Chapter 49: Retreat
"You're Sister Hong, right?"
Gao Quan was thinking about how to explain to Hong Yingying about Reporter Tang. Turning her brain teaser around, Tang Wenjuan over there had already called her sister enthusiastically.
Then, the Tang reporter ran over in two steps, hugged Hong Yingying's arm, and introduced himself affectionately: "My name is Tang Wenjuan, you can call me Sister Juan, I am a reporter from the Central Daily, and this time I will follow Master Gao back to be a reporter with the army." During this period of time, you have to eat and live with the five hundred divisions, Sister Hong, you have to take more care of it in the future. ”
Hong Yingying was immediately stunned by the identity of this reporter of the Central Daily, and chattered at Tang Wenjuan, leaving only an embarrassing smirk.
As we said, Red Peony was originally born as a bandit, and he is almost the same as illiterate, and he has always admired cultured and learned people from the bottom of his heart. Her love for Gao Quan, in fact, is partly a tribute to Gao Quan's ability to read, write, and be literate. Including her tolerant attitude towards Huiqin who has always stayed by Gao Quan's side, that is, in addition to feeling that Huiqin is pitiful, she also admires Huiqin's literacy. Now that a newspaper reporter and such a higher-level intellectual, Colonel Hong was shocked and didn't know where to put his hands and feet.
Tang Wenjuan: Who is that? Newspaper reporters! Although the time to participate in the work is not too long, but it is also a serious profession of people, there are a lot of people who have been interviewed, and the means of talking to people are quite rich.
"Sister Hong, when I was in Chongqing, I was rescued by Senior Gao once. Let's go have a good chat. As he spoke, he took Sister Hong's arm and walked away. Although Director Hong also looked back at the master a few times with reluctance, he still couldn't stand the enthusiasm of reporter Tang, and he was too interested in the anecdotes of Gao Quan and Tang Wenjuan in Chongqing, so he went with her.
Gao Quan looked at the backs of the two of them in the distance, and at first he didn't expect Tang Wenjuan to have such strong communication skills, and then he remembered that he had also been overwhelmed by Tang reporters' endless questions, and he was relieved. One is a famous newspaper reporter and a famous college student who rolls in a metropolis like Chongqing; The other is a woman who occupied the mountains and was the king in the deep mountains and old forests in the first half of her life, and fought with the army in the barracks in the second half of her life.
After Gao Quan returned to the division headquarters, he quickly issued an order, and the whole army of the 500 Division turned around and moved towards the flank of the Niko Ushijima detachment, which had been trailing behind, preparing to flank Ushijima Man.
The order given to Gao Quan by Commander-in-Chief Guan was for him to flank the Ushijima detachment, and as for the battle along the Xinqiang River, his 500 divisions did not have to participate. Since Gao Quan joined the Ninth War Zone, Chief Xue ordered him to cooperate with the 15th Group Army in combat, and he has always prided himself as an excellent officer, so of course he must resolutely carry out the orders of his superiors.
So, the 500th Division quickly pulled out of its place, and after making a small circle, it was on the flank of the Ushijima detachment. The other units of the 15th Group Army were ready to fight to the death with the old devil Ushijima.
Guan Linzheng, commander-in-chief of the 15th Group Army, commanded nearly 200,000 troops of the six elite Central Army to sit in northern Hunan and confront the Japanese Sixth Division across the river by virtue of Xue Yue's Boling defense line. For the Ushijima detachment that crossed the river by chance, Commander-in-Chief Guan was actually not so jealous. Ordering Gao Quan's 500 divisions to flank the Ushijima detachment, in fact, the main purpose was to interfere with Ushijima, so as to prevent this group of devils from coming up, they would enter a fierce attack on the defenders on the Xinqiang River defense line from the rear, and when the commander-in-chief of Guan freed up his hands and mobilized enough troops, he could completely encircle and annihilate this Ushijima detachment.
However, the cunning devil did not give Guan Linzheng time to mobilize his forces and encircle and annihilate the Niudao detachment. Seeing that the defense line of the Xinqiang River could not be attacked for a long time, Okamura Ninji mobilized Japanese warships and troops to enter Dongting Lake along the Yangtze River, and carried the Kamimura detachment from Dongting Lake along the waterway to Yingtian for landing.
Although Guan Linzheng left a division of the 37th Army in Yingtian to defend, under the fierce artillery bombardment of the Japanese warships, that division still did not block the footsteps of the Japanese landing. In this way, Okamura Ninji's first landing operation by water in the Battle of Changsha was a perfect success.
The Sixth Division attacked the Xinqiang River frontally, the Nara detachment pressed up from the right, and the Kamimura detachment continued to go ashore in Yingtian, coupled with the troubles made by the Ushijima detachment from the middle, several corps of the 15th Group Army were immediately surrounded on three sides, and one side was facing the danger of water. After Guan Linzheng saw this unfavorable situation, he immediately applied to Xue Yue to retreat.
Commander-in-Chief Xue assessed the situation and agreed to Guan Linzheng's request for retreat. It was in this situation that Gao Quan received an order from Commander-in-Chief Guan to retreat.
The 15th Army is leaving! Yingtian is still lost in the end! This series of changes in the tide of battle was like magic, and although it surprised Gao Quan, it did not make him shocked. The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was originally a long-term and arduous war, and it was simply impossible to defeat the Japanese devils in one battle. China's current national strength is still inferior to Japan, and there are still countless arduous roads to go if you want to win.
Without the retreat of the New Wall River, where would Chief Xue come from's world-famous "Heavenly Furnace Battle Method"? Where did the battle of Changsha come from, which people have been arguing about for a long time?
Since Commander-in-Chief Guan has withdrawn, the 500 Division, which is cooperating with the 15th Group Army, will of course also retreat with it. The Japanese army surrounded them on three sides, and his 500 divisions stayed here, purely to find themselves uncomfortable. As a result, when several elite armies of the 15th Group Army retreated, the 500 Divisions also withdrew southward.
The 500 divisions slowly retreated south along the road, and Gao Quan sat on a heavy truck and walked in the middle of the troops. This time, Senior Commander Gao finally acted as a driver. Sitting in the same cockpit building were Tang Wenjuan, a reporter from the Central Daily, and Colonel Hong Yingying, chief of the special services of the 500th Division, and they didn't know what was going on with these two women.
There were not so many people in the cab, and although Colonel Hong had tried to give up his place in the cab to Dr. Huiqin, he was rejected by Huiqin, who was now sitting in the back of the truck.
Of course, the Golden Tiger must also be sitting in the back. As a personal guard of the division, he can't leave the left and right at any time. It's just that now this kind of weird scene, Major Jin resolutely doesn't dare to mix it indiscriminately.
When he was in Chongqing, he followed Gao Quan alone, and the ambiguous relationship between Shizuo and the Tang reporter, he would always know a little bit, at this time, he couldn't hide, how dare he come forward? Didn't you look, Colonel Hong has been looking at him a little unkind lately? If it weren't for the identity of the divisional guard, Jin Hu really wanted to drill into the troops below, so that Colonel Hong would never see him again.