At this time, the commander of the Japanese Central China Expeditionary Force had changed. General Matsui Iwane, the commander of the Central China Expeditionary Force who commanded the capture of Nanjing, became angry because he captured an empty city. The Japanese troops in the command post frantically raided the surrounding areas of Nanjing and allowed his subordinates to burn and kill.
Adultery and all kinds of evil were committed. However, at this time, Liu Yimin had already led his troops to win the victory in regaining Taiyuan.
In the United States, Ni Hua did his best to expose the atrocities of the Japanese army. A large number of reporters led by Hallet Abban who sympathized with the Chinese people were inspired by the achievements of the Eighth Route Army and continued to report and expose the atrocities of the Japanese army.
The Japanese base camp had to recall Iwane Matsui on March 5 and replaced him with General Shunroku Hata as the commander of the Central China Front.
General Hata Shunroku was historically one of the most capable generals of the Japanese army. He was awarded the title of marshal for his outstanding military exploits. At the end of World War II, he was the only one of the three marshals of the Japanese army to be tried. Because Marshal Shanshan, the Prime Minister of the land, committed suicide in fear of crime, the Southern Army
Commander Marshal Juichi Terauchi died of illness in a Singapore prison.
The two big devils, Juichi Terauchi and Shunroku Hata, both arrived in China. One commanded the North China Front and the other commanded the Central China Front. When these two like-minded guys met, the Battle of Xuzhou and the Battle of Wuhan were inevitable.
After the great victory of Taierzhuang, the Japanese people, who had been crushed by the main force of the Fifth Division and Chahar's dispatched troops, and the loss of Taiyuan and Tianjin, were a little nervous. Just like in history, the Japanese people were in an uproar: the fanatics of the main battle kept clamoring, and the entire
The emperor shouted for revenge and kept publishing articles and speeches in newspapers and radio stations, calling on the people to support the jihad, urging the emperor to expand the army, and threatening to expand the army by 50
Division, expand the army by one million, completely conquer China, and threaten to change generals. Incompetent and unlucky people should withdraw from active service in the army to avoid bringing discredit on the face of the Imperial Japanese Army. Those who do not support expanding the scale of aggression are now
They dare not say more for fear of causing public outrage. Those who do not have clear opinions flock to Tokyo's pubs and brothels to drink away their sorrows. The most typical example comes from the Japanese National Defense
The Women's Club, a magazine sponsored by the Women's Association, had a report about a retired Japanese officer who had participated in the Russo-Japanese War. He was so angry that he went to a brothel and found the oldest and tallest man in the brothel.
The ugliest prostitute, stripped naked and climbed up, shouting wildly while shaking, "I am the unlucky Jūichi Terauchi, I am the unlucky Jūichi Terauchi! I am incompetent, I am weak, I only deserve to sleep
An old prostitute that others look down upon!" Finally, this magazine issued an editor's note, saying that the warm and charming Yamato girls have been mobilized and are not only actively participating in military training, production movements, and conservation movements, but are also ready to go to the front line to comfort Yamato at any time.
Warrior. It is a pity that General Juichi Terauchi failed to live up to the expectations of Yamato beauties, and he only deserves to find the oldest and ugliest prostitutes in the low-class brothels in Tokyo to seek satisfaction.
As soon as this article was published, it became a hot topic. After General Juichi Terauchi saw it, he became furious, saying that the "Women's Club" magazine had insulted the dignity of the Yamato warriors, and asked the military department to urge the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department to immediately shut it down. Unexpectedly, at this time
The Tokyo police, thanks to General Juichi Terauchi's battle
After a losing streak, he had already lost respect for him. Not only did he reply to the call saying that the article in the "Women's Club" reflected the public sentiment, but he also provoked General Terauchi Juichi, asking whether the general was planning to cause trouble at the Osaka Police Station again and safeguard Japan.
What a farce about the dignity of the Imperial Army?
