The first thing that came to Zhang Changde's mind was that someone was so bold as to dare to attack a team of more than 3,000 people.

Stationed in Lu'an was the Miyamoto Brigade of the 103rd Brigade of the 13th Division of the Japanese Army, the 104th Wing. According to the establishment of the Japanese army, this brigade was about 1,100 people, and the Japanese brigade included a brigade headquarters of 30 people, a transport squadron of 110 people (with cars, mules and horses); Four infantry squadrons, one infantry squadron of the Japanese army is much larger than a company of the Chinese army, including a squadron headquarters of 19 people: there are squadron leaders, executive officers, 3 sergeants (Juncao), 4 health officers, officers' orderlies, division officers, and 8 communicators; 3 squads of 54 people. a total of 181 people, 139 rifles, 9 light machine guns, 9 grenadiers; One machine gun squadron (in addition to the general infantry squadron, the Japanese army also had the establishment of a machine gun squadron, with a squadron headquarters of 14 people and 3 machine gun squads and 1 ammunition squad, each squad with 4 heavy machine guns, a total of 12 units, 174 people. ）； A 55-man artillery squad (1 squad of 10 people, 1 ammunition detachment of 15 people, two artillery detachments of 15 people each armed with 1 70-mm 92 infantry gun). The establishment of the Imperial Allied Army began in 1938, and the puppet Nationalist Government gradually reorganized 40 divisions and 15 independent mixed brigades. The division is built in accordance with the scale of the Japanese army's Ding division, under the jurisdiction of 3 infantry wings, special arms have brigades or squadrons, equipment is weaker than the Japanese army's regular Ding division, the number of the division is about 11,000 people, and at the same time set up an independent mixed brigade, under the jurisdiction of two infantry wings, the entire brigade is about 6,000 people, the division of the puppet national government from the 1st Division of the Imperial Cooperative Army to the 40th Division, and the independent mixed brigade is from the 1st Brigade of the Imperial Cooperative Army to the 15th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Army, with a total strength of 530,000 people. Zhang Changde's Lu'an Independent Brigade is not within the 15 brigade establishment system of the puppet Nationalist Government, as a local garrison independent brigade, it does not have the strength of two wings and six brigades like these brigades in the establishment, Zhang Changde's brigade has only four brigades, except for Zhang Jingui's brigade defending Huoshan and one brigade left behind in Lu'an, there are only two brigades, about 2,400 people, plus two infantry squadrons led by Junichi Miyamoto, a machine gun squadron and an artillery squadron, about 600 people, a total of more than 3,000 troops.

Zhang Changde is usually used to being a fox and a fake tiger, and the back of his buttocks is already on fire, he still doesn't think so, and he is confident that with the strength in his hands, there are so many elites of the imperial army here, it is a effortless thing to clean up these "national troops" that block and sneak attack.

Junichi Miyamoto is different, he realizes the seriousness of the problem. From the intensity of the gunfire and the number of explosions, he could tell that the Chinese troops attacking his troops behind him were no less than the Chinese troops blocking them, and they were better equipped with weapons.

Attacking thousands of people back and forth, this is not like delaying his rescue of Huo Shan, but there are signs of eating himself in one bite.

"Brigade Commander Zhang, stop attacking the front positions and organize your troops to break through the rear."

Junichi Miyamoto is worthy of being a commander with military academy education, and when he is about to fight, he makes a decision without the slightest hesitation at all.

"Breakout?" Zhang Changde thought he had misheard, and asked rhetorically.

"Execute the order, Brigade Commander Zhang, don't think about Huoshan, it depends on our luck if we can return to Lu'an."

Junichi Miyamoto didn't care that there were many soldiers around him, and directly said these words that surprised Zhang Changde. If someone else had said such alarmist words, he would never have believed it, and would even have reprimanded it. But these words came out of Junichi Miyamoto's mouth, and he couldn't believe it.

At this moment, he sensed the seriousness of the matter, and hurriedly called the captains of the two brigades to his side to discuss how to deal with this sudden situation.

The devil's puppet army was urgently discussing, Dong Wenbin and Dai Cunxiang's side did not leave the slightest affection, light and heavy machine guns, grenadiers, and mortars have been pouring ammunition on the enemy, and the two companies plus the four or five hundred brothers who have just surrendered to Chengcheng, and the troops of less than 1,000 people, have just fought a momentum of thousands of people. The powerful firepower is like drawing a brilliant and colorful picture on the huge black drawing board of the night.

Although the army in front of him cannot be compared with the second battalion or the 20th division, it already has a little hope of itself, which makes Sun Yumin feel very gratified.

Gao Jingting was worried about whether the Seventh Regiment would be able to withstand the enemy's formal attack, the feint attack just now had already frightened him, the enemy's strong attack would definitely be much more ferocious than the wave of attacks just now, and it was still unknown whether the Seventh Regiment could withstand it. While worrying and thinking, suddenly the tail of the enemy team was already attacked.

