On the evening of July 5, guns and cannons were fired in Jinan. The commander of the First Column, Gaoyuan, and political commissar Cheng Cuilin, commanded the armored and cavalry-like Eighth Route Army armored group and the first brigade rushed towards the main force of the Japanese garrison and the retreating team of Japanese and puppet organs who were retreating from Jinan to Likou. They cut the Japanese and puppet troops into several sections between Jinan and Likou, splashing ammunition to the fullest, and using their powerful firepower advantages to divide the Japanese and puppet troops and eliminate the Japanese and puppet troops.
After all, it was night. It was also covering the operation of the Eighth Route Army. Some of the Japanese and puppet troops in Jinan still fled from Xiaoqing River by boat. Especially the Jinan garrison and the Eighth Group of the North China Pacification Army were in the river defense. Seeing that the momentum was wrong, they did not compete with the Eighth Route Army for control of the Lukou Railway Bridge, but instead directly escaped the Yellow River by boat and met with the Japanese and puppet troops on the other side of the river.
Hu Laohu and political commissar Bao Wen commanded three cavalry regiments and their direct troops... into three routes on the left, center and right, swept across the Japanese and puppet strongholds outside Jinan and took straight to Jinan. When Chen Cunyi, the commander of the Second Cavalry Regiment, led the Second Regiment to rush into Jinan City, he found that the city of Jinan was brightly lit and the streets were filled with people who welcomed the Eighth Route Army into the city.
The real battle took place at the airport. The bones were the airport guards and the infantry brigade of the Jinan garrison that was responsible for the safety of the road from Jinan to the airport.
This group of Japanese devils, due to the destruction of the airport and Iida Satogu, was shot dead by Kitago Yoshio, turned into a vicious wolf who was determined to revenge... and fought to the death. After the cavalry group caught up, the cavalry charge was surrounded by Japanese. It was night, the torch launched a cavalry charge and had to dismount honestly fight with Japanese Japanese. In the end, Hu Laohu and Bao Wen led the Second Cavalry Regiment to attack Jinan, and arrived at the third Cavalry Regiment and direct troops in the north of Jinan, concentrated their firepower, and with the cooperation of Wang Dongqiang's special combat team, they wiped out the group of Japanese Japanese. In this way, the Japanese still caused considerable casualties to the cavalry... Hu Laohu was so distressed that he burst into tears.
When the engineering brigade, which was riding on the rubber wheel chariot, arrived at the front line of the Likou, the armored group of the First Brigade, the cavalry brigade had already ended the battle, and took Wang Laohu and Li Shuiqiu's first special battle formation to retreat and chase Liu Yimin and others. The remaining tasks of pursuing the remaining enemies and interrogating and identifying prisoners were handed over to the Engineering brigade, the Jinan Guerrilla Zone troops, the two guard regiments brought by Cai Zhong, as well as the counties and district armed forces around Jinan came to carry out the execution.
After Cai Zhong, member of the Standing Committee of the Shandong Bureau of the Communist Party of China, director of the Political Department of the Shandong Military Region of the Eighth Route Army, and acting mayor of Jinan, entered the city, he immediately issued a notice to confiscate Japanese and puppet assets, relieve refugees, and maintain the normal economic and social order in Jinan.
The next morning... Cai Zhong held a press conference at the Jinan Post Building to officially announce the news of our army's occupation of Jinan.
Overnight, the storm changed, and the Japanese army's base camp in Shandong, Jinan, returned to our army. The black and lean Cai Zhong even spoke with a hint of joy.
Cai Zhong first reported the results of our army's recovery of Jinan, pointing out that the recovery of Jinan once again proved General Liu Yimin's statement that "Japan" was originally a paper tiger, and proved that as long as we persist in the War of Resistance Against Japan and use the correct strategies and tactics, our army can continuously eliminate the Japanese and attack the Japanese and Japanese warriors until they achieved the great victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan. Today, our army can easily capture Jinan, scare the Japanese and puppet troops abandon the city and flee... One day... Our army will face the city of Beiping, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Nanjing, and the Japanese and puppet troops guarding the city are also fleeing in panic.
