Liu Yimin never dreamed that the Japanese army would set up a trap waiting for him.
This time is different from the first time when the ox-drag tactic was implemented, and the Japanese heavy army group was hanging behind the butt, and an unexpected situation was possible. Now the Japanese Kwantung Army is confronting the Soviet Red Army, and North China is launching a counterattack against Shanxi
The base area and the base areas of Jinan, West and South Shandong were mobilized, and the Fifth Division, the most elite strategic unit of the North China Front Army, was relocated to the Northeast. The 11th Army, the most elite Japanese dispatched troops, was in the process of rest and replenishment after the Battle of Nanchang and Suizao.
During the stage, the Japanese army wanted to play no tricks but no troops could be adjusted. In addition, there was the main activity of the Eighth Route Army instructor commanded by Hong Chaoyuan on the north side of Longhai Road, and the northern Jiangsu detachment and various local guerrilla activities on the south side of Longhai Road.
Any major move by the Japanese army could not escape the Eighth Route Army's eyes. Moreover, this is not the first time the Eighth Route Army crosses the railway. It can be said that it is easy to be familiar with it, so there should be no problem.
The most important thing is that Liu Yimin has sent the deputy director of the General Staff Department, the chief of the investigation section, and the chief of the reconnaissance battalion, Luo Yan, to lead the scouts to set out in advance and go to the East China Sea section of Longhai Road to investigate. According to Luo Yan's report, the Japanese and puppet troops on Longhai Road
No large-scale mobilization was discovered, and no action seemed to be noticed. In this way, Liu Yimin was completely relieved. Besides, what if the Japanese garrison troops on Longhai Line were discovered, so what if they were to use the 114th Division stationed in Xuzhou and
It is a fantasy to have the Independent Mixed Brigade stationed in the East China Sea and the Manchurian National Defense Forces blocked the attacks of the First Brigade, the Cavalry Brigade, and the New Brigade.
In this way, Liu Yimin ordered Hong Chaoyuan to prepare for the response out of caution.
The operation of a large army is not that simple. Especially for heavily equipped troops like the First Brigade of the Education Brigade, they have to build bridges when they encounter rivers, otherwise tanks, cars, and armored vehicles will not be able to pass through. Fortunately, Liu Yimin brought a professional engineer regiment when he headed south.
, it is to build bridges and roads for the troops. With the Engineer Regiment, and the brigade's own engineering battalion has bridge equipment, and the rivers in northern Jiangsu are all narrow and deep, so building bridges is not very difficult.
Basically, it can quickly build bridges to meet the needs of the troops.
Although the Japanese army did not expect Liu Yimin to act so quickly, Liu Yimin stayed in Bancheng Town for a long time in order to wait for Liu Shaoqi, Chen Yi, Huang Kecheng and others. This gave the Japanese army time to quickly mobilize their troops.
It is not very far from Bancheng Town to Donghai County, only more than 200 miles away. If it is placed in the North China Plain, Liu Yimin led the guards to ride horses at night and can arrive in up to 10 hours, which also includes rest time on the way.
After leaving Bancheng Town, Liu Yimin was excited. He thought about his traversing Jianghuai and laid a good foundation for the Su-Anhui Border Region in advance. How to perform the next big drama in the Su-Anhui Border Region depends on Liu Shaoqi, Chen Yi and the others.
The two of them, plus the assistance of Huang Kecheng, Zhang Yunyi, Peng Xuefeng and Zhang Aiping, even if the first and second detachments of the New Fourth Army are just in the river, there should be no big problem. Once the masses in the Jiangsu-Anhui border area are mobilized, the main force and local troops will be
It can develop on a large scale. Maybe by goodbye, the Jiangsu-Anhui border region has already trained more than 100,000 main forces. In this way, it seems that it is impossible for the Japanese to perish early.
Liu Yimin, who was a little excited, rode his horse all the way, holding a torch in the night, crossing the fertile fields along the way, crossing streams and rivers. Fortunately, from Bancheng Town to the East China Sea, they were basically controlled by our army, so we don’t worry about it.
The Japanese and puppet troops intercepted and ran tired, so they let the war horses rest their strength. At dawn, on the banks of the Rose River in the north of Shuyang, they caught up with the command headquarters led by Li Lingfeng, Wang Tongsheng and Zhang Linfeng, the first baggage regiment, the first engineer regiment and the grain transport convoy.
The cavalry brigade controlled this area. Knowing that the army was returning north, they had already set up a floating bridge on the Rose River according to the order of Liu Yimin. Liu Yimin and his friends stepped across the Rose River and entered the Crystal Town in the southern part of Donghai County, and went with the cavalry.
Travel and reunion.
It was a long time again. Hu Laohu and Bao Wen were very happy to see Liu Yimin arrive. Hu Laohu personally led Liu Yimin's war horse and surrounded by several people, he arrived at the brigade of the cavalry brigade.
Seeing that the sky was about to light up and was still more than 30 miles away from Longhai Road, Liu Yimin immediately decided to camp in seclusion and prepare to wait until dark and go north to break through Longhai Road.
The problem of military camping is not very big. There are villages everywhere in this area, with many rivers, reed marshes and sorghum fields all natural shelters. They hide the baggage and grain transport convoys, and set up the field hospitals.
People can rest in secluded places in the reeds and sorghum fields.
Liu Yimin ordered the radio to start and contact the troops.
The teaching brigade, the new brigade has been to the Huaihe River, the farthest distance. Plateau and Cheng Cuilin reported that the main force had arrived at Ahu Town and sent searches to Longhai Road to investigate, and deployed alerts to the east, north and west.
Hong Chaoyuan reported that the Japanese army, with the 10th Division as the main force, launched a large-scale attack on Xuezhong's army. Yu's army could not resist and asked for help from the division headquarters. He had sent the New Eighth Brigade to support Yu's army in accordance with the order of Political Commissar Luo. He personally
The 4th Education Brigade and the 1st Field Artillery Regiment of the Artillery Brigade rushed to the junction of Linshu County and Donghai County, and returned to Shandong. The Artillery Regiment of the New Fourth Education Brigade and the 4th Education Brigade controlled the Maling Mountain Area, and the Southeast Shandong Guard Brigade controlled Ganyu
County, please rest assured by the teachers and commanders.
Luo Ronghuan's telegram was relatively long, informing the basic situation of the Japanese army's large-scale mobilization in Jinan, Taixi and Shandong. The most serious situation was naturally in the surrounding areas of Jinan. The Jinan Garrison Brigade confronted the Japanese army, using tunnel warfare, mine warfare and Japanese fights.
. However, the Japanese dispatched too large a force, and the Jinan area may fall again on the surface.
After reading Luo Ronghuan's telegram, Liu Yimin seemed to see the scene of the fight between the military and civilians in southern Hebei, western Taishui and southern Shandong. He wished he could rush over Longhai Road and return to Shandong to teach the Japanese a lesson. But this was the large army.
When the action is dawn, it will be exposed to the Japanese plane, and no one can afford the loss.
Liu Yimin immediately sent a report to Hong Chaoyuan, asking him to send a reconnaissance company to the area from Niushan Town to Shihu in Donghai County to investigate the enemy situation. The main force must establish a solid position and control key points. After dark, it is necessary to establish an artillery position to meet the troops heading south and break through Longhai Road.
Be careful to prepare anti-aircraft guns for the first field guns and prepare to deal with the Japanese armored patrol vehicles that might suddenly arrive. Then, Liu Yimin sent a message to Gaoyuan and Cheng Cuilin to send the reconnaissance company and the Second Special War Squadron that followed them to Longhai Road in advance.
After dark, be sure to control the railway line between Shihu and Hongzhuang to ensure that the main force passes quickly.
After sending the telegram, Liu Yimin asked about Hu Laohu's enemy movements on Longhai Road.
Hu Laohu reported that the 23rd Independent Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army stationed in the East China Sea did not change at all. The Japanese army mainly focused on defending the railway line. An independent Mixed Brigade had about 5,000 people. A long snake formation was placed on the Longhai Line and the defense line.
It was very thin and broke in one barrel. Moreover, the northern Jiangsu detachment developed an inside line among the puppet army. The food of the traitors seized by the cavalry brigade in Suqian and Shuyang was escorted by the third cavalry regiment and quietly
The person who crossed Longhai Road to sent back to southeastern Shandong. If it weren't for waiting for the division commander, he could have led the cavalry first regiment, the second regiment, the artillery regiment, the supplementary regiment and the brigade troops back to Shandong a few days ago.
The situation reported by Hu Laohu was not much different from that of Liu Yimin. Therefore, he did not ask any more questions, but just told Hu Laohu to send Hu Laohu to lead the First Squadron of Special Wars to control Niushan Town after dark, the Cavalry Brigade
Responsible for covering the baggage regiment, field hospitals and command centers to break through the Japanese *** line.
For fear that Hu Laohu would rely too much on Wang Laohu's first special operations squadron, Liu Yimin specifically told Hu Laohu to make strong attacks, go to the front line to personally find out the enemy situation, and deploy artillery positions to prevent the Japanese from suddenly attacking our army. Because they brought a regiment of baggage,
There are also a large number of grain transport fleets accompanying them, and the Education Brigade and the New Brigade also carry a large amount of grain. These grains must be transported safely back to the Shandong base, and no grain can be lost.
In fact, Liu Yimin's explanations are redundant. Hu Laohu has experienced a long battle formation and is a first-class general in the Eighth Route Army. When it comes to the name of Hu Laohu, the commander of the Eighth Route Army cavalry, he doesn't know which one does? He will seriously deploy these questions.
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Sure enough, Hu Laohu reported his deployment and he had already spread the brigade reconnaissance company. Not only did he closely monitor Niushan Town, but also Haizhou, Donghai County, was under the strict surveillance of the reconnaissance company. The Japanese army in Haizhou City every move
Don't even try to escape the Eighth Route Army's eyes.
After reporting on his deployment, Hu Laohu began to report on the combat situation of the cavalry brigade luring the enemy south to the Luxi area.
According to Hu Laohu's report, although the cavalry brigade implemented the tactic of luring the enemy in Luxi combat and made full use of the cavalry's advantage of fast maneuvering speed, it was still quite casualties in the face of a strong enemy. A batch of supplemented in Luxi area was added.
The recruits formed a supplementary regiment and are in training.
When talking about this, Hu Laohu couldn't help but scold the Japanese for being more and more stingy. The troops had fewer and fewer horses. Shandong had no military horse farms. The number of soldiers was the lack of war horses.
What Hu Laohu said is indeed a problem. War horses are not as good as other ones, and they are also of military service. War horses with long military service must be retired, otherwise it will affect the sprint speed and endurance. Cavalry, they refer to war horses. If they are in terms of speed and endurance,
If you don’t go, your mobility will be greatly reduced, which will also affect your combat effectiveness.
Liu Yimin instructed Hu Laohu that after returning to Shandong, he would ask the central government for instructions to see if the cavalry brigade could allocate a batch of war horses in the military horse farm left by the Yulin. If it really didn't work, he would personally lead a special forces team to build a batch of war horses for the cavalry brigade.
When Hu Laohu heard this, he said that the key was to find the Japanese cavalry troops. As long as they were found, the division commander needed to do it himself. The cavalry brigade could do such things with no means.
After the work report, Liu Yimin pulled Zhang Weishi at Hu Laohu's temporary brigade headquarters and fell asleep.
Liu Yimin slept until after 10 o'clock in the morning. After getting up, he washed his face and went to the 1st Engineer Regiment. There are many rivers in this area, and the large army is necessary to act cautiously and be careful. We cannot rely solely on existing bridges. The key is
It is safest to use a pontoon bridge to move forward in multiple directions.
After seeing the situation of the 1st Engineer Regiment, Liu Yimin felt relieved. He asked the 1st Engineer Regiment to move inward in the direction of Longhai Road, divide it into three levels based on the battalion, and be alerted, and start building bridges now. When it gets dark, the troops will
When you start your action, be sure to ensure that you don’t delay your work.
After coming out of the Engineering Corps, Liu Yimin suddenly remembered that this was a famous crystal town, and the raw materials for Chairman Mao’s crystal coffin were taken from here. In theory, Donghai County should be a place with a very good economy.
During this period, Liu Yimin stayed in Northeast Anhui and was studying the economic geography of Northeast Anhui and northern Jiangsu in his spare time. He knew that in 1936, Jiangsu Province once divided the counties in the province by area, population, culture and education, and economic conditions.
It is divided into six levels. One of the special-level counties is Zhenjiang County; eight first-level counties are Wujin County, Wuxi County, Wuxian County, Songjiang County, Jiangdu County, Nantong County, Tongshan County, and Chongming County;
Nineteen are Jiangning County, Danyang County, Jiangyin County, Yixing County, Changshu County, Wujiang County, Kunshan County, Shanghai County, Qingpu County, Rugao County, Taixing County, Dongtai County, Huaiyin County, Donghai County, Guanyun
The 22 counties in the third grade are Baoshan County, Jintan County, Liyang County, Taicang County, Jinshan County, Fengxian County, Nanhui County, Chuansha County, Jiading County
County, Gaoyou County, Jiangpu County, Baoying County, Haimen County, Xinghua County, Tai County, Huai'an County, Yancheng County, Funing County, Lianshui County, Ganyu County, Shuyang County, Siyang County. Six counties in the fourth category
, are Jurong County, Lishui County, Jingjiang County, Yizheng County, Dangshan County, and Feng County; five counties are not listed (except the fourth grade) and are Liuhe County, Gaochun County, Yangzhong County, Pei County, and Qidong County.
Here, let’s not talk about Zhenjiang County, the first-class county, which is a first-class Fuyu County. There are only two in the north of the eight first-class counties, one is Nantong County at the estuary of the Yangtze River, and the other is Tongshan County near Xuzhou.
Among the nineteen second-class counties, the selected northern Jiangsu include Donghai County, Guanyun County, Suqian County, Pi County, Suining County and Xiao County. This shows that the economy in northern Jiangsu was still OK before the war. Unfortunately, it was small.
The Japanese fought in Xuzhou and ruined the relatively wealthy northern Jiangsu ground.
Liu Yimin didn’t have time to express his feelings, he had many things to do!
It was midsummer and it was very long. At 6 pm, all the troops of the Eighth Route Army returned to the north had already had their meals and were ready to set off. At this moment, a Japanese plane suddenly appeared in the sky, heading towards Hu Laohu's command
Dongzhuang, where his troops are located, rushed over. The bombs blew up the village and burst into flames.
The Japanese plane arrived so suddenly that the Eighth Route Army's prevention and control guard posts had no time to react. At the same time, because of the intention to break through Longhai Road in a concealed manner, there was no order to shoot at the air, and the troops could not fire at will. The Japanese plane could be considered as passing by.
Addiction to bombarding.
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