When Xiao Siming captured Chenqiao, Wang Lushui and Huang Hua led the main force of the eastward advance detachment, disguised the Japanese army, and easily took Puyang County. Vertex. Fastest updates

After entering Puyang City and receiving a telegram from Xiao Siming, Wang Lushui immediately sent a telegram to the division headquarters and headquarters, reporting that the main force of the eastward advance detachment had made a detour to cross the defense line of the Japanese independent mixed Fourth Brigade on the front line of the Zhanghe River, and went south to seize Puyang City. He also reported that Xiao Siming personally led a division to seize Chenqiao Town, Fengqiu County, on the side of the Yellow River, annihilated the 15th Independent Infantry Brigade and a transport team of the 4th Independent Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army, and seized the supplies stored by the Japanese army in Chenqiao.

When Xiao Siming asked Shi Poshan to send a report to Wang Lushui, because the seized materials did not count the detailed figures, Shi Poshan did not report the number of seized materials to Wang Lushui in detail. Wang Lushui still didn't know that Xiao Siming had captured 13 medium tanks, 20 armored vehicles, 50 cars, 200 rubber trucks, 12 75 field guns, 12 75 mountain guns, and the weapons and equipment of four infantry brigades in Chenqiao. In that case, I'm afraid that a celebration meeting will be held in Yan'an City overnight!

Unconsciously, Wang Lushui and Xiao Siming relied on the wounded squad of the 685th Regiment in Yuxian County to develop the 115th Division's eastward advance detachment, which became more and more important in the minds of the division commanders, the headquarters chiefs, and the leaders of Yan'an. The actions of the eastward advance detachment gradually became an important factor affecting the trend of the war.

Moreover, the eastward advance detachment has won many battles, captured many battles, and its equipment level is not only the crown of all units of the Eighth Route Army, but also the head of the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army and the head of the Yan'an headquarters who know the inside situation know it in their hearts, and the equipment level of the eastward advance detachment is also the highest among all units of the entire Chinese army!

It can be said that from the beginning of the eastward advance detachment's capture of Dezhou, the Japanese North China Front has been led by Xiao Siming. At the same time, the leaders of the Yan'an Headquarters and the Eighth Route Army Headquarters also kept their eyes firmly on every major action of the eastward advance detachment, for fear that this new main force would be caught up and surrounded by the Japanese heavy army group and be wrapped in dumplings. That's too much of a loss!

No, after Wang Lushui's telegram was sent, it didn't take long for the instructions from the Yan'an Headquarters and the Eighth Route Army Headquarters to arrive.

The first telegram from Yan'an and the headquarters was to inquire about the establishment, weapons and equipment of the infantry brigade of the Japanese army's independent mixed brigade, and asked the advance detachment to advance eastward to report it quickly.

This is because the leaders are anxious to grasp the basic situation of the independent mixed brigades of the Japanese army, and want to judge the difference between the independent mixed brigades and normal infantry brigades!

Wang Lushui had no choice but to send a telegram to inquire about Xiao Siming, and then made a detailed report to the headquarters and Yan'an.

Only then did the leaders of the General Headquarters and the Yan'an Headquarters know that the Japanese Army's independent mixed brigade is a multi-arm composite unit, which has fewer troops than ordinary infantry brigades and regiments, but has the ability to conduct joint operations with multiple arms, and is a small division and regiment with a more responsive response.

This is very important and is a basic requirement for knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent!

When the Eighth Route Army first entered the anti-Japanese battlefield, it knew little about the Japanese army. Just like the Pingxingguan ambush battle, at the beginning, the Eighth Route Army did not know that it was the Japanese Fifth Division that it was going to ambush. It was not until the end of the battle and the translation of the captured Japanese army materials that the Eighth Route Army knew that it was the Japanese army's Itagaki Division that attacked Pingxingguan in a roundabout way, and it was the most elite Japanese army that fought itself.

Based on this situation, whenever our army won a battle, especially when the Japanese squads, squadrons, and brigades such as the eastward advance detachment were completely annihilated, the leaders of the general headquarters immediately inquired about the Japanese army's troop strength and weaponry, and the purpose was to study and understand the Japanese army, so as to facilitate better command and operation.

It was not only the Eighth Route Army's lack of understanding of the Japanese army, but also the Nationalist Army. During the Battle of Xuzhou, Kenji Tu Feiyuan led the 14th Division to smuggle across the Yellow River in the Dongkou area of Zhencheng, and the troops of the Nationalist Army stationed in southwest Lu did not know the number of the 14th Division, and until the 14th Division cut off the Longhai Road, the Nationalist Army could not figure out which Japanese army it was. At the time of the Battle of Lanfeng, although the number of the 14th Division was already known, nothing was known about the fact that the First Army had reinforced the 14th Division with a large number of tanks, armored vehicles, automobiles, and heavy artillery. If he knew, perhaps Chairman Chiang's strategy for fighting the Battle of Lanfeng would have changed.

After the 14th Division rushed across the Yellow River and marched into southwest Lu, it captured Heze, where the Shandong Provincial Government was temporarily stationed. When Tufei Yuan's division cut off the Longhai Road and attacked in the direction of Kaifeng, one of his infantry wings was stationed in the southwest of Lu, and the headquarters of the wing was located in Heze, which was an absolute lone army. Instead of fighting to the death with the main force of the 14th Division, which is heavily equipped and has been basically mechanized, it is better to encircle and annihilate the infantry wing of the 14th Division in southwest Lu, which is stationed by the lone army. In that case, the main force of the 14th Division will definitely not be able to take care of capturing Lanfeng, and will definitely return to the southwest of Lu to rescue, and the Eastern Henan Corps commanded by Xue Yue may suffer heavy losses or even annihilate the 14th Division of the Japanese Army in the movement.

In the final analysis, it is all the result of the unknown situation of the enemy!

No, after Wang Lushui reported on the strength and weapons and equipment of the 15th Independent Infantry Brigade of the Fourth Brigade of the Japanese Army, the headquarters immediately called to instruct the next move.

The telegram from the headquarters said that the 115th Division's eastward advance detachment had leaped thousands of miles to the Yellow River in northern Henan, and that it was a great victory to completely annihilate the 15th Independent Infantry Brigade of the Fourth Brigade and Regiment and a transport team of the Japanese Army, and to capture some supplies! It shows that after the eastward advance detachment has undergone two rounds of training in Yuxian and Leling, its military and political quality has been markedly improved, and the command level of its commanders has been markedly improved!

The General Headquarters reported in a telegram that the Japanese Army's Fifth Division and the 16th Division had launched a frenzied attack on the base areas in southern Hebei since early this morning. Our army in southern Hebei has been transferred to anti-siege operations.

In view of the fact that the main force of the Fourth Brigade of the Japanese Independent Mixed Brigade was deployed on the south bank of the Zhanghe River, and that the Fifth and Sixteenth Divisions of the Japanese Army learned that after the eastward advance detachment leaped thousands of miles into northeastern Henan, it was very likely that it would go south to pursue it, the General Headquarters asked Wang Lushui and Xiao Siming to send a reconnaissance detachment to monitor the movements of the Fourth Brigade of the Japanese Independent Mixed Brigade, and to be mobile and flexible in tactics, and to fight more small-scale battles, so as to avoid a head-to-head confrontation with the Fourth Brigade of the Japanese Independent Mixed Brigade, so as not to be bitten and caught up by the Fourth Brigade of the Japanese Army's independent Hu Caiheng, and cause unnecessary losses.

Perhaps considering that the Japanese army in northern Henan was extremely weak, or it may be that in consideration of the difficult situation of our army in southern Hebei, the headquarters ordered Wang Lushui and Xiao Siming to divide their troops and sweep through the northern Henan region, forcing the Japanese Fifth Division and the 16th Division besieging southern Hebei to end the siege of southern Hebei and turn south to pursue the eastward advance detachment.

If the 5th and 16th Divisions of the Japanese Army suspend the siege of the base areas in southern Hebei and gather troops to pursue the eastward advance detachment, the headquarters ordered that the task of luring the enemy by the eastward advance detachment would be completed, and that it should quickly cross the river and enter the hinterland of Shandong.

