When Jiang Qiang arrived at Jinan City, the entire Jinan Campaign was over. The 4th Division led by Gu Liangmin, with the support of artillery groups, eliminated the remnants of the Japanese army on the commanding heights on the periphery. The cavalry brigade led by Liu Qingshan, supported by the artillery group that arrived later, eliminated the Japanese troops guarding the Zhangzhuang airfield.

The Japanese planes at the Zhangzhuang airfield were basically wiped out in the battle to reinforce the Twenty-Lipu airfield, and only a few reconnaissance planes remained. When Liu Qingshan arrived with the cavalry brigade, the little devil pilot took off urgently and fled north. I don't know if they finally arrived at Beiping, Tianjin, and Shijiazhuang airports or fell to their deaths on the way. Fortunately, Liu Qingshan's actions in the war were fast and his style was sharp, otherwise if he delayed for a while, the little devils might blow up the ammunition and oil stored at Jinan Airport, and that would be a real wasted effort.

The chief of staff of the 12th Army, Asaburo Kobayashi, eventually slipped away. This guy, the ancestors may not have been a pirate or ninja, but he is bold, thoughtful, and extremely cunning, and does have the potential to be a bandit. Knowing that the target of escaping with Gu Shoufu was too big and it was easy to be caught by the Jiaodong Army, he deliberately asked to stay and stick to the headquarters of the Twelfth Army.

Tani Shofu and Seki Kameji walked on the front foot, and after Kobayashi Asaburo ordered the guards to defend it, he slipped out of the headquarters and hid in the nearby Yonghe grocery store.

The Yonghe grocery store was a hidden spot of the Japanese secret service, which was originally top secret, and its main task was to collect economic intelligence on Jinan. After Kobayashi Asaburo arrived in Jinan, because Otaka Kamezo was obsessed with military affairs and did not pay much attention to government affairs, Kobayashi Asaburo had to take over these specific affairs. This Japanese-disguised merchant has become Kobayashi Asaburo's eyes to understand the price and business dynamics of Jinan, and he regularly and secretly reports to Kobayashi Asaburo.

Kobayashi Asaburo knew that the Eighth Route Army would soon conduct a large-scale search of the whole city, and this was not a place to stay for a long time. At this time, the citizens of the Jinan underground party organization boiled water, cooked and carried the wounded, and began to express their condolences to the Eighth Route Army. The owner and wife of Yonghe grocery store have lived in Jinan for a long time, and they have long been sinicized, and no one in the neighborhood knows that he is Japanese, let alone a spy. Kobayashi Asaburo relied on his proficiency in Chinese, and after changing into civilian clothes, he let the spies disguised as the boss lead, and blended in with the common people who helped the Jiaodong Army carry the wounded, and easily blended out of Jinan City and left.

After Jiang Qiang entered the city, he set up the headquarters in the Japanese army headquarters in the Jiaoji Road Hotel, and soon began to work. Before leaving Wang Sherenzhuang, Chang Yuan had already sent a good news to General Tang Juwu in Shanghai, reporting that our army had successfully captured Jinan and captured Gu Shoufu, commander of the Japanese Twelfth Army, and Guan Guizhi, commander of the 34th Division.

Reports of changes in the enemy's situation from several directions were soon reported, and the Japanese army's reaction was indeed the same as Jiang Qiang expected, and they began to retreat on all fronts. Li Shucun, the 5th Division, north of Luokou, reported an urgent retreat of the Japanese army. Among them, the Japanese troops north of Luokou, including the Japanese army in western Luxi and the Japanese army in southern Hebei, were concentrated in Xiangde County, and the Japanese army in Taixi and Lunan retreated to the south. The 5th Division had already begun to launch a pursuit.

Before the war, Jiang Qiang wanted to capture Dezhou and Jinan in one fell swoop and completely wipe out the Japanese army in Shandong. The battle plan for the entire Jiaoji Road Campaign was also drawn up in accordance with this guiding ideology.

