Chapter 9: Behind Enemy Lines (44)

Not long after the departure of the second battalion, Wu Wannian received a second telegram, like a basin of cold water, which alerted him from the joy of merging Tao Taiping. In the telegram, Mo Di told him that this was a great opportunity, and the Japanese puppet army left Huayang Town, just to wipe it out in the field, and then concentrated the 526th Regiment, Hao Wenbo's department and Wu Wannian's department, and launched an active attack on Wangjiang County. On this occasion, not only can we not leave Wangjiang, but also we must play an image and momentum in the battle, and as the actual manager of Wangjiang in the future, we must take responsibility. According to Xu Weiyi, the county magistrate of Wangjiang County, the former Wangjiang Garrison Brigade was assembled in the east of Qingcao Lake and would once again play the banner of the garrison brigade. Wu Wannian immediately understood the reason why Tao Taiping was willing to send troops to fight, this guy was looking for an opportunity to gather the men and horses on the other side of Qingcao Lake!

Wu Wannian was very single, and found Tao Taiping directly, and asked him in the first sentence if he wanted to clean up the old department on the other side of Qingcao Lake. Tao Taiping didn't know how to answer at all, Wu Wannian told him with a very sincere attitude that it was a good thing to be able to concentrate anti-Japanese forces, and it was a good thing to have one more person and one more gun, and if he thought it was necessary, Tao Taiping could sneak into the east of Qingcao Lake with his own guards and personally raise the banner of the Wangjiang Garrison Brigade again. Tao Taiping looked at the bandit in front of him a little incredulously, whether it was true or false, and finally changed his mind, since it had been said, it was better to adapt and leave this place. So he said to Wu Wannian with a very grateful attitude, he immediately got up and went to the east of Qingcao Lake, and in the future, the complete brigade will definitely be respected by the 10th guerrilla brigade. Wu Wannian sent him away with a loyal face, looking at his back, Wu Wannian sneered, and said to the deputy soldiers beside him: "Tell Battalion Commander Zhang to closely monitor Tao Shaoping, if he dares to work and not contribute, let him be a martyr." ”

At the time of sending this telegram, Mo Di had already returned to Qianshan, and the whole line of Qianshan was shrinking, except for Shi Chong's department to set up reconnaissance posts in the Huaining area of Qianshan, Peng Wu's department retreated to Qianshan, and all other troops were all drawn out to reinforce Taihu Lake.

After Mo Di left, Wei Gaozhen became the supreme military commander of Qianshan, and as the closest forward to the Anqingri puppet army, he had a great responsibility. Early in the morning, at the west gate of Meicheng, Wei Gaozhen sent Mo Di to the west, the white dew has passed, there is already a little coolness in the morning and evening, the sun has not yet risen, a faint mist in the fields, faintly, like a fairyland.

Mo Di used to be the deputy brigade commander of the 526 Brigade and Wei Gaozhen's direct commander, although he is no longer a subordinate relationship, Wei Gaozhen has never dared to despise Mo Di, not to mention that Ma Weixin has left, and the previous feelings of the same system have naturally risen. Wei Gaozhen said: "Sir Mo, please rest assured, I will cooperate with Director He's work and not let anyone interfere in Director He's logistics work." He knew that Mo Di valued nothing more than the business of the head of the political department in Qianshan, so the first sentence was to express his position.

"If we can keep the hidden mountain, he will have a business to do, and if we can't keep the hidden mountain, his business will be over. Fortunately, during this time, Taihu's business is also doing well, and our life is not sad. Mo Di said: "After we left Qianshan, you have become the most dangerous area here, what I am most afraid of now is that the Japanese puppet army in Anqing took advantage of our absence to attack Qianshan, you only have one battalion in your hands, and you are not even qualified to fight hard." Fortunately, Liu Jin and Zhang Houde of Huaining will inform us in time and give us a little time, otherwise, we may not know that the Japanese puppet army will hit Meicheng. ”

"After you leave, I will ask our regiment commander for reinforcements, if the regiment sends another battalion to Qianshan, I will be sure to hold Meicheng." Wei Gaozhen said.

"The expectations are not too high, I understand Yang Chuangqi, he is not enterprising enough, he is not enough to keep it, and the overall situation is limited. You are really wronged to be his deputy head of the regiment. Mo Di said: "The 527 Regiment is completely an adaptation of the 1051 Regiment before you, you know how many people you have under your command, and the only full battalion is the Peng Wu Battalion, and the other two battalions, but they are all insufficient troops." The reason why he has not made up for it is that everyone knows that Yang Chuangqi is used to eating empty salaries. In the past, the combat level of the 525 Brigade was average, and it had a lot to do with his hobby. Qin Zhenyuan told me about his jokes, which is simply an old green battalion. ”

Wei Gaozhen smiled, he knew that in this 176th Division, the energy in front of him was greater than that of the division commander and deputy division commander, the 176th Division had three regiments, one regiment commander was Mo Enemy himself, and the other regiment commander was a brother group separated from Mo Enemy Regiment, although the commander of his own regiment was Yang Chuangqi, but most of the brothers listened to him, and the person who was closest to him in the 176th Division seemed to be the one in front of him. To put it mildly, if the person in front of him really doesn't listen to the command of the division commander, the division commander can only smash the sky with a stone.

