Tada's orders were carried out to the letter

Early in the morning of 5 November, Japanese planes began to reconnoiter and circle on the east bank of the Yellow River, and immediately afterward, a group of Japanese planes roared in and frantically bombed the Yellow River crossing in Dong'a, blowing up the camouflaged positions of the local armed forces of the Eighth Route Army into dust. Then, Lieutenant General Toji Yasui, commander of the 2nd Division, commanded the main forces of the 1st, 2nd, 7th, 23rd, and 1st Guards Divisions to rush to the ferry, and set up artillery positions on the west bank of the Yellow River to cover the troops' rush to cross.

The vanguard of the Japanese army began to cross the river along the chain bridge left by the Eighth Route Army on the Yellow River, and the soldiers bent their waists, grabbed the iron cables, and went to the opposite bank. Seeing that it was about to reach the bridgehead, the Dong'e County Brigade of the Eighth Route Army, which was hidden on the east bank of the river, opened fire. Machine guns and rifles hit the Japanese soldiers on the chain bridge, and the bullets flew whizzing towards the devils swaying on the bridge, and the Yellow River suddenly became a big pot for boiling dumplings.

After only ten minutes of fighting, the Dong'e County Brigade retreated. Because the order is very clear, it is only allowed to fight for ten minutes, and immediately retreat.

On the other side of the Yellow River, there are heavy artillery of five artillery wings of five divisions and regiments of the Japanese army, and the Dong'e County Brigade has several hundred people, but it cannot withstand the aiming and shelling of the Japanese artillery.

Sure enough, the Japanese artillery group began to shell, and the shells roared across the Yellow River and landed on the positions of the Eighth Route Army on the opposite bank, raising clouds of dust and mist.

After 10 minutes of shelling, the Japanese army began to rush to cross the river in an all-round way, and all folding boats, motorboats, and sail boats were pushed into the water, including the boats transferred by the Japanese army from near Jinan.

The Japanese planes frantically threw bombs and dived and strafed the camouflaged positions of the Eighth Route Army on the east bank, and the Japanese machine guns on the ferries were also firing wildly, and the bullets were like rain, turning the mud on the east bank of the Yellow River into dust and mist.

The commander of the 2nd Division of the Japanese Army, An Da 23, leaned in front of a heavy tank, held a telescope, and anxiously observed the crossing of the river. It wasn't until the river-crossing troops landed on the shore and shouted and rushed towards the position of the Eighth Route Army that Anda Twenty-three breathed a sigh of relief, and used his hand to momo the mustache, to: "Liu Yimin is nothing more than that!" ”

It's no wonder that Anda Twenty-three laughed at Liu Yimin, if Liu Yimin really had no last resort, he should have heavily guarded the Yellow River defense, and attacked it halfway, I am afraid that the blood of the Japanese army will stain the Yellow River red.

Of course, this is what Adachi Twenty-Three thinks, and it is also what a normal defensive side should do. If that were the case, the Japanese army would probably have to take several days just to cross the river, or even not be able to cross the river. But Liu Yimin is not Anda Twenty-three, he doesn't guard the river defense at all, and lets devils cross the river with great fanfare.

Anda Twenty-Three was only happy for a moment, and was soon overwhelmed by the sound of mine explosions one after another. When he raised the binoculars again to observe, there were many more corpses and wounded Japanese soldiers in the lens. No, it was blown up by the minefield of the Eighth Route Army.

Japanese sappers crossed the river by boat, began to clear mines, build pontoon bridges that could be used by tanks, automobiles, and large troops.

It was not until the Japanese infantry took control of the key points on the east bank that it was discovered that the positions of the Eighth Route Army were camouflaged and empty. The Continental Army wasted so many bombs, shells, and bullets in vain.

Anda Twenty-three, who received the report, scolded Liu Yimin for being a despicable coward, and he didn't even have the courage to give it a go with the imperial army!

He knew that the Eighth Route Army was afraid of the Japanese army's large-scale aircraft group, and he did not dare to fight with the Japanese army during the day, and danger might come at night.

Anda Twenty-three did not dare to slack off, and commanded the Japanese army to cross the river quickly.

At this time, it was the dry season of the Yellow River, and it was very convenient for the Japanese army to ferry or build a pontoon bridge. In just one day, Anda 23 led the main force of the Japanese West Group to cross the Yellow River and began to spread out the whole line.

On this same day, Yamashita Fengfumi, former chief of staff of the North China Front Army and commander of the Fourth Division of the Japanese Army, commanded the East Group, composed of the Fourth Division, the Sixth Division, the Eleventh Division, and the Twenty-fourth Division, to storm from southeast Lu to the Taiyi Mountains, and launched a battle with the remaining troops of the Eighth Route Army commanded by Zeng Zhongsheng and Tan Zheng.

