Chapter 866: Bai Yanzhen
After all, Tada Jun was one of the few famous generals in the Japanese army, and after being entangled for a while, he ordered Lieutenant General Kinoshita Toshita, commander of the Third Flying Group, to mobilize planes to conduct a detailed reconnaissance of the area around Xin'an Town, and found that the Eighth Route Army immediately bombed it intensively.
After issuing the order to the air force, Tada Jun ordered the Ninth Division to concentrate on Pixian and Haizhou respectively, defend Xuzhou and Lianyungang, and if necessary, withdraw to Xuzhou and Lianyungang, rely on strong city fortifications to hold on, and after the reinforcements arrived, regain Xin'an Town and encircle and annihilate the main force of the Eighth Route Army.
Immediately afterwards, Tada Jun sent an urgent telegram to the base camp, reporting that the Eighth Route Army had captured Xin'an Town, tore through the defense line of Jinpu Road, and demanded that the Fifth Division in the northeast be urgently transferred to return to the North China Front Army, and that the 114th Division be returned to Japan for reconstruction.
Without waiting for the base camp to call back, Tada Jun ordered the Twelfth Army to gather troops and prepare for reinforcements in Xuzhou and Lianyungang.
This series of orders seemed fancy, but in fact, Tada Jun did not send a single reinforcement to the Ninth Division except for the planes. There is no way, Tada Jun fought with the instructor at the beginning, and knew that Liu Yimin's battle was all planned and moved, and now the Eighth Route Army seems to have captured Xin'an Town, and then moved in the southwest of Lu, but what is the mystery behind it, Tada Jun can't figure it out for a while. He has to wait and see if the Eighth Route Army's sudden attack on Longhai Road this time is any follow-up, whether it is just to break Longhai Road, or whether he wants to use Xin'an Town as bait to fish. Or it is to fight Xin'an Town openly, and there are other actions in secret.
Tada Jun didn't wait long, and time passed quietly in the indiscriminate bombardment of the area around Xin'an Town by the Japanese army. On the night of October 7, the Eighth Route Army launched a fierce attack on the Japanese puppet army in Shandong.
The Eighth Route Army and local armed forces, which had already been transferred to guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines in the Jilu border area, suddenly launched an attack on the scattered small strongholds of the Japanese army. They fought tunnel warfare, digging tunnels under the stronghold of the Japanese puppet army, and loading the black powder explosives produced by the soldiers and civilians in the Jilu Border. "Boom", "boom", "boom", the pillboxes and artillery towers of the Japanese puppet army flew into the sky.
Our army in Luxi has concentrated the three main brigades of the Second Brigade, the Sixth Brigade, and the Luxi Garrison Brigade, as well as a large number of local armed forces and militia cooperation, Liu Jianli, Zhang Hongtao, and Xu Shiyou are all famous generals of the Eighth Route Army, and the troops have rested in Luxi for so long, and the training has upset those veterans who have been in battle for a long time. The commander of the 12th Army, Iida Sadagu, exclaimed again and again: "Luxi turned out to be lying on a tiger"
Immediately afterwards, Yuan Guoping, political commissar of the Eighth Route Army's Formation and Training Headquarters, and Xu Guangda, commander of the Formation and Training Headquarters, commanded the Luzhong Garrison Brigade, the Jinan Garrison Brigade, and the Qinghe Garrison Brigade to launch an offensive operation in the Jinan area east of the Yellow River. Wang Jian'an, commander of the Taixi Garrison Brigade of the Eighth Route Army, and Zhang Haitao, commander of the Tai'an Detachment, commanded the Taixi Garrison Brigade and the Tai'an Detachment to launch an attack on the enemy entrenched in Taixi and Tai'an.
The entire Shandong battlefield was turned into a pot of porridge.
At 11 o'clock on the night of October 7, under the cover of two artillery regiments of the artillery brigade of the Eighth Route Army, Yu Xuezhong commanded the 51st Army, the 57th Army, and the New Fourth Division to launch a comprehensive counterattack on the front line of the Yihe River, breaking through the Japanese army's Yihe position in one fell swoop and advancing to the county seat of Feixian County.
