After Li Qing formulated the battle plan of beheading, dismembering the belly, and cutting off the tail, he communicated with Lei Ming, Commander of the 4th Teaching Brigade, Chen Dayong, Commander of the 7th Teaching Brigade, Zhao Shan, Commander of the 8th Teaching Brigade, and Gao Jinchun, Commander of the Jiaodong Guard Brigade.
After discussion, it was finally decided that the Third Teaching Brigade would be responsible for the beheading task, the Fourth Teaching Brigade and the Seventh Teaching Brigade would be responsible for the belly-breaking task, and the Eighth Teaching Brigade and the Jiaodong Guard Brigade would be responsible for the tail-cutting task.
Li Qing said in the telegram that after the mission of this battle is completed, the main force of the Japanese and puppet troops will be trapped in Zhoucun and Weicheng in central Shandong, leaving a blank area for the Japanese and puppet troops in eastern Shandong, completely disrupting the deployment of the Japanese army and forcing the enemy to retreat.
The increase of troops to Qingdao not only cut off the Japanese army from the north to the south in Shandong, but also caused the situation that the east and west could not look at each other, extending the preparation time for the Japanese army to assemble a heavy force group to sweep Shandong.
During this period, the Japanese army implemented a heavy garrison on Jiaoji Road. Among them, the 17th independent mixed brigade was stationed in Zhangqiu, the Japanese 32nd Division headquarters was stationed in Zhoucun, and the Japanese 36th Division headquarters was stationed in Zhoucun.
In the county seat of Weixian County, the 18th independent mixed brigade is stationed in Jiao County, plus the Jiaoji Railway garrison. Not counting the Japanese troops in Jinan and Qingdao, the Japanese army on Jiaoji Road alone has 50,000 troops. Including the puppet troops, the Japanese puppet troops
The total strength of the army is quite large.
With such a powerful force, the commander of the Twelfth Army, Iida Sadagu, and the chief of staff, Kobayashi Asaburo, deliberately reorganized the troops. Naturally, the Japanese army would not stop after their combat effectiveness was improved. They used Jiaoji Road and Jiqing Highway as the axis to sweep up everywhere.
, strengthen public security, and continue to encroach on the Eighth Route Army base areas. The Eighth Route Army troops in Ludong and Luzhong will naturally not show weakness. Relying on the Luzhong mountainous area and the Luzhong and Ludong tunnel networks, with the cooperation of local armed forces, they fight tit-for-tat with the Japs. However,
The Japanese army learned the lessons of the 108th Division, the 34th Division and the last time the Eighth Route Army eliminated the main force of Li Wenli's department and successfully launched reinforcements. They did not dare to divide their troops and advance rashly, nor did they dare to go deep into the Eighth Route Army base area. They were like women with small feet, walking two steps and twisting
Two steps, trembling, and immediately shrinking at the slightest sign of trouble. As a result, after repeated beatings, in addition to turning the area fifty miles north and south along Jiaoji Road into a guerrilla zone, 50,000 Japanese troops actually huddled between Jiaoji Road and Jiaoji Road.
There was no movement along the Green Highway.
The Japanese army was passive, and so was the Eighth Route Army. The reason was that the Third Teaching Brigade and the Qinghe Guard Brigade needed to stabilize the situation in the Qinghe base area, the Seventh Teaching Brigade needed to stabilize the situation in the Jiao Lai base area, and the Eighth Teaching Brigade and the Jiaodong Guard Brigade had to guard the Jiaodong base area and monitor Qingdao.
To defeat the enemy, the remaining Fourth Teaching Brigade and Luzhong Garrison Brigade not only have to guard the north gate of the Luzhong Mountain Area, but also compete with the Japanese and puppet troops for the plains. This means that the main forces of the Eighth Route Army are fighting independently and cannot form a powerful fist.
There were many, and the results were not small, but they did not cause an annihilating blow to the main force of the Japanese army, and could not change the Japanese army's situation of dividing our base areas along the Jiaoji Road.
When launching the Lunan Campaign, Liu Yimin made it clear in his telegram to Li Qing that this time our army concentrated the main forces in the four districts of Jiaodong, Jiaolai, Qinghe, and Central Shandong in order to further weaken the strength of the Japanese and puppet troops and put the Japanese army at risk.
