Chapter 163: The brothers join forces to break through the enemy's demon cave

"The New Fourth Army, Jiangnan Advance Detachment? What kind of army is this? ”

Xiao Xiong was also very surprised when he heard Li Minghua's report, and he knew that there were many guerrilla units in the vicinity of Jiujiang where the Communist Party was active, such as the Xingzi guerrillas, the Yunshan guerrillas, and the Anti-Japanese Ten Regiment, but he had never heard of such a unit as the "Jiangnan Advance Detachment of the New Fourth Army." It seems that this should be a new regular anti-Japanese armed force.

So, he ordered Li Ran to send a telegram to Han Feng of the Yunshan guerrillas for questioning. Han Feng quickly replied to the telegram, briefly telling them about the situation of this unit, and promised to immediately take people to Jiujiang to personally get in touch with the Jiangnan Advance Detachment of the New Fourth Army, so that the Einsatzgruppen could fight with it.

A few days later, Han Feng arrived in Jiujiang and found the secret contact point of the New Fourth Army in Jiujiang, and he was contacted by Shang Tao, the reconnaissance platoon commander of the advancing detachment. After Shang Tao reported to the detachment, he got the consent of his superiors and promised to go to Commander Xiao Xiong of the Einsatzgruppen immediately.

Han Feng didn't stop for a moment, and immediately took Shang Tao to Xiao Xiong's station.

"Oh, Brother Minghua, why are you few?" As soon as Shang Tao entered the door, he first saw Li Minghua, Chi Yan'er and Fat'er, he pounced in front of Li Minghua and happily grabbed Li Minghua.

"Shang Tao? How are you? When did you join the New Fourth Army? Li Minghua also happily punched Shang Tao lightly.

Xiao Xiong didn't expect that Li Minghua and Shang Tao were still old acquaintances, so he looked at the two and smiled. Li Minghua hurriedly introduced Xiao Xiong to Shang Tao.

"Report to General Xiao, Shang Tao, the commander of the reconnaissance platoon of the Jiangnan Advance Detachment of the New Fourth Army, has come to report to you."

As soon as I saw Shang Tao, I immediately fell in love with this young man. Shang Tao looks to be in his early 20s. Almost 1.8 meters tall. He was born as a hunter in Jiujiangwei's hometown. I have known Li Minghua since I was a child.

Xiao Xiong said angrily to Li Minghua:

"Let me explain Hua, Shang Tao has such good conditions, why didn't you absorb him into your hunter team?"

Li Minghua said with some grievances:

"You go and ask him, have I looked for him? This kid used to lie to me, saying that he was an only child at home, and his father and mother were old and couldn't come out, so they rejected me. This guy didn't know why, but he turned around and joined the New Fourth Army. ”

Shang Tao said with a "hehe" smile:

"Commander. Brother Minghua, in fact, I had already joined the Communist Party at that time. He has always been an underground worker of the Communist Party in the Jiujiang area, mainly engaged in reconnaissance and liaison work. Later, the Jiangnan Advance Detachment of the New Fourth Army was established, and I joined the unit. No, I just came from the Jiangbei army not long ago, and you will find you today. You say, "Are we too close to each other?" ”

"You saved the old clock, right?"

"Old clock? Oh, you mean that daddy who was tracking the devil the other day? Yes, we happened to save it from the devils. ”

It turned out that Shang Tao was active in the area of Erma Road with a few scouts. According to the masses, several homeless people living at the bottom of the bridge of the Longkai River have disappeared inexplicably in recent days. I hadn't noticed anything unusual about them before. Shang Tao suddenly felt that there must be something strange in this.

So, in the past few days, he led a few scouts to reconnoiter in this area.

At night, they also found that a few people came out of the devil's epidemic prevention water supply class, and their actions were a little sneaky. They followed them stealthily, trying to see what the hell these guys were up to.

Suddenly, Shang Tao and the others found the old bell following the group, but the old bell failed to find them.

When the gang seemed to have caught a person and stuffed it into a sack, and then carried the sack back, Shang Tao and the others suddenly saw a patrol of several devils coming. But the old bell only noticed the actions of those people in the distance.

The devil quietly approached the old bell, and Shang Tao saw that something bad was going to happen, and the old bell was already in danger. So, a few of them quickly returned to prepare to answer the old bell.

But the devils still arrived first, and one of the devils picked up the butt of the gun and smashed the old bell unconscious, and then prepared to tie up the old bell with a rope and take it away.

As soon as Shang Tao saw that the situation was not good, he led the soldiers to rush forward, and without a few rendezvous, he cleaned up the devils, and then hid their bodies in a deserted house nearby.

Shang Tao ordered one of the soldiers to carry the old bell to an unoccupied room, while the others continued to monitor the suspicious people. Those people carried sacks and hurriedly returned to the epidemic prevention water supply class.

"Did you tell the old bell who he was?" Xiao Xiong asked.

"Later, we returned to the room where Lao Zhong was resting, and when we saw Lao Zhong wanting to sit up in a daze, he also asked us who we were, and we thought that Lao Zhong should also be anti-Japanese, so we told him our identity."

"This Uncle Zhong was completely confused by the devil, and he remembered that there was a lot of nonsense and a mess of things." Li Minghua said funny.

Chi Yan'er brought a bowl of water, Shang Tao took a sip, and then gave a briefing on what he knew about the armed struggle against the enemy led by the Communist Party, especially the advance detachment.

After Hu Maosheng died, Cheng Shizhang took over as the captain of the Xingzi guerrillas and continued to command the guerrillas to fight the devils. The guerrillas once conquered the Japanese stronghold of Gushan and dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese army.

