Chapter 14: Advanced (4)

When they arrived in Jingdezhen, Mo Di and Zhou Shiming were arranged in the Changjiang Hotel, which was used as the guest house of the 147th Division, which was all requisitioned by the 147th Division, and was not used to serve the public. The familiar environment gives Mo Di a great sense of security, and when he enters the hostel, he feels relaxed and at home, which should be the feeling. The equipment of the hostel is half new, it is better to be clean, and Mo Di is very satisfied. After putting the luggage away, I washed my face and looked much more energetic. Zhou Shiming also changed the outfit of the country women along the way, changed into a slightly more elaborate short jacket and flag suit, tied his hair together, made a simple hairstyle, and fixed it with several hairpins.

Not long after, Lieutenant Deng rode a bicycle and brought a three-wheeled rickshaw to the Changjiang Hotel to pick up Mo Di for dinner. Tonight's dinner was a little late, from Jinggongqiao to Jingdezhen, nearly 70 kilometers, the Dodge truck ran at a high speed of 40 kilometers per hour, and arrived at the destination in an hour and a half, and it was not yet completely dark. After placing Mo Di in the hostel, Lieutenant Deng immediately returned to the camp to report the situation and arrange dinner, and by the time he could open the table to eat, it was already completely dark. Jingdezhen is an old town, since the Song Dynasty has been famous for burning porcelain, there are hundreds of large and small porcelain factories, as well as a large number of merchants who purchase goods and supply materials, the market is very lively.

Sitting in a rickshaw, following Lieutenant Deng, he turned the streets and alleys, walked into the gendarmerie camp by the Changjiang River, and went straight to the canteen. More than a dozen brothers from the gendarmerie who had returned from Jinggongqiao stood at the door of the canteen and put on a welcome stand, making them bow and bow uncontrollably. Lieutenant Deng accompanied Mo Di in front, slightly back half a step, and the others lined up in two rows like guards, following Mo Di to show respect.

Walking into the dining room, there were still people inside. It seemed that Mo Wei had arrived, and three officers and a woman stood up and greeted him.

Pointing to a commander who was shouldering the rank of lieutenant general of the Sichuan Army, Lieutenant Deng introduced: "This is the commander of our 147th Division. ”

Although Mo Di was dressed in civilian clothes, he didn't dare to slack off, stood upright, bowed, and said loudly: "Mo Di, the chief of staff of the 48th Army, has seen Chief Xu. ”

"No need to be polite." Master Xu stretched out his hand, shook hands with Mo Di, and said: "There is no subordinate relationship between us, we are purely friendly troops, we dare not be called commanders, and the brothers are friends." My name is Xu Yuanxun, I have heard the name of Director Mo for a long time, and when I heard their report that Director Mo was visiting, I was overjoyed and inexplicable, and I came to meet him, but I was abrupt. Come on, I will introduce these three to Director Mo, Director Liu of the Political Training Department of the 147th Division, and Captain Zhang of the Military Police. This is Director Liu's wife, I heard that Director Mo and his wife traveled together, so I specially invited Director Liu's wife to accompany her. ”

Mo Di hurriedly reached out and shook hands with the other two. He bowed slightly to Mrs. Liu again, and said, "In this way, Mrs. Liu is too much." ”

Mrs. Liu smiled, spoke a standard Sichuan dialect and said hotly: "No work, eat and drink together, that's a good errand." He walked over, shook Zhou Shiming's hand, and went to speak.

Master Xu sat down as the chairman, and Mo Di was the guest of honor. On Commander Xu's side, Captain Zhang, Captain Deng and Director Liu, and between Director Liu and Mo Di sat two ladies. Mo Di secretly nodded in approval of this arrangement, the military rank is second only to Division Commander Xu is Director Liu, this Division Commander Xu does not sit in rank by rank, but can make reasonable arrangements according to the situation, it seems that he is not a person who follows the rules.

After sitting down, there are orderly soldiers in turn to pour wine in the wine glass, the wine urn is antique, the whole body is brown, and the three characters of Jian Nanchun are engraved on it, which is the best Sichuan wine.

"The old rule, drink three glasses before talking." Xu Yuanxun raised his cup, touched Mo Enemy, and drank it first.

