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Chapter 1018: New Year¡¯s Drama (6)

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    After a night of running away, at dawn, the Sixth Division of Guanyuan finally escaped into Eping County and could not escape.

    At this time, there were less than 200 people left around Sekihara Roku. Even the defenders of Eping County only had less than 300 people. However, the pursuing national army had more than 2,000 people. Their situation was still dangerous.  .

    Fortunately, Sekihara Roku has received a telegram from Jinan City. Reinforcements are already on the way and should arrive in Epping soon, so he decided to stay in Epping and wait for reinforcements.

    After chasing to the town of Yiping County, Li Guoyao did not order the troops to rest and immediately launched an attack on the town of Yiping County.

    For Li Guoyao, the pursuit was just incidental. His real purpose was to go straight to Huanglong and visit Jinan City.

    Although there are not many troops around him at this time, they are all elites. At this time, Jinan City is as empty as Liaocheng. Although these thousands of people cannot conquer Jinan, there is still no big problem in scaring the little Japanese there.

    However, what Li Guoyao didn't know was that just as he was attacking Yiping County, the Shandong Column of the Eighth Route Army was also holding an emergency meeting, and the content of the meeting was directly related to the Shandong Guerrilla Corps.

    Li Guoyao's troops were making so much noise in western Shandong and southwestern Shandong. Naturally, they could not be hidden from the sight of the Eighth Route Army. When they learned that Li Guoyao's troops had counterattacked western Shandong for the second time and captured Liaocheng, the top brass of the Shandong column began to consider whether to help.  Help out.

    On the one hand, the development of the Eighth Route Army in Shandong was not very good. When it was unable to deal with the Japanese army on its own, someone stepped forward to take the lead. They had no reason to hide in the dark and not come forward.

    On the other hand, the relationship between Li Guoyao's headquarters and the Eighth Route Army is pretty good, and they secretly cooperate a lot with each other. Now Li Guoyao's headquarters is obviously diverting firepower and is in a difficult situation. It would be unreasonable for the Eighth Route Army not to help.

    After all, there is no free lunch in this world. You want help from others but don¡¯t want to give. How can there be such a good thing in the world? As the saying goes, it rains and the ground is slippery. If you fall, you can climb by yourself. Relatives and friends can help.  , wine for wine and tea for tea.

    This is true for relatives and friends, not to mention that the relationship between the two parties is relatively sensitive and they are only friendly forces on the surface.

    " Taking action now is like providing help in a timely manner, but waiting for Li Guoyao's troops to get over the difficulties and extending an olive branch will be the icing on the cake!"

    After some discussion, the Shandong Column finally decided to concentrate its main force to cooperate with Li Guoyao's operations on the northern front.

    At the same time, the main forces of the Sulu Theater Headquarters are also being assembled. After more than a year of development, the total strength of the Sulu Theater has increased significantly, and it can be said that it has reached the peak of strength.

    After learning that the main force of the Japanese army was moving south to besiege southwest Shandong, Yu Xuezhong decided to help the Shandong Guerrilla Corps. On the one hand, the two sides were obviously in a superior-subordinate relationship, and their subordinate troops were attacked. It was unjustifiable for them not to help.

    Secondly, the Sulu War Zone has recruited a large number of new recruits during this period. These recruits are in urgent need of actual combat training and seeing blood.

    At present, the main force of the Japanese army has been concentrated in western Shandong and southwestern Shandong. The strength of the Japanese and puppet troops remaining in Jiaodong Peninsula and southern Shandong is much lower. Therefore, all troops were ordered to gather immediately and move towards Wulian before April 28.  , Yishui and other places launched attacks to completely light up the fire in Shandong.

    At 11 o'clock in the morning, after three and a half hours of offensive, Li Guoyao's troops captured the town of Eping County after paying a certain amount of casualties. Sekihara Roku could only flee north again with more than 300 Japanese troops.

    Li Guoyao and others did not continue the pursuit after taking Yiping. The main reason was that the troops had been fighting continuously for a day and night. The iron-clad soldiers could not bear it, so they could only take a rest in Yiping County.

    At 3:30 in the afternoon, Sekihara Six and others finally met up with the Japanese troops who came for reinforcements. Seeing the miserable state of Sekihara Six and others, the Japanese troops who came for reinforcements were shocked.

    In their opinion, the Sixth Major General Sekihara has always been relatively proud and calm at all times, but now he is as embarrassed as a lost dog.

    When Sekihara Roku saw that there were only a mere 1,200 reinforcements, his heart suddenly dropped!

