In late February, the situation on the Zhejiang-Jiangxi border suddenly became tense, with the transfer of Wang Daohan, the commissioner of the Shangrao Administration, to the commissioner of the Pingxiang Administration, and the new commissioner Ye Zhicheng ordered a strict investigation of all materials imported into Zhejiang, and the nine merchants who secretly traded with the Maoliangwu Chamber of Commerce were confiscated, and the goods worth millions of oceans were piled up in Yushan County.

On 28 February, the checkpoint set up by the Shangrao Administration in Yushan detained six officers of the New Second Military Academy, whose families had moved to Maoliangwu, and their families.

The reason given by the special case office, which was composed of the Jiangxi Provincial Government, the Special Service Department of the Military Commission, and the Shangrao Party Affairs Department, was that the six officers were deserters and should be arrested and sent to Wuhan for justice.

After many efforts to mediate to no avail, Wu Ming decided to fight back in his own way.

At eleven o'clock in the evening of the same day, Nanchang, Baihuazhou, Jiangxi Army Headquarters.

"The trees want to be quiet and the wind doesn't stop!"

Tian Zhenggang, chief of staff of the Jiangxi army, read the secret telegram sent by Wu Ming, thought about it, struck a match to burn the telegram, got up and walked out of the house, greeted the guards, drove to the security department of the provincial capital, woke up the sleeping security chief Liu Rulin, and the two negotiated behind closed doors for two hours.

On the morning of the next day, the Jiangxi Provincial Security Department sent a telegram ordering the two newly built security divisions stationed in Shangrao and Nancheng to be transferred to the Madang, Pengze, and Hukou lines in northern Jiangxi to build forts and fortifications to cope with the attack of the Japanese army, which showed an aggressive expansion posture after the occupation of Nanjing.

Beginning at 8 a.m. on 2 March, the independent division of the New Second Army and the four regiments of the Maoliangwu militia regiment quickly stationed in 20 counties in Shangrao and Nancheng at the speed of a storm and clouds; all checkpoints and checkpoints were destroyed; all the staff members stationed by the provincial government and the agents of the special service were all repatriated; officials of the party affairs department in Shangrao were dispersed, those who resisted were shot dead on the spot; Ye Zhicheng, commissioner of the Shangrao Administration who was illegally imprisoned revolutionary soldiers and their families, was arrested; and six officers of the New Second Army and their families were rescued in Guixi, east of Yingtan.

Just when Jiangxi Provincial Chairman Xiong Shihui was furious and preparing to file a complaint with Chiang Kai-shek, the New Second Army announced through the Phoenix Radio Station that more than 60 letters had been found in Ye Zhicheng's home in collusion with Japanese intelligence agencies, and at the same time published the confessions of 12 Japanese intelligence officers arrested in Shangrao, indicating that Ye Zhicheng had been bribed by Japanese intelligence departments as early as 12 years ago when he was studying in Japan, and that he had infiltrated the Nanjing Government after returning to China, and had provided more than 40 pieces of valuable intelligence to Japan.

Xiong Shihui immediately died down and waited for the situation to change.

On 21 March, the military justice department of the New Second Army held a public trial meeting in Shangrao County, and then executed Ye Zhicheng and 24 other traitors, confiscating all the more than 3 million family properties of the Ye family.

At this time, the Battle of Xuzhou has reached a critical moment, Zhejiang and the surrounding areas can threaten the new second army of the ****, Jiangxi Provincial Chairman Xiong Shihui ordered the three new security divisions stationed in western Jiangxi and southern Jiangxi to go east and go north to expel the independent division, but this order was vetoed by the security department, so he had to pretend to be aggrieved and sue Chiang Kai-shek who was sitting in Wuhan.

At that time, during the critical period of the Battle of Taierzhuang, Chiang Kai-shek was already anxious in the face of the battle in Xuzhou, where could he still take care of this remote corner of eastern Jiangxi? He simply sent a few telegrams to the New Second Army asking for punishment, and then ignored them.

Under these circumstances, Wu Ming waved his hand and on the basis of the original new Second Division, the new Third Division, and the Independent Division, the Second Independent Division and the Third Independent Division were once again formed, and the main task of the two divisions was to garrison the localities and train new recruits, so that the original independent division and now the only division would be liberated and become the main combat force.

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In the dead of night, the cross town in the west of Guangde County, here is the highway from Wuxing to Wuhu and the highway transportation hub from Tianmu Mountain area to Nanjing.

