Chapter 10: Anqing (38)

On February 8, Chinese New Year's Eve, the cold wind howled, dripping into ice, alone in a foreign land as a stranger, every festive season to miss relatives. In Mabu Town, there was an atmosphere of the New Year early on, and together with the 48th Army, these strangers also felt the atmosphere of the New Year early. After getting out of the Guinan War, Mo Ji found that the red lanterns at the door had already been lit, and a few firecrackers were heard from time to time in the streets and alleys, and it was already Chinese New Year's Eve. The Chinese New Year's Eve was spent in the guard company with Qin Guosheng and the brothers, everyone was a stranger, sitting together and conspiring to get drunk, so as not to be too hurt. Mabu's two friends who usually play well, Li Baicheng wants to pull the cannon with his artillery regiment, and Wei Yongcheng wants to shout slogans with his political department.

In the 29th year of the Republic of China (1940), the situation of the Anti-Japanese War changed again, and the Military Commission of the Kuomintang government issued a New Year's Day editorial on New Year's Day: Since the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese army has suffered nearly 1.5 million casualties. Withstood the strategic offensive of the Japanese army, and in the 28th year of the Republic of China, the Japanese army did not make strategic progress, and there was a relatively large regression in some areas, such as the Battle of Northern Hubei in May and the Battle of Changsha in October. Generally speaking, in the 28th year of the Republic of China, the Chinese nation's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression won a partial victory, and the prospects are bright and victory can be expected. Wang Jingwei in Nanjing was not willing to be lonely, and immediately after the New Year's Day editorial in Chongqing, he sent a telegram to the whole country, and decided to engage in the great cause of "partial peace," so that China could get out of the mud pit of war one day sooner and his surrender face was exposed. Chiang Kai-shek, in order to publish a "Letter to the Military and Civilians of the Whole Country" and a "Letter to Friendly Countries," decided to redouble his efforts to expel the Japanese invaders, and hoped that his friends would impose sanctions as soon as possible. All over the country, the masses were indignant, and various rallies and protests were held before the Spring Festival, and more than 30,000 people from all walks of life in Yan'an, as far away as northern Shaanxi, held a people's "anti-Wang" rally. * At the meeting, he delivered a speech entitled "Unite All Anti-Japanese Forces and Oppose the Diehards," denouncing and criticizing the actions of the diehards who were in harmony with the Wang faction, and drafted a telegram for the congress entitled "Ten Demands to the Kuomintang," which read: 1. The whole country is to beg against Wang, 2. to step up unity, 3. To strictly enforce constitutionalism, 4. To stop friction, 5. To protect young people, (6) To provide assistance to the front, (7) To ban secret services, (8) To ban corrupt officials and corrupt officials, (9) To implement the "Prime Minister's Testament", and (10) to implement the Three People's Principles. thinks: "All these ten ends are the great plan to save the country and the key plan to resist Japan." When this enemy is more and more anxious to seek us, and Wang rebels are extremely rampant, his heart is so-called dangerous, and he dare not tell him. If it is adopted, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the cause of the liberation of the Chinese nation will be very fortunate. Urgent statement, willing to hear the teaching. ”

As for Guinan, it's old news. The battle of Kunlun Pass has become a thing of the past, and it is lackluster after victory. If there is any news on the battlefield, it is that the Japanese army landed at Xiaoshan and prepared to attack eastern Zhejiang. This news was not announced by the Propaganda Department of the Central Military Commission, but was casually mentioned in a New Year's telegram from Xu Le and Huang Guanghua (Huang Tianhua restored his old name to Huang Guanghua after arriving in western Zhejiang) to Mo Di. With Huang Guanghua in western Zhejiang, Xu Le can be said to be like a tiger with wings, and Huang Shaohong as the backstage, surpassing Huang Bamei in one fell swoop and becoming the first place in the local armed forces in western Zhejiang. In the past six months, Xie Shengbiao's "Anti-Japanese Guerrillas in the Border Areas of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui Provinces", Yang Shuxian's "Anti-Enemy Volunteer Army", and Guo Jingzhi's "Southeast Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army" were all gathered together to form the Western Zhejiang Garrison Command and Security Command with Xu Le as the commander, and the number of soldiers under its jurisdiction has reached as many as 10,000, and the area under its jurisdiction has also developed from Lin'an to Tonglu, Chun'an, and Sui'an.

On the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, the two came to Jinhua at the order of the chairman of Zhejiang Province to spend the festival with Huang Shaohong. Huang Guanghua's encounter of being forced to leave western Anhui because of his collaboration with the Communist Party made Huang Shaohong laugh out loud, and said to Huang Guanghua that when he arrived in Zhejiang, he would not pay attention to these anymore, and he was the biggest red figure. Huang Shaohong returned from fighting in Shanxi in the 26th year of the Republic of China, and when he met people, he said that the Eighth Route Army had good military discipline, was good at guerrilla warfare, fought bravely, how the Communist Party mobilized the masses and mobilized the people, and how the army and the people cooperated to devote themselves to the War of Resistance against Japan. He told Huang Guanghua that at this time of national survival, whoever puts the interests of the party above the interests of the nation is the sinner of the nation.

