Chapter 13: Changing Guards (6)

Although it was not in Modi's plan, and he did not get the order of the 176th Division, but the meat delivered to his mouth, not taking a bite, is not Liu Renkai's style, the captain of the 176th Division Independent Brigade hiding in the Huanzi Lake, knows how valuable the door-to-door business is, not to mention that it is the 11th Brigade of the Sixth Division of the National People's Republic of China that is delivered to the door, a weak brigade in Liu Renkai's opinion.

The troops reinforced by Anqing are the 11th Brigade of the 6th Division of the Founding Army, which is indeed not strong, a typical patchwork brigade. Because the last troop carrier was defeated by the enemy, the formation of the Sixth Division was seriously delayed. In order to allow the Sixth Division to reach full strength, the headquarters of the Nanjing Founding Army did not hesitate to adopt the method of demolishing the east earthen wall to make up the west wall, drawing part of the troops from northern Jiangsu to encircle the New Fourth Army, and recruiting new strong men in the southern Anhui region, as well as recruiting troops and horses around Nanjing, and finally gathered more than 3,000 people, chartered a merchant ship, and sent it to Anqing overnight. After arriving in Anqing, I found that these 3,000 people could not be described as an army, and those who came from northern Jiangsu were better, these people were about to come from the Northern Jiangsu Security Army, and they were previously subordinates of Li Shouwei of the 89th Army of the National Revolutionary Army. In October last year, Li Shouwei fought with Su Yubu of the New Fourth Army at Huangqiao, startled his mount, fell into a small water tower that was not deep, and died. There is a way that the tree fell and scattered, Li Shouwei died, and his subordinates were also scattered, and a large part of them switched to the founding army in order to survive. This time, he was drawn to Anqing, which can be regarded as joining the army in a different place, and it is also the way to govern the army. It's just that the weapons of these people are a little too poor, the soldiers don't have a 38 rifle, not even a single formal one, and even Hanyang is a minority, most of them are Yuannian-style rifles made in Gongxian. This gun uses round-headed bullets made in Hanyang, but its performance is far inferior to the old four-year model produced by the Hanyang Arsenal, which is longer, heavier, and more inaccurate.

After these people arrived in Anqing, Liu Zuoxin saw at a glance that their combat capability was low, and in order to improve the combat capability of the main force as quickly as possible, he thought of a method that was not a solution, and collected all the 38 types of the Liu Jin Regiment of Gaohebu and Liu Maizai's Regiment of Guanqiaoyi and armed the 11th Brigade. The soldiers of the Gaohebu Garrison Regiment and the Guanqiaoyi Garrison Regiment who had changed their equipment suddenly became a big miscellaneous brand, and the Zhongzhong, which had been placed in the warehouse, officially became the weapon of choice, and the Hanyang-made and Gongxian-made ones were also sent to the soldiers, even so, the guns were still seriously insufficient. In order to keep his brothers from empty-handed, the battalion commander Sun Quan, who was stationed on the chessboard, thought of a way to buy more than 100 Longzhou Kuaili that had long been eliminated from Peng Wu of the 527th Regiment, so that the 7.92 caliber bullets of Longzhou Kuaili would not be reduced to burning sticks.

The 11th Brigade set off under Liu Zuoxin's farewell, each armed with a Type 38 rifle, equipped with a steel helmet and backpack, a new military uniform and a new military cap, and new black cloth shoes under the new leggings. It is a pity that there are no infantry guns, no curved guns, not even grenadiers, and they are considered very pure infantry. The commander of the 11th Brigade is an acquaintance, an old classmate in the Hengyang Tour cadre class, an old man of the 89th Army, and Li Shigui from northern Jiangsu. This person had a bad year last year, and was accidentally seriously injured in the battle with the New Fourth Army at Huangqiao, and almost lost his life. Fortunately, a few loyal subordinates carried him off the battlefield in the face of a hail of bullets, which can be regarded as picking up his life. It's better to be alive than dead, just when he was unconscious, his desperate subordinates voted for the Founding Army, and he also became a member of the Founding Army, and was promoted to one level, and the colonel was promoted to major general. The gun is still the same old gun, and the belt is still the same old belt, but the blue sky and white sun cockade on the top of his head has been changed to a colorful five-pointed star, and Li Shigui has become a legendary traitor.

