Wang Haitao's anger shocked several people in the room, in the eyes of his subordinates, Wang Haitao will not get angry easily, he is always so calm, so steady, even Tang Longzai, who is most familiar with him, has never seen Wang Haitao get angry. After a while, Tang Longren cautiously persuaded: "Commander, don't be angry first, Tang Hongming is at fault, but you have to rescue him and the troops first." ”

Wang Haitao tried to calm himself down, and then asked Yao Yuanbao: "What is the situation of the 210th Division now? Does the Japanese army have any further actions?" Yao Yuanbao replied cautiously: "The situation of the 210th Division is not very good, because it was suddenly ambushed, and because of the road, many vehicles could not be driven and had to be discarded, so now the 210th Division's logistics supply, especially fuel, is seriously insufficient. The Japanese army has not made any movement in the past few days, but from time to time planes will be dispatched to bomb Zhangshu County. ”

Wang Haitao thought for a while and said: "Encircle the point and send reinforcements! Little Japan is learning our tactics to deal with me." You want to eat me? This time, I want Little Japan to break a few big teeth! Yao Yuanbao, you should immediately send out all the reconnaissance teams to thoroughly find out the strength of the Japanese army outside Zhangshu City, the heavy weaponry, and the number, and also look for whether the main force of the Japanese army is hidden in the section from Anji to Zhangshu. ”

Yao Yuanbao should have answered: "Yes, Commander! Go and do it immediately!" After Yao Yuanbao left, Wang Haitao said to Tang Longzai: "You go and get the troops ready, and we will set off for Anji early tomorrow morning." Let your reconnaissance group be dispatched at night to find out the situation of the Japanese and puppet troops on the way to Anji. Tang Longzai also left, and only Wang Haitao and Wang Weikuan were left in the house.

Wang Weikuan said to Wang Haitao at this time: "General Wang, victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, and it is nothing if you lose once, as long as you learn a lesson and win it back next time." Tomorrow, our troops will also act together with yours, and my superiors have instructions, and I will completely obey the command of General Wang during the battle. Wang Haitao was both happy and grateful that the CCP could have such an attitude, and considering that Wang Weikuan's troops had just been formed and had not yet completed their initial training, Wang Haitao did not want them to participate in the battle.

Wang Haitao said to Wang Weikuan: "Old Wang, first of all, I want to thank the CCP for its selfless help to us at this time, but your troops have just been formed and have only been trained for a few days, so their combat effectiveness will be weaker." In this battle, we must be weak and strong, the battle will be very cruel, and there may be a lot of sacrifices, your troops should not participate, how about I hand over the guard of Hengyang to you?"

After listening to Wang Haitao's words, Wang Weikuan's face suddenly turned red and said angrily: "General Wang, I know that you don't look down on the combat effectiveness of our army, but since the day we communists joined the revolution, we communists have put death out of the way, and in the face of the aggression of the Japanese invaders, do you think we will be afraid of bloodshed and sacrifice? Besides, my soldiers are all old guerrillas, and perhaps the attacks on the frontal battlefield are not as good as your troops, but when it comes to guerrilla warfare and the attack on the Japanese army, harassment and containment, it is no worse than your troops!"

Wang Haitao saw that Wang Weikuan was angry, and his heart became nervous, and in his previous life, he was both respectful and afraid of himself, the old revolutionary grandfather. So Wang Haitao hurriedly explained: "Lao Wang, don't get angry first, I don't mean to look down on you, I'm just worried that once the battle is very cruel, you will suffer too many casualties, so you won't be able to explain to your superiors." ”

Wang Weikuan was still angry and said: "General Wang doesn't have to worry about casualties, as long as we participate in the battle, we will completely obey your command, and the task given to you, even if there is only one person left, will be guaranteed to be completed." Wang Haitao could only smile and apologize to Wang Weikuan again and again at this time. Wang Weikuan saw that Wang Haitao had already experienced this attitude, and he couldn't go too far, so he didn't say anything more, and discussed with Wang Haitao about the cooperation between the two armies.

For example, many soldiers in Wang Weikuan's team are from Jiangxi, and these fighters who are accustomed to guerrilla warfare are very familiar with the terrain on the Jiangxi side, and on the way from Anji to Nanchang, where they can ambush troops and where they are suitable for ambush warfare, these are very clear, and it is better to use them to explore the road than the reconnaissance team.

So Wang Haitao's task for Wang Weikuan was to disperse the troops, find the Japanese troops in ambush between Anji and Zhangshu City, and attack and harass these Japanese troops, so that these Japanese soldiers could not eat well and sleep well. This task is the strength of Wang Weikuan's army, Wang Weikuan happily accepted this task, said goodbye to Wang Haitao, and returned to the army to prepare to go.

The next morning, Wang Haitao led the main force to leave Hengyang City and went all the way to Jiangxi. The reconnaissance regiment of the 211th Division was constantly reporting on the situation along the way. On the road from Hengyang to Anji, there was not a single Japanese or puppet army, Wang Haitao was a little strange at first, and then thought that the main force of the 210th Division had just cleared this way, and the Japanese army should not have reoccupied this area so quickly.

Thinking about this clearly, Wang Haitao ordered the troops to speed up, and the whole army reached outside Anji City on the afternoon of the third day. A few kilometers outside the city of Anji, Wang Haitao ordered the troops to stop advancing. Not long after, Xu Qun, commander of the reconnaissance regiment of the 211th Division, rushed over. Wang Haitao, Tang Longzai, and Li Changwu summoned Xu Qun together. As soon as Xu Qun entered the tent, he saw that the three bosses were there, and he hurriedly stood up and saluted.

