The devil suffered a loss, and he was bent on destroying this elite army, so he ignored the fleeing ** army, adjusted the formation of the chariot unit again to encircle Li Jinshan's firepower troops, and at the same time transferred planes to help in the battle.

Li Jinshan led his troops to fight back bravely, exerting their firepower to the limit, and pouring a large number of Buddha light flying thunder and heavenly rain flying thunder into the devil's chariot troops, and the composition of the devil's chariot division was far more complex and reasonable than that of the Wumu army's armored brigade, not only with several times the chariots of the Wumu army, but also with supporting anti-tank artillery, howitzer artillery, and anti-aircraft artillery, all of which attacked the Wumu army's firepower at this time.

In less than half a day, Li Jinshan's unit lost more than half of its firepower, the Foguang Flying Thunder had been exhausted, almost most of the tanks and armored vehicles had been destroyed, and more than 300 officers and men were left with shell guns for self-defense and dozens of Qiguang-style submachine guns of the joint logistics units, and they could only rely on dirt bags, road ditches, and other terrain to resist stubbornly.

At the moment of life and death, the remaining 200 cavalry of Xu Jiguang's cavalry brigade finally broke through the defense line of the chariot troops on the periphery of the devil and resisted side by side with the armored troops and artillery.

The devil thought that the total annihilation of the ** mechanized army was a foregone conclusion, so he transferred to the infantry, intending to have a perfect ending. Unexpectedly, the officers and soldiers of Wu Mu, who were all automatic weapons, broke into the devil infantry group like a tiger into a flock of sheep, and the stabbing technique that the devil infantry was good at was not used at all, and it was almost one-sided in the war department, and the devil's chariot could only watch the infantry fighting between them helplessly, and the remnants of Li Jinshan's blood-stained robe were exhausted.

Just when Li Jinshan and others were most desperate, Li Jiakui and Liu Zhenjiang led the infantry of the Central Plains Column to rush over, and their flying thunder soldiers used single meteor flying thunder and javelin flying thunder to hit the positions of howitzers and anti-armored artillery on the periphery of the devils, while the infantry held cluster grenades and pounced on the devil tanks, and the armored troops and infantry were mixed together.

Wu Zhen's cavalry brigade also broke into the devil's encirclement from the other side, snatching Li Jinshan and a group of wounded out of the encirclement, and He Laifu commanded the infantry brigade to join the battle group.

The devil was shocked by this desperate style of play, and wanted to break free from the melee situation with all his strength, retreat backwards, and then organize an attack.

Unexpectedly, He Laifu, Lu Yaohan, Liu Zhenjiang, and Liu Qinghe actually commanded the infantry to relentlessly chase after the devil's tanks and armored vehicles, and flew thunder, gun grenades, grenades, and even bullets to fire at the devils, until Lu Qinghu's anti-aircraft artillery brigade arranged a blocking position to block the pursuit of the devil's remnant chariot troops, and the Central Plains Column and the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Reading Division alternately covered and retreated to Yichuan and Linru in turn.

The 3rd Devil's Tank Division was disabled by Li Jinshan's Central Plains Column and He Laifu's Hubei-Henan-Anhui Reading Division, with losses of more than 200 tanks, more than 100 armored vehicles, more than 200 trucks, more than 40 large-caliber artillery, more than 1,600 chariot and artillery casualties, and more than 2,800 infantry casualties.

Li Jinshan and He Laifu commanded the troops to attack and disturb the devil's planes with the remaining single-shot flying thunder and antiaircraft artillery brigades, while the infantry used smoke screens and chose places to hide, while blocking the devil's infantry with mortars, infantry guns, machine guns, submachine guns, and rifles, and still suffered heavy losses.

The ** troops encountered on the way to the battle only fled all the way, and did not help Li Jinshan and He Laifu who were fighting hard, but took advantage of the Central Plains Column, Hubei, Henan and Anhui Reading Divisions to speed up their escape when they fought fiercely with the devils. Wu Mujun's reaction to ** has long been accustomed to it, just take care of himself and stubbornly block the devil's pursuers, they know that if they turn around and run away, they will incur the devil's unscrupulous **, and only desperate resistance can survive.

