When the Battle of Central Shandong, with the main purpose of annihilating the Eighth Division, came to an end, the sun had already set.
At this time, Liu Yimin received a secret telegram from the Eighth Route Army headquarters, saying that the Military Commission urgently informed that Guide (Shangqiu) in eastern Henan had fallen today, and the enemy's 3rd Division, 5th Division, 6th Division, and 9th Division
Regiment, the 13th Division, the 101st Division, the 114th Division and other units, with the 16th Division as the vanguard, made an all-out roundabout pursuit to the west to pursue the main force of the national army. The enemy's 27th Division consisted of
Pinghan Road went south, and suddenly crossed the Guantai Ferry this afternoon, forming a corner with the 14th Division. The Military Commission has ordered Xue Yue's Yudong Corps to conduct defensive operations against the 14th Dofeihara Division.
Boss Zhu reminded Liu Yimin in the telegram that the Battle of Lanfeng seemed to be over. The heavy Japanese army group was likely to take Kaifeng directly and then move westward to Zhengzhou. The war situation in the Central Plains was becoming more and more corrupt. He requested the main force of the instructor division to end the Battle of Central Shandong as soon as possible to ease the Japanese army's influence on eastern Henan.
High pressure situation.
After reading the telegram, Liu Yimin was inexplicably sad and angry. He had made countless plans and sacrificed so many soldiers, but it still did not change the historical trajectory of the Battle of Lanfeng! If things continue like this, if the Japanese army blindly advances westward, wouldn't Chiang Kai-shek have no choice but to continue?
Should we open up the Huayuankou as in history? We must stop the Japanese army’s crazy attack in eastern Henan. Even if it causes a heavy Japanese army to press on Shandong, we will not hesitate. After all, the Huayuankou burst the embankment and drowned 1 million people.
, the tragic historical cost of causing the displacement of 10 million people is too great!
Putting down the telegram, Liu Yimin called Luo Yan again and asked where the Qingdao reinforcements were.
Luo Yan reported that the vanguard of the Japanese and puppet troops from Qingdao had arrived at Yujiazhuang, Guanlu, and Dalijia lines east of Fangzi, and had engaged the outpost position of the Eighth Jiao Brigade. The main force followed closely behind and had just passed the Weihe Railway.
Bridge, highway bridge, puppet troops in front, Japanese troops behind, rushing towards Weicheng. After our cavalry battalion of the Seventh Brigade stopped blocking and harassing the enemy, it has moved to the enemy's rear, followed the enemy's main force to the east bank of the Wei River, and is now closely monitoring it
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Liu Yimin secretly thought that the Japanese and puppet troops in Qingdao came so fast, but it was a pity that they were still a step late and could only become another big dish on the instructor's table. But he knew that the Japanese and puppet troops in Qingdao would soon be informed to stop their advance.
He would even receive an order to return east to Qingdao quickly, and the fighter plane would disappear in a fleeting moment. However, his main force had just finished the war and was in urgent need of rest and recuperation. He had no choice but to let the troops continue to fight.
After calculating the distance from the battlefield to the Weihe River on the map, Liu Yimin said to Luo Ronghuan: "Political Commissar, the follow-up battle in Luzhong must start immediately. If it is too late, the enemy will flee. That is, if they do not flee back to Qingdao, they will flee to any place.
Even if we can survive in any place, I am determined to immediately launch an encirclement and annihilation campaign against the Japanese and puppet troops in Qingdao."
At this time, Luo Ronghuan was immersed in the great victory of annihilating the Eighth Division. After listening to Liu Yimin's words, he directly replied: "This is part of the battle plan for the Central Shandong Campaign. The central government and the headquarters agree. Give the order!"
Liu Yimin was stimulated by the loss of Shangqiu at this time, and his whole body was full of fighting spirit, wishing to destroy all the Japanese. Listening to Luo Ronghuan's words, he thought that the political commissar and he cooperated so well, and it was a tacit understanding at the strategic level.
