Chapter 6: Fighting (29)

The vole bounced up like a ghost, and ran towards the door of life and wounded by the pond, and several Einsatzgruppen soldiers were afraid that he would lose, so they followed him closely, and the others went to check on the fallen Japanese, whether they were dead or alive, and they had a chance to make up a shot in the head. The devil's gun was not picked up, and there was no way to take it away if he picked it up, it was too heavy, and the devil's armed belt had to be unfastened, and the bullets and * could not be let go, that was their main source of replenishment.

Running to the wounded door that Jin Tongxuan said, the vole saw the corpses of the six soldiers, and then ran to the Shengmen, and saw the remains of the four soldiers, came to the first cover point, and then saw the dead faces of the two brothers, the vole heart was like a knife, and rushed to the first ambush point. I saw a person staggering out of the pit, clearly carrying a big forehand cannon in his hand, four shells hanging on his chest, and seeing voles and others, he quickly ran over. The vole put his arm around the gunner and said with a crying voice: "It's good to be alive, it's good to be alive!" ”

Carrying the bodies of the sacrificed brothers, the voles and the others returned to the river, and the twelve bodies were lined up, and all the tears flowed down the river.

"Let's cross the river first and see what the Japanese army is doing before making plans." Jin Tongxuan said.

The vole also knows that this is not a sad place, nor is it a sad time, this is the first time that his brothers have died, and his emotions are a little difficult to control, his other mobilization has a total of less than forty people, twelve died at a time, and the mortality rate is nearly one-third, which is a bit big, although the Japanese army threw down more than seventy corpses, but, in the eyes of voles, how many devils died can not be worth one of his brothers.

When he arrived at the mouth of the Banqiao River, he asked the telegraph operator to set up a telegram and report the situation to Xu Ping.

Receiving the telegram from the vole, Xu Ping was also a little dumbfounded, a reduction of twelve people at a time, which was also a bit big for his Eastern Anhui Volunteer Army, thought about it, stood up and said to the operator: "Order them to return." ”

"Wait." It is Mo who speaks.

Mo Di walked up to Xu Ping and said to Xu Ping: "It is inevitable that there will be casualties in a war, and no one can avoid it. I didn't see casualties before, and I always wanted to fight a good fight and a cheap fight. Because of the avoidance of casualties, I didn't dare to take the initiative to attack, I didn't dare to fight to the death with the enemy, and I had already walked into the devil's way. This battle with the 31st Army at Dayingji was the closest I got to casualties, and I really knew that the frontal battlefield in which we fought against the Japanese had no tricks, and basically fought with our lives. Chief Zhang Guangwei has told me more than once that if we can fight to kill a Japanese soldier with one Chinese soldier, we will win a big victory, and if we can use two people to fight one Japanese soldier, we will still win, and three will fight out one, and we will win in the end, so if we want to kill little Japan, we must first be able to afford to die. The vole fought this battle very well, twelve against seventy, and the results were brilliant. It's just that his strength is too small to continue fighting, let alone attack in an all-out way, but he must not retreat, not only can he not retreat, but he must continue to harass the enemy army and get the enemy army out of the water city of Hefei. Next, I will let Chen Zhengxin's battalion take over in an all-round way and disrupt the enemy's thinking and steps. When the conditions are ripe, let Li Baicheng throw 200 shells from Hedong or Hebei to see how powerful this group of Japanese troops, who claim to kill people without blinking, and how powerful they can be compared with Xu Yuanquan's Tenth Army. Tell the voles to continue to harass tonight, but don't kill a lot of enemies anymore, and focus on protecting yourself. ”

Xu Ping knew what Mo Di meant, and went to discuss the telegram manuscript with the telegrapher.

Hefei City has been turned upside down.

The water around the city is only five or six miles, the north and south are only more than four miles, the explosion of the hand cannon, has already woken up the people of Hefei who are still asleep, but until the sun is three poles, there are few people out of the house, this kind of extraordinary moment, can cause less trouble to live a few more days. There were only two idle men, who staggered out of the house before dawn, holding cigarette pouches and slippers, and their sleepy eyes that woke up from time to time let out fine light, and looked at the place where the gunshots rang out from a distance. The Japanese soldiers were moving the corpses, one after another, a full sixty or seventy heads, moving them from Xiaoyaojin to the side of the barracks, dousing gasoline and burning them. Suddenly, in the city of Hefei, there was a strong aroma of barbecue. The idle man quickly ran back to his hut, got a transmitter from the wall, and the sound of the telegram was transmitted to Wuhan.

This is the staff of the Military Unified Investigation Bureau, and from their report, Boss Dai got the news as soon as possible, that is, in the middle of the day, he did not know who attacked the Hefei Sakai detachment, killing 70 people and injuring countless people.