Cai Zhong's speech won rounds of applause!
A reporter asked: The army recovered Jinan, why did General Liu Yimin and Political Commissar Luo Ronghuan not attend today's press conference? The people of Jinan really want to see the respected General Liu Yimin and Political Commissar Luo Ronghuan.
Cai Zhong said it was Liu and Chief Luo who was busy with military affairs... He did not enter the city and went to the river defense front to inspect the troops.
Another reporter asked: The Japanese and puppet troops hurriedly evacuated Jinan last night, and the Japanese and puppet organs retreated with the army. I wonder if they captured the commander of the 12th Japanese Army, Sadaki Iida, and the puppet Shandong Governor Tang Yangdu?
Cai Zhong replied that since the 12th Japanese Army Command and its guards were the first to evacuate Jinan, so far, there has been no report from our troops to capture Iida Satogu and his party. The 12th Army Command and its guards are missing. Our army is conducting a search in the areas around Jinan, hoping to capture Iida Satogu. As for the pseudo-Shandong Governor Tang Yangdu, he has been captured by our army. When this Tang Yangdu was captured, he was scared out of his shit and urine, and his body was filled with a foul smell. He had no image of wearing a suit, tie, and leading the puppet army to commit evil deeds. He was simply a coward! What awaited him was a justice judgment.
After the press conference, the news that the Eighth Route Bureau captured Jinan flew to all directions through the telegram, and the people in the rear were in full swing!
People from Xi'an, Chongqing, Chengdu, Kunming, Guiyang, Liuzhou and other cities risked the Japanese bombing and took to the streets to marches to celebrate the revival of Jinan by the Eighth Route Army. Teachers and students of Southwest Associated University even put out huge slogans: Get out of the ivory tower and go to Shandong to participate in the War of Resistance!
Did Jun Tada, commander of the Japanese North China Front Army, expect that Satoko Iida was so unlucky that he died on a transport plane that had not yet taken off? He also did not expect that the Eighth Route Army would be so bold that he would dare to use a small elite team to occupy the Lukou Bridge and seal the passage of the Japanese and puppet troops in Jinan to retreat across the Yellow River!
Originally, Tada Jun believed that the Eighth Route Army was seeking death, which provided him with a good opportunity to annihilate the main force of the Eighth Route Army. As long as various heavy troops arrived, the Eighth Route Army could siege the Eighth Route Army and the city of Jinan. Three chariot divisions and the Second Division, and the Seventh Division were the assault corps, it would be difficult for the Eighth Route Army to not die! However, because the main force of the Japanese and puppet army retreating from Jinan was annihilated and the people retreating from Japanese and puppet organs died, the captured were captured... The loss was too great, so great that Tada Jun could not bear it! Especially the 12th Army Command was annihilated at the airport, which made Tada Jun's bare head lower.
Liu Yimin did not make a judgment on this, that is, Tada Jun knew about the destruction of the 12th Army Command and Zhangzhuang Airport at the first time. The reason was that the tower staff of the Japanese Zhangzhuang Airport reported to the Third Flight Group Command via radio!
The reason why Liu Yimin made a mistake in judgment was that Wang Dongqiang himself did not know that Iida Satoku died at the airport, so he naturally would not report it to him. In fact, the Eighth Route Army only knew about this when the airport was cleaned up a few days later.