The armored troops and artillery of Li Jinshan's Central Plains Column lost all their heavy firepower and equipment, leaving only a few hundred shell guns, and more than half of the cavalry units were damaged, leaving only more than 200 war horses and more than 600 soldiers, and the infantry was still neat, with more than 30 percent casualties. Li Jinshan saw that the trucks of the joint logistics brigade were carrying thousands of wounded soldiers, and the infantry had also become stretcher soldiers, and he really wanted to cry without tears.

He Laifu's losses were small, so he insisted on breaking the rear, and the infantry brigade, anti-aircraft artillery brigade, and cavalry brigade alternately covered, and fought and retreated.

He and Li finally commanded the troops to retreat across the Ru River and into Funiu Mountain.

There are already many ** troops in Funiu Mountain, and the poor products in the mountainous area are not enough to support so many troops, so it is extremely difficult to provide supplies. He Laifu and Li Jinshan have received reports many times, ** The military discipline of the troops is sloppy, they rob the people's property and arrest their husbands at will, so that the common people rise up and attack them, especially Tang Enbo's troops, there has long been a saying of "water and drought locust soup", that is, it refers to the four major hazards of the common people in the first war zone: floods, droughts, locust plagues, and soup disasters, and the soup disaster refers to the harm caused by Tang Enbo's troops to the people; There was even an incident in which the local people collectively disarmed the ** troops.

He Laifu discussed with Li Jinshan and thought that this place should not stay for a long time. So he ordered Wu Zhen to return to Linru with elite cavalry, and snatched out the tens of thousands of catties of horse meat that Lu Yaohan's troops had stored in Linru to replenish the troops.

He Laifu and Li Jinshan led more than 20,000 troops to rely on tens of thousands of catties of horse meat for supplies, and finally withdrew to Nanyang after traveling more than 200 miles, but there were also a large number of ** defeated soldiers here, and the supply was still extremely tight. As a result, He Laifu left a large number of seriously wounded members of the Central Plains Column in the defense area for treatment, and the main force and lightly wounded of the Central Plains Column were escorted by Wu Zhen's cavalry brigade and returned to the defense area of the Jiangbei guerrilla detachment of the Wumu Army to rest and recuperate.

The troops passed through Tongbai, and the guerrillas of [***] sent people to meet them, replenish supplies, place the wounded, and guide the way, and then more and more guerrillas of the New Fourth Army rushed to meet them, which made Li Jinshan, Lu Yaohan and others grateful.

Liu Chenghai received the news of the setback of Li Jinshan's troops, and urgently dispatched elite troops to the front line of Guangshan for reinforcements, and finally received Li Jinshan and Lu Yaohan's troops in Jinzhai; Xishan also sent Zhong Limin's sailor brigade to carry a large number of weapons and equipment, medicine and infantry from the Dangtu garrison battalion; The condolence group of the Military Commission also rushed to express commendation and condolences to the Central Plains Column of the Wumu Army.

In Jinzhai, [***] also personally rushed to condole, Li Jinshan, Lu Yaohan, Wang Huankai, Han Jinkui, Xu Jiguang and others expressed their gratitude to [***].

Just when Li Jinshan, Lu Yaohan and Yuzhong were fighting with the devils, the devils dispatched a group of warships and planes from the Pacific theater to launch a counterattack on the Yangtze River waterway. More than 20 light cruisers, frigates, destroyers, and minesweepers, and more than 400 fighters and bombers swept through the Wumu Army base areas in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

For the sweep of the devils in the Yangtze River waterway, ** had no time to take care of it, and even Chennault's flying team was pinned down and suppressed by the devils in Wuhan, Nanchang and central Henan, so Wu Mujun's Jiangnan, Jiangbei, Hubei, Henan, and Anhui guerrilla detachments were under great pressure.

Zhenjiang has enough various types of Foguang Flying Thunder and Tianyu Flying Thunder, so the devils have not taken advantage of either naval warships or aircraft; The Jiangnan guerrilla detachment took advantage of the complex terrain of the mountains and Zhang Tiehu's mobile fire battalion, and the surrounding area was not convenient for the deployment of devil troops, so the losses were not large; The Jiangbei guerrilla detachment has been operating for many years, and it has repeatedly exchanged offense and defense with the devils, and only Lu Yaohan's Hubei-Henan-Anhui guerrilla detachment has suffered the heaviest losses.

