Chapter 173: Serving the Country with Loyalty (4)
Just when Lu Qingyang was fighting bloody battles on both sides of the Xiangjiang River, there was no reason why Tuesday Dog would not intervene in such a huge battle.
Because the defense area of the Wumu Group Army and the combat area are separated by the third theater and a large area of occupation, and there are no troops directly under the Wumu Group Army in the sixth and ninth theaters of the war at this time, so the dog on Tuesday was so anxious that she scratched her ears and cheeks, and Tong Jingya comforted the dog on Tuesday according to her husband's concern, fortunately, a batch of flying thunders were transported to Lu Qingyang's instructor in time, which was also regarded as a contribution to the battle! However, on Tuesday, the dog felt that it was not enough, and still held a staff meeting to discuss how to intervene in the Battle of Changheng.
Zhao Dahu was physically and mentally exhausted by the continuous use of troops in central Henan and on both sides of the Yangtze River, and advocated waiting and waiting for changes.
Shi Jilun believed that if the Wumu Group Army stretched out its hand too long, it would be suspicious of the Military Commission, and that more was better than less.
Xiang Qingyun believed that all units of the Wumu Group Army were now performing their own duties and the defense area was stable, but they could not spare a large number of mobile troops to participate in the Battle of Changheng.
Zeng Qi had long been chilled by what the national government had done, so he also advocated consolidating the defense area of the Wumu Group Army and strengthening the supply of materials to the front-line troops, which was within the scope of the Wumu Group Army.
Only Wang Yilang believes that the War of Resistance is a national war, and every unit should take responsibility for the War of Resistance and can support the Battle of Changheng in many ways.
On Tuesday, seeing that he was in the minority, Gou also temporarily settled down to sort out the internal affairs of the Wumu Group Army and all defense areas, and no longer insisted on participating in the war.
Jing Yukun escorted a large number of supplies back to Xishan, reported the progress of the Battle of Changheng to the bigwigs, and also brought back the news of the death of Lu Qingbao, Lu Qingxian, and Lu Qingcai.
After discussion, the staff developed a series of action plans:
1. Carry out a powerful offensive on both sides of the Yangtze River, cut off the Yangtze River waterway, and contain the forces of the devil's battlefield in Central China;
2. Advance to Poyang Lake and the line from Wuhan to Nanchang on the east bank of Poyang Lake with a powerful force, undermine the stability of the rear of the devils, and further contain the forces of the devils in Central China;
3. Forming a mobile firepower unit to go to the front-line battlefield to directly support the Battle of Changheng;
4. Apply to the Central Military Commission to assign a flying formation to be stationed in the Xishan base area to strike at devil planes and warships along the Yangtze River, to ensure the connection between the Third Theater and other theaters, and to ensure that the weapons and equipment of the Wumu Group Army can be airlifted to the battlefields where they are most needed;
The plan has been decided, and on Tuesday the dog began to intensively deploy and implement various plans:
Li Jinshan commanded the Jiangbei Mobile Corps to attack westward, supported Wei Wenyang's troops to occupy important strongholds on the north bank of the Yangtze River, and echoed with Zhang Tielong's division of the Jiangnan guerrilla detachment to solve the blockade of the Yangtze River waterway; Then, with the sailor brigade of the mobile corps as the main force, it advanced to Poyang Lake, established base areas in Jiujiang, Ruichang, De'an, Yongxiu, Anyi, Fengxin, Jing'an, Wuning and other counties on the west bank of Poyang Lake, established contact with various departments of the Ninth Theater, attacked and harassed the rear of the devils, and plundered strategic materials;
Jing Yukun and Zhao Chongshan transferred a group of capable forces from the Wumu Military Academy and the Teaching Brigade, as well as the recovered wounded veterans to form a detachment to aid Hunan Province, an artillery regiment, 3 artillery battalions, a total of 27 8 combined Foguang flying mines, 81 8 combined Tianyu flying mines, 10 times ammunition, 1 joint logistics battalion, 81 trucks, responsible for ammunition supply support, medical aid, and communication;
Zeng Qi and Shi Jilun were responsible for dispatching a number of officials and officers for administrative work to set off with the troops and to be responsible for the organization, mobilization, and management of the base areas.
After Li Jinshan received the order, he distributed the infantry mobile detachment to the guerrilla areas of Wei Wenyang's department, surveyed the terrain and assessed the combat value, and then reported to Li Jinshan; After receiving the report, Li Jinshan dispatched Tianyu Flying Thunder to assist in the battle according to the situation, first bombarding the strongholds and fortifications of the devils with different numbers of Heavenly Rain and Flying Thunder, and then the infantry and guerrillas rushed up to clear out the remnants of the enemy, clean up the battlefield, and redeploy the dove to occupy the magpie's nest...... As for this kind of tactic of bullying people with firepower, Li Jinshan believed that there was no technical content at all, and he could not arouse his interest, and only when devil warships and planes appeared, Li Jinshan became energetic, commanded the artillery brigade and the sailor brigade to carry out air defense and anti-ship, and then organized the infantry to search for the wreckage of the plane and transport it back to Xishan, and salvage the equipment and supplies on the warship.
