The Eighth Route Army in the western section of the Yellow River is making new deployments, and Terauchi Shouichi in the eastern section is also carrying out his own troop deployment.

The war entered the end of 37, Nanjing City has been abandoned by the Nationalist Government, the South Dading is already a matter of time, as the commander of the North China Front, Terauchi Shouichi knew in his heart that once Nanjing was decided, the biggest hero would become Matsui Shigen, which made the North China Front military situation that tried its best to provoke the war at the beginning, so the North China Front Army must at least have the corresponding military exploits to be able to explain to the subordinates, otherwise, the group of lawless lower-level officers do not know what will happen.

Beiping, Tianjin, Baoding, Zhangjiakou, and Taiyuan were all captured, so the only thing that could show the martial arts of the imperial army was Shandong.

Shandong is the territory of Han Fuqu.

Han Fuqu, this name is often negative in later generations, but at this time, Han Fuqu has a good reputation both in the country and in Shandong, of course, on the premise of ignoring his betrayal of Feng Yuxiang.

But warlord, it's normal to vote for you today and him tomorrow.

Han Fuqu was born in a poor family in Baxian County, Hebei Province, and loved dancing sticks and sticks since he was a child, and dropped out of school to work as a farmer in 1910 due to his poor family. Later, he was introduced to Feng Yuxiang's army as a soldier, and because of his bravery, he was deeply valued by Feng Yuxiang, and was constantly promoted with Feng's promotion. However, Feng Yuxiang was too strict, and he was either beaten or scolded at every turn, which made Han Fuqu, who already had a heavy army, gradually dissatisfied, and finally rebelled against Feng and Jiang under a contradiction. Since then, he has started an eight-year life as the king of Shandong.

If you want to say how good Jiang intermediary and Han Fuqu are, it may not be, although Jiang intermediary made him the chairman of Shandong, but there are a large number of troops in Shandong, such as the 17th Army, which are loyal to Jiang intermediary, and there are also many officials who are loyal to the Nanjing government, Han Fuqu is an authentic traditional Chinese warlord, and what he believes in is mine. Even if I belong to you nominally, you can't have anyone on my territory, so Han Fuqu first vigorously dismissed the officials in the government who were loyal to Nanjing, and killed Zhang Zongchang, who wanted to recapture Shandong, and then attacked the 17th Army, driving more than 20,000 people out of Shandong. He also began to liquidate the military commanders and other spy forces in Shandong, as well as the party personnel of the Red Party and the White Party, making Shandong a real Han family.

During the period of the Republic of China, bandits were rampant in the Guannai, and there were four of the most serious places, namely Henan, Shandong, Hunan, and Sichuan. Shandong has been a fierce citizen since ancient times. During the Zhang Zongchang period, it was known as 200,000 bandits, and thousands of big bandits abounded, and the largest Liu Guitang simply had more than 10,000 people, complete with cannons and machine guns, and could already attack the city and pull out the village. This also made the villages and villages find ways to protect themselves, and the reason why the later Taierzhuang buildings could resist the Japanese artillery fire was also because of this, and those strong fortresses were originally designed to fight bandits. The construction is so strong, and you can also see the terrible Shandong bandits at this time from the side. Han Fuqu led his troops to vigorously clear the confiscation for three or four years, which made public order in Shandong better. The big bandits were largely wiped out.

Han Fuqu can finally sit in his position as the king of Shandong, and he is ready to start seeking development, although Han Fuqu was born in poverty, but he is well-versed in writing and ink, and he also understands that China's problems cannot be solved by the barrel of a gun, and in this regard, Jiang has always said but has not done it. But Han Fuqu is really in action. Han Fuqu not only encouraged education a lot, but also attached great importance to rural construction, and because of his contact with the Red Party, he also learned to establish political power in the rural areas. This is something that Jiang did not do either.

It's a pity that Han Fuqu only knew that there was a problem, but he didn't know how to solve the problem, so he had to blindly rely on shooting to solve the problem.

But in general, in Shandong in the era of Han Fuqu, the private economy has recovered, and the people can basically be busy with their livelihoods with peace of mind, and Han Fuqu also took the opportunity to vigorously scrape in order to feed his army.

All of Han Fuqu's actions were to prevent others from entering Shandong, but this time, the Japanese came.

The Japanese have actually wanted to lure Han Fuqu more than once, since 918, the Japanese have repeatedly invited Han Fuqu to drink flower wine, wanting to soften Han Fuqu so that he can join the North China Autonomous Government, but Han Fuqu is a good king of Shandong, go to you Japanese as a dog, if your Japanese army is next to Shandong, forget it, now 108,000 miles away from Lao Tzu, really I am stupid.

