Section 8 The Battle of Wuhan XII
"This school is easy to say, but it is very complicated to do," Zhuang Jihua ignored Li Anding's compliments, and continued according to his own line of thought: "First of all, we must have a clear national policy, and this happens to be the weakness of our party, for a long time, we have pursued the goal of razing and destroying the country, and even creating disputes between ethnic groups to achieve the goal of division and disintegration, which has planted the seeds of distrust among ethnic minorities. So if you want to rebuild the trust of ethnic minorities in the political axe, you don't continue to use the wheel system, which is good, but it is not enough, you have to work out a clear ethnic policy. ”
"It's not what I'm good at, so come on." Li Anding said lightly: "You are still good at theoretical things, and I still do some practical work." ”
Zhuang Jihua smiled, knowing in his heart that Li Anding did not want to be involved in trouble, once this policy was proposed, the central government would definitely react, his current position was a little delicate, and he had a criminal record, Chiang Kai-shek did not trust him, and he was likely to take this opportunity to take him down, and western Yunnan was an important part of Zhuang Jihua's plan.
After returning from the power plant, Zhuang Jihua did not go to the special guest house but went to Li Anding's home, Li Anding is the family's doll parent, and his wife is a traditional Cantonese woman, for more than ten years, they have raised three children, the eldest is already eleven years old, and the youngest is seven years old.
For Zhuang Jihua's arrival, Li Anding's wife Fang Minyi was very happy, and hurriedly asked the maid to go to the street to buy vegetables, and brought out two plates of pears by herself.
"Cultural Revolution, come, taste." Fang Minyi greeted with a smile, picked up a toothpick and handed it to Zhuang Jihua, Zhuang Jihua was not humble, stretched out his hand to take it, and before he entered his mouth, there was a trace of fragrance, and after the entrance, his mouth was full of sweet fragrance, and there was some cold silk.
"Well, not bad, not bad," Zhuang Jihua was in high spirits for a while, this was the first time he had eaten this kind of dessert, and he had never even tasted it in his previous life: "It's a pear, how did you make it?" ”
Zhuang Jihua quickly picked up a piece as he spoke, tasted it slowly, and Fang Minyi smiled: "It's a pear, but the method is very cumbersome, you have to peel and remove the core of the pear, soak it with honey water, seal it, and soak it in the well for half a month to a month." ”
"It's so complicated, no wonder, my brother and sister are really good craftsmen, and simple pears actually make such a taste." Zhuang Jihua praised, and then sighed again: "My Yin Shu can't make it, well, embroidery paintings, you can also taste it, it's really good." ”
Saying that, he handed the plate to the palace embroidery painting who had just come in, Li Anding stood up and put a chair for the palace embroidery painting: "Guangdong doesn't have this thing, it's normal for Liu Yinshu not to know, this is a Baoshan specialty, Minyi also learned it in Baoshan, you asked her to come to Baoshan for two months, and she also learned it." ”
Gong Xiuhua smiled reluctantly, opened the wallet in his hand and took out a telegram and handed it to Zhuang Jihua, Zhuang Jihua saw that her expression was wrong, and hurriedly took the telegram, and after reading it, he immediately asked Li Anding: "Yu Yi, do you have a map of Hubei and Anhui here?" ”
Li Anding nodded hurriedly and shouted outside, "Yes, Adjutant Zhang." A young and capable officer appeared at the door: "Go to the border police headquarters immediately, bring the maps of Hubei, Anhui and Henan, and move quickly." ”
"Yes." Adjutant Zhang agreed and turned around to leave, but Zhuang Jihua had already stood up: "Let's go now, brother and sister, I'm sorry." ”
Fang Minyi knew that something was wrong, so she didn't keep it, but just asked: "Come back to eat later, no matter what, you always have to eat." ”
"You and the child eat first, leave us alone." Li Anding impatiently commanded, Fang Minyi immediately stopped talking, Zhuang Jihua smiled lightly in his heart, I am afraid that among the Huangpu classmates, only Li Anding is the absolute authority in the family, and his wife will obey any decision he makes.
Zhuang Jihua was anxious, fortunately, the headquarters of the border police corps was not far from Li Anding's home, Li Anding barely came out of the Southwest Development Team, and retained the habit of working in the front yard and living in the backyard of the Southwest Development Team, but it was difficult to find such a large yard in Baoshan, so he rented a small courtyard not far from the special office, and the border police corps was only one street away from the special office, and Li Anding's home was between them.
Five minutes to arrive at the corps, Li Anding entered the door and asked the captain Shi Guantao to take out the map, Shi Guantao was born in the third phase of Huangpu, but it was not from the southwest development team, but Li Anding's hometown, during the Northern Expedition, he was in the sixth division of the first army, and he Yingqin attacked Fujian, and later joined the inspirational club organized by Li Anding, Li Anding fled to Hong Kong after being arrested, and was later recruited by Li Anding to Panzhihua, and then came to western Yunnan with him, and was Li Anding's henchman.
At this time, Li Anding saw the telegram brought by Gong Xiuhua, the telegram was sent by Fu Chang, chief of staff of the 49th Group Army, informing him of the current evolution of the war situation in Henan.
