As Shi Jilun expected, since the New Fourth Army entered Maoshan, in addition to saving troops, the Wumu Army has not been affected in any way, and has also cooperated with the New Fourth Army to loot more Japanese supplies and kill and injure more devils.

Outside Jurong City, a team of carts came from the direction of Danyang. In a turret guarding the road, Wu Zhen was directing several soldiers to fan the wind with bed sheets, which had just been taken down by Wu Zhen with a stun bomb in the early morning, and many of the 13 devils were tied up in the corner.

"Stop! On the orders of the superiors, the lines of communication were mixed into the guerrillas of China, and all passing vehicles were checked! "Wu Zhen is dressed as a ghost soldier Cao, and his Japanese is quite passable.

The soldiers of the Wumu Army and the New Fourth Army in the turret surrounded the large convoy in devil uniforms. Wu Zhen waved his hand, and the bayonet dealt with more than 40 devils in 10 seconds. Then, on the other side of the trench, large bamboos stretched out, and in a few minutes they were stabilized into a simple bamboo bridge. So the convoy passed through the trench smoothly and rushed towards Maoshan Mountain.

In a Taoist temple in Maoshan, Wu Zhenzheng bargained: "Commander Chen, this time a total of 22 trucks of grain were seized, a total of more than 15,000 catties, 38 38 rifles, 8 pistols, 6 sabers, 4 crooked light machine guns, 54 devils were killed, 13 were captured, our commander-in-chief Zhao said, our two families divide the accounts, how do you think they divide it?" You pick first, and I'll take the rest. ”

"Little ghost, are you quite shrewd," smiled, "You don't say a word, the 22 carts will be returned to the Wu Mu Army, and the two binoculars are not considered trophies, and the devil's military uniforms and equipment taken off are not captured, right?" is really worthy of Liu Maoer's own apprentice! The thick Sichuan accent was teasing.

Wu Zhen's face turned red, and he argued: "Our Wu Mu Army has contributed a lot of strength, of course we have to share more!" ”

"Okay, don't want to capture our New Fourth Army this time, you can pull it back!" Of course, Chen Yi will not worry about children.

"That's not good, I just want our share, and I don't take advantage of you!" Wu Zhen was so embarrassed by Chen Yi that his face couldn't be hung up.

"Little ghost, it's quite principled! Let me tell you, my people have got their hands on something valuable! "Chen Yi is still teasing this cute little guy.

"What's that?" Wu Zhen was stunned when he heard this, I have already cleaned the turret?

"Map." Chen Yi unveiled the mystery, "This is too important for us who are fighting!" ”

As soon as Wu Zhen heard this, he suddenly realized, he had also fought more than a dozen battles, big and small, and knew the usefulness of the map, but he hadn't used it himself, so he didn't pay attention to this thing, and he would have to learn it in the future!

Because the map was in Japanese, Chen Yi pointed to several key locations on the map and proofread and verified with Wu Zhen, which made Wu Zhen find the feeling of looking at the map for the first time. This time, Wu Zhen was like entering a treasure trove, and he was consumed in Chen Yi's headquarters, listening to Chen Yi tell battle stories, fighting local tyrants, talking about **, and also telling Chen Yi about his limited combat experience, he was not willing to be only an audience. Although Chen Yi was an expert in guerrilla warfare----, he was also amazed at the tactics of the mountain bandits that Wu Zhen learned from Liu Maoer and others. Therefore, Wu Zhen was specially asked to tell his officers about the battle examples, and the officers recorded every detail of the battle cases like a treasure, and Wu Zhen did not forget to record the battle examples of the New Fourth Army after receiving a series of satisfactions in self-esteem, vanity, and self-confidence. Of course, the seized supplies were divided equally between the two families. The Japanese prisoners returned to the Wumu army, and the Wumu army exchanged equipment with the surrounding third theater **. A devil soldier can change a formal rifle with 300 rounds of ammunition or 1,000 catties of rice, a devil commander, Jun Cao, and Cao Chang can change to a light machine gun or submachine gun with 1,000 rounds of ammunition or 4,000 catties of rice, the lieutenant can change 1 to 2 mortars with 50 shells, and the adjutant can change 1 to 2 cars, so the devils captured alive by Wu Mujun are not killed, and they are used to change equipment, but most of them were replaced by Qi Yuankai for gasoline. The New Fourth Army and ** can't make a deal.