The eastern group of the Japanese army was very strange, Yamashita was a tiger general, and the sixth division was a first-class elite division of the Japanese army, and the offensive was fierce. The reason why Tada Jun organized his troops in this way was to allow the Eastern Group to attack quickly, clear the mountainous areas of central and southern Shandong, and encircle the main force of the Eighth Route Army. As a result, the 6th Division, the 11th Division, and the 24th Division were indeed on the offensive, but the 4th Division, which was personally commanded by Yamashita Fengfumi, was like an old ox pulling a broken cart.

Yamashita Fumi's orders were severe, but unfortunately the officers and soldiers of the Japanese army's permanent division, which was composed of Osaka merchants, were keen on business, and when they came, they brought a large amount of goods from the northeast, such as ginseng and mink ura grass. Every time it went to a county town or market town, the Fourth Division was different from other divisions and regiments, and was not busy burning, killing and looting, but busy setting up stalls and doing business. It is a pity that the towns occupied by the Japanese army are all empty and have no trading partners, which makes the officers and men of the Fourth Division unhappy and unable to lift their spirits. Naturally, the offensive speed will not go up.

Yamashita Fengwen was angry, and pulled out a wing captain to be shot, wanting to make an example. As a result, the chief of staff, the division and regiment, and the commanders of the two brigades all came to the court, making it impossible for Yamashita to start. The most ridiculous thing is that the wing captain actually rolled his eyes and fought against Yamashita Fengwen, why, wasn't it for money? If you can make money doing business, why fight and kill? Even if you fight and kill, you have to exchange the goods in the hands of the soldiers for money. Otherwise, the soldiers will ask whether it is more important to charge in battle or to protect their own goods. As a sir, it's hard to answer! Can the commander watch the soldiers become destitute?

Yamashita Fengwen couldn't cry or laugh, so he could only let the Fourth Division be a reserve, follow behind the other three divisions, and follow with him kicking and tapping.

The 5th Division, the 2nd Brigade of the 1st Guards Division, and the Heavy Artillery Brigade of the Japanese Army exchanged defense duties with the 32nd, 36th, and 28th Divisions. The commander of the 5th Division, Imamura, commanded the troops to rush to the vicinity of Jinan in a hurry, and joined up with the 27th Division, the 16th Mixed Brigade, and the 4th Cavalry Brigade, and then began to press from north to south, and engaged the Taixi Garrison Brigade and the Tai'an Detachment of the Eighth Route Army.

The Fifth Division is the strategic reserve of the Japanese army, that is, the battlefield firefighting team, which needs to be transferred wherever it is needed. For this reason, although the Fifth Division was twice hit hard by the Eighth Route Army in Qixian and Zhoucun in Shanxi, it replenished extremely quickly, and all the soldiers were replenished, and the equipment was better than the previous one.

The Fifth Division is mainly attacking from the south to the north, and it should be nine out of ten. What shocked people was that after attacking all morning, the Japanese Northern Front Group, dominated by the Fifth Division, could not break through the defense line of the Eighth Route Army. The reason was that the Taixi Garrison Brigade and the Tai'an Detachment of the Eighth Route Army relied on the mountainous areas between Jinan, Tai'an, and Feicheng to set up positions, and the devil's tanks could not go up the mountain, and after the road was cut off, the Japanese army had no choice, and the Fifth Division had to give up the roundabout outflanking tactics that it was best at, and honestly fight a positional offensive and defensive battle with the Eighth Route Army.

Seeing that the attack was not going well, Imamura personally rushed to the front line to observe. When I went to the front line, I learned that the Eighth Route Army had cut off the roads from Jinan to Tai'an and Jinan to Feicheng, and several tanks, as well as motorcycles and armored vehicles, had fallen into the pit. No, it was the Eighth Route Army that disguised itself on the big pit, and you fooled the vanguard.

The positions of the Eighth Route Army were also built strongly, all of which were built due to the mountainous terrain, and the foot of the mountain was cut into sections, so that tanks and armored vehicles could not go up, and it was difficult for people to climb. Naturally, it was not easy to attack.

Imamura reported the situation to Tada, and then ordered the use of poison gas bombs to poison the defending Eighth Route Army.

After receiving Jun Imamura's report, Tada Jun became more and more convinced that the main force of the Eighth Route Army was in Lunan, thinking that the Eighth Route Army was going to defend Lunan to the death, so he kept telegraphing and ordering the West Group of Anda 23rd, the East Group of Yamashita Fumi, the South Group of Higuchi Jiichiro, and the Southwest Lu Group under the command of Fujii Hirochi to speed up their attacks and encircle the Eighth Route Army.

Higuchi Jiichiro commanded the 9th Division, the 114th Division, the 2nd Guards Division, the Taiwan Mixed Brigade and the Manchurian Ting Army of the Japanese Southern Front Group, launched an attack from the south to the north from the Longhai Line, and began to exchange fire with the troops of the Lunan Military Region of the Eighth Route Army and the outpost of Yu Xuezhong's Department on the front line of Taierzhuang, which developed into a Ji battle.

