The counterattack of the Japanese army is also a reasonable thing, originally the North China Front Army and Okamura Ningji were not the masters to be messed with, if it didn't happen to catch up with the Japanese base camp and was planning the Battle of Midway, otherwise the ** squadron would never have been able to attack the hinterland of Shandong so smoothly. Being beaten to the door of the house is a naked insult in itself for the North China Front Army and Okamura Ningji, if it weren't for the overall situation, Okamura Ningji would have ordered the troops to counterattack a long time ago.

North China was the most important logistics base for the Japanese army to attack China, so the Japanese army headquarters headquarters and the Japanese emperor and the Japanese army China Dispatch Army headquarters were very concerned about the situation in North China, so when Okamura Ninji reported the chaos in North China to the Chinese Dispatch Army Headquarters and base camp, the Japanese emperor personally issued instructions ordering the troops of the former North China Front Army to be rebuilt immediately, and at the same time adding reinforcements to the North China Front. Of course, Emperor Hirohito also ordered Okamura Ninji not to restore the default line as soon as possible, that is, the line after the compromise between the two sides after the last war.

Although the Japanese counterattack did not surprise Han Yunhua, the strength of Okamura Ningji's counterattack made Han Yunhua greatly startled, and the offensive method of aircraft, artillery, warships and tanks was indeed very powerful, not to mention the 115th Division, a unit without anti-tank heavy weapons, even the 300th Division, the ace unit of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, did not dare to say that it would definitely be able to retreat under the blow of this strength.

Since the 115th Division was not a battle sequence subordinate to the Inner Mongolia Military Region, Han Yunhua only had the right to suggest to Xu Xiangqian and the entire 115th Division, but he did not have the right to command, and the 115th Division and the Inner Mongolia Military Region were in a relationship of mutual cooperation rather than mutual control. Originally, according to Han Yunhua's plan, the 115th Division should take the initiative to give up big cities like Jining and Heze, if it can be sold to the Nationalist Government, it is good, if the veteran is unwilling to take this hot potato, then it is okay to throw it to the Japanese, anyway, the 115th Division only needs to control the vast rural towns, and the prestige of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army will be started among the people, then they will be considered to have completed the task in this battle, and the development of the troops in this area will be much smoother in the future.

However, Xu Xiangqian and Chen Guang are both competitive personalities, especially Chen Guang, the front-line combat commander, is far less calm than Luo Ronghuan and others, so they are unwilling to hand over the few big cities that have been fought down so hard to give them to others, and this time the national government may see that the situation is not good, so it is obviously not interested in the olive branch thrown by **, and Xu Xiangqian has no choice but to order the troops to strictly defend Jining and Heze.

But yesterday's only one day of fighting made this veteran regret it, this kind of infantry and tank coordinated operations, the three-dimensional combat mode of the army, sea and air trinity is far more powerful than the duel between infantry alone, in just one day, an absolute main regiment of the 115th Division was disabled, and the other two regiments also suffered heavy losses, if it weren't for the fact that Han Yunhua sent the only aviation team in his hand to support them in the evening, I am afraid that it is still unknown whether the three infantry regiments stationed in Jining can break out.

After seeing the strength of the North China Front, without Han Yunhua's urging, the 115th Division took the initiative to abandon Heze and other towns this time, of course, it was inevitable to search hard before retreating. Although the 115th Division took the initiative to withdraw from large and medium-sized cities and important county seats, the 115th Division made a lot of money this time, and the captured weapons and ammunition alone were enough for the 15th Division to go crazy, plus a large amount of gold and light, the 115th Division's funds have never been so abundant.

