Chapter 5: Blood and Fire (2)

The day to Huizhou, it happened to be a small year, according to the arrangement of the 48th Army Military Department, the three regiments were arranged in three different townships, and there was still a certain distance between them, relatively speaking, the 1055th regiment was the closest to Huizhou, in Tunxi, the 1038th regiment was the farthest, and in Taiping County, north of Huizhou, the 1056th regiment was the closest, in She County.

Qin Zhenyuan's 1055 regiment went the fastest, because they were lightly armed, not only did they not capture, but even the old book was also polished. Another point is that there are few people, and this regiment is considered crippled. After Zhang Qingzhu's death, the third battalion fled to the back mountain in chaos, and the Japanese army retreated and found it by itself, and was waited for by the Huang Bamei Department behind the palace. Chen Zhengxin decided to be transferred to the brigade commander Gun Company as the company commander, and made some soldiers of the first battalion of the 1055th Regiment become deserters. There were only more than 400 people left in the 1055 regiment, but Xu Le's special service brigade expanded to more than 400 people overnight. To Mo Di's surprise, Qin Zhenyuan didn't care about the number of people, and felt that the fewer people the better, and he couldn't figure it out. It was Jiang Chunyang who explained this reason to Mo Di, the so-called killing 10,000 enemies and losing 3,000 self-losses, since the battle report said that the Qutian infantry brigade was defeated and retreated, how could he do without a single loss, at this time, the greater the loss, the more glorious it is, and the more people there are, the more afraid of death. Mo Die laughed and said that Jiang Chunyang is really worthy of engaging in politics, and this kind of flowery intestines can also be understood and smooth. Huang Tianhua said that the best thing about the 1056 regiment is that it has all talents, Qin Jishi is making money, and Jiang Chunyang is making ghosts, so he only needs to fight well. Mo Di said, with the three of you, I will be comfortable, we don't have too many casualties this year, and we are rich in materials, at least we can have a good year. As for Qin Zhenyuan, he will go to heaven and earth, and he will have less to deal with him in the future. Several subordinates nodded yes.

The slowest to walk was Li Benyi's 1038 Regiment, they had been completely reduced to heavy soldiers, and more than 500 people were all in large bags and small bags, and they were reluctant to throw anything, like fleeing people. When the 1055th Regiment was still fighting in Tashan, they had already received an order from the headquarters of the 21st Group Army and immediately set off for Taiping County, Huizhou, where they were stationed. After two days of walking. was also surpassed by the latecomers of the 1055 regiment, and was ridiculed by Qin Zhenyuan as a turtle army.

The invincible 1056 regiment won because there was a car transport, eighteen cars made the soldiers relieve a lot of burden, and the regimental baggage team also organized a baggage team composed of more than 200 mules and horses, even so, in addition to their own equipment, each soldier also carried dozens of pounds of additional materials. These things are still left after the Jiangnan Advance Column that fully supported Huang Bamei. They left the latest, and they didn't leave until they handed over all the protection in the Lin'an area to Huang Bamei.

A series of victories made Huang Bamei's team have a breakthrough development, expanding to more than 1,300 people, and the advance column became a regiment-level establishment, with three battalion-level brigades under its jurisdiction, Xu Le's 400-person special service brigade, Liu Keji's 400-man assault brigade, all Japanese weapons, 38 big covers, *, as well as crooked handles and big forehand guns. In addition, there are more than 500 people, which is a baggage team led by Xie Yousheng himself, and this baggage team not only has to undertake the food of the entire column, but also has a tobacco team, an antique team, a smuggling team, and a smuggling team that does business with the Japanese. Through Li Benyi's relationship, Xu Le got in touch with Huang Shaohong, chairman of Zhejiang Province. Huang Shaohong was very happy to be able to have a Guangxi person lead troops in Zhejiang, and at the same time gave Huang Bamei's Jiangnan Advance Army a local number, Lin'an Garrison Brigade, and designated Xu Le as the commander of the garrison brigade. Although there is not a penny, a person does not have it, and there is not a gun, but the name sounds one level higher than the invincible Li Benyi Qin Zhenyuan, Huang Bamei happily invited the leaders of the 1056 regiment to have a big meal, it felt like her own son won the champion, but there was no lion dance to spread the good news.

