Chapter 622: The First Enemy Strikes

Tang Qiuli signed an order, Chen Tiannan, the ringleader who planned and organized the Juye Riot*, and the backbone elements were sentenced to death, and within three days, more than 400 people were shot to death.

This incident was deliberately publicized by Li Honggang, and the local forces and ordinary people in Shandong have seen the bloody methods of this Vice Chairman Tang, and this is what Tang Qiuli instructed Li Honggang to do, and he just wants to use high-pressure means to quickly solve the Shandong problem, and there is no time to waste on this; since he has already been a butcher in Xiangfan, Hubei, do you still care about this large-scale killing? What's more, those who kill are the ones who should be killed, Tang Qiuli found that since he had that dream in his heart, he has become a lot cold-blooded, and any person or thing that hinders him from realizing his dream is among the eradications.

In the name of chairman of the Shandong Provincial Government and commander of the Shandong garrison, Li Honggang issued the chairman's order No. 1 to rectify the local armed forces in Shandong, and all local armed forces within the administrative jurisdiction of Shandong Province must be reorganized by the garrison district headquarters and given a unified number, and the military commanders at all levels of the local armed forces in each locality shall be appointed by the garrison district headquarters, and a four-level administrative management system at the township, county, administrative office, and provincial levels shall be established to exercise unified military and political leadership.

This order, in fact, is to deprive the local forces of the original people in power, the capital to make waves, the military force, firmly control in their own hands, the former Liu Motou, Xu Sanguang bandits as an example, and then Chen Tiannan armed as an example, a total of tens of thousands of guns, said extinguished, those local forces, that still have a little courage to resist, can save a life, peace of mind to be a rich man, is already burning high incense, the so-called "know the times for Junjie", all obediently handed over the guns in their hands.

Before the military and political chiefs at all levels took office, the local forces registered the guns and were responsible for collecting the guns and ammunition scattered among the people, which was actually a great purge of the local forces in Shandong, and also used this to eradicate the semi-secession of the government decree around Jinan during the reign of Han Fuyu, and there was an opportunity to completely eradicate the potential opposition forces.

Shandong's administrative system at all levels has been rapidly operational, and these military and political chiefs sent by the garrison corps of the Yellow River and Henan Defense Line of the Independent Division are directly in control of the armed forces, and they still have their own troops in their hands, so how can the government orders not be unimpeded everywhere, and with the improvement of the administrative system, Han Tie's troops have been scattered to various places, and Tang Qiuli is facing a great distress.

These military and political chiefs are absolute experts in leading troops to fight, but when it comes to local administration, it is difficult to do so, and it is inevitable that the matter of chasing ducks to the shelves will make a lot of jokes when it comes to the people's economy and people's livelihood, and Tang Qiuli's hands have reflected many situations, the most typical of which is that these officers love to regard themselves as Bao Qingtian, and when they encounter lawsuits, as long as they are lawsuits between the poor and the rich, regardless of whether the rich are justified or not, they will lose the lawsuit.

Some officers, ignoring the situation, look at the dress, as long as they are in tattered clothes, they will immediately be justified, which has given birth to a lot of treacherous and slippery people, specializing in blackmailing rich people, Tang Qiuli is in the Zhengzhou headquarters, looking at these briefings, he is so angry that he wants to laugh, what kind of logic is this, these military masters, if they continue like this, Shandong must not make a mess, what is the difference between it and Han Fuyu.

In desperation, he had no choice but to ask Liu Hanzhang, chairman of the Military and Political Committee of the Dingbian Special Economic Zone, for help, and asked him to select 6,000 cadres with administrative experience to support Shandong.

Immediately, he received an urgent telegram from Tang Qiuli and immediately opened an administrative school in Dingbian, with which Liu Hanzhang was responsible for recruiting teachers from all over the country.

All the professors recruited, the treatment is preferential, the standards are grasped by Liu Hanzhang himself, and the source of students is also recruited in the country, all for free, Liu Hanzhang looked at the telegram, and was impressed by Tang Qiuli's vision, and immediately began to prepare for the formation of the Dingbian Administrative Management College, Tang Qiuli has his own plans, in the future, there are still many places to occupy, and these people who lead troops cannot be allowed to concurrently serve as administrative positions, in this way, it will distract their energy, and over time, it will also consume their will to fight, and in the long run, there will be endless troubles, This is also the original intention of his establishment of the School of Administration.

The campaign to suppress bandits in Shandong took less than a month and ended quickly at an unexpected speed, and Shandong was already able to provide rear support for the troops, and Tang Qiuli issued an order that the troops participating in the suppression of bandits, except for Li Honggang's corps and Han Tie's corps, which continued to remain in Shandong, the rest of the troops should immediately return to their organizational structure and prepare to carry out their new combat plans.

Only Le Yiqin's air force continued to stay in Jinan, not only did not evacuate, but received an order from the division commander to strengthen Jinan's air force, and all the planes of the Dingbian Air Force that could participate in the war were mobilized to Jinan, so that they could gain experience in actual battles.

