Chapter 128: Total Plunder (1)
Seeing that the Wu Mu Army stabilized its position, the dog on Tuesday was a lot more steady, so he exchanged the rifles, machine guns, infantry guns, mortars and ** with ** for a large number of explosives and gunpowder to make up for the consumption caused by the powerful firepower of the Wu Mu Army.
After a major reorganization and refitting of the troops, Lu Yuxi reported to Tuesday Dog that the reserves of various materials and equipment were basically exhausted and urgently needed to be replenished: all Western medicines had been exhausted, weapons and equipment were basically no reserves, and diesel, gasoline, kerosene, lubricating oil, and other oils could not make ends meet......
Tuesday Dog is now very sophisticated, and has taken out the magic weapon - to hold a staff meeting.
At the meeting, everyone first put forward their own proposals, and then the bigwigs summarized and planned.
The commanders of the guerrilla corps headed by He Laifu said one after another that they would give up the cities and counties in the guerrilla areas they had occupied, and that they would rob the devils of their equipment and materials after they had been stationed.
Duanmu Changyan was even more crazy, and directly asked Qi Yuankai and Lu Yuxi to supplement the list of materials.
Xiang Qingyun believes that the recruits of the mobile detachment and the garrison detachment need to be trained in rotation, and the veterans and various units need to run in actual combat.
Li Jinglong and Li Guangda pointed out that in addition to occupying Taihu Lake and the Zhoushan Islands to attack and harass the Devil's Navy, the Sailor Brigade still had considerable combat strength and could plunder the Devil's transport ships in the Yangtze River waterway.
Lu Yuxi and Qi Yuankai also unceremoniously asked for a large number of heavy artillery, oil, and Western medicine.
Just when Wu Mujun was sharpening his knives and preparing to quietly slaughter a group of devil fat sheep, a serious situation occurred in the pre-war preparations of various troops: a large number of Qiguang Type 1 and Type 2 submachine guns frequently malfunctioned---- jammed, exploded, and could not be fired......
After the inspection of Yuan Zhongwu, it was found that because the Qiguang Type 1 submachine gun was a Type 38 rifle that had been modified to increase the rate of fire, but the life was shortened, resulting in serious wear and tear on the barrel, chamber and bolt, and the barrel material of the original Type 38 rifle was designed and manufactured in accordance with the single-shot rifle, so the life of a batch of Qiguang submachine guns installed in large quantities expired; The Qiguang II submachine gun has changed the pistol bullet of the barge gun to a more powerful rifle cartridge during the transformation, which also greatly shortens the wear and tear of the gun parts and shortens the life of the gun.
On Tuesday, the dog received a report from Yuan Zhongwu and had a headache: the loss of guns is normal, and the trouble lies in the fact that a large number of guns have problems at the same time, and now one-third of the two Qiguang submachine guns are close to being scrapped, more than half of the hidden guns, and the guns in reserve have been replaced with other materials; What's even more troublesome is that once the news spreads, it will greatly shake the morale of the army, and the devil is likely to take the opportunity to make trouble.
On Tuesday, the dog instructed Yuan Zhongwu to keep the news secret, and on the other hand, he called Zhao Dahu, Shi Jilun, Xiang Qingyun, Shu Jintang, and Zheng Qiguang to discuss countermeasures: the arsenal should use high-speed steel to cast barrels and manufacture parts---- but the hardness of high-speed steel is far greater than that of the original steel, and the manufacturing speed is less than one-tenth of the original, and it is far from quenching the thirst; There is also a batch of Qiguang submachine guns that can be used, and seize the guns of the looting devils to replenish the troops; exchange usable guns for front-line troops; The garrison of the Xishan Base Area, newly equipped with Browning automatic rifles and light machine guns, was transferred to the front line; The troops have done a good job of keeping secrets strictly in their work.
