Chapter 1115 Breaking Siege

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This telegram from Liu Yimin was sent to Ye and Xiang of the Central Committee and transferred to the New Fourth Army and to Liu and Chen in northern Jiangsu, and it clearly explained the grim enemy situation around the military headquarters of the New Fourth Army, as well as the way out and methods. ，

After receiving Liu Yimin's telegram, the central leaders immediately understood that the original estimate of the situation in southern Anhui was not sufficient, that Chiang Kai-shek was really going to take action, and that the military headquarters of the New Fourth Army had reached an extremely critical juncture!

The central authorities immediately forwarded Liu Yimin's telegram to Ye and Xiang and Liu and Chen in northern Jiangsu, and strictly ordered Ye and Xiang not to delay any longer, immediately mobilize secretly, thoroughly lightly arm, and secretly engage the enemy in the north, and make sure to break through the Japanese puppet blockade line on the night of 28 December, and the fighters of the Eighth Route Army Air Brigade will arrive at the battlefield at 6 o'clock on the morning of 29 December, to open a bloody road for the military headquarters of the New Fourth Army, and to cover the troops to break through the Japanese defense line and cross the river to the north. At the same time, the central authorities strictly ordered Liu and Chen to strictly follow Liu Yimin's advice, and to order the four detachments, five detachments, and guerrilla detachments in Jiangbei to cooperate in their actions.

After sending the telegram, Mr. Zhu sighed: "If one of Lao Peng, Liu Yimin, **, Bo Cheng, and Qianqian is in southern Anhui, there is no need to dispatch an aviation brigade, and Gu Zhutong and Shangguan Yunxiang may not be able to trap our army." The aviation brigade is dispatched this time, and it is dangerous! ”

The chairman's face was very grim, he took a puff of cigarette, and said for a long time: "If Liu Yimin is in southern Anhui, I'm afraid that Gu Zhutong's feces and urine will be scared out, and he still dares to be fine?" ”

Mr. Zhu and Chief of Staff Ye were both silent.

After receiving the telegram from the central authorities and the telegram from Liu Yimin, the military headquarters of the New Fourth Army in Yunling was silent, and Xiang Ying, Rao Shushi, Ye Ting, and Zhou Zikun all sat silently.

The central government's telegraphic order was very strict, and there was no room for negotiation, so it acted immediately and marched north lightly.

What made several principal leaders of the New Fourth Army present more uncomfortable than the central telegram was Liu Yimin's telegram. Because Xiang Ying, Ye Ting, Rao Shushi, and Zhou Zikun are much older than Liu Yimin. Needless to say, Ye Ting, the former commander-in-chief of the enemy in the Nanchang Uprising, and one of the main founders of our army. However, Xiang Ying's seniority was older than Ye Ting's, and his status in the party was higher than that of the chairman when he was in the Soviet District. It was Rao Shushi, who was also a delegate to the Comintern. Now, Liu Yimin actually said in a very unceremonious tone in the telegram: "Xiang Ying and Ye Ting still can't work together at this time to bring the troops out of a desperate situation, and they will definitely bear historical responsibility!" Please think twice", and also suggested that the central authorities deprive Xiang Ying of his military command and hand over the operational command of the southern Anhui troops to Ye Ting, the commander of the army, which made several people who read the telegram confused, and no one spoke for a long time.

The actual leader of the New Fourth Army was Xiang Ying, and now Liu Yimin went so far as to mercilessly expose the contradictions between Ye and Xiang in a telegram, and said that if he did not carry out the orders of the central authorities, he would be severely investigated and held responsible, which made Xiang Ying and Ye Ting's hearts heavy.

Xiang Ying didn't open his mouth, the transfer of military command to Ye Ting was just an empty word, and it couldn't be implemented!

Zhou Zikun, deputy chief of staff of the New Fourth Army and captain of the teaching corps, was the commander of the second battalion of Ye Ting's Independent Regiment during the Nanchang uprising. , was almost shot by Li De on the Long March, but it was the chairman who saved him. Historically, he was killed by traitors along with Xiang Ying.

What time is it now, time is life, Zhou Zikun feels that he should show his attitude and resolutely implement the orders of the central government.

