Chapter 12: The Aftermath of War (54)

In the evening, a group of soldiers ran from the road to the east, running quickly, quite embarrassed, led by Wei Jiebo, the commander of the 414th Regiment. After receiving a telegram from Chief of Staff Wang Xian, he knew that he was wrong. With a few people, he ran to Maotanchang, scolding himself for being confused all the way, thinking that the 138th Division was Mo Dehong's old yellow calendar, but he didn't know that a new chapter had been opened. Li Benyi he knows, three years ago, he was the commander of the 414 Zhong Yi Brigade, Li Benyi was the commander of the 412 Brigade, the 138th Division at that time can be described as a real heroic division, but the good luck is not long, the two brigade commanders were transferred to other places because of the difference between the combat style and the commander Mo Dehong, the successor brigade commander was Long Yanwu and Guo Shaowen, and the 138th Division was also changed from an offensive division to a defensive division. Zhong Yi died in Hubei, and Li Benyi walked around Anhui and returned to the 138th Division. This person's way of governing the army is known to Wei Jiebo, the winner is king, it is good to defeat everything, and the loser is heinous. Li Benyi is particularly good at using regimental-level units, and this should be related to his long-term tenure as regimental commander, and his operational requirements for the regiment are: first, independence, second, integrity, third, comprehensiveness, and fourth, daring to die. He Shusheng, the commander of the 412th regiment, is an old subordinate of Li Benyi, and he is also a loyal executor of his concept.

"What are you doing at this time?" Seeing Wei Jiebo, who was soaked with stinky sweat and soaked through his clothes, Li Benyi didn't have a good face.

"Come and listen to the commander's reprimand." Uncle Wei had already figured out how to answer this question, but he couldn't answer that he was here for dinner.

"I have nothing to reprimand, if you don't come to carry the food yourself, you can be regarded as giving up. I originally wanted to help you solve a month's worth of food, but it seems that you can only solve it by yourself. Li Ben's face was expressionless.

Wei Jiebo was shocked and hurriedly said: "Sir, please complain, we were wrong, please give us a chance to correct it." Tomorrow the whole regiment will come to Maotan Factory early in the morning to carry grain, and our grain will be enough for one day today. If it weren't for the baggage and even moving some back, there would be no food tomorrow. "A sad face.

Li Benyi waved his hand and asked Cui Jian to take Wei Jiebo down, after all, he was the head of his own regiment, and it would be difficult to get along with him in the future if he said it too badly.

Mo Di didn't want to see how Li Benyi managed his subordinates, for the 138th Division, he was a guest and a sent officer, and there were some things that it was inconvenient for him to be present. For example, this Wei Jiebo is also stupid, instead of sending it to the door today to be scolded, it is better to bring the soldiers directly to carry the grain tomorrow, even if Li Ben is angry again and again, he will not embarrass their head in front of the brothers of the whole regiment. The 413th Regiment of Mo Enemy Jin took a look around the station of Maotanchang, found his residence, put down six people to do sanitation there, set up tents, and walked out towards the old old street with a few other guards.

The 413th Regiment is indeed a shabby station, not only does it have no barracks, but there are not even many tents, most of the soldiers live in the homes of local people, and the grain that was moved in before has no warehouse, and is piled up in the flat land at the entrance of the village. If it rains at this time, the stored grain can sprout.

Li Benyi's temporary residence is an old local ancestral hall, with no doors and windows, dilapidated, with sky light on the top and mud piled on the ground. The 413th Regiment was placed here, which was indeed a temporary station, and it was more clearly a borrowed station, because this place belonged to Lu'an and was the territory of the Seventh Army. Li Benyi's idea was very good before, waiting for Liu Qinglong's people to arrive here, after all, the Danjia Temple can't accommodate so many soldiers and horses, and it is a good choice to put it in the middle of the Danjia Temple and Wanfo Lake. Who knew that when I looked here, I found that it was really mediocre to fight with a map, Maotanchang was so small, so small that people couldn't bear to be stationed, put a group of people in this place, not to mention anything else, just eating and drinking Lazar every day can paralyze this town.

Legend has it that when Zhou Tianzi toured the world, he went to the Diaoyutai area not far from Maotanchang, which can also be said to have a long history. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, here is the battlefield of Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Youliang's two armies competing for the world, because of frequent wars, the people are not able to make a living, the people leave their hometowns, they are displaced everywhere, and the plague is rampant, the land in this area is abandoned in large quantities, and it has become a sparsely populated, thatched desolate place, known as "Maotan Field". After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, it became a military horse farm, and "Maotan Field" was also renamed "Maotanchang" by people. Although the town is not big, it is very stylish, walking in the cobblestone streets, walking in the low and dilapidated alleys, looking at the unique buildings around you, you are very comfortable.

"Master Jun, buy one*?" Someone asked in a whisper on the side, in a consultative tone.

Mo Di turned his eyes from the vault of the small adobe building to the side and back, an old man, dressed in rags, with two bamboo chicken coops beside him, and five or six large steers in the chicken coop.

"How much?" Mo Di thought about it, and there was no food at night, so I bought two and made a tooth sacrifice. Because there was no unified barracks, Li Benyi arranged for Mo Di to live in a private house at the entrance of the village with the guards, the house was a two-entry large tiled house, and the front yard had a large courtyard, and the guards set up tents in the courtyard, and Mo Di was arranged by the master in the ear room. The front yard of the homeowner has a stove room for big things, and it is a large kitchen when it is tidied up, which is very convenient and can be opened, and it will not affect the normal life of the homeowner. It's better to get some side dishes and invite Gong Qingyuan to come over and sit, so as to express your feelings and talk about what has happened in the past two years.

The old man quoted a price, which was very fair, the chicken was scattered on the mountain, very strong, and it was delicious at first glance. Mo Di asked the old man why no one raised chickens in this town, and the old man told him that the local farmers could not farm or herd, and the rations were seriously insufficient, and it was not easy to feed people, let alone livestock. Only the people on the side of the mountain keep the chickens in the wild, and they don't need food, but they grow more slowly.

Mo Di realized that there was a different feeling when he walked on the cobblestone road of the side street before, it turned out that his feet were very clean, unlike other places, where chicken and duck droppings were everywhere and sewage flowed sideways. Let the captain of the guard take the old man to send all the two cages of ducks to the place where he lives and buy them all. For the next few days, I stayed in this place, and I had to rely on these chickens to improve my life.

stewed chicken, bought two catties of wine in the only small grocery store in the town, and asked the guards to invite Gong Qingyuan, and the key explanations could not alarm Li Benyi. Mo Di doesn't know if this place is Li Benyi's military camp, and if it does, Li Benyi usually doesn't drink. Once he was called, he didn't drink it, and he even tired himself to watch the chicken eat dry rice, sad to have food and no wine, and not to make drinking even more hot. Mo Di's implementation of the military order of banning alcohol is much more flexible than Li Benyi, as long as it is not a bad thing, he does not object to drinking in the barracks, on the contrary, he does not advocate drinking outside the barracks, drinking too much in the barracks, directly confinement, drinking too much outside, causing trouble, too many heads and tails.

"I estimate that Brother Li Guang's plan is to start as soon as he gathers Liu Qinglong's entire group here." After the two drank a glass of each other, Mo Di said.

"You mean it's not a good place to stay for long?" Gong Qingyuan asked.

Mo Wei nodded.

Gong Qingyuan disagreed with Mo Di's opinion, saying: "Until we find a better place, this place is not bad." ”

Mo Di smiled and asked, "How long can you stay?" Before the grain from Bengbu is eaten up, if they can't find a place to replenish, can Liu Qinglong's regiment stay here? ”

Gong Qingyuan paused for a moment, smiled too, and said, "I forgot, this place belongs to the Seventh Army. ”

"You've been discussing for a long time this afternoon, so there's nothing you haven't discussed, right?" Mo Di was a little surprised, as the chief of staff, he left as soon as he left, and stayed and left, how could he be so muddy and watery, there was no spectrum at all.

"It is necessary to beat Wang Zhanlin, but I don't understand who will fight and who will be beaten." When Gong Qingyuan said this, he asked rhetorically: "Tianzong, if it is arranged by you, who is suitable to fight Wang Zhanlin?" ”

"Needless to say, it must be Uncle Wei." Mo Di said.