Yu Xuezhong didn't know that Liu Yimin and Luo Ronghuan had arrived in southwest Lu, and thought that Liu Yimin was sitting in Pingyi to command the battle. However, due to the Linyi Incident, and the fact that Zhang Xueliang is now detained by Chiang Kai-shek in a hospital in Chongqing, and that Mou Zhongheng and Miao Zhengliu have not yet returned from Chongqing, the morale of Yu Xuezhong's troops has been greatly affected, including Yu Xuezhong himself, who feels that he does not know who he is fighting for.

At this time of the battle, Yu Xuezhong, Wang Jingxuan, and Zhou Fu were already very clear about the situation on the Shandong battlefield, and knew that if they held the front line of Taierzhuang again, not only would they not be able to hold it, but the troops would also be wiped out.

The idea of retreating to the base area of the Eighth Route Army is also unrealistic, the army of devils encircles the base area of the Eighth Route Army on all sides, and going to the base area of the Eighth Route Army is tantamount to drilling into Luo, Yu Xuezhong will not do that.

When Yu Xuezhong urgently withdrew from Fei County to the front line of Taierzhuang, he had already made up his mind, that is, once the Japanese army was heavily encircled and suppressed, he would want to break through the Longhai Road and go south, go to the Henan-Anhui border area to fight guerrillas, and move closer to the troops of the Fifth and First Theaters. Now is the time to make up your mind!

Yu Xuezhong immediately ordered a report to be sent to the Military Commission, requesting a temporary evacuation of Shandong, avoiding the enemy's edge, and returning to Shandong after the situation eased slightly.

This time, the Military Commission replied quickly and agreed to Yu Xuezhong's request. Now it's time to find an opportunity to break through at night.

Liu Yimin was waiting in Zhangwan and waiting, and the clouds were about to grow in his eyes, and he finally waited for the Japanese heavy army group to pounce on Lunan.

At this time, it was not the sudden attack of the Japanese army at the beginning of the sweep, the devils gathered in Shandong, and their every move could not escape the eyes of the Eighth Route Army. After receiving the report that the Japanese heavy army group rushed to Lunan from all directions, Cai Zhong was so happy that he actually slandered Zhao Man once, asked Zhao Man to take out the treasured sugar, and made a bowl of white sugar water for him, Liu Yimin, and Luo Ronghuan.

By this time, Liu Yimin's plan to mobilize the Japanese army had begun to see the light of hope. The fly in the ointment is that Tada Jun was too cunning and the Japanese army was too large, and he even left the 37th Division, the 40th Division, the 41st Division, and four groups of the North China Public Security Army in Luxi and southern Hebei. That's not all, Tada Jun also transferred the 110th Division back to the Pingjin area, which cast a shadow on Liu Yimin's plan to attack and occupy Tianjin next.

In any case, the huge Japanese heavy army group finally pounced on Lunan, which had created an opportunity for our army to eliminate the 38th Division. Liu Yimin is waiting for this opportunity! Therefore, when Luo Ronghuan proposed that the New Eighth Brigade should be ordered to deploy to the north to prevent the Hexi Group of the Japanese puppet army commanded by Anda 23 from going south to reinforce the battlefield in southwest Lu, Liu Yimin actually laughed, no, the three garrison divisions and the four North China Public Security Army groups that have been repeatedly hit are not enough, they just come if they want to come, Lao Tzu is waiting for them!

Cai Zhong held the tea bowl and moved: "That is, as long as Anda Twenty-three is not afraid of death, just come, Lao Tzu is waiting for him!" What I'm afraid of is that as soon as we do, Anda Twenty-three will be a turtle with a shrunken head. I'm afraid he also knows what kind of goods he commands, it's not the second division, the fifth division, and the sixth division, it's the garrison division, and the old men are waiting for them to serve it! ”

Seeing that Liu Yimin and Cai Zhong's emotions were so high, Luo Ronghuan was also infected, and he smiled, if Anda Twenty-three dared to go south for reinforcements, he would simply change the battle plan, and urgently ordered Liu Jianli, Zhang Hongtao, Chen Zaidao, Xu Shiyou, and Zeng Chunjian to quickly move south, form an encirclement of Anda Twenty-three, and destroy the three garrison divisions and four puppet army groups of the Japanese army in World War I. When the time comes, let Tada Jun cry!

Zhao Man on the side pursed his lips and smiled, and said softly: "Political commissar, Tada Jun may not cry wow. He was a shriveled old man with underdeveloped tear ducts. I thought that Tada would probably commit suicide by disembowelment in shame. ”

After that, Zhao Man felt that he was too talkative, this is the conversation of the leaders, where is there room for his own interference? What's wrong with you, is it because you consciously feel that you have something to rely on?

Realizing this, Zhao Manden blushed, said sorry, and turned around and ran out.

Cai Zhong blushed when he saw Zhao Man inexplicably, and ran out, just: "The girl is a face, she blushes at every turn, troublesome!" ”

Luo Ronghuan drank the sugar water, put the bowl down, and urged Liu Yimin to start acting.

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