Chapter 13 Changing Guards (5)

The pieces of paper that Ling Qianfeng handed over to Li Benyi were telegrams from the Nanjing puppet Wang government to the party headquarters of Lujiang County. Previously, in Wei Jiebo's ambush, the director of the Lujiang County Party Department of the Nanjing puppet Wang government was killed along with Wang Xianlin. However, it was only the director of the county party department who died, but the radio station of the county party department had been staying in Lujiang County, and Ling Qianfeng was a very scheming person, so he asked the radio station to send a report to Nanjing, concealing the death of the director of the county party department, and only saying that the National Revolutionary Army occupied Lujiang, and the county party headquarters retreated to the manger mountain area in the west of Lujiang. The Nanjing side believed it to be true and sent over in detail the military movements of the 116th Division and Shen Xiru's 5th Division and Liu Zuoxin's 6th Division, hoping that the county party headquarters would seize the opportunity and cooperate with the inside and outside to turn the Lujiang River.

No wonder Li Ben couldn't even eat when he saw the telegram, after all, the situation was a bit tricky. The regimental headquarters of the 116th Division of Chaohu sent an infantry wing from Chaoxian County to arrive at Shengqiao this evening, and when the telegram was sent, it had already arrived at the Mawei River to wait for the transition. Heading south from Hefei was the 10th Brigade of Shen Xiru's 5th Division, which was a newly formed brigade, the 2nd Regiment and 8th Battalion, in addition to the 6 infantry battalions, there was also a curved artillery battalion, and an engineer battalion. As for Liu Zuoxin's Sixth Division on the Anqing side, it also sent an 11th Brigade, which was the same as Shen Xiru's 10th Brigade, but the distance was still relatively far.

Since Mo Di agreed to find a car, Li Benyi was happy to enjoy these two hours, but he couldn't drink the wine anymore, after all, it was not Li Benyi's style to go back to the barracks after drinking.

"I have two integrated regiments in Yefu Mountain, almost 3,000 people, and it shouldn't be a big problem to deal with a battalion of Wang Zhanlin and an infantry brigade from Chaoxian." Li Benyi said.

"Since you are confident, what is the hurry, drink two glasses and then talk about it." Mo Di smiled and said, "It's great, I'll send Chief of Staff Gong back in two hours, and I'll report anything to you at any time." ”

"No, I have to go back." Li Benyi said.

"Then let Chief of Staff Gong stay, it's not a group fight, the two of them have to be there." Mo Di said.

Li Benyi thought about it and agreed. A smile flashed on Mo Di's face, but he didn't avoid Gong Qingyuan's eyes, Gong Qingyuan knew that Mo Di, this guy, wanted to stay by himself from the beginning, and as for persuading Li Benyi to drink, it was completely a retreat.

Li Benyi couldn't hold back the eagerness in his heart, saw that the car had been transferred, ate two bowls of rice, peeled a Huangpi Lake hairy crab, and ate a few side dishes, so he called away one by one. Ling Qianfeng and the others sent him outside the door, and then came back to continue drinking.

"Three-way attack, Boss Mo has a strategy to retreat from the enemy?" Gong Qingyuan said a little worriedly: "I just arrived in Lujiang, I am not familiar with the place, I don't occupy the time, I don't occupy the land, I don't occupy the land, I don't feel a little tired." ”

Mo Di smiled, pointed at Ling Qianfeng, and said: "With the ambition of the whole people to resist the war, there is a time, with the county magistrate Ling, there is a geographical advantage, as for the people, that is to change the heart for the heart, if you are good to people, people will be good to you, you are not good to people, others may not necessarily please you, before the 138th Division, the reputation is not good, robbing people of food, cutting off the way of life, and still want to get people, I am afraid that it is wishful thinking." ”

Ling Qianfeng nodded vigorously on the side, he knew that the chief of staff of the 138th Division was newly transferred, and if it was Cui Jian, the old chief of staff of the 138th Division, he would definitely ignore it. This Major General Cui, who has now been promoted to deputy commander of the 138th Division, is really not a son of man, and what he has done is angry and resentful.

"I don't care how you fight, there is only one request, that is, don't burn the flames of war to Lujiang City." Ling Qianfeng said: "Although Wang Xianlin is not very good, he has implemented this one thoroughly, he will fight if he wins, and run if he can't win, even if running is a dead end." In my opinion, the winner is king, as long as it is the winner, entering the Lujiang River, I welcome it. Don't tell me anything about righteousness, I won't do it if I smash all the foundation of the survival of the people of Lujiang for the sake of righteousness. ”

Gong Qingyuan was a little incomprehensible, and wanted to argue with Ling Qianfeng, but when he saw Mo Di shaking his head gently, he suppressed himself, didn't say much, picked up his wine glass, saluted the county magistrate of Ling Ling, and took a sip. The Lujiang mellow wine in the cup is a high-grain wine, and the strength of the wine is not low, Gong Qingyuan swallowed it in one gulp, and his face suddenly became much more ruddy.

Gong Qingyuan didn't understand what Ling Qianfeng meant, but Mo Di understood very much, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression has entered its fourth year, the Chinese war situation is very erosive, the materials are scarce, the people's hearts are scattered, and the tune of the country is everywhere.

"Don't think about the enemy from the south." Mo Di said: "I can guarantee that after the battle is over here, they will not be able to go to Lujiang." Even if you go to Lujiang, you will go back in a slippery way. There is no need to worry about the enemy of the east and the west, Brother Li Guang's tone just now is already in his chest. The only variable is the North Road, I haven't dealt with Shen Xiru's troops, and I don't know the depth. There was a battalion of the 412th Regiment in Sanhe before, and it was impossible to block a brigade with this battalion, even if it was unrealistic to add the geographical advantages of Sanhe, at least one regiment could block one, and if there were two regiments, with the help of Sanhe's geographical advantages, the enemy army could stop at Sanhe. Two regiments are not nothing, the 412th Regiment of Colonel He Shusheng in Shucheng, and the Yan Jun Longye Supplement Regiment of the Old Green Battalion in Lujiangdong. We are not without the strength to fight! ”

"Do you want to use the 176th Division to deal with the enemy from the south?" Gong Qingyuan asked.

Mo Di nodded and said: "Zhou Xiong's 528th Regiment still has the strength to fight, I will report to the military headquarters in a while, transfer the 176th Division Field Supplement Regiment out of Yuexi, with the 528th Regiment and the 176th Division Field Supplement Regiment, Liu Zuoxin's 11th Brigade is not difficult to deal with." ”

"Is it too late to pull out the wild supplement group from Yuexi and transfer it to Tongdong?" Gong Qingyuan was a little worried.

"There is no problem, let the Yuexi Military Station send a car, the Yuexi Transportation Bureau has more than 30 cars, and it can transport all three battalions to Tongcheng at one time, and it will definitely be able to rush to Tongdong Qianqiao south of the Lujiang River before the founding army." When Mo Di said this, he said worriedly: "It's just that in this way, the consumption of gasoline will be large, I don't know how the harvest will be this time, and whether I can get back the cost of sending troops." ”

Hearing Mo Enemy's calculation, Gong Qingyuan couldn't help but laugh, this is the Mo Boss he knows, in Centipede Mountain, in the south of Jinpu Road, Mo Enemy fighting is more like doing business, not caring about the victory or defeat of the battle, but more calculating the amount of pay and gain. At this point, Mo Di is completely different from Li Benyi, Li Benyi is completely a killer, as long as he wins, regardless of the cost, in the next battle of Yefu Mountain, how many people from the 413 regiment and the 414 regiment can survive, Gong Qingyuan does not dare to estimate. While chatting with Gong Qingyuan, Mo Di asked people to send a telegram to the military department, explaining the situation and asking the military department for instructions.

Seeing that Mo Di and Gong Qingyuan were chatting about a bit heavy, the county magistrate Ling had no interest in drinking, after all, the three-sided army pressed the border, which was not a good thing for Lujiang, and it was his hope to be able to resist the enemy outside the country, and interjected: "When I demolished the city wall of Lujiang before, there were some red-coated cannons cast in the city during the former Qing Dynasty Guangxu, I don't know if it can be used, saltpeter * Lujiang is there, if it can be used, it can be transported to Sanhe, and it will be set up across the river, if the enemy forces force to cross the river, this red-clothed cannon will hit a large area, but I am afraid that the power is not small." ”

Mo Enemy listened to the music, the red-coated cannon cast during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, that must be usable, this kind of front-loading smoothbore cannon is heavy, troublesome to load, made of mud fan, trachoma is many, it is very easy to explode, if you want to re-activate, after fixing, you must reduce the amount of filling, although it cannot achieve the firing effect at that time, it is always much stronger than the pine cannon used by the Red Army back then.