In less than a month, the Japanese army in Nanjing could no longer tolerate the joint harassment of the New Fourth Army and the Wumu Army: more than 40 artillery towers in the front line of Lishui, Jurong, Danyang, and Changzhou for more than 200 miles had all been uprooted, and some had been pulled out four or five times. The Central China Dispatch of the Japanese Army decided to remove this problem before the large-scale westward advance of the troops.

On Tuesday in Xishan, Gou, Zhao Dahu, and Shi Jilun received telegrams that the Japanese troops in Changzhou, Danyang, Jurong, Lishui, Liyang, Yixing, Langxi, Guangde, and Changxing all showed signs of combat preparations. In particular, intelligence on the inner line of Yixing City confirmed that Japan's dispatch of troops from Central China would carry out large-scale operations in the Yili Mountains and Maoshan areas.

On Tuesday, Gou immediately sent someone to invite Chen Yi to come over to negotiate the battle plan. In the Wu Mu army, no one had fought a battle of this scale, so this time the strong Wu Mu army asked Chen Yi to be the commander-in-chief. Chen Yi advocated that you can't fight against devils, but you beat yours and I beat mine. This view was deeply agreed by the leaders of the Wu Mu Army, because they had always done this, but this time the game was bigger.

Chen Yi's Maoshan area was small and the depth of the operation was insufficient, so the New Fourth Army and the Wumu Army actively launched a movement war against the Japanese army; The Xishan Wumu Army aimed at holding the base area and used movement warfare as a means; Waiting for the opportunity to take Liyang City, connect Maoshan and Xishan, so that the two bases can respond to each other; mobilize the masses in all parts of the country to take advantage of the many local caves to clear the wilderness and reduce personnel and material losses; The ministries prepared supplies, ammunition, and were ready for battle; Each defense area shall make an operational plan against the Japanese attack, submit it to the General Headquarters for approval, and then the General Headquarters will coordinate and deploy it in a unified manner.

After listening to the operational plans of various departments, Chen Yi could not help but secretly admire: These guys' guerrilla warfare is fought in an authentic manner, and they have both regular military organizations and the cunning of bandits and bandits; except for being slightly deficient in mobilizing the masses, from a purely military point of view, the level of movement warfare and guerrilla warfare is absolutely stronger than that of the New Fourth Army, which came from the guerrillas of the Red Army.

In Liyang City, Liu Maoer, Liu Qinghe, and Wang Laodun each took a group of people to do business: there was no market for silk in this war-torn era, but there were still people to eat brook crabs, river shrimp, and all kinds of fish, especially the Japanese who were fish-eating people, and honey and vegetable oil were also in the market season, and the ducks and rabbits raised by Mr. Zhou were also hot goods. Moreover, the devils are also preparing to eat a big meal before the war, so as not to become starving ghosts. As for the weapons, the Wu brothers had brought in some nimble soldiers the night before.

At six o'clock, the whistle of the devil's meal sounded in the smell of fresh fish and shrimp. Then, the explosion of the grenade also sounded at the devil's brigade headquarters, barracks station, and city fortifications.

The devil's brigade headquarters, more than 100 small explosive bags flew in, enough to raze the brigade headquarters of the high-rise mansion compound to the ground in two minutes. Liu Maoer led more than 30 people to personally complete this large-scale blasting project. Although none of the devils escaped, all the equipment was also blown to pieces.

On the other hand, the Wu brothers and Wang Laodun are completing a more technical job ---- occupying the devil's baggage warehouse. At the suggestion of the three bad boys, Wang Laodun dug the tunnel under the warehouse, and then used a bundle of devil quilts to light the five drums and roosters to break the soul incense. The guards came to put out the fire in a swarm, but more than 20 were "smoked". The three bad boys took advantage of the chaos and sprinkled a lot of sweat medicine in the vat of the devil's porridge, and also put "a little" in the fish soup for the devil's officers. When the explosion sounded in the city, less than 40 people could stand in the more than 120 people's devil's baggage squadron, and most of them were bare-handed, because the weapons were in the dormitory, and the dormitory was under the control of the Wu brothers, so the fainted devil had a good life, and the devil who did not faint became a ghost under the gun, and the baggage of a brigade was surnamed Wu, of course, more than a dozen brothers led by Wang Laodun also had a share.

Liu Qinghe's men and horses were all broken into pieces and set fire everywhere. Each of them carried 10 incendiary packets, which were soaked in vegetable oil with bundled rag balls and mixed with gunpowder, dipped in beeswax on the outside of the rag bags, inserted into the fuse, and wrapped in oilcloth. They drove the carts pulling hay and waited around the squadron headquarters and artillery squad of the devils, and they first set fire to the gates and corners of the devils' camp to draw out the devils, and then threw a large number of grenades to kill and injure the devils. When the devils stabilized their minds and prepared to resist, they had already turned to the city fortifications to attack, and cooperated with the fourth brigade led by Zhao Dahu to attack the city.

