Weep blood and beg for a monthly pass.

The great battle of birds, balloons, and planes at the Twenty-Lipu Airport had a tremendous impact on all units of the Eighth Route Army.

When the Central Guard Division of Qingxi Town used flying thunder cannons and land mines and electric explosive packs for the first time, the soldiers were eye-opened, and many people could not imagine that those pots and pots could also make mines and become sharp weapons for killing. Those gasoline drums can be made into cannon barrels that fire explosive packets, and they are incredibly powerful. Many of the soldiers were sighing in their hearts at the time, it turns out that waste can also be used in this way.

In the past, I just thought that the knowledge that the division commander said was combat effectiveness, that is, learning cultural knowledge well, picking up a steel gun to fight, picking up a hoe to farm, picking up a hammer to work, picking up a book to teach, I didn't think that this knowledge is combat effectiveness covers more content, and if you have knowledge and love to study, you can come up with new methods that others can't even dream of. Everything in nature can be used to deal with little devils, but we just can't figure it out enough. Since you can use flocks of birds to deal with the little devil's planes, there must be something else that can deal with the little devil's tanks, artillery and warships, this matter has to be carefully considered.

Of course, this is all an afterthought, and the immediate reaction is from Weixian to Anqiu to Boshan, Linqu, Gaomi, and Jiaoxian, and the areas controlled by all units of the Eighth Route Army have received a request for help from Zhou Yi's special air defense team, and they immediately mobilized their fellow villagers to catch birds, and after they were caught, they were handed over to all units of the Eighth Route Army for centralized use. At the same time, all the brigades also received a telegram from Zhou Yi, in which he gave a detailed account of the flock of birds over the Twenty-Lipu Airport against the Japanese military planes, and Zhou Yi pointed out that after practical tests, the use of thick smoke can protect the battlefield and air defense fire can effectively destroy the Japanese military planes, but the most cost-effective and trouble-saving thing is to use flying birds, balloons, and kites to eliminate the Japanese planes.

Zhou Yi is indeed talented, and he also specifically described several levels of air defense operations in his telegram: When the plane drops bombs at high altitude, it emits thick smoke to interfere with the line of sight and play a role in protecting the battlefield; The larger the size of the flock, the better, and it can be released in batches according to the number of planes; Balloons can also be dropped at low altitudes, but the effect of balloons hitting the aircraft is not as good as that of birds, and the biggest effect is to disturb the pilot's line of sight and cause panic in the aircraft group; Although the effect of kites is better than that of balloons, it has strict requirements for wind direction and slow take-off speed, which can be used as a supplement to flocks of birds and balloons; Fleets of aircraft between high and low altitudes should be released with hot air balloons.

Zhou Yi himself knows that the other troops are not prepared, where will there be hot air balloons and balloons? Therefore, he emphasized the role of the bird flock.

This time, the instructor's troops were a sensation, and the little bird was able to shoot down the little devil's plane, which is too good, right? As a result, the villagers were urgently mobilized, and the birds in the Luzhong area suffered.

Liu Yimin couldn't have imagined that as soon as Zhou Yi's special air defense team made a move, it would set off such a big shock wave in the hearts of cadres and soldiers. He's so busy right now that he doesn't have time to think about them.

Now the two airports in Xuzhou have been terminated, and the military planes in Jinan and Qingdao have basically been cleaned up by Zhou Yi and them, and it is time to eliminate the main force of the 108th Division and the 33rd Division.

Last night, when Liu Yimin led the 1st Regiment and the 2nd Squadron of the 3rd Special Operations Formation led by Wang Laohu to pass through Anqiu and enter Weicheng, all the units of the instructor were taking advantage of the cover of night to hurry up the movement, and at dawn, the artillery brigade, the air defense brigade, and the heavy machine gun regiment, which Liu Yimin relied on the most, also moved to the vicinity of Fangzi and were waiting for the opportunity in concealment.

He received the telegram sent by Mr. Peng on behalf of the chairman, and he also received the telegram sent by Mr. Zhu on behalf of the chairman. After reading the telegram, Liu Yimin's heart was surging, although one of the two telegrams advocated a large-scale fight and a decisive battle in Shandong, and the other telegram emphasized judging the hour and sizing up the situation and controlling the scale of the campaign, both of them demanded that Liu Yimin should be steady and ruthless in his blows against the 108th Division and the 33rd Division, and annihilate them all in one fell swoop, so as to strictly prevent the little devils from smelling the wind and slipping away.

Thinking of the three major battles during the Liberation War in history, Liu Yimin knew that the strength of the Eighth Route Army was much stronger than at this time in history, and [***], as a grand strategist, was already ambitious and wanted to speed up the development.

