The guerrilla area of the Su-Anhui guerrilla brigade is the smallest guerrilla area among the several guerrilla areas of the Wu Mu army, and there are only two counties of Dangtu and Wuhu, but there are several mining areas that the Wu Mu army is firmly defending, such as gold mines, copper mines, lead mines, and iron mines, so the troops are relatively concentrated, and they are actually quasi-base areas.

Zhang Tielong took his Second Brigade to the Suzhou-Anhui guerrilla zone and discussed with Wei Wenyang the plan for westward expansion: The combat quality, establishment, and heavy equipment of the Second Brigade were stronger than those of the Soviet-Anhui guerrilla brigade, and it was responsible for penetrating deep into the dangerous terrain of the occupied area and establishing some strategic support points, while the Su-Anhui guerrilla brigade was tactically flexible and responsible for relying on strategic support points to carry out guerrilla warfare, open up and expand guerrilla areas, harass devil troops, plunder materials, mobilize the masses, and raise supplies; In this case, it is necessary for the two units to be matched and mixed, with each regular company with three guerrilla squadrons to open up guerrilla areas, and the instructors of the New Fourth Army to assist the logistics staff officers, quartermasters, military police squads, and officials of the Xishan Self-Rescue Association of the Wumu Army in mobilizing the masses.

In order to explore the mode of small-scale guerrilla warfare, Wei Wenyang, Zhang Tielong, and Liu Xitian, captain of the New Fourth Army Instructor Team, summed up a set of ways to combine soldiers and civilians.

Zhang Tielong dispatched nine combat squads of one company, each with one platoon of guerrillas to form nine guerrilla detachments, organized into a guerrilla squadron, and entered the villages of Longgeng, Dongxingcun, Jiashikou, Jiutangchong, Dongjia, Xiaomaotang, Huxingdi, and Xuewu in the mountainous areas of southern Fanchang. The combat squad of the guerrillas can also maintain the level of 1 Type 96 light machine gun, 1 Qiguang submachine gun, and 10 Type 38 rifles, but the grenades are mostly clay pot grenades and captured grenades, and although the combat squad of Zhang Tielong Brigade has only 7 people, it is equipped with 1 light machine gun, 1 Qiguang submachine gun, 2 Qiguang rifles, and 2 short shotgun gun grenade launchers. The grenade is also an offensive grenade with a wooden handle of cast iron.

Troops were stationed in the villages. The guerrilla combat squad is stationed on the main communication routes, while the regular squad is stationed on the selected hidden retreat routes, and then sets up a cordon, probes the surrounding environment, and arranges contingency plans in case of attack.

To live in the people's homes, they must pay for the house, and help the people do some housework such as carrying water, chopping firewood, repairing houses, etc., try not to disturb the lives of the people, and use the grain to buy rations and vegetables, so that the people have some income and gain the favor of the people; At the same time, a group of cadres of the Democracy Movement Department of the Wumu Army led by the instructors of the New Fourth Army found the village chief and gathered the villagers, affirmed the propositions of resolutely resisting the Han and severely punishing the Han annihilation, and then declared that they would try not to engage the enemy in the village to avoid causing losses to the villagers; If the villagers assist the guerrillas in leading the way, transporting the wounded, providing ammunition and other actions during the battle, they will be given financial subsidies; teach villagers to protect themselves when their troops are engaged; Teach the villagers to hide their food and belongings, and help build cellars, secret tunnels, and other institutions......

Wu Mujun's righteous deeds were very rare in the war years, and they quickly won the support and recognition of the people. But the devil will never allow Wu Mujun to stick a mallet in their eyes.

In fact, the puppet army around Fanchang had long known about the entry of the guerrillas, but they pretended to be deaf and dumb and neither reported nor took any action.

There were several secret outposts around the guerrilla station, and the commanding heights were machine gun positions, and as soon as the devil puppet army moved, the guerrillas immediately reacted and quickly withdrew from the village and entered the preset position.

One battalion of the puppet army surrounded the hills around Xiaomaotang and surrounded one guerrilla detachment in the mountains.

