Chapter 7: Rivers and Mountains (9)

Today is better than yesterday, and Mo Di finally knew his goal for today before setting off, Huoshan County. Sleep until you wake up naturally, pack your bags and wait for the departure order of the peak. Waiting until noon, the brothers in the room opened the pots and pans that had been packed and began to cook again, but fortunately, the stove built yesterday was not destroyed, saving time and effort, and the rice was made quickly, and the meal could be started in a short time. Halfway through the meal, I received an order from Shangfeng: set off immediately. Mo Di is indeed a little annoyed this time, who gave the order of this dog day, why don't you understand that this point is eating! Huang Tianhua looked at Mo Di's expression, he knew that the boss was unhappy, and said to Mo Di: "Let Chen Zhengxin's camp go first, their food is one per person, packed in a lunch box, and you can eat while walking." They walked and it was the turn of the first battalion, and by the time Zhang Kechang's baggage battalion set off, they were afraid that it would already be an hour later, and the meal had already been digested. Mo Di smiled bitterly and said, "Okay, just do it." ”

After walking for a long time, we arrived at the county seat of Huoshan, and today's march distance was shorter than yesterday's, and outside the county seat, the person in charge of the local government greeted me and took the troops to an old barracks at the garrison that had been prepared long ago. Mo Di looked at the environment and left the barracks to the division headquarters, which was the only place with a house, and he didn't dare to occupy it with a leading regiment. A piece of land was found in the south of the city, and the 1056th Regiment set up camp. The local government had already organized personnel to send rice and vegetables, except for no meat, everything else was available, which greatly moved Mo Di and thought that this was the treatment that the national army should receive.

Let people go to the market to buy two chambers of live sheep, in the regiment to deal with it, not too much attention, cut into small pieces, stewed two large pots, fortunately in the star anise is rich in spices, the two chambers of coaxing the big white sheep out of a bit of the taste of the southern black goat, far away there is a smell of mutton, each battalion is not weak, buy chickens and ducks, the Huoshan market is a good toss, Chen Zhengxin is the most hateful, bought a live pig, killed a battalion of pig blood.

Zhao Guolong had already taken Ou Shounian Yun Yinglin Ma Weixin and Li Songde at the gate of the county seat, smelling the mutton, Ma Weixin smiled and said: "I haven't eaten stir-fried mutton for a few days, my saliva is full of mouthful, I don't speak, and my saliva will flow out if I talk again." Mo Di smiled and said: "Tomorrow we will kill pigs, we will only ask the division commander not to invite you, you are a Muslim, you can't eat pigs." Ma Weixin shouted: "Who said that you don't eat pigs, during the war years, things are out of power, when I was in western Zhejiang, I even fucking ate rat meat, and what else can't be eaten." Ou Shounian laughed and said: "This is the Hui people, in front of pork, everyone is equal." ”

Yun Yinglin is a sensible person, and handed over a stack of sorted telegrams to Huang Tianhua, he knew that Mo Di would not let them come over in vain, and he had to talk about some situations, and officers with brains were most afraid of fighting blind battles, and Mo Di and Huang Tianhua were not blindly obedient soldiers.

Last night, Vice Admiral Kagawakoshiro's Third Fleet left Wuhu, traced the river, and began to attack Anqing in a big way, which was a mixed fleet of more than 40 warships, 13 merchant ships, more than 80 motorboats, plus hundreds of wooden boats, and the speed was extremely slow, of course, it was also premeditated, they had to pass through the Tongling Datong River at noon. The reason why the 1056th Regiment did not receive the departure order until noon was because the above had been watching and wondering the results of the Tongling River Defense Force and whether it could beat the attacking Japanese fleet back.

In the morning, the planes from the Nanchang Zhongzheng Airport flew to the Yangtze River to inspect the situation, and the steamboats of the Japanese fleet were exploring the way in front, and the battleships followed closely behind, forming a protective formation.

The Wuhan General Staff Headquarters believed that this was an offensive attempt by the Japanese army, and with this level of military strength, it was impossible to break through the Tongling River defense, and even if it passed through the Tongling River defense, it would be impossible to pass through the Anqing River defense fortress, let alone the Madang fortress and the Fuchikou river defense later. The Wuhan military junta was reassured.

It is precisely because of this that the order to march was not issued in the morning, so that the Mo Enemy was stunned in Mopan Mountain for a long time.

Near noon, the Japanese army's attack on the water surface of Datong began, and several warships walked around the water surface of Datong, leading out a large number of artillery shells for the river defense fortifications, which hit the water surface of the Yangtze River like a boiling pot, and the river defense fortifications were really good. What everyone did not expect was that it was not the fleet on the river that attacked first, but more than 50 bombers flew over from the Daxiao field and threw all of them on the exposed river defense fortifications. In less than an hour, all the river defense fortifications on the water surface of Datong were destroyed, and the Japanese soldiers carrying about 100 wooden boats boarded the position to clear the river defense position.

The flotilla successfully passed through the first line of defense.

Almost at the same time, the Botian detachment entered Datong Town, Tongling County, on the south bank of the Yangtze River, and all of them boarded the ship and quickly headed for Anqing. If nothing else, twenty-four hours later, the Japanese army will reach the Anqing River.

What prompted the command to order the 1056th Regiment to open up was not only the flotilla on the river to pass through Datong smoothly, but more importantly, the Sakai detachment on the Lujiang River had already set off and aimed at Tongcheng. In the face of the Sakai detachment that had driven itself out of Hefei before, the 48th Division of Xu Jiwu of the 10th Army of the 26th Group Army in Tongcheng was a little scared, and they did not believe in the fact that the Sakai detachment was disabled by the Wandong Loyal Salvation Army reported by Shangfeng, thinking that this was a shameless deed made by Dai Li and Liao Lei to put gold on their faces, because there was one thing they couldn't accept at all, that is, the Sakai detachment, which had more than 300 people left in Hefei on the first day, was an army of more than 2,000 people when it appeared in Lujiang the next day. And there is also an artillery wing, the Japanese, can they really scatter beans into soldiers!

