[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 1179: The Cunning Okamura (Ask for Subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

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After receiving Ma Zheng's telegram, Yun Jian did not dare to slack off and immediately called all senior cadres of the Shandong Military Region at and above the division level to the headquarters for a meeting.

The conference room was rudimentary, with a map of Shandong and a few chairs and nothing else, not even the usual tea and cups.

At this time, this simple small conference room will be star-studded, in addition to Yun Jian, Li Yu, Xie Wensheng, Wang Hansheng, Wang Chuande, Xu Weiguo, Huang Bingyan, Liang Shangren, Jiang Hao, Xu Haifeng, Lu Qiangguo and others are all there.

As soon as the meeting began, Yun Jianqi got up and said: "Comrades, I think everyone has already guessed the purpose of calling you here today, now that our army is launching a strategic counteroffensive against the Japanese army in North China in northern Lubei, the commander has ordered our Shandong Military Region to take advantage of its own location and ruthlessly insert a knife in the heart of the Japanese army to create conditions for the corps' major counteroffensive. ”

"It should have been fought a long time ago, if it weren't for the commander's repeated orders to prevent us from acting rashly, we would have taken Linyi and Rizhao a long time ago!"

"It's just that it's long overdue!"

"I support the commander, he tells us to fight wherever we want, there is no ambiguity!"

"This time, we must let our mentor be the main attacker, and we can't always let us drink soup......

Hearing that all the senior cadres agreed to launch this campaign, Yun Jian immediately got up and said: "Okay, don't make any noise, since everyone has no opinion, then I will tell you about the battle plan designated by the military region, and everyone will analyze it!" ”

Then Yun Jian pointed to the military map on the wall and said: "Now the main force of our military region's total of 12 divisions plus 7 brigades has all been assembled, and at present, except for the four divisions and three brigades in the Yimeng Mountains, the rest are scattered in Linyi, Junan, Donghai, Xinyi, Rizhao, Qingdao, Lanling, Pingyi and other counties and cities, so the military region headquarters has decided to formulate a counterattack plan according to the geographical location of each unit. ”

"The battle plan is divided into three routes, the first route army is commanded by Chief of Staff Xie, under the jurisdiction of the independent 1st Division, 2nd Division and instructors, and then the cavalry brigade of the military district is assigned to you, the task of your department is to go out of Linyi, attack in detail along Lanling, until you take Zaozhuang, an important town in southern Lunan, and set it there after you succeed, in case the little devils in northern Lubei escape south."

"Yes, mission guaranteed!" Xie Wensheng got up and said.

"The Second Route Army is commanded by Comrade Liang Shangren, under the jurisdiction of the 3rd, 4th, and 5th independent divisions, with the 1st Artillery Brigade, 2nd Brigade, Engineer Brigade and other technical arms of the Military Region.

"Yes, mission guaranteed!" Liang Shangren said.

"The Third Route Army is commanded by Comrade Huang Bingyan, under the jurisdiction of the 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th independent divisions, with the rapid reaction regiment of the military region and other troops, the main task of your department is to go north from Yinan County, along Yishui, Xintai, Gangcheng and other places to attack, the target is Laiwu, as long as you take Laiwu, your department will stay there, beware of the Japanese army from Qingdao to send reinforcements, but also to prevent the Japanese army from withdrawing from the Qingdao waterway."

"I, Political Commissar Li, and the troops of the two divisions are sitting in Linyi in the center, and the special operations brigade of the military region is divided into four, and the troops are assigned to take action, and the logistics department will take out all the ammunition and equipment in stock and distribute them to all units.

"Yes!" Everyone said in unison.

"Okay, adjourn!"

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With the exertion of the Shandong Military Region, the situation in the entire central and southern Shandong was reversed in an instant, and under the fierce attack of more than 100,000 troops, Linyi, Junan, Linmu, Lanling and other places were quickly captured.

On June 30, Xie Wensheng's troops captured Lanling, and on the same day, Liang Shangren's troops captured Qufu and threatened Jining, while Huang Bingyan's troops also went well, capturing Xintai at four o'clock in the morning on July 1.

Ma Zheng's tens of thousands of troops suddenly appeared behind the Japanese army in Jinan, which immediately made Lieutenant General Nemoto break out in a cold sweat, and mobilized troops to block Liang Shangren and Huang Bingyan's subordinate, while Nemoto Bo did not forget to ask Okamura Ningji in Wuhan for instructions.