Attacking the upper reaches of Pengze, Li Jinshan immediately became energetic and commanded the sailor brigade to transport the artillery across the river and sweep the stronghold of devils on the first line from Hukou to Duchang. Last time, Li Jinshan suffered some small losses in the nearby Wangdu, and this time he had to make up for everything.
After sinking the three frigates of the devil at the mouth of the lake, the devil's fleet had to withdraw to Wuhan, and the sailor brigade took the opportunity to rush into Poyang Lake to claim the king's hegemony; As for the large number of swamps and water networks on the east bank of Poyang Lake, they are not suitable for large-scale truck operations carrying Foguang Flying Thunder, but Zhang Tielong's firepower battalion has given full play to the advantage of light mobility and grabbed a lot of territory for Zhang Tielong's department, but the power of Foguang Flying Thunder is amazing, so Zhang Tielong's department can fake the tiger's might.
Occupying the eastern shore of Poyang Lake, Zhang Tielong's troops were not enough, and could only occupy some key positions, Li Jinshan did not care about those, and used the sailor brigade to carry the flying thunder of the artillery brigade across Poyang Lake and landed in the northeast of Nanchang, and then approached Nanchang by land and water.
The devils in Nanchang are also insufficient now, but they have to defend it, so they try their best to draw troops and firepower from all over the country to defend Nanchang, and even retain a part of the planes supporting the Battle of Changheng, ready to deal with a large number of artillery of the mobile corps, because the artillery brigade has 27 8 combined Buddha light flying mines, 54 8 combined Tianyu flying mines, which is the firepower of thousands of heavy artillery, even if the devils increase several times the troops, it will not help, the problem is that Li Jinshan captured Nanchang, but there are not enough troops to defend, Therefore, it is meaningless to spend a lot of money to attack an undefendable city, Li Jinshan also contacted the Military Commission and the Third War Zone, and the Wumu Group Army captured Nanchang and the Third War Zone to recover it.
The Military Commission was willing, because taking Nanchang could contain some of the troops on the front line of Changsha and Hengyang, but the focus of the recovery troops in the Third Theater was concentrated on the Fujian front line to balance the devils in Taiwan and Guangdong, and there were not enough troops to hold Nanchang.
Li Jinshan was not annoyed, and while the devils were transferring troops to Nanchang, he commanded the motorized infantry detachment to land on the west bank of Poyang Lake, infiltrated the hinterland of the devils in the mountains on the west bank of Poyang Lake, and personally led the team to launch a guerrilla war in the mountains, which is a bit interesting!
Li Jinshan sent the artillery brigade back to the east bank of Poyang Lake, because the huge equipment and the same huge consumption were not something that the guerrillas could afford, so the artillery brigade completed its task after bluffing the devils for a while, and could only withdraw to a relatively safe area, while Li Jinshan surrendered his identity and only commanded the motorized infantry detachment and the sailor brigade, and asked Wang Huankai's artillery brigade and Zhong Limin's sailor brigade to assist Zhang Tielong's department in blocking the south bank of the Yangtze River waterway. Xu Jiguang's cavalry brigade and Han Jinkui's anti-tank brigade assisted Wei Wenyang's troops in blocking the northern bank of the Yangtze River waterway.
Wang Huankai was very dissatisfied with Li Jinshan's crossing of the river and demolishing the bridge, so he and Zhang Tielong got together, and the two of them together made a black hand to the devils in Jingdezhen.
Jingdezhen is nominally garrisoned by a brigade of devils, but in fact it has been evacuated from the battlefield on the southern front, leaving only an empty shelf. Wang Huankai's mechanized artillery came to the city overnight, and the devils were powerless to resist at all, so they were bombarded indiscriminately by Wang Huankai, and had to withdraw after suffering a number of casualties, and surrendered Jingdezhen to Wang Huankai.
As soon as the devils who withdrew from Jingdezhen lost their support, they found that Zhang Tielong's troops were eyeing them around. The commander of the Devil Brigade knew that he had fallen into the trap of the Wumu Group Army, and he hated himself and was powerless, and after an unequal fierce battle, he committed suicide by disembowelment with a group of fanatical followers, leaving hundreds of old and weak soldiers to be prisoners of Zhang Tielong's department, and Zhang Tielong did not raise idlers, and sent the devil captives to sell coolies in the porcelain kiln.
