The advance of the army was very fast, and in just three days, the entire central Hebei, southern Hebei, Hebei, and southwestern Hebei all fell.

Because there was Chen Guang's brigade, the first-class main force of the Eighth Route Army, and Chen Guang was a rare tiger general of our army, he commanded the main force to seize the opportunity of the 1st, 7th, and 24th divisions of the devil to be transferred to the Jilu border, eliminate the first part of the Manchurian Defense Army, and under the cover of the 115th Division's receiving troops, they broke out of the encirclement, broke through the Pinghan Road, and rushed into the Taihang Mountain.

Our army in southern Hebei does not have such a strong force as Chen Guang's brigade, and it is facing the most elite fifth, sixth, fourteenth, and sixteenth divisions of the Chinese army. Fortunately, the tunnels in southern Hebei were dug early, and the roads were all transformed, which made it easy to cover the Eighth Route Army and delay the attack speed of the devils. Otherwise, the consequences will be unimaginable.

In this way, although our army in central and southern Hebei avoided the end of the annihilation of the whole army, it suffered great losses.

The Jizhong troops have the advantage of being familiar with the terrain, but the devils are surrounded on all sides and are waiting for the net; the Manchurian Defense Force, a gang of miscellaneous and well-trained, is not soft in fighting the Chinese; even though the composition of the old Red Army of the Chen Guang Brigade is high, and the troops of the Jizhong Military Region have undergone regularization and transformation, they still pay attention to fighting bravely and stubbornly, and they must fight fiercely and rush at critical moments.

The construction of our army's base areas in southern Hebei was grasped one step earlier, and the building of local political power and local armed forces was also relatively stable. However, there are many new recruits in the troops, and if there is such a strong main force as Chen Guang's brigade, and the Yue army attacking southern Hebei is the trump card of the Yue army, the gap will come out when the two are compared. When the army arrives, our army can only avoid its edge, as long as it is found and bitten by the devil, it will be an endless ending. Troops, local armed forces, and cadres can only go to the tunnels. Moreover, it is not possible to use the tunnels to take the initiative to attack the enemy, because this is the devil's ace army, with advanced equipment, explosives and explosives, poisonous gases, and professional engineering troops.

In just three days, central Hebei, southern Hebei, Hebei, and southwestern Shandong have become purgatory on earth, with devil planes bombing and artillery fire raging, dirty sun flags everywhere, and the roar of devils' birds everywhere, and countless soldiers and civilians falling under the devils' butcher's knives.

After the Devil's Heavy Army Group, in accordance with the poisonous plan of Terauchi Shouichi and Gangbu Naosaburo, the Devil's Garrison Division was stationed in central Hebei, southern Hebei, Hebei and Lubian, and southwestern Shandong, set up a garrison headquarters, forced the common people to build roads, repair strongholds, pay grain and money, organized Han annihilation, formed maintenance associations at all levels, and coerced young and middle-aged people to join the Imperial Allied Army, the Security Corps, and the Self-Defense Forces, turning the entire North China Plain into a terrorist zone. Among them, Lieutenant General Naojiro Amaya, commander of the 40th Division, concurrently served as the commander of the Jizhong garrison, and the headquarters was stationed in Suning County; Lieutenant General Heiyan Yoshikatsu, commander of the 24th Division, concurrently served as the commander of the Jilu border garrison, and the headquarters was stationed in Qingyun County; The 41st Division and the 1st Brigade of the Reading Force Mixed Brigade are stationed in southern Hebei, and the commander of the 41st Division, Lieutenant General Tiandao Shengwu, is also the commander of the southern Hebei garrison, and the headquarters is stationed in Julu County. Lieutenant General Yoji Fujii, commander of the 38th Division, concurrently served as the commander of the Southwest Lu garrison, and his headquarters was stationed in Heze.

Next, the army did not stop and waved heavy troops to the hinterland of Shandong.

In addition to leaving the 114th Division back to defend Yanzhou and the 38th Division stationed in southwest Luxi, the 3rd, 9th, 13th, 15th, and 17th Divisions under the command of Lieutenant General Tada Jun, with the cooperation of the 34th Division stationed in Tai'an and the 13th Brigade of the Reading Mixed Brigade, fought in the Taixi area in separate ways, forcing the Taixi Garrison Brigade of the Eighth Route Army commanded by Wang Jian'an and Huang Su to all transfer to the tunnel. After the army occupied the Taixi area, it immediately issued a proclamation to establish the Taixi Regional Garrison Command, and Major General Morita Masaho, commander of the 13th Brigade of the Reading Mixed Brigade, served as the commander of the Taixi Regional Garrison, and the headquarters was stationed in Dongping County. The Lunan Garrison Command was established, and the commander of the 114th Division, Lieutenant General Shigeharu Suematsu, concurrently served as the commander of the Lunan Garrison, and the headquarters still lived in Yanzhou.

