Chapter 12: The Aftermath of War (55)

It is not bad that the 412 regiment sent those fifty people, and it can be seen that after selection, most of the locals are from Shucheng, and a small number are from Lu'an and Huoshan. Because I know that these people are selected to form a reconnaissance company, they are all ordinary in appearance, and according to the introduction, each person has his own unique skills, and as for the level of level, it will not be obvious for a while. What satisfied Gong Qingyuan was that there were two platoon commanders among the fifty people, and they were naturally divided into two units, so they no longer had to worry about management, and their good impression of He Shusheng, the commander of the 412th regiment, suddenly increased a lot. The 414 regiment is relatively troublesome, and it is not easy to select fifty people, none of whom are native to Lujiang, the most are Huoshan nationals, and the soldiers who were directly transferred from the Huoshan Defense Regiment after the Huoshan War in the 27th year of the Republic of China have been soldiers for three years, one by one not only fritters but also treacherous, among which there is no officer, and the highest position is the squad leader. Mo Di thinks that after staying in Lujiang for half a year, he didn't recruit a local soldier, which shows how bad the relationship with the local people is!

The biggest problem of the reconnaissance company is that there is no chief officer and company commander, and there are no professionals, so they rely on this group of rabble to inquire about the news of Lujiang.

Li Benyi thought about it for a long time, and gave his guard captain to Gong Qingyuan to serve as the commander of the reconnaissance company, this company commander is a native of Mingguang, transferred from the guerrilla advance army to the regular army, not only did he not undergo special training, he did not even stay in the military academy, and even walked out of Mingguang for the first time in his life. Seeing this situation, Mo Di knew that it would not work if he didn't make a move, so he asked the confidential officer to send a report to Luo Wei and asked Zhang Shenghu to come over with a reconnaissance company to support, although it was far away to dissolve the fire, there was no way out. The captain of the guard on the side stopped Mo Di, and Mao Sui recommended himself and said: "Tuanzuo, let people come from Yuexi, it will take at least three days to go, and the time is too late, so it's better to help Chief of Staff Gong." ”

"People want professional scouts, can you?" Mo Enemy smiled.

"I've never eaten pork and haven't seen a pig run!" The captain of the guard said with a smile: "The brothers of our field repair regiment usually joke that our guard company is a real ragtag army, the company commander Qin Guosheng has become the director of the political department, and the company deputy Liao Cannon has been promoted to the commander of the artillery company because of his name, and the new company commander Huang Guilin is actually a road builder, and only the company deputy Li Xiaoshen is a real professional, sweeping the floor and cleaning the windows every day, and making the regiment headquarters cleaner than the widow's face." ”

Mo Dou laughed and asked the captain of the guard what he was good at.

The captain of the guard scratched his head, embarrassed to say, he prefers to go up the mountain to fight birds and go down to the river to fish, the reason why he can be selected as the captain of the guard seat is because he has been studying and practicing martial arts in the Taoist Temple of Wudang Mountain since he was a child, and he can know a lot of words, and his martial arts are okay, and he can go up on the high wall.

He is surnamed Sun, called Sun Cheng, a recruit who was added to the 526th Regiment in the spring of last year, a native of Xiangfan, Hubei. At that time, it was the Great War in southern Guangxi, and Guangxi was extremely short of troops, and the Fifth Theater supplemented a group of soldiers from Hubei, Henan, Anhui and other places into the 21st Group Army, and it was at that time that Sun Cheng came to the 526th Regiment stationed in Taihu. During the training of the recruit company, because of his kung fu, he was selected by Luo Weixiang, the commander of the guard battalion at the time, and entered the guard battalion and became a minion in Shi Chong's reconnaissance company. When the Field Supplement Regiment was established in September last year, the guard battalion was greatly adjusted, and a group of top guards were selected to enrich the guard company, and Sun Cheng was among them. After the Battle of Meicheng, he became a squad leader and served as the captain of the Mobi Guard.