The river flowing through the three rivers is a main stream of Wanfo Lake to Chaohu Lake, the water surface is not wide, there is a big difference between artillery defense and non-artillery defense, it is conceivable that when Shen Xiru's troops were halfway crossing, several red-clothed cannons roared, the earth was shaken, and the sky was darkened, even if it was scared, it could scare the puppet army back. Asked Ling Qianfeng how many cannons there are, Ling Qianfeng said that there are about twelve guns that can be used, but they are too heavy, and it is difficult for the carriage to pull up, so it is necessary to bring a small gantry crane to hang the cannon from the carriage, the only advantage is that it is easy to fix, and it is as stable as Mount Tai when it is placed on the ground.

Not long after, the military department's reply arrived, and it was Yang Zanmo, chief of staff, who personally replied, and the telegram completely agreed with Mo Di's opinion, and promised that all the military expenses for the 176th Division's field supplement regiment and the 138th division's field supplement regiment to fight this time would be directly allocated by the military department, and the field supplement regiment would not suffer losses. There are advantages and disadvantages to taking care of the expenses of the wild supplement group, the advantage is that you have lost a burden on it, and the disadvantage is that you can't use it, after all, your mouth is not soft if you don't eat. After Mo Di took office as the director of the staff office of the 48th Army, he had a salary, 235 yuan of legal currency per month, and in the 25th year of the Republic of China, 30 yuan of legal currency can be converted into a tael of gold, two jiao of pork, and more than 200 yuan is really not a small income, but in the 30th year of the Republic of China, the Anti-Japanese War entered the stage of confrontation, and the water content of legal currency was more. None of the field supplement regiments below Luo Wei received any salaries, and military expenses were basically not allocated, so there could be no hard and fast arrangements for their operations. This time, Mo Di used the field supplement regiments of the two divisions as the main force, and if the military headquarters did not take the initiative to assume some responsibilities, they could not be blamed for not contributing to the work below.

"Inform Yan Junlong and let him act as ordered." After Mo Di finished speaking to Gong Qingyuan, he asked a little worriedly: "Do you want to talk to your master first, otherwise, we will overstep." ”

Gong Qingyuan shook his head and said, "Yang Shenzuo's telegram can also be seen by our division, and he will not have an opinion." It was too late for him to be happy that someone could help him worry about the enemy on the North Road. ”

"In this case, time waits for no one, you can exercise the duties of the senator, I and the county magistrate Ling still have half a bottle of wine and half a table of food have not been resolved, so I will not interfere in the affairs of your division." Mo Di said with a smile: "As for the work arrangement of the 176th Division, the Yang Senate of the Military Department is in charge, and I am soft-spoken, but I dare not point fingers at the Shangguan." ”

"You're not pointing fingers? You're completely leading Shangguan away! Ling Qianfeng said: "Mo Tian is imaginative, he uses soldiers like a god, and he has seen it today!" ”

"The county magistrate has won the prize!" Mo Di smiled: "I'm here, I can be regarded as the closest member of the military department, if I don't take the initiative to coordinate, it is a dereliction of duty, Li Benyi is my brother who followed me when I was in the army, and I dare not neglect his affairs." ”

Ling Qianfeng nodded, in his opinion, Mo Di can win a decisive victory thousands of miles away in the middle of the strategy, which is truly reflected in the way of generals, this level, many leaders whose military rank and status are far above Mo Wei may not be able to.

Not long after, Yan Junlong came over with his troops, rented more than 20 trailers in Lujiang City, and pulled the red-clothed cannons and * projectiles to Sanhe.

At night, the Shengqiao in the east was as quiet as a cemetery, and the three rivers in the north did not see any trace of the enemy, but the battle was started on the far south of Baochong Lake, and it was Liu Renkai, the overlord in Caizi Lake, who bore the brunt of Liu Zuoxin's baggage battalion of the 11th Brigade of the 6th Division.