Doihara knew that accusing the Air Force had no meaning, and could only deepen the conflict between the Army and the Air Force.

He immediately flew back to Tokyo, went to the Air Force Minister, and discussed with him the matter of strengthening cooperation between the Army and the Air Force.

The Air Force Minister had already received a report from the North China Air Force, saying that the Air Force's Third Air Force suffered a heavy blow, and the airport in the second air force's Beiping was also bombarded by the Taohuashan guerrillas, accusing that this was all caused by the incompetence of the Army and the inability to provide cover for the Air Force's airport.

Although Doihara accompanied him with caution and patience to please the Air Force Minister, the Air Force Minister still did not give him face, but ended up leaving unhappily.

The offensive operation in the Tai'an direction planned by Doihara himself was basically disintegrated before it even began. Without the Second Artillery Brigade, the Air Force could not count on it. The only thing he could rely on was the giant mortars that had just been transported to Shandong.

Thinking of this, he immediately broke out in a cold sweat.

Doihira sent a telegram to Yoshino, commander of the 12th Army, telling him not to let the heavy mortars get into trouble again.

Togo Yoshino had contacted the Japanese side last time based on General Matsuda's suggestion and changed the heavy mortar that had originally landed in Qingdao to Weihai.

He had received a report that the batch of heavy mortars had landed in Weihai and were about to be transported to Jinan.

Togo Yoshino received a telegram from Doihara, which attracted his attention to this matter.

In order to be sure, he called General Matsuda to discuss with him the transportation of these heavy artillery.

General Matsuda has also been paying attention to the matter of these heavy artillery. He first asked Yoshino Togo how it arranged it.

Togo Yoshino said that in order to ensure the safety of this batch of heavy artillery, he planned to send an infantry corps from the 142nd Division to escort.

General Matsuda had his own ideas, and he said: "That large-scale military operations must be hidden from Gao Jiu's eyes. Although the troops of a corps are very strong, it is difficult to ensure safety if they are attacked by the Taohuashan guerrillas.

If Gao Jiu dispatches aircraft to bomb again, the force of a corps will be

Not enough either.”

When Togo Yoshino heard what he said, he felt unsure of it and said, "What are you good ways?"

General Matsuda said: "The safest and most effective way is to prevent Gao Jiu from knowing about transporting heavy artillery, so he has no idea how to start.

Gao Jiu didn't know about this batch of weapons from China to Jinan. Maybe he would get some clues, but he didn't know that we had secretly transported this batch of weapons to Weihai to land. They would definitely think that this batch of weapons would still land in Qingdao and then intercept them along Qingdao.

My opinion is that we will build a plank road openly and cross Chencang secretly. According to the commander's opinion, we will send an infantry brigade from the 142nd Division to Qingdao. Then I will arrange for people to release the wind and say that this infantry brigade is going to escort this batch of heavy artillery, attracting Gao Jiu's attention to the direction of Qingdao.

Then we used civilian trucks to quietly send these giant artillery back from Weihai."

Yoshino Togo was very satisfied with General Matsuda's plan. He said: "Implement according to this plan. You will be responsible for the transportation of heavy artillery."

General Matsuda accepted this task. He was a very serious person, so he brought the staff from the Special High School Division of the Jinan Military Police Command to Weihai, Shandong.

Accompanied by the Weihai Military Police Captain, General Matsuda came to the warehouse where heavy artillery was stored. When he saw the huge wooden boxes, he had a new idea.

He asked the Weihai military captain to send someone out to process a batch of ordinary wooden boxes, and quietly transported it to the warehouse at night. Then he loaded the heavy mortar into the ordinary wooden boxes, and then loaded other goods into the original wooden boxes. Then, he used a batch of civilian trucks to pull these large wooden boxes and drive them to Jinan.

He was going to throw a stone to ask for directions to see if the Taohuashan guerrillas had obtained the information that they had landed in Weihai.

After the trucks set off, they sent people from the Special High School Class to secretly follow the transport convoy to see if they would be attacked by guerrillas.

Just when General Matsuda arrived in Weihai, an infantry brigade of the 142nd Division of the Japanese Army had arrived in Qingdao and then controlled the Qingdao Wharf.

The captain of the team led the team told the commander of the Japanese army in Qingdao and the captain of the military police, Hirata, that they came to welcome a batch of important materials transported from Japan under the orders of their superiors.

