Although the Japanese 17th Division was a division of the Third Regiment since its inception, it performed well in the Battle of Wuhan and was originally under the Central China Front Army.

Now that I have landed in Port City, Zhou Xiaoshan doesn’t have to guess that he is provoking him.

The 4th Division in Xuzhou was transferred back to the Northeast after the Wuhan Battle in history. Now Xuzhou is missing, and no corps has been transferred to form the 29th Division.

The 14th Division, Lanfeng, became famous in the battle, and was also the third division that changed only two years before Japan surrendered.

A meeting briefing, the Independent Regiment and the Jiangsu, Shandong, Anhui and Henan Special Committees understood the opponents they faced, whether they were the 4th Division and the 14th Division, they entered the city during the Wuhan Battle, and were reorganized by the Japanese army in the four-center system and organized the division.

The commander of the 14th Division, Kenji Doihara, was replaced by Takahara Ikenaga.

The commander of the 4th Division, Matsui, was replaced by Shigeru Sawada.

It does not mean that they have lost their top combat power.

When the 4th Division surrendered in Japan, it maintained its complete system, which already shows his combat effectiveness.

Although some people used the defeat of the National Army and the newly rebuilt troops as a way to illustrate the failure of the Lanfeng Battle, the 14th Division, in the Lanfeng Battle, stubbornly withstood the attack of five or six times the national army's strength for seven days, and finally broke out smoothly with the support of friendly forces. With this record, it has suddenly become the Japanese second-rate division among the top Japanese divisions.

Most of the artillery soaked in the Yellow River water to strengthen the 14th Division has been pulled back to Heze.

The victory of the Wuhan Battle gave these Japanese a strong confidence.

The enemy situation was reported through the meeting, so that cadres and soldiers could understand the opponents as much as possible, and that all officers and soldiers understood that the Independent Regiment was facing a tough battle.

What surprised them was that the Japanese who arrived near Shandong seemed to have exhausted all their enthusiasm during the Battle of Wuhan.

It's like a turtle.

The independent regiment and county brigades conducted a month and a half in the battle in Yimeng Mountain and Huxi.

Five sub-subsidiary commanders, political commissar and machine cannon, and artillery battalion commander Zhao Ziyun followed Zhou Xiaoshan to Huxi for a trip to inspect the troops for training.

Far beyond the original expected time.

Until the last few days in 1938.

The 14th Division is heading towards Jining.

The 17th Division, the troops were sent to Tan County.

The 4th Division still held its troops in Xuzhou.

Not to mention that the 4th Division did not move, even the 27th Division in Qingdao did not move.

What are the Japanese doing?

Zhou Xiaoshan doesn't care. If you dare to move, I will dare to do it.

The Communications Department quickly sent a report, ordering Chen Hu to lead the three county brigades of Tan County, Linyi and Yinan to Lianyungang and Tan County to bury landmines.

Luo Liang commanded the First Division to destroy the highway from Heze to Jining and lay a large number of landmines.

If the Japanese don’t move, they will be all out as soon as they move.

Until the Fifth Mixed Brigade and the 10th Brigade in Jinan, they led the Jinan puppet troops to march towards Liaocheng.

The 27th Division of Qingdao, the 6th Infantry Brigade of Qingdao, and the part of the Shandong Autonomous Alliance that Zhang Zongyuan gathered began to set off from Qingdao, pressing the Kuomintang stubborn army entrenched in Jiaodong and the Shandong Column in Jiaodong.

The Japanese dispatched from Tianjin, Beiping, Taiyuan and Shimen made a pot of porridge in Hebei and Shanxi.

The 4th Division has not moved in Xuzhou yet.

Information and war reports from all over the country continued to gather towards Yimeng Mountain.

Liu Ziman took the telegram from about two Japanese troops to the port city and sent it to Zhou Xiaoshan.

"The regiment commander is as expected, and the Japanese are going to sweep the entire battle. On the surface, they target all the enemy-behind forces in North China, but in fact the focus is on our Eighth Route Army!"

"Did Fan Shukun contact Liaocheng? The two Japanese brigades entered Liaocheng, and they would definitely not be able to withstand it. If necessary, the main force needs to give up the base and move to Huxi!"

"I've contacted it. The Japanese set out in Jinan and headed west. They killed the Chinese when they saw them and lit the house. They walked very slowly and kept staring at the puppet army and killed the five to ten kilometers along the highway. The construction of the tunnels in Liaocheng area was not as nervous as us, and the Tibetan people were in trouble. Mr. Fan was worried that after the main force evacuated the Japanese, the Japanese would vent their anger with the people!"

What are the Eighth Route Army’s anti-sweeping campaign?

What I fear most is that the Japanese took the people and coerced the Eighth Route Army to come out and be beaten.

It is a situation where the enemy is strong and we are weak, and the Japanese troops have an absolute advantage.

Even if Fan Zhuxian and his newly trained troops stayed in Liaocheng, they could not defeat the two Japanese brigades and more than 10,000 puppet troops.

Although Zhou Xiaoshan wanted to support Liaocheng, he even had the urge to attack Jinan and Dawenkou.

However, the three divisions on the southern front put too much pressure on the independent regiment, unless they could give a devastating blow to the Japanese all the way, scaring the other two.

Water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn the boat.

Retreat without fighting, breaking the people's confidence in the Eighth Route Army.

Without the support of the people, the Eighth Route Army's base construction has no way to start.

"Are the Japanese who marched at the 14th Division and the 17th Division the same as the Japanese in Jinan?"

From Heze to Jining, Lianyungang to Tancheng, the straight line distance is less than 120 kilometers.

The Japanese marched on foot and would definitely arrive in two days.

The reason why I walked so slowly was that I was running to both sides of the road and doing evil.

Now, neither the county brigade of Tancheng nor the county brigade of Juye have reported that the Japanese entered the core base.

"There is no distinction between beasts. How could there be such a shameless army in the world? They did not go for sweeping, but came for killing people. Although the two divisions of Japanese soldiers did not aim at passers-by when they marched, they were dividing their troops to find the villages on both sides of the road. Once the villages and market towns that the Japanese passed by were burned, killed, and looted, the market towns on the roadside would turn into ashes!"

"How is the evacuation of the people on the edge of the base?"

"Not really, Tan County and Donghai are better. The county brigade and district squad have mobilized to evacuate from both sides of the highway. Gangcheng has been stationed in the Japanese soldiers, and there are several traitorous landlord armed forces who have defected to the Japanese. They came out of Gangcheng and I don't know how many Chinese people have been siege and killed!"

"Let the scouts stare at the Japanese. No matter what the Japanese do, they will report it in time, including the 4th Division of Xuzhou. What I worry most now is that after the Japanese step onto our mine formation, they will not concentrate on clearing mines and escort a large number of Chinese people to clear the way!"

The mine formation was delayed by the Japanese marching.

The purpose is to acquire time for the second allocation of troops in the independent regiment.

The six main battalions of the Fourth Branch and the four county brigades were drawn to Tancheng under the leadership of Jiao Shouzhi.

Zhao Ziyun has led three battalions of the General Regiment, as well as machine cannons and artillery units to Tancheng, and is expected to meet with Jiao Shouzhi tonight.

Tancheng is southeastward, and after five months of cultivation in the base area, a large number of defensive tunnels have been established, enough to hide the people.

Even between the highway from Port City to Tancheng.

There are also some hidden tunnels lurking in the surrounding complex mountain terrain.

Can assist independent teams in attack missions at any time.

Zhou Xiaoshan was not worried about the attack on the 17th Division.

What he was worried about was Huxi.
Chapter completed!