The Sixth Division of the Chinese People's Liberation Army committed many crimes in the war of aggression against China in its history.

This division originated from Kumamoto Zhentai, and the first division commander was the mountain gento, this guy was a one-eyed dragon, surnamed Ge Fierce, and admired bushido.

The style of a unit is directly related to the style of the first commander. There is no other reason, what style the first commander is, what style he likes his subordinates, and the promotion of officers he likes is also his favorite officer, and the unique style of the army is formed after coming and going. In addition, Kumamoto was poor and the people were fierce, so the 6th Division became the most tenacious attack arrow in the army.

Lieutenant General Shiro Inaba, the current commander of the Sixth Division, is a cavalry general in his bones, a cavalry instructor of the Beiyang political axe, and also the principal of the Kwantung Army Cavalry School. This guy, like his predecessor Tani Shofu, is a general who advocates offense.

After listening to the battle plan introduced by Lieutenant General Naosaburo Okabe, Shiro Inaba thought about it and felt that with such a huge force, there was no need to go around such a big circle with Dohachiro, and it should be as the idiom of Shina said to go straight to Huanglong. Therefore, as soon as General Terauchi said that he could let the commanders of each division express his opinion, Lieutenant General Inaba Shiro immediately called out the report, and after receiving permission, Lieutenant General Inaba Shiro stood up and reported loudly: "Your Excellency Commander, Your Excellency Deputy Chief of Staff, Your Excellency Chief of Staff: I think that the battle plan of the front army is very thorough and foolproof. However, there was a drawback, that is, the campaign was too long, which would affect the overall strategy of the empire to seize Wuhan and force Chiang Kai-shek to surrender. Because we concentrated such a large number of troops to attack the Eighth Route Army, it would inevitably lead to a defensive position in eastern Henan and central China, so that Chiang Kai-shek's political axe army would have a chance to breathe. You must know that they were already frightened rabbits, and they were cornered by us, and Kaifeng, Zhengzhou, and Luoyang were immediately occupied by the Great Empire. Now that the main forces of our army have moved eastward, Chiang Kai-shek will inevitably have the opportunity to reorganize his troops and stabilize the defensive line. In order to eliminate the instructor of the Eighth Route Army as soon as possible, I suggest that the battle plan be adjusted and several aspects should be carried out at the same time. First, the Kwantung Army's plan for assaulting the central Hebei and Shandong borders remained unchanged, and after succeeding, they directly went south to attack southern Hebei, leaving the Manchurian National Defense Army and the North China Public Security Army to maintain law and order in the central and Hebei border areas. Second, the 15th Division, the 17th Division, the 106th Division, and the 116th Division had enough strength to establish a defensive line on the southern front, and there was no need for the 3rd, 9th, and 13th Divisions to spend time there. The 10th Division also did not have to go to the Jilu border, where the terrain was narrow and could not accommodate large troops, and Instructor Liu Yimin would not have too many troops there. However, Luxi is connected to southern Hebei, and there is a lot of room for maneuver, so there should be a part of Liu Yimin's elite there. Therefore, the 3rd, 9th, 10th, and 13th divisions should form the East Group, which should sweep the southwestern and western regions of Shandong in advance, quickly cross the Yellow River, and flank the Eighth Route Army in western Luxi. The 6th, 5th, 14th, and 16th Divisions formed the Western Group to attack southern Hebei. In addition to the northern group of the Kwantung Army, the three-way army galloped across the North China Plain, and in less than a week, the war in central Hebei, Hebei, Shandong, southern Hebei, and western Shandong could be ended. Then the garrison division was left to guard southern Hebei and Luxi, and the main forces of the three major groups swooped down on the hinterland of Shandong. In less than twenty days, the whole war will be over. The main force of the imperial army could quickly move south with a simple rest and complete the task of passing through the Central Plains and capturing Wuhan. ”

What Inaba Shiro said had a nose and eyes, which caused the commanders of the military division to talk about it. The loudest voices were the commanders of the 10 divisions that had just been formed, none of their troops had yet arrived in China, some were on ships, some were waiting to be loaded in the port, and some were rushing to the port. The commanders of these 10 divisions were sent to Tianjin Airport by carrier-based planes of the Combined Fleet and rushed to Beiping after changing planes. Except for the commander of the 35th Division, Tianzhi, who served as the commander of the Second Brigade of the Field Heavy Artillery and fought in North China, and the commander of the 41st Division, Lieutenant General Tiandao Shengwu, who served as the chief of staff of the 10th Army to participate in the Battle of Songhu, the rest of the divisions were officers of the left-behind divisions of the Chinese Army, the principals of the military schools, and officers of the General Staff Headquarters. Lieutenant General Shiro Inaba made this statement, and they immediately began to collectively raise their hands to report.

At this time, General Terauchi Shouichi had mastered 6 to 70 percent of the strength of the army, and with the army in hand, he regained the demeanor of a famous general, and with a smile on his face, he motioned to Hyotaro Kimura, commander of the 32nd Division, who had just been promoted to lieutenant general, to speak.

A native of Tokyo, Kimura graduated from the Army Non-commissioned Officer School and the Army University, and has been engaged in weapons research for a long time, and is an artillery expert in the army. The man looked suave, but was actually a butcher. Historically, there was a nickname of the "butcher of Burma", who was finally hanged as a Class A war criminal.

Seeing that General Terauchi Shouichi was allowed to speak, Kimura Hyotaro immediately stood up and said loudly: "Report to Your Excellency Commander, although the 32nd Division is a three-unit division, it is definitely not a garrison division, but a field division. Our department has three infantry wings, including a field artillery wing, a baggage wing, a search wing, and an engineer wing, with a total strength of 18,000 people. The soldiers were waiting to come to China to make meritorious contributions, and the commander asked us to garrison Cangxian and change the 24th Division to participate in the attack, which I think is a great injustice to the 32nd Division. I strongly demand that other units use our newly formed 10 divisions and regiments to assault central Hebei, Hebei, Lubian, southern Hebei, and western Hebei without changing their defenses. I dare to guarantee that within 20 days, all the Eighth Route Army in central Hebei, Hebei and Lubian, southern Hebei, and western Hebei will be wiped out. After that, we can immediately cross the Yellow River, attack the main force of Liu Yimin's Sect Instructor, and annihilate it in one fell swoop. The other troops will cooperate. With that, Hyotaro Kimura sat down triumphantly.

When Kimura Hyotaro said this, the commanders of the 15th Division, the 17th Division, the 106th Division, the 110th Division, and the 116th Division also screamed. They all said that they were four-unit divisions and regiments, and they had strong troops, so how could they be used as garrison divisions?

The commander of the 15th Division, Lieutenant General Yoshio Iwamatsu, had a deep friendship with General Shouichi Terauchi, because when General Shouichi Terauchi was the commander of the Fifth Division in 1931, Yoshio Iwamatsu was his chief of staff, and later Yoshio Iwamatsu also served as the commander of the 21st Brigade of the Fifth Division. This guy used to be the head of the branch of the staff headquarters, and he once followed the head of the big spy and the seventh generation of Beiyang political axe adviser Sakanishi Rihachiro rampant in North China, and he was a standard China expert, and Qi Baishi also engraved a seal for him.

When the 21st Brigade was completely annihilated by the instructor, Iwamatsu Yoshio was serving as the commander of the 1st Reading Force Garrison, and after receiving the news, the old devil was grief-stricken and wrote "The cherry blossoms wither, and the blood is fertile and the three jins." Come and say that if you go into battle, you will take revenge", vowing to eliminate the instructor and avenge your old army.

Seeing that Lieutenant General Shiro Inaba and Lieutenant General Hyotaro Kimura were bent on competing to be the main attacking force, Lieutenant General Yoshio Iwamatsu stood up with a "swish" and shouted loudly: "Your Excellency Commander, the 15th Division is a veteran division with a wide range of soldiers and excellent weapons. I will lead the 15th Division to serve as the vanguard unit for the encirclement and annihilation of Liu Yimin's instructor and avenge the 21st Brigade. I beg your permission, Commander. Please! After speaking, he respectfully bowed to General Shouichi Terauchi.

