Chapter 13: Changing Guards (45)

I've been to this place before! Mo Di asked Zhou Mengxiong with a smile, didn't you take me to the place where I lived? Brother Zhou, why did you bring me to your lair! This place, located in the southwest of Tongcheng Bagua City, is unlucky, so it has not been opened since the city was built, but it has been made into a city gate. Closely to the city gate is the guard barracks of Tongcheng, the soldiers are the murder weapons, and it is more appropriate to place them in the Humen Gate. After the demolition of the Tongcheng city wall, the old guard barracks were revealed, and it became the location of the garrison of Tongcheng, when Liu Zhenhua was the chairman of Anhui Province, and a certain unit of Liu Maoen's 15th Army was stationed here. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the 48th Army moved to Anqing, and the first to garrison troops in Tongcheng was Qin Zhenyuan, and the regiment headquarters was placed here. After Zhou Mengxiong took over the commander of the 528th Regiment, he divided the troops into three, leaving only the regimental headquarters and Li Dehua's battalion here, and the other two battalions, Pang Cinan's battalion in Luting, and Long Yingyun's battalion in Xindu. Last time, Mo Di stayed in Tongcheng for a month, and he has been to this place a lot.

"Hehe, from now on, this place is no longer my lair, it is your stronghold Brother Mo." Zhou Mengxiong said with a smile: "After receiving a notice from the military department, I vacated this place as soon as possible and used it as the Tonglu No Garrison Headquarters, and my 528th Regiment moved to Kongcheng with a battalion. ”

"Magpie's nest dove, how embarrassing is this." Mo Di knew that this place was spacious and convenient enough, and it was a good place to use it as a garrison headquarters, but it was a bit embarrassing to occupy the regimental headquarters of the 528th Regiment for nothing.

"What's the solution?" Zhou Mengxiong shook his head.

"The official level crushes people to death." Wei Jiqing, the county magistrate on the side, said mockingly: "A telegram and a word, we will arrange matters related to the Tonglu No Garrison Command, Director Mo, you are a clear-eyed person, you say, the entire Tongcheng, in addition to this place, where else is suitable to be the garrison headquarters, I am willing to let the county yamen out, but it is not big enough, right?" ”

Hearing Wei Jiqing's discomfort, Zhou Mengxiong said in a round game: "I also want to move out." There is no Tonglu and no garrison headquarters, in Tongcheng, this acre and three points of land, the army is me, the government is Lao Wei, everyone cooperates with each other, cooperates with each other, everyone drinks wine, and everyone makes money. With this garrison command, this balance can be broken. I'm not afraid to say something unpleasant, in the future, there will be a lieutenant general in Tongcheng Gossip City, my little colonel, in the same city, morning and dusk are indispensable, even if you are not tired, it is troublesome, it is better to move out, I don't see it once in ten days and half a month, clean. ”

"You're clean, I'm in trouble!" County Magistrate Wei said: "The garrison headquarters in Dafan County is not of high rank, and most of the commanders are lieutenant colonels, and at most they are colonels. For example, Lieutenant Colonel Mo Zhongqing was transferred to Dingyuan to serve as the commander of the garrison headquarters and the head of the militia regiment, which is more appropriate. Tongcheng is okay now, come directly to a regional-level garrison headquarters, and the person sitting in the formation is still a lieutenant general, and he doesn't let people live. ”

Laughing, indeed. Asked Zhou Mengxiong, after Mo Zhongqing was transferred, who was transferred over to serve as the deputy of the regiment, Zhou Mengxiong told Mo Di that it was Yan Junlong, the commander of the field supplement regiment before the 138th Division, and now the Kongcheng regiment headquarters, do you know him? Mo Di nodded, and said that they were all the leaders of the Wild Supplement Regiment and knew each other. Zhou Mengcheng shook his head and said, if you fight and excel, the deputy of the Yan regiment is suspected of declining, and the head of the field supplement regiment, one has been promoted to the chief of staff of the army, and the other has been demoted to the deputy of the regiment. Mo Di shook his head and said, the chief of staff is a false post, he is promoted and secretly demoted, and he is transferred from the field supplement regiment to the main regiment. Zhou Mengxiong laughed and said that he would let Mo Di go to Kong City in a few days, and tell Yan Junlong to say this again, and see if Yan Junlong would vomit blood.

