Tada Jun's judgment was really right, because the Japanese army encircled and attacked the southern Hebei, Shandong, and Suzhou-Anhui border areas, the headquarters of the road army telegraphed and ordered all the units of the road army to attack on all fronts, and planned to respond to the operations of our army in the southern Hebei, Shandong, and Suzhou-Anhui border areas. In the following days, the Japanese First Army and the Éng Army stationed in Shanxi were all involved in the fighting.

The late autumn of Jinchaji is full of red mountains and cold.

Chengnanzhuang, three or five miles south of Fuping County, is hidden in the autumn slaughter. This village, which looks no different from an ordinary village, is the location of the 115th Division of the Route Army and the Jinchaji Military District. From time to time, villagers who drove sheep passed through the village, shouting sheep, and talking to the passing army cadres, setting off the whole village very peacefully.

The Jin-Cha-Ji Military District and the Headquarters of the 5th Division are located in a brick and wood structure bungalow courtyard in Chengnanzhuang, the main room is the residence and office of Nie Rongzhen, and the wings on both sides are the staff offices and confidential offices of the military district and the division headquarters.

After receiving the telegram order from the Central Central Committee and the General Headquarters, the commander of the 5th Division of the Route Army and the commander of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Territory sat in front of the map without saying a word, staring at it for a long time, and then turned to Nie Rongzhen and said: "Send a report to the Central Central Army and the General Headquarters that the First Army is determined to take advantage of the enemy's Kwantung Army to attack Shandong in the south, concentrate the main force, develop in the direction of Liaoning, smash the rear of the Kwantung Army, and plan to fight in response to the instructor of the Sect." ”

The 115th Division was formerly known as the glorious Red First Army, and although it was reorganized into the 5th Division of the Group Regiment of the Kuomintang Revolutionary Army, the division commander still used to call his own troops the First Army. This is the name of every telegram sent to the Central Committee and the General Headquarters.

At this time, Li Yuan Shi had already gone to the Soviet Union for treatment because he was mistakenly injured by Yan Xishan's sentry, and at this time, because of the changes in Li Yuan's history, he was still fighting vigorously on the anti-Japanese front.

In the past two years, the 5th Division has extensively carried out guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines in Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei, and in accordance with the requirements of localizing the main forces, it has focused on building local political power and local armed forces, and the scale of its troops has expanded rapidly and its strength has soared, from the east of the Tongpu line and the north of Zhengtai Road in Shanxi to the south of the line of Zhangjiakou, Duolun, Ningcheng, and Jinzhou, including central and eastern Hebei, all of which belong to the scope of activities of the Jin-Cha-Ji military area initiated by the 5th Division. The area of the base areas and guerrilla areas has reached 200,000 square kilometers, and the population under control is 25 million.

With such strength, it is no wonder that the god of war in the history of later generations wants to leap to the tried!

Nie Rongzhen stared at the map for a while, and said: "Now is indeed a good time for our army to march into Liaoning, the only difficulty is that it is winter at this time, and it is difficult for our army to gain a foothold in Liaoning. I think that we can also adopt the method of fighting on the inner and outer lines, organize the outer line corps, go out of Liaoning, and hit the rear of the Kwantung Army; The formation of an inner line corps to launch an attack on the Japanese army stationed in the Japanese army will not only cover the actions of our outer line corps, but also create a deterrent effect on the Japanese army that will blossom on all sides. ”

The face was not shocked: "Liu Yimin has repeatedly advocated fighting economic wars, and we have to think about it carefully." Liaoning is a good place, it needs grain, guns, and people, and it is much richer than Jinchaji. There are our advance units and anti-Japanese joint units, which can be coordinated with each other. The soldiers were quick and immediately began to mobilize. ”

Nie Rongzhen reminded again: "We still have to think carefully, as soon as our army moves in Liaoning, the Kwantung Army and the puppet Manchurian Defense Army will desperately counterattack, and the main force of the Kwantung Army in Shandong will also quickly come back to help." One step at a time, we still have to figure out how to deal with the counterattack and siege attack of the ghosts. ”

The two brooms frowned, and said lightly: "By the time they surround us, we will have already returned with a full load!" ”

Nie Rong Zhen laughed.