Each platoon, company and battalion of the puppet army is supervised and led by 1 devil, and a total of 14 supervisors of the puppet army under the command of the devil's supervision, focusing on attacking Xiaomaotang Road to prevent the guerrillas from breaking through and escaping in the direction of Dongjia, and 3 of the 9 light machine guns of the puppet army are arranged in the east, as well as 3 heavy machine guns.

The guerrillas did not panic and moved covertly along the mountain road to the south of the hill.

The sub-focus of the puppet army's attack in the southern part of the hill also has 1 company, 3 light machine guns, and 4 devils to supervise. The devil supervisor was very clever and used one platoon to search the mountain in the south, and two platoons to cover outside the mountain.

When the guerrillas saw that the puppet army was searching for them, they were personally shot by the squad leader of the regular squad, and they put down the devil's supervisor with one shot.

The puppet soldiers hurriedly concealed their guns and fired back. The guerrillas stopped shooting, but began to shout: "Puppet soldiers, we are also Chinese, we don't want to fight you, we can't fight hard, even if you fight hard, you are not opponents!" Believe it, you see! ”

The grenadier cooperated with the puppet army and placed a high-explosive grenade next to the puppet army, blasting a boulder of several hundred catties away.

The puppet army knew that it was invincible, and they "shot back" at no one's place, and the guerrillas also cooperated with each other by shooting at each other by one squad, and most of them continued to move out of the mountain.

Seeing the outer positions of the devil's puppet army, the guerrillas didn't say a word, and first several riflemen opened fire at the same time, killing 2 devil supervisors and wounding 2 puppet army officers.

The puppet soldiers immediately returned fire, but Wu Mujun did not fight back, but the grenadier secretly looked for the devil to supervise, and then 1 high-explosive grenade blew it to pieces, and the stumps splashed the faces of the surrounding puppet soldiers, and injured 1 puppet army officer.

Then, the guerrillas repeated their old tricks and began to shout, and the puppet army lost its officers, so they dispersed in a hurry and quickly made way for the Wu Mu army.

With the current strength of the guerrillas of the Wumu Army, two platoons can defeat this puppet army, but it is not allowed to fight a war of annihilation above the battalion level, only guerrilla warfare, and not to expand the war. The puppet army also took the opportunity to retreat to the periphery of Fanchang and stopped the clean-up operation.

In order to prevent the devils in Fanchang from going all out to wipe out the guerrillas and expand the scale of the war, Zhang Tielong sent two guerrilla squadrons to station all the northern and southern mountainous areas of Fanchang and the western section of the southern mountainous areas, forming an encirclement of the Fanchang devils and making the Fanchang devils dare not act rashly.

On Tuesday, Gou believed that Zhang Tielong's troops were still in the line of regular warfare, but they were just spreading their troops, and the pace of advance was too slow, so he instructed Zhang Tielong to keep only one guerrilla squadron in each county, not to occupy large towns, not to fight tough battles, not to defend to the death, to set up more small village-level base areas and secret supply bases, to fight more ambush warfare, raid and harassment warfare, to capture more, and to expand more troops, which is called the principle of "three no, four more."

Zhang Tielong really had no bottom in his heart to fight this kind of rootless battle, but he still gritted his teeth and carried out the instructions from above, and scattered all the 18 companies of his 2 regiments, 6 battalions, and 18 companies, and stationed them in Nanling, Tongling, Qingyang, Chizhou, Shitai, Dongzhi, Pengze, Hukou, Duchang, Poyang, Qimen, Fuliang, and other counties.

After two months of fear, Zhang Tielong found that all the guerrilla squadrons had taken root in the predetermined area, and they quickly spread out, and the guerrilla squadron of about 500 people, and now the smallest guerrilla squadron has more than 700 people, so that Zhang Tielong formed an armed transport team with one machine gun battalion and six firepower companies in his hand, and transported materials such as javelin flying mines, meteor flying mines, gun grenades, clay pot mines, and materials reported by various guerrilla squadrons, and transported the materials both transported and recovered. It has not only strengthened the guerrilla squadrons and familiarized them with the environment of the guerrilla zones, so as to facilitate the support of the guerrilla squadrons in their operations, but has also improved the firepower units' ability to conduct field training.

