Xue Yue also said in a low voice, "I didn't say that I wanted to give up Changsha, I meant to let a unit and the youth army go directly to Hengyang to prepare for defensive operations, I think the provisional 54th Division and the Tenth Army will first establish a defense system, and then we will select a unit to Hengshan on the flank of Changsha, and when the Japanese army attacks Hengyang, cut off the logistics supply line of the Japanese army, and then we will find a way to counterattack, and finally if it goes well, we can even counterattack back to Changsha." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Wu Yizhi shook his head and said, "No, it's too risky, what if the Japanese army doesn't march anymore after taking Changsha?" ”

Xue Yue said with a smile, "This is absolutely impossible, the Japanese army in South China is attacking Guangxi, why should you fight Guangxi?" That is to open up the Hunan and Guizhou arteries to cut off our national control area. ”

Looking at Wu Yizhi with a look of disapproval, Xue Yue shook his head and said, "Then let me think about it again." ”

The war in Changsha was urgent, and the Japanese army in northern Jiangsu felt even worse than Xue Yue.

-- Xinyi River

Xinyi River is located between Lianyungang and Huai'an a big river, the terrain of northern Jiangsu is a flat river, easy to attack and difficult to defend, here is a rare natural barrier, the New Fourth Army and the 115th Division captured the East China Sea, divided the troops to attack all over the place, the Japanese army in northern Jiangsu immediately reacted, the Japanese army in Yancheng and Huai'an immediately mobilized troops to the south bank of the Xinyi River after determining that there was no large army of the New Fourth Army around, set up positions, and prepared to use the terrain here to block the New Fourth Army in Hebei.

A forcible crossing battle began.

"Tie it strongly, this is what we will sit on later, yes, yes, yes, just tie the knot." In the south of the Xinyi River, the soldiers of the New Fourth Army were tying rafts with wood, Chen Yi looked at the Japanese flag on the other side of the river and said, "Are the devils preparing to use such a river to block our New Fourth Army?" ”

Ye Fei had just been appointed as the division commander, and when he wanted to make a big move, he pointed to the other side and said, "The boundary of northern Jiangsu is extremely open, you see, there are no mountains and forests on the other side, but the position of the little devil is set up by relying on Muyang County, and it is not easy to lose a small loss if you want to pass this kilometer." ”

Chen Yi squinted his eyes and said, "No matter how much we lose, we will fight a downwind battle in the East China Sea, relying on absolute firepower superiority, and now we are going to fight a tough battle, let the soldiers test the devil's firepower first." ”

More than 20 warriors of the New Fourth Army lined up, and Ye Fei poured a bowl of wine for everyone and said, "Comrades, there are more than a thousand little devils in front who want to block our way, you tell me, is this possible?" ”

"Impossible!!"

"Good! Drink this bowl of wine, let's try to see how many catties and taels the devil has, and dare to use a thousand people to block our tens of thousands of troops. ”

More than 20 people drank the wine and slammed it to the ground, and Zhu Wei, who was the leader, took off his clothes, threw them to the ground and said, "Comrades, let's go!" ”

At this time, it was late at night, the river was rolling and flowing, the searchlights of the Japanese army swept around the river from time to time, every once in a while, the Japanese army would also use machine gun and mortar fire to reconnoitre, three rafts under the impetus of Zhu Wei and others, came to the river, Zhu Wei shouted in a low voice, "Quick!" Fast!! ”

In order not to be discovered by the Japanese as much as possible, except for the commander of one ship, everyone else had an ocean in their mouths so as not to make any noise.

Suddenly, a searchlight hit Zhu Wei's boat, and the raft that was paddling desperately was suddenly exposed to the searchlight, and Zhu Wei only heard a cry like a duck, and then a siren, and immediately knew that it was not good.

Zhu Wei looked at the other side of the bank, three or four hundred meters, and shouted, "Jump!" ”

The soldiers had just jumped into the water and continued to swim across the river, when guns rang out on the other side of the river, and the river seemed to be boiling, and countless shells and bullets hit the water. Zhu Wei's raft was instantly torn to pieces.

While attacking, the Japanese constantly used searchlights to search for other rafts, but they could not find any traces of rafts.

Ye Fei on the other side stomped his feet with a sigh, and said to Chen Yi next to him, "Commander, you see, the devil's defense is tight, and it is basically impossible to smuggle in, so let's attack it." ”

Chen Yi looked at the time and said, "Okay, don't delay any longer, start attacking immediately at three o'clock in the morning." ”

Little by little, the Japanese positions had recovered from the joy of victory to calm. Chen Yi waved his hand and shouted, "Let's go!"