By this time, Tada Jun had thoroughly determined that the Eighth Route Army had launched a major war in Shandong, and repeatedly studied the map, Yoshizumi Ryosuke, and Hirata Masatsu, and finally came to a conclusion: The Eighth Route Army wanted to reoccupy Jinan
If it were left at this time in history, it would be unbelievable for Tada Jun to come to such a conclusion, but now it is different, the Eighth Route Army once captured Jinan, and tried the former commander of the Twelfth Army Gu Shoufu in Jinan. Tada Jun is like a mirror in his heart, the Eighth Route Army has the strength to capture Jinan.
The reason for supporting Tada Jun's conclusion that the Eighth Route Army wanted to capture Jinan was that the attack arrow of the Luxi troops of the Eighth Route Army was aimed directly at the Jinpu Road in the northwest of the Yellow River, and it was obvious that it was intended to cut off the Jinpu Road, capture Luokou, and cut off the connection between Jinan and the northwest of Shandong and the North China Plain; The attack arrows of the Taixi troops and the Tai'an detachment of the Eighth Route Army pointed at Tai'an, obviously to cut off Jinan's connection with Tai'an and Lunan; The three garrison brigades commanded by Yuan Guoping of the Eighth Route Army formed a frontal attack on Jinan from east to west.
With this conclusion, Tada Jun believed that the Eighth Route Army's breakthrough of the Longhai Line, the capture of Xin'an Town, and the actions in southwest Lu were all smokescreens, and the purpose was to transfer the Japanese army south for reinforcements. As for Yu Xuezhong's counterattack on the front line of the Yihe River, Tada Jun believes that it is also a containment attack. The purpose was to contain the elite 10th Division, which could not be redeployed for other purposes.
In fact, the attack of the Eighth Route Army had just begun, and it was far from reaching the level of cutting off the Jinpu Road and Jiaoji Road and forming an encirclement of Jinan. However, Tada Jun served as the deputy chief of staff and the president of Lu University, and his military literacy is very profound. He could see at a glance the intentions of the Eighth Route Army. This guy, you can't accept it.
Having identified the Eighth Route Army's campaign attempt, Tada Jun began to arrange his troops. This old devil, don't look at his age, but he is still full of anger. This time, he wanted to mobilize heavy troops and wipe out the Eighth Route Army that was trying to besiege Jinan.
Tada Jun ordered the 10th Division to resolutely repel the counterattack of Yu Xuezhong's troops in the Sulu Theater in front of him, and ordered the 9th Division to quickly recover Xin'an Town under the cover of aircraft and open up the Longhai Road. The 38th Division was ordered to resolutely counterattack, repel the counteroffensive of the Eighth Route Army in the southwest of Lu, and organize a sweep in the direction of southwest Lu. The 39th Division served as a support unit for the 38th Division. The 12th Army was ordered to mobilize the 2nd Brigade, Heavy Artillery Brigade, 36th Division, and 32nd Division of the 1st Guards Division stationed in Luzhong, Ludong and Qingdao to form the East Group, commanded by the commander of the 32nd Division, Kimura Hyotaro, to reinforce Jinan and directly attack the back of the Eighth Route Army attacking Jinan; The 27th Division stationed in Jining, Yanzhou, Qufu, and Zou counties was ordered to go north to reinforce the defenders of Tai'an, resolutely repel the attack of the Eighth Route Army on the Tai'an line, and ensure that the Jinpu Road was unblocked. The 40th Division stationed in northwest Shandong was ordered to resolutely resist the attack of the Eighth Route Army, and the main forces of the 110th Division and the 1st Guards Division, which were assisting the First Army in the Shanxi battlefield, were ordered to quickly move eastward, and to cooperate with the 41st Division stationed in Cangxian County and the 37th Division stationed in Hengshui to flank the Eighth Route Army in northwest Shandong and level southern Hebei and western Shandong in one fell swoop.
This time, Tada Jun was ruthless, and in addition to mobilizing the Japanese army, he ordered the North China Public Security Army to dispatch five groups to cooperate in the operation.
