Facts have proved that the vast majority of the commanders of the New Fourth Army overestimated the combat effectiveness of the New Fourth Army because of the battle at the Yellow Bridge.

In the battle of Huangqiao, the reason why the Eastern Detachment of the New Fourth Army was able to defeat the strong with the weak and the more with the less, Li Yu's superb tactical command ability played an extremely key role in it, as the premier tactical command master of New China, Li Yu has grown up rapidly in his perennial war career, and began to emerge, it is no exaggeration to say that in terms of tactical command ability alone, Li Yu at this time has few people to match.

It's a pity that there is only one Li Yu, although Ye Ting is prestigious, but his ability in military command is mediocre, Xiang Ying is just a pure political worker in the ministry, and he also likes to reach out to the military level, and the regimental commanders below have a few powerful people, but unfortunately, they can't decide the fate of the New Fourth Army

The New Fourth Army advanced to Maolin, and the teaching corps, which was the vanguard of the whole army, had friction with Zhan Zhongyan's 40th Division.

The 40th Division provoked first, and the New Fourth Army repeatedly tolerated it, but the 40th Division intensified its efforts and tried to surrender the weapons of the New Fourth Army Teaching Corps, and the general captain Zhou Zikun could not bear it anymore and ordered a counterattack, and the 40th Division had just suffered a loss under the hands of the Anti-Japanese Salvation Army in southern Anhui, and lost a regiment of troops, and as a result, another regiment was annihilated by the New Fourth Army Teaching Corps in Maolin.

Shangguan Yunxiang was furious when he heard the news, and immediately ordered all his armies and divisions to launch a centripetal attack towards the Maolin area.

The top brass of the New Fourth Army realized that the situation was not good, and tried to forcibly break through to the north, but was stubbornly resisted by the First Army, and after two days and nights of fierce fighting, the New Fourth Army was never able to break through the defense line of the First Army, and the National Army was crushed from the rest of the directions was more and more, seeing that the encirclement was shrinking smaller and smaller, Xiang Ying strictly ordered all units to hold their defensive positions, and urgently sent a telegram to Yan'an for help.

After receiving the report, the Central Committee immediately sent Zhou Enlai to negotiate with the Kuomintang.

However, the Kuomintang in turn accused the New Fourth Army of taking the lead.

Seeing that there was no hope of breaking through the encirclement, and praying for the central government to force the Kuomintang to cease the war had also been frustrated, Ye Ting proposed to meet with Shangguan Yunxiang to discuss the question of the New Fourth Army's stay or retention.

Xiang Ying once again convened an enlarged meeting of the party committee to discuss the strategy of breaking through.

At the meeting, Liang Daying, the head of the Qingyang Independent Regiment, proposed to launch a fierce attack to the west with a partial division, making the illusion of returning to Yunling to break through to Qingyang, and after the attention of the Kuomintang army was attracted to this partial division, the main force turned to the east and launched a fierce attack on the weak point of the entire encirclement, breaking through the encirclement of the first group army in one fell swoop.

Xiang Ying hesitated a little, Liang Daring's jihua is clearly the gecko's broken tail to survive, the sacrificed tail is of course unlucky, even if the body is waiting for the opportunity to break through, it may not be able to break through, the risk is too great.

"Secretary Xiang, you can't hesitate any longer." Liang Daring was in a hurry, stomped his feet and said, "Maolin has become a dead place, and if you hold on, the result can only be the annihilation of the whole army, as I just said, or there is still a glimmer of life."

"But......" Xiang Ying asked with a frown, "which unit will you send to lure the enemy?" ”

"We, the Qingyang Independent Regiment, are willing to take on this important responsibility," Liang said without hesitation.

As the political commissar of the Qingyang Independent League, Shu Tongwen did not hesitate to stand beside Liang Daring, expressing his full support for Liang Daring's decision, and Liang Daring threw a grateful glance at Shu Tongwen, and Liang Daring was very satisfied with his political commissar.

Xiang Ying turned his gaze to the rest of the commanders, and most of the commanders present at the meeting all had bold opinions at the same time.

Seeing that most of the commanders present at the meeting were bold at the same time, Xiang Ying finally made up his mind and said: "Okay, then break through separately, but only rely on your Qingyang Independent Regiment, the strength is still a little thin" After speaking, Xiang Ying turned his head and said to Zhou Zikun, "Comrade Zikun, you have no opinion on transferring a battalion of troops from your teaching corps to strengthen the Qingyang Independent Regiment, right?" ”

"There is no opinion, we teach the corps to completely obey the chief's decision."

