Chapter 870: The Battle of Lunan (3)

The chaotic characteristics of the Lunan campaign became more and more obvious.

On the evening of 8 October, except for Wang Nanhu's southeastern Lu detachment, Wang Jian'an's Taixi Garrison Brigade, Zhang Haitao's Tai'an Detachment, and Yu Xuezhong's Sulu Theater troops who worked all night in Ping-Pong with the Japanese army on Longhai Road, Jinpu Road, and Feixian, our army in Shandong seized the opportunity of the Japanese planes that could not be dispatched at night to fight a special battle and start a fierce battle with the Japanese puppet army.

Liu Jianli commanded the three main brigades of the Second Brigade, the Sixth Brigade, and the New Second Brigade, and continued to sweep the Japanese puppet strongholds north of the Yellow River and west of Jinpu Road with a flat push posture.

Yuan Guoping and Xu Guangda in Jinan commanded the Jinan Garrison Brigade, the Luzhong Garrison Brigade, and the Qinghe Garrison Brigade to fight more happily.

Originally, the Jinan area was the area with the strictest rule by the Japanese puppet army, and there were many traitors, puppet soldiers, and military police agents of the Japanese army. After the Eighth Route Army captured Jinan, it uprooted the Japanese puppet regime system in Jinan. However, the Communist Party and the Eighth Route Army are policy-oriented, and traitors with evil deeds are easy to talk about and severely punished. For those who follow the Japanese puppet army and traitors to eat and eat, and the bad deeds are not too big, they cannot simply be shot, but can only be released by education. Most of these people are idle people, and the vast majority of them cannot change their minds, and in order to make a living, they will continue to follow the Japanese puppet army. In addition, when the Eighth Route Army captured Jinan, it attacked Jinan directly, and many traitor forces in the surrounding areas had a chance to escape. After the Eighth Route Army withdrew from Jinan, these traitors and the guys who followed the Japanese puppet army returned to their old business and became accomplices of the Japanese puppet army, helping the Japanese puppet army to restore the rule of Jinan. As a result, the struggle in Jinan became extremely cruel and difficult.

The Japanese puppet army also established a puppet regime and repaired a stronghold in the Jinan area, forcing the Jinan garrison brigade and the local political power and local armed forces in various counties to go underground.

The Japanese puppet army's campaign to strengthen public order in the Jinan area was very distinctive; first, it carried out enslavement education, required schools to be specially equipped with Japanese teachers, offered Japanese language courses, newspapers must publicize the common prosperity of Greater East Asia, and before the opera troupe performed, it was necessary to publicize the unity of Japan, Manchuria, and China, and even those who pulled rickshaws on the street had to plant the five-color flag of the puppet Republic of China Provisional Government on their vehicles. Then there is the Huairou policy, such as encouraging the common people to do business in various counties and Jinan City, and to make grain. The funniest thing is that the Japanese army also got a few buses from China, which were specially sent from Jinan to the surrounding counties. Finally, there is the brutal high-pressure policy. The Japanese army not only set up strongholds and police stations along highways and railways and in market towns, but also often organized sweeps and killed local cadres, guerrillas, and militiamen of the Eighth Route Army. There are human heads hanging on the heads of the city of Jinan and the surrounding counties every day, and the traitors are still beating gongs and shouting: "This is the fate of the Communist Party"

After Tada Jun implemented the cage policy, the Japanese puppet army in Shandong took Jinan as an experimental area and vigorously promoted the system of good citizen certificates, and everyone over the age of 15 had to apply for good citizen certificates. As long as there is no certificate of good citizenship, they will be treated as a common party, either shot or buried alive.

Now it was finally time to settle accounts with the Japanese puppet army, and all the local armed forces of the Eighth Route Army in Jinan took action, and launched a counteroffensive with the Jinan Garrison Brigade, the Luzhong Garrison Brigade, and the Qinghe Garrison Brigade. The county brigades, district squads and militia all came out of the tunnels, carrying mines and explosive packs, and followed behind the main force. When the Eighth Route Army attacked the strongholds of the Japanese puppet army, the county brigades, district squads, and militia went to attack the puppet police stations, puppet self-defense regiments, and maintenance associations, and the cooperation was seamless.

In accordance with the operational plan of the division headquarters, Yuan Guoping and Xu Guangda seized the characteristics of the Japanese puppet army's extensive distribution of strongholds and scattered troops in the Jinan area, and deployed the three brigades, taking regiments and battalions as units, and using the tunnel network to find small strongholds of the Japanese puppet army. A battalion of the Eighth Route Army dealt with a squad of devils or a company of puppet troops, fighting more and less, and hitting one accurately. It seems that the results are not big, but they add up to a lot, and they are also very considerable. In just two nights, the commander of the Japanese 12th Army, Iida Sadagu, was called out, saying that the public security situation in Jinan was greatly unstable.

After the end of the Battle of Taixi, under the mobilization of the Eighth Route Army to fight in the south and in the north, the Japanese troops in southwest Lu were attracted to the Longhai Road. Chen Shiqu, commander of the Southwest Lu Garrison Brigade, set up the brigade headquarters in Heze, and deployed the troops in an all-round way to establish local political power and local armed forces.

At this time, southwest Lu was poor and chaotic, and there were not only the scattered armed forces of the Kuomintang, but also bandits and various gangs. The 38th Division of the Japanese Army, which retreated to Longhai Road, and the 27th Division stationed in Yanzhou, Jining, often sent troops to sweep the southwest Lu region to grab grain and arrest Ding. Gao Yuan, commander of the Southwest Lu Military Region, led the First Brigade and the New First Brigade to follow Liu Yimin's actions, and the strength of the Southwest Lu Garrison Brigade alone was a little weaker.

