At the same time, the senior cadres of the Communist Party of China were not idle, and they also held military meetings in response to the devils' large-scale attacks in Shandong and other places.

After taking a look at the comrades attending the meeting, he said: "Because the Kuomintang troops in Shandong fled too quickly, to the surprise of the Japanese side, when the vanguard of the Sichuan Army moved north along the railway line to fill in the defenses, a very serious strategic mistake occurred on the Japanese side. ”

Zhou Enlai continued: "The enemy did not fully grasp the complete emptiness of the Jinpu line caused by Han Fuyu's non-resistance and the emptiness of the Weitai defense line caused by Shen Honglie's lack of resistance, but concentrated the superior forces in North China and quickly advanced south and west, taking advantage of the unstable foothold of the vanguard of the Sichuan army and the arrival of the main force, and took Xuzhou in one go. Instead, they continued to pursue Han Fuyu's rout in the direction of Jining and seize the canal defense line. ”

"The enemy stayed in the Jining area for nearly two months to wait for the encirclement of Xuzhou from other sides. In this way, the commander of the Japanese army is a big fool! ”

"Haha......" everyone laughed.

Zhu De laughed for a while, and saw that everyone was still laughing, so he stood up and waved his hand to everyone and said: "At that time, in addition to our Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army, it was probably the 22nd Group Army of the Sichuan Army that was the most poorly equipped and had a very limited resistance among the non-Kuomintang Central Descendants in China. ”

"That's right!" Road.

Commander-in-Chief Zhu said: "However, this army, which only made Lao Jiang look down on the most, easily seized the area south of Zou County in the northern section of the Jinpu Line in front of the Japanese ace troops, and kept Xuzhou, a strategic place that was already bound to be lost. What does this mean? It shows that as long as you share the same hatred, you can achieve results! ”

"However, it is very regrettable that Lao Jiang is deaf and has not done a good job in intelligence work. They also did not listen to our persuasion and did not believe our intelligence, so they failed to make full use of the fleeting fighter plane of the Japanese army's strategic mistake to boldly forge ahead and regain more lost territory. What a shame! Zhou Enlai said with a sigh.

"On the other hand, on January 11 of this year, Chiang Kai-shek personally went to the Guide Governor's Formation near Xuzhou, arrested Han Fuyu after a half-day meeting of northern generals, and soon shot him in Wuchang." Zhou Enlai also said very worriedly.

Although the unit stabilized its position in Jining, it only reversed the situation of fleeing without a fight, and did not seize the opportunity to actively counterattack. Although Han Fuyu can be killed, changing generals in battle is a taboo for soldiers! Lao Jiang's move to Shandong for this major personnel change really worries us! Zhou Enlai said.

After sitting down, he lit a cigarette, took a sharp puff, and said: "At the same time, Liu Xiang, the military and political leader of Sichuan, died of an unexpected illness in Wuhan on the 19th of last month, and it was rumored that he was murdered by Chiang Kai-shek, which caused the top brass of the Sichuan army to be shocked and the morale of the army unstable. Deng Xihou, commander-in-chief of the 22nd Group Army on the Xuzhou front, was immediately transferred back to Sichuan to serve as the director of appeasement, and the group army also underwent a series of corresponding post adjustments. This is another wrong move by the narrow-minded Lao Jiang, which really makes people doubt that someone like Lao Jiang can be a good head of the family? ”

Chiang Kai-shek, Li Zongren, and others only emphasized not to retreat and resist desperately, but did not fully seize the opportunity to organize a vigorous counteroffensive by the Sichuan Army and the Shandong Army, severely inflicting heavy losses on the Japanese 10th Division, which also had an unstable foothold, and recovering the lost ground north of the Jinpu Line." Zhu De said.

"At that time, there were even a large number of junior officers and soldiers who took the initiative to ask for an automatic attack on the Japanese army and a request to attack the enemy, but the higher authorities were often not allowed, so the soldiers of the junior officers often felt depressed and complained." Road.

Zhu De continued: "In the first half of this month, the high-level personnel changes of the 22nd Group Army were basically completed, and only then did they begin to order a counterattack against the little devils. The battle to recover Zou County has just begun, and the little devils who have come to their senses have begun to assemble their main forces in the area of Zou County, and it is naturally impossible to win the counterattack. Ay! This old Jiang is too not a piece of material! ”

"Based on the intelligence analysis provided by Gu Mu, an underground worker of our party in the 57th Army of the Kuomintang, and others, the reason why the Japanese military and political authorities realized their major strategic mistake is probably related to a series of propaganda reports organized by the Chinese side on the 22nd Group Army. Because the Japanese spies have been jointly controlled by our underground party and the 'military command' of the Kuomintang, they can no longer obtain any real information. Zhou Enlai said.

Hearing this, he smiled and said: "What is very exciting is that the Sichuan army has done a great job in saving the Jinpu battle. When Han Fuyu let Kaijinpu face and retreated west from Jining, if the Sichuan army had not arrived in the starry night, the Japanese army could enter Xuzhou without a single shot. If Xuzhou is shaken, today's Wuhan may not be as stable as it is now! ”

"After the devil came to his senses, he thought that the opportunity for his 10th Division to quickly move south and take Xuzhou directly had been lost, so he accelerated the increase of troops from the direction of the Jiaodong Peninsula, and his other elite unit, the 5th Division, the Banyuan Division, quickly landed in Qingdao, and then advanced along the Weitai Highway in the direction of Taierzhuang, northeast of Xuzhou." Ren Bishi, who had not spoken, said immediately at this time.

"The main force of the Japanese Jinpu line failed to attack south, so it changed its strategy, and the two divisions led by Shaozhuang sent soldiers Itagaki Seishiro and Alumya Ryosuke to try to join Taierzhuang. Taierzhuang is located at the intersection of Jinpu Road, Taizao (Zhuang) Wen Line and Taiwei (Fang) Highway, choking the throat of the canal, is the gateway of Xuzhou, and has an important position in the military. Once the little devil succeeds in Taierzhuang, he can respond to the Japanese offensive at the southern end of Jinpu Road and take Xuzhou in one fell swoop. Zhu De said.

"With 70,000 or 80,000 troops, under the command of Nishio Shouzo, commander of the Second Army in North China, the devil marched to Taierzhuang in two ways." Zhou En.

"All the way is the Banyuan Fifth Division, since January 12 in Qingdao Lingshan Bay and Fukushima two places forced landing, along the Jiaoji Road westward, to Weixian to the south, through Gaomi, along the Zhucheng, Rongxian line, into Linyi; All the way is the 10th Division of Alum Valley, which went south along Jinpu Road and went straight to Taierzhuang. The two divisions of Banyuan and Alum Valley are the elite divisions of the little devils, and they are quite ferocious, and they have the potential to encircle and annihilate the Chinese defenders in one fell swoop. "I came to report the work, and I have been looking at the information that Zhou Enlai took over.

"We must work with the Kuomintang army with one heart and one mind to drive the little devils out of China. I now give an order to my anti-Japanese comrades in Shandong, and let them fully support all anti-Japanese forces and strike a fierce blow to the enemy! *** stood up again, waved down with his right hand, and said.

"Good!" The Way.