After laughing, Nie Yuan Rongzhen said again: "The Mentor has made a great contribution to the whole army, and now is the time when they need support. I think that it is naturally good to march to Liaoning, which is a way to draw wages from the bottom of the kettle. However, can we draw up a part of our forces to feint near Beiping? That way the support for the tutor is more direct. ”

Shaking his head: "No! Liu Yimin knows very well that he wants to transfer the ghost to the south, so that the ghost can go as far as possible, and the bigger the territory, the better! The purpose was to create an emptiness in the Shijiazhuang and Pingjin areas, so that he could take the opportunity to lead the army to attack and occupy Shijiazhuang and even directly attack the Pingjin area. We are making a big move in Liaoning, and the ghost is destined to be unlucky this time! ”

"But" didn't get to, and shook his head again: "The losses in Shandong, Suzhou, Anhui, and southern Hebei this time may not be, even if the ghost is the end of the sweep, Liu Yimin and they will probably have to take a year and a half if they want to restore the vitality of the base area." ”

Nie Rongzhen sighed: "There's no way, the ghost has invested so much, how can it be easy to get along?" Shandong, I'm afraid it's going to be a big disaster this time. No, I'll go and draft a telegram to the Central Committee to consider the specific arrangements. ”

To go behind the farts of the Kwantung Army to set fire, Liu Bocheng of Taihang Mountain, Xu Xiangqian of Jinzhong, and He Qilong of Jinsui were all leaping and trying. There is no way, the ghost gang has used all the main forces to deal with Liu Yimin's troops, and the strength of the First Army and the Éng Army stationed in Shanxi is a little thin. Liu Bocheng, Xu Xiangqian, and He Qilong are no worse than Liu Yimin, how could they miss the fighter?

In this way, when the Japanese heavy army group rushed to Shandong, the main force of Shanxi's road army came out and fought between Pinghan Road and Tongpu Railway.

Cao County was known as Bei Bo in ancient times, and later called Panshi Town, which was the location of the early capital of Shang Tang. A number of powerful emperors and scholars who have made significant contributions to mankind, such as the hero Dayu, the first prime minister Yi Yin, the first king of the ancient dynasty, the philosopher Zhuangzi, the military strategist Wu Qi, the agronomist Fan Shengzhi, and the peasant people's righteous leader Huang Chao, and a number of famous experts and scholars who have made significant contributions to mankind were born here.

On the night of October 30, Liu Yimin, Luo Ronghuan, and Cai Zhong drove 300 kilometers from Pingyiji to Zhangwan, which borders Cao County in the south of Heze.

Zeng Zhongsheng and Tan Zheng were ordered to return to Dadian and sit in command of the inner line of operations.

Jiaodong, southern Hebei, western Luxi, southeastern Shandong, and the Suzhou-Anhui border areas have all become a pot of porridge, but the southern and southwestern regions of Shandong are calm. Liu Yimin, Luo Ronghuan, and Cai Zhong traveled all the way from Pingyiji, and saw that although the soldiers and civilians in the base area were all in the fortified and clear fields, there were still villagers who set up stalls to do business in various market towns, and they felt a lot of emotion, and it seemed that the villagers had not yet woken up from the joy of Lunan liberation. In particular, in this Heze area, due to the attempt of the Third Division of the Japanese Army to raid Heze, it was sent back to Cao County by the Southwest Lu Garrison Brigade and the Second Luxi Garrison Brigade, hiding in the Cao County area motionless, the villagers in the Heze area saw the majesty of the regular army of the Road Army, and the anti-Japanese enthusiasm was unprecedentedly high, and every household was spreading pancakes and steamed buns to prepare military rations. Cai Zhong suggested to Liu Yimin several times that he could think of a way to ensure that the base area would not be occupied by ghosts.

Liu Yimin's answer is very simple: we must let the ghost guys open up the Jinpu Road, or who will build the railway for us? As for the other bases, even if the ghosts occupy them, they won't stay long, and they will obediently return to the railway line.

In Zhangwan, Liu Yimin couldn't take a break, set up an antenna, let the radio station start, and learned about the situation of the anti-sweep in all aspects.

The principle of the anti-Guizizi heavy army group sweep operation in winter determined by Liu Yimin was to focus on preserving the vital forces, and did not hesitate to let the Guiqizi occupy the base areas of Shandong, Jinan, and Suzhou and Anhui on the surface, break the pots and jars, and let the Japanese army advance into the hinterland of the base areas. This principle was established in a very timely manner, and it was tantamount to letting go of the hands and feet of the armed forces of the various units and the local base areas, and there was no need to defend the towns and cities and jump behind the ghosts to carry out guerrilla warfare. In this way, as long as the main force units and local armed forces are equipped to complete the task of covering the rear airframe passes, schools, and the transfer of fellow villagers, they will be able to fight flexibly and maneuverily, and they will be able to fight if they can win the battle, and they will leave if they cannot win. The attempt of the ghosts to encircle and annihilate the main force of our army was doomed to fail from the moment Liu Yimin's telegram order was issued.

Because the Japanese army did a good job of keeping secrets in advance, and the number of troops was extremely large, all the troops dispatched were elite troops, and the Suzhou-Anhui border area was tantamount to being attacked by the Japanese army suddenly.