The pain caused by the beating will make them further fear our army and dare not raid our base areas on a division or brigade scale. Even if the Japanese army forms a heavy group to raid and retaliate, the Japanese army will not dare to penetrate deep into our base for fear of being annihilated.
Base in the hinterland.
Li Qing's battle plan of beheading, disembowelling, and tail-cutting was a reflection of the spirit of Liu Yimin's instructions combined with the actual situation on the battlefield in central Shandong.
Late at night on October 9, the Luzhong Group of the Eighth Route Army commanded by Li Qing used tunnels to covertly contact the enemy and launched an attack on the Japanese troops aiding Jinan in the west. First, the Third Teaching Brigade attacked the Japanese advance troops between Zhangqiu and Zhoucun, followed closely by
The Fourth Teaching Brigade and the Seventh Teaching Brigade concentrated their artillery fire and troops to launch a powerful attack on the Japanese 32nd Division and the 36th Division between Zhoucun and Weicheng, followed by the Eighth Teaching Brigade and the Jiaodong Guard Brigade in Gaomi
The Japanese troops in the regional assault were sent from Qingdao to reinforce Jinan's second brigade of the 1st Guards Division and the heavy artillery brigade's baggage troops.
The Eighth Route Army's offensive was extremely swift and violent, forcing the Japanese troops to retreat step by step and keep asking for help.
After a fierce battle all night, the Eighth Route Army stopped attacking at dawn, withdrew from the battle, and used the tunnel network to hide and rest.
As early as when he occupied Jinan, Liu Yimin proposed vigorously developing a tunnel network in central Shandong, and even asked for the construction of an underground transportation line from Qingdao to Jinan to facilitate troop movement. He also proposed that mushrooms could be grown in the tunnels and used for military production.
Liu Yimin is the No. 1 leader of our party and army in Shandong, and his orders must be implemented to the letter. In addition, the Eighth Route Army advocated two crops a year, which allowed the people of Shandong to taste the sweetness and carry out tunnel warfare and mine warfare.
It also plays the role of protecting itself and eliminating invaders. The call of the Eighth Route Army will naturally be responded to by the common people. After such a long period of hard work, the tunnel construction in Luzhong has formed a network, although it cannot reach the spacious underground passage envisioned by Liu Yimin.
Requirements, but it is completely possible for the troops to use the tunnels for concealed movement. No, the tunnel network in Luzhong now plays a role in allowing the troops to hide and rest.
In just a few hours of fierce fighting, the Japanese army was in pain to the bone. After counting the casualties of the troops after dawn, the commander of the 32nd Division, Kimura Hyotarō, reported to the 12th Army Commander Iida Sadagu and the North China Front Army Commander Tada Shun.
The telegram lamented that the Eighth Route Army had powerful artillery fire and powerful attacks. The 32nd Division and the 36th Division suffered heavy losses. The 1st Guards Division, 2nd Brigade and the Heavy Artillery Brigade lost all their baggage.
The Second Division, the Thirty-sixth Division, and the Second Brigade of the First Guards Division all urgently need to rest and recuperate on the spot to prevent the Eighth Route Army from launching another large-scale attack.
However, since the Japanese army had received the news that the main force of the Eighth Route Army was gathering to annihilate the main force of the 10th Division in Feixian County, they had already reduced their troop strength and were on high alert. They further reduced their strength and relied on the original Jiaoji Road defense line to hold on. Our army in Central Shandong
The main force did not fully achieve the expected campaign objectives. In other words, our army in central Shandong mobilized four main brigades and one guard brigade to fight fiercely all night. Although a large number of Japanese troops were killed and wounded, they were not able to eliminate the expected Japanese divisions in an organized manner.
The brigade-sized troops were not even capable of destroying the regiment-sized Japanese troops, and their own casualties were not small. Angry, Li Qing sent a report to Liu Yimin, requesting to rest and reorganize the troops and fight again the next night.
When he received Li Qing's telegram, Liu Yimin had already arrived in Teng County and established a headquarters in Teng County.
