１９４４年，日寇为了延长战争的生计，想打通平汉、粤汉两条铁路，向国民党军发起进攻。中原战场国民党几十万军队一触即溃，这样一来，我党我军抗击日、伪军的任务加重了。为此，我山东军区加紧部署１９４４年的作战任务；扩大解放区，缩小敌占区，打通和改善各战略区的联系? In 1944, in order to prolong the livelihood of the war, the Japanese invaders wanted to open up two railways linking Ping Han and Guangdong and Han to attack the KMT army. Hundreds of thousands of KMT troops in the Central Plains battlefield came to a sudden end. As a result, the tasks of the puppet army were aggravated by our party and our army fighting against Japan. To this end, the Shandong military region stepped up the deployment of its combat mission in 1944; expanded the Jiefang District and narrowed the enemy-occupied areas and opened up and improved the links among the strategic areas;