Chapter 7: Rivers and Mountains (17)

Rao is how Huang Tianhua negotiated that this banquet ended hastily before Yun Yinglin was drunk.

The division headquarters urgently ordered that the 1056th Regiment and the 526th Brigade Guard Battalion and the Engineer Battalion of the Heavy Battalion set off immediately, and the artillery regiment directly under the 176th Division cooperated with a battalion to reinforce Shipai's Janssen Division. After receiving the order, Mo Di glanced at the map at the dining table, and gestured on the map with his finger, it is about ninety kilometers from Yuexi to Shipai, and it takes twenty hours to march normally. Glancing at the watch on his wrist, it was now half past one o'clock, and it seemed that he had to set off today and travel overnight in order to arrive at Shipai before nightfall tomorrow, and he could rest for a maximum of six to seven hours on the way.

"An hour to prepare, and two and a half o'clock to leave on time." Invincible Command.

All the men immediately stood up, took their positions, and packed up and left.

"Sure enough, it's a strong team!" Yun Yinglin exclaimed: "I won't be here to get in the way of your business, I wish you a successful start and success." ”

After sending Yun Yinglin away, the staff officers summed up the situation to Huang Tianhua, and after careful analysis and deduction, Huang Tianhua already knew the situation of the Qianshan operation.

The attack on the buried mountain began near noon.

The Okamoto Wing was the first to kill Meicheng under the sound of the cannon of the 92nd Infantry Artillery Squadron directly under the wing. The opponent is still Luo Shujia's 199th Division, a pair of old opponents who had fought the day before yesterday, which can be described as an opponent in chess, and it is difficult to solve. The two sides fought for more than two hours, but they were still divided on both sides of the Anhui River, with the Okamoto Wing to the east of the Anhui River and the 199th Division to the west of the Anhui River.

Wang Yuying already knew that although this Aoki Wing had beaten its 571st Brigade all over the ground in Qipanling, it also suffered a big loss, not only losing its artillery, but also not only losing its guns, but also unable to complete its guns. Such a remnant army could not pose a threat to him at all. The day before yesterday in Qipanling, Han Liangyu's 571 Brigade fought a little contemptible, a little ugly, quite embarrassed, and even ran away very badly, losing armor along the way, returning to Yujing, some without hats, some without shoes, and the most hateful, even throwing guns. After Wang Yuying scolded Han Liangyu, he made the logistics fully replenished, and also organized a law enforcement team to supervise the operations of the 571 Brigade. After scolding, the anger was smooth, but it didn't help, and the 571 Brigade, which had no morale, was useless and could only be used as a backup, so Wang Yuying transferred Zeng Shaowen's 572 Brigade to the front line.

Unexpectedly, the treacherous Wang Yuying was fooled again! From 1931 to 1935, he fought a lot of battles with the Red Army in Xiangxi, and wiped out all his capital. After the Red Army's Long March, he returned to his hometown to serve as an administrative inspector. I thought that I would spend this life like this, but I didn't expect the Anti-Japanese War to rise, and at the end of 1937, I turned over and served as the commander of the security division, and then I was incorporated into the 87th Army and went out to Qianshan. This time, Wang Yuying was ready to fight a beautiful battle, he not only unfolded Zeng Shaowen's department in the front and put on a positional battle posture with the Aoki Wing, but also secretly transferred Han Liangyu's department to the side of the Aoki Wing, preparing to carry out a flank attack according to the Seventh Regiment of the Fourth Detachment of the New Fourth Army. Unexpectedly, Han Liangyu's team had not yet been launched, and a strong cavalry team was like a heavenly soldier and a heavenly general from the flank of Zeng Shaowen's 572 Brigade to the position. Zeng Shaowen was so frightened that he fled from the position in a hurry, and the Aoki United, which was replenished with strong firepower, struck a blow and counter-surrounded the outflanked Han Liangyu department, and Han Liangyu's department suddenly became a straggler.

The Aoki Wing and the Koga Cavalry Wing, which defeated Wang Yuying, entered Meicheng like a whirlwind, and the cavalry wing immediately attacked the Luo Shujia Division on the west bank of Wanshui to reinforce the Okamoto Wing who were facing each other in Wanshui. Luo Shujia was really a general, and immediately divided his troops to meet the enemy, suppressed the impact of the Koga cavalry wing with dense firepower, and at the same time defended Wanshui to the death, for a while, the two wings of the Japanese army could not shake the 199 position, and the two sides fought each other.

Yang Sen of the southern front, is the first to shout out the signal for help, after he withdrew from Anqing, he retreated to Shipai, a few days down, treat the wounded, care for the dead, busy chickens and dogs, Shipai is the county site of Huaining County, there is enough food here to feed the remnants of the 27th Group Army, but there is not enough military supplies, the most important thing is that no one told him that at the same time as the Japanese army attacked Meicheng, there was also a Japanese army that would beat the rabbit with grass and beat him. No one told him where this Japanese army came from, what its size was, how many people it had, and what its combat strength was.

When Yang Sen transmitted the news of a Japanese army appearing on the other side of the diving east of Shipai to the General Staff Headquarters in Wuhan, the people in the staff headquarters were taken aback, and Bai Chongxi's first reaction was that the Sixth Division had arrived in Anqing. There is no need for Yang Sen to ask for help, Bai Chongxi also knows that it is impossible to resist the attack of the Sixth Division with Yang Sen alone, even if Xu Yuanquan is not an opponent, if he wants to block the First Division to the east of Qianshan, it must be the main force of the Gui Army.

At the sound of an order, the 526th Brigade of the 176th Division of the 48th Army of the 21st Group Army immediately rushed to Shipai. The attention of the whole of China has also shifted from Anqing to the small place of Qianshan.

