Chapter 257: China-Vietnam Lifeline (2)

"Reading the newspaper, reading the newspaper, Longzhou is a great victory, and the Snow Fox Army has created another miracle. Reading the newspapers and reading the newspapers, the New Ninth Army won a great victory in southern Guinan, destroying more than 10,000 Japanese troops. The attack on Longzhou failed, and the Chinese army achieved an unprecedented victory. ”

Chongqing, Xi'an, Changsha Guotong area newspapers are all selling, pedestrians on the street whether they have money or not, they will buy a newspaper, the depressed mood is finally released, after the end of the Wuhan Campaign, the Japanese army did not carry out a large-scale offensive, the Nanchang Campaign, the Nanning Campaign, small-scale battles in various places are still continuing, today the Japanese army conquered here, tomorrow there will fall.

As a result of the Japanese army's change of strategy toward China and the beginning of the public order rectification plan, a large number of mixed brigades and independent garrison brigades appeared in North and Central China to concentrate their forces to sweep and encircle and suppress the anti-Japanese base areas.

Not to mention the guerrilla forces left behind by the national army, even the base areas established by the guerrillas behind enemy lines of the Chinese communists have been lost and fallen one after another, and the base areas have shrunk in large areas. Coupled with the defeat on the frontal battlefield, the end of the 39th year was a very dark and depressed period for China.

In such an atmosphere, such a big victory in Longzhou immediately attracted the attention of the whole country, including many international communities.

Britain, the United States, France, the Soviet Union, and other countries also believed that China might not be able to resist, otherwise Britain would not have been able to agree to Japan's demands, nor would it be possible to restrict road transportation from Yangon to Kunming, China, and the French side has not fully opened the Sino-Vietnamese border.

Due to the Japanese army's attack on Nanning and Longzhou at this time, the Langshan Highway did not start transportation, and a large number of goods were concentrated in Haiphong Port, and there were also a large number of backlogs of materials in the direction of Kunming and Changsha that could not be transported. Vietnam undoubtedly became China's last channel of communication with the outside world, and the incomparably great victory of the New Ninth Army at this time immediately attracted national attention.

Whether it was a journalist or an official of the Ministry of Military Affairs of the State Government, Wang Jinwu, director of the Department of Transportation, and Wei Jianye, director of the Transportation Bureau of the Quartermaster Department, immediately set off for Longzhou. Before leaving, the two of them personally met Chairman Jiang, they didn't know what was going on with the New Ninth Army, and after understanding the situation, they realized that Longzhou was controlled by Snow Fox Xue Ru, and the New Ninth Army had won a major victory, which was also commanded by this legendary woman.

Chiang Kai-shek knew it, but he couldn't figure out what Xue Ru thought, and everything was only reported from the Military Command Bureau, because they had always been in contact with the Snow Fox Intelligence Department. The Snow Fox Intelligence Office and the military commander shared intelligence to a large extent, so that Chairman Chiang and the others could also grasp the movements of the Snow Fox at any time, otherwise there would not have been a situation in which the New Ninth Army would not have had a commander after Guo Jingchu was dismissed.

But Chiang Kai-shek did not understand why Xue Ru asked Dai Lihe to propose not to publicly appoint her to any positions. Now that such a big victory has been achieved, if Xue Ru is not rewarded, will there be public opinion saying that he is unkind, and those so-called democratic fighters and those who disrupt the party will not miss any opportunity to slander the party-state.

Among the people who left Chongqing for Longzhou, there was also a confidant, Yan Benming, an officer of the intelligence department of the Central Bureau of Statistics, whose task was to find out why. Coming with Yan Benming was the military commander Xi Muchong, and they all knew that Xue Ru, the real leader of the Snow Fox, was in Longzhou at this time.

Just when journalists, government officials, and military and political personnel rushed to Longzhou, Xue Ru was listening to Li Wenxiu's report. At the end of the battle of Chongshan, because of the interception of Japanese aircraft, the two divisions of the Snow Fox Army failed to pursue forward, stopped the pursuit in Yangjia Village, and the troops moved to the defense.

This battle lasted all night, and the two divisions and four brigades of the Snow Fox invested 24,000 men and the Japanese army to fight all night, defeating and destroying more than 9,000 Japanese troops, and only about 3,000 remnants of the 21st Brigade fled back to Fusui, and the Snow Fox did not achieve the strategic goal of total annihilation.

For this reason, the two division commanders were very depressed, but they could not achieve all the results with superior troops, and Snow Fox was very angry. Why? It's not because Miss cares too much about casualties, how can you not die in a war, this battle Snow Fox Army killed more than 1,000 people, injured more than 2,000 people, and annihilated more than 9,000 Japanese troops, it can be said that the results of the battle are enough to be proud of the world. But the young lady still thought that the casualties were too large, and directly reduced more than 3,000 people, and the two regiments were lost.

However, there is also something that makes Xue Ru happy, that is, the capture of this battle is particularly good, of the 24 Japanese tanks, 16 were destroyed, and 8 intact became prisoners. It was impossible to grasp with the mobility of the chariot, but the fault was that Sakamoto Shun wanted to use the chariot shock to crush the attacking troops at the beginning.

