Chapter 145 6. Luo Ronghuan "hide and seek" with the enemy

After the Shandong Eighth Route Army launched the spring and summer offensives to deal a heavy blow to the enemy, the Japanese and puppet troops began to mobilize their troops frequently in August to prepare for retaliation.Luo Ronghuan continued to receive reports from intelligence stations in various places, saying that the enemy was concentrating, including a brigade of the Japanese army, remnants of Wu Huawen and Rong Ziheng of the puppet army, a total of more than 10,000 people, gathered in Juxian, Linyi, Qingkou, Haizhou, etc. land.Rizhao has more than 600 enemies who have already marched northward.The enemy threatened to "sweep" the area north of Rizhao.

After Luo Ronghuan was informed of the above situation, he made a calm judgment: a group of enemies went north, just pretending to move, and their real intention was to jointly attack the leading organs of the Shandong Military Region and the Binhai Navy Region stationed in the south of Ju County. At this time, Luo Ronghuan had been in Shandong for five or six years, and he had a good understanding of the temper and tactics of the Japanese army.At that time, our army lived relatively scattered, and intelligence stations were scattered all over the country. We received a large amount of intelligence every day, some of which were contradictory.In fact, this time he judged very accurately.

When the "sweeping" enemies entered the base area, they encountered heavy rain, the roads were muddy, and they were afraid of stepping on landmines laid by the Eighth Route Army, so they did not move fast.In addition, the enemy has about a thousand people in each route, and the food is picked up by civilians captured from Jinan, Yanzhou and other places.Therefore, Luo Ronghuan estimated that the enemy's "mopping up" would not take too long, so he prepared to fight calmly.He ordered the Jiaodong and Bohai Navy Regions to look for opportunities to attack weakly defended enemies when the enemy concentrated their forces to "sweep" the coastal area, so as to counter the "sweep" in the coastal area.

After Luo Ronghuan made the above deployment, at 10:00 p.m. on August 21, he led the cadres and military region agencies who were attending the military conference held by the military region at that time, and quickly went south from Wazibu in the southwest of Ju County.He knew that the enemies in the two provinces had different organizational systems. Shandong was under the jurisdiction of the Japanese puppet army in North China, while Jiangsu was under the jurisdiction of the Japanese puppet army in Central China. According to the principle of turning over the side tactics, we circled and interspersed in the border areas of Jiangsu and Shandong provinces, jumped around in the south of Juxian, Ganyu, and north of Tancheng, "hide and seek" with the enemy.

Once, Luo Ronghuan and his entourage camped in a village on the east bank of the Mu River.Staff officer Xiao Jianfei is talking on the phone with various intelligence stations to learn about the enemy's situation in various places.Suddenly, someone interrupted, talking on the phone about the benefits of the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" and insulting the Eighth Route Army.Xiao Jianfei immediately realized that this was the enemy, so he publicized the good situation on the world anti-fascist battlefield, denounced the crimes of the Japanese army and the puppet army, and started the enemy's "ideological work".Due to the low quality of the phone at that time, Xiao Jianfei's voice was very loud, which woke up Luo Ronghuan who was next door.

Luo Ronghuan ordered Xiao Jianfei to stop talking with the enemy immediately, and then ordered the agency to transfer immediately.In the past, the transfer of the Eighth Route Army was mostly after dusk, but this time it was scheduled in the morning. Many staff officers in the agency felt that doing so would easily expose the target. Luo Ronghuan believes that the transfer in the morning is dangerous, and if you wait until dusk to transfer, the danger will be even greater.Because the enemy may have detected that the party he is talking to is the leading agency, and has a general understanding of the specific position and the distance between them. If they do not move in time, they will be attacked by the enemy in all likelihood.So, without even eating the prepared breakfast, Luo Ronghuan took the agency and split into two groups with the secret service regiment to transfer.Luo Ronghuan took the mechanism and got into a miscellaneous forest.Some staff officers asked him: "What if we encounter the enemy?" Luo Ronghuan said: "Then fight. But today this situation must be transferred."

After walking 20 kilometers, Luo Ronghuan saw that he had got rid of the enemy, so he ordered the troops to rest and bury the pot for cooking.Before the meal was ready, scouts came to report that the village where we lived in the morning had been attacked by the enemy.Luo Ronghuan smiled slightly after hearing this and said: "When the enemy understands that they are chasing us, we will move again." In this way, Luo Ronghuan saved the organization by relying on his accurate judgment of the situation and excellent military command ability, and won the respect of the staff and cadres under him.The Shandong Eighth Route Army gradually got rid of the predicament, from passive to active, and won one victory after another.