Gao Jiu was still welcomed by the Japanese army's willingness to surrender, which not only prevented a large number of casualties from the anti-Japanese armed forces, but also helped to disintegrate the enemy in the future.

Of course, it can also save a large number of weapons and ammunition.

Gao Jiu immediately agreed to the Japanese surrender and promised to hold a surrender ceremony for them to retain their basic dignity. The officers could carry guns and command knives and not confiscate the corps flags of their troops.

After obtaining such guarantees, the Chief of Staff was very grateful and immediately returned to the Japanese position and reported to the division commander.

Not long after, the Japanese division commander led the senior officers out first, and then all the Japanese surrendered.

When the officers and soldiers of the Sixth Army saw the arrogant Japanese army, they were so vulnerable in front of the Taohuashan guerrillas.

This time they personally participated in the battle against the Japanese army, and repelled the Japanese attacks many times, building confidence in the battle against the Japanese army.

Faced with such a major victory, the officers and soldiers burst into warm cheers.

The 39th Division, which annihilated the Japanese army, was very happy that all parties of the anti-Japanese forces were all happy. The entire Sixth Army had joined the Guo army anyway, which was a heavy blow to the Japanese and puppets. The rear side reported on this incident extensively.

Among them, the happiest person was of course the 41st Corps of the Guo Army. This time, nearly 30,000 troops were added, and the strength of the Corps was greatly enhanced.

Commander Wang valued the senior generals of the surrendered Sixth Army. Li Yan served as the deputy commander of the newly formed 121st Army, and other senior generals also held corresponding positions.

At this moment, some people were unhappy, or they felt that they were not as happy as they were.

On this day, the person in charge of the underground party hurried to meet Gao Jiu. He also came with him an enemy worker of the underground party in the Henan direction.         When they met Gao Jiu, they exchanged a few simple greetings, which explained their purpose.

It turned out that the Henan underground party had already carried out a lot of rebellion among the puppet army, among which many underground party members had developed in the Sixth Army. They originally wanted to win some of the people in the Sixth Army to revolt and join the underground party. As a result, Gao Jiu took the lead and mobilized these people to join the Guo Army.

The head of the Henan Underground Party Enemy Works Department hopes that Gao Jiu can do the work of the 41st Corps, so that the underground party-controlled troops in the Sixth Army can be separated from the 41st Corps and join the underground party.

Gao Jiu understood the feelings of the underground party, so he went to find Wang Jindong, and then went to see Commander Wang together, and told him the whole story.

Commander Wang felt a little unhappy when he heard this, but he had to give Gao Jiu a face. He also heard that there were not many personnel developing in the Sixth Army, so he agreed to the request of the underground party.

The Sixth Army had a regiment of the army that had been controlled by the underground party. The whole regiment broke away from the newly formed 121st Army of the 41st Corps and joined the underground party.

The underground party in Henan is sincerely grateful for Gao Jiu's help.

Gao Jiu came to fight the Japanese this time, and the 41st Corps was strong and strong. Gao Jiu discussed with Commander Wang, Wang Jindong and others and prepared to attack the 40th Division of the Japanese army. As a result, the Japanese army withdrew 200km in one breath after hearing the news.

Although the 41st Corps did not have the 40th Division that could annihilate the Japanese army, they took the opportunity to occupy a large area of ​​land abandoned by the Japanese army, further strengthening the strength of the 41st Corps.

In order to consolidate the achievements achieved in this stage, the 41st Corps had no plans to continue attacking the Japanese army. Soon after, it temporarily left Henan and came to the Shandong Military Region.

After the Japanese 141st Division re-occupied Tai'an, in order to open up the Jinpu Railway, they often sent troops to attack the underground party troops of the Lunan Military Region, occupied some areas on both sides of the railway, and protected the Japanese railway to repair the Jinpu Railway.

The Lunan Military Region received instructions from the underground party superiors that the Jinpu Railway should not be opened to traffic in any case, and required them to continue to launch raids and destroy the enemy's work to repair the Jinpu Railway.

On this day, the superior organization of the underground party sent a telegram saying that in order to open up the Jinpu Railway, the Japanese army dispatched troops from the Fourth Division of the Second Army of the Shandong Puppet Army to enter the railway near Tai'an City to strengthen the protection of the Jinpu Railway.

The heads of the underground party of the Lunan Military Region, Gao Hong, Chen Zhiyong, Chen Johan and others, were originally very troubled by the Japanese 141st Division in their base areas. If one more division of the puppet army was added, they would be under greater pressure.