The troops that had just been reorganized had to be mobilized on a large scale, and Xiang Qingyun made detailed arrangements for the transfer: Duanmu Changyan's special operations brigade was the mainstay, supplemented by the garrison troops in southern Jiangsu, to carry out raids on Shanghai, Hangzhou, Suzhou, and other first-line devil railways in the south of the Yangtze River; The Jiangbei He Laifu Department was organized by Liu Maoer to organize the Jiangbei Special Operations Brigade, supplemented by the main force of Jiangbei Africa and local troops equipped with rifles, to loot the Jiangbei devils, that is, the Yangtze River waterway; In the name of optimizing equipment, the Jiangnan and Jiangbei special operations brigades transferred the easy-to-use Qiguang submachine guns to various special operations brigades to form a new force and loot equipment.
Duanmu Changyan conducted a detailed reconnaissance and analysis of the transportation network of the devils in the south of the Yangtze River: the transportation network in the south of the Yangtze River is mainly composed of roads, railways, and waterways, and the traffic volume of the highway is small and scattered, which is suitable for the guerrillas to carry out small-scale looting, and the scale of the water transportation volume is different, and the large waterways include the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, the Huangpu River, the Wusong River, the Taipu River, etc.; Jiangnan Railway is mainly the Nanjing-Shanghai Railway from Shanghai to Nanjing, which can only be connected to Wuxi at present due to the blockade of Wu Mujun, the Shanghai-Hangzhou-Ningbo Railway from Shanghai to Hangzhou and Ningbo is relatively complete, and the Sujia Railway from Suzhou to Jiaxing is a short-term transshipment railway, because the railway line has a large transportation volume, and it is often thousands of tons of materials, which is suitable for large-scale looting operations.
Because Wu Mujun cut off the Nanjing-Shanghai railway, there were not many military supplies transported to Wuxi and Suzhou, most of which were rice, cotton, cloth, oil, and a large number of civilian supplies. Duanmu Changyan learned that the railway stations in Wuxi and Suzhou have a large reserve of military supplies, which were stranded at the railway stations after the Wu Mu army occupied Zhenjiang and Changzhou, and were temporarily used to replenish the local garrison on the spot or to transfer them when the Nanjing-Shanghai railway opened again. Duanmu Changyan took a fancy to this batch of materials.
Duanmu Changyan led the 1st Special Operations Battalion, Danyang Garrison Battalion, and Li Jiakui's Special Operations Battalion to quietly infiltrate Suzhou: Duanmu Changyan's 1st Special Operations Battalion was responsible for taking the railway station, and Li Jiakui's special operations battalion was responsible for taking down the Devil Garrison Headquarters, Military Police Headquarters, and Imperial Cooperative Army Headquarters next to the railway station; The Danyang garrison battalion was responsible for storming the city of Suzhou, organizing the transportation of supplies, and ensuring the retreat of the transported materials.
Li Jiakui's special operations battalion was very familiar with the situation in Suzhou, so he infiltrated first; Duanmu Changyan's 1st Special Operations Battalion climbed onto a train at 8 p.m. and went directly into the railway station and fired the first shot of the attack.
Duanmu Changyan personally went into battle and commanded the men and horses to occupy all the key points of the railway station: fire points, watchtowers, stations, waiting halls, stationmaster rooms, dispatch rooms, warehouses, ...... Where can a devil in a reinforced squadron withstand the attack of a special operations battalion with a miraculous, grenade and short shotgun?
When the devil reinforcements reinforced the railway station, the special operations battalion relied on the occupied devil fire points and watchtowers to build fire support points, and more than 70 short shotguns guarded the railway station around the six heavy machine gun fire points in the state of gun grenade launchers, and the cleaning of the devils in the station was carried out step by step, and at the same time, all warehouses were opened, and artillery, guns, ammunition, medicines, equipment, and oil were preferentially loaded onto the nearest wagons, and then grouped......
The Danyang garrison battalion followed the train of the special operations battalion and advanced towards the city of Suzhou: mortars covered the infantry carrying Browning automatic rifles and light machine guns along the railway. In fact, there was not much difference between Browning's automatic rifle and light machine gun, so the Danyang garrison battalion was equivalent to charging with more than 300 light machine guns, and the firepower was as fierce as you can imagine, and it quickly opened up the passage from outside the city to the railway station. The assembled train was loaded with munitions, medicines, equipment, oil and other dry goods and left Suzhou City.
