Chapter 8: Guerrilla (38)

I didn't go back to school until night, I had a car to pick up and send me, which was much more comfortable, and I brought some Guangdong products to the captain, and I was so happy that the captain even ignored the alcohol smell of the six people.

The next morning, after the exercise, the loud assembly horn sounded in the campus, when all the students lined up in a square line to assemble on the playground, Li Mo'an walked up to the podium, knocked on the microphone with his hand, made a buzzing sound, pretended to cough twice, and then read it out loud: "Nanchang Battle Bulletin, since the Japanese army attacked on March 17, on March 18, the Murai detachment set off from Xingzi by warship, landed in Wucheng, and attacked the 32nd Army and other units. On the same day, the main forces of the 101st and 106th Divisions of the Japanese Army, as well as their artillery and combat convoys, advanced to the north bank of Xiushui in turn, occupying the starting area of the attack. After that, the offensive with artillery as a long-range attack and combat vehicles as the main attack was immediately launched. ”

Li Shigui turned his head to Mo Di and said: "What happened ten days ago is only taken today, it's not news, it's old news." ”

Mo Di smiled and did not answer. For a few of them, it is old news, and for those who have been staying in school and have not received news, this is not only news, but also very shocking news. During this time, the Japanese army had been making trouble in Shanxi, Hubei, Hunan, and Guangdong, but they did not expect that the foothold would be in Jiangxi.

As the buzzing discussion below gradually disappeared, Li Mo'an's voice came out of the loudspeaker again: "From March 20th to 22nd, for three whole days, the battle started on the south bank of Xiushui, and the Japanese army used artillery, tanks and poison gas to attack our position non-stop. At 21:30 on March 22, the Japanese vanguard chariot group detoured to Fengxin, occupied the Luhe Bridge outside the South Gate, and occupied Fengxin on March 23. ”

Liu Jingzhi nodded, this is exactly the same as the news he got in Lei Gongtan, but the news he got in Lei Gongtan was more specific, and Chief Li Mo'an had a bit of Spring and Autumn brushwork, which was big and big. In fact, the situation was far from being as simple as Li Mo said, the 30th Group Army, the 19th Group Army, and the 10th Group Army were all fighting very fiercely, and in the face of the attack of only two divisions of the Japanese army, they actually felt a little overstretched. In order to increase the combat strength of the Ninth Theater in the Nanchang area, Gu Zhutong, commander of the Third Theater, quickly transferred Bai Huizhang's 102nd Division to reinforce Nanchang, and Wu Shouquan's 16th Division and Duan Langru's 79th Division went to Dongxiang and Jinxian in the southeast of Nanchang to guard the south bank of Poyang Lake. In addition, Shangguan Yunxiang's 32nd Group Army led the rest of the army to turn to the direction of Nanchang to respond to the operation in Nanchang.

"Your army is not in Nanchang?" Mo Di secretly asked Liu Jingzhi.

Liu Jingzhi nodded and said: "Our 4th Army, the most powerful army under the Ninth Group Army, retreated to southern Anhui after the Battle of Wanjialing, belongs to the Third Theater, and has the 4th Army and the 49th Army under its jurisdiction. The 49th Army is now transferred to the 19th Group Army, and only the 4th Army has been stationed in the Huizhou area, and its main work is two points, one is to block the enemy from Hangzhou and provide material support to the guerrilla troops in northwest Zhejiang, including the troops of your little brother Xu Le. In addition, there was another task, which was to squeeze the newly formed Fourth Army stationed in the Xuancheng area and force them to leave the southern Anhui region and enter northern Hebei. ”

"This Nanchang battle, you were not mobilized?" Mo Di asked puzzledly: "The General Staff doesn't know what to think, let the Fourth Army squeeze the New Fourth Army, let Wu Qiwei squeeze Ye Xiyi, both of them are people who have scooped food in a pot in the old Cantonese Army." ”

Liu Jingzhi smiled dumbly, he didn't know why he arranged it this way, and answered Mo Di's first question: "Chief Wu Qiwei is the commander of the Ninth Group Army, and not long ago, our army commander was replaced by Chief Ou Zhen and Ou Yuchen. The Battle of Nanchang has already transferred one of our armies, and if our Fourth Army is transferred again, it will be annoying on the battlefield. ”