The complicated situation in southwest Lu is difficult for Chen Shiqu. Speaking of Chen Shiqu, it is not simple. His father and ancestors were in the army, and he was the deputy company commander when the Red Army was first founded, and he was one of the most proud Red Army generals, and he had a deep understanding of the true meaning of our army to mobilize the masses and expand the troops.

Chen Shiqu commanded the Southwest Lu Garrison Brigade to fight hard in the southwest Lu region, but he was able to vigorously reorganize all kinds of variegated armed forces, and established local political power one after another, and even built small arsenals, which could reload bullets and make explosive packs, grenades, and mines.

After receiving the order to attack on Longhai Road and cover the Lunan Campaign, Chen Shiqu and Wang Bingsan, commander of the Luxi Second Garrison Brigade, who had rushed to cooperate with the operation, led their troops south to Cao County and held an operational meeting in Cao County. Chen Shiqu said very concisely and in a popular way at the meeting: "Although this operation is a feint attack and a coordinated operation, it must show the prestige of the Southwest Lu Garrison Brigade and the Second Lu West Garrison Brigade. Brother comrade is going to ask, Lao Tzu has no artillery regiment, no tank armored vehicles, and hard work is definitely not the opponent of the devil, how can he be majestic. Let me say that it is still the old method of Division Commander Liu, guerrilla warfare and movement warfare. We first took advantage of the night to make a large-scale attack on Longhai Road, attracting the devils to retaliate and sweep, and led the little devils by the nose with a camouflage main force to wander around southwest Luxi. The main force detoured behind enemy lines and specialized in fighting the logistics supply lines of the little devils. Especially the vehicles used by the little devils to transport weapons and ammunition, they can't let go of a single one. There are so many armed people in Luxinan now, and there is a shortage of guns and bullets. Many district squads and militiamen have earthen rifles in their hands, and some teams have taken out earthen cannons and pine cannons, so can they be used for birds? There are a lot of good guns and artillery for the little devil, and we went to rob him of the main force of the dog's day to fight the logistics and baggage troops of the little devil, and the local armed forces specially cleaned up the lone little devil. If you kill a little devil, you can get back a 38 cover and 100 rounds of ammunition. The devils are sent to the door, and the big guys don't have to be polite to them. The devil beat him when he was alone, touched in and beat him when the devil was camping, and beat him when the devil's small army searched and investigated. Not only the main force beats the little devils, but also the county brigades, district squads, militia teams, and local cadres all have ideas to beat the little devils. It is also necessary to mobilize the villagers in southwest Lu to rise up and beat up the little devils. You have to publicize it clearly to the villagers, the Eighth Route Army rewards the villagers for killing devils, killing a little devil, and getting a gun, you can go to the district government, the county government and the Eighth Route Army to receive bonuses, which is faster than feeding pigs and making a fortune Don't tell me that you don't have money, there is a lot of money in the Luxinan Branch of Bohai Bank. The division commander told me a long time ago that the money was for the purpose of fighting devils, and it would work if I signed and approved the money

The 38th Division of the Japanese Army, which fought against the Southwest Lu Garrison Brigade and the Second Luxi Garrison Brigade, was going to be unlucky this time

On the evening of October 6, when the Fifth Brigade captured Xin'an Town, Chen Shiqu and Wang Bingsan commanded the Southwest Lu Garrison Brigade and the Luxi Second Garrison Brigade to launch a breaking battle on Longhai Road. However, neither the Southwest Lu Garrison Brigade nor the Second Luxi Garrison Brigade had heavy artillery regiments such as field artillery or mountain artillery, and some were only infantry guns, so the target of the attack could not be the heavily fortified towns of the Japanese army, but the railway line between the weakly fortified towns of the Japanese army. On the evening of October 7, Chen Shiqu commanded the troops to attack the Longhai Line again and dismantle the railway.

The little devil couldn't stand it anymore, and the 38th Division, under the strict orders of Tada Jun, mobilized heavy troops on October 8 and began to sweep Cao County, apparently trying to reoccupy the southwest of Lu.

The devil's retaliatory sweep is right in Chen Shiqu's hands. The Southwest Lu Garrison Brigade and the Second Luxi Garrison Brigade sent a regiment to engage the little devils head-on, adopting the tactics of resisting at all levels and luring the enemy into depth, leading the devils by the nose to travel in Cao County. The main force is hidden and waiting in Cao County.

On the evening of October 8, Chen Shiqu gave the little devil a surprise, and commanded the troops to surround a baggage convoy escorted by the two squadrons of the little devil in Yandian Building, Cao County. In just half an hour, the little devil was eaten by the main forces of the Luxi Southwest Garrison Brigade and the Luxi Second Garrison Brigade, and the weapons of two squadrons of the Japanese army and 30 carts of ammunition and flour were seized. When Japanese reinforcements arrived, there was nothing left at the scene except for more than 300 Japanese corpses. Even the pack horses that were killed were brought back to eat horse meat by the Eighth Route Army.

This kind of skirmish is naturally not worth mentioning in the history of the Mentor War. However, for the Southwest Lu Garrison Brigade, especially the Second Lu Xi Garrison Brigade, that is very significant. The two garrison brigades may not be able to kill so many little devils in such a large-scale operation as the attack on Longhai Road. Therefore, when Chen Shiqu sent a telegram to Liu Yimin, he couldn't hide his excitement, and deliberately wrote two verses of "Yandianlou's knife is a small test, and the soul of the little devil returns to the East".

At this time, Liu Yimin led the main force back to the county seat of Feixian County, and was staring at the changes in the battlefield

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