The telegram from the headquarters clearly demanded that the southern Hebei Xu front should closely monitor the movements of the Fifth Division and the 16th Division, and that if it was discovered that the two divisions had stopped attacking southern Hebei and were pursuing the eastward advance detachment, they should report it as soon as possible, or they could directly telegraph to Xiao and Wang.

In view of the large number of seizures and heavy equipment of the eastward advance detachment, the headquarters telegraphed that it had ordered Peng Mingming and Wu Wenyu of the Sulu-Henan detachment of the 115th Division to send powerful troops to meet the eastward advance detachment to cross the river.

The instruction telegram from the Yan'an headquarters also made it very clear that the northeastern Henan Plain was suitable for the movement of the Japanese mechanized corps, and the eastward advance detachment was fighting far away from the base area, and the danger had not been lifted. The top priority at the moment is to quickly get in touch with the Sulu-Yu detachment in the Huxi area, and think of crossing the river and marching eastward!

The Yan'an General Headquarters clearly stated in the telegram that once the 5th and 16th Divisions of the Japanese Army moved south to encircle our army, the task of mobilizing the Japanese troops by the eastward advance detachment would be declared over. Next, the central task of the eastward advance detachment was to advance into the hinterland of Shandong, divide troops to propagandize and mobilize the masses, and create a consolidated base area in the Yimeng Mountains!

After reading the instructions from the headquarters and Yan'an, Wang Lushui smiled bitterly in his heart, after all, the leaders were far away and did not have a thorough understanding of the situation of the eastward advance detachment. There are no bridges on the Yellow River, and the engineer battalion of the eastward advance detachment has no equipment to erect pontoon bridges that can pass through tanks, armored vehicles, and cars. How can you cross the Yellow River?

After thinking about it, Wang Lushui felt that it was necessary to report to the headquarters and Yan'an about the actual difficulties of the eastward advance detachment, so he sent another telegram to the division headquarters, the headquarters, and Yan'an, and reported in detail the equipment of the eastward advance detachment, explaining that under the current situation, the eastward advance detachment could not cross the Yellow River with heavy equipment.

As soon as this telegram was sent, the heads of the headquarters and the leaders of Yan'an remembered that after Xiao Siming captured the Luokou Bridge, he had suggested that the eastward advance detachment advance into the Yimeng Mountains and create base areas in central Shandong, southeastern Shandong, and southern Shandong. Unfortunately, although the headquarters and Yan'an approved the eastward advance detachment to march into the Yimeng Mountains at that time, they requested that the implementation be postponed and that the eastward advance mission be carried out after the end of the anti-Japanese heavy siege mission.

The consideration of the headquarters and the Yan'an headquarters at that time was mainly that Xiao Hua led the 5th Detachment of the 343rd Brigade Headquarters and the Jinpu Detachment to the Jilu border when they first arrived at the Jilu border, and they were not familiar with the environment, and it was easy to suffer a big loss when they encountered a heavy sweep by the Japanese army, so they ordered Xiao Siming to postpone their eastward advance. Unexpectedly, at this time, I realized that I had missed a good opportunity. The only two Yellow River railway bridges between Zhengzhou and Jinan were all blown up, and so many tanks, armored vehicles, automobiles, rubber cars, and anti-aircraft guns of the eastward advance detachment would certainly not be able to cross the Yellow River.

The reason why the 14th and 16th Divisions of the Japanese Army were able to rush across the Yellow River was because their engineer wing had a special boat and bridge unit and equipment to build pontoon bridges that could pass through vehicles. These things, for the time being, our army does not have. Not only did the eastward advance detachment not, but the entire Eighth Route Army did not!

If the eastward advance detachment is allowed to abandon heavy equipment such as tanks, armored vehicles, automobiles, rubber vehicles, and antiaircraft guns, the combat effectiveness of this unit will decline in an instant. In that way, not only Xiao Siming and Wang Lushui were reluctant, but also the leaders of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters and Yan'an Headquarters were reluctant!

This matter, trouble! (To be continued.) )