In August 1942, after some preparations, the Seventh Corps of the Eighth Route Army concentrated nearly 400,000 troops and launched a full-scale attack on the Japanese defense line in Texas from the front.At the same time, the main force of the Shandong Military Region of the Eighth Route Army concentrated more than 100,000 troops to storm Binzhou.After the Eighth Route Army crossed the Yellow River from Liaocheng, it immediately advanced in the direction of Jinan.In addition, other anti-Japanese forces in Shandong, such as the Sulu Theater, also gathered tens of thousands of main forces and launched a large-scale counteroffensive against the Japanese army from the Sulu border area.For a time, smoke broke out in the entire Shandong territory, and the Shandong people, who had been bullied and oppressed by the Japanese army, also rose up one after another to respond to the main force launching a counteroffensive against Shandong.The Seventh Corps of the Eighth Route Army, which was on the frontal battlefield, broke through the Japanese defense line from the right flank after two days of fierce fighting, successively captured Leling, Ningjin and other places, and then made a detour directly to the plain.The battle on the front line was lost, and Gangcun Ningci panicked, and hurriedly ordered the Dezhou frontline troops to retreat to Jinan, relying on the natural danger of the Yellow River, to resist the Seventh Corps of the Eighth Route Army moving south.Li Guotao immediately commanded his troops to capture Dezhou in one fell swoop, and pursued the victory, but the Japanese army was routed all the way and suffered heavy losses.The Seventh Corps of the Eighth Route Army was like a bamboo, and it hit directly to the north bank of the Yellow River.In the first battle of Texas, the Japanese army suffered heavy losses and was annihilated more than 60,000 people successively.At the same time, the main force of the Shandong Military Region of the Eighth Route Army also took the opportunity to recover Binzhou in one fell swoop, and then crossed the Yellow River.After Li Guotao learned the news, he immediately ordered the troops of the Armored Division, the 7th Cavalry Division, and the 17th Cavalry Division to go to Binzhou overnight, cross the Yellow River, and assist the troops of the Shandong Military Region to attack Qingzhou, Changle, Weifang, and other places, so as to cut off the passage for the Japanese troops in Jinan to flee to the Jiaodong Peninsula.The armored division and cavalry division of the Eighth Route Army marched hundreds of miles in a hurry, rushed to Qingzhou, and then launched a fierce attack on Qingzhou, and successfully recovered Qingzhou in less than a day.Gangcun Ningci originally planned to use the natural danger of the Yellow River to resist the main force of the Seventh Corps from crossing the Yellow River, but he did not expect that the Eighth Route Army was not in a hurry to attack Jinan at all, but adopted a roundabout strategy and cut off the Jiaoji Railway in one fell swoop when the Japanese army was newly defeated.Therefore, the defense line of the Yellow River has become useless, and the more than 100,000 troops of the Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, and Henan Military Regions have threatened the rear of Jinan after crossing the Yellow River in Dong'aqiang.Now that the Jiaoji Railway has been cut off, Jinan is also in danger of being surrounded.After weighing the pros and cons, Gangcun Ningci thought that with the 200,000 Japanese troops in his hands now, if he was surrounded by the Eighth Route Army in Jinan, even if he could keep the city of Jinan, he would be besieged to death by the Eighth Route Army.Instead of sacrificing the lives of 200,000 Japanese soldiers to defend a small Jinan city, it is better to preserve the strength for another battle.So Gangcun Ningji decided to abandon Jinan, led nearly 200,000 Japanese troops, and continued to retreat south along the Tianjin-Pudong railway line.The Seventh Corps of the Eighth Route Army took the opportunity to force the Yellow River and regained Jinan, the capital of Shandong Province, in one fell swoop.According to the battlefield situation, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army adjusted its strategic deployment in a timely manner and ordered the main force of the Seventh Corps to continue to pursue the defeated Japanese army along the Tianjin-Pudong Railway.The troops of the Shandong Military Region and the main forces