The second platoon commander saw that the devil's shell hit a wooden boat, and in a hurry, he ordered the soldiers of the Jiangbei guerrilla column who was in charge of driving the boat to turn over the bow of the boat and meet the devil's patrol boat, and at the same time asked the artillery to quickly prepare for the opening of the gun. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

When the bow of the ship turned, the second platoon commander immediately asked the gunner to prepare, and then adjusted the muzzle of the gun to aim slightly, and asked the fighters to quickly put the shell into the barrel, and with a bang, the shell flew out and fell to the left side of the devil's patrol boat, but it was only seven or eight meters away, just splashing a column of water.

The commander of the devil was directing the artillery to fire at the flotilla, when he heard an explosion on the side of the patrol boat, and after the water column splashed, the water splashed on his body, and he couldn't help but be taken aback, and turned his head to look, and saw a wooden boat actually coming towards him.

After discovering that the shell had missed, the rowing soldier increased his speed and pulled a few meters closer in a blink of an eye, but the gunner, under the urgent order of the second platoon commander, put the shell into the barrel, and the shells flew out one after another, forcing towards the devil and the patrol boat.

The commander of the devil couldn't help but be startled when he saw that there was a mortar on the rushing wooden boat, but his own cannon wanted to hit the wooden boat, but he needed to turn the direction.

At this time, he didn't care about bombarding the fleet, but just hurriedly ordered the patrol boat to turn.

At this moment, the small boat where the second platoon leader was located sped forward a few meters, and the shells were fired out in a row, and one shell fell on the patrol boat, and as the explosion sounded, the four devil soldiers were directly blown into the river, and the deck of the patrol boat was blown up into a hole.

Fortunately, the shells did not blow the bottom of the ship through, but Rao was like this, and the devils on the patrol boat were also in a mess.

When the second platoon commander saw the shells hitting the patrol boat, he was in ecstasy, and asked the soldiers to continue to approach the patrol boat, and at the same time keep shooting the shells at the patrol boat.

The commander of the devil did not expect that a small wooden boat would dare to shout at the Imperial Japanese Army, and in anger, he actually let go of the fleet and let the steel cannons on the boat fire at the wooden ship with all their might.

The second platoon commander saw that the devil's firepower was attracted, a trace of resoluteness flashed on his face, and he shouted in his mouth to hit me hard, and the shells fired one after another at the Japanese patrol boat.

A few shells landed on the side of the patrol boat, splashing a few columns of water, and at this time, the devil's artillery fire also turned around, and kept firing at the wooden boat, and the shells landed on the side of the wooden boat, setting off huge waves, and even the wooden boat shook violently.

At this time, both the fighters who operated the wooden boats and the mortars put life and death on the line, and the artillerymen only cared about firing the shells, while the fighters of the guerrilla column skillfully carried the boats head-on.

Two shells eventually landed on the devil's patrol boat, blowing a hole in the stern of the ship and blowing a steel cannon directly away.

The devil's patrol boat quickly lost power and began to go downstream, but at this moment, the cannonball fired by the devil also hit the wooden boat, and in the huge explosion, the wooden boat quickly disintegrated like paper paste, and after a ball of fire, it was scattered into pieces.

The flotilla transporting the third regiment, in the desperate resistance of the second platoon commander, finally grabbed the shore, and countless fighters, under the command of the commander, desperately jumped into the water and rushed to the shore.

Fortunately, at this time, the patrol boat of the devil was also heroically blocked by the second platoon commander, and lost power, and could not chase it to the south bank at all, and half of the artillery fire was knocked out, so it could only drift downstream downstream.

By the moonlight, seeing that the second platoon commander and the soldiers were missing on the river, Wu Zhongping suddenly burst into tears, and the soldiers standing on the shore were also full of tears.

Seeing the devil patrol boat drifting away, the fighters of the guerrilla column immediately rowed two wooden boats to the middle of the river, but unfortunately after searching for half an hour, only eight fighters, the second platoon commander and other fighters were rescued, and all disappeared into the river.

Liu Tianshu received the report and stood silently by the river, and Jiang Jinyong walked over covered in water.

"Commissar." Liu Tianshu choked up a little, the situation just now was too dangerous, if it wasn't for the wooden boat desperately stepping forward to block and block in front of the devil patrol boat, I am afraid that the entire fleet would suffer heavy losses under the blow of the devil patrol boat.

What a good warrior.

"Tianshu, don't worry, the blood of the soldiers will not be shed in vain, and we who are alive will definitely recover this blood debt from the devil for them." Jiang Jinyong looked at Jiang Xin and said in a firm tone.

After Jiang Jinyong left Beiping to join the Eighth Route Army, he served as the political commissar of the new Second Brigade of the Shandong Eighth Route Army for a long time.

"Yes, we will definitely recover the blood debt for our comrades." Liu Tianshu said in a deep voice.

At this time, Staff Officer Sun came over to report, saying that the guard post reported that three devil river defense patrol boats were rushing downstream, and there were also devil patrol boats rushing here.

At the same time, the Japanese troops near the area of crossing the river were also urgently mobilized.

"Tianshu, it looks like we have to get out of here as soon as possible." Jiang Jinyong heard that the devil was coming with all his might, and knew that the seventh detachment had crossed the Yangtze River, and the devil should have already known.

Although the devils may not know which army crossed the Yangtze River, they should know about the Chinese army crossing the Yangtze River.

