Volume 1: Inner Mongolia Fengyun] Chapter 516: Wei Lihuang -

Chapter 516: Wei Lihuang

The situation in southern Anhui continued to deteriorate, and on August 12, the intelligence officers on the southern side of Anhui sent back the latest information, and the New Fourth Army was ordered to move north immediately: "The Eighteenth Group Army and all units of the New Fourth Army will be extended to the north of the Yellow River to fight. Here are the regions separately. All New Fourth Army forces south of the Yangtze River are limited to the area north of the Yangtze River before 21 August of this year, and to the area north of the Yellow River before 1 October of this year. At present, all units of the 18th Group Army south of the Yellow River are limited to the area north of the Yellow River until 31 August of this year. I hope that we will follow the order of the Chief of Staff in the territory of the combat site indicated in October, to fight together, to fulfill their duties, and not to make any further mistakes. ”

"Lao Luo, what are the instructions from the central government?" Han Yunhua asked urgently.

"Out of consideration for the anti-Japanese national united front, the Central Committee has ordered the New Fourth Army to go north, but the New Fourth Army does not seem to have a unified opinion, and so far the Fourth Army has not moved its defense as stated by the National People's Government and the Central Committee. Luo Ronghuan said.

"Lao Luo may have to suffer, Lao Jiang is not a person who can forbear, now although the National Government is on a slippery slope, but just now the United States and Britain and other countries have promised to give military assistance to the National Government, I heard that the equipment of the first batch of 5 infantry divisions has arrived in Chongqing, it seems that Lao Jiang thinks that he can now re-argue with us. If the New Fourth Army does not follow the orders of the National Government, it is likely to lead to bloodshed. Han Yunhua said worriedly.

Luo Ronghuan thought for a while and said: "No, although the situation in southern Anhui is very tense now, it has not yet reached the time when it is necessary to fight." Besides, this dozen is not cheap little Japan, I think it is impossible for Lao Jiang not to even see this! ”

"Hmph, how can you not see it, but the anti-Japanese national united front is a scum for veterans, people are not willing to resist Japan, you must know that we are taking advantage of the favorable situation of the Xi'an incident to 'force' Lao Jiang to resist Japan, and now the little devil is concentrating on dealing with our Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army, and has temporarily relaxed the military action against the national government, so Lao Jiang saw the threat of our ** at one time, and the national contradictions have temporarily eased and the class contradictions have risen?" Han Yunhua analyzed.

Luo Ronghuan said: "Then what should I do?" Now we can't quench our thirst far from water, and southern Anhui is thousands of miles away from us, even if we really have the heart to help them, we can't catch it. ”

"Lao Jiang has no bottom in his heart now, so he doesn't dare to completely tear his face with our party and our army, as long as the New Fourth Army doesn't make any more moths, our side takes some positive actions, plus the central side and the national government fǔ high-level maneuver, it is still possible to solve the matter."

"So what do we do?"

"Well, are the troops in southern Hebei ready?" Han Yunhua said.

"It's almost, during this time, the troops of all our military subdivisions are stepping up training, so it is convenient to assemble, and when the order of the headquarters reached the southern Hebei military subdivision yesterday, Yang Chengwu guaranteed that as long as we give an order, the three 'elite' divisions of the southern Hebei military subdivision will go south as soon as possible, whether it is the Gao Shuxun division in southern Hebei or the Wei Lihuang division of the first theater will be swept away by the devastating momentum."

"Very good, order the 59th Division of the Central Hebei Army Division to be temporarily transferred to the Southern Hebei Army Division, and order Xu Shiyou to lead the 7th Division, 13th Division, and 59th Division to immediately go south to Daming County, and at the same time the vanguard will enter and occupy Nanle County. Han Yunhua decisively ordered.

Luo Ronghuan hurriedly said: "Yunhua, do we wait any longer, Nanle, Qingfeng, Neihuang and most of northern Henan are all places where we have disputes with the National People's Government, and we are blatantly entering and occupying Nanle like this, I am afraid that it will cause new friction between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the Central Committee has repeatedly ordered and reaffirmed that it is resolutely not allowed to have friction with the troops of the National People's Government, everything is subject to the anti-Japanese national united front, and we will violate discipline by doing this." ”

"Don't wait, if you wait any longer, something big will happen in southern Anhui, and the matter of Lao Luo Wannan is far from being as simple as you think. The contradictions between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party in southern Anhui have reached the point of irreconcilability, and they cannot be resolved in a few words. Ever since the New Fourth Army developed behind enemy lines in northern Jiangsu, it has been in constant trouble with the Kuomintang diehards, and even large-scale battles have broken out. Han Yunhua said.

