Chapter 683 is a quick decision

Liu Yimin said: The enemy's disobedience to our army's movement shows that our army has not hit the enemy's sore spots. As long as it hits the enemy in the sore spot, the enemy will inevitably pounce on him like a mad dog and follow our baton.

Liu Yimin said: Once the goal of mobilizing the enemy is achieved, the main force should quickly get rid of frontal contact with the enemy's main force, jump behind the enemy's flanks, capture the fighters, and make the enemy disregard his head, and the entire defense line is full of loopholes, allowing our army to attack.

During this period, the Japanese army not only made frequent movements in Ludong, but also planned such a bad incident as Li Wenli's surrender to the enemy, and launched offensives along Jinpu Road and Jiaoji Road.

After the Japanese heavy army group swooped down under the city of Xuzhou, it did not pursue southward according to Liu Yimin's plan, but rested and replenished in the Xuzhou area, preparing to concentrate on carrying out sweeping operations against various base areas in Shandong. The Japanese troops along the Jiaoji Road were busy consolidating the defensive line, repairing the railways and highways, forming a new garrison on the Jiaoji Road, and restoring the Japanese puppet regime along the Jiaoji Road. The Japanese troops along the Jinpu Road, from the Pingjin area to Xuzhou, pulled up a long defensive line, and were busy repairing the Luokou Railway Bridge over the Yellow River, restoring the opening of the Jinpu Road to traffic, and restoring the rule over the occupied areas along the Jinpu Road. Among them, the most obvious Japanese offensive was the 32nd Division and the 36th Division along the Jiaoji Road, as well as the Japanese army in Dexian, Jinan, and Tai'an. Among them, the Japanese army stationed in Dexian County performed the most prominently, because after the end of the northern front blocking battle, there was no longer the main force of our army in the northwest of Shandong, and only the county brigades and district squads were left to organize the militia to carry out tunnel warfare and mine warfare.

Since the end of the Taixi Campaign, the various units of the instructor have withdrawn from the Jinpu line in accordance with the orders of the division headquarters and spread out in different directions.

Zeng Zhongsheng and Cai Zhong commanded the Luxi Garrison Brigade and the New Sixth Brigade to withdraw to the Hebei-Lubian base area. These two forces suffered heavy losses in the blocking battle on the northern front, and it took some time to regain strength. While resting and replenishing, they expanded their local armed forces to defend the base areas along the Jilu border, preparing to capture Cangxian at an appropriate time and seize the Japanese army's logistical supplies.

The Jinan Garrison Brigade commanded the local armed forces in the Jinan area to turn into guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines, and they were newly organized units, which had no mountain artillery and field artillery, and no tanks, armored vehicles, or automobiles, so they had to avoid confrontation with the Japanese army head-on. However, the city of Jinan became an empty city, and the 40th Division of the Japanese Army, which was responsible for the garrison of the Jinan area, was bored in the city, swept around, and began to build strongholds along the highway line to restore its rule over the Jinan area. The Jinan Garrison Brigade fought-for-tat, waging guerrilla warfare while mobilizing various localities to form a white-skinned and red-hearted two-faced regime to deal with the Japanese army and reduce the losses in the base areas. This time, the Japanese army also learned to be obedient, and the empty city of Jinan made them feel that they could not solve the problem by blindly burning, killing and looting, so they hurriedly set up the Eighth Group Army of the "North China Public Security Army" in Jinan, with Song Tingyu as the commander, and governed the 15th and 16th regiments, and transferred Su Zhengge's Third Route Army to suppress the Communist Party and Xiang Shirong's department of the puppet army directly under the Japanese army to Jinan. At this time, the Japanese puppet forces in the surrounding areas of Jinan have been greatly strengthened, and the puppet soldiers hold an iron horn every day, and follow the devils to the countryside to sweep dàng, the main task is to shout that the imperial army will not kill the good people, and let the people return to the city. Slowly, some citizens returned to the city one after another.

The situation in the Taixi area was even more severe, and the Japanese Guards Division and armored brigades were stationed in Tai'an, waiting for replenishment. These little devils have just been transferred from Japan to China, and they are arrogant. Although from Qingdao to Tai'an, there were many losses along the way, especially Liu Yimin's baggage convoy outside Tai'an, which caused an earth-shattering explosion and blew up the Guards Division and the armored brigade, but as soon as the Eighth Route Army withdrew, this group of little devils became arrogant again, and they thought that they had only lost the battle because they had fallen into the tricks of the Eighth Route Army. If they really want to open up and fight, the Eighth Route Army is not their opponent of the steel torrent. Otherwise, Liu Yimin would not have led the main force to escape. Therefore, these devils are the most rampant, and in the days of waiting for replenishment, they still keep driving tanks, armored vehicles, cars, and motorcycles around. What is particularly odious is that these devils know that they are not a garrison and cannot stay here for a long time, so they did not start to build a stronghold, but only divided their troops to occupy Feicheng, Ningyang, Yanzhou, and Jining, went out to sweep dàng during the day, returned to the camp at night, burned houses and villages, and committed many crimes. Against it is the Eighth Route Army Luxi Garrison Brigade and Tai'an Detachment, after several battle baptisms, the Tai'an Detachment and the Luxi Garrison Brigade have been honed and become old troops. In the face of the sweep of the little devils, the two troops, one east and one west, surrounded the Jinpu Road and the highway from Jinan to Feicheng, Ningyang, and Yanzhou, and kept dispatching small troops to ambush the devils. In this way, the little devils of the Guards Division are even more crazy and take revenge more often.

The relatively stable area was the Jiaodong area, and the Japanese troops stationed in Qingdao were busy restoring the area around Qingdao and could not take care of Jiaodong for the time being. The Eighth Route Army in Weihai Special City has never captured it, and it is still under the control of the Japanese marines. The Jiaodong Brigade of the Jiaodong Main Force of the Eighth Route Army is still waiting between Zhucheng and Juxian, and the Jiaodong Garrison Brigade is waiting around Qingdao, ready to cooperate with the main force and wait for the opportunity to reoccupy Qingdao. The vast majority of the Jiaodong area is controlled by the local power of our party, and the only thing is that the remaining ** forces in the Jiaodong area have also begun to recover slowly, busy establishing base areas and recruiting troops.

In the Lunan area, due to the concentration of the Japanese army's heavy army group around Xuzhou, Hong Chaoyuan commanded the Fifth Brigade, the New Fifth Brigade, the New Fourth Brigade, and the Southeast Lu Detachment, and cleared the remnants of the Japanese puppet forces in Surabaya, Feixian, Linyi, and Tancheng areas, and the Southeast Lu Detachment retreated to the southeast Lu base area, and our army in Lunan retreated from the Xuzhou line, relying on the Lunan Mountains to deploy defenses, and vigorously consolidated the newly opened base areas.

The New Eighth Brigade, which was formed by the New Eighth Regiment and the Supplementary Regiment of the Eighth Brigade led by Zhao Jie, and the First Independent Regiment of the Jilu Border was itself an old unit with relatively strong combat effectiveness.

In addition to the solid base area in western Luxi, the central base area in Taiyi, and the base area in southeastern Shandong, another area with a relatively good situation is the southwestern Shandong region. Since the 38th Division of the Japanese Army stationed in southwest Lu was ordered to withdraw to the Longhai Road and hold the defense line of the Longhai Road, the southwest Lu region was basically in a vacuum zone, and Liu Jianjian, commander of the Lu West Military Region of the Eighth Route Army and commander of the 2nd Jiao Brigade, commanded the 2nd Jiao Brigade, the 6th Jiao Brigade, the Southwest Lu Garrison Brigade, and the New 2nd Brigade to sweep through the southwestern Lu area, quickly took control of the situation, and began to vigorously build political power and develop local armed forces.

