A few days later, according to Tang Jinshan's deployment, the 74th Army of the Jiang Army relied on superior firepower to launch a strong attack on Linhe County, and the **** 10th Division guarding Linhe retreated while fighting. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoOn the 23rd, Jiang's army advanced to the embankment of the Lin River, and once tore a hole in the embankment defense line of ****, and the assault team took the opportunity to attack the county seat, but was met with stubborn resistance from ****. At the critical moment, the **** First Division and the Sixth Division suddenly arrived, and Jiang Jun couldn't resist it, and was not only driven out of the county seat, but also out of the embankment.

After that, the 74th Army and the 28th Army launched two more rounds of attacks, both of which failed. On the night of the 26th, **** launched a counterattack on all fronts, and by the 29th, a three-sided attack situation was formed against Jiang's army. Tang Jinshan was afraid of falling into the **** encirclement, and hurriedly ordered the troops to retreat urgently. On the 31st, the battle of the Lin River ended with the victory of ****.

After the battle, the Communist Party immediately vigorously publicized this, and in addition to publicizing that the victory in the defense of the Linhe River was a birthday gift from the soldiers and civilians of the Jianghuai Liberated Area to Zhu De for his 60th birthday, it also specifically mentioned one thing. Tang Jinshan once boasted to reporters that his subordinates were the first batch of diners to taste Linhe snacks in the county seat. His words were immediately published in the official Kuomintang newspapers such as the Jinyan edition of the Central Daily, and were seen by the Communists. As a result, the Communist Party's newspaper "Jianghuai Bao" published a photo after the war, in which some of the captured officers and soldiers of Chiang's army sat around eating Linhe's specialty oil dumplings, and not far away was the Linhe City Gatehouse. The caption next to the photo reads, "The subordinates of Tang Jinshan, the victorious general of the Jiang army, are tasting Linhe snacks in Linhe County." The headline on the front page of this issue of the newspaper was "Gossip about Jiang Jun's Winning General Tang Jinshan".

The published Communist newspaper was quickly acquired by Kuomintang intelligence agents and forwarded to Chen Mosong. Immediately, Chen Mosong ordered to transfer the newspaper to Tang Jinshan and asked him to take a good look at it. When the battalion communications soldiers arrived in Chuzhou to transfer the newspaper to Tang Jinshan, he was being interviewed by Shang Xiaoqin. After Tang Jinshan saw the Communist Party's newspaper, he was naturally embarrassed and annoyed. His hands were trembling, his eyes were spewing fire, his face was blue, and his lips were pale.

However, when several of Tang Jinshan's subordinates were blushing and shouting to give **** a little color, he did not tear up the newspaper in anger, but silently folded the newspaper neatly in front of everyone and put it into a folder. When he was studying at the Whampoa Military Academy, his instructor, who is now Chen Mosong, once said to the cadets: In the future, as a leader of the troops, you must be able to listen to the criticisms of your subordinates and others, and even if you encounter malicious humiliation from your opponent, you should not act rashly, but should calm down and seriously think about how to fight back against the opponent.

But the matter did not stop there. On the third day, the front page of the "Jinyan Edition of the Central Daily" published an article written by Shang Xiaoqin and Xu Li "Refuting the Rumors of the Great Victory of the **** Linhe and Restoring the Truth of the Fierce Battle of Linhe". The article says: Recently, the Communist Party has made a big deal of rumors, bragging about the so-called great victory of the Lin River, reversing black and white, and disturbing the people's hearing and hearing. As war correspondents who visited the battlefield in Linhe, it is necessary for us to debunk the rumors and restore the truth of the facts.

