Chapter 4: Turning to War (2)

Xu Ping and his spy company were sent to Tashan by Qin Jishi's car early in the morning, where they hid and waited for the Japanese army to pass by.

In order to strengthen communications, Xu Ping not only brought a radio station, but also a Japanese walkie-talkie, and made a relay in Panjiawan, so that the news could be transmitted to Anji at the fastest speed through the walkie-talkie. Mo Di once heard the instructor introduce this thing, and also saw the radio machine produced by the Jinling Radio Factory equipped by the national army, and knew that as soon as this thing spoke, as long as it could be received in the same frequency band, it could be heard, in order to prevent the Japanese from understanding, he found ten local dialect speakers in Baishou countryside to serve as newspaper operators, and reported to each other in local dialect, not to mention that the Japanese could not understand it, even Xu Ping Mo Di could not understand it.

Xu Ping thought that the Japanese army would come very early, but he waited and waited until after noon, when the Japanese vanguard arrived at Tashan, 30 tanks, 12 armored cars, followed by a large group of Japanese infantry, heavy machine guns, crooked handles, 38 large covers, and large forehand guns, shining in the sun. The Chinese army is pulling nine rubber-wheeled field guns on pack horses, and each cannon is actually pulled by three horses side by side, which shows that the weight is not light. In addition, there are a large number of mules and horses and command personnel, Xu Ping knows that there is Major General Yamashita Chongwu, the brigade commander of the 23rd Brigade. Finally, there is the infantry unit of Oshio.

"Company commander, the number is wrong!" The person in charge of observation reported to Xu Ping.

"What's wrong?" Xu Ping asked: This is a complete brigade with two infantry wings under its jurisdiction, and there should be more than 5,000 people. In addition, there was a field artillery squadron, and a field artillery wing of the Japanese army had four brigades, each of which had nine field guns. Tank troops, also called tank units, three brigades in one wing, three squadrons in one brigade, ten Type 94 tanks in one squadron, and four vehicles carrying supplies, aren't they all here?

"There are not enough infantrymen." The observer said: "The four of us counted separately, and the number of people counted was not 5,000, but less than 4,000, more than 3,800. ”

Xu Ping smiled, he really let the boss guess correctly, the losses caused by the Japanese army in Wuxing have not been replenished. It seems that this time the Japanese will also spearhead with artillery and tanks.

Send the news back to Angie immediately.

Mo Di, who was dragged by Ling Zhuxi to sit at the headquarters of the brigade headquarters, said to Ling Qianxi with a smile: "I'm afraid that this battle, we will have to work hard again." ”

"What's wrong?" Ling asked Xi.

"The Japanese army occupied Si'an, and our cars could no longer get out, and even if they grabbed something, they could only carry it back." Mo Di said.

"Carry it, I told the district division commander to let the 525 Brigade help us be this porter." Ling Qianxi said: "Don't you know, the logistics supply is insufficient, and some soldiers of the 525th Brigade of our division are still wearing straw sandals, and the straw sandals are wrapped in cloth to wrap their feet, like old ladies with small feet. As long as they can be given a pair of Japanese shoes, they can do anything. ”

Only then did Mo Die remember that the person in front of him was not only the brigade commander of the 526 Brigade, but also the deputy commander of the 176 Division.

The phone called, and in the evening, the division commander Ou Shounian came to Anji with Qiu Qingying, the commander of the 525 Brigade, and more than 1,000 people from the two regiments under Qiu Qingying, and as soon as he entered the 526 Brigade Headquarters, he heard Ou Shounian say to Ling Qianxi in Cantonese: "I heard that you can't finish the horse meat and donkey meat here, so let's help reimburse some." ”

Mo Di hurriedly stood up and saluted the two chiefs, standing aside, Mo Di is small, as long as he puts himself in an unnoticeable corner, it is easy to be ignored. Ou Shounian will not ignore the invincible this time, and he pulled it over and replaced it with the official dialect of Guangxi: "Tianzong has won a big battle this time, and I heard that he has also brought back a lot of good things, can you solve the shoes of the brothers of the 525 Brigade." ”

"There are still some stocks, maybe not enough, and I will ask Qin Jishi to count them, how many will be given first, and there will be some cotton clothes and quilts, all of which will be handed over to the 525 Brigade and let them adjust it themselves. It's not enough, it is estimated that after this battle, there will be. Mo Di said: "It's just that I have to work hard, brothers, and I have to move back by myself, and the journey is a bit far." ”

"There's no problem, as long as we have to move, we can go as far as we want." Qiu Qingying shouted loudly.

Mo Di glanced at him, this thirty-year-old and sven-looking, he didn't expect that he would be willing to do the work of picking the man's feet. In fact, without the 525 Brigade, the 526 Brigade can get these things back, but Mo Enemy thinks that this kind of heavy thing, it is best not to let your soldiers do it, the war horse is the war horse, the pack horse is the pack horse, you have to treat the war horse as a pack horse, after a long time, the war horse will not be able to go to the battlefield.

That night, the news of Xu Ping came back again, and the Japanese army occupied Si'an in more than an hour, and the Sichuan army retreated to Guangde.

Si'an is a small city, there is no danger to defend, and there is no city to rely on, the Japanese field artillery pushed onto the front line, and fired a few shots at the fortifications of the Sichuan army with the barrel, and immediately stirred the Sichuan army out of the trenches, and under the destruction of the chariots, the Sichuan army was defeated.

Xu Ping witnessed the whole process, and also asked the operator to transmit the truth back to the headquarters, Ou Shounian knew for the first time that the news could be obtained in this way, and only then did he know that there were troops that were more vulnerable than the Gui army.

Mo Di said: "In the past, the war was an inch long and an inch strong, Zhao Yun's white wax pole was one zhang and two, Zhang Fei's snake spear was one zhang and eight, and now in the war, it is even more important to pay attention to the mutual restraint of the troops, the infantry encountered the tank, that is, the dog bites the pig urine bubble, there is no way to eat, our Seventh Army is like this in Wuxing, and the Sichuan Army is the same in Si'an. ”

"Then how did you get rid of two Japanese tanks in Tower Hill?" Ou Shounian asked.

"I was preparing for a day, digging a trench, so tired that the engineer company was half dead, and then I got into it, or hit the Japanese unguarded to be effective, if we are allowed to attack with such a strong firepower of the Japanese, it is estimated that we are not as good as the Sichuan army." Mo Di said.

"That's right! Being able to know the other is the way to victory. A majestic voice came from outside the door.

Ou Shounian and the others who were gathered around the map looked up, and two people walked in from outside the door, and hurriedly stood up and saluted, these two were Li Pinxian, the commander of the 21st Group Army, and Wei Yunsong, the commander of the 48th Army.

Mo Di is still an old habit, hiding himself behind other people, and Ou Shounian and Ling Zhuxi follow the people to socialize, who knows that Li Pinxian did not let him go, and pulled him out from behind Ou Shounian. Li Pinxian said with a smile: "The commander of the 1056 regiment is invincible to Mo Tianzong, and it is not a good habit to always hide behind others. ”

Mo Di sneered and said, "The commander's light is too strong, and in front of the commander's light, his subordinates can only choose to hide." ”

Li Pinxian laughed, took out a Yunlu medal from his body, and said, "It's not me who shines brightly, it's Tianzhong." This is the Yunlu Medal, the center is the apricot yellow flag standing in the clouds, surrounded by light, symbolizing the winner of this medal, commanding the battle, the counselor of the machine, the merit of the clouds, the light of honor is shining. Because of the Battle of Tashan, the Military Commission awarded a medal to Mo Enemy Yunlu as a source of encouragement. ”

The crowd applauded.

Wei Yunsong walked in front of Mo Enemy and said: "Tianzong, this battle of Tashan was originally a small victory, and you can't get the Yunlu Medal according to the regulations, but the Military Commission believes that on the southern line of Taihu Lake, several battles have been lost, and only Tianzong has a competitive merit, so it is particularly rare, and it is awarded for an exception." Tianzhong, listening to what you said before, as long as there is enough time to prepare, there must be a way to deal with the Japanese tanks. ”

