Chapter 432: The Battle of Banqiao Ji (II)

"What do you want me to have?" Qin Fule saw that the New Fourth Army had taken control of his regimental headquarters, and if he didn't cooperate, maybe these people would really go on a killing spree. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"Commander Qin, it's right if you think so, give your troops an order, let them lay down their arms and stop resisting, and our New Fourth Army will give preferential treatment to prisoners." Zhou Aiguo looked at Qin Fule and smiled.

"Preferential treatment of captives?" Qin Fule couldn't help but be stunned when he heard it, he looked at Zhou Aiguo and said, "This brother, there are thousands of people in my group, even if you kill me, I'm afraid it will not be easy to take down Banqiaoji, you want me to give my brothers an order to surrender, this is simply impossible." ”

"Hehe, is it" Zhou Aiguo smiled contemptuously, "Commander Qin, I'm afraid you don't have a choice, if you don't give the order to surrender the gun, I don't mind finding someone who is willing to give the order." ”

While speaking, Zhou Aiguo intentionally or unintentionally glanced at the regimental deputy who was squatting not far away.

"Don't say it anymore, I'm a soldier, it's my honor to die on the battlefield, if you want me to surrender to you with my troops, don't think about it, if you have a kind, you can shoot me." Qin Fule closed his eyes and said in a deep voice.

"Hehe, then I'll be respectful and obey my fate." Zhou Aiguo smiled gloomily, raised the pistol and pulled the trigger machine towards Qin Fule's thigh, as the crisp gunfire sounded, Qin Fule only felt a heart-piercing pain in his thigh, and suddenly looked at Zhou Aiguo in shock, he couldn't believe that the New Fourth Army in front of him was really capable of doing it.

"Commander Qin, I'll count to three, if you don't give another order, my next shot will hit your knee, don't worry, I won't let you die immediately, but I promise to make you more uncomfortable than death in the future." Zhou Aiguo stared at Qin Fule like a demon and said.

Qin Fule's heart suddenly rose an inexplicable fear, in his consciousness, the New Fourth Army is very benevolent to friends and enemies, and will not abuse prisoners at all, let alone shoot prisoners without saying a word, but the New Fourth Army in front of him, its vicious actions are not worse than his own, he knows that if he does not cooperate, I am afraid that this demonic New Fourth Army in front of him will really shoot his knee.

Could it be that he really wants to walk lame for the sake of the dignity of a soldier for the rest of his life?

And looking at the current situation, if I don't give the order again, I'm afraid I will really die here.

At this time, he suddenly discovered that death would be so close to him.

"Okay, I can give orders to the troops, but you must ensure my safety and not embarrass my subordinates." Qin Fule gritted his teeth and decided that the hero would not suffer the loss in front of him.

"You can rest assured of this, as long as you lay down your arms, whether you leave or stay and listen to your respect, as long as you don't go to the Japanese anymore, we will never be embarrassed, and our New Fourth Army will be the talk." Zhou Aiguo said with a smile on his face when he saw that Qin Fule finally gave in.

"Deputy Wang Tuan, you go out and ask the brothers to lay down their arms, and I'll call the troops below." Qin Fule let out a long sigh and ordered the deputy Wang Tuan, who was squatting on the side, to go out and order the brothers in the guard platoon to lay down their arms, while he himself picked up the phone and ordered the three battalions below to stop resisting and lay down their arms. ”

It's a pity that after Qin Fule's order was issued, the second and third battalions obediently obeyed the order to stop resisting, while the first battalion stationed on Banqiao Mountain refused to carry out the order.

The first battalion did not carry out the order, and the mortar mounted on the mountain suddenly opened fire on the town, and the shells fell on Qin Fule's regimental headquarters.

Hearing the sound of cannonballs whistling in the sky, Zhou Aiguo's face changed, he pulled Qin Fule up, and immediately ran outside the house.

As soon as they ran to the courtyard, they heard a shell falling to the regimental headquarters, and the room where they had just now collapsed with a bang in a burst of explosions.

Qin Fule didn't expect that the first battalion would dare to bombard the regimental headquarters, and his face immediately turned blue.

When Liu Tianshu learned that the first battalion of the Qin Fu Orchestra stationed on Banqiao Mountain refused to obey Qin Fule's orders and refused to lay down his arms and surrender, he immediately ordered Xie Ping to let the troops south of Banqiao Mountain retreat, and at the same time ordered the four battalions and one company that entered the town to immediately attack Banqiao Mountain from the north.

Since the first battalion does not lay down its arms, it can naturally only be punished as traitors. It's just that the first battalion has an advantage on Banqiao Mountain, and if it is attacked, I am afraid that the casualties of the troops will be too great.

Wu Zhongping received an order from the regiment commander to knock out the artillery fire on Banqiao Mountain.

Soon after the battle began, the artillery battalion locked on to the position of the mortar position on the hill, and at the same time the four 92 infantry guns were also ready to fire.

As soon as Wu Zhongping heard that the regiment commander asked him to open fire, he immediately shouted in preparation, and then shouted loudly, and the four 92 infantry guns fired angrily at the position of the mortar of a battalion on the mountain.

The shells, with a long whistling sound, as if they had eyes, fell straight on the artillery positions on the top of the hill, and two mortars were directly destroyed, and the other four mortars were also blown up.

Han Hu, the commander of the first battalion, heard that the New Fourth Army suddenly opened fire on the mountain, and then watched the artillery position turn into a sea of fire, and his heart suddenly tightened.