Captain Pingtian already knew at this time that the batch of goods had arrived in Weihai, Shandong.

His mind was extremely clever and guessed that the Japanese army was attacking the east and west, so he was very active and mobilized the military police team to assist the Japanese infantry brigade to block the dock, and at the same time told Li San the news.

Li San sent the telegram to Gao Jiu.

Gao Jiu got the news and knew that the Japanese army had already begun to transport the heavy mortars from Weihai, so he informed Wang Zhankui of the news and asked them to intercept them along the way.

Wang Zhankui and others had already arrived in Weihai and sent special forces members to the city to contact the people in Yuchuntang.

They secretly monitored the Japanese warehouse where heavy artillery was stored, and saw the Japanese army carrying many large boxes onto the civilian trucks. Then they left Weihai City.

They informed Wang Zhankui of the news.

On the road from Weihai to Jinan, the head of the Special High School Section of the Jinan Military Police Command was riding a civilian car and secretly followed the transport convoy. Just as the convoy was about to leave Weihai, he saw a checkpoint set up by the Japanese army appearing in front of him.

The Super High School Chief instinctively thought that there was something wrong with the checkpoint, so he stopped the car and watched it from a distance.

Sure enough, the transport convoys were intercepted. He could clearly see with his telescope that the Japanese soldiers at the checkpoint lifted the large wooden boxes from the truck and opened them to check. Soon after, he remembered a burst of gunfire. It was obvious that these Japanese soldiers were pretended by the Taohua Mountain guerrillas.

They found themselves fooled, so they shot and killed the Japanese officers and soldiers who were transporting supplies.

The head of the Special High School Department admired General Matsuda's foresight when he saw this situation. He immediately returned to Weihai and reported to General Matsuda.

After hearing this, General Matsuda felt glad while also sweating.

He really didn't expect that he had done a lot of work in advance to transport the artillery to Weihai as a secret matter. Unexpectedly, the news was intercepted by Gao Jiu.

He felt a deep sense of fear, and he didn't know how long Gao Jiu's hand could stretch out, and it was even possible that Gao Jiu's people were around him.

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Now, the matter is clear. Gao Jiu's people have obtained the news that this batch of heavy artillery is in Weihai. It is impossible for him to transport this batch of artillery to Jinan.

So he sent a telegram to Yoshino Togo and told him everything about it.

He suggested sending heavy troops to escort.

After Donggo Yoshino learned about the whole story, he admired General Songtian very much.

If General Matsuda hadn't had a throwing stone to ask for directions, the heavy artillery had already fallen into the hands of the Taohuashan guerrillas again.

He made up his mind this time that this batch of heavy artillery must be equipped with troops anyway.

Just let the Japanese 142nd Division dispatch an infantry brigade to receive these heavy artillery, so that they can prepare for combat while transporting these heavy artillery. If they are attacked by guerrillas, they will use these heavy artillery to attack Taohuashan guerrillas.

After Wang Zhankui and others failed to intercept the mission, they knew that they were deceived by the Japanese. But it was completely certain that the batch of heavy artillery was in Weihai City. So they informed Gao Jiu of the news.

After Gao Jiu learned of the news, he immediately went to Weihai City.

When Wang Zhankui saw Gao Jiu, he said depressedly: Master Jiu, I didn’t expect that the Japanese devils would be so cunning that they were fooled.”

Gao Jiu said to him: "It's okay. I have sent a telegram to Bao Yuchun and have received the exact news that the heavy artillery of the Japanese army has not yet been transported from Weihai. I will go to the city to destroy these heavy artillery myself.

Your mission is to find a place that is convenient for ambushing and prevent the Japanese army from sending troops from Jinan to reinforce, while cutting off the road from Weihai City to Jinan, and preventing the enemy's heavy artillery from being transported to Jinan City."

After assigning the mission, Gao Jiu led a team of special forces to disguise themselves as Japanese troops and headed to Weihai City.

After entering the city, Gao Jiu found the people from Yuchuntang arranged by Bao Yuchun. They told Gao Jiu that they had been monitoring the warehouse where the Japanese army stored the heavy artillery and were sure that they had not transported it out.

Gao Jiu has basically judged the Japanese army's intentions now. They already knew that the Taohuashan guerrillas would intercept them halfway, so they would definitely send heavy troops to escort them.

