Chapter 572 Tibetan Potential

When Liu Yimin arrived at Jinan City, the entire Jinan Battle had already ended.

The Fourth Brigade led by Lei Ming and Zhu Rui, with the support of the artillery group, eliminated the remnants of the commanding heights on the periphery of the Japanese army. The cavalry brigade led by Hu Laohu, with the support of the artillery group that arrived later, eliminated the Japanese troops guarding the Zhangzhuang airport.

The Japanese planes at the Zhangzhuang airfield were basically wiped out in the battle to reinforce the Twenty-Lipu airfield, and only a few reconnaissance planes remained. When Hu Laohu arrived with the cavalry brigade, the little devil pilot took off urgently and fled north. I don't know if they finally arrived at Beiping, Tianjin, and Shijiazhuang airports or fell to their deaths on the way. Fortunately, Hu Laohu's quick movements and fierce style of fighting were fierce, otherwise if he delayed for a while, the little devil might blow up the ammunition and oil stored at Jinan Airport, and that would be a waste of work.

The chief of staff of the 12th Army, Asaburo Kobayashi, eventually slipped away.

This guy, the ancestors may not have been a pirate or ninja, but he is bold, thoughtful, and extremely cunning, and does have the potential to be a bandit.

Knowing that the target of escaping with Gu Shoufu was too big and it was easy to be caught up by the Eighth Route Army, he deliberately asked to stay behind and stick to the headquarters of the Twelfth Army.

Tani Shofu and Seki Kameji walked on the front foot, and after Kobayashi Asaburo ordered the guards to defend it, he slipped out of the headquarters and hid in the nearby Yonghe grocery store.

The Yonghe grocery store was a hidden spot of the Japanese secret service, which was originally top secret, and its main task was to collect economic intelligence on Jinan. After Kobayashi Asaburo arrived in Jinan, because Otaka Kamezo was obsessed with military affairs and did not pay much attention to government affairs, Kobayashi Asaburo had to take over these specific affairs. This Japanese-disguised merchant has become Kobayashi Asaburo's eyes to understand the price and business dynamics of Jinan, and he regularly and secretly reports to Kobayashi Asaburo.

Kobayashi Asaburo knew that the Eighth Route Army would soon conduct a large-scale search of the whole city, and this was not a place to stay for a long time. At this time, the citizens of the Jinan underground party organization boiled water, cooked and carried the wounded, and began to express their condolences to the Eighth Route Army. The owner and wife of Yonghe grocery store have lived in Jinan for a long time, and they have long been sinicized, and no one in the neighborhood knows that he is Japanese, let alone a spy. Kobayashi Asaburo relied on his proficiency in Chinese, and after changing into civilian clothes, he let the spies disguised as the boss lead, and blended in with the common people who helped the Eighth Route Army carry the wounded, and easily mixed out of Jinan City and left.

After Liu Yimin entered the city, he set up the division headquarters in the Japanese army headquarters in the Jiaoji Road Hotel, and soon began to work.

Before leaving Wang Sherenzhuang, Luo Ronghuan had already sent a good news to the Central Committee and the General Headquarters, reporting that our army had successfully captured Jinan and captured Gu Shoufu, commander of the Japanese 12th Army, and Guan Guizhi, commander of the 34th Division.

Therefore, as soon as the radio station was set up, Liu Yimin received a telegram from the chairman.

It may be that the victory in the capture of Jinan made the chairman too excited, and the telegram was filled with excitement that could not be concealed: "The victory of this capture of Jinan shows that our army is capable of capturing any city fortified by the enemy. In the future, the large and medium-sized cities that the Japanese army will hold on to our army will no longer be a prohibitive fortress, but a battlefield for gathering and destroying the enemy's main force. In consideration of the changes in the enemy's situation, Liu and Luo were asked to consider whether they could fight another battle before the enemy's reinforcements arrived, or go north to Dexian or south to Feicheng and Tai'an, so as to strive to destroy or defeat the enemy, expand the results of the battle, and create conditions for subsequent operations. ”

After reading the telegram, Zeng Zhongsheng ordered the deputy chief of the General Staff Office to quickly send a report to the Eighth Brigade, the Luxi Garrison Brigade, the Taixi Group, and the Lunan Group, asking them to report the enemy situation as soon as possible; Zhu Zhexiao, deputy director of the General Staff Office, was ordered to lead the staff officers to carry out operations on the map and deduce the possibility of fighting in the north or south.