How can there be such a fast speed? It's incredible. Although Gao Jingting knew that Sun Yumin's troops were attacking the enemy, he was able to attack from his own blocking position in such a short period of time, around behind the enemy's buttocks, which greatly exceeded his estimates. So much so that he almost forgot the agreement with Sun Yumin, as long as he launched an attack from behind, he would also launch a comprehensive counterattack on his side, fiercely pinching the devil puppet army back and forth, and eating them in one go, even if it was indigestion, even if it was swallowing out two front teeth.

"Inform the Seventh Regiment and the Pistol Regiment and prepare for the sortie." Although Gao Jingting hesitated slightly, he quickly came to his senses and said to the messenger beside him. Xiao Wan was sent to Yang Kezhi's side and had not yet returned, so he could only ask the messenger to convey orders to the two regiment commanders.

"Commander, we have only fired three shells, can we ......" It was the mortar gunner who spoke, who had previously hit the devil's convoy, and the grenadier threw out a lot of grenades, but the mortar only let three shots, which made the two mortar gunners who were regarded as treasures by Gao Jingting have an opinion.

"What's the hurry, good steel has to be used on the blade." Gao Jingting pretended to be angry, and then he laughed again, and said to the gunners around him: "How did the devil blow up the Seventh Regiment just now, you can blow it back." Let's have a luxury, it's a big deal in the future, shoot all the shells you brought. ”

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After Ling Weixian set off with Gao Jingting and the pistol regiment to aid the Seventh Regiment, he sent a telegram to the military headquarters of the New Fourth Army in the name of the four detachments, reporting the plan to assist the friendly forces in blocking the enemy forces in Lu'an.

Although Ling Weixian was a military commander, he had a political consciousness that even Gao Jingting sighed at himself, and he thought that he was going to invite Lihuang's national army troops to dispatch, and inform the four detachments of the military department in advance of the plan and the risks they were taking. Moreover, he planned to use Sun Yumin's name to persuade Wei Yunsong of the 48th Army and even Liao Lei of the 21st Group Army. Maybe people won't give the four detachments this face, but Sun Yumin, as Jiang's former descendant, as the famous "god of war" among the generals of the national army, will never stand idly by.

Ling Weixian's original intention and starting point are good, but he doesn't know Sun Yumin as a person, let alone the deception in the high-level of the national army, so he can't even imagine that this telegram is actually to help Sun Yumin, but it gives Sun Yumin endless troubles, so to speak, this telegram sent to the 48th Army did not give Sun Yumin the slightest help, but added a lot of trouble and resistance to him and the Yangshupu Volunteer Regiment.

When Wei Yunsong received the telegram from the telegraph officer, he was a little puzzled. But he quickly reacted, and he didn't pay attention to the three words Sun Yumin on the telegram at first, and the telecommunications officer's reminder made him so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth.

This Sun Yumin can be regarded as one of the most famous officers in the national army in the past two years, and Commander-in-Chief Liao Lei often uses him as an example to discipline his division commanders at meetings, but this person was obviously martyred in Chengzi Town, Ruichang, Jiangxi, how could he suddenly appear in Huoshan again?

Wei Yunsong didn't dare to slack off, and immediately came to Liao Lei's residence with the message.

Hearing his report, Liao Lei, who was lying on the bed drinking medicine, was surprised to squirt out all the medicinal soup in his mouth.

"What do you say? Sun Yumin is fighting Huoshan County, let us send troops to help? ”

Liao Lei was so shocked by Wei Yunsong's words that he didn't want to, he thought he had heard it wrong, and after repeated inquiries, he found out that the Sun Yumin mentioned in the telegram was the "God of War" general who died in Chengzi Town, Ruichang, Jiangxi, and the former commander of the 20th Division who couldn't hold back tears after hearing the mourning report.

"Yes, Commander-in-Chief."

"Isn't he already martyred? How could it suddenly come out, I'm afraid it wouldn't be someone else or his subordinates under his banner? ”