Zhang Tielong reported on Tuesday that the troops had all been in contact with the Third Theater and that all the transportation channels had been opened, but it was inconvenient to expand along the shores of Poyang Lake, and to the south of Poyang Lake was the defense area of the Third Theater, which was not suitable for guerrillas to be stationed and infiltrated, and to the west was the natural barrier of Poyang Lake, and that Huxi was the hinterland of the devil-occupied area, so it was difficult to open up transportation lines with the Ninth and Sixth Theaters.

On Tuesday, the dog replied, suspending westward expansion and consolidating existing guerrilla zones.

According to Xiang Qingyun's statistics, Zhang Tielong's brigade sent two infantry regiments and a total of more than 9,000 people from the Suzhou-Anhui guerrilla brigade to establish a guerrilla zone about 300 kilometers long and 50 kilometers wide, expanding the number to more than 20,000 people, controlling a population of about 400,000, and opening up the communication line from the base area in southern Jiangsu to Poyang Lake.

Therefore, the headquarters of the Wumu Army awarded the Zhang Tielong Brigade and the Su-Anhui Guerrilla Brigade to the whole army.

Zhang Tielong was extremely excited to receive the commendation, this was the most proud of him since he joined the Wu Mu Army, and then he was enthusiastic to follow Xiang Qingyun's instructions to control and occupy all important intersections, and resolutely pull out the devil's stronghold on the transportation line.

Because the guerrillas were constantly fighting in the guerrilla areas, did not invade or disturb the people, and also distributed some of the seized materials to the people on the spot to avenge their hatred, they won the hearts of the people. Now that we have started to attack the city according to the deployment, it will increase the confidence of the common people in the guerrillas!

Due to the constant attacks of the Wu Mu Army guerrillas on a small group of devils, the devils no longer dared to wantonly plunder in the guerrilla areas, so they had to reduce their forces and control key areas, and the smallest stronghold had to be a small team or more with a puppet army unit above the company level, and they easily did not dare to come out to carry out activities, which greatly reduced the harm to the common people, so in the Wumu Army guerrilla area, except for the devil's stronghold, it is basically the world of the Wumu Army, but the Wumu Army guerrillas are fighting against the stronghold of about 200 people of the puppet army, and it is also difficult to gather enough troops. So, Wei Wenyang, Zhang Tielong, and Liu Xitian applied to Xishan for a special operations team to come to provide combat guidance, and give the devil a trick to break the gold!

As a result, the drug attack, the fan attack, the lure attack, and the bee attack have been introduced, and the encirclement points are sent to help, the tiger is transferred from the mountain, and the sound is to attack the west and the west, but it is not a strong attack, and the number of eats is as much as it takes, and the configuration of the puppet army is in vain, and many puppet army units are captured by the formation and sent back to Xishan for reorganization, because for the operation behind enemy lines, the newly incorporated puppet army cannot be trusted, so it can only be escorted back to Xishan to return to the furnace and reorganized.

After the devils lost more than 2,000 devil soldiers and more than 10,000 puppet army troops, they had to shrink the defense line again, expand the stronghold to the size of the squadron, and the puppet army expanded to the size of the battalion and regiment, focusing on garrisoning the county seat and important towns.

Zhang Tielong saw that his troops were rapidly spreading out and maneuvering with devils in a vast area, and the number of people had also expanded to more than 20,000, he was a little complacent: Although he had the guidance and support of Wei Wenyang, Duanmu Changyan, Liu Xitian, and others, after all, the backbone of the guerrilla operations in the guerrilla area were all his subordinates, and he could be regarded as having made some achievements in the Wumu army, and was no longer a puppet army that had been absorbed.

On Tuesday, Gou, Zeng Qi, and Xiang Qingyun saw that Zhang Tielong's westward advance was progressing smoothly, not only expanding the team several times, but also sending back tens of thousands of puppet army prisoners, so they ordered Li Haiyang to set up a training brigade to train the puppet army, and then supplement the various units of the Wumu army, and at the same time ordered Lu Yaohan's troops to advance into Jiangbei.