In addition to Xu Le in Zhejiang and Xu Ping in Mingguang, the only ones who can use telegrams to congratulate Modi for the New Year are Chen Zhengxin of Ningming and Zhao Guolong of Lingshan.

Chen Zhengxin's telegram was very simple, with the progress of the battlefield in southern Guizhou, the Japanese army in Zuojiang was also a lot excited, they did not celebrate the New Year's Day, it was called the Great Day, on New Year's Day, their main force was eating deflated in Nanning, they were not excited like castrated chickens, and during the Spring Festival, their main force won a sudden victory in Binyang, so they were also excited, and they had an uncharacteristically Spring Festival. They robbed a large number of specialties and women in Vietnam, making a lot of trouble, and ghosts crying wolves. Since their goal is Vietnam, not to toss the people at home, Chen Zhengxin has much less hatred, and he is not willing to use swords and soldiers to bring disasters to the local people, and he is still silently watching. However, his evaluation of the Japanese army has changed, when he was in Anhui, the Japanese army in his eyes was not very good, but here, the perception of the Japanese army has been greatly improved, the most important thing is that the Japanese army is extremely disciplined, except for a fight with the border troops in Pingxiang, and then a violation of Pingxiang, in other areas, basically can do autumn without committing any crimes. Mo Di called back and told Chen Zhengxin that it was not that the Japanese had become better, but that they were weak and afraid, and they did not dare to offend the locals, otherwise, if they attacked them in groups, more than 4,000 people would be killed. Mo Di thought that Chen Zhengxin did the right thing, don't startle the snake, and carefully observe how the Japanese would enter Vietnam, in order to enter Vietnam, they did not hesitate to throw thousands of corpses in Guinan, and the price was not small. Therefore, entering Vietnam must have been a very tempting knob for the Japanese, a huge goal that could cost the lives of thousands of soldiers. The process of how to achieve this goal must be very interesting, so that Chen Zhengxin should not miss it.

The reply to Zhao Guolong was different, very concise: "The confrontation behind the enemy line is a guerrilla attack, but you can imitate Sun Monkey into the belly of the Iron Fan Princess, take the initiative to attack, and make trouble in the Heavenly Palace in Qinlian." ”

After the Japanese army occupied Binyang, the Eastern Route Army on the side of Yongqin also fully retreated, and Zhao Guolong's new 19th Division also withdrew with the third column to the area of Lingshan Tanwei to rest. After getting the callback, Zhao Guolong immediately understood Modi's intentions, compared with Modi's 526 regiment, the biggest shortcoming of the new 19th Division where he was located was that he would not take the initiative to fight. Major General Qin Jing, the commander of the new 19th Division, Zhao Guolong once had a one-sided acquaintance, and it was more than a year ago, when Zhao Guolong followed Mo Di and cooperated with the 31st Army to cross Huai and enter Jinpu Road. At that time, Qin Jing was the commander of the 520th Brigade under Zhang Guangwei's 174th Division, who was impulsive, narrow-minded, and self-righteous. After the Battle of Xubu, the 31st Army returned to Gui to recuperate, and Major General Qin Jing was promoted by Liao Lei to serve as the deputy commander of the 175th Division, and then succeeded Mo Shujie as the commander of the 175th Division, and then transferred to the commander of the new 19th Division. Zhao Guolong still remembers that at that time, because he didn't listen to Mo Enemy's words, Qin Jing followed Zhang Guangwei and broke his leg and did a lot of useless work. Back then, he was still the commander of the guard company under Mo Di, and he had never met Qin Jing, but he had heard his cynicism and thought that he had an opinion about Mo Di in his heart. Therefore, Zhao Guolong's attitude towards this division commander was to stay away, and he went to the deputy division commander Kan Weiyong in advance, and never expressed his opinions clearly at the division headquarters meeting.

The 46th Army had three divisions, and the 170th Division was disabled in the Nanning Garrison Battle, and was also damaged in the subsequent Ertang Operations and Fengfeng Pass Operations. He Xuan's third column was only left with the 175th Division and the new 19th Division. Previously, the new 19th Division performed well in the battle with the Taiwanese mixed brigade, and in the subsequent interception of the Guards Brigade, the 175th Division made great achievements. The two battles allowed the army commander He Xuan to achieve a great achievement, but for the following, the direct result was serious attrition. On 8 February, the Chinese New Year, everyone had to be paid, and according to statistics, only 3,216 people of the new 19th Division were able to receive salaries. The combat ability of these people is also very worrying, since November 15, they have been fighting non-stop, there are replenishments but no rest on the way, the soldiers are tired, their bodies are stinky, and they are covered with sores, according to the commander of the 56th Regiment Yang Litian, the shorts in the crotch are going to be moldy!

