Chapter 7: Rivers and Mountains (6)

The rectification work of the Sakai detachment in Lujiang was very tragic and painful, and the two reserve army wings and one mountain artillery wing transferred from Wuhu saw the more than 300 people who had escaped from Hefei City, and the corners of their eyes were full of disdain. Major General Tokutaro Sakai ran away all night with mud and water, unkempt and without an image, which was completely unexpected by the new soldiers, and could not even be accepted by the soldiers. They had heard a lot of legends about General Tokutaro Sakai, how invincible he was in Hangzhou Bay, how he killed countless people in Nanjing City, but they couldn't connect with the beggar-like man in front of him. For this reason, the rectification work of the Lujiang River became quite difficult, and it was not until Ushijima Man rushed to the Lujiang River from Wuhu by speedboat along the Misu River into Chaohu Lake that he helped General Sakai stabilize his position and the rectification was carried out smoothly.

When Yuan Doushu told the visitor that there were no prisoners in Hefei and that the dead Japanese soldiers had all been buried in the big grave in the east, two cloudy tears appeared in Sakai's two godless eyes. Yuan Doushu asked the Japanese to take the Japanese to dig up two huge graves, and more than 2,000 corpses with only pocket cloths left were thrown together, emitting the stench of autopsy, but fortunately, the Japanese did not want to move away more than 2,000 stenching corpses, but poured gasoline on them, and let a few strange guys with three side-by-side garden pillar barrels on their backs and a long pipe in their hands, spew out the flames more than ten meters away, igniting the gasoline on the corpses, and soon, the two huge graves became huge fire pits. The strong smell of roast meat overshadowed the stench of corpses.

"What kind of weapon is this?" Gong Qingyuan asked Yuan Doushu's people to ask the Japanese.

"This is the Empire's high-level individual combat weapon, Type 93*." The Japanese proudly said that the temporary sadness on their faces because of the burning of their own kind was suddenly swept away, as if it was not the Japanese who were burning in the fire pit, but the enemies of the empire.

The gasoline from the fire pit and the grease from the corpses burned for a day and a night before it was extinguished, and the Japanese procured more than 2,000 small clay pots locally, each containing a small number of ashes, and it was completely impossible to tell who was who. Fortunately, during this cleaning of the battlefield, Huang Tianhua collected the name tags of the Japanese soldiers and returned them all to the Japanese at one time. After the ashes were taken away, the people of Hefei filled the pit again, and the monks of Mingjiao Temple did a ritual, and the dust returned to the dust, so that the unjust souls quickly returned to the East.

Being able to get back the ashes and name tags of the fallen soldiers, Tokutaro Sakai gained another prestige in his new unit, and gradually, the soldiers began to rally around him, and a certain morale appeared in the Sakai detachment.

"This thing is amazing! Burn a large slice. Gong Qingyuan said: "Find a way to get one back and have a look." ”

"Japanese on dog days! Do your best. Yuan Doushu said with a smile: "This kind of thing, it is estimated that the Japanese also keep it very closely, and it can only be captured on the battlefield, so I will let people just try it." ”

Soon, the relevant information of the 93 type * was brought back, as Yuan Doushu said, this kind of weapon is not much equipped with the Japanese, usually mostly with the drug special forces, strict protection, it is not easy to get it, but some text descriptions can still be obtained, the so-called * is the first weapon used by the French in Verdun in 1917 during the European War, the Japanese developed and entered service in 1933, weighing 25 kg, fuel volume 14 liters, jet range 28 m, jet time 12 seconds. The 93 style is used by individual soldiers, and there is also a 95 style that weighs 88 kilograms and can only be used by three people with the cooperation of three people.

If you can't get the sample back, you have to stop it, but this weapon has been ingrained in Gong Qingyuan's mind.

There was no fighting on the Yangtze River, and more than 50 reconnaissance, combat, and bomber planes of the Third Flying Regiment of the Japanese Army Air Corps were already in place at the Daxiaochang airfield in Nanjing, and the Botian detachment, which was to march on land, also arrived in Wuhu. The Third Fleet of the Chinese Fleet of the Japanese Navy, commanded by Vice Admiral Shiro Kawako, is still assembling in Wuhu, with more than 40 warships, 13 merchant ships, more than 80 motorboats, and hundreds of wooden boats, which is not a small number. The Military Intelligence Department did not know how many eyes were staring at the ships on the river, and when they started, it was the beginning of Anqing.

On the Yellow River, there were frequent wars. After the half-moon battle, the armies in eastern Henan not only did not destroy the 14th Division of the Japanese army, which was advancing alone, but was surrounded by the Japanese army. In order to avoid a decisive battle with the enemy attacking from the west, and to maintain the purpose of moving forward, it was decided to transfer the main force to the area west of the Pinghan line. Song Xilian's army was transferred to Mi County, Hu Zongnan's army (attached to the 36th Division and 109th Division) was transferred to Bishui and Gong County, Li Han's soul army was transferred to Yu County and Jiaxian, Gui Yongqing's army was transferred to Luoyang, Huang Jie's army was transferred to Xiangcheng and Ye County, and Yu Jishi's army was transferred to Miyang. The vast river defense area west of Kaifeng was handed over to Shang Zhen and Sun Tongxuan.

However, seeing the withdrawal of the Chinese army like a stream, leaving a vast open space, the Japanese army in North China could no longer hold back their excitement and took the 14th and 16th divisions as the vanguard to occupy Kaifeng.

At the Wuhan General Staff, the issue of digging up the Yellow River and replacing troops with water has once again been put on the table.

As early as two months earlier, on April 3, 1938, Chen Guofu suggested that the embankment should be broken in Wuzhi, and Chen Guofu mentioned in the proposal: Chairman Jun Jian: Taierzhuang's great victory, the whole country is jubilant, and the future of the Anti-Japanese War may be in a better situation from now on. However, the south bank of the Yellow River is thousands of miles away, and it is quite difficult to defend, and during the flood period, I am afraid that the enemy will attack us by breaking the embankment, and if I can obtain Wuzhi and other counties to defend to the death, I can counterattack the enemy at any time. Near the mouth of the Gaiqin River, the north bank of the Yellow River is low, if the embankment breaks at any point downstream, only the north embankment near the mouth of the Qin River needs to be broken, and all the river water can converge north to Zhanghe and Wei (i.e., the Zhanghe River and the Wei River), then our great danger can be solved, and the enemy will live in a dangerous place......

On 21 April, Yao Cong, deputy director of the General Office of the Military Commission, suggested that the embankments should be broken at Liuzhuang and Zhukou: If the old dangerous places of the Yellow River are east of Kaocheng, such as Liuzhuang in Hebei and Zhukou in Lu Province, if the work of breaking the embankment is carried out immediately, and more willow branches are buried in the lower reaches of the old river, the river will be diverted to the south, and for a time it will cause a flooded area, and although it cannot submerge the enemy troops, it will at least make it difficult for them to move, and the overall situation will inevitably change......

At the same time, Chen Cheng forwarded Wang Ruoqing's suggestion to break the embankment at Heigangkou. It is believed that there are three reasons, 1. I heard that our army broke the Lan mouth and led the Yellow River to flood the Japanese invaders, and its plan was very good. However, the water passes through the Yellow River, and Luxi and northern Jiangsu suffer the most, and eastern Henan only occupies a part, and the military relationship in Henan Province is small. 2. The water level of Chaheigangkou is 30 zhang higher than that of Kaifeng, and there is water on both sides of the embankment, which has always been called a dangerous worker. For example, at the execution port, its main stream goes straight to Kaifeng, passes through Zhuxian Town and Weishi directly through the Bianzhou Highway, and crosses the Bo, Zhe, Zhou, and Luohe highways, and has the most significant relationship with the military...... 3. Kaifeng is the political center of Henan, and it should be destroyed first to avoid causing enemies.

Now that the Japanese army has been overwhelmed, digging or not digging has become the center of the problem. The fall of Kaifeng touched the last nerve, Chiang Kai-shek decided to take action, called Cheng Qian to dig the embankment, and warned him to "break all concerns, resolutely do it, and make full achievements", without any hesitation.

The news immediately reached Tang Ruru's ears, and at the same time, it also reached the ears of Mo Di in Lu'an City.

In Lu'an City, in a small teahouse with good decoration, Tang Ruru was toasting tea with Mo Di, when the secretary handed over the telegram of the central government's decision to dig the Yellow River in Zhaokou to replace the soldiers with water, Tang Ruru smiled bitterly, handed the telegram to Mo Di, and said: "Meat eaters are despicable, what a fucking despicable!" There are only rivers and mountains in his eyes, and there are no people, which is hateful, sad and shameful. ”

Mo Di took the telegram, and after reading it, he was very stunned for a while, and after coming to his senses, he picked up the teacup on the table, drank it all, and said: "Brother Ruru, change the wine." I want to get drunk, and if I don't wake up for three days, I won't see this kind of human tragedy. ”

Tang Ruru saw Mo Di's face, which was already as black as the bottom of a pot, and the light in his eyes was even more flaming, knowing that he had already moved his liver fire, he had already heard about the case of digging the embankment of the Yellow River, but Mo Di had never heard of it, using this way to deal with foreign aggression was the incompetence of the government, the shame of the soldiers, and the pathos of the people. Mo Di is a bloody person, and he has blood flowing in his body, unlike some soldiers, who are completely cold-blooded tools of politics.

Beckoning Xiao Er to serve food and wine, Tang Ruru held Mo Dou's hand and said, "Tianzhong, our ability is too small to return to the sky, so we can only watch such a tragedy happen." ”

Mo Di shook his head and said, "We have a low status, and we can't do nothing, tell Xu Ping and let him return to Wolf's Den Mountain immediately, and prepare with Song Erhu in Bengbu to rescue the victims." ”

Tang Ruru nodded, asked his secretary to go to the 1056th Regiment of the 526th Brigade, handed over Mo Di's telegram draft to Chief of Staff Huang Tianhua, and said to Mo Di: "Let's have a drunk party today, it's best to wake up, the water has receded." Cheers! ”

The two got drunk, and the guards sent them back to their respective barracks, and when they woke up, it was already the next morning. After washing up absent-mindedly, Mo Di found that everything was normal in the barracks, and there was nothing different from usual, Mo Di thought to himself, this shouldn't be! In the history of China, every time the river was diverted, it was a huge disaster, the people lost their place, and there was a famine for thousands of miles, and their own soldiers could not be so indifferent. Mo Di walked to the headquarters and asked Huang Tianhua if anything had happened, Huang Tianhua smiled bitterly and told Mo Di that the Yellow River embankment in Zhaokou ended in failure, there was too much quicksand there, and it was impossible to dig it, and Shang Zhen's troops dug for a whole day, and they couldn't make the slightest progress, so it was best to leave it alone. The Japanese army also had insight into the move of the national army to replace the troops with water, and the troops advancing west no longer advanced on the Kaifeng line, but the first army in North China in Hebei took Zhengzhou directly from the Pinghan line, and now the focus is on whether to bomb the Yellow River Bridge in Zhengzhou to stabilize the Japanese army.

Mo Di is dumb, grandma's, Lao Tzu was drunk for nothing yesterday!