Chapter 13: Changing Guards (7)

The detonation of the ammunition continued for a long time, and no one dared to approach it, until there was no sound for a long time, and no one approached with trepidation. Li Shigui approached the scene of the explosion accompanied by the two regiment commanders, and he did not want to get too close, the so-called gentleman does not stand under the dangerous wall, Li Shigui deeply understands this truth. Let the worthless men go down to find out, and after a while, the subordinates will report that there is no one left, all of them are blown up, and there are still a lot of bullets, but most of them have been burned and discolored, deformed, and can no longer be used, so they can only be scrapped. Because no one wants to issue some problematic bullets, this is your life-and-death guy, if you are dumb at a critical moment, it will be killed.

Without heavy ammunition, the ammunition brought by the troops alone is not enough to consume, and this truth is understood by anyone who is in the army. Each puppet army was issued with five imitation 97 style* produced by the Nanjing Arsenal, although the appearance was not much different from the original Japanese style, but the content inside was very different. The Japanese style uses *, with a charge of 58 grams, and the one produced in Nanjing is much worse, only half of the *, plus a part of the *. The weight has increased, but the power is not half a star, sometimes, even the shell can't be exploded, and sometimes with a muffled sound, the shell can only be split in two, and it can't form a lethal force at all. As for the guns, each soldier had one Type 38 rifle in his hand, and was given a cartridge box, ten magazines, and fifty rounds, which could only be used up in a small-scale battle, and if he fought a positional battle with the opponent, he would be exhausted in fifteen minutes.

In such a situation, Li Shigui did not dare to take another step forward, but camped on the spot, strengthened vigilance, and at the same time reported to the Anqing Division. Soon, Liu Zuoxin's instructions arrived, asking Li Shigui not to stop, but to continue to advance, and must reach Lujiang within three days, ammunition was directly supplied by the 116th Division headquarters in Chao County, and food was provided by Wang Zhanlin of the Lujiang Garrison Regiment. Liu Zuoxin's idea was right, in the three days that the 11th Brigade went north, it would definitely encounter harassment from the opponent, but as long as it did not fight with the opponent, the ammunition on its body would be enough to support them to reach Lujiang. As for the supplies supplied by Anqing, Liu Zuoxin didn't think about it at all, the 12th Brigade in his hand had not yet been equipped with ammunition, so where would there be any surplus.

Li Shigui is not a stupid person, he understands Liu Zuoxin's difficulties, and decided to continue to go north, just to adjust the troops, the 27th regiment is still the forward, but the distance is widened, a battalion as a guide, followed by the other two battalions of the 27th regiment and the brigade headquarters and the bare-handed baggage battalion, the 28th division is also divided into two parts, one battalion is hanging about two kilometers away from the brigade headquarters, echoing the brigade headquarters in the distance, and the other two battalions are the rear army.

During the day, he walked cautiously for a whole day and did not encounter an attack, Li Shigui breathed a sigh of relief, he estimated that even if the other party did it, it should still be at night, so when he chose to camp at night, he would set up camp in the palace with a relatively large population. This is not a small township, there are many residents, and they are mixed with the common people, and it is estimated that the harassers will not dare to be too presumptuous.

The south road was safe and sound during the day, and the battle on the north road had already begun in the afternoon. The 10th Brigade of Shen Xiru's 5th Division, which came from Hefei, was strongly blocked by the 1st Battalion of the 412th Regiment of the 138th Division at Sanhe. Because the defending troops had brought all the ferries to the south bank in advance, the Jianguo army from Hefei could not find the means to cross the river for a while, so they had to stop on the north bank of the river. In order to show the opponent on the south bank of the river that they had arrived, the artillery battalion of the founding army threw a few shells with curved artillery, blowing up a lot of dirt and causing no injuries. The first battalion of the 412th Regiment was not willing to be weak, and threw a few * with grenadiers from far away from the river, which also caused no casualties, and the two sides were tied.

At night, the Ye Bu Regiment of the head of Yan Junlong took more than a dozen red-coated cannons to Sanhe, and the first battalion of the 412th Regiment of the 138th Division of the defenders before Sanhe almost rolled to the ground. However, almost all of them are full of confidence in blocking the river with red-coated cannons, this thing shoots scattered bullets, and there are more than a dozen catties of scattered bullets filled in at a time, and a large area is hit, although one or two scattered bullets will not kill people, but can cause more damage than dead people. Overnight, the red-coated cannon was arranged, ready to come in handy tomorrow when the opponent crossed halfway.

