Chapter 87: The Yangtze River Channel (1)
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After hundreds of vicious battles, large and small, Liu Maoer's northbound brigade made the devils in the surrounding counties feel that the wind was full of soldiers, and the team swelled like a face, and the Gaoyou base area also swelled dramatically.
Soon, **, the New Fourth Army, and the local armed forces were either far away from Liu Maoer's Wu Mu Army's northbound brigade, or returned to the northbound brigade, and even Liu Qinghe and Liu Chenghai on both sides protested against Liu Maoer's people crossing the border to fight.
Liu Maoer didn't admit it, it was done by the local militia, and it has nothing to do with me, Liu! I just have to recruit troops, look, my artillery battalion, 12 Type 92 infantry guns, 18 mortars, plenty of ammunition; My cavalry battalion, 195 horses, 3 cavalry companies, shotguns, odd lights, each company is also equipped with 6 carts, 6 light machine guns, 3 heavy machine guns, 3 mortars, 9 grenadiers; My transport battalion, 9 trucks, 120 carts, more than 300 people; In my procurement battalion, the weapons and equipment are top secret, and no one knows what they are, not even my Liu Maoer...... Each of my six base towns has 3 or 500 rifles, a few light and heavy machine guns, grenadiers, and some have 1 or 2 mortars, 1,800 hard crossbows, hundreds of mines, thousands of grenades, grenades, and dozens of earth mines. Liu Maoer was very angry when she reported to Tuesday Dog and Zhao Dahu.
Zhao Dahu was angered by Liu Maoer: "Then ** take Yangzhou City down for me!" ”
"Does the commander-in-chief have any arrangements?" Liu Maoer was a little confused.
"Aren't you a cow? Take Yangzhou down for me and take a look! Zhao Dahu glared at Liu Mao'er, breathing heavily.
"It's because of this! The subordinates are rude, the commander-in-chief is not strange! But don't let me take Yangzhou! How about I send another 6 trucks to Xishan, loaded with cotton and jute? Liu Mao'er had a hippie smile on her face, and she didn't have the sincerity to admit her mistake at all.
"Hitting Yangzhou will make you embarrassed like this?" Xiang Qingyun also squeezed Liu Maoer.
"Who said I was afraid of hitting Yangzhou?!" Liu Mao'er was shy, "I'm afraid that taking Yangzhou will cut off my financial route!" I guard the periphery of Yangzhou and seven or eight other county seats, and if I lack anything, I will go to the city to get it, and if I take down the county seat, I will have no warehouse, isn't this killing chickens and taking eggs? ”
"Hmmm! It's a refinement! Zhao Dahu looked at Tuesday Dog and Zeng Qi and smiled. What good things have you brought us? ”
"Report to the commander-in-chief, in addition to the explosives, sulfur, copper, cotton and linen, gold, and ocean on the truck, I also brought back a procurement battalion?" Liu Maoer began to be triumphant again.
"Purchasing camp?" Tuesday Dog and the others were puzzled.
"It is a unit specially responsible for procuring all kinds of urgently needed materials from the Japanese-occupied areas! Except for warships and planes, what else do you want! Liu Maoer is quite realistic, admitting that he can't get warships and planes.
"Call to see!" Everyone is interested.
"Damn, isn't this Duanmu Changyan? Liu Mao'er, this is the soldier you borrowed from me, what did you say to give me a procurement battalion! Xiang Qingyun felt deceived.
"You lent me a special operations platoon, and I gave you a procurement battalion, specializing in medicines, ammunition, horses, and vehicles, and the chief of staff is still satisfied, right?" Liu Maoer asked.
"Satisfied, satisfied!" Xiang Qingyun smiled from ear to ear. "Duanmu Changyan, you are appointed as the captain of the special operations brigade of the Wumu Army, directly under the general headquarters of the Wumu Army, responsible for the formation of special operations units for training the major teams, this life, the general headquarters of the Wumu Army!" After Xiang Qingyun announced his appointment in a serious manner, he encouraged Duanmu Changyan: "I heard that you did a good job with Liu Mao'er, so I transferred you back to help other troops train a group of special operations troops, so that other troops can also get some light!" What do you think? Transferring you back, Liu Mao'er is very distressed, isn't it? ”
Duanmu Changyan stood up and saluted, accepted the appointment first, and then replied to Xiang Qingyun: "Boss Liu is not distressed, he is too happy!" ”
"Oh?" Tuesday Dog, Zhao Dahu and others were strange. "Tell me about it!"