This division commander has a very military demeanor, and Mo Di also drank the wine in the bull's-eye glass in front of him. Mrs. Liu just took a sip and whispered to Zhou Shiming that drinking is a man's business, and women only have to eat vegetables.

Three cups of belly, the scene suddenly became warm, invincible in Anqing, most of them drink the local sealed jar wine, the alcohol is low, the cotton is sweet, this is the Sichuan spirits, as soon as it enters the stomach, a line of fire from the throat to the stomach, suddenly the whole body is on fire, and the mood is high.

"As early as December of the 26th year of the Republic of China, I knew Director Mo's name, so to speak, my little life was all thanks to Director Mo's shot, so to be saved, I must take this opportunity to thank you." Xu Yuanxun swallowed three cups, unbuttoned his shirt, and looked bold.

Mo Di looked at Xu Yuanxun blankly and said, "There is such a thing, why don't I know?" ”

Director Liu was also happy and said, "The relationship between the division seat and Director Mo is so deep, this dragon gate array must be placed. ”

"Want to hear it?" Xu Yuanxun looked at Director Liu.

Director Liu nodded.

"In the name of the Political Training Office, I will make another bottle of wine." Xu Yuanxun pointed to the tile urn with Jian Nanchun and said: "Director Mo has three cups of belly, and he does not move at all, he is definitely also a master of the wine forest, one urn is not enough, and another urn is coming." ”

Apply to the Quartermaster Department for hospitality wine, a unit can only apply for one bottle at a time, the urn that has been opened is applied for by the gendarmerie, if you want to drink again, you must apply for another unit, so Division Commander Xu ordered the general of the Political Training Department. Director Liu happily signed and asked the canteen to serve another urn. This kind of urn is one pound per urn, not ten taels, but sixteen taels, slightly more than one and a half catties of ten taels of scales, one and a half catties of wine, five people drink, a little less. Another bottle is more suitable.

"After the Battle of Songhu began, our 23rd Group Army was ordered to go out of Sichuan, and rushed to the war zone, which was already a comprehensive retreat in the later stage, and the 23rd Army of Pan Wenhua and the 21st Army of Tang Shizun were ordered to go to Yixing and Changxing in Zhejiang, and Si'an and Guangde in Anhui to intercept the Japanese attack. In Si'an and Quang De, fierce battles were fought with the invading Japanese army. "It turned out to be the events of that year, following Xu Yuanxun's account, Mo Enemy's memory also returned to the war of that year, at that time, he was very keen on combat skills, and the most willing thing to do every day was to obtain the opponent's materials and property through tactics, as for the whole strategy, he never thought much about it. Because of this problem, he was also scolded by Zhang Guangwei, believing that he must not be unfavorable to the entire campaign because of his temporary interests. At that time, because he was greedy for a small advantage, he brought the entire Yamashita Chongwu Brigade of the Japanese army over. In order to prevent the Japanese army from following him into Anji, he tried every means to lead all the Japanese troops to Guangde, so the Battle of Guangde of the Sichuan Army took place.

"Our 144th Division was guarding Si'an, and at that time, I was the commander of the Second Regiment of the 432nd Brigade of the 114th Division, and our division commander was Guo Xunqi." After eating a piece of garlic and white meat, Xu Yuanxun continued: "That was the first time I saw the Japanese, and it was also the first time I saw a Japanese tank. That thing scared us out, it couldn't be broken, we could walk on our own, and we could shoot all the way along. We didn't know how to deal with it at all, and after a large number of people died, we had no choice but to retreat to Guangde. ”

This is basically the same as the situation that Mo Di understands, the Sichuan army, which lacks understanding of the Japanese army, suffered a lot of losses in the first battle of Si'an, and the division commander Guo Xunqi injured his left shoulder and almost lost half his life. He gave up his life and rushed wildly, bringing back a news that shocked the 23rd Army, that is, the Japanese tanks were invincible, and dozens of tanks were advancing in unison, that is, a wall, a moving wall.