    He originally thought that the legion commander would at least give him a regiment of reinforcements, but he never thought that it was only this little, what should he do?

    After thinking about it again and again, Guan Yuanliu decided to counterattack. If he withdraws to Jinan now, he will be laughed at. But the counterattack on Liaocheng is not without any chance of winning. After all, they still have many troops in Yanggu and Guanxian areas.

    After reporting to the 12th Army Headquarters, Sekihara Roku immediately ordered Chichai Regiment and Yanggu's troops to set off immediately and encircle Liaocheng.

    ? ?He had a vivid memory of the battle on the first day and knew that Li Guoyao's troops were not many, only two to three thousand at full strength, but the three troops in his hand totaled five to six thousand. Once the encirclement was completed, they would definitely be able to  Annihilate Li Guoyao's troops.

    However, the ideal is full, but the reality is skinny. As soon as Yanggu's troops came out, they were blocked by Zhang Shaolin and others, while the Chichai unit was entangled by Lu Zhanwu and others and could not escape.

    As a last resort, Sekihara Roku could only order the Chichai regiment to abandon Guantao and Guanxian and return to Liaocheng at all costs.

    ¡°After all, compared to Liaocheng and his reputation as Sekihara Roku, what do a few worthless county towns mean?

    At the same time, Sekihara Roku personally directed the troops coming out of Jinan to go south and counterattack Epping.

    Knowing that the Japanese army had counterattacked, Li Guoyao immediately ordered the troops to stick to Yiping, planning to wait until the Japs were tired before counterattacking.  He also ordered Zhang Tengjiao's main force to gather secretly and prepare to go north to attack Jining City at any time.

    However, no one expected that just when the two sides were about to engage in a tense battle, the Sulu Theater Headquarters suddenly launched an offensive in southern Shandong, concentrating 4 brigades and 7 regiments to attack Yishui and Wulian occupied by the Japanese army.  An attack was launched, and the cavalry he mentioned had even appeared outside Rizhao City.

    When there was movement in the Sulu theater, the 12th Army headquarters did not dare to neglect, and had to order the 41st Division stationed on this line to immediately start a counterattack.

    Before there was any result here, the Japanese and puppet defenders on the front lines of Yucheng and Jiyang suddenly sent an emergency telegram, saying that they had found signs of a large-scale gathering of the Eighth Route Army.

    After receiving the telegram from the front-line troops, Iida Sadagu and others suddenly felt bad. Didn't it mean that the relationship between the Eighth Route Army and the National Army was on the same level? Why did they come to join in the fun?

    More importantly, Yucheng and Jiyang are too close to Jinan City. At this time, the total number of Japanese and puppet troops in Jinan City was less than 3,000, and they were scattered in dozens of nearby counties.  In the stronghold, it is easy to be defeated one by one.

    Before the 12th Army Headquarters could make any countermeasures, the defenders of Yucheng sent another telegram, saying that Yucheng was under attack, and it was Tubal Road that they despised.

    According to reports from the frontline troops, there are more than 8,000 people on Tubal Road attacking Yucheng, and the outside of the city is densely packed with people.

    Although their weapons and equipment were very poor and they looked like a ragtag group, they were better in numbers and were not afraid of death, which put great pressure on the defenders.

    Immediately afterwards, the Japanese army in Jiyang also sent a telegram, saying that it was attacked by Tubal Road and that the opponent's strength was no less than one division.

    Unlike the troops in the direction of Yucheng, the Eighth Route Army attacking Jiyang was not only well-organized, but everyone wore the standard uniforms of the Eighth Route Army. There were even many artillery in the army, which was obviously the main force of Tubal Road.

    Iida Sadagu suddenly felt that the world was full of malice toward him. Li Guoyao was already very difficult to deal with, and now there were tens of thousands of Tuballu. Isn't this life-threatening?

    Thinking that Yucheng and Jiyang were so close to Jinan, Iida Sadagu did not dare to neglect at the moment, and immediately ordered the Sixth Division of Sekiyuan to stop counterattacking Liaocheng, and the troops on the Eping front line immediately returned to aid Jinan.

    At the same time, the troops outside Jinan City were ordered to immediately abandon all strongholds and all troops were concentrated in the city.

    He also asked Chief of Staff Hongo Yoshio to urgently summon the heads of the Chamber of Commerce, asking them to immediately arm the imperial residents in the city and coordinate with the imperial army to defend the city!

    This can only ensure that Jinan City is not lost. If you want to completely resolve this matter, you will need troops to reinforce Jinan City.

    Soon, an emergency telegram was sent to the Jining 10th Division Headquarters!  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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