Section 249 Leave a backhand

In fact, the calm in the Liuzhou area is only relative to the independent regiment. Four or five months ago, the other three infantry divisions of the 74th Army had been transferred on order. It was an attack launched by the Japanese 11th Army after it had calmed down for a long time, and this time it did not choose to attack the defense line of the old opponent's ninth theater, but placed the direction of the attack in western Hubei and chose the defense area of the sixth theater. In that battle, Junzuo rushed to reinforcements with three infantry divisions, leaving the troops directly under the military headquarters and the independent regiment stationed in the area of Liuzhou and Liucheng. Although the 74th Army basically did not engage in too large-scale battles with the Japanese in this battle, it won a big victory in the entire battle.

After the war, the 74th Army received the most rewards from the Military Commission.

This is somewhat surprising, but it also makes sense. Over the years, the 74th Army has fought from north to south and from east to west, and has participated in almost all the major battles in the East and Central China battlefields. In the Battle of Shanggao, it was precisely by virtue of the excellent performance of all units of the 74th Army that the 33rd and 34th divisions of the Japanese army were severely damaged in northern Jiangxi. Subsequently, the 74th Army participated in the Battle of Changsha non-stop, although in that battle, the 74th Army was not as powerful as before, but it also contained a large number of Japanese troops on the front line of the Laodao River. It bought enough time for the arrival of reinforcements, and in this respect, the credit of the 74th Army was also great.

It's just that that battle was a defeat for the Ninth War Zone, so there was no recognition after the war. Later, Chief Xue commanded the units of the Ninth Theater to inflict heavy losses on the Japanese army in Changsha again, and won a great victory, and it happened that the 74th Army had been transferred to Liuzhou to rest and recuperate, and it was natural that the departments participating in the war were rewarded for their meritorious service, but unfortunately, the 74th Army did not participate, so it naturally missed this opportunity.

However, the exploits of the 74th Army are there, and no one has forgotten the merits of the sweat and horses, and this time taking this opportunity to reward the 74th Army is also an incentive for the soldiers who fought against the Japanese.

However, for the soldiers of the Independent Regiment, there was still some imbalance in their hearts when they got the news, because the military seat kindly let them stay here in Liucheng to rest, but they missed this opportunity to be rewarded. Everyone knows that in Changsha, if it weren't for the fact that the independent regiment under the command of Shi still maintained its consistent standard and fought a good battle, not only the military headquarters would have been terminated, but the three infantry divisions would probably have suffered huge losses, which was unimaginable.

But now? Junzuo was promoted to deputy commander-in-chief of the 29th Group Army, Li Tianxia was also promoted to the post of deputy commander, the post of commander of the 51st Division was taken over by Zhou Zhidao, the old Shangguan of Shishi, and the two division commanders of the 57th and 58th Divisions, Yu Chengwan and Zhang Lingfu, although they were not promoted, were also rewarded by telegrams, and the only independent regiment seemed to have been forgotten and did not get anything, how could this make the soldiers of the independent regiment not angry? Because no matter how you calculate it, Shi is qualified to be the commander of a division, and in terms of military merits, there should be several independent regiments who can be the commander here, but now? They have nothing.

Shi looked at this very lightly, originally, he was not the kind of person who wanted to climb up, and he was not interested in getting promoted and making a fortune. What he cares about is that since the devil has chosen to attack from the west of Hubei, will he have any intention of continuing to advance westward? Will the war continue to ignite?

Although the independent regiment did not participate in the previous battle of western Hubei, Shi still heard a lot of news about the enemy, the main point of which is that the Japanese 4th Division and the 6th Division did not appear in the battle sequence, although it is not ruled out that the Japanese army deliberately hid its strength, but it is more likely that it was transferred to other places to participate in the battle.

As mentioned earlier, the continuous defeat of the Japanese army in the Pacific theater has already caused the Japanese mainland to be bombed by the Allied air force, even if the Japanese army occupies enough areas and is large enough, if the mainland falls, then everything is over. Therefore, it is also very necessary for the Japanese army to reinforce the Pacific theater from various places.

Under these circumstances, it stands to reason that the Japanese army should have adopted a policy of steady defense on the battlefield in Central China, so how could it take the initiative to attack the Sixth Theater instead? Or is there another possibility that, as before, the devils adopted the strategy of attacking instead of defending, taking the initiative to attack the national army troops and scatter the assembled forces in order to achieve the goal of holding Wuhan?

But this does not seem to make sense, because the troops in the various theaters of the national army are obviously not prepared for a counteroffensive, and now our country is no longer fighting alone, with the support of the allied forces, the Chinese battlefield has become the main diversion battlefield, and the main battlefield is on the sea. After all, Japan is an island country, and as long as it wins the naval battle and fundamentally conquers the Japanese mainland, it can solve the problem. This is much easier than retaking the places occupied by the Japanese army inch by inch from all over China and from all over Southeast Asia. In the case that a breakthrough has been made in the Pacific theater, the troops in various theaters are even more willing to watch the devils step by step towards defeat, where will they take the initiative to create opportunities for the Japanese army?