It was not yet dark, and the devils without the commander were driven out of Liyang. Chen Yi's purpose of not annihilating the devils in Liyang is: 1. To occupy Liyang and disrupt the deployment of the devils, and 2. To prevent the war of annihilation from falling into a stalemate. In this way, before the devil could make a move, a finger was cut off.

After the Japanese Central China Dispatch Army ate the first blow, it immediately frantically counterattacked: a brigade launched an attack on Maoshan, Liyang, and Xishan respectively, and Lieutenant General Masaki Ito, commander of the 101st Division, was in charge of the overall command, and led his subordinate 101st and 103rd Wings, the 101st Cavalry Wing, and the 101st Field Artillery Wing, starting from Lishui, recapturing Liyang in advance, and then attacking Maoshan in the north and Xishan in the south, and he also sent the 101st Cavalry Wing to Langxi, Guangde, Changxing, and Wuxing to cooperate with the local garrison troops to intercept the retreat of Xishan. It should be said that Lieutenant General Ito Masaki still has a set, he did not plan to completely annihilate these rogues, drive the Xishan rogues to Tianmu Mountain, and completely annihilate a group of rogue bandits in Maoshan Mountain, and he can be regarded as having an explanation for the above, mainly because there is no oil and water in this kind of clean-up battle, and if there is a war of annihilation, if it is delayed, the attack on Wuhan will be lost.

Zhao Dahu knew that the battle to capture Liyang would not be too difficult, because he was still relieved of Liu Maoer's ability to respond, and the purpose of bringing the fourth brigade out was to fight a defensive battle that was relatively easy for recruits, and his fourth brigade was the one with the most recruits.

When Zhao Dahu learned that the devil's brigade was coming, he immediately deployed his troops according to the battle plan and calmly waited for the devil to "serve the food".

Major General Masaburo Kato, the commander in charge of the front line of Liyang and Nishiyama, was well aware of Ito Masakai's intentions and was ready to drive the enemy of Liyang out of the city and then destroy them. Because the firepower of the Chinese army is weak, it is okay to rely on fortifications in the city, and when it reaches the field, it is equivalent to a flock of sheep to be slaughtered in the meadow. Therefore, he planned to surround Liyang with 2 brigades of the 101st Wing, and 1 brigade was responsible for the vigilance in the direction of Maoshan; The 103rd Wing bypassed Liyang and advanced in the direction of Xishan; The 101st Wing of the Field Artillery left 1 brigade and 12 field guns to cooperate with the 101st Wing to attack Liyang, and 2 brigades to cooperate with the 103rd Wing to attack Xishan. In Shozaburo Kato's view, using two wings and one field artillery wing to attack a county town and a mountainous area dozens of kilometers deep is like smashing walnuts with a sledgehammer. Soon Shozaburo Kato didn't think so anymore!

When the 103rd Wing drove out of Lishui first, not far from Lishui, an explosion occurred on a gravel pile next to the road, and the marching troops suffered 2 or 30 casualties, and then the 103rd Wing found that these gravel piles could be seen everywhere on the road ahead, but some exploded, and some did not explode. The commander of the 103rd Wing, Tanigawa Kozo Osa, was quick to respond, and he immediately sent grenadiers to blow up or detonate these piles of rubble one by one, and it was really effective, and the march was much faster. Then, the cold gun knocked down the grenadier again, and the Shina man actually sniped the grenadier with a light machine gun at a distance of 3 or 400 meters

Under the harassment and attack of the New Fourth Army and the Wu Mu Army, Major General Masasaburo Kato, who crossed the 30-mile hills between Lishui and Liyang, finally rushed to Xinchang 10 miles away from Liyang before dark, at the cost of more than 100 casualties and a day's time.

Of course, the tens of thousands of devil troops will not be in a long snake formation. The 101st Wing set out from Jurong, and after setting up an offensive posture in Tianwang Town, it suddenly seized Yuan Xiang at the southern foot of Maoshan in the south at night, and quickly passed through the hilly area in the south of Maoshan and surrounded Liyang County overnight, which not only failed the night attack of the pistol regiment of the first detachment of the New Fourth Army, but also caught Liyang by surprise.

