Chapter 137: Dingyuan Turmoil (3)

Xue Ru made it so big in the city, all the devils were killed, many traitors were shot, and their property was divided. The common people are not stupid, if the devil comes back, can they not retaliate? So, all hurry away.

This time, Li Qingyun and Zhao Min were forced to do this, and they didn't dare to stay, besides, Snow Fox threatened that it was impossible for the devils to station a few wings in Dingyuan, and as soon as their large troops left, Snow Fox would come back.

Li Qingyun understood that Xuehu was going to force him onto the road of resistance against Japan, so he had to evacuate Dingyuan with his county brigade, transfer to the countryside, and temporarily move the county government to Jiangji.

When it was dark, there was no one left in Dingyuan City, and the rest of the people were also fleeing. They had to leave their possessions behind and flee with their wives and children. Standing on the city wall of Dingyuan, looking at the people who fled, Xue Ru felt bad in his heart. The army is incompetent, the people are suffering, if the snow fox is stronger, will these people flee their homes?

But how did all this come about? It wasn't the Kuomintang who did it, it was the Japanese devil, and the hatred in her heart began to rise again. At this time, Zhang Donglin was standing beside Xue Ru: "Miss Xue, the people in Dingyuan can basically be evacuated overnight today, can't they really hold here?" ”

Xue Ru looked at him: "Mr. Zhang, the snow fox is not three-headed and six-armed, and there are more than 10,000 devils, more than ten to one, do you think we can win?" ”

Zhang Donglin sighed: "It's blind, Dingyuan has just opened up the situation, if there is a year, the grain here will be harvested, the economy will improve, these efforts are in vain." ”

Xue Ru said: "It's not in vain, this is China's territory after all, the Japanese can't move away, and they must be the ones who fail in the end." ”

Zhang Donglin nodded: "I don't understand military operations, but I also understand that if the snow fox has more troops, it can hold here, why doesn't Miss Xue expand the army?" ”

Xue Ru looked back at him: "Mr. Zhang, no matter how you don't understand military affairs, you should know that the army is not only people, but also weapons, ammunition, uniforms, uniforms, and war materials, where do these come from?" I can't let the soldiers fight the devils with their bare hands. ”

Zhang Donglin said: "Then why don't you occupy a place, stop to develop the economy, expand the army, as long as you have money, you can buy anything, at this point, I can help you below." ”

Xue Ru looked at him and suddenly remembered, "Mr. Zhang, it seems that your family is all in the United States, right?" ”

Zhang Donglin nodded and asked strangely, "Why did Miss Xue think of asking this." Xue Ru said: "Japan has not yet turned its face to war with the United States, and there are still American merchant ships on the Yangtze River, you can see if you can contact some American people through your family, I need to purchase weapons and ammunition." ”

Zhang Donglin said: "This matter is not difficult, but it is difficult to import it, according to international conventions, the United States cannot sell strategic materials to China, and these things cannot be shipped in." ”

"Bullshit international convention, now the United States exports steel and military supplies to Japan every day, right? Why didn't you see that the United States disagreed? ”

Zhang Donglin looked at Xue Ru strangely: "How could Miss Xue know this?" He wondered how Xue Ru could know this at his age. Besides, a very beautiful little girl, when she opens her mouth, she swears, and it really becomes vulgar to be with these people in the army.

Xue Ru knew more than that, and snorted coldly: "I know a lot, the United States is dying, and it won't be long before he will know that this is shooting himself in the foot." ”

Zhang Donglin also has a good mind: "You say that Japan will go to war with the United States? That's impossible, Japan is fainting, he challenges the United States, that's looking for death. ”

Xue Ru didn't argue, isn't Japan just fainting? Even China has not yet solved it, but it has gone to challenge the United States, which has a strong industrial base, he doesn't know how many times. It is said that if you don't die, you won't die, and Japan is doing death. He sneered and said, "Look, it won't take long." ”