of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region were ordered to immediately advance to the Jiaodong Peninsula, recover the Jiaodong Peninsula, and be responsible for clearing out the remnants of the Japanese puppet forces in northern Shandong.After receiving the order, Li Guotao immediately led the main force of the Seventh Corps all the way south along the Tianjin-Pudong railway line to pursue the defeated Japanese army.Under the command of Li Guotao, the main force of the Seventh Corps successfully recovered Tai'an in early September, and completely annihilated more than 20,000 Japanese troops responsible for the break.Subsequently, the Seventh Corps of the Eighth Route Army was divided into two routes, the Seventh Column continued to attack in the direction of Zaozhuang, and the Seventeenth Column attacked Linyi.Gangcun Ningci led the remnants of his defeated generals all the way and fled directly to Xuzhou, and then met with about 100,000 Japanese troops in the Central China Military Region, and the Japanese army once again gathered more than 250,000 troops to deploy defenses on the front line of Xuzhou, preparing to block the southward movement of the Seventh Corps of the Eighth Route Army.However, the Seventh Corps of the Eighth Route Army attacked fiercely, and it was like a breakthrough all the way, and successively captured Zaozhuang and Linyi.Then the two sides attacked and launched an attack on Taierzhuang.A military jeep stopped on the side of the road, and Li Guotao and Ma Zhenguo stepped out of the car.Li Guotao looked at the troops on the road, like a long dragon advancing south, and said with a serious face: "In 1938, the Japanese army also followed this route, and the troops were divided into two ways to attack Taierzhuang, preparing to capture Xuzhou, but in the Taierzhuang area, General Li Zongren commanded the troops of the Fifth Theater of Operations, inflicted heavy losses on the Japanese army that went south, and achieved a great victory in Taierzhuang, annihilating tens of thousands of Japanese troops.It dealt a great blow to the arrogance of the Japanese army and encouraged the anti-Japanese fighting spirit of the people of the whole country. ”"Yes, the battle of Taierzhuang is of great significance.It's just a pity that it didn't take long for the Japanese to make a comeback, and Xuzhou was still lost. ”Ma Zhenguo sighed slightly and said."
Feng Shui takes turns, and after several years of hard fighting, the situation between us and the enemy has undergone a fundamental change.Hundreds of thousands of people from the Seventh Corps of our Eighth Route Army also followed this route to the south, and our target was also Xuzhou.It's just that we will definitely not make the mistakes of the little devils back then, and this time we must recover Xuzhou in one fell swoop. ”Li Guotao said with a firm face.Ma Zhenguo frowned and said with a serious face: "According to the information received so far, the Japanese army in Central China and the defeated Japanese army in North China have gathered more than 250,000 troops in the Xuzhou area, preparing for a decisive battle in Xuzhou, this time it must be a vicious battle" Li Guotao smiled slightly, and said confidently: "I hope that this time Gangcun Ningci will not run away again" "It seems that the commander is full of confidence in this battle" Ma Zhenguo said with a smile."
That's natural, our Eighth Route Army's Seventh Corps is not what it used to be, with an army of nearly 400,000, are you still afraid that he will not succeed in more than 200,000 little devils.Moreover, the Japanese army in North China was defeated all the way, and at this time the morale was low, and it was a group of frightened birds.An army without morale and self-confidence will not be able to achieve victory on the battlefield. ”Li Guotao said with a smile.Ma Zhenguo nodded in agreement and said: "The devil retreated too quickly this time, even I didn't expect that we would be able to recover Shandong so easily." ”Li Guotao smiled and said: "The veterans of the little devils have been exhausted, and the ones that have been replenished are some recruits who have not been on the battlefield, and some are even some teenage pups, whose combat effectiveness is not at all the same as that of the little devils in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War."
There are all kinds of signs that little Japan is already in the waning mountains, and time is running out. ”aa2705221: