After Shen Honglie left, Liu Yimin's heart also became calm.
During this period, despite the calm situation in the southeastern Shandong and Taiyi central base areas, fighting continued along Jiaoji Road, Jinpu Road, and Longhai Road in Shandong. The Eighth Route Army and the Japanese and puppet troops were fighting every day, but there was no major war.
The Japanese Twelfth Army has such a large force in Shandong. They don't just stay in the stronghold and watch the scenery. Just staying in the stronghold and on the railway line, the little devils don't have to drink the northwest wind every day. They have to raid. , they had to rob food, livestock, and money. They wanted to rob everything produced on Chinese soil. By this time the war was going on, Japan’s domestic economy had already been inflated. From the emperor to the people, everyone was eagerly looking forward to it. Their army and navy can transport them a lot of supplies from China!
The guys at the base camp call this fighting to support war. What does fighting to support war mean? To put it bluntly, it means "grabbing".
The commander of the North China Front Army, Tada Shun, wanted to implement the cage policy and carry out the Supreme Construction, with the purpose of trapping the Eighth Route Army. Lieutenant General Iida Sadagu, the commander of the 12th Army stationed in Shandong, was the most active in implementing the cage policy because he knew that Liu Yimin had returned Shandong, no one knows where Liu Yimin will give him a severe beating next. Therefore, Iida Sadagu commanded the units of the Twelfth Army to actively implement the cage policy and carry out a large-scale construction of solemnity, with the purpose of Build a strong line of defense to prevent Liu Yimin from catching him unawares.
Since then, the 10th Division, the 27th Division, the 32nd Division, the 36th Division, and the 40th Division commanded by the Japanese Twelfth Army have been independently combined into the 16th Brigade. The 17th independent mixed brigade, the 18th independent mixed brigade, the 19th independent mixed brigade, the 20th independent mixed brigade, the 21st independent mixed brigade, the 23rd independent mixed brigade, Jinan Garrison, Qingdao Garrison, Xuzhou Garrison The Fourth Cavalry Brigade under the direct jurisdiction of the Hejun Headquarters took the initiative to attack various places in Shandong, carrying out raids, grabbing food, and arresting Ding Laf, constantly encroaching on the base area, and creating a smoky atmosphere in Shandong.
In this regard, the Eighth Route Army's Longhai Road Battle wiped out the Japanese 22nd Brigade and the main force of the 114th Division stationed in the East China Sea, forcing the 114th Division to return to Japan to rest and replenish, and take over the 114th Division's The Ninth Division was afraid of being annihilated and did not dare to act rashly. Otherwise, Shandong would be in chaos.
The Japanese army is so crazy. How can the Eighth Route Army units, local armed forces, and militiamen just sit back and wait for death? Naturally, they will rise up to resist. Fortunately, the tunnels in various base areas in Shandong have become large-scale. In places like Jinan, Taixi and other places where the enemy is most serious, the troops can rely on the tunnels to fight with the enemy. The Japanese and puppet troops were circling.
Now that the main force of the instructor division has finished resting, Liu Yimin is about to take action.
In the war room of the Dadian Instruction Division headquarters, Liu Yimin, Luo Ronghuan, Zeng Zhongsheng, Tan Zheng, Cai Zhong and Yu Xuezhong, commander of the Sulu theater, looked at the map to discuss joint operations.
Yu Xuezhong's most urgent demands now are three things. The first is military rations, the second is to replenish the troops, and the third is to regain Cangshan County and Fei County. How can such a huge army do it without food, without replenishing troops, and without a base? ?
Liu Yimin sincerely wanted to cooperate with the Xuezhong Department in combat, and the purpose was to close the relationship between the two armies.
Liu Yimin's answer to Yu Xuezhong's military ration issue was very simple, that is, he agreed to allow Yu's department to trade normally in the market in the base area and purchase grain and other military supplies.
That's enough. Yu Xuezhong's Ministry is not short of military expenditures, and prices in the base area are quite stable. Allowing free procurement solves Yu Xuezhong's Ministry's supply problem.