Mo Di knew that the current situation of the 138th Division was not optimistic, and once Liu Qinglong's troops had assembled at Maotanchang, they must strive to take the initiative to attack in the shortest possible time, because every day of delay would require an extra day of food. This morning, he received a telegram from Liu Qinglong that the third batch of grain had been shipped from Zhengyang Pass, and three days later, he would personally escort the fourth batch of grain on its way, and it was expected to arrive at Maotanchang in four days. Even if Liu Qinglong's troops gave them two days to renovate after they arrived, they would only have less than ten days, and in these ten days, they must grasp the situation in Lujiang as much as possible, and they must fight a prepared battle, and they must not do it blindly. Time is urgent, the task is arduous, Sun Cheng has experience in training and fighting in a reconnaissance company, although the time is not long, at least he can be regarded as a former professional, for the 138th Division, which has not engaged in reconnaissance work, there is no reconnaissance company engaged in reconnaissance work, with Sun Cheng joining, it is very different.

With Sun Cheng, Mo Di found Li Benyi and said: "Brother Li Guang, in my opinion, I am afraid that your reconnaissance company will not be useful for a while, I have an idea, it is better to get your guard and my guard more than 20 people together, go to Lujiang, and find out the situation in Lujiang first." As for your reconnaissance company, polish it slowly. ”

Li Benyi was sitting in the headquarters smoking a cigarette with his head down, and streams of smoke came out of Li Benyi's mouth, making his head shadowy, and he threw away several cigarette butts and paper cigarette cases under his feet. Fan the cigarette in front of him, Li Benyi asked Mo Di a little heartily: "I originally thought that the 138th Division had thousands of people, and how could I even choose one, but there really wasn't one, which made me angry." But think about it, the 138th Division has always listened to propaganda and listened to the tune, and intelligence work and reconnaissance work have no effect, so it has only reached the point where it is caught blind. Tianzhong, do you think that the two of us guards will be able to accomplish this task? ”

Mo Di nodded, pointed at Sun Cheng and said: "My captain of the guard has followed Shi Zhong in the reconnaissance company before, although he has not been to Lujiang, at least he still understands the reconnaissance routines, this time the reconnaissance of Lujiang only requires mastery of some basic information, and does not require too much detail, I think, he can do it." ”

Li Benyi looked at Sun Cheng with surprise on his face, jumped up, and shouted, "Really! You've been a Scout? ”

Sun Cheng stood up and saluted, and said loudly to Li Benyi: "Report to Chief Li, non-commissioned officer Sun Cheng has been a scout." When he was in Qianshan, he went in and out of Anqing many times to complete reconnaissance missions. ”

"Good, good! That's great! Li Benyi rubbed his hands happily and said to Mo Di: "Tianzhong, you don't need to touch your guards, just lend me Captain Sun, and temporarily serve as the deputy of the reconnaissance company." There are more than 100 people, and they may not lose if they are pulled out to fight, and they will definitely be able to complete the task. Then he turned his head and said to Sun Cheng: "If this mission is completed well, I will ask for credit for you, and I recommend you to participate in the training of the teaching corps of the 21st Group Army of Lihuang, and you will be the platoon commander when you come back." ”

Mo Di shook his head and said to Li Benyi: "Brother Li Guang, don't be afraid to ask a question that offends you, how much trust do you have in this hundred people who are drawn from below?" ”

"Trust?" Li Benyi was dumbfounded, he had never considered this problem, and said hesitantly: "Those of the 412 regiment should be stronger, and those of the 414 regiment should be worse, and it should not be possible to defect to the enemy!" ”

"The loyalty of the reconnaissance unit must be 100 percent, and if there is no absolute trust, it is to send intelligence to the adversary." Mo Di said: "Most of these people are locals, not to mention whether they will throw themselves at the opponent, even if they retreat halfway, it will cause big problems and cause great passivity." ”

Hearing Mo Di's words, even Sun Cheng didn't dare to speak out, he could guarantee that he and the dozen or so guard brothers he brought were absolutely loyal, but he was really not sure about the hundred rabble who were temporarily transferred under him. He knew the importance of trust that Mo Di said, when he first entered the reconnaissance company, he rarely performed tasks alone, basically followed the veterans to complete the tasks, supervised each other, assisted each other, and only after establishing a certain level of trust would he perform the task independently. The purpose of going to Lujiang this time is to understand the defense situation of Wang Zhanlin's regiment, and then carry out an armed strike; if the motive is leaked, the other party will plan and lay a trap, and he will deliver food to the door.