On the one hand, because a large number of elite troops were transferred to join the Central Plains Column, although the battle achievements were also greatly damaged, the original part of the base area on the river bank was lost under the attack of the devil's warships, aircraft and the 11th and 13th armies of the Chinese dispatch army, and more than 3,000 people were lost. The most important thing is that the devils once again divided several base areas of the Wu Mu Army into two large blocks, Jiangnan and Jiangbei, and the material transportation line of the Wu Mu Army was cut off.

Li Jinshan and Lu Yaohan rested in Jinzhai for a few days, discussed the direction of action in the later stage with Liu Chenghai, and decided: 1. Present a batch of weapons and equipment to the [***] Department of the New Fourth Army to express the gratitude of the [***] Department for its help to the Central Plains Column; 2. Lu Yaohan was temporarily stationed in the eastern base area of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui guerrilla detachment in the east of Dabie Mountain, and established a joint operations headquarters with the [***] department of the New Fourth Army to contain the remnants of the Central Plains Column and wait for an opportunity to recover the Jiangbei base area of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui guerrilla detachment; 3. Li Jinshan led the artillery brigade, cavalry brigade, armored brigade, and motorized infantry detachment to the Jiangbei guerrilla base area first.

After Lu Yaohan and [***] agreed to establish the New Fourth Army and the Wumu Army's Hubei-Henan-Anhui Joint Operations Headquarters, Lu Yaohan took the initiative to ask [***] to serve as the commander-in-chief and himself as the deputy commander-in-chief, although the combat effectiveness of Lu Yaohan's troops is now much stronger than that of the Fifth Division of the New Fourth Army, but Lu Yaohan believes that the Fifth Division of the New Fourth Army still has a large number of militias, county brigades, district squads and other local armed forces and a broad mass base, so the comprehensive combat effectiveness is not weaker than his own.

Lu Yaohan received a report of the defeated troops who had been brought back, and Tang Enbo's department incorporated many of the defeated troops of the Central Plains Column.

Lu Yaohan was furious, **, this Tang Enbo can't fight with the devil, but he is good at disturbing the people and annexing friendly forces! Lao Tzu is a tiger falling in Pingyang, and he can't be bullied by dogs! On the one hand, he reported to Tuesday Dog and Zhao Dahu, and on the other hand, he coordinated with [***] to contain the remnants of the troops through the New Fourth Army Defense Area, and then took more than 4,000 people and 30 carts of 3 infantry brigades to pull 30 Tianyu Flying Thunder, equipped with more than 100 carts of logistics supply ammunition, and returned to western Henan in a vigorous manner.

Along the way, Lu Yaohan ordered the troops to attack the devils who dared to intercept with fierce firepower, and at the same time shocked the ** troops, surrounded Tang Enbo's two divisions in Funiu Mountain, and then directly reported to the Military Commission, asking Tang Enbo to hand over the 3,000 stragglers who contained the Wumu army, otherwise he would forcibly incorporate Tang Enbo's two divisions in exchange!

Because of the anger aroused by the public, Tang Enbo's troops were attacked and disarmed by the local people in many places in western Henan, and were strictly reprimanded by the Military Commission.

Lu Yaohan couldn't help but gloat when he saw that Tang Enbo had made a mess of Yuxi, and even Tang Enbo himself had suffered from it, but he still decided to sprinkle another handful of salt on Tang Enbo's wound. Lu Yaohan hurriedly sent someone to inform [***] and sent a task force to organize and contain a large number of armed peasants in western Henan who had mastered weapons! Lu Yaohan was extremely confident in the ability of the New Fourth Army to organize and mobilize the people.

After investigation, Tang Enbo found that his subordinates had forcibly recruited more than 1,000 soldiers of the Wumu Army, but now it is difficult to argue, so he had to return the soldiers of the Wumu Army and compensate Lu Yaohan for the equipment of a regiment. Lu Yaohan blackmailed Tang Enbo with a batch of equipment, and gave it to [***], thanking [***] for his help.

Not only did he get the equipment of thousands of people donated by Wu Mujun and Lu Yaohan, but also recruited tens of thousands of peasant armed forces under the guidance of Lu Yaohan, and expanded the base area of the New Fourth Army.