Unfortunately, the results of the Jiaodong Army were too great, which led to a rapid response by the Japanese army. Shouichi Terauchi returned to North China and brought back a new fleet of fighter planes of the Air Force, which restored the combat effectiveness of the North China Front Air Force in the shortest possible time. That's not all, the Japanese army mobilized reinforcements from the north and south, and they would arrive soon. If nothing else, the Japanese Combined Fleet and the Fourth Fleet may have received the order to return north to Tianjin at this time, and began to load the Fifth Division and set off north to return to Tianjin. In this way, the Japanese army will form a three-way flank attack on our army in Shandong.

In this case, Jiang Qiang's main force needs to think carefully about how to act next. Jiang Qiang immediately asked Li Jinglin to transfer anti-aircraft missiles and air defense units from Zhaoyuan. also ordered Li Jinglin to pay attention to the little devil's plane, Jiang Qiang was already planning not to leave Jinan at this time, and Shandong is also the defense area of the Jiaodong Group Army, which is also a fact.

If the air power of the Japanese army did not recover so quickly, if the Japanese army did not mobilize elite divisions from the north and south so quickly to help, Jiang Qiang would have nothing to consider, and it would be no problem to gather and annihilate the 35th Division and the 13th Brigade in the south, and if it was fought well, it would be possible to destroy or defeat the 114th Division and the puppet Manchurian Defense Army, and even Xuzhou would have been recovered. It is no problem to eliminate one or two garrison divisions of the Japanese army in Dexian County in the north, and with the combat effectiveness of the Jiaodong Group Army, it should be easy to deal with the garrison divisions and regiments of the little devils.

The problem is that there is no if, this is the main battle, and if you are not careful, you will have to bleed. There was a lively sound of talking in the courtyard, and as soon as Jiang Qiang heard it, the division commanders and chiefs of staff of several main divisions were coming. When the old comrades-in-arms saw each other and won such a big battle, everyone was excited, and their voices were high.

Jiang Qiang was thinking about the problem, and he thought that they were talking loudly, so he turned his head and shouted, "Shunzi, go and shut them up!" Shunzi put down the pencil in his hand when he heard the sound, and was about to convey Jiang Qiang's order. Chang Yuan stopped him and said to Jiang Qiang: "You think about the problem, I'll go see the comrades." You can't bomb them away, you might have to assign tasks in a while! ”

Jiang Qiang nodded and began to ponder again. The problem now is that the Japanese army on the southern front has shrunk on all fronts, and the Japanese army in Taixi has retreated in the direction of Yanzhou, and if it can catch up with the Japanese army in the field before dawn, there will be no problem in destroying it. If you can't catch up before dawn, don't even think about it. Once the little devils return to Yanzhou City and join up with the Japanese puppet army in Lunan, they can support each other, and the 14th Division can quickly rush to the battlefield, which is a mechanized division that has been strengthened before and after the Battle of Lanfeng, with a heavy artillery brigade, and it will be difficult for the Jiaodong Group Army to swallow them in one bite. Once the battle fell into a stalemate, there were Japanese planes in the sky and Japanese tanks and heavy artillery on the ground, and it could not be said that the Japanese army would be able to control the Jiaodong Group Army, at least it would be impossible to achieve great results in a short period of time. The terrible thing is that at this time, the Japanese army on the northern front will take advantage of the situation to attack Jinan, and under the joint attack of the Japanese army's first and second divisions, plus the Japanese army's 23rd division and several other garrison divisions, Jiang Qiang believes that the Luxi Garrison Brigade and the Luxi Garrison Second Brigade on the north bank of the Yellow River will not be able to stop the devil's attack. Even if the second division is added, I'm afraid it won't be able to stop. The gains of the Battle of Jinan may be lost.

