After Liu Tianshu trained the eight newspaper operators, he was always worried that the devils would send a large army to encircle and suppress him, but who knew that until September, the devils did not move. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Not only did there be no movement, but the devils and the Imperial Association army around the base area also suddenly became honest, and they all shrank into the strongholds, and they rarely even went to the countryside to harass the common people.

Liu Tianshu didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in Senmu's devil's gourd.

On this day, he received a telegram from the detachment headquarters and learned that the devil had suddenly gathered heavy troops and rushed to Changsha, and then he suddenly realized.

The 116th Division of the Japanese Army, which dared to be stationed in Anqing, was responsible for the safety of the Yangtze River, so it didn't care about making trouble for itself.

However, not far northwest of Anqing, there are activities of the 176th Division of the 48th Army. This force had attacked Anqing Castle a few months earlier, and Shinohara Seiichiro's current main defensive opponent was the 176th Division. As for the 16th regiment that was active between Sujiatang, Banqiaoji and Sanguba, he was afraid that he would not be able to pull out for a while.

It's just that Liu Tianshu didn't know that the reason why Shinohara Seiichiro asked the 138th Wing of the Japanese Army to strengthen the vigilance of the 16th Regiment, but did not allow them to launch an attack rashly, was because he had a glorious record in repelling the Sakai Brigade in Fuya Mountain, Shandong.

The devil suddenly became honest, so that the squads and platoons sent by Liu Tianshu's three main battalions did not achieve the expected results, of course, although the enemy failed to destroy much, but the influence of the 16th Regiment of the New Fourth Army among the common people suddenly became very great.

In the end, many young people from the occupied areas came to the 16th Regiment and took the initiative to ask to join the New Fourth Army.

Liu Tianshu saw that the devil did not come to attack, so he naturally seized the time to train the fourth battalion, and in a blink of an eye, at the end of September, Liu Tianshu got the news that the **** 176th Division launched an attack on the enemy in Anqing, and also achieved great results.

At this time, he received a telegram from Commander Luo of the detachment, asking his 16th Regiment to try to develop to the front line of Zhang Baling.

After reading the telegram, Liu Tianshu fell into deep thought and handed the telegram to Political Commissar Guo.

"Commander Liu, the detachment allows us to develop eastward?" Seeing that Commander Luo asked them to develop towards Zhang Baling's area, Guo Sizhong couldn't help frowning.

You must know that after several months of painstaking management, the work in the base areas has achieved initial results, and the militia organizations in various villages have been formally established, and anti-Japanese democratic regimes have also been established in Sanguba, Banqiaoji, Sujiatang, and Wangjiadian.

At this time, if the main force leaves the base area and develops eastward, once the devils gather heavy troops to attack, the base area may fall into the hands of the enemy.

Besides, the Tomita stronghold of the Japanese army in the south used to be the activity area of the *** army.

During this time, the performance of the *** army was a little weird, and it was difficult to ensure that the main force left, and they would not reach out to the base area.

"Yes, I estimate that the devils have strengthened the defense forces along the Jinpu Road, and the main force of the detachment is under great pressure in the east, if we can threaten Chuzhou to the east, we can reduce the pressure on the detachment." After thinking about it in his mind for a while, Liu Tianshu immediately understood the reason for Commander Luo's call.

Although Commander Luo brought two regiments of troops to Ludong, these two regiments were only about 2,000 people, and the devils in Ludong were very powerful, and the situation there was complicated, so their situation should be a little difficult.

Commander Luo knew that he had smashed the devil's sweep of the base area, and the army had grown to the size of more than 1,400 people in four infantry battalions, so it was reasonable for him to try to develop in the direction of Chuzhou and contain the enemy.

"But if the main force leaves the base area, I'm worried that the devils will take the opportunity to pounce." Guo Sizhong said with some concern.

Now that the three main battalions are guarding Sanguba, Sujiatang, and Banqiaoji, the devil's small force naturally does not dare to come forward, and the devil's big force naturally cannot escape the eyes of the underground party.

What's more, after he got along with Liu Tianshu for a few months, he knew that Liu Tianshu did have a unique set of commanding the war, and if Liu Tianshu was not in the base area, he would have no bottom in his heart.

In this way, the first battalion, the second battalion, and the third battalion will temporarily stay in the base area, and I will take the fourth battalion to develop towards Zhangbaling through the line of the Xiaoliu River. In this way, the connection between the devil's strongholds in the east of Liu can be severed, and the Senmu brigade can also be separated. This will be beneficial for our future struggles. Liu Tianshu thought about it, and decided to send troops to the northeast.

After all, the current base area is still very small, and Hefei in the west is also a place where the devils' heavy troops are assembled, which is not suitable for the development of the base area at all, and the south is also an area heavily defended by the devils because it is close to the devil's Yangtze River defense line, and although the devils have heavy troops along the Jinpu line in the east, it is densely covered with mountains and forests, which is convenient for carrying out guerrilla struggle. More importantly, if his troops control the line of Zhang Baling, they can not only threaten the railway line of the devils, but also echo the troops in the east of the road.

Hearing Liu Tianshu say this, Guo Sizhong had no choice but to agree.

