Chapter 7: Rivers and Mountains (14)

Huang Tianhua has a natural affinity for the ranks of the Communist Party, all of which comes from his eldest brother, when he enters adolescence as hungry for knowledge, what comes to his face is the influence of his eldest brother Huang Guangguang, Huang Guangguang as one of the creators of the Zuojiang Red Zone, the head of the Red Seventh Army, is deeply influenced by communist thought, and this influence is also imperceptible to Huang Tianhua. When he was in Huizhou, Huang Tianhua did not deal with the New Fourth Army, nor did he see Zhang Yunyi, he has always been very regretful, and he is very angry. Telling what he knew also gave him a lot of valuable information in exchange for Yang Kezhi. Seeing that Yang Kezhi's subordinates were still dominated by straw sandals, he proposed that a large number of Japanese leather shoes could be captured as equipment, which was much better than straw shoes, and at the same time enthusiastically recommended Japanese backpacks and lunch boxes to Yang Kezhi.

Yang Kezhi watched in surprise as Chen Zhengxin's men took off the clothes and shoes on the corpses of the Japanese soldiers, and sorted and stacked the steel helmets, backpacks, armed lunchboxes, and bayonets one by one, only to know that this group of people could only clean the battlefield more professionally and miniaturily than themselves. Pointing to the mountains of materials, Yang Kezhi politely asked Chen Zhengxin's people to choose first. Chen Zhengxin's men were not polite, and after replenishing the Arisaka bullets lost in this battle, they took the twenty-two guns and shells for themselves, and after that, they never made any more moves, giving things to the New Fourth Army. Cao Yufu, deputy commander and political commissar of the Seventh Regiment of the Fourth Detachment of the New Fourth Army, looked at the mountain of materials and was a little unhappy; they only came with two battalions, more than 700 people, sacrificed more than 100 people, and wounded more than 200 people, and the sacrificed soldiers could be dealt with on the spot, but it was already a great burden to get more than 200 wounded back to the Lujiang base area, and it was even more difficult to get these materials back. If you don't take it back, you're sorry for yourself, the Seventh Regiment is the most powerful unit of the Fourth Detachment, and the Fourth Detachment is the most powerful part of the New Fourth Army, so to speak, the Seventh Regiment is the main force in the main force of the New Fourth Army, even in this position, more than 1,100 people have only more than 600 rifles of various colors and more than 30 machine guns of all nations, which is why only two battalions can be brought out in this sortie. Bringing back these guns and ammunition, his 7th Regiment was immediately reduced to one rifle per man, and the number of ammunition was increased to 50 rounds per person, especially machine guns, and it was no longer a luxury to add an all-Japanese heavy fire platoon to each battalion. Telling Yang Kezhi about the difficulties, Yang Kezhi smiled and said: "First let a company change its clothes, change into Japanese military uniforms, raise the plaster flag of the Japanese army, and be responsible for vigilance." The lightly wounded take care of the seriously wounded, and the others have to get the guns and ammunition back even if they are dragged. ”

Huang Tianhua nodded, disguised as a Japanese soldier, it was a good idea to fly the plaster flag, even if the Japanese plane flew through the sky, it would not bomb indiscriminately, and it could swagger back to Lujiang. This Yang Kezhi can not only fight, but also fight, I don't know which military school he graduated from.

Huang Tianhua shook hands with Yang Kezhi and said goodbye, before leaving, Yang Kezhi told Huang Tianhua not to go to Gaohebu again, as far as they know, after the Japanese army occupied Anqing the day before yesterday, early yesterday morning, the Sixth Division has set off from Wuhu, if nothing else, it will be fully stationed in Anqing today, the Japanese army in this area is no longer two small detachments, but a reorganized standing master regiment, if you rush to march, you will accidentally encounter a large army of the Japanese army.

Huang Tianhua was shocked, this news is very important, it must be reported immediately, the two sides broke up, Huang Tianhua returned to the area of Menghuyan with his troops, and prepared to return to Yuexi along the Anyue Highway.

Luo Weilian temporarily turned into an artillery company, and together with the small artillery platoon, 22 guns and shells were taken away, this place could not stay for a long time, maybe soon Japanese planes would come to the sky, and it would be too late to leave.

Just set up camp at Tiger Rock, Huang Tianhua received a telegram from Mo Enemy, and the Japanese army defeated by Huang Tianhua followed the 571st Brigade to Yujing, and scared the 571st Division that was encamped into the camp, and he didn't even have time to eat cooked rice, so he ran back to Qianshan. The Aoki Wing, which occupied Yoi, was overjoyed and reported the news of the capture of Yoi to the detachment leader Chitaro Sakai. Tokutaro Sakai ordered the Aoki Wing to move south to Koichi and flank the Okamoto Wing, which was attacking the 199th Division.

Luo Shujia, who had a lot of fun fighting with the Koga Wing in Xiaoshi, received the news that the 198th Division had withdrawn from Yujing, and knew that he could not support it alone, so he withdrew from Xiaoshi in a very orderly manner.

Defending Qianshan was the last retreat of the 26th Group Army.