The train stopped on the shore of Yangcheng Lake, and Li Jiakui led a large number of carts and fishing boats to wait beside the railway, and immediately began to unload, load, and load in an orderly manner, and a large number of materials were transported to the Yangcheng Lake base area.
Of course, the devils will not let Wu Mujun make waves, while the devils in Suzhou surrounded the railway station, there was a brigade of devils in the direction of Kunshan and Qingpu on the Shanghai side to help Suzhou. The train in Kunshan derailed halfway and was covered by the artillery fire of the Li Jiakui Army, so they had to defend on the spot; The devils in Qingpu marched to Suzhou along a number of waterways with dozens of gunboats and machine boats, and although some of them were blown up by mines set up by Li Jiakui's department along the way, most of them still rushed into Suzhou City.
In the city of Suzhou, the devil mobilized all the troops in the city to recapture the railway station, 3 infantry squadrons, half a heavy machine gun squadron (the other half was lost in the railway station), an artillery squad, and 6 tanks of the chariot detachment surrounded the railway station.
Seeing that all the troops in the Devil's City were dispatched, the latent Li Jiakui Special Operations Battalion bombarded the Devil's Garrison Headquarters, the Military Police Headquarters, and the Imperial Allied Army Headquarters with 6 97-type 150mm short mortars, each shell weighed 4 or 50 kilograms, and the walls collapsed everywhere, and more than 100 guns and grenades launched a stormy fire attack on the Devil's artillery, heavy machine guns, and tanks, and then the special operations battalion collectively appeared, opened the way with powerful firepower, rushed into the railway station, and joined the special operations battalion of Duanmu Changyan.
The Type 97 150mm short mortar was quickly erected in the railway station to strike at the remnants of the heavy fire in the distance of the devils, and numerous gun grenades and grenadiers bombarded the devils' light machine guns and infantry, and the heavy machine guns took the opportunity to load the train, and then the two special operations battalions boarded the train in an orderly manner and retreated outside the city.
Heavy machine guns and grenades were placed on the roof of the car, and the Danyang garrison battalion also boarded the train, broke out of the encirclement, and returned to the Yangcheng Lake base in the early morning.
Overnight, three battalions of Wu Mujun's different units raided the Suzhou Railway Station and plundered a large number of arms and materials.
Li Jiakui and Duanmu Changyan have long been carefully planned, and a large number of materials have been transferred to Changzhou, followed by the mobile detachment of the Wumu Army. Ke Hua placed the heavy artillery brigade, armored brigade, and anti-tank brigade on the west bank of Yangcheng Lake between Wuxi, Suzhou, and Changshu, supported Li Jiakui's guerrilla detachment, and bombarded the devils in the direction of Suzhou with 75mm caliber mountain artillery, which was the devil Suzhou garrison and the devils reinforced in the direction of Qingpu, and two brigades plus a mortar brigade, and at the same time bombarded Wuxi with 105mm 99-type mountain artillery, there were 2 infantry brigades and an artillery squadron devils.
Seeing that the Wumu Army had dispatched artillery units again, the devil also sent planes to carry out air strikes on the artillery positions of the Wumu Army.
The devil learned the power of the Wumu Army's Foguang Flying Thunder, and also found some tricks: The Foguang Flying Thunder has an excellent air defense effect on a large number of aircraft groups, so it is best to deal with the anti-aircraft firepower of the Wumu Army with fewer sorties and multiple batches of attacks, so that the hit rate of the Foguang Flying Thunder launched in batches will be reduced, and the air defense ammunition of the Wumu Army will be wasted, and then a powerful air group will be used to bomb the Wumu Army's air defense ammunition.
