Suzhou, Anhui, said to be the headquarters of the army.

Major General Tomotoshi Tengda, chief of staff of the Third Army, walked into Lieutenant General Okabe's office with a solemn expression.

I just got the news that the breakthrough force of the Baoshan Brigade was actually divided into fifteen units, and the offensive was also unusually sharp, coupled with the fact that it was a night operation, which caused great difficulties to the encirclement troops of the imperial army.

Major General Teng Tian Zhi must admit that he still underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Baoshan Brigade.

In particular, the cohesion of the Baoshan Brigade was underestimated, and in the view of Major General Teng Tianzhi, it was already the limit that the Baoshan Brigade could be divided into four or five troops to break through separately, after all, the Baoshan Brigade broke through in a defeated situation, and at this time it was quite a test of the cohesion of a unit, and if the cohesion was not enough, it would be difficult to take it back after the troops were scattered.

But Yue Weihan broke up the Baoshan Brigade at once and divided it into fifteen parts.

Lieutenant General Okabe, who was reviewing the documents, looked up and saw that it was Tengtian Tomo, and said, "Tengtian-kun? ”

Major General Teng Tian Zhi suddenly retracted his feet and said: "General, the 1st and 2nd Motorized Infantry Brigades and the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Cavalry Wings of Reading Force have all discovered the remnants of the Baoshan Brigade that broke through. ”

Lieutenant General Okabe frowned and said, "Didn't cut off a single one?" ”

"Hello." Major General Teng Tian Zhi bowed his head suddenly, and said with guilt, "The remnants of the Baoshan Brigade are quite tenacious, according to the reports of the front-line departments, when the enemy army is chased and desperate, it will often leave a small force to resist to the death until all of them are killed, and by the time the imperial army solves the blocking force, the main force of the enemy has already run away." ”

"Yaga." Lieutenant General Okabe said angrily, "So how many more squadrons have been annihilated in total?" ”

Major General Teng Tian Zhi said: "According to rough statistics, about 2,000 people have been annihilated in this siege operation!" ”

"Only two thousand were annihilated?" Lieutenant General Okabe said angrily, "Has Yue Weihan found it?" ”

"There's no definite news yet." Major General Teng Tianzhi shook his head, and then said, "However, the special operations team directly under the canal has just sent back an urgent telegram, and they have found a suspicious target on the east bank of the canal, the target has a team of four or five hundred horses, carrying a lot of equipment, it is likely to be the brigade headquarters of the Baoshan Brigade and the troops directly under it. ”

"East bank of the canal?" Lieutenant General Okabe's brows suddenly furrowed.

"Hello." Major General Teng Tian Zhi bowed his head abruptly and said, "The target is likely to enter Weishan Lake." ”

"Weishan Lake?" Lieutenant General Okabe frowned more and more, "It seems that the security in the Lake District is not very good?" ”

"Hello." Major General Teng Tianzhi suddenly bowed his head and said, "The security in the Weishan Lake area is indeed not very good, there are lake bandits in the lake, bandits in the mountains, and the slightly larger villages and towns all have the ability to read the Daomen armed forces, and in the past half a month, there have even been guerrillas led by [***], and the situation can be described as quite chaotic." ”

Lieutenant General Okabe frowned and pondered for a moment before saying, "Is it possible to intercept them before entering the lake area?" ”

"General, it's no longer possible." Major General Teng Tianzhi said with regret, "Xuzhou is too close to Weishan Lake. ”

Lieutenant General Okabe said: "Tengtian-kun, if you let Yue Weihan and the brigade headquarters of the Baoshan Brigade escape into the Weishan Lake area, it will not be so easy to find and annihilate them. ”

Major General Teng Tian Zhi said: "General, I have ordered the 1st Motorized Infantry Brigade and the 3rd Cavalry Wing to pursue along the west of the lake, the 2nd Motorized Infantry Brigade and the 4th Cavalry Wing to pursue along the east of the lake, and the 1st and 2nd Cavalry Wings to cooperate with the 18th Division to sweep the area along the lake. ”

"Yo Si." Lieutenant General Okabe said happily, "Then I will be relieved." ”

Major General Teng Tianzhi suddenly said: "General, there is a sentence I don't know whether to say or not?" ”

Lieutenant General Okabe said indifferently: "Tengtian-kun, if you have anything to say, you don't have to say it." ”

Major General Teng Tianzhi said: "General, the combat mission of our Third Army is to seize Xuzhou to clear the obstacles for the Battle of Wuhan, and now that Xuzhou has been taken, the main force of the Baoshan Brigade has also been defeated. ”

"Yo Si." Lieutenant General Okabe's eyes lit up in an instant.

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Holding calves, known as the world's first gu.

Baoqinggu Mountain is located 20 kilometers northwest of Zaozhuang, with towering peaks and dense forests.

During the Battle of Lunan, Tang Enbo's 20th Corps of the Central Army lurked in the Baoqinggu Mountains for two whole months, and the aerial reconnaissance planes of the Yue Army were stunned and did not find any clues, until the main forces of the 5th and 10th Divisions of the Yue Army completely entered the ambush circle, and the 20 th Corps made a surprise surprise attack and cut off the retreat of the two master regiments of the Yue Army.

After the defeat in the Battle of Xuzhou, the rule of the national political axe in Shandong collapsed, although the army nominally occupied the whole territory of Shandong, but only controlled a few large cities and major communication routes, but the vast countryside had no time to take care of it, as for the Sun Lianzhong group, now in Yishan, Mengshan resting, its power is far from enough to extend to the Baoqinggu and Weishan Lake area.

