Chapter 12: The Aftermath of War (57)

To say that the operational staff officers assigned by the 138th Division to the reconnaissance company were really talented, and after synthesizing the situation of the 19 groups, they went so far as to come up with a report full of flowers, and the situation of the 19 th Route could not be exhaustive, and he also used his own thinking and imagination to make an effective, coherent, and reasonable supplement to the scattered and independent situation. After the report was completed, it was handed over to Company Commander Hu and Sun Cheng to see, and the two nodded in admiration, thinking that this was the case. The three unanimously decided to report this to the Telex Division.

Early the next morning, the villagers of the wild boar cave came to the mountain temple on time to see off the reconnaissance company, and the villagers were very polite, carrying porridge and cakes, looking like a labor army. They knew that taking the reconnaissance company away was regarded as offending the national army from death, and sending something was a small favor, but also a good fate.

Leaving the wild boar recess, the reconnaissance company turned back to the west, they still have an alternative place, that is, the mountainous area in the west of the Lujiang River, a place called Hei Recess, the Lujiang River, the terrain is flat, the population in the mountainous area is relatively sparse, and it is easy to hide the figure. It's just that this place is far away from Lujiang County, and it takes a long time to go back and forth, and if you want to go to the direction of Shengqiao, you can't go back and forth in a day.

After receiving a long report from the reconnaissance company, Li Ben and other division leaders unanimously agreed that the situation in Lujiang had been roughly grasped, and the next step was to formulate an offensive plan and take Lujiang.

As a member of the military department, Mo Di also participated in the combat preparation meeting, read the report of the reconnaissance company, and listened to the entire meeting. At the end of the preparation of the meeting, Li Benyi politely asked Mo Di's opinion. Mo Di shook his head, no comment. This is a matter of the 138th Division, and if you have any opinions, you shouldn't raise them at the meeting, not to mention, you are not too clear, and it is not good to express your opinions indiscriminately based on your imagination. Fighting a war is very rigorous, and the requirements for this are also very strict, and it is said that the enemy is unpredictable and flexible in war, but I don't know that the so-called flexibility is flexible on the basis of rigor, and the more accurate and thorough the grasp of the situation, the more sophisticated and easy the combat methods will be. For the 138th Division, Mo Di is unfamiliar, Li Ben has not worked together for many years, and he does not understand his thinking, and even Gong Qingyuan has not been seen for two years, it is difficult to say how much has changed. The most important thing is that Liu Qinglong's department is still not the heroic army of the year, and it is not useful.

On the fifth day of the camp in Maotanchang, Lieutenant Colonel Liang Yisheng, the former commander of the artillery company, the head of the artillery battalion and deputy director of the staff of the 138th Division, brought by Li Benyi from Mingguang, arrived at Maotanchang, and he also took two companies of Liu Qinglong's regiment to escort the third batch of grain and grass. Zhao Xueliang, who escorted the second batch of grain and grass, has seen it, and he is not very familiar with it, and he is polite when he meets, but Liang Yisheng is different, Liang Yisheng is also an old man brought out from Yishan, and he has some friendship.

Seeing this former subordinate, Mo Di was flustered for a while, this person can be described as a big change, his belly is round, and he can be twice as thick as two years ago, like a pregnant woman waiting to give birth. The head is round and the neck is thick, and the discipline buckle of the military uniform cannot be buckled. When he saw Mo Enemy, he stood up and saluted, and his hand in front of his forehead was shaped like a pig's trotters.

"Holy shit, how did this grow?" Mo Di was surprised and rushed out.

Liang Yisheng laughed and said: "Eat well, sleep well, eat all day long, do nothing, and before you know it, you will grow like this." ”

took Liang Yisheng back to the yard where he lived, killed a chicken with his own hands, and drank it after wearing the soup. After the guards left, Mo Di took two confidential personnel and a transmitter to live in this half of the courtyard, and did not arrange for anyone else to move in, which was very quiet. Liang Yisheng came, just as a companion. The current Liang Yisheng is also a bare-bones commander, with no soldiers and no artillery, and he is still an idler.

