The North China Front Command was naturally extremely dissatisfied with the Kwantung Army's approach, but the Japanese army base camp unexpectedly acquiesced, and the reason was actually very simple, if North China was lost, Japan would just spit out the meat in its mouth, and if the Northeast was lost, it would be the meat on its body that had been cut off! It must be known that although the puppet Manchu regime is still in name, in the minds of the vast majority of Japanese, the three eastern provinces of China are already undoubtedly Japanese territory, and the resources of Northeast China are far more abundant than those of North China, and at the same time, there is less room for immigration

100,000 elite soldiers returned to the northeast, and the reinforcements sent from the country also arrived one after another, and the total strength of the Kwantung Army, which once had only more than 100,000 troops left, quickly swelled to about 300,000, and the vigorous development of the Anti-Japanese Federation was suddenly contained, but after so many elite troops were transferred, the strength of the Japanese army in the Pingjin area suddenly became overstretched, and the three armies of the 18th Army and 200,000 people took the opportunity to advance eastward, not only making the devils return from the sweep in the base areas in central Hebei and Pingxi, but also relying on more than ten times the strength advantage. In many field battles, 20,000 or 30,000 devils were eliminated, while the casualties of the Eighth Route Army itself were less than 10,000. Only then did the Japanese army finally begin to face up to the combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army, and from then on regarded it as a truly elite division comparable to the 15th Army.

Under these circumstances, in order to ensure the safety of Pingjin, the Japanese North China Front Army Headquarters had to urgently transfer troops from Shandong to reinforce them, but as a result, the strength of the Japanese army in Luzhong became seriously insufficient, and the commander of the First Army, Itagaki Seishiro, had no choice but to order the suspension of the sweep of the anti-Japanese base areas in Shandong. But he didn't expect it. At about the same time that several field divisions were transferred back to Pingjin, Hu Weidong, who had been forced to wait for several months, had already personally led more than 100,000 people from the main forces of the three divisions of the 15 th Army to march eastward. As a result, no less than 100,000 devils and horses were still stranded in the Shandong base area, and before they had time to withdraw, all the men rode on bicycles, and the forward troops of the 15 th Army, which had greatly accelerated the speed of advance, had already hit the city of Jinan

Hu Weidong's plan was that the terrain of Shandong was easy to attack and difficult to defend, and most of the Japanese troops in Luzhong, with a total of only 100,000 troops, were trapped in the mountainous base areas and it would be difficult to withdraw quickly. As long as Jinan is taken, the Yellow River Bridge on the Jinpu Line is blown up. The Japanese army north of the Yellow River will not be able to go south to rescue for the time being, and the 15 th Army will be able to take advantage of the victory to kill the 100,000 devils who are still scattered in the Luzhong Mountains to plague the people in the base areas, if there is still strength left after the war. You can also take advantage of the trend to go south and smash the chrysanthemums of hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops in southern Lunan

This campaign concept was praised as "magnificent" by the great men in Lanzhou, but it was difficult to implement. First of all, it is required that the 15 th Army must have the ability to defeat the Japanese heavy army group that is twice its own strength in a frontal battle, otherwise once the initial battle is unfavorable, it may fall into the heavy encirclement of the Japanese army and incur a major defeat, and if the 15 th Army, which is China's number one iron army since the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, is heavily damaged by the Japanese army, the consequences will be serious, not only in the North China battlefield, but even in the whole country.

However, the 15 th Army, which had won many battles since its participation in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, had just been equipped with a large amount of new equipment, and it was precisely when confidence was bursting that the 15 th Army, including Hu Weidong, was generally proud and complacent, and did not even take to heart the huge risk of fighting hard with hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops. As a result, the battle had just been launched, and the 15th Army ran into a wall in Jinan

Seishiro Itagaki, commander of the First Army of the North China Front, knew for a long time that Jinan was not an easy city to defend and difficult to attack. However, there is no room for mistakes, so long before Pingjin withdrew support for the Japanese army in Shandong, he began to drive a large number of Chinese laborers to build fortifications outside the city of Jinan, and now it has a considerable scale. Although the 15 th Army had a heavy artillery brigade with strong firepower, it basically had to regain concealment after a few artillery shots because it was afraid of the Japanese planes. Naturally, it was difficult for Hu Weidong to be satisfied with the efficiency, but what made him even more dissatisfied was that the 15th Army was increasingly dependent on advanced weapons, as if it could not fight without firepower superiority....

Once this kind of mentality arises, it will not only greatly weaken the troops' ability to fight tough battles, but will also wipe out the advantages of the people's army's tactical flexibility. This kind of problem has arisen in the history of the self-defense and counterattack war against Vietnam, relying on the large number of soldiers and artillery, not taking the Vietnamese in their eyes, thinking that they can win no matter how they fight, and even not wanting the roundabout interspersing that our army has always been good at, that is, focusing on artillery bombardment and charging, resulting in a large number of unnecessary casualties; if it were not for the fact that the officers and men at the grassroots level could not bear it anymore and spontaneously picked up this traditional magic weapon in disregard of the chaotic orders of their superiors, the losses of the squadron would have been even more astonishing.

At the time, Hu Weidong only thought that this was caused by the incompetence of the commander, but now that he has led the troops for many years, he has already understood the key points. Tactical flexibility is not something that can be achieved by talking, after all, there may not be one military genius in the hundreds of thousands of people who use soldiers like gods, and even if there are a few, it is simply impossible for all units of the army at all levels to be able to be tactically flexible. If we want to do better than any enemy in this respect under the establishment of the people's army at all levels, we must pool our wisdom and fully mobilize the wisdom of the commanders and fighters at the grassroots level, especially the ordinary soldiers, because this is the unique advantage of the people's army, and no old-style army can learn from it, that is, the so-called "comparative advantage."

As long as we give full play to the subjective initiative of the officers and soldiers at the grassroots level, the so-called "three stinkers are better than Zhuge Liang." In front of tens of millions of "Zhuge Liang", even if the enemy is commanded by an immortal general, he will never be able to please him. However, a grassroots military democratic system such as the soldiers' committee is a huge challenge to the authority of the commanders, so even if they are subjectively unaware, they will still be "ashamed to ask questions" subconsciously, and as a result, there will be a situation in which the weapons are getting better and better, but the tactics are becoming more and more rigid, and if this trend continues, the people's army will be in danger of reverting to the old-style army, so this is not only a military problem, but also a political problem

For this reason, while Hu Weidong made a review to the central authorities, he also wrote down his own worries, which immediately aroused the great man's great attention. He not only wrote a special article to sound the alarm bell for the whole party and the whole army, but also vigorously promoted the normalization of rectification work style in the military with criticism and self-criticism as the main method; basically once a year since then, arbitrarians who do not respect the opinions of officers and men at the grassroots level and incompetent people who have lost their necessary authority due to overcorrection have been removed from the army one after another. The soldiers' committee, which was ultimately not restored under great resistance in history, took this opportunity to successfully withstand great pressure and become a permanent institution because of Taizu's greater authority in this time and space, and Hu Weidong, a military general, to ensure that the fine traditions of the people's army can be maintained for a long time, but Hu Weidong also inadvertently offended too many people because of this, which became one of the important reasons for him to leave the military command post in the future (welcome to your support, is my biggest motivation.) )