Chapter 59: Entering the Guerrilla Zone

When the two of them were looking for their way back to the battlefield, they encountered a group of bandits, and Ji Jinbiao shocked the bandits in one fell swoop with his superb martial arts and skillful marksmanship. At that time, the two of them were feeling that they were alone, and it was difficult to explain when they went back to see Hu Fei, and when they saw that there were three or four hundred bandits in this group, and most of them were riding horses, they immediately moved their minds.

The two of them first pretended to go up the mountain to join the gang, and when they arrived on the mountain, they occupied the position of the main and deputy village owners. Some of the original leaders of the cottage were not convinced, so Gou Tianxiao and the two of them slaughtered all the leaders who refused to accept them.

After taking complete control of the cottage, the two owners of the village gathered the big and small leaders on the mountain together to tell the big guys, they turned out to have a boss who was the head of the national army. Now Commander Hu is leading a regiment of brothers to fight with devils, and the two villagers mainly lead the whole cottage to go down the mountain to join the national army to fight devils!

The bandits didn't have any big ambitions, as long as they could have a bowl of rice to eat, who did they do it with? Besides, those who had a little temper were already dead, and the rest of them certainly did not dare to oppose the orders of the two new village owners.

"Wow, it's good to fight devils, we can just take off this thief skin and become an official soldier!" After Gou Tianxiao announced their plan to join the national army, some people stood up in public to express their support. The people who stood up were the two small leaders in the cottage, one was named Lai Qi and the other was Mao Hongyuan, the two that Hu Fei saw. Gou Tianxiao saw that these two boys were smart and clever, so he casually crowned the two of them as company commanders.

Later, the two village owners sent a large number of people to investigate around, and finally inquired about the whereabouts of Hu Fei and his team. Gou Tianxiao and Ji Jin Biao led the whole class of the cottage to run hundreds of miles, and only then did they come to this place where Hu Fei must pass, and only then did they have this timely rescue operation.

Hearing the cause and effect, Hu Fei was greatly relieved. "Wow, Leopard, Tianxiao, you two have brought over so many brothers this time, it won't be long before our troops will be prosperous again!" Seeing that the troops were on the verge of disbanding, and suddenly there were hundreds of new troops, Hu Fei naturally increased his confidence.

Gou Tianxiao grinned, "It's a pity that these people can't compare to our original troops, they don't need to be beaten!" "Three or four hundred cavalry pulled up, and let the devils beat back with a grenadier, and they really didn't fight.

"No one is born a warrior, if you don't fight, you will fight less with devils, and those who can survive a few more battles will be elite. Wasn't you and I the same? Who of us will fight? Haven't you fought with the devil too much, plus you have good luck to survive until now? ”

With Ji Jinbiao and his cavalry constantly harassing him, Hu Fei's team did not suffer any particularly heavy losses. But the devil is like a maggot on the tarsal bone that can't be shaken off or taken off, and it really makes people feel awkward.

A continuous mountain appeared in front of them, and according to Gou Tianxiao, their lair was in that mountain. It is said that there were guerrillas in the mountains, and he did not know whether it was the National Army or the Eighth Road. He entered the mountain too late to see the guerrilla leaders.

"Does it matter if he's the National Army or the Eighth Road? As long as it can resist Japan. Cooperation between the KMT and the Communist Party is the general trend of the world. Both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party are Chinese, and only by working together to resist Japan can China drive away humiliation and strengthen the country and rejuvenate the people! "Not to mention, Hu Fei really learned some useful theoretical knowledge as the head of this regiment, no, he can even open his mouth to cooperate with the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.

Gou Tianxiao was a little unimpressed with these, but he had no intention of refuting Hu Fei's words, what Fei Ge said he just listened to, and the rest was not his responsibility.

Hu Fei seemed to have a different kind of emotion for the mountain, and seeing that he was about to enter the mountain, he specially ordered the troops to speed up the march.

Hu Fei only cared about running away with his troops, but he didn't know what kind of impact his run had on the entire battle situation.

In mid-February 1939, after the 101st Division and the 106th Division of the Japanese Army, which had been heavily damaged in the Battle of Wuhan, were replenished with troops, they joined up the 6th Field Heavy Artillery Brigade assigned to them and began to assemble in the area south of De'an; More than 130 tanks of the 5th Tank Brigade of the Japanese invaders assembled north of De'an.

In the second half of the year, the 6th Division moved to the Qixi and Wuning directions, and the Inoue detachment began to open up the Poyang Lake waterway; The 16th Division and the 9th Division made a feint on the left bank of the Hanshui River in Anlu, Hubei Province and the northern section of the Yuehan Road.

On the part of our country. In late February, the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government judged that the Japanese invaders were very likely to mobilize several divisions and regiments to launch the Battle of Nanchang, so the chairman of the Military Commission ordered General Xue Yue, commander of the Ninth Theater, to lead all his units to make preparations for battle.

In the just-concluded Wuhan Battle Commander, the elite units of our army suffered heavy casualties in the Ninth Theater, and China's current military service system made it far from being able to keep up with the needs of the war in terms of replenishment of troops. Therefore, although the Military Commission judged in advance that the Japanese invaders would launch the Battle of Nanchang in the near future, our army did not have the strength to take the initiative to attack. As a result, the Battle of Nanchang was set as the tone of the defense before it began.

On 18 March, the Murai detachment departed from Xingzi by warship and landed near Wucheng, about 30 kilometers northeast of Yongxiu, to attack the Chinese defenders, but met with stubborn resistance from the 32nd Army and other units of the Chinese defenders. Thus, the Battle of Nanchang officially began.

Major General Inoue Masayoshi, commander of the 36th Brigade of the 6th Division of the Japanese Army, led the 45th Wing and the 23rd Wing to form the Inoue Detachment, which attacked westward along the north bank of Xiushui from Kexi River. The 73rd and 8th armies of our defenders resolutely resisted, and the Japanese army made slow progress.

Just when the various departments of our army and the Japanese army launched a large-scale fight, due to Hu Fei's series of impolite behaviors, which angered the Japanese captain Chiba Rushui and the squadron leader Shimizu Shiro, these two devils led more than 100 devil soldiers to follow and pursue all the way, in a vain attempt to eliminate Hu Fei and snatch the beauty.

Hu Fei had only a few remnants of defeated troops at hand, and two or three hundred untrained bandits were no match for the Japanese invaders, so he was forced to flee into the nearby mountains. Chiba Rushui rate Japanese invaders followed and chased into the mountains.

Now is the time when the nerves of China and Japan are tense, and any disturbance on either side can immediately cause a strong reaction from the other side. When a Japanese invader chased our troops into the mountains, how could the commander of the national army who was in charge of the defense of the area be indifferent?

This mountainous area is a guerrilla zone, which belongs to the defense area of General Fan Songfu, the guerrilla commander-in-chief of the Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi border region. As soon as Hu Fei entered the mountain, someone reported the situation to General Fan Songfu. When General Fan heard this, the devil came to me? So what are you waiting for? Call me!

At that time, the guerrillas of the national army were all regular troops reorganized on the spot, with guns, artillery and horses. The commander-in-chief gave the battle order, can those officers and officers under him not work hard? Two battalions of thousands of national troops came over to meet the devils, and there were two battalions behind them with weapons and as reserves, ready to go into battle at any time.