Chapter 11: Wild Supplement (23)

On a summer night, the frogs are singing and the insects are singing, the moon is bright and the stars are scarce, and Liao Hanguo led the 514 Regiment to march for ten hours. After the meeting in the morning, Liao Hanguo did not stop for a minute, and the whole group set off. Non-stop, passing through Wujiadian and Tengjiabao, it did not stop until the Fanbi Pass and the reconnaissance company of the division headquarters converged, and the time was already half past eight in the evening. The soldiers were so tired that they sat on the ground and didn't want to move anymore, so they simply fell asleep. This kind of forced march has not been carried out for a long time, due to years of conquest, the economy has reached the verge of collapse, the supply in the Dabie Mountain area is limited, the food supply of the troops is extremely difficult, it is common to eat less than one meal of meat a month, rice and coarse grains cannot be distributed in full, the soldiers are half starved and half full every day, there is no physical accumulation, and a forced march like this can beat them back to their original shape. Fortunately, the reconnaissance company had already prepared firewood and stoves, and the logistics immediately lit a fire to cook and try to get food for the soldiers as quickly as possible.

It was not only the leaders of the 514th Regiment who did not rest, but also the regiment commander Liao Hanguo, and the entire regiment headquarters did not rest.

"Wow, in a small place, there are two Japanese infantry brigades, and we can't bite him." Li Feng, chief of staff of the 514th Regiment, smiled.

"Bite hard, I'm afraid that one of our divisions may not be able to gnaw it." Liao Hanguo said.

"Yes, let's not want to gnaw on it in the first place." Li Ruiquan, deputy head of the 514th Regiment, said: "Do you remember Dahongshan? If we really want to fight, our Seventh Army will definitely not be able to take the 40 th division, why we have always taken the initiative to fight, and we have taken a lot of advantage, this is a strategic issue, but also a tactical issue. We did the same this time, piecemeal, and killed this group of Japanese soldiers in this mountain. ”

"We have to do it tonight, tomorrow day, if we let them march, they can go to Tengjiabao, and the day after tomorrow they can easily reach Banzhuyuan." Liao Hanguo said: "Every time we get closer, we have one less room for manoeuvre, and we have to let the Japanese army turn the two-day road into three or four days in order to consume them in the movement." In Dahong Mountain, Mo Tianzong adopted the law of movement and tore up the 40th Division. According to the words of Commander Yan Shengwu, Commander Mo has longer legs than the Japanese! ”

Chief of Staff Li Feng, who was previously the chief of staff of the brigade headquarters, was a little puzzled by Liao Hanguo's speech, and reminded him worriedly: "Tuanzao, I remember you said that when you were in Dahongshan, you had an independent set of passwords between you and Mo Di and Ling Yunshang, right?" I don't know if I can still get in touch with Mo Enemy now, and if I can, can I ask him how we should fight at this time. ”

Li Ruiquan nodded in agreement, and looked at Liao Hanguo with an expectant eye, in Dahong Mountain, he had seen the elusive transfer of Mo Di with his own eyes, and he was still full of respect. Liao Hanguo thought about it, from the face of it, he was a little reluctant, everyone is the head of the colonel, no one is anyone's subordinate, no one is anyone's student, what is good is to be ashamed to ask, and what is not good is to be low. In the end, it was the desire to win that prevailed, and in order to achieve victory, it was nothing to turn around. Nodding, he took out his pen, wrote a few lines under the dim and beating lantern light, and explained the matter as briefly and clearly as possible, and asked the operator to use the password he had used to fight in Dahongshan before.

At the same time that Mo Di received the telegram in Sanmenhe, Lingyun in Suizhou also received the telegram, and the telegraph operator translated the telegram and handed it to Ling Yunshang, who immediately knew that this was Liao Hanguo asking Mo Di for advice. Ling Yunshang was also interested, and asked the staff officer to turn over the combat map of the Luotian area, add a candle to the table, and while waiting for Mo Di's reply message, he thought about how he should fight this battle if his regiment was in this position.

Jin Tongxuan received the telegram and smiled, this Liao Hanguo is really good at playing, this is a typical military secret, according to the convention, except for his direct boss, he can't let anyone else know, he used this set of passwords to send it, and it was clear that he didn't want the 172nd Division to know.

Mo Di was chatting with Zhang Yingjue, the magistrate of Yingshan County, in the living room, just finished eating, drinking tea, the local tea is good, the taste is long and long. County Magistrate Zhang is very good at talking, with full sincerity, hoping that Mo Di can garrison Yingshan for a long time, in order to ensure the safety of a realm, these days, when he has time, he will come to chat with Mo Di with food and drink, and almost regard Sanmen River as a county governor. Mo Di took the message, glanced at it hastily, his brows locked, and he suddenly felt extremely heavy, this is a consultation, but also a trust, fundamentally speaking, it is to put the fate of a regiment into his own hands. Let Jin Tongxuan unfold the map, turn on the Japanese-style kettle-style flashlight, and turn the spotlight from the Ba River all the way to the north, and finally land on this bend of the river called Pinghu.

"Judging from the telegram, the Japanese army is assembled in the area of the Saint's Church, and from the map, it is a place called Pinghu to the east of the Ba River." Jin Tongxuan said.

Mo Di said distressedly: "We have never been to this area, this place is too unfamiliar, embarrassed!" ”

The county magistrate Zhang on the side heard their conversation and interjected: "Are you talking about Pinghu in Luotian?" ”

Mo Di raised his head and said, "County Magistrate Zhang is familiar with this place?" ”

"Not familiar." Zhang Yingjue shook his head and said, "But I have a secretary who is from Luotianhepu, and he has to walk through this place every time he comes to Yingshan, so he should know something." Now that he's outside, I'm going to call him in, and you can ask him. ”

After saying that, he walked out by himself, and after a while, he brought in a young man in his twenties, dressed neatly and capably, with a bookish face. County Magistrate Zhang told Mo Di that this person's surname is Wu, his name is Wu Chun'an, a native of Wujiayuan in Dun Village, an ancient man, and graduated from high school after a famous family.

Jin Tongxuan poured a glass of boiling water very seriously and asked, "Does Xiao Wu know about the Pinghu Sage Hall?" ”

Wu Chunan nodded and took the water glass.

Jin Tongxuan asked again: "Xiao Wu may introduce us to the topography and landