Chapter 7: Rivers and Mountains (34)

Liao Mingxin took his squadron and set off at a high dam about thirty kilometers away from them, which was the ambush point in Liao Mingxin's memory, the Yellow River was diverted, the Huai River rose a lot, and the two streams in this place became deep ditches, leaving only a bare path in the middle of the two deep ditches, and it became twisted. Most of the trees were flooded, only one or two were exposed on the water, reflected in the water, and it was also very beautiful, the morning sun, the evening sunset, reflecting the water surface, the golden light was shining, and it was more windy. It takes a long time to walk through this winding path, and if you set up an ambush in the woods on both sides of the ditch, it will be a live target.

Liao Mingxin knew that early in the morning, a squad of Japanese soldiers walked along this road, and in the afternoon, they would come back from this road.

After setting up their positions, they waited for about two hours, and a group of Japanese soldiers came from the south, and they were very fruitful, carrying heavy rice bags and live chickens on their guns, and more than fifty people, not one of them empty-handed.

"I don't know if the people of that village have suffered again!" Liao Mingxin sighed, born in this kind of troubled times, he is really as cheap as a dog.

None of the soldiers around him held stinky feet, and in response to his words, everyone unanimously leveled the pistol in their hands, and tried to point the crosshair at the moving Japanese, and the two guns hit a devil, this was the previous rule, from the Japanese army walked into the path in the ditch, the soldiers stared at the devil who belonged to them, and the head of the gun moved with the movement of the devil, only to listen to Liao Mingxin's order, and fire at the same time.

The Japanese army got closer and closer, and soon came to the ambush range, Liao Mingxin raised the M712 barge gun in his hand and shot at the advanced Japanese team. With this gunshot, all the shots rang out, the Japanese army did not expect to be ambushed in this place at all, and before they could react, most of them had already been shot twice, some were shot once, some were shot three, and one shot was missed, and they were also standing on the road stupidly, not knowing what to do.

When the Japanese soldiers who were hit were planted in the place, the dozen or so Japanese soldiers who did not lie down in time also ushered in the second burst of gunfire, this time it was a bit miserable, on average, a Japanese soldier ten guns, one was almost beaten into a honeycomb.

After the gunshot, there was silence, only the chicken that had been picked up on the head of the devil's gun before was croaking and screaming, and its fluttering wings were horning.

"Holy shit! Isn't that a problem! Liao Mingxin shouted, get all the projectiles out of this honeycomb, the project is definitely not small.

The soldiers also remembered their previous request, and they all stared at each other with a look of reluctance. Liao Mingxin said: "What are you still doing, pulling out a knife and working." ”

Just as the soldiers pulled their bayonets from their waists and were about to work on the path, they saw a group of fellow villagers from the south running over with hoes and poles, and there were no less than three hundred people.

When I came to the place where the Japanese devil fell, I saw a man waving his hands and bowing deeply to Liao Mingxin's direction. Without waiting for his order, the others carried the materials stolen by the Japanese and walked back, and the others began to strip the Japanese of their clothes, not even leaving a crotch cloth, and after snatching these things, there was still a group of people left, and they began to greet the Japanese corpse with the hoe in their hands, and they were soon hoeed to pieces and thrown into the river, red and red.

"I'm afraid that these devils have ruined their women, you see, their hoes are all beckoning to the devil's second." Said one of the fighters.

Liao Mingxin took a fixed look, and sure enough, this was the case. The men may have hated the Japanese soldiers, they laughed evilly, pulled their intestines out of the stomachs of the Japanese soldiers, and threw them into the river, disgusting.

Liao Mingxin saw that some soldiers actually vomited, and his stomach was also very uncomfortable, and he said: "Let's go, this taste is too heavy, I can't stand it!" ”

The soldiers picked up the bullet casings they had shot out and quietly left, only one or two overweight fighters still looked at the broken corpses on the other side of the ditch with relish, until the group of people and horses were far away, and then they ran to keep up.

"It's all in pieces, throw it into the river, and let go of the scoop on your head." Said a fighter with an overweight taste.

A soldier could no longer hold back, and spit out a mouthful of "wow", and made a sound of vomiting one after another, and the marching team walked faster, almost trotting, or running would make everyone forget the previous scene.

Some people were afraid that the world would not be chaotic, so they only heard another soldier with an overweight taste say: "I heard that the carp of the Yellow River eat meat, and the meat of this group of Japanese is enough for the fish in the river to eat for a while!" ”

Hearing this, even Liao Mingxin couldn't hold back anymore, and spit it out.

A small team of the Japanese army did not return to the camp, and immediately sent several squadrons to look around, Zhao Xueliang seized the opportunity to fight several times, and the commander of the 20th Infantry Wing, Nobuaki Ohno, was also alarmed, and reported to the 19th Brigade Regiment Major General Kusaba Tatsuha, and then reported to the division Lieutenant General Nakajima Imasa, Nakajima Imasago was furious, regardless of the recurrence of his old wounds, decided to clean up this area, the plan has not yet been decided, the above is a general order, Nakajima Imasago is transferred away, transferred back to Japan as the commander of the defense of Central Japan, Lieutenant General Keisuke Fujie succeeded him as commander of the 16th Division. Lieutenant General Keisuke Fujie took office as a new official and demanded that all of them shrink, not to get entangled with local bandits, and to attack Lu'an wholeheartedly.

