"Chairman, Anqing victory, Anqing victory!"

In the middle of the night, in the villa of Lao Jiang in Luojia Mountain, Qian Dajun hurriedly came over, and shouted excitedly when he saw Lao Jiang.

Chiang Kai-shek took the telegram and saw that it was a telegram from Anqing by Xu Ming.

"Huaining special telegram, Mall, Chief Bai, and transfer to Chairman Chiang: The enemy Botian detachment, since the night of the 12th, landed in Mawo, marched westward with a wing of troops, was surrounded and destroyed by our defenders, and killed about 3,000 of the enemy's captain Takahashi Ryo Osa, and the captains Nagai Shizu Nakasa and Takeman Fu Nakasa. After the annihilation of the enemy's vanguard troops, our department concentrated the main force, from the east, west, and north directions of a large-scale counterattack, fierce fighting until 7 o'clock in the evening of the next day, heavy damage to the main force of the enemy's Hatian detachment, the scene found a total of 5,421 Japanese corpses, in addition to Takahashi, Nagai, Takeman, and killed the enemy captain Akiyama Michifan, Nishikawa to a middle and other Japanese military officers 27 (see attached telegram for the specific list), the enemy remnants under the cover of naval guns, withdrew from the battlefield, this battle, the total number of Japanese casualties was at least 7,000 or more, to the time of power generation, our army sacrificed more than 1,200 people, More than 2,700 people were injured, and electricity was also seized. Position: Xu Ming, 23:15 on June 13, 27 years of the Republic of China. ”

Lao Jiang's hands are trembling, no wonder Qian Dajun is still running so late, this is too exciting, the whole telegram, the number of enemies killed and the name of the commander are clearly visible, the capture is also very clear, plus the Japanese army is defeated, the authenticity of the victory is undoubted.

"Good, good, good!" Old Jiang Lian said three good things, and he was so happy that he read this telegram several times in a row, and he still couldn't put it down.

Qian Dajun also echoed on the side: "More than 5,000 enemies were killed, and about 2,000 were wounded, which is a good battle for thousands of miles, and a good encirclement and annihilation battle." ”

The normal casualty ratio is between 1-2 and 1-3, but the battle of Mawo reversed, and it can be seen that the Japanese army was surrounded and annihilated.

Lao Jiang finally put down the precious telegram, tapped his fingers on the table, and said: "As long as our soldiers are hard at work and command effectively, the Japanese army can be defeated, and our victory is just around the corner..."

Qian Dajun and the others put on a posture of listening attentively, listening to the bald man talk about countless topics, and the expressions on his face changed at any time to cooperate.

Lao Jiang said a little dryly, and the entourage next to him hurriedly sent a cup of green tea, "... The theater is going to organize a decisive battle with the Japanese army in Anqing, Mu Yin, do you think you can be sure if you use the Huoshan Xu Yuanquan Department and the Qianshan Yang Sen Department to cooperate with Xu Ming's Department to fight a decisive battle with the Japanese army? ”

Qian Dajun was shocked, the old man made an idealistic mistake again, Lao Jiang always hoped to replicate the victory, after the victory of the Battle of Taierzhuang, hundreds of thousands of horses were invested, but the Japanese army almost made dumplings, the battle of the nest was purely the Japanese army self-defeating, the sneak attack in the middle of the night was caught, and the Japanese army was afraid that it would not suffer a second loss.

He said cautiously: "Chairman of the committee, the casualties of Xu Ming's department are not light, and Xu Yang's second department may not have the ability to attack fortifications." ”

Lao Jiang reacted, Qian Dajun was saving face for these two, Xu Yuanquan's troops retreated again and again, there was obvious behavior to avoid the war, Yang Sen's Sichuan army was also very weak, and using these two armies plus a wounded 107th Division to attack the most elite Inaba Division of the Japanese army was purely looking for death.

As early as the beginning of the month, the Military Commission organized 100,000 horses, all of which were the Central Army, to encircle and annihilate more than 20,000 people of the 14th Division of the Japanese Army, but they were defeated, and even Lanfeng was lost.

However, Lao Chiang considered military issues, and usually ignored practical difficulties, and said to an attaché, "Please come over Liangzhen." ”

Liangzhen is Yu Jishi's word, just returned to Wuhan to report on work, he received a call from the attendant room in the middle of the night, did not dare to slack off, and after sorting out his personal image, he rushed over as quickly as possible.

Yu Jishi can be regarded as Lao Jiang's ironcore, when Lao Jiang first debuted, he followed his uncle Yu Feipeng and served as his bodyguard, Chiang Kai-shek established a guard regiment, and Yu Jishi was the head of the guard regiment; The Guard Brigade was established, and Yu Jishi became the commander of the Guard Brigade; The guard division was established, and Yu Jishi was the commander of the guard division! Called Yu Jishi, the commander of the 74th Army, to come, and everyone understood that the battle of Anqing had escalated.

On June 14, 1938, the Chinese and Japanese armies changed their deployment at the same time, and the Japanese army ordered the 3rd Division to take over the 6th Division to guard Hefei, Shucheng and other places, and the main force of the 6th Division moved south from Tongcheng.

The Japanese soldiers were divided into two routes, with the commander of the 11th Brigade, Tanigawa Masanogen's 47th Wing and a battalion of mountain artillery as the backbone, forming the Hase Detachment, which passed through Tan Yuanpu from Tongcheng and marched towards Qianshan; The brigade commander Imamura personally led the main force of the brigade, with relevant heavy artillery and engineering units, and moved south from Gaohe, while the rest of the Japanese 6th Division assembled in Tongcheng to respond to the two-way battle at any time.

The Chinese side also changed its deployment and ordered the 74th Army north of Wuhan to change its original plan to Nanchang for rest and recuperation, and along the Jingchuan Highway, from Hankou, Qichun, Huangmei, and Taihu Lake to the east, and put it into the west of Anqing.

At the same time, the establishment of the guard force was also adjusted: the 51st Division, the 58th Division and the 107th Division under the 74th Army formed the Central Corps to guard the Anqing area; Tong Yi's 145th Division and Liu Zhaoli's 146th Division formed a right-wing corps to deploy defenses east of Anqing to prevent the Japanese army from landing; The 133rd Division of Yang Hanyu and the 134th Division of Yang Hanzhong of the Sichuan Army were deployed on the front line of Qianshan; At the same time, the 31st, 135th, and 138th divisions of Wei Yunsong's 31st Army were ordered to be reserve corps and assemble at Taihu Lake; The 48th Division of Xu Jiwu and the 199th Division of Luo Shujia of the 26th Group Army were guerrilla regiments, operating in the mountains west of Tongcheng, and cutting off Japanese communications at any time after the main force of the Japanese army moved south. In order to coordinate the operations of various armies, the Military Commission sent the mascot of the Battle of Taierzhuang, Chief of Staff Xu Zuyi.

Xu Ming received the warrant given to him by Lao Jiang, he couldn't cry or laugh, he won the battle, and beat the bald brother's heart, this deployment is a decisive battle posture, and the 74th Army is coming, will there be a victory in Wanjialing?

However, Xu Ming had no say in the deployment of the campaign, only the right to execute, and he hurriedly asked Chief of Staff Zhang Shaofang to go to the location of the 145th and 146th Divisions of the Sichuan Army on the front line of Zongyang to coordinate the coordination of the two armies.

Xu Ming himself wanted to go to Qianshan to find Yang Sen, Qianshan is the west gate of Anqing, Qianshan is in the hands of the squadron, and the Japanese army cannot attack Anqing with the whole army, but Xu Ming has not set off yet, and he was approached by someone.

It was Xu Yuanquan, commander-in-chief of the 26th Army and commander of the 10th Army.

Xu Ming took a good look at Xu Yuanquan, compared with when he attended the mall meeting at the beginning of the month, he seemed to be a little older, and when he saw Xu Ming, his smiling face couldn't hide the sorrow from his heart.

Xu Ming knew what Xu Yuanquan was worried about, his troops had not been rested since the defense of Nanjing, and had been on the front line to consume, if Xu Ming remembered well, after the Battle of Wuhan, there would be no Xu Yuanquan Corps in the world. Xu Yuanquan was certainly wrong in passively avoiding the war in the early stage, but Lao Jiang's unloading and killing of the donkey may also be debatable.

Whether there was a chicken or an egg first, whether Lao Jiang wanted to consume him first and whether he didn't want to be consumed first, it's really hard to say.

Xu Yuanquan is an old-timer of the Alliance, the father of the Wuchang Uprising, Xu Ming hurried to be polite, and after the two exchanged pleasantries, Xu Yuanquan explained his intentions.

"Brother Qianli, can you do my brother a favor."

"Don't dare, don't dare, may I ask Commander-in-Chief Xu what orders you have, don't you dare to disobey." Xu Ming didn't dare to slack off in the slightest in etiquette, and said respectfully.

"That's the case, let us guerrilla, don't hide it from my brother, my troops' guns have done great damage, many of them can only hit 50 meters, I heard that your brother has captured a lot in the horse nest, can you give us 3500 captured 38 rifles."

He was afraid that Xu Ming would not give it, so he added, "It doesn't matter if it's bad." ”

The last sentence confused Xu Ming, come and ask for a gun, it doesn't matter if it's bad, can you fix a bad gun? You don't have any parts for the Japanese 38 gun.

Xie Jinyuan watched coldly from the side, he knew that Xu Ming didn't understand the Tao inside, so he said coldly: "Commander-in-Chief Xu, our seizure has been reported to the Military Commission, and we can't take it out privately." ”

This is completely a pretext, even if it is reported, the seized one is his own, and he will take it as a gift Xu Mingke can decide in a word, Xie Jinyuan is so resolute not to give Lao Xu face, the scene is extremely embarrassing.

Xie Jinyuan was not reluctant to these guns, but he was not angry with what Xu Yuanquan's department did in Shucheng and Tongcheng, especially Tongcheng, if Qianshan is the west gate of Anqing, Tongcheng is the north gate of Anqing. In the battle of Tongcheng, the theater and the military committee repeatedly asked Xu Yang and the two divisions to be firm, but no one did anything in the two armies, and in the end, only Yang Sen sent a regiment to defend, which was quickly defeated by the superior Japanese army, and Tongcheng was also occupied by the Japanese army.

After the Battle of Mawo, the 107th Division urgently needed to rest, even if it was to rest for three or five more days, but after the loss of Tongcheng, Xu Ming did not even enter Anqing City, so he led his troops to the front line of Jixian Pass, preparing to meet the 6th Division of the Japanese army from Tongcheng to the south, and now the 107th Division is extremely disgusted with Xu Yuanquan's fear of the enemy and avoiding the war.

Xu Ming also reacted, Xu Yuanquan took these three or eight shots, not for the war, but for making false war reports. After the fall of Tongcheng, the war zone and the military commission must have been extremely angry, Xu Yuanquan took these "captured" rifles and fabricated a good news to avoid responsibility for the fall of Shucheng.

Xu Ming wanted to excuse himself, but he didn't expect Xu Yuanquan to pull down his face, almost pleading, and even shed a few tears, how could Xu Ming resist, so he had to say: "Since this is the case, I will give you 500 rifles for the commander-in-chief, and 10 grenadiers and 10 light machine guns." ”

After Xu Yuanquan left satisfied, looking at everyone's dissatisfied expressions, Xu Ming said helplessly: "I really can't wipe my face, but I can't beat others to death with a stick, if we win the battle, we won't care about the friendly army, it will only make them continue to be passive and avoid the war."

Chen Huizhi sighed and said, "I hope they have a good guerrilla attack behind the devils, and it will not be necessary for us to send 500 guns." ”

On June 15, a plane flew from Wuhan, and Xu Zuyi, chief of staff of the 5th Theater, together with officers at all levels of the 74th Army, came to Anqing.

As soon as they arrived in Anqing, they held a pre-war joint meeting with Xu Ming at the temporary headquarters of Anhui University. Xu Zuyi, Xu Ming, Chen Huizhi, Yu Jishi, Feng Shengfa, and Wang Yaowu gathered together. The conference table is too small, only a few people can sit, like the two deputy division commanders of the 74th Army, Li Tianxia and Liao Lingqi, who can only move a stool to sit on, as for Zhang Lingfu, the deputy brigade commander and regiment commander, in an inconspicuous corner, you can't see it if you don't pay attention.