If Lu Yaohan hadn't looked at Wu Mujun and Tuesday Dog's face, he would have turned his face with ** and defected to the New Fourth Army, and now he and [***] formed a joint operations command, so he naturally took advantage of the melon field and Li Xia to wear a pair of pants with the New Fourth Army.

Lu Yaohan brought more than 4,000 people to western Henan and more than 1,000 people who were brought back from Tang Enbo, totaling 6,000 people, and established the Wumu Army's Central Plains Column Yuxi Reading Brigade, under the leadership of the New Fourth Army Task Force, quickly expanded the Reading Brigade to more than 20,000 people, nominally the Wumu Army, but in fact directly under the command of [***], completely the troops of the New Fourth Army. The Military Commission noticed something, but it was difficult to find out, so it had to swallow its anger, and the chairman even called Tang Enbo to Yucheng and scolded him for being bloody.

On Tuesday, the dog learned that Lu Yaohan had basically defected to the New Fourth Army, and he was also unhappy in his heart, but seeing that Lu Yaohan could still hand over a batch of captured materials, and at the same time, the defense area was still allowed to go back and forth with Wu Mujun, so there was no seizure; At this time, he received a secret telegram from the chairman of the committee, saying that the troops could not be allowed to fall into the hands of the New Fourth Army in any case, so he ordered Wei Wenyang to replace Lu Yaohan, and at the same time, in order to preserve the relationship with the New Fourth Army, Lu Yaohan was sent as the director of the liaison office of the Wumu Army in the New Fourth Army to coordinate the operational coordination and material transactions between the two sides.

After Wei Wenyang took office, he transferred the Yuli Brigade in western Henan back to the Jiangbei base area, and of course stripped the militia and self-defense forces controlled by the New Fourth Army and returned them to the New Fourth Army, keeping a certain distance from [***], and the Military Commission was a little more relieved about Tuesday.

On Tuesday, the dog finished dealing with the dispute between the Central Plains Column and **, and then cleared up the relationship with the New Fourth Army, and began to deal with the devils in the Yangtze River waterway with peace of mind.

Because the devils used the Yangtze River to divide the Wu Mu Army into two major blocks, Jiangnan and Jiangbei, the main force of Li Jinshan's mobile corps fell in Jiangbei, and although the strength of the Jiangbei guerrilla detachment was consolidated, the New Fourth Army sent people to hint that the Wu Mu Army was in Jiangbei to cause unease to the New Fourth Army, and hoped that the dog would make proper arrangements for Tuesday.

Zhong Limin's sailor brigade also suffered considerable losses in the Yangtze River waterway operation, and now Zhenjiang Port and Taihu Lake are resting and recuperating, and on Tuesday the dog ordered it to cross the Yangtze River with fast gunboats, transport the equipment needed by Li Jinshan's troops to Jiangbei, and then garrison it at Gaoyou Lake, preparing to fight back to the base area in southern Jiangsu with the main force of Li Jinshan's mobile corps.

The main force of the mobile corps was cut off in Jiangbei, and the strength of the base area in southern Jiangsu was slightly weak, so on Tuesday Gou ordered Wang Laodun's engineer detachment to strengthen the fortifications in important positions in the base area, as suggested to Qingyun.

On Tuesday, the dog had to deal with the relationship between Wu Mujun and the Military Commission and the New Fourth Army, and at the same time carry out military deployment, and also pay close attention to military production......

Thousands of things made Tuesday Dog deeply realize that the commander of the group army, the feudal official, was not easy to be, but fortunately, Tong Jingya, who was brought back some time ago, began to enter the role and helped Tuesday Dog a lot.

Tong Jingya's name is to coordinate the material procurement of the tutor as the liaison officer of the tutor Lu Qingyang, but in fact, there is a hidden mystery. Tong Jingya and Lu Qingyang combined, although Lu Qingyang has initially gained a firm foothold in the **, but the real foundation is still in Wu Mujun, without the support of Wu Mujun, Lu Qingyang can only be a wall grass that falls with the wind in **, anyone can play with it, so Tong Jingya's return to Xishan can be understood as Lu Qingyang does not forget his roots, and it can also be understood that Lu Qingyang is willing to take his wife as a hostage and show loyalty to Tuesday Dog.

