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The warm east wind of early spring blows gently, the broken willows of the Jiangwan battlefield are vaguely broken, and the scorched earth on the bank of the small river seems to sprout a little new green overnight, and the germ of breaking the ground is moving in the moist breeze, and the immature body is trying to cover up the vicissitudes of life as soon as possible. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The long trenches were already empty, and the officers and men of the 87th Division, like the officers and men of the 19th Route Army and the 88th Division of the fraternal troops, shouldered steel guns, ammunition boxes and all equipment, and retreated westward in three long columns hundreds of meters apart.

On the hill north of the position, more than 10 generals and colonels, including Zhang Zhizhong, commander of the Fifth Army, Wang Jingjiu, commander of the newly promoted 87th Division, Yu Jishi, commander of the 88th Division, and Sun Yuanliang, deputy commander of the 88th Division, stood in the wind with anxiety and indignation, looking at the retreating contingent from afar, silent.

Two days ago, after An Yi humiliated the Japanese again in the Sino-Japanese armistice talks, the Japanese brushed their sleeves away and refused to negotiate again. A group of main and factional newspapers represented by the "Republic of China Daily" began to criticize An Yi. Because An Yi secretly ordered to carry out counter-espionage investigations in more than 80 counties, including Nanchang, Jiujiang, Hukou, Hankou, Jingzhou, Yichang, Xiangxi, and eastern Sichuan, wantonly arrested spies and traitor suspects, and launched tax evasion investigations against all trading houses and trading companies dealing in Japanese goods, the offended businessmen and leftist forces also continuously slandered An Yi through newspapers and magazines. For a time, all kinds of voices in the whole of China were in an uproar, and a large-scale debate involving ideology was in full swing.

Song Xiqian, commander of the 261st Brigade of the 87th Division, suddenly called: "Look at the north." Senior Brother An's convoy drove to the west bank of the Langqian River and stopped, and the two people who got off first were like Deputy Army Commander Hu and General Ye Cheng of the 24th Army. ”

The crowd turned to look north. Finally, I saw An Yi, who was 300 meters away, jump out of the convertible, walked to the river and squatted, and did not move for a long time, and more than a dozen generals and colonels around him also squatted in a row, looking at the east of the land where the craters were connected and the blood of thousands of brothers once flowed motionless, and the wreckage of more than a dozen mottled chariots lay quietly in the scorched earth, silently declaring the former battlefield, and recording the tragic battles that had passed.

Zhang Zhizhong took off his glasses, wiped them gently with a handkerchief, and after sighing faintly, he raised his right hand and whispered to stop the generals under his command who were about to shout An Yi:

"Don't bother them. Let them be quiet, this time, under the pressure of the European and American mediators and the Japanese, and in disregard of the strong opposition of the officers and men of our front, the central authorities took the initiative to retreat 10 kilometers and abandon Zhabei, Jiangwan, and Wuhong. An Yi and his soldiers couldn't think about it the most, when the Military Commission came to announce the order, he and I were in the headquarters of the 19th Route Army, he was immediately angry, broke more than a dozen teacups, kicked over five or six tables, if it wasn't for Adjutant Shen hugging him, General Lin Wei, who came to announce the order, might not have been able to get off the stage.

This is the first time I have known him for so many years to see him angry, like a crazy lion who was injured, at that time we were frightened, only to drag him into the back room, a group of generals of the 19th Route Army outside made a fuss again, and finally under the reprimand of Commander Cai, one by one shed tears of humiliation, alas, "Fierce fighting for dozens of days, although An Yi's command has achieved more than 10,000 enemies and countless injuries, but they also paid the heavy price of killing more than 10,000 and wounding more than 10,000, at this time ordered to retreat, how can they not be sad and humiliated?" The same is true of the 19th Route Army, aren't all your divisions and brigades the same? This kind of pain is not pleasant! ”