Unlike these people, Lieutenant General Kyosuke Kawamura, the commander of the 1st Division, was wiped out by the 1st Cavalry Wing because he had suffered the loss of the instructor in Langfang, and he knew how powerful the instructor was. During the battle in Shanxi, although he recaptured a lot of territory from the Eighth Route Army, he was not able to eliminate the main force of the Eighth Route Army. This time, the Eighth Division was completely annihilated, which made him even more scared to death. If the Eighth Division had been rebuilt and the First Division had been rebuilt, it would probably have been Lieutenant General Toshinori Maeda sitting here today, and he and his First Division would probably have gone to the Yasukuni Shrine instead of the Eighth Division. Fortunately, the battle plan said that he should lead a heavy army group to assault Jizhong, although the Eighth Route Army there is also powerful, but it will not have the vicious tricks and endless methods of Liu Yimin's tutor. So, fortunately, he didn't talk much, drooped his eyelids, and secretly laughed at this group of fools who didn't know whether to live or die, maybe it won't be long before any of the unlucky guys went underground to meet with Lieutenant General Seishiro Itagaki, Lieutenant General Washizu Songpei, Lieutenant General Maeda Toshiwei, and Sasaki.

It was not until General Terauchi Shouichi called out his name that Lieutenant General Kyosuke Kawamura stood up and reported that he was resolutely carrying out the order and had no opinion on the battle plan.

Seeing that the commanders of the divisions had almost said their opinions, General Terauchi Shouichi waved his hand and began to speak: "Gentlemen, everyone has made suggestions just now, and I admire your spirit of bravely shouldering heavy burdens and actively seeking battle, and I will play the emperor and report to the base camp. ”

Glancing at the generals with excited eyes, General Terauchi Shouichi got to the point: "In the Art of War, it is said that knowing oneself and knowing the other is invincible in a hundred battles. This sentence is the foundation of all the art of war and strategy. I would like to tell you about Liu Yimin and his instructors, and I hope you will listen carefully, keep it in mind, and think about my words today first before setting out for attack or when you camp and defend at night. ”

Not to mention the division commanders who have been newly transferred to North China, that is, those division commanders who have been fighting in China, just hearing the names of Liu Yimin and the instructor, in fact, no one can figure out what kind of unit this is, because the army that fought with the instructor has been completely wiped out, and not even a single one has escaped to report the news. As soon as I heard that the general of the temple was going to talk about Liu Yimin and the instructor, all the division commanders quieted down and began to listen with their ears open.

General Terauchi Shouichi looked out the window, and there was a little more ethereal air in his words: "Since the Shina Incident, I have led the army into North China, and wherever the soldiers went, the Shina army collapsed. Even when the advance of our army was still 200 miles away from the enemy, the Chinese army fled when they heard the news. At that time, Lieutenant General Seishiro Itagaki dared to attack Shanxi with half a division. ”

Thinking about the situation when he first arrived in North China, General Terauchi Shouichi was a little fascinated, and there was a hint of joy or sadness in his tone: "It was not until Lieutenant General Itagaki Seishiro disobeyed the military order to storm Xinkou and had the Battle of Xinkou with the Jin Sui Army of Shanxi Yan Xishan and the Wei Lihuang Department of the Central Army, that our army encountered a real battle in North China. However, our army had fighter planes to help in the battle, the artillery fire was fierce and accurate, and the reinforcements were timely, and the main force of China suffered heavy casualties, with several thousand casualties every day. At this time, the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army [***] ambushed the baggage wing of the Fifth Division at Pingxingguan, causing nearly 1,000 members of the imperial army to be shattered, and the news shocked the world at that time. Then, a unit of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army attacked Yangmingbao Airport and blew up 24 fighters. This shows that the Eighth Route Army is a local armed force. Therefore, with the victory of the Battle of Xinkou and the Battle of Taiyuan, no one paid attention to the affairs of the Eighth Route Army. ”

These things are clear to the generals of the Yue army, and they are eager to know about Liu Yimin and the instructor, but seeing that the commander's eyes looking out of the window are so indifferent, they have no choice but to listen.

