Chapter 10: Anqing (39)

Zhao Guolong waited for half a month, and he waited very anxiously, you must know that the fighter plane is fleeting, and if it is lost, it will not come again, and it will be delayed again and again, and it will be delayed for so long. Zhao Guolong really couldn't understand the thinking of the above, the unprepared Japanese army retreated south in a hurry not to fight, and had to wait for the Japanese army to build a position and all arrangements were made before attacking, Zhao Guolong was depressed, but he had no choice, his opinion was raised, and the next thing was to wait, otherwise, he would smash the sky with a stone. He Xuan first went to Liuzhou for a meeting, and was credited in Liuzhou, so happy that he couldn't find his tail, and when he returned to Lingshan, it was already the end of February. Officers at and above the company level of the 46th Army were summoned to a meeting, at which they celebrated. He really should be happy, he has capital, he is fighting in Guinan, others have to cancel the establishment, demote and reduce his post, and at worst, he is suspended and retained, and he can win a meritorious medal, that is, only a few people, He Xuan is one of them, how can he not be extremely happy.

When Commander He almost vented all his joy, Qin Jing found an opportunity to tell him about going to the Yongqin Line to carry out guerrilla warfare.

However, He Xuan did not dare to be self-conscious, and reported to the Fourth War Zone in Liuzhou first according to the procedure.

After the Liuzhou summary meeting, the East Route Army was canceled, the 26th Group Army under the commander-in-chief Cai Tingkai was also canceled, and the only complete 93rd Division under his command was also stripped off and moved back to Wuming to be established. Ye Zhao's 37th Group Army and 66th Army were all abolished, and all horses were used as supplementary sources to supplement other troops. Through such a withdrawal and replenishment, He Xuan's 46th Army was fully strengthened, and Feng Huang's 175th Division and Qin Jing's new 19th Division were both fully manned.

The Fourth Theater also considered it necessary to conduct guerrilla warfare against the Japanese forces in southern Gyeongnan, so it announced on March 3 that it would launch a spring offensive against the Japanese forces in southern Gyeongnan. The arrangement was as follows: Zhou Zuhuang, the first column of the Gui Army, led the 135th and 170th divisions to be responsible for the defense of the north and west of Nanning City, and Zhou Zuhuang sat in Longan. Wei Yunsong, the second column of the Gui Army, led the 131st and 188th Divisions into the area of Datang and Guitai for guerrilla operations, and at the same time monitored the movements of the 41st Wing of the Japanese Army in Zuojiang. The third column of the Gui Army fought guerrilla operations in the area of Lingshan and Qinzhou, and Deng Longguang's 35th Group Army also fought in this area. The work of confronting the Japanese army at Kunlun Pass was still under the responsibility of Li Yannian's 2nd Army and Gan Lichu's 6th Army.

Spring operations will begin on March 11.

When Zhao Guolong saw the combat report, his face was bitter, this fourth theater likes to fight big battles. Looking at the enemy situation in Guinan, the Japanese 18th Division retreated to Guangdong, but the original division Chang Na Chengyi stayed in Guangxi, and the new 18 th Division was headed by Lieutenant General Hyakutake Haruyoshi, and Lieutenant General Jiu Na Chengyi was appointed commander of the newly formed 22nd Group Army. The 22nd Group Army of the Japanese Army was responsible for operations in Guangxi, and together with the 21st Group Army in Guangdong, it was under the jurisdiction of the South China Front. The 5th Division under the jurisdiction of the 22nd Group Army, the former division commander Imamura was transferred back to the Japanese army base camp to serve as the head of the Education Directorate Headquarters because he insisted on going his own way in the Guinan Operation, which ruined the good situation in Guangdong, and the new division commander was Lieutenant General Nakamura Akito, and the 9th Brigade under the 5th Division, the brigade commander and Major General Kawagen 7 (the 9th and 41st Infantry Wings). 21st Brigade, Brigade Commander Major General Sakata Mototo (21st and 42nd Infantry Wings). Taiwan Brigade, Brigade Commander Major General Shiota Dingqi. The guards mixed brigade, the brigade commander Lieutenant General Sakurada Takeshi. The 22nd Army is directly under the 5th Cavalry Wing. Field artillery wing. There were a number of baggage soldiers and other troops, with a total strength of 40,000 troops.

After passing the battle plan to Mo Di, Mo Di also smiled, this Zhang Fakui, is it possible that he is still dreaming, and he can't eat the more than 40,000 people of the 22nd Group Army in one bite! In a big battle of Kunlun Pass, only 4,000 people from the other side were cleaned up, and these more than 40,000 people were just a little unpalatable. But in the eyes of Mo Di, it is not impossible to take down the 40,000 Japanese troops, but two things must be done, the first is that the offensive in Guangdong cannot be stopped, and the 21st Group Army of Ando Toshiyoshi is pulled in, and they are not allowed to free up their hands to support Guangxi, and the second is to break the whole into zero, divide Nanning and Qinzhou into two ends, and focus on the soft underbelly in the middle, the so-called copper-headed and iron-tailed tofu waist, and the 200-mile transportation line from Qinzhou to Nanning can clean up three or two Japanese squads every day. That's enough, one or two hundred a day, one or two thousand a day, it's just a year's effort, and these 40,000 Japanese troops can all be cleaned up.

