Section 14 Garrison Yifeng

For the place of Shanggao, the soldiers of the 302nd regiment are no strangers, before the battle of Nanchang, after they withdrew from De'an, they rested in the area of Changsha Jiejiawan, and on March 26, when they were ordered to rush to the front line to participate in the war, they got off at Shanggao, and then rushed to Gao'an on foot, in order to gain time, when the first battalion got off the car and went straight to Gao'an, which opened the prelude to their battle on the front line of Gao'an. However, at that time, it was just a quick glimpse, but they did not expect that more than a month later, they would withdraw here.

Compared to the last time they got off the bus with full of expectations when they went to the high, they were a little depressed when they retreated here. Although they fought a series of beautiful victories in Gao'an and Dacheng and other places, their strength was too weak on the entire battlefield, and it was difficult for the officers and men of the regiment to influence the changes in the entire battle situation with all their might. failed to take Nanchang, and lost a lot of brothers, no matter who this situation is, it is difficult to be happy for a while. Looking at the soldiers with a straight face, the stone was also helpless, when he was fighting, he had a huge confidence that he could sweep everything vertically and horizontally, but after the battle, he realized that his strength was so small, if he was not commanding a regiment at the moment, but an army, what would happen?

Shi thought like this, but he couldn't help but be taken aback by his own thoughts, a military unit, tens of thousands of soldiers, based on the most ordinary establishment of the first army and two divisions, there are at least 8 regiment commanders like him, not to mention that there are brigade commanders, division commanders, infantry commanders and other officers above the regiment commander. Even if he has made many military exploits, and the speed of promotion is fast, I am afraid that there will not be more than ten years, no excellent opportunities and luck, and I don't even need to think about it. Who knows what the situation of the War of Resistance will be like in a few years? Stone thought helplessly.

The 301st Regiment, which was withdrawn with the 302nd Regiment, was even more unbearable at this time, not only did the marching team have no queue to speak of, but even the soldiers in the regiment were scolding all the way, and their complaints were endless. The head of the regiment, Zhang Handuo, also didn't have the heart to care about these things, in fact, since he received the order to retreat in Dacheng, he was also very dissatisfied. This time, the 301st Regiment finally had a chance to perform, but he didn't expect that he had not made any achievements, so he retreated on all fronts, and then thought of the various achievements of the 302nd Regiment in front of him, which made Zhang Handuo very dissatisfied. In these years, there is no chance of promotion without military merits, and seeing that the battalion commander under his command is about to climb on his head, how can that feeling be good?

However, everyone's dissatisfaction and complaints could not change the change of the situation, from Gao'an to the high line, all the way there were the retreating figures of the soldiers of the national army, and the troops of the entire Ninth Theater originally flocked to Nanchang like a tide, but at this moment they retracted back to the original defense line like a low tide, even deeper and farther than before the sortie.

Taking the 74th Army as an example, before the counterattack on Nanchang, they were stationed on the front line of the stone naphthalm, which directly threatened the security of Gao'an. However, in this retreat, they withdrew all the way to more than 230 miles, and directly withdrew to the point where the battle before the battle of Nanchang was launched, completely giving up the threat to Nanchang.

On May 11, the 302nd Regiment was ordered to arrive at Shanggao, and considering that the other divisions of the 74th Army would continue to arrive in a steady stream, the division headquarters ordered them to withdraw to Yifeng County, forty miles north of Shanggao, to form a mutually reinforcing fortification with Shanggao, and also formed a confrontation with Gao'an, which they had abandoned.

The 302nd Regiment, which had just taken a breath in Shanggao, set off immediately after receiving the order, and finally arrived outside Yifeng City before dark.

The sudden arrival of this army naturally frightened the people in the city, especially the county magistrate, the section chiefs, and the local wealthy squires, who sent their subordinates around to inquire about the news. Since the news of the fall of Nanchang had reached them a few days ago, any disturbance would make them very uneasy, not to mention that the 302nd Regiment had not had the slightest cover all the way, and the momentum was extremely amazing.

For the army, local officials and ordinary people can be described as both love and hate, in troubled times, the Japanese invaded, they can only rely on the army to stop the Japanese invaders, keep their homeland. However, the defeated soldiers who are often defeated are worse than bandits and thieves, and the vices of burning, killing, looting and plundering are not even less harmful than those of devils.

From afar, the head of the Yifeng County Self-Defense Corps came out with a group of subordinates, this minister was in his forties, with a strong figure, a horizontal face, and a fierce aura all over his body. However, the regimental training of the Self-Defense Forces behind him looked a little shabby, all of them were thin, and the military uniforms of the regimental training were worn loosely on their bodies, where was the slightest spiritual spirit at all?