Thinking about the history of the Wuhan battle, the Kuomintang is going to start to do some small actions to restrict the development of [***], and then a series of frictions will begin, Liu Yimin is a little concerned in his heart, feeling that if the Kuomintang and the Communist Party do not have friction and the guns are the same to the outside world, maybe they don't have to cross by themselves, and the War of Resistance in history will not be able to fight for eight years.

Liu Yimin didn't think deeper, the most important thing in front of him was to fight the Battle of Jiaoji Road, and first eliminate the two brigades of the 108th Division and the 33rd Division of the little devil.

At this time, the situation was already very clear, and it can be seen from the telegram sent by the 12th Army to the 108th Division that the chief of staff of the 12th Army, Kobayashi Asaburo, was already in a hurry, and he made it clear in the telegram to Shimoto Kumaya that he had strictly ordered the 25th Brigade, the 104th Brigade and the 33rd Division to quickly reinforce Fangzi and recapture Odaka Kamezo. With his help, this battle will be even better.

Liu Yimin knew in his heart that Kobayashi Asaburo did not have a deep understanding of the operational characteristics of the instructor, and as the chief of staff of the 12th Army, he would not be able to recapture Odaka Kamezo, and he would be held accountable for dereliction of duty, so he strictly ordered all troops to attack Fangzi Twenty Lipu Airport. However, Kobayashi Asaburo does not understand the tactical characteristics of the instructor, which does not mean that other devil commanders do not understand. For example, the commander of the North China Front, Terauchi Shouichi, and the chief of staff, Naosaburo Okabe. Terauchi Shouichi said that he should have returned from Germany, and I don't know why he hasn't returned yet, and it is estimated that this old devil is scared of being beaten and wants to delay time and seek to serve in his homeland. It is said that Naosaburo Gangbe should have gone to the first division to serve as the division commander at this time, but I don't know why he hasn't gone yet. Okaka Kamezo was caught in such a big matter, they will definitely know about it at the first time, Okabe Naosaburo is okay to say, that guy is relatively mediocre, Terauchi Shouyi old devil will be in trouble if he knows, he will see through his battle plan at a glance, and he will also see the fact that Weicheng and Fangzi have been lost from Otaka Kamezo in the north of the Twenty Mile Fort Airport, maybe he will take decisive measures, and immediately give orders to Okabe Naosaburo and Kobayashi Asaburo to order the two brigades of the 10th Eighth Division to quickly withdraw to Jinan, Order the 33rd Division to withdraw to Qingdao or Laizhou Bay. It seems that Mr. Zhu and Mr. Peng are justified in their worries, and they have to compete with the army for time.

Liu Yimin thought about it for a while, and knew that it was correct for the chairman and the two bosses to remind them to prevent the army from escaping in the direction of Jinan, Laizhou Bay, and Qingdao, but it was not necessary to put the battlefield in Anqiu. Now it's time to compete with the army, it's too late to be too late, and there is no need to transfer the battlefield.

At present, the most direct and effective method is to use the tail high turtle hiding as bait to carry out a fishing plan, and transfer the two brigades of the 108th Division, the 33rd Division, and the Jiaoji Road garrison to the vicinity of Weixian to gather and annihilate them.

Of course, according to the battle plan, Liu Yimin adopted the method of division and annihilation, he didn't need to let all the little devils gather together, like the 25th Brigade, the distance was too far, and if they were alerted in the middle, they might escape, and there was no need to wait for them to rush to Twenty Mile Fort to annihilate them, it would take too long.

After Liu Yimin arrived in Weicheng at night, he once again ordered the 25th Brigade and the 104th Brigade to quickly assemble troops in the name of Xiong Mi, the lower Yuan, and prepare to move closer to the headquarters of the Weixian Division.

As the army was about to launch a sweeping operation on the Jiaoji Road, the 25th Brigade and the 104th Brigade had already been ordered to assemble troops, and the main forces had basically been assembled except for some strongholds that penetrated deep into the Qinghe area. After Zeng Zhongsheng commanded the main forces of the 7th Brigade and the Qinghe Garrison Brigade and the Jiaodong Garrison Brigade to launch an attack last night, the small strongholds of the 25th Brigade and the 10th and 4th Brigades that penetrated deep into the Qinghe area were uprooted one after another, and the losses were very heavy. Originally, these little devils had already asked for tactical guidance from Xia Yuan Xiong Mi, asking for permission to gather troops. Xia Yuan Xiong Mi had also ordered them to shrink and concentrate on Jiaoji Road at that time. Now that Liu Yimin ordered like this, the little devil didn't care about anything else, and hurriedly retreated and assembled.