At 5 o'clock in the morning, the devils who arrived in Liyang began to attack without stopping. One squadron of devils launched an assault from the northwest corner of Liyang, the other three squadrons detoured to the east and west of Liyang, and the other two squadrons also surrounded Maoshan from the east and west.

Since Zhao Dahu's defense was focused on the west of the city, the position of the first battalion and three companies guarding the northwest corner was quickly broken through. Jin Manlou, the commander of the third company, quickly organized firepower to plug the gap, and all the officers and men except the firepower point rushed out of the fortifications, and used shell guns, submachine guns, rifles, bayonets, grenades, and other melee firepower superior to the devils to divide the devils who rushed in, and the 2nd and 30th devils who rushed into the city were annihilated by the second-line troops, and most of them were squeezed out of the city by the 1st battalion and 3rd company. Then, the battles in the north and west of the city began one after another.

The devil Yuasa Shaozuo, who failed to make a surprise attack, quickly adjusted his deployment and concentrated all the 12 heavy machine guns and two Type 92 infantry guns attached to the brigade in the northwest corner, in an attempt to tear apart the defense line of the Liyang defenders from the northwest corner. For a time, the northwest corner of Liyang City became the main battlefield, and the sound of guns and cannons could not be scored. Yuasa Shaozo is still very discerning, the northwest corner of the city is a slum, the buildings are mostly thatched houses, which is not conducive to the defenders to build fortifications, although there are several hills in the west of the city, but the surrounding commanding heights must be controlled by the defenders, and it is very unfavorable for the surprise attack. Therefore, Yuasa attacked the thatched house with incendiary bombs, making the defenders very passive. But the first battalion and three companies still stuck there, never taking half a step back.

At this time, Wang Huankai, deputy commander of the first battalion, rushed to reinforcements with a platoon of one battalion and one company, and when he saw that the situation was not good, he hurriedly mobilized the people to retreat, and at the same time arranged for young people to demolish flammable buildings and pile them behind the defense line of the first battalion and three companies to make room for fire escapes. Wang Huankai decisively ordered Jin Manlou to retreat.

When the devils rushed into Liyang City, Wang Huankai and Jin Manlou were arranging for the grenadiers to be replaced with incendiary bombs, and at the same time, several light machine guns scattered and arranged led the devil soldiers to split into multiple ways. When most of the devils entered the grass shed area, Wang Huankai ordered the cannon (grenadier) to be fired, and more than 100 devils fell into the fire for a while. The soldiers of Wu Mujun listened to the screams of the devils, and they all had goosebumps on their bodies.

The first company of the second battalion guarding the north of Liyang was not attacked by the devils, and seeing the situation in the adjacent positions, the company commander Wu Yuwen decisively covered the devils' heavy machine gun and artillery positions. Yuasa Shaozo was commanding the troops to rescue the troops in the sea of fire, and the first company of the second battalion that was covered by the flank was caught off guard, and finally failed to stabilize the position, so that the second battalion and the first company rushed to the end, and the heavy machine gun position and artillery position were cleanly pocketed, Yuasa Shaozo was also beaten into a hornet's nest by submachine guns, and less than 40 remnants of the devils fled in the direction of Maoshan.

Zhao Dahu received the battle report and immediately ordered: the first battalion and three companies returned to the west to form a battalion to counterattack the enemy attacking from the west; The 2nd and 3rd Companies of the 2nd Battalion returned to the entire north of the defensive city with their captured heavy machine guns, and the 2nd and 3rd Companies of the 2nd Battalion carried the captured Type 92 infantry guns to flank the attacking enemy in the east and south along the perimeter of the city.

Before dark, Zhao Dahu commanded the Fourth Brigade of the Wumu Army to successfully defeat the enemy attacking Liyang: the devils in the west retreated in the direction of Maoshan under the back-hitting fire on the hill outside the city and the counterattack in the city; The enemy in the southeast flanked by the 2nd Battalion, and the 3rd Battalion counterattacked, and retreated to the direction of the West Mountain; Fortunately, after the 103rd Wing led by Major General Masaburo Kato started the battle in Liyang, it actually bypassed Liyang and drove in the direction of Xishan as originally planned. In this battle, the Wumu army suffered more than 300 casualties, annihilated more than 700 enemies, and lost more than 100 guns and rifles, 2 light machine guns, and 3 grenadiers; 2 Type 92 infantry guns, 9 heavy machine guns, 31 light machine guns, 36 grenadiers, 275 Type 38 rifles, more than 20 Southern-style pistols, more than 20 knives, ammunition and horses were seized.

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