After the siege troops actively carried out grassroots democratic activities such as the "Zhuge Liang Meeting", all kinds of bizarre tactics were quickly applied to the battlefield, and the Japanese army in Jinan, which was already barely holding on, became more and more anxious, and the 94th Division successfully blew up the Yellow River Bridge on the Jinpu Line the next day

As a precaution, Hu Weidong specially approved a large number of high explosives, and sent blasting and bridge experts to destroy the railway bridge quite completely, and the devil did not want to repair it in a few months. But Luo Binghui, the political commissar of the 94th Division, was born in poverty and was used to frugality, and after ordering the blowing up of this railway bridge, which is currently among the top in China, he couldn't help but be very reluctant to say, "Such a bridge was blown up by ourselves, alas!" ”

Division Commander Hu Lian was more open than he thought, "There is no way, the national strength is not as good as others, and there is no way to resist the enemy outside the country, so I can only do this." Keep the accounts first, and wait until the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in the future, let's go to Tokyo to collect debts together! ”

Luo Binghui couldn't help laughing when he heard this, since Hu Weidong created this tradition, now the economic losses recorded by the 15th Army alone are more than a billion oceans, not counting the military and civilian casualties, if it accumulates to the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, how big should it be? I don't know if the devil can afford to pay or not

After the Japanese army in Pingjin transferred back several elite field divisions from Shandong, the strength of the Eighth Route Army was immediately blocked, and after the Yellow River Bridge on the Jinpu Line was blown up, the Japanese army in Pingjin was unable to quickly support Shandong (after all, there is no fast and convenient railway and highway by sea, especially now there are no transport ships waiting for the sea off Tianjin, and the Japanese have to delay additional time when transferring ships from other places. ）。 There was no longer any need for them to fight to the death with the main force of the North China Front, and all three armies took the initiative to withdraw from the battle, intending to return to their respective base areas.

Not to mention the fact that the Jinpu Line Railway Bridge was blown up, although it made it impossible for them to directly go south to rescue the Japanese army in Shandong, but it also made the 15th Army, which they had always feared, also unable to rush from Shandong to Hebei to help in the battle, so the Japanese army brazenly sent a number of elite field divisions to chase after them. However, the three commanders of the Eighteenth Army were all military geniuses not seen in ten years. Even their political commissars are rare heroes, and using retreat to mobilize the enemy to create fighter planes to gather and annihilate the enemy army is precisely the people's army's housekeeping ability, and the devils who have somewhat underestimated the strength of the Eighth Route Army are now recklessly catching up. Where is it possible to take advantage?

As a result, the 9th Division of the Japanese Army, which was in the most urgent pursuit, was cut off from the main force of the 37th Army of the 18th Group Army that successfully crossed the sea and successfully spared them behind them within a few days, and then the 27th Army under the command of Liu Bocheng and the 34th Army under the command of Liu Bocheng quickly pounced, and the 9th Division was again an elite permanent division. Under the siege of nearly 200,000 heavy soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, whose combat effectiveness is almost not inferior to itself, it has not escaped the fate of annihilation of the entire army after all.

The Japanese North China Front Command was extremely shocked after receiving the telegram, but they really couldn't criticize the 9th Division, which was almost fighting to Zuihou, "It's not that the 9th Division is too useless, but the enemy is too strong!" Since when did the Red Party Army become so powerful? ”

In particular, it is worth mentioning that the 37th Army, which was commanded by Xu Xiangqian and had a complex composition of troops and even many ethnic minorities and Muslims and other religious believers (Note 1), played a mainstay role, and they not only succeeded in cutting off the enemy's rear route, but also created the conditions for the three armies to join forces. It also built a simple field defensive position at an unbelievable speed, and blocked the 9th Division and three other elite permanent divisions of the Japanese army from both sides for nearly a week, ensuring the final victory of the battle. Although the casualties of the 37th Army itself were really huge, with preliminary estimates exceeding 20,000, they not only fulfilled the orders of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters. He also single-handedly killed, wounded, and captured more than 30,000 Japanese soldiers. Such a "rabble" force at first glance can perform like this, and we cannot but admire the outstanding leadership and command skills of its commander Xu Xiangqian, and even Taizu, who is himself a great military strategist who has not been seen in a century, can't help but praise its "style of Han Xin" after reading the battle report. It is said that due to the death of Zhang Guotao and the strength of the 15th Army, the central government has more trust in Xu Xiangqian, the original commander-in-chief of the Fourth Front Army, which also gives him more opportunities to show his military talents in this time and space...,

The 9th Division was destroyed. They also suffered heavy casualties, and those Japanese divisions and regiments did not dare to advance at once, but in this way, the speed of the march could not be fast, and they could only watch as the enemy's nearly 200,000 men calmly retreated into the Jinchaji base area. After the war, the three armies of the Eighth Route Army verified and summarized the results of the battle, and were pleasantly surprised to find that they had killed and captured more than 30,000 devils in this battle, which was really the biggest victory that the Eighth Route Army had achieved when fighting alone since participating in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. But looking at the number of less than 1,000 prisoners of war and the permanent attrition of more than 9,000, and thinking of the shame of the 200,000 people of the Eighth Route Army facing the total number of Japanese troops in Pingjin and Tianjin, whose total number was not much more than his own, but finally took the initiative to retreat, the deputy commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army, who had never had a good temper, was still very dissatisfied, "Compared with the 15th Army, you still have a gap!" ”

Hu Weidong and other commanders and fighters of the 15th Army were also very happy about the victory of the Eighth Route Army, but after the bridge was blown up, the anti-Japanese battlefields north and south of the Yellow River were relatively independent, and even if they fought well there, they would not be of much help to the 15th Army in a short period of time, in short, everything had to rely on themselves. Although the tactics of the attacking troops of the 15th Army were more flexible after the restoration of the military democratic system such as the soldiers' council, it was still difficult for the 15th Army to take the whole city in the face of the Japanese army's air superiority, strong fortifications, and stubborn resistance

Note 1: The Jin-Cha-Ji base area and the Jizhong base area behind the enemy line are all under the leadership of the 27th Army, and the Jinsui base area (almost all of the territory allocated in the process of recovering the lost territory in Shanxi was incorporated into the Jinsui border area) and the two major base areas behind the enemy line in Pingxi and Jidong are all led by the 34th Army, and both armies can recruit supplementary troops on the spot in North China, while the soldiers of the 37th Army are brought from the northwest, and a large part of Xinjiang and Gansu, Ningqing, and Qingdao provinces are Muslim settlements. Naturally, a large part of the recruited soldiers are religious Muslims (there are also a few believers of other religions), and the atheist Red Party naturally struggled to organize this army, which objectively greatly affected the cohesion of the troops, so objectively speaking, the 37th Army was the weakest overall strength among the three armies under the jurisdiction of the Eighth Route Army (your support is my greatest motivation). )