Of course, the final result was that the chief of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department was beaten so violently that he could no longer take care of himself, and his family was threatened that if he dared to talk nonsense, he and his family would be sent to Tokyo Bay to feed the fish. "The Woman"
"Club" magazine also had to urgently print another issue, and published a photo of a 16-year-old girl presenting flowers to General Judai Terauchi on the cover, with the caption: "Look, the Imperial Pillar General Juichi Teruuchi is smiling in front of the girl and the flowers."
How splendid it is!"
This incident deeply stimulated Juichi Terauchi. While commanding his troops to attack Xuzhou according to the plan formulated by Lieutenant General Naosaburo Okabe at the base camp, he reviewed the reasons for a series of failures. After review and review, he found two
One reason is that instructor Liu Yimin is the culprit who caused him to be dubbed the "unlucky guy", and the other is that senior generals are doing their own thing.
, did not strictly implement the order. The first reason will not be mentioned. Temple Shouichi has already made a plan. After the Battle of Xuzhou is over, if they can go straight to Wuhan, Liu Yimin and his instructors will be allowed to live for a few more days until Wuhan is captured.
Deal with Liu Yimin. If the Battle of Xuzhou cannot go directly to Wuhan, then immediately mobilize the elite to completely eliminate Liu Yimin's troops. The second reason, Touichi Terauchi thought
When he got up, he cursed, if it weren't for the incompetent Itagaki who was bold and arrogant and refused to obey orders, how could the elite 21st Brigade be broken into pieces? If the 21st Brigade was not broken into pieces, the firepower of Liu Yimin's department would not be strengthened, and he would not be able to
Dare to attack Taiyuan, resulting in the collective destruction of three independent mixed brigades of the Chahar Expeditionary Army. If Taiyuan had not been lost, he would not have dared to borrow a hundred courages from Liu Yimin.
The idea of a sneak attack on Tianjin. If Tianjin had not been lost, Liu Yimin's troops would not have been able to sweep away the arms and weapons and equipment stored by the North China Front Army, turning the prosperous Tianjin into a burden of poverty. He would not have dared to raid the Jizhong area with the imperial army.
The 50,000-strong army challenged them and even easily wiped out the 21st Division and the 4th Independent Brigade, and then severely damaged the 23rd and 24th Divisions.
Just like Mr. Lu Xun's Xiang Lin's wife, Terauichi Juichi kept nagging her and focused her hateful eyes on the commander of the Second Army, Lieutenant General Nishio Hisao, thinking that Nishio Hisao was a bad-tempered person and could not carry out his duties faithfully at all.
His order. The front army ordered the Second Army to go south to attack Xuzhou, and Nishio Shouzao made his own decision.
Zhang, divided his troops to sweep the entire territory of Shandong. As a result, the 21st Division and the 4th Independent Mixed Brigade misunderstood the intention of the battle, advanced alone, and the collective was broken. Also, in the battle of Taierzhuang, the Segu Detachment was buried alive.
After all, it was Lieutenant General Nishio Juzo who acted in his own way and betrayed His Majesty the Emperor's trust.
General Judai Terauchi was already interested in Lieutenant General Nishio Hisao, but Lieutenant General Naosaburo Okabe, the chief of staff of the North China Front who went to Jinan to study and deploy the Xuzhou Battle, also sent back a secret report saying that Lieutenant General Nishio Hisao favored Shandong.
The pair of sister flowers provided by Ma Liang, the governor of the province, are extremely beautiful. Lieutenant General Nishio Shozo is now singing and singing every night, killing two birds with one stone every night, and is as happy as a god.
This secret report completely shattered the lingering feelings of sympathy that Juichi Terauchi had for Lieutenant General Nishio Hisao, who was also the backbone of the ruling faction. He no longer talked about supporting each other, and they advanced and retreated together. For a moment, there were soldiers of the Imperial Army in front of him.
The scattered limbs and broken bodies flying all over the sky were for a moment the dirty image of Nishio Hisakuzu running amok over a pair of sisters. He couldn't help but give it to the Emperor.