"He doesn't make up for a battalion, it's still okay for a battalion to draw a company to come over to support!" Wei Gaozhen said.

Mo Di pouted for a moment, pursed his mouth, and said disdainfully: "It's a big deal, and my side is responsible for eating and paying." ”

Wei Gaozhen laughed, if there is such a good thing, I am afraid that Yang Chuangqi will bring all the men and horses of the two battalions over.

After repeatedly emphasizing the importance of the hidden mountain and the importance of intelligence, Mo Di left Meicheng.

At the same time that Mo Di left Meicheng, the Japanese puppet army in Xuqiao was harassed by Wu Wannian's troops for the first time.

Professional work should really be handled by professional people, and if a small harassment is carried out by a thin monkey stone, it will definitely be beautiful, easy, and simple. However, this is not the case at all with Wu Wannian's gang of grass cowards.

The battalion commander Zhang Xicai didn't know what the harassment was, so he pulled the brothers of a battalion away and set up an ambush on the hillside north of Xuqiao.

Tao Shaoping saw that it was wonderful, and fled to the south of Xuqiao with one of his own companies, and retreated in the direction of Bohu, and Zhang Xicai took the other two companies and climbed to Haohanluo.

Qian Kun saw that the opponent was divided, and he was anxious, Tao Shaoping's direction happened to be where his logistics baggage was, it was an important position, and he couldn't afford to lose it, so he ordered a company to go away.

Zhang Xicai saw that Qian Kun was not chasing him, so he also stopped, went around to the tile tomb and waited. There, he hid a red-coated cannon with long hair, and these days he made some wire hoops and made them very solid, and put two liters of fire nitrate in it, a pile of iron sand, and pulled a two-zhang long lead, and only fired one shot, and ran away if he couldn't hit it.

The ambush of a battalion is not trivial, 300 guns, although the accuracy rate is not high, one person can shoot one * five bullets, more or less can hit some targets. After an investigation, two battalions of Qian Kun and a squadron of the Japanese army, in this attack, 52 people were killed and 106 wounded, of which 71 were seriously wounded. The dead had to be buried, the wounded had to be carried, and one person was injured had to be carried by two people, and it was not easy to deal with it clearly, and Qian Kun found that his two battalions, if you count the company that pursued them, almost one battalion had lost the ability to continue fighting.

The little devil will hide, the first gunshot squeezed himself into the gutter on the side of the road, not many deaths, just made his body full of sludge is not very good-looking, Qian Kun recruited his subordinates to discuss for a while, thinking that this kind of harassment is the usual means of the Chinese army, and it will appear later, because in addition to Wu Wannian, there are other local armed forces in this place, counting the casualties of the other party, under the blow of powerful firepower, nearly 100 people were killed and wounded, and the rest of the people and horses were divided into two parts and fled, according to intelligence, Wu Wannian's team has eliminated most of them, and the rest will no longer pose a threat. The current plan is to rush to Taihu Lake as quickly as possible and fight a decisive battle with the noble election, otherwise the night will be long and dreamy.

Tao Shaoping turned around and saw that there were actually chasing soldiers, which scared him out of spirit, and he was too unlucky, and after thinking about it, he understood that his own part was more concentric, advancing and retreating together, unlike Zhang Xicai's soldiers, the sound of artillery together, immediately scattered birds and beasts, in this way, it made people think that they were the main force here and became the object of pursuit. Thinking about this, Tao Shaoping immediately told the people around him to divide into three ways and disperse in three ways in the platoon, and gather in Nenjiazui in the evening. After that, I didn't go back to Gaoling, and went directly to the east of Qingcao Lake.

Seeing Tao Shao's division of troops, the pursuers stopped, not knowing which way to chase, and it didn't look like robbing their own baggage, so they let them go and returned to the big army.

Qian Kun was stuck, it was already noon when he set off again, and it was a busy morning, everyone was in a heavy mood, and digging pits and burying people was never a happy thing.

Finally walked less than a kilometer, only to see a sudden fire on the slope on the left, followed by a loud noise, before Qian Kun on the march could figure out what was going on, the overwhelming iron sand had swept into his team.

Look at it again, it's fun!

This time, the red-coated cannon was like having eyes, and the iron sand was brushed on the Japanese squadron in the middle of the team, and the 180 Japanese soldiers, without exception, were more or less hit into some iron sand, and the deep, bleeding, shallow hits, half of the iron sand was embedded in the flesh, and half of it was exposed, like a natural big black mole. The Japanese soldiers threw away their guns and backpacks one by one, rolling on the ground and screaming, and the sound of the trumpets was so strange that it was unheard of in ordinary times.