Mo Di nodded and said, "Tanks are dead, people are alive, and people always come up with solutions." The Sichuan Army had the same idea as the 170th and 172nd Divisions of the Seventh Army, and still used the same way to fight Sun Chuanfang to fight the Japanese, a bit like the Boxer Boxer against the foreign guns and foreign artillery of the Eight-Nation Alliance. If you knew the time and strength of the Japanese army, why not dig some trenches outside the city of Si'an and trap a few tanks into it, the battle would have been much easier. We had a brigade of Japanese troops in Tashan, and we felt that the Japanese army, without tanks and artillery, was not much different from us. ”

Li Pinxian sighed and said, "It's a pity that the Japanese army not only has more tanks and artillery than us, but also aircraft and warships. ”

"Airplanes can't get off the ground, warships can't go ashore, and what really competes with us on the ground are tanks and artillery. The problem is that if we can't find a way to deal with tank artillery, we are afraid that it will not be easy to defeat the Japanese. Ou Shounian's words are a bit pessimistic.

"What's the best way to do it?" Li Pinxian asked.

There is a solution, that is, to reduce the Japanese tanks to zero, the number of tanks of the Japanese army is limited, and the current tank configuration of a division is only a wing of 90 tanks. However, China's land is very vast, if we get out of the way and let the enemy go deeper, first, it will be reduced to zero, and second, it will increase the logistical pressure of the other side, as long as we use the method of the Battle of Tashan to get rid of some of Japan's lone tanks every day, and soon, the Japanese army will become a pure infantry without tanks, and in the face of the national army that is not afraid of death, Japan's pure infantry does not have much advantage. However, this kind of argument of abandoning the national territory is strictly forbidden, and the Nationalist Government and the Military Commission are not allowed to do so.

Seeing that Mo Di didn't answer, Wei Yunsong thought that he couldn't find a good way, so he didn't ask anymore.

Braised horse meat, donkey meat in sauce, stir-fried mule meat, and then killed a pig, the pork bones were boiled into old soup, and the hot pot was opened, and the pork liver powder and intestines were hot, which made Li Pinxian a mess, chewing fat meat in his mouth, shaking his head and shaking his head for a while, which made people laugh. Mo Di then remembered that this commander was really a civil and military character, and before graduating from Baoding Military Academy, he also participated in the imperial examination of the Qing Dynasty in his hometown of Cangwu, Guangxi. The county test and the government test failed to stump him, and he passed all the way, but when he arrived at the hospital test, he accidentally missed a page of the test paper. led to the destruction of his career and became a generation of military generals, as the so-called time is also fate.

That night, Li Pinxian, who was half drunk, stayed in Anji, and the next morning, he was ready to leave Anji with Wei Yunsong and return to Xiaofeng. After eating a simple breakfast, I came to the headquarters of the 526 Brigade, ready to say goodbye to the people of the 176th Division, and was still at the door, when I heard Mo Di talking inside: "1051 Ma Weixin, 1052 Lu Dailong, the commander of the 1052 Army, changed into civilian clothes and walked along the highway to Si'an, except for dry food, no other items, obeyed the order, and emptied the materials of the Japanese army's logistics warehouse in Si'an as much as possible. The 525 Brigade Guard Battalion was heavily armed and served as a guard. ”

"What are you going to do?" Wei Yunsong asked Ling Qianxi.

"The Japanese army left Si'an early in the morning, killed Guangde, and put the logistics warehouse in Si'an, Tianzong was ready to rob this warehouse and let the 525 Brigade move things." Ling Qianxi said.

"Tianzhong, this guy, this kind of warehouse dares to rob!" Wei Yunsong said in surprise.

"Tianzong is accustomed to planning and then acting, he said that if he can rob, he will definitely be able to rob." Ling Qianxi said.

"Will this attract the enemy?" Li Pinxian asked.

"Attract better!" Ling Qianxi said: "Tianzong thinks that even if it is attracted, it is a small unit of the Japanese army, and if it is only one or two infantry brigades, it can be eaten directly, and it can help reduce the pressure on the Sichuan army." ”

Li Pinxian paused for a moment, this kind of thinking is a bit fanciful, why didn't anyone in the General Staff of the Military Commission think of letting the Gui 21 Group Army and the Sichuan 23 Group Army make a strategic cooperation? This is not a question of tactical level, it is a question of ideology, and in the eyes of the people of the General Staff, it is impossible to form a coordination between warlords in various places!