Chapter 10: Anqing (35)

The battle by the Anhui River has been dragged on until the Chinese New Year, and in more than a month, Luo Wei has earned a lot of money, and the supplies from Anqing have reached six times, and the supplies from Huoshan have also been as many as four times. Huo Shan came, it was naturally allocated to him from above, and it belonged to him 100%. From Anqing, in principle, it belongs to Liu Maizai's materials, however, every time he was robbed by the thin monkey, he didn't rob it all, only rice was left for food, only Tomosaka bullets were left for ammunition, and meat was laughed at at one chance, and the 92 infantry artillery shells were still accepted as ordered. Zhong Liang looked at the piles of 92 infantry shells, his face was bitter, he didn't have 92 infantry guns, these shells in addition to increasing the difficulty of his own transportation, really can't bring any benefits, in the past, the military department still had to recycle these things, now, several major arsenals gathered in Liuzhou, Guangxi is no longer the poor acid of the past, this little trophy, I can't look down on it. In the end, it was the thin monkey who got in touch with Xu Ping of Mingguang and asked him to send someone over to move these useless things.

This month, Liu Maizai's feelings are very different, he has experienced great sorrow and joy, and the most memorable one is Laba, in that battle, one of his companies actually crossed the Anhui River, and also hit Hao Wenbo by surprise, and drove Zhao Jin's troops to escape. Taking advantage of this opportunity, he crossed two more companies, and Battalion Commander Li Fugui took three companies to prepare to set up camp in the area of Laochang, sending a signal that everything was safe. Just when Liu Maizai was elated and ready to cross the river, the attacking troops of Thin Monkey and Zhong Liang appeared on the north bank of the Anhui River. When Liu Maizai set up a position to fight with him, news came from the south bank of the Anhui River that Zhao Jin led two battalions of people to surround Li Fugui's first battalion in the old field, and the situation was dangerous.

Liu Maizai suddenly felt like he had fallen into an ice cellar, knowing that he had been fooled.

From Laba to the New Year, Liu Maizai's department was divided into two divisions, and the regiments were besieged, but fortunately, the opponent's firepower in both Henan and Hebei was not too strong, and the fighting stopped and stopped, and the fighting from Laba to the Chinese New Year's Eve was intermittently fought.

"You're so bad!" The magistrates of Huaining County all saw what Zhao Jin was doing: "Divided into two, this time, Liu Maizai in the north of Anhui can't leave even if he wants to, I dare to say that as soon as he leaves, Li Fugui will definitely surrender." Congratulations, Commander Hao, after this battle, your third battalion will be completed. ”

Hao Wenbo is happy to sing a little song anytime and anywhere, and everyone smokes, because of the rejection of the enemy, the materials given by the eleventh tour are quite sufficient, and they want food for food, guns for guns, bullets, and as many as they want, this kind of life is better. I never thought that a war could be fought like this.

The thin monkey who damaged his grandmother's family gave Zhao Jin an idea, let Deng Jiumao go to the enemy camp to do ideological work, find a way to pull some people over every day, and finally keep Li Fugui with his iron rod and let them return to the north bank of the Anhui River safely. After completing Hao Wenbo's army expansion plan, it was almost the New Year, and the last blow of the guard battalion beat Liu Maizai and asked him to return to Anqing, don't delay everyone for the New Year.

Deng Jiumao's work was very effective, and on the first day, he brought more than 50 people over, and Hao Wenbo was happy to immediately appoint him as a company commander. The next day, 60 more people came, and without saying a word, Hao Wenbo appointed Deng Jiumao as the deputy commander of the third battalion, and he personally served as the commander of the third battalion. On the third day, after more than 60 people came, Hao Wenbo resigned from the part-time position of the commander of the third battalion and appointed Deng Jiumao as the commander of the third battalion. Late at night on the fourth day, there were less than 100 people left in the encirclement, and the battalion commander Li Fugui knew that if this continued, he would become the commander of the bare pole, and took about 50 people overnight, highlighting the encirclement that there was no encirclement at all, and climbed into a small boat to return to the north bank of the Anhui River. Early in the morning of the fifth day, the people who remained in the encirclement sent representatives to ask for a meeting with Deng Jiumao and offered to surrender.

