Chapter 7: Rivers and Mountains (29)

The problem is now July of the Gregorian calendar, which is the plum rain and the hot season in the Yangtze River basin, which is rainy and rainy, and the air is full of moisture, as if you can squeeze out the water by waving it in the air with a towel. God has been raining for thirteen days in a row, and it is wet everywhere, and even the southerners from Guangxi can't stand it anymore. Huang Tianhua's troops set up the camp as high as possible, and dug a half-foot-deep drainage ditch around the tent, but they still couldn't solve the moisture in the air, in Chen Zhengxin's words, the whole body was moldy.

The Japanese army was not having a good time, the supply of the Yangtze River could only reach Anqing, and when they arrived in Anqing, they had to take the land route, and the land route was much more difficult. There are only two roads from Anqing to Qianshan Taihu Lake, one through Shipai and one through Gaohebu, and the road through Shipai has been flooded for several sections, and can only go around Qipanling from Gaohebu, according to Chen Zhengxin's words, it is sent to their mouths.

Huang Degui went to Wolf's Den Mountain, Cao Yufu went to Chaonan, and the people in charge of Huangbai became Huang Tianhua, Chen Zhengxin, Yang Kezhi and Lin Yingjian. Lin Yingjian, who had been uncomfortable since he saw the tent of the Huang Tianhua Department, secretly swore that he must get a tent back for the seventh regiment of the fourth detachment, otherwise it would be too faceless. Knowing that the Japanese army braved the rain to send supplies to Qianshan, passing through Qipanling, he was the first to jump out, and kept repeating one word in his mouth: "Rob!" "That feeling is not like the National Revolutionary Army, it is completely a bandit on Wagangzhai.

How to rob it, where to do it, Lin Yingjian didn't dare to speak. Yang Kezhi also set his eyes on Huang Tianhua and said, "Deputy Huang Tuan, you say, we will cooperate with how we fight." ”

The two groups of people in Huangbai Town add up to a lot, Huang Degui did not take all his people, left more than 100 people here, plus Chen Zhengxin's people, there are about 500 people, Cao Yufu took more people, the third battalion Lei Wenwen a whole battalion became a transport soldier, leaving the first battalion of Ai Mingshan to reduce rent and interest in Tongcheng Laowo, there are only Yu Qilong's second battalion, more than 300 people.

Huang Tianhua said: "The people we can use are two battalions, Chen Ying and Yu Ying, Yu Ying is all-day armed with spears, which is suitable for positional warfare, and Chen Ying is relatively flexible and suitable for sports warfare. ”

"That's right! I agree! Yang Kezhi said: "The deputy Huang Tuan is fully responsible for the entire campaign, and I am responsible for supervising the implementation. ”

"Two battalions, enough!" Chen Zhengxin said: "If the Japanese convoy can take the stone pai and the car, and pass through the chessboard ridge, it can only drive horse-drawn carriages or carry horses and packs. This kind of convoy is slow, poorly disciplined, and disperses as soon as it is sold. ”

"Why is discipline bad, doesn't it mean that Japanese people are strictly disciplined?" Lin Yingjian asked puzzled.

"It's not yet understandable that the Japanese are disciplined and the Japanese animals are undisciplined." Yang Kezhi touched Lin Yingjian with his shoulder, meaning to ask him not to speak such layman's words.

Lin Yingjian laughed, thinking about it, this is really the case, the Japanese also have their bad times.

"Let's find a suitable location, one at both ends and a dozen in the middle, and this kind of transport team can easily take it down." Chen Zhengxin said: "They don't carry heavy weapons, and the soldiers are also logistics troops, and they herd sheep as soon as they dozen." ”

Listening to Chen Zhengxin's easy words, Yang Kezhi was a little unapproving, and said very solemnly: "Don't underestimate the enemy, don't underestimate the enemy, even if the Japanese army is a logistics unit, its military quality is also very high." On May 12, the first battalion of the ninth regiment of our four detachments set up an ambush at the mouth of the Jiangjia River in Chao County, central Anhui, and ambushed more than 20 people from the Chaoxian garrison of the Banjing detachment. This was the first battle of the New Fourth Army's campaign against Japan, and after the war, the Fourth Detachment unanimously agreed that the combat quality of the Japanese was really not to be underestimated. Upon learning of our victory in the first battle, on May 16, Lao Chiang called our army commander Ye Ting and said: The surprise defeat of the enemy at the mouth of the Jiang family is very gratifying. ”

Huang Tianhua kept nodding, the combat strength of the New Fourth Army seemed to be relatively problematic, a battalion of hundreds of people, and the garrison of ambush more than 20 people still fought so hard. However, there is one thing he is still more sure of, that is, he is ruthless, he injured more than 40 people, and he still fought to the death until he killed all the opponents.

Yang Kezhi saw Huang Tianhua's psychology and explained that in such a battle situation, their equipment was related, the number of the Ninth Regiment was less than 600, and a battalion was only 1780 people, and there were only 70 or 80 people in a battalion, and there were only 70 or 80 guns that really had guns. After that battle, 20 38 covers were captured, and the first batch of Japanese weapons was obtained. Within a month later, taking advantage of the deflated Sakai detachment in Hefei, the fourth detachment frequently attacked, fought a lot of good battles in the Chaonan area and Tongcheng Shucheng, and exchanged the sacrifice and injury of the soldiers for a series of victories, barely achieving a gun per person, but there were few bullets, and a soldier was equipped with five rounds.

"Five rounds?" Chen Zhengxin shouted, what can this bullet be used for! No wonder last time in Qipanling, Yang Kezhi's 7th Regiment charged after a few shots, it turned out to be like this.

Yang Kezhi nodded, and said, we are still good, the advance column from Jiangnan is even worse, in early June, the commander-in-chief Su Yu ambushed the Japanese army at Weigang, and charged after a few shots, the Japanese army was few, and the bullets could not stop the rolling crowd, and they were all hacked to death by the advance column with a big knife. Some people say that most of those devils were scared to death by the shouts of the Chinese army.

When Huang Tianhua heard these two stories, he couldn't help but feel a wave of excitement in his heart, this is a bloody Chinese person, no matter whether he has a gun or a knife in his hand, or he is bare-handed, as long as he is ruthless, he will definitely be able to kill the Japanese and defeat the Japanese. Compared with them, the hundreds of thousands of troops armed to the teeth on the side of the Yellow River are particularly incompetent, and they can't stop the attack of a division of the Japanese army, and they still have to sacrifice the evil trick of replacing the soldiers with water, which is simply shameless.

"There will be weapons, there will be everything." Huang Tianhua said: "There is only one thing, I have to say first, my brothers settle the accounts, and the brothers of our two battalions are not paid, and they come out to rob, raise money for themselves, and pay for their own expenses, at most if they are killed, they will have a few oceans of bereavement benefits." So we have to calculate the cost of what we get back, even if we cooperate with you, we must also calculate clearly, I don't care if you collect the money for the part you get, and we can't lose any of the part we get. I hope that Head Yang, you will understand and bear more. ”

"I understand, and so do our superiors, and I won't embarrass you." Yang Kezhi said: "If we can capture the Type 92 infantry guns and mortars, our detachment commander hopes to be able to divide them, and we want to set up an artillery battalion, and we want you to give us more guidance." ”

"There is no problem, if there is a cannon, it will be distributed to you first." Huang Tianhua said: "We have a small artillery company here, equipped with 12 70 mortars, in order to maintain the flexibility of the troops, we don't want the 92 type. ”

If you have something to say, explain it first, and then everyone will act according to the agreement, so as to save the trouble. Fortunately, Yang Kezhi is young and can accept Huang Tianhua's set and agree.

The discussion stopped here, and Shi Zhong over there had already finished reconnaissance and returned to the station. As soon as he saw him, Chen Zhengxin shouted: "Shi Chong, didn't you say that you should contact us by radio?" Why did you run back again? ”

"Come back to eat, sleep, and ambush tomorrow." Shi Zhong smiled and said: "The Japanese, who live in Gaohebu tonight, will set off early tomorrow morning, all of them are mules and horses, and they will carry heavy loads and walk super slowly. ”

Huang Tianhua stood up happily and said, "The Japanese also let us rest for a day, very good, a few of you will have a drink here tonight, Shi Chong went out, never empty, I don't know what delicious food I brought back today." ”

Shi nodded and said, "It's okay today, when I came back, a wild boar hit my gun, you can have a good meal." ”

Hearing Shi Chong's words, the few people present couldn't sit still anymore, stood up and walked towards the reconnaissance company.

"Regiment commander, they are really comfortable these days, they can eat when they want, they can leave when they want, there is food in the warehouse, there are bullets in the guns, on the surface they are the national army, but in fact they are the king of grass." Lin Yingjian deliberately pulled Yang Kezhi, the two walked at the back, leaned in his ear and said softly to Yang Kezhi: "Many practices are completely different from ours, we can't get too close to them, be careful of making mistakes." ”

"Eat and drink, what mistakes can you make!" Yang Kezhi said with a smile: "From them, I have seen a little bit, more work, more work, no hard work, can improve work enthusiasm." It's not like we have a whole bunch of politicians who just say they can't do it, and they watch what you eat and what you wear all day long. If there is something delicious, you must give them first, and if there is something fun, let them play first, otherwise you will open your study class, and you will not be a person. ”

"I'm just worried that if we do this, someone will report to Political Commissar Dai and them when we go back, and we will be in trouble!" Lin Yingjian said: "We eat fragrant and spicy food here, and they eat wild vegetables over there, so they must have a fire." ”

"Then we don't eat wild boars, but also go back to eat wild vegetables?" After Yang Kezhi finished speaking, he couldn't help laughing.

Lin Yingjian swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said, "it, eat first if you have it, I haven't touched meat for many days, except for wild vegetables in my stomach, I have a lot of headaches." ”

Yang Kezhi didn't laugh, he also fell into deep thinking, why others can eat and drink spicy food, but he can't eat and drink, what is the problem. He joined the Red Army at the age of thirteen, and was one of several famous red imps in the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet District, because he had studied in private schools for several years, had education and knowledge, and could write well with a brush, and in the Soviet District, he published newspapers and taught night schools, and was always an activist, serving as Gao Jingting's secretary at the age of 18, the political commissar of the Fifth Guerrilla Division at the age of 19, and the political commissar of the 245th Regiment of the Red 28th Army at the age of 20. He was very disgusted with the methods of the Political Department, and if it weren't for Gao Jingting's repeated persuasion, he would have drawn a gun with the people of the Political Department.