Mo Di knew that this march was no longer a leisurely journey from Lu'an to Yuexi, but a real rapid march, so he put the guard battalion and the first battalion in the first echelon, the second echelon was the second battalion, the third battalion and the regimental direct headquarters, and the third echelon was the engineer battalion, the baggage battalion and Lan Shiyun's artillery battalion. Huang Tianhua is still following the first echelon, Mo Di himself stayed in the second echelon, and Jiang Chunyang went to the third echelon. The first echelon should be fast, the second echelon will follow, and the third echelon will follow.

Although the road from Yuexi to Qianshan is a mountain road, it can be repaired quite wide, if it is on foot, some places can also copy some shortcuts, the marching speed is very fast, at night, the front report, has arrived at Tianlong Pass, Huang Tianhua proposed in the walkie-talkie, while you can still see the road, you want to catch up again, try to rush to Slender Niuling overnight.

Mo Enemy knew that the military situation was urgent, and there was no room for delay, so that the second echelon had to rush to Slender Niuling to set up camp, and as for the third echelon, wherever they could go, they were all marching with heavy loads, and their speed and distance would be greatly reduced.

When I arrived at the station, it was already nine o'clock in the evening, and as soon as the antenna of the headquarters was erected, I immediately received a message from Yuexi. The Seventh Army, under the leadership of the commander Zhang Zhen, arrived in Yuexi at noon, and the 31st Army also marched from Lu'an to the direction of Taihu Lake, preparing to establish a second line of defense west of Qianshan, and Qin Lianfang's 84th Army, which had set out from Guilin, had already arrived in Wuhan and was marching in the direction of Huangmei, striving to join the war group as soon as possible. Immediately following the 1056th Regiment, Ma Weixin's brigade headquarters and the 1051st Regiment also set off to open the way, they walked relatively late and slowly, walking less than 20 kilometers in half a day, and it is estimated that it will take the third day to rush to Shipai.

The battle of Qianshan came to an end in the evening, because of the retreat of Wang Yuying's department, Luo Shujia's department was difficult to support alone, and when it was close to evening, the Aoki team that entered Qianshan took over and rectified Qianshan, and then killed Luo Shujia's department again, in the face of the attack of the three wings, Luo Shujia could not maintain a confrontation posture at all, so he could only retreat and retreat to Tianzhu Mountain.

The buried mountain completely fell into the hands of the enemy.

Because Okamoto United occupied the hidden mountain, the Sano United on the southern front breathed a sigh of relief and withdrew from the fight with Janssen while night was approaching. In the past half a day, the Sano United had a very hard time, they fought from North China to East China, and after Jinshanwei landed, they kept entering Nanjing, as if they were in a no-man's land, and they didn't expect that there was such a hard bone in Shipai this place. The two sides fought across the river, Yang Senbu was like a turtle with a shrunken head, sticking to the diving side, no matter how he shot and shot here, he didn't even take his head, as soon as he organized the crossing of the river, he was shot. The sun in the west seemed to have an enmity with the Japanese, and it shone hotly on the Japanese army attacking from the east to the west, in the words of the Japanese soldiers, facing the sun, and the front sights were full of small stars, and the eyes of the shooters covering the east coast were red, and when it was night, they were already a little blind. The sunlight from the west was a nuisance for the Japanese, but it became a helper for Janssen's troops, and every move of the Japanese army was under the sun, and no small movement could escape the eyes of the observers. The soldiers laughed and said that God was helping us. After fighting for a long time, even Anqing's Ushijima Man shook his head, Yang Sen's shameless style of play really makes people feel like a dog bites a pig's urine bubble. Fortunately, Meicheng, where the site of Qianshan County is located, has been occupied, and Ushijima Mantsu ordered the Sano Wing to make a truce, rest in Shipai, and fight again tomorrow morning, and then see who God is helping.

The Qianshan fell, the government and the opposition were shocked, although the Japanese army fought the 87th Division in pieces, but their losses were not small, the next road is not a broad road, but also need to attack a little bit, the 41st Division of the 10th Army Xu Jiwu Division is stationed in Baishuiwan in the northwest of Meicheng, and the 48th Division Ding Zhipan is stationed in the Wangjia archway in the west of the city, the Japanese army also needs to break through the two blockade lines west of the dive, in order to really open the west gate of the Qianshan, therefore, although the Japanese army occupied the Qianshan, but did not dare to act rashly.

"I entered the hidden mountain in one day, I don't know if Japan is too strong or Liu Yinggu's level is too inferior." Mo Di said with a smile.

"I think it's normal, there are two major variables, one is the Koga Cavalry Wing, and the other is the Sano Wing." Huang Tianhua said: "We knew that the Sixth Division had arrived in Anqing, so we were not surprised by the appearance of the troops of the Sixth Division in Qianshan, and others may not be able to be so calm." ”

"What do you think the Japanese army will do next?" Mo Di asked.

"It is inevitable to fight to the west, and tomorrow's breakthrough I think is still Shipai's Sano United, because Xu Jiwu and Ding Zhipan, who are west of Meicheng, have built solid fortifications west of diving after two days of preparation, and it is not easy to open a passage across the river without aircraft and artillery." Huang Tianhua analyzed: "Shipai is different, today after a day's fighting, Yang Sen's fortification advantage has been exhausted, tomorrow as long as the artillery of the hidden mountain is concentrated to focus on Yang Sen, the odds of victory are very high, not to mention, the Japanese army will also take advantage of the weather, the sun in the morning is from east to west, and it is Yang Sen's turn to open his eyes." ”

"How long do you estimate how long Janssen will be able to hold on tomorrow, and whether he can hold until we arrive." Mo Di asked again.

Huang Tianhua shook his head and said, "Only God knows." ”

Oh, yes! There are too many variables about tomorrow, and the sky may not be able to know.