The reason why they waited here was to wait for the arrival of the Japanese army.

Gao Jiu immediately followed Yuchuntang's people to the dock warehouse for reconnaissance.

Gao Jiu saw that the surroundings of the dock had been blocked by the Japanese army. There were fifty or sixty Japanese troops who could be seen, and there were still many hidden Japanese troops.

While Gao Jiu was observing, he suddenly saw a familiar figure. It turned out to be his old friend General Matsuda. He understood why Wang Zhankui was fooled. It turned out that the enemy had sent such a powerful opponent.

Gao Jiu has been observing on the dock, and he hopes General Matsuda can leave the dock.

He believed that this possibility was extremely high. As a general of the Japanese army, he should not be able to guard the dock.

Gao Jiu wanted to wait until General Matsuda left the dock and find an opportunity to hijack him first.

What he didn't expect was that General Matsuda was an extremely serious and responsible person who actually guarded those heavy artillery himself.

It seems that he would not leave without sending these heavy artillery to Jinan City.

Gao Jiu had no choice but to come again at night and personally blow up the heavy artillery of the Japanese army.

At this moment, Xu Zhongming, the stationmaster of the Jinan Station of the Military Control Commission, sent a telegram saying that the Japanese army had sent a brigade troops to Weihai City.

Gao Jiu understood that the reason why General Matsuda stayed here to guard the heavy artillery was waiting for the Japanese troops to come and respond.

If this batch of heavy artillery fell into the hands of this Japanese army, Gao Jiu would not have been able to destroy these heavy artillery. He must complete the task of destroying the heavy artillery of the Japanese army before the Japanese army arrived.

Gao Jiu sent a telegram to Wang Zhankui, asking him to inform him of the situation of the Japanese army coming from Jinan City, asking him to attack Japanese ambush along the way, and be sure to intercept them and prevent them from coming to Weihai City.

He told Wang Zhankui that he could notify the Taohuashan guerrilla air force and let them bomb the Japanese infantry brigade along the way. In short, he should do all means to stop them from being in Weihai.

General Matsuda knew Gao Jiu so well that he guessed that Gao Jiu would definitely come to Weihai City to blow up this batch of heavy artillery. Therefore, he asked the commander of the 12th Army to recruit a large number of vehicles in Jinan City to transport the infantry brigade of the 142nd Division of the Japanese Army to speed up the marching speed. He would personally take care of the material warehouse to ensure the safety of this batch of heavy artillery.

General Matsuda said that he did it, and he himself stayed in the duty room of the warehouse.

He asked the Japanese officers and soldiers to patrol day and night without giving Gao Jiu any opportunity to take advantage of.

As night fell, General Matsuda did not dare to sleep. He personally took people to the warehouse for inspection every two hours, reminding the guards on duty in the warehouse to be vigilant.

At 3 a.m., he was really sleepy, so he slept in the duty room and asked the guards at the door to wake him up every two hours.

Gao Jiu had already received news that the Japanese army's large group of troops were advancing in a car. At this speed, it would not take long to arrive in Weihai City.

He did not want Wang Zhankui and others to fight fiercely with the Japanese army. He had always opposed such a blocking battle, which would cause many casualties to the guerrillas. He hoped that he could seize these few hours and complete the task of destroying the Japanese army's heavy artillery.

Gao Jiu came to the vicinity of the dock warehouse and found that Japanese figures were shaking around the warehouse. These people were obviously on duty, with a very high density. It was extremely difficult for Gao Jiu to get in.

However, Gao Jiu still touched the Japanese army's warehouse.

At this moment, the Japanese army's large squadrons were marching towards Weihai.

General Matsuda reminded Yoshino Togo and asked him to urge the Japanese army not to delay time on the road, because he knew that Gao Jiu would definitely come to Weihai City. He knew that Gao Jiu was powerful and even though he adopted strict security measures, he might not be able to stop Gao Jiu. Therefore, he asked the Japanese army's marching brigade to march quickly and not delay for a moment on the road.

Wang Zhankui and others bought time for Gao Jiu, and they set up blocking positions in a hilly area on the road.

That night, Wang Zhankui was woken up from his dream and said that the lights of the Japanese convoy appeared in the distance. The convoy was large in size, and it was the Japanese reinforcements from the direction of Jinan that came.
Chapter completed!