Reports of changes in the enemy situation from several directions were soon reported, and the Japanese army's reaction was indeed the same as Liu Yimin expected, and they began to retreat on all fronts. The Xu Shiyou Luxi Garrison Brigade, Chen Shiqu Taixi Group, and Hong Chaoyuan Lunan Group, north of Luokou, all reported the emergency retreat of the Japanese army. Among them, the Japanese troops north of Luokou, including the Japanese army in western Luxi and the Japanese army in southern Hebei, were concentrated in Xiangde County, and the Japanese army in Taixi and Lunan retreated to the south. The Tessie Group and the Lunan Group have already begun to launch a pursuit.

With the cooperation of the special combat team led by Li Lingfeng and Wang Tongsheng, the Eighth Brigade captured the Japanese army's Qingdao airfield and seized a large amount of aviation ammunition and fuel.

For commanders who are tasked with strategic command, the most important thing is to judge the hour and size up the situation.

Before the war, Liu Yimin wanted to capture Qingdao and Jinan in one fell swoop and completely wipe out the Japanese army in Shandong. The battle plan for the entire Jiaoji Road Campaign was also drawn up in accordance with this guiding ideology.

Unfortunately, the results of the instructor were too great, which led to a quick response from the Japanese army. Shouichi Terauchi returned to North China and brought back a new fleet of fighter planes of the Air Force, which restored the combat effectiveness of the North China Front Air Force in the shortest possible time. That's not all, the Japanese army mobilized reinforcements from the north and south, and they would arrive soon. If nothing else, the Japanese Combined Fleet and the Fourth Fleet may have received the order to return north to Qingdao at this time, and began to load the Fifth Division and set off for Qingdao north. In this way, the Japanese army will form a three-way flank attack on our army in Shandong.

In this case, Liu Yimin needs to think carefully about how the main force of the instructor will act next.

If the air power of the Japanese army had not recovered so quickly, if the Japanese army had not mobilized elite divisions from the north and south lines so quickly to help, Liu Yimin would have nothing to consider, and it would be no problem for him to gather and annihilate the 35th Division and the 13th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade in the south, and if he fought well, he could also destroy or defeat the 114th Division and the puppet Manchurian Defense Army, and even Xuzhou would have been recovered. It is no problem to destroy one or two garrison divisions of the Japanese army in Beishangde County, and with the combat effectiveness of the main force of the instructor, it should be easy to deal with the garrison divisions and regiments of the little devils.

The problem is that there is no if, this is the main battle, and if you are not careful, you will have to bleed.

There was a lively sound of talking in the courtyard, and as soon as Liu Yimin heard it, the brigade commanders and political commissars of several main brigades came. When the old comrades-in-arms saw each other and won such a big battle, everyone was excited, and their voices were high.

Liu Yimin was thinking about the problem, and he thought they were talking loudly, so he turned his head and shouted: "Zhu Zhexiao, go and shut them up"

Zhu Zhexiao put down the pencil in his hand when he heard the voice, and was about to convey the order of the division commander. Luo Ronghuan stopped him and said to Liu Yimin: "You think about the problem, I'll go see the comrades." You can't bomb them away, you might have to assign tasks in a while."

Liu Yimin nodded and began to ponder again.

The problem now is that the Japanese army on the southern front has shrunk on all fronts, and the Japanese army in Taixi has retreated in the direction of Yanzhou, and if it can catch up with the Japanese army in the field before dawn, there will be no problem in destroying it. If you can't catch up before dawn, don't even think about it. Once the little devils return to Yanzhou City and join up with the Japanese puppet army in Lunan, they can support each other, and the 14th Division can quickly rush to the battlefield, which is a mechanized division that has been strengthened before and after the Battle of Lanfeng, equipped with a heavy artillery brigade, and it will be difficult for the instructor to swallow them in one bite. Once the battle fell into a stalemate, there were Japanese planes in the sky and Japanese tanks and heavy artillery on the ground, and it could not be said that the Japanese army would be able to teach the instructors how to do it, and at least it would be impossible to achieve great results in a short period of time. The terrible thing is that at this time, the Japanese army on the northern front will take advantage of the situation to attack Jinan, under the joint attack of the Japanese army's first division and the second division, plus the Japanese army's 23rd division and several other garrison divisions, Liu Yimin believes that the Luxi Garrison Brigade and the Luxi Garrison Brigade on the north bank of the Yellow River will not be able to stop the devil's attack. Even if you add the second brigade, I'm afraid you won't be able to stop it. The gains of the Battle of Jinan may be lost.

Beishang Dexian County is also facing such a problem, and I am afraid that it will be dawn before the troops arrive at the county seat of Dexian County.

The capture of Qingdao has also lost its meaning. Our army captured Qingdao at this time, not to mention whether the Eighth Brigade could complete the task alone, even if it could capture Qingdao, it would choose to give up in the end. Instead of occupying Qingdao and turning Qingdao into a bombing target for Japanese carrier-based aircraft, it is better to use Qingdao to fish and let the Japanese Fifth Division reinforce Qingdao, and maybe in the future we can seize the opportunity to completely annihilate the Fifth Division, which would be much more beneficial than occupying Qingdao now.

