At night, inside the headquarters of the Sweetwaters Island Legion, the telegraph ticked rhythmically. Su Yu and Luo Ronghuan were learning about the attack on Lao Ye Temple. In the other room, Ouyang Jian was also busy, a pot of stewed fish was steaming, the long iron box next to the stove was filled with charcoal, and the bracket above the iron box was roasting fragrant fish. In the morning, Ouyang Jian and the pony caught hundreds of catties of fish, and the smallest fish was 2 catties. After dark, Ouyang Jian took matters into his own hands, picked out a few big fish to stew and eat, and cleaned the other fish to make grilled fish.

The pot was steaming, and several cooks were getting their hands on it. The fish smelled enticing, and a young female newspaper operator reached in mischievously through the curtain. "If you're hungry, take it and eat it!" Ouyang Jian grabbed the grilled fish and handed it to the female newspaper operator. "Thank you, Commander!" The female newspaper operator ran happily, and after a while the sound of the girls laughing came from the newspaper room. Ouyang Jian personally cooked, obviously to reward everyone for wishing victory in advance. Such a move diluted the tense atmosphere of the corps headquarters.

At night, the Red Star No. 1 and No. 2 battleships lined up left and right on the lake, and the guns roared violently, shaking the ship's side and beating continuously. The flames of the explosion reddened half of the sky, creating a wonderful meteor flame in the dark night. In less than half an hour after the attack was launched, several mountain guns of the enemy's 10th Brigade were destroyed and dumbfired. The assault team attacked the beachhead in wooden boats. At this time, the commander Xiao Ke stood in the command cabin of the Red Star No. 1 battleship, holding a telescope to watch the enemy's formation.

"Commander Xiao, the assault team has come ashore!" Tao Yong held the telescope and said happily. "Haha, your naval guns are huge, and lo and behold, the enemy's pillboxes are being blown up, it's really enjoyable." "The caliber of the gunboat is far worse, I heard the commander say that the caliber of the guns of the cruiser is 300 mm, and if a person is hit, he can't even see the bones and slag, then it is called real horror." "Fortunately, there will be no such artillery in land warfare, and now your 130-mm cannon is already quite terrifying." Xiao Ke is happy.

Just as Xiao Ke and Tao Yong were teasing, the headquarters of the 10th Brigade of Lao Ye Temple was in chaos. "Report, the Red Army captured the beachhead, and the defending units were forced to retreat." "Let them resist me, who retreats from military law without authorization. As long as we hold out until dawn, the Air Force will support us! The brigade commander was hoarse and tried his best to cheer up his men. The commander of the 10th Brigade is called Bao Desheng, who is in his 40s. There was a scar on his face that was very striking, especially when he was angry.

The division commander called him coldly and told him to hold on stubbornly, and said that as long as he held out until dawn, the air force would rush to support, and the Red Army would retreat in disarray. But it's only past 9 o'clock. The Red Army had already gone ashore and captured the beachhead, and Bao Desheng was naturally in a hurry. "Immediately organize troops to counterattack and send the Red Army ashore into the lake." "Brigade seat, the Red Army's naval artillery is very fierce, the artillery battalion commander reported that all 6 mountain guns were destroyed, and ordered the troops to counterattack The terror will collapse." The Chief of Staff made a statement.

"Then give me a dead guard, whoever dares to retreat without authorization will be shot immediately!" , Bao Desheng took out a pistol and slapped it on the table, frightening the generals and officials. Two hours passed, the gunfire was getting closer and closer, and the chief of staff was shocked and said: "Brigade seat, the Red Army's attacks are fighting more and more, and we are in danger of being annihilated." Moreover, without reinforcements, we are completely alone, and if a Red Army unit appears in the rear at this time, we will immediately collapse. The Red Army has always been elusive in warfare, and perhaps a Red Army unit has secretly gone ashore and outflanked in a roundabout way. ”