Zhang Donglin grew up in the United States and knew that Japan would not be an opponent of the industrial and economic power of the United States. Japan also bullied China and challenged the United States, but he did not have the guts. Xue Ru said: "Find a way, as long as I can contact the purchase, I will have a way to ship it in." ”

Zhang Donglin said: "It is not difficult to buy, but there are three problems, the first is that it has to be smuggled in, second, there is no port loading and unloading place on this side, and third, there must be money." ”

Xue Ru glared at him: "I originally had the money, but you pretended to be a good person and distributed all the money to the people, how else can you have it?" ”

Zhang Donglin said in surprise: "It turns out that Miss Xue got so much money to buy weapons? ”

Xue Ru said dissatisfiedly: "What do you think? Do you think that I also want to enrich my own pockets, so I have to confiscate all this money? What do I use to buy weapons when I don't have money? It can only be like now, the devil will run when he comes. ”

Zhang Donglin said: "I'm sorry, I don't know, I came back from the United States to see a lot of such things, thinking you ......"

Xue Ru shook his head: "Forget it, you are not wrong, buying arms is not a small amount of money, besides, I have no place to load and unload, let's wait for me to defeat Hefei." ”

"Hefei?" Zhang Donglin said in surprise: "If Miss Xue takes back the fertilizer, then there will be a place." It is close to the Yangtze River, has a developed economy, and operates well, so you don't have to worry about not being able to beat the devil. ”

Xue Ru does have such an idea, if he can take Hefei and use it as a temporary base, he can have a territory to support himself, and he can also expand the Snow Fox Brigade. She also found that she had too few soldiers, and she had to sneak attack against a wing, and she couldn't fight head-on, let alone a division. This time, the devil dispatched three wings, and he didn't dare to think about it, so he could only evacuate immediately. He sighed and said, "Let's go, we'll study it again when we have time, and you have time to contact the people on the American side to see if you can come in some weapons, ammunition and military supplies." ”

Zhang Donglin is a man of action, and when he heard this, he said: "In this way, I want to go to Shanghai, I have a few American friends there, and I will contact them to come here to find you." ”

Xue Ru looked at him and smiled: "Are you in a hurry?" Zhang Donglin said: "If you have weapons, you can expand the army, you can lay down the place, I also have something to do, and I can win the war of resistance as soon as possible, I came back to participate in the war of resistance, why not worry?" ”

Xue Ru nodded: "It's okay, find Zhao Wufu to ask for travel expenses, be careful all the way." ”

Zhang Donglin also smiled: "Miss Xue, I'm almost twice as old as you, how can you treat me as a child." Shanghai is occupied by the Japanese army, but I am an American citizen, and they will not treat me like this. ”

Xue Ru is used to it, in fact, everyone in the Snow Fox Brigade is older than her, but her ability and position make Xue Ru seem to be very old, and the others don't feel anything because they are familiar with it. When Zhang Donglin first came into contact with Xue Ru, he was amused by her tone.

Xue Ru said: "I forgot, you are still a boxer." ”

Zhang Donglin put on a boxing stance: "Of course, I'm a master." ”

Maybe it's because he's in a good mood, Zhang Donglin also looks like a young man, but in fact, he's not big, not yet thirty years old. Looking at him, Xue Ru said in an old-fashioned manner: "Young man." After speaking, he turned around and went down the city wall, and left Dingyuan with the team.

Leaving Dingyuan, as soon as he arrived at the Jiepai set, Zhang Donglin said goodbye, he was going to leave here, rush to Yangzhou to cross the river, and from there to Shanghai, to find his American friends. can contribute to the snow fox, and it is not in vain to return to China to participate in the Anti-Japanese War.

He felt that Wu Yizhi was too right to recommend himself to Xue Ru, this little girl was full of legends and mysteries, she didn't look like she was fifteen or sixteen years old at all, much better than those lieutenant generals and major generals.