Immediately, the information was transmitted to the General Staff, and Chairman Chiang demanded that it be found that it was the unit that attacked the Japanese Sakai detachment and that it should be rewarded heavily. The General Staff immediately issued the Fifth Theater, and the Fifth Theater was also forwarded to the 21st Group Army, which was the closest to Liao Lei's 21st Group Army after Xu Yuanquan's 26th Group Army left.

Soon, Mo Di's 526 Brigade also got the news from the 176 Division, and after discussing with Jiang Chunyang, Huang Tianhua, Gong Qingyuan, and Xu Ping, Mo Di decided to report the Eastern Anhui Volunteer Army. Less than 20 minutes later, a telegram was placed on the conference table of the Wuhan General Staff: "On the same day, a certain unit of the Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army in eastern Anhui attacked the Sakai detachment stationed in Hefei, and in this battle, 70 Japanese soldiers were killed, countless wounds were wounded, and 12 volunteers were sacrificed, and the 1056th Regiment of the 526th Brigade of the 176th Division of the 48th Army of the 21st Group Army has gone to Hefei to respond. ”

"1056 regiment? But what about it? Bai Chongxi asked Liu Shiyi. Liu Shiyi nodded and said, "It's invincible, this guy is active, he was still in Bengbu a few days ago, and he went to Hefei again." ”

"What is the Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army in Eastern Anhui?" Bai Chongxi asked again.

"Liu Fei has reported there, it is a civilian anti-Japanese team composed of some wounded soldiers of our 21st Group Army and some stragglers from other units, and the army commander is Xu Ping, the commander of the special service company of the 526 Brigade before, because of his martial arts background, he could not be promoted, so he simply retired from the army due to injury, became an army of his own, and served as his own commander, and was no longer restricted by promotion." Liu Shiyi said with a smile: "In our Gui Army, cadres at and above the battalion level must be graduates of military academies, and there are good and bad things about it, because the overall quality of the troops is guaranteed, and what is bad is that some talented and capable military personnel are turned away, which is biased. "Educating soldiers in the people, and learning from the generals was proposed by Liu Shiyi, and only he could be dissatisfied with this.

"There are gains and losses! You can't do everything. Bai Chongxi said: "Since he is willing to be the commander of the army, we will find a way to make him a military commander, now there are loyal and righteous national salvation troops everywhere, fighting behind the enemy with the slogan of loyalty, righteousness and courage to save the country and the people, the commander-in-chief is Dai Yunong, we can also organize some loyal and righteous national salvation troops controlled in our hands." ”

"Loyal to the National Salvation Army? That's the military system, and if we do this, will we give a general to Dai Li. Liu Shiyi said with some worry.

"It doesn't matter what he is, whose person is always whose person, Xu Ping is the general we played in Guangxi, and he is Mo Tianzong's subordinate, even if Dai Li wants to, he can't pull it over, I have absolute confidence in the soldiers in Guangxi!" Bai Chongxi said, smirking proudly.

Liu Shiyi is a veteran of the Gui family, but he is not from Guangxi, so he is unwilling to answer.

When the whole army was defeated in Xuzhou and retreated strategically, the 1056 regiment occupied Bengbu, and then the eastern Anhui volunteers actually took the initiative to attack Hefei, if the 1056 regiment occupied Bengbu or the army, then the attack on Hefei was completely the spontaneous activities of the people, which was an unusual flashpoint, Chiang Kai-shek was very excited, pacing in the office while rubbing his hands, and kept saying: "There is a lot of help for the righteous, and there is little help for the unjust, and the people's hearts can be used!" Heavy rewards, heavy awards, heavy money to pay tribute to the twelve martyrs, and give them medals. ”

When the General Staff proposed to incorporate Xu Ping's troops into the system of the Loyal and Righteous Salvation Army of the Military Command, Chiang Kai-shek was even more moved, believing that Bai Chongxi had no view of the door and was a manifestation of his single-mindedness in the War of Resistance, so he immediately summoned Dai Li and Bai Chongxi, talked about the brightness and prospects of the anti-Japanese resistance, and cheered up the other party for himself, and ordered Dai Li to go to Hefei in person, deliver the military flag and various supplementary materials and pension funds, and presided over the establishment of the Loyal and Righteous National Salvation Army in eastern Anhui.

Dai Li was still preparing supplies in Wuhan, and Liu Shiyi had already informed the 21st Group Army of the decision of the General Staff. When he knew that this was armed with the 526 brigade of the 526 brigade and stragglers of other units, and there were only about 600 people in total, he ordered all departments of the 48th Army to transfer all the wounded soldiers and non-staff personnel to the wolf's nest mountain, and increase the number to about 3,000 people. It is better to give them a legal status, and they can also receive a share of the country's salary.