When Zhu Zhexiao was called, Liu Yimin's expression changed as he dictated the order: "Enemy information report: After our army destroyed the Japanese Eighth Division, the enemy's reinforcements from the direction of Qingdao have arrived in the Fangzi area and have just passed the Weihe railway bridge and highway bridge. The enemy's strength is estimated
There are about 5,000 Japanese troops in the Qingdao garrison, and about 12,000 troops in the three divisions of the puppet Zhang Zongyuan Shandong Autonomous Allied Forces. The total strength is about 17,000 troops. The enemy has no tanks, armored vehicles, heavy artillery, cars, horse-drawn carriages, and some infantry artillery.
During the artillery attack, except for one regiment of cavalry, the rest were all infantry. Chief Liu Luo judged that the Japanese and puppet troops would soon learn the information that the Eighth Division had been wiped out, and would soon receive instructions to retreat.
Order. To this end, in order to expand the results of the war, Commander Liu Luo is determined to annihilate the Japanese and puppet reinforcements from Qingdao. The order is as follows: 1. Teach the cavalry battalion of the 7th Brigade to immediately occupy the railway bridge and highway bridge of Weihe River, and remove the explosive bags and mines they carry
Use them all to resolutely block the retreat of the Japanese and puppet troops. Second, Cai Zhong leads the air defense brigade and the baggage regiment to clean the battlefield. No other troops are allowed to clean the battlefield. They must quickly withdraw from the battlefield, reorganize the troops, overcome fatigue, and prepare to fight again. Third,
Order the cavalry brigade to make a circuitous route southward and eastward along Jiaoji Road, and rush to the Weihe line within 40 minutes to reinforce the cavalry battalion of the seventh teaching brigade and resolutely block the retreat route of the Japanese and puppet troops. Fourth, order the first teaching brigade to go eastward along Jiaoji Road southward.
Make a detour and launch an attack from south to north. The brigade's fast mobile force has the task of reinforcing the cavalry brigade's defense line at Weihe. Fifth, order the Third Teaching Brigade to make a detour from north to east along Jiaoji Road and launch an attack from north to south. The defense line must be connected with the cavalry brigade's defense line.
, Strictly prevent the Japanese and puppet troops from escaping. Sixth, order Zeng Zhongsheng to lead the artillery brigade, heavy machine gun regiment, New First Regiment, New Third Regiment, and Engineer Regiment to immediately turn around and join the front-line troops of the Eighth Jiao Brigade in Fangzi, New First Regiment, New Third Regiment,
The artillery brigade infantry regiment deployed on the left wing of the 8th Jiao Brigade, and the defense line was connected to the 3rd Jiao Brigade. The heavy machine gun regiment strengthened the frontal defense line of the 8th Jiao Brigade. The artillery brigade directed all artillery regiments to cover the enemy with artillery fire, paying special attention to the immediate interception and artillery bombardment along the Weihe River.
, cover the cavalry battalion of the 7th Teaching Brigade to defend the Weihe defense line and buy time for the cavalry brigade to arrive. Zeng Zhongsheng unified the command of the 8th Teaching Brigade and the frontal troops to launch a frontal attack on the enemy. 7th, ordered the Political Commissar of the 4th Teaching Brigade Zhu Rui and Chief of Staff Cao Shengli to lead
The New Fourth Regiment of the Fourth Teaching Brigade, the Supplementary Regiment, the Shandong Independent Regiment, and the Cavalry Battalion immediately marched westward to join Li Lingfeng's special team in Changle, captured Yidu, Zhangdian, Zhoucun, and Zhangqiu, and pushed the troops to the periphery of Jinan;
Lei Ming, commander of the 4th Teaching Brigade, led the 10th Teaching Regiment, the 11th Teaching Regiment, and the 12th Teaching Regiment to follow the teaching group. The defense line consisted of the 8th Teaching Brigade on the left and the 1st Teaching Brigade on the right. On the 8th, he ordered the 2nd Teaching Brigade to approach Jinan and launch an assault.
The peripheral strongholds in the northwest of Jinan, together with the westward advance group of the 4th Jiao Brigade, formed a pincer attack on Jinan from east to west, creating the illusion that our army would besiege Jinan. Ninth, ordered Zuo Ye to command the 22nd Jiao Regiment to quickly eliminate the remnants of Sasaki to No. 1 in Weicheng.