Knowing that the Japanese army was no longer dispatched, Xu Ping breathed a sigh of relief, and the battle with the Japanese army became larger and larger, from the squadron to the squadron, and then from the squadron to the brigade, in the latest operation, Liu Qinglong and Tian Zhen two brigades cooperated, only barely achieved victory, but has caused their own considerable losses, if the Japanese army opens a wing over, he is afraid that the old nest will not be able to keep.

"Tongxuan, you're right, we shouldn't provoke the Japanese." Xu Ping said.

"yes, yes! Fortunately, the Japanese base camp transferred Nakajima Imago away, in exchange for Keisuke Fujie, and changed the battle plan, which made us breathe a sigh of relief. Gong Qingyuan also shook his head: "This Fujie Keisuke is an artillery expert, his ability to use infantry is far inferior to artillery, in Huainan, where the water network has become vertical and horizontal due to the diversion of the Yellow River, artillery does not play a big role, which is the main reason why he changed Nakajima's plan to the present dynasty." ”

"Keisuke Fujie is an artillery expert?" Jin Tongxuan asked.

"Yes, this guy is in his fifties, graduated from the 18th Artillery Section of the Army Non-commissioned Officer School in 1905, and served as an artillery warrant officer after graduation, and then was escorted by the Army to study in the Higher Department of the Army Artillery School, and then studied at the Army University, and was the first generation of artillery generals trained by the Japanese army itself. This time, he succeeded Nakajima as the commander of the 16th Division, presumably in order to increase the artillery attack capability of the Second Army. Gong Qingyuan said: "The 16th Division lost a large number of heavy weapons because of the race against the Yellow River, and our intelligence department estimates that in the future, a large amount of artillery fire will be transported from the southern line of the Jinpu Road, and if we can destroy the railway at this time, we will be able to delay the Japanese attack as much as possible, so that the Central Military Commission will have a more calm time to deploy defenses." ”

Xu Ping nodded and said, "Report the situation to the Military Command Bureau and ask the bureau if we need to intervene." ”

"Absolutely." Jin Tongxuan smiled and said, "But we can use this to declare some expenses to the bureau, which is also good." ”

All three laughed.

After receiving Xu Ping's telegram, Dai Li immediately went to the staff headquarters and presented the telegram to the chairman of the committee. Lao Jiang took the telegram and exclaimed: "There is a sense of war, a sense of war, an overall concept, and talents!" ”

"Try to delay the offensive of the Japanese Second Army as much as possible, and if it can be until the end of August, the Military Commission will have a heavy reward." Lao Jiang said. Taking Dai Li's hand, Chiang Kai-shek walked to the sofa and sat down, and said: "Yunong, the so-called troubled times produce loyal ministers, your loyal and righteous national salvation army is the real backbone of the country, you ask them what they need, as long as I have what I have, just call it." ”

Where did Dai Li dare to sit, he immediately stood up and replied seriously: "The student representative subordinates thank the principal for his love!" ”

The reason why Lao Jiang attached so much importance to Xu Ping's plan was very simple: It was no secret that 170,000 people from the four divisions and one independent brigade of the Second Army of King Minoru of the Eastern Palace were attacking along the northern foot of Dabie Mountain from the direction of Lu'an, and the Military Commission was also preparing for the battle, Sun Lianzhong's Song Xilian and Liu Zhonggan's 51st Army had been transferred from Henan to Macheng, Hubei, and Hu Zongnan and Zhang Zizhong's troops were transferred to Gushi, and the troops were being deployed. Being able to hold back the Japanese attack, even if it is one more day, can put a little more troops in place and make the position a little more defensive.

More importantly, the operation along the Yangtze River has been carried out in an all-round way, and the two-front operation is quite stressful!

On 19 July, Okamura Ninji ordered an attack on Jiujiang.

Zhang Fakui, as commander of the Second Corps, arrived at Jiujiang on 15 July and ordered his subordinates to prepare to meet the Japanese army.

On July 22, the two sides fought fiercely, and after four days of fighting, Jiujiang was lost.

Not only was the fire of war on the south bank of the Yangtze River ignited, but the 6th Division on the north bank of the Yangtze River, after the Japanese army went forward and supplemented one after another, also launched another offensive on July 24, attacking Taihu Lake from Qianshan, the target, Huangmei.

In addition to the Gui Army, there was Liu Ruming's 68th Army attached to the Fourth Army Corps, and Li Pinxian's Fourth Army Corps, with the newly arrived 84th Army from Guangxi as the main force, and the 48th Army that had been fighting on the battlefield of resistance against Japan for a year. It is composed of three armies, 48, 68, and 84, and it can be regarded as a strong force. In addition, there are the 31st Army, Xu Yuanquan's 26th Group Army and Wang Zhangxu's 29th Group Army, and the strength of this defense line is not insignificant.

Shiro Inaba's Sixth Division's operational plan was very simple, attacking Taihu Lake and then Susong along the highway, and the first stage ended at Huangmei, basically keeping pace with Jiangnan.

Li Pinxian divided the troops into two parts, with the 31st Army deployed to the west of Qianshan and the Taihu Lake area, and the 68th Army to garrison the line of Susong, Huangmei, and Xiaochikou, and this part served as a garrison to block the Japanese army. The troops of the 26th and 29th armies were deployed in the foothills northwest of Qianshan-Susong, and were responsible for flanking the Japanese army. The 84th Army served as a reserve on the front line of Guangji and built a reserve position.

The war has begun, and if at this time, the Japanese Second Army at the northern foot of Dabie Mountain is inserted again, it will be even more chaotic, so Xu Ping's tactics of staying in the enemy are particularly important.