Beishang Dexian County is also facing such a problem, and I am afraid that it will be dawn before the troops arrive at the county seat of Dexian County. Besides, the coastline of Shandong is so long, there are too many places where the 5th Division of the Japanese Army can land. Rather than allowing the 5th Division, which has strong combat effectiveness, to land at any location and take our troops by surprise, it is better to let them land at a fixed location in Qingdao, which is much less destructive than the Japanese army arbitrarily choosing a landing point.

Whether it is the Japanese army on the southern front or the Japanese army on the northern front, plus the Japanese Fifth Division that may reinforce Qingdao, it is estimated that none of them dare to act rashly. In this way, we will be able to gain a period of time to eliminate the remaining Japanese puppet forces in the base areas and thoroughly consolidate the base areas.

Of course, in this way, our army won the time to consolidate the base areas and replenish the rest and recuperation, and the Japanese army also had time to digest the results of the capture of Wuhan and Guangzhou, replenish the rest and recuperate troops, and mobilize the main force to besiege Shandong on a large scale. There are pros and cons to everything! Jiang Qiang felt anxious for a while, felt out the cigarette, took out a match, and struck it, but the force was too great, and the match broke. I took out one stroke at a time, and it broke again. He didn't light the cigarette even three times, so angry that Jiang Qiang slammed the matchbox to the ground, and opened his mouth to call Shunzi to take another box of matches.

Chen Zhengnian walked over and picked up the matchbox on the ground, lit it with a slight stroke, lit the cigarette for Jiang Qiang, and said slowly: "It's not that the match is bad, it's that you use too much force." Don't you often say that what senior commanders need most is a cool head. Why don't you take a break and calm down a bit? ”

Jiang Qiang took a hard puff of his cigarette and waved his hand, letting Chen Zhengnian go on his own. After pondering his thoughts over and over again, Jiang Qiang felt that although the Japanese army had also gained time to rest and replenish and mobilize troops, it was impossible for them to mobilize 700,000 troops to besiege Shandong as they had done last time. Because the territory they occupy is too large and they need troops to hold on, if they concentrate all their efforts on Shandong as they did last time, then the results of the Battle of Wuhan will be in vain. Perhaps Shandong will attract the main force of the Japanese army, and Central China will be able to carry out a large-scale counteroffensive, and the Nanjing government will definitely not let go of the opportunity to recover Wuhan. Even if the chairman wants to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, he will not let him get his wish, and most of the generals of the national army will not miss the opportunity to slaughter devils.

Chang Yuan is a military talent at the level of a strategist, and after a little thought, he understood the mystery and immediately said: "I agree with the commander's opinion, since the launch of the Jiaoji Road Campaign, the main force of our army has been fighting continuously and urgently needs to rest. The 14th Division of the Japanese Army on the Southern Front may have arrived in Xuzhou, ready to support the 114th Division, the 35th Division, the 13th Independent Mixed Division, and the puppet Manchurian Defense Army to help them stabilize the defensive line. The three divisions of the Japanese Kwantung Army on the northern front will soon arrive at the battlefield, and our army will rashly go north to attack the enemy in Dexian, and as soon as it is dawn, it will be bombed indiscriminately by Japanese planes, and once the battle drags on until tomorrow night or the day after tomorrow, it is very likely that it will be attacked head-on by reinforcements from the Kwantung Army moving south. The battle of Anjiazhuang of the Fifth Division was a lesson, and the time to fight with the Japanese army should not be delayed too long, and it was beneficial to the Japanese army to delay the time. ”

Chen Zhengnian smashed it and smashed his mouth: "It's all the trouble caused by the old devil in the temple, he has suffered too much in our hands, and he has learned well." If only Terauchi Shou hadn't returned from Germany, then the Japanese army would not have reacted so quickly to Terauchi Shouichi even if he had a new commander. At present, the fighter plane has been lost, and it is our principle not to fight a war that is uncertain. There are many little devils, and they can't be eliminated for a while. When we have fully rested, we will look for fighters. The next time you hit the gun, it might be the Japanese army's permanent division. That guy, well-equipped, oily and water-rich, destroys one by one, and is much stronger than these garbage garrison divisions.