He did not dare to be careless, and ordered Li Honggang to immediately assign an air defense brigade and a guard regiment to Jinan Airport to strengthen the air defense force in the airspace around Jinan and the guard force of the airport; in fact, Tang Qiuli used Jinan Airport as an advance field airfield for the independent divisional air force, and the combat radius of the independent divisional air force could cover the entire North China region by taking off from Jinan airfield.

On 12 March, Tang Qiuli issued a military action order codenamed "Jinji Sword", Feng Jiwu Corps, which had been defending the front line of Niangzi Pass, after annihilating the Japanese army under the Yamaguchi Station, moved to the area around the boundary capital near Niangzi Pass, and the Tang Qiusheng Sulu Mobile Corps, which was secretly resting and waiting, with a total of 270,000 troops, took the enemy guarding Jingcheng Pass opposite Niangzi Pass as the combat object, and strived to completely annihilate the enemy, waiting for an opportunity to seize Shijiazhuang and Baoding, and pull the Japanese army in North China back to the periphery of Pingjin.

Yan Xishan's Jin army on the Datong front line must contain the enemy on the opposite side, do not let it divide troops to reinforce the Niangziguan battlefield, Liu Tiehan on the Cangzhou front line commanded the troops, and maintained pressure on the Japanese army on the front line of Cangzhou, if the Japanese army advanced west to reinforce the Niangziguan battlefield, they could take the opportunity to seize Cangzhou and defeat the bridgehead of the Japanese army attacking Shandong.

Yuan Jinghao's troops on the front line of Anyang, Henan, raised the alert level to prevent the Japanese army from attacking from Henan, and Sun Zhenbang's troops in the Shexian area were ready to meet the Japanese Kwantung Army's southward corps attacking the Taihang Mountains.

Tang Qiuli in the Niangzi Pass to Shexian line, along the stretch of the Taihang Mountains, set up three main corps, a total of 400,000 troops, such a deployment, is to protect the Taihang Mountain base behind him, he predicted, the next stage of the main battlefield, in the Taihang Mountains, from the Okamura Ningci troop deployment point of view, the direction of Shexian is the main attack of the Japanese army to attack the Taihang Mountains.

For Yan Xishan, Tang Qiuli didn't have much hope, the Japanese army in the direction of Datong, even if there was only one wing left, as long as he did not attack Datong, Yan Xishan would not take the initiative to provoke the Japanese, his troops, he could not move at all, with the lessons of the Nanjing National Defense General Mobilization Conference, this Commander Yan, the soldiers in his hands, look at the thief tightly.

Judging from the current overall situation in North China, its own strength is still inferior to that of the Japanese army, and in local battlefields such as Cangzhou and Niangziguan, it maintains its superiority in troops, and is still at a disadvantage in other directions, which is destined to be the Taihang Mountain Campaign, which is to be carried out in the way that the Japanese army attacks and defends itself, or it is better to put the Japanese army into the Taihang Mountains, which stretches for thousands of miles, and fight a guerrilla war in other mountainous areas.

Thinking of guerrilla warfare, Tang Qiuli's heart moved, he was really confused, he didn't use the big experts, he was worried that the troops in his hands were not enough, the strength of the three divisions of the CCP was currently in northern Shaanxi, waiting for his own order, today's CCP army, compared with the same period in history, is no less than a world of difference, and the weapons and equipment that he replenished them from Dingbian just came in handy, these guerrilla warfare masters trained by the national army came out, and Okamura Ningji hated himself for being born in the wrong place.

He immediately issued an order in the name of Chairman of the Northern Army Branch of the Military Commission of the State Government and Commander-in-Chief of the General Headquarters of the Yellow River Valley Theater, appointing General Zhu De, commander-in-chief of the newly formed Eighth Route Army of the National Army, and General Peng Dehuai, deputy commander-in-chief, as deputy commander-in-chief of the General Headquarters of the Yellow River Valley Theater.

In his order, he particularly emphasized that all units of the Eighth Route Army are not subject to all kinds of restrictions and can organize all kinds of battles on their own, and they only need to report to the general headquarters of the theater, and there is only one request, which is to take the Japanese army that is about to invade the Taihang Mountains as the combat object, and at the same time, all kinds of battles organized by the theater must also be reported to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, so as to facilitate the coordination and coordination of operations between the two armies.

Tang Qiuli's order to the Eighth Route Army gave General Zhu De great autonomy, and it also fully took into account the characteristics of the Chinese Communist army, and the method of commanding the troops by himself and the method of the Chinese Communist army are two ways, and they cannot be copied by the Eighth Route Army according to their own wishes, which is tantamount to tying the hands and feet of the Chinese Communist army, and besides, the Chinese Communist Party does not have such a large capital.

Carrying out independent guerrilla warfare in the mountains is a condition negotiated with the three giants of the CCP when he was in Yan'an, and besides, if you don't agree, the CCP will definitely continue to fight according to its own path and make things more open, which will be beneficial to both sides of cooperation.

Tang Qiuli's plan was to use the third phase of the North China Campaign to send the Japanese army back to the Pingjin line, the first two stages were passive defense, this time, he decided to move the enemy first, but the time for the move has not yet been finalized.

(To be continued)