"The news of the cavalry wing of the 5th Division, the 21st Brigade and the field artillery wing was learned by the North China Front Command from the China Radio. At that time, no one believed it, and when he called Seishiro Itagaki to inquire, he didn't believe it either. It was not until after the aircraft reconnaissance report that it was found out that this was true. The next thing was that Itagaki Seishiro disobeyed the military order and led the 20th Division and the 109th Division to pursue south from Taiyuan, resulting in the loss of Taiyuan and the collective jade fragmentation of Chahar's corps. At this time, the whole world remembered the names Liu Yimin and the tutor. Unfortunately, there was a lack of information at that time, and we had too little research on Liu Yimin and his troops, so to speak, and we didn't know anything about it at all, which led to the later loss of Tianjin and a series of unfortunate events. ”

Shouichi in the temple may have been touched by the sadness, and his tone was much lower: "From this time on, I paid attention to collecting the information of Liu Yimin and the tutor, and conducted research and analysis. In this research analysis, the facts are so astonishing. This Liu Yimin's hometown is a little-known small mountain village in the mountainous area of western Henan, his father is a teacher, he has studied with his father since he was a child, and he also learned marksmanship and tactics with a veteran in the village. His father sent him to Kaifeng, Henan Province to go to school, and was also admitted to Henan University. This guy has a kind of going to the bandits to take revenge alone, and he just took the bandits to the nest. Alas, it would have been nice if those bandits had killed this Liu Yimin at that time! ”

Although Terauchi Shouyi's last words were full of regret, no one among the generals echoed them, and they were all listening to Terauchi Shouichi's story.

"The family died, Liu Yimin had nowhere to go, so he asked for food all the way to the south, and met the [***] Red Army on the side of the Xiangjiang River in Guangxi. At that time, Chiang Kai-shek mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops to set up pockets on the Xiangjiang River, and beat the Red Army all over the river with corpses. Liu Yimin encountered a small Red Army unit that broke through the encirclement, joined the Red Army, and went alone to blow up the artillery position of the Guangxi warlord Li Zongren's troops, and guided the encircled Red Army rearguard troops to break through. At that time, he was appointed as the commander of the Sharp Knife Company of the 34th Red Division, and when he rescued the 18th Regiment of the Red Army, another Red Army unit that was about to be destroyed, he used this company to surprise the Guangxi troops of more than 2,000 people who were concentrating on training. The commander of the 18th Red Regiment was seriously wounded at that time, so he was appointed acting commander of the 18th Red Regiment, leaving him with 500 wounded soldiers who had run out of ammunition and food. As a result, Liu Yimin led the troops of the Red 30th Division to eliminate a regiment of the Hunan warlord He Jian on the Xiangjiang River, reorganized the troops on the Xiangjiang River, and expanded his Red 18th Regiment to more than 2,000 people, half of whom were remnants of the Red Army and half were prisoners of the Guangxi warlords and Hunan warlords. ”