Hearing this, Bao Desheng broke out in a cold sweat and ordered: "Send a report to the division headquarters that the Red Army is attacking fiercely, especially the Red Army's use of naval artillery support, resulting in the destruction of all our artillery, and our department is facing the danger of annihilation. "Soon the division headquarters ordered a retreat!" Order the divisions to alternately cover the retreat! He walked out of the headquarters first. What is alternate cover, to put it bluntly, is to escape. Soon the 10th Brigade collapsed and fled eastward. The Red Army, which came ashore, took advantage of the situation to launch a pursuit, and the fleeing enemy troops were shocked by the impact. After dawn, Bao Desheng gathered the remnants of his troops in Zuoli Town, and found that his troops had lost one-third. The regular army of the Kuomintang, apart from offensive and defensive operations, could not fight at all in field battles, let alone night battles, the soldiers did not know how to fight, and the officers did not have the slightest experience in field warfare, so it was not surprising that the army was defeated like a mountain.

At 1 o'clock in the morning, Xiao Ke received a report from Wang Gang that the headquarters had been established in Lao Ye Temple, and the enemy's 10th Brigade had been routed on all fronts, and was currently pursuing it with victory. "Order Wang Gang to stop the pursuit!" Tao Yong glanced at his pocket watch and said, "Commander Xiao, we should go, the enemy planes will definitely come to support the operation at dawn, and it will be too late if we don't leave." "The capture of the Lao Ye Temple is a foregone conclusion, and the Red Star fleet has withdrawn to Sweetwater Island. At dawn, the two Red Star battleships retreated to Sweetwater Island and entered the hidden "dock". The dock is a waterway dug by hand on the shore.

The waterway is about 60 meters deep into the island, and the dock is covered with logs and covered with thick soil and grass, which plays a camouflage role, and it is difficult to discover the secrets of the dock if you observe it from the air. At present, the two Red Star battleships include several gunboats, and in order to make it easier to hide from air attacks, the high masts on the battleships have been removed, so that the gunboats can freely enter the dock to avoid air attacks. After taking control of Poyang Lake, Ouyang Jian began to plan, in order to deal with large-scale air raids in the future, he would dig a large number of "docks" on both sides of Poyang Lake and even on both sides of the Gan River, so that ships that could sail could evade and prevent air raids. At present, there are two engineering units, which have begun intensive construction on the west bank of Poyang Lake, digging docks.

After dawn, the enemy's reconnaissance planes appeared twice over Sweetwater Island, but the Red Star Fleet was not found, and the enemy planes had no choice but to target the Lao Ye Temple and launch an air attack. At present, enemy planes do not dare to lightly attack Sweetwater Island and Xingzi County, because Sweetwater Island and Xingzi County have already deployed air defense weapons, and although the air defense weapons are still heavy machine guns, the Kuomintang Air Force can hardly bear the losses, so it mainly targets the Red Star Fleet and the ships sailing on the lake. However, most of the Red Army's activities were carried out at night, and during the day there were hardly any larger ships visible on the lake, so the frequency of air force sorties dropped considerably.

After the 13th Division easily captured Lao Ye Temple, He Yingqin, the commander of the Eastern Front defense, flew to Shangrao to command the operation. According to the situation of Lao Ye Temple, He Yingqin believed that the scattered defense of troops along the lake would be broken by each one, so he ordered Leng Xin to shrink and concentrate his forces to defend Duchang County. Therefore, the 10th Brigade that retreated from Lao Ye Temple and the 9th Brigade of Jiaoyi Bay were all transferred to Duchang County to hold the key points. The enemy changed his defensive posture, and Su Yu changed his battle plan according to the enemy's situation and drew up a new battle plan.

In the Nanjing Presidential Palace, the battle situation on the eastern front of Jiangxi also involved Lao Chiang's energy. Dai Li, the director of intelligence, reported: "Principal, according to the Air Force reconnaissance report, no shadow of the two gunboats has been found, and I don't know where they are hidden. "It's hard for the gunboat to hide under the water, so hard for the gunboat to go up to the sky?" Seeing Dai Li's embarrassment, the veteran realized that his words were serious, and continued: "Order the Air Force to make every effort to reconnoiter and find the gunboats that want to destroy them, and we must not let the gunboats of the Red Army show off their might." Order the Navy to clear the mines at the mouth of Poyang Lake as soon as possible! I don't understand where Ouyang Jian bought the mine from! “