The Japanese army circled a trench in Longtanqiao Village, south of Cross Town, and then pulled up barbed wire to build a military camp, where a squadron of Japanese troops was deployed.

In order to cooperate with the Battle of Xuzhou, in addition to sending the 13th Division to attack the Chinese defenders on the front line of the Huai River in Bengbu, the Japanese Central China Front recently transferred the 6th Division, the 11th Division, and the 101st Division to the north, and under the command of the new commander of the Central China Front, General Shunroku Hata, to carry out operations in the southern section of the Jinpu Road, so its control over the vast occupied areas of Jiangsu and central and eastern Zhejiang was relatively weak.

However, due to the successive victories of the Japanese army on the frontal battlefield, most Japanese did not think that anyone would dare to take the initiative to touch the moldy head of the Japanese who were in the sky, so the leader of the devil squadron just put two sentries at the gate, and then everything was fine, and all the devils were sleeping.

In the darkness, dozens of black shadows were approaching the Japanese military camp and slowly touched the outside of the camp gate. A few dog barks were heard in the distance, the wails of homeless wild dogs.

In order to build this barracks located on the main transportation road, the Japanese army forcibly demolished Longtanqiao Village to collect building materials such as door panels and bricks and tiles, and more than 30 young people in the village were shot dead, and the rest of the people were driven away, and the village has now become a ruin.

At the gate of the barracks, two devils walking around with guns were passing the time with small talk.

"Sasaki-kun, when we were recruited into the army, the commander said that China could be destroyed in three months, but now we have been in China for five months, and I don't know when this battle will end!"

"Honda-kun, I think it should be soon...... Now the battle in the north is very fierce, and I heard the squadron leader say that as long as the main force of the Chinese army is annihilated in Xuzhou, the war will be much smoother in the future! The devil named Sasaki said.

The devil who called Honda scoffed: "The official can only brag!" At the beginning of the Songhu battlefield, he also clamored to make dumplings for 700,000 Chinese troops, but the result was not unsuccessful? Even the 114th Division was buried! ”

Sasaki said: "That's when I met the devil's new second division, I heard that this Chinese army has now been expanded into the new second army, but they are far away from us, separated by mountains, I believe our luck will not be so unlucky!" ”

A hint of pride appeared on the face of the black shadow hidden in the night, and the person at the head muttered: "Count your fate badly, what are you afraid of, you really met the men and horses of our new second army." ”

That's right, the unit in front of you is the officers and soldiers of the first squadron and the second squad of the northbound brigade of the special detachment of the new Second Army, headed by the squad leader, Lieutenant Li Yong.

The task force went out of Tianmu Mountain, and one part went north, from Langxi, Liyang, and Jintan, and penetrated deep into the Yangtze River, threatening the Beijing-Shanghai Railway at any time, and opening up a base area with Maoshan as the center. The other section went eastward, from Wukang and Deqing, to Wuzhen, Tongxiang and other places, and threatened the Shanghai-Hangzhou-Ningbo Railway and the Sujia Railway to carry out guerrilla and special operations.

The two devils returned to the sentry box and sat down, and after a while, the devil who called Sasaki stood up and patted his lower abdomen, muttered a few words, and came to the side of the road to release water into the ditch.

Li Yongxin said that the opportunity had come, and immediately got out of the grass, jumped forward with an arrow, reached out to cover the mouth of Sasaki, who was looking around, and stabbed it through his rib cage with a dagger. Sasaki was covered in his mouth, couldn't shout, and whimpered and saw Amaterasu go.

The devil named Honda sat on a bench snatched from a nearby village outside the sentry box, humming a Japanese folk song in his mouth, and when he heard footsteps, he didn't look back: "Sasaki, how do you listen to me?" ”

After a while, he didn't hear to turn around, Honda turned his head suspiciously, a sharp dagger had already slashed through his neck, and a sound like a cowhide being punctured came, the carotid artery and trachea were cut in an instant, and a bloody arrow spurted out, turning into a dead corpse after two slight struggles.

Li Yong gave a thumbs up to Second Lieutenant Rongguang, the leader of the first detachment, and then with a wave of his hand, dozens of officers and soldiers poured into the silent barracks.

All the devils were sleeping soundly, and the devils who had not yet experienced the harassment of guerrilla warfare were sleeping very hard, and at this time, the officers and men who were like bulls and horses like spirits had already rushed into the barracks.

Li Yong gently pushed open the door of a barracks, and there were more than a dozen devils sleeping on the Chase bunk inside, because they had just ransacked several villages at the foot of Bishan Mountain in the south during the day, and the tired Japanese soldiers slept to death, the only thing Li Yong and more than a dozen officers and soldiers behind him needed to do was to cover the mouths of these devils and plunge the sharp dagger directly into their hearts.

