Chapter 7: Rivers and Mountains (5)

From Hefei to Lu'an, more than 80 kilometers, the enemy planned to march for one day, because of Xu Ping's vigorous assistance, belonging to the 18 cars of the Eastern Anhui Loyal Salvation Army, first sent the first battalion of the 1056th Regiment and the engineer battalion of the vanguard to Lu'an, built sheds and prepared camps, purchased materials and arranged food and lodging, and it was not a simple matter to settle all the people. The second and third battalions, the guard battalion, the artillery battalion and the brigade headquarters began to march on foot, and the logistics baggage put the supplies in Hefei for the cars to come back and pull, and the empty pack horses and carts pulled all the backpacks carried by the soldiers, so that the brothers could really enjoy the light load. The artillery battalion seized a large number of 92 artillery parts in Bengbu, and after repairing the remnants of the Japanese army in Hefei, they shared the fruit with Liang Yisheng's platoon, and the 92-type infantry guns of the artillery battalion increased from the previous 40 to 52, all of which were pulled by horses, and the momentum was not weak. After the 18 vehicles put down the vanguard troops, they immediately returned to Hefei and transported the materials left in Hefei by the baggage center and the logistics department to Lu'an. After the baggage logistics were settled, the car was picked up again, first with the guard battalion, the artillery battalion and the brigade headquarters, and finally with the second and third battalions. When the second and third battalions arrived in Lu'an, it was just dinner time. It feels so good to have a car!

Three main battalions, three directly subordinate battalions, plus a brigade headquarters of nearly 1,000 people, and more than 3,000 people arrived in Lu'an, which also shocked Ou Shounian. The total number of the 176th Division in Lu'an is only 3,000 people, which is still the number after supplementation, and the average number of each of the three main regiments is less than 1,000, so it can be regarded as the middle and upper level of the 21st Group Army. Unexpectedly, the total number of the 526 Brigade Headquarters and the 1056 Regiment far exceeded them. The 526 Brigade Headquarters and the 1056 Regiment fought Bengbu and Hefei, and they were still full, which is incredible. Some soldiers pointed at the side, saying that the 1056th Regiment must have lied about the military situation, and it was impossible to win the battle without dying. The second battalion commander Gao Guixuan was furious, and had a big quarrel with the soldiers along the way, laughing so much that He Degui, who was on the same road, fell down, and said to the angry Gao Guixuan, when you kid just came to our regiment, you also said the same, how about it, you know what war is! No one dares to believe our way of playing. Gao Guixuan couldn't help laughing, and said, there is really no place to reason, and we cleaned up 2,000 Japanese troops in one battle, just because we didn't have enough dead ourselves, and it turned out to be a lie about the military situation.

"When the day comes, my heart is settled!" Ou Shounian took Mo Dou's hand and said affectionately: "You have taken the risk of fighting Hefei, I am very worried, it is a Sakai detachment, all veterans of a hundred battles, and if there is a slight accident, it will be a disaster." You fought very well, you fought very well, and the commander said that he would come tomorrow to celebrate the victory of the brothers in person. ”

"This time, it all depends on the vigorous assistance of the Loyal and Righteous Salvation Army in Eastern Anhui, and Major Jin Tongxuan, the chief of staff of the Eastern Anhui Army, is a real talent. When Tokutaro Sakai met him, he didn't cultivate in his previous life. Mo Di said: "In addition, Gong Qingyuan, chief of staff of the Loyal and Righteous National Salvation Army in eastern Anhui, has done a very good job in intelligence work, and he really knows the enemy, and he will not be defeated in a hundred battles." ”

"Oh!" Ou Shounian sighed in surprise. He knows that he is invincible, he always doesn't like to take credit, and he can't wait to give nine points to others if he has a merit, but the problem is that since he only leaves one point, this credit is also amazing. It's just that he rarely praises people like this in ordinary times, and he can be so highly praised in Mo Di's mouth, it seems that these two are really masters.

"Let me introduce, this is Colonel Ma Weixin, the new commander of the 526 Brigade." Ou Shounian pointed to the people around him and said to Mo Di.

