Ryosuke's eyes were sour when he looked at the map, and he couldn't help but turn back to Tada Jun and say, "Your Excellency, Your Excellency, Liu Yimin is very cunning. In my judgment, there are two possibilities, one is that Liu Yimin's troops all drilled into the tunnel, and the other is that they fled into Taihang Mountain. ”

Tada Jun let out a "oh", staring at the map without even looking back.

Hirata Masatsuke disagreed with Yoshizumi Ryosuke's opinion and said, "Your Excellency the Chief of Staff, it is unlikely that you will be able to drill into the tunnel. That was Liu Yimin's main force, with tanks, armored vehicles, cars, and artillery, and these vehicles could not get off the tunnel. The possibility of escaping into Taihang Mountain is not very large, and these vehicles have entered Taihang Mountain, which is equivalent to losing their effect. Liu Yimin wouldn't do that. I think there are three possibilities. First, Liu Yimin's main force crossed the Yellow River and went to northern Henan, trying to eliminate the 14th Division in northern Henan, and then crossing the Yellow River south to attack the defenders of Zhengzhou and Kaifeng. The second possibility is that Liu Yimin may take advantage of the chaos to jump back to the east of the canal. This can be corroborated from the fighting in the Lunan Mountains. Liu Yimin must have been worried that the imperial army would take his nest and go back to the rescue. The third possibility is that Liu Yimin is hiding between southwest Lu, Yinan and Luxi, ready to wait for an opportunity to ambush again.

Attack the lone Imperial Army. ”

Yoshizumi Ryosuke said impatiently: "How could Liu Yimin jump back to the east of the canal? With such a large force of ours, how can he escape? However, it is worth noting in the direction of northern Henan, and the combat effectiveness and equipment of the 14th Division after reconstruction are not as good as before, which is worrying. ”

Tada's view is different from that of Yoshizumi Ryosuke and Hirata Masatsu, and his eyes have always been fixed on the southern Hebei region. You must know that because of the fear of Liu Yimin's attack on the troops in western Hebei and southern Hebei, the main forces of the 37th Division, the 40th Division, and the 41st Division were urgently shrinking, and the troops of the three divisions and the four North China Public Security Army groups remaining in the southern Hebei region also retreated into key county towns. It is very convenient for Liu Yimin to rest in hiding in southern Hebei.

Southern Hebei, southern Hebei, Tada Jun couldn't help but chant these two Chinese characters.

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