At this time, in the headquarters of the North China Front... As Your Excellency the Commander, Your Excellency the Chief of Staff. His Excellency the Deputy Chief of Staff wept loudly, and those on duty and standing guard all knew that Shimen was captured by the Eighth Route Army. It's just that no one asks them, and they don't dare to say.

The staff officers and confidential personnel who lived in the headquarters were all notified and rushed to their respective posts, and the whole headquarters was filled with the sound of tick-tock sending and receiving reports.

Hirata was about to send a report and convey the commander's order, but Tada Jun called out to him again, pondered for a while, and said: "Report to the headquarters and base camp of the dispatch army of the [China] country, Shimen is lost, and the garrison of Shijiazhuang is all broken. ”

The matter of the loss of Shimen is too big, Tada Jun can't report it if he doesn't want to, he can't cover it.

When Hirata returned from sending the telegram, Tada Jun and Yoshizumi Ryosuke were both standing in front of the map and examining them, looking at them from their backs like two clay statues.

Hirata Masashi suddenly felt a sadness in his heart, feeling that the North China Front Army of the Great Japanese Army was really unlucky, how could he meet such a cunning and murderous opponent as Liu Yimin? The two people in front of him are both famous generals, why are they helpless against Liu Yimin? Liu Yimin was in Lunan, and the front army mobilized a large army to kill Lunan San Liu Yimin went to southwest Lu, and the front army chased his ass to southwest Lu: Liu Yimin is now in Shimen, and the front army has to recapture Shimen. is always led by Liu Yimin like this, it's strange if he doesn't lose the battle!

Hirata corrected the tillers and reported, "Your Excellency, I have an immature idea. ”

Tada Juntou didn't reply with an "um", which was an answer.

Hirata said: "Your Excellency, Commander, I don't think we can be led by the nose by Liu Yimin like we are now. We should change from passive to active, and set up a trap for Liu Yimin to jump, just like Lieutenant General Yamashita Fengwen and Major General Muto Akira did last time when they set up an ambush on Longhai Road. In this way, great results can be achieved. ”

Tada Jun and Yoshizumi Ryosuke turned around at the same time and asked almost at the same time, "Hirata-kun, what do you have good ideas?" ”

Hirata Masatsumi was asked, blinked his eyes, and muttered, "I just think we need to change the tactics of battle, and I haven't figured out exactly what to do." ”

Yoshizumi Ryosuke looked at Hirata Masashi and felt that he really just thought of this, so he said, "Commander, Hirata Jun, now we have to judge where Liu Yimin is going next." Will he still return to Shandong, or will he drive back to Shaanxi to reorganize into a local security force, as Chiang Kai-shek said in his telegram. If he is pressed back to Shaanxi, we don't have to be nervous, organize heavy troops to pursue him all the way, and beat him to lose his armor and collapse the army. If he is still ready to return to Shandong, there is an article to be done here.

We could have set up an ambush circle and let him drill into it. ”

Tada Jun asked rhetorically: "What if Liu Yimin unites the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi to encircle and annihilate the main force of the First Army and recapture Taiyuan?" ”

Saying this, Yoshizumi Ryosuke immediately ended his imagination and muttered, "No matter what, we must recapture the stone gate first." Shimen is too important, Liu Yimin can sweep the Pingjin area to the north, attack the First Army by advancing west, and sweep Xingtai, Handan and even Anyang and Xinxiang in northern Henan to the south. The garrison there was originally insufficient, in case Liu Yimin went south, would the 22nd Division and the rebuilt 14th Division be broken by each one! The three old devils were silent again, and they all crawled back to the map to examine it.

After examining it for a while, Hirata Masashi suggested that according to the current deployment, there were holes in the defense line. The 37th Division received an order to return to Deshi Road, and the original basis for this order was that it could rely on each other with the 35th Division in Jizhong, so as to facilitate communication between Jinan, Jizhong, and northwest Shandong. Now, in order to prevent Liu Yimin from attacking the 35th Division and attacking the Pingjin area in the north, he had to let the 35th Division retreat to Baoda Road, and the 37th Division was still far away in southwest Lu, and it would not be able to return to Deshi Road for a while. The same is true of the 40th Division, which was originally planned to return to Dexian. In this way, the Deshi Road and even the northwest of Shandong became a blank area, and the independent mixed brigade and the North China Public Security Army alone could not stop the attack of the Eighth Route Army at all. If the heavy army group of the imperial army kills Shimen, and Liu Yimin repeats his old tricks and attacks any of the 37th, 40th, and 41st divisions that rushed to Deshilu, Dexian, and Nangong, I am afraid that tragedy will happen again.

After thinking for a moment, Tada Jun said: "The 37th Division, the 40th Division, the 41st Division and the North China Security Army under his command should rush to the front line of the canal to set up defenses and block Liu Yimin's escape to the east.

However, the combat effectiveness of these three divisions is limited, and the defense line is so long, if Liu Yimin's troops attack one point, they will not be able to stop it. In this way, let the 1st Guards Division and the Taiwan Mixed Brigade rush to Dexian, and together with the 5th Division and the 4th Cavalry Brigade, they will be used as a reserve force to plug the gap at any time and launch an annihilation attack on Liu Yimin's troops. ”

When Yoshizumi Ryosuke heard this, he immediately said, "Your Excellency the commander is wise. In this way, our great encirclement was formed. I'll repeat it to see if the commander is satisfied. The 11th Division and the 5th Independent Mixed Brigade still advanced to Handan and Xingtai in accordance with the original order, and together with the troops of the 22nd Division, blocked Liu Yimin's southward passage: the troops of the First Army assembled on the front line of Niangziguan to block Liu Yimin's westward passage: the 110th Division and the 35th Division blocked Baotai Road, and with the support of the Fifth Division and the 4th Cavalry Brigade, the Pingjin area could be guaranteed: the 37th Division, the 40th Division, the 41st Division, the Guards Division, and the Taiwan Mixed Brigade were the eastern group, Seal Liu Yimin's retreat to Shandong Channel: The Second Guards Division, the Sixth Division, the Twelfth Division, the Fifteenth Division, and the Heavy Artillery Brigade formed a heavy army group and launched an attack on Shimen: the independent mixed first brigade commanded a public security army group to garrison Nangong, and after the heavy army group, it repeatedly swept the southern Hebei region: the independent mixed seventh brigade and a public security army group were still under the command of Fujii Yochi, and they swept in southwest Luxi: two public security army groups were in Luxi. ”

After hearing this, Tada Jun suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his mind and said, "The deployment of the East Group needs to be adjusted. I judge that Liu Yimin will not return to Shaanxi, and it is very likely that after transferring our heavy army group to Pinghan Road, he will once again break out of his shell and return to Shandong. What Hirata Jun said just now is right, we are going to set a trap for him to jump, and this trap is on the Eastern Front. You see, the most convenient way to return to Shandong from the west of the Yellow River is the Luokou Railway Bridge. Liu Yimin's troops have a lot of vehicles, and if he crosses the Yellow River and builds a pontoon bridge, he will have to set it up in advance, and it will take a whole night to cross the Luokou Bridge. We set up an ambush circle near Dexian County, and concealed the 5th Division, the 1st Guards Division, the Taiwan Mixed Brigade, and the 4th Cavalry Brigade near Dexian and Cangxian. ”

At this time, not only Yoshizumi Ryosuke said that the commander was wise, but Hirata Masashi also cheered, as if they had opened their nets and captured Liu Yimin.

Tada Jun's thinking became clearer, and he understood many things at once, and then said: "I think now, why did Liu Yimin attack Shimen? Why didn't he meet our army in southwest Lu? You must know that with his firepower and strength, he can completely set up ambushes in advance where our army must pass as he did against Chiang Kai-shek's troops on the Long March, and maybe he can defeat us all the way. Even if he goes south to attack Shangqiu, I'm afraid we won't have time to save it. But instead of doing so, he led his troops thousands of miles to attack Shimen. After thinking about it, I think there are two reasons why Liu Yimin rushed to Shimen. …，

Yoshizumi Ryosuke and Hirata Masatsuke put on a teachable posture and stood there listening to hear what the reason was.

I heard Tada Jun say: "One is that the strategic location of Shimen is important, just like Yoshizumi-kun just said, occupying Shimen can not only go north and south, but also close the first army in Shanxi, and endanger the safety of the first army.

Both of us see this very clearly. It's just that Liu Yimin had premeditated and his eyes had been fixed on Shimen for a long time, and we only realized this problem now. You think, if we concentrate such a large number of troops to carry out a law and order rectification operation in Shandong, it is equivalent to encircling and suppressing the Eighth Route Army in Shandong with the strength of the whole country. Although Liu Yimin may have achieved some victories on a tactical level and inflicted losses on the imperial army, the final result must have ended in his complete annihilation. From Liu Yimin's point of view, he must have seen this very clearly, and "Mao" Zedong, Zhu De and others also saw it very clearly.

They want to think of defeating our heavy army encirclement and suppression in Shandong and keep their base area, and the superior strategy is to lure our heavy army group away from Shandong, which is why the Eighth Route Army made a move in western Liaoning, forcing the main force of the Kwantung Army to have to return to rescue western Liaoning and southern Liaoning.

