At dawn, the people of Ningyuan County, who were panicked by the sound of gunfire, carefully opened the door and saw a group of soldiers wearing the uniforms of the New Fourth Army walking on the street. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

When these soldiers saw the villagers who got up early, they naturally had honest smiles on their faces.

When those people heard the introduction of the situation by the bold people last night and knew that the Japanese devils who were powerful and blessed in Ningyuan City had been completely wiped out by the New Fourth Army, they were all overjoyed and ran to tell each other.

In Ono's headquarters, Liu Tianshu, who had slept for two hours, looked at the statistics of battle results and battle losses in his hand, and was still quite satisfied.

Last night, he successfully captured the county seat of Ningyuan, eliminated the three squadrons of Ono defending the city, plus two battalions of the Imperial Army, and more importantly, captured a large amount of military supplies.

In particular, more than 20,000 oceans were seized from the fleeing Japanese puppet army, as well as some gold and silver jewelry, which made the 16th Regiment, which had a bottomed out treasury, suddenly become relatively wealthy.

However, thinking that the devil was absolutely unwilling to let Ningyuan County fall into the hands of the New Fourth Army, Liu Tianshu decided to evacuate Ningyuan County with his troops before the devil counterattacked.

Of course, when the troops withdrew from the county seat, all the seized materials naturally had to be taken away, and after the battle ended last night, Liu Tianshu arranged for the underground party to ask someone to help transport them out of the city overnight.

At this time, the devil's warehouse has been emptied.

At this time, Staff Officer Sun accompanied a middle-aged man in a robe.

"Commander, Mr. Liu is here."

Hearing this, Liu Tianshu put down the pen in his hand, greeted him, looked at Mr. Liu and said with a smile: "Hello Mr. Liu, I am Liu Tianshu, the commander of the 16th Regiment of the New Fourth Army. ”

"Hello sir, I don't know what the chief has to call the contemptible people here?" Mr. Liu looked at Liu Tianshu and bowed, and then asked a little nervously.

"Hehe, come, Mr. Liu, let's sit down and talk." Liu Tianshu smiled and led Mr. Liu to the side of the chair to sit down, and asked Lei Yong to bring a cup of tea and put it in front of Mr. Liu.

"Mr. Liu, I know that you are in Ningyuan County. This time, our army recovered Ningyuan County and completely eliminated the devils, but there is a way that it is easy to fight the country and it is difficult to defend the country, but we have laid the county seat, but under the current situation, it is very difficult for us to defend the county seat. Don't hide it from Mr. Liu, our army will leave Ningyuan City soon, I don't know if Mr. Liu has any good suggestions for this? Liu Tianshu looked at him and said calmly.

Hearing the outspoken words of the commander of the New Fourth Army in front of him, Liu Jingde couldn't help but look at Liu Tianshu a little differently.

Before the Anti-Japanese War, Liu Jingde was the president of the Ningyuan County Chamber of Commerce, and he was also the richest man in Ningyuan, and of course, he also had a very close relationship with the authorities of the Ningyuan National Government.

After the Japanese army occupied Ningyuan County, the county government also withdrew from the county seat with the garrison and went to the mountains of western Anhui, but the county security regiment ran to the mountains north of Ningyuan County under the leadership of Hao Chaoyang.

Liu Jingde is naturally reluctant to give up the family business created by hard work for several generations and flee to other places, after the devil arrived in Ningyuan County, he didn't know what the reason was, but he was not too embarrassed by Liu Jingde.

Even the devil was ready to ask Liu Jingde to come out to serve as the pseudo county magistrate, but for some reason, this matter failed in the end.

"Sir, are you going to give up Ningyuan City?" Although he knew that Liu Tianshu was telling the truth, Mr. Liu couldn't help asking.

"Yes, firstly, now the little devils are concentrating their forces to sweep our base area, and our regiment has received an order to return to the base area to smash the devil's sweep, and secondly, I heard that Regiment Commander Hao has long been willing to recover the county seat, and if our army stays here for a long time, I am afraid it will cause some unnecessary misunderstandings." Liu Tianshu nodded and said.

"The little devil invaded your army's base area, I heard about this, alas, it's all because I am poor and weak in China, I can understand the governor's feelings, but since Ningyuan County is finally recovered, then the devil must not be allowed to make trouble again, I will contact Commander Hao and ask him to lead his troops into Ningyuan County." After Mr. Liu heard what Liu Tianshu meant, he nodded resolutely and said.

"That's very good, there is Mr. Lao Liu." When Liu Tianshu heard that Mr. Liu promised to contact Hao Chaoyang, a stone fell to the ground in his heart.

The devils in Ningyuan City were wiped out, but their 16th Regiment had no reason to hold on here for a long time, and there were no other New Fourth Army troops in this area, so the ideal way was to let the Kuomintang troops operating nearby come and take over.

Of course, he still felt a little guilty in his heart, after all, it was not an easy task to defend the county seat, and if the devil didn't come to attack, once the devil decided to capture it, it would be an extremely tragic bloody battle.

To this end, he made a detailed report of his ideas to Commander Luo of the detachment on the radio, and Commander Luo obviously had some discussions with Political Commissar Guo and other leaders, and finally agreed to Liu Tianshu's plan.

After all, at this time, the devil's heavy troops were still entrenched in the base area to make trouble, and besides, the 16th Regiment did not have the conditions to hold Ningyuan County.