Hundreds of rafts entered the river together, the sound of paddling and the mighty raft immediately attracted the attention of the Japanese searchlight, and before the Japanese siren sounded, Ye Fei, who had been staring at the movement of the Japanese army, shouted loudly, "Open the cannon!" ”

Dozens of infantry guns and mortars fired frantically at the fire points that had just been discovered, and the rafts in the river were even more like they had been stung by wasps, and they ran forward frantically.

But after all, the Japanese army was a defensive position, and it was not possible to explode mortars and infantry guns at all, and the Japanese machine guns and artillery kept tilting bullets and shells with the searchlights, and the barrels of the machine guns fired by the Japanese machine gunners turned red.

"Quick!! Change the barrel! A Japanese machine gunner saw that it was almost there, and shouted loudly after finishing the bullet chain, and the soldier next to him hurriedly rushed up with gloves to prepare to remove the barrel, and was unloading, when he saw a smoking thing rolling over, the soldier lowered his head in confusion, but saw that it was a big and small thing, the soldier's eyes were getting bigger and bigger, and he shouted loudly, "Grenade!" ”

Before the words fell, there was a bang, and the Japanese machine-gun position on the left fell silent under a cloud of black smoke.

The Japanese troops in the position were surprised to find a familiar charge blowing in the middle of their position, and then the explosion of grenades and the shouting of the Chinese to kill, and everyone's hearts sank: "The Chinese have come up to kill, what to do?" ”

Ye Fei on the other side was confused, but he could see clearly, the raft in front of him was still one or two hundred meters away from the river bank, who was in the south?

However, the soldiers of the New Fourth Army in the river thought that there were already comrades who had hit the riverbank, and while applauding these comrades, they rushed forward even more desperately, and the firepower of the Japanese army stopped for a while because of this, and suddenly four or five rafts leaned against the riverbank, and these soldiers were all holding the best weapons, many of them were also holding submachine guns, and they brought enough grenades, and after a while, a shore position was established.

The Japanese commander only felt that his brain was clouded, and he could not have imagined that the defense line he had established would not last even one night. Although the county seat is still in its own hands, the Xinyi River has been forcibly crossed, and now it is only a matter of time.

"Kill!!" "Rush!!" "Da Da Da" "Bang"

In the dark of night, the New Fourth Army, which had infiltrated the Japanese positions, rushed and killed everywhere, and the Japanese army could not figure out at all how many of the New Fourth Army had rushed in; because many people in the New Fourth Army were holding Japanese weapons, some Japanese soldiers listened to the sound of the 38 big covers and crooked handles everywhere, and they could not figure out whether these voices were their own people or the voices of the New Fourth Army, and they were terrified.

Compared with the soldiers of the Chinese army, the Japanese army has always had a huge advantage of autonomy, when a unit has completed its own mission, it will immediately follow the actual situation and the information obtained in advance to assist other troops in completely other tasks, while the soldiers of the national army often have no orders from the peak, even if their friendly troops are almost slaughtered next to them, they do not dare to make any moves. However, the New Fourth Army and the Eighth Route Army were completely different, and these units organized by the Red Party had a stronger autonomy than the Japanese army, and every man and squad would immediately pounce on the place where there were still gunshots after completing their tasks, so that although only nearly 100 New Fourth Army rushed up, the momentum was greater than that of a regiment of the Nationalist Army, as long as these New Fourth Army had not been killed in battle, they would continue to attack.

Ye Fei quickly organized the second batch of troops to cross the river, after the protection of the beachhead, the losses of the second batch were much smaller, the sky was already bright at this time, the Japanese army looked again, their losses had exceeded a squadron, and what was even worse was that the artillery fire of the New Fourth Army had no intention of stopping at all, and the Japanese artillery at this time had lost half of it, and the Japanese commander was weighing, when he heard a piercing whistling.

He looked up and saw dozens of meteors in the dawn sky, the meteors were incomparably huge, rushing towards his artillery position, and then, there were explosions one after another, the explosion wave was huge, and the mushroom clouds seemed to be despising his own martial arts.

"Whew... Whistling... Whistling Heavy Artillery??? ”

These four terrifying words flashed quickly in the hearts of all the Japanese soldiers.

Since the Eighth Route Army used rocket artillery in the Shanxi Campaign, this mysterious whistling heavy artillery quickly spread throughout the Japanese army's upper echelons, although there was a strict order not to allow low-level Japanese soldiers to discuss this thing, but the Japanese soldiers still knew through word of mouth that there was a mysterious heavy artillery unit in the Red Party's troops, that was an extremely mobile and flexible, extremely powerful troops, all more than 100 mm heavy artillery, any imperial army that dared to challenge them, in the end could only retreat.

The Japanese commander was first surprised, and then rejoiced, he didn't bring heavy artillery, and the New Fourth Army had heavy artillery. Then it is understandable that he retreated, he no longer hesitated, and immediately ordered the Japanese army to evacuate Muyang County and retreat to Huai'an.