But that's not the job of the enemy!

Because he got a new job, this new job is very tricky, the Anhui Provincial Government and the Fifth Theater Command at the same time, let him go on a business trip, go to eastern Anhui, something big happened in eastern Anhui!

Three days ago, Yun Yinglin, who had assumed the post of commander of the Ninth Guerrilla Brigade Major General, sent an urgent telegram from Wuwei: The Fifth Detachment of Luo Binghui of the New Fourth Army and Li Benyi's Tenth Guerrilla Column are fighting in Chuzhou!

After Gao Jingting, the head of the fourth detachment of the New Fourth Army, was executed, the fourth detachment fell apart, Xu Haidong took the original seventh regiment to the ninth regiment to form a new fourth detachment, and Zhou Junming, the head of the eighth regiment who originally belonged to the fourth detachment, and Lin Kai, the political commissar of the eighth regiment, took the eighth regiment to stand by in Feidong.

On July 1, 1939, the fifth detachment was formed. Commander Luo Binghui, Political Commissar Guo Shushen, Deputy Commander Zhou Junming, Chief of Staff Zhao Qimin, Deputy Chief of Staff Feng Wenhua, Director of the Political Department Fang Yi (later Zhang Jinfu), Deputy Director Lin Kai. It has three regiments, the 8th, 10th, and 15th regiments, and a teaching brigade. Zhou Junming's eighth regiment is still the eighth regiment, and Zhou is also the head of the regiment. The Advance Regiment was the 10th Regiment, the head of the regiment was Cheng Jun, and the Advance Regiment, formerly known as the Northeast Anti-Japanese Advance Team in Exile, was an anti-Japanese armed force composed of 80 or 90 anti-Japanese officers and soldiers of the Northeast Army who were separated in the Shanghai Anti-Japanese War, and later expanded to more than 300 people. The Third Guerrilla Column, composed of the Second Brigade of the Jiangbei Guerrilla Column, was organized into 15 weeks, and its commander was Lin Yingjian.

After the establishment of the Fifth Detachment, with the Third Battalion of the Eighth Regiment as the vanguard force, in accordance with the unified deployment of the Central Military Commission, it advanced into the Jinpu Road and entered the Ludong area. The Ludong area is located east of Jinpu Road, west of Gaoyou Lake, south of Huai River and north of Yangtze River. Except for the two county towns of Lai'an and Xuyi, where there was still the Kuomintang regime, the rest of the counties and cities had fallen. After half a year of fighting, it basically gained a foothold in the Ludong area.

In January 1940, the Eighth Regiment and the Suwan Detachment under the Jiangnan Command of the New Fourth Army met in Zhuzhen, Liuhe County. The two troops fought side by side, and successively repelled the puppet army attacked by Liuhe and Tianchang in Qinlan Town, and annihilated their two squadrons; At the junction of Tianchang and Liuhe, Hengshan counterattacked the combined attack of the Japanese puppet army, killing and wounding more than 100 Japanese soldiers, more than 200 puppet soldiers, and capturing 2 Japanese soldiers.

Li Benyi, inspector of the 5th Administrative Region of Anhui Province, commander of the guerrillas in eastern Anhui, and commander of the 10th Guerrilla Column of the Fifth Theater, was happy to see the achievements of the New Fourth Army. His attitude was very simple, as long as the New Fourth Army retreated to the east of Jinpu Road, it was enough not to mobilize the masses to establish an anti-Japanese democratic regime in the west of Jinpu Road under his jurisdiction, and it did not matter if he passed by Luxi occasionally, as long as he did not cause trouble. As for wanting to make trouble, you can go to Xuyi, Jiashan, Yizheng, and the Six-in-One Belt, and make any weird noise, that is also the matter of Han Deqin of the 89th Army. Therefore, for the New Fourth Army coming from afar, Han Deqin of Jiangsu was not particularly welcome. The New Fourth Army is fighting here today and there tomorrow, and everyone has long been accustomed to it, and there is not much difference between the 89th Army in Jiangsu and the Appeasement Army in Nanjing, and if you are not careful, you will mistakenly hit the auxiliary car; therefore, from the beginning of the New Fourth Army's entry into the eastern part of the road, friction between the 89th Army and the New Fourth Army has continued to arise, and after the Chinese New Year, there has been a certain degree of escalation.

Unfortunately, in early March, the New Fourth Army assaulted Chuzhou, which is located west of Jinpu Road.