Under the bombardment of mortar clusters, these tanks were in trouble and had to be caught, and the other was that at night, unfamiliar with the road conditions, the heavy machine gun vehicles of the Japanese machine gun brigade were caught a lot. The field heavy artillery brigade was even worse, they did not have time to escape at all under the rapid attack, and the artillery became the trophy of the snow fox.

Zhang Jiu, the deputy head of the regiment who studied with Ouyang Sari, did not go to Vietnam with his direct regiment, but became a battlefield collector, and these things looked like scrap copper and rotten iron, but he asked Zhao Wufu, director of the Quartermaster Department, to be transported to Ha Yang, Vietnam, under the escort of Hu Wansong and Bai Wuyu's militia group.

Xue Ru listened to Li Wenxiu's report and asked, "How do you plan to arrange things in the future?" ”

Li Wenxiu said: "I think the Snow Fox Army can no longer fight, because weapons and ammunition have not been transported from the direction of Vietnam, and last time Zhang Donglin and they got back the weapons of the two divisions, most of them stayed in the Snow Fox Corps in northern Vietnam, and this battle consumed a lot, and the Snow Fox temporarily lost the ability to attack." ”

Xue Ru didn't speak, and Li Wenxiu said: "I think it should be proposed to the Fourth War Zone to supplement us, and the troops can only hold on to these areas, otherwise they will not be able to attack." ”

Xue Ru nodded: "Okay, order the first division of the snow fox to be stationed in Chongshan, and the second division to be stationed in Zuoxian to maintain pressure in the direction of Fusui Nanning, and I will find a way to send the wounded to Vietnam for recuperation, which will become our rear, and inform President Huang that they will establish a snow fox hospital in Heyang." ”

Li Wenxiu nodded and agreed, she somewhat understood that Miss's center of gravity was moving to the north of Vietnam, could it be that Miss imagined that France had occupied North Vietnam for a long time? After thinking for a while, he asked, "What should Miss do to the road protection team?" I received a report that Hu Wansong and the others had gone too far during this time. ”

"Oh?" Xue Ru didn't pay much attention to this road protection brigade because he was concerned about the Chongshan battlefield, and he didn't know what happened to Hu Wansong, because the road had not yet been opened. He asked, "What did they do?" ”

Li Wenxiu said with a trace of anger on his face: "Hu Wansong and Bai Wuyu actually set up checkpoints on the roads along the way to collect fees, regardless of the military and civilians, geese plucking, everything is charged, saying that it is for road maintenance, but we did not receive the order from the young lady, Longzhou to Pingxiang Shangjin counties have come to complain, but Hu Wansong said that the order given by the young lady, they have autonomy, and the task of the road escort team is to ensure that the road is unblocked." ”

Xue Ru didn't have any expression on his face, Hu Wansong was not a person who collected money, and he was indeed a bit of a brain to come up with this method in such a short time. Nodding and saying: "That's a local matter, the Snow Fox army is not involved, and the road protection brigade is not an army, I will talk to the Guangxi camp and wait until I understand the situation." You are the chief of staff of the Snow Fox Army, and the government has not appointed a commander, so you ordered the troops to seize the time to train and replenish new recruits to defend against the Japanese army in the direction of Nanning. ”

Li Wenxiu didn't know why Xue Ru trusted Hu Wansong, he and Miss didn't know each other before, not to mention that Bai Wuyu also killed Fan Tiezhu and injured Xue Ru, how could such a person be trusted. But the young lady put herself in charge of the army, so she agreed to leave Longzhou and rush to Chongshan. There are so many things to deal with in this battle, and she is very busy as chief of staff without a military commander.

Liu Yuanshan was reorganizing the troops, and he didn't have time, so he said goodbye and left. Li Wenxiu had just left, Zhao Wufu came in from outside, and Xue Ru knew that the conscientious Zhao Wufu usually didn't say anything, but he had the title of the head of the snow fox. All the military money and food of Snow Fox came from his hands, and Xue Ru trusted him very much, and even Snow Fox's huge money was in the hands of Zhao Wufu.

The Quartermaster Department has always been a special and independent department, and sometimes everything is reported to Xue Ru alone, and no one listens to it. Snow Fox has two special people, one is Zhao Wufu and the other is Sun Zheng, and the two of them are directly responsible for Xue Ru, even in any period. Seeing Zhao Wufu come in, he asked with a smile on his face, "Director Zhao, why are you so happy?" ”

Zhao Wufu also sat down by himself unceremoniously: "Where did Miss get this baby Hu Wansong, he is really capable." ”

Xue Ru was a little stunned, why did everyone mention Hu Wansong in the past few days, and asked, "How is he and what has he done?" ”