The 115th Division's initiative to retreat was beyond Okamura Ningji's expectations, although he did not recognize the combat effectiveness of the 115th Division, but he greatly appreciated the fighting will of this squadron, after receiving the telegram sent by the front commander, Okamura Ningji thought about the final instructions, temporarily gave up the attack on the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army, and concentrated his forces to deal with the Chinese government army, especially Yu Xuezhong's department, which posed a huge threat to the front army this time. …,

The news of the fiasco of the 115th Division in front had just reached Lunan, and before the Japanese army had time to launch an attack on the subordinate troops of the First Theater that was close at hand, he ordered the troops of the Sulu Theater to alternately cover and withdraw from the main county town and several small and medium-sized cities. He is not afraid that the Japanese army will go to the mountains to encircle and suppress his troops, anyway, there are many mountains in the Linyi area, especially as long as the troops enter the Yimeng Mountains, no matter how many people you come, it will be in vain. If there is still a pure land on earth in Shandong, only this Yimeng mountain area can be counted, although there are many bandits in the mountainous area, and the guerrilla troops of the Eighth Route Army and the National Government also have their own numbers, but there are no Japanese.

It's not that the Japanese don't want to deal with those rebel forces in the Yimeng Mountains, but because the Yimeng Mountains are vast and the terrain is dangerous, not to mention a few divisions, even if more than a dozen divisions can't completely sweep the entire Yimeng Mountains, the difference between the effort and the expectation is too great, in a local dialect, it is not worth it. With this reason, Yu Xuezhong also learned from the 115th Division to let the troops abandon the cities and towns and begin to move to the mountainous countryside.

In the past few days, the situation in Shandong has taken a sharp turn for the worse, and the Japanese army's strong counterattack has once again brought a halt to the anti-Japanese sentiment in China. On the contrary, the media under the control of the Japanese puppet media, as well as newspapers and broadcasts in Japan, began to trumpet the invincibility of the Imperial Japanese Army, which was dazzling and dizzying.

Han Yunhua was also a little confused by the battle situation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party and Japan during this time, first of all, the Japanese army, after the North China Front Army was transferred part of its troops, Han Yunhua judged that Okamura Ningji should take a defensive position, but how could he not bear the loneliness and couldn't help the temptation after holding it for a long time, and the intelligence department of the Inner Mongolia Military Region did not receive any news about the southward transfer of troops from the Japanese army. However, Okamura Ningji's abnormal performance still made Han Yunhua firmly believe that the North China Front must have come with strong foreign aid, otherwise Okamura Ningji would not be so ignorant and bet on the foreign side of the North China Front.

To be honest, the consistent performance of the Nationalist Government gives people the impression that it is short-sighted, shameless, and untrustworthy. However, this time, Chiang Kai-shek went against the norm in handling relations with Japan and the Communist Party, and showed amazing political skills, neither being used by Han Yunhua nor letting the little devils take advantage, but on the contrary, he himself achieved a lot of results and added a lot of influence points in the international community.

Based on this situation, Han Yunhua issued an order to end the offensive and defensive battle in Dezhou, and the 11 infantry divisions of the Inner Mongolia Military Region and a large number of directly subordinate troops began to retreat on the whole line, establishing a permanent defense line on the front line of Dezhou, Linqing, Liaocheng, and Leling.

As for the 115th Division, Han Yunhua did not interfere anymore, at this point he has completed his mission, I believe that southwest Lu and the Lunan region will definitely be more lively because of the intervention of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army and a large number of troops of the National Government, I believe that one day Okamura Ningji will have a headache.

With the help of the 115th Division, Han Yunhua could solve the affairs of northern China with peace of mind after completing another task assigned by the central government. Speaking of the new tasks assigned to him by the Yan'an side and the entire Inner Mongolia Military Region, Han Yunhua had a headache, and after two days of investigation, Han Yunhua finally determined what the Weifang concentration camp in Song Chunyi's mouth was.