Only then did Li Benyi reconsider Mo Di's proposal, Mo Di had absolute trust in his own guards, and his trust in his own guards was also 100 percent, and the two groups of people together had twenty-six people, and they could barely complete this task. But in this way, the reconnaissance company of the 138th Division will disappear, and as soon as the invincible people leave, they will still be deaf and blind.

Gong Qingyuan, who was listening to their chat, came up with an idea. Li Benyi's guard captain and Mo Enemy's guard captain were respectively the chief and deputy company commanders, and the two platoon commanders from the 412th Regiment and the division headquarters sent a confidential staff officer and a telegraph operator to form the company headquarters. The two platoon commanders from the 412th Regiment each selected twenty-four members from the reconnaissance company to form their own squads. If the detachment acts, it is just divided into two teams, and if it is divided into small groups to carry out tasks, a three-person team is formed by one person from the guard team and one person from each of the two platoon leader squads, with the guard personnel as the team leader. Except for the company and guard personnel, who carried 14 pistols from southern Japan, the others were not armed at all.

Select the rest of the personnel, enter the division guard company, and follow the division headquarters.

Through this operation, the team was trained and the 138th Division was left with usable personnel.

Thinking about Gong Qingyuan's idea, Mo Di couldn't help but sigh, this Gong Qingyuan, who belongs to the fox, is a chief of staff who can grow at any time, the stronger the chief officer, the higher his staff level, and the worse the chief officer, his staff level is relatively low. Li Benyi's choice of him as chief of staff can be said to be a good person.

With the addition of Sun Cheng and other members of the guards, the reconnaissance company of the 138th Division finally had a look, and early the next morning, the reconnaissance company in civilian clothes left Maotanchang and headed for Lujiang. Sun Cheng is really a good hand, he divided his men into 24 groups, a group of three, each group chose a different road, and spent two days to gather in the wild boar recess of Yefu Mountain in the northeast of Lujiang County, and each group must record its own road and choose the best marching route for the large army. After arriving at the wild boar recess, each group went out early and returned late every day to report and summarize all the information in the area of Lujiang Shengqiao Sanhe. In the fastest possible time, a telegram was sent back to the division headquarters in order to work out the combat plan.

With the reconnaissance company, Li Ben and his men finally had eyes and ears, and first clarified the road to march, and the first stop was still Wanfo Lake, where Wei Jiebo was stationed. Departing from Wanfo Lake, spend the night in the soup pond and arrive at Yebu Mountain the next night. Li Benyi sighed and said to Mo Di, after fighting for half a lifetime, the more you fight, the more difficult it becomes! Mo Di told him that in the past, it was easy to fight because the officials were not big enough, but now it is difficult to fight because the officials are getting bigger and bigger. Li Benyi asked how to say this, and Mo Di told him that in the past, he only had to fight, and now he had to not only fight, but also figure out how to fight, which was not only laborious, but also laborious. Li Benyi nodded and said that the most difficult thing was not only to shoot the bullets, but also to get the grain back. Mo Di said, you are at least better than me, your bullets are replenished when you go to the peak, and mine has to find a way to get it back by yourself. Li Benyi was puzzled and asked why? Mo Di told him that more than 70 percent of the guns of the 176th Division Field Supplement Regiment were Japanese-style. Li Benyi let out a long sigh and understood why the soldiers of the 138th Division Field Supplement Regiment did not carry guns most of the time, because there were no bullets, and it was cumbersome to carry guns.

On the fifth day after Sun Cheng left Maotanchang, Zhao Xueliang of Liu Qinglong's regiment arrived at Maotanchang with the second batch of materials and the third batch of materials escorted by Liang Yisheng, but the field supplement regiment of Jiamiao served as a transport unit twice, and it was a bit sad to see the enemy, it seems that the 138th Division has become accustomed to using the field supplement regiment as a heavy soldier.

Following the team sent by Wei Jiebo to carry grain, in addition to leaving Dai Jiajin with the more than 100 remnants of the old 413 Regiment in Maotanchang to wait for Liu Qinglong, the others, including Liu Qinglong's 413 Regiment's team that had arrived, moved to Wanfo Lake. The Wei Jiebo regiment of Wanfo Lake, on the second day after Li Benyi and others arrived, marched into the Lujiang River, first hid in the hilly and mountainous areas around the manger, and when Liu Qinglong arrived at the Lujiang River, the two regiments joined forces to attack Wang Zhanlin.