Since the Eighth Route Army did not announce the battle report of the attack on Iida Sada, Tada Jun pretended to be deaf and dumb after reporting to the headquarters and the China Expeditionary Army Command, and included Iida Sada and Kitago Yoshio on the list of missing persons and began to form a new 12th Army Command. After the Eighth Route Army later announced the battle report of the shooting of Iida Sada and eliminated the 12th Army Command, the Japanese army once again refused to admit it, saying that it was Lieutenant General Iida Sada and Major General Kitago Yoshio had already been transferred back to the country due to the unfavorable command of Shandong war. The current commander of the 12th Army, Lieutenant General Tohashi, was once the chief of staff, Major General Kono Hirojiro, led the army command on a boat to successfully break through the Koqing River that night.
This annoyed the families of Iida Sada and Kitago Yoshio's family. The family of Iida Sada and Iida Sada and did not even give the gift. They were labeled as poorly commanding and fighting. This is not an extreme injustice to the warriors. The family of Iida Sada and Kitago Yoshio's family ran to the palace gate and knelt down and asked His Majesty the Emperor to intervene and give fair treatment to the warriors who died in battle. As a result, the family of Iida Sada and Iida Sada has received some money, and Kitago Yoshio's family, who has a strong family, was posthumously awarded the rank of lieutenant general.
Of course this is a later story!
Tada Jun is under great pressure now. The base camp almost half an hour of a telegram, urging the North China Front Army to seize the fighter jet and annihilate Liu Yimin's main force in Jinan. The commander of the Chinese dispatched army, Shousao Nishio, sent a telegram with extremely stern words, implying that Tada Jun is now losing all face internationally. If Jinan cannot be recovered quickly, he and Tada Jun will be in danger of being dismissed from office and accountable. Because the symbolic significance of Jinan City is too great in the eyes of local people. If Jinan is lost in the eyes of local people, it means a great failure on the battlefield in Shandong.
Liu Yimin's move to the black tiger was like stabbing Tada Jun's heart. He was more eager than anyone else to recover Jinan and annihilate the main force of Shandong Eighth Route Army.
Tada Jun’s current deployment is simple and practical, that is, the three armies of the North Line, the South Line and the East Line will attack Jinan.
On the northern line, Tada Jun ordered the 40th Division, the 41st Division, the 37th Division and the 11th Division, which was sweeping south to Dezhou, then headed south to Likou, regain control of the railway bridge, and then besieged Jinan from the north; on the southern line, the Japanese army left the 27th Division to defend the Jinpu Road defense line, and concentrated the 9th Division, the 2nd Guard Division, and the 12th Division to advance together and pounced on Jinan from south to north; on the eastern line, Tada Jun ordered the 32nd Division, the 36th Division and the puppet army Li Wenli's peaceful founding army to defend the key points of Jiaoji Road, and ordered the 2nd Division, the 7th Division and three chariot divisions to quickly rush to Weicheng to gather, and attack the Eighth Route Army in the Jinan area from east to west.
In order to seal the passage of the main force of the Eighth Route Army to retreat to the Taiyi Mountains, Tada Jun ordered the 29th Division in central and southern Shandong to act quickly, attack and advance from central and southern Shandong to Jinan, control the passage leading to the Taiyi Mountains, build fortifications based on the mountain situation, and block the passage of the Eighth Route Army to withdraw from the mountain.
The 29th Division was the weakest among the Japanese troops and was the easiest to become the next target of the Eighth Route Army. Therefore, Tada Jun ordered Lieutenant General Kinishon Toshiba, the commander of the Third Flight Group, to provide air cover for the 29th Division, and ordered the independent mixed 16th Brigade stationed in Tai'an to send troops to control Taishan, contact and support the 29th Division.
Tada Jun had no choice. The 29th Division was hanging alone in the heartland of central and southern Shandong, and was splitting troops around to sweep the ground. If they were not allowed to gather forces to capture the main retreat of the Eighth Route Army in the Eighth Route Army attacking Jinan, they were likely to fall into the siege of the Eighth Route Army in central and southern Shandong, and were eaten by a small mouthful. Moreover, they would be blocked by the Eighth Route Army to the south and north. It would be better to use a strange move to let them march along the route of the Eighth Route Army attacking Jinan under the cover of the plane, which is relatively safer!