Liu Yimin led the cavalry brigade, the special operations headquarters, and the first guard battalion to the Henan-Anhui border area to join Peng Xuefeng, and the 1st Brigade, the 1st Brigade, the New 1st Brigade, the 3rd Brigade, the New 7th Brigade, the Heavy Machine Gun Brigade, the Zhouqiao Regiment of the Engineer Brigade, the 2nd Air Defense Regiment of the Air Defense Brigade, and the 1st Regiment of the Baggage Brigade commanded by the plateau entered northeast Anhui to hide and standby.

Northeast Anhui is located in the northeast of Anhui Province, at the junction of Jiangsu Province, with jurisdiction over Sixian, Wuhe, Guzhen, Xuyi, Jiashan, Fengyang, Suxian, Lingbi, Dingyuan nine counties, with a land area of 67,000 square kilometers and a population of more than 2 million. Its territory is crisscrossed by rivers, water transportation is convenient, and its geographical conditions are very conducive to the anti-Japanese army and people to carry out guerrilla warfare, and are not conducive to the actions of the Japanese army's mechanized troops, and its strategic position is very important.

Due to the implementation of the Morning Glory tactics by the Eighth Route Army last time, the Japanese heavy army group pursued southward, and the northeastern Anhui region also experienced a sweep by the Japanese army. After the main force of the instructor withdrew to Shandong, the Japanese army strengthened its rule over the occupied areas, and the northeast region of Anhui was naturally one of the key areas for the Japanese army to strengthen public security. In particular, after the Battle of Wuhan, the troops of the Fifth Theater persisted in the struggle in the Dabie Mountains, and there was no longer a regular army in northeastern Anhui, and only some local guerrilla units formed by our party and local armed forces formed by several county magistrates of the Kuomintang persisted in the struggle behind enemy lines.

After the Battle of Wuhan, the Anhui Provincial Government sent Sheng Zijin, the inspector of the Sixth Administrative Region, to return to northeastern Anhui to organize a war of resistance behind enemy lines. In order to gain a foothold in northeastern Anhui, Sheng Zijin asked the Anhui Provincial Anti-Enemy Mobilization Committee to send a group of personnel to accompany him. ** Anhui Provincial Party Committee Propaganda Minister Zhang Jinfu seized the opportunity to select Jiang Shangqing, Zhao Min, Zhou Cun, Xie Jinghong, Lu Zhenqiu, Li Yi, Wang Yuzhen and other 7 party members to form a secret ** Northeast Anhui Special Branch (referred to as the "Special Branch"), with Jiang Shangqing as the secretary of the special branch, Zhao Min as the organization member, and Zhou Cun as the propaganda member, and went to Northeast Anhui with Sheng Zijin. The main tasks of the "special branch" to go to northeast Anhui are: to unite Sheng Zijin and carry out united front work; develop party members and unify local party organizations; mobilize the masses and train anti-Japanese backbones; Organized anti-Japanese armed forces and created an anti-Japanese democratic base in northeastern Anhui.

Because of the arrival of Liu Yimin, history has changed, just like Luo Binghui, who insisted on the Huainan War of Resistance in history, because the Red Ninth Army was reorganized into the security division of the Shaanxi Anti-Japanese Special Zone and stationed in Shaanxi, it is impossible to serve as the deputy commander of the New Fourth Army and the commander of the fifth detachment. But I don't know why, the central government urged again and again, and Liu Yimin also called the military headquarters of the New Fourth Army many times, and talked seriously with Xiang Ying when he was in Xi'an, but the New Fourth Army has not yet established the Jiangbei Command. Only Gao Jingting's four detachments were active in the eastern Anhui region.

At present, the main force of the southbound troops of the instructors of the Eighth Route Army has entered northeast Anhui, and although it is a covert standby, the four brigades of the southbound troops, plus the four special regiments under the command of heavy machine guns, air defense, engineers, and baggage, have a total strength of 50,000 people.