The Japanese saw that after a few years, Han Fuqu did not move, so they asked Hua Gu, one of the culprits who launched 918, to persuade him. Hua Gu has been in Jinan for a long time and is very familiar with Han Fuqu, so he told the military department on the spot that he would definitely be able to take Han Fuqu.

Han Fuyu judged the situation and knew that this time was different. The Japanese may have used force directly in this attempt, so he has also prepared some countermeasures.

He swaggered into the Japanese consulate with more than 100 heavily armed guards, also carrying pistols himself.

Hua Guzheng was still warmly received, and Han Fuyu was half drunk.

Seeing that the time seemed to be ripe, Hua Guzheng took out a document and said to Han Fuyu: The North China Autonomous Government is about to be formed, and this government means to invite Shandong to join the autonomy, and Chairman Han will be the head of the North China Autonomous Government. This is a proclamation from Shandong's affirmation of its agreement to join the North China Autonomous Government, and it is for President Han to sign it.

Who knew that when the drunken and hazy Han Fuyu heard this, he slammed the wine glass in his hand to the ground and scolded, "Let go of your mother's Oriental fart!" You're so fucking deceitful. Let Lao Tzu be a traitor? Then you are blind! What bullshit autonomy, this is a fucking traitor! Let's talk about it, let Lao Tzu be a traitor, no way! ”

Immediately, Han Fuyu got up and was about to leave.

Hanaya saw that the soft one was not good, and decided to come to the hard one. The Japanese soldiers in the consulate swarmed out, surrounded Han Fuyu and his guards, and all the bullets in the 38 big cover were loaded, ready to fire at any time.

How do you know that Han Fuyu is not afraid at all, he sneered, "This is Shandong, my Han Fuyu's territory, not North China, not Manchuria." The presidency has power. If anyone provokes Lao Tzu to get angry, don't blame Lao Tzu for being unkind! ”

During the tense confrontation between the two sides, suddenly the consulate guard ran over in a panic and said to Hanayamasa, "The consulate has been surrounded by Chinese troops, and they have set up artillery and are ready to fire." ”

Hanaya hurriedly ran to the window to look, only to see that the consulate was surrounded on all sides. An entire 15th mortar battalion of Han Fuyu's Shandong Army is being calibrated and may open fire on the consulate at any time.

If the cannon is really fired, it is estimated that the consulate will not be able to survive alone. Besides, if you can't force Han Fuyu to submit, what's the use of killing him? Kill Han Fuyu, Jiang intermediary will immediately arrange a pro-central Shandong chairman, which can only be more unfavorable to Japan! Hua Gu Zheng could only let Han Fuqu swagger away.

Han Fuqu also regarded himself as an anti-Japanese pioneer since then, and when Zhang Zizhong fled from Beiping and was scolded as a traitor by the whole country, he finally escaped to Shandong, and was immediately arrested by Han Fuqu. Han Fuqu scolded Zhang Zizhong, and sent him to Nanjing to Jiang as an intermediary.

Shandong is an excellent place for the Japanese army to exert its mechanized strength, at this time, the Japanese army has been in Shandong, Han Fuqu is actually extremely afraid in his heart, his family knows his own affairs best, Han Fuqu has always been semi-independent in Nanjing. If the troops in his hand are exhausted, it should be said that Jiang will replenish him. Han Fuqu himself didn't believe it, and more importantly, Han Fuyu was afraid that once he lost his military power, he would be killed by Jiang Zhong's intermediary with an excuse, because at the time of the Xi'an Incident that year, the whole country condemned Zhang Yang and the two, but he praised Zhang's extraordinary action as a "wise feat" in the telegram, and informed Zhang and Yang. His troops will be "ordered to open westward, hoping that there will be no misunderstanding when the two armies come into contact." His secret telegram was immediately deciphered by Nanjing agents at that time, and one stone stirred up a thousand waves, and the Nanjing high-level was extremely shaken, and immediately sent Jiang Bocheng to fly to Jinan to meet with South Korea. At the same time, Song Zheyuan's opinion was consulted. Han Fuqu changed his words at this time, but this matter has become a hurdle that Jiang and Han can never cross in their hearts.

Therefore, Han Fuqu was ready to preserve his strength from the beginning, which was also the initial plan of a series of warlords such as Song Zheyuan and Yan Xishan against Japan. Therefore, it is really not easy for Jiang to mediate the head of state, and few of his subordinates are really one-minded.

Jiang Zheng was also afraid that Han Fuqu would defect to Japan, so he hurriedly organized Han Fuyu's 3rd Route Army, plus Yu Xuezhong's 51st Army in the northeast, Admiral Shen Honglie's Qingdao Garrison and the Third Fleet into the Third Group Army, with Han Fuyu as the commander-in-chief and Yu Xuezhong and Shen Honglie as the deputy commanders-in-chief.