It didn't take much effort, all the devils in this barracks went to see their Amaterasu, the same scene was playing out in other places in the barracks, most of the devils turned into convulsive corpses in their sleep, and the only trouble was that a small courtyard was locked from the inside and could not be opened.

It took about a quarter of an hour to solve a total of 179 devils in the camp, and after searching the entire barracks, no one with the rank of captain or lieutenant was found, and the worst squadron leader in the Japanese army was also a lieutenant, so Li Yong speculated that the small courtyard should be the house where the Japanese squadron leader lived.

Li Yong turned around, leaned against the earthen wall, half-squatted, crossed his hands to form a pedal, turned back and whispered to the back: "Little Liuzi, go on!" ”

The soldier Xiao Liuzi took a dozen steps back, and then there was a burst of running, and he stepped on Li Yong's hands.

As soon as Li Yong exerted a little force, Xiao Liuzi jumped onto the earthen wall at once. Taking advantage of the deep night, Xiao Liuzi climbed over the earthen wall and landed steadily in the courtyard.

Li Yong led people to the gate and found that the gate had opened a crack from the inside, revealing the thief's smiling face of Xiao Liuzi.

Li Yong followed Xiao Liuzi and slowly walked towards the house.

In the faint moonlight, the two blood-soaked corpses were particularly infiltrating. Looking at all this in front of them, Li Yong and the others were about to pop out their eyes.

The whole small courtyard is very quiet, only the lights in the main house are on.

Li Yong and the others bent their waists and cautiously leaned towards the room. The door was closed from the inside, Li Yong gave Xiao Liuzi a look, Xiao Liuzi nodded knowingly, took out a dagger, inserted it into the crack of the door, and carefully tossed it.

"Squeak-"

A slight sound came, the door bolt was opened, Xiao Liuzi gave Li Yong a look, Li Yong clenched the submachine gun in his hand, shook his head slightly, and woke up the three people behind, and then raised his foot and kicked towards the door.

"Bang-"

The door kicked open at once, and Li Yong and the others rushed into the room as quickly as thunder, and the four of them held their guns and glanced in four directions.

The room was very quiet, there was not a single living mouth, and the woman with a sad and angry face was lying on the bed, her snow-white skin was red and swollen, and the blood from her neck had soaked the bed.

The corpse of a Japanese officer armed with a saber rolled to the edge of the bed, his eyes as big as cowbells, but his pants had become tangled in them. He had a pair of black scissors stuck in his back, and the blood stained his uniform a dark red.

Looking at all this in front of them, everyone immediately understood.

Xiao Liuzi raised his leg and kicked at the Japanese officer fiercely, scolding while kicking: "I'm your grandma, a little Japanese devil, it's cheap for you to die here!" ”

"Little Liuzi, he's dead, don't waste your efforts!"

Li Yong stepped forward and grabbed Xiao Liuzi, and suddenly saw Xiao Liuzi stop moving.

Xiao Liuzi gave up the ravages of the corpses of the Japanese officers, carefully picked up the gun, and looked at a large wardrobe next to the bed.

Before Xiao Liuzi joined the army, he often worked with his master as a gentleman on the beam, and he was extremely sensitive to all kinds of movements. Li Yong and the others hurriedly aimed their submachine guns at the cabinet.

"The people inside come out for me, quick!"

Li Yong yelled at the cabinet.

At this moment, there was a rustling sound from inside the cabinet.

"Come out, don't come out again, we're going to shoot!"

"No, don't!"

A young woman's voice came from inside, hoarse and timid.

"Quick! Come out! ”

Under the repeated persecution of Li Yong and others, the cabinet door was opened all of a sudden, revealing a pale face inside, clear tear stains against the red and swollen eye frames, and hair was very messy. The young woman came out of the closet, her clothes shredded into pieces, and blood seeped from the wounds on her bare skin.

The young woman stared at Li Yong and the others, and asked timidly, "Are you Chinese?" ”

"Girl, don't be afraid, we are officers and soldiers of the New Second Army, specializing in killing devils!" Li Yong comforted gently.

"General Wu Ming's new Second Army?" The girl was a little uneasy, and asked again.

"Yes!"

Li Yong nodded firmly.

The young woman screamed "wow", followed by a heart-rending cry, and threw herself into Li Yong's arms, crying silently: "Why did you come, my parents, brothers and sisters were brutally killed by devils——"