The answer soon appeared. The headquarters urgently informed that early this morning, the Kwantung Army's First Division, Second Division, Seventh Division, and Twenty-third Division launched a sweeping campaign from Pinghan Road to our southern Hebei region.
, the attack momentum is rapid, and our troops in southern Hebei have been ordered to mobilize quickly and shift into anti-sweeping operations.
At this point, the deployment of the Japanese army is very obvious. That is, the troops on the western front will be divided into two groups to encircle and annihilate our southern Hebei army and western Shandong army. After achieving the goal, they will press from east to west; the eastern front will sweep across our Jiaodong base area, and then fight with Jiaoji
The enemies on the road joined forces and pressed from north to south. After sweeping across the Jiangsu-Anhui border area, the enemies on the southern line formed a heavy group and pressed from south to north. In this way, the Japanese army formed a three-sided attack on the Shandong base area.
To the east is the sea, which is the domain of the Japanese navy.
Zeng Zhongsheng looked at the emergency telegrams one after another, frowned, and murmured to himself: "It's such a huge momentum, even bigger than the Battle of Songhu and the Battle of Wuhan! This little devil really thinks highly of our Eighth Route Army."
Luo Ronghuan suggested: "Commander, you should immediately report the latest enemy situation to the chairman and boss and request instructions."
Liu Yimin said nothing, pulled up a chair and sat in front of the table, closed his eyes and remained silent.
Judging from the current situation, under the cover of a large number of aircraft, the Japanese army must be making very rapid progress. Such a huge force, local armed forces, militia and main forces scattered in various places simply cannot stop the Japs' offensive. Whoever blocks it may
Being trapped in an encirclement has a tragic ending. It seems that the little Japanese really regarded our army in Shandong as a roadblock and used all their strength to destroy our army and then hurry up!
The current situation is very dangerous, and Liu Yimin has to think carefully.
Three of the four divisions of the Japanese Army in Jiaodong: the 4th, 11th, 12th, and 28th Divisions were permanent divisions, and both the 11th and 12th Divisions were permanent divisions.
It is a fierce division that has been on the Songhu battlefield. Although the Fourth Division is a famous useless division among the Japanese army, it is not that it cannot fight, but that the soldiers are unwilling to fight. The equipment and training are first-class. Our army in Jiaodong
The main teaching brigade and the Jiaodong garrison brigade are definitely no match for the Japanese army in a head-to-head confrontation, and the eighth teaching brigade is waiting in the surrounding areas of Qingdao. The Jiaodong garrison brigade and local armed forces alone may not be able to delay the Japanese army for more than a few days. Wait until the four Jiaodong divisions
The Japanese troops of the regiment formed an encirclement with the Fifth Division of Qingdao, which would probably encircle the Third Teaching Brigade, Seventh Teaching Brigade, and Eighth Teaching Brigade that were waiting in hiding in the Qingdao area. It seemed that Jiaodong was about to suffer a catastrophe.
Needless to say, in southern Hebei, the Japanese army used the most elite First Division, Second Division, Seventh Division, and Twenty-third Division. With the strength of our army in southern Hebei, we could only hide in tunnels or find gaps.
It is difficult to say whether we can break out of the encirclement or not.
The situation in the west of Shandong is also very dangerous. The main force of the Japanese First Guards Division, the 110th Division, the 37th Division, the 40th Division, the 41st Division and six groups of North China Security
The army, with a strength of hundreds of thousands, the Second Teaching Brigade and the Sixth Teaching Brigade were ordered to move to the southern Hebei area. The Luxi Guard Brigade and the New Second Brigade were in danger of being surrounded and annihilated by the enemy at any time.
Once the Japanese army succeeded in southern Hebei and western Lu, it would be even more difficult to deal with the two forces if they merged into one and pounced on the eastern part of the Yellow River.
The situation in southeastern Shandong and southern Shandong is also very dangerous. If the Japanese 6th Division, 24th Division, and 29th Division land in Lianyungang, they will join forces with the 9th Division and the 114th Division.
, is another heavy-armed group. Needless to say, this heavy-armed group is used to block the southward passage of our army's main force from the south, to drive directly into southeastern Shandong and the hinterland of the southern Shandong base area, and to completely destroy the local government system and military industry system on which our army relies.