The material problem of Tutor Lu Qingyang was nothing more than a gesture for Tong Jingya, and she spent most of her time at the Wu Mujun Headquarters dealing with Tuesday Dog, Zhao Dahu, Shi Jilun, Xiang Qingyun, Zeng Qi, Wang Yilang and others. Tong Jingya is a very discerning master, basically listening to the discussions and chatting of several bigwigs, sometimes helping to be a clerk, and being very valued by several bigwigs.

Before the staff meeting was held on Tuesday, Tong Jingya had already listed the observed problems in a clear category, and they would be used as the agenda of the bigwigs at the meeting.

Political issues: Mainly the relationship between Wu Mujun and the Central Military Commission and the New Fourth Army, as well as their positions, interests, and proportions.

Military issues: Mainly the distribution of the base areas in southern Jiangsu and several other guerrilla base areas, and the allocation of troops in all directions.

Material problems: mainly the procurement and transportation of materials and the circulation of materials outside the base areas.

Administrative issues: After many years of operation, the base areas in southern Jiangsu and Jiangbei can now be described as politically harmonious, mainly because the newly opened base areas in Jiangnan and Hubei, Henan, and Anhui have yet to be further consolidated.

The staff meeting was convened again, and Tong Jingya became the host. The questions raised by the bigwigs are really nothing more than a few aspects sorted out by Tong Jingya, but further discussion is not a scene where Tong Jingya can interject.

After orderly discussions, several issues were quickly decided:

On political issues, the Military Commission is nominally subordinate to the Military Commission, confirms its subordinate status to the Military Commission, and in fact still carries out military, production, and administrative work independently with reading power, and resists the intervention and influence of various factions; Adopt military and material cooperation with the New Fourth Army, keep a political distance, treat it as a purely military friendly force, and pay special attention to sensitive political influences; For the friendly forces on the ** side, it is the principle of gathering if you are together, and you are not dispersed if you are not together, and you will neither cause trouble nor make soft persimmons and Tang monk meat.

On administrative issues, it is necessary to strengthen the organizational structure of the newly built guerrilla base areas, as well as the work in the areas of administration, finance, economy, people's livelihood, public health, education, and propaganda, and to consolidate the mass foundation of the newly built base areas by combining Zeng Qi and Shi Jilun.

It was decided to use Li Jinshan's mobile corps to support the foothold of the Jiangbei guerrilla detachment commanded by Liu Chenghai and the Hubei-Henan-Anhui guerrilla detachment of Wei Wenyang's troops on the banks of the Jiangbei River, and to establish at least seven ferry crossings to ensure the crossing of the Yangtze River from Jiangyin to Jingjiang, Zhenjiang to Yangzhou, Dangtu to Hexian, Fanchang to Wuwei, Chizhou to Zongyang, Toshiba to Wangjiang, and Pengze to Wangjiang, and to ensure sufficient boats to cross the Yangtze River, so as to solve the problem of the transportation connection between the various base areas and units of the Wumu Army.

After the discussion of the staff meeting, the relationship between the contradictions in all aspects was clarified, and the dog suddenly felt that it was not difficult for this feudal official to do, and it was very enjoyable.

Military operations were presided over by Zhao Dahu and Xiang Qingyun, administrative issues were presided over by Shi Jilun and Zeng Qi, and Tuesday Dog again focused on military production.

In the previous period, the combat consumption of the troops was relatively large, and it was necessary to ensure the export to the US military, so the production of Foguang Flying Thunder and Tianyu Flying Thunder was relatively tight, and the production workshop was producing at full capacity every day, and the raw materials could barely be supplied, but the production and technical personnel such as workers and engineers were physically exhausted; Other varieties are being produced and sold step by step; Wang Ziwei's penicillin production has established a complete production process, trained a group of skilled workers and technicians, has been mass-produced, and has produced benefits, in exchange for a large amount of penicillin and gold.

On Tuesday, the stones in the dog's heart fell to the ground, and he went home to spend a peaceful family night with Wang Yu, Wang Ziwei and his three sons.

The next day, on Tuesday, the dog asked Wang Yu to organize a group of cooking soldiers to make large barrels of chicken soup, fish soup, bone broth, wontons, noodles, and rice balls to provide supper to the overtime workers in the arsenal.

Tuesday Dog finally felt that he was capable of the role of the feudal official, and felt that the so-called feudal official was no different from the gang leader he was in the beginning. (To be continued.) )