In fact, the Japanese army at this time was extremely tired after half a year of campaigning, and Han Fuqu ordered Cao Fulin's 29th Division and Zhanshutang's 81st Division to slowly march towards Hebei. That road is called a grind, but Han Fuqu didn't expect that the national army would actually fight the Japanese army in Hebei for a few months, while his own troops were victorious in Sangyuan, and they were stimulated by the victory to rush to Cangzhou.

Han Fuqu, who was afraid of the Japanese army's tactics, hurriedly ordered the troops to turn around, and the whole army was angry.

At this time, Hebei had been completely occupied by the Japanese army, and Terauchi Shouichi's hand pointed to the Yellow River and shouted, "Come on, order the 10th Division to transfer to Shandong, take the Yellow River as the terminal line, and order, the 5th Division to hurry up and return to reinforce the 10th Division." ”

Seeing that the Japanese army was really attacking Shandong, Han Fuqu could only stubbornly go up, and the second army began to confront each other in Dezhou in northern Shandong.

-- Han Fuqu Headquarters

Han Fuqu sat in the middle, looking at the map in the middle, thinking about something in his heart.

At this time, a middle-aged general walked in, but it was Sun Tongxuan, the commander of the 12th Army.

Han Fuqu raised his head and said, "Old Sun, how are the brothers? Also, did the troops who retreated from Hebei drive away? ”

Sun Tongxuan seemed to struggle for a while, and said to a few staff officers next to her, "You go out." ”

The staff officers looked at Han Fuqu, and when they saw Han Fuqu nodding, they walked out.

Sun Tongxuan said to Han Fuqu at this time, "Han Gong, you can't do this, the brothers below can't stand it anymore, most of our troops are Shandong locals, if you don't fight again, the brothers will say that they will organize and fight with the devil by themselves." ”

Han Fuqu stood up and pointed to the map and said, "We have three divisions now, but forty or fifty thousand people, and there are more than 30,000 devils on the opposite side. ”

Sun Tongxuan stomped her feet and said, "If you don't defend this soldier anymore, I won't be able to bring it." ”

Han Fuqu also raised his voice and shouted, "Don't I want to keep it?" The devil's artillery is more than our machine guns, only to defend the Yellow River, relying on the Yellow River is the way out, now the troops are gone, who will guard the Yellow River? Who guards Jinan? Is it you or me? ”

At this time, a communications soldier knocked on the door and said, "Report." Central Emergency. ”

Han Fuqu said suspiciously, "Jiang intermediary? Take it. ”

At first glance, Chiang transferred an artillery brigade to him and ordered him to defend Texas.

Han Fuqu nodded and said to Sun Tongxuan, "Lao Jiang has made a lot of money, it seems that Lao Jiang is sincere in resisting Japan, and this battle may really be able to fight." ”

Sun Tongxuan also said happily, "Han Gong, let's fight." ”

Han Fuqu hammered hard and said, "Hit!! ”

Boom, another round of artillery fire. The 12th Army in the position no longer knew how many times the Japanese had shelled it. It just feels as if the shelling never ends.

Ryosuke Isoya looked at the crumbling Linyi position, and said with a smile, "Which general under Han Fuqu is this, it seems that he has some combat power." ”

The staff officer next to him said, "This is Cao Fulin's 29th Division, which once defeated a brigade of our army by luck in Sangyuan. ”

Ryosuke Isoya raised his eyebrows and said, "Oh! In this case, let that brigade be a pioneer and be ashamed, how is the battle in Jiyang? ”

The staff officer replied, "Han Fuqu personally led the pistol brigade to sit in the town, but in front of our army's chariots, it will definitely collapse." ”

This staff officer was very right, Han Fuqu's troops, which had not conducted a modern war for seven years. The combat effectiveness is actually not very strong, and when they saw dozens of Japanese combat vehicles and overwhelming planes, all the officers, including Han Fuqu, were almost stupid.

But Han Fuqu is a warlord after all, he still has a bit of a foundation, Han Fuqu took a telescope on the high mountain and watched the Japanese army's offensive become more and more ferocious, and soon the Japanese chariots broke through the defense line of the troops, and the bloody Shandong Hans picked up explosives and grenades and pounced on the Japanese chariots, but where is the flesh and blood opponent of steel. Often, dozens of casualties could not really blow up a single tank of the Japanese army. Gritted his teeth and shouted, "Call me Sun Xuefashang." ”

Sun Tongxuan, who had been calling for war next to him, hesitated a little when he heard this, and said, "Han Gong, don't think about it anymore." ”

Han Fuqu's eyes are not big. At this time, he also stared at him and said, "Good steel is to be used on the blade, not at this time, when to use, give it to me." ”

Sun Xuefa is the commander of the 60th Brigade of the 20th Division of the 12th Army, which is the most closely related unit of Han Fuqu, and there is a tank brigade among them. I only saw Sun Xuefa sitting in a Renault tank. With more than a dozen tanks that Han Fuqu had finally accumulated, he rushed out from the side, Sun Xuefa took the lead, first shot out, Renault's 37 guns easily tore apart the side armor of the Japanese tank, and an orange-red fire ball was followed by scattered parts.