Li Mo'an's voice continued: "On the 23rd, the commission ordered: This battle is not about the gains and losses in Nanchang, but about the greatest blow to the enemy. Even if Nanchang is lost, our armies should attack according to the designated target regardless of everything, and decide on future combat plans in accordance with this policy. ”

Immediately like a frog in March, what? To give up Nanchang is very different from the government's usual policy of fighting for every inch of land. Take the initiative to give up a city, and then you can take the initiative to give up a province, and then take the initiative to give up a country, how can this be done! Mo Di listened to the discussions of his classmates, but he just bowed his head and said nothing, a trace of sadness welled up in his heart, he had studied the theory of guerrilla warfare for more than a month, and he could not even see through such a small trick, and the quality of these guerrillas could be seen. Zhang Zhinong shook his head and nodded again, and said to Mo Di: "If it weren't for your suggestion yesterday, I would be like these people, and I can't see the wisdom of the commission's decision." ”

Mo Di shook his head and said, "I may not be right, and they may not be wrong. During these times, I had a lot of contact with the Red Army, and sometimes I imagined the tenacity of the Red Army as our habit. The instructors said that the Red Army could let the opponent in and torture it slowly, drag the fat to the thin, drag the thin to death, exchange time for space, use movement to form a local advantage, and destroy the enemy one bite at a time. We are very different, we can fight a good fight, and when there is a setback, we immediately herd sheep. Abandoning Nanchang, for our soldiers who came down, means defeat, a defeat of three thousand miles, out of control. ”

Mo Enemy's words not only made Zhang Zhinong stupid, but also made Liu Jingzhi speechless. I only heard Li Mo'an chattering on it: "On the 26th, that is, yesterday, the Japanese army entered Shengmi Street on the left bank of the Ganjiang River, crossed the Ganjiang River, cut off the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway, and detoured to Nanchang from the south. The main force of the 101st Division also advanced to Shengmi Street through Wanbu and Huangxi, crossed the Ganjiang River that night, and attacked Nanchang. The 101st Brigade traveled along the Nanxun Railway through Lehua and Jiaoqiao to the north bank of the Ganjiang River northwest of Nanchang. The face broke into Nanchang. The defenders were weak in strength and firepower, and after fierce street fighting, with many casualties, they were ordered to retreat to Jinxian. Early this morning, I got the latest news that the Japanese 101st Division occupied Nanchang. ”

There was already the sound of frogs below, dragging out the sound coming out of the loudspeakers.

Nanchang has fallen! After the disbandment, Mo Di and Liu Jingzhi and others walked to the canteen, the breakfast was very simple, the porridge was sent to the steamed buns, and there was a dish of sour chili fried dried radish, which was amazingly salty, but the porridge was just right, Mo Di snorted and drank the porridge in the bowl, sent down the steamed bun that belonged to him, and wanted to eat it again, but there was no more, so he had to go to the boiling bucket and fill half a bowl of water to drink, which was considered to fill his stomach.

In the classroom, on the playground, in the shade of the trees, and in the corridors, a few stones became a sand table, and a few branches became the direction of the troop movement, and the noise and arguments were endless. Everyone expressed their opinions, and often fought for red faces and red ears, and almost fists and feet. The school pickets have also dealt with several waves of student brawls these days, all due to differences of opinion.

The trainees were roughly divided into two camps, one faction was the losing side, believing that once Nanchang was abandoned, there would definitely be a large-scale rout, and within ten days, Jiangxi Province would fall. One side is a counteroffensive, believing that Nanchang will definitely be counterattacked, and as an important town on the Zhejiang-Jiangxi line, it must not give up lightly. There are also some emotional people who can't stop crying, thinking that Nanchang must not be given up, once Nanchang is lost, it is equivalent to losing Jiangxi, at that time, from the Ganjiang River to the south, the Vietnamese Ridge can be connected with Guangdong, and the Japanese army does not need the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway, that is, it can open up the passage with Guangdong.