When he said this, Shouichi Terauchi finally turned around, picked up the cup and took a sip of water. Then he continued: "It was from this time that Liu Yimin embarked on his military adventure path. In Xiaoshui Village, Tongdao County, Hunan, Liu Yimin used more than 2,000 people and more than 1,000 guns to ambush the first-class main division of the Hunan warlord He Jian's three-brigade system. As a result, after the battle, there were artillery, light and heavy machine guns, and rifles, and ammunition and baggage were piled up. Please note that this battle exposed several characteristics of Liu Yimin's battle, which continued until the battle against the imperial army, and you must keep it in mind. The first is to dare to take risks, be good at outstanding surprise soldiers, win more with less, and attack strong with weak. The second is that the intelligence is extremely accurate, and it is beyond people's imagination. At that time, the large force of the Red Army had already turned to Guizhou, and hundreds of thousands of troops surrounded and intercepted it, and no one could have imagined that he would dare to leave only one platoon to guard the county town of the passage, and lead the troops to march hundreds of miles overnight, to Xiaoshui, the place where the Hunan army must pass, to ambush the lone army, the enemy was not prepared at all, and most of the soldiers had no chance to shoot. Third, they are accustomed to using radio to lure their opponents, and the second and third waves of ambushes in this battle were all using radio stations to pretend to be the vanguard of the Hunan army to lure the enemy into being deceived. This was evident in the battle of the 21st Brigade Tamama, when he also sent a telegram to Lieutenant General Seishiro Itagaki in the name of the cavalry wing, asking for reinforcements, which led to the 21st Brigade Tama shattering. Fourth, it is good at concentrating firepower. This point was verified in the Battle of Yuchou of the Eighth Division, when Lieutenant General Maeda Toshiwei sent me a farewell telegram saying that the Eighth Route Army bombarded the Eighth Division with the firepower of five artillery wings, and I finally understood why the 21st Brigade, the Chahar Dispatch Corps, the 21st Division, the 4th Brigade and later the 8th Division did not have time to break through the siege, and why they could not escape a single person, because they were all killed under Liu Yimin's powerful firepower. The soldiers of the Imperial Army were not killed in the charge and stabbing of the Eighth Route Army, but were buried in the fire net. After the Battle of Xiaoshui, Liu Yimin personally mobilized, and at that time the captured elite of the Hunan army was incorporated into the troops, you must know that these soldiers are the elite of a hundred battles tempered in the warlord battle, as long as they do ideological work, they don't even need to be trained, they can be used as the main force directly. This is also a major feature of Liu Yimin's later battles, that is, the soldiers will not let go of one of them, and all of them will be filled into the troops. The officers don't want any of them, they all sell them for money. Not to mention anything else, although I don't know how Liu Yimin used to lure these captive soldiers to join his troops and follow him in the southern and northern wars, I admire his means of expanding his troops. Based on this alone, I personally believe that Liu Yimin is a peerless general. You must know that the proportion of old Red Army soldiers in his troops is extremely low, and they basically serve as cadres at all levels, and most of the soldiers come from prisoners, which is equivalent to letting others train for him. Sixth, continuous operations. After Liu Yimin ended the battle of Xiaoshui, he led his hastily formed troops over the mountains and mountains to Xikou, dozens of miles away, where he still used the means of radio to lure the enemy and wiped out two divisions of the Hunan army. Let's think about it, at this time, Liu Yimin has endless weapons and ammunition, and there is endless money to spend, can the army not be expanded? As a result, after this battle, Liu Yimin not only provided a large number of weapons, ammunition and high-quality soldiers to the large army of the Red Army, but also frightened off the pursuing Gui army and Hunan army, and extorted a large amount of money and ammunition from He Jian, Li Zongren, and Bai Chongxi along the way. He himself was also called a legendary hero by the [***] Red Army, and the number of the unit was changed from the Red Eighteenth Regiment to the Central Guard Division, becoming the first main force of the Red Army. This is the seventh feature of Liu Yimin's warfare, exchanging captured officers for money. When it came time to fight against the Imperial Army, he intensified his efforts, exchanging not only the expatriates for money, but also the remains of the Imperial Army soldiers. It just doesn't make sense! ”

After a pause, General Terauchi Shouichi calmed down his mentality, and continued: "Next, Liu Yimin led his guard division to fight two battles in Qingxi Town, Yuan County, Guizhou Province, one division against 100,000 people in nine divisions of Xue Yue's division of Chiang Kai-shek's Central Army, and two divisions were completely annihilated, beating Xue Yue to the point of running away in embarrassment. Then he led his troops across the Wujiang River and joined up with the main forces of the Red Army. Next, there is the eighth characteristic of Liu Yimin's combat, which is good at sneak attacks by small troops and long-distance long-distance attacks by large troops. At that time, the main force of the Sichuan warlord army crossed the Chishui River, and cooperated with the Guizhou troops, Xue Yue's Central Army and the 100,000 Central Army that came from reinforcements to encircle Zunyi. From Zunyi to Chengdu, more than 1,000 miles, there were many dangerous passes along the way, and the result was basically Liu Yimin's sneak attack, until he occupied Chengdu, and Liu Xiang, the leader of the Sichuan warlords, woke up like a dream and understood that Liu Yimin was in charge. Think about how our Tianjin was lost, and how did he reach it concealedly at such a long distance? Fortunately, he chose Tianjin in order to plunder the supplies, and if he had chosen Beiping, I am afraid that you would have pointed to my portrait and scolded the fool. ”

If you want to put it aside, this will inevitably cause laughter. At this time, the generals of the army were already attracted by the story told by Shouichi Terauchi, and they listened to it one by one as if they were drunk, stunned, and stunned.