First of all, Chuzhou belongs to Luxi, secondly, Chuzhou is a Japanese theater of operations, and third, Chuzhou is a key protection area of the 10th Guerrilla Column of Mingguang. The 3rd Battalion of the 8th Regiment that attacked Chuzhou was invincible in the process of advancing eastward, and was praised by Luo Binghui, the commander of the detachment, many times, and forgot the words of Chief of Staff Zhang Yunyi, who had told them more than once that in eastern Anhui, there was a place that must not be touched, and that was Chuzhou. This is because Huang Xinnong, the magistrate of Chuzhou County, is good friends with Xu Ping of the 10th Guerrilla Column, and Shi Huazhai, a wealthy gentleman in the county, is the bride's uncle of Jin Tongxuan, the leader of the 3rd Detachment of the 10th Guerrilla Column.

This time, the third battalion of the Eighth Regiment actually shot Huang Xinong and Shi Huazhai together! This kill, out of the hornet's nest. Jin Tongxuan, commander of the third detachment of the 10th Guerrilla Column, sent a special train from Mingguang to Chuzhou that night, and the train stopped in the middle of the railway at the east gate, and more than 1,000 people jumped from it and concentrated on the third battalion of the Eighth Regiment of the New Fourth Army. Liu Mingshu, deputy commander of the third battalion, also wanted to explain, but was shot dead by Jin Tongxuan without saying a word. The two sides engaged in a hand-to-hand battle, and except for the battalion commander and the third battalion of the Eighth Regiment of the New Fourth Army, who escaped with about 20 people, the others were either killed or wounded. Jin Tongxuan gave an order, and the whole city showed filial piety and wanted to be buried with the wounded New Fourth Army.

When the fifth detachment heard the news, Luo Binghui was furious and led a large group of men and horses to attack Chuzhou, wanting to fight Jin Tongxuan to the death. Jin Tongxuan knew that he was invincible, so he told Mingguang in a hurry. Xu Ping took Liu Qinglong and Tian Zhen to arrive by train, Liu Qinglong had not yet moved, and the fifth detachment was frightened by a poison gas bomb from the special service battalion.

Chief of Staff Zhang Yunyi knew that Xu Ping's move was a poison gas bomb, and knew that this was already a situation of endless death, so he sent a telegram to Li Benyi of Mingguang to ask for an end to the war, and on the other hand, he asked Yun Yinglin, who had done nothing, to report to Anhui Province and the Fifth War Zone.

The reason why the Fifth Detachment of the New Fourth Army has been able to operate in the area west of Jinpu Road is mainly responsible for Yun Yinglin. After Ou Shounian took up the post of commander of the 48th Army, he began to consciously expand his own power, and appointed some depressed colonels of the old 19th Route Army to take up substantive posts in various places under his jurisdiction. At the end of November last year, Yun Yinglin was appointed commander of the Ninth Guerrilla Brigade, with the rank of major general, and concurrently served as commissioner of the Sixth Prefecture. Responsible for the defense of Chaoxian, Wuwei, Hanshan, Hexian and Quanjiao. This area is the key garrison area of the Jiangbei Column of the New Fourth Army. Yun Yinglin and Zhang Yunyi, chief of staff of the New Fourth Army, are fellow villagers, and they basically turn a blind eye to the New Fourth Army's stay in this area. Yun Yinglin not only did not oppose the New Fourth Army's fight against local tyrants and bullies in the region, but also vigorously supported it, and in the eyes of he, the old men of the 19th Route Army, there was nothing wrong with this approach.

Due to Yun Yinglin's inaction, the Eighth Regiment of the New Fourth Army became more and more emboldened, and if he was not careful, he crossed the boundary and got to the boundary of Li Benyi in Chuzhou. Huang Xinong of Chuzhou has a backstage, he had a big quarrel with the people of the third battalion of the Eighth Regiment, and shouted wildly: "If you have the ability, you will collapse me!" As a result, the other party happily satisfied him, and a bullet of seventy-nine caliber entered his forehead and shot through the back of his head, hitting him all over the place. Until he really died, Huang Xinong was not able to accept this fact, his eyes were round, and he didn't bat at death.

Yun Yinglin knew that this time the disaster was big, and told Zhang Yunyi that you had caused leprosy! In the whole of Anhui, who are you messing with, you have to provoke them, if you don't get it right, Xu Ping will fight with you. Zhang Yunyi had long known that Xu Ping was not easy to provoke, so he set Chuzhou as a forbidden area, but the people below did not know the importance of it, so they had to break ground on the tiger's head. This time it's really a disaster! not only broke into Chuzhou, but also provoked Xu Ping. Zhang Yunyi gasped and said to Chen Yi, Deng Zihui and others beside him: "This is a half-army and half-bandit army, the habits of the rivers and lakes are serious, and the official face belongs to the military command, but in fact, it belongs to the Gui family, and the fundamental people belong to them. The reason why we can survive under their noses is because they have never cared about politics, as long as we don't get in their way, we can do as we please, but once we offend them, they will fight us to the end without any scruples. They fight, never thinking about the impact, nor the means, let alone the consequences, all with the aim of killing the other side. We often say that war is a continuation of politics, they are different, their war is a relief, at most it can only be regarded as the result of economic development. We have to find people to calm this tone, and we have to use economic means to settle it. ”

The person you want to find is invincible.