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After issuing the order, Liu Yimin looked at Zhu Zhexiao's record, confirmed it was accurate, signed his name, and gave it to Luo Ronghuan for signature, and asked Zhu Zhexiao to immediately issue it to all units for execution.
After Zhu Zhexiao called to convey the order, Liu Yimin sat down and drafted a victory telegram to the Military Commission, Chiang Kai-shek and the headquarters, Chairman.
In the telegram, Liu Yimin wrote: "In order to support the Lanfeng Battle of the National Army in eastern Henan, the instructor division of the 18th Group Army of the National Revolutionary Army launched the Shandong Campaign in Weixian County, using the bait to eliminate the Japanese independent third brigade stationed in Weixian County.
, attracting Japanese reinforcements, looking for and annihilating the Eighth Division of the old Japanese standing division between Tai'an and Jinan. This battle started on the night of the 25th. All departments of our Eighth Route Army actively attacked the Tongpu Railway, Zhengtai Railway, Pinghan Railway, and Jinpu Railway.
Attack to attract the attention of the Japanese troops in North China and cover the battle operations of our teaching division. On the night of the 26th, our division launched a surprise attack on the Japanese troops in Weicheng, broke through the Japanese city defenses that night, and fought until dawn, compressing the remaining Japanese troops to the headquarters of the third independent mixed brigade.
The core position. On the 27th, a total of four brigades of the independent mixed third brigade of the Japanese army stationed in counties around Weixian County quickly returned to support the county town of Weixian. The battle continued that night, and were eliminated one by one by our division on the outskirts of Weixian. On the 27th, the Japanese army's third
The Eighth Division went from Jinan via railway and highway to reinforce Wei County, and arrived in Changle that evening. Our division sent troops to blow up the railway at Changle Station and annihilated a brigade of 1,100 Japanese advance troops. That night, our division carried out a night attack on the Japanese army in Changle.
On the morning of the 28th, the Japanese troops attacked Wei County in three directions. Our army fought steadily and consumed the enemy in the blockade. By 3:30 pm on the 28th, the main force of the Japanese army crossed the Xihe River.
, to attack the county town of Weixian. Our division used powerful troops to set up a defense line along the Dawei River east of the county town of Weixian to block the enemy. At 4:50 p.m., the Weixian blockade began. The Japanese army was repelled after the advance attack
, organized six squadrons to carry out a multi-channel exploratory attack under the cover of four aircraft, but were repelled by our army. Later, the Japanese army used eight aircraft, tanks from two tank squadrons, armored vehicles and artillery from a field artillery regiment,
The entire force of the 4th and 16th field brigades was dispatched to carry out a desperate assault on our Dawei River defense line. Our army counterattacked according to its position. The battlefield was filled with guns and artillery, and blood and flesh flew everywhere. One of the regiment political commissars of our blocking troops was killed.
, one regiment leader was seriously injured, and all the battalion, company, platoon, and squad cadres were killed or injured. Most of the soldiers died together with the Japanese army before they died. The Dawei River was dyed red with blood, and enemy corpses fell into the river, blocking the flow. At this time, I took a roundabout way.
The cavalry troops arrived at the line of the Xihe River and launched a surprise attack on the enemy's baggage troops, rearguard troops, and field artillery regiment positions. The swords fell, and the Japanese heads rolled like rubber balls; after the horses' hooves passed, the enemy corpses were rotted like clay sculptures. At this time, our division concentrated all its forces.
The artillery bombarded the attacking enemy's dense formation and dispersed the enemy. By 6 p.m., the enemy's entire line collapsed. Our division then launched a full-line counterattack and encircled the enemy on all sides. By 7 p.m., the enemy's 8th Division was completely annihilated. Killed in this battle.
Lieutenant General Toichi Maeda, commander of the enemy's 8th Division, Lieutenant General Toichi Sasaki, commander of the enemy's 3rd Independent Mixed Brigade, Major General Suzuki Mijin, commander of the enemy's 4th Independent Brigade, and Major General Suzuki Mijin, commander of the enemy's 16th Independent Brigade
The commander of the regiment, Major General Lin Maoqing, commanded 30,000 men and destroyed 12 Japanese aircraft, 24 tanks, 12 armored vehicles, and 150 cars. The seizures are still being counted. Due to the fierce fighting for days, our division suffered heavy casualties and more than half of the troops were reduced. We are in urgent need of ammunition and medicine.