Zhou Zikun spoke: "Secretary Xiang, Commander Ye, the central government's telegram is very clear, and Commander Liu Yimin's telegram is also very clear. I suggest that we immediately order the troops to act covertly, bury all the baggage, burn the papers, and move north tonight to shorten the distance of contact with the enemy, so as to facilitate the attack tomorrow evening. ”

Zhou Zikun spoke, and Rao Shushi, deputy secretary of the Southeast Bureau, also expressed his attitude: "To carry out the orders of the central government, you can't put the troops in a desperate situation." It is advisable to act now! ”

In fact, the relationship between Ye Ting and Xiang Ying has eased a lot now, at least Ye Ting no longer thinks about leaving the New Fourth Army.

Xiang Ying's face was about to wring out water, his brows were furrowed all the time, and after listening to the words of Zhou Zikun and Rao Shushi, he said: "I didn't expect that Liu Yimin was far away in Shandong, and by analyzing the telegram we reported to Lao Mao, we could analyze the situation in southern Anhui so clearly!" It seems that we are fans of the authorities, and we almost fell for Gu Zhutong! This Liu Yimin is indeed not simple! In this way, Commander Ye, according to Lao Mao's telegram order and Liu Yimin's suggestion, you are responsible for military command, and Deputy Chief of Staff Zhou hurriedly came up with an action plan and issued it to all units for implementation, and Deputy Secretary Rao and I are responsible for handling logistics and heavy materials, and act separately! Liu Yimin said it well, we must learn the lessons of the Long March, and we can't bring everything with us, and turn the troops into a transport team! ”

Xiang Ying, who is worthy of being the principal leader of the New Fourth Army, realized the seriousness of the problem in a very short period of time and implemented the arrangements in accordance with the central telegraphic order.

Xiang Ying's statement is tantamount to a final word.

Ye Ting's face turned lively, he stood up and walked to the map to look at it for a while, and said: "Secretary Xiang, with the support of the Eighth Route Army Aviation Brigade, our army is sure to break through the blockade of the Japanese puppet army." I will definitely do my best to command the troops to break through victoriously! ”

Xiang Ying finally had a smile on his face: "Yes, if Chiang Kai-shek wants to destroy our New Fourth Army, we will give him a golden cicada to come out of his shell." Commander Ye, let go of the command, can't you let Liu Yimin be a little doll, let's see the two of us! ”

As soon as the thinking was unified, the military headquarters of the New Fourth Army and the troops under its command in southern Anhui quickly took action and began to destroy documents and bury materials and equipment that could not be taken away.

Ye Ting is one of the main founders of our army, Zhou Zikun is a well-known Red Army general, and the northbound route is the secret communication line of the New Fourth Army, and the geography is familiar, so the speed of the two of them formulating an action plan is fast.

Zhou Zikun proposed that the Kuomintang must be confused, so that they think that our army must act according to the southward route, and then they can get rid of the pursuit that may be launched by the ** and avoid being attacked by the enemy on their backs!

Zhou Zikun's suggestion was endorsed by Xiang Ying and Ye Ting. Therefore, Ye Ting, commander of the New Fourth Army, and Xiang Ying, deputy commander and political commissar of the New Fourth Army, jointly sent a report to Gu Zhutong, commander of the Third Theater, saying that if there is no change in the weather, the New Fourth Army will withdraw from the Yunling area in the near future, advance southward, and withdraw to Jiangbei through southern Jiangsu. The New Fourth Army in the Yunling area still has 30,000 stone of rice, which was handed over to the headquarters of the commander of the Third War Zone.

That night, the units of the New Fourth Army began to concentrate and secretly marched north. The military headquarters of the New Fourth Army in Yunling left only one battalion to camouflage the main force, and after dark on the 28th, it rushed north to catch up with the main force.

Historically, when the New Fourth Army marched to Maolin, it was the same as the Red Army's Long March, and even the machinery of the mint was carried by the soldiers, and the marching speed was extremely slow. Now it was different, the troops were completely lightly armed, they did not bring anything except weapons, ammunition and dry rations, and the speed of the march was suddenly faster.