Therefore, the devil's 6 attack planes flew over in 3 batches, but they did not find the target. Because the Wu Mu Army has also updated its tactics: the artillery unit has prepared a number of preset positions, and at the same time lit a large number of straws in the combat area, casting billowing smoke to block the view of the devil planes, while the Wu Mu Army's artillery has long been set to shoot Zhu Yuan and calmly carry out artillery bombardment.
Niu Daojia's armored brigade avoided the devils in the direction of Kunshan, and interspersed between Kunshan and Qingpu, and the devils used the method learned from Wu Mujun - flooded roads to delay Niu Daojia's armored brigade, and also sent planes to bomb Niu Daojia's armored brigade, Niu Daojia also launched a batch of large smoke bombs and thunderbolts, blocking the vision of the devil plane, and the result was crooked, so that two devil planes in the smoke screen collided together.
While continuing to bomb, all 36 105mm mountain guns and 12 105mm field guns of a field artillery wing were transported by train to the front line, which were used to cooperate with the aircraft to destroy the tank units and artillery units of the Wu Mu Army. The radio waves of the Wumu Army scouts were much faster than the trains, and they had already flown to the Wumu Army Garrison Detachment, Ke Hua had to report, and immediately notified Duanmu Changyan, Li Jiakui, and Niu Daojia to prepare for battle, and at the same time ordered the Jintan Garrison Battalion and the first battalion of the Changzhou Garrison Brigade to launch an attack on the Wuxi Railway Station under the cover of the heavy artillery brigade.
When the train of the Devil's Field Artillery Wing had just stopped between Kunshan and Yangcheng Lake, preparing to carry out a covering artillery bombardment on the flank of the Wumu Army's chariot unit to the south, as soon as it stopped, the muzzle of the Wumu Army's tank was pressed against the carriage door, and it was in a situation of being slaughtered.
Li Jiakui's special operations battalion and Duanmu Changyan's special operations battalion quickly entered the train carriages through the back door, and each carriage used 2 submachine guns and 2 gun grenades to force the devils, and the others used stunned bullets to smoke the devils and the soldiers of the Wumu army together, more than 2,000 devils, which was enough for the Wumu army to be tied up for half a day.
Shunroku Hata was captured by a field artillery wing and was so angry that he slammed into the wall because he was still very weak after the cholera was cured, and he did not die.
At this time, the Jintan Garrison Battalion and the 1st Battalion of the Changzhou Garrison Brigade also attacked the Wuxi Railway Station, transported weapons and equipment directly out of Wuxi by train, and transferred them back to the base area by the joint logistics detachment and militia on the front line of Changzhou;
Duanmu Changyan drove the train that captured the Devil's Field Artillery Wing to Suzhou, and the Devil knew that there were 48 105mm heavy guns on the train, so they retreated; In fact, the artillery on the train had already been pulled by Niu Daojia to the east bank of Yangcheng Lake with tanks and armored vehicles as ox carts, and they were swinging in the direction of Kunshan. The devil captives were transported back to Changzhou by trucks from the joint logistics detachment and the engineer detachment.
Wu Zhen led the cavalry to attack the city of Changshu, the infantry brigade of the mobile detachment attacked the periphery of Zhangjiagang, the guerrilla detachments of Duanmu Changyan and Li Jiakui surrounded Suzhou again, the Danyang garrison battalion, the Jintan garrison battalion, and the Changzhou garrison brigade also formed an encirclement of Wuxi, Niu Daojia armored brigade, Liang Ruxiang anti-tank brigade, and Wang Huankai heavy artillery brigade relied on Yangcheng Lake and the eastern Soviet base area to make an attack posture to Taicang, Jiading, and Qingpu, and the two brigades of the mobile detachment quickly marched to the Yangcheng Lake base area. Wu Mujun on the outskirts of Shanghai also became active.
According to the intelligence analysis obtained by Hata Junliu, Wu Mujun was going to attack Shanghai along the south bank of the Yangtze River, although the strength of Wu Mu's army was not enough to attack and occupy Shanghai, but Hata Junliu, who had suffered too much from Wu Mu's army, did not know how bold and powerful the bold Wu Mu army was, and he was not afraid of 10,000 in case he was afraid of what happened, so he hurriedly dispatched troops to prepare for it first and be invincible.
