Chapter 1046: Battle of Jining

The onlookers suddenly woke up, and at that moment, four soldiers responded with a bang, and stepped forward to carry the bodies of the two old devils. After the soldiers carried the two old devils out, Zhou Dasheng ordered his officers and soldiers: "Report to the division commander, the commander and the chief of staff immediately, and say that we have captured the Japanese headquarters, and all the Japanese devils in Jinan City have been wiped out, and Jinan City has been officially recovered from this moment on!" ”

One of the orderlies turned to take the order, and the other soldiers paused, and then let out excited cheers.

Soon, the cheers of victory spread throughout the city of Jinan, at first it was only the bloody siege troops cheering excitedly, but soon, the citizens of Jinan who had experienced the rest of the war in the city heard the news, poured into the streets and alleys, and cheered with the soldiers in bloody robes, enjoying the moment of victory.

Qiao Youhua and Zuo Quan also quickly got the news of Jinan's recovery, and the two discussed it and immediately decided to move the headquarters forward to Jinan, and continue to command all the armies to recover the land of Qilu in Jinan.

At the same time that Jinan was recovered, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians cheered to celebrate this great victory moment, outside Jining City, Li Yunlong and others finally led the West Road Division to arrive here at the speed of a rapid march, and the Japanese army only had less than a mixed brigade in Jining, and naturally it was unable to resist the attack of the Dragon's Tooth Column outside the city, so they simply gave up the field defense position outside the city and withdrew their troops to the city, intending to defend the city to the death.

At this moment, the commander of the Japanese army unexpectedly learned the news that Jinan was lost and Zichuan was besieged, which made the Japanese commander's determination float, regardless of the fact that Jining was an important town in Shandong, and after nightfall, he quietly led his troops out of the city, crossed the canal and blew up all the bridges and ships, and then fled with thousands of Japanese troops to Tengxian and Zaozhuang.

Li Yunlong's troops were very tired because of the continuous march, so they did not attack overnight at night, but rested on the spot, and were awakened by the explosion at this moment, Li Yunlong immediately ordered the vigilance troops to go out to investigate, and soon learned that the Japanese army had abandoned the city and fled, and there were only puppet troops in the city, and at this time the puppet army had no intention of resisting, so they directly sent people out of the city to ask Li Yunlong's department to surrender.

In this way, Li Yunlong's troops recovered Jining, an important town in Shandong, almost without a single shot, because the Japanese army blew up all the pontoon bridges and river-crossing boats in the Jining section of the canal, and the weather was cold and frozen, in line with the principle of not chasing the poor, Li Yunlong did not order the troops to pursue, but stationed in Jining on the spot, pacified the people, restored local law and order, and sent a telegram to Qiao Youhua and others, planning to make plans after dawn.

Knowing that Li Yunlong's troops had recovered the important town of Jining without a single shot, Qiao Youhua and Zuo Quan were overjoyed and immediately began to reformulate the overall strategy.

On a jeep rushed to Jinan, Qiao Youhua and Zuo Quan sat side by side, holding a combat map together and starting a discussion.

"Now that Jining and Tai'an have been recovered by our army, the strength of Li Yunlong's department has not suffered too many losses, and it is completely possible to march east along the canal in one go, take the route of the Japanese army's attack on Shandong that year, and attack Xuzhou through Tengxian and Taierzhuang." Zuo Quan and Qiao Youhua held the map together with one hand, and pointed to the map with the other to express their opinions.

Qiao Youhua nodded and said: "However, just relying on Li Yunlong's lone army to go deep is not good in terms of the art of war, fortunately, now that Jinan has been recovered, so let's immediately order Ma Biao to lead all the 2nd Division, plus Liu Jianhua's tank armored brigade, to form a right route army, advance east along the Jiaoji Railway, bypass Zichuan County, go straight to Linyi, and then go south along the Jinpu Railway from Linyi, and Li Yunlong's department, one left and one right, will attack Xuzhou."

The Third Division and the 20,000 regular troops of the Eighth Route Army, the Air Defense Brigade, and the Heavy Artillery Brigade in our hands took a short break and replenished the ammunition, oil and other military supplies, and then went east along the Jiaoji Railway, responsible for sweeping the Jiaodong Peninsula, vowing to wipe out all the Japanese puppet troops on the Shandong Peninsula and recover the entire Qilu land. ”

"Before that, it is best to let Li Wen, chief of staff of the Third Division, capture Zichuan as soon as possible and annihilate all the Japanese troops in the city, so that we will have one less worry, and the more than 30,000 troops led by Li Wen can also be put into the battle of the eastward advance." Zuo Quan expressed his opinion.

"Well, let's send electricity to Li Wen and Ma Biao respectively." Qiao Youhua nodded in agreement, and Zuo Quan immediately ordered the driver to stop, and then instructed the guards sitting in front of the co-pilot to convey their negotiated decision to the confidential department, and asked them to send a telegram to the 2nd and 3rd Divisions and other departments.

On the Japanese side, after learning that Jinan, Tai'an, Jining, and other important places in Shandong had been seized and recovered by the Chinese army, the Japanese base camp finally could not hold its breath, and with the unremitting efforts of the army elites such as Seishiro Itagaki and Ishihara Waner, the top Japanese cabinet finally agreed to immediately mobilize the national forces that were being restored to support the increasingly critical Chinese battlefield.

Ishihara Guaner and others saw that if the Japanese army was defeated in Shandong and Xuzhou, it would completely lose the opportunity to gain a foothold in the hinterland of Chinese mainland, and then China's anti-Japanese forces would definitely cross the river with a great victory and counterattack the Jiangnan region, which was dominated by Shanghai and Nanjing.

At that time, the situation on the entire Chinese battlefield may return to before the July 7 Incident in 1937, that is, in the past four years, the Japanese Empire has paid hundreds of thousands of casualties, consumed countless strategic materials and almost all foreign exchange reserves, and in the end gained nothing.

On the contrary, it lost more than 500,000 active troops with the strongest combat effectiveness and the most capable of fighting, and its vitality was greatly damaged.

The Chinese side, on the other hand, took advantage of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in the past four years to nourish the war with war and become more and more powerful.

Ishihara is a little understanding person in the top echelons of the Japanese army, he understands that with China's huge population potential, and the innate advantage of large land and abundant resources, once they are given enough time, it will quickly rise and become powerful to the point that the Japanese Empire is difficult to achieve, with an old saying that China is a sleeping lion in the East, and now this lion has been beaten and gradually awakened, once he recovers, ten Japanese empires are not enough to tear it up!

Therefore, it is necessary to take advantage of its illness and kill him, now it can be said that China is the weakest time, and if this time is missed, Japan, a small country, wants to bully the behemoth of China again, and I don't know that it will have to wait until the Year of the Monkey.

Therefore, at the strong suggestion of Ishihara and other army representatives, the Japanese army headquarters finally ordered the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th naval combined fleets to sail to the Shandong Peninsula and Shanghai and Hangzhou respectively, in an attempt to rely on the powerful naval and air forces to secure the Jiaodong Peninsula and the last few pieces of territory in China.