Lieutenant General Nishio Toshizo, commander of the Second Army, was very nervous for a while because he was killed in the Fourth Division because of his reading ability, for fear of being dismissed from his post at the base camp. After waiting for a long time, there was no movement, and his commander was still doing well. Lieutenant General Nishio Toshizo finally understood that it was not that the people in the base camp valued themselves so much that they couldn't bear to punish themselves, but that in the recent period, there seemed to be a bit of a lot of jade broken imperial troops, and if the base camp seriously investigated the responsibility, it was estimated that the commanders of the North China Front Army and the First Army and the Second Army would have to be replaced. The nerves in the base camp seem to have been a little paralyzed, and they are too lazy to remove the senior commander from his post because of the collective jade fragmentation of a certain unit.

Since the base camp did not hold him accountable, Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzo felt that he could not do nothing, and let the instructor of the Eighth Route Army ride on the head of the Imperial Army to and pee. Therefore, when the instructor recovered Jizhong, Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzo also thought of the problem of mobilizing a heavy army group to completely encircle and annihilate the instructor, and made arrangements. As a result, the North China Front Army Command vetoed this plan and picked up the operational plan for the southern section of the Jinpu Road again.

Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzo believes that although the operational plan for the southern section of the Jinpu Road has a bearing on the overall strategic situation, the instructors of the Eighth Route Army who are active in Luxi, southern Hebei, and central Hebei must not be taken lightly. Otherwise, at a critical time in the southern section of the Jinpu Road Campaign, if the Eighth Route Army instructor stabbed the Imperial Army again in a certain heart of the imperial army, I am afraid that the battle of the southern section of the Jinpu Road would end hastily.

As soon as he thought of this problem, Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzao slandered General Terauchi Shouichi, thinking that His Excellency the General had been frightened by Liu Yimin, and I was afraid that thing was also scared and weakened. As long as the Fifth Division and the 16th Division are transferred, and the 108th Division and the 23rd and 24th Divisions cooperate, Liu Yimin and his instructor will inevitably be captured. Unexpectedly, General Terauchi Shouyi actually raised tigers and watched Liu Yimin's ministry develop in southern Hebei and central Hebei, which was simply a shame on His Majesty's trust in the emperor.

After receiving the order from General Terauchi Shouichi to launch the battle of the southern section of the Tsuura Road, Lieutenant General Nishio Toshizo faithfully carried out the order, although he had a different opinion in his heart. However, Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzo believed that consolidating the occupied area was a guarantee for the implementation of the southern section of the Jinpu Road, so he ordered the newly arrived Reading Mixed Sixth Brigade to be stationed in Ju County, ordered the Reading Mixed Seventh Brigade to be stationed in Huimin County, and ordered the Reading Mixed Tenth Brigade to command the 83rd Infantry Wing, the Baggage Wing and other remaining troops of the former 21st Division stationed in Dexian County, and cooperated with the Jinpu Railway Garrison to defend the communication artery between Dexian and Jinan. The 3rd Brigade of the 3rd Brigade of the sweeping mission on both sides of the Jiaoji Railway was stationed in Weixian, and the 108th Division returned to Jinan to defend Jinan and served as the general reserve for the operation of the southern section of the Jinpu Road together with the 13th Brigade of the Reading Force stationed in Tai'an. In this way, the whole of Shandong has formed a defense system with the Jiaoji line and the Jinpu line as the support.

During this period, due to the fighting between the instructor of the Eighth Route Army and the army in Luxi and Jizhong, the 5th, 10th, and 16th divisions of the army stopped the action of seizing Zaozhuang in the mountainous areas of central and southern Shandong, the plain of southwestern Shandong, and along the Jinpu Road, and gathered troops to prepare to go north to deal with the instructor. In Lunan's [***], he took advantage of the situation to launch a counteroffensive, and once recovered Jining and Mengyin. Since the North China Front was now determined to launch the battle of the southern section of the Jinpu Line, Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzo reiterated the previous operational order, ordering the Fifth Division to completely destroy the Chinese troops in the southwestern part of Shandong, and after completing the task, the 10th Division would attack Xuzhou together; ordered the 10th Division to attack and advance along the Jinpu Road, occupy Zaozhuang and Linyi lines, and attack Xuzhou after completing the task; The 16th Division was ordered to eliminate the squadron in the mountainous area of central and southern Lu, open up the connection between the mountainous area of central and southern Shandong and Linyi, and prepare to support the 10th Division's operation to attack Xuzhou.

As for whether the 10th Division's southward capture of Zaozhuang would be hit by the [***] team, Nishio Shouzo didn't think about it. He already knew the combat effectiveness of the [***] team in front of him, and it was not that he had not fought before, and a brigade of imperial troops could catch a regular division of the [***] team running around. Of course, Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzo also remembered the fate of the various units that fought against the instructors of the Eighth Route Army, and knew that China also had very strong troops. However, he felt that his disposition was already in place, and it was only in consideration of security factors that he let the three permanent divisions go hand in hand. If it had been left in the early days of the war, Nishio Shouzo felt that the 10th Division could occupy Xuzhou with a brigade.