Therefore, they hope that Gao Jiu will help attack the Fourth Division of the Puppet Army.

Seeing the worried look of the underground party leaders and others, Gao Jiu couldn't help but laugh.

Wei Liming, commander of the Fourth Division of the puppet army, is Gao Jiu's old friend. The Fourth Division came here not so much that the Japanese army added another division's strength, but rather that Gao Jiu added another powerful armed force.

Wei Liming led the troops to march for a long distance, cautiously on the way, for fear of being ambushed by anti-Japanese armed forces. After they headed south and arrived in Jinan, they received a telegram from Gao Jiu, so they continued to march with confidence and boldness and successfully entered Tai'an City.

A few days later, Wei Liming received another telegram from Gao Jiu. He changed into plain clothes and quietly left Tai'an City with several followers, and went to the suburbs to meet Gao Jiu.

Wei Liming first met Gao Jiu many years ago because he was forced to meet him because he was afraid of him.

Now Gao Jiu is more than ten times better than that year. Wei Liming received a telegram from Gao Jiu, so he naturally dared not come out to meet him.

Of course, they can be said to be old friends now. When they saw Gao Jiu, Wei Liming's mood was very different from before.

After the greetings, Gao Jiu began to tell him about the situation of the world's anti-*** war, pointing out that the Japanese army is now gradually heading towards the end of the road, and that the rabbit's tail cannot grow.

He hopes that Wei Liming will understand the situation and join the anti-Japanese camp as soon as possible.

The Japanese's current power has weakened a lot compared to before, and Wei Liming can see this clearly.

In the Henan aspect, the sixth army of the puppet army surrendered to the Guo army. This incident touched Wei Liming a great deal. He already had the idea of ​​breaking away from Japan and joining the anti-Japanese armed forces.

Gao Jiu persuaded Wei Liming to take advantage of this opportunity to come to Tai'an to fight back against the Japanese army and join the anti-Japanese ranks.

Wei Liming was very concerned about what kind of treatment he would receive if he abandoned the darkness and turned to the light. He hoped to join the Guo Army like the Sixth Army.

The Sixth Army joined the Guo Army and was forced to go to Liangshan.

Wei Liming was different. He trusted Gao Jiu very much, so Gao Jiu's opinions had a great influence on him.

Gao Jiu persuaded him to choose to join the underground party, but Wei Liming was a little confused. He believed that the Guofu was powerful and the Zheng Quan recognized as the legal one at this stage. He believed that the underground party was too weak, so he hoped to join the Guo army.

Gu Ming

Gao Jiu was familiar with the direction of history. He analyzed the future problems he would face after the War of Resistance Against Japan and quietly told him the true direction of history in the future.

Wei Liming couldn't see that far, but he trusted Gao Jiu very much. He was willing to obey Gao Jiu's advice, but he made a request to Gao Jiu, that is, if the road to joining the underground party in the future is not going well, he hopes to leave a way out for him and his brothers in the Golden Triangle.

Gao Jiu agreed in full.

Wei Liming was convinced of Gao Jiu's promise, so he decided to go back and discuss with his generals and mobilize them to follow the path pointed out by Gao Jiu.

Wei Liming returned to Tai'an City, secretly summoned his senior officers and told them Gao Jiu's opinions.

In the end, everyone chose to believe in Gao Jiu, so they began to prepare in advance.

In order to avoid the worries of the officers of the Fourth Division, Gao Jiu sent Li Chengwu to lead the Taohuashan guerrillas to the northeastern Shandong region with Wei Liming's adjutant to transfer their families and property.

So far, Gao Jiu has already been confident in the uprising work of the Fourth Division of the puppet army.

So he called the heads of the underground party, Gao Hong, Chen Johan, Chen Zhiyong and others, and told them the good news that the Fourth Division of the puppet army was preparing to revolt and join the underground party.

Everyone really didn't expect that there was a good thing about the pie falling from the sky. The puppet army, who originally attacked one of their divisions, was willing to join the underground party, which would greatly increase the armed forces of the underground party in southwestern Shandong.

Everyone was overjoyed and expressed their gratitude to Gao Jiu.

Next, Wei Liming left the city again and held talks with the underground party leader, Gao Hong and others, and discussed matters related to the surrender of the Fourth Division of the puppet army.

The Shandong Military Region asked for instructions from its underground party superiors, and the superiors attached great importance to this matter.