Besides, the coastline of Shandong is so long, there are too many places where the 5th Division of the Japanese Army can land. Rather than allowing the 5th Division, which has strong combat effectiveness, to land at any location and take our troops by surprise, it is better to let them land at a fixed location in Qingdao, which is much less destructive than the Japanese army arbitrarily choosing a landing point.

There is another reason for not capturing Qingdao for the time being, that is, Qingdao has been almost moved by the Eighth Route Army, leaving the Japanese army with a mess. Although the Japanese army began to restore Qingdao's economy after the Eighth Route Army withdrew from Qingdao, it took time. Liu Yimin didn't need to do the math to know that the Japanese army was still far from restoring Qingdao's economy to the level before the Eighth Route Army captured it. As long as our army occupies the vast countryside around Qingdao, Qingdao will be a dead city, and this burden will have to be carried by little Japan and exhausted to death.

Facing pressure from the Japanese army on the northern front, it was unrealistic to go north, and the capture of Qingdao lost its significance at the strategic level. Liu Yimin felt that the best way was to end the Jiaoji Road Campaign, hide the main force and recuperate, so that the little devils could not figure out the next move of our army and automatically shrink. This is the hidden power in the art of war

Whether it is the Japanese army on the southern front or the Japanese army on the northern front, plus the Japanese Fifth Division that may reinforce Qingdao, it is estimated that none of them dare to act rashly. In this way, we will be able to gain a period of time to eliminate the remaining Japanese puppet forces in the base areas and thoroughly consolidate the base areas. It also gives the arsenal time to reload ammunition and replenish troops

Of course, in this way, our army won the time to consolidate the base areas and replenish the rest and recuperation, and the Japanese army also had time to digest the results of the capture of Wuhan and Guangzhou, replenish the rest and recuperate troops, and mobilize the main force to besiege Shandong on a large scale.

There are pros and cons to everything

Liu Yimin felt anxious for a while, felt out the cigarette, took out a match, and struck it, the force was too great, and the match broke. I took out one stroke at a time, and it broke again. didn't even light the cigarette three times, so angry that Liu Yimin slammed the matchbox to the ground, and opened his mouth to call Huang Wenhu to get another box of matches.

Cai Zhong walked over and picked up the matchbox on the ground, lit the cigarette for Liu Yimin, and said slowly: "It's not that the matches are bad, it's that you use too much force." Don't you often say that what senior commanders need most is a cool head. Why don't you take a break and calm down a bit? ”

Liu Yimin took a hard puff of his cigarette, waved his hand, and let Cai Zhong go by himself.

After pondering his thoughts over and over again, Liu Yimin felt that although the Japanese army had also won time to rest and replenish and mobilize troops, it was impossible for them to mobilize 700,000 troops to besiege Shandong as they had done last time. Because the territory they occupy is too large and they need troops to hold on, if they concentrate all their efforts on Shandong as they did last time, then the results of the Battle of Wuhan will be in vain. Maybe Shandong will attract the main force of the Japanese army, and Central China will be able to counterattack on a large scale, and ** will definitely not let go of the opportunity to recover Wuhan. Even if Chiang Kai-shek wants to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, he will not let him get his wish, and most of the generals will not miss the opportunity to slaughter the devil.

Although his own ideas contradict the spirit of the chairman's instructions, they are in line with the reality of the current Shandong battlefield.

After thinking about it, Liu Yimin lit another cigarette and raised his head to ask Cai Zhong to call the political commissar over.

After Luo Ronghuan came back, Liu Yimin said his thoughts again and asked Luo Ronghuan, Cai Zhong, and Zeng Zhongsheng to ponder it.

Zeng Zhongsheng is a military talent at the level of a strategist, and after a little thought, he understood the mystery and immediately said: "I agree with the division commander that the main force of our army has been fighting continuously since the Jiaoji Road Campaign was launched, and it is in urgent need of rest and recuperation. The 14th Division of the Japanese Army on the Southern Front may have arrived in Xuzhou, ready to support the 114th Division, the 35th Division, the 13th Independent Mixed Division, and the puppet Manchurian Defense Army to help them stabilize the defensive line. The three divisions of the Japanese Kwantung Army on the northern front will soon arrive at the battlefield, and our army will rashly go north to attack the enemy in Dexian, and as soon as it is dawn, it will be bombed indiscriminately by Japanese planes, and once the battle drags on until tomorrow night or the day after tomorrow, it is very likely that it will be attacked head-on by reinforcements from the Kwantung Army moving south. The battle of Anjiazhuang of the Taixi Group is a lesson, and the time to fight with the Japanese army cannot be delayed too long, and the delay time is beneficial to the Japanese army. ”