Replenishment of troops."
After finishing writing, Liu Yimin drafted a secret message to the chairman and the boss, explaining that the troops were intact and were launching a campaign to encircle and annihilate the Qingdao reinforcements, and asked the leaders not to worry.
After the telegram was drafted, Liu Yimin told Qian Zhuangfei to send it immediately, and asked Luo Ronghuan to take charge of the division headquarters while he led the guard regiment to mount their horses and gallop towards the Fangzi battlefield.
At this time, both the North China Front Army Headquarters and the Japanese Second Army Headquarters in Jinan were in chaos.
The commander of the Second Army, Lieutenant General Dongjiurgong Nianyan, was like an ant on a hot pot. He walked around the headquarters. If he saw any staff officer, the guards would slap or kick him. There was no royal family at all.
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Lieutenant General Nianyan Wang of Dongjiur Palace could not understand why the elite Eighth Division was like paper and disappeared in just two days, no, to be precise, it should be just a few hours.
That is a permanent division of 25,000 people. He has 20,000 pigs. When they are running around on the ground, if he has 100,000 people to catch them, he may not be able to catch them all in three or five days. Maeda Toshi is the middle one.
Is this a fucking loser or the president of the University of China? The Imperial Japanese Army has completely embarrassed him!
Lieutenant General Tojiurgiya Nianyan Wang picked up the two rescue telegrams from Lieutenant General Maeda Toshimi and read them carefully again. He felt that Lieutenant General Maeda Toshiwa discovered that the troops were surrounded by the Eighth Route Army and requested the dispatch of aircraft to rescue the second telegram.
The request for help telegraph was very short, only half an hour. This shows that the Eighth Route Army's troops and firepower were extremely powerful. It was so powerful that Lieutenant General Maeda Toshio, who had a good set of strategies and tactics, was alert to awakening to despair in just half an hour.
He has gone through a transformation. Liu Yimin’s instructor is so powerful!
However, Lieutenant General Toshio Maeda's telegram provided some useful information. The five artillery regiments, that is more than 200 field guns, mountain artillery, are the field firepower of the five elite divisions of the Imperial Army! Five elite divisions
If the division's artillery fire concentrates on attacking one unit, wouldn't it create a sea of fire?
Lieutenant General Nianyan Wang of Dongjiur Palace did a little calculation and understood that the artillery of these five artillery regiments all came from the imperial army. If you look at it this way, after the Eighth Division was destroyed, wouldn't Liu Yimin's army need another artillery?
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Originally, after receiving Lieutenant General Maeda Toshio's first telegram asking for help, Lieutenant General Higashikata Nakihiko not only dispatched eight planes, but also ordered the 108th Division to mobilize urgently to prepare for emergency reinforcements. Unexpectedly, the eighth
The division collapsed so quickly. Before the 108th Division could complete its mobilization, Lieutenant General Toshio Maeda's second telegram for help arrived, followed by a farewell telegram.
I was caught off guard and didn't know what to do.
Well now, after sending a farewell message to Lieutenant General Maeda Toshiba, we can no longer be contacted. Even Sasaki Daichi, Suzuki Mijin, and Lin Maoqing can't be contacted. What does this mean?
The thing that Lieutenant General Nurihiko of the Higashikata Palace is looking forward to most at this time is for Amaterasu to appear, so that Lieutenant General Maeda Toshio can escape, even if he is the only one to escape, so that the Eighth Route Army can be announced to the outside world.
If the divisions were hit hard instead of being wiped out, the Empire of Japan would look better.
When he sent the Eighth Division to reinforce Wei County, he didn't think so carefully. Now that something happened to the Eighth Division, Lieutenant General Nianyan Wang of Dongjiur Palace thought of the disastrous consequences after the Eighth Division was wiped out. Of course,
Lieutenant General Nianyan Wang of Dongjiur Palace was not thinking about the situation in Luzhong and the interruption of Jiaoji Road after the battle. He was thinking about who would be responsible for the destruction of the Eighth Division. The Eighth Division was different from the Second Division.
