Chapter 13: Changing Guards (18)

Mo Di has been walking on the ruins of the ancient city wall of Tongcheng for ten days, and he also went to Kongcheng halfway, and walked around the old street and Tongxiang Academy for a day, which can be regarded as a line of Tongcheng faction in the Qing Dynasty. It's a place full of culture, and it's a place where you can enjoy it to your heart's content. In comparison, he is most interested in the ancient city wall of Tongcheng, although the ancient city wall is demolished, but the foundation is still there, the ancients built the city, very solid, inside and outside the use of stones, the middle rammed with soil, but the wall is all made of huge three masonry, between the stone strips, tightly seamed, difficult to enter the thin blade. In Mo Di's view, the boxy city is common, like Tongcheng this round type is more rare, not only the round type, but also made eight gates, according to the Qian, Kun, Zhen, Xun, Kan, Li, Gen, to the eight directions, respectively, the door of Hugh, the door of life, the door of injury, the door of Du, the door of Jing, the door of death, the door of shock, the door of opening. Generally speaking, the three auspicious gates of opening, resting and living, the three murder doors of death, shock and injury, Du Gate and Jingmen Zhongping, but when using them, they must also look at Linhe Palace and Wang Xiang to rest the prisoners. The ancients had a song that said: Jimen is not allowed to be Keji, and the fierce door is not capable of being defeated; Jimen has great benefits in life, and evil men have to avoid disasters. Jimenke Palace is not good, and the murder Menke Palace is even more fierce. Therefore, when the ancient Tong City was built, there was no dead gate, and although the appearance of the city gate was there, there was no door opening. However, leaving Du Men without leaving a hole in the door, it is incomprehensible to Mo Enemy, maybe it is something exquisite.

The reason why Mo Di has so much time to stay in Tongcheng is because of a telegram from the military headquarters, in which Chief of Staff Yang Zanmo asked Mo Di to lead the guard battalion to stay in Tongcheng for half a month, and the food and lodging were borne by the 528 Regiment. The cost of the Lujiang operation of the 176th Division's field supplement regiment has been sent to Yuexi by the military headquarters to settle in legal tender. The field supplement regiment is a Japanese armament unit, and the 48th Army has no supplies to replenish, so it is also a good way to settle with fiat currency. As for Mo Di and the guard battalion staying in Tongcheng, the reception expenses of the 528th Regiment, together with the material replenishment for this operation, have also been sent to the division headquarters of the 176th Division in Yuexi, which will be allocated by the division headquarters at the same time.

Mo Di didn't know what the military department's intention was to keep him down, so he asked Zhou Mengxiong, but he shook his head and didn't know. I don't know the benefits of not knowing, so there is a ten-day tour of Tongcheng without any concern, Yao Yuanzhi's old museum, Yao Ying's former residence, Wu Yue's former residence, Fang Yizhi's former residence, Jiao Tang, Zuo Gong Ancestral Hall, Jiechun and Xuan, Zhang Tingyu Cemetery. As long as there is a name, I went to visit once, and then I really couldn't find fun, so I went to Zaoqing Mountain for a visit, and also went to the Xiangxue Spring of Bifeng Mountain......

On this day, when he came back from the old house of the Tang family in the upper row, he finally waited for the second telegram from the 48th Army, and figured out the reason why he was stranded in Tongcheng: Li Benyi went to a deep ditch.

Li Benyi went to the deep ditch shop, or because of the supply problem of Wei Jiebo's 414th regiment. Ling Qianfeng is really a stubborn cow, if he says not to give, he will not give, even the words of the provincial government are not good, his reasons are very sufficient, my Lujiang County is only so big, the materials can only be provided so much, one can not give two, Lujiang City is an undefended city, whoever can keep me safe, I will give the materials to whom, so angry that Li Ben has been scolding Ling Qianfeng as a traitor. Li Benyi is the commissioner of the fifth district of Jiashan, and Ling Qianfeng is a small county magistrate, and he dares to say so, Li Benyi thinks that it is completely possible to replace a county magistrate, and it will not let Lujiang sway from side to side, head to end.

