"Call the New Fourth Army and ask what is the purpose of its seventh detachment suddenly crossing the river and heading south? Why not obey the orders of the war zone? Gu Zhutong thought about it and asked the commander's department to call the military headquarters of the New Fourth Army in Yunling, asking the military headquarters of the New Fourth Army to explain. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

At the same time, Gu Zhutong immediately telegraphed Chairman Chiang of this sudden situation.

"What? Has the seventh detachment of the New Fourth Army crossed the river and headed south? Mother, do they still have me as the chairman in their eyes? Tell Gu Zhutong that this seventh detachment must not be allowed to stay in southern Anhui, either let them cross the Yangtze River north, or let them go to eastern Zhejiang to compete with the Japanese. Anger appeared on Jiang's face, but after he gave the order, the relevant information about Liu Tianshu flashed in his mind.

This Liu Tianshu is really a talent, but unfortunately he is not used by the party-state.

The military headquarters of the New Fourth Army received a telegram from the Third Theater Commander's Department in fierce terms, and both Commander Ye and Deputy Commander Xiang couldn't help but smile bitterly. The Third Theater has long had the idea of driving the New Fourth Army out of Jiangnan, and at this time, the Central Committee sent the Seventh Detachment to Jiangnan, which will naturally anger the Third Theater, but now in Jiangnan, there is only one military headquarters and a third detachment, and the strength is indeed insufficient. 、

However, now the Third Theater has clearly pointed out that the Seventh Detachment of the New Fourth Army violated the military order and suddenly went south, which was an act of sabotaging the War of Resistance Against Unity, and demanded that the Seventh Detachment either immediately return north or immediately advance eastward and leave southern Anhui as soon as possible.

The seventh detachment had just arrived in the south of the Yangtze River, and it was not yet breathing, so it was naturally impossible to cross the Yangtze River to the north, but it was also unsatisfactory to ask it to leave southern Anhui immediately.

In the end, the military headquarters of the New Fourth Army immediately reported to Yan'an, and soon Yan'an's instructions arrived, agreeing to let the seventh detachment rush to western Zhejiang, but the military headquarters of the New Fourth Army was asked to negotiate with the third theater and promised that the seventh detachment of the New Fourth Army would leave southern Anhui within two months and rush to western Zhejiang.

After all, the movement of the army is not a matter of walking away.

After listening to Commander Ye, who rushed to the headquarters, Gu Zhutong told him about the situation, and after some bargaining, he finally promised the seventh detachment of the new Fourth Army Commander to leave southern Anhui within a month.

When the military headquarters of the New Fourth Army and the headquarters of the Third Theater Commander were constantly negotiating, the brigade sent by Ohara Watazawa, with the cooperation of a regiment of the National Defense Army, had advanced to a distance of 20 kilometers north of Luochang, and at this moment, Ohara Watasawa received a report from the intelligence department that it was not a regiment that the New Fourth Army had crossed the Yangtze River, but the entire seventh detachment of Liu Tianshu, and he couldn't help but gasp.

Although he has been stationed in Wuhu, he is no stranger to Liu Tianshu's seventh detachment, and the Nanjing Command regularly issued combat reports have repeatedly mentioned Liu Tianshu's seventh detachment, and now he knows that there are 7,000 people in the seventh detachment around Luochang, how dare he let the Japanese troops of that brigade go up again.

You must know that when Liu Tianshu attacked Ningyuan, a brigade that went to reinforce from Huainan, plus the Jianguo Army that cooperated with the operation, was eaten clean by Liu Tianshu's seventh detachment.

Fortunately, the troops sent had not yet exchanged fire with the New Fourth Army, so Ohara Zedu wiped the sweat from his forehead and immediately ordered the brigade to quickly withdraw and fortify at Tuanxi, fifty kilometers away from Luochang, to prevent the seventh detachment from attacking Wuhu.

At the same time, Ohara Sawato quickly reported to the Japanese Army Headquarters in Nanjing that the Seventh Detachment of the New Fourth Army had crossed the Yangtze River to the south.

Xiao Shinohara Seiichiro learned that Liu Tianshu's seventh detachment suddenly withdrew from the base area and crossed the river to southern Anhui, and couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief.

Liu Tianshu received a report from the reconnaissance unit, saying that the Japanese troops rushing towards Luochang suddenly turned around and quickly retreated, and then fortified in Tuanxi.

But after all, the troops had only crossed the Yangtze River, and since the devils did not come to make trouble, they could take the opportunity to let the troops take a short rest.

On the morning of the next day, Zhang Zhouhong, who was sent by the military headquarters to serve as the deputy head of the seventh detachment, and Xiang Luoquan, chief of staff, came to Luochang.

With the arrival of the two leaders, the leadership team of the seventh detachment was completed, and the two new members joined, Liu Tianshu naturally gave the two comrades a good reception at the detachment headquarters, and at the same time gave them a detailed introduction to the situation of the detachment.

Zhang Zhouhong was the head of a guerrilla unit left in Jiangnan after the Long March, the main force of the Red Army, and he fought bravely; after the founding of the New Fourth Army, for various reasons, he served as director of the office under the New Fourth Army and returned to the military headquarters half a year ago. Xiang Luoquan was originally the deputy chief of the Operations Section of the Military Department, and this time he was sent to the seventh detachment as the chief of staff.

When Xiang Luo Quan and Zhang Zhouhong heard Liu Tianshu's introduction to the personnel and equipment of the Seventh Detachment, they couldn't help but be surprised, he only knew that the Seventh Detachment of the New Fourth Army was a kind of unit with strong combat effectiveness, but he didn't expect that the Seventh Detachment not only had four regiments, but also had sufficient artillery fire, and even had a 92 infantry artillery battalion.

You must know that in the sequence of the Nationalist Government Army, in addition to the descendants of the Central Army, many local troops do not even have a few heavy machine guns in a battalion.

It is no wonder that the seventh detachment dared to attack the county town of Ningyuan, which was heavily guarded by devils, with the strength of one detachment.

Subsequently, at the meeting of cadres above the head of the whole detachment, General Liu Tianshu introduced to the chief of staff and deputy detachment commander Zhang.

On the day of Luochang's rest, the military department sent food and other materials, but then, at the request of Deputy Army Commander Xiang, Liu Tianshu still squeezed out ten mortars to support the military headquarters.

At this time, the intelligence department of the Japanese army headquarters in Nanjing learned the news from the inner line lurking in the third theater of operations, and knew that the New Fourth Army had decided to let the seventh detachment advance to the west of Zhejiang, so the Japanese troops in the direction of Zhejiang began to wait for them, and Ohara Yasunawa was relieved when he received the report.

As long as the seventh detachment is not entrenched in southern Anhui for a long time, his defense area will only deal with the third theater, and the pressure will naturally be much lighter.

After all, even if the third war zone is faced with the attack of its own brigade, it will be very cautious. Therefore, although there were many troops in the third theater, Yasuzawa Ohara did not pay attention to it completely.

In addition, after Prime Minister Konoe came to power, his strategic policy toward China has changed, and the Nationalist Government has been mainly subjected to political inducements, supplemented by military strikes, while brutal attacks have been carried out against the base areas of the Communist Party.

At this time, Commander Sawada's greatest wish was to get the New Fourth Army to Jiangbei.

Liu Tianshu didn't know what Ohara Yasusawa really thought, but when the troops first arrived in Jiangnan, they had to have a familiar process, so naturally they didn't want to be troubled.

Seven days later, he received instructions from the military headquarters to prepare the seventh detachment and advance eastward within a week to the Tianmu Mountain area in western Zhejiang.

At this time, in Tianmu Mountain, there was the Zhejiang Provincial Government of the Nationalist Government, and at the same time, there was also the Zhejiang West Special Committee of the Communist Party of China, in accordance with the instructions of the Southern Bureau, after the seventh detachment arrived in the west of Zhejiang, it joined forces with the West Zhejiang Special Committee to open up an anti-Japanese base behind the enemy with Tianmu Mountain as the center.

However, the Third Theater had 62 divisions in western Zhejiang and 79 divisions on the eastern Zhejiang front, with a total strength of more than 12,000 troops.

Liu Tianshu didn't pay attention to the two divisions in the third theater, but now that the national crisis is at hand, he doesn't want to cause friction with friendly forces.

At the headquarters of the Seventh Detachment of Luochang, political commissar Jiang Jinyong, detachment leader Liu Tianshu, deputy detachment Zhang Zhouhong, chief of staff Xiang Luoquan and director of the Political Department Su Lan sat together.

"Comrades, the order given to us by the military department has arrived, let us quickly advance to Linchuan in the east of Tianmu Mountain, and now I will ask the detachment commander to tell me about the situation." After Jiang Jinyong received the order from the military headquarters, he began to seriously study the situation in western Zhejiang.

At present, in western Zhejiang, the Japanese army is concentrated on the front line of Wuhu, Gaochun, and Liyang, the 62nd Division of the Third Theater is deployed in the Xuancheng area, and its 79th Division is in the Changxing area on the Taihu Lake.

And when the seventh detachment arrives in the Tianmu Mountain area, it is bound to break the existing tranquility.

"Ladies and gentlemen, according to the instructions of the superiors, our detachment will go to the Linchuan area on the eastern side of Tianmu Mountain, and join forces with the Zhejiang West Special Committee, from Luochang to Linchuan, we have two roads to go, one is through the defense area of the 32nd Group Army of the Third Theater, directly to Linchuan, and the other route is to the east through Gucheng, Nanfeng, and Houfo to Linchuan, but this road our detachment needs to pass through the defense area of 100 kilometers of the devil. Let's all express our views on these two routes. Liu Tianshu drew two marching routes on the map on the wall and asked several detachment leaders to discuss.

After hearing what Liu Tianshu said to the chief of staff, he looked at the map and thought for a while and said: "Our detachment's trip to western Zhejiang this time is of great significance to opening up the anti-Japanese base area behind enemy lines in western Zhejiang, in order to preserve its strength and avoid large-scale battles with the Japanese army, I think it is most appropriate to let the military headquarters coordinate with the theater and go through the defense area of the 32nd Group Army." ”

In his opinion, the Seventh Detachment is a unit of the New Fourth Army, and it is also nominally a unit of the Third Theater, and as a friendly army, there should be no problem in passing through it.

Zhang Zhouhong fought many times with the Kuomintang troops during the Red Army period, and many comrades-in-arms were sacrificed in the hands of the Kuomintang, and he did not have a good impression of the Kuomintang at all. When I was in the military headquarters, I heard that after the first and second detachments went north, there was friction with the Nationalist government troops in northern Jiangsu, and the relations between the two sides were very tense, and a misfire could occur at any time. Besides, the Seventh Detachment suddenly crossed the river and headed south without the consent of the Third Theater Commander's Department, so it is difficult to guarantee that Commander Gu will not have an opinion in his heart. ”

"Deputy Detachment Commander Zhang, this is a period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party to resist Japan, even if our two parties have some differences on some issues, but to say that attacking friendly forces is a big disapproval of the world, and this possibility can be said to be small and small. Besides, if it passes through the defense area of the Japanese army, once the Japanese army mobilizes a large army to besiege it, the consequences will be unimaginable. Hearing that Deputy Detachment Commander Zhang did not agree with his suggestion, Xiang Chief of Staff said with some displeasure. (To be continued.) )