The crowd gasped. Sun Yuanliang shook his head and said: "I don't know how the central government will deal with the affairs of Japanese prisoners of war, captured warships, merchant ships and bridge people, Senior Brother An made it clear in the negotiations with Japan that the Japanese army will not withdraw its troops, will never release a prisoner of war, and will never exchange a ship, the Japanese are disgusted and gritted their teeth but have no choice but to apply for arbitration The joint inspection team organized by various countries and the International Red Cross Society will go to Tunken New Village in the south of Yichang and the Huzhou prisoner of war camp in southern Sichuan to visit the overseas Chinese and prisoners, so as to confirm that the various departments under Senior Brother An have not mistreated the prisoners. ”

Yu Jishi sighed: "I can only ask the principal to come forward to say that Senior Brother An can be moved, and it is useless if he does not agree to the League of Nations." You don't know his temper of eating soft and not hard, don't look at him always with a smile on his face, and he is happy to suffer losses, but this depends on the object, his brothers or his respected teachers can, and others don't want to make him a little cheaper. If the enemy is worse, he can pick up the knife without blinking an eye. ”

Everyone laughed softly, Zhang Zhizhong said worriedly: "This guy loves the account too clearly, the newspapers of the concession countries said that those things in the reclamation area are true, more than 2,000 Japanese overseas Chinese were imprisoned by him in the newly built reclamation village behind the Yichang military station, the sun rises, the day is resting, if you don't work, you have to go hungry, the original invincible Japanese overseas Chinese are at the mercy of his military station garrison, and none of them dare to resist."

No outsiders were allowed to enter the prisoner of war camp, and even local officials in Huzhou were not allowed to enter or watch from a distance.

The central government wanted to send people to southern Sichuan to inspect the prisoner of war camp several times, but he refused, and most of the princes of the Military Commission were seniors who had a deep friendship with him, and General Jingzhi wanted to ask several times, but he couldn't open this. mouth, I am afraid that An Yi's unpleasant words will come over, and he will be disgraced and not a person inside and out.

But that's exactly what it is. He offended many people, and the last time he returned to Nanjing, he took the initiative to take responsibility for the shelling of the Japanese overseas Chinese area. Alas! I felt indebted to him, and I called the Military Commission three times and said that I had given the order, but the princes of the Military Commission did not believe that I would give such an order. said that I protected my students, and the principal also warned me not to excuse An Yi, Handzhu I have a hard time arguing, and I can't cry or laugh. ”

Yu Jishi comforted: "Teacher." You don't have to blame yourself too much, according to the students' understanding, Senior Brother An has been staying with Commander-in-Chief Cai's gang a few days before the shelling, and has conducted close-range surveys of the entrances of the Japanese Overseas Chinese District and the Public Concession more than once, which shows that Senior Brother An has long had a premeditated plan to bombard the Japanese Concession, and most of the generals of the Cantonese Army of the 19th Route Army are people with strong personalities, and Commander-in-Chief Cai, who has worked hard, is also angry. Senior Brother An can make a few words of teasing, it is estimated that Senior Brother An is embarrassed to make a suggestion but let the Nineteenth Route Army mention, under urgency, we can only support, the same enemy, so he got his wish

Yang Bufei, the commander of the 264th Brigade, asked in surprise: "No, right?" Senior Brother An dared to calculate the teacher? ”

Song Xiyi smiled: "This guy has always been unscrupulous to achieve his goals, Brother Bu Fei was blinded by his seemingly upright and open-minded smile, think carefully about the battles he has fought since the Northern Expedition, you will know how treacherous he is." Ha ha! ”

Zhang Zhizhong waved his hand tolerantly: "Those who achieve great things are not informal, not to mention the fact that they are fighting the Japanese invaders, and the results obtained are so good, although they have been criticized by some people, but no one can deny that it is precisely because of this shelling that they have opened up an active situation, and at the same time, the arrogance of the Japanese invaders has been defeated, a good thing!" ”

"You see, Senior Brother An has seen us, and he is waving to us." Wang Jingjiu waved his hand to An Yi in the distance, and a group of Huangpu comrades also raised their hands one after another to greet An Yi.