"Now in Boss Liu's base area, 6 strategic fortress towns, which town has 1, 200 militia specializing in looting, that is, dozens of fortress villages, which village also has more than a dozen or 20 militia who will rob, adding up to more than 2,000 looting masters, making the surrounding devils restless, now there are more wolves and less meat, and the militia of various departments often clash in order to fight for territory, and the wild ones are not good, Boss Liu is having a headache, in order to manage well, I set up 3 special operations battalions for him, the special operations battalion I brought back this time, Except for the veterans who were borrowed at the beginning, they were all cold and unscrupulous, and Boss Liu was relieved! ”
The captains of several other brigades returned to Xishan one after another to report on their work, and several feudal officials who worked independently were all bullish: Liu Maoer claimed to have established an iron-clad base area; Liu Chenghai is known as the precedent for the issuance of currency by the Kaiwu Mu Army; Wang Yilang held Wu Mujun's big money cabinet ---- gold mine and iron mine; Liu Qinghe maintained the leader of two special operations---- arson and liger search team; Wan Zixiong sent his troops into Shanghai; Wei Wenyang borrowed Lu Ao's light, embarrassed to promote, but he really mastered heavy artillery and armored troops; Lu Ao used the excuse that his identity was inconvenient to publicly report on his work, and continued to spend time in Hangzhou......
The guerrilla areas of the Wuhang Brigade, the Guerrilla Area of the Suzhou-Anhui Brigade, and the Guerrilla Area of the Suzhou-Shanghai Brigade have all been connected to the Xishan area, and the other three guerrilla areas are just separated by the Yangtze River. Tuesday Gou, Zhao Dahu, Zeng Qi, Shi Jilun, Xiang Qingyun and others calculated the strength of Wu Mujun's army: the number of troops exceeded 100,000, the area was tens of thousands of square kilometers, the people in the jurisdiction settled down, and the devils on the edge of the jurisdiction were terrified......
Seeing that several guerrilla brigades were all bullish, the commander of the guerrilla detachment, He Laifu, was of course vigorous, and the captains of several field detachments were very unbalanced: although Ke Hua's heavy artillery brigade was well trained, at best it played the role of a fire observation and artillery training team from across the bank, and also received a batch of 105mm mountain artillery and field artillery sent by Lu Ao; In addition to sending some armored troops to support other guerrilla groups, Niu Daojia's armored brigade also received 2 armored vehicles and 4 tanks; Wu Zhen's cavalry brigade sent a few small units to other guerrilla areas to visit several times, and also retrieved hundreds of war horses, and the rest was horse training, training, and even training horses and pack horses for pulling carts; In addition to training and consuming ammunition, the firepower brigade has not participated in a single actual battle; Only Li Jinglong of the sailor brigade did something, and his motorized speedboat swept across Taihu Lake, seizing 22 devil steam carriers and 11 gunboats, and all the devil fortifications along the Taihu Lake were withdrawn to 2 kilometers away from the lake shore, and the number of motorized speedboats also increased to 40, making him a veritable "king of Taihu Lake."
After two days of reunion, they were called to the large conference room by Tuesday Dog and others.
"Notification: The headquarters of the Devil's Central China Dispatch Army Command was revoked, and Shunroku Hata was ordered to return to China; The Nanjing side established the Chinese Dispatch Army Command to unify the command of the Japanese North China Front and all the troops in the Chinese Kannai battlefield, with Commander Nishio Shouzo; The 13th Army was established in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, with its headquarters in Shanghai, and the commander was concurrently served by Nishio Shouzao; On September 1st, the devils launched an attack on Changsha, the commander-in-chief was our old friend General Xue Yue, who received a report, hoping that we could block the Yangtze River waterway at the same time, launch a campaign with sufficient influence, contain the devil's forces, reduce the pressure, for this purpose, provide 20 105mm guns, 50 tons of explosives, 50 anti-aircraft machine guns, and the above materials will arrive soon! Next, a pre-war discussion. After announcing to Qingyun, he sat down listlessly, because as the commander of the garrison detachment, the external battle had almost nothing to do with him.
