Chapter 9: Behind Enemy Lines (21)

With the execution of Gao Jingting, the New Fourth Army in Anhui was another bloody storm, the original fourth detachment was divided into two, based on the original eighth regiment, the fifth detachment was established, and Zhou Mingjun acted as the head of the detachment, entered the Feidong area, and fought and walked to the west of the road. The rest of the troops were still the fourth detachment, which was temporarily in charge of Dai Jiying, leaving Tongcheng and Lujiang to advance into northern Jiangsu in the direction of Wuwei. In order to eliminate the influence of Gao Jingting, about 2,000 members of the Fourth Detachment and its affiliated personnel were forced to leave the unit, many of whom were veterans who participated in guerrilla warfare in the Dabie Mountains, fought bravely and skillfully, terrified the enemy, and eliminated a large number of enemies.

Gu Shiduo led the Ninth Regiment to leave Huaining and enter Wuwei to carry out guerrilla struggle, all the work teams sent were recovered, and all Huaining County was handed over to Hao Wenbo. When the New Fourth Army withdrew from this area, the reconnaissance company of the 526 Brigade Guard Battalion immediately reported the situation to the enemy, who reported to his superiors and advanced to the area where the fourth detachment of the New Fourth Army was stationed in waves. He was not demanding, and quickly seized these areas, not allowing these areas to form a vacuum and giving the Japanese puppet army an advantage. Mo Di personally led the guard battalion to Qianshan, and Ouyang Jinying of Qianshan quickly rushed to Tongcheng when Mo Di set off, and Zhong Dingnai's camp immediately rushed to Zongyang.

Xu Ping of Mingguang also ordered Liu Qinglong not to entangle with Zhou Mingjun in Feidong anymore, and immediately rushed to Hefei to occupy Feixi. The situation showed that Zhou Mingjun's fifth detachment was just a passer-by, and sooner or later it would leave the area, and it would not clash with them and try to leave the country as courtesy.

Ou Shounian of Lu'an received a telegram from Mo Di, and also ordered the 525th Brigade Qin Zhenyuan and the 1055th Regiment to rush to Shucheng, and Wei Zhigao, deputy of the 1055th Regiment, led his troops into Lujiang. At this point, from Anqing, up to Bengbu, east to Mingguang, and the vast area west of Chaohu Lake are under the actual jurisdiction of the Gui system, Liao Lei, the nominal governor of Anhui Province, finally has a little area, and will not replace a large Anhui with a small Dabie Mountain.

Ren Yuandao, commander of the appeasement army of the new government of the Republic of China in Nanjing, would not give up this opportunity, and his appeasement army was transported by Japanese troop transport to Anqing in an attempt to take the area in one fell swoop. Ren Yuandao, the word Liangcai, the number Huo'an, a native of Yixing County, Jiangsu Province, was a student of the first phase of the Baoding Military Academy, and was the commander of the Pingjin garrison. After the fall of Nanjing and the peril of the nation, Ren Yuandao used his power to collect three gunboats and some officers and soldiers of the Zhenjiang * School, and incorporated some guerrilla troops in Taihu Lake and more than 10,000 stragglers of the Kuomintang, and used this as a team to form an appeasement army, and took refuge in the account of Liang Hongzhi, the puppet government of the Republic of China. After receiving the vigorous support of the Japanese army, the appeasement army developed into 100,000 people in the first army and six divisions, and became the largest military force in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui after the Japanese army. The gap left by the New Fourth Army after leaving Chaoxi also attracted Ren Yuandao, who needed to show his strength in front of Wang Jingwei, who was preparing for the new government, and at the same time wanted to occupy an extra share of Wang Jingwei's new government for the new government, and he would not give up this opportunity.

After the abolition of the Yangtze River Bureau of the Communist Party of China, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, and Fujian set up the Southeast Bureau, and seeing that all sides were ready to move, the leaders in the southeast realized how far-sighted Gao Jingting's plan to nail down the Dabie Mountain was, and only by nailing the New Fourth Army to the Dabie Mountain could the Gui Department not be able to enter the Chaohu Lake Valley, and once the Dabie Mountain was abandoned, the next step was to automatically abandon the entire Anhui. The great reversal of the situation made the Southeast Bureau a little overwhelmed, and immediately reported the situation to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in northern Shaanxi, and the Central Committee knew that Gao Jingting had been shot, and the wood had been completed, so it could only make up for the work, and ordered Xu Haidong to take over the military and management of the fourth detachment, and Luo Binghui to take over the military responsibility of the fifth detachment. In view of the fact that the west of Chaohu has been completely taken by the Gui system, it is advocated that no longer entanglement in the area, but go all out to enter the east of Jinpu Road and open up a new revolutionary base area.

