Section 54 Changes in the Three Battlefields

Zhao Niangzi was undoubtedly very disappointed and dissatisfied with the stone's words, in fact, she didn't plan to mention this matter, after all, people are swordsmen, and I am fish and meat, and they are not qualified to put forward conditions at all in their current situation. But somehow, after seeing the stone, she still didn't give up, and wanted to fight for it again, although from the immediate point of view, it was unlikely that these people would use her brothers as cannon fodder, but if they could be arranged together, it would be better after all, and they could take care of each other if something happened. She didn't expect that this young major general would simply veto her words neatly, leaving no thought at all.

Then Shi Shi began to inquire about the specific number of people to be recruited, but he was surprised by the situation, there were six or seven hundred young and strong people, more than five hundred strong women, and more than a thousand other old and weak people combined. When Liu Wenfeng finished saying these numbers, Shi looked at Zhao Niangzi incredulously, looking her up and down.

Stone's expression finally made Zhao Niangzi regain some self-confidence, and she looked a little spicy with a crisp chest, which made Shi Shi avoids his eyes in embarrassment, and then he asked: "How does Zhao Niangzi feed so many people?" It was only at this time that Stone figured out why these bandits were so honest in accepting surrender. With so many people in the mountains, how staggering is the daily consumption of food? In this kind of situation, where there are devils in front of them and they cut off the back road, if you don't go down the mountain, so many people will wait on the mountain to die!

Speaking of food, Zhao Niangzi also did not have the spirit just now, she smiled bitterly: "I can only go to rob the big households, and then secretly plant some in the surrounding mountains, and the other is to raise some local chickens in the mountains as meat supply, at first it was okay, planted and robbed, the brothers' life was quite moist, but with more and more people going up the mountain, I couldn't bear to leave them alone, so the demand for food is getting bigger and bigger, and in the end I can't support it, so I can only rely on going down the mountain to rob, The big families in Yifeng have almost been robbed, so we will go to Fengxin and even Gao'an, and the farther and farther we rob, the more people will ......"

The stone couldn't help but be silent, listening to what she said, in fact, the stone had already seen their end, if they didn't surrender to them this time, their final fate would undoubtedly be defeat and death. In the current situation, these people are caught between the national army and the Japanese army, and there is no way to survive at all. And they don't do production, or they don't have the conditions for production, just by grabbing, when can they grab? Although there are many rich people in Fengxin, Gao'an, Shanggao, and Tonggu, there are more and more people behind her, or it won't be long before there will be no one to rob, and when the day comes, they can only leave this place and go to a farther place to rob. But when they really reach this level, I am afraid that they will have already attracted the encirclement and suppression of the army, and will they be able to resist the attack of the national army?

After being silent for a moment, Shi Ye shook his head and stopped worrying about these things, he muttered for a while and said: "Zhao Niangzi, you will stay in the Minfu camp for the time being as Uncle Zhou's deputy, it is not easy to feed so many people, and after this battle is over, we will discuss together how to improve the lives of the brothers, no matter what, those brothers of yours are also our brothers now, as long as we have a bite to eat, we will definitely not let them go hungry." ”

Zhao Niangzi nodded, and the whole person was also relieved, she really couldn't hold on, the pressure of so many people eating was pressing on his head, making her feel breathless. Now it's okay, this headache has been handed over, and she can be regarded as giving an explanation to those brothers, although I don't know what the fate and result of following these military masters is, but having enough to eat is better than starving to death in the mountains!

The stone then turned to Lin Xiufeng and said: "Brother Lin, you have to trouble you to run in person over there in Guanshan, the young and strong will immediately be assigned to the supplementary battalion for training, and the strong women and the old and weak will be arranged on the spot, and the wasteland will be reclaimed along the Guanshan area, and strive to plant the winter wheat before the winter planting, so that there will be hope for next year. ”

Lin Xiufeng immediately responded: "Tuanzuo, you can rest assured, as long as the devil does not enter Yifeng, I promise to solve the problem of food and clothing in the county in the spring of next year, and in the autumn of next year, not only will the people's families have surplus, but the rations of the soldiers of the whole regiment can also be collected from the local area, plus the fields of the soldiers of the whole regiment, which is enough to accumulate the grain reserves of the whole regiment for more than a year." ”

Shi looked at him full of confidence, and couldn't help but nod with satisfaction, if he could really do this, the whole regiment without worries would be able to put all his mind on combat and training, and his combat effectiveness would be greatly improved.