After receiving the telegram from the Central Committee and Liu Yimin, Mr. Chen said with a smile: "The little devil knows that the Art Troupe of the Shandong Eighth Route Army has been following Liu Yimin's headquarters, and Li Zongren and Li Pinxian must also know it. Commander Liu is going to learn Zhuge Liang's method of scaring Sima Yi away, and scare away Li Pinxian's two main divisions! ”

Comrade Shaoqi pondered for a while and said to Mr. Chen: "If you want to act, act more realistically." We asked the troops in contact with the ** units to send someone to inform ** that Commander Liu Yimin had arrived in northeastern Anhui and invited Li Pinxian, Han Deqin, and Yu Xuezhong to a meeting to discuss the solution of the problem of unity and anti-Japanese resistance in the Jiangsu-Anhui border area, and invited them to participate. ”

When Mr. Chen heard this, he laughed: "If you want it, you want it!" In this way, not only Li Pinxian, but also Tang Enbo and Yu Xuezhong, who were attacking our army in the east, had to consider whether to suspend the operation. ”

As a result, the New Fourth Army in northern Jiangsu immediately broadcast through the radio the news that Zhao Xiaoman, head of the Art Troupe of the Shandong Military Region of the Eighth Route Army, led a regiment to express his condolences to a detachment of the New Fourth Army, and sent someone to inform the leaders of the Suzhou-Anhui border region to report to the north, and Liu Yimin, commander of the Shandong Military Region of the Eighth Route Army, went south to northeast Anhui to meet with Li Pinxian, Han Deqin, Tang Enbo, and Yu Xuezhong to mediate the conflict between the New Fourth Army and Han Deqin's department. Governors are invited to attend in person or by their representatives.

On the night of the 28th, the New Fourth Army moved covertly, marched through the gaps in the Japanese puppet army's defense line, crossed the fifty-mile water network area, and at dawn, suddenly launched a surprise attack on the Japanese puppet army's defense line between Tongling and Fanchang.

The vanguard of the whole army was the old regiment of the former New Fourth Army under the command of Fu Qiutao, which was the main force that started the battle of Weigang after the New Fourth Army was formed.

The original wishful thinking of the commander-in-chief of the Japanese army's Chinese dispatch army, General Nishio Toshizo, was to block the northward passage of the New Fourth Army and force the New Fourth Army to fight with the troops of the Third Theater. He didn't expect that the New Fourth Army in southern Anhui knew that Tongling and Fanchang were blockaded by the Japanese army, but they still killed here. Enraged, Nishio Shouzo ordered the Japanese army to resolutely block the attack and beat the New Fourth Army back.

At this time, it was no longer possible for the Japanese army to stop the New Fourth Army. When the two sides fought until 6 o'clock in the morning, the fighters of the Eighth Route Army Aviation Brigade rushed to the battlefield, pounced on the position of the Japanese puppet army, and used bombs and machine guns to sweep it.

The most unfortunate were the two warships of the Japanese army that blocked the Yangtze River. After the New Fourth Army started last night, the two warships rushed to the river near the battlefield and cruised on the river in an attempt to intercept the New Fourth Army's boats crossing the river. At this moment, the Eighth Route Army Air Force was caught right, and one after another fighter planes roared and pounced on the Japanese warships, blowing up and sinking the Japanese warships directly into the Yangtze River.

Shangguan Yunxiang, who served as the commander of the enemy before the battle of the Third Theater to eliminate the New Fourth Army in southern Anhui, knew that he had been fooled when the New Fourth Army started. Annoyed and angry, he ordered the 52nd Division, the 108th Division, and the new 7th, 144th, and 116th divisions of the 50th Army of the Sichuan Army to quickly launch a pursuit from the east and west, and ordered the 40th Division to advance rapidly from the south to capture the military headquarters of the New Fourth Army in Yunling, and to be sure to wipe out the New Fourth Army in southern Anhui in front of the Japanese defense line.