An Yi put down his hand and turned to Huang Yingwu: "Parrot, and Liu Qing, you two are referees, if the Japanese invaders seize the position after our team leaves, let Xia Jian and Brother Zhang each lead a division to fight on the front line, and if it takes ten hours to win or can't take it, I will win, and if I win it within ten hours, I will lose." ”

"You're sure you'll lose, and I'm still hoping that the Japanese will come soon." Zhang Cunzhuang said with confidence.

Ye Cheng calculated for a long time and finally expressed his opinion: "My estimate is eight to ten hours, and it must be a night battle, if the Japanese planes are dispatched during the day, it will be difficult, fortunately, this position is just outside the range of naval guns, and all units can rely on the advantage of firepower and familiarity with night battles to make a little cheap, as for the combat effectiveness of individual soldiers, it is estimated that the Japanese army is not weak, and each has its own merits."

"I said Lao Ye, don't let the enemy be majestic and destroy your morale, okay? It's not that I haven't fought in Little Japan, I went up to take a look at Liuhekou that day, and with the common dwarf of Little Japan, my thirty-ninth senior brother can pick him up with one hand, how can it be so terrible as rumored before? Aren't you still defeated by us? Hehe! Xia Jian said coaxingly.

The brothers laughed, but An Yi corrected seriously: "If you want to talk about the combat effectiveness of individual soldiers, we don't have any upper hand, especially in hand-to-hand combat, Japanese officers and soldiers often stand very well, and several people cooperate with each other in groups and are well-trained, we are not as good as them in this regard, and we have to humbly admit it."

If it weren't for being stronger than the opponent in terms of equipment and fire, I even thought about giving every soldier a broadsword, during the Central Plains War, the broadsword team of the Northwest Army asked my divisions of the Central Army to talk about the tiger's color, and there is indeed something outstanding about him.

In the future, in addition to grappling and fighting, each division should practice assassination more, and the Nanchang Non-commissioned Officer School has organized the Jiangxi Jingwu Association and the old-timers of our Cangzhou Martial Arts Hall to help, and will soon come up with a set of simple and practical assassination and scraping methods, which will be compiled and printed and distributed to every officer and soldier in each division, and will be practiced at least three times a week, and regular observation competitions at all levels will be held as well as grappling and fighting. It will be useful as long as you stick to it.

"Alas, *** little Japan, it hurts that our selection of special forces for the whole army this spring cannot be carried out, and it seems that it has to be postponed." Zhang Hao, deputy commander of the 39th Division, was angry.

An Yi said with a smile: "Speaking of the special brigade, this time the special brigade of the independent division is famous, but the outside world only knows that it is a special service group, and they don't know the rest of the estimates."

Xingzhen led 500 soldiers to hold out on Chongming Island for nearly 40 days this time, and fought hundreds of battles, large and small, beating the Japanese invaders to the point of terrification and heavy casualties. Within a few hours of my return to Nanjing, Mr. Wei Caier, the German general adviser, approached me and asked me to introduce him to the independent division to observe and discuss the training and to observe the training of the independent division's special service regiment and ask for a stunned training outline. The key at the moment is: A batch of ammunition was sent to the island as soon as possible, although all the Japanese troops withdrew to the line of the southeast estuary of the island, but it was difficult to ensure that the flames of war would not be ignited again, the new 1st Brigade and the special brigade were all on the island, and the food, drink, and Lazar of several thousand people could be solved with the support of the people on the island, but ammunition and first-aid medicine could not be obtained on the island. ”

Hu Jialin said very worriedly: "I'm worried that the Military Commission will order us to withdraw from Chongming Island again. ”

An Yi exclaimed in annoyance: "Impossible! It is useless for anyone to give orders, the more than 4,000 soldiers on Chongming Island just won't withdraw! What if we withdraw and the war resumes? How much risk do we have to take and how many brothers do we have to sacrifice needlessly to re-land on the strategically important Chongming Island? Before the Japanese army withdrew, no one wanted me to accept the order to retreat, our team can't always be so nested in our own territory, right? The king of heaven and Lao Tzu also don't think about it! ”

The brothers said yes again and again, and the beard smiled: "With your words, I feel much more comfortable, *** He Yingqin, *** Lord and faction, let them go in a hurry, haha,"