In the following days, Lin Xiufeng, Liu Taiping, Zhou Quanfu and Zhao Niangzi rushed to the Guanshan area to deal with the follow-up affairs, mainly to solve the problem of food and clothing for these people, but looking at the cars full of grain pulled out of Yifeng, Zhao Niangzi was also completely relieved.

In the next few days, Shi and the others put all their minds on the current battle situation, and everyone always paid attention to the surrounding situation, constantly deducing the development of the situation. However, what happened next left them dumbfounded, a little unable to believe the fact that it was happening at the front.

On the Gao'an front, the First Army and the 74th Army and other units continued to attack the Fengxin line in accordance with Shangfeng's orders, although their sharp attack did not take Fengxin, but it was so that the Japanese 106th Division no longer dared to go west, and was ready to return to the reinforcements at any time, although the national army troops on the eastern front after the danger of Gao'an loss, now they do not dare to send to reinforce the Changsha line, but the line stopped the westward advance of the two divisions of the Japanese army, and their task was successfully completed. Considering that the 74th Army is in the special period of reorganization, it is already a very difficult thing to successfully take Gao'an.

On the battlefield in southern Hunan, the Japanese 33rd Division marched very slowly, along the way they were stubbornly blocked by the defenders 79th Army and the 20th Army, especially the 20th Army continued to attack from the flank, so that the Japanese army who was unfamiliar with the terrain suffered heavy losses, in order to ensure a strong attack, they had to put the main force on the front of the battlefield, but as the 20th Army attacked more and more times from the flank, the Japanese had to strengthen the protection of the two wings, and divided a part of the troops to protect the flank of the army, as a result, the danger of the flank was lifted, But the intensity of the frontal attack has also been greatly reduced, and the pace of their progress is becoming slower and slower.

In the case that the two diversionary battlefields have achieved good results, the officers of the Ninth Theater also involuntarily breathed a sigh of relief, according to the current development of the situation, the Japanese army is not to say that it has taken Changsha, it is impossible to advance to Changsha, in the case that the Japanese army has spent so much effort, the national army troops can withstand the onslaught of the Japanese army on various battlefields, and it also shows that with the passage of time, the combat power of each unit has been greatly strengthened and improved, and there is no longer the power to fight back in the face of the Japanese army. I believe that if we persist like this, sooner or later we will be able to drive away these invaders with the heroic and fearless performance of the soldiers.

However, when the situation of the Nationalist army was very good, the Japanese commanders could not hold their breath and took the initiative to make changes. First of all, because the attack on the front line of the Xinqiang River has been progressing slowly, the 33rd Division not only failed to break through the flank defense line of the national army, but fell into a bitter battle, and some of them were struggling. In order to ensure the safety of the flank, the Japanese army from the main force of the Nara detachment came to the flank reinforcements, and the main force of more than 10,000 people rushed to the flank to participate in the battle, which was actually equivalent to connecting the two battlefields.

However, the response of the national army troops was also extremely fast, and the 15th Army was then ordered to rush to reinforcements, and the addition of tens of thousands of troops to the battlefield immediately neutralized the changes in the Japanese army, and even the 15th Army, which had an absolute advantage in strength, then boldly interspersed, wanting to encircle and annihilate this Japanese army. Their bold plan was also recognized by the officers in the theater, and the flank battlefield also became the main battlefield for a while.

The Japanese army's reaction was swift, and when the encirclement of the Nationalist troops was not completed, they had already begun to retreat, and there was a great tendency to retreat to the front line of Tongcheng. Although it failed to encircle the Japanese army's forces, the initiative on the battlefield has been firmly controlled by the national army at the moment, obviously in the northern Jiangxi battlefield into a stalemate, after the southern Hunan battlefield returned without attack, the Japanese army's attack in northern Hunan has been lonely, or it will not be long before the Japanese army should retreat.

However, just when the officers and men of the Nationalist Army were already looking forward to victory, the commander of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army, Okamura Ninji, made a killer move, and one night, with the cooperation of the navy, the Uemura detachment on the front line of the Xinqiang River was transported to the direction of Yingtian with the cooperation of warships, and directly inserted into the flanks of the two main defense lines of the Nationalist Army in northern Hunan Province, and there was a great tendency to cut off the rear roads of the Nationalist troops along the two defense lines of the Xinqiang River and the Miluo River. For a time, nearly 100,000 troops of the 52nd, 37th, 70th, and 73rd armies of the entire 15th Group Army were in danger of being encircled.

Although the strength of the Kamimura detachment drawn from the 3rd Division is not bad, after all, there are only more than 10,000 troops, and if such a force wants to completely cut off the back road of the 100,000-strong army, the risk can be imagined.