After receiving Liu Yimin's report and the telegram order from the central government, Chen Qiyi learned that the Japanese army was Xiang Zhuang Wujian who was aiming at Peigong, and wanted to preemptively launch a sweep in the Suzhou-Anhui region to cover its strategic intention of comprehensively encircling and attacking Shandong. Mr. Chen scolded "the ghost of the turtle's son has also learned to engage in yin plots", so he concentrated on commanding our army in the Suzhou-Anhui region to cover the transfer of the villagers for the purpose of the operation, and to catch and hide with the ghosts, jumping around in the big encirclement of the ghosts, looking for opportunities to jump out of the encirclement. Although the main force of our army has highlighted the heavy encirclement, the losses of the local armed forces and the local political power organs are very large. The entire Suzhou-Anhui border area was shrouded in terror.

On the day of the surprise attack of the Japanese 1st, 2nd, 7th, and 23rd Divisions in the southern Hebei region, the road army was also caught off guard. These four divisions are the elite of the Kwantung Army, and the seventh division and the second and third divisions are about to sweep southern Hebei in the interim. What makes the ghost of the ghost unimagined is that the southern Hebei region has experienced the heavy sweep of the ghost of the army, the military and civilians in the base area are extremely alert to the surprise attack of the ghost of the ghost, the earliest to dig the tunnel, the traffic transformation is very thorough, the mechanization of the ghost is lost its advantage here, except for the first day of the sudden attack on the 20 miles, the next ghost of the attack pace had to slow down. The reason is simple, there is no way out for the ghosts' cars, tanks, armored vehicles.

The speed of the ghost's advance has slowed down, but the revenge and killing of the base area has become more brutal. Unable to find the road army, county brigade, district squadron, and militia that were attacking everywhere, and they were bewildered by mine warfare and tunnel warfare, they attacked villages and market towns, setting fire to villages at every turn, and turning the land of southern Hebei into a sea of fire.

The situation in Luxi is similar to that in southern Hebei, the political system of the road army is basically complete, the mobilization is rapid, the tunnel construction has been networked, and Xu Shiyou's Luxi Garrison Brigade and Zeng Chunjian's new second brigade are fighting again and again, leading the nose of the ghost, which has won valuable transfer time for the Luxi army and people. When the ghosts couldn't find anyone, they set fire to the village, causing heavy losses.

Although the attack speed of the ghosts in southern Hebei and Luxi was slow, after all, it was the main force of the Japanese army attacking Shandong this time, and the troops were huge. The Ghost Gang Striker has approached the Dong'e area where the Yellow River and the canal cross.

The Jiaodong Peninsula has a vast area, and our army only has one main force of the Jiaodong Garrison Brigade, and it is naturally delusional for the ghost to surround the Jiaodong Garrison Brigade with four divisions. However, our army also did not have the strength to prevent the Japanese army from capturing any county town, so it could only cover the transfer of local political power and logistics equipment to tunnels or mountainous areas, launch and organize local armed forces, militia and mine warfare, tunnel warfare and ghost warfare, and the main force was transferred to the flank or rear of the Japanese army to attack its baggage logistics units. In just four days, the ghost gang basically controlled the Jiaodong Peninsula.

The southeastern part of Shandong was different, because Liu Yimin strictly ordered Wang Nanhu to command the southeastern Lu detachment and the local armed forces in southeastern Shandong to use the existing fortifications to resist step by step, and also ordered Hong Chaoyuan to command the Fifth Brigade and the New Fifth Brigade to rely on the layers of fortifications in the mountainous areas of Lunan, and the battle was very fierce. Wang Nanhu reported that the casualties of the unit were relatively large, and if it continued like this, the southeastern Lu detachment would probably be injured.

After finishing the reports from all sides, Liu Yimin was most pleased that the main force of the 5th Division marched to Liaoning, and said to Luo Ronghuan: "Division Commander Lin is worthy of being the number one general of our army, and this punch directly hit the heart of the Kwantung Army. According to this situation, the main force of the Kwantung Army will not be able to stop in Shandong for a long time, and I will have a month at the longest. As long as the main force of the 5th Division enters Liaoning, the Kwantung Army will inevitably panic. At that time, no matter how much Tada Jun tries to find a way, it will be impossible to retain the main force of the Kwantung Army. Next, the Japanese army will change its strategy and change from a comprehensive encirclement and suppression of our army to open up a line of communication. ”

Luo Ronghuan is also very happy, the 5th Division, it was adapted from the Red First Army, and everyone from the Central Central Red Army has a constant emotion of giving up with this team. I heard Luo Ronghuan say: "How can I hear that Division Commander Liu Yimin is the number one general of our army?" Why did you suddenly become humble? I remember when the public interrogated Gu Shoufu, he teamed up with Jingjing to broadcast live, what kind of invincible anti-Japanese general did Jingjing come from? ”

Liu Yimin hurriedly waved his hands: "Don't you dare to be Hu!" , Mr. Zhu, and Mr. Peng are all commanders of our army, and they are many times stronger than I don't know. Division Commander Lin, Division Liu, Division Xu, and Mr. He, including Commander Ye and Mr. Chen, all of them are better than me. How can I be called the number one general, the invincible general? Don't dare to be nonsense, spreading it will make the boss laugh off their big teeth! ”！