According to the description of the two reporters, on October 19, the **** 74th Army raided Baxian Town, a military stronghold in the south of the Linhe River, and annihilated more than 5,000 people. The commander of the army, General Tang Jinshan, immediately came to Baxian Town and formulated a new plan to seize the county seat in the near future. And the **** was unwilling to be defeated, so he took a risk, entangled heavy troops and besieged Baxian Town on the night of the 20th. According to the new changes on the battlefield, General Tang decisively decided to suspend the original plan to seize the county seat, and instead annihilate the **** main force on the spot in Baxian Town. Our army then engaged in fierce fighting with the communist army for many days. During this period, although **** approached our forward position many times, they were heroically repelled by our army. In order to attract and mobilize the enemy, part of the 74th Army and the 28th Army passed through the gap between the communist positions on the 23rd, 24th, and 25th and rushed to attack Linhe County. Among them, the 25th attack hit **** the most, and our commando team successfully attacked the city. Fearing the loss of the county seat, he was forced to retreat from Baxian Town on the night of the 26th. Our army pursued the victory and annihilated more than 10,000 people. The commander of the special service company of the 57th Division led a small number of officers and soldiers to block the **** in order to cover the transfer of the troops, and all of them were martyred after annihilating more than 1,000 people. On November 1, our rushing troops successfully rendezvoused with the receiving force sent by our Baxian Town north of Baxian Town, and then returned safely to Baxian Town.

The two reporters said that the birthday gifts for Zhu De's birthday boasted by the Communist Party newspapers and radio stations were actually bought at high prices by the Communist Party underground personnel from several smugglers in the areas controlled by the state government who specialized in reselling **** materials, and then transferred flowers and trees to pass off as the spoils of the so-called victory of Linhe. The so-called **** prisoners of war who ate in the county were all people from the bandit area who were forcibly captured by ****, and the **** military uniforms they wore were also bought from smugglers.

After reading the article, Tang Jinshan really couldn't laugh or cry. During the entire battle of the Lin River, Eight Immortals Town did not fight a major battle at all. In the early morning of the 19th, the vanguard of the 74th Army advanced to the south of Baxian Town and was blocked by ****. The troops immediately stopped and called for fire support from their own men. After the Kuomintang Air Force and artillery covered the **** position for 30 minutes, the vanguard of the 74th Army of the Jiang Army cautiously approached the **** position, found that the **** was nowhere to be seen, and then smoothly entered Baxian Town. On November 1, after **** repelled the main force of the Jiang army, a **** army once pursued to the north of Baxian Town, and stopped advancing after a short exchange of fire with the Jiang army in Baxian Town, and then retreated. However, after such a brilliant pen by the two reporters, Baxian Town became the main battlefield of the Linhe battle, and the failure of the three attacks on the county town became a diversion action to respond to the defense of Baxian Town.

What made Tang Jinshan even more puzzled was that those two reporters and the other reporters who came to Linhe to cover the news, according to Tang Jinshan's retreat arrangement, had already withdrawn to Chuzhou on the 30th with the logistics units and wounded of the 74th Army. Tang Jinshan didn't mention to them the brief exchange of fire that took place in the poplar forest north of Baxian Town on November 1, but they actually wrote about the battle in Baxian Town so vividly, as if they were there.

It was only after a few days that Tang Jinshan learned from an acquaintance in the Jiangbei camp that the Communist Party's newspaper that humiliated Tang Jinshan was not only seen by Chen Mosong, but also by Lao Jiang. The old man was naturally very annoyed, so he called Chen Mosong and asked him to give an explanation. Chen Mosong was being interviewed by Xu Li when he answered the phone, and after putting down the phone, Chen Mosong hurriedly asked Xu Li what his good plan was, and Xu Li wrote a so-called war correspondent's personal experience on Monk Xiaoqin, which Chen Mosong sent to Lao Jiang. After reading it, Lao Jiang only said one sentence, "Smugglers are really hateful", and did not ask any more questions. Subsequently, the article appeared in the newspaper.

Although Xu Li's and Shang Xiaoqin's articles lifted Tang Jinshan's siege and covered up his ugliness, and although the Communist Party's newspapers and radio stations did not express their stance on the so-called smugglers and counterfeit prisoners of war in the future, Tang Jinshan was extremely depressed and depressed in his heart. The failure of the attack on Lin He was an indelible shame for Tang Jinshan, who had strong self-esteem. Only by taking down Lin He can Tang Jinshan really wash away this shame...... (To be continued.) )