After receiving Liu Yimin's telegram order, Hong Chaoyuan, commander of the Lunan Military Region and commander of the Fifth Brigade of the Sect, saw that the division commander no longer asked for covert development, but wanted to concentrate the main force to clean up the southeastern and southern Lunan on a large scale, and immediately realized that the division commander was going to clean up the backyard before the big war, and immediately ordered the main force to concentrate and sent a report to Wang Nanhu, the commander of the southeastern Lunan detachment, asking the southeastern Lunan detachment to sweep eastward from the north of Ju County, and after capturing Zhucheng County, he went south to capture Yuezhao County, and he led the Fourth Brigade to sweep eastward from Mengyin to capture Mengyin, Yishui, and Juxian. The two armies met in Ju County.

In just one month, the regiments of the Fifth Brigade of the Fifth Brigade of the Teaching Brigade expanded rapidly, and the 13th Regiment, the 14th Regiment, the 15th Regiment, the New Fifth Regiment, the Supplementary Regiment and the Lunan Reading Regiment have all become a large regiment of 3,000 people, and the costumes have become messy, the old soldiers are wearing the uniforms of the Eighth Route Army, and the new soldiers are wearing the uniforms of the Imperial Army, and the uniforms of the common people in Lunan look messy. The weapons are also varied, there are 38 big covers and crooked handles, grenadiers, and there are also Hanyang-made and Czech-style, and the most ridiculous thing for Hong Chaoyuan is that even the hand-made earthen rifles "Earth Pressure Five" and "Single One" handmade by Lunan have also entered the Fifth Brigade of the Sect with strong combat effectiveness, and even individual soldiers have spears, clubs and large blades in their hands.

The image of the new soldier wearing coarse cloth clothes, rolled trouser legs, straw sandals, grenade mines hanging around his waist, and carrying spears, clubs, and broadswords on his shoulders made Hong Chaoyuan a little dizzy, and he seemed to have returned to the Central Soviet District of the year, and he couldn't stop muttering: "Mixed back, it can be regarded as a complete mixed back, where the fuck is the Fifth Brigade that can attack and defend, it has simply become a real Lunan guerrilla detachment." ”

Zhang Yicheng also muttered: "I'm afraid these new soldiers are all peasants who have just put down their hoes, where do they have any combat effectiveness, if they go to the battlefield, maybe they will have to arrange soldiers to protect them!" ”

Zhang Yicheng's muttering made Hong Chaoyuan wake up, and pointed to the nose of Shen Nantang, the head of the 13th Teaching Regiment, and Chen Dong, the political commissar with the largest number of people, and roared: "Are you planning to turn the main regiment into a local guerrilla?" Look at the good things you have done, even the spears, clubs, and broadswords have been carried by the soldiers, and then look at what the soldiers are wearing? Thanks to the fact that you are still the old Red Army, the commander of the main regiment, and the political commissar, if you can't get weapons and uniforms, don't recruit so many people? The brand of teaching the Fifth Brigade is considered to have completely messed you up! ”

Unexpectedly, Shen Nantang stalked his neck and pushed it back directly: "Report to the brigade commander, you can't blame me for this, you can only blame the division commander." We have done everything we have done in the name of the Lunan guerrilla detachment, what we can only fight in small battles and not big ones, what we have to do in the name of the Lunan guerrilla detachment, and what we need to mobilize the masses! The masses have mobilized and want to join the army, I can't refuse, right? If you want to fight in the name of the Lunan guerrilla detachment, you must have the clothing and weapons of the guerrilla detachment, right? If you only fight a small battle and don't fight a big battle, then the capture will be small, right? The brigade commander is not accustomed to the big knives and spears in the hands of the soldiers, which is very easy to do, and the army has 38 big covers, crooked handles, and 92 styles, and everything is available in a big battle, as long as the brigade commander gives an order, then Linyi and Juxian are important supply bases for the army, and some are guns and ammunition, and I promise to teach the 13th regiment to be captured. As for clothing, I am the head of the main regiment, not the head of the logistics department and the director of the garment factory, this is something they consider, not something I consider. ”

Hong Chaoyuan rolled his eyes: "Yo, you Shen Nantang is capable, you dare to say that you want to blame the teacher!" I think your tail is about to rise to the sky, and you forgot what your last name is. How about it, why don't you go to the division headquarters to meet the division commander first, and say your words to him face to face? ”

Shen Nantang immediately shook his hands: "Don't, don't, I don't dare to blame the teacher for borrowing my two more guts." I mean, it's time for a big battle, and I can't stand letting the main forces do the guerrilla work! ”

Hong Chaoyuan laughed: "I didn't expect you to have that guts!" Say, how many guns and how many sets of clothes are missing? I'll add to you. ”

Shen Nantang came again: "Report to the brigade commander, there is no need to replenish weapons and ammunition, what the 13th Regiment teaches is to earn money for the brother troops, and it has always been us who hand in weapons and ammunition, where can we make the brigade commander replenish?" However, the military uniform of the Eighth Route Army really has to be supplemented by the brigade commander, my old Shen has a double-shot hand, we can't embroider and trace like a girl to do needlework, I can't make clothes! ”

When he said this, the regiment commanders and battalion commanders in the room laughed.