Xiang Ying and Ye Ting learned that Yunling was captured before breaking through the Japanese defense line. Because the New Fourth Army began to make preparations for crossing the river in November, all the local cadres whose identities were exposed were transferred with the army, and the local party organizations that persisted in the underground struggle were rebuilt. The news of the 40th Division's occupation of the Yunling Military Headquarters station, they soon learned. At this time, Xiang Ying really understood how timely Liu Yimin's telegram came, and he was truly relieved of the disrespect in Liu Yimin's telegram, and he was dedicated to urging the troops to speed up their actions.

That's it, the vanguard of the ** 108th Division and the New 7th Division still caught up with the New Fourth Army and engaged the rear guard of the New Fourth Army. If it had not been for the timely arrival of the Eighth Route Army's air brigade, the New Fourth Army might still be in a desperate situation.

Under the cover of the Eighth Route Army's aircraft group, the New Fourth Army, which broke through the defense line of the Japanese puppet army, began to board ships and force crossings.

Whether it was Xiwei Shouzao or Shangguan Yunxiang, at this time, they all pinned their hopes on the two divisions of Li Pinxian who blocked the north bank of the Yangtze River. As everyone knows, the two divisions of Li Pinxian's department have secretly moved back before dinner.

Li Pinxian can't be a family in this matter, and the people who can be in charge are far away in the old estuary of western Hubei Province.

Li Pinxian is a backbone general of the Gui family, this person insisted on the Dabie Mountain to resist Japan, but he resolutely carried out Chiang Kai-shek's orders, and he was not merciful to the ** and the New Fourth Army. At that time, Ye Ting sent a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek requesting the execution of Gao Jingting, the commander of the four detachments, and it was through Li Pinxian's headquarters radio station that he sent a report to Chiang Kai-shek asking for instructions.

After receiving the news release issued by Zhao Xiaoman, head of the Art Troupe of the Shandong Military Region of the Eighth Route Army, sent by the New Fourth Army in northern Jiangsu, led a delegation to express his condolences to a detachment of the New Fourth Army, Li Pinxian couldn't sit still, his thoughts were different from those of Liu and Chen, the leaders of the New Fourth Army in northern Jiangsu, but he thought that Zhao Xiaoman and Liu Yimin had an ambiguous relationship, and with Liu Yimin's character, he would take his women with him wherever he went. Zhao Xiaoman arrived in northern Jiangsu, indicating that Liu Yimin must have also arrived in northern Jiangsu. Who is Liu Yimin? That was the master of blackmailing Commander Li and Commander Bai in the Hunan passage area, and the master of destroying one division of the Japanese army and each division at every turn. If Liu Yimin arrived in northern Jiangsu, it would be dangerous to send the two divisions of the New Fourth Army to Lujiang and Wuwei to intercept them.

When he received a message from the New Fourth Army from the frontier troops, saying that Liu Yimin had arrived in northeastern Anhui and invited Li Pinxian, Tang Enbo, Yu Xuezhong, and Han Deqin to hold a meeting to mediate the conflict between the New Fourth Army in northern Jiangsu and Han Deqin's department, and to discuss the matter of uniting the war of resistance in the Suzhou-Anhui border area, Li Pinxian became more and more hesitant. Immediately afterwards, the news came that the Eighth Route Army in Northern Jiangsu was moving towards eastern Anhui, and Li Pinxian no longer dared to make his own decisions, and reported directly to Chief Li.

Li Zongren, who received Li Pinxian's report, fell into deep thought. He thought a lot, from being blackmailed by Liu Yimin after the Battle of Xiangjiang to the pleasant meeting with Liu Yimin during the Battle of Xuzhou, he thought very carefully and pondered for a long time.

Unlike Li Pinxian, Li Zongren did not believe that Liu Yimin had arrived in northern Jiangsu and northeastern Anhui, but he knew that Li Pinxian sent two divisions to block the troops of the New Fourth Army from crossing the river and going north, which was something that Qianfu pointed out, and the sequelae were very great. Today, he fought the New Fourth Army in southern Anhui, and even killed Ye Ting and Xiang Ying, which is equivalent to becoming the sworn enemy of the world. I can't do this!

Li Zongren immediately called back, secretly ordering Li Pinxian to quietly move back the two divisions stationed in Wuwei and Lujiang, and secretly put back the seized ships.