Hao Wenbo personally met with these fifty people, and did not mention the word surrender at all, and the praise of not wanting money rolled out, what loyal and brave people, what did not collude with traitors, etc., etc., etc., and so on, listening to the fifty puppet soldiers who were already extremely depressed, they all became excited, as if they were really as Hao Wenbo said.

Knowing that the battle on the south bank of the Anhui River had come to an end, Liu Maizai appeased Li Fugui on the big river beach, and Luo Wei ordered: "The battle begins." ”

Shi Zhong launched a frantic attack on the Japanese puppet army stationed in the east of Jiangjiazui, *, hand cannons, plus more than 20 large iron barrels, and firecrackers with 10,000 characters to assist, and soon, the baggage team was billowing with smoke and fire.

The Japanese squadron stationed at the west end of Jiangjiazui saw that the situation was not good, and quickly rescued it under the leadership of the squadron leader Matsushita Jiro. Ten days after Matsushita Jiro crossed the river, he realized that nothing could be done, and he believed that he could not cross the Wan River unless he was assisted by aircraft. Matsushita Jiro knew that because Guinan was tight, most of the army aviation at Anqing Airport had already moved to Nanning, and there were only a few old biplane planes, and reconnaissance was okay, and if he wanted to dive into battle, he would definitely die under the opponent's crutches. Therefore, several times asked the wing headquarters to withdraw from the operation, and the wing headquarters told Matsushita Jiro to monitor Yoo Mai Jae's operation, not to take the initiative to participate, and to maintain strength. Matsushita Jiro did the same, during his time in Jiangjiazui, he had only watched Liu Maizai fight, and did not take the initiative to participate. But this time it's different, the opponent is attacking the baggage team, this place can't be lost, once something goes wrong, you can't even eat.

Liu Maizai's main forces were concentrated on the sandbank, and the far water could not save the near fire, and after Matsushita Jiro made an effective judgment on the attacking opponent, he took an infantry squad to defend in the barracks, and let the two Japanese infantry squads kill one after the other.

Skinny Monkey and Zhong Liang were already waiting on the side of the road.

The large nose of the Mauser M712 was all dialed to burst fire, and more than 30 crutches filled the magazine with bullets. A small street connects the east and west ends of Jiangjiazui, and the dense gunfire at the east end scared all the people into the house, leaving only an empty street, and behind the walls of the houses on both sides, there are black holes with muzzles.

When the Japanese army ran into the street, Luo Wei's heart beat involuntarily, he had fought most of the ambushes, such a close ambush, so similar to a single slaughter ambush, he still felt very exciting.

When the Japanese army was about to run to the east end of the street as fast as possible, the Mauser gun in Luo Wei's hand rang out, and with the sound of his gun, the first magazine of thirty crutches had not yet been completed, and there was no one standing on the street. Before they could react, the oncoming assault company Mauser pistol bullets swept over like a storm, except for a few Japanese soldiers who were not actively marching and dragged behind the line and turned to run out, the other Japanese soldiers all fell to the ground, either dead or wounded.

"Withdraw!" Luo Wei shouted, and took the lead in running towards the coffin stone ridge in the north.

Zhong Liang and the thin monkey also said in a loud voice: "Hurry up, go quickly." "It doesn't matter whether the Japanese soldiers who fell to the ground are dead or alive, just withdraw quickly, retreat outside the village, and join the Shizhong Division, which has already arrived first, and all the others except for the observers of the squad are evacuated.

Liu Maizai, who retreated to the village, saw Matsushita Jiro with a sad face on the street, and secretly called it a fluke, he knew that this must be the elusive guard battalion of the 526 regiment, fortunately, these people had to deal with the Japanese, otherwise, ten Liu Maizai would not be enough for them to kill.