In his mouth, Mo Di knew that after Xu Ping's advance army was reorganized into the 10th Guerrilla Column, the artillery battalion would be gone, and the soldiers of the artillery battalion would be transferred to other units, as the commander of the artillery battalion, there were no soldiers and no artillery under his command, and after being idle for two months, he served as the deputy director of the staff department at the column headquarters, in fact, he followed Xu Ping's side and did some miscellaneous things. Liang Yisheng told Mo Di that as soon as Li Ben arrived in Mingguang and Yan Renyi arrived in Bengbu, Xu Ping's advance army existed in name only, the army was not a soldier or a civilian, and he was still wearing the hat of a military commander spy, which was extremely disgusting and depressed. In this depression, Xu Ping met Xu Haidong of the Red Party and was greatly affected by it. Li Benyi came to the 138th Division, Xu Ping was promoted to the commissioner of the Fifth District, and Xu Haidong left Mingguang with confidence and went to northern Jiangsu.

Liang Yisheng is quite able to eat, and his eating appearance is also very fierce, he threw his hat away, unbuttoned his clothes, hugged his big belly up, sat on the golden knife of the horse, and his chopsticks in his hand, it was a standard foodie style, Mo Di smiled and asked if he could still march with such a fat man? Liang Yisheng said that he didn't delay things, but he sweated more.

Mo Di sighed secretly, not to mention the vicissitudes of life, I haven't seen it for two years, and the changes are so great, and then look at the six companies of Liu Qinglong's department that have arrived at Maotanchang, whether in terms of image or momentum, I can't find the kind of majesty that Gao Jingting fought all over the ground to find teeth, it seems that in the fifth district, these soldiers have regressed a little, at least they haven't fought enough.

Relying on these soldiers, if you want to defeat Wang Zhanlin in Lujiang, you really need to put some thought into it.

With these thoughts, Mo Di and Liang Yisheng chatted all the way to Wanfo Lake.

It's really as Liang Yisheng said, although he is fat, his physical strength is good, but he sweats a lot, Mo Di has not felt the heat yet, he is already sweating profusely, Mo Di is still wearing thin cotton clothes, he has two single clothes outside and one in the inside, and he is still open, holding the placket as a fan. Zhao Xueliang walked behind them with the two formed battalions of the 413 Regiment, and when he began to walk, he still looked good, and after walking three or five miles, he began to show his appearance, took off his hat and opened his arms, and hung his formal rifle around his neck, and some of them were directly regarded as crutches.

There were a lot of materials sent to Maotanchang twice, and Zhao Xueliang's people alone couldn't finish moving, so early in the morning, the 414 regiment all came to Maotanchang, and returned together after lunch.

Mo Di has the habit of observing at any time, along the way, comparing the situation of the two regiments made him find fun, Zhao Xueliang's people are strong, but the toughness is extremely poor, the soldiers of the two regiments each shared about thirty pounds of weight, began to walk fast, to Wuxian, Zhao Xueliang's people shouted to rest. Wei Jiebo's people are relatively weak, walking slowly but very solidly, bowing his head and carrying weights, rarely talking all the way, and walking silently. Although Zhao Xueliang's people not only have to carry supplies, but also be responsible for their own equipment, which is more than that of the 414 Regiment, but from the overall feeling, Mo Di feels that the combat power of the 414 Regiment should still be above Zhao Xueliang's.

Wei Jiebo's 414th Regiment is such a team, but there is no way to hold Wang Zhanlin, the defeated general of his former subordinates, and Mo Di is a little puzzled. If Wang Zhanlin's development changes are really so great, even if you add a Liu Qinglong regiment whose comprehensive strength is not as good as that of the 414 regiment, will it make a difference. Is it necessary for him to ask Zhou Mengxiong of the 528th Regiment in Tongcheng to assist, although he has a general relationship with Zhou Mengxiong, the commander of the 528th Regiment, and has a good relationship with Long Yingyun, the battalion commander under him, not to mention that Mo Zhongqing, the deputy commander of the 528th Regiment, is an old man of the 138th Division, and he was previously the chief staff officer of the lieutenant colonel of the 412th Brigade, so he should have a friendship with Li Benyi. If the 528th Regiment can arrange a support army, it will naturally be best if it is not used, and once it can be used, it may be the last grass that crushes the camel.