In this way, the passage for the New Fourth Army to cross the river was completely unblocked.

Zeng Xisheng was worried about preparing enough ships, but the Gui army left the ships to withdraw, and under great joy, he hurriedly gathered the ships and waited for the large army to cross the river.

After the bombing of the fighters of the Eighth Route Army Aviation Group led by Feng Dafei was completed, they used airborne machine guns to open the way for the New Fourth Army. When the United States was fighting, Japanese planes arrived, and the two sides launched a fierce battle over the Yangtze River. Soon, the second wave of the Eighth Route Army Aviation Group joined the battle.

At this time, the Japanese army's cutting-edge fighters, which originally belonged to the 14th Air Force, had been transferred to North China to fight, and the Japanese army sent the main force of the fleet south to the Guangzhou area to assist the Japanese South China troops in threatening Hong Kong, Macao, and Vietnam. After the fierce battle between the two sides over the Yangtze River, the aircraft group of the Eighth Route Army had to retreat to Shandong due to heavy fuel consumption.

The Japanese machine finally seized the fighter plane of the Eighth Route Army, where would they be willing to give up? After relentless pursuit, the air battle battlefield moved to Shandong.

Breaking through the ground defense line of the Japanese puppet army, the Japanese planes also went to pursue the fighters of the Eighth Route Army, and the New Fourth Army in southern Anhui seized the time to cross the Yangtze River. For a time, hundreds of boats raced across the river, the soldiers of the New Fourth Army set up machine guns on the bow of the boats, and boatloads of the New Fourth Army stepped through the 10,000-mile Yangtze River and the blue waves and advanced towards the north of the river.

By the time the main forces of the **52nd Division, the 108th Division, the New 7th Division, the 144th Division, and the 116th Division arrived at the battlefield, the first batch of river-crossing troops of the main force of the New Fourth Army had already landed, and the second batch of troops had also boarded the boat.

At this time, the Japanese army had woken up from the attack and mobilized troops to launch an attack on the breakthrough of the New Fourth Army. The south bank of the Yangtze River suddenly became a pot of porridge, and the New Fourth Army, **, and the Japanese puppet army launched a three-way melee.

The rear guard unit of the New Fourth Army finally boarded the ship, and the swarming ** main force and the Japanese army continued to fight fiercely on the bank of the Yangtze River.

In this battle, the New Fourth Army in southern Anhui successfully broke through the Japanese puppet defense line and the Yangtze River at the cost of more than 1,000 casualties.

Two days after the New Fourth Army successfully broke through, an angry Chiang Kai-shek ordered the revocation of the New Fourth Army's number, declared the New Fourth Army a rebel, and publicly wanted Ye Ting, the commander of the New Fourth Army, and Xiang Ying, the deputy commander of the New Fourth Army.

What's even more incredible is that the Central Daily published an unusually short divorce statement in the newspaper, the name of the declarant is Ni Hua, and the content is that for various reasons, he specially declares that he and Mr. Liu Yimin are divorced, and they have nothing to do with each other since then.

This time, public opinion was in an uproar, and there was everything to say. Some newspapers said that Ni Hua was unwilling to live a hard life with the Eighth Route Army, some said that it must be Liu Yimin's empathy and farewell love, and some said that the Kuomintang and the Communist Party had different political views, and they had just finished the war, and Ni Hua and Liu Yimin, the golden boy and girl, were destined to separate. The funniest thing is that the Japanese pseudo-newspaper actually said that Liu Yimin was infatuated with Princess Hideko Jungong and abandoned Ni Hua, and Ni Hua had no choice but to declare his divorce from Liu Yimin.

Immediately afterwards, Liu Yimin, commander of the Shandong Military Region of the Eighth Route Army, quickly issued a statement: "I and Miss Ni Hua are in love with each other, love each other, have a white head appointment, and have a daughter. Suddenly, a Central Daily newspaper published a newspaper in the name of his beloved wife Ni Hua to declare the divorce, which was purely instructed by Chairman Jiang to spread rumors and cause trouble. The rumors are hereby refuted! ”

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