Mo Di immediately stood up and saluted, and said: "Mo Di, the deputy commander of the 526 Brigade, led his troops to return to the building, please give instructions to the brigade seat." ”

Ma Weixin returned the salute, stretched out his hand to shake Mo Di, and said, "Deputy Brigade Commander Mo has worked hard!" ”

Mo Di smiled and said: "It's the brothers who work hard, I'm okay, I've been here for almost a year, I feel as if I've gained some weight, and the belt around my waist actually has a hole on it." I just want to eat Guilin-style dishes, and I don't know when it will be our turn to go back to Guangxi to take a break and eat two meals of yellow stewed chicken. ”

Ma Weixin said with a smile: "Tianzong's ambition is indeed not big, but at present, it is not easy to realize, and the Japanese will not let it!" I heard that Wuhu has increased its troops again. ”

The group walked towards the station of the 526 Brigade, and the troops directly under the brigade headquarters, including the logistics office directly under the brigade headquarters and Zhao Guolong's intelligence office, followed the brigade headquarters. However, Li Baicheng's artillery battalion, Wei Zhigao's engineer battalion, Chen Zhengxin's guard battalion, and Zhang Kechang's battalion-level baggage brigade were not at the brigade headquarters, but with the 1056 regiment. The empty pack horse walked from Hefei to Lu'an for a whole day.

Seeing the prosperous scene, Ou Shounian was very excited, the so-called soldiers are strong and strong, because the troops are seriously attritional, during this period of time, there is a large surplus of food and materials allocated above, whenever Yun Yinglin cries and tells him with a sad face, when the division will not be a division, he is also very difficult, at the end of May, from Guangxi with nearly 10,000 people to the 21st Group Army, each division for this 10,000 people, almost did not fight, and finally assigned to the 176th Division There are only 1,000 people, and finally Wei Gaozhen 1051 Regiment and Lu Dailong 1052 Regiment, Qin Zhenyuan, the basic structure of the 1055th regiment of the three regiments has been set up. As soon as the invincible people arrived, they immediately took away more than half of the materials and food in stock, summer clothes, underwear, hats, thin quilts, blankets, and a large amount of food.

Ma Weixin had a wry smile on his face, he knew that he, the brigade commander, was only afraid that it would be a problem in the 526 Brigade, the artillery battalion of the 52-type 92 infantry guns, the engineer battalion equipped with elite soldiers, the guard battalion that could fight well, and the general manager's baggage brigade could only be mobilized through Mo Enemy, and he, the brigade commander, did not recognize it at all, and he did not even live with you. Thinking of this, Ma Weixin couldn't help but admire the little man in front of him, other people's soldiers and horses are fighting less and less, only he is fighting more and more, and the more he fights, the stronger he becomes.

Early the next morning, Liao Lei came to Lu'an, brought a lot of armaments and 3,000 supplementary soldiers, brought back by Xu Ping's eighteen cars, 3,000 supplementary soldiers are very opinionated on the troops assigned to the military command, I didn't expect that it was actually a unit with a car, unexpectedly, eighteen cars could not sit 3,000 people, but it could provide a message, it was more comfortable to go to Hefei. With the addition of these 3,000 people, the Eastern Anhui Loyal and Righteous National Salvation Army can be regarded as fully formed, with 1,600 men in a regiment-level assault brigade, 400 people in a battalion-level artillery battalion, 400 people in a battalion-level engineer battalion, 400 people in a battalion-level guard battalion, 400 people in a battalion-level special brigade, and 600 people in a battalion-level baggage brigade, plus the military headquarters and the logistics center of the combat readiness hospital, as well as Yuan Doushu's Hefei Advance Brigade and Song Erhu's Bengbu Advance Brigade, the total number of the Loyal and Righteous National Salvation Army in eastern Anhui has reached 7,000 people, and Major General Xu Ping deserves his name.

Liao Lei brought a lot of medals to Mo Di, asked Mo Di to distribute them to his subordinates, and brought some Guangxi specialties, so that the soldiers could feel the taste of their hometown after a long absence, and the scene was extremely warm. Sitting together, Liao Lei told Mo Enemy that the current general trend can be described as changing rapidly, early this morning, Tang Ruru got accurate news, the Japanese Botian detachment has set out from Nanjing, and cooperated with the navy to capture Anqing along the Yangtze River west, and the Nanjing Central China Front Army also ordered the Sakai detachment in Lujiang to prepare troops in the fastest time, march from the land, and go south to assist in the attack on Anqing, and a "Anqing Raid Battle" was fully launched.

On the Longhai Line in the north, in order to rescue the encircled Japanese 14th Division, Lieutenant General Umezu Mijiro, commander of the Japanese First Army, assigned the Seya Detachment of the original 10th Division to the 14th Division, and ordered the Japanese troops on the north bank of the Yellow River to form the 4th Brigade to organize a forced crossing through Fengqiu and Guantai to reinforce the 14th Division trapped in the Lanfeng area; At the same time, the 10th Division of the Japanese Army had captured Wuyang and Bozhou, and the 16th Division had advanced to the east of Qixian County to carry out counter-encirclement of the Lanfeng National Army, and the situation was not optimistic.