"Headmaster, according to our analysis, Ouyang Jian has an arsenal in Yunshui County, and it is very likely that the mines were produced by themselves. Not only that, Ouyang Jian has already begun to produce rifles and ammunition. "Dai Li's intelligence has been very effective since he took office. Lao Jiang was speechless when he heard this, and the news was even more terrifying. Dai Li continued: "Through the analysis of the situation that we have mastered by the Central Union, Ouyang Jian began to plan and prepare for the construction of an arsenal as early as when Yunshui County was lurking. Information provided by Guo Boyun, former magistrate of Yunshui County, confirmed that his munitions enterprise started as a repair shop for the production of hand grenades and firearms. Ouyang Jian had been to Wuhan and had a close relationship with Li Chard, the chief engineer of the Hanyang Arsenal. In addition, Guo Boyun's daughter is still in the Jiujiang base area, and we have begun to closely monitor Guo Boyun and Richard. “

Lao Jiang was a little surprised when he heard this: "Ouyang Jian has already started strategic planning, no wonder he soared into the sky in Jiujiang, why did such outstanding talents run to the Communist Party?" Dai Li seemed to remember something: "Ouyang Jian's trip to Wuhan happened to be the time of Li Zongren's rebellion. We suspect that the two unsolved cases in Wuhan are most likely related to Ouyang Jian. One was the sensational robbery of the Wuhan Japan Co., Ltd., which could not be resolved due to the chaos of the current situation, and the Japanese had no choice. Because the modus operandi has never been weird. “

"Another case is the weapon theft case of the Wuhan Detention Center of the 8th Army, which was suppressed by the 8th Army and not reported. Through the analysis of Ouyang Jian, he was in Wuhan at the time of the two cases, and we suspect that he was very likely to have committed the two cases. "There is no doubt that he did it, his purpose was to obtain arms and money, and the robbery of the Japanese trading company was to kill two birds with one stone, that is, to target the Nationalist Government and frame Li Zongren, the most terrible thing about this person is that he has political acumen. At present, the Communist Party is becoming more and more cunning in politics, and there must be his shadow in this. “

Dai Li continued: "The Communist Party captured Ganzhou and adopted the tactics of internal and external cooperation. Now it can be confirmed that it was the special combat team under Ouyang Jian who lurked into Ganzhou, causing Ganzhou to lose. "It's unbelievable that a small special forces can play such a role. At present, foreign military experts have just studied special operations, but Ouyang Jian has already created a terrifying special combat team. You may not know that at present, the lower-level officers of the various departments fighting with Ouyang Jian are generally fearful, and they think about how powerful the special combat team is. At present, we have imported 150 sniper rifles through the German government and formed a special operations brigade under the direct command of the Ministry of Defense. The German instructor said that the special combat team has combat capability and will need to train for at least 3 years. “

Dai Li said: "Headmaster, it means that when Ouyang Jian was lurking in Yunshui County, he began to build a special combat team!" It is said that Ouyang Jian is fluent in two foreign languages, Russian and English, and he is obviously familiar with the dynamics of foreign armies. "If Ouyang Jian was used by me, the Communist Party would have died out a long time ago, why didn't I discover his talent when I was in Huangpu!" Old Jiang let out a long sigh and showed a look of remorse. Dai Li continued: "Recently, we have received information from the Japanese side, a plan codenamed "Sakura Operation", which is an assassination operation, and the specific goal is unknown. “

"We must make every effort to find out about Operation Sakura, because at the moment Japan's spy agencies are very active, and we must keep abreast of its dynamics. Your intelligence agency will continue to expand and infiltrate. It is necessary to take a two-pronged approach to both the Japanese side and the Communist Party! "Yes! I will give it my all! After Dai Li left, the director of the guard room came in and reported: "President, the Ministry of National Defense War Bureau reports." After Ouyang Jian captured the Lao Ye Temple, he did not continue to take military action. He Yingqin, the commander-in-chief of the defense in eastern Jiangxi, judged that Ouyang Jian's next goal was to fight south? “