Prince Hekanin Miyazaihito sent a secret telegram. Of course, after all, they were all generals of the ruling faction and the vanguard of the invasion of China. Juichi Terauchi did not impeach Nishio Hiszo, nor did he demand that he be held accountable. Instead, Nishio was
After making clear his performance and responsibilities, the base camp was asked to transfer him back to China to take up the post of Director of Army Education left by Shunroku Hata.
Lieutenant General Hisao Nishio was not stupid either. After learning that Juichi Terauchi had recommended him to serve as Army Education Director, he initially thought that General Juichi Terauchi cared about him. However, after thinking about it for a moment, he realized that General Juichi Terauchi was driving him away. However,
This was exactly what he wanted. Liu Yimin was hiding in western Lu and southern Hebei, while Shouyi in the temple was surrounded from all sides. Who knew when that guy would break out of the siege and give the imperial army a hard blow?
As soon as Nishio Juzo thought of Liu Yimin, he thought it would be better to leave as soon as possible. However, after all, he was a veteran of the Japanese army. Before leaving, he still made up his mind to replenish the strength of the independent mixed sixth brigade and once again ordered the 108th Division to stay in place.
For garrison, you can also retreat to the railway line, but you are absolutely not allowed to go deep into the hinterland of western Shandong with a division of troops. There is a tiger that can swallow a division in one mouth.
After Major General Tsuchiya Hyōma, commander of the 6th Independent Mixed Brigade, received the news that Lieutenant General Nishio Hisao sent two brigades to supplement the troops, he was so happy that he shouted "Yoshi". After shouting, this guy became restless because
He knew that there were no regular Nationalist troops in the southeastern Shandong area at this time, but that all kinds of guerrillas were surging.
There are so many. Major General Tuwu's soldiers and horses felt that as the commander of the garrison in the southeastern Shandong region, he had the obligation to eliminate these guerrillas and ensure the imperial army's rule over the southeastern Shandong region. Therefore, Major General Tuwu's soldiers and horses formulated a plan for those stationed in Xia County, Ju County.
Mo Zhengmin's combat plan in the Zhuang Town area was mobilized and troops were mobilized to begin implementation.
Due to the arrival of Liu Yimin, Nishio Shouzou launched the Great Qing Suppression in Shandong. The Japanese Zhang Zongyuan relied on the 1,000 puppet troops he recruited in Anton, Northeast China, and took the opportunity to recruit Zhang Zongchang's remaining troops and a small group of bandits in Shandong, and established the Puppet Shandong Autonomous Federation.
The army was organized into two divisions. Zhang Zongyuan saw that these two divisions were a mob and had low combat effectiveness, so he specially transferred the Zhao Baoyuan Division of the Puppet Manchukuo Army from the northeast. In this way, Zhang Zongyuan's Puppet Shandong Autonomous Alliance Army became the largest in Shandong.
of puppet troops.
During the Republic of China, Shandong was the area with the most bandits in the country, and these bandits basically had a certain fighting capacity. Excluding bandits, there were many Huidaomen in Shandong. It is said that there were 150 Huidaomen with various names. Historically, during the Anti-Japanese War,
, the national army adopted an attitude of using the bandit armed forces and Huidaomen armed forces in Shandong. At first, they used them to resist Japan, and later they used them to fight against communism. The Japanese also used bandits and Huidaomen armed forces, and the Red Spear Club in Xiangyi County received a large number of Japanese troops.
support,
Congregations were organized to practice martial arts during the day and night. The leader of the Laiwu Central Road, Wu Hai, claimed to be the reincarnation of the Iron Arhat with a Bronze Head. He gathered more than 10,000 disciples to surrender to the Japanese army and was organized into the ninth brigade. This is a typical example. In the early days of the history of our army in Shandong, we were also active
Mobilize bandit weapons
The armed forces of the Huidaomen and the Huidaomen resisted the Japanese, and achieved certain results. However, these armed forces were often capricious. They would reorganize themselves at one moment and surrender to the Japanese puppets at another. Therefore, in the later period, our army adopted a resolute attack on the bandits and the Huidaomen armed forces.