In the afternoon, Hao Chaoyang sent someone to contact Liu Tianshu, and after the two sides agreed on the handover matters, that night, the 16th Regiment quietly left Ningyuan County, and Hao Chaoyang's security regiment followed into the county seat.

When Shinohara Seiichiro learned that Liu Tianshu's 16th Regiment suddenly appeared under Ningyuan City, and then captured Ningyuan County with lightning speed, he couldn't help but sit down.

You must know that after Miura Tadaji's troops entered Liu Tianshu's base area, they were never able to find the main force of the 16th Regiment.

Liu Tianshu informed the whole country of the tragic murder of the people of Maowan Town by Shigu Saburo's unit through a clear telegram, which caused quite a stir, especially Liu Tianshu's strong wording in the telegram indicating that he would avenge the people who died. It also caused different voices in the upper echelons of the Japanese army.

Many officers thought that Liu Tianshu was extremely arrogant, and he was provoking the dignity of the imperial soldiers at this time, and some said that Liu Tianshu would do what he said, and he didn't know what kind of means he would take to retaliate.

In short, there are people who shout to teach Liu Tianshu a lesson, and there are people who remind them to deal with it carefully, and the Shigu United, which is on the cusp, although they don't believe that Liu Tianshu dares to retaliate, but the next action is much more restrained.

After all, Liu Tianshu has a precedent of cutting off dozens of heads in one go.

Thinking of this, many people feel that their necks are cold.

According to Shinohara's plan, Liu Tianshu's 16th regiment was to drive Liu Tianshu's 16th regiment into the mountains of Zhangbaling, and then use the Jinpu Road in the east to cooperate with the armies of all roads to besiege it.

To the east of the railway is the area where the Fifth Detachment of the New Fourth Army is active, and when Liu Tianshu's 16th Regiment arrives there, there is a detachment leader on top to manage it at any time, so it should not be so fanciful.

What's more, the area under his rule has been a breeze and drizzle since then.

But who knew that this Liu Tianshu not only did not flee into Zhang Baling, but instead rushed north for three hundred miles and captured Ningyuan County at once.

The county seat of Ningyuan is not far from Bengbu and Huainan, which are important towns in northeastern Anhui, and in order to strengthen the defense force of the Huainan-Hefei highway, he has withdrawn part of the troops from these two places.

In other words, the current forces in that area are somewhat empty. If the 16th Regiment continues to the north and threatens the safety of the Jinpu Road, I am afraid that it will be subjected to the board of the commander of the Japanese army in Central China.

Thinking of this, Shinohara Seiichiro was very painful, so he had to order Miura Tadaji, who had already occupied Majiaji, to immediately move his army north and encircle and annihilate the 16th Regiment.

Miura Tadaji was originally in command in Hefei, and after the main force of the Japanese army occupied Wangjiadian, he saw that his troops were working hard and losing money, but the results were limited, so he naturally rushed to the front line anxiously.

Before he arrived at Wangjiadian, he received a report that Ning Yuancheng had been lost.

Now when he received an order from the division commander to send his troops north to encircle and annihilate the 16th Regiment, and strictly prevent the 16th Regiment from returning south, he had to order Saburo Ishiya to leave a brigade of Japanese troops, plus a regiment of the Imperial Allied Army that cooperated with the operation, which was responsible for encircling and suppressing the remnants of the New Fourth Army in the base area, and he personally commanded the main force of the brigade to form a long snake formation and press northward.

After the 16th Regiment left Ningyuan City, it turned to advance in the northwest direction, and the small and medium-sized strongholds along the way were naturally swept away by him.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that the Japanese army saw that the 16th Regiment was menacing, and took the initiative to abandon some scattered small strongholds and shrink its forces around Bengbu and Huainan.

At the same time, the Japanese army quietly used the railway line to transport an independent brigade to Bengbu Station, and quickly prepared in the Bengbu and Huainan areas.

Liu Tianshu didn't know that he captured Ningyuan County in one fell swoop, and then put on a posture to attack Bengbu, which made the Japanese army completely angry. Not to mention that in front of him, the Japanese army of an independent brigade had already laid out their pockets, just waiting for his troops to get in.

On this day, the vanguard arrived at a place fifty miles away from Bengbu, Liu Tianshu looked up at the Japanese reconnaissance plane hovering in the air, and then glanced at the troops hidden in the woods, and said to the European standard flying beside him: "The third battalion commander, it's almost over, order the vanguard to stop advancing, turn around and return east immediately after dark, and rush to Qingyangling before dawn." ”

The position where the vanguard is located is 80 miles away from Qingyangling, and the vanguard troops are naturally very tired when they put up an attack frame all the way, but this time they have to march 80 miles overnight, and even Ou Biaofei is a little unbearable.

"Regiment commander, the vanguard troops rushed to Qingyangling in one night, will the soldiers be unbearable?"

"Third battalion commander, we put on the posture of marching to Bengbu this time, mainly to mobilize the enemy, according to intelligence, the main force of Miura Tadaji has gone north, less than a hundred miles away from Ningyuan City, and after the devil shrinks his forces, Bengbu has also become a hard turtle shell, we can no longer go west, if we don't think about getting rid of the enemy, I'm afraid we will be entangled by the devil. Tell the first company that they must overcome the difficulties and rush to Qingyangling to join the main force at the specified time. Liu Tianshu looked at Ou Biaofei and said firmly. (To be continued.) )