In order to appease the officers and soldiers of the Fourth Division, it was promised that after the Fourth Division uprising, the division commander Wei Liming would be appointed as the first deputy commander of the Lunan Military Region, and other officers would also arrange corresponding positions.

After the matter was settled, Gao Jiu formulated a combat plan to attack Tai'an City.

Teraunuchi still attaches great importance to opening the Jinpu Railway. He knew that in southern Shandong, Gao Jiu had a great influence among the Japanese and puppet troops, so he specially transferred the Fourth Division from the distant northeastern Shandong region, believing that this unit had no relationship with Gao Jiu, so that this unit could ensure that this unit could fight Gao Jiu seriously.

After the troops of the Fourth Division of the puppet army entered Tai'an City, the commander of the 141st Japanese division asked that except for the division headquarters that the Fourth Division could stay in Tai'an City, the remaining troops of the Fourth Division drove out of Tai'an City and were stationed on both sides of the Jinpu Railway.

Wei Liming used the excuse that the troops needed to supplement supplies and pushed the time when the Fourth Division left Tai'an City for five days, and then reported the situation to Gao Jiu.

After discussion, Gao Jiu made up his mind to attack Tai'an City and planned to start the operation at 4 a.m. tomorrow.

After the Fourth Division of the puppet army entered Tai'an City, the east gate and south gate of Tai'an City were handed over to the Fourth Division to guard it.

Wang Zhankui and Guo Hengming led the Taohuashan guerrillas, disguised themselves as puppet troops, entered Tai'an City with the support of the Fourth Division, and cooperated with the officers and soldiers of the Fourth Division to attack Tai'an City with the main underground party forces.

In order to conquer Tai'an City, the underground party's military region mobilized the Southwest Shandong Independent Brigade, the Second Independent Brigade of Southeast Shandong, four security regiments, nine county brigades, and a total force of more than 12,000.

These are most of the assets of the Shandong Military Region. The underground party leaders, Gao Hong, Chen Zhiyong and others were not nervous because with Gao Jiu, they were full of confidence in winning.

It was dark early in early spring, and it was completely dark by 8 o'clock in the evening.

Gao Jiu and others led a large group of troops to head towards Tai'an City.

At 2:30 in the morning, the south gate of Tai'an City opened. Wei Liming, commander of the Fourth Division of the Public Security Army, personally welcomed the large group of troops led by Gao Jiu and others at the door and entered Tai'an City.

At 3:40 a.m., a Japanese patrol team passed by the gate of the 141st Division.

They walked out for about ten minutes and a Japanese patrol drove over.

The Japanese sentry standing guard at this gate felt a little strange. Tai'an City was very big. It usually took about 50 minutes for the Japanese patrol to pass through the gate of the headquarters. He didn't understand why this patrol came so quickly.

Seeing the Japanese patrol coming towards the gate, the Japanese sentry was very alert and asked, "Command."

The second lieutenant led by the Japanese patrol team replied: "Go back to the bottom of Mount Fuji."

The Japanese sentinel replied: "Cherry blossoms are in full bloom."

Although he was a little vigilant, there were tens of thousands of Japanese troops stationed in the city, and there was a puppet army of a division. In addition, the other party's command was answered correctly, he didn't think much about it, and just asked, "Secretary Lieutenant, are you doing anything?"

The Japanese lieutenant said, "I am here to deliver emergency documents." As he said that, he opened the bag he carried with him.

The Japanese sentry thought he was going to take out some documents from it, so he went forward to check it, but saw the Japanese lieutenant taking out a pistol from his bag.

The sentry widened his eyes and was about to shout when the lieutenant had fired.

The pistol with a silencer installed made a sluggish sound, and the two Japanese sentinels fell silently.

The Japanese lieutenant rushed into the gate of the headquarters. They first destroyed the Japanese army in the duty room next to the gate, and then took out the flashlight and drew a circle outside the gate.

Soon, a large number of Taohuashan guerrillas wearing security uniforms rushed into the Japanese army headquarters. In order to avoid misunderstandings, they threw away the hat on their heads, put on the battle caps of Taohuashan guerrillas, took off their shirts, revealing the black uniform of Taohuashan guerrillas inside.

The same scene happened in various important units of the Japanese army in the city.

In front of the Japanese headquarters office building, the guerrillas disguised as Japanese patrols did the same and knocked down the Japanese sentinels.

Just as they pushed open the door, they were discovered by Japanese sentries who came to change their guards. They fired guns and called the police. The battle started, and soon the entire city of Tai'an was filled with gunfire.
Chapter completed!