Subsequently, Liu Tianshu convened a meeting of cadres above the regimental battalion level in Wangjiadian, at which he conveyed Commander Luo's instructions to everyone, and then announced that he would personally command the fourth battalion to go to the front line of Zhang Baling. The 123rd Battalion is responsible for the security of the base area and is temporarily under the command of Deputy Regiment Commander Liu. However, in a battle to ambush a convoy of devils, the second battalion accidentally captured three low-power radios, and asked Liu Tianshu to equip the radios to each battalion, so that even if he was in Zhangbaling, once the base area was attacked, he could use the radio to command.

Tong Guijie, Xie Pingcai, and Ou Biaofei heard the regiment commander order that the three battalions were still in charge of their respective directions, and couldn't help but look at the fourth battalion commander Kang Shuidong with hot eyes.

Fighting with the regiment commander is called a moisturizing, but unfortunately such a good thing was robbed by Kang Shuidong.

Kang Shuidong was originally a staff officer of the regiment headquarters, and when Liu Tianshu decided to form the fourth battalion, after some thought, he decided to make him the commander of the fourth battalion, and at the same time transferred Peng Wenwen, deputy director of the regimental political department, as an instructor.

Except for the Imperial Allied Army, which voluntarily joined the New Fourth Army after mobilization, the Fourth Battalion was a young man newly recruited from various villages, and it can be said that most of the remaining soldiers were new recruits, except for the cadres of the company platoon who were drawn from the three main battalions.

However, during this time, under the personal guidance of Liu Tianshu, the fourth battalion was trained well enough, and of course, the quality of the soldiers has also undergone earth-shaking changes.

"Battalion Commander Kang, Instructor Peng, this time your four battalions, plus a platoon of the machine gun company and a platoon of the reconnaissance company, formed an eastward advance force, and followed me to Zhang Baling, do you have the confidence to complete the task?" After Liu Tianshu finished announcing the task, he looked at Kang Shuidong and Peng Wenwen and said.

"Regiment commander, political commissar, our four battalions guarantee to complete the task!" The two said confidently.

"Okay, if you two have this confidence, I will rest assured, in this way, order the troops to prepare a week's dry food, leave Wangjiadian early tomorrow morning, set off from Sujiatang tomorrow night, and rush to the Majiaji stronghold before dawn the day after tomorrow, and strive to take Majiaji in one fell swoop." Liu Tianshu looked at Kang Shuidong and Peng Wenwen and said loudly.

According to Liu Tianshu's idea of developing eastward this time, the first step is to defeat the Majiaji stronghold in the east of the base area, first develop the base area to Majiaji, and then slowly develop eastward.

Although the detachment asked him to lead his troops to develop towards Zhang Baling, there was no time limit, so Liu Tianshu finally decided to adopt a steady and steady approach, first eliminate the enemy of Majiaji, and then advance to the northeast.

On the morning of the next day, the four battalions that had completed the preparations, under the personal command of Liu Tianshu, left Wangjiadian and headed in the direction of Sujiatang.

Tong Guijie's battalion was in charge of the direction of Sujiatang, and in the past two months, he has sent small units to attack the enemy everywhere, and has destroyed all the small devil strongholds in the east and southeast of Sujiatang, and the base area has been expanded to less than 30 miles away from Majiaji.

There is a special ****** prepared by Liu Tianshu himself, this kind of sharp weapon for attacking the turret, the devil's turret is simply a decoration, often a dozen or so ****** past, the turret becomes ablaze, where can the enemy inside shoot outward.

Naturally, the soldiers rushed over with ease, and the turret cracked in response to the explosion.

As a result, the enemy around the base area, after the turret was destroyed by the 16th Regiment, no longer built a strong turret, but built the fortifications directly on the hill.

After the stronghold was destroyed by the New Fourth Army, the devils stationed in Majiaji had already dismissed the idea of rebuilding the artillery tower, and instead built fortifications on the hills around Majiaji, which were connected by communication trenches and barbed wire outside.

It can be said that the devil went to great lengths to build a turtle shell covered in thorns in Ma's house. Moreover, after obtaining the consent of the wing commander, Morimu stationed a squadron of Japanese troops and a battalion of the Imperial Allied Army in Majiaji.

In this way, Majiaji has become a big stronghold outside Linshan County.

The fourth battalion rushed outside the Majiaji, and Liu Tianshu looked at the map and frowned and fell into deep thought. He originally heard from the soldiers of the reconnaissance company that the devil had built a huge fortification in Majiaji, and he was still a little unconvinced, but this time he came to the scene in person, and couldn't help but marvel at the devil's strong learning ability.

He walked around Ma Jiaji and found that the devil's light and dark firepower points were cleverly arranged, and he also deliberately cleared the firing sight in front of the fortifications, and there were no trees within two hundred meters in front of each firepower point. Moreover, some slopes have been deliberately flattened, and it is said that minefields were set up in front of the devil's fortifications.

The devil's strength in Majiaji is almost 600 people, Liu Tianshu looked at the map and thought for a long time, and finally had to give up the idea of attacking Majiaji.

It's just that when I was in Wangjiadian, I said that I wanted to pull out the nail of Ma Jiaji. Well, it seems that I am still a little underestimated.

Thinking of this, Liu Tianshu had to turn his eyes to the highway from Majiaji to Linshan County. (To be continued.) )