Chapter 722 Drag the Knife Meter

After Liu Yimin returned to Shuanggou Town, all units reported their battle plans and preparations for mobilization one after another. After Liu Yimin saw it, he called back one after another and instructed them one by one.

Considering that the Japanese army had blocked the lower section of the Yellow River, and could transfer troops from the Jilu border at any time to raid the Qinghe area and copy the rear road of our army, Liu Yimin specially sent a report to Tan Zheng, Yuan Guoping, and Xu Guangda, asking the Qinghe Garrison Brigade to make two preparations, one is to make a counterattack for the Japanese army's sneak attack at night, and the other is to make preparations for the delay in the Japanese army's sneak attack during the day, especially in the event of a surprise attack by the Japanese army's large corps, it is necessary to organize county brigades, district xiǎo teams, and militia to widely distribute mine arrays, and use tunnel warfare and mine arrays to block and disturb the devils. Let the xiǎo devil become a blind donkey and a blind horse, and be beaten everywhere. This is because if the Japanese army crosses the river during the day, it will inevitably concentrate its aviation to cover it, and the main force of our army will not be able to form an effective blockade, so it will have to launch attacks and harass the enemy and delay combat operations.

With regard to the plan proposed by the 3rd, 4th, 7th, and 8th Brigades led by Li Qing to attack Qingdao to attract the enemy's 36th Division to the east and ambush the 36th Division, Liu Yimin pointed out that the Japanese army had developed sea transportation, and that the last time the Japanese army reoccupied Lianyungang, the Fifth Division, the Guards Division, the Sixth Division, the 16th Division, and the armored brigade and regiment to covertly land in Qingdao and this raid on the Jilu border, they all secretly transported troops by sea. Therefore, after the Qingdao direction is launched, the Japanese army is likely to begin to order the 36th Division to come to the east, but the most likely is that the Japanese army will directly transfer the backbone division from the Jilu border to Qingdao by sea, and then counterattack the Jiaodong garrison brigade that we attacked Qingdao. Once the Jiaodong Garrison Brigade cannot support it, the Japanese army may take advantage of the victory to chase after it, and the Jiaodong base area will be in danger at that time. If this happens, it is very likely that my Ludong hidden main force will be empty-handed, and it will not be able to destroy Li Wenli's department, nor can it be ambushed, which is equivalent to running for nothing. Therefore, Liu Yimin asked Li Qing to conscientiously sum up the experience of the Xiǎo water ambush and the Qingxi Town ambush battle, and not to place the troops between Gaomi and Jiaoxian, so that he would probably not be able to wait for the Japanese army to send east aid from Weicheng. We should boldly move the troops, put the main force on the line of the Weihe Bridge between Gaomi and Weicheng, and as soon as the Japanese army in Weicheng leaves the city, we will ambush it, so that it will not have time to retract back to Weicheng and Fangzi. Only in this way can the main force of the Li Wenli Department in Anqiu be successfully annihilated.

For the Jilu border, Liu Yimin asked Zeng and Cai to move quickly at night and be sure to lead the recruit team of the Sixth Brigade and Di Yidong and Zhao Mingxin on the Jilu border on the night of March 19 to break through the Jinpu Road and join up with the Second Brigade and the Luxi Garrison Brigade. Zeng Zhongsheng was especially reminded that the implementation of the knife timer, the action of turning over and destroying the enemy should be sharp, the firepower should be concentrated, and the pursuing Japanese army must be frightened and frightened.

As for the plan of Lunan commanded by Hong Chaoyuan to raid Lianyungang, Liu Yimin highly praised it, and instructed Hong Chaoyuan to use all the troops that could be used, and to give Li Chang the unified command of the artillery regiment of the Fifth Brigade, and to destroy the Japanese fortifications in one fell swoop and quickly capture Lianyungang.

After returning from the first brigade, Liu Yimin stayed in front of the radio all night, until Hong Chaoyuan reported the successful capture of Lianyungang, Liu Yimin waited for the wind to call back and asked to immediately organize all forces to carry the seized materials overnight, and after dawn to evacuate and hide, prepare for air defense, he climbed on the desk and fell asleep.

On 19 March, early in the morning, Japanese planes went crazy and bombed indiscriminately in the areas of Qingdao, Lianyungang, and Jinan. The Japanese army not only accelerated the speed of the combined attack in the Hebei-Shandong border area, but also began to build pontoon bridges over the Yellow River under the cover of aircraft.

At noon, the 10th Division of the Japanese Army and two independent brigades stepped across the pontoon bridge and attacked the Qinghe area with great vigour.

Due to the tactics adopted by the Japanese army to escort the aircraft without interruption, the Qinghe Garrison Brigade was unable to organize an effective interception at all, and could only swing a large mine array on the highways and country roads. Now it was lively, everywhere the devil went, there was the sound of mines, and there were constantly people holding the broken tuǐ on the side of the road and crying wolves, which frightened the soldiers of the independent hún brigade who had just completed their recruit training.

The main reason why Shanshan Yuan chose the 10th Division instead of the 14th Division to attack the Qinghe base area was that the commander of the 10th Division, Yoshio Shinozuka, was much more experienced in actual combat than the commander of the 14th Division, Seiichi Kita.

Yoshio Shinozuka really has a lot of ideas, and when he saw that the speed of the troops' progress was about the same as that of a snail, he immediately asked the aviation troops to bomb along the road and detonate mines with aerial bombs.

Yoshio Shinozuka's request was categorically rejected by the commander of the North China Front Air Group, Lieutenant General Toshitoshi Kinoshita. In a telegram, Kinoshita ridiculed Yoshio Shinozuka for treating his precious aerial bombs as dead fish that fishermen in Hokkaido could not sell, and threw them wherever he wanted. Don't you know that great Japan is short of resources, and steel is especially valuable?

As a result, Sugi Sugi Moto clearly instructed Kinoshita Toshitoshi to do what Yoshio Shinozuka asked.

In this way, the speed of the Japanese army's advance was indeed faster.

After receiving the report of the Japanese army's sneak attack on the Qinghe base area, Liu Yimin said in his heart that he should have come, and immediately called Tan Zheng and others back, asking them to tell Liao Rongbiao, commander of the Qinghe Garrison Brigade, that they should avoid the Japanese army during the day, conceal the movement troops, and give full play to our army's tradition of night warfare at night to fight special battles. The targets of the battle were the two independent hún brigades that operated with the 10th Division, which were a group of new recruits who had no battlefield experience and were crushed at the first blow. At the same time, Liu Yimin demanded that the Jinan Garrison Brigade and the Luzhong Garrison Brigade, which launched attacks on the strongholds of the Japanese puppet army in the surrounding areas of Jinan, take a covert rest during the day and actively attack at night to expand the results of the battle. As soon as the Japanese reinforcements arrive tomorrow, they must quickly withdraw from the battle, and they must not let the xiǎo devils catch the dumplings.

Since the Japanese army has attacked Qinghe, it is very likely that the shipping troops will strengthen the defense of Qingdao, but the troops transported to Qingdao need to concentrate on the seaside, and the time may be delayed a little longer. However, the troops transported to Qingdao must be the Jīng Rui Division, which is a strong fighting force, and they will definitely counterattack our army as soon as they arrive. Liu Yimin sent a report to Li Qing, asking him to immediately order the Jiaodong Garrison Brigade to launch another attack at night, with the Xiǎo troops attacking at night on multiple routes, and the main force retreated to prepare for the Japanese counterattack.

In the evening, Zeng Zhongsheng and Cai Zhong sent telegrams, reporting that up to now, the Japanese army had occupied the hinterland of the Jilu border, and Fu Zhuting commanded the main force of the New Sixth Brigade to turn to guerrillas behind enemy lines to contain the devils. The local armed forces and cadres in various counties went underground, and Zeng and Cai planned to lead the main force to cooperate with the Second Brigade at 1 a.m. tonight to cut down the Jinpu Road and carry out the knife towing plan.

This night was the key point of the blood and fire test on the Jilu border.

The temple is located in the east of the Laojian River and the west of the Maji River, and the north and south are a vast fertile field.