The internal adjustment of the 21st Group Army was also in full swing, the 173rd Division was transferred back to the 31st Army, the former division commander He Weizhen was appointed deputy commander of the 31st Army, and Zhong Yi, commander of the 414th Brigade of the 138th Division, was appointed as the acting commander of the 173rd Division. The 31st Army has jurisdiction over Su Zuxin's 135th Division, Zhong Yi's 173rd Division, and Zhang Guangwei's 174th Division. The 48th Army still has jurisdiction over the 138th Division of Mo Dehong and the 176th Division of Ou Shounian. The 84th Army of the Gui Army, with Qin Lianfang as its commander, had already marched north, under the jurisdiction of Lin Cixi's 131st Division, Liu Ren's 188th Division, and Ling's 189th Division. At that time, on the Anhui front, there will be four Gui Army divisions, namely the Seventh Army, the 31st Army, the 48th Army, and the 84th Army, with a total of 11 infantry divisions and more than 100,000 people.

Mo Di looked at the impassioned Liao Lei, and thought about it for a while before adding the three thousand new Ding to Xu Ping, if they are all this kind of goods, let alone 100,000, it is 500,000, and it is not an opponent of the Sixth Division. When a strong division goes out to fight, it is replenished once to become a weak brigade, supplemented twice to become a remnant soldier, and replenished three or four times, so you can only do something to clean up the battlefield, and it is difficult to rely on them to fight! Thinking so, he didn't dare to say it in his mouth, with a smile on his face, and nodded frequently.

In the next few days, I held a meeting in the division, went back to the brigade for a meeting, met Wei Gaozhen, the new member of the 526 Brigade and the commander of the 1051 Regiment, ran in with the commander of the Ma brigade, and took the commander of the district division to the artillery battalion engineer battalion guard battalion to inspect and guide the work, the fifty-two 92 infantry guns of the artillery battalion made Ou Shounian gasp, the artillery regiment of the 176th Division has now existed in name only, in the battle with the ninth division of the Japanese army in Baishan, the vitality was greatly damaged, although the artillery regiment was established, in addition to a few mortars, I could no longer find something called artillery, Without artillery, the artillery became an ornament, and it was also scattered and replenished to the infantry regiments, and a 38 rifle was allocated, and the infantry charged into battle with it. Fifty-two guns, a little stronger than the 176th Division Artillery Regiment at its peak, Ou Shounian wanted to say several times that the artillery battalion of the 526 Brigade would be directly upgraded to an artillery regiment, but the words stopped when they reached their mouths, and they were really a little indescribable.

The previous commander of the artillery regiment, and now the combat staff officer of the 176th Division begged Yun Yinglin for a long time with red eyes, Yun Yinglin couldn't help it, and privately pulled Mo Di, embarrassed to say, can the artillery battalion of the 526 Brigade be upgraded to a divisional artillery regiment, but I didn't expect Mo Di to agree, saying: Although the artillery battalion was brought out by himself with one hand and one foot, it is not his own private property, and the military salary and food he received are all provided by the army, there is no problem, and he is transferred. It's just that the use of artillery should be scientific and rational, and let the artillery fight bayonets at every turn, and 52 guns can't withstand several fights.

Yun Yinglin conveyed Mo Enemy's words to the previous head of the artillery regiment and Ou Shounian, and the old regiment commander Li Jingliang did not say a word, and asked to be reappointed as the deputy head of the artillery regiment and asked Li Baicheng to be the commander of the regiment. Ou Shounian was embarrassed and said that Li Jingliang was a colonel, Li Baicheng was a major, the commander of the major, and the deputy of the colonel's regiment, which was a little unreasonable, Li Jingliang lamented: "Master, do you want to demote me to a major to be comfortable!" ”

Yun Yinglin said with a smile: It can't be lowered, but it can still be promoted, and in this Hefei artillery battle, Li Baicheng has made great contributions, and it is also possible to be promoted exceptionally.

Ou Shounian glanced at Mo Di in the distance, and said distressedly: Li Baicheng's upgrade is not troublesome, this is the trouble, the major generals and colonels under his command, he is walking step by step, and he can't even support a regular brigade level, I'm afraid it will not be easy to do.

Yun Yinglin nodded and said, if there is a chance, it is better to find a way to let Tianzong go to the Central Military Academy to participate in supplementary training, talents are rare.