In fact, this Weifang concentration camp is not a concentration camp established to imprison Chinese people, but after the outbreak of the Pacific War, Japan gathered more than 60,000 Japanese overseas Chinese in China to Los Angeles for the United States to take care of them, so the invading Japanese army also arrested all the foreigners in China from the Western Allies and imprisoned them in Weixian (now Weifang, Shandong) Ledaoyuan, Shanghai Longhua and Hong Kong. Among them, more than 2,000 Western expatriates in the entire North China region, including Beijing, Tianjin, Xuzhou, Jinan, Qingdao, Yantai, Tengzhou and other places, are detained in the Ledao Institute in Weixian County. …,

Among those detained are some of the best in their professions, such as 400m Olympic champion Eric Brown. Lidtier, Dr. Hesch, the founder of North China Theological Seminary, Father Kiger, who was an adviser to Chiang Kai-shek, Dr. Devis, the provost of Qilu University, Heng Anshi, who served as the U.S. ambassador to China after the re-establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States, and Shadra, the wife of the chairman of Citibank. 33 well-known professors, including Sima Lei, Manager Weber of Qingdao British Tobacco Company, Wei Erxuan, Dean of the School of Science of Yenching University, and his wife, Dr. Xie Dike, Dean of the Department of Literature, Ms. Sang Meide, Dean of the Department of English, Dr. Bo Chen, Dean of the Department of Philosophy, Mr. and Mrs. Dou Weilian, Dean of the Department of Chemistry, and Mr. Fan Tianxiang, Dean of the Department of Music, etc. and Mr. Argent, a British Catholic priest, and Michelle, who later served as the Superintendent of Canadian Christian Missions Abroad. Dr. David, Dr. Dai Cunren, the son of the founder of Yantai Zhifu English School, Dr. Dai Cunren, the founder of the British pastor Hudson Taylor, and more than 300 European and American teachers and students of Zhifu School, etc.

According to the intelligence that has been transmitted back in the past few days, this Allied expatriate concentration camp is not as simple as it seems from the outside, and according to the topographical map that has been transmitted back, Han Yunhua feels that it is not easy to get rid of this cancer and rescue the hostages. The Japanese invaders took a lot of effort to choose the Ledaoyuan in Weixian County as a concentration camp for Allied expatriates from many cities in North China. First, it is relatively safe to stay away from the metropolis and the port; Second, the economic and public security situation in Weixian reassured them; Third, railways, highways, and airports are unimpeded, making it more convenient to escort overseas Chinese; Fourth, there is a sealed environment suitable for European and American expatriates. After the Japanese military police and puppet soldiers were stationed in the Ledao Academy, they drove away all the personnel of the hospital and the school, demolished the small sets of courtyard walls of various departments, and built many pillboxes using the masonry and felled wood from the demolition of the walls, leaving only the small courtyard of the former Americans in the southwest corner for the Japanese guards to live in. In addition, a tall pillbox was built in the northeast and northwest corners of the compound wall, equipped with searchlights, machine guns, small cannons and other weapons, and power grids were erected on top of the high walls on all sides, and barbed wire and power grids were also erected outside the walls to prevent outsiders from approaching the walls. The inner side of the courtyard wall was built as a ring road, and barbed wire was also erected inside the road to prevent foreign nationals from escaping and to facilitate guards and patrols. At the same time, there are also power grids set up on the four walls, and the Japanese troops guarding here are divided into two parts: regular army and auxiliary military police, with about 300 people, respectively an infantry squadron and a patrol squadron.

The most important thing is that Weifang is located in the northeast of Shandong, and the current sphere of influence of the Inner Mongolia Military Region is thousands of miles away, and the Japanese army's defense against Han Yunhua is far stricter than imagined. Of course, Han Yunhua doesn't believe in this kind of thing, the establishment of a department specifically for the Inner Mongolia Military Region is nothing, it is understandable, if it suffers so many such big losses, and the Japanese army is still indifferent, then it is not the Japanese army, this is expected to be sad, after all, in history, the little devil also used this trick to deal with the Eighth Route Army. However, if it is said that the Inner Mongolia Military Region will alarm the Japanese army as long as it uses the brigade-level troop establishment, Han Yunhua will not believe it, maybe there may be secret agents of little devils in the field troops, but there are a few such people among the millions, and it is obviously impossible for them to have the ability to monitor all the troops of the Inner Mongolia Military Region. In addition, there are some troops that belong to the absolute secret troops of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, and no one knows about these troops except Han Yunhua and Luo Ronghuan, how can the little devils know about the movement of these troops, this time Han Yunhua is ready to use these mysterious troops to Weifang to rescue the hostages. …,

Rescuing hostages and destroying the concentration camp was originally a technical and physical work, and it was obviously impossible without a rigorous plan, so Han Yunhua asked the 1st Special Operations Division and the 2nd Special Operations Division to each send a brigade to participate in the battle, and at the same time transfer a reorganized battalion of the newly established Marine Corps to act together.