According to legend, a long time ago, there was an unknown surname monk, one day set foot in here, looking down on the sparkling Yellow River water surface, looking around the forest, hearing insects and birds singing, the river gurgling, the clear water and the forest, it is really a treasure land, determined to build a temple here to settle down. So, it turned the fate around, asked for help from all directions, and traveled to Yunnan and other places, the people of Li felt their piety, read their ambitions, donated alms, gathered silver 10,000 taels, transported here, built a temple, named "Yunyou Temple".

The Yellow River was later diverted, and Yunyou Temple did not know when it was renamed the Toutou Temple, only that it was rebuilt during the Ming Dynasty. The temple sits in the north and faces south, covering an area of about 20 acres. The buildings in the temple are symmetrically arranged along the north-south axis. The central axis is arranged from south to north in turn, there are mountain mén, Tianwang Palace, Daxiong Treasure Palace, Thousand Buddha Pavilion, and there are bells, drum towers, side halls, monks' houses and other buildings symmetrically distributed on both sides, the momentum is majestic, solemn and solemn.

At this moment, in the majestic Daxiong Treasure Hall, Zeng Zhongsheng, chief of staff of the Eighth Route Army, Cai Zhong, director of the Political Department, and Zhang Hongtao, commander of the Sixth Brigade, were holding a meeting of cadres above the battalion level of the Sixth Brigade, the Third Air Defense Regiment, and the new regiment raised by Di Yidong and Zhao Mingxin.

Zhang Hongtao conveyed Liu Yimin's telegram order to teach the Sixth Brigade to break through the Jinpu Road and enter Luxi, and then asked Cai Zhong to do pre-war mobilization.

The torch illuminated Cai Zhong's swarthy face more and more black, and the ròu monkey on his brow trembled, and his voice was also loud and powerful: "It is the order of the division commander to teach the Sixth Brigade to jump out of the encirclement of the Japanese army on the border of Hebei and Lu and go to Luxi." This order was a correct decision made in accordance with the hostile situation on the Jilu border. The fact that our army jumped out of the encirclement of the devils proved the failure of the Xiǎo devils' raid on the Jilu border. When we arrived at the Hebei and Lu borders, we joined forces with the Second Brigade, the Luxi Garrison Brigade, and the Luxi Second Garrison Brigade, so that we could rely on the base areas of Luxi and southern Hebei to deal with the devils. Division Commander Liu gave an example, that is, Wu Song on the Water Margin fought the tiger. The reason why Wu Song was able to kill the man-eating tiger on Jingyang Gang was because he concentrated all the strength of his body into his fists. Let's think about it, if Wu Song didn't use his fists, but stretched out his five fingers to incite the tiger's mouth, could he beat the tiger to death? ”

The cadres burst into laughter.

Cai Zhong nodded with satisfaction, and then said: "When we go to join the Luxi troops, we are going to take back the five fingers that have been stretched out, clench them into fists, and beat people with their fists. Let's think about it, our Second Brigade, Sixth Brigade, Luxi Garrison Brigade, and Luxi Garrison Second Brigade are concentrated together, and the strength of more than 50,000 people, if we catch the wings and brigades of the Xiǎo devils, wouldn't it be like drinking rice soup? ”

The cadres above the battalion level of the Sixth Brigade have all participated in the training team of the Seventh Red Army Corps, and they are all veterans of the Red Army who fought all the way on the Long March, and their military quality is relatively high. Cai Zhong's reasoning, they have long known. Therefore, without too much mobilization, the cadres are already screaming.

Cai Zhong said: "Now, what stands in front of us is the blockade line built by the Japanese army relying on railways and highways. In this blockade line, the xiǎo devils have put a lot of effort into it, not only with firepower points, but also with armored patrol vehicles patrolling back and forth. We want to pass, xiǎo devil won't let it, what should we do? Division Commander Liu said, the brave wins when they meet on a narrow road! He wants to see if it is the strong blockade line of the xiǎo devils, or the hard fists of my heroic and combative Sixth Brigade. Comrades, do you have confidence? ”

The cadres immediately raised their arms and shouted: "When the narrow road meets, the brave wins!" Rush through the blockade and hit Russy! ”

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