Cai Zhong smashed his mouth: "It's all the trouble caused by the old devil Shouyi in the temple, he has suffered too much in our hands, and he has learned well." If only Terauchi hadn't returned from Germany, then the Japanese army would not have reacted so quickly to Terauchi Shouichi even if he had a new commander. At present, the fighter plane has been lost, and it is our principle not to fight a war that is uncertain. There are many little devils, and they can't be eliminated for a while. When we have fully rested, we will look for fighters. The next time you hit the gun, it might be the Japanese army's permanent division. That guy, well-equipped, oily and watery, destroys one by one, much stronger than these garbage garrison regiments"

Luo Ronghuan looked solemn and sat there for a long time without speaking.

Liu Yimin knew that Luo Ronghuan was principled, and after thinking about it for so long, he was thinking about how to report to the chairman.

Sure enough, Luo Ronghuan opened his mouth and said: "Chairman, they are no longer on the front line, and they are not as timely as we understand the changes in the enemy situation. I agreed to end the offensive operations and the troops moved to rest. Call back to the chairman, explain clearly the changes in the hostile situation that we have learned, and report clearly our determination. I am sure that the President agrees with us. ”

Seeing that everyone's opinions were unified, Liu Yimin immediately said: "Chief of Staff, record the order: 1. Teach the Eighth Brigade not to make arrangements for the capture of Qingdao, but to monitor the changes in the enemy situation in Qingdao. We should seize the time to rush to transport aviation ammunition and gasoline from Qingdao Airport, empty all Qingdao airports, and transport ammunition and gasoline back to the central base area in Yimeng as soon as possible, so that the main force will rest in concealment around Qingdao. Second, the task of the Lunan Group remains unchanged, take advantage of the situation to pursue, and must recover Linyi and Fei County. 3. The Taixi group carried out a limited pursuit of the enemy, and if the enemy retreated to Yanzhou, the pursuit would be stopped. Leave one section to monitor the movements of the Japanese army, and the main force will be transferred to rest and replenish, restore and develop the Taixi base area, and actively infiltrate and develop into southwest Lu to restore the original base area in southwest Lu. Fourth, Wang Bingsan's Luxi Second Garrison Brigade made every effort to operate the Luxi base area, and Xu Shiyou's Luxi Garrison Brigade monitored the enemy in Dexian County, built a solid defensive line, and covered the main force to rest and recuperate. 5. The Fuzhu Ting Division on the Jilu Border stopped attacking the Jinpu Road and withdrew to the base area for concealment and recuperation. 6. The 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 7th, cavalry, artillery, and divisional units are to be concealed and recuperating in the area around Jinan. Seventh, the Jinan garrison area was established, and Zhang Hongtao, commander of the Sixth Brigade, was appointed as the commander of the garrison, and the Sixth Brigade was responsible for the garrison of Jinan. 8. The air defense brigade commands air defense operations in the base areas in a unified manner, with the focus on air defense operations in Jinan, Weicheng, and Tai'an. Zhou Yi, chief of staff of the 1st Brigade, was in charge of commanding special air defense operations. ”

After issuing the order, Liu Yimin asked Cai Zhong to personally draft a telegram to the chairman, and at the same time, asked the central authorities to appoint party and government leaders of Jinan City.

Luo Ronghuan was a little surprised, and couldn't help but ask Liu Yimin: "You have to put forward a list of suggestions to the central government, right?" ”

Liu Yimin shook his head: "Jinan is different from Tianjin and Qingdao, if we play well, we may take root here." Even in the future, when the Japanese army will press the border, we will have to withdraw from Jinan, and that will only be an evacuation of the city. As long as we have a few months, we will be able to do a solid job in Jinan. When the little devil comes again, he doesn't want to really drive us out of the Jinan area. In this case, the personnel arrangements of Jinan City will be designated by the central government. ”

Luo Ronghuan's eyes looked straight at Liu Yimin's face through the lenses.

When the big event was agreed, Liu Yimin was in a happy mood, twitched his eyes, and said with a smile: "What do you see?" I'm not Lin Yueqin, I don't have flowers on my face."

Luo Ronghuan snorted and laughed, pointed at Liu Yimin and said, "You guy, how do I feel that you are indeed a young man in his twenties sometimes, and sometimes how can you be like a 50-year-old man?" ”

Liu Yimin looked at Luo Ronghuan in surprise, couldn't help but reach out and touch his face, and whispered: "Political commissar, have I been worried a lot lately, and I'm tired and old?" ”

At this moment, the entire division headquarters burst into laughter.

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