The calm of the South Road is also temporary, Li Shigui's whereabouts of the puppet 11th Brigade have long fallen in the eyes of Zhou Xiong in Tongcheng, the commander of the 528th Regiment, he has little grasp of the division headquarters letting himself block a brigade with a regiment, but the order cannot be disobeyed, and he is preparing to fight to the death with the strength of the whole regiment. In the afternoon, seeing Luo Wei arrive with the three main battalions, Zhou Xiong was so happy that he spat on it. With the addition of the Field Supplement Regiment, Zhou Xiong was sure of winning the puppet 11th Brigade. Even if he fights a face-to-face battle, Zhou Xiong thinks he is completely competent. Using the car of the field supplement regiment, running back and forth three times, Zhou Xiong pulled his 528th regiment and Luo Wei's three main battalions of the field supplement regiment to Fushan, which was not far from the palace. It is about 20 miles away from the Hui Palace, and it is the only way for the puppet 11th Brigade to go north.

Combined with the news of the 528th Regiment, Luo Wei made a detailed report on the situation of Li Shigui's puppet 11th Brigade to Modi. After receiving Luo Wei's telegram, Lujiang's invincible laughter couldn't stop laughing, it was actually an old classmate from Yougan's class, and this was really a classmate who became a wrongdoer. Gong Qingyuan asked Mo Di, what is the combat level of this old classmate? Mo Di shook his head and told Gong Qingyuan that the six people who played together had their own characteristics, if it was said that he was a good player if he was scheming, eating, drinking and having fun, if he wanted to talk about fighting, he could only be at the bottom of the seat. Mo Di said with a little incomprehension that when he was in the 89th Army, he was only a colonel, and as soon as he arrived in the founding army, he became a major general and brigade commander. Gong Qingyuan laughed, this can be regarded as a meritorious service! The problem is that as soon as he is effective, he can take up such an important position as the brigade commander, if it is not because of this person's outstanding ability, it is that the founding army is really unavailable, and the so-called Shuzhong has no general, and Liao Hua is the vanguard.

Knowing the dynamics of the puppet army on the South Road, there will be no dead ends in the overall situation of Mo Enemy, and he asked the newspaper operator to tell Luo Wei that for the old classmates from the south, don't fight too badly, and take it easy. It's not to give face to the old classmates, but because there is definite news, there is a sum of materials from Chaoxian County to Wuwei sent to Nihe to replenish the troops from Anqing, this batch of materials is a lot, there is food, and ammunition, these ammunition is standard Japanese-style ammunition, not those fakes from the Nanjing Arsenal. I have already discussed with the military headquarters of the 48th Army, got it, and sold it to the 138th Division Field Supplement Regiment at a discount for redressing. Therefore, the volley of Li Shigui's troops should be moderate, mainly attrition, and there is a rigid requirement, that is, they must not be beaten back. Luo Wei asked Mo Di which unit to send to complete the task of intercepting supplies, and Mo Di told him that he was Shi Chong's guard battalion. Only then did Luo Wei know why Shi Chong's guard battalion didn't get off in Tongcheng, but went directly to Ketan Old Street in Lujiang, it turned out that he had already had a task.

conveyed Mo Di's opinion to Zhou Xiong, but omitted the chapter that the captured materials were ready to be sold to the 138th Division. Zhou Xiong admired Mo Di's battle plan very much, and said to Luo Wei that he had known that Mo Tianzong's battle was like playing chess, which chess to play first and which chess to move then was very methodical, and he had always hoped to see and understand. This time, if you can join forces with the Wild Supplement Group, you must have a good taste of Mo Tianzong's combat skills. Mo Zhongqing, the deputy of the 528th regiment, has a relationship with Mo Di in Lu'an, and has a good impression of Mo Di, he was transferred from the 138th Division, and has a friendship with the 138th Division, this time Mo Di assisted the 138th Division to take Lujiang, Mo Zhongqing is even more favorable, loves Wu and Wu, and the relationship with Luo Wei is also intimate.