Zhang Tielong and Wang Huankai teamed up to take Jingdezhen, immediately took out the drawings, notified Xishan to send molds and other raw materials, and mass-produced all kinds of porcelain equipment: grenades, porcelain jars of mines, and porcelain canisters of various flying thunder grenades, and then occupied the gold mines, tungsten mines, coal mines, copper mines, and sulfur mines occupied by the devils, and rescued a large number of insincere miners who were squeezed by the devils.
Zhong Limin was thrown aside by Li Jinshan, Wang Huankai and Zhang Tielong also wore a pair of pants, so they leisurely lived a hunting life on the Yangtze River, and robbed ships when they saw them, anyway, they were either devil warships or devils looting China's supplies, and the intercepted ships were handed over to the guerrillas and sailor detachments in various lake areas.
Li Jinshan's life was the hardest, with the whole army in the deep mountains and old forests to occupy a village in the east and a town in the west, the grain production here is not high, and they have to hunt and fish by themselves and exchange food with the local people, the ammunition replenishment basically depends on capture, most of the flying mines are used up, and the troops have used up the devil's grenadiers and mortars, and together with the administrative work team, 10,000 people are divided into dozens of butt-sized base areas, but the various departments take turns to fight the devils, and at least dozens of devils are killed every day, and sometimes they fight 100 times a day. Killed more than 400 devils.
Gradually, Li Jinshan discovered that the Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi border area was a treasure land, with large and small gold, silver, antimony, tin, copper, tungsten, iron, coal, manganese, molybdenum, zinc, and lead ore. As long as the devils who are guarded are taken down, these mines will belong to Wu Mujun, and Li Jinshan is good at doing this, the problem is that the mine workers have to consume a large amount of grain every day, and Li Jinshan has no choice but to grab food again, but Li Jinshan said that he would not spit out anything when he got it.
Li Jinshan ordered Zhong Limin to bring in large quantities of explosives, fishing nets, and grain, especially glutinous rice. Li Jinshan arranged for miners to use fishing nets to catch fish and shrimp in their spare time to improve their lives, use glutinous rice slurry and mud to make soil and cement, build mountains and rocks into solid fortifications, grab a mine to guard a mine, and even bring production to the base.
Li Jinshan's mobile corps picked up rabbits on both sides of the Yangtze River, which was simply not a proper job, but the dogs were not good at saying anything on Tuesday, and Li Jinshan sealed the Yangtze River to death, and eliminated many devils in a piecemeal manner, and also brought back a large number of materials and raw materials for Xishan.
Jing Yukun took Zhao Chongshan and the Hunan Aid Detachment through the Third War Zone to rest in Fuzhou for a while, and advanced to Pingxiang, where there had been fierce battles.
The fierce battle in Pingxiang was Xue Yue's troops who withdrew to eastern Hunan and western Jiangxi. After the loss of Changsha, Xue Yue resolutely refused to listen to the chairman's deployment to the Guiliu line, and insisted on withdrawing most of the troops to eastern Hunan and western Jiangxi, containing the forces of the devils attacking the Guiliu line, and buying time for [***] to deploy on the Guiliu line.
The powerful firepower of the Hunan aid detachment soon relieved the siege of Pingxiang and attacked Liling with all its might. In Liling, Jing Yukun learned that Lu Qingyang's instructor had invaded Hengyang, and urgently ordered the troops to advance along Youxian and Anren, and when he arrived in Hengyang, Jing Yukun learned that Lu Qingyang had invaded Hengyang and broke through, Hengyang was in danger, and the loss was basically a foregone conclusion, so Xue Yue strongly persuaded Jing Yukun to stay in Xiangdong to cooperate with the Ninth War Zone.
Jing Yukun was unwilling to see Hengyang fall, so he must try to rescue. So 81 flying thunder launchers opened the way, and more than 100 trucks sprayed fire dragons to Hengyang, but they had no choice but to change back to the bombing and blocking of devil planes and heavy artillery, and there was no movement in Hengyang City.
Jing Yukun knew that without the participation of the [***] large army, it was impossible to recapture Hengyang, and who in the [***] departments would listen to his small detachment leader, so he reluctantly turned to the direction of Leiyang in the south, ready to standby and move.
Unexpectedly, the Hunan Aid Detachment had not gained a stable foothold, and received a battle report, the Eleventh Army of the devil Hengyang and the Twenty-third Army of Guangdong marched north and south to seize the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway, and [***] abandoned them along the way, Jing Yukun had no choice but to turn to Guiyang again.
Zhao Chongshan was very depressed by the transfer, transfer, and re-entry, and it happened that a telegram came from Xishan: General Cai Tingkai was living in Guilin, and now Guilin is in turmoil, and General Cai has no military power, and he can neither serve the country nor be in danger, so he sent a detachment to Guilin to protect and welcome General Cai to Xishan. So, Jing Yukun sent Zhao Chongshan to Guilin to meet General Cai.