When the 1056 regiment left Lin'an, the people of Lin'an took to the streets one after another, seeing off the invincible soldiers in their minds, a big battle outside the city of Lin'an, so that the people of Lin'an saw the cruelty of the war for the first time, and also realized the heroism of the national army to resist the enemy for the first time, it is precisely because of the resistance of the 1056 regiment that Lin'an was once again spared from the flames of war, and people were spared the slaughter of the Japanese. They handed it to the soldiers. Mo Di said to County Magistrate Lu and Commander Xie who came to see them off, the common people are too polite, and these things from them are enough for us to eat from Lin'an to She County.

The county magistrate Lu said, the poor family is rich, this is the tradition of the Chinese, Lin'an people are your own people.

Xie Yousheng commanded the thief, he let one of his tobacco teams, mixed in the invincible team, ready to transport hundreds of catties of tobacco to Huizhou, during this time, the Nanjing government retreated westward, a large number of smokers also withdrew westward, the price of cigarettes in Wuhan soared, he got a lot of tobacco from Zhejiang, ready to follow the army retreating westward, go to Nanchang and Wuhan, and make a good profit.

Bidding farewell to the fathers and elders of Lin'an, the 1056 regiment embarked on the road to the west. Tianmu Mountain in winter, covered with ice and snow, the troops marched very hard, especially the car, driving on the mountain road, sliding on the ice, full of dangers, in most places, the engineer company still has to temporarily pave the road and build bridges, in order to barely pass, out of the foot of Longwang Mountain, bypass the bottom of the cool peak, through the Yuling Pass, Shexian finally arrived in front of the eyes.

Ling Qianxi was waiting for the arrival of the 1056 regiment in She County, and when he saw this luxury group, Ling Qianxi was startled and said: "I only went to the 1055 regiment yesterday, where is it still a regiment, it is simply a reinforced battalion, I thought you would only be slightly better than them, and it would not be much better. ”

Mo Di saluted, and said with a smile: "We fought with Li Benyi's 1038th Regiment against the Japanese Army's Guchuan Infantry Brigade, and the 1055th Regiment fought alone against the Japanese Army's Qutian Infantry Brigade. ”

"Don't be kidding, stupid!" Ling Zhuxi said with a smile: "We just received Qin Zhenyuan's report before, and we also thought so, but later the military commander gave us a completely different combat report, only to know that although Qin Zhenyuan fought hard, the effect was far less than that of you and Li Benyi, and it also caused the brigade commander Xu Le, the commander of the gun company, to be seriously injured, and the commander of the third battalion was killed in battle. Affected Chiyu, Commander Wei Yunsong personally ordered the dismissal of Chen Zhengxin, the commander of the first battalion of the 1055th Regiment, and became a big truth in the military commander. They believed that Chief Wei's rewards and punishments were not clear, military discipline was not good, and the most serious thing was that the strategy was inadequate, and that abandoning the important land of Lin'an and handing over the defense of the northwestern region of Zhejiang to a newly established Jiangnan Advance Column was no different from handing over to the Japanese. It is estimated that Chief Wei will be transferred as a result. ”

Mo Di shook his head, the city god fought, and the little ghost watched, these things are not something that can be worried about at his own level, listening to Ling Zhuxi's lively words, he replied: "Isn't the transfer of the 48th Army from Lin'an to Huizhou also the opinion of the General Staff?" ”

"Chief Bai's withdrawal of the 48th Army from the Lin'an area has also become a major reason for the General Staff to attack Chief Bai, and Cheng Qian believes that this move is actually to preserve strength and is an act of a local warlord." Ling Qianxi said.