Jiang Qiang said, "It's okay, where can Qin Siyu make preparations for the attack on Tianjin, so that he can drag the two divisions of the Japanese army, where do we still have a strong army in Yunwu Mountain, this time my main thing is to see that Qin Siyu's results are too big, which will cause the encirclement and suppression of the Japanese army, so I cooperated with Qin Siyu and them, what I didn't expect was that the results were so big, and they actually recovered Jinan, so we won't leave,"

Seeing that everyone's opinions were unified, Jiang Qiang immediately said: "Chief of Staff, record the order: 1. The 8th Brigade will not make arrangements to capture Dezhou, and it is enough to monitor the changes in the enemy situation in Dezhou. Seize the time to rush to transport Jinan's aviation ammunition and gasoline, empty all Jinan airports, transport ammunition and gasoline back to the central base area in Jiaodong as soon as possible, and the main force will rest in concealment around Dezhou. 2. The task of the Fifth Division remains unchanged, taking advantage of the situation to pursue, and it is necessary to recover Linyi and Fei County. 3. The Fifth Division pursued the enemy in a limited manner, and if the enemy retreated to Yanzhou, the pursuit would be stopped. Leave one section to monitor the movements of the Japanese army, and the main force will be transferred to rest and replenish, restore and develop the Taixi base area, and actively infiltrate and develop into southwest Lu to restore the original base area in southwest Lu. Fourth, give full support to the Red Party guerrillas, give all the weapons captured in Jinan to the Red Party guerrillas, let them go all out to run the Luxi base area, and the Luxi Garrison Brigade to monitor the enemy in Dexian, build a solid defense line, and cover the main force to rest and recuperate. The 1st Division, 2nd Division, 3rd Division, 4th Division, and 7th Brigade were transformed into the 7th Division, Cavalry Brigade, Artillery Brigade, and Headquarters of the Jiaodong Group Army. Seventh, the Jinan garrison area was established, and the commander of the sixth division served as the commander of the garrison in the same year, and the sixth division was responsible for the garrison of Jinan. 8. The air defense brigade commands air defense operations in the base areas in a unified manner, with the focus on air defense operations in Jinan, Weicheng, and Tai'an. Zhou Yi, chief of staff of the 1st Division, was in charge of the special air defense operation. ”

Jiang Qiang shook his head: "Jinan is different from Tianjin and Qingdao, if we play well, we may take root here." Even in the future, when the Japanese army will press the border, we will have to withdraw from Jinan, and that will only be an evacuation of the city. As long as we have a few months, we will be able to do a solid job in Jinan. When the little devil comes again, he doesn't want to really drive us out of the Jinan area. In this case, the personnel arrangements of Jinan City are being decided."

When the big event was agreed, Jiang Qiang was in a happy mood, twitched his eyes, and said with a smile: "What do you see?" I'm not your wife, I don't have flowers on my face! Chang Yuan snorted and laughed, pointed at Jiang Qiang and said, "You guy, snort!" How do I feel that you are sometimes a young man in your twenties, and sometimes you are like a 50-year-old man? ”

Jiang Qiang looked at Chang Yuan in surprise, couldn't help but reach out and touch his face, and whispered: "Chief of Staff, have I been worried a lot lately, and I'm tired and old?" At this moment, the entire headquarters burst into laughter.

After continuous combat and hard work, Jiang Qiang was really sleepy. Therefore, after making arrangements for the various troops, Jiang Qiang went to the living room of the Japanese army headquarters Gu Shoufu, and lay down and slept.

After lying quietly on the bed for a while, listening to the explosions and gunfire outside, I knew that it must be the little devil's plane that came to make trouble again. However, listening to the density of anti-aircraft fire, there are not many planes of the devils, could it be that the air defense battle is almost over?

