Jinan 12th Army Headquarters.

When Chief of Staff General Haneda opened his eyes in the morning, he heard bad news. The 3rd Division of the Public Security Army, which planned to be siege the Taohua Mountain, encountered a serious attack last night. A cavalry battalion was all wiped out by Gao Jiu's special forces and the local Eighth Route Army. The Yangzhuang stronghold was lost, and another company of the public security army was lost. The enemy also showed signs of attacking Licheng, where the 3rd Division's headquarters was located.

The troops planned to dispatch by the 3rd Division were temporarily unable to assemble to Jinan City, and asked for instructions to transfer a regiment that had arrived in Jinan City in advance back to its original garrison.

According to the current situation, the 3rd Division is no longer able to assemble to Jinan City as originally planned and participate in the next combat plan to attack Taohua Mountain.

Chief Haneda felt a little confused. Hamada Yoshiji reported that Gao Jiu was moving around Jinan City, so why did he suddenly run to Licheng hundreds of miles away? Moreover, Gao Jiu colluded with the local Eighth Route Army, which made the local anti-Japanese armed forces rekindled.

Chief Haneda immediately called the military police headquarters and asked General Matsuda to investigate the matter.

All the major garrisons in Jinan City were notified of such a big disturbance. The 8th Division, the chief of staff, and the commander of the 3rd Air Force, have now understood that Gao Jiu would take care of any troops that planned to participate in the encirclement and suppression of Taohua Mountain. They were very glad that they reached an agreement with Gao Jiu in advance, so that they did not cause any major losses.

They have guessed that Gao Jiu's next target must be the 4th Division and the 114th Division of the Public Security Army. But neither of them would inform the 12th Army Command because this might reveal the secret agreement between them and Gao Jiu. Moreover, they were a little gloating and hoped to see the 4th Division of the Public Security Army, especially the 114th Division, unlucky.

The 114th Division did not know the secret between the 8th Division, the 3rd Air Force and Gao Jiu. They saw Gao Jiu and others attacked some targets outside Jinan City, and then attacked the 3rd Division of the Public Security Army. These targets looked quite chaotic in total. They had not yet found the rules, and they could not tell what Gao Jiu was going to do for a while.

The 114th Division has concentrated its main force in Jinan City. They are determined to attack Taohua Mountain and avenge their previous shame.

General Matsuda received the notice and felt a little confused. He immediately called Hamada Yoshiji and asked him to investigate the attack on the 3rd Division of the Public Security Army, so that he could find out where Gao Jiu was.

After all, Yoshihiro Hamada was familiar with Gao Jiu. He now understood that he was Li Daitaozun's plan to defeat Gao Jiu. At this time, Gao Jiu was definitely not in Jinan City. He would not run to Licheng to attack the 3rd Division of the Public Security Army for no reason. The only reason was that the 3rd Division of the Public Security Army planned to participate in the siege of Taohua Mountain. He could conclude that Gao Jiu came to Jinan this time and appeared in Licheng again was to disrupt the combat deployment of the 12th Army to attack Taohua Mountain.

Hamada Yoshiji immediately suggested to General Matsuda, reminding the 12th Army Command to issue a notice, so that the troops originally planned to participate in the attack on Taohua Mountain should remain highly vigilant and prevent Gao Jiu's attack.

General Matsuda no longer believed in Hamada Yoshihiro's judgment. It was Hamada Yoshihiro who swears that Gao Jiu is near Jinan City, and now he says with certainty that Gao Jiu himself appears in Licheng.

Matsuda is a serious and responsible person and a cautious person. He can no longer report this situation to the 12th Army Command based on Hamada Yoshihiro's judgment. He asked Hamada Yoshihiro to investigate immediately and obtain accurate information.

At two o'clock that afternoon, the 4th Division of the Public Security Army also sent a telegram saying that their division headquarters and subordinate troops were jointly attacked by Gao Jiu and the local Eighth Route Army armed forces, and suffered heavy losses. In order to protect themselves, the troops planned to go to Jinan could no longer be dispatched, and a regiment of troops on the road were also transferred back directly.

Now, General Matsuda has also understood what Gao Jiu’s purpose is. He now believes that Hamada Yoshihiro’s judgment is correct, so he reported this situation to General Haneda.

The commander of the 8th Division and the chief of staff and the commander of the 3rd Air Force received a notice from the 12th Army Command, asking them to strengthen their defense and avoid being attacked by Gao Jiu. Seeing the tragic situation of the 3rd and 4th Divisions of the Public Security Army, they were once again grateful for their decision.

Now the Japanese and puppet troops who planned to participate in the besiege of Taohua Mountain, the 114th Division was left without being attacked by Gao Jiu.

Gao Jiu naturally would not let them go. Unlike other goals, Gao Jiu's attack on the 114th Division was not as simple as it was. He was going to come this time and completely destroy the morale of the 114th Division.

Gao Jiu performed a play with Zhao Wannian, the commander of the 4th Division of the Public Security Army in Yongcheng, northern Shandong. Zhao Wannian pretended to be defeated and gave the Eighth Route Army a batch of weapons. He transferred the troops planned to travel to Jinan City back to the vicinity of Yongcheng, which prevented them from being transferred to attack Taohua Mountain.

Gao Jiu settled the 3rd and 4th Divisions of the Public Security Army and returned to Jinan City.

Just as Gao Jiu launched an operation, the Southwest Shandong Military Sub-district launched a fierce offensive against the Japanese and puppet troops.

Chen John commanded the county brigades, district squadrons and district squadrons of each county to carry out fierce attacks on the regimes at all levels in the Japanese and puppet villages, eliminating a large number of traitors, destroying the grassroots organizations of the Japanese and puppets in the countryside, and actively carrying out the work of mobilizing the masses and establishing an anti-Japanese democratic regime.

Gao Hong and Jiang Xiaomei led the first and second combat clusters of the Southwest Shandong Military Sub-district to attack the county town. With their superior forces and strong firepower support, they successively conquered Zhiyuan County and Lanxi County two county towns, which were greatly boosted.

The Japanese and puppet troops in the county towns of other counties in southwestern Shandong asked for help from the Japanese army in Jinan City.

After receiving a series of bad news, General Haneda, the chief of staff of the 12th Army, was furious and held an emergency combat meeting to deploy a sweep of southwestern Shandong.

After the meeting began, he briefly introduced the situation in the southwestern Shandong region and said: "The underground party armed forces in the southwestern Shandong region launched a large-scale offensive. Two county towns have fallen. The situation there is really bad. The underground party armed forces cannot be allowed to capture other county towns, otherwise, the Huang army will lose control of that area.

The commander asked to send troops to southwest Shandong immediately to wipe out the underground anti-Japanese armed forces there."

After General Haneda finished speaking, Lieutenant General Shigeji Momoji and Chief of Staff Colonel Isoda Saburo both felt gloating. Chief of Staff of the 114th Division said: "The southwestern Shandong region is now the defense area of ​​the 8th Division, and the 15th Brigade of the 8th Division is stationed in Tai'an. Why don't they send troops to stop the underground party's anti-Japanese armed forces?"

The 8th Division Commander and Chief of Staff were not happy, Chief of Staff Toshi Tada

When he heard that the 114th Division was targeting them, he immediately said dissatisfiedly: "Isoda Jun, what do you mean? The 15th Brigade of our division is currently under attack from the Eighth Route Army of the Underground Party, and he cannot draw any troops."

He was right. In order to give the 8th Division the reason not to send troops, Gao Jiu sent a telegram to Chen Zhiyong, the commander of the Independent Regiment of the Southeast Shandong Military Sub-district, asking them to make a feint attack on the 15th Brigade of the Japanese Army. The commander of the Akiyama Brigade claimed that the Eighth Route Army's offensive was huge, and even Tai'an was under a huge threat and was unable to withdraw troops.