Seeing him leave, Xue Ru was not very worried, Zhang Donglin was also very peculiar and mysterious, and he didn't know how to know Wu Yizhi, and sent him to himself. What makes Xue Ru feel new is that Zhang Donglin is not like those hot-blooded young people, who rushed to the front line to kill the enemy and serve the country with impassioned hearts, but to do the work he likes.

Judging from his behavior, Zhang Donglin regards everything as a war of resistance, and it does not necessarily mean that he has to rush to the front line to fight a war of resistance. Xue Ru, who came in later generations, can understand if he thinks about it, this is because he received an American education, and he can understand the different division of labor and what cooperation is. All rushed to the front line, but what about logistics? Without logistical support, what to use to fight? As soon as he said that he needed to buy weapons, he immediately went there, unlike China's exam-oriented education, which is dogmatic and rigid.

In this regard, Xue Ru couldn't tell whether it was right or wrong, even many generals of the national army thought so, they didn't want to make senseless sacrifices, but it seemed that if they didn't die on the battlefield, they couldn't show that they were resisting Japan.

This reminded Xue Ru of a joke, those Qingliushi doctors in the Ming Dynasty were proud of their straightforward admonitions and dared to contradict the emperor, regardless of whether it was right to refute the emperor, anyway, I was against whatever the emperor said, and they were not afraid of death.

If that minister let the emperor blame him, he would immediately be worth a hundred times, as if he had done something great, so that the scholars and literati of the Ming Dynasty didn't even care about right or wrong in the end, as long as the emperor said it, he would oppose it, and he won his reputation with a posture of serving the country and the people, but he pushed the country into the abyss, so that the emperor didn't dare to do anything, for fear that the minister would oppose it.

Think about the Songhu battlefield, think about the Nanjing battlefield, and then look at the Xuzhou battlefield, how many generals of the national army are like this, they don't think about how to change tactics, how to fight the Japanese army, but they are afraid that others will say that they are afraid of death and do not resist the war, and they will die in the front-line position and suffer shells, and finally die heroically.

Is it only death that proves the war of resistance? This is something that Xue Ru can't understand, the Snow Fox Brigade under her command will never fight like this, never retreat when it should fight, and don't feel ashamed when it should retreat, just like now, when she heard the three wings of devils surrounding, she didn't hesitate at all, and ordered the people to hide, the troops withdrew, and the Snow Fox withdrew from Dingyuan overnight.

Fighting 1,000 people against 10,000 people in three wings is a fool's behavior, which can only allow the devils to increase the results of the elimination of the number of Chinese troops, and it will not do anything. Although some people who fled scolded Snow Fox for being cowardly as a mouse and running away when she saw a devil, Xue Ru was unmoved, her purpose was to win the battle and eliminate the devil, not to fight for her reputation.

It's just that the Japanese army doesn't know the characteristics of Snow Fox, and they don't know Xue Ru's thoughts, so they can't judge what Xue Ru will do. The Central China Dispatch Army had two divisions here in Bengbu and two divisions in Yangzhou, and Yoshisa Ryosuke, the commander of the 9th Division of the Japanese Army in Bengbu, was shocked when he received the report, and the Snow Fox Brigade that captured Chuxian County had not waited for the arrival of the imperial army, and they withdrew with supplies.

Later, the Japanese army lost the news of the snow fox, and it was only after a few days that the snow fox actually attacked Dingyuan and occupied it, and when the secret service reported the situation in detail, Lieutenant General Yoshisa Ryosuke was very happy. It seems that the snow fox is planning to stop in Dingyuan, which is indeed a place that the imperial army can't control for the time being, but it is absolutely intolerable that the snow fox is there.

If it were other Chinese troops, the Japanese army could really ignore it, the Battle of Xuzhou was the final stage, and the capture of Xuzhou was a matter of the past few days, of course, I didn't want to make a fuss. But the elusive Snow Fox is different, after this situation was reported to the commander of the dispatch army, even the six generals of Shun Hata attached great importance to it, and the snow fox inflicted heavy losses on the imperial army again and again, and their battles had already made the imperial army very passive.