Liao Lei never dared to believe this fact, he fought all his life, since participating in the Wuchang Uprising, including studying at the Baoding Army Military Academy, after graduation, he joined the Hunan Army Zhao Hengti Division as a company attached, company commander, battalion commander, and regiment commander; Later, he participated in the Northern Expedition and served as the deputy commander of the Fourth Division of the Eighth Army of the National Revolutionary Army and the commander of the Third Regiment, the commander of the First Division of the 36th Army, and the deputy commander and commander of the 36th Army; In the 18th year of the Republic of China, he returned to Guangxi to join the Xingui faction to oppose Chiang, and served as the chief of staff of the former enemy headquarters of the "Protecting the Party and Saving the Country", the deputy commander of the Seventh Army and the commander of the 21st Division, and the commander of the Seventh Army, until he became the commander-in-chief of the 21st Group Army and the chairman of Anhui Province. From 1907 into the Guangxi Army Primary School, to now as the commander-in-chief of the group army, more than 30 years of military career, he admired not many people, among which Sun Yumin such a rising star is even rarer, at the beginning of the heart of friendship, unexpectedly jealous of the talent, and the battle of the Botian detachment, the most dazzling new star in the national army to the Yangtze River, at that time he sighed for a long time, who would have expected that now this person actually appeared in his surroundings, although he did not meet, But he would not doubt the authenticity of the message. As a unit of the GCD, the four detachments of the New Fourth Army will not use this kind of thing as a bargaining chip, or joke about this kind of thing.

"It's precisely because I don't know the situation that I'm in a hurry to report to you." Wei Yunsong replied respectfully.

"Regardless of whether this Sun Yumin is really the former commander of the 20th Division, you and I have the responsibility to help him." Liao Lei pushed away the nurse who was still feeding him medicine, and said to Wei Yunsong: "Immediately reply to the four detachments of the New Fourth Army, saying that our army will send a regiment to attack Lu'an." ”

"Commander-in-chief, I'm afraid it's not appropriate to attack Lu'an with a regiment. Not to mention the deep walls of the city, there is a brigade of devils stationed in Lu'an alone, as well as a brigade of the puppet army, I am afraid there are no less than five or six thousand people. We use a regiment to attack the city, is this not clear that we are sending fat meat to the enemy's mouth? ”

Wei Yunsong didn't understand Liao Lei's intentions, and said a lot, he opposed this proposal because the regiment sent was definitely going to be out of the 48th Army, which was equivalent to cutting his Wei Yunsong's meat.

"After following me for so long, you still don't think about things in your head." Liao Lei looked like he hated iron but not steel, "If Sun Yumin is fighting Huoshan, then if you are the commander of Lu'an, will you go to the rescue?" ”

"Commander, I know that he will go to the rescue, but he will not take all his troops to the rescue, and Lu'an will definitely not be an empty city, and it will be impossible to win with the strength of a regiment to attack the city."

"Did I say that you have to capture Lu'an?" Liao Lei patiently explained: "The main force of the devil's puppet army has gone to rescue Huoshan, and the number of enemies left behind in Lu'an is definitely not much, and the regiment we sent will definitely not be in danger of being surrounded if it makes a little feint to attack the city." Listen clearly, all I want is a feint, as for whether we can bring the main force of the devil back from Huoshan, it is not our business, and it can be regarded as our 21st Group Army did not stand by and help Sun Yumin. ”

Wei Yunsong understands now, Jiang is still old and spicy, no matter what the outcome of Sun Yumin's fight against Huoshan this time is, the 48th Army will only be meritorious, and there will be no mistakes.

"I see, Commander. Immediately send a regiment closest to Lu'an to harass Lu'an City. ”

After Wei Yunsong left, Liao Lei couldn't calm down, he couldn't figure out why this Sun Yumin came back from the dead, and he was in a high position for many years, which made Liao Lei feel that there must be something inside.

Should I report this matter to the Ministry of Military Affairs? Report to the official residence of the chairman of the Chongqing committee?

He hesitated, this matter and this person is definitely a double-edged sword, if it is handled well, his 21st Group Army will definitely add a lot of glory, if it is not handled well, not only will his strength be in vain, but also he will be ashamed.

In fact, in addition to reporting to He Yingqin and Lao Jiang, Liao Lei also thought of two ways, one is to inform the military commander of this matter, and let Dai Li deal with the investigation of this matter, just like sending troops to feint to attack Lu'an, as long as he stabs the military commander, he will definitely only have merit and will not be at fault. The only disadvantage of this is that he will completely break off with Sun Yumin, and maybe he will harm this rising star he admires very much; Another way is to tell Chen Bui about this matter, this Sun Yumin is his son-in-law, and it will definitely be better for him to deal with this matter than to toss around blindly, and it will also make this the number one celebrity around Lao Jiang owe himself a favor. has been in the officialdom and the military for a long time, and he knows that it is absolutely better to let a person like Chen Bui owe him his affection than to receive any medals and rewards from Lao Jiang.

Thinking of this, he showed a knowing smile on his face, and said to the nurse next to him: "Notify the adjutant to come over, I want to send a private message." ”

Liao Lei was shrewd, but he didn't expect that there were officers stationed in his headquarters with the commander of the army on the surface, and there were also many people who had been inserted by Dai Li, including this little nurse who had been serving him wholeheartedly.

So when Chen Bui received Liao Lei's private telegram, the secret report from within the military command was also sent to Dai Li's desk.