After the war, they marched all night. Even if the main force of the instructors had already become pack horses, and the armored regiments and the 1st and 2nd teaching regiments could even reach the level of mechanization, the soldiers were all human beings after all and needed to rest. In addition, the Japanese army would be ready after dawn.
A large number of planes were dispatched to bombard the enemy indiscriminately, and Liu Yimin ordered all troops to enter a state of concealment and rest, waiting for another attack on Lunan at night.
After reading Li Qing's telegram, Liu Yimin was also very depressed. When planning the Lunan Campaign, Liu Yimin's most important thing was to wipe out the enemy in central Shandong. He wanted to take advantage of the chaos of the Japanese army to wipe out a Japanese division in central Shandong or completely defeat the Japanese army in the west.
to join the reinforcement group. Unfortunately, the Japanese army has become cunning now, and Li Qing has to re-formulate the battle plan based on the actual situation on the battlefield. In this way, the five main brigades of our army in central Shandong are equivalent to launching on three battlefields at the same time, with a large number of troops.
Scattered, artillery fire was dispersed, and the Japanese army relied closely on the Jiaoji Road defense line to defend, it would be impossible for our army to achieve the expected goal in the Battle of Luzhong.
Liu Yimin regretted a little. If he had known this earlier, he should have given up the Lunan battle and personally led the First Brigade, the Cavalry Brigade, the New First Brigade, the New Fourth Brigade, the New Eighth Brigade, the Artillery Brigade, and the Air Defense Brigade to go north to join the battle. That was 50,000 people.
If we can destroy the Japanese army, the entire hinterland of Shandong will be recovered by our army again, and the anti-Japanese situation in Shandong will immediately change.
When Luo Ronghuan saw Liu Yimin holding a telegram in his hand and thinking deeply, he immediately saw through his mind and reminded: "Don't be too presumptuous, things in the world are changing. We want to annihilate the enemy, but the Japanese army also wants to annihilate the Eighth Route Army! Think about it.
, if the main force of our army had not participated in the battle in southern Shandong, it is very likely that the Japanese Tenth Division would have completely defeated or even wiped out Yu Xuezhong's troops. The entire southern Shandong and central and southern Shandong would have been exposed to the Japanese gunfire. What else could they say about central Shandong?
How about annihilating the enemy? Besides, the Japanese army relies on the defense line to hold on. With such a long front, even if our southern troops go north to join the war, they may not be able to completely annihilate the Japanese army in central Shandong overnight. If the battle enters a stalemate, the large-scale Japanese army
The aircraft fleet will cause heavy losses to our army. After one battle, the strength of the two brigades may be gone, which is not in line with our army's combat principles. In general, our army achieved the purpose of the campaign in this battle. It only destroyed the Japanese army and rebuilt it.
The main force of the 10th Division was enough to shock the Japanese army."
What Luo Ronghuan said was reasonable, and Liu Yimin actually knew it in his heart. However, since he took charge of the army, there has never been a failure to achieve the campaign goal. It was all because of his calculations, and he was accurate in every calculation. It was the last time the Japanese army fortified Longhai Road.
They attempted to encircle and annihilate our main force heading south, but were severely damaged by our army in the end. It was also a victory, and our army achieved its goal of returning north. Therefore, after listening to Luo Ronghuan's words, Liu Yimin was still depressed.
Cai Zhong couldn't see the lifeless look on Liu Yimin's face and reminded him: "Commander, don't be upset anymore. Li Qing and the others have fought very well. These are also the elites of our army who dare to attack a heavy group of 50,000 Japanese troops and want to
Swallow it in one gulp. If it were Chiang Kai-shek's troops, I'm afraid they wouldn't even dare to think about it, let alone be able to cleanly and calmly withdraw from the battle after a full-line attack. Look at the great victory in the Changsha battle that Mao Zedong repeatedly boasted, and the formation of an organic system
Have you wiped out a single regiment of the Japanese army? Even the 106th Division, which was hit hard continuously, was able to break out of the encirclement of several Japanese armies. It is simply incredible. Don't say anything and think about the next step quickly.
The Japanese army will not turn a blind eye to the annihilation of the main force of the 10th Division, and they will definitely retaliate on a large scale."