By the time Major General Kobayashi Asaburo ordered these troops to march towards Twenty Mile Fort and reinforce Otaka Kamezo, the army soon began to move.

Liu Yimin also received the order from Kobayashi Asaburo, and immediately issued an order in the name of Xia Yuan Xiong Mi, asking the 104th Brigade, which had already set out from Yidu, to command the garrison troops of Yidu and Changle of the Jiaoji Road Garrison, to quickly advance to Twenty Miles Fort, and cooperate with the troops directly under the division and the 105th Wing stationed in Fangzi to eliminate the Eighth Route Army that attacked the airport. The 25th Brigade departing from Zhangdian was ordered to command the Jiaoji Road garrison in Zhangdian and Linzi to advance rapidly eastward by trains, automobiles, Jiaoji cars, bicycles, and war horses to support the 104th Brigade in combat. The two supplementary brigades of the 108th Division stationed in Changyi and Pingdu were ordered to immediately return to Weicheng to take over the garrison tasks of the troops directly under the division after leaving the city, and to make preparations to support the main force in combat.

In the order, Liu Yimin disguised himself as Yuan Xiong Mi and sadly warned the commanders of the 108th Division, His Excellency Lieutenant General Otaka Kamezo, the commander of the 12th Army, who was attacked by the Tubalu in Twenty Libao, which was a shame for the 108th Division, especially since the Chinese political axe has announced that he will be publicly tried and punished, which is to make the Great Imperial Empire and His Majesty the Emperor lose face in front of the whole world. If His Excellency the Commander cannot be saved, all the generals and adjutants of the 108th Division must apologize to His Majesty the Emperor by disembowelment, and wash away the shame with their own blood.

Liu Yimin asked all units of the 108th Division to report their progress to the division headquarters every half hour, and at the same time ordered [***] Feng to draft a report on the enemy situation of the 108th Division, and to report the enemy situation to the 25th Brigade, the 104th Brigade, and the 33rd Division every half hour.

Liu Yimin set the first wave of blows on the 104th Brigade, the reason is that they are closest to Fangzi and Weixian, and last night the Eighth Route Army attacked in an all-round way, after attacking and occupying several county seats, the main force of the 10th 5th Wing was basically wiped out, and now there are only three infantry brigades of the 52nd Wing and one infantry brigade of the 10th Fifth Wing, a total of four infantry brigades, they will definitely arrive near the Twenty Lipu Airport first, if they don't eliminate them first, who will they eliminate?

With the 1st Teaching Brigade, the Cavalry Brigade, the Engineer Brigade, and the Formation and Training Headquarters forming a temporary formation and training detachment, and the heavy firepower group directly under the division, Liu Yimin didn't have to think about it to know that as long as the 104th Brigade rushed to the vicinity of Twenty Lipu and eliminated them, it would not take much effort.

As long as the main force of the 25th Brigade sets out from Zhangdian and crosses Linzi and Yidu, it will fall into the defense circle of the Eighth Route Army between Yidu and Changle, and the firepower of the three main brigades and the three artillery regiments, plus the Qinghe Garrison Brigade and the Jiaodong Garrison Brigade to help in the battle, Liu Yimin knows that the number of the 25th Brigade will disappear from the military sequence.

In the third wave, only the 33rd Division remained.

For the 33rd Division, Liu Yimin himself knew that he had to deal with it carefully. Because when Zeng Zhongsheng led the Ludong Group to fight in Zhoucun, this army had defeated it by surprise. Although the 33rd Division was later replenished in a timely manner, and was tempered in the pursuit of the Ludong Group and the encirclement and suppression of Jiaodong, it is possible that his combat effectiveness will rise instead of falling, after all, he has suffered heavy losses in the hands of the Eighth Route Army, and he has a psychological shadow. If they knew that the main force of the Eighth Route Army was in front, I am afraid that they would immediately turn around and retreat to the east or build fortifications on the spot.

There is no fear of escaping to the east, the 33rd Division has already arrived near Pingdu, and behind them there are the 6th Jiao Brigade that is following and monitoring from Gaomi, and the 8 Jiao 8 Brigade who rushed from Jiao County, and they can't run away if they want to. However, Liu Yimin didn't want to fight a tough battle, nor did he want to fight a pursuit war, he just wanted to gather the little devils and send them to hell with shells and bullets.

The two brigades of the 33rd Division and the 108th Division were different.