Only Mo Enemy's attitude was not quite the same as theirs, he agreed to abandon Nanchang, but he did not approve of the rout of the whole front, let alone advocate a counterattack on Nanchang. Instead, it was proposed to trap the 101st and 106th divisions in Nanchang, adopt the methods of mobile warfare and guerrilla warfare to encroach on the opponent's vital forces, and at the same time, send troops north to the area of the Nanxun line to smash the supply lines of the Japanese army. The Japanese army relied on tanks and artillery, but as everyone knows, the dependence of these two arms on logistics is also very huge, and tanks without oil and artillery without shells are not a shuttle. Instead of counterattacking Nanchang with a large number of troops and confronting the steel of the Japanese army with flesh and blood, it is better to fight a vigorous guerrilla war and war of attrition here. People have inertia, with the city wall will involuntarily rely on the city wall, will involuntarily turn to attack and defend, will try to take advantage of the advantages of the city, why don't we take advantage of the situation, let Nanchang City become their burden, become their cemetery. The Japanese army occupied Nanchang, and we lost Nanchang, and it was not another loss of horses. As for the counterattack on Nanchang, that is the next strategy in the next policy, because the other party occupies the city, has a geographical advantage, and defends the city, just to wait for us to come up, if we counterattack, wouldn't it just be full of their intentions!

These controversies were settled a month later, and on 17 April, under the orders of Chairman Chiang, Nanchang began a major counteroffensive. The 1st, 19th, and 30th Group Armies of the Ninth Theater and the 32nd Group Army of the Third Theater, a total of about 10 armies, were under the unified command of Luo Zhuoying, commander-in-chief of the 19th Group Army, to launch the "April Offensive."

"Tianzhong, the final decision of the commission is beyond most people's expectations, but it is similar to your thoughts." Zhang Zhinong said: "The committee believes that the Japanese army has consumed a lot of money after occupying Nanchang, has not yet been reorganized, and the garrison is insufficient, so it decided to take advantage of the fact that the Japanese army has not yet gained a stable foothold to hold a counteroffensive. The most important thing is that our army did not storm Nanchang, but as you said, it organized several large armies to attack in all directions, the first of which was by the 10th Army (Commander-in-Chief Lu Han, Gao Yin Huaidai) and the 19th Army of the 74th Army (Army Commander Yu Jishi) respectively through the Fengxin and Dacheng areas to advance to the Nanxun railway between Xiushui and Nanchang, completely destroying communications and cutting off enemy reinforcements. That's exactly what you expected. The second road is the 19th Army of the 49th Army (Commander Liu Duoquan) to Gao'an as the general reserve, I think this will be the last straw to Nanchang. The third way is for the 30th Army (Commander-in-Chief Wang Lingji) to attack Wuning, which is completely a feint, in order to pull the Japanese army and disperse its forces, and the purpose is to attack Nanchang. As for the main force attacking Nanchang, it turned out to be the 32nd Group Army (Commander-in-Chief Shangguan Yunxiang) from the Third Theater. The 32nd Group Army did not participate in the previous Xiushui Blockade Battle, and although Chen Baoan's 29th Army transferred Bai Zhanghui's 102nd Division and Duan Langru's 79th Division away, there were still Liu Nanqing's 26th Division, He Ping's 16th Division, Zeng Jiachu's Reserve 5th Division and Fang Xianjue's Reserve 10th Division, and their strength was not weak. ”

Mo Di looked at Zhang Zhinong and smiled, this person who usually doesn't like to use his brain can say such a big paragraph, which shows that the degree of attention paid to the Battle of Nanchang by the You Gan class during this period is very good, the school needs this kind of thinking and learning too much learning spirit, which can change Zhang Zhinong, and the You Gan class can be described as fruitful.

"Tianzhong, you are here to tell me, is what I said reasonable?" Zhang Zhinong was anxious, like a student who really wanted to be praised.

Mo Di shook his head and said, "Although the plan is good, the effect depends on the specific implementation." Often the more careful the plan, the more deformed in the process of implementation, because too self-righteous and take it for granted, there is no contingency plan for emergencies, once there is an unplanned situation, immediately the whole audience is in chaos, and finally back to the attack, we will steal the chicken into a handful of rice. When teaching "Introduction to Guerrilla Warfare," General Ye Jianying pointed out the relationship between strategy and tactics, and the strategy, macro and tactics were meticulous. What we need to grasp above is the macro strategy, but we have to work the meticulous tactics, and no one from the top to the bottom controls the macro strategy, so how can we grasp the course of the campaign. ”

Zhang Zhinong was not praised, and was stunned by Mo Di's words, and watched Mo Di go out for a long time before he came back to his senses and shouted, "Wait for me!" He opened a pair of long legs and chased after him.