"That's a big deal, let's go back to Lin'an! I walked from Anji to Yuqian, and from Lin'an to Shexian, which is considered to have taken a rough walk in this area. In this place, there is a vast Tianmu Mountain, rich in products, simple folk customs, and it is enough to feed an army with war. As for operations, the terrain here is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and with the strength of one of our regiments, there is no problem in dealing with a brigade of the Japanese army. "Mo Di thought simply, said it simply, and in front of Shangguan, there was nothing to hide.

"The General Staff has ordered the defense of this area to be handed over to the Hunan 28th Army." Ling Qianxi suddenly realized and said: "I understand, according to what you said, this Tianmu Mountain Area is not only not a place for four killings, but an excellent place to raise soldiers, no wonder Cheng Qian will not let it go, this old dog's day, get cheap and sell well." ”

Mo Di smiled, did not answer, and accompanied Ling Zhuxi to his temporary headquarters in She County, which is the campus of She County Middle School, during the winter vacation, students leave the school, and the campus is the most relaxed. The 1056 regiment is all stationed here, and the food and lodging are very convenient, and there are already local party and government personnel who have organized a large amount of grain and vegetables, and the logistics work is very well done.

In Mo Di's office, there was already a guard platoon Zhao Guolong's life that started a pot of carbon fire, baked the room to be heated, took off the heavy coat, took off the heavy steel helmet, Mo Di let people set up a charcoal fire, set up an iron pot, fried the bacon and dried bamboo shoots brought from Lin'an, and added the pickled chili pepper specially prepared by Qin Jishi, which is the best Guibei flavor, Ling pressed the west index finger and said: "Tianzong, you kid really don't treat yourself badly." ”

"They were all given by the local people in Lin'an, and we helped them stop the Japanese army, and they gave us the best things in the house. For the sake of these ordinary people who know the cold and the warmth, we are willing to die even if we are soldiers. Mo Di sighed.

Sure enough, within a few days, the Military Commission issued a notice that due to Wei Yunsong's ineffective operation, he was dismissed from the post of commander of the 48th Army, and ordered him to lead the 173rd Division (Division Commander Zheng Weizhen) and 174th Division (Division Commander Huang Jianyou) who were seriously missing in the Battle of Songhu to set off immediately, leave Huizhou, and join the 135th Division (Division Commander Su Zuxin) who had arrived in Mingguang Town, Jiashan County in advance, and build a new 31st Army after supplementation.

The commander of the 48th Army was concurrently served by Liao Lei, deputy commander of the 21st Group Army, Wang Zanbin, the former commander of the 174th Division, was transferred to the deputy commander of the 48th Army, and the 176th Division (division commander Ou Shounian) remained in the 48th Army, and another unit newly replenished to the 48th Army was the 138th Division, which was known as the old and good man of the Gui Army, and Zhang Yichun, the former deputy commander of the 48th Army, was appointed director of the Anhui Provincial Department of Civil Affairs and acting provincial chairman.

To Mo Di's surprise, Li Benyi's 1038 regiment did not return to the 171st Division of the Seventh Army, but belonged to the 138th Division, and Li Benyi took office as the deputy brigade commander of the 412th Brigade of the 138th Division and the commander of the 1038th Regiment. As for Qin Zhenyuan, he was not affected by the adjustment of the general law, after all, in the first battle of Tashan, the Qutian Infantry Brigade was indeed repelled by his 1055th Regiment, and his contribution was not small, and he still served as the commander of the 1055th Regiment, and his rank was promoted to colonel.

What made Mo Di even more surprised was that only a small part of the 48th Army's replenishment arrived in Huizhou, and most of them were transported to Nanchang, and the 48th Army had to be transferred to Nanchang in order to receive comprehensive supplies, and the 138th Division was also waiting in Nanchang to meet with the military headquarters as a material escort unit, and Mo Di's 1056 Regiment was ordered to spend the New Year in She County, and set off on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year as the rear guard of the whole army to go to Nanchang.

After receiving the order, Mo Di's first thought was that this year, he would finally be able to live a stable year without the sound of guns!