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Chapter 568 Psychological Offensive

The impact of the Battle of Nanyang is becoming more and more apparent, the Northwest Army's attempt to open up the Jingxiang line to the south and attack Wuhan has not been achieved, and the seven and a half divisions drawn from the situation of limited strength have been broken by the Fifth Army of the Central Army, and the annihilation of annihilation, the capture of prisoners, and more than 10,000 fleeing routs are still scattered in the vast land of southern Henan. Since then, the entire front has shifted to strategic defense. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

When the news of the Battle of Nanyang reached the headquarters of the Puqi Gui Army, Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi looked at each other and didn't say a word, while Zhang Fakui shouted how could it be? Hurriedly rushed to the map to check carefully, and said that it must be Lao Jiang spreading rumors to deceive people! But after a while, the insider hidden in the Wuhan camp sent a secret message to Li Zongren:

The three divisions of the Fifth Army Corps had already left Nanyang and headed for northern Hunan at full speed, while the New Ninth Division of the 44th Army took the grain convoy down the Han River to Wuhan, and then reinforced Tingsi Bridge along the railway.

Li Zongren was extremely worried in his heart, and immediately discussed nervously with the generals, but Xiao Zhuge Bai Chongxi and Zhang Fakui were the same as the main attack on Wuhan, and they were not worried about the sudden increase in the three divisions of the Fifth Army in front of him, but Li Zongren was different, for several days, the planes of the 44th Army in Xiangxi continued to harass, dropped a large number of leaflets, and advised 80,000 Gui officers and soldiers to return to Guangxi not to fight a civil war. If the three divisions of the Fifth Army Corps enter the battlefield again at this time, let alone attack the Tingsi Bridge, even the back road home will probably be cut off.

Seeing the urgency of the situation, Li Zongren could only make a compromise, and was just about to agree with Bai Chongxi and Zhang Fakui's opinions, when urgent reports from the south suddenly came:

He Jian's two divisions, which retreated into eastern Xiangdong, fiercely attacked Pingjiang, and the three divisions of the Central Army, Jiang Guangnai, Cai Tingkai, and Li Yunheng, were advancing into Hengyang from northern Guangdong and eastern Jiangxi; There was infighting between Mao Guangxiang's troops in Guizhou, which had promised to send troops to contain the 44th Army in Xiangxi, and the army supporting Wang Jialie and the army supporting Mao Guangxiang fought in Guiyang.

Li Zongren and others were taken aback, they did not expect that Chiang Kai-shek would let the Red Army in Jiangxi not fight, and transfer all the three main divisions into Hunan; if Hengyang is not guaranteed, his 80,000 army will lose its way to retreat, and it will become a rootless duckweed and be surrounded on all sides by the superior forces of the Central Army.

In a hurry, Li Zongren no longer asked for anyone's opinion, and with a single order, the whole army withdrew from southern Hunan, northern Hunan and Changsha to Changsha.

At this time, the Fifth Army Corps became the most relaxed unit in the whole army, due to the halt of the war, the three divisions in their hands were transferred from the Nanyang line, the Central Military Commission and the General Headquarters ordered An Yi to rest on the spot, urgently recruit soldiers, and replenish the combat strength as soon as possible to enter the war, and the generous Commander-in-Chief Chiang also sent a one-time military expenditure of 1.5 million yuan needed to expand the two divisions, together with the first two heavy awards, making An Yi richer than any corps commander, and the guns and artillery materials captured in each battle were equivalent to about 1.4 million yuan, An Yi only needed to add a few more military uniforms, shoes, hats, and light and heavy machine guns to easily form two divisions, and all the bonuses were distributed to the officers and men participating in the battle, and the 1.5 million yuan for military expansion was transferred to the account of the Jiangnan Group, which became a special fund for the Xiangxi Arsenal to purchase artillery and antiaircraft artillery manufacturing equipment and raw materials.

An Yi and his generals stood on the top of the large-scale rockery in the back garden of the palace, which was built in the early Ming Dynasty and piled up with rocks from Taihu Lake is the commanding height of the entire Nanyang City. Nanyang, which has a long history, is located in a horseshoe-shaped basin that opens in the south of the mountains on three sides, and is named after the south of Funiu Mountain and the north of Hanshui. In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, Nanyang was the fief of Zhu Yuanzhang's twenty-third son, Tang Dingwang Zhu Huan, and built a large-scale Tang Wangfu in Nanyang City, which was grand in scale and magnificent, and was still well preserved after hundreds of years of wind and rain, and now it has become the location of the front-line headquarters of the Fifth Army of An Yi.

The sunset has gilded Nanyang City with a layer of golden light, and the Zaolin camp on the south bank of the Baihe River in the south of the city has now become a military station of the Fifth Army Corps, and Ding Zhicheng's temporary first division is also stationed in the camp, and the temporary first division has received an official number and has been renamed the new 15th Division, and the number of soldiers has been replenished to 14,500 people.

On the road leading to Nanyang from south to north, hundreds of trucks loaded with heavy food and medicine are moving slowly, standing on the top of the rockery of the palace, you can clearly see the dust flying on the road in the south, looking through the binoculars, you immediately find that the marching teams on both sides of the road are not in sight, stretching for dozens of miles, all of them are officers and soldiers of the An family wearing new-style camouflage uniforms, and the two new divisions adapted from 24,000 prisoners are far away under the leadership of the commanders at all levels.

Zhu Shigui's 17th Division was stationed in the city, responsible for the important task of garrison vigilance and law and order, and also guarded the two major material warehouses of the corps in Nanguan and Beiguan. The performance of all units of the division is very good, and the officers and men of the whole division have already begun to implement the system and education of the model battalion when they were stationed in Jiangxi, and all officers at all levels of the division have undergone rotational training at the non-commissioned officer training base, thus maintaining the fine work style of strict military discipline and loving the people and benefiting the people.

In the past three days, the officers and men of the division, together with Gu Changfeng's 44th Division stationed outside Xicheng and Brother Yin Jinan's 16th Division stationed outside the North Gate, have cleaned up the dirty and messy Nanyang City, and have taken out grain and erected more than 30 porridge shacks together with the people in the streets of the city to relieve the poor people who are so hungry that they can't walk without opening the pot. With real actions to benefit the people and a large amount of political propaganda, it has won the acceptance and heartfelt support of the people of Nanyang, making the already famous name of Anjiajun benevolence spread far and wide again.

Zhu Shigui not only has no opinion on the people calling his army An Jiajun, but is very happy, in his eyes, An Yi and himself are the same son and nephew of the lord Zhu Peide, and he and An Yi are brothers and sisters, his own army is naturally a brother with An Yi's army, An Yi is more capable and famous than himself, there is nothing wrong with the department being called An Jiajun, and the soldiers under his command have already regarded themselves as a member of the An Jiajun in their hearts, especially after the victory of the battle, this heartfelt sense of belonging and pride has swelled sharply, The faces of the officers and men were full of confidence and pride.

"Brother Zhu, the gendarmerie regiment reacted to me, Brother Seventeenth Division is good at everything, he just likes to visit the kiln, and the fierce general named Zhu Shiming under your command wrapped three girls in Tianyun Building last night, and he is not afraid of breaking his waist?" An Yi's words caused a burst of laughter from the surrounding brothers.

Zhu Shigui scratched his bare head with a smile, and said with some embarrassment: "Shiming is my cousin, this kid followed me when I was the head of the guard for Yigong, he has been kung fu since elementary school, and his marksmanship is also good. At the end of last year, after coming out of the special class of the non-commissioned officer school, there were more people, and even Yigong was relieved to say that he had become mature and steady, but the problem of lust did not change, and when I was in Nanchang, I heard the brothers under his command bite their ears, saying that his three mothers-in-law were tossed by him every night and babbled, so that the brothers in the neighborhood were always rolled by their mothers-in-law. ”

The brothers laughed again, An Yi shook his head after laughing and stopped talking about it, he knew that Zhu Shigui would be strictly controlled after he returned, so he turned the topic to the more than 3,000 captives in Dengzhou City who were healing from the sick monks:

"Last night, Zhan Zhi, director of the political department of the regiment, made a suggestion to me, saying that it is better to send all the prisoners and brothers who have recovered from their injuries back to their hometowns, give them a sum of money to go back to recruit troops and buy horses to cause sabotage, appoint him as a squad leader when he has ten people, and appoint him as a company commander when he has 100 people. What do you think of this suggestion? ”

The generals put away their smiles and took it seriously, Gu Changfeng thought for a while and said, "I think it's okay, didn't our army do this at the beginning of the Northern Expedition?" Isn't Commander-in-Chief Chiang also doing this in Shandong, Henan and other places? As long as it is beneficial to me to disintegrate the enemy, I will do the right thing. ”

Yin Jinan corrected Gu Changfeng's words: "Although it is good in the short term, there are many hidden dangers left, such as the dozens of bandits in western Henan, southern Shaanxi and other places, who were originally desperate poor brothers, but now nearly half of them have slowly become stubborn bandits who rob homes and houses and grass and take people's lives, regardless of the government, clans or ordinary people, they all rob and kill, how can such a team be accepted?"

The younger brother agrees with Director Zhan's suggestion in principle, but to add an article, focusing on publicizing that our army has transported a large number of disaster relief grain and medicines, and there is no way to transport them to Gansu, Shaanxi, and western Henan, so that the people can wake up and take action by themselves, as long as the news reaches the towns and villages in western Henan and southern Shaanxi, it will quickly spread to all directions, and the Northwest Army, which is empty of troops, has no way to stop the villagers who come to transport grain and survive, as long as the villagers can come and receive food, we will send them the Japanese rifles, old sleeves, Hanyang-made and large blades left in the warehouse, Let them send grain back to their hometowns with arms, so that the small number of Northwest Army troops stationed in southern Shaanxi and western Henan will be finished without us fighting. ”

"Good strategy!"

The brethren shouted praise.

Zhao Rui added: "Mimeographed a batch of easy-to-understand leaflets, did not write about the National Revolutionary Army, but wrote about the Anjia Army, sent them to batches of returning captive soldiers and brothers to post everywhere, widely disseminated, and then in the name of the Commander's Department of our Fifth Army Corps, I gave a certificate to each brother who returned to his hometown, so that they could win the trust of their fathers and fellow villagers and better carry out planning and propaganda work." ”

Everyone said a word, and soon gathered a lot of opinions, An Yi didn't want to stay on the top of the rockery anymore to watch the sunset scenery, and took the lead to go down the mountain and return to the front yard conference room, and instructed Lin Yaodong, the chief of the guard, to immediately notify the officers above the division commander to come to the meeting.