After a light year, although I didn't eat any big dishes, I finally had a few days to spare, and I washed all the moldy shorts, and the whole army was much more refreshed. Guinan in February, as long as it is not a rainy day, it will make people feel like early summer, the blue sky is like washing, the sun is hot, and people become lazy.

Regardless of whether there is money or not, the first level gives the first level New Year's greetings, Zhao Guolong is the chief of staff, and he also followed the division commander and deputy division commander to pay New Year's greetings to He Xuan and Cai Tingkai in Lingshan. During the entertainment, Zhao Guolong found that He Xuan, the commander of the 46th Army, was not very enthusiastic about Qin Jing, the commander of the new 19th Division, but he was very good to the deputy division commander Kan Weiyong, and asked the veterans of the guard battalion, only to know that the division commander was from Lu Chuan, and he had been following Liao Lei's path, and now that General Liao has passed away, the entire Lu Chuan Gang is a little unhappy. Deputy division commander Kan Weiyong is different, as soon as he debuted, he served as a staff officer next to Chief Li, and only recognized one Li Zongren, who can be regarded as a figure who can reach the sky in Guangxi. On the other hand, he is nothing, he was born in the army, and like his boss Mo Di, he was halfway through the Central Military Academy, and he was taken out of the campus to fill the empty camp, and he didn't know if he could get a graduation certificate in the future, if he couldn't get a graduation certificate, he would be the next Mo boss.

After the first six days, it is considered that the New Year is over, and Zhao Guolong found the deputy division commander Kan Weiyong.

Kan Weiyong is a typical Confucian general, with delicate facial features, wearing a pair of deep myopic glasses, as soon as he speaks, he has a strong Liuzhou accent, and he has a good personality, and he usually has a light smile on his face. He has a good relationship with Zhao Guolong, first of all, because Zhao Guolong was recruited by him, and secondly, he has a deep affection for Pingle, and he lived in Pingle with his father, who was the director of the Pingle County Taxation Bureau, when he was a teenager. Under his father's education, he adhered to the Confucian dogma of "not being a good looker, but being a good doctor", and began his study path, first graduating from Guangzhou Medical School. When I graduated, it was the time of the May Fourth Movement, and I deeply felt that the warlords were fighting each other, the division was strong, the civil crown was weak, and the country was not the same, so I should take up the sword and gun and fight to awaken the nation. So he threw his pen from Rong and was admitted to the Guangxi Army Lecture Hall, and graduated from the Engineer Department of the Guangxi Army Lecture Hall with the second place.

After listening to Zhao Guolong's proposal, Kan Weiyong asked a few questions: First, the specific methods for launching guerrilla warfare in the area of Yongqin Road in southern Guinan. Second, there are often a large number of deserters in the management of small units, and how to solve the problem of non-combat attrition. Third, how to ensure the materials and armaments for guerrilla warfare. Fourth, how can we arouse the soldiers' enthusiasm for fighting and turn what we want to fight into what we want to fight?

Listening to Kan Weiyong's several questions, Zhao Guolong's face immediately collapsed, in his opinion, these problems are not problems, the first is that after he came to the new 19th Division, he changed all Zhang Shuxiong's battalion-level plainclothes team into all-Japanese weapons, and in these few operations, the captured Japanese weapons can fully support the battalion to carry out several small-scale operations. Second, he made a detailed understanding of the terrain of the Yongqin line, and believed that this place was a very suitable terrain for small troops to fight, with small low mountains and high hills, tortuous and rugged roads, and guerrilla warfare that was easy to achieve. The third is the local operation in Guangxi, which is easy to solve with logistics. Fourth, the supply of the Japanese army in Nanning was completely dependent on the Yongqin Highway, which created an opportunity for us to take advantage of. Fifth, he had participated in a large number of guerrilla operations in the 84th Army and had a certain amount of experience. But Kan Weiyong said a very sharp question, he never considered it in the past, in the 526 Brigade, in the 526 Regiment, the number of people will only fight more and more, there has never been a deserter, it turns out that in other troops, deserters are actually one of their biggest headaches.

Kan Weiyong did not reject Zhao Guolong's suggestion, he knew that this was a very meaningful work, and in the future, he would definitely carry out guerrilla warfare in southern Guinan, and it was better to prepare late than early. But after all, he was only the deputy division commander, so he didn't dare to make his own decisions, so he pulled Zhao Guolong to find the division commander Qin Jing, and Qin Jing made the decision. After listening to Kan Weiyong's words, Qin Jing rolled his eyes, and his attitude was very simple: don't do things that Shangfeng didn't arrange. As for whether guerrilla warfare was possible, he went to ask the commander of the military seat, He Xuan, for instructions.