After returning a military salute, Wang Haitao asked: "What is the situation in Anji County now?" Xu Qun replied: "Report to the commander, when our unit arrived in Anji County, there was no Japanese army in the city, only one battalion of puppet troops was stationed, and now the puppet army of this battalion has been wiped out by our department, and eight officers below the commander of the puppet army battalion have been captured alive, and 248 puppet soldiers have been captured. Only six of our troops were wounded, and no one was killed. Now Anji City has been controlled by our department. ”

Wang Haitao nodded and said, "Very good, your reconnaissance group has done a good job, and I will give you a credit." The main force immediately entered the city, and after entering the city, you handed over the city defense to the 462nd Brigade, and then continued to set off towards Zhangshu, searching for Japanese ambushes along the way. Xu Qun replied excitedly: "Yes, Commander! With that, he turned and left.

At night, in the temporary headquarters in Anji County, the lights were bright, Wang Haitao, Tang Longzai, Li Changwu and Tangshan Leopard surrounded a map, Tang Longzai suddenly asked: "Commander, Anji is the only way to Nanchang, it stands to reason that Little Japan will definitely lay heavy troops here, so as to prevent us from rescuing Zhangshu, but why is there not even a Japanese army here, only a battalion of puppet army?"

Wang Haitao sneered and said: "Isn't this clear, Little Japan has no intention of stopping us from going north here to rescue, but you hope that we will rush over as soon as possible so that we can ambush us again." I believe that there must be a suitable terrain suitable for an ambush ahead, and little Japan is waiting there for us to send it to the door!" After Wang Haitao finished speaking, Li Changwu asked, "Commander, what should we do?"

Wang Haitao replied: "This time, I know that there are tigers in the mountains, and I prefer to go to the tiger mountains! Little Japan wants to eat our support army in one bite, but I want to see if little Japan has such a good mouth." After hearing this, Li Changwu scolded: "Little Japan of dog days, Commander, you still say that they are tigers? I think at most it is a cat that does not know the height of the sky, and wants to eat us?

Wang Haitao said with a solemn face at this time: "After all, we still can't despise Little Japan too much, Tang Hongming made this mistake, and it is only by underestimating the enemy that there will be this defeat." Tomorrow, when we advance toward Zhangshu, we must brace our spirits, not advance too fast, and all troops are ready to go into battle at any time. Tomorrow, the 1st Regiment of the 462nd Brigade and a mixed armored battalion will be the vanguard of the whole army and will go forward five kilometers. The 2nd and 3rd Regiments of the 462nd Brigade and the two battalions of mixed armor followed as the main force in the center. The 3rd Guards Regiment and the Heavy Artillery Regiment, the 211th Division Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment, and the 211th Division Light Armored Regiment also maintained a distance of five kilometers from the Chinese army as the rear team. ”

No one had any objection to Wang Haitao's arrangement, and Wang Haitao ended the meeting. Soon after, Wang Haitao asked his subordinates to send a telegram to the Independent Brigade, and after contacting the Independent Brigade, Wang Haitao personally asked Huang Guizhong where he had arrived, and asked about the situation of the troops and whether they had been discovered by the Japanese army. Huang Guizhong also immediately replied that the troops had bypassed Jingdezhen and entered Jiangxi, and it was expected that they would be able to rush to the vicinity of Zhangshu County in three days. The troops marched smoothly and were not discovered by the Japanese. After receiving Huang Guizhong's reply, Wang Haitao put his mind at ease. Wang Haitao believes that the Independent Brigade will be a miracle force and will play an important role.

The next morning, the whole army continued to advance towards Zhangshu, and the first regiment of the 462nd Brigade and a mixed armored battalion were the first to go out of the city, with a Cheetah heavy tank and two light tanks walking in the front in the shape of a "pin", followed by a dozen light and heavy armored vehicles, and then behind were the infantry marching in a line. Five kilometers after the vanguard left the city gates, the main forces began to move out of the city. After another five kilometers, the rear army began to leave the city.

Although Wang Haitao's support army only had three regiments of the 462nd Brigade and one regiment of the Third Guard Regiment, it was very heavily armed with weapons. In a mixed armored regiment, there are six heavy Cheetah tanks and fifteen light tanks. In addition, a self-propelled howitzer and artillery regiment, a self-propelled rocket artillery battalion, a light armored regiment, and a 130 heavy cannon regiment of the 211th Division also went out with Wang Haitao.

With these heavy weapons, Wang Haitao was not afraid of the three divisions of the Japanese army, and now the divisions of the Japanese army are no longer the divisions and regiments they were when Japan invaded a few years ago, and not only do they not have the strong combat effectiveness of the divisions and regiments at that time, but they are far inferior to the previous divisions and regiments in terms of strength. According to Wang Haitao's calculations, the strength of the three divisions and regiments of the Japanese army outside Zhangshu City is at most 50,000, and the strength of the two mixed brigades is only more than 60,000.

If the more than 60,000 troops of the Japanese army were to fight a positional battle with themselves, they might still be worried about the lack of troops, but this time the little Japan actually played the trick of encircling the point to send reinforcements, and this division of troops happened to break through one by one, and the troops in front of the ambush could not be too much, Wang Haitao estimated that there would be 30,000 or 40,000 people in the sky, after all, there were still about 20,000 troops in Zhangshu City, and the combat effectiveness of his own army was not weak.