Considering that there was only one Ninth Division between Lianyungang and Xuzhou, and that the Ninth Division had been severely attacked by the Eighth Route Army, Tada Jun specially sent a telegram to the base camp, requesting that the ships of the 114th Division be quickly transported to Lianyungang to land and serve as the garrison of Longhai Road and Xuzhou, and that the Ninth Division be freed up for offensive operations. At the same time, it was required that the Fifth Division be secretly transported to Qingdao as quickly as possible to prevent the Eighth Route Army from suddenly attacking and occupying Qingdao.
Tada Jun's abacus sounded, and the problem was that Liu Yimin would not give him the opportunity to transfer troops. Thinking that the Fifth Division was far away on the Suifen River in the northeast, even if the Japanese army had a railway, a port, and a guaranteed transportation capacity, it would not be able to reach Qingdao in three or two days. Including the 114th Division, which is being reorganized in Japan, I don't know if the readjustment has been completed, and it is not possible to reach Lianyungang in three days or two days. When these two troops are in place, it is estimated that this battle will come to an end, and they are waiting to collect the bodies of the little devils who died in the battle
Baiyan Town, located in the west of Fei County, in the middle of Baoqinggu Mountain and Tianbao Mountain, stuck on the Feiteng Highway, is the throat connecting Baoqinggu Mountain and Tianbao Mountain. In history, Zhang Renchu, the commander of the 686th Regiment of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, fought three battles against Baiyan Town and made a great name in Lunan.
When the Lunan Anti-Japanese Volunteer Corps was established, it was based in the Baoqinggu Mountains. At that time, there were more than 70 armed units of all kinds in the Baoqinggu area, and when the Fifth Brigade of the Eighth Route Army swept through Lunan and southeast Lunan, some of these local armed forces were absorbed by the Eighth Route Army, some were absorbed by Zhang Liyuan, commissioner of the Kuomintang Shandong Third District Administrative Commissioner's Office and security commander, and some became traitors.
By the end of the Taixi Campaign, the main force of the Eighth Route Army swept through Lunan and basically destroyed the Japanese puppet regime wherever the soldiers went. It's a pity that the Eighth Route Army was followed by the Japanese heavy army group, and it didn't have time to consolidate the original occupied areas of Tengxian, Yixian, Zouxian, Feixian, and Cangshan County, so it broke through the Longhai Road and went south.
After Yu Xuezhong's troops entered Shandong, after consultation with the Eighth Route Army, they were stationed in Cangshan County and Fei County. After the Japanese rebuilt 10th Division was stationed in Lunan, the headquarters was set up in Yi County, and soon concentrated forces to attack Yu Xuezhong's department, and after several fierce battles, Yu Xuezhong's department suffered heavy casualties and lost Cangshan County and Feixian County.
The withdrawal of the national army from Fei County and Cangnan County does not mean that the guerrilla forces of the Eighth Route Army have also withdrawn from this area. In particular, in the Baoqinggu area, when the Lunan Anti-Japanese Volunteer Corps was established, it was based on it, and Guo Zihua commanded Zhang Guangzhong and others to take the lead in erecting the banner of Lunan Anti-Japanese here. At present, although the Lunan Anti-Japanese Volunteer Corps has been reorganized into the Lunan Independent First Regiment and the New 15 th Regiment, and has been incorporated into the New Fifth Brigade to undertake the main battle mission, the Baoqinggu base area is still in the hands of the local armed forces of the Eighth Route Army.
Sun Heling is a big landlord and a big tyrant in Baiyan Town, when Hong Chaoyuan commanded the Fifth Brigade to sweep Lunan, he pretended to support the anti-Japanese posture, after all, this time is the period of unity and resistance to Japan, not the time when the local tyrants divided the fields in the big ** period, Sun Heling, who is good at disguise, escaped. Later, when the Eighth Route Army went south and the Japanese army reoccupied Fei County, Sun Heling turned into a hardcore traitor, pulled up a puppet army of more than 1,000 people, and relied on the support of the Japanese army to build fortifications in Baiyan Town, dig trenches and build fortifications, and turned Baiyan Town into an important stronghold in the Japanese puppet blockade of Baoqinggu Mountain and Tianbao Mountain.
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