The Sixteenth Division carried out a large-scale raid on the southern mountainous area of Zhongshan. Before the independent mixed Sixth Brigade arrived in Ju County, one of its divisions cooperated with the Marine Corps in Qingdao to pursue Shen Honglie's troops and carried out a raid on the counties along the southeastern coast of Shandong. Not only
Jiang Shen Hong
The heroic troops rushed to Linyi and beat up the local armed forces in this area. The elephants were entrenched in Zhucheng County. Zhang Buyun's tribe in Gaomi County surrendered to the Japanese in advance and joined Zhang Zongyuan's pseudo-Shandong Autonomous Allied Forces in the battle sequence.
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Major General Tsuchiya's troops are currently insufficient. The two brigades sent by Nishio Juzo have not yet arrived, and his 3,000 troops are scattered in several counties. Therefore, Major General Tsuchiya's troops have set his sights on the puppet army.
He ordered Zhang Buyun from Zhucheng to lead his troops to the south, and Liu Guitang from Linyi to lead his troops to the north, to cooperate with his Juxian garrison to attack Mo Zhengmin's troops.
At that time, transportation was inconvenient and all marches were on foot. Major General Tsuchiya had to wait for two days before the two groups of puppet troops moved to the designated location. Even the two additional brigades supplemented by Lieutenant General Nishio Hisao also arrived by car from Zaozhuang.
Arrive. Major General Tsuchiya’s troops and horses will be counted.
In terms of troop strength, the Japanese troops under his control had 2,000 people. Zhang Buyun's troops came with more than 5,000 troops, and Liu Guitang's troops had 2,000 troops. It was easy to deal with Mo Zhengmin's troops, which had only 5,000 troops, so he issued a combat order.
This Mo Zhengmin was originally the spy company commander of Zhang Buyun's department. After Zhang Buyun surrendered to the Japanese army, he did not want to be a traitor, so he left the team and returned to his hometown in Wulian Mountain District, Zhucheng County, where he formed a team of 30 people. At this time, the Communist Party members,
The early days of our party
Wang Naizheng, the son of the famous martyr Wang Jinmei, returned to his hometown in Beixing Village, Zhucheng County and established a branch. After consulting the Zhucheng County Provisional County Committee, he decided to cooperate with Mo Zhengmin to build a team. Wang Naizheng and Wang Dongnian were responsible for establishing the political organs of Mo Zhengmin's ministry.
The addition of Communist Party members allowed Mo Zhengmin's army to develop like a snowball. By the end of 1937, it had grown to over 1,000 people. After arriving in Ju County, it grew to 5,000 people in just two months. However, the army
Weapons are all collected from the people, and the soldiers lack training and their combat effectiveness cannot be improved.
Early in the morning on April 28, Mo Zhengmin, who was having breakfast in the headquarters, vaguely heard the sound of gunfire and felt that something was wrong. Just as he was about to go out, Wang Dongnian, deputy director of the training department, ran over and said that they were Japanese puppets.
The army launched an attack.
This Mo Zhengmin is a legendary figure. After pulling up the troops in history, he once wanted to join the Communist Party. Later, with the consent of Communist Party member Wang Dongnian and others in the army, he led the troops to join Gao Shuxun's New Sixth Division and served as the commander of the Second Independent Brigade.
Later, when the anti-communist upsurge arose, the Communists in the army were driven away. He himself was captured by the Japanese army and surrendered to the Japanese. Later, when our army launched the Juxian Campaign, Mo Zhengmin led his troops to join the Eighth Route Army.
As soon as Wang Dongnian said that the Japanese and puppet troops had begun to attack, Mo Zhengmin became anxious and hurriedly sent cavalry messengers to each brigade to convey orders, asking each brigade to hold on to the spot, organize a counterattack, and repel the enemy's attack.