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What to do? What to do?
Liu Yimin sat there as motionless as a stone sculpture.
Liu Yimin did not move, Luo Ronghuan, Zeng Zhongsheng, and Cai Zhong stood there without daring to express their anger, staring at Liu Yimin without blinking.
After a long while, Liu Yimin raised his head and said in a deep voice: "Chief of Staff, record the order."
At this time, Zhang Linfeng and Zhu Zhexiao, deputy directors of the General Staff Office, were standing in the room, waiting with paper and pens!
Just listen to Liu Yimin say: "The Central Committee, the headquarters and the brigades of the Shandong Military Region, each new brigade, each garrison brigade, each detachment, each branch, the 129th Division in Southern Hebei, the Lu Department in Central Hebei, the Liu and Chen Departments in the Jiangsu-Anhui Border Region:
After the Japanese Second Guards Division and Taiwan's mixed brigade landed in Yancheng, the 17th Division of the Thirteenth Army independently mixed into the 1st, 5th, 7th, 11th, 12th Brigade and the 17th Division to attack our Soviet Union.
After launching a surprise attack in the Anhui border area, the main force of the Japanese Kwantung Army moved southward today, cooperating with the Japanese army in North China in a wide range from the Pinghan-Han Line in the west, to Lianyungang in the east, from the Jiaozhou Peninsula in the north, to the Longhai Line in the south, to attack our southern Hebei region and
The Shandong region carried out a large-scale dragnet-style raid with heavy troops, exceeding the scale of the previous two campaigns. The situation in North China's Anti-Japanese War was unprecedentedly critical.
Second, the Japanese army's posture is to form small encirclements within large encirclements, circles within circles.
Encircle and suppress our troops in Jiangsu, Anhui, southern Hebei, western Shandong, and Jiaodong in small circles, and then advance into the hinterland of Shandong. Among them, the Japanese Sixth Division, the Twenty-fourth Division, and the Twenty-ninth Division that landed in Lianyungang,
There should be an attempt to directly attack our southeastern Shandong base area and Taiyi central base area.
3. In order to cover the anti-sweeping forces in various base areas and reduce the losses in the base areas, the 1st Teaching Brigade, the 1st New Brigade, the Cavalry Brigade, the Engineer Brigade, and the Baggage Brigade that were advancing towards the Dong'a area were ordered to stop advancing, turn around on the spot, and quickly move southward to the southwestern Shandong area.
, merged with the Southwest Shandong Security Brigade and the Western Shandong Security Brigade in the southwestern region of Shandong. Liu Luo led the artillery brigade, air defense brigade, New Fourth Brigade, and New Seventh Brigade as reinforcement echelons to quickly go south to join the First Teaching Brigade and others. The combat target was the Caoxian area.
The 38th Division of the Japanese Army. The 38th Division was used to completely annihilate the 38th Division to attract enemy reinforcements from southern Hebei, northwest Shandong, and Lianyungang, disrupting the deployment of the Japanese army.
4. Liu ordered the 2nd Jiao Brigade and the 6th Jiao Brigade to go to the southern Hebei area to hide and wait. They changed their missions and set up battlefields between southern Hebei and western Shandong. They used ambush and flanking tactics to fight the Japanese army and cover southern Hebei. The western Shandong area was further strengthened and cleared.
After completing the mission, we quickly broke away from contact with the enemy and were still waiting in the direction of Shijiazhuang. Our 129th Division in southern Hebei, the Xu Shiyou Luxi Guard Brigade of Luxi, and the New Second Brigade, after blocking and delaying the Japanese attack, used a mobile
The particularly strong troops disguised themselves as the main force and led the little devils by the nose toward the hinterland of the southern Hebei and Luxi base areas. The main force quickly moved into tunnels or jumped behind enemy lines to carry out guerrilla warfare.
5. The Li Qingjiao 3rd Brigade, the 7th Jiao Brigade, and the 8th Jiao Brigade, which were waiting in hiding in the Qingdao area, completed their original missions and cooperated with the 4th Jiao Brigade and the Luzhong Security Brigade to move between Gaomi and Weixian to attack Jiaoji Road
The enemy from Gaomi to Weixian launched an offensive operation, attracting the enemy from Jiaodong to sweep the enemy and advance towards Jiaoji Road quickly. After achieving their goal, the 3rd, 7th and 8th Brigades quickly escaped from the enemy and moved to the enemy's rear to wait.
Sixth, the Lunan Hongchao Yuanjiao 5th Brigade, the New 5th Brigade, and the Southeast Shandong Garrison Brigade gave up their original plan to capture Xin'an Town and relied on the mountainous areas of Lunan to set up defenses to block the lagging Japanese troops.
7. After the 4th Leimingjiao Brigade and the Central Shandong Security Brigade completed their mission of cooperating with the 3rd Brigade of Li Qingjiao and others to attack Jiaoji Road, the main force quickly retreated. Relying on the mountainous area in Central Shandong and the tunnel network, they blocked the stagnant Jiaoji Road. Qingdao Japanese troops may attack southeastern Shandong.
, an assault on the Shandong base area.
8. Yuan Guoping commanded the Jinan garrison brigade and the Qinghe garrison brigade to conduct mobile operations in Jinan and Qinghe areas to contain the Japanese army. If the Japanese army gathered heavily, the brigade could move to Qinghe or Jiaolai areas.
9. Liu and Chen's troops in the Jiangsu-Anhui border area should block the delayed Japanese troops, cover the strong walls of the base and clear the countryside, quickly avoid the sharp edge of the Japanese attack, and jump to guerrilla behind enemy lines.
10. Invite the New Fourth Army and the main forces of the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi to actively launch attacks on the enemy, force the enemy to reinforce them, and coordinate the operations.
11. Principles of this operation: First, attract heavy Japanese troops to Jinpu Road. Second, do not be afraid that the Japanese army will occupy our base areas and be willing to break the pots and pans. Everything should be based on maintaining the main force in mobile operations to reduce losses and maintain effective strength.
If the troops can fight, they will fight. If they cannot fight, they will jump to guerrilla behind enemy lines. Let the heavy Japanese army stride forward towards the hinterland of our base area. Third, the entire Shandong base area, Jiangsu and Anhui base areas, and southern Hebei base areas must all be reduced to guerrilla zones.
The courage and mental preparation. Fourth, our purpose is to lengthen the enemy's front line, divide the troops, divide the troops, and divide the troops again. Fifth, we must be prepared for a protracted and brutal struggle, be prepared for lack of food and medicine, and be prepared for local armed forces.
Be prepared to surrender to the enemy and take advantage of others' misfortunes."
After dictating, Liu Yimin took the record and read it over, and gave it to Luo Ronghuan, Cai Zhong, Zeng Zhongsheng, and Tan Zheng for review.
Luo Ronghuan asked: "Is the original plan to capture Shijiazhuang still implemented?"
Liu Yimin replied: "It must be implemented. Only by executing the original battle plan can the heavy Japanese army be fully mobilized. If necessary, I will lead the cavalry brigade to disguise the main force into the Northeast and make trouble in the belly of the Kwantung Army. I don't believe that Xiao
The Japanese will not withdraw their troops!"
After hearing this, Luo Ronghuan took up his pen and added a note on it: "Twelve, the original battle plan remains unchanged, waiting for opportunities to be implemented." After writing, he solemnly signed his name.
Liu Yimin took the telegram draft, scrawled it, signed his name, and said to Zeng Zhongsheng: "Send it to all troops for execution immediately! It is urgent!"
Tan Zheng asked: "Commander, should we send a separate request message to the central government?"
Liu Yimin shook his head: "No, the enemy situation is changing rapidly, and the troops are eagerly waiting for instructions. Any hesitation will cause heavy losses. The Central Committee and the headquarters will agree."
After finishing speaking, Liu Yimin told Cai Zhong: "Go and send a report to Wu Zheng and Yang Zhicheng, asking if the aerial bombs and incendiary bombs developed by the arsenal are completed? If they are completed, concentrate all efforts on overtime production. At the critical moment of life and death, aviation first
The brigade also has to move out. How can we do it without ammunition?"
After Cai Zhong left, Liu Yimin asked Tan Zheng to go find Wang Pengju and ask him to immediately write a press release about Liu and Luo's negotiations with Shen Congzhou, commander of the Second Security Division in Teng County, and broadcast it to the whole country by telegraph.
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