Now, after Liu Yimin completed the replenishment of Peng Xuefeng's unit, he led the Special Operations Command, the Cavalry Brigade, the First Guard Battalion, and the front-line hospital of the divisional field hospital, crossed the Jinpu Road at night, and arrived in the Suxian area in northeastern Anhui, where it had joined the plateau.

Li Wenli's defection to the enemy sounded the alarm for Liu Yimin.

There is another situation that also worries Liu Yimin, that is, Lu Zhonglin, commander of the Jicha Theater and chairman of Hebei Province, after the Battle of Jiaoji Road, took advantage of the shrinking strength of the Japanese army to enter Nangong and was fighting with Chen Zaidao and Song Renqiang

You must know that at this time in history, southern Hebei has not experienced the sweep of the Japanese army's heavy army group, and there are many miscellaneous weapons of various names, Lu Zhonglin arrived in Nangong in September 1938, and Xu Xiangqian, who was in charge of Nangong by the Eighth Route Army, fought wits and courage with Lu Zhonglin, and finally squeezed him away. Now Xu Xiangqian is far away in Jinzhong, and the miscellaneous armed forces in the southern Hebei region have also been almost reorganized by themselves, and after the sweep of the Japanese army's heavy army group, our army has suffered heavy losses, I don't know if Chen Zaidao and Song Renqiang have the ability to squeeze out Lu Zhonglin. You must know that Lu Zhonglin did not come alone, behind him there are Zhang Yinwu of the Hebei People's Army, Shiyou Sanbu, Sun Dianying, and Sun Liangcheng, a light pole commander. If you don't do it well, southern Hebei will soon become an anti-recalcitrant battlefield between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.

Lu Zhonglin, commander of the Jicha Theater of Operations, arrived at Nangong, and Yu Xuezhong, commander of the Sulu Theater, also arrived in Luxi, and after the Ludong Xingyuan Incident, Li Wenli was given the number of Ludong's tǐng column. It seems that Yu Xuezhong will soon march eastward into the mountainous areas of central and southern Shandong, relying on the mountainous areas of central and southern Shandong to persist in the protracted war of resistance.

Strange to say, historically, Yu Xuezhong's department started from the Hubei-Henan-Anhui region of the Dabie Mountains, crossed the Longhai Road and Jinpu Road into the Lunan Fei County area, and now it may have encountered the Eighth Route Army instructor and the Japanese army, Yu Xuezhong changed the marching route and entered Lu from the relatively safe Luxi area.

In the end, should you refuse Yu Xuezhong's entry into Shandong? To be honest, Liu Yimin was very conflicted.

Historically, the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army entered Shandong with fewer troops, of which the 685th Regiment opened up the Huxi base area, and the 686th Regiment entered Lunan to open up the Yiméng base area. After Yu Xuezhong's ministry entered Shandong, he had many contradictions with Shen Honglie, chairman of Shandong Province, and there were also cooperation and frictions with the Eighth Route Army. When looking at history, Liu Yimin sighed with emotion that Yu Xuezhong's ministry and Shen Honglie's ministry insisted on Shandong's anti-Japanese war, which should be said to have made meritorious contributions. However, in addition to creating friction with the Eighth Route Army, they also fought endlessly, which finally led to Shen Honglie hanging up the crown and leaving, and Yu Xuezhong's department also withdrew from Shandong, and suffered heavy losses. Calculating their war history in Shandong, it turned out that most of their time and energy were engaged in internal fighting, and they did not fight a single victory with the Japanese army that can be recorded in history. The vast majority of the local armed forces they developed later defected to the enemy and became puppet armies.

Such a force, in Liu Yimin's eyes, is purely an old army that needs to be transformed.