Liao Lei was very relieved to know the retreat of the New Fourth Army, and when he relaxed, he found that the symptoms of all hypertension patients were reflected in himself one by one, headache, nausea, nausea, dizziness, tinnitus, palpitations, shortness of breath, insomnia, nightmares, numbness of limbs, and general weakness, and finally lay down on the hospital bed in Lihuang County.

Li Zongren also knew that Liao Lei's body was no longer capable of such heavy work, and after applying to the Central Military Commission, the establishment of the 11 th Group Army was abolished, merged into the 21 st Group Army, and Liao Lei was removed from the post of commander of the 21 st Group Army, and Li Pinxian was appointed to the post. It has jurisdiction over the Seventh, Forty-eighth and Eighty-fourth Armies.

Qin Lianfang disagreed with Li Pinxian on the issue of the disorderly retreat of the 84th Army at the summary meeting of the Battle of Suizao, and then had a strong quarrel, and was dismissed by Li Pinxian from the post of commander of the 84th Army, and Mo Shujie was the new commander of the 84th Army, leading Zhong Yi's 173rd Division, Zhang Guangwei's 174th Division, and Ling's 189th Division to be stationed in Suixian. Zhang Gan led the 171st Division of the Seventh Army Qi Daozheng and the 172nd Division of Cheng Shufen to be stationed in the mall, Zhang Yichun 48th Army, the military headquarters was in Lihuang, and the divisions and departments were scattered in central and western Anhui, among which Mo Dehong's 138th Division became Lihuang's Imperial Forest Army, and the 176th Division of Ou Shounian was in Lu'an.

In the Battle of Huangmei in the Battle of Wuhan Periphery, the Gui army suffered great losses, and it was too late to replenish, and it participated in the Battle of Suizao, in which the 84th Army once again suffered serious losses, and still did not replenish, and the situation of tight troop resources made the 21st Group Army at a loss. Li Pinxian, commander of the group army, still remembers that at the beginning of spring, the 16th Division of the Japanese army suddenly attacked the 171st Division in Macheng, and the commander of the 1022nd Regiment, Zhou Wenfu, bravely met the attack, repelled the Japanese army, and secured the position, but lost a company of infantry. After the war, Liao Lei, commander-in-chief of the group army, reproached: "At present, it is not easy to replenish the source of soldiers, and we should pay attention to preserving our strength. What are you army commanders and division commanders doing! Is guerrilla warfare fought like this? The division commander Qi Daozheng also severely reprimanded Zhou Wenfu, who was so angry that he committed suicide by swallowing a gun.

Li Pinxian didn't realize that there was a crisis in the source of soldiers at that time, and now that he is in charge, he knows that oil, salt, firewood and rice are indispensable. On the way to the hospital, he thought a lot, and he wanted to discuss with Liao Lei to rectify the current 21 st Group Army, and instead of maintaining a brigade-level establishment that had no effect, it was better to cancel it and directly let the division manage the regiment-level units to fight. A division has three regiments under its jurisdiction, and if there are redundant personnel at the division headquarters, the establishment of one field supplementary regiment under the division can be increased, and if there are surplus personnel at the military headquarters, the establishment of two field supplementary regiments directly under the army can be increased. In this way, the troops are more refined, the orders are more direct, and the command is easier to direct.

"Brother Heling (Li Pinxianzi) is in charge, you don't need to ask me." Liao Lei was lying on the hospital bed and said very sincerely. Liao Lei and Li Pinxian are the same age, both are forty-nine years old, and in terms of months, Liao Lei is still two months older. But in the Baoding Military Academy, Li Pinxian is the first phase Liao Lei is the second phase, so although Liao Lei is older than Li Pinxian and has a higher status than Li Pinxian, he always has a brotherly attitude towards Li Pinxian.