Wu Lei and Wu Ting had been accompanying General Cai for 4 years, and they were quite proficient in defense work, and after establishing contact with Jing Yukun through the Xishan side, they proposed to avoid the possible combat area, detour from the south of Guilin, and meet the Hunan aid detachment through Yangshuo, Pingle, Zhongshan, Fuchuan, Jianghua, Daoxian, Ningyuan, Jiahe, and Guiyang, and then prepare to choose a road to return to Xishan.
Zhao Chongshan led a Tianyu Flying Thunder Company and a motor joint logistics company with a total of 20 trucks along the agreed route in the direction of Guilin, regularly maintaining contact with the Wu brothers, and occasionally meeting General Cai's guards.
After meeting General Cai Tingkai, Zhao Chongshan invited Cai Tingkai and his wife to ride a truck-converted living car, but Cai Tingkai was born in the military and was more reluctant to live this exquisite lifestyle, so he only let Mrs. Cai make a living car, and he and a few juniors rode horses or trucks, and they were also leisurely along the way.
The brothers and sons are already familiar, and they don't have to talk and laugh, and it is rare to have this warmth and happiness in the wartime when the smoke of gunpowder is billowing out.
Wu Lei's men came down to report, and a devil plane appeared. Wu Lei immediately ordered the air defense company to prepare for battle. Zhao Chongshan persuaded Wu Lei and ordered his flying thunder company to install Tianyu 1 flying mines to prepare for air defense.
The Wu brothers also knew the use of air defense flying mines, but they had never seen the actual combat effect with their own eyes. But. This time the Wu brothers were disappointed, the devil only came with a reconnaissance plane, and it only circled in the air and flew away.
At night, the sound of the motor came again, Zhao Chongshan heard the sound of the motor of the plane, and felt that it was wrong, the devil plane rarely flies at night, there must be something wrong, so he woke up the troops, strengthened the vigilance, and extinguished all the light.
Sure enough, more than 10 devil planes first dropped flares, and after finding Zhao Chongshan's convoy, they began to drop parachutes.
At this time, everyone had never heard of the concept of paratroopers and airborne troops, and after watching it for a long time, everyone realized that the devil was airdropping troops. So, Zhao Chongshan quickly discussed with the Wu brothers, the rain and thunder to deal with the devils in the sky, and the Wu brothers to deal with the devils on the ground.
As a result, 8 of the 9 Tianyu Flying Thunder were responsible for firing in one direction, and 1 Flying Thunder was responsible for vigilance. The two cavalry battalions of Wu Lei and Wu Ting sanitized around the trucks, using anti-aircraft machine guns and heavy machine guns to kill the devils who were low-altitude and landed.
The devil's escort plane did not dare to open fire, for fear of accidentally injuring its own paratroopers, and the paratroopers in mid-air became a live target for Wu Mujun's army.
After dawn, Wu Lei and Wu Ting each took a lion and tiger dog to search the surrounding area, captured 27 devil paratroopers, killed 331, and captured dozens of submachine guns, a batch of Type 96 light machine guns, Type 38 cavalry guns, southern-style pistols, grenadiers, mortars, maps, binoculars, and a large number of combat rations.
After interrogation, it was learned that the devil's reconnaissance plane discovered General Cai Tingkai's team and mistakenly thought it was the transfer of the [***] senior command post, so it sent paratroopers, intending to capture the thief and capture the king first, showing the devil's advanced combat methods and deterring the [***] team.
Cai Tingkai laughed when he heard this: "Thank you to Emperor Yumoto, to General Shunroku Hata, commander-in-chief of the Shina Dispatch Army, and to General Isamu Yokoyama, commander of the Eleventh Army, for spending so much effort to deal with me as an idle veteran, Lao Cai is really a supreme honor!" ”
Zhao Chongshan's childlike heart rose and said to Cai Tingkai: "General Cai's words can be slightly polished, and I will publicly thank him for his love in the form of a telegram!" ”
"Yes, let me know that I Chinese repay grievances with virtue!" Cai Tingkai is a veteran who has seen the world and knows the impact of this power on the devils, the Chinese [***] team and the international community.
At this time, Wu Lei and Wu Ting came over and asked General Cai to transfer quickly, the devil suffered a loss and was likely to retaliate.
Zhao Chongshan immediately came to his senses and ordered the troops to maintain air defense during the march, and the troops urgently moved forward to move closer to the [***] occupied area.
Sure enough, after the devil's reconnaissance plane reconnoitred, 12 bombers flew directly into Zhao Chongshan's convoy, and at this time, Cai Tingkai was accompanied by the Wu brothers and used binoculars to observe the air defense operation in the distance. (To be continued.) )