"The Japanese tanks opened the way and chased faster than we withdrew, so we retreated to Guangde, and the Japanese army also chased Guangde." Xu Yuanxun said: "The Japanese army did not expect that we still had a 145th division in Guangde, and immediately fell into an ambush of the 145th division. At that time, the commander of the 145th Division was Rao Guohua, a general, who dug deep and shallow trenches in the area of Cishan Gang, which was used to curb the speed of the tanks, so that dozens of vehicles could not rush to the position in one go, and then let the brigade commander Meng Haoran rush over with the death squad, fight hand-to-hand with the Japanese army, and set fire to the tanks at the same time. ”

Mo Di secretly praised that this Rao Guohua was a wise general, who was able to find the shortcomings of the tank in a very short time and attack it, but unfortunately this person was too popular, and it was not worth it to commit suicide because of Shangguan's wrong accusations.

"I didn't expect that the Japanese army's hand-to-hand combat ability was also quite good, especially the Northeast Army, which was tall and big, and stabbed out with a shot, half a foot farther than us. Although the tank was tripped in a ditch, the machine gun on it was still capable of killing. Xu Yuanxun was obviously still apprehensive about the battle situation at that time, and his eyes showed sadness, and said: "Seeing that the situation is critical, our army commander Pan organized the 144th Division that had just been withdrawn and put it back into the battlefield. ”

If the defeated army fights again, if it is not to the most difficult point, it will not use this strategy, because the defeated army is not able to fight again in terms of morale and physical strength.

"Just when we thought that our lives were here, the Japanese army suddenly stopped moving, but retreated like a fly. It's like acting, none of us can understand it, we are paralyzed one by one, and we sit on the ground with our butts, knowing that this time our lives have been saved. When Xu Yuanxun said this, he raised his cup, touched a glass with Mo Di, and said: "Later, I learned that it was Mo Tianzong's 1056 Regiment who copied the Japanese army's nest in Si'an and attracted all the Japanese troops back. Brother Mo, say thank you again. ”

Mo Di picked up the wine glass and drank it all, at that time, the idea in his bones was to let the Sichuan army go to the Japanese army, so that he could rob calmly, but he didn't expect that his behavior would become a key factor in this operation.

"We really didn't expect that the Gui army would be able to give us great assistance at this juncture, and it was extremely skillfully coordinated, and it was impossible to save it, and directly stabbed the Japanese in the ass. First of all, the 1056th Regiment took away all the fuel that the Japanese army had accumulated in Si'an, and immediately let the Japanese tanks lie down. Without tanks, the combat strength of the Japanese army has dropped by more than half. Therefore, the next day, the Japanese army attacked with all their might, and we barely stopped the momentum of the Japanese army. At that time, our 144th Division and 145th Division had been withdrawn, and it was Liu Zhaoqui's 146th Division and Yang Qiwen's 148th Division who fought with the Japanese army again in Guangde. ”

The 147th Division was not the first batch of units to go out of Sichuan, and it was only after the comprehensive reorganization of the national army in April of the 28th year of the Republic of China (1939) that it went out of Sichuan under the leadership of Yang Guodong. At that time, the 23rd Army was cut and the 144th Division was abolished. Soon Zhang Ping'an took over the post of commander of the 147th Division, and transferred Xu Yuanxun to the 147th Division as deputy division commander, and in October last year, Zhang Ping'an was promoted to deputy army commander, and Xu Yuanxun took over the post of division commander. Everyone toasted to Mo Di one after another, thanking Mo Di for helping the Sichuan army back then, so that Master Xu could live to this day.

Mo Di felt ashamed in his heart and didn't dare to say more, but he didn't refuse to come, and soon he got drunk. This time, he really realized what Zhang Guangwei meant back then, there is no room for any cleverness on the battlefield, or your side has gained a little bit of small profits because of cleverness, and the result is that the other side will suffer additional losses. After the 20th Division of the Japanese Ushijima Shichang occupied Changxing, the troops were divided into two routes, all the way through Si'an, all the way to Yixing, because the 1056th Regiment disturbed the enemy in Tashan, which not only attracted the entire Chongwu 23rd Brigade under the mountain, but also allowed the Northeast Army to cooperate in the Tibetan Mountains. If it weren't for his own cleverness, but from the overall situation, he should let the 23rd Brigade and the Yuzang Mountain Division divide into two routes, all the way west to Guangde, all the way south to Anji, which can not only reduce the pressure on the Guangdechuan Army, but also may allow the 48th Army hidden in the Anji area to seize the opportunity to eat part of the Japanese army. Rethinking the previous war, Mo Di knew that he was indeed very naïve at that time, and if it were changed to today, whether it was strategy or tactics, it would be completely different.