Only then did he understand that the reason why the New Fourth Army did not fire during the day was just to force himself to surrender. But just now he forced the artillery to bombard the town, under the pretext that the regimental headquarters had been lost, and let the artillery blow up the regimental headquarters into a sea of fire, cutting off his own way of retreat.

At this time, he was panicked and just wanted to flee south with his troops.

As long as you have troops in your hands, whether you return to the three theaters of operations or take refuge with the Japanese, you will have a strong capital.

As for joining the New Fourth Army, I can't bear that hardship no matter what.

With Han Hu's order, the first battalion immediately rushed down from the south side of Banqiao Mountain, but unfortunately the artillery was beaten and fled in all directions, and could not provide fire support for him, but his three companies rushed down to the south in a swarm, but they were also extraordinary, and in a blink of an eye, they rushed down the hillside and ran all the way to the south.

It was a pity that his troops had just run south for less than two miles when they were stopped by the New Fourth Army, which had retreated here, and a violent rain of bullets came, and at the same time, an earth-shattering shout sounded.

After dozens of soldiers fell, the remaining soldiers could no longer muster up the courage to rush south, but retreated back in panic.

At this moment, the shouts of the New Fourth Army also sounded on the east and west sides, including the persuasion of the soldiers of the original Qin Fu Orchestra.

Seeing this, Han Hu was anxious and commanded the troops to rush to the west.

It's just that as the shouts of killing around got closer and closer, many soldiers actually knelt on the ground and raised their hands to surrender, causing Han Hu to run less than a mile to the west, but the troops around him were less than a hundred.

Seeing the sparse soldiers around him, Han Hu knew that he was gone. A line of despair flashed in his eyes, and when he was about to raise his gun to commit suicide, his cronies Pang Erwa snatched his pistol away, handed over a set of soldier's clothes, let Han Hu put it on his body, and pulled him into a small ditch while the New Fourth Army had not yet surrounded him, like a lost dog fleeing into the distance through the night.

The commander left his soldiers behind and fled, and the remaining soldiers were leaderless, and under the powerful political offensive of the New Fourth Army, they all raised their hands and surrendered.

Liu Tianshu received Xie Pingcai's report, saying that except for the battalion commander Han Hu and a few cronies who escaped in the night, the rest of the escaped puppet army either surrendered or were killed, so he smiled at Qin Fule, who was sitting on a stool with a depressed face, and said: "Commander Qin, it is the wisest decision to choose to order his subordinates to stop resisting." Our New Fourth Army counts, if you are willing to stay and join the New Fourth Army to fight devils with us, we welcome it, if you want to leave, we will not stop you, as long as you don't go to the Japanese to be traitors, we are still friends. ”

"What does Chief Liu mean that as long as we lay down our weapons, we will let us leave?" A bright light flashed in Qin Fule's eyes.

"Hehe, Captain Qin misunderstood, it's not you, it's you, of course, and that Deputy Wang Tuan and Long Quartermaster. As for the others, we still have to go through some screening, and we can't release them for the time being, which I hope you can understand. Liu Tianshu said with a faint smile.

For these officers above the company commander level, Liu Tianshu will not force them to stay and join the New Fourth Army, and everything can be done voluntarily, but those who serve as soldiers must let the political commissar lead people to conduct a good investigation and at the same time do in-depth ideological work.

After all, most of these people are the children of ordinary people from poor backgrounds, and if they can be mobilized to join the New Fourth Army, the strength of the New Fourth Army will be rapidly expanded.

Although these soldiers are not as good as their own 16th Regiment in terms of combat effectiveness and will to fight, after all, after basic military training, as long as they take a little time, they will naturally become brave soldiers.

Hearing that Liu Tianshu would only let himself and a few officers go, Qin Fule's face suddenly darkened, but he knew that Liu Tianshu could let himself and a few officers go, which was already very interesting, who let himself fight before he didn't listen to Liu Tianshu's advice and didn't take the initiative to stop resisting.

The next morning, Liu Tianshu and Guo Sizhong quietly sent Qin Fule and the others out of the town, of course, they still let Qin Fule take away some of the silver taels.

The recovery of Banqiaoji can be regarded as cutting off Guo Zhenlong's connection with the south, although Guo Zhenlong has now arrived at Sanguba and joined up with Ishitani Saburo's Japanese army, but the loss of Banqiaoji as a support point makes him seem to have become a rootless duckweed all of a sudden.

After Ishitani Saburo learned that Liu Tianshu's troops had captured Banqiaoji, he only felt panicked, and he really wanted to take his troops south to find Liu Tianshu's main decisive battle desperately.

Unfortunately, at this moment, the order of the brigade commander arrived, asking him to immediately hand over Wangjiadian and Sanguba to Guo Zhenlong and a Japanese garrison brigade that arrived later. The Shigu Wing withdrew from Wangjiadian within three days, bypassed the northern end of the Wild Boar Ridge and withdrew to the highway defense line from Hefei to Huainan, and joined the main force of the brigade.

Guo Zhenlong did not know that Ishiya Saburo had received an order to retreat from the brigade and would leave Wangjiadian in three days. After he learned that the regiment stationed in Banqiaoji did not exist, he hurried from Sanguba to Wangjiadian, preparing to say that the captain of the Shigu Wing sent troops to teach Liu Tianshu a lesson. (To be continued.) )