At the beginning of the Changsha war, the hunting detachment did not return to Xishan, and continued to be stationed in Xiangtan at the invitation of Xue Yue as a mobile unit in the Ninth War Zone. Xue Yue tasted the sweetness of mechanization.

Chen Cheng, Li Zongren and others saw that Xue Yuebai had a piece of fat and wanted to get a piece of the pie. So on the one hand, he sent an invitation to Tuesday Dog to exchange troops, and on the other hand, he proposed to the Military Commission to exchange and study with He Laifu's hunting detachment.

The chairman of the committee was well aware of the following requirements and intentions, and he also wanted to divide this strong force and weaken the Wu Mu army, so he proposed to Tuesday Dog to use the hunting detachment to communicate with the fifth and sixth theaters to supplement the mobile forces of the two theaters.

Tuesday Gou also understood the chairman's intentions, but it was always inappropriate to blindly resist, and a senior staff meeting was convened to invite Zhao Dahu, Shi Jilun, Zeng Qi, and Xiang Qingyun to discuss how to deal with the Military Commission.

Zhao Dahu, Zeng Qi believes that this is the prelude to the division of the Military Commission and the disintegration of the Wumu Army, and this should not be started, and an excuse should be found to shirk it.

Shi Jilun believes that it is still very necessary to have a good relationship with the Military Commission, after all, it is necessary to respond to the overall situation of the national reunification of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, and it is not good to be too independent, although the hunting detachment contains a large number of elite personnel and weapons and equipment of the Wumu Army, it is not enough to affect the overall strength of Xishan.

Xiang Qingyun had dinner with Lu Qingyang and his wife, and realized the true meaning of the word "reality" in Tong Jingya's words, and published the most realistic analysis at the senior staff meeting: The elites of the hunting detachment are all hardcore members of Wu Mujun, He Laifu, Wan Zixiong, Liu Maoer, Liu Qing, Qi Yuankai, Wu Zhen and other old people of the Wu Mu Gang, not to mention, Ke Hua, Ouyang Cheng, Jing Yukun and others Although they were born in the first class, they were born and died with Wu Mujun's brothers in the past few years, and were promoted from junior officers to generals, and the brothers have deep feelings. Niu Daojia, Liang Ruxiang, and the Lu brothers are all rookies trained by Wu Mujun from soldiers, and even their hair is soaked in Wu Mujun's blood; If these people can gain a foothold in **, then the Wu Mu Army has its own power in the **, and some people in the ** will have some scruples about the Wu Mu Army's hands and feet, if the hunting detachment is excluded and persecuted in the **, it is not too late for the Wu Mu Army to help or even take it back; At the same time, the Xishan Self-Rescue Association can also purchase materials through these troops, and does not have to rely entirely on **.

Shi Jilun first took the case and said yes, and everyone else was relieved.

Therefore, on Tuesday, Gou personally went to Chongqing to meet with the chairman of the NPC National Committee, expressing his sincerity in obeying the central authorities and unanimously resisting Japan, and at the same time summoned He Laifu and others to clarify the attitude of the headquarters of Wu Mujun.

On Tuesday, the dog instructed everyone to obey the leadership of the central government, take into account the overall situation of resistance against Japan, and make more contact with the Xishan side, if they are excluded, the Xishan side will definitely stand up for the brothers.

As a result, the instructors of the reorganization of the special operations brigade stayed in the Ninth Theater, and Li Zongren's Fifth Theater had relatively poor equipment and resources, and could not afford to raise tanks, armored vehicles, automobiles, and other oil-hungry machines, so he asked for the brigade directly under He Laifu, the cavalry brigade, the anti-tank brigade, and three infantry brigades; Ouyang Cheng led the artillery brigade, armored brigade, sailor brigade, air defense brigade, engineer brigade, and joint logistics brigade to the Sixth Theater and stationed along the Yangtze River according to Chen Cheng's arrangement. He Laifu made slight adjustments to the troops: Liu Qinghe, because he had some old grudges with Chen Cheng, followed him to the Fifth War Zone, and still served as the commander of the infantry brigade; Liang Ruxiang was removed from the post of captain of the anti-tank brigade and remained as the captain of the air defense brigade, so he could reunite with Niu Daojia and restrain Niu Daojia; Wan Zixiong is still the captain of the directly subordinate brigade, and Lu Qinghu is the captain of the anti-tank brigade; Wang Ziwei was dismissed from the post of captain of the ambulance brigade and transferred back to Xishan, and the ambulance brigade was abolished and separated from each unit; Trucks were transferred to troops bound for the 5th Theater of Operations, and trucks were transferred to troops bound for the 6th Theater of Operations; The troops going to the Sixth Theater were issued the number "Sichuan-Hubei-Hunan Mobile Division" by the Military Commission, Ouyang Cheng served as the lieutenant general and division commander, and the major teams were changed to artillery brigades, armored brigades, sailor brigades, air defense brigades, and engineer brigades, with the brigade commander with the rank of major general; The troops going to the Fifth Theater were issued the number of "Hubei-Henan-Anhui Independent Division" by the Military Commission, and He Laifu served as the commander of the lieutenant general, which consisted of directly subordinate brigades, infantry brigades, cavalry brigades, anti-aircraft artillery brigades, joint logistics brigades, and directly subordinate brigades. Jing Yukun was transferred back to Wu Mujun and served as the director of the Liaison Office of the Wu Mu Army in the Ninth Theater of Operations, in charge of coordination and liaison with the ** departments, and also procured various materials needed by the Wu Mu Army, and was in charge of the Wu Mu caravan west of Poyang Lake.

He Laifu and Ouyang Cheng used the military funds allocated by the Military Commission to purchase a large amount of ammunition and equipment from Xishan to supplement the combat consumption in the early stage, such as Foguang Flying Thunder, Meteor Flying Thunder, Javelin Flying Thunder, porcelain jar grenades, grenades, 105mm and 75mm mountain artillery shells, infantry guns, automatic guns, flat-fire guns, mortar shells, gun grenades, hunting uniforms, sapper shovels and pickaxes, vehicle accessories, war horses, and saddles......

The silver generally flowed into Jing Yukun's pocket, and many of the materials were the trophies of the hunting detachment when they fought in Changsha, but the accounting had to be clear. Some materials are offset by tungsten sand, manganese ore, copper ore, lead ore, tin ore, sulfur, molybdenum ore and vanadium ore produced in southern Hunan and Jiangxi without cash.

He Laifu led his team to bypass Dongting Lake through Changsha, Yiyang, Hanshou, and Changde, and could have gone around from the west of Yichang to the Fifth War Zone, but he didn't want to bypass it, so he had to pass through the Japanese-occupied area, so as not to panic along the way. So it was decided to exercise the right of the leader of the hunting detachment again, and ordered Ouyang Cheng's mechanized troops to cooperate again.

Ouyang Cheng deployed the artillery brigade and armored brigade on the other side of the Yangtze River in Yichang, while the fast gunboats and motorboats of the sailor brigade were towed by trucks and headed for the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.

The devil discovered the artillery unit of the Wumu army, so he strengthened the vigilance.

Ouyang Cheng saw that the devil was still calm, and ordered the armored brigade to gallop behind the artillery brigade, rolling up a large cloud of smoke and dust, and the engineer brigade and air defense brigade also made a big noise behind.

The devils hurriedly mobilized artillery and sappers to build positions along the Yangtze River to prevent the attack of the Wumu army.

The movement of the devil's troops provided an opportunity for the ** guerrillas in the Yiling Mountains northwest of Yichang, and dozens of battalions, companies, and platoon-level detachments quickly infiltrated the suburbs of Yichang, and then gathered into several regiments to attack the devils' positions in the northwest, destroying fortifications, and looting warehouses.

The devil decided that the Zhina army was going to launch the main attack in the south, so no matter how ** tossed in the northwest of the city, he didn't dare to relax the confrontation with Ouyang City.

He Laifu saw that the time had come, and gave the order to attack, and crossed the Yangtze River with Wulong, 10 miles downstream of Ouyang City! With the direct fire of 6 anti-aircraft guns, the anti-aircraft artillery brigade easily destroyed the rudimentary river defense fortifications of the devil infantry; The infantry battalion threw a large number of dried straw bales wrapped in oilcloth into the Yangtze River, and then set up the bamboo rafts prepared in advance, and quickly erected the pontoon bridge to the opposite bank.

The cavalry brigade is still the cavalry of that battalion, and under the cover of automatic guns and mortars, it quickly destroyed the gun towers and strongholds along the way outside the devil's city.

The infantry light fire battalion, the brigade directly under the brigade, the joint logistics brigade, and the antiaircraft artillery brigade crossed the river in turn.

The devils in Yichang are not panicked, as a strategic location, there is a division and an independent mixed brigade stationed here, and the loss of some positions, personnel, weapons, equipment and ammunition on the periphery is nothing!

He Laifu is not worried, he doesn't want to fight with the devil at all! Seeing that the artillery and baggage behind had crossed the river, they directly drove the heavy firepower troops to Dangyang, and at the same time notified the ** guerrillas to evacuate, and then commanded the infantry brigade and cavalry brigade to withdraw from the battle in turn.

On the way, He Laifu reprimanded Wu Zhen, who was still unfinished: "What is not fun!" Just get some guns and ammunition, enough to give a gift to the Fifth War Zone! ”

In this half-truth battle, He Laifu's Hubei-Henan-Anhui Independent Division captured 4 mortars, 7 heavy machine guns, 19 light machine guns, 13 grenadiers, 82 38 rifles, and 13 southern-style pistols, which was enough for the miscellaneous armies in the Fifth Theater to equip a battalion.

So, He Laifu ordered Wu Zhen to take two cavalry charging companies to get another 200 rifles on the periphery of Dangyang, and put together a reinforced battalion of equipment for the Fifth War Zone......

The Sichuan-Hunan-Hubei Mobile Division of the Ouyang City Department was arranged by the Sixth Theater to garrison Zigui. Surrounded by mountains, the middle terrain is relatively low and flat, and it is a small basin, which is not only conducive to blocking the Yangtze River waterway, but also convenient for the mobility of mechanized troops, and can also use the surrounding mountains as a barrier to protect mechanized troops.

Ouyang Cheng took measures according to local conditions and purchased a large number of mines, sea sparks and locust torpedoes from Xishan, which had never been used, and spent a large sum of money on the Central Military Commission. In order to ensure the safety of the gateway to Chongqing, the Military Commission is still willing to spend money.

Chen Cheng saw that Ouyang Cheng's application was reasonable, would help consolidate the defense of the river, and that he could use the infantry to contain Ouyang Cheng, an "outsider," so he appointed Ouyang Cheng as deputy chief of staff of the Jiang Defense Army in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River to coordinate the joint operations of the infantry and the armored troops, artillery, sailors, and air defense units of the Sichuan-Hunan-Hubei Mobile Division.

Drawing up a battle plan was a breeze for Ouyang Cheng, and he called the brigade commanders of all departments to participate in the discussion, revision, training, and deployment, and then transferred the infantry troops to coordinate with him. Even Guo Chen, chief of staff of the Sixth Theater of Operations, who had studied at the military academy several times, had to admire Ouyang Cheng's meticulous thinking and detailed planning, which could be a model for combat planning!

Lu Qingyang soon entered the role, and the military discipline and combat quality of the troops were greatly improved. Lu Qingyang was not satisfied, and pulled out the old and weak remnants of the troops with poor physical strength, and organized them into a sideline battalion, which was responsible for raising rabbits and geese, fishing and shrimp, and providing meat for the troops, and then the troops carried out high-intensity mountaineering, climbing, street fighting, autumn and winter swimming, river crossing, night marching and other training subjects, and the first officers and soldiers were trained in pain, and Xue Yue, Luo Zhuoying, Yang Sen, Wang Lingji and other senior officers were happy in their eyes, and even organized Wang Yaowu, Ou Zhen, Sun Du, Li Yutang and other army and division-level generals to observe and investigate.

After more than a month of intensive training, the instructor's fierce spirit was fully exposed, so Lu Qingyang reported to the Commander of the Ninth Theater Command and applied for the instructor to train in battle, enter the Hunan, Hubei, and Jiangxi regions to launch a winter offensive, and then return the officers and soldiers he had trained to the back to the established system.

Xue Yue saw that Lu Qingyang took the initiative to ask for battle, which is rare in the ** army, so he approved the approval of Xingchong Chong, and gathered the senior generals of various departments to hold a grand meeting for the instructor, one to encourage the morale of the instructor's officers and soldiers, and the other to stimulate other generals.

Xue Yue's arrangement disrupted Lu Qingyang's arrangement, and the fanfare was of course encouraging, but it disrupted Lu Qingyang's plan to prepare a low-key sneak attack.

Therefore, after Lu Qingyang returned from the Zhuangxing meeting, he did not move his troops and trained as usual, but only sent multiple scouts to conduct repeated reconnaissance of the combat area.