Terauchi Shouichi glanced at these division commanders and knew that they had listened thoroughly, so he continued: "Because Liu Yimin won successive battles and caused Chiang Kai-shek's troops to suffer heavy losses, Chiang Kai-shek was annoyed and angry, and gave him a kill order, offering a reward of 1 million silver dollars for his head. As a result, Liu Yimin was attacked in Chengdu, and the bullet hit him, but unfortunately, the bullet was one centimeter away from his heart and failed to kill him. He was rescued by his later wife, Ni Hua, the cousin of Chiang Kai-shek's wife, Soong Meiling. This Ni Hua is an international student in the United States, who can be regarded as a medical wizard, and took the risk of operating on him and saved him. Speaking of which, let me remind you that Liu Yimin has two wives, one is Ni Hua, and her deeds have been reprinted in newspapers all over the world. The other is called Tang Xingying, and outsiders don't know. It turned out to be a female soldier in his army, and later married him and had children. There are also two women who have a deep affection for him, one is the head of the art troupe of the Eighth Route Army, named Zhao Xiaoman; The other is the editor-in-chief of the Shandong newspaper of the Eighth Route Army, named An Jingjing. These four women are said to be both national and versatile. In addition to Liu Yimin's son, these five people, which unit was captured in the battle, must not be abused, must be strictly protected, and quickly sent to Beiping. When the situation is urgent, stop the fighting and take them back. In case Liu Yimin slips through the net, any of these five people can be rescued desperately, and we can wait for the net. This information was obtained by sacrificing more than 20 spy elites, and it is very precious. Do you remember? ”

Only then did the division commanders come to their senses, and the room immediately filled the room with the sound of "Hai".

Terauchi Shouichi's purpose was to dispel the commanders of these divisions from despising the enemy and avoid tragedies similar to those of the 21st Brigade and the 8th Division, so he took the trouble to reveal all the information he had about Liu Yimin. In fact, all of what he knew was published in the newspapers, and he didn't know anything about the tactics of the specific instructors. However, as a famous general, although he doesn't know the specific situation, he can judge that he doesn't need to look at the intelligence, and after analyzing the battle examples, he immediately summed up Liu Yimin's combat style, which is very remarkable.

"Let me talk about the ninth characteristic of Liu Yimin's warfare, he is good at planning the overall situation. That is to say, where and how he fights is carefully planned. In Chengdu, Liu Yimin's troops were expanded into the Red Seventh Army and began to keep pace with the four main armies of the Red Army. In fact, in terms of strength, his Red Seventh Legion has surpassed other legions in terms of numbers and weapons and equipment. At this time, because of the attack on him, [***] kept the news tightly sealed, because no one knew if he would survive. As a result, those warlords from all walks of life who thought Liu Yimin was dead followed Chiang Kai-shek and began to pursue the Red Army. When the Red First and Ninth Army Corps besieged Mianyang, he led the Red Seventh Army Corps to Hanyang Town, where he fought a tough battle and eliminated Chiang Kai-shek's starting army, which was Hu Zongnan's first division. This first division is said to be a division, but in fact it is larger than the strength of an army, and its weapons and equipment are also the best in the [***] team. In this way, the First Division was also wiped out by Liu Yimin in a very short period of time, and the time was so short that Chiang Kai-shek did not have time to send planes to bomb it. Now it's okay, all those warlord troops ran away like a low tide, Liu Yimin swaggered to occupy northern Sichuan, and then easily entered Shaanxi, laying a Shaanxi base for [***]. In fact, it was precisely because of Liu Yimin and his Red Seventh Army that Chiang Kai-shek did not dare to pursue the Red Army anymore and watched [***] sit big in Shaanxi. At that time, Chiang Kai-shek was unwilling and asked the warlords Ma Jiajun of Qinghai and Ningxia and Yan Xishan of Shanxi to cooperate with the Central Army to attack Shaanxi. Unexpectedly, these were all in Liu Yimin's calculations, he deployed elite troops in Tianshui, Gansu Province in advance, and he led the main force to rush to reinforcements at night, and eliminated the main force of the Ma Jiajun in a battle, beating them to their knees and begging for mercy. Chiang Kai-shek and Yan Xishan saw that the momentum was not right, and immediately withdrew their troops. As a result, Liu Yimin did not let them go, blew up the Luoyang airport, blew up the Shanxi Tongpu railway bridge, Chiang Kai-shek had to sit down honestly and negotiate with [***], and Yan Xishan also obediently compensated Wu Baiyuan. And Liu Yimin got the base and time for the Red Army to dream of and recuperate. The recent war in Shandong also illustrates this point, at the beginning of the Eighth Route Army units launched an attack on the railway line, no one could have imagined that Liu Yimin's target was the Eighth Division, and when the Eighth Division was broken, Liu Yimin took advantage of the situation to seize Qingdao, it turned out that his purpose was to seize the sea and receive the materials brought back from the United States by his wife Ni Hua. At this time, I realized that Liu Yimin was a serial plan, one ring after another, and the ring was about human life. It not only saved the troops of Chiang Kai-shek in eastern Henan, but also eliminated the 3rd, 6th, 10th brigades and 8th divisions of the Reading Power Mix, and also captured Qingdao and received Ni Hua's cargo ship. Let me say that this Liu Yimin already has the wisdom of a commander. ”