According to the organizational structure, the 11th Brigade is considered to be fully established, with a total of 4,200 people under the jurisdiction of the puppet 27th Regiment and the 28th Regiment, together with the baggage battalion and administrative and logistical personnel. A force of more than 4,000 people can be described as an absolutely powerful existence on the line from Anqing to Lujiang, and since Zhang Yunyi's Jiangbei Column of the New Fourth Army left, there has not been such a huge military unit in this area. Brigade Commander Li knew this very well, so he thought it was absolutely safe to go to Lujiang. However, he didn't expect that he had only been walking for a day, and before he arrived at Bao Chong, as soon as he set up camp, he met a character who dared to break ground on Tai Sui's head, which was Liu Renkai, who was even more unsuccessful than Mo Dou.

As soon as the 11th Brigade crossed Yangqiao, it fell under the surveillance of Liu Renkai's reconnaissance platoon hiding in Dalongshan, and the two main regiments were one in front of the other, and the brigade headquarters was sandwiched in the middle. Just as the large army walked by and Liu Renkai's people decided to appear, a group of Jianguo troops appeared behind them, and hurriedly retreated to the observation point, and took a closer look, it was the baggage battalion of the 11th Brigade. There are a lot of things pulled by the baggage camp, large boxes and small pieces, and more than 100 trailers. The road from Anqing is not wide, which is suitable for pack horse transportation rather than carts, and some roads need to be simply repaired before carts can pass. The cart, which was walking with difficulty, gradually dragged behind the army, and the distance became farther and farther.

After receiving the news from the scouts, Liu Renkai had already determined that the itinerary of the Jianguo Army would not pass Bao Chong tonight. Bao Chong is a low valley with a narrow entrance and a wide exit, with a gentle valley in the middle and a gentle slope densely forested on either side. The puppet 11th Brigade has not yet arrived, Liu Renkai's people have already arrived here in advance, Liu Renkai's plan is very simple, in the second half of the night, rob the baggage of the founding army, and it is necessary to fight quickly, get away as much as possible if you can get it, and burn it with a fire if you can't get it.

Liu Renkai did not want to capture much material in this battle, the purpose was to get rid of the other party's baggage, and force the other party to transfer materials from Anqing, because it was not easy to fight the idea of following the army's baggage, but it was much easier to get a single baggage, from Anqing to Lujiang, how to go around Huanzi Lake, as long as the 11th Brigade started in Lujiang, this passage was Liu Renkai's financial road.

If you are not afraid of thieves stealing, you are afraid of thieves, Li Shigui this time, let Liu Renkai worry about it.

Everything was in accordance with Liu Renkai's plan, including the 11th Brigade of the Founding Army and Li Shigui, the boss of the 11th Brigade.

The location where the 11th Brigade camped was carefully prepared for them by Liu Renkai, and as soon as they went out from the narrow Caojialou Valley, it was a bright open land, where there was no winter wheat and no tall trees, and near the mountain pass, there was a spring, and the spring came out with a lot of water, flowing into a small stream, which was crystal clear. Anyone with marching experience knows that this is a good camp. Liu Renkai's mind is very lively, he knows that people are selfish, and the first to arrive will definitely occupy a better place, and the later can only stay in the place chosen by others. The best part of this camp is naturally near the spring, and the worst place is at the foot of the mountain to the east, which is next to a pine forest, and the view is very unopen. Sure enough, as Liu Renkai expected, the baggage camp that arrived at the end could only set up camp at the foot of the mountain in the east, and Liu Renkai had already made a hidden trench to go around here from the side of the mountain.

Time passed minute by minute, and the founding army of the People's Republic of China, which had been walking for a day, had already fallen asleep, and in the barracks, only mobile sentinels and bright sentinels shook the flashlights in their hands from time to time, pretending to ask for passwords.

After the moon went down, the foot of the mountain in the east was even darker, the pine forest squeaked under the blowing of the night wind, Liu Renkai sat under the tree, broke a pine, picked the gap between his teeth, the fragrance of pine needles spread from the mouth to the nasal cavity, making people refreshed.