After dinner, the General Headquarters of the Wumu Army began to issue orders:
Liu Chenghai's eastward advance brigade was allocated 100 rounds each of armor-piercing meteor flying mines, grenade meteor flying mines, high-explosive meteor flying mines, and incendiary meteor flying mines, and was responsible for blocking the section from Haimen to Jingjiang on the north bank of the Yangtze River; Wan Zixiong's Suzhou-Shanghai Brigade seized the area on the south bank of the Yangtze River, and allocated 100 rounds of armor-piercing meteor flying mines, grenade meteor flying mines, high-explosive meteor flying mines, and incendiary meteor flying mines, and cooperated with Liu Chenghai's troops across the river to block the corresponding Yangtze River waterway; Liu Mao'er went north to seize Yangzhou City and the area on the north bank of the Yangtze River, and allocated 100 rounds each of armor-piercing meteor flying thunder, grenade meteor flying thunder, high-explosive meteor flying thunder, and incendiary meteor flying thunder, and was responsible for blocking the section from Jingjiang to Nanjing on the north bank of the Yangtze River; Zhao Dahu's field detachment, rationed 100 rounds each of armor-piercing meteor flying mines, grenade meteor flying mines, high-explosive meteor flying mines, and incendiary meteor flying mines, was responsible for blocking the south bank of the Yangtze River corresponding to Liu Maoer's northbound brigade, and was also responsible for receiving the actions of various units on the south bank of the Yangtze River; Wang Yilang's Suwan Brigade was allocated 100 rounds each of armor-piercing meteor flying mines, grenade meteor flying mines, high-explosive meteor flying mines, and incendiary meteor flying mines, and was responsible for blocking the section from Nanjing to Wuhu on the south bank of the Yangtze River; Liu Qinghe's Jiangwan Brigade was allocated 100 rounds each of armor-piercing meteor flying mines, grenade meteor flying mines, high-explosive meteor flying mines, and incendiary meteor flying mines, and was responsible for blocking the corresponding section of the Yangtze River on the north bank of the Yangtze River and Wang Yilang's department; Wei Wenyang's Wuhang Brigade is responsible for guarding the flanks of Xishan; Ouyang Cheng commanded the air defense battalion of the fire brigade of the field detachment and the air defense battalion of the air defense command center of the garrison detachment, and the other two newly formed anti-aircraft machine gun battalions were responsible for the mobile air defense of various units; Xiang Qingyun is responsible for ensuring the normal defense and air defense command in the Xishan area, and at the same time cooperating with the departments directly under the headquarters to provide logistical support.
Zhao Dahu took the lead in attacking. Zhao Dahu's plan was to take Zhenjiang first, where the Yangtze River channel was narrower, which was not only convenient for the Yangtze River channel to jam the devils, but also convenient for the troops to connect the Wumu army to the south and north of the Jiangbei River and to transport materials.
Zhao Dahu first ordered Li Haiyang's infantry brigade, Ke Hua's heavy artillery brigade with 10 105mm mountain guns, 10 field guns, and 9 rapid-fire guns to sneak into Baohua Mountain. 105mm heavy artillery and rapid-fire guns were arranged and preset positions, ready to blockade the Yangtze River; Li Haiyang's infantry brigade rested for a while and launched an attack on Zhenjiang.
Li Haiyang wanted to come to the special operations brigade and infiltrate Zhenjiang City first, stealing two armored vehicles and five tanks from the devils, and the devils naturally pursued them closely, and the special operations brigade also set fire to Zhenjiang City, causing chaos in Zhenjiang City.
Li Haiyang took advantage of the situation to attack. Mortars and heavy machine guns covered the infantry to charge into Zhenjiang City.
The devils in Zhenjiang City are not ambiguous, armored vehicles and tanks occupy all the main streets and rampage, intending to use steel fortresses to crush the Wumu army into powder. Wu Mujun has long studied several plans to deal with devil tanks, heavy shotguns are designed to hit the shooting holes of devil armored vehicles and tanks, a large number of people kill and injure the crew of devil tanks, and armor-piercing javelin thunder directly destroys devil tanks and armored vehicles; The bunker and firing point were also destroyed by high-explosive javelin mines, and the city fell into street fighting.