Tada Toshi continued: "Besides, even if we can draw a small amount of troops to go to Zhiyuan County, we will have to pass through Taohua Mountain, the Gaojiu bandit gang on the way.

Your 114th Division, a whole brigade, was destroyed there. If our small number of troops act rashly, they would most likely suffer heavy losses. In this case, how could the 15th Brigade encircle and suppress the underground party there and the anti-Japanese armed forces?"

When the division commander of the 114th Division heard this, Momoji felt that he was slapping himself in the face. He said, "What are you talking about? When our division suffered losses in southwestern Shandong, there were troops from the entire 187th division in Zhinao's newly-edited 187th Division. Now there are only some territorial eighth Route Army there. How can the situation be the same?"

Tada Toshi, chief of staff of the 8th Division, said: "Since you said that, there are no new 187th Division with tens of thousands of people there, so you can send another brigade to fight!"

The 114th Division and the 8th Division were quarreling fiercely, and the commander of the Third Air Force, Masao Yokota, sat aside, happily watching their jokes.

Chief Haneda really couldn't stand it anymore and said, "Don't argue anymore. How can a high-ranking general of the Huang army quarrel like a shrew on the street? What are the questions and what are the questions to say, you must have the demeanor of a senior general of the Huang army."

Seeing that Chief Haneda got angry, the quarrel stopped.

Chief of Staff Haneda said: "There is still a long distance from Jinan City to southwest Shandong, and it is difficult for the army to rush to reinforce as soon as possible. Yokota, your 3rd Air Force will support the Yellow Army troops there."

Masao Yokota had already been mentally prepared. When he heard Chief Haneda point his name, he hurriedly said, "Chief of Staff, we know nothing about the situation of the enemy there. The enemy troops in that area are equipped with a large number of air defense weapons. If we go rashly, we will suffer huge losses.

There is another situation I am about to report to you. After the last combat meeting, we actively deployed a plan to bomb Taohua Mountain. In order to ensure that the combat mission can be carried out smoothly, we inspected and maintained all bombers.

Who knew that the batch of engine oil we stocked had quality problems. After adding this batch of engine oil, the performance of the aircraft was greatly affected. Although we cleaned it in time, there was no qualified engine oil for filling.

In this case, the aircraft cannot take off rashly, otherwise the plane will be destroyed and killed. We have reported to our superiors and asked to transport a batch of new engine oil as soon as possible. Before this batch of new engine oil arrives, our 3rd Air Force will not be able to perform its combat mission for the time being."

Makio Yokota knew that these people from the Army were not very good at the technical aspects of the Air Force. He made up a few excuses to delay the time of the mission.

Sure enough, General Haneda didn't know much about the Air Force's technology, so he had to say: "You can clear the fault as soon as possible to ensure that the aircraft can perform combat missions as soon as possible."

Yokota Makio Yokota felt very happy when he heard Chief Haneda say this, but on the surface he said with fear and fear: "Ha! Chief of Staff, I will definitely urge my subordinates to hurry up and maintain the plane."

General Haneda went all out to formulate a combat plan to sweep southwestern Shandong. The plan has not yet begun. All the Japanese and puppet troops who planned to participate in the besieging Taohua Mountain have been restrained by Gao Jiu, and even the troops cannot be withdrawn, which makes him feel anxious.

At this time, he suddenly remembered that the main Japanese 114th Division, which attacked Taohua Mountain, was not attacked by Gao Jiu. Moreover, their main forces had been concentrated in Jinan City, with more than 16,000 people. Such a powerful force was enough to sweep southwestern Shandong. Now the situation in southwestern Shandong has become corrupt. If you don’t go to reinforce, they will probably all become the territory of the underground party.

He said to Momoji Mosong, the commander of the 114th Division, "My Songjun, the situation in southwestern Shandong has reached a point of collapse. Given the current situation, your troops have gathered, the 114th Division will be dispatched immediately to eliminate the anti-Japanese armed forces of the underground party in southwestern Shandong."
Chapter completed!