"Well, I've heard about this matter, but I just heard it roughly, I only know that in October last year, the Kuomintang diehards besieged our New Fourth Army in order to recover the Huangqiao army occupied by the New Fourth Army, but due to the strategy of dividing and attacking together, the troops were scattered, and the troops directly attacking Huangqiao were insufficient, and the middle descendants and miscellaneous cards did not support each other, and the above reasons led to the failure of the offensive, ** heavy losses, the New Fourth Army successfully held Huangqiao with inferior forces and then occupied Jiangyan, Hai'an and other places. As for the details, I don't know, because there were very few relevant reports at that time, and the Party Central Committee did not do any propaganda about it. Luo Ronghuan said.

"Hehehe, this is politics, and it is said that war is a continuation of politics, and this is not false at all. At that time, out of consideration for the separate interests of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, all the newspapers in China did not report much on the battle of Huang Qiang at that time, and I also learned the truth about this incident from Lao Tan and Lao Zhou. At the beginning of last year, in accordance with the instructions of the central authorities, the New Fourth Army began to concentrate its development in the areas of northern Jiangsu and southern Anhui, and cooperated with the New Fourth Army to open up the first and second detachments of the fifth column of the Eighth Route Army (Huang Kecheng's department) to the south in northern Jiangsu and the fifth detachment of the New Fourth Army, and arrived in the area north of Lianshui and the west bank of the Grand Canal respectively, forming a favorable strategic situation with the troops of the New Fourth Army in northern Jiangsu. As early as the time of reorganization, Chiang Kai-shek and Gu Zhu both demarcated defense areas for the New Fourth Army, but the defense areas they demarcated were very narrow, which was not conducive to the operation and development of the New Fourth Army. As early as May 1939, Chen Yi sent Ye Fei to lead the Sixth Regiment to Jiangyin, Wuxi, and Changshu areas, and the Maoshan anti-Japanese base area of the New Fourth Army also had a certain scale. Chen Yi and Su Yu then decided to send troops north to cross the Yangtze River and develop to the north bank of the Yangtze River. After several months of operations and development, by the end of November, several main forces of the New Fourth Army had reached northern Jiangsu and controlled the Yangtze River crossing, and the New Fourth Army crossed both sides of the Yangtze River and occupied a favorable situation. ”

Before Han Yunhua's words fell, Luo Ronghuan said: "Comrade Chen Yi is a talented person, and the struggle situation of their New Fourth Army is not much more reckless than ours, and it is not easy for them to gain a foothold in southern Jiangsu, northern Jiangsu, and southern Anhui. ”

Han Yunhua smiled bitterly: "The problem is here, the Soviet Union and southern Anhui are Han Deqin's territory, and Han Deqin had a whole group army in his hands at that time, what does the New Fourth Army have, thousands of broken guns, more than 10,000 personnel, such a force dares to grab territory with him Han Deqin, isn't this nonsense." Therefore, when Su Yu led the New Fourth Army into northern Jiangsu, there were many frictions with Han Deqin, although the scale was not very large, but it seriously hindered the development of the New Fourth Army. On 30 September last year, Han Deqin concentrated most of his forces and attacked Huangqiao by three routes from Hai'an, Taizhou, and other places. Chen Yi fought a decisive battle with the Han Department independently in the Huangqiao area with inferior forces. Su Yu assisted Chen Yi in organizing the campaign and taking charge of the battlefield command, and decided to take Huangqiao as the axis and adopt the operational policy of "'luring' the enemy to go deep and break through each one" to annihilate the ROK troops. From October 3rd to October 6th, Su Yu commanded the New Fourth Army to annihilate a total of 12 regiments of the main force after many battles, including all of the 16th Security Brigade and the 3rd Security Brigade ... [This chapter is not finished, please click on the next page to continue reading!] ］