Xu Jiwu's 48th Division was originally a militia unit in Huanggang, Hubei, and it can be regarded as Xu Yuanquan's starting force. Last year, when Lao Chiang moved the national capital to Wuhan, the first thing he did was to integrate some local troops in Hubei and send them to the front line, and Xu Yuanquan's Huanggang Security Army was organized into a B division, which was the 48th Division, and then expanded with Ding Zhipan's 41st Division to form the 10th Army, and then combined with Liu Yinggu's 87th Army into the 26th Group Army. This 48th Division was the first unit to break away from the battlefield in the defense of Qixia Mountain in Nanning, and after retreating to Hefei, it was ravaged by Sakai Tokutaro, and was not replenished after the war, and the total number of personnel was only 5,000 people, with guns and no artillery, and it was a standard weak brigade.

In the face of the Sakai detachment coming from Lujiang, Xu Jiwu had no way but to call for rescue.

Today is June 11th, what will happen on June 12th, maybe the temporary calm that the Yellow River has gained because of the Yellow River embankment will be broken again on the Yangtze River.

When Ou Shounian and Ma Weixin were feasting, Mo Di read all the telegram drafts and thought about the situation well, he thought that the Sakai detachment would become a more crazy force after the battle of Hefei, but the lack of numbers was his hard wound, and the lack of firepower was a problem, and the most important thing was that the Sakai detachment was still a lone army, without backup and supplies, and could only fight a fierce battle and fight a fast battle. If Xu Jiwu's troops could rely on the cover of the Tongcheng city wall and fight a protracted war of attrition with the Japanese army, as long as they could hold out for three days, the Sakai detachment would retreat.

Ma Weixin was very optimistic about Xu Jiwu, thinking that Xu Jiwu's kind of troops could not attack and retreat, could not defend, and would only disturb the people, and they only needed two Japanese shells to withdraw from Tongcheng by themselves. Li Songde said: "Since it is such a force, it also comes in handy and lets them defend a place, isn't this asking for trouble for themselves!" Yun Yinglin replied: "There is no way, if you don't drive out the troops in Wuhan and stay in Hubei to compete with the central government for food, there will be problems with the central government's material supply." "Mo Enemy opened his mouth, Xu Yuanquan's troops will be defeated in every battle, it turns out that this is the reason.

"Tongcheng will be lost tomorrow." Ou Shounian finished speaking very accurately and conclusively, and his tone became uncertain again, saying: "It depends on how long Ding Zhipan of the stone card can keep!" Compared with Xu Jiwu, Ding Zhipan should be slightly stronger! ”

Yun Yinglin shook his head and said: "Ding Zhipan is Xu Yuanquan's chief of staff, during the Nanjing War, he was still the chief of staff of the 48th Division, after the Nanjing War, the 48th Division was upgraded to the 10th Army, and also gave a 41st Division, and transferred some cadres from the 48th Division to the 41st Division, put up the shelves, Ding Zhipan, as a native of Jiangsu, moved around in his hometown, got some soldiers, and made up the 41st Division, I estimate, can only be worse than the 48th Division." ”

The enemy is dumbfounded, this is how the national army is expanding! The troops that have been expanded in this way are useless!

A large pot of mutton quickly bottomed out, and Mo Di didn't feel full before he realized that he hadn't eaten a few pieces of meat from beginning to end. Ou Shounian and the others had a red face, burped, and left the 1056 regiment. Looking at the figure of Ou Shounian leaving, Jiang Chunyang said with a smile: "Boss, you said that if there are two more times, will the master go to our regiment as soon as he sets up camp, and it will become a habit to eat." Mo Di smiled: "There is no problem, we are not short of these two dollars to buy meat, don't you always tell me that you want to have a good relationship with the division commanders, in this way, do you say that our relationship can be bad?" ”

"It's not bad, I'm afraid that habit will become natural, and one day we will be unprepared and offend people and don't know it." Jiang Chunyang said.

Huang Tianhua said with a smile: "I'm not worried about this, I'm afraid that the commanders will keep us to eat in the future, and if they don't want to let us go out to fight, it will be troublesome, if we don't go out to fight, there will be no income, and if there is no income, where can we find money to invite the commanders to eat and drink!" ”

"Then you mean that you won't entertain the teachers next time?" Mo Di also smiled and said: "Don't worry, if the commanders are used to eating our things, they will bring their own food over, and if it is the worst, they will also give us some vacancies, so that we have enough money to entertain them, but in this way, we will become a weak brigade that is even worse than Xu Jiwu's 48th Division, and will only be able to slip around, not fight, and be wiped out sooner or later." ”

Huang Tianhua and Jiang Chunyang laughed, and returned to the headquarters, which had been cleaned up, and the big table where the Ou Shounian people had eaten together had long been removed, and the sheep bones in one place had also been cleaned, which looked much more refreshing. There is a small table of eight immortals in the middle, there is a small wind stove on the table, burning a red fire, and a purple casserole is set on the wind stove, and the pot is spraying hot gas, emitting the fragrance of raw stewed mutton. Zhao Guolong stood aside and said to Mo Di: "Boss, you haven't moved your chopsticks, I guess you haven't eaten enough, you have left it specially, Director Jiang and Chief of Staff Huang, you two will work hard, and accompany the boss to drink two more cups." ”

Jiang Chunyang and Huang Tianhua readily agreed!