The 11th Division is also different from the third-rate and fourth-rate troops that are independently combined into the 3rd, 4th, 6th, and 10th brigades. This is a permanent division. When has the Japanese Army suffered such a big loss since its establishment?
Ah! Last time the 21st Brigade of the Fifth Division was destroyed, the Emperor had Seishiro Itagaki commit suicide by caesarean section, no matter how great his military exploits he had accomplished. This time the Eighth Division was destroyed, who would the Emperor ask to be disemboweled?
When he thought of this, Lieutenant General Nianyan Wang of Dongjiur Palace felt that he had to send two telegrams quickly. One was to ask General Juichi Terauchi for instructions on how to deal with the affairs in Wei County. How the Qingdao garrison should act should be decided by Juichi Terauchi. This guy He insulted himself twice, and he was the one who decided to reinforce the Eighth Division. Now he has to ask for instructions, and he should be responsible for everything. The other letter should be sent to his wife, asking her to report to her uncle immediately. It was the order of Juichi Terauchi. The inside story of the Eighth Division's reinforcements required her to quickly enter the palace to see Empress Ryoko. After all, she was her biological niece, and she had to tell the Emperor that the Eighth Division's Yusui had nothing to do with her.
Lieutenant General Wang Nianyan of Dongjiur Palace never imagined that he was faster than others.
General Touichi Terauchi has been in a good mood these past two days. He did a great job in destroying the Eighth Route Army's ordnance base and airfield. Not only did he receive a commendation from the base camp, but the Emperor himself also sent a telegram of condolences, saying that he was worthy of being a pillar of the Imperial Army with outstanding military exploits. Here. Another beautiful left hook was thrown today. While the Sixteenth Division captured Shangqiu, the Twenty-seventh Division secretly dispatched by Shouichi Temple suddenly crossed the Yellow River at Guantai and opened up with the Fourteenth Division. Contact. When the news came, General Juichi of the temple immediately reported it to the base camp and the emperor. According to Prince Kanin Palace Zaihito, after hearing the news, the emperor immediately asked the geisha to perform and drank three large glasses of sake on the spot.
But the good mood ended abruptly the moment Lieutenant General Toshio Maeda's farewell message arrived.
When General Juichi Terauchi received the farewell message, he thought he had made a mistake. He rubbed his eyes and looked at it carefully, only to realize that it was true. The elite Eighth Division was about to be shattered. General Juichi Terauchi hurriedly ordered the radio station and Maeda Lieutenant General Li Wei contacted the brigades, regiments, and groups of the Eighth Division, including all units in the Eighth Division that had radio stations. Unfortunately, all contacts were interrupted.
General Touichi Teuchi is different from Lieutenant General Nian Yanwang of Dongjiur Palace. He has been dealing with Liu Yimin for a longer time and is used to seeing the 21st Brigade, Chahar Dispatch Corps, and the 21st Division, which were independently mixed into the 4th Brigade. Due to the consequences of being unable to contact him, he knew that the Eighth Division must have been collectively shattered. But he had one thing in common with Lieutenant General King Nianyan of Tojiur Palace, that is, they both thought about who should be responsible.
The first thing that General Tokuichi Terauchi thought of was Lieutenant General Higashikata Niguhiko. Because he was the commander of the Second Army, and the Eighth Division happened in the Second Army's defense zone, it should be Lt. General Tiguru Niguhiko. The lieutenant general was in charge. But when he thought that Lieutenant General Prince Higashihiko of Tokyur Palace was the uncle of Empress Ryoko and the nephew of Chief of General Staff Prince Kanin Palace Zaihito, General Touichi Terauchi knew that it was okay to scold him and wanted to use him as a The scapegoat won't do the trick.