No matter how hard Shen Nantang's mouth was, Hong Chaoyuan still didn't want to see that his troops had soldiers carrying spears, sticks, and big blades, so he ordered the baggage battalion to take out the weapons and ammunition captured in the Linqing defense battle to replenish the regiments, and the clothes were uniformly changed into the uniforms of the Eighth Route Army. The baggage battalion did not have enough uniforms, so the veterans were mobilized to take out the changed military uniforms, and the new soldiers were first asked to change into them, and then they were uniformly reissued.

In fact, Shen Nantang asked the soldiers to carry big knives, spears, and sticks to concentrate, the purpose was to fight Hong Chaoyuan's idea, and several other regiment commanders and political commissars also had this idea. Seeing that the brigade commander was so generous, he immediately moved out the brigade's logistics inventory, and Tian Taiping, the commander of the 14th Regiment, comforted Hong Chaoyuan: "Brigade commander, don't feel distressed, after this battle, what guns and cannons, we will earn them back for you." ”

Hong Chaoyuan said to Hu Xuerong with a smile: "Look at these guys, they all listen like businessmen no matter how they talk, and they say that the seizure is earning, as if this war is not a war, but a business!" ”

Before Hu Xuerong could speak, Luo Chenggang, the political commissar of the 15th Regiment, said: "The brigade commander is right, this war is the same as doing business. Didn't Division Commander Liu often say that the cost of the battle should be calculated? We all learned from him. To be honest, we didn't learn well enough, we didn't have the same level as the division commander, and we could earn back a lot of silver, weapons and ammunition as soon as we made a move. ”

The crowd burst into laughter again.

Seeing that the time was almost up, Hu Xuerong, political commissar of the Fifth Brigade, announced the opening of the meeting, first conveyed Liu Yimin's speech at the joint meeting of the Shandong Bureau and the Shandong Military Region, and then focused on studying Liu Yimin's criticism of the army's work. After completing the study, Hu Xuerong said: "Comrades, as far as I know, since the reorganization of Xiangjiang, it is the first time that the division commander has criticized us in such a stern tone, which shows that the ideology of Lao Tzu is the first in the world among our cadres and soldiers, who is eager to fight a big battle, who cannot let go of the main force, and who neglects the building of local political power and local armed forces has reached the point where the division commander has to pay attention to it and have to criticize it harshly. The division commander has a definite target, and it is aimed at the problem of a purely military viewpoint that prevails among the cadres of our main forces. Personally, I believe that the division commander was right and timely. We are about to launch an offensive operation in southeastern Lunan to completely eliminate the puppet forces in southeastern Lunan and build southeastern Lunan into our liberated area, and then return to the west and attack Lunan. Our brigade is the main force of our army in Lunan and undertakes the heavy task of sweeping away southeastern Lunan and passing through Lunan Road, and I hope that comrades will conscientiously study and comprehend the spirit of the division commander's speech and ensure the fulfillment of the task. ”

After Hu Xuerong finished speaking, Hong Chaoyuan made a combat deployment.

At this time, the 16th Division of the Yue Army had already attacked Xuzhou, and the 6th Brigade of the Reading Army, with the cooperation of the puppet army, was defending the strategic points of Linyi, Feixian, Mengyin, Yishui, Juxian, Yuezhao and other counties, and the troops were extremely scattered. Liu Yimin took a fancy to this point, so he ordered the Fifth Brigade and the Ludongnan Detachment to attack with heavy troops, break through each of them, and completely eliminate the Sixth Brigade and the puppet army under its command. If the Sixth Brigade is concentrated in Linyi or Juxian, maybe Liu Yimin will change his mind!

Hong Chaoyuan's operational deployment was concise and to the point, that is, to teach the 14th Regiment to capture Yishui, teach the 15th Regiment to capture Mengyin County, and lead the 13th Regiment, the New Fifth Regiment, the Supplementary Regiment, the Lunan Reading Regiment and the troops directly under the brigade to directly take Ju County, attract reinforcements from the Linyi Army, use ambush tactics to eliminate it, and then wave his division to capture Linyi.

After making the combat arrangements, Hong Chaoyuan said to the cadres in high spirits: "Since the formation of our Fifth Brigade, we have defended Tongguan, attacked Taiyuan, Zhancang County, Linqing, and Pojinpu, and fought every battle well and beautifully, winning the praise of Division Commander Liu, Political Commissar Luo, and fraternal troops. This time, the division commander led the main force of our army to the north of Luzhong and launched the Luzhong Campaign, with the aim of settling all the armies between Jinan and Qingdao in the first battle and completely opening up the situation of Shandong's War of Resistance. Our task was to block the frantic reinforcements of the Southern Front Army in the direction of Jinan. In order to accomplish this task, the division commander asked us to launch an offensive operation in southeastern and southern Lunan to stabilize the base area, and then rest and wait to meet the enemy. On the surface, this task does not seem to have achieved as much as the results of the army that went north to Luzhong and wiped out the size of the divisions and regiments, but it was a great guarantee for the victory of the Luzhong Campaign. The reason why this task was entrusted to us was because the division commander trusted the Fifth Brigade of the Sect to guard Tongguan, Cangxian County, and Linqing, and this is the glory of our entire brigade. ”

Immediately after the end of the combat meeting, the units of the Fifth Brigade of the Fifth Brigade began to operate, and one after another passed through the Yimeng Mountains and rivers and inserted themselves into their respective destinations.