Therefore, the dispatch army sent the 68th Wing from Chuxian County to transfer the 36th Wing of the 9th Division from Bengbu, and the 116th Wing from the 13th Division, under the unified command of Major General Shigetoku Numata, the commander of the 26th Brigade, surrounded from three directions, wanting to annihilate the Snow Fox in Dingyuan.

With more than 10,000 troops fighting against a 1,000-strong brigade, it can be seen that the Japanese army attaches great importance to Snow Fox, which is enough to make Snow Fox officers and soldiers proud. A wing of 3,000 devils no longer dares to fight with the snow fox.

In fact, Wei Ming's intelligence was not too accurate, and there were not so many people in the three wings of the Japanese army. Snow foxes are like foxes, they run very fast, and artillery basically has no effect on them, so these three wings have no artillery, no baggage, and no engineers, and only one cavalry squadron is a search team, and one wing is numbered only more than 2,000 people, and the three wings together have only 8,000 troops.

The Japanese army advanced so quickly, it was worried that the snow fox would escape again, from Dingyuan to the west is Fuyang, the station of the Chinese army, in fact, Hata Junliu also has another purpose, that is, after eliminating the snow fox, the three wings can attack Fuping, cut off the Pinghan railway from the middle, completely block the direction of the retreat of the Chinese army in Xuzhou, and can also threaten the direction of Wuhan, killing two birds with one stone.

The Japanese army believed this judgment because they got the news that Snow Fox formed a court in Dingyuan to try traitors, and what kind of county government was established, it seems that Snow Fox is planning to stay in Dingyuan for a long time. This place is close to Jinpu Road, and it can't be put in their hands, and the snow fox from Zhang Baling to Chuxian County blew up the railway twice, so you can't be careless.

Out of many ways, Numata Shigetoku personally rushed to Changfeng to command and ordered the three wings to speed up and surround Dingyuan. Once the Snow Fox Brigade of more than 1,000 people is surrounded, it will be wiped out.

The Japanese army had such clear information, it was Dingyuan who tried the traitors who were shot, hated the snow fox to the core, ran out to report to the Japanese, and asked the Japanese army to send troops.

Whether it was Shunroku Hata or Shouzo Nishio, including Shigetoku Numata who commanded the attack, they couldn't imagine that Zhang Donglin had made all this an accident in Dingyuan, and since he entered Dingyuan, Xue Ru had no intention of sticking here, and the troops were ready to evacuate at any time.

Knowing that the news hadn't even been over for a long time, the evacuation of the people began, and when it was dark and the Japanese reconnaissance plane could not take off, the Snow Fox Brigade left Dingyuan and went straight into the boundary card set.

The snow fox is very afraid of combat effectiveness, so that the Japanese army attacks quickly, but not carelessly, Numata Shigetoku judged that the snow fox intends to run, it should also be in the direction of Fuyang, Mengcheng has been occupied by the imperial army, Hefei is also occupied, where can they run? Therefore, the 116th Wing was ordered to make a detour to Fengxian and not let the Snow Fox retreat in the direction of Fuyang.

But no one could have imagined that Xue Ru was really obedient this time and attacked in the direction of Hefei, but the direction of his attack was not Hefei, nor was it the direction of Dabie Mountain, but directly met the 68th Wing, even if he retreated, he had to bite the Japanese army.

The Japanese army dispatched three wings to attack the Snow Fox Brigade in Dingyuan at the same time, and the First War Zone was also very concerned, because Cheng Qian knew that they could hear the order that Xue Ru could not see, and they were also thinking about how to deal with her if he wanted to retreat. There is another reason for Cheng Qian to do this, that is, he hopes that Xue Ru will not move, and he can contain the devils of the three wings, so as to buy time for Xuzhou and the 14th Division in the first theater.

There are calculations in all aspects, but they don't know that Xue Ru has his own ideas, you fight yours, I beat mine.