The things hidden in the southwest of Lu led to today's capture of Shimen. In a word, this is Liu Yimin mobilizing our heavy army group. If you want to mobilize us, you have to hit the joint point that we have to save. He fought the 38th Division in southwest Lu because we knew that he could go south to capture Shangqiu, and then join forces with the Kuomintang First Theater troops to destroy the Imperial Army's troops in Kaifeng and Zhengzhou, and we had to save them. If we don't recapture Shimen, wait for him to take Niangzi Pass, and then defend Niangzi Pass, the first army will be finished. Even if he didn't fight the First Army and pointed directly at Beiping, the 110th Division and the 35th Division would not be able to stop him, and our defense line was full of holes, maybe we would all have to be prisoners. In other words, we knew that Liu Yimin captured Shimen in order to mobilize the heavy army group of the imperial army, and we had to take the bait and immediately mobilize all our forces to recapture Shimen. We can't afford to lose this stone gate! ”

When Yoshizumi Ryosuke heard this, his brain also opened his mind, and he opened his mouth and said, "Commander, I understand. The second reason why Liu Yimin captured Shimen was that there were what he wanted, arms and food. ”

Tada Jun nodded: "Yoshizumi-kun is right. Shimen is an important material supply transit point in North China. Supplies to the First Army, supplies to the southbound troops of the Kwantung Army, supplies to the 22nd and 14th Divisions all passed through there. There is not only flour and rice, but also ammunition, gasoline and diesel. We urgently need these things, and Liu Yimin's troops, including the entire Eighth Route Army, urgently need them. You think, the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi does not have a lot of troops, but why don't they concentrate their forces to fight a war of annihilation like Liu Yimin? There is only one reason, they are expanding too quickly, lack guns and ammunition, and cannot afford to fight a big battle. Chiang Kai-shek did not give them supplies, and we blew up their arsenal in Shaanxi, and there were planes to reconnoiter and bomb Shaanxi every day, and it was impossible for them to rebuild a large-scale arsenal. Shanxi's Eighth Route Army is more anxious than the stars and the moon! Shimen has all these things. After taking Shimen, the Shanxi Eighth Route Army, including Liu Yimin's department, will be able to solve the problem of ammunition and medicine. With the Eighth Route Army, which has enough ammunition and "medicine", what kind of concept will it be? Therefore, Shimen, Liu Yimin must be beaten. Unfortunately, we knew too late. ”

Looking at Tada's painful and regretful appearance, Hirata Masashi hurriedly "interjected": "Your Excellency Commander, rest assured, Major General Kokurihara said in farewell telegram that he had ordered the blowing up of the reserves. Liu Yimin is likely to be overjoyed. ”

Tada Jun said lightly: "I hope so." There were so many bullets and "medicines", if all of them were killed, the stone gate would be wiped off the map. Send planes early tomorrow morning to reconnoiter and see what the situation really is. ”

Yoshizumi Ryosuke asked impatiently, "Your Excellency Commander, what else do you think about the ambush on the Eastern Front?" ”

Tada Jun guessed Liu Yimin's intentions, his face became even more sinky, and he said coldly: "There is an old saying in China, which is called the praying mantis catches the cicada and the yellow finch is behind. If Liu Yimin is a praying mantis, we will be the yellow finch that hunts the praying mantis. This time, I want to annihilate all the troops that Liu Yimin brought to Shimen. In this way, the 11th Division, the 5th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade, and the heavy army group under the command of Lieutenant General Shiro Inaba were ordered to march overnight, and the southwestern Lu, western and southern Hebei were now empty, and there was no main force of the Eighth Route Army, so there was no need to be afraid. Advance to Xingtai and Shimen at the fastest speed, and coerce Liu Yimin to escape from Shimen. The troops who had established a defensive line in Russi were ordered to arrive at the designated place as quickly as possible.

Let the 1st Guards Division, the Taiwan Mixed Brigade, the 5th Division, and the 4th Cavalry Brigade disguise the numbers of other troops, quickly and secretly move to Dexian County, and be ready to intercept and encircle and annihilate Liu Yimin's main force that slipped out of Shimen at any time. As for the 37th Division and the 40th and 41st Divisions that arrived in Hengshui, their role was to monitor and block the Eighth Route Army and lead them into an ambush circle. With such a deployment, Liu Yimin will inevitably suffer from the enemy on his back, even if he flees to the Pingjin area, we are not afraid, and we will concentrate the main force to chase after him, and we must defeat and destroy him! ”

On the night when the Eighth Route Army captured Shimen, Tada Jun began to set traps, waiting for the Eighth Route Army to jump!

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