Because the newly appointed commander of the 12th Army and the Chief of Staff had not yet taken office, Tada Jun ordered Chief of Staff Ryosuke Yoshizumi to establish a forward command post in Toku Prefecture and command the Northern Line troops to fight. He ordered Lieutenant General Kojichiro Kojichi-suk, the commander of the 9th Division, to command several divisions on the southern line to unified command of several divisions on the southern line; and ordered the new commander of the Second Division, Satoshi Yoshimoto-Yi-Shun-Yi-Shun-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-Shi-
The order was issued, and the Japanese troops also launched their actions vigorously. However, the war was not decided by one side. The Japanese army was distributed in various parts of Shandong and was in a sweeping battle. It was not that it could concentrate quickly, nor that it could march to Jinan so smoothly. It also depends on whether the Eighth Route Army cooperated or not.
Now, the armored group in Jiaodong encountered trouble. As soon as the Japanese armored heavy army retreated, the main force of the Eighth Route Army in Kunyu Mountains rushed out, chasing the Japanese army, attacking sideways, and constantly raiding. The most hateful thing is that the local armed forces of the Eighth Route Army all came out of the tunnel and led the people to dig trenches that blocked the tank's advance overnight, destroying traffic, and making the armored group have to mat the road trenches first before they can march. The 7th Division, which cooperated with the armored group, became an engineer, opening the way for the armored group. In this way, the marching speed of the three chariot divisions and the second division slowed down. In the words of Tada Jun, it was like a turtle crawling!
This is the case with the Japanese army in Jiaodong, and the Japanese army on the Hebei-Shandong border. The sixth column of the Eighth Route Army suddenly emerged and attacked Jinpu Road on the night of July 5, destroying the railway in Cang County for dozens of kilometers. Seeing that it was going to kill the Pingjin area. Tian Jun was so panicked that he did not dare to neglect it, and ordered Sangmu Chongming's 110th Division to immediately stop sweeping around the Hebei-Shandong border, return to defend Jinpu Road, and guard the Pingjin area.
The second column of the Eighth Route Army in western Shandong chased the Japanese army concentrated in Xiangde County and swept the butt of the western Shandong troops. Tada Jun was so angry that he just wanted to ignore Jinan for the time being and concentrate his efforts to completely eliminate the Eighth Route Army in western Shandong. Unfortunately, the Japanese headquarters of the Chinese Sendering Army constantly urged Tada Jun to take back Jinan immediately. Tada Jun had to order Yoshizuru Ryosuke to speed up the concentration of the Eighth Route Army in western Shandong while dividing troops to counterattack the Eighth Route Army in western Shandong.
The concentration of the Japanese army in southern Shandong was not fast. The 9th Division was far away in Linyi area, and the Second Guard Division and the 12th Division were both in the sweeping battle. This order was to retreat in the southern Shandong general. The Fifth Column of the Eighth Route Army and the Lunan Military Region troops, local armed forces, and militia took advantage of the mountainous advantages to constantly fight, ambush, side attack, and chase. The Japanese army was so slow that they screamed in a tone that Ji Ichiro screamed and sent a report to Tada Jun three times in a row, demanding that while the main force of the Eighth Route Army was in Jinan, they would launch a large-scale sweep against Shandong again and completely eliminate the Eighth Route Army in southern Shandong.
This was originally a good way to surround Wei and save Zhao, but unfortunately, when Jinan was lost, there was no problem of saving Zhao. Tada Jun still ordered Ji Ichiro Shi to strictly implement the order and quickly concentrate on the north.
For several consecutive days, Tada Jun was dispatching troops. When he felt that the deployment was stopped, the various armies were about to move in place, and another bad news shocked him: the 29th Division was surrounded by the Eighth Route Army!
Tada Jun murmured to himself: What a vicious Liu Yimin, he is doing serial killing!
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