Li Benyi talked for a long time in the deep ditch, and the army commander Su Zuxin was calloused when he heard it, it was nothing more than two words, give money. The problem is that the army commander has no surplus food, and it is a general order of the provincial government to collect grain on the spot. There was no way, so report Li Benyi's opinion to the group army and ask the provincial government to coordinate and solve it. In the evening of the same day, the reply from Li Pinxian, chairman of the provincial government, arrived, and Lujiang did this with the consent of the provincial government. Compared with Lujiang, some other areas, such as Wuwei, Chuzhou and other counties, every year the national army, the Red Army, the puppet army, the Japanese army, you sing and I appear, as soon as you come, you ask the local government to eat and drink, the government has no choice but to count the levy a year, making the people miserable and miserable. Li Pinxian said at the end of the telegram that the best way was to drive the Japanese puppet army out of Lujiang, and then he could get the supplies from Lujiang County as a matter of course.

After determining the strategy of fighting another battle in Lujiang, Li Benyi returned to Danjiamiao, and before leaving the deep ditch, the only request was to let Mo Enemy assist in this operation.

Late at night that night, Mo Di received a telegram from Li Benyi, who actually spent a day rushing from the deep ditch shop to the Danjia Temple, which can be regarded as a Scud! The telegram first apologized, apologized for forcibly leaving Mo Di for himself, and then played the family card, went into battle with his own brothers, and Mo Di had to help. The next step is to consider what troops are needed to assist the Japanese puppet army that took Shengqiao, in addition to Wei Jiebo's department. If the field replenishment regiment of the 176th Division is moved, all the expenses will be borne by the 138th Division.

Mo Di smiled bitterly and said to Zhou Mengxiong: "Brother Mengxiong, I can't say that I have to trouble you to block the enemy from the south. ”

Zhou Mengxiong shook his head and said, "Don't worry about the south, Anqing has no troops to send." ”

"That could lead you to fight the east." Mo Enemy smiled. In principle, Mo Di agreed with Zhou Mengxiong's opinion, Anqing did have no troops to send, and after Li Shigui's troops returned to Anqing, the remnants of the troops were reduced to one regiment, and then a whole battalion was transferred from the 12th Brigade to be the basis and expanded into another regiment. The 12th Brigade was already dissatisfied, and another battalion was withdrawn, leaving only more than a thousand men, not so much a brigade as a regiment. As for the Japanese army's 119 Qingye Brigade in Anqing, on the second day of Li Shigui's departure, more than 3,000 people were also transferred to Jiangxi to supplement the 33rd Division, although the 119 Brigade is still in formation, but it is basically an empty battalion, according to reliable information, the Japanese army is recruiting new recruits from the Kyoto faction to supplement the 119 Brigade. After this transfer, the Japanese puppet army in the direction of Anqing was not enough to protect itself, so it was needless to go out of the city to fight, so Zhou Mengxiong was right to think that there was no need to worry about the south.

There is no need to consider the south, but the north cannot be ignored, after all, Lujiang belongs to the territory of the Hefei Garrison Command, Shen Xiru will not watch Lujiang change hands, his fifth division did not lose too much in this operation, and the Japanese army's Ozaki brigade in Hefei is also full of soldiers and horses. Even if the Japanese army wanted to stay in Hefei to guard against the attack of the Seventh Army in Lu'an, Shen Xiru's troops could still be mobilized, and Shen Xiru's Fifth Division was also a division of the second brigade and four regiments, with nearly 10,000 people. The 138th Division is a C Division, with 8,000 people, and it can be regarded as evenly matched. However, with the addition of Shengqiao's Wang Zhanlin Division and Yantian Remnants, it is very different, Wang Zhanlin's Department belongs to the garrison regiment of the Hefei Garrison Command, while the Yantian Department comes from the 116th Division of Chaoxian County, these 2,000 people are not included in the establishment of the Fifth Division of the Founding Army.

"The 138th Division alone is not Shen Xiru's opponent." Zhou Mengxiong said: "He Shusheng 412 Regiment wants to stabilize Shucheng, and the adjustment of Liu Qinglong's 413 Regiment will take at least three months to come in handy. Wei Jiebo is not the opponent of Shengqiao Wang Zhanlin and Yantian Old Devil. In this battle, if Shen Xiru of Hefei gives it a go, I am afraid that it will be even more troublesome than the last time. ”

Mo Di nodded, Zhou Mengxiong was the director of the staff office of the 176th Division and was transferred to the commander of the 528th Regiment, and it seems that his knowledge is still above the other two main commanders of the 176th Division.

Mo Di believes that Zhou Mengxiong can see these problems, and those generals in the military department who have become good will definitely be able to see them, not to mention the army commander Su Zuxin, even the chief of staff Yang Zanmo is not a weak hand, they will definitely show something, otherwise, what is the meaning of a battle that must be lost.