After discovering that the [***] squadron was adjusted, the army immediately stopped resting and turned to the offensive, seized the chaos in the adjustment of the squadron, and broke through the defense line of the vortex river in the southwest of Tongxu, and the 23rd Group Army was caught off guard, so it had to fight and retreat, and retreated to Fugou; Li Zongren urgently appealed to Chiang Kai-shek for help, and Chiang Kai-shek ordered the 22nd Group Army Deng Xihou's troops to be transferred to Taikang to launch a counterattack to prevent the attack of the Yue army.
Deng Xihou had no choice but to send the main force of the group army to attack north, but he also kept an eye on it and left the 126th Division, the main force of the 45th Army, in Taikang to ensure the safety of the rear of the troops.
The counterattack of the 22nd Group Army from the flank posed a great threat to the Yue army that crossed the vortex river, and the Yue army was forced to transfer two divisions to deal with Deng Xihou, and the two sides launched a fierce battle in the northwest of Taikang. At the same time, three divisions of the Second Army of the Second Army forcibly crossed the vortex River at Machang south of Taikang, which led to the collapse of the entire defensive line.
In order to ensure the rear of the entire group army, the 126th Division fought a bloody battle against Taikang and blocked the attack of the Yue army at a huge cost. Deng Xihou received the telegram and scolded, refused to obey, and led his troops to retreat westward.
After the 22nd Group Army withdrew westward, a huge vacuum of more than 70 kilometers appeared in the defense line of the Whirlpool River, and Nishio Shouzo immediately seized this gap, and the 50,000 Yue Army turned south through Taikang and inserted itself into Zhoukou Xiangcheng, in an attempt to annihilate the three group armies on the Luyi front line in one fell swoop.
The Second Army, the 50th Group Army, and the 36th Group Army all had only some troops arriving at the defense area, and the rear guard units of the Second Group Army and the 50 th Group Army were still entangled with the pursuing Yue Army.
On behalf of Chiang Kai-shek, Bai Chongxi ordered the 38th Division, which had just arrived in Anping, to immediately rush to Laozun to block the southbound army, and at the same time ordered the 30th Army of the Second Army to quickly rush to Laozun to reinforce the southern part of Tianzhen.
Subsequently, the 50th Group Army was strictly ordered to quickly retreat and retreat to Xiangcheng, the 36th Group Army must hold the head of the boundary, and the 101st Army of Xincha immediately went north to reinforce it.
The readjustment was very timely, but the theater commander's department had lost control of the troops, and the various group armies reported one after another, and they could not rush to their designated positions on time, and the rearguard troops were fighting fiercely with the Yue army, and only Zhang Zizhong of the 33rd Group Army had called back and ordered the 38th Division to seize the old mound and cover the transfer of the entire theater.
In order to resolve the crisis on the ground, the Air Force left only a small number of planes to protect Wuhan, and the main aircraft group all went north to attack frequently, bombing the pursuing Yue army, and the Yue Air Force was not to be outdone, and a large number of planes flocked to Henan, and the battlefield of the two sides shifted from Wuhan to Henan.
On the ground, the army was vertical and horizontal, the 38th Division defended the old mound, the army attacked wildly, the artillery fire destroyed the whole city, the Chinese soldiers held on to the broken tiles and the remnants of the wall, Tian Zhennan led the 30th Army to rush to the old mound. Further east, hundreds of thousands of troops hurriedly retreated westward across the land of Henan, while behind them was the rumbling of artillery, and the troops behind them were struggling to block the attack.
In addition to the chaos on the northern front, the situation on the southern front is also bad. Occupy Huainan Zhongdao Kangjian continued to advance westward, Nakajima attacked Huoqiu's 31st Army with two divisions, and led the Fifth Division to smuggle across Chengdonghu, conquered Songdian and cut off the connection between the 31st Army and Lu'an, and at the same time caused the situation of encircling the 31st Army, the 31st Army was forced to abandon Huoqiu, and the northern flank of Lu'an, the gateway to Dabie Mountain, was exposed to the attack of the Yue Army, and the theater command ordered the Seventh Army to return to Gushi, in order to fill the emptiness of Lu'an, Jiang Dingwen ordered the 102nd Army to go north to Lu'an, and the 47th Army and the 2nd Division were responsible for guarding Huoshan.
Li Anding sighed deeply after reading the telegram, although it had been a long time since he left the army, he also understood that the battle situation was very unoptimistic, but then he asked Gong Xiuhua with some puzzlement: "What is going on with them?" Sick and rushed to the doctor, the Cultural Revolution, far away in Yunnan, how to care about Henan's affairs? ”
Gong Xiuhua explained softly: "This is an appointment when I first left..." Then he explained to Li Anding in detail the situation when Zhuang Jihua left the Fifth War Zone, and then looked at Zhuang Jihua and shook his head gently: "He's a person, he just can't let go, but the situation in Henan is really bad." ”
Zhuang Jihua was still staring at the map of Henan and thinking hard, and then turned to the map of Anhui, Li Anding and Gong Xiuhua did not speak, they didn't know how to help. Shi Guantao also stood aside cautiously, he had been away from the army for a long time, and the training of the troops was okay, as for commanding the operation, he was still a little self-aware.
"The situation in Henan is likely to be irreparable." Zhuang Jihua's first sentence made Gong Xiuhua's heart chill.
There was thunder outside the window last night, worried about computer security, unfinished, and made up for it today.
(To be continued)