General Judai Terauchi is worthy of being the legitimate son of Count Masaki Terauchi. He has been accustomed to intrigues since he was a child. He immediately thought of the siege and heavy losses suffered by the 14th Division of Doihara. He knew that now everyone in the base camp, including His Majesty the Emperor, understood that Doihara The reason why the original 14th Division was surrounded by Chiang Kai-shek's army was because the First Army did not implement the battle plan of the base camp and the North China Front Army, and changed its detour to Shangqiu to march westward to seize Kaifeng. The purpose was to compete with the Second Army that occupied Xuzhou He strives for credit. His modification of the battle plan not only caused the Doihara division to be almost destroyed, but also let go of the Kuomintang troops in the direction of Xuzhou, making the Xuzhou battle plan to annihilate Chiang Kai-shek's main force fail. Xiangyue Qingsi acted so boldly and put the overall strategic situation at risk. Regardless, wouldn't it be trampling on the dignity of military law by not imposing military law on him?
With this thought, the train of thought of General Touichi Terauchi became clear. Because Lieutenant General Kozuki Kiyoshi failed to live up to His Majesty the Emperor's expectations and ordered the Doihara Division to change the battle plan without authorization, the Battle of Xuzhou failed to achieve its goal. Not only wasting money and food, it also led to the collapse of North China.
The front army dispatched troops and fighter planes to rescue the Doihara Division, which left Shandong's defense empty, allowing instructor Liu Yimin to take advantage of the loophole, causing the Eighth Division to be shattered. The culprit of the entire incident was Lieutenant General Xiangyue Qingsi, commander of the First Army.
After finding a scapegoat, General Touichi Teuchi regained his general demeanor. After studying the map carefully for a while, he realized that the Qingdao reinforcements were in great danger. If they continued to advance towards Weixian, they would probably become Liu Yimin's second leader.
Prey. If they are caught again, the guilt will be even greater. What if something goes wrong in Qingdao? At the same time, the Second Army’s retaliatory action against Wei County must be stopped. Jinan now only has one 108th Division.
If Lieutenant General Nian Yan of Dongjiuer Palace impulsively orders the 108th Division to seek revenge on instructor Liu Yimin again, given Liu Yimin's habits, Jinan may not be able to be saved. If Jinan is lost, all of Shandong will be lost.
Belonging to the Eighth Route Army, the results achieved by the Second Army in Shandong since the war began have been wiped out.
General Touichi Terauchi immediately sent a report to the commander of the Second Army, Lieutenant General Dongjiurgong Nianyan Wang, asking him to immediately order the Qingdao garrison and Zhang Zongyuan's Shandong Autonomous Allied Forces who were reinforcing Wei County to stop their advance and quickly withdraw to Qingdao. If encountered
When the Eighth Route Army blocks the attack, it is necessary to resolutely break through. When the main force of the Eighth Route Army has just finished encircling and annihilating the Eighth Division, and the main force has suffered heavy losses and cannot reach the battlefield in a short time, forcefully break through the Eighth Route Army's blocking position and return to Qingdao overnight to defend it.
For the content at the back of the telegram, General Tokuichi of the temple specified that it must be translated by Lieutenant General King Nianyan of Higashikata Palace.
Lieutenant General King Nianyan of Higashijiur Palace took out the code book and after much effort, he translated what General Tokuichi Terauchi was about to say to him.
Lieutenant General Nianyan Wang of Dongjiuer Palace took a look and found out that General Juichi Teuchi euphemistically suggested that the most critical issue why the Imperial Army suffered a defeat in front of the Eighth Route Army was that the commander-in-chief ignored military orders and often modified the battle plan privately. This kind of behavior
It is shameful, and the consequences are obvious. There was the defeat of Taiyuan before, and now there is the heavy loss of the Dofeiyuan Division and the Eighth Division. This is proof. If military discipline is not strictly enforced, it will bring heavy losses to the imperial army in the future.
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Lieutenant General Nianyan Wang of Tojiur Palace immediately understood that General Touichi Terauchi had chosen Xiangyue Qingsi as the scapegoat. He felt relieved and immediately called General Touichi Terauchi and said that he would definitely smash the Eighth Division to pieces.
The Truth Report Base Camp and His Majesty the Emperor, Lieutenant General Xiangyue Qingsi must pay the price for his hastiness.
After sending the telegram, Lieutenant General Wang Nianyan of Dongjiur Palace remembered the Qingdao reinforcements and was busy giving the order to stop advancing and return to Qingdao.