Clean up the mess, walk back to Anqing, buckle your fingers and count, when you arrive in Anqing, it's already Chinese New Year's Eve! Chinese New Year's Eve Chinese New Year's Eve, is this unlucky Japanese the hideous-looking and ferocious beast that Chinese have been getting rid of for thousands of years?

A thousand people fought a thousand people by the Anhui River, and a good battle situation was played, but the result was not very satisfying, because the materials were consumed too much, Luo Wei soaked the results of the battle in three days, and asked for supplies from above, Hao Wenbo also tasted the sweetness, and he couldn't shoot without supplies, Liu Maizai's Li Fugui battalion fought across the Anhui River, and almost didn't scare Li Shengzong out of a cold sweat, at this time Hao Wenbo said that he would give whatever he wanted, not only would he not discount a little, but he would give as much as possible. After a month and a half of fighting by the Anhui River, even the guerrilla commander-in-chief Li Pinxian felt a little unbearable with the materials used.

Chen Zhengxin, who was also a thousand people on the left side of the river, did not achieve such great results, but he won unanimous praise from the Central Military Commission to the enemy headquarters before moving to the river. He is the head of the regiment that Zhou Zuhuang specially asked Mo Di to come back, Zhou Zuhuang specially built a relatively powerful special service regiment in the 16th Group Army, Chen Zhengxin specially went back to Hechi Yishan, selected 1,000 people in Wei Xusong's Yishan militia group, and transferred dozens of companies and platoon-level cadres to the sixth branch of the Central Military Academy in Guilin, with a full number of people, all German guns, and set up three battalions and nine companies, including six infantry companies, an assault company, a reconnaissance company, and a heavy firepower company. He followed the 41st Wing of the 9th Brigade of the 5th Division from Nanning to Longzhou, and he was always looking for an opportunity, but the opponent was a complete wing of more than 4,000 people, which was too big to eat.

After a cargo ship on the Zuojiang River transferred the commander of the 9th Brigade and Major General Chuan Yuan to Nanning, the 41st Wing of Shangshi was divided into four routes and ran around in Pingxiang and Ningming. However, after the split, the 41 Brigade still took the infantry brigade as the unit of action, and each infantry brigade reached 1,000 people. Although Bai Chongxi was powerless against this partial division of the Japanese army, he was very satisfied with being able to understand the situation at any time through Chen Zhengxin. Zhang Fakui reported Chen Zhengxin's achievements to the Central Military Commission, which made the old Jiang greatly satisfied, and called Chen Zhengxin's special service group a "fearless and lonely army."

1,000 people can't beat 4,000 people, and everyone can understand that they can get praise from the top, but 4,000 people can't beat 1,000 people, and they can also get praise from the top, not everyone can understand it, and the most depressed of them is one of the leaders of these 4,000 people, Zhao Guolong, chief of staff of the new 19th Division.

Seeing that Kunlun Pass was in an emergency, the Taiwanese mixed brigade in Qinzhou sent the 1st Infantry Brigade and the 2nd Infantry Brigade of the 1st Wing and the 2nd Infantry Brigade to Jiutang for reinforcements. There were only the 3rd Infantry Brigade and the 4th Infantry Brigade left in Qinzhou City, and they had to take on the task of transporting supplies to Nanning.

Qin Jing, commander of the new 19th Division, Kan Weiyong, deputy division commander, and Zhao Guolong, chief of staff, all agreed that this was an excellent opportunity to take down this enemy, counterattack Qinzhou Bay, cut off the retreat of the Japanese army in Nanning, and change the tide of the war in one fell swoop. Qin Jing, commander of the new 19th Division, was the commander of the 175th Division before taking up the post of commander of the new 19th Division, and took the initiative to contact Feng Huang, the commander of the 175th Division, who was directly promoted by the deputy division commander, and received strong support from the commander of the division, Feng Huang, and reported to He Xuan, commander of the 46th Army, the commander of the third column, and demanded that the 175th Division be the main force to hold down the Fourth Infantry Brigade of the Taiwan Mixed Brigade, which served as a baggage team, and that the New 19th Division take the Third Infantry Brigade of the Taiwan Mixed Brigade with the strength of one division. The plan was greatly appreciated by the enemy's command before moving to the river, which held that whether it was successful or not, it was of great significance. Chairman Chiang of Chongqing also praised the spirit of the new 19th Division in taking the initiative to build fighters.

