Chapter 1080 Haha, Twenty-ninth Division (I)

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Linyi Mengyin Xintai, the road turns back to the stone monster, a good scenery, seventy-two Gu can be loved.

Mengyin is named because it is located in the yin of Mengshan Mountain. The terrain in the county is high in the north and south and low in the middle, and the south is mountain, and there are seventy-two peaks of Mengshan Mountain; The north is Gu, Mengshan 72 Gu.

Since ancient times, Mengyin has the title of "the solidity of the four stops", which means that Mengyin is blocked by mountains on all sides, and the blockage of the outside world is solid.

Mengshan is shady, the soil is thick and the trees are lush, the mountains are green and the water is clear, Zhong Lingyu is beautiful, it is a natural forest oxygen bar; In the northern part of the county, the soil is barren and the grass is sparse, and the bare rocks are stacked, so that only drought-tolerant crops can be grown.

Zhong Lingyuxiu in the shade of Mengshan in the south and the bitter anxiety of Duogu in the north nourish the sons and daughters of Mengyin from generation to generation (). Qin Shi Huang built the Great Wall, the general Meng Tian made a brush ancestral home here, Yimeng three holy books saint Wang Xizhi, wisdom saint Zhuge Liang, the sage Liu Hong in the pearl of the sage Liu Hong is also Mengyin people.

Mengyin people speak hard, spit out many words, and the tone at the end is downward, just like a man in the mountains uses an iron pickaxe to plane stones, and the words are smashed into pits. When outsiders first arrive, the other party can still understand if they speak slowly, but if the other party speaks quickly, they will feel that Mengyin seems to be another language. For example, the Mengyin people say "place" as "twist", "look" as "look", "very good" as "good", "do" is not called, but beaten, and "do what" is "beat what".

Mengyin people also call their elders differently from other places, calling their father "master", grandfather "master", great-grandfather "old man", grandfather "grandpa", and grandmother "grandma".

During the year, the Mengyin people pay the most attention to the Mid-Autumn Festival and the Spring Festival on August 15, when the rich kill pigs and sheep, and the poor have to carry pancake baskets to go out to visit relatives. There is also a special thing in this, because of the bitter scorching area of the Duogu area in the north of Mengyin, neither rice nor wheat can be grown, and the food is mainly miscellaneous grains, and the staple food of the Mengyin people is pancakes. Millet pancakes, sorghum pancakes, and so on. Pancakes with green onions are the favorite of Mengyin men. After eating for a long time, the chewing function of the mouth is powerful, and there is no dentist in Mengyin City. If a girl from any family can spread thin and fragrant pancakes, she is the object of the boys' pursuit. In the eyes of the Mengyin man, a good pancake that is thin and even and does not spread fragrance is much more important than a long beautiful pancake and a female celebrity.

The architectural style of the dwellings is also different from other places, the houses are mostly built according to the mountains, the back of the mountains and the water, the courtyard door is open to the two sides, the home is the main house of the hall house, or the east or west or the east and west sides are equipped with houses, the rich people are stone walls, ridges, buckle tiles, the poor people are stone walls and thatched roofs, the kitchen is generally in the northeast corner of the yard, the thatched toilet is in the southwest corner, the courtyard opens the southeast gate or the southwest door, and the door is usually planted with green bamboo, cherries, pomegranates, apricots or various colors of flowers and trees. In such a living environment, if there is a Xiucai passing by, he may recite Bai Juyi's poem: "The remote door is rarely welcomed, and the clothes are worn to sit and raise the romance." The autumn garden does not sweep the rattan cane, and idly steps on the yellow leaves of the sycamore. ”

In the war years, there is no paradise. Located between the north and south Mengshan Mountains, the southeast of Dalu in the east, Tai'an and Jinan in the west, the strategic location of Mengyin is important, and it is a place where soldiers must fight since ancient times.

When Liu Hei's Seven Bandits Gang was rampant in the Yimeng Mountains, the Mengyin people called a large group of bandits horses, and called a small group of bandits who robbed the road and cut the path as singles (). In order to fight against the horses and the singles, the villagers built a wall with stones on the top of the five or six hundred meters high, called a fence. Once encountering bandits or military disasters, the common people will lead cattle and sheep, and take their children and daughters to hide in the enclosure on the top of the house. In case of misfortune, the siege will be breached, and it will become a camp for bandits.

There is little arable land, and bandits are rampant, and there are many Mengyin people who break into the eastern part of the country and flee the famine to ask for food.

After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese army captured Mengyin in order to attack Linyi. Later, the Eighth Route Army came, eliminated the Japanese puppet army that occupied Mengyin, cleared the bandits, and Mengyin became a base area. The Eighth Route Army set up an anti-Japanese democratic government in Mengyin City, held cadre training classes, conducted democratic elections, established a district government, elected the head of Kengri Village, organized and trained the militia, instructed the villagers to engage in the two-cropping farming method a year, vigorously promoted the planting of drought-tolerant and high-yield crops such as corn and sweet potatoes, and publicized afforestation.

The good times did not last long, and the little devils successively launched a sweep of the base areas in central and southern Lu, and the people of Mengyin fell into disaster again. However, the ferocious flames of the Japanese invaders did not frighten the children of Mengshan, and under the command of the Eighth Route Army, militia teams and guerrilla groups were organized to fight to the death against the little devils. Liu Xiaopu, the largest landlord in Mengyin, Liu Xiaopu, the early riser who was shot by Han Fuqu, Liu Yimeng's home, and the Liu family in the gossip house of Yanyitang in Duozhuang, seven young men and four girls all joined the Eighth Route Army, and sold their family property, handed over all the food, money and purchased weapons and ammunition to the Eighth Route Army.