Seven divisions, including the 1st, 5th, 6th, 7th, 14th, 16th, and 23rd Divisions, commanded by Lieutenant General Naosaburo Gangbe, attacked Luxi and forced the 2nd Luxi Garrison Brigade under the command of Wang Bingsan, Zhang Linzhi, and Zhang Weihan to all move into tunnels and hide. Lieutenant General Michitaro Komatsubara, commander of the 23rd Division of the Army, concurrently served as the commander of the Luxi garrison, and the headquarters was stationed in Liaocheng.

At this point, in addition to Qingdao and Weihai, which were captured by the marines of the Yue Army, the base areas of the Eighth Route Army, west of Jinpu Road and east of Pinghan Road, including the Hebei and Lu borders, all fell to the anti-Japanese army, and the anti-Japanese regime and anti-Japanese armed forces also went underground.

Stimulated by the victory of the law and order war in North China, the call for the expansion of the war faction in the country has risen unprecedentedly, and the newspapers and radio stations are once again full of the clamor of opening up the Jiaoji Road, occupying the whole of Shandong, eliminating the Eighth Route Army, capturing Liu Yimin alive, and avenging the 8th, 10th, 21st, 21st, and 10th Brigades. A group of arrogant people, with the support of the military, went to the gate of the palace en masse to petition for an increase in military spending, an expansion of the army, the capture of Wuhan, the complete elimination of Chiang Kai-shek's regime, and the occupation of the whole of China. The streets of Tokyo are filled with slogans such as "Bravely enter the war and win" and "Abandon your reputation, status, and money, and treat yourself as a stone to be discarded for the sake of the country and the people."

The funniest thing is the newly established Army Nakano School.

This school was founded by the army in January 1938, and it was originally a secret intelligence school, called the "Intelligence Service Elite Training Institute" internally, and the cadets were selected by various units of the army for interviews and written examinations. "Do you like women? What would you do if you had to die for the woman you loved? "How do you recognize the ink writing on the black paper?" "Someone poops in the field, what can you do to tell if it's a man's or a woman's?" "What do you think of [***]? What is the difference between this and the United States? Please give us five examples. Five examples of the differences between Christianity and Buddhism are also given. "If you need to, you can commit suicide by caesarean section on the spot here, can you do it?" And so on and so forth. As a result, only 20 of the 38 candidates in the first batch were admitted.

I don't know who revealed the secret that Nakano School is an intelligence school, and it has evolved into a spy school that specializes in cultivating Liu Yimin, the god of war who can assassinate or lure China. This time it was lively, and countless young men and women flocked to Nakano School, and for several days they lined up at the school gate and refused to leave. Especially those girls who think they are still a little bit beautiful, one by one waving a white cloth printed with menarche blood, they can't meet the principal of Nakano School, Akikusa Toshinakasa, the school officer, Kameji Nakasa, and the instructor Ito Samata and Shaosa. When Akikusa Shunnakasa, who was dressed in a black suit, came forward to meet them, the reason why these girls asked to enter the school made Akikusa Shunnakasa crazy with jealousy. Because the reason for these girls' enrollment is basically "I am a pure virgin, I am very beautiful, I want to use my beautiful ** to capture Liu Yimin, the god of war in China, and bring his head to see the emperor and Empress Liangzi." ”

In the end, Akikusa had to ask the police to send out the police to disperse the ignorant youths. However, Akikusa Junnakasa still had a reward, he selected twenty people from these beautiful girls, prepared to train and send them to the North China Front, specifically to deal with the Eighth Route Army. In addition, he was inspired by the reasons for the enrollment of these young people, and introduced to His Majesty the Emperor Lake Fujita, a 14th ninjutsu celebrity of the Koga school who taught at the school. This Fujita West Lake is a master of kung fu, not only can tie hands and feet and rely on a bamboo pipe to lurk in the water for a long time, but also through the roof of the house like a raccoon cat, without making a sound. Emperor Hirohito immediately decided to let Fujita Lake speed up the training of shooting skills, and after completing the training, he immediately went to North China to carry out a secret mission.