Raising his wrist and looking at the table below, it was already four o'clock in the afternoon. Oh my God, I slept all day! Jiang Qiang didn't dare to lie in bed anymore, got up and washed his face, and went to the staff office. As soon as he walked to the door of the staff office, Chang Yuan greeted him: "Commander, are you awake?" Why don't you sleep more? ”

Jiang Qiang was concerned about the battle situation and asked anxiously: "Has there been any change in the enemy's situation?" Did the Japanese machine launch a crazy revenge today? ”

Jiang Qiang said: "There has been no major change in the enemy situation, the Japanese army in Taixi has retreated to Yanzhou to set up defenses, the Japanese puppet army in Lunan has retreated to the starting point of the attack, and the enemy's 14th Division has all arrived in Xuzhou. The Japanese army in western Luxi and the Japanese army in southern Hebei retreated on all fronts and gathered around Dexian County. The Japanese planes did not make large-scale sorties, and they still blindly investigated. However, the positions of our troops in Jinan, Hedexian, Yanzhou, and Lunan were bombed, but the scale was very small. ”

Jiang Qiang hurriedly asked: "Are there many casualties?" Chang Yuan reported: "Li Shucun reported that the troops had taken cover measures such as smoke control, and the casualties were not large. It's just that the casualties of the Red Party's Eighth Route Army are a little big,"

Seeing Jiang Qiang coming in, Shunzi said, "You came just in time, and the chairman of the committee has promoted you again!" Jiang Qiang looked puzzled: "Impossible, right?" Junzi teased with a full face: "Here, take a look, the chairman's telegram order, you have been promoted to a senior senator of the Military Commission!" Jiang Qiang took the telegram suspiciously, and when he looked at it hastily, he kept sneering.

Shunzi said: "This chairman is really fucking stingy, he has eliminated so many devils and recovered most of the territory of Shandong, and he is reluctant to give even the governor of Shandong Province, at least to the commander of Shandong Security or the commander of the garrison, right?" Look at how well he said it, Jiang Qiang was promoted to a senior senator of the Military Commission, and he still holds his own position. Officials from the city, district, and county governments in Shandong are appointed by Shen Hongliequan, governor of Shandong Province, and submitted for approval. What the fuck is this crazy thing about? Lao Tzu fought in the north and south, fighting and killing in the west, when did he pay his military salary? This captured Jinan, Shandong was basically recovered, and his governor of Shandong Province came out instead. Before the little devils were driven out of North China, the chairman of the committee was cautious. It's just inexplicable!

Jiang Qiang said to Shunzi, "Mingma, Zhuang Tao is appointed as the governor of Shandong Province and mayor of Jinan City, Wang Yong is the director of the Shandong Provincial Police Department and the director of the Jinan City Police Bureau, and Dong Shengtang is the director of the Shandong Provincial Department of Industry and Commerce." Yu Yanluo is the mayor of Qingdao. The Jiaodong Group Army of the Asian Liberation Army was reorganized into the Shandong Military Region of the Asian Liberation Army, and now there are seven divisions. There are also six more Ji. In the addition of four divisions and five garrisons, the commander of the Shandong Military Region is Jiang Qiang, and the chief of staff Chang Yuan, and that's it. Jiang Qiang said again, don't write the back on the clear code.

Chang Yuan said slowly: "The governor of the Shandong Provincial Government will not let us do it, so it will be justified for us to establish political power in Shandong." The Shandong Provincial Security Commander and the Chairman of the Garrison Command will not let us do it, so our military expansion in Shandong will be justified. There is no distinction between north and south, no distinction between people and children, and they all have the responsibility of defending the land and resisting the war! The words are still in my ears! ”

Junko added fuel to the fire: "The chairman itself is not a good thing. If he had adhered to Sun Yat-sen's three major policies of uniting Russia with the Red Army and supporting the peasants and workers, there would have been something going on with the Red Party! It seems that he didn't have a long memory after being beaten, and he began to think nonsense again! ”