Liao Lei asked the commander of the field military service (intelligence) team of the 21st Group Army to handle this matter, and the commander of this major general was none other than the newly appointed Tang Ruru. Mo Di didn't know that Tang Ruru was in the 21st Group Army, and Tang Ruru knew Mo Di's situation well. In the telegrams exchanged between Tang Ruru and the enemy, Tang Ruru first praised the enemy's action to recover Bengbu, and at the same time expressed his understanding of his combat method of striking and leaving, and then gave a detailed explanation of the current situation of the enemy and us. After the Japanese army occupied Xuzhou, the national army retreated on all fronts, and stopped at the west of the first line of Lanfeng, Guide (Shangqiu), Dangshan, Yongcheng, and Mengcheng, and the Japanese army made the following adjustments for the defense of the Chinese army, the 5th and 10th divisions of the Second Army of the North China Front Army suffered large losses in the early operations, and were stationed on the first line of Xuzhou, Suzhou, and Huaibei, and the 3rd Division of the Central China Front Army assembled near Fuliji, and the 9th Division counterattacked Bengbu to protect the unblocked southern section of the Jinpu line, and the 13th Division advanced to Mengcheng, The 14th Division of Kenji Tohihara of the North China Front and the 16th Division of Nakajima Imasago advanced towards Lanfeng and Guide (Shangqiu). On May 24, that is, yesterday, because the commander of the 28th Army, Gui Yongqing, withdrew from the position, leaving only the 88th Division under his command to hold Lanfeng, the division commander Long Muhan thought that the enemy army was too strong to support himself, so he abandoned the city and fled, and the 14th Division occupied Lanfeng, a strategic place on the Longhai Road, without a fight. According to the 102nd Division of the 8th Army guarding Dangshan, under the onslaught of the Japanese 16th Division, the division commander Bai Huizhang also ordered to abandon the position and flee west. The 16th Division also occupied Dangshan yesterday. On the Longhai Line, the war broke out again, and Xue Yuezheng led more than 200,000 troops to compete with the 14th and 16th divisions of the Japanese army. The Yangtze River line is stable and free of fighting for the time being, and if the Sakai detachment that has entered Hefei can be expelled, the scope of activity will be even greater, and it will be more convenient to deal with the enemy.

Tang Ruru told Mo Di that it had been decided to establish the Eastern Anhui Loyal and Righteous National Salvation Army, which was subordinate to the Investigation and Statistics Bureau of the Military Commission of the National Government, and that the army commander was Xu Ping, the military rank was major general, and other personnel were to be reported and approved by the Eastern Anhui Loyal and Righteous National Salvation Army. Mo Di called back and asked General Tang to come to the 1056 Regiment to guide the work at a suitable time, and Tang Ruru said that he would strive to accompany Director Dai of the Military Command to confer the title and flag on Major General Xu Ping.

After receiving Tang Ruru's telegram, there was a lot of laughter in the command headquarters, and Huang Tian pretended to have a sour face and said to Xu Ping: "General Xu, you are the first one in our group to be equipped with a general star, one level higher than the boss, not to mention that I am really a little hot." Mo Di also laughed and said to Xu Ping: "It's a loss, if you don't accept Zhao'an this time, you will make the movement bigger next time, maybe Yi'an will be a lieutenant general." Gong Qingyuan told the truth: "This kind of major general is not counted, and without the certification of the Quanxu Hall of the Military Commission of the National Government, it is not much different from sealing himself." Jiang Chunyang disagreed with Gong Qingyuan's opinion: "After the Military Commission of the National Government moved to Wuhan, the Quanxu Hall stopped its daily work, and the military ranks above the major general were suspended and adjusted, and the new major generals were even rarer, but it was not nothing, most of them were co-opted. ”

A dazzling telegram made Xu Ping dumbfounded, saying that the army commander is the army commander, and there is really such an oolong thing! Gong Qingyuan served as the colonel's chief of staff, Qin Jishi served as the director of the logistics department of the lieutenant colonel, and Liu Qinglong still couldn't avoid the title of captain, with the rank of major. The vole with a sad face by the water, without knowing it, has become the captain of the major's special brigade. Even Jin Tongxuan, who wanted to live a leisure life in the Eastern Anhui Volunteer Army, was given the rank of major, and his position was the chief of staff of the Eastern Anhui Loyal and Righteous National Salvation Army.

It's just that these majors are now sitting on the edge of the water, all with bitter faces, unable to find a trace of smile, looking for a good place to face the water, burying the dead brothers, and looking around, there are less than thirty people left. With just these few people, how can they complete any of Xu Ping's arrangements tonight, and how can they go to trouble the Japanese again!