Li Pinxian didn't dare to call himself a senior, and was very polite and thoughtful: "Brother Yan Nong, how many days of quiet recuperation, can you get better?" ”

Liao Lei smiled: "This is a chronic disease, and I am afraid that I will not die for a while." Wealth is in the sky, life and death are up to fate, not by others, and not by me. When Brother Heling came, I was a lot lighter, but I was afraid that my body would also get better. There are only three armies in our department, the battle line is long, and it is more difficult to supply, and it is not easy to hold on to a large piece of land, so there will be Brother Lao Heling next! ”

Li Pinxian did not have so many worries as Liao Lei, but said with confidence: "Now on the Yangtze River, the main force of the Japanese invaders is in the two lakes, Anhui is behind the enemy, our army is small, and the number of Japanese troops is also limited. ”

"Although he is not as good as you, he has more money!" Liao Lei sighed and said: "Wang Jingwei set up a puppet government in Nanjing, the original Nanjing Restoration government, and the Beijing government are all under his name. With his reputation and the financial support of the Japanese, I am afraid that a powerful Wang puppet army will soon appear. In the future, on the land of Anhui, a situation will soon appear: a small group of Japanese troops will lead a regiment of puppet troops to fight against one of our battalions. As a result, the more we fight, the less we fight, the more others fight, the more we fight, the enemy grows and we decline, and in the long run, the advantage is lost. ”

Li Pinxian lowered his head and didn't speak, and only raised his head after a long time and asked, "Brother Yan Nong, what is the best plan?" ”

"I have always admired the CCP, the Tibetan army and the people, the military and the civilian community, in Anhui, we are fighting less and less, but they are fighting more and more, when Gao Jingting came out of Dabie Mountain, there were less than 2,000 people, and in more than a year, it has developed to nearly 5,000 people, and this internal purge, 2,000 people can also be set up in two detachments, the number of people can be seen." Liao Lei said: "Why can they fight bigger and bigger? I couldn't figure it out, and I couldn't find the answer. In the 21st Group Army, there is only the 1056th Regiment of the 176th Division of the 48th Army, and he is the only one who has figured this problem through, he fought from Songhu to southern Anhui, from southern Anhui to Jinpu Road, and then to Dabie Shannan, more and more people fight, divided into a Xu Le, and then a Xu Ping, now a Wu Wannian on the left and a Hao Wenbo on the right, as long as he says to be absorbed, I am afraid that he will cry and shout and squeeze in, what is the reason, I don't have time to figure it out, and then it depends on Brother Heling, I hope Brother Heling can figure it out. ”

Li Pinxian nodded and said: "What Tianzong knows, during the Battle of Songhu, he began to use guerrilla means to kill and injure the enemy to expand himself, and in the south of Jinpu Road, he gave full play to the guerrilla tactics. ”

The two talked very speculatively, and the adaptation plan quickly took shape in the casual conversation between the two, and about an hour, the chief of the medical department, Liu Liu, came in to measure Liao Lei's blood pressure, and Li Pinxian said goodbye and left.

At the beginning of July, the reorganization plan was issued, and the commander of the 176th Division, Ou Shounian, the deputy division commander, Zheng Cangrong, the deputy division commander, Yun Yinglin, the chief of staff, and Tan Heyi, the director of the Political Department, had three regiments under their jurisdiction, Colonel Mo Di, the commander of the 526th Regiment, Colonel Yang Chuangqi, the commander of the 527th Regiment, and Colonel Qin Zhenyuan of the 528th Regiment. Two brigade commanders, Song Shike of the 525th Brigade, were transferred to the Anhui Provincial Government, and Ma Weixin of the 526th Brigade was transferred back to Guangxi to serve as the commander of the Eight-Step Militia District. Through reorganization, the 176th Division formed three full regiments in addition to the troops directly under the division, and the 526th Regiment was still an excess regiment, because it had one more guard battalion compared with other units. Yang Chuangqi was the deputy brigade commander of the 525 Brigade before, and like Mo Di, he took over the post of the commander of the 527 Regiment of the main regiment without any objections, and it was reasonable for Wei Gaozhen of the original 1051 Regiment to be the deputy commander of the 527 Regiment. But Qin Zhenyuan is an accident, he should not have such a good treatment, the earliest appointment of the head of the 528 regiment is Zhou Mengxiong, the chief of staff of the 176th Division, Qin Zhenyuan is his deputy commander, Ou Shounian knows that his chief of staff Yun Yinglin has limited strength, so he left Zhou Mengxiong stubbornly, so that Qin Zhenyuan had the opportunity to temporarily act as the head of the regiment.

The brigade-level establishment was abolished, and the division was obviously much smaller, and the previous 176th Division was a Type B Division, with more than 8,000 people, but this streamlining became a Type C Division, with more than 5,000 people, and the entire 48th Army was less than 20,000 people, which was exactly the same as a division of the Japanese army. At the beginning of the Songhu War, several first-class divisions were large first-class divisions with 28,000 men, and the worst was a second-class division with about 24,000 men. If you kill 10,000 people and lose 3,000 yourself, the invaded country will naturally be devastated, and what advantage can the invaders take advantage of!

War is a game for madmen.