At the same time, the devil warships on the Yangtze River bombarded Li Haiyang's artillery positions with large-caliber naval guns, causing heavy losses to Li Haiyang's mortar battalion. However, Li Haiyang also retaliated, an infantry had already lurked by the river, just waiting for the devil's naval guns to open fire and provide targets, and then 100 armor-piercing meteor thunderbolts were targeted, damaging 1 light cruiser, 1 destroyer, and sinking 3 frigates.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the devil navy threw down the devil army in Zhenjiang and retreated first.
Soon, the devils in Zhenjiang were compressed into the railway station, trapped by several strong pillboxes, and at the same time asked for help from Nanjing.
Nanjing and Changzhou both sent reinforcements.
An infantry wing sent by Nanjing, rushing to the aid of the train, was blown up by the Baohuashan garrison brigade and blocked 50 miles away.
Changzhou sent a tank brigade and a cavalry brigade, which were blocked by the Danyang garrison brigade with mine arrays and armor-piercing javelin flying mines.
In Zhenjiang City, Liu Maoer, who was watching the bustle with the team, saw that the bunker at the Guizi Railway Station was extremely strong, and he couldn't end the battle for a long time, so he was so anxious that he shouted: "Stunned!" Stun bombs! ”
Li Haiyang suddenly came to his senses and sent dozens of grenade machine guns, high-explosive shells, grenades, and stunned bombs to shoot indiscriminately at the firing holes of the pillboxes, and took the last few pillboxes in a daze. The troops enter the closing stage and clear the remnants of the enemy. Although the devils in the riverside port escaped a few boats, most of them were intercepted by the riverside troops.
Li Haiyang spread out the flying mine troops on the riverside to both flanks, drove out the devil warships, and covered the crossing of the river with a large number of supplies needed by the Jiangbei troops.
Wu Zhen led the cavalry brigade to rush over, clean up the devil troops along the river, and deploy flying thunder to block the river. According to the actual length of the battle line, Li Haiyang's armor-piercing meteor flying thunder was far from enough, but fortunately, Ke Hua's heavy artillery supplemented it to replace the firepower gap.
Zhao Dahu received Li Haiyang's report that he knew that the armor-piercing flying mines of other troops were even more insufficient, so he urgently mobilized the inventory, and at the same time urged Shu Jintang to step up production.
Li Haiyang immediately made a decision, detained the armor-piercing meteor flying thunder that was transported to Jiangbei, and distributed it to his Jiang'an troops, firmly restrained Zhenjiang Port and the surrounding riverbanks, and continuously transported the flying thunder and other materials and resources urgently needed by the Jiangbei troops across the river.
Liu Maoer went straight to Yangzhou after crossing the river with the boat, and Yangzhou had already been taken by the northbound brigade at this time, just waiting for Liu Maoer to make the next deployment.
Liu Maoer usually has to take advantage of everything, but this time it is unusual, Li Haiyang on the other side has already controlled the river, and he no longer needs too many armor-piercing meteor flying mines, and the flying mines of other troops are not enough, so he only left 20 rounds, and the rest were evenly given to Liu Qinghe and Liu Chenghai, and he used the explosives, ceramic jars and captured condoms on hand to make earth mines.
The devil absolutely could not tolerate being stuck in the Yangtze River channel, and mobilized more than a dozen warships to counterattack Zhenjiang Port, and Li Haiyang's pressure increased greatly.
Liu Maoer saw the opportunity to scatter more than 300 earth and water mines in the upper reaches of Zhenjiang Port, so that Li Haiyang only had to deal with the devils in the lower reaches of Zhenjiang Port and relieve a lot of pressure.
Because of the deployment of mines, it is no longer possible to transport supplies near Zhenjiang. Zhao Dahu ordered Liu Maoer to continue to drop mines through the radio, Liu Maoer did not understand Zhao Dahu's intentions, but resolutely carried out, put the newly built 100 mines into the river again, and at the same time ordered Yuan Zhongwu to speed up production.
The devil was stuck by Wu Mujun's neck in Zhenjiang, and Nishio Shouzo tasted the taste of Wu Mujun's greeting gift, and hurriedly mobilized the navy and army to attack Zhenjiang. As a result, the devil warships in the upper and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and the devil armies in Nanjing and Changzhou all went all out to press Zhenjiang.
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