Speaking of this, Terauchi Shouichi smiled bitterly and said: "Liu Yimin held a military parade in Xi'an, when his troops had three main divisions, four reading divisions, as well as cavalry divisions and artillery divisions. The total number should be around 70,000. Even if his artillery division, cavalry division, and four reading divisions are not fully staffed, they should have 50,000 to 60,000 people, which can be said to be very strong. After the development in Shaanxi and the continuous expansion of the army after joining the North China battlefield, it is conservatively estimated that Liu Yimin's army should have 100,000 people. However, the quality of the soldiers recruited in the North China battlefield should not be high, and most of them should be young students, workers, and peasants who are untrained. ”

Terauchi Shouichi felt that it was time to take drastic medicine: "I will also tell you one thing, our spy personnel found a copy of the Red Army Middle School textbook compiled by Liu Yimin in Xi'an, that is to say, Liu Yimin's troops have been in Shaanxi for three years, and in addition to military training, they are cultivating land and learning culture, which is also the reason why there are many people in his troops who know Chinese and can drive cars. From this point, we can see the difference between Liu Yimin's tutor and other middle school teams. Chiang Kai-shek's troops and the troops of various warlords, the soldiers were basically strong men, most of them were illiterate, they fought with bravery, and their command was also old-fashioned. After the first battle, no matter whether you win or lose, the losses are very large. Liu Yimin's troops were literate troops, fought skillful battles, suffered few casualties, and captured large amounts. Moreover, the captured cars, tanks, and artillery can be immediately used on the battlefield. Now I can tell you that, in addition to the warships, the imperial army has weapons and equipment that Instructor Liu Yimin has, although their air force was destroyed by us, but the firepower of the troops is very strong, and even the firepower of our two or three divisions and regiments together is not as strong as the firepower of his troops. In particular, after he occupied Tianjin and Qingdao, the tanks and armored vehicles we had in reserve fell into his hands, and these weapons definitely played a role in the battle of the 8th Division and the 21st Division. Otherwise, with the combat effectiveness of the Eighth Division, it would not have collapsed so quickly. Coupled with the fact that they have an air defense brigade, I can responsibly tell you that this force is now the most powerful force in China and the biggest stumbling block to the imperial army's occupation of China. It's not that they are incapable of capturing Jinan, Tai'an, and Dexian, one is that they don't have time to capture it, and the other is that they want to use these places to fish and eat the reinforced imperial troops one bite at a time. This is also the fundamental reason why we have done our best to encircle and suppress Tutor Liu Yimin this time. ”

"In addition, what I want to tell you is that Liu Yimin is extremely hateful, and when he held a press conference in Chengdu, he announced that he would go north to resist it. This is especially true in Xi'an, where no effort has been spared to publicize the anti-Japanese protests. In Taiyuan, he even instigated all the people to rise up and protest, offered a bounty for killing the soldiers of the imperial army, and shamelessly put forward the slogan that killing the imperial army is glorious and killing the imperial army makes money quickly, and he is really the biggest, most vicious, and most insidious enemy of the imperial army. ”

These division commanders have learned about Liu Yimin and the instructor this time, and they no longer need people to cry and shout to compete for the task of being a pioneer.

Seeing that the division commanders were silent, Terauchi Shouichi felt that he had worked so hard to finally let the generals know in their hearts, so he said: "According to my research on Liu Yimin, now we dispatch a division is equivalent to sending meat to the wolf's mouth." Therefore, the current battle plan was different from the battle plan for dealing with the Kuomintang troops, and it was necessary to adopt different tactics in stages, and to fight against the central and Hebei-Shandong borders, it was necessary to make a rapid surprise attack, and the troops were secretly moving in place, and they were suddenly attacked, so that they could be caught off guard. To fight against southern Hebei and western Luxi, it is necessary to advance from the north and south to the south. Fight against Liu Yiming, highlight a stable word, fight steadily, and never be greedy for merit. Whoever ventures may become the target of Liu Yimin's attack, and the consequences will be very serious. Let's think about it, Shandong faces the sea on both sides, and after our army is launched, Liu Yimin will inevitably consider how to get out of the encirclement. So where can he go? The east is the sea, the north is the sea, the west is the heavy army group of our army on the Jinpu Road, the sky is the plane, the sea is the warship, the only way out is the south, he is likely to use the main force assault tactics to break through the blockade line of our army on the southern front, and then flee into the Luyusu region. Therefore, we have gathered the forces of seven main divisions on the southern front, built a position in depth, and resolutely blocked him and prevented him from breaking out of the encirclement. Then we pushed them steadily, forced them out, exposed under the fighters of the air force, let the bombs talk to them, and finally annihilated them in one fell swoop. ”