Regarding the issue of replenishing soldiers, Luo Ronghuan rejected Shen Honglie last time. This time Liu Yimin did not reject Yu Xuezhong, but proposed two methods for him. One was to use the Third District Administrative Office Commissioner and Security Commander Zhang Liyuan to supplement the 51st Army, 57 The army's combat losses were reduced and the main combat force was maintained. Another way was to recruit new soldiers from the Eighth Route Army for training and then hand them over to Yu Xuezhong's Department.
When talking about this, Liu Yimin said to Xuezhong a little apologetically: "There is nothing we can do about it. In fact, the Communist Party's record in the impression of the people in Shandong is too poor. It directly gave the 51st Army, 57th Army and the New Fourth Division from the base area." Recruiting soldiers will be very difficult. Only after we conduct preliminary training and improve our ideological awareness can we mobilize and send them to your department."
Zeng Zhongsheng on the side added: "The chance of a pure recruit surviving on the battlefield is too small, and it is not much different from being sent to death as cannon fodder. The new soldiers in the main force of our army are all new soldiers who have been trained and participated in actual combat. , replenish what the group added.”
Although Yu Xuezhong sympathized with ***, it was just sympathy. His original intention was to recruit strong men from the base area, so how could he agree to add the Eighth Route Army to his army? They said they were trained recruits, maybe they were all * Where are the ** members! If we let them add in, it won't be long before the infantry platoons and infantry squads of the 51st Army and the 57th Army will directly accept the deployment of the Eighth Route Army. Therefore, after listening to Liu Yimin and Zeng Zhongsheng's words, Yu Xuezhong shook his head and declined. He said it was a matter of replenishing soldiers and he would figure it out on his own, so he didn't need to bother the Eighth Route Army.
The first two problems have been solved. What we need to study now is how to recover Fei County and Cangshan County.
At the beginning, Luo Ronghuan agreed to designate Fei County and Cangshan County as the defense areas of Yu Xuezhong's tribe. This was mainly because of the mountainous terrain in southern Shandong. When Yu Xuezhong's tribe first arrived in Shandong, people and land were living together, and the mountainous areas were easy to defend. In addition, Shen Honglie had With the cooperation and support of Zhang Liyuan's Ministry, Yu Xuezhong's Ministry should be able to persist in the war of resistance here. What Luo Ronghuan did not expect was that as soon as Yu Xuezhong and Shen Honglie met, they had a heated argument over who should be the leader, which led to Yu Xuezhong's Ministry and Shen Honglie's command. Wu Huawen's New Fourth Division and Zhang Liyuan's security forces did not cooperate well. After several fierce battles, the Japanese were driven out of Fei County and Cangshan County.
Feixian County and Cangshan County are the barriers to Linyi and guard the Yimeng Mountain area. This loss will open up our Yimeng base area. Therefore, it must be recovered, and there is no room for negotiation.
Since Liu Yimin was determined to fight this time, the first thing he wanted to target was the loss of land in southern Lunan.
According to Liu Yimin, the Japs knew a lot, and they even shamelessly rebuilt the 10th Division! Well, since the Japs are so shameless, the Eighth Route Army will let them completely hide their faces in their crotches!