The 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army entered Shandong, and the two main regiments, together with the local armed forces organized by our party, later developed into an army of 300,000 people, crisscrossing the white mountains and black waters and the land of East China. The Kuomintang left so many troops in Shandong that finally the Shandong Provincial Government went to Fuyang, Anhui Province to work. How many people ponder the truth here

Luo Ronghuan also reported that Wu Huawen's pistol brigade, which was originally in southwest Shandong, and the marines in northern Henan, and the personnel left behind by the Shandong Provincial Government actually crossed the Jinpu Road and entered southern Lunan after our army broke through the Longhai Road and moved south, and joined up with Shen Honglie and Zhang Liyuan in Fei County, and was expanded into the New Fourth Division, which mainly undertook the guard task of the Shandong Provincial Government.

With troops in his hands, Shen Honglie's confidence has grown. When Hong Chaoyuan sent people to meet with Shen Honglie to convey the spirit of Liu Yimin's telegram, Shen Honglie not only did not revoke the Lunan Administration and withdraw the appointment of some local armed forces, but even put on the posture of chairman of the Shandong Provincial Government, proposing that Shandong should implement the integration of military and political affairs, and that the taxes of various localities should be handed over to the Shandong Provincial Government.

Liu Yimin laughed angrily after reading the telegram, the Japanese army's railway blockade line was simply made of mud, and he had a special combat team, so it was easy to think about the railway. I can't imagine that a unit like Wu Huawen can also cross the Japanese army's railway line, it seems that the little devil is staring at himself with all his heart, and the rear garrison is not yet fully in place.

Think about the history of the Eighth Route Army's 115th Division after entering Shandong, the relationship with the Shandong column has also undergone several adjustments, and the leaders of Shandong have changed several times, and finally it was determined that the 115th Division is also the Shandong Military Region, and Luo Ronghuan is in charge of Shandong. This shows that although it was a war era, although there was iron discipline, and although there was loyalty to the country, there were contradictions between people, between political parties, and between troops of different systems. Just seek common ground while reserving differences.

Thinking about it, Liu Yimin no longer thought about whether to block the passage of Yu Xuezhong into Lu, but had a whim, and the 111th Division of Yu Xuezhong's department joined the Eighth Route Army in history, and this unit later entered the northeast with Luo Ronghuan under the leadership of General Wan Yi and became the main force. It was the Ministry of Culture and Culture of Wuhua, who also held a battlefield uprising during the Liberation War and joined the People's Liberation Army. If we can do a good job in united front work, perhaps the Xuezhong Department will become the vanguard of the Northeast in the future. This is a matter that deserves serious study.

The biggest problem now is that the Japanese heavy army group gathered in Xuzhou does not take the bait, and there are signs of concentrating on sweeping Dàng Shandong. If the Japanese heavy army group goes all out to kill any of our base areas, it may cause heavy losses to that base area. In particular, the Taiyi Central Base Area, where military industry and schools are now running are in full swing, and little devils cannot be allowed to raid their hometowns.

Liu Yimin, a good man, was not in chaos, he made a decision immediately, made up his mind, and immediately launched an offensive operation to stabilize the situation in the Shandong base area and further mobilize the main force of the Japanese army.

According to this line of thinking, Liu Yimin was determined to launch offensive operations on the Longhai Line and the Jinpu Line, smashing the defense line established by the little devils relying on the communication line, forcing the main force of the Japanese army to fight fires everywhere, constantly dividing troops, and finally becoming a veritable garrison of the communication line.

If the main force of the Japanese army is not fooled, still does not move, and still cleans up the calculation of the Shandong base area, Liu Yimin's idea is to mobilize the main force of Shandong to go south, all the way to the south, sweeping Jiangsu, Anhui, and all the way to the Yangtze River, so as to completely wipe out the achievements made by the little devils in central China since the war. If Sugimoto can still calm down, then he will become the boss of Japan, and Emperor Hirohito will probably have to bring him water to wash his feet.

In order to accomplish the offensive and combat tasks, Liu Yimin sent a telegram to the Central Committee and the General Headquarters and informed the military headquarters of the New Fourth Army and Luo Ronghuan, reporting that he was determined to launch an offensive operation against the Longhai Road and the Jinpu Road, and asked the leaders of the New Fourth Army to quickly send powerful cadres and troops across the river, set up a Jiangbei Command Headquarters, and cooperate with the instructors to run northern Jiangsu.