Last year, that is, in September 1941, due to the traitor's whistleblowing, more than 700 Japanese puppet soldiers surrounded more than 200 Xingzi guerrillas in a valley in Xingzi Jiaotang at the southern foot of Lushan Mountain. The guerrillas fought with the little devils from day to night. Later, in the breakout, Cheng Shizhang sacrificed.

Later, the team was successively commanded by Xiong Jiachun and Zhang Qijun, and continued to deal with the devils in the southern foothills of Lushan.

In the autumn of 1938, Shang Qun and others organized the "Anti-Japanese Salvation Association" in Pengze, which was changed to the "Anti-Japanese Ten-member Group" in January 1939. They specialized in collecting discarded weapons on the battlefield to arm themselves against Japanese criminals and traitors. By October, it had grown to more than 1,000 people. Not long ago, a part of the "Anti-Japanese Ten-Man Regiment" was reorganized into the 18th Squadron of the Jiangbei Guerrilla Column of the Fourth Detachment of the New Fourth Army in Wuwei County, Anhui Province.

In August 1939, Zhou Jingxuan's Anti-Enemy Self-Defense Corps and Shang Qun's water guerrillas jointly established the "Yangtze River Guerrilla Brigade", with Shang Qun as the captain and Zhou Jingxuan as the political commissar. With Peng Ze as the center, they carried out guerrilla warfare on the Anhui-Jiangxi border. In May 1940, the "Yangtze River Guerrilla Brigade" was renamed the "Yangtze River Guerrilla Corps". In September, it was renamed the 7th Division Independent Regiment of the New Fourth Army.

At the beginning of last year, the advance regiment of the 7th Division of the New Fourth Army, led by Li Fengping and Lin Weixian, also came to Pengze, Susong, and Wangjiang to carry out activities. Shang Qun expanded his team and organized an independent brigade in Pengze.

Not long ago, the Hubei-Anhui Border Army Sub-district of the 5th Division of the New Fourth Army sent Zheng Zheng, political commissar of the 18th Advance Regiment, and Zhang Haibiao, deputy commander of the regiment, to lead a company to Pengze to join the Independent Brigade, and the Independent Brigade was renamed the Jiangnan Advance Detachment of the New Fourth Army. It was also at that time that Shang Tao received an order from his uncle Shang Qun to go to Pengze to participate in the Jiangnan Advance Detachment.

At present, the anti-Japanese armed forces under the leadership of the Communist Party operating along both sides of the Jiujiang River include the 18th Advance Regiment, the Jiangnan Advance Detachment, the Penghu Joint Defense Brigade, the Huxi Self-Defense Force, the Taizihao Self-Defense Force, the Peng Zezhi (De) Guerrilla Brigade, and the Peasant Pickets. These teams should add up to a few thousand people.

They have established base areas in Jiujiang, Ruichang, Pengze, Hukou, Yongxiu, and other places in the border areas of Hubei, Jiangxi, and Anhui, and the anti-Japanese situation in northern Jiangxi is very good.

Xiao Xiong listened to Shang Tao's introduction and was very excited, he really didn't expect that there were so many anti-Japanese armed forces near Jiujiang, the national army, the communist army, the people's spontaneous initiative, and even the bandit army, all of whom were sacrificing their lives to resist the enemy.

"Do you know that the devil has had bacteriological warfare in the northern Jiangxi region?"

Xiao Xiong asked suddenly.

Shang Tao immediately replied:

"We also have our own intelligence network in the northern part of the country, and we know about the abnormal diseases that have occurred in several counties in northern Gansu. We reported all these situations to the military headquarters of the New Fourth Army, which attached great importance to it and reported the epidemic to the headquarters of the commander of the fifth and ninth theaters. At the same time, we ordered our troops in various localities to pay close attention to the movements of the devils, get a good grasp of finding out the research sites and storage sites of the devils' bacteria, and eliminate them as soon as possible. And asked us to fight in coordination with the Einsatzgruppen and other anti-Japanese forces. ”

Just then, a member of the team walked in with two telegrams. Xiao Xiong quickly skimmed through it. The two telegrams were sent by the Ninth Theater Commander's Department, and one of them informed the enemy that the enemy was stepping up the development of bacteriological weapons, and that Masuda Chisada, a bacteriological warfare expert of the devil, had recently come to Jiujiang and Nanchang to inspect them.

Another telegram was to urge all the anti-Japanese armed forces in northern Jiangxi to work together to find out the bacteriological factory of the devil as soon as possible and eliminate it as soon as possible at all costs.

Xiao Xiong held the telegrams and felt the weight of them.

In the recent battles of the national army, especially the just-concluded Battle of Zhejiang-Jiangxi, on the battlefield, our army suffered heavy losses because of the use of bacteriological weapons by devils, and had to withdraw from a large area of land, and the Zhejiang-Jiangxi line fell into the hands of the enemy.

The common people near the battlefield were also affected by this, and many people died of diseases such as plague and anthrax.

"Shang Tao, did you find anything when you advanced into the detachment?" Xiao Xiong asked.

"It's still uncertain, but after a lot of observation and analysis, we think that the devil's bacterial factory should be in the prosperous area west of the Longkai River. In the past few days, we have focused our reconnaissance on the station and dock warehouses of the devils, the Tongren Hospital, and the serum vaccine manufacturing plant of the devils. The disappearance of the homeless people we just mentioned has become the focus of our investigation. Hey, Commander, analyze it, where are these homeless people going again? ”

Xiao Xiong thought for a while and said:

"If I expected, these missing people must be related to the devils, and they should all have been quietly captured by the devils."

"Caught by the devil? What are the devils doing with them? ”

Shang Tao asked in surprise. (To be continued......)