In the evening, a pre-war meeting was held at the station of the 414th Regiment in Jizuyan, at which it was decided that tomorrow, the 414th Regiment would immediately go to Lujiang, join up with the reconnaissance company in the manger area, and immediately launch an attack on Lujiang as soon as Liu Qinglong's troops arrived.

In Mo Di's view, this operation was obviously lacking in certainty, first, there were too many ambiguous statements in the report of the reconnaissance company, and second, there was a lack of necessary investigation of the favorable time and place of Lujiang, and Wei Jiebo, the only one who had a certain understanding of Lujiang, was hit too hard, so that he did not dare to express his own opinions, and would only obey the arrangements of the upper peak. Mo Di did not express his opinion at the meeting because of his identity, but it did not mean that he put himself in the perspective of a bystander, he saw that Li Benyi needed a victory to determine his position in the 138th Division, and also saw that the 138th Division did need a victory to reverse the current decline. Similarly, I also saw that the attitude of the deputy division commander Cui Jian was very ambiguous, he emphasized a little too much on the strength of Lujiang's opponent Wang Zhanlin, of course, this can be regarded as a prevarication for his previous work mistakes, negative, not aggressive, and even, there is still a certain hope for failure in this attack. This person is not suitable to stay in the 138th division any longer, and the negative effect is greater than the positive value. Gong Qingyuan is the only person who is still relatively normal, and as the chief of staff, the role of the chief of staff is particularly important when the opinions of the deputy division commander and the acting division commander diverge.

"Lao Gong, the troops will set off tomorrow, how sure is your division headquarters about this attack on Lujiang?" Mo Di asked very seriously.

Gong Qingyuan shook his head and said: "Two regiments fight the opponent and one regiment, and the opponent is still the Peaceful Founding Army, so we should grasp that there are still some!" ”。

Mo Di listened to this sentence and knew that Gong Qingyuan was still a head of paste, a battle, a layout and a plan, what are the chances of victory, what are the variables, it is not a simple formation that can be summarized, his own field supplement regiment is a regiment, and the field supplement regiment of Yan Junlong of the 138th Division is also a regiment. sighed and said: "This kind of certainty is equal to nothing, and I will not fight a battle without certainty." I also know why you have to fight this battle, but you have to create some conditions for yourself and sort out some ideas. I know what you think, with Wei Jiebo's regiment storming the garrison of Wang Zhanlin in the east of Lujiang City, the probability of victory is that there is only one battalion of troops here. Then Liu Qinglong's troops sent reinforcements, where did the reinforcements come from, do you think it is the direction of Shengqiao. The maximum number of reinforcements was a battalion, so both combat points had a certain advantage. In your opinion, after these two battles, Lujiang is basically yours! ”

Gong Qingyuan kept nodding, that's what happened.

Mo Di smiled and asked, "What if there is not one battalion in Lujiang City, but two battalions?" What if the reinforcements from the other side came not from the direction of Morihashi, but from the direction of Mikawa? What if the attack on the Lujiang Great Law attracts reinforcements from the Japanese army in Feixi? The highway from Feixi to Lujiang is only 60 kilometers, and the car is only two hours away, which is a variable. The New Fourth Army withdrew from Tongdong, and the gap port was reused, if the reinforcements arrived from the south of the Lujiang River, what remedy would be made? Since the 116th Division moved to Chao County, Chaohu Lake has become an inner lake in the Japanese-occupied area, and the Japanese army's fireships have no entry into the uninhabited land on the lake. Lujiang is different from Mingguang, and it is also different from the six counties in the west of Anqing, it is actually a place of four wars, and if you are not careful, it may evolve into a big battle, and don't say that the 138th Division is a lone army, even if the 48th Army is all there, it may not be able to stop. ”

The more Gong Qingyuan listened, the more stupid he became, and in the end, a drop of saliva fell on the placket of his clothes.