Liu Yimin no longer regretted anything. He calmed down and thought for a while. He called Li Qing back and forwarded it to Lei Ming, Chen Dayong, Zhao Shan, and Gao Jinchun. They pointed out that the original plan for this battle in central Lu was to use ambush tactics to annihilate the enemy.
.However, due to changes in the enemy situation and the leakage of news about the Lunan victory, the Japanese army highly reduced its troops and relied on fortifications to hold on. The ambush battle became an offensive operation. It is normal that the expected purpose of the campaign was not achieved. This illustrates four points. First, the Japanese army
You are definitely not a soft persimmon. You cannot look at the 32nd Division, the 36th Division and other Japanese garrison divisions in North China with the same old eyes as when the Japanese garrison divisions first entered the battlefield. These garrison divisions have been tempered on the battlefield.
and intensive training, it has become an elite force with strong combat effectiveness. This is clear evidence that the Japanese army did not collapse in one battle like before in the Shandong Central Operation. The second is to annihilate the Japanese army at the division level, brigade level, and regiment level.
, the best method of warfare is ambush warfare, setting up an ambush with superior force, using the methods of enigmatic, confusing and luring the enemy, convincing the enemy to enter the urn, and annihilating them with one blow. Just like our army destroyed the 8th Division and the 10th Division
and the 10th Division of the Japanese Army that was destroyed and rebuilt this time are classics of this method of warfare. Third, under field conditions, our army can concentrate three times or even ten times the enemy's superior force and divide it during the movement.
Encircle the Japanese army and achieve the goal of quickly annihilating the enemy. Fourth, when attacking the Japanese army's heavily fortified positions, our army's artillery fire should be several times that of the enemy's, and our troop strength should be several times that of the enemy's. We should prepare in advance and adopt continuous combat methods to achieve the goal. If the conditions are not met,
Under the circumstances, it is not advisable to forcefully attack the heavily-armed Japanese army group.
Liu Yimin encouraged Li Qing in the telegram, saying that this battle not only played a role in detecting the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army after large-scale training, but also tested the combat effectiveness of our army. With almost the same strength, the Japanese army relied on the established positions to hold on, and our army
The Japanese army was still able to carry out large-scale attacks on the enemy with lightning speed, forcing the Japanese army to retreat again and again, abandoning their helmets and armor. After attacking and annihilating the enemy, they retreated calmly, and the casualties were also controlled within a reasonable range. This shows that our army is worthy of being a hundred soldiers.
They are elite fighters and the main force of the anti-Japanese army. If they were replaced by ordinary troops, the casualties would be too high if the attack lasted for a long time. If they were bombed by Japanese aviation during the day, they might also suffer heavy losses in the Japanese counterattack.
Liu Yimin instructed our army in Central Shandong to rest and recuperate in hiding, and then use small forces to command local armed forces to disguise themselves as the main force to launch high-frequency guerrilla warfare against the Japanese army. This exhausted the Japanese army and made it unable to use all its strength to attack Yuan Guoping and Xu Guangda's third teaching brigade in the Jinan area.
, the Fourth Teaching Brigade and the Seventh Teaching Brigade immediately turned to the direction of Jinan to assist Yuan Guoping's Ministry and Xu Guangda's Ministry to sweep across the Jinan area with all their strength, completely destroying the puppet regime rebuilt by the Japanese army, and the puppet local armed forces, resulting in a heavy force threatening Jinan, and looking for fighter planes outside Jinan.
, and strive to complete the task of eliminating at least one brigade of the main Japanese army. The key operational targets are the Japanese independent mixed 17th brigade stationed in Zhangqiu; teach the 8th Brigade and the Jiaodong Garrison Brigade to persist in the Ludong operation, and use the 2nd Brigade of the Japanese 1st Division
The regiment and heavy artillery brigade as well as the independent mixed 18th brigade stationed in Jiao County were the operational targets, striving to lure the enemy out of the fortified towns, use night battles to annihilate the enemy in the wild, and further consume the Japanese army. After completing the mission, each security brigade returned to the defense base,
The main force was hidden and concentrated, preparing to deal with heavy Japanese raids.