The barracks of the guard army are not small, and Qin Zhenyuan and Zhou Mengxiong have not been perfected over the years, and they are not used for any transformation, which is the standard garrison headquarters. Mo Di asked Sun Cheng to lead someone to make a signboard and hang it at the gate of the guard barracks, even if the garrison headquarters was officially established, as for carrying out the work, it would have to wait until the commander Su Tingxun arrived. As for when Lord Su will be able to move to Tongcheng, Mo Di doesn't know.

The small guard of twenty people, Mo Di left ten people in the garrison headquarters, the military camp of Nuoda was empty, almost no one, a few big yew trees in the barracks, under the huge crown, quietly quiet, showing a tranquility that did not match the military camp. Sun Cheng took a few other people and began to use their six-wheeled trucks to generate income, their advantage was the connections of the six counties in the west, Liu Renkai of Zongyang, Liu Jin of Gaohebu, Qin Zhenyuan of Lujiang, and Wei Jiebo of Qianjiang, no one would say a word to their ninety-four six-wheeled truck, so they quickly became the number one dart team in Mengxia Town. Soon, the convoy led by Sun Cheng's six-* card became a traffic safety symbol in the six western counties. As soon as the steering wheel turned, the gold was ten thousand taels, and the days were full and enjoyable.

The people who stay in the garrison command, the protagonist is a confidential officer, who receives telegrams from all over the world every day, collects them into materials and hands them over to Mo Di, who is interested in it, just take a look, and throw it aside if there is no interest. Walking in the barracks every day is also leisure. In the west corner of the barracks, there are several stone tablets, which record the Taiping army in Tongcheng to massacre the city, the recorder is Tongcheng Lianshou Hu Qianfu, the tablet says: Xianfeng three years in October, Anqing thieves run Tong, when the police, the whole team will be Ma Sanjun, Yu Nanhe, the thieves gather in Jiangjiashan, use guns and gunpowder, bravely abandon weapons and run east. Practicing bravery, the first time I saw hundreds of thieves fighting, and a large number of people gathered, the yellow flag covered the sky and the city fell. The thief opened the knife and killed, searched and washed the house, first he met the person with the blade, and then he was led to the head of the city and hacked to death. There are 3,500 dead women, old and young, women and children, and a catastrophe of 200 years! For this unit from Guangxi, the locals are full of hatred.

Xianfeng has been three years to the present, and a full ninety years have passed. Tongcheng County, Saturday, Gate Six, Northwest Negative Mountain, Southeast View River Bagua City has disappeared, Hu Yihuang in the south of the city and Tongcheng practice brave battle, occupy this guard camp is considered to take Tongcheng. After the Republic of China, this place changed its name to Mengxia Town, built elegantly, zigzag and roundabout, and was called "seven turns, eight corners, nine lanes, and thirteen lanes". I didn't have a lot of fun in Tongcheng last time, so I'll take my time this time.

The Battle of Changsha that began in September showed a strong interest in Mo Dou.

On the afternoon of 8 September, the confidential officer sent a telegram to Mo Di, and Mo Di saw that he was happy, it was Liu Jingzhi. This guy is now the chief of the Eighth Army's Intelligence Department, a major general, and follows the troops in the Yichang area. This is a personal telegram he sent to Mo Di, and the password used is the one used by several people in the Hengshan You cadre class. Liang Cailin, who was stationed in Dayun Mountain, fought extremely hard, with many casualties, believing that although there was the support of the 20th Army, there was only one way to die in the face of a powerful enemy, so he had the idea of escaping from the battle, and sent a telegram to Liu Jingzhi to ask for advice.