But this is also a helpless thing, in the current environment of the national war of resistance, the young and strong people have been trained into an army to rush to various places to resist the war, the local young and strong people are naturally short of manpower, and the few remaining people are basically recruited by the rich to become family guards, and this army can still have a subordinate, it is not an easy thing.

Looking at the troops coming out of the county, Shi couldn't help frowning, but he groaned for a while, and still beckoned to Wu Zihuai and Lin Xiufeng on the side, and immediately took Cheng Yong and other guards to meet him.

"Cai Yuanqing, the captain of the Xiaguan Yifeng Self-Defense Corps, I don't know which general came to the county and made the county shine." The minister saw that Shi Shi and the others were all high-headed horses, and their expressions were fierce, and the original fierce aura couldn't help but disappear without a trace, and his face was instantly full of smiles, and he saluted crookedly and said.

Stone is not a person who judges people by their appearance, but he has been in the army since he can remember, and has hardly had contact with local officials and squires. The long-term bloody battle with the devil and the experience of killing in the sea of corpses and blood naturally made the stone form a fierce aura, and he sat upright and was silent, the kind of calm momentum that was not angry and self-righteous made Cai Yuanqing and the others secretly frightened.

This minister is not a person who has not seen the world, Yifeng is located around Changsha, not far from Nanchang, this Minister Cai has also seen a lot of national army troops in Changsha a few years ago. But the army in front of him was completely different from what he had seen before, although their uniforms were no different from other troops, but the neat and orderly queue in the march, the upright chest and the calm aura of anticipation made him feel breathless after being swept by the gaze of these people.

"Soldier, a soldier for the rest of his life" This is the evaluation Cai Yuanqing got after reading it, especially when he found out in vain that the officer in the center was actually in his early twenties and hung the rank of major general, and even his breath was a little unsmooth.

Wu Zihuai, who was beside the stone, seemed to see the uneasy expression of the self-defense captain, he sat upright and smiled, and then said, "Minister Cai, right?" We are the 51st Regiment of the 302nd Division, and we were ordered to rush to the front line of Yifeng to garrison, and this is our Shi Regiment Commander. Presumably, a text will be conveyed to your county later, and the specific situation will be notified to you by someone else. Well, it's not too early, the brothers have been on the road for two or three days, and they are also in urgent need of rest, if Minister Cai has nothing to do, lead the way! ”

Facing Wu Zihuai's aggressive momentum, Minister Cai, who was originally fierce, couldn't help but respond quite respectfully: "Yes, yes, your brother has worked hard all the way, let's go to the city first." ”

"You don't have to go into the city, we camp outside the city. Minister Cai, it's not too early, please go back first, and when things happen here, I will take the brothers into the city to visit. The stone suddenly said at this time.

Cai Yuanqing couldn't help but be stunned, in the past, when the troops changed guards, didn't they all have to go into the city to fight the autumn breeze? Although he is extremely disgusted with this situation, but the one who has a gun in these years is the boss, and whoever has more guns has the final say. Looking at the neat army in front of him, he was actually ready to make some blood in his heart, but fortunately, this kind of thing was not to be done by him alone, after entering the city, he had the county magistrate and the clerk's office and a section chief to deal with it. Unexpectedly, his proposal was vetoed by this young regiment in a blink of an eye, this kind of thing was the first time he had encountered it in the past few years, and for a while he was stunned and didn't know what to do.

Where did Shi and the others have the heart to pay attention to him at this time? Seeing that he was stunned there and a little overwhelmed, Shi couldn't help frowning, looking at the east gate of Yifeng from a distance, he looked up and looked around, and pointed to the small village on the side of the road, which was about a mile away from Yifeng, and in the distance he could see that there was a river to the west of the village, and it was a good place to camp.

With the order, the originally stopped team began to move, although it could be seen that many of them were bloodstained, and some were even wounded, but the team still maintained a neat queue in the march, and everyone even moved ten rounds closely. Not to mention, there are also fat and strong war horses accompanying the sides, looking at the knight's straight body and the rifles and sabers hanging on both sides of the war horse, Cai Yuanqing understood for the first time what it means to have people outside the world, and what it means to have a sky outside the sky.

This village is called Chenzhuang, there are about 40 families, there are not many houses, but it is very quiet, watching so many troops from a distance towards them, all of them are very nervous. However, then they were relieved, because the troops did not enter the village, but stopped in the open space outside the village, and saw these soldiers, like a trick, set up tents one after another, three in a row of ten, with a distance of twenty or thirty paces between each other, which seemed to be clearly organized and unusually neat. I also saw many soldiers digging toilets in remote places, and some soldiers went to Coconut Creek to fetch water to cook rice, although they were very busy, they were in good order.

This made the common people, who were accustomed to seeing the chaos of the national army's troops, suddenly look straight and suddenly understand that this army is completely different from the ones they have seen before.