Liu Yimin's overall idea was to use Hong Chaoyuan, commander of the Lunan Military Region of the Eighth Route Army, to command the 5th Teaching Brigade, the 5th New Brigade, and the Southeast Shandong Guard Brigade to carry out multiple attacks with small units on the Japanese 9th Division between Lianyungang and Xuzhou in the eastern section of Longhai Road. They were not allowed to reinforce the battlefield in southern Shandong; Chen Shiqu, commander of the Southwest Shandong Security Brigade, commanded the Southwest Shandong Security Brigade, and the Second Shandong Security Brigade to contain the Japanese troops from Xuzhou to Shangqiu; Liu Jian, commander of the Second Teaching Brigade, commanded the Second Teaching Brigade and the Sixth Teaching Brigade. The New Second Brigade launched an attack on the Japanese troops in northwest Shandong to contain the Japanese troops west of the Yellow River; Wang Jian'an, commander of the Taixi Guard Brigade, commanded the Taixi Guard Brigade, and the Tai'an detachment launched an east-west attack on the enemies from Tai'an to Yanzhou to prevent them from going south for reinforcements; with Eastern Shandong Headquarters Yuan Guoping and Xu Guangda commanded the Jinan garrison brigade. The Shandong garrison brigade launched a counterattack against the Japanese and puppet troops around Jinan, containing the enemies of Jinan and attracting the enemies of Shandong to reinforce Jinan; Li Qing, the commander of the third teaching brigade, commanded the third teaching brigade. The 4th Teaching Brigade, the 7th Teaching Brigade, the 8th Teaching Brigade, the Jiaodong Security Brigade, and the Qinghe Security Brigade set up a battlefield between Jinan and Zhoucun to ambush the enemies in Shandong who were reinforcing Jinan and strive to eliminate them along the way; under the command of Yu Xuezhong 51 Army, the 57th Army, the New Fourth Division, and Zhang Liyuan's troops, with the cooperation of at least two artillery regiments of the Eighth Route Army, launched a full-scale counterattack against the Japanese troops on the Qihe front line, attracting the full strength of the Japanese Tenth Division to assist. Liu Yimin personally led the First Brigade, the New First Brigade, The cavalry brigade, the new fourth brigade, the new eighth brigade, the air defense brigade, the engineering brigade, the artillery brigade, and the baggage brigade secretly came out from the Tianbao Mountain area, took the back route of the Japanese 10th Division, and surrounded and annihilated the main force of the 10th Division on the Qihe River line. , the whole army attacked Jinpu Road, recaptured Fei County, Cangshan County, Yi County and Teng County, and completely cut off Jinpu Road.
Liu Yimin's deployment was equivalent to mobilizing all our troops in Shandong to fight the Japanese army. Once it started, it would be a magnificent battle scene.
Yu Xuezhong was stunned after hearing this. He had only now seen the strength of the Eighth Route Army's instructors. He felt that Shen Honglie really didn't know the heights of the sky and never forgot to create little obstacles for the Eighth Route Army. If he had known that Liu Yimin's troops were so strong, Do you still dare to do those little tricks?
This is because Yu Xuezhong underestimated Shen Honglie. In fact, Shen Honglie is nothing. If people like He Yingqin and Chen Cheng knew that the instructor was so powerful, I am afraid they would immediately try to speed up the pace of restricting the development of ***. .Some people in this world have disputes because of different ideals and political opinions. In order to defend their own doctrines, there is no fear or difficulty in their minds.
This is just a big battle plan. Zeng Zhongsheng has already led Zhang Linfeng and Zhu Zhexiao from the staff office to make a detailed battle plan. The order of each unit's attack, the attack route, and the completion time of each phase of the combat mission are clearly marked.
With such a large force cooperating in the battle, Yu Xuezhong's confidence increased and his tone of voice became firmer. He actually stood up and saluted: "Commander Liu, please rest assured, the troops of the Sulu Theater are guaranteed to complete the mission!"
The dignified commander of the Sulu theater, an army general, actually saluted the lieutenant general of the teaching division, which is a local force in the *** sequence. Others would think it was a fabrication when he said this. However, Luo Ronghuan and others present did not have any of it. I was surprised and thought it was normal. If Yu Xuezhong didn’t salute Liu Yimin and report, should Liu Yimin be expected to salute and report to Yu Xuezhong? That’s nonsense!
The Lunan Battle was thus finalized. Yu Xuezhong hurried back to the Qihe front line. The Second Field Artillery Regiment of the Eighth Route Army Artillery Brigade and the Mountain Artillery Regiment left their base that night and rushed towards Yu Xuezhong's defense line.
Luo Ronghuan pointed out that the only question now is whether the Japanese army will launch a sneak attack from Qingdao and Weicheng to the southeast of Shandong.
Liu Yimin was not afraid of this. He left Zeng Zhongsheng and Tan Zheng in charge of the store, and formed the eastern line detachment from the logistics detachment, the third engineering regiment, the third baggage regiment, the third air defense regiment, and the Shandong Anti-Japanese Democratic Council guard regiment to lead the southeastern Shandong base area and Jiaodong. All localities in the base area are armed to defend the base area.
Liu Yimin made it clear that once the Japanese army in eastern Shandong invaded the base area in southeastern Shandong, on the basis of fully fortifying the walls and green leaves, they would lure the enemy southward and create conditions for the main force of our army to return to encircle and annihilate the enemy.
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