Sure enough, after the westward guerrillas commanded by Li Jiakui won a series of victories in attacking cities and pulling out villages, they were soon squeezed out of the occupied areas because they lacked the means to establish base areas, and the troops opened up guerrilla areas in accordance with the orders of the Wumu Army Headquarters, and naturally did not dare to retreat easily, and a large number of troops gathered in Lai'an, Chuzhou, Quanjiao, Hanshan, Chaohu, and Wuwei east of Hefei to engage in maneuvers with the devils.

Seeing this, Gou and others on Tuesday ordered Li Jiakui to stick to the original guerrilla area, cool down the fighting in Jiangbei, prevent large-scale battles, and bring unprepared and unplanned attrition to the Wu Mu army, which was recovering, and at the same time, Lu Yaohan's department took over Li Jiakui to complete the task of advancing westward from Jiangbei.

Lu Yaohan is a veteran warlord, not only knows how to command the military, but also is good at judging the situation and balancing, compromise, and cooperating with all forces; he saw that the New Fourth Army was powerful in Jiangbei, and that Tuesday Dog and others had no political ambitions to grab territory, so he suggested forming an alliance with the New Fourth Army to jointly open up the Jiangbei guerrilla zone, and won the approval of Tuesday Dog and others.

After Lu Yaohan got Tuesday's approval, he immediately sent people to contact Chen Yi's New Fourth Army Military Headquarters, Tan Zhenlin's Sixth Division of the New Fourth Army, Zeng Xisheng's Seventh Division of the New Fourth Army, and the Fifth Division of the New Fourth Army.

So Lu Yaohan mixed his two regiments with the Jiangbei guerrillas, and divided them into two routes to advance westward along the north and south roads of Dabie Mountain: one way, relying on the Wuwei detachment base of the Seventh Division of the New Fourth Army of Zeng Xi's Shengbu Department, advanced to the west of Lujiang, Tongcheng, Huaining, Qianshan, Taihu (Taihu Lake, Anhui), Huangmei, and Qichun, and established contact with the Fifth Division of the New Fourth Army of the [***] Division, and then again divided the troops into two routes, one along the Yangtze River and Wuhan first, and all the way to Yingshan, Luotian, Macheng, and Huang'an; The other road advanced along the line of Lujiang, Shucheng, Huoshan, Jinzhai, Shangcheng, and Guangshan, and after opening up with the base area of the Fifth Division of the New Fourth Army of the [***] Division, it continued to establish contact with the Fifth Theater to the west.

The difficulty of Lu Yaohan's advance was far greater than that of Zhang Tielong's. The main combat area of Zhang Tielong's department is between the occupied area and the [***] defense area, and it is a life-and-death battle against the devils, although it is not a heart, but it is also a relationship of interest that complements each other, and the contradiction is relatively simple, and the combat area of the Lu Yaohan Department includes the devil puppet army, as well as the New Fourth Army, [***], and local armed forces, and they fight separately and attack each other, and the relationship of interests is extremely complicated.

At this time, [***] not only fought with the devils but also wantonly armed the Communist Party and annexed the local armed forces, and the New Fourth Army also used color to fight against the encirclement and suppression and friction of [***], and at the same time actively strive for and incorporate local armed forces. In view of the complicated situation, Lu Yaohan had no choice but to go to the front line to coordinate and command.

Lu Yaohan was well versed in the way of the left and right, he agreed with various families to assist in the battle and share the results of the war, and provided weapons and equipment and other war materials and other conditions and hinted at the threat of force, settled most of the disputes, established the guerrilla zone between the Kuomintang and the Communist Army, isolated [***] from the New Fourth Army, reduced a lot of friction, and provided material support to both sides, both sides looked at the face of the materials and there was no ideological irreconcilable contradiction with the Wumu Army, and both wanted to fight for this armed force, Lu Yaohan's department was finally able to advance westward step by step.

There are always accidents, Xu Jingsong, the head of the Huangmei [***] garrison, agreed to Lu Yaohan's proposal, but suddenly changed his face and tried to disarm a guerrilla detachment of Lu Yaohan's department, and was killed and wounded by the guerrilla detachment 4 or 50 people, and the guerrilla detachment also suffered more than 10 casualties, and was besieged by the garrison, and the two sides suddenly fell into a stalemate.

Xu Jingsong asked Lu Yaohan to settle the dispute with 300 meteor thunderbolts, 10 light machine guns, 100 rifles and a batch of ammunition.

Lu Yaohan was furious and mobilized a guerrilla squadron to distribute 300 meteor thunderbolts to surround Xu Jingsong's regimental headquarters.

Faced with the threat of powerful firepower from the Wu Mujun guerrillas, Xu Jingsong was instigated and hurriedly asked the Shangfeng chief to mediate.

Of course, Lu Yaohan would not spare him easily, so Lu Yaohan proposed to invite the surrounding New Fourth Army and other places to witness the armed minds, and let Xu Jingsong apologize in public. [***] believes that this will seriously affect [***]'s prestige and sternly refuses.

Lu Yaohan had no choice but to bring back his troops in a stupid manner, he can't be as knowledgeable and blatant as [***], right? However, Wu Mujun will also play yin tricks, and he is a master!

The guerrilla squadron and the attacked guerrilla detachment brought by Lu Yaohan were left near the Huangmei Garrison Regiment, and Xu Jingsong's troops did not dare to provoke the Wumu Army guerrillas anyway.

Lu Yaohan personally commanded this unit to carry out detailed reconnaissance and deployment, successively attacked a devil's baggage team and a military station on the communication line south of Huangmei, and then withdrew to Xu Jingsong's defense area, and also sent some military blankets, flashlights, canned food, biscuits, and other trophies to the officers and men on the periphery of Xu Jingsong's defense area.

According to the flow of materials, the devil found Xu Jingsong's defense area, so he determined that the looting and sabotage was done by Xu Jingsong's troops, so he sent two squadrons of infantry and an artillery squadron to retaliate.

Lu Yaohan originally planned to teach Xu Jingsong a lesson, and when Xu Jingsong's troops were tight, he would reach out to save him, but unexpectedly Xu Jingsong was an insider in the civil war and an outsider in the foreign war.

Lu Yaohan didn't stop doing anything, and commanded the joint forces to launch a counterattack against Huangmei, and even the devil took Xu Jingsong to fight together.

Originally, Xu Jingsong's 3rd and 4th companies refused to surrender to the devils, and continued to fight with the devils, plus foreign reinforcements, and soon defeated the surrendered troops. Seeing that his crusade team was alone, the devil withdrew to his original defense area after paying the price of 100 casualties and a batch of weapons and equipment, including 2 mortars and 1 infantry gun.

Lu Yaohan and the New Fourth Army and several local armed forces divided the territory and supplies of Xu Jingsong's rebels, and after giving comfort and replenishment to the [***] company that did not surrender to the enemy, they escorted them back to the [***] unit and praised their superiors vigorously; As for the territory and materials and equipment to be divided, this is the spoils of war that the guerrillas of the Wumu Army and other coalition forces fought bloodily from the hands of the devil puppet army, and they should be divided, and there is nothing to say about it!

When the forces of all sides in Jiangbei saw Wu Mujun's methods, they all showed favor and cooperation to Lu Yaohan's department, and the situation became a lot smoother.

After more than half a year of sporadic fighting, Tuesday Dog found that the Wu Mu Army had opened up 100 new base areas in Jiangnan and Jiangbei, each of which was hundreds of square kilometers large, and a dozen or dozens of square kilometers smaller, adding up to tens of thousands of square kilometers, and the number of troops had also expanded from more than 20,000 to more than 70,000 when they marched westward, and nearly 20,000 puppet troops and prisoners were sent back to the base areas in southern Jiangsu, especially the transportation and exchange channels between the Wu Mu Army and the New Fourth Army and [***], making the base areas in southern Jiangsu more prosperous and powerful. This kind of business can be done! (To be continued.) )