In fact, in the original history, the size of the army that captured Tengxian was very small, less than one brigade.

After the order to combat the troops was issued, Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzo decided to establish a puppet political organization in Shandong Province in consideration of the need to maintain law and order in Shandong and raise grain and grass. In the end, it was decided to establish the Shandong Provincial Office with the Jinan Maintenance Association as the team, which was under the leadership of the provisional political axe of the Republic of China. Nishida Gengichi was appointed as an advisor to the Shandong Provincial Office to guide the work of the Shandong Provincial Office on behalf of the Imperial Army.

In accordance with the order of Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzao, the puppet Shandong Provincial Office was established on March 5, and temporarily borrowed the school building of Yuemiao Street Normal School as the office location. There are five departments, the governor of the province, Ma Liang, whose responsibilities are to manage the provincial government and supervise the subordinate organs, provinces, cities and counties and their staff, and to command and supervise the police regiments and garrisons of the province.

This Ma Liang is a native of Qingyuan, Hebei, a Hui nationality, graduated from the Beiyang Military Academy, and is a notorious Han annihilation. This year, he is 70 years old, and because of his love for martial arts, his body is quite tough. This old immortal thing had already hooked up with the army before the army captured Jinan, and secretly organized a maintenance meeting in Jinan. As soon as the army occupied Jinan, Ma Liang and his gang openly prepared to establish a maintenance association under the guise of maintaining order in the market to raise food, grass and military salaries for the army.

On the eve of the establishment of the puppet Shandong Office, Ma Liang secretly asked to see Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzo, and after entering the door, he knelt down to Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzo, kowtowed like a calculation, and thanked the commander for his reconstruction. Then, Maleon took out the gold bars he had scavenged and respectfully presented them to Nishio Shouzo.

For Ma Liang, Nishio Shouzo, who was born as a professional soldier, hated him very much. The main reason is that Ma Liang's reputation is too bad and his prestige is ruined. Originally, Nishio Shouzao wanted Xin Zhujiu, who was born as a businessman, to serve as the chairman of Jinan and the current pseudo-governor, but Xin Zhujiu had a blood surname, and the reason why he came forward to maintain order at that time was mainly to maintain the market and avoid the looting of Jinan by the army and stragglers. At this time, the army has completely occupied Jinan, and the market situation has basically stabilized, how can Xin Zhujiu be willing to lie in this troubled water again? Therefore, he insisted on not taking up his post. Nishio Shouzao had no choice but to let Ma Liang, a bad old man, be the pseudo-governor.

Seeing that Ma Liang was still well-behaved, Nishio Shouzo snorted in his nose and waved his hand to let Ma Liang put the wooden box containing gold bars on the table. Then he began to teach Ma Liang to be restrained, it doesn't matter if he does bad things and is embarrassed, he can't do anything if he loses the Imperial Army, and he will die and die.

After the reprimand, Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzao told Ma Liang that the tasks of the puppet Shandong Office were three, one was to publicize the goodwill of China. The second is to maintain law and order in Shandong, assist the imperial army in eliminating the resistance forces, and take care of the imperial army's home and home. The third is to raise salaries, grain and grass, and all kinds of strategic materials for the imperial army.

Ma Liang hurriedly swore that he would do his best and do his best to fight to the end for the goodwill between China and the great cause of the imperial army's occupation of the whole of China. He will resolutely follow the commander's instructions, and he will raise a lot of grain and grass to ensure the operational needs of the imperial army; We must set up and improve the political power in various localities as soon as possible, expand the police force and garrison corps, eliminate all the people who dare to make trouble against the imperial army, and arrest all of them and throw them into the Yellow River to feed the fish.

Nishio Shouzo smiled at this time, said a few yo xi, and called the guards to come up and move a chair for Ma Liang and let him sit down.

Ma Liang, a dog thief, when did he have this kind of treatment in front of the devil, and when he was grateful to Dade, he began to talk about the national conditions of China that he understood, like pouring beans on a bamboo tube.

The old man said something so stinky and long that Nishio Shouzo's translator had to remind him to speak slowly and leave a little time for translation. Otherwise, no matter how much he says, His Excellency the Commander will not understand.

According to Ma Liang, at this time, most of the Chinese were illiterate, and they were harsh and harsh with miscellaneous taxes, and the general psychology was that whoever ruled would pay the same amount of food, and there was no concept of a country or a nation at all. Therefore, as long as the Imperial Army gives the foolish people a little advantage, they will collect information for the Imperial Army and assist the Imperial Army in the battle. Those who resisted on the ground in Shandong were all bewitched by [***], and Fan Zhuxian was bewitched by [***] and left to resist. Therefore, the main task of the Shandong Office was to grasp [***] and cooperate with the imperial army to eliminate the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army.

Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzo thought that during the Battle of Shanghai, the decision to land the army in Jinshanwei was the result of ordinary people guiding intelligence personnel to investigate. felt that although the old man in front of him was very bad, he was still a good dog, so he asked the guards to come up and pour a glass of boiled water for Ma Liang.

At this time, Ma Liang became even more energetic, and told all the numbers, troops, and commanders of Han Fuqu's troops. At the end, he also told a few jokes about Han Fuqu when he was the chairman of Shandong Province, which made Nishio Shouzao laugh.

Seeing that the heat was almost up, Ma Liang got up and asked his entourage to bring in the gifts.

Nishio Shouzo thought it was strange that all the gold bars were given, what could be a more valuable gift than gold bars?

Waiting for the gift to come in, the old devil Nishio Shouzo smiled so much that his eyebrows trembled. It turned out to be a pair of sister flowers with the same appearance, the same height, and the same fat and thin.

Ma Liang took a step forward and whispered to Nishio Shouzao, this is a Qingyin person in a small class of Qingyin, who is proficient in blowing, playing and singing, and has not yet budded. Ask the commander to taste.

After the translator translated, Nishio Shouzo didn't understand what it meant to open a bud and asked again. When the interpreter told him that it was the first night of a virgin, Nishio Shouzo couldn't bear it anymore, and he no longer pretended to be a professional soldier, so he grabbed Ma Liang and threw him out of the door, and then rushed to the two girls impatiently, so frightened that the interpreter hurriedly rushed out of the door.

It is said that the army has increased troops in North and Central China this time, and it is very mysterious. The additional troops from North China all went ashore at Tanggu and then went directly to their respective destinations by train, without stopping in the city at all. Therefore, whether it is the Eighth Route Army or [***], no one is aware of it. It was not until the troops were deployed that the North China Front issued the battle order. The only surprise was that Terauchi Shouichi did not expect that the 115th and 129th Divisions of the Eighth Route Army had already sent troops to sneak across the Pinghan Line into central and southern Hebei respectively, taking over the defense of the instructor. More than 100,000 troops of the Eighth Route Army are preparing to secretly march eastward. Neither side knows what the other is going to do.

Terauchi Shouichi could not have imagined that his opponent Liu Yimin was a traverser and was familiar with the historical process, although he did not know whether the changed history would continue to change, but one thing was certain, the army must launch the battle of the southern section of Jinpu Road, and the battle of Taierzhuang was destined to start, because the realization of the two strategic groups in the north and south was the established strategic goal of the army. This goal will not be offset. At the same time, Liu Yimin was also convinced that the army must attack Zhongtiao Mountain, and this blow would be a big blow.

Liu Yimin understands that the leaders and the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army will naturally understand, and Chiang Kai-shek, the supreme commander of the Central Committee of the People's Republic of China, who presided over the Luoyang Military Conference, will definitely understand.

At this time, although I did not know that the army had increased its troops, the atmosphere of the approaching war was getting stronger and stronger. In the direction of Xuzhou, the [***] team kept moving troops, hoping to hold Xuzhou and hold both sides of the Jinpu line. Not to mention Shanxi, the arrogance of the heavy army group when it captured the base area of the Eighth Route Army had already made Yan Xishan and Wei Lihuang widen their eyes and stare closely at the movements of the Yue Army.

In the Xuzhou Fifth Theater Commander's Department, commanders Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi have been sitting for a long time. They knew that the current Xuzhou had become the target that the army was eager to capture, and the chairman of the committee had already personally inspected and supervised the battle. All units in the theater are also basically in place.

Li Zongren was a little puzzled, what kind of battle was the army fighting, and it was necessary to fight on several fronts at the same time. As soon as the Shaanxi side drove the [***] 115th Division into the Taihang Mountain, they returned to the south to attack Xu Qianqian's Jinzhong base area. At the same time, the Shandong army set off a rage of purging in the whole province, and Jizhong opened a posture at the same time, and tens of thousands of elite soldiers surrounded Jizhong.

Li Zongren couldn't figure out if Xiao Yue's brain was in water, if they didn't divide their troops, wouldn't they fight more fiercely if such a huge force was thrown in one direction?

Originally, the last time the army went south, the Fifth Theater was already preparing to meet the enemy in a hurry, but fortunately, Liu Yimin's instructor made a move at a critical time, and once again disintegrated the offensive of the Japanese army, giving the Fifth Theater time to mobilize troops to deploy defenses.

Now, the devil has gained a firm foothold, and it seems that the attack on Xuzhou will soon begin.