Ju County is the largest county in Shandong, with an average length of 300 li from north to south and 120 li from east to west, with more than 3,600 villages and a population of more than 900,000. Taiwei Highway and Taishi Highway meet in the county, and the strategic location is very important. Therefore, after the Sixth Brigade was stationed in Juxian, Juxian was used as the fulcrum of the attack on Linyi and a strong fortification was built. At this time, the main force of the Sixth Brigade of the Reading Force Mixed Brigade suffered heavy casualties due to its participation in the Linyi operation, and there were only more than 3,000 people left in the 5,000-strong team, and they also undertook the garrison task in the southeast of Shandong. The devils of Juxian County only had less than 500 troops left, and they retreated at the key points of Juxian County, Taiwei Highway, and Taishi Highway, commanding the Han annihilation forces to wreak havoc in all parts of Juxian.

Major General Tsuchiya Bingma, the commander of the 6th Brigade of the Reading Power Mixed Brigade, never dreamed that he would encounter such fierce resistance when he waved the Reading Power Mixed into the 6th Brigade to kill Linyi. After the 39th Wing of the 10th Division came up to support, there was still no way to take the Linyi defenders. In the end, it was the 16th Division that forced the defenders to withdraw from Linyi with heavy casualties.

After the battle of Linyi, Major General Tsuchiya, who was a little nervous and irritated by the tragic battle situation full of corpses, received the order to return to the defensive area, so he had to leave a brigade to garrison Linyi in a huff, and he led the brigade headquarters to return to Juxian with carts and carts of ashes. The commander of the Second Army, Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzo, gave him an order to garrison southeastern Lu, build an airfield in Juxian, and ensure the smooth flow of highways from Taierzhuang to Weifang, Tai'an to Shijiusuo, and Qingdao to Xuzhou.

Major General Tsuchiya Hyoma felt that the head of the commander of the Second Army, Lieutenant General Nishio Toshizo, was afraid that his head had been kicked by the donkey of the Shina people, and how could the Sixth Brigade be able to hold such a large ground with his broken reading ability? As a result, Major General Tsuchiya Bingma, who had returned to Juxian, kept sending telegrams to Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzo, saying that the 6th Brigade of the Reading Power Mixed Brigade had suffered heavy casualties in the Battle of Linyi, and asked His Excellency to quickly replenish the 6th Brigade of the Reading Power Mixed Brigade.

Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzao was annoyed by him, and there was no force to supplement him, just when Liu Guitang's Imperial Allied Army was unwilling to fight with the 10th Division, Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzao ordered Liu Guitang, the commander of the Imperial Allied Army, to belong to the command of the Sixth Brigade of Reading Li and assist in the defense of southeast Lu.

Major General Tsuchiya Bingma was originally reluctant to ask for the puppet army, he didn't trust them, but after meeting Liu Guitang, nicknamed Liu Heiqi, he felt that this guy was very cunning, and his heart was very black, killing people and setting fires, forcibly destroying and destroying, doing everything, killing that person was full of tricks, and he was more professional than the soldiers of the Sixth Brigade who were mixed with reading power, so he happily accepted Liu Guitang's department and asked him to assist the imperial army in guarding the communication line.

After arranging Liu Guitang's headquarters, Major General Tsuchiya Bingma still kept sending reports to Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzo, saying that the resistance forces in the southeast of Shandong were very active, especially after the 16th Division moved south, the resistance of the people of China became more active, and there were often imperial soldiers who disappeared inexplicably, and it was necessary to increase the number of troops, at least let the reading force be mixed into the 6th Brigade and regiment. Otherwise, it will be impossible to extinguish the resistance. Finally, on April 25, Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzo finally sent a telegram, agreeing to mix the strength of the two supplementary brigades of the Second Army into the Sixth Brigade, which had been transported to Zaozhuang and rushed from Zaozhuang to Juxian.

Major General Tsuchiya Hyoma put down his mind now, and felt that Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzo was not bad, and he was a good person. In his heart, he no longer scolded Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzo, and began to focus on all kinds of armed forces in the southeast of Shandong, thinking about how to integrate these resistance forces and help the imperial army defend the southeast of Shandong.

Of course, Major General Tsuchiya didn't know that at this time, Lieutenant General Nishio Toshizo could no longer be the commander of the Second Army, and he was about to be transferred back to Yumoto as the director of education.

The reason for the departure of Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzo was not a normal transfer as claimed by the historian, but that the narrow-minded General Terauchi Shouichi could not tolerate him.

(To be continued)