General Terauchi Shouichi, commander of the North China Front Army, was even more high-spirited, and his strategy and tactics were consistently approved by the emperor to the middle and lower-ranking generals, and no one said that he was unlucky, and even those who asked him to be responsible for the jade shattering of the Eighth Division and the Tenth Division also shut up, and had to admit that he was a giant in the army, and his wisdom and combat achievements were all first-class commanders of the imperial army.

Of course, Terauchi Shouichi was not intoxicated, he knew that after fighting for so long, he had not even seen the shadow of the main force of Liu Yimin's sect leader, and the real decisive battle was still to come, and the pressure he faced would be greater and greater. Not to mention the logistical pressure, he couldn't stand the telegrams sent by the Kwantung Army and the Central China Front Army a few times a day asking for the withdrawal of the troops participating in the war.

Shouichi in the temple now wants to sweep the mountainous areas of central and southern Luzhong and Luzhong and Jiaodong as soon as possible, but he is also afraid, he doesn't know where Liu Yiming is hiding and when he will give him another knife. This knife must have made him unguardable, and it hit the point.

Thinking about it, Terauchi Shouichi felt that he had to speed up the pace of attack, otherwise, if the base camp could not withstand the pressure of the Kwantung Army and the Central China Front Army and the main divisions were withdrawn, everything would be over. When the time comes, those garrison divisions that remain in various places will become dishes in the bowl of Liu Yimin's tutor. Now we must seize the opportunity, even if we can't eliminate Liu Yimin's main force, we must also drive them out of Shandong, and build a strong defense line on the front line of Xuzhou in the future, so that they will never be able to return to North China, no matter who he fights, as long as he doesn't fight himself.

The base camp of the army and Shouichi Terauchi had different ideas, and they wanted to see the results of the battle. Now Qingdao and Weihai have been captured, but the marines do not dare to leave the city to sweep away, because the strength is too thin to leave the combined fleet's carrier-based aircraft and naval artillery protection circle, and as soon as they leave the city, they will be attacked. The navy complained that although the capture of Qingdao and Weihai was smooth, the roads along the way were covered with the corpses of marines, especially at night, and every attack on Tubalu would take the lives of a group of marines. The mission of the Marines is to carry out landing operations, not to replace the hapless North China Negative Army. Therefore, the base camp ordered Terauchi Shouichi to revise the battle plan and change the first sweep of the Taiyi Mountains to attack Luzhong and Ludong first, the reason is, of course, that the first, second, and seventh divisions must quickly return to Manchuria, because the Manchurian forces are really empty, even the newly formed divisions cannot go, and the main force must be in charge, what if the Soviets are bewitched by Liu Yimin? Manchuria is the foundation of the fundamental interests of the Great Say, and there is no room for the slightest mistake. As long as the Jiaoji Road is opened, the Kwantung Army's southward corps can be withdrawn, the Central China Front can also withdraw part of its troops, and the remaining Taiyi Mountains and southeast Shandong can be dealt with by the North China Front.

Shouichi Terauchi could not accept the order of the base camp, and he sent a telegram to the base camp every day, demanding that the battle plan must be carried out, and that the problem of the emptiness of troops in Manchuria and Central China could be solved by expanding the army, and that the 1st Division, the 2nd Division, the 3rd Division, the 7th Division, the 9th Division, and the 13th Division, which were permanent elite divisions, must wait until the main force of Liu Yimin's instructor was eliminated before they could be transferred, otherwise, the previous achievements would be wasted.

Terauchi also had another idea in private: the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was in trouble negotiating with Germany, and the Emperor had asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to tell him that he would use his connections in German political and military circles to help the Ministry of Foreign Affairs handle negotiations. Terauchi Shouichi felt that this was an opportunity for him to leave the land of right and wrong in North China and get rid of the bitter sea of fighting against Liu Yimin's mentor. Liu Yimin is too difficult to deal with, and if he is allowed to eliminate a few more divisions and regiments, all the glory and dreams of his life will be in vain. If Liu Yiming's cooking power is eliminated in the mountainous areas of Luzhong, Ludong and Taiyi, it will naturally be very good, and if it does not work, he will take 36 plans, and after occupying the Taiyi mountainous areas and Luzhong and Ludong, he will borrow the slope to get off the donkey and propose to the emperor to go to Germany to negotiate, and no longer serve as the commander of the unfortunate North China Front. However, Amaterasu forbids that nothing can happen before he leaves. But if you want not to have an accident, you must have a strong force and form a heavy army group to go hand in hand, so that Liu Yimin has nowhere to start, otherwise, as long as one division is left alone, I am afraid it will become another delicacy for Liu Yimin.