Walking out of the house, pulling back Shunzi who was standing in the courtyard, personally poured a glass of water and handed it to Shunzi, Jiang Qiang said: "It's no wonder that the comrades are in a bad mood, it's the chairman who is thinking crookedly." The Battle of Wuhan was over, and although the Nationalist army suffered heavy casualties, it was temporarily unable to launch a large-scale counterattack against the Japanese army. The Japanese army did not get a good deal either, and their elite divisions also suffered heavy casualties in the Battle of Wuhan, and they occupied so much territory that they needed to be garrisoned. The strategic stalemate phase of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression has arrived. I estimate that the Japanese army will soon adjust its strategy toward China, and I am afraid that it will carry out a series of activities to lure people to surrender and sow discord, and will also concentrate its forces to reorganize the rear and point the spearhead of attack at the Eighth Route Army and our Shandong Military Region again. We can see this clearly, and the chairman will also see it clearly. As a result, the next step will be friction and disputes between the two armies over turf. This is also something that cannot be helped, and territory means replenishment of soldiers, food, and funds. Any army that has no territory and no base is rootless and very dangerous. Shandong is such a big place and has such a large population, how can the chairman of the NPC National Committee hand over all of Shandong to us? In his heart, if the Japanese attack is tight, then he has to shout unity to resist the war. If the Japanese offensive slows down, it will be necessary to repeat the old tune of restricting development. ”

With that, the atmosphere in the room eased. Jiang Qiang sat down, lit a cigarette, and continued: "Jinan has been captured, the peaches are about to ripen, and the chairman wants to come and pick peaches, is it normal for people to come!" On the other hand, this is also a good thing, which shows that he is unable to take care of Shandong, and can only rely on the name of the Shandong provincial government to restrict us. Isn't that? When did Lao Tzu have this scruple and that scruple? Will you still be afraid of him? However, then again, we are all senior cadres, and we must pay attention to what we say and do, and we must not bring personal emotions into our work, which will affect the cadres and fighters. At present, we have to maintain the anti-Japanese united front and support, encourage, and promote the chairman of the committee to resist Japan. To tell the truth, without the Nationalist Army fighting bloodily on the frontal battlefield, our Jiaodong Group Army and the Red Party's Eighth Route Army alone are definitely not the opponents of the Japanese army at present. Everyone has also seen that over the past year or so, the chairman of the NPC Standing Committee has been unambiguous on the issue of resisting Japan. The soldiers and men are defending the country with their flesh and blood, and they are well-known and out-and-out national heroes. As long as they persist in resisting Japan, we should sincerely fight side by side with them. If the chairman of the NPC National Committee really disregards the overall interests of the nation and tears his face with us, then we will not be polite. If anyone does not offend me, I will not offend, but if anyone offends me, I will offend! ”

What he said was righteous and strict, and Chang Yuan, Chen Zhengnian, and Shunzi all heard it in their hearts. Jiang Qiang continued: "I think about it, the focus of our work in the next step should be on consolidating the base areas, and doing a solid job in the building of political power, local armed forces, militia, military industry, and economy. Some issues, such as regime-building, require strategy. If we think it is feasible, it is that in order to better implement the strategy and tactics of the anti-Japanese national united front and to win over and unite people from all walks of life to fight together, it is necessary to define the nature of our regime as the regime of the national united front, and the regime of all people who are in favor of resisting Japan and democracy. Red Party members accounted for only one-third of government officials and public opinion organs, while other parties and non-party personages who advocated anti-Japanese democracy accounted for two-thirds. Anyone who does not surrender to the Japanese army can participate in government work. Any political party, as long as it does not surrender to the Japanese army, should be allowed to exist and operate under the anti-Japanese regime. In this way, we will be able to plug up the slander of our anti-Japanese democratic regimes at all levels. ”