Zhao Wufu said: "I told him according to the meaning of the young lady, now the road protection team has been fully launched, the road from Longzhou to Langshan has been opened, and he has opened a road from Longzhou to De'an through Daxin County through Miao Village and Dong Village, and Qiao Han can be notified to transport the materials back, and the materials can be transported to Hechi through De'an, and I don't know where to transport them from there." ”

Xue Ru said: "Isn't it that the road in De'an can't be used by car, can it be passed?" ”

Zhao Wufu said: "I also asked, but Hu Wansong asked Bai Wuyu to organize the mountain people to set up a pack team that could pass from Pingshan through horse-drawn carts, ox carts and pack teams, and reload cars in De'an, and this road passed through the mountains and forests, and was not afraid of Japanese planes." ”

Xue Ru is also very strange, these areas are all ethnic minorities, they are not obedient, each cottage also has its own final say, even the official orders of the Guangxi Provincial Government are not necessarily good, Hu Wansong only has about 3,000 people, how can they obey the order? said: "You let Hu Wansong come to Longzhou, I want to meet him." ”

"Yes, miss, what else do you command?" Zhao Wufu said.

Xue Ru asked, "You didn't come to report Hu Wansong, did you?" What else? ”

Zhao Wufu said with some embarrassment: "Sun Zheng wrote from the northern part of Vietnam that the supplies from the United States will enter the port immediately, and the things that Miss pre-purchased from the United Kingdom also need money, but our money is not much, the consumption of twenty or thirty thousand troops is a huge number, and the snow fox is about to run out of money." On the other hand, Zhang Donglin also informed that there were too few personnel in the northern part of Vietnam, and Ouyang Sari proposed that a large number of people were needed after he went, and Zhang Donglin himself was not enough to get it. ”

Xue Ru nodded, this is really a problem, but she has no one? said: "I know, notify Zhang Donglin and Sun Zheng, I will find a way as soon as possible, and you will also bother to deploy it, and try your best to ensure Taylor's side." If the money is not enough, I will discuss it with Liu Yuanshan and Li Wenxiu to see if we can reduce the time for the distribution of military salaries, because without weapons and ammunition, the troops cannot fight. ”

"Alright then!" Zhao Wufu nodded and agreed: "Miss, we are also considered the National Revolutionary Army and are resisting Japan, why don't we bring it up to the Central Committee of the National Government, these should be solved by them." ”

Xue Ru was also a little helpless, it was not easy to do a big family business, it was like a few thousand people, you could do whatever you wanted, and you could sweep around the Japanese occupation area, and all the money was solved. Now there is no way to do it with 30,000 troops, whether he will start collecting taxes in Longzhou, so that with the territory of four or five counties around Longzhou, he can still support 30,000 troops.

Sent away Zhao Wufu, Xue Ru closed her eyes and felt the slightest pain coming from her shoulder, she couldn't come up with a good way for a while, it seems that she wants to go to Yuebei as soon as possible and develop it into a logistics base for the snow fox, it is a colony, it doesn't matter if it is plundered, otherwise what to use to support the snow fox.

It was a joke to ask the national government, how many troops in the national army could not pay their salaries, and there was a serious shortage of weapons and ammunition, and they were already wary of the snow fox, how could they support themselves at this time. Bai Chongxi's lukewarm treatment of Snow Fox proves that Guangxi is his territory, and he starts from here to participate in the local power of the government, and I am afraid that the first one will be restricted by him.

Xue Ru, who is no longer angry and hot-headed, wants to go to Myanmar from North Vietnam as soon as possible, and finds Mu Ping to confirm whether the money is real, if so, it is a huge amount of money, which is enough to get Snow Fox out of trouble.

Originally, I didn't want to admit that I was Mu Qiuping, and I didn't want to go back to that home, but at this time, the money forced Xue Ru to go back very much. Regardless of whether she is Xue Ru or Mu Qiuping, money is the most important thing, with money, weapons and ammunition, the Japanese army only has one 5th division and a Taiwan brigade, and he can expel them from Guangxi and completely restore the smooth road from Vietnam to Nanning.

Xue Ru thought for a long time and felt that there was no war here for the time being, so he should leave for North Vietnam, arrange the affairs of Ouyang Sari, deal with the affairs of North Vietnam, and go to Shan State in Myanmar from there It is much closer, and it seems that the Spring Festival of the 40th year has passed, and the Pacific War will break out in more than a year, and before the Japanese army fully attacks Vietnam and Burma, he must be prepared, and there is not much time left for him.

"Report, Captain Hu asks to see you." The soldier at the door reported.

Xue Ru said, "Let him in." ”

Hu Wansong came in from outside, and seeing that he was dressed as a strong family, Xue Ru asked, "Why are you dressed like this?" ”

Hu Wansong laughed: "It's more convenient to deal with these barbarians every day, and dress like this." After speaking, he asked, "What is Miss looking for me?" ”

Xue Ru looked at him for a long time and said, "Shouldn't Hu Wansong report to me, it seems that I am still the supreme official here, right?" Hu Wansong felt a little awe-inspiring in his heart, he felt the murderous aura from Xue Ru, and hurriedly said with a smile: "It's not that there is no time." ”