Liang Daring and Shu Tongwen stood upright, and saluted Xiang Ying: "Take care, chief." ”

"You also have to take care, although it is to lure the enemy, but you can't fight to the death, if you have the opportunity, you still have to break through." Xiang Ying admonished.

"Understood." Liang Daring and Shu Tongwen saluted Xiang Ying again, and then turned around.

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Back at the regiment headquarters, Liang Daring immediately convened a meeting of the company platoon and the above bones.

Because the Qingyang Independent Regiment was stationed far away, Zuihou reached Yunling, and when Liang Daring rushed to Yunling with his troops, the New Fourth Army Headquarters, Jiangnan Detachment and the Teaching Corps had already set off first, so the Qingyang Independent Regiment naturally became the rear guard in the transfer sequence.

After the main force of the New Fourth Army was surrounded in Maolin, it had been fighting fiercely with Shangguan Yunxiang's group army for seven days and nights, but the defense line in charge of the Qingyang Independent Regiment was basically not attacked decently, that is, it fought a battle with Zhang Wenqing's 79th Division yesterday afternoon, and the result was that a regiment of the 79th Division was easily defeated, and Zhang Wenqing was so angry that he was like thunder.

Therefore, the people of the Qingyang Independent Regiment are still relatively complete.

In Xiang Ying's impression, the Qingyang Independent Regiment had just been expanded from a guerrilla force to a regiment, with fewer troops and relatively weak combat effectiveness, and it was precisely because of this that Xiang Ying would let the Qingyang Independent Regiment serve as the rear guard of the whole army.

However, Xiang Ying did not know that in the past six months, especially after the Southern Anhui Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army completely annihilated the small Japanese independent mixed into the main force of the 14th Brigade, the strength of the Qingyang Independent Regiment has also been greatly improved

Secondly, Wang Laohu's L battalion directly participated in the battle of Hulu Valley, not only before the war from the southern Anhui anti-Japanese salvation army to replenish a lot of good equipment, after the war, after the division of the captured booty, it was a ruthless fortune, after the L battalion was built, Liang was surprised to find that Wang Laohu's grandson was even wider than his regiment commander, and he already had an artillery company under his hands

Of course, Liang Daring confiscated the artillery company without saying a word.

Zuihou, taking advantage of the defeat in Hulu Valley and the panic of the little Japanese, the Qingyang Independent Regiment launched a series of offensives in Qingyang County, eliminating no less than 20 strongholds or turrets, annihilating more than 1,000 Japanese puppet troops, and seizing a large number of weapons, equipment and ammunition.

At present, the Qingyang Independent Regiment has four infantry battalions, a cavalry company, a heavy machine gun company and an artillery battery.

Regardless of equipment or strength, the Qingyang Independent Regiment is already the leading main force in the New Fourth Army sequence, that is, Xiang Ying doesn't know this, otherwise he would have replaced the teaching corps with the Qingyang Independent Regiment a long time ago.

"Brothers, I won't say much else, I'll just say a word" Liang Daring glanced at the faces of the officers attending the meeting, and said, "There is a way to raise soldiers for a thousand days, and use soldiers for a while, let's buy these belongings, not for decorations, but for use Now Gu Zhutong and Shangguan Yunxiang are going to eat us for these two dog days, you say, what should we do?" ”

"Then what else do you say, the white dogs who died these two dogs"

"Commander, what else do you have to say to these Kuomintang reactionaries?"

"Damn, if you don't fight for a day, go to the house to uncover the tiles, have you forgotten what it was like to be beaten by us in the Soviet District these days?"

Liang Daring's voice has not fallen, these battalion commanders, company commanders and platoon commanders at the bottom suddenly exploded, these officers are basically veterans who have participated in the ten-year civil war, and they have always lacked a good impression of the Kuomintang army, when the New Fourth Army was reorganized, they were very emotional for a while, and when they first changed into the military uniform of the New Fourth Army, many people took off the blue sky and white sun logo on their hats and re-sewed the red five stars.

"That's right, this time it's the Kuomintang army that provokes first, so we don't have anything to be polite about." Liang boldly smiled, then turned his head to look at Shu Tongwen and said, "Now I invite the political commissar to speak to you." ”