We can see the evolution of the situation in Shandong very clearly, and know that if no measures are taken, when the Japanese heavy army group launches a sweep, the phenomenon of Li Wenli's surrender to the enemy may be repeated, and the situation in eastern and northwest Shandong will become increasingly difficult. Therefore, he quickly called back to agree with Liu Yimin's operational concept, and sent a telegram to Ye Tǐng and Xiang Ying, urging them to implement the instructions of the central government to march into northern Jiangsu, and quickly lead the main force across the river to the north to realize the meeting with the instructor.

After receiving the telegram from the chairman, Liu Yimin immediately informed Luo Ronghuan that in the name of the instructor, he urged Yu Xuezhong's department to quickly enter Lu and send Guo Zihua to meet Shen Honglie to explain to Shen Honglie the situation of the Anti-Japanese War in Shandong and the necessity of uniting the Anti-Japanese War, so that Shen Honglie could not expand the troops at will and grant the number of the number, so as to prevent more irresolute elements from following in the footsteps of Li Wenli and causing greater losses. At the same time, the Fourth Brigade was ordered to quickly advance to the Anqiu and Gaomi areas in the name of the Luzhong Garrison Brigade to stabilize the situation in Luzhong, but there was no order not to launch a regiment-level battle. Li Qing ordered Li Qing to command the 3rd, 7th, and 8th Brigades to move in the direction of Qingdao in concealment, contact the Jiaodong Garrison Brigade, and prepare for an attack on Qingdao. He ordered Zeng Zhongsheng and Cai Zhong to lead the troops on the border of Hebei and Lu to prepare for the attack and occupation of Cangxian County. Hong Chaoyuan was ordered to stay with the New Fifth Brigade and the New Eighth Brigade to monitor the enemy in southern Lunan, and led the Fifth Brigade, the New Fourth Brigade and the southeastern Lunan detachment to secretly concentrate on Ganyu and prepare to attack and occupy Lianyungang. Ordered Chen Shiqu and Zeng Chunjian to lead the Southwest Lu Garrison Brigade and the New Second Brigade to hold on to Southwest Lu, and Liu Jianli and Zhang Hongtao commanded the Second Brigade and the Sixth Brigade to move to the defense line of the 38th Division of the Japanese Army on the Longhai Line, preparing to break through the Longhai Road and sever the connection between the Japanese Hendong Group and the Xuzhou troops, creating the false impression that our army would cooperate with the encirclement and annihilation of the Japanese army in eastern Henan, and force the enemy to rescue; After completing the mobilization of the Japanese army, the 2nd and 6th Brigades quickly returned to Luxi and advanced in the direction of Dexian and Cangxian, preparing to cooperate with the troops on the border of Hebei and Lubian to capture Cangxian.

Considering that the north of Suxian is less than 200 miles away from Xuzhou, and the occupation of Suxian by our army will cut off the connection between the Japanese army in central Anhui and the Japanese army in Xuzhou, and the little devils will inevitably attack our army from the north and south, and the Huaihe River basin is crisscrossed by water networks, which is not conducive to the action of mechanized troops, Liu Yimin ordered Hu Laohu and Bao Wen to command the cavalry brigade to occupy Suxian and cut off the Jinpu Road with the cooperation of the special operations brigade. When the Japanese heavy army group moved south, the cavalry brigade assumed the task of camouflaging the main force to the south, leading the enemy's main force to the western Anhui region.

The main force of the southbound troops under the command of the plateau continued to wait in concealment in northeastern Anhui.

On February 11, 1939, that is, the twenty-third day of the lunar calendar, Liu Yimin decisively ordered the offensive operations on Longhai Road and Jinpu Road.

Liu Yimin's curtain on the Jianghuai River was completely opened

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