Therefore, Shi was surprised by the Japanese army's move and began to prepare for the possibility of entering the war at any time. After the Battle of Western Hubei, the 57th Division stayed in Changde to garrison, and other troops stayed in the Taoyuan area, which was seventy or eighty miles away from Changde.

Because of this, the various units of the Independent Regiment began to pack up their bags more than a month ago. In addition, considering that Liucheng County is far away from the front line, Stone also wants to operate this place for a long time as a family business of the independent regiment. This time their situation was different from when they were in Yifeng, although Yifeng in northern Jiangxi was also very large at that time, but it was the front line of the battlefield, and it could be taken away by devils at any time. And here is much safer, judging from the current situation, it is basically impossible for the devil to fight here, and several battles in Changsha have exposed the lack of stamina of the Japanese army. The existence of such an astonishing scale of breeding farms and reclaimed farmland, fish ponds, and other places, on the one hand, is convenient for the officers and men of the Independent Regiment to settle their families, and on the other hand, it is equivalent to leaving an inexhaustible treasure trove for the Independent Regiment and providing a strong guarantee for the long-term development of the Independent Regiment.

For this reason, Shi also began to select manpower from the people's camp to carry out the work of staying and garrisoning. The first to be selected were the disabled veterans who had fought countless battles with him, and these people, according to the regulations and requirements of the army, were required to leave the army and return to their hometowns. But in this current situation, half of the country is under the hands of devils, where is the big guy going? Moreover, they have disabilities, and many of them can't do heavy work, so if they go back, wouldn't that be tantamount to sending them to death? For a person with such a heavy feeling as Shi, he would never watch these robed brothers not die on the battlefield, but were starved to death.

Nowadays, the situation here is good, and the main wealth here is the farm, and the field work is secondary. Let them stay here, on the one hand, they don't have to run around and work hard, and on the other hand, these veterans have enough self-protection ability. Don't look at their disabilities, but if they really fight hard, let alone ordinary people, even ordinary soldiers may not be better than them, these people are really scrubbers who crawled out of the pile of dead people, which one of them has not slaughtered a few little devils with his own hands? In the Minfu camp, they are responsible for the heavy responsibility of taking care of the baggage.

After personally speaking to the veterans about their ideas, the veterans agreed. How could they not know the idea of stones? There is such a regimental commander who can never leave them, what can they do? What's more, this is still a major matter related to the fundamentals of the independent regiment.

In order to ensure the safety here, Shi finally decided to let the battalion head of the supplementary battalion stay, and with him in command here, Shi felt relieved. In order to prevent accidents, Shi deliberately left a squad from the supplementary battalion to return to the head of the army, and with the soldiers of this squad, plus those disabled veterans, this place is relieved.

As for the position attached to the supplementary battalion, it was taken over by Chen Aiguo, commander of the second company of the second battalion. Previously, in Yong'an, it was this Commander Chen who personally blew up the Japanese tanks with a demoman, inflicted heavy losses on the Japanese army, and frightened the follow-up troops of the Japanese army. And the vacancy he left behind was held by Chen Sitou of the Second Company, this person is not very familiar with the stone, but I heard Gao Sledgehammer say that although this person is a little afraid of death, he is very brainy, and belongs to the type that can fight. Hearing this news, Shi Shi was a little surprised, he didn't expect that such a fierce general as Gao Da Hammer would be relieved to hand over the second company to a person who was a little afraid of death, which is really a strange news.

However, Stone believed in Sledgehammer's judgment just as the brothers in the regiment believed him, and since Sledgehammer identified with this man, he did the same.

Just when the stone was almost ready here, on October 28, the order of the commander of the military headquarters Wang suddenly reached the independent regiment. After receiving the order, although Shi and the others had already prepared and estimated in advance, when they learned that they were going to participate in the war again, they couldn't help but feel a little irritable.

However, they soon came to their senses, and being a soldier was born to fight, and it seemed that such emotions should not be there. It seems that this time the break is too long, everyone is a little lazy, didn't they hear that there was a fight and couldn't sleep with excitement before?

After reorganizing his emotions, Shi immediately ordered all the troops remaining in the west of the Rongjiang River to move to Liucheng County, and at the same time immediately ordered the three battalion commanders on the east bank to immediately assemble their troops and rush to Liucheng to gather. The assembly horn sounded almost at the same time in various places in Liucheng County, and the soldiers of the independent regiment who heard the horn gathered up their equipment, packed their bedding, and quickly assembled outside the camp.