Sure enough, early the next morning, news came that only the Guanshanyue Air Defense Battalion of the artillery regiment directly under the 48th Army was left, and the rest of the units, under the leadership of the regiment commander Li Baicheng, went straight down to the Weihe River by boat, and after going ashore at the Hengshan Wharf, they were transported by animal power to Wanfo Lake, where Liu Qinglong was stationed, to assist the 138th Division in the operation. Li Baicheng's artillery regiment had four battalions, except for the air defense battalion of Guan Shanyue, which did not come, there were also two Kruber 75 mountain artillery battalions, each battalion of 9 Shanghai-produced artillery pieces, one mortar battalion, and each of the three companies was equipped with 6 82-caliber mortars from Sichuan, a total of 18 guns.

This should be regarded as the greatest support of the military department!

After a while, Zhou Mengxiong took a telegram and newspaper, walked to Mo Di's residence with a wry smile, and said: "The military department has asked my regiment to be ready for battle and ready to be transferred to Lujiang to assist in the battle at any time. ”

Mo Di laughed and said: "It seems that this time it is not the home battle of the 138th Division, but a big battle of the 48th Army. ”

"Hehehehehe!" Zhou Mengxiong also laughed and said, "Yes, yes, the ass is not hot yet." ”

In the afternoon, the military headquarters issued an order to the 176th Division's Field Supplement Regiment, requiring the Shizhong Guard Battalion to stand by in Tongcheng, and the guard battalions in Yuexi to garrison Yuexi, and the 123rd Battalion of the Field Supplement Regiment to send troops to Tongcheng. After a while, Mo Di received a telegram from Luo Wei that since there were more than 700 prisoners in the Wuhe military cantonment area, Luo Wei decided to lead Li Xiaoshen's guard company, Liao's artillery company, and Panlong's spy company to Wuhe to serve as guards. The 123rd Battalion, led by Jin Tongxuan, marched to Tongcheng, and He Degui sent a material delivery team consisting of five cars, which was in charge of Qin Guosheng, director of the Political Department, to transport the materials to Tongcheng.

To Modi's surprise, Li Benyi transferred Yan Junlong, commander of the 138th Division's Field Supplement Regiment, to temporarily serve as the director of the Division's General Staff Office, and the Field Supplement Regiment was led by regimental deputy Xie Bi, who went to Tongcheng to join the 176th Division's Field Supplement Regiment, join forces, and accept the unified command of Modi. Mo Di specially telegraphed Li Benyi for this purpose, and Li Benyi replied: My brother bothered to help my brother train a usable army.

On the afternoon of the third day, Jin Tongxuan led his troops to Tongcheng, less than an hour apart, and Xie Qi led his troops to Tongcheng. The two units had different styles and completely different things to carry, and Jin Tongxuan's unit brought five cars of combat materials, most of which were bullets, medicines, and firearm accessories. Xie Qibu brought a lot of fiat currency, and according to him, the money that Li Benyi went to the military department to ask for this time was all on himself. For the arrival of these two troops, Zhou Mengxiong of Tongcheng was very busy, and finally, according to the requirements of Mo Di, they were placed in Kongcheng, Luting and Gaoqiao, and a battalion of the 176th Division Field Supplement Regiment and one battalion of the 138th Division Field Supplement Regiment were placed in each place. The regimental headquarters of the two regiments were also merged into one, and together with the Shizhong Division, they were placed in the Baojia compound on the east bank of the Longmian River to form a unified command center, with Mo Di as the commander-in-chief. originally wanted Xie Bi to be the deputy commander-in-chief, but Xie Bi refused, he told Mo Di that this time, he was just a primary school student, and he would fight wherever Mo Di pointed out. Jin Tongxuan laughed, if this is the case, this time the field supplement regiment will make a big deal, seven battalions, with only their own group, can fight with the Japanese puppet army in Shengqiao. Xie Qi smiled bitterly, he didn't dare to think so, you know, when he came to Tongcheng this time, all of them were Japanese equipment, because in the past, he didn't pay attention to capture, and everyone didn't have a few more bullets.

Mo Di told Jin Tongxuan that there were enough bullets from Yuexi this time, so he might as well arm Xie Qi's troops first, as for the cost, didn't Li Benyi let them bring enough fiat currency, so it was. Jin Tongxuan laughed, this is really a brother, and he settles accounts.