From Qinzhou to Xiaodong, Chao Wei, commander of the 524th Regiment of the 175th Division, and Zhang Shuxiong, the plainclothes team of the new 19th Division, carried out non-stop harassment along the way, stripping away the two infantry brigades of Taiwan's mixed brigades, and the Japanese Fourth Infantry Brigade shrank like a turtle and walked as slowly as a turtle, desperately protecting the baggage, and the Third Infantry Brigade, which was responsible for covering and guarding the task, was transferred farther and farther away. At Xiao Dong, the harassment reached its peak, and the Taiwanese Mixed Brigade was forced to divide its forces, the 4th Infantry Brigade continued to move north along Baekje Shin and to Nanning, and the 3rd Infantry Brigade was successfully transferred to the Taiping direction. In the Sixia Pass between Zhennan and Taiping, Zhao Guolong had carefully arranged an ambush circle, with the 56th Regiment of Yang Litian as the front, and Liu Ziqiang's 57th Regiment and Lu Yuheng's 55th Regiment attacking on the left and right. In Zhao Guolong's view, the new 19th Division, which has more than 4,000 people, is able to take down the enemy's 3rd Infantry Brigade, which has been harassed for a long time.

However, it backfired, as soon as the two armies came into contact, the Japanese artillery firepower gave full play to its huge advantage, and hand artillery, mortars, and 92 infantry guns intensively hit Yang Litian's position, pressing Yang Litian so much that he could not raise his head. Just when the 55th Regiment and the 57th Regiment were preparing to attack and encircle, 12 carrier-based planes flew from the sky, screaming and rushing towards the Yangli Tiansuo Division, which suffered heavy casualties, and the 56th Regiment fought stubbornly and fought to the death. The situation was in crisis, and the 55th Regiment immediately gave up the flank attack mission and went straight to the position of the 56th Regiment, trying to jointly block the pace of the Japanese attack, and the two sides entered into a confrontation.

The flank attack of the 57th Regiment was blocked by the division of the 3rd Infantry Brigade, and in comparison, the 57th Regiment, which was completely newly formed by the militia regiment, was even worse in combat effectiveness, and as soon as the two sides came into contact, the militia scattered and fled, and was contained by the 524th Regiment of Chaowei, which had completed the harassment task and returned to the camp. Chaowei rested while being contained on the side of the road. Finding that a large force was coming in their direction, they thought it was a skirmish of the 57th Regiment and immediately sent someone to make contact. After a while, the liaison officer reported that the troops in front of the position were not the 57th Regiment, but the troops of the Japanese pursuing the 57th Regiment. Chao Wei decisively ordered an attack, and the Japanese army was caught off guard by a surprise attack, suffered heavy casualties, and took the lead in retreating. The main force of the 3rd Infantry Brigade, which fought fiercely with the 55th and 56th regiments, thought that the Chinese army was coming to help, and also hurriedly withdrew from the battle and retreated to Xiao Dong.

The news reached Qianjiang, the commander of the 46th Army, He Xuan, was praised by the general order, and the entire East Route Army was greatly encouraged, and only one person was not happy, that is, Zhao Guolong, the commander of the new 19th Division, who told the deputy division commander Kan Weiyong that although the Japanese army withdrew, it found a shortcut, from Taiping to Pinglang, and went north along the Yongjiang River.

Kan Weiyong was shocked and reported to Cai Tingkai, commander of the East Route Army, that the enemy headquarters before moving to the river also deeply felt the importance of the East Road, and asked Ye Zhao's 37th Group Army to quickly rush to Yongchun and defend the east gate of the Yongjiang River.