Xue Yue saw that Lu Qingyang was not moving again, and urged Lu Qingyang to attack again and again, Lu Qingyang prevaricated for various reasons, and the ** generals also began to sneer at Lu Qingyang's bold and small color, and deceived everyone's drinking.

Tong Jingya couldn't get over her face, and she urged Lu Qingyang to attack again and again, Lu Qingyang was furious and blasted Tong Jingya back to the headquarters of the commander of the Ninth Theater.

The devil got the information, and the instructor held a grand meeting to launch a winter offensive, so he intensified the garrison. After 4 or 5 days, batch after batch of scouts and small detachments of the Chinese army continued to infiltrate and harass them, but they did not see any movement of the large troops.

Lu Qingyang got the information and finally launched an attack order: all units attacked the devils in the Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi regions, demarcated the combat area according to the regiment, battalion, and company, and took the platoon and squad as the combat unit to carry out independent battles; The regimental and battalion teams are responsible for receiving and coordinating the units under each department; Do not attack targets above the squadron (including squadrons), and do not fall in love with battles; Attack the devils' gold, silver, copper, tungsten, manganese, lead, tin, vanadium-molybdenum, phosphate, and sulfur mines in the first-line mountainous areas of Nanchang, Jiujiang, Yueyang, Xianning, and Huangshi, eliminate the devils, strive for and deter the puppet army, rescue the miners, plunder materials, and destroy equipment......

The devil didn't expect that the people of China would not attack military targets, but attack and destroy the weakly guarded mines, the garrison had been lax, not to mention the mines of the third-line troops, the garrison squads and squads of more than 200 mines were completely annihilated, the materials were robbed, the equipment was destroyed, and the losses were heavy.

Five days later, the instructor sent various detachments to return to the building, killing a total of 2,107 Japanese soldiers, capturing 49 prisoners, fighting for and capturing 17 companies of the puppet army, rescuing more than 37,000 miners, capturing 7 mortars, 31 heavy machine guns, 297 light machine guns, 308 grenadiers, 1,187 rifles, 179 pistols, a number of ammunition, more than 1,700 sets of individual equipment, and a number of other equipment; 6,762 taels of gold, 9,017 taels of silver, 11 tons of tungsten sand, 23 tons of manganese ore, 11 tons of sulfur, 17 tons of copper, 7 tons of lead, and 8 tons of tin...... On their side, 29 people were killed, 105 were seriously wounded, 257 were slightly wounded, and some ammunition and equipment were consumed.

Lu Qingyang divided the gold and silver into 5 parts, 1 part was discounted to reward the officers and soldiers of the meritorious troops, 1 part was handed over to the Ninth War Zone, 1 part was handed over to Wu Mujun, 1 part was used as military expenses for the troops, and 1 part was brought back to the original army by Guijian**...... Other materials were exchanged with Jing Yukun for equipment and ammunition.

Xue Yue looked at the battle report and couldn't help but sigh: Wu Mujun's training, courage, skills, and tactics have reached the realm of perfection, and Lu Qingyang is indeed teachable, and the arrangement of the matter is comprehensive, a yellow-mouthed boy is still like this, and the strength of Wu Mujun's "internal strength" can be seen!

Xue Yue saw a few lines attached to the combat report: In order to facilitate future operations, I hope that this operation will not be commended and publicized! Please change it to a meat and wine reward!

Xue Yue blushed, he understood the reason why Lu Qingyang prevaricated and delayed the battle order in the early stage! At the same time, he secretly scolded: TMD, this kid is a conspirator who fights wars, and the vicious dog bites people without showing his teeth! So, Xue Yue sent Tong Jingya as a Muslim tutor and gave Lu Qingyang a review, at the cost of being promoted to lieutenant colonel. In fact, the young couple had already reconciled as before, and Xue Yue just found a reason to promote Tong Jingya.

Luo Zhuoying, Yang Sen, Wang Lingji and other bigwigs received a group of fierce officers and soldiers and 200 taels of gold and 400 taels of silver, all of whom knew that Lu Qingyang was so good at doing things must be his shrewd little daughter-in-law behind the scenes.

The Wumu Army Hunting Detachment ended its historical mission with a series of beautiful achievements, and when they were ready to show their magic after separation, the Pacific War broke out! On December 7, 1941, the Japanese devils attacked Pearl Harbor, the first port of the United States, and began the Pacific War, which lasted 3 years and 8 months, which led to great changes in the pattern of China's War of Resistance Against Japan.

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