Grab it first or burn it first? Liu Renkai thought about this question for a long time, he might grab some good things first, not to mention anything else, just a few hundred pack horses are enough to make a small fortune, as for the boxes of Arizaka bullets and melons*, they are all bright and shining. However, if you grab first, you may be surprised, and once you alarm the enemy, the opponent will launch a counterattack, and it will be very difficult to get rid of their baggage.

This time the puppet 11th Brigade expedition to Lujiang, each soldier brought three days of dry food, and the subsequent grain and grass supplies were provided by Lujiang and Chao County, and Anqing was not responsible. Therefore, the baggage team is not responsible for transporting grain and grass, and the more than 100 trailers are full of weapons and ammunition. As soon as they arrived at the camp, the baggage team was very simple, unloading the livestock, gathering the carts together, and the cattle were concentrated downwind to feed, after all, more than 100 livestock, the strong smell of feces and urine was not too good.

"Leader, it's better for us to act in two ways." Chen Dingyi, the squadron leader beside him, came up with an idea.

"How's that division?" Liu Ren asked.

"I'll take people to burn the baggage above, and you take people down there to grab pack horses." Chen Dingyi said: "I estimate that so many people, it is unlikely that they want to grab too many weapons and ammunition, but it is more likely to get rid of pack horses, we have no shortage of weapons and ammunition, and we can't sell them at a good price, so it is better to have a market for pack horses." ”

Chen Dingyi is an old revolutionary with great combat experience, forty-three years old, a few years older than Liu Renkai, he is a native of Tongcheng, and he also has an identity, that is, the secretary of the Tongcheng Working Committee of the Communist Party of China. He was well aware of the current situation, his independent brigade was all Japanese-style weapons and had an abundance of ammunition, and there was no need to take risks for the sake of ammunition. Even if some ammunition is captured by chance, it is not easy to sell, but Liu Jin, a Gaohebu who is interested in weapons, will not buy these weapons and ammunition. As for the 138th Division, in Chen Dingyi's opinion, it was a pile of waste, and they would rather wait for the upper peak to allocate weapons with their bare hands, and would never pay their own money to buy Japanese-style equipment in the market. Liu Renkai also agreed with Chen Dingyi's plan, his starting point is not so complicated, it is very simple, the ammunition is heavy, it has to be carried by people, it is a burden, and the pack horse is different, not only can he walk, but he can also travel when he is tired.

The two of them thought for a long time, and divided the people brought out this time into two groups, this operation, because the best starting point was to plan to capture the baggage, and the capture needed to be carried, so the more than 300 combat personnel of the entire brigade were not absent, and all participated. Now that the plan has changed, the personnel seem a little redundant. At the end of the discussion, the soldiers were divided into two routes, Chen Dingyi only left a platoon of about 30 people, and the rest of the men all drove away with Liu Ren.

Waiting, a long wait, until the darkness before dawn appeared, Chen Dingyi decided to do it. At this time, everything was silent, even the things that traveled at night were asleep, and in the military camp in the valley, only a few dead horse lamps also flashed faintly, illuminating the sentry posts huddled in a ball with guns.

As Chen Dingyi's figure moved, more than 30 warriors rushed up, each holding a huge bamboo tube in his hand. Soon, thirty people approached the cart, pulled the plug of the bamboo tube, and poured the liquid inside onto the cart, and suddenly, a strong smell of gasoline permeated.

After a while, the soldiers who threw the bamboo tubes back back, leaving only the last Chen Dingyi, who saw Chen Dingyi stay away from the cart, take a strong bow from his shoulder, set fire to the cotton stained with gasoline in front of the arrow, and shoot it at the cart that was surrounded by a circle.

Suddenly, the fire burned half of the sky.

Just when everyone's attention was attracted by the firelight, Liu Ren opened his hand, and a group of people quietly approached the herd of livestock, untied the animals that were screaming in fright because of the firelight, and walked towards the valley on the side. By the time the baggage camp found that the cattle were missing, Liu Renkai had already disappeared into the dark night.

The ammunition on the cart began to explode, and it flew into the air, like brilliant fireworks, and like flares, illuminating the road under Liu Renkai's feet until they were far away.