When Shouichi Terauchi said this, Lieutenant General Shiro Inaba nodded frequently, finally understanding the commander's intentions in such a deployment. The other division commanders also nodded yes.

Shouichi Terauchi continued to take fierce medicine: "I also tell you that Liu Yimin's main force has a very high quality of individual soldiers. Every year, he held a military technical competition, and those who could not shoot 90 rings or drop bombs of 50 meters were eliminated and sent to guerrilla units. When he was in Shaanxi, he planted grain and vegetables, raised pigs and sheep, and the soldiers' physique was very good, not to mention shooting and bombing, it was our best fighting stab, one-on-one, and the soldiers of the imperial army were not sure of victory. It can be said that with the same strength, Liu Yimin is not afraid of us at all, and he is afraid that he will want to eat us. After knowing this situation, do you still have any opinions on the operational plan of the Front Army Command? ”

The generals were very happy this time, and they answered very neatly: "Dig Karimasita!" ”

Terauchi Shouichi talked bitterly for so long, and his tired cheeks were sleepy, so far he could be regarded as having achieved his goal, and then he said: "The specific combat deployment is made by the chief of staff." I would like to reiterate the discipline of this battle with Instructor Liu Yimin. 1. Attack during the day and camp at night. Whether attacking or camping, a strong position must be established first. 2. All units must march in tandem and fight steadily and steadily, and the defense lines must be connected between brigades and brigades, between wings and brigades, between brigades and regiments, and between divisions and regiments, leaving no gaps. Each group must leave enough reserves. 3. Enable a new contact password, and any unit that encounters an attack by Liu Yiming must quickly establish a position, defend desperately, and wait for rescue. At the end of the crisis, the radio station and the codebook must be destroyed. Fourth, the number of the original defensive unit shall be used to the outside world when the troops move to designated positions in concealment, and no information on the participation of the Kwantung Army, the Central China Front, the Combined Fleet, and other units shall be exposed. 5. The passwords of all units are changed every day during the day, and the sentries are on duty every two hours at night, so as to strictly prevent the Eighth Route Army from carrying out sneak attacks under the guise of the Imperial Army, the Manchurian Defense Army, and the North China Public Security Army. 6. Units tasked with defending railway lines must have positions in depth, at least three lines of defense, and their main firepower points must be able to resist repeated shelling by field artillery and mountain artillery. Without an order from the front, the defending troops were not allowed to join the attack, and they strictly guarded their posts to ensure that the Eighth Route Army could not break through the blockade line. 7. To strictly enforce military orders, it is necessary to conduct operations in accordance with the battle plan. Whoever disobeys the military order, the fate of Lieutenant General Kazuki Kiyoshi and Lieutenant General Itagaki Seishiro is an example. ”

After General Terauchi finished speaking, Lieutenant General Tada Jun made another speech on behalf of the base camp, which can be regarded as a pre-war mobilization.

After the commander and the deputy chief of staff had finished speaking, Lieutenant General Naosaburo Okabe read out the operational order, clearly explaining the troop formation, operational area, target tasks, attack route, and attack time. Then, Lieutenant General Naosaburo Gangbe led the commanders of these divisions to the war room, where each division was assigned a liaison staff officer who was specially responsible for explaining the operational plans of each division and regiment and determining several sets of contact methods.

After all this, Terauchi Shouichi took a group photo with Tada Jun and Naosaburo Okabe with the division commanders who participated in the battle, and then had a meal together before arranging a plane to send them back to the troops.

The chariot of the army has been launched, and the crisis is approaching Liu Yimin and his comrades.

(To be continued)