"Our regiment is responsible for the volley during the day, you are guests from afar, rest for the time being, and when necessary, you will strike again." Zhou Xiong said politely: "Tomorrow Li Shigui will set off from the Hui Palace, and he will enter the Baidang Lake area not far away, where the waterways are complicated and there are ambushes everywhere. I estimate that Li Shigui's scheduled destination tomorrow night should be the mud river of the Lujiang River, and I just read the telegram from Regiment Commander Mo, since the supplies from Wuwei left the ship at the Yangtangwei ferry port today, and will go from the land to the mud river tomorrow, we can judge that the enemy's planned plan is that the two sides will meet at the mud river tomorrow. ”

"Tomorrow, even if Li Shigui's department encounters our harassment, he will desperately move closer to the mud bridge." Mo Zhongqing said: "Because they have come here, there is no way back. Only by retreating passively can we get supplies and have a glimmer of life. ”

"So tomorrow we will only agree that the Founding Army will move closer to the mud bridge, but we will not allow them to enter the mud bridge." Luo Wei said: "We want to give our guard battalion of the field supplement regiment the time and opportunity to start, the two regiments, don't be afraid of your laughter, all the expenses of our field supplement regiment are self-raised, if we don't get some benefits in the war, we will have no rice to cook." ”

Zhou Xiong and Mo Zhongqing both laughed, they knew the situation of the Wild Supplement Regiment, so the Wild Supplement Regiment rarely fought tough battles and evil battles, not because they couldn't fight, but they couldn't afford it. Thinking of this, Zhou Xiong said to Luo Wei very solemnly: "I have a problem with my idea just now, I want to change it, engage in harassment, our 528th Regiment is not as good as the Field Supplement Regiment, it is not that we are modest, this is a conclusion in the 176th Division, and none of our three regiments are opponents of the Field Supplement Regiment." So tomorrow's harassment, I think I still ask Deputy Luo Tuan to be responsible. It's okay for our 528th Regiment to fight a tough battle, so we will concentrate on Luohe, and finally wait for work and fight a decisive battle with Li Shigui. It's just that in this way, your burden will be heavy, and you will not only have to harass all the way, but also make sure that the puppet 11th Brigade is brought into our ambush circle. Speaking of this, Zhou Xiong denied himself again, saying: "No, no, no, no, you are not familiar with this area, or we are responsible for harassment." In a hurry, Zhou Xiong was a little confused.

Hearing Zhou Xiong's words, Luo Wei smiled, this belt is really a good person, he wants to take on the final decisive battle and fight for consumption, and he is worried that the field supplement group will not be able to complete the important task of harassing and luring the enemy, so he is in a hurry. said: "Commander Zhou, this will not work, you lend me the reconnaissance company of the 528th Regiment as a guide, won't it solve the problem!" ”

Zhou Xiong patted his head and laughed, it was really simple.

Do you want to make some trouble for the puppet 11th Brigade at night? Zhou Xiong meant not to go, because the puppet army lived among the residents, and if they were not careful, they would hurt the people, anyway, it would be harassment, and there would be time tomorrow, so they would not fight for this day. Luo Wei's idea is to go, the reason is also very simple, harassment at night, the effect is better, if you can make the puppet army not stop for a night, tomorrow's mental state will definitely be very poor, and it will be much easier to fight. Mo Zhongqing also thinks that what Luo Wei said is reasonable, he can send a small army to play, and if he has a chance, he will do something, and he will withdraw if he has no chance. Zhou Xiong saw that the two regiment deputies advocated going to play, so he agreed, but proposed that the 528 regiment would be responsible for this work, because the brothers of the field supplement group would work harder tomorrow, and they must rest well tonight, and walk from here to the palace for four hours, and it will be hard to go back and forth without fighting. If you do it all night, you won't be able to play any tricks tomorrow, and there is no point in harassing you without tricks. Luo Wei looked at Zhou Xiong with a little emotion, this elderly regimental commander is really a person with an overall view, responsibility and measure, no wonder, he can be transferred from the chief of staff of the division to the head of the main regiment, relatively speaking, he is more competent than Qin Zhenyuan, the commander of the 526th regiment, and Yang Chuangqi, the commander of the 527th regiment.

Well, the harassment at night will be handed over to the 528 regiment to be responsible, I took a car for a day today, and I am quite sleepy, I can sleep well, and it can be regarded as a pre-war rest, since the 528 regiment is so polite, then thank you!