Where did the base camp know Terauchi Shouichi's true thoughts, and they still blindly urged Terauchi Shouichi to revise the battle plan, but they also knew that Terauchi Shouichi's plan was really powerful, and he could pacify Shandong in one battle. In desperation, while asking diplomats to find ways to step up contacts with the Soviet Union, they kept reporting through the news media that the 1st, 2nd, and 7th Divisions had completed their combat missions in North China and were returning to Manchuria.

In just a few days, the army completed the replenishment of the 2nd Division and the 35th Division. Terauchi Shoudai was overjoyed and decided to carry out a comprehensive attack on the hinterland of Shandong.

Considering that the Fifth Division and the Second Division were motorized divisions with strong mobility capabilities, and that the 14th Division had fierce firepower after being strengthened by the First Army, and that the situation in Jilubian, Jizhong, and Luxi was stable at the same time, Terauchi Shouichi reorganized his troops, and under the pressure of the base camp, the Kwantung Army, and the Central China Front, he revised the battle plan and ordered the 32nd Division stationed in Cangxian County to take into account the reading power stationed in Dexian County and mix into the defense line of the 7th Brigade and Regiment. The 7th Brigade and the 1st Brigade of the Reading Mixed Brigade stationed in southern Hebei were all transferred to the command of Lieutenant General Dongjuergong Tsuruyan Wang, commander of the Second Army, leaving the 35th Division to defend Jinan, and Lieutenant General Dongjiuergong Tsuruyan Wang commanded the 2nd Division, the 5th Division, the 14th Division, the 33rd Division, the 1st 08th Division, the 1st Brigade of the Reading Mixture, and the 7th Brigade of the Reading Mixture to form the Jiaoji Road Attack Group, and the task was to quickly open up the Jiaoji Road. He ordered Tada Jun to command the 3rd, 9th, 13th, 15th, and 17th Divisions of the Southern Front Group, and with the cooperation of the 106th Division and the 116th Division on the Xuzhou front, the 34th Division in Tai'an, and the 114th Division in Yanzhou, to quickly assault Lunan and Luzhongnan. The Northern Front Group under the command of Lieutenant General Naosaburo Gangbu was ordered to quickly cross the Yellow River, concentrate the forces of the four permanent divisions of the 1st Division, the 6th Division, the 7th Division, and the 16th Division, sweep through the Taiyi Mountains, and undertake the combat mission of supporting the Jiaoji Road Assault Group and the Southern Front Group.

In this way, the three armies of the Yue Army all rushed to the hinterland of Shandong.

After such a long time of training in fighting against the Eighth Route Army, the old devil of Shouichi in the temple has also learned to fight propaganda warfare. Before the army was launched, he held a press conference in Beiping to set off smoke bombs.

The news conference was presided over by Lieutenant General Seiichi Kita, head of the special service of the North China Front.

Terauchi Shouichi first gushed about the achievements of this year's industrial development, repeatedly emphasized the strong national strength of the Great Empire, and then strongly condemned the plundering attack of Liu Yimin, the instructor of the Eighth Route Army, on Taiyuan, Tianjin, and Qingdao, saying that Liu Yimin captured Taiyuan, and robbed Taiyuan without even a single screw left, turning a famous Chinese city into an empty city and ruins; Liu Yimin's capture of Tianjin, in addition to plundering the financial capital and industrial and commercial enterprises and assets of overseas Chinese in Tianjin, also forcibly relocated Tianjin's private industrial and commercial enterprises, resulting in Tianjin's economy regressing for 20 years, and the people were struggling to make a living, so that the empire was burdened with a heavy burden; Liu Yimin captured Qingdao, and repeated the old tricks, turning the beautiful and rich Qingdao into a poor and white Qingdao, and now in Qingdao in addition to the poor, the United States, Britain and Germany, and other countries, there are only some big smokers, prostitutes, and 4 workers waiting to find work. What is particularly infuriating is that everywhere Liu Yimin went, he devoured all the financial assets of the Great Empire, and did not even let go of the deposits of residents in the banks, which was purely a bandit and bandit act that undermined the normal economic order. Now, the richest man in Asia is Liu Yimin and his bandit troops, because he robbed the money of all the foreign nationals who were doing business normally in Tianjin and Qingdao, the money of the Imperial Bank, and the money of all the friends of the imperial army, which is simply an unforgivable crime!

(To be continued)