On Tuesday, Gou and others were not idle when they were directing Qingyun to deploy westward to open up guerrilla areas, and on Tuesday Gou urged and coordinated the Military Industry Department to speed up production and research and development; Zhao Dahu assigned Li Haiyang to pay close attention to the training and reorganization of the newly recruited puppet officers and soldiers, and at the same time rearrange and rearrange the weapons of the puppet army, and the troops also broke the original structure and reorganized, and then carried out ideological rectification and military training, popularized training in the techniques, tactics, and tactics of the Wu Mu army, and taught the use and maintenance of various weapons and equipment; Zeng Qi personally organized a political training team, and took Shi Jilun, Liu Chenghai, Wang Yilang, Feng Jiuzhong, Zhao Da'er and others to the New Fourth Army in turn to learn and mobilize the masses and political and ideological education; Shi Jilun was busy straightening out the departments of taxation, industry, education, and publicity to improve the efficiency of the organization...... Soon, all fronts received unexpected results, the most notable being Shu Jintang's Military Industry Department and Zeng Qi's political training team.

The political training team saw a new and vigorous atmosphere in the ** base area at the New Fourth Army: the soldiers of the New Fourth Army gave the extremely scarce rations to the children of the common people to make porridge and drink; willing to use scarce medicines to treat the common people; The troops were not well fed, and the soldiers would rather starve than touch a grain of rice; The common people actively sent their sons to join the army; save money to raise military rations; The spontaneous and voluntary nursing ....... political training team of the wounded of the New Fourth Army finally profoundly understood what is the relationship between the common people and the New Fourth Army, why the troops should take root in the common people, love the common people, show concern for the weal and woe of the common people, and all kinds of propaganda and methods for mobilizing and organizing the masses.

Zeng Qi sorted out and compiled the methods learned by the New Fourth Army, compiled the "Outline of Political and Ideological Work," institutionalized and standardized the political work of the troops and localities, printed a large number of study materials and promulgated them to local officials and military officers, organized study and training, and rapidly brought about an unprecedented increase in the cohesion of the base areas in southern Jiangsu and the Wumu Army. In particular, the political lecture classes organized by Zeng Qi went deep into the guerrilla areas to give lectures, so that the Wumu Army quickly won the support of the common people in the occupied areas and quickly stabilized the base areas.

Zeng Qi was still unsatisfied, so he invited the political staff of the New Fourth Army to set up a "crash course in political training" and organized a special political training team to educate the localities and troops on being close to the people and to guide the work of being close to the people; officials and troops not only undertook administrative or combat tasks, but also chatted with the people about daily life, did housework, and farm work in their spare time, safeguarded the interests of the people everywhere, and blended well with the local people.

When the government heard of this, it immediately ordered Gu Zhutong, Xue Yue, Dai Li, and others to negotiate with Tuesday Dog to "remind" him to prevent being reddened.

In response to this, on Tuesday, the dog also made it clear that he submitted the teaching materials compiled by Zeng Qi to the state government, and at the same time stated that this move was a measure taken specifically to mobilize the people to resist and improve the logistical support of the troops, especially the guerrilla forces, and attached a number of successful cases of opening up base areas and mobilizing the people under the guidance of the New Fourth Army in various guerrilla areas.

The state government also sent people to conduct on-the-spot investigations, and found that the guerrillas of the Wumu Army did not get too close to the political propositions of the people, but played the banner of the "three righteousness" of the father of the nation, and strived to implement the issues of "nationality, civil rights, and people's livelihood" to the letter, especially the troops did a solid job in not disturbing the people, safeguarding the localities from devils, supporting the development of local production, and improving the people's lives, and quickly integrated with the local people, and were deeply supported by the people in the guerrilla base areas, so that the government had nothing to say. On the contrary, some of the methods of the Wu Mu Army were promoted to the military and political departments of the National Control Region, in order to show their recognition of the Wu Mu Army and to encircle the Wu Mu Army, but they did not mention the New Fourth Army and ** in a word, in fact, they were even more secretly wary of the Wu Mu Army.

On Tuesday, the dog temporarily eased the contradictions with the state government and the Military Commission, focusing on developing the strength of the base areas in southern Jiangsu, and Shu Jintang and others also lived up to expectations and developed a new weapon of mass destruction -- Tianyu Flying Thunder.

Due to the introduction of electric ignition technology, the rate of fire of the flying mine launcher has been greatly improved, and the rate of fire of the 8-round flying mine launcher can reach 32 rounds per minute, so at the suggestion of Xiang Qingyun, Shu Jintang, Zheng Qiguang and others organized personnel to modify the flying mine launcher into an adjustable elevation angle and install a rotatable chassis, which is installed on tanks, armored vehicles, trucks, jeeps, fast gunboats, and motorboats, and the launching and power parts of the flying mines are divided into models according to operational needs: the launch department is still divided into Foguang flying thunder and meteor flying thunder, and the power department is divided into grenade type and high-explosive type. At the same time, due to technological progress, the body of the grenade-type powerful part of the projectile has been changed from expensive copper to cheap cast iron material, the cost has been greatly reduced, and the power has been significantly increased; the Foguang-type launcher is installed on armored vehicles, trucks, and fast gunboats, and the meteor-type launcher is installed on tanks, jeeps, and motorized speedboats.

On Tuesday, the dog had a new magic weapon, so naturally it would not be idle, and decided to recover the lost land in the area of Baohua Mountain.

After consulting with Zhao Dahu, Xiang Qingyun, Zeng Qi and others, a combat plan for recovering the lost territory was formulated, and it was decided that the Dongsi Strange Brigade of the Reading Division, the Shanbei Garrison Detachment of Jin Manlou, and the Mobile Corps would launch a campaign to regain the lost territory.

Jin Manlou took the lead in attacking. The Zhenjiang Garrison Brigade launched a surprise attack on Jurong under the cover of a mountain artillery battalion and an infantry artillery battalion of the Artillery Brigade of the Mobile Corps.

In the early morning, the soldiers of the Zhenjiang Garrison Brigade approached the south and west gates outside Jurong City, and the infantry artillery battalion behind began to shell with 27 Type 92 infantry guns, followed by the infantry charging under the cover of anti-aircraft guns, mortars, and light and heavy machine guns.

Jurong's devils have always been on high alert because they are facing Wu Mujun, so they can fight back immediately. On the one hand, the devils stuck to the positions outside the city, and on the other hand, they mobilized artillery fire to counter-suppress the Wumu army.

When the devils carried out fire counter-suppression and exposed the artillery positions, the mountain artillery battalion of the Wumu Army immediately opened fire and destroyed the devils' fire positions.

The devil's limited artillery was crushed, and in the face of the swarming Wu Mu army, he had to ask the aircraft for combat guidance. When the devil's plane arrived quickly, the artillery of the Wumu army had completed its task and was hidden, and the infantry vanguard had already entered the city, and the aircraft could only bomb the infantry of the Wumu army outside the city.

Wu Mujun didn't expect the devils to dispatch planes so quickly this time, and no air defense troops were arranged, so the troops could only brave the bombing and strafing of the devil's planes to continue the siege of the city, and in the end they were forced out of the city by the devils. Fortunately, the Wumu army is now well armed and equipped, so the number of troops is small and the troops are sparse, so the casualties are not large.

Although the number of siege troops of the Wumu Army was small, the squad and platoon level troops were equipped with light machine guns, Qiguang submachine guns, Qiguang rifles, and gun grenades, and the company and battalion levels were equipped with heavy machine guns, anti-aircraft guns, mortars and other supporting firepower, so the combat effectiveness was still not to be underestimated, and the offensive was quickly reorganized to force the devil troops into the city.

Seeing that the devils had retreated into the city, Wu Mujun also sorted out the formation and prepared to attack the city again. When it got dark, the devil's plane could not continue to fight, and the hidden artillery of the Wumu army once again exerted its might, and quickly began to bombard the fortifications of the devil's city with the set shooting Zhuyuan, and fired flares with some artillery to illuminate the devil's troop deployment and firepower configuration, and cover the infantry to break into the city.

The devil couldn't support it and withdrew Jurong from the east and north gates. After the Zhenjiang garrison brigade was stationed in Jurong, it immediately cleaned up the remnants of the enemy, carried out defenses, built fortifications, replenished ammunition, and guarded against the counterattack of the devils.

Jurong is the throat of the Nanjing-Shanghai Highway and the southeast gateway of Nanjing, so there is no room for mistakes, so the devils can only send troops from Nanjing, Baohua Mountain, and Danyang to recapture Jurong.

The devil dispatched troops, and Wu Mujun was not idle. Zhao Dahu received Jin Manlou's information and immediately ordered Jin Manlou to send the reserve Baohuashan Garrison Brigade and Changzhou Garrison Brigade to send reinforcements from the periphery, and the air defense brigade was stationed in Jurong.

Seeing that the Wumu Army sent additional troops to protect Jurong, the devil also sent 3 field brigades and 6 garrison brigades to seize Jurong, and for a time a fierce battle was launched around Jurong.

In addition to 3 infantry squadrons, 1 machine gun squadron, 1 transport squadron, and 1 artillery squadron, it is also equipped with 4 mortars, with a total of 6 infantry guns, 4 mortars, 12 heavy machine guns, and nearly 1,000 soldiers. Dealing with a battalion of the Takemu Army in front of him, Captain Sakida was full of confidence.

After some artillery bombardment, the Sakida brigade used 4 mortars and 3 heavy machine guns to cover a squadron of infantry to attack the position of the Mumu army.

There was only one platoon on the front line of the Wumu army, and they were waiting in the trenches.

Under the cover of firepower, the devils rushed to 6 or 70 meters from the position of the Wumu army, and the artillery fire stopped bombing, and the devil infantry also accelerated their charge.

As soon as the shelling stopped, the soldiers of the Wumu Army immediately threw grenades at the devil charge formation. This time the bombs were very particular, all of them were smoke bombs, which were used to cover the sight of the devil's support fire, and the charging devils were taken care of by the mines, and after throwing the first wave of grenades, the soldiers immediately shot the devil infantry with machine guns, submachine guns, and rifles.

Although there were less than 30 people in the Wu Mu army, 3 light machine guns, 4 Qiguang submachine guns, 6 Qiguang rifles and mines firmly blocked the devil's offensive line: light machine guns and submachine guns focused on high-density infantry, and Qiguang rifles focused on the devil's light machine guns and grenadiers, while gun grenades continued to throw grenades, creating smoke and obscuring the vision of the devil's machine gun grenadiers, which made the devils pay a heavy price and suffered enough.

The devil is not a vegetarian either, and braved the rain of bullets from the Wu Mujun to move the light machine gun and grenadier forward to improve the effect of firepower. Wu Mujun's gun grenadier immediately picked up the loaded Hanyang-made, old sleeve and fired directly at the devil's machine gun and grenadier canister, and immediately crushed the devil's melee firepower.

The devil lost the most powerful melee firepower support, so he had to retreat back, and the Wu Mu army naturally would not let go of the opportunity, and all kinds of firepower chased and killed the retreating devil together.

The devils also hurriedly suppressed the firepower of the Wumu army with heavy machine guns and mortars to cover the retreat of the devils. However, the fire position behind the Wu Mu army opened fire, and the heavy machine guns of the devils were eliminated by the flat-fire guns, and the mortars counterattacked the mortars of the devils, and the firepower of the devils was quickly suppressed.

After the devils withdrew, they readjusted their formation, bombarded the minefields and position fortifications of the forward positions of the Wumu Army with artillery, and transferred all 9 heavy machine guns to cover the 3 infantry squadrons to charge again in a wave formation.

Wu Mujun lit a thick smoke on the fortifications to block the heavy machine gun fire of the devils, and then swept all kinds of fire towards the devil infantry. Although a large number of devils were killed and wounded, there were too many devils, and they were not afraid of the successive charges, so the platoon of Wu Mujun had to give up the first-line position, and then withdrew to the third-line position, and the two platoons of the second-line position 40 meters away were put into battle. At the cost of 11 casualties, this garrison platoon on the front line withstood the attack of thousands of devils for four hours, killing and wounding more than 90 devils.

As soon as the devils rushed into the first-line position of the Wumu army, a grenade flew in the direction of the second-line position, which brought a large number of casualties to the dense devils in the first-line trenches, and lost 7 or 80 people at once, but still barely occupied the first-line position of the Wumu army.

When the artillery and heavy machine guns behind the devil were adjusting and shooting at Zhu Yuan with the attack distance of the infantry, the flat guns and mortars of the Wu Mu army gave the devil's fire position another fire raid, destroying 4 heavy machine guns and 3 mortars, and then moving the position again.

The infantry charged by the devil finally rushed to the first-line position of the Wumu army, but they were exhausted and lost their fire support, and in the face of the counterattack of the second-line position of the Wumu army, which was close at hand, they either continued to charge or withdrew, and they would definitely be beaten passively if they stayed in place. The devil chose to continue the charge!

The devil infantry shouted and continued to charge, on the one hand, to lift their spirits, and on the other hand, to intimidate the enemy. The non-stop charge of the devils made the formation more and more dense, and the firepower was relatively dense, and the pressure on the second line of the Wu Mu Army increased greatly!

At this moment, the commander of the garrison battalion of the Wumu Army ordered the three-line firepower to fire together: 3 heavy machine guns fired together, and a batch of javelin flying mines also flew deep into the devil formation.

Wu Mujun took advantage of the chaos of the devils to launch a counter-charge, and all 3 infantry companies were thrown into battle.

Captain Sakida couldn't help but be overjoyed to see that the Wu Mu army had launched a counter-charge against the imperial army of 4 or 500 people with 200 enemies.

Soon, Captain Sakida felt that something was wrong: the rate of fire of the automatic weapons and semi-automatic weapons of the Shina people was much higher than that of the imperial army, and on the engagement surface of the same force density, before the two sides were in short combat, the devils lost more than 100 people, and the Shina people had the upper hand! Captain Sakida finally understood the current situation and immediately ordered heavy machine guns and artillery to cover the retreat of the infantry.

Captain Sakida inspected the withdrawn troops, more than half of the 3 infantry squadrons were killed or wounded, 7 heavy machine guns were damaged, all mortars were damaged, and 2 infantry guns were damaged.

The Wumu army recaptured its position at the cost of more than 40 casualties.

After 3 days of fierce fighting, more than 3,000 people from the three garrison brigades of the Wumu Army killed and injured nearly 2,000 devils, and they also lost 6 or 700 people, and they were compressed by the devils to the periphery of Jurong City.

Seeing that the battle in Jurong was in a stalemate, he sent an additional tank wing, a field artillery wing, and two mixed brigades to the Nanjing army, and ordered the army to increase the number of aircraft combat guidance sorties, hoping to solve the battle of Jurong as soon as possible.

Zhao Dahu got the information that the devil was reinforcing the troops, and immediately ordered the reading division Dong Si Qi Brigade to attack, first passing through Maoshan with the posture of reinforcing Jurong, and then suddenly turned to the direction of Nanjing to attack.

Dong Siqi opened the way with the armored brigade of the mobile corps, followed by the cavalry brigade, and then the infantry brigade. The armored brigade destroyed the strongholds, turrets, pillboxes, and fortifications along the way with rain and thunder and artillery, and then left it to the infantry to clean up the remnants of the enemy, while the cavalry brigade covered the armored brigade from the infantry counterattack and made a primary breakthrough.

As soon as the troops of the devil reinforced Jurong arrived at the periphery of Nanjing, they encountered Dong Siqi's attack on Nanjing, and had to invest in the defense of Nanjing.

In Moling, Wang Huankai commanded the artillery brigade to carry out heavy artillery bombardment of the devil's position, the 105mm and 75mm mountain artillery sprayed anger freely, the devil's fortifications were blown to pieces, and the corpses flew sideways, and then the infantry of the Wumu Army began to charge, using infantry artillery, mortars and heavy artillery to start a relay, and the infantry advanced along the attack line.

Suddenly, devil planes flew in the sky and launched an air attack on the artillery positions of the Wumu Army, and one after another aerial bombs fell on the positions of the Wumu Army, and the machine guns also helped to strafe the artillery positions, and the artillery of the Wumu Army suffered heavy losses.

Wu Mujun's accompanying anti-aircraft firepower was blocked behind because of the infantry fighting for the road, and seeing that the devil planes were raging, they had no choice but to launch Foguang flying thunder on the spot, fire at the air with anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns, and disperse the smoke cast by individual soldiers.

Seeing that the artillery was damaged and the infantry had lost their support, Dong Siqi actually ordered the infantry who were still desperately charging to retreat. The retreating infantry was chaotic, the devil infantry on the ground saw the opportunity to counterattack, and the infantry of the Wumu army was even more defeated, and the losses were quite large.

Fortunately, the grassroots officers of the Wumu Army were well-trained, and they stabilized their positions after a slight retreat, and slowly and orderly alternately covered the retreat. This gave Wang Huankai, who was 5 or 6,000 meters away from the front line, a chance to breathe, and Wang Huankai decisively led the artillery escort troops to the front line, organized the infantry to stabilize the line, and then urgently reported the situation.

After all, Wang Huankai was not familiar with the personnel, equipment, and deployment of the Dongsi Strange Brigade, and the troops barely held the position in front of the artillery position, but because they lost a lot of weapons and ammunition, their combat effectiveness was extremely weak.

A brigade of devil reinforcements arrived, and launched another fierce counterattack in one go. One wing attacked head-on, and two wings flanked and detoured, forming a semi-encirclement posture against the Wumu army.

In the face of the black and suppressed devil soldiers, Wang Huankai almost despaired, and ordered the artillery to use all the shells with all his strength while preparing to explode the artillery. (To be continued.) )