Originally, Yang Chengwu and others thought that it should be a good way for the troops to bypass Jinan and go straight to Weifang from Leling, but Han Yunhua confirmed that there were too many Japanese checkpoints and blockade lines to pass along the road, and it was inevitable that there would be no problems. Moreover, the goal of such a large group of troops to act together was too large, so Han Yunhua planned to attack by sea and then retreat by sea and land.

** There is no navy, but since the Inner Mongolia Military Region occupied the port of Tianjin, Han Yunhua has gathered all the more than 200 cargo ships and fishing boats seized as sea ships, and at the same time has collected more than 30 large and small patrol boats and small warships as naval ships. Due to the limited scale, Han Yunhua only set up a separate water commando team to solve water tasks.

Wei Peng is one of Han Yunhua's most trusted special operations officers, so this time it is still led by this old special forces. In order to make this mission foolproof, Han Yunhua sent a special operations team to the Weifang area in advance to provide intelligence support for the final operation of the large army.

Okamura Ningji didn't know Han Yunhua's idea of fighting his rear now, but he was very clear about the situation and intentions that Han Yunhua did not put out, and after weighing the strength of both sides, Okamura Ningji had to admit that at this stage, the strength of the Inner Mongolia Military Region was indeed higher than that of the North China Front. The combat effectiveness displayed by the Inner Mongolia Military Region and the fighting art of the commander are far from being comparable to the ordinary squadrons, so the temporary handshake between the two sides is almost expected.

The temporary truce between the two sides caused a large number of people to drop their glasses, and neither the Chinese nor the Japanese understood that these two troops had shaken hands and made peace after staring at each other for a while, which was indeed very unsatisfactory. The Chinese hope that Han Yunhua will not be able to continue to show his strength and drive the little devil directly into the sea. The Japanese, on the other hand, were not satisfied with the fiasco of the North China Front some time ago, and the loss of a division, an independent mixed brigade, and a large number of Japanese puppet troops seriously dampened the enthusiasm of the Japanese army in combat, so the Japanese people hoped that their warriors would be disgraced. But dissatisfaction is not dissatisfied, neither Han Yunhua nor Okamura Ningji is a person who cares about what others say, so although the newspapers outside the door shouted and killed, and the criticism and scolding were endless, Han Yunhua and Okamura Ningji were both calm.

Although Lu Xi and Lu Nan still shot out, Han Yunhua knew that the two sides would soon return to calm, and continue to fight after recovering from their injuries. This has almost become a rule, the two sides are fighting to the death in front, but the back is silently opposite, once one party makes a mistake during the recuperation period, the other side will immediately take action, typical of taking advantage of people's illness to kill people.

On 2 November, China and Japan ceased fire on all fronts in Shandong, and the two sides tacitly withdrew to their respective defense areas, and the remaining intermediate areas became a buffer zone for both sides.

In Han Yunhua's telegram to Yan'an, it was written: "Our army occupied 4 large cities and 34 county towns under the control of the Japanese army, as well as a large number of township enterprises, annihilated a complete infantry division and a complete infantry brigade and a large number of formed puppet army units, and the total number of enemies destroyed exceeded 3,870 people, of which 21,000 were Japanese soldiers and the rest were puppet troops. A large number of weapons and ammunition were captured, including a full mountain artillery wing"

The Inner Mongolia Military Region has indeed made a lot of money, and both Han Yunhua and other commanders and fighters recognize such achievements. And the Nationalist Government is not a vegetarian, and the two bigwigs, Wei Lihuang and Yu Xuezhong, went out in person to win a lot of points for the Nationalist Government.