Therefore, the vast countryside and most of the towns in Shandong Province are in a state of no political axe.

Someone in history has made a special statistics, and the total number of Huidaomen and bandit armies active in Shandong Province during the Anti-Japanese War was as high as 3 million!

From this, it is not difficult to imagine how chaotic Shandong was at that time!

However, at this time, the Baoqinggu Mountains have been occupied by the armed forces of [***].

About a month and a half ago, about 800 people from the 685th Regiment of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army crossed the North China Plain to Lunan, and then relied on the attack on the armed forces of the Daomen and the armed bandits, and the guerrillas with the 685th Regiment of the Eighth Route Army as the backbone quickly grew to more than 3,000 people.

Huanglongdong, the location of the headquarters of the Lunan guerrilla detachment of the Eighth Route Army.

Commander Peng Mingzhi hurriedly walked into the war room and said to political commissar Wu Faxian: "Old Wu, I just got the news that a large number of devil mechanized troops and cavalry troops suddenly appeared in the Hudong area, do you think they are coming for us?" ”

Wu Faxian waved his hand and said, "Old Peng, you take a look at this first, the urgent call just received from the head of the headquarters." ”

Peng Mingzhi stretched out his hand to take the telegram and hurriedly read it, and said in amazement: "The Baoshan Brigade has broken through from Xuzhou?" Dare to love the little devil to make such a big move for the Baoshan Brigade? "In terms of reputation, the Baoshan Brigade is definitely a household name now, as the middle and senior commanders of the Eighth Route Army, how can Peng Mingzhi and Wu Faxian not know?

"Yes." Wu Faxian said, "The head of the headquarters instructed us to give priority to the overall situation of the whole nation's resistance and cooperate with the Baoshan Brigade as much as possible to repel the encirclement and suppression of the Yue army. ”

"I didn't say it, this battle has to be fought!" Peng Mingzhi waved his hand and said, "Although the Baoshan Brigade is a Kuomintang force, it is a real anti-Japanese army, not to mention the battle of Sixing Warehouse and Jiangpu, just this time to defend Xuzhou, the Baoshan Brigade has really played the prestige of the Chinese people, and the integrity of the Chinese people, our old Peng admires!" ”

After saying this, Wu Faxian said again: "But old Wu, how can you cooperate with the Baoshan Brigade?" ”

Wu Faxian smiled slightly and said, "Do you know Yang Shaocheng, the new secretary of the Huxi Prefectural Party Committee?" ”

"Yang Shaocheng?" Peng Mingzhi said, "I've heard, isn't he the director of the Shanghai office?" ”

"Yes, that's him." Wu Faxian said, "In the defense of the Sixing Warehouse, when Yue Weihan was still the commander of the Baoshan Battalion, he met Secretary Yang, and the relationship between the two was quite good. ”

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When the day was about to dawn, Yue Weihan's headquarters had already entered a small village called "Tunli" under Phoenix Mountain.

A few miles further north from Phoenix Mountain, there is Weishan Lake, which is full of smoke and waves, and the waterways are like a net, but Yue Weihan's department can't go any further, because the sky is about to dawn, just waiting for dawn, the reconnaissance plane of the army will definitely fly over Weishan Lake to reconnoitre, if the reconnaissance plane of the army discovers its whereabouts, it will not be fun.

The brigade headquarters and the artillery battalion are stationed in Tunli Village, but the cavalry battalion is stationed in three small villages nearby as a company, which is also a helpless thing, the cavalry battalion is not only people, but also war horses, this war horse is not as good as a pack horse, you have to eat fine materials, a small Tuntian Village can not get so much fine materials.

In Shandong, the mass base of [***] cannot be compared with that of the Songhu area.

In the Songhu area, as long as there is [***] into the village, the big families will basically invite [***] to live in their own homes, no matter how poor the people are, they will more or less take out some food, and even slaughter cattle, sheep, chickens and sheep to reward the soldiers, but in Shandong, [***] is not so popular with the people, and the Baoshan Brigade is not good.

Although the Baoshan Brigade is famous, this is the countryside and the occupied area, where do you know about the outside world?

Of course, the most important thing is that after the defeat of [***], the people of Shandong were miserable by the various armed forces and bandits, and the armed bandits of the Huidaomen were even far worse than the devils of Shandong.

Niu Dagen, the commander of the artillery battalion, saw that all the households in the village were closed and locked, and they didn't open the door when it was bright, so he couldn't help but feel a little annoyed, and he wanted to take people into the village to grab the door and knock on the door, but was stopped by Yue Weihan, and it was not easy for the people.

After settling the troops, Yue Weihan called Liu Yi to him again, and said: "Chief of Staff, the little devil probably won't be able to find this place before dark today, but we are not familiar with this area, and it will not work if there is no acquaintance to lead the way, so I want to take Youting and Zhuzi to the nearby town to see if I can contact Chi Dianwen." ”

Chi Dianwen is a disciple of the Shandong Youth Gang "Anqing Daoyi Association".

During the Lunan War, Chi Dianwen once organized a gang of disciples to help [***] transport supplies, and also picked up a lot of weapons from the battlefield, it is said that now he has pulled up an armed force of hundreds of people, and he is very influential on both sides of the canal, and he is also quite valued by his master, Qian Baoxiang, the boss of the Shandong Youth Gang, Yue Weihan wants to establish a smuggling channel from Taihang Mountain to Shanghai, this Chi Dianwen is a crucial figure.

(To be continued)