The two brigades of the 108th Division have now lost their unified command, no, there is still unified command, but the division commander in charge of unified command, Lieutenant General Xia Yuan Xiongmi, has been replaced by Liu Yimin, the instructor and division commander. Even if Kobayashi Asaburo or Okabe Naosaburo gave them orders directly, then they had to listen to the orders of the division commander, didn't they? In a hurry, Liu Yimin can also bypass the brigade commander and give orders directly to the wing commander. The brigade commanders of the divisions and regiments of the army themselves do not play a very important role, and when the brigade commanders are not fighting alone, they are of little use.

Although the strength of the 33rd Division was not as strong as that of the 108th Division, and there were only three infantry regiments composed of three directly subordinate wings and three infantry wings, the division commander, Lieutenant General Ganji Shigetaro, acted with the army and had unified command. Looking at the telegrams left by Xia Yuan Xiongmi, although the army had a plan for the 108th Division to command the 33rd Division to launch the Jiaoji Road sweeping operation, now the situation has changed, and it is still unknown whether it can command the 33rd Division.

Fortunately, with the help of Kobayashi Asaburo, this guy has already ordered the 33rd Division to advance towards the Twenty Forts airfield.

Liu Yimin sent a telegram to Lieutenant General Ganji Jutaro in the name of Lieutenant General Kuma Mi, and the telegram said as follows:

"Your Excellency Lieutenant General Gan Ji Shigetaro, commander of the 33rd Division: Last night, our division received an order from the headquarters of the 12th Army to cancel the Jiaoji Road sweeping operation plan, and ordered the 33rd Division to move closer to our headquarters to form a heavy army group to prevent a sneak attack by the Eighth Route Army. In an accident this morning, Toshiyuki Toshiyuki, the chief of staff, was involved in a car accident on the way to greet Commander Otaka Kamezo, and both were injured. He immediately received an urgent telegram from His Excellency Major General Kobayashi Asaburo, chief of staff of the 12th Army, saying that he had received a telegram from Commander Otaka Kamezo that he had been attacked at the Twenty-Ripu Airport and was in urgent need of rescue. The contemptible man immediately carried him back to the headquarters on a stretcher and directed the troops to quickly reinforce the Twenty Lipu airfield. Later, he received a telegram from His Excellency Chief of Staff Kobayashi Asaburo, saying that Commander Otaka Kamezo had fallen into the hands of the Tsuchihachi Road, and ordered the 108th Division and the 33rd Division to be dispatched quickly to rescue His Excellency the Commander.

His Excellency Commander Otaka Kamizo was attacked in the defense area of our division, and it was really the incompetence of our division, and I am sorry for His Majesty the Emperor and Your Excellency the Commander. I have mobilized my forces in pursuit, and now I have caught the tail of the sneak attacker and begun to attack. However, the reason why Tubalu was able to succeed in the sneak attack at Twenty Mile Fort was because the Tubalu in the mountains went down. Their combat effectiveness is quite strong. I have ordered the whole division to reinforce the Twenty-Ribao airfield, and in any case to rescue His Excellency Commander Otaka Kamezo. If the rescue fails, the contemptible person will apologize for his guilt. In view of the fact that both the Contempt and the Chief of Staff Suzuki have been wounded and have difficulty in moving, which may affect the operational command, and that the Tubalu is extremely cunning and vicious, I sincerely request that Your Excellency lead the 33rd Division to the front line of Weixian and Fangzi as a support force for our division. After you arrive in Weixian, you can sit at the headquarters of the 108th Division and command the two divisions in a unified manner. ”

After sending the telegram, Liu Yimin ordered [***] Feng to send a report on the enemy situation to Lieutenant General Ganji Jutaro every half an hour, urging him to advance quickly.

At one moment, it was an order from Chief of Staff Kobayashi Asaburo of the 12th Army Headquarters, an order from Lieutenant General Shimoto Kumaya, commander of the 108th Division, and a briefing on the enemy situation issued by the headquarters of the 10th and 8th Division. Later, even Lieutenant General Naosaburo Gangbe, chief of staff of the North China Front, began to pass over the headquarters of the 12th Army and the headquarters of the 108th Division and began to give them orders.

The 33rd Division was originally stationed in Jiaodong, and after Otaka Kamizo served as the commander of the 12th Army, he ordered to launch a Jiaoji Road sweeping operation, and ordered the 33rd Division to march west to participate in the battle, under the command of the 108th Division. In the past few days, the 33rd Division handed over the defense of Jiaodong to the Qingdao garrison, marched all the way west, and finally arrived at the border of Pingdu County in a hurry, preparing to continue westward from Pingdu and cooperate with the 108th Division to carry out a dragnet sweep in the Qinghe area. As a result, just after the arrival of the troops, they had just rested for the night, and they received an order from Kobayashi Asaburo to reinforce Twenty Mile Fort, could Lieutenant General Ganji Shigetaro's mood not be irritable?

(To be continued)