Liu Jingzhi was very single, and immediately forwarded it to Mo Di and discussed with Mo Di.

It's not about it, it's hanging high, if it's about it, you can't ignore it. I opened the dusty map of Xiangbei, found Dayun Mountain, looked at it carefully, and smiled, this place does not have any offensive value, and the Japanese army sent the Sixth Division to attack, the purpose is definitely not here, but to destroy the living forces in this place. The purpose of the Japanese attack was obvious, to capture Changsha, occupy Zhuzhou, and open the railway from Zhuzhou to Nanchang via Pingxiang. In order to achieve the goal, it is first necessary to eradicate the Chinese troops along the way, and the first wave of attack is the forward position of Dayun Mountain in the Ninth Theater of Operations, and it is necessary to take Dayun Mountain in its entirety, so as not to let the Chinese army in Dayun Mountain cause trouble after the attacking Japanese army rushes through the Xinqiang River with all its might.

Seeing the enemy's purpose, Mo Di asked the confidential personnel to send a telegram with the internal code of Hengshan: fully shrink, show that the enemy is weak, and the enemy army will retreat.

After a while, Liu Jingzhi called back, and he retreated in an all-round way, suspected of fearing the enemy.

Mo Enemy replied: The Fourth Army has no chance of winning in fighting the Sixth Division, and the 20th Army has no chance of winning, so it is better to let the Sixth Division advance south and eat its tail.

Liu Jingzhi called back: Wise, really invincible!

Xue Yue, commander of the Ninth Theater, also knew that with only four divisions in Dayun Mountain, it was impossible to fight with the Sixth Division, which was at the top of its ranks. At the same time, it was also found that the Japanese attack on Changsha this time was completely different from the tactics of the first Battle of Changsha, the first Battle of Changsha was more scattered and could be broken individually, but this time, Avinan used the method of drilling, and deployed the attacking troops in parallel in a narrow front, in order to make a breakthrough in depth.

Liu Jingzhi reported his and Mo Enemy's views to the military headquarters of the Eighth Army, and Zheng Dongguo, commander of the Eighth Army, thought that it was very reasonable and reported to the Sixth Theater, and Chen Cheng, commander of the Sixth Theater, believed that the Japanese army used drill tactics, which were ferocious, and could let the drill bit and attack the tail of the body, and the farther the Japanese army left Yueyang, the worse the strength of the drill was, and as long as they insisted on attacking, they could finally win the battle. It was proposed to the General Staff Department of the Military and Political Commission that in the Changsha operation, the Ninth Theater could take advantage of the geographical advantages of the Xinqiang River, the Miluo River, the Laodao River, and the Liuyang River to adopt the tactics of sectional interception and interception section by section, while the flank troops could carry out sectional flank attacks, mainly to destroy the enemy's follow-up troops. After the Japanese army entered the front line of Changsha and Zhuzhou, the third, fifth, and sixth theaters exerted their forces at the same time to carry out a fierce attack on the Japanese troops in the theater in response to the Battle of Changsha. At this time, the Japanese army can be said to have exhausted the elite of Central China, and once the main force of the Japanese army is contained in Changsha, the rest of the places can obtain fighters.

Bai Chongxi, chief of the General Staff, received Chen Cheng's proposal and believed that it was entirely possible to melt away the main forces of the Japanese army in northern Hunan in one fell swoop through the Battle of Changsha, and not only agreed to Chen Cheng's proposal, but also transferred the 26th Army and the 10th Army to the command of the Ninth Theater, and transferred the 79th Army from the Sixth Theater and the 2nd Army from the Seventh Theater to reinforce the Ninth Theater.

Seeing the instructions and support of the Military Committee, Xue Yue knew that the next Xiangbei would be a huge melting pot, not only to melt into a large number of Japanese troops, but also to melt into our soldiers. Between China and Japan, it has reached the juncture of life and death, it depends on which of us is more willing to die!

Sitting in Tongcheng, Mo Invincible's attention was also attracted by the distant Changsha.