"Past facts have proved that Wei Jiebo can't beat Wang Zhanlin." Gong Qingyuan was a little distressed.

"You're stupid!" Mo Di smiled: "Isn't there still Liu Qinglong?" ”

"You mean that Wei Jiebo and Liu Qinglong will fight Wang Zhanlin together?" Gong Qingyuan asked a question puzzled: "Who is it to fight down?" ”

"Who's it?" Mo Di laughed: "Naturally, it is Li Benyi." ”

When a division fights, it actually divides each other, and before the territory is laid, it begins to liquidate and divide it, which has to go out to do business, and it is no wonder that it does not lose money. One Wei Jiebo can't beat Wang Zhanlin, maybe one Liu Qinglong can't beat Wang Zhanlin, so what about the two combined? First defeat Wang Zhanlin, get Lujiang in hand, solve the problem of raising troops in a regiment, and then, you can march into Wuwei, in the meantime, take one regiment as the main attack, and the other two regiments each draw out one or two battalions, take Wuwei, easily. With three clean counties, purging other forces in the county, and the income to feed the three regiments, it is enough, this kind of account will not be counted! The 176th Division is much wiser, the Yebu Regiment is in Yuexi, Qin Zhenyuan is in Taihu, Yang Chuangqi is in Qianshan, Zhou Mengxiong is in Tongcheng, and even the Eleventh Tour has its own territory, Hao Wenbo is in Shipai, Wu Wannian is in Wangjiang, Pan Juemin is in Susong, and even Liu Renkai has his own sphere of influence. Each unit usually doesn't care about anyone, and they will only get together when something happens.

"Well, as soon as Liu Qinglong arrived, the attack immediately began." Gong Qingyuan kept nodding: "Nowadays, the most important thing is that we don't know enough about the situation in Lujiang. The 138th Division had no reconnaissance troops, and all operational information was subject to the report from the peak. ”

When Mo Di heard this, he was almost stuck in his throat by a mouthful of wine, he still has a reconnaissance company in a field supplement regiment, and the 138th Division can only fight blindly, which is too inferior! This really responds to that sentence, where the peak points to fight, all actions are subject to command, as for why to fight, it is not the reason. Once you don't have the instructions of your superiors, you will become deaf and blind. Taking Lujiang as an example, just knowing where Wang Zhanlin's regiment is in Lujiang, where it is, how the troops are at the mercy of the troops, and how the firepower is arranged, there is a black smear in front of you, and this battle will be lost without fighting.

"That's why I propose today, while all the people of the 414th Regiment gather in Maotanchang tomorrow, select the local soldiers of the 414th Regiment, select 100 of them, and set up a reconnaissance company directly under the division to find out the situation in Lujiang before all Liu Qinglong's regiment arrives." Gong Qingyuan said: "The division agrees with my opinion, but only the 414th Regiment needs to come up with 50 people, and the commander of the 412th Regiment He will be ordered to select 50 people and report to Maotanchang tomorrow." At present, the biggest problem is that there is no suitable commander, and the post of reconnaissance company commander is too professional. I am regretting it, when I came, I begged Xu Ping to give me Tian Zhen, so that there would not be no one who could use it. ”

"Pull it down!" Mo Di smiled: "The vole followed Commissioner Xu Ping as the director of the office, which is a real department level, equivalent to the county and regiment level, to help you be the commander of the reconnaissance company, think beautifully!" "There are quite a few suitable candidates for reconnaissance company commanders there, but unfortunately they can't solve the near fire from far away, so they don't mention this topic.

Gong Qingyuan smiled, but no, this temple is really a little too small.

At this time, the door was pushed open, and Li Benyi walked in from the outside with a black face, and snorted coldly: "Two people secretly kill chickens and drink, and they don't call me." ”

Gong Qingyuan didn't dare to make a sound, Mo Di replied with a smile: "At first, I wanted to call here, but then I thought about it, forget it, you don't drink in the barracks, and you will sit when you are called." ”

"Who said I would sit dry, this is the 413th Regiment, not the 138th Division, not my barracks." As soon as Li Ben said this, he couldn't help laughing.

Say it early! Mo Di laughed, it turned out that Major General Li also had flexible times, and it seemed that he had been in Mingguang for two years and had made great progress.