"Ordered the second regiment to rush to Luochang quickly, the third regiment, the artillery regiment and the regiment were directly under it, and the logistics department followed up, and the first regiment was responsible for the break, and the detachment advanced in the direction of Luochang with all its might, and ordered the reconnaissance team members who stayed in Jiangbei to choose an opportunity to cross the river and keep up with the troops. Commissar, let's go. Liu Tianshu glanced back at the wide Yangtze River, then turned around and walked southeast.

Now it is less than three hours before dawn, Luochang is still twenty kilometers away from here, and there are troops of the third detachment there to respond, although the surrounding devils are very powerful, but they are more than thirty kilometers away from Luochang.

The devil didn't know which army he was and what the purpose of crossing the river was, so he probably wouldn't have thought that the troops would advance in the direction of Luochang.

Because according to common sense, if the troops of the New Fourth Army cross the river, they should approach in the direction of Yunling. And if it is a force on the side of the Nationalist Government, it is more likely to be in the direction of Qingyang.

But in the vicinity of Jiangbei, there was no large army of the Nationalist Government Army at all.

To tell the truth, even the commander of the Japanese army stationed in Wuhu was confused for a while when he received the report of the Jiangfang patrol unit. The Nationalist Government Army operating in Jiangbei does not have a large force, and it seems impossible for the New Fourth Army to cross the Yangtze River and go south, because according to the information obtained, the Chongqing side is causing friction with the Chinese Communists, and the Chongqing side has strongly demanded that the New Fourth Army withdraw to the north of the Yellow River, and the first and second detachments of the New Fourth Army, which were active in the south of the Yangtze River a few months ago, have also crossed the river to the north of Jiangsu.

However, the report of the river defense patrol force is conclusive, and according to their report, there are at least one or two thousand troops crossing the river.

In any case, since Chinese troops had entered the area, the Japanese commander in Wuhu felt that he had to send troops to round him up.

As a result, a large group of Japanese troops urgently dispatched from Wuhu and advanced westward, while at the same time the Japanese troops in Guichi gathered a large group and pressed eastward.

In the eyes of the Japanese commanders, whether it was the New Fourth Army or the Kuomintang government's troops, it was a sure thing to send two brigades to deal with only one or two thousand people.

After a rapid march, the 2nd Regiment, with the support of a battalion of the 3rd detachment, rushed to Luochang before dawn and quickly made defensive preparations around Luochang to meet the arrival of the main force of the detachment.

Liu Tianshu, Jiang Jinyong, and Su Lan rushed to Luochang four hours later with the detachment headquarters and the troops directly under the detachment, and the troops quickly controlled the area of ten miles around Luochang.

A regiment evacuated the river, and on the way to Luochang, it was still discovered by the devil's reconnaissance plane, but by the time the devil's bomber arrived, Tong Guijie had already commanded the troops to evacuate and conceal, and the devil's plane lost the whereabouts of the group.

However, the aerial reconnaissance report of the devil's plane seems to confirm that the unit crossing the river to the south is a regiment, and it is confirmed that it is the New Fourth Army.

It's just that it is not yet certain which unit of the New Fourth Army will be the unit of the New Fourth Army that will cross the river.

Fortunately, the regiment of the New Fourth Army was discovered advancing in the direction of Luochang, and the commander of the Japanese army in Wuhu, Ohara Watazawa, ordered the Japanese troops in Guichi to withdraw to the west, and ordered the Japanese army brigade pursuing by the river to pursue in the direction of Luochang, and at the same time urgently ordered the Japanese puppet army near Luochang to strengthen the vigilance.

At noon, the planes of the devils frequently visited Luochang, but they found that Luochang was no different from the past, and there was no huge number of New Fourth Army in the town.

However, the whereabouts of the regiment of the New Fourth Army that came from the riverside were finally discovered by them, but these New Fourth Army reacted very quickly, and after discovering the Japanese planes, they immediately hid in the mountains and forests south of Luochang, so that the Japanese bombers who came later lost their targets, and finally blew them up and threw them into Luochang Town, blowing up more than 10 civilian houses.

Gu Zhutong, commander of the Third Theater Command, had just had breakfast at his headquarters in Tunxi when he received a report that the First Division of the New Fourth Army had suddenly crossed the river and headed south last night.

When he received this news, he couldn't help but be surprised, you must know that during this period of time, he was thinking about how to force the military headquarters of the New Fourth Army in Yunling and the New Fourth Army in Jiangnan to cross the river and go north.

Not long ago, the first and second detachments of the New Fourth Army left southern Jiangsu and crossed the river to the north, and he was originally relieved, but who knew that as soon as the New Fourth Army arrived in northern Jiangsu, it had a conflict with Han Deqin's troops. At this time, the New Fourth Army suddenly increased its troops to the south of the Yangtze River, did it perceive its own intentions?

"Immediately send a telegram to the military headquarters of the New Fourth Army to find out which unit of the New Fourth Army crossed the river." Gu Zhutong's face turned pale.

An hour later, a reply from the military headquarters of the New Fourth Army arrived, and Gu Zhutong received news that it was the newly established Seventh Detachment of the New Fourth Army that had crossed the river, and that the purpose of crossing the river was to carry out the decision of the central authorities and go to western Zhejiang to open up a new battlefield of resistance against Japan.

"The Seventh Detachment of the New Fourth Army? Liu Tianshu's troops? Gu Zhutong gasped, Liu Tianshu's troops' brilliant achievements in eastern Anhui, as the commander of the Third Theater of Operations, Gu Zhutong still knew, and he knew that Ningyuan County was recovered by Liu Tianshu's troops, and within a few days, the two Japanese brigades were wiped out.

Although his Third Theater had more than 100,000 troops, many of whom were from the Central Army, judging from the situation of the battle with the Japanese army, the results achieved were not great. (To be continued.) )