This time, the Japanese army raided central and southern Lu, and the 12th Division of the little devils captured Mengyin City, re-established Japanese puppet strongholds at Changlu, Duozhuang and other transportation points, and got a group of ruffians from Tianjin, Jinan, Qingdao, and Xuzhou to form a security team to assist the devils in sweeping the base area. The villagers said that these currency devils are still bad, and they lead the devils to kill people and set fires.

On the afternoon of 21 July, the 29th Division, which occupied the hinterland of the southeastern base area in Shandong, was recruited from Ju? The county retreated, and after a long march, entered the territory of Mengyin from Duozhuang, and met with the Japanese puppet army who stayed in the stronghold of Duozhuang and camped.

On this night, the guns around the Duozhuang market rang out all night.

On the morning of the next day, under the cover of aircraft, the 29th Division advanced to Mengyin County and arrived at Mengyin County at noon.

In Mengyin County, Lieutenant General Uemura Toshimichi, commander of the 29th Division of the Japanese Army, met with the captain of the 24th Infantry Wing of the 12th Division who remained in Mengyin County.

The main force of the 12th Division had been ordered to concentrate on Tai'an, leaving two infantry battalions of the 24th Wing to hold the line of communication and meet the 29th Division.

Uemura Toshido inquired in detail about the traffic situation leading to Laiwu, and used the radio to contact the squadron of the 24th Wing of the 12th Division stationed at the Changlu stronghold.

The task of the 29th Division was very clear, that is, to rush to block the passage of the Eighth Route Army that had captured Jinan to retreat to the Taiyi Mountains and copy Liu Yimin's rear route. Therefore, after Uemura Toshimichi completed the assembly of troops, he was able to complete the assembly of troops. Starting from the county, rush to Mengyin through Yishui, and then rush to Laiwu from Mengyin through Xintai. It was a shortcut, and it was accessible by road, making it easy for large troops to march.

Historically, the 29th Division of the Japanese Army was established on February 25, 1941, and was a new unit formed after the Japanese Army reformed its troop establishment and implemented the three-unit system, and the three infantry wings under its jurisdiction were the 18th Infantry Wing transferred from the 3rd Division, the 50th Infantry Wing transferred from the 14th Division, and the 38th Infantry Wing transferred from the 16th Division. After the formation of the unit, it was stationed in Harbin and participated in the large-scale exercises of the Kwantung Army, which was a typical elite unit, and was later transferred to the Pacific theater and destroyed in the tragic Battle of Guam.

The 29th Infantry Regiment, which was now formed in advance, is the same as the 18th Division, and is a reservist of the 12th Division Kurumi District, and its combat effectiveness is similar to that of the 18th Division, and the 29th Infantry Regiment under its jurisdiction has three infantry wings, and is also equipped with the 29th Wing of Search, the 29th Wing of Field Artillery, the 29th Wing of Engineers, the 29th Wing of Heavy Troops, the Signal Corps, the Ordnance Service Corps, the Field Hospital, and the Sick Horse Factory.

There is another reason why Uemura Toshimichi is in a hurry, that is, the Eighth Route Army is hanging him from behind.

On the night of the 15th, Uemura Toshido received an order from Lieutenant General Iida Sadagu, commander of the 12th Army, asking him to gather his troops, abandon the hinterland of southeastern Shandong, and rush to Laiwu day and night to block the passage of the Eighth Route Army to retreat to the mountains. Then he received an order from Lieutenant General Tada Jun, commander of the North China Front, which was the same as Iida Sadagu's order, but in more detail, even the marching route, receiving troops, and air fire cover were arranged for him ().

In the village of Takami Toshido thought that the Eighth Route Army in central and southern Lu had been beaten to the point that it had disappeared, but now it had run to capture Jinan, and the communication line in central and southern Lu was in the hands of the Japanese army, and it could march quickly. Unexpectedly, he gathered his troops only to find that the disappeared Eighth Route Army had appeared and began to attack his troops. In the first night, it seemed that the Eighth Route Army was also gathering troops, and it was basically safe, but on the second night, it was not good, the Eighth Route Army surrounded it, and the ping pong fought fiercely all night, and the rear guard infantry brigade of Uemura Hidedo was swallowed alive by the Eighth Route Army.

Next, Uemura Toshido changed his tricks, camped early in the evening, built a position, and fired guns and cannons whenever there was any movement. In this way, the Eighth Route Army's tactics were also changed, and it even sent small units to attack and harass in multiple ways, and also sent guys from the "Anti-War League of the Japanese in China" to shout in front of the position, disturbing the morale of the army, and causing Uemura to not close his eyes all night.

In this way, the march of the 29th Division slowed down, and it took seven days to reach the county seat of Mengyin.

Tada Jun sent telegrams urging one after another, and Uemura Toshimichi called Tada Jun back to say that the troops marched during the day and were attacked and harassed by the Eighth Route Army at night, and that the slightest carelessness could suffer losses, and the soldiers could not sleep well all day and all night, and were exhausted, and their speed could not be improved at all.

The 29th Division belongs to the Kwantung Army, and like the 11th Division, 12th Division, and 28th Division, they all belong to the troops that temporarily stay in the North China Battlefield to cooperate with the North China Front.

Tada's words woke up Uemura Toshimichi, he didn't dare to hesitate, and he wanted to speed up the march.

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