After analyzing the situation in Shandong, Okamura Ninji sighed helplessly, he knew that the Great Japanese Empire had lost this game again.

Immediately, Okamura Ninji instructed the North China Front Army Command to send a powerful force south to reinforce Zaozhuang to ensure the safety of Zaozhuang, a transportation hub. At the same time, Okamura Ninji also ordered all units of the North China Front Army to immediately take alternate cover, withdraw troops from the northern Lu area, and withdraw the large force to the northern Jiangsu area to hold on.

After receiving Okamura Ninji's order, Hiroshi Nemoto was taken aback, he didn't expect Okamura Ninji to give such an "outrageous" order. You must know that once they withdraw their troops from the northern Lubei region, it will be equivalent to giving up the Shandong region in fact, and at the same time giving up Qingdao, the most important port to the sea in North China.

However, Okamura Ninji's order to withdraw his troops was very resolute, and Nebo could not refuse at all, so he had no choice but to carry out the order to withdraw south.

The sudden retreat of the Japanese army to the south greatly exceeded Ma Zheng's expectations, and Ma Zheng thought that Okamura Ningji would resist stubbornly in Shandong and buy time for the Wuhan War, but he did not expect that the Japanese army would suddenly flee south at this time.

However, Ma Zheng still admires Okamura Ningji's order, in the eyes of many people, although the situation of the North China Front is a bit difficult, but it has not yet reached the point where the general trend has gone, as long as there are enough reinforcements or Ma Zheng's troops make strategic mistakes, they still have a chance to counterattack.

However, Ma Zheng knew that the North China Front had very little chance of preventing the Saibei Corps from capturing Shandong, and there was not even a chance of even one layer. Black and white are clear, although the southern retreat at this time will lose a lot of territory, and even provincial capitals such as Jinan have to give up, but it will avoid the doom of destruction.

Compared with the loss of some territory, the total annihilation of the North China Front was the most fatal blow to the Japanese army. Okamura Ninji was able to resolutely and explicitly order the troops to withdraw from Lubei at this time, and the strategic level of this man was indeed much stronger than that of the vast majority of Japanese officers, at least he was able to judge the situation and objectively compare the forces of China and Japan, and he would not be limited to a matter of face.

It is precisely because of such a senior commander that the North China Front can still stand strong under the repeated heavy losses of Ma Zheng's subordinates, and it has not been erased like the army stationed in Mongolia.

But in any case, the Japanese army retreated, and the defense line of northern Lubei, which was painstakingly managed by Lieutenant General Gen Bo, also collapsed in an instant, and a large number of troops under Ma Zheng's department poured into northern Lubei and Luzhong, and Pingyuan, Yucheng, Qihe, Gaotang, Linyi, Jiyang and other places were successively captured by Ma Zheng's department, and on July 3, the 16th Division of Yang Chengwu's department entered Jinan City, and the capital city of Shandong Province was liberated.

The progress of all units of the Shandong Military Region was also very smooth, except for Xie Wensheng's unit, which was stubbornly blocked by the Japanese army when attacking Zaozhuang, the rest of the units successfully completed the scheduled tasks.

After Liang Shangren's troops and Huang Bingyan's troops captured Qufu and Tai'an, Ma Zheng immediately ordered the two armies to immediately garrison on the spot to block the North China Front Army's southward movement, while Xie Wensheng's troops were to strengthen the attack on Zaozhuang, and in addition, to destroy all the railway bridges leading from Zaozhuang to Xuzhou and other places.

Ma Zheng was determined to completely annihilate the North China Front, and for this reason he did not hesitate to transfer more than half of the fighters of the aviation unit under his command to the Shandong front.

However, to Ma Zheng's surprise once again, the North China Front, which had been retreating south along the Jinan-Tai'an direction, suddenly turned around at Mimian Mountain, moved south along Feicheng to Pingyin, and then quickly withdrew to the direction of Jining.

At this time, Ma Zheng suddenly found out that he had been fooled, Okamura Ningci, an old devil, didn't want to withdraw his troops through Zaozhuang at all, his real withdrawal route was to go south to Xuzhou directly along Jining, and he didn't need to pass through Zaozhuang during the period, and the division sent to Zaozhuang before was just a pretense for deception.

But at this point, there was no way to save it, and he could only watch Genbo flee south calmly with more than 200,000 Japanese troops and 50,000 or 60,000 puppet troops.