"Good. Just hit Lao Tzu like that! Han Fuqu patted his leg and applauded, of course, Sun Xuefa on the battlefield could not hear Han Fuqu's shout, and his infantry also rushed forward at this time, and the Japanese army did not expect that the opposite army would actually have chariots, and the war fell into anxiety for a while.

Han Fuqu saw that the Japanese army was gradually suppressed into a small area by his own defense line and the 60th Brigade, and immediately judged that the artillery bombardment would definitely be successful at this time.

THE CANNON THAT JIANG GAVE TO HAN FUQU WAS ONLY A 75MM MOUNTAIN ARTILLERY, AND IT WAS REALLY WEAK IN THE FACE OF THE 105MM HEAVY ARTILLERY OF THE JAPANESE ARMY ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE, SO HAN FUQU COULD ONLY HIDE AND USE IT, FOR FEAR OF BEING COUNTERED BY THE JAPANESE ARTILLERY.

"Quick, let those artillerymen fight me, fight from the middle of the devils, break their contact, as long as we hold this wave, this battle will be easy to fight." Han Fuqu shouted.

But a quarter of an hour has passed, and there is still no movement, this is wartime, the angry Han Fuqu scolded, "Grass Niang, what's going on?" Is the barrel blocked? ”

I only saw a communication soldier with a frightened eye and said, "Report to the commander, then, the commander of the Hong brigade has run away!" ”

"What?" Han Fuqu grabbed the communication soldier, hung it high, and scolded, "What's the matter? How did you run away? And what about our artillery? What about Lao Tzu's cannon? ”

The signal soldier stammered and said, "Brigade Commander Nahong has a telegram from the commission, ordering them to adjust the defense, they also pulled our artillery away, and Regiment Commander Liu was beaten if he didn't do it, and now he is outside." ”

Han Fuqu looked at the head of his mountain artillery regiment with a blue nose and swollen face, and a wave of anger could not be released, and he shouted angrily, "Ah!!!! ”

The fighter plane was lost, the total number of Japanese tanks was much more than that of the Shandong army, Sun Xuefa desperately led the troops to destroy more than a dozen Japanese tanks, but was soon surrounded by the Japanese tanks that were replenished from the rear, Sun Xuefa saw that it was not a way, and hurriedly shouted, "Retreat, retreat!" ”

At this time, a Japanese 89 chariot that had been aiming at him for half a day rang out, and Sun Xuefa's chariot and he disappeared into the fire.

The Japanese artillery bombardment began, hundreds of artillery bombarded the position of the 60th Brigade fiercely, Han Fuqu looked at the troops who disappeared into the artillery fire, tears came out, this is all his capital, he stomped his feet and shouted, "Withdraw, withdraw!" ”

Indeed, without artillery, it would be a defeat to fight in the face of the Japanese army's aircraft, artillery and combat vehicles, but at this time it was already a scorching war, where was it so easy to retreat.

Suddenly the army was defeated, the Japanese army pursued frantically, and soon it became a chaotic battle, Han Fuqu himself and a guard ran out on a motorcycle, and the exchange of fire between the remnants of the Shandong army and the Japanese army lasted for more than a week before it was completely over.

As soon as Han Fuqu, who retreated to Jinan, counted, there were only more than 10,000 remnants left in the 40,000 or 50,000 army at this time, and the heavy weapons were lost, Han Fuqu grabbed Sun Tongxuan and shouted, "Fight, fight, fight, it's all gone!" said that you can't fight, you just want to fight, now it's okay, all the money has been exhausted! Wait, our time of death is near. ”

At this time, a telegram flew in front of Han Fuqu, but it was Jiang who blamed him for losing the telegram in the Texas area.

Han Fuqu shook the telegram and said to Sun Tongxuan, "See, when this Jiang Guangtou talks with the Japanese, we will be finished, order, the troops will withdraw to the south of the Yellow River, as long as the troops are in hand, we will have our lives!" (To be continued......)

PS: I'm not trying to say how good Han Fuqu is, so, don't spray trolls. Han Fuqu was charged with retreating without a fight, but the bloody battle in Texas in the early stage is also the truth, and he can't erase the previous military exploits because he fled without a fight in the later stage, but he can't think that his later abandonment of a large part of Shandong's territory is excusable because of the previous merits.