Huang Tianhua looked at the telegram draft in his hand, and said to Chen Zhengxin with a smile: "I don't know how many days the buried mountain can be guarded?" Two days? Three days? ”

"It can't be more than three days." Chen Zhengxin said: "If you listen to the sound of Japanese planes in the sky, if we hadn't been hiding in the woods, we would have been bombed by these planes a long time ago." ”

Huang Tianhua nodded, not long after they walked out of Qipanling, they saw the plane flying from Anqing, fortunately, the road was densely wooded, it was easy to hide, only a few times to avoid the reconnaissance of the Japanese plane, and walked safely to Tiger Rock, only tired to push the 92-type infantry cannon Luo Weilian was sweating and scolding. Anqing was able to send so many planes, which shows that what Yang Kezhi said about Anqing's increase in troops is by no means a lie, even if the Sixth Division cannot all be moved, it is inevitable that some of them will come, and there may be other troops. In the first battle of Qipanling, 22 Type 92 infantry guns were captured, which can be regarded as a big gain, and the artillery battalion of the 526 Brigade is settled, and it seems that Brigade Commander Ma will not be able to eat for a long time.

Yang Kezhi's information is accurate, and as far as intelligence is concerned, the newly established Military Command Bureau has not yet been able to catch up with the Communist Party's intelligence bureau, and this is a fact that even Dai Li has to admit. On June 14, the reason why the Sakai Detachment and the Hatian Detachment stopped attacking for a day was to wait for the Sixth Division to come from Wuhu, collect all the civilian and merchant ships that could be collected, and transport them on the Yangtze River for a day and a night, and finally transport the 36th Brigade of Ushishima to Anqing.

Anqing, which had Ushijima Man, immediately became different, and the Hatian detachment was full of merit, leaving Anqing with the Third Fleet and waiting for replenishment at the Dadu port on the south coast. The arrival of the 36th Brigade heralded the full-scale offensive on the North Yangtze River.

Later today, a military transport plane landed at the Anqing airport, and two Japanese with generals on their shoulders stepped out of the plane, and all the troops from the airport to the garrison of the 36 brigade were placed under martial law. The Sixth Division, the Kumamoto Division in South Kyushu, was one of the 17 standing divisions before the outbreak of World War II, and it was also one of the most tyrannical divisions in Japan. Once they arrived in Anqing, without the supervision of international organizations, the soldiers of the Sixth Division regained their wildness during the Nanjing Massacre, killing people and setting fire to the city of Anqing, burning, killing, lewd, and plundering all kinds of evil. The gendarmerie had already reported the situation to the division headquarters and the military headquarters of the Central China Front, and General Shunroku Hata ordered the commander of the 11th Army, Lieutenant General Okamura Ninji, to take charge of the matter, and he was accompanied by the commander of the Inada Shiro Division.

Knowing the reason why the two chiefs came to Anqing, Ushijima was embarrassed, 51-year-old Ushijima was born in Tokyo. In 1908, he graduated from the 20th Infantry Section of the Army Non-commissioned Officer School with the third place, and graduated from the 28th Army University in 1916.

Okamura Ninji said to Shiro Inada and Mitsuru Ushijima: "The purpose of occupying Anqing is to attack Wuhan, and attacking Wuhan involves the strategy of the empire, and if the situation of Nanjing arises again, then it will be meaningless to capture Wuhan." Moreover, Wuhan will inevitably become the forward base of the Japanese army in Central China in the future, and there will be key departments stationed in it, and even from this point of view, it will not allow for the destruction of Wuhan. Therefore, starting from Anqing, it is necessary to learn how to restrain the troops in order to meet the needs of the future. ”

Shiro Inada and Mitsuru Ushijima stood up straight and said yes.

After sending Okamura Ninji to a hotel and walking out the door, Shiro Inada said to Ushijima: "In the future, we must no longer harm the Chinese in the city, the negative impact is too great, so we should pay more attention." ”

Ushijima was full of understanding, and he believed that the subtext of the head of the rice field division was that in the mountainous and rural areas where there was little influence, it didn't matter.

Anqing finally spent the night without burning, killing, and plundering.

Early the next morning, Shiro Inada and Mitsuru Ushijima came to the hotel to pick up Okamura Ninji and had breakfast together at Mitsuru Ushijima's headquarters. The chef made miso soup, as well as freshly cut fillets of live fish from the Yangtze River, two pieces of sushi, and authentic vegetarian pot stickers, boiled eggs and chicken soup soaked in millet. Let Gangcun Ningci eat with a big heart, and all the previous unhappiness and dissatisfaction were thrown out of the clouds.

When breakfast was about to end, Sakai Tokutaro who had rushed from Takagawabu also arrived, Okamura Ninji was very happy, made an exception and served a bottle of sake, congratulated Sakai Tokutaro, congratulated him on singing all the way from the Lujiang River to the hidden mountain, invincible, and hoped that he would make persistent efforts and make new achievements.

Okamura Ningji is gone, Inada Silang remains, and his Sixth Division will all have to move to Anqing sooner or later, so there is no need for him to walk around. After cleaning up the scraps on the table, he summoned Chief of Staff Shigeta Tokumatsu, Operations Staff Officer Aki Yongli, Intelligence Staff Officer Kiyoji Akagi, and rear staff officer Yoshikawa Genzo to analyze the next step of the operation. Through Sakai Tokutaro's report, I learned that the Aoki Wing, which attacked from Qipanling yesterday, actually suffered a big loss, the artillery brigade lost its artillery, and nearly 300 people died, not counting, and nearly 500 soldiers lost their guns, and if the Aoki Wing could not be replenished, it would no longer have the strength to fight again.

Inada Siyu was shocked, and immediately ordered not to attack for the time being, and the cavalry wing of Koga Kuzo reinforced Yujing's Aoki Wing, and the commander of the 36th Wing of Sano Torota of the 23rd Brigade Regiment attacked Shipai from Anqing to the west, forming a three-way attack, with Aoki United and Koga United in the north, Okamoto United in the middle, and Sano United in the south.