When the last Japanese military flag was thrown to the ground, the sky was already bright, Chen Yi and Ye Fei walked to the south bank of the Xinyi River together, looking at Muyang County bathed in the sun, the two couldn't help but be overjoyed.

"Fortunately, Division Commander Lin gave us three of these rocket launchers, otherwise we would have to fight, and I don't know how much work it will take." Chen Yi looked at the Japanese positions that had been ravaged by rocket artillery and said with a sigh.

"It's not, it's just a little less ammo." Ye Fei licked his lips and said. Before Lin Sanhu separated, he gave Chen Yi three rocket launchers, Chen Yi saw the power of the test launch, and immediately classified these three as directly under the military department, of course, Jiang Cheng, who was known to be the source of this rocket artillery, was immediately regarded as a living Tang monk by Chen Yi and others, Chen Yi knew that Jiang Cheng liked to eat spicy, and personally cooked a mapo tofu for him, and set up a Hongmen banquet, until Jiang Cheng promised to be equipped with rocket artillery for the New Fourth Army.

"Divisional Commander!! Teachers!! Look, who is this? A shout came, Ye Fei looked, only to see a group of people coming, Ye Fei looked, surrounded by a group of shirtless, scorched black people, one of them is strong, not Zhu Wei and who is it.

Ye Fei smiled and slapped Zhu Wei around and said, "You kid is not dead!" I thought you were killed. ”

Zhu Wei smiled and said, "My life is big, don't you swim over, and then take a few comrades to the machine gun point that has been blocking us, blow the charge horn again, bluff, fortunately, everyone also followed, I am still trembling in my legs and stomach." ”

Chen Yi nodded and said, "Okay, wow, you, this is our first hero." ”

As he was talking, a staff officer came over and said, "Commander, there are some situations. ”

Chen Yi and Ye Fei asked the soldiers to trim up, walked over and asked, "What happened?" ”

The staff officer replied, "The devil has indeed withdrawn from the county seat, but our soldiers went to ask the villagers to open the door, but no one opened the door. It's all closed, I wonder if there's something wrong? ”

Chen Yi frowned and said, "This is not good, the common people are the source and guarantee of our combat effectiveness, go!" Let's take a look. ”

Chen Yi walked into the county seat with people, looked around, and sure enough, every household closed the door, and occasionally someone opened the door to observe the situation, and when he saw Chen Yi and others, he hurriedly closed the door.

Chen Yi frowned, knocked on the door of the family and said, "Fellow countryman, fellow countryman, we are the New Fourth Army, we are the troops of the Chinese, open the door, we will not harm you." ”

I only heard a panicked voice from inside and said, "No one, no one, boss, I beg you to go... Whatever you want, we will throw it out. ”

Chen Yi and Ye Fei glanced at each other, Ye Fei also felt that something was wrong, and said to the guards next to him, "What about the local guerrillas? Call me and ask what's going on? ”

After a while, a person dressed as a teacher came over and saluted Chen Yi and the others, "Hello chief!" ”

Chen Yi shouted: "What the hell is going on with this Muyang? Why don't ordinary people dare to go out on the streets? Is it because your guerrillas have done something that hurts nature and reason, so that the common people have misunderstood us? ”

The teacher hurriedly said, "Chief, this... This is wronged.. In fact, this is the case, the devil released his words before, saying that our New Fourth Army is just passing by temporarily, and sooner or later it will have to leave, if anyone dares to cooperate with us, when the Japanese army returns, the whole family will be killed. ”

Chen Yi stomped his feet and said, "Who said we were passing by temporarily?" We are going to establish liberated areas here. ”

The teacher said in a low voice, "The devil is talking about the Yellow Bridge, when he said that the Yellow Bridge, our New Fourth Army was strong and strong, but it was still withdrawn, and now it has been attacked by the National Army and the Japanese army for so long, and its strength has declined, how can it be possible to hold a place for a long time?" ”

Chen Yi sighed, looked at the closed doors of every house with understanding, and said, "Our New Fourth Army... It's a shame for the people. ”

Ye Fei hurriedly said, "Then what should we do now?" ”

Chen Yi said loudly: "Then tell all the people that our New Fourth Army will not leave again this time!" Tell the soldiers that if anyone dares to violate discipline, military law will punish them severely! Let us use military discipline to tell the people what kind of army we are, and we must trust the eyes of the people. ”

Ye Fei and the people around him nodded in understanding.

-- Nanjing

"The New Fourth Army is like a bamboo, it has captured Muyang, Guannan, Binhai and other places, constantly cut off the canal, and returned troops to Huai'an and Yancheng, in addition to the direction of Lianyungang, there are troops of the 115th Division, Lunan's guerrillas have launched a sabotage war, the railway is basically cut off, Ganyu and Guanyun counties have been attacked, it seems that the Red Party is menacing!" Nishio looked at the information, shook his head and said. (To be continued.) )