The attack on Wuxi, Suzhou, Changshu, and Zhangjiagang forced the devils to increase their supplies to these places, but fortunately, the Jiangnan water network brought a lot of convenience to the devil's motorboats.
The devil 1 gunboat protected the 3 motorboat transport ships and sailed to Suzhou, and suddenly a cable rose in the middle of the river, and several mines were hung on the cable, and the devil hurriedly slowed down, stopped the boat, and prepared for battle.
Gunshots rang out in the surrounding reeds, it was Wu Mujun's heavy shotgun, although the lethality was not large, but the lethality rate was very high, and then the sound of motors sounded in the river, several motorized speedboats rushed over, and several Wumu soldiers threw a batch of clay pots and lime grenades into the boat, and then came back and climbed onto the gunboat and motorboat, and drove a steamboat full of ammunition and supplies through Taihu Lake to return to Xishan Wharf.
The railway from Shanghai to Suzhou was cut off by Wu Mujun, and the railway between Jiaxing and Suzhou became an important channel to reinforce Suzhou and Wuxi.
With the assistance of the Sailor Brigade, the 2nd Special Operations Battalion of the Duanmu Changyan Special Operations Brigade had already infiltrated from around the Wujiang River to the lake area east of Taihu Lake, and it was also the place where the Sujia Railway must pass.
The methods of the 2nd Special Operations Battalion can be called simple, crude, and effective: they lurk on both sides of the Sujia Railway, set up obstacles on the railway or simply hang red lights to slow down the train, and then board the train to kill people and rob people, and the devil guards and drivers are all killed, and then load the prepared bamboo rafts, wait for the arrival of devil reinforcements, withdraw regardless of the number of goods, and then transport them back to the base area through Taihu Lake.
The devils strengthened the protection of the Sujia Railway and increased the number of escorts, but the Wumu army detected its troop allocation in advance, and even directly used stunned bombs and grenades to solve the escort troops, and then plundered property as usual; The devil further improved his method and used the railway ironclad car to follow the escort, which annoyed the Wu Mu army, and blew the ironclad car into a pile of scrap metal with a hollow charge of anti-tank gun grenades, and then plundered the property as usual.
It was another "bitter battle" of more than ten days: Wu Mu's army failed to attack Shanghai, and even failed to attack any place in Suzhou, Wuxi, Changshu, and Zhangjiagang, but only intercepted a large number of devils to deliver ammunition supplies to these places, and the devil's planes also bombed Wu Mujun's heavy artillery, but Wu Mu's army used thick smoke to cover the eyes, Buddha light flying thunder, smoke screen flying thunder, anti-aircraft guns, anti-aircraft machine guns formed a multi-channel air defense network, and shot down 11 planes.
Typhoons always hit at the right time, causing Wu Mujun and the devils to withdraw their troops and stop fighting. Toshiroku Hata breathed a sigh of relief, and on Tuesday the dog was busy counting the seizures: 48 heavy guns of 105 caliber complemented the heavy artillery of Wang Huankai's heavy artillery brigade; 12 75mm mountain guns, 36 150mm mortars, 29 90mm mortars, 19 20mm automatic guns, 7 37mm flat-fire snipers, 79 heavy machine guns, 348 light machine guns, more than 3,800 rifles, more than 240 grenadiers, more than 8,000 Type 38 rifles, a number of ammunition, a number of medicines, thousands of tons of various oils, and a number of other machinery and equipment and raw materials were seized.
Outside, when the typhoon was raging, on Tuesday the dog held a feast in the cave, first handing out red envelopes to the meritorious officers and men, and then making public the dangerous situation that the life of the Qiguang submachine gun had expired at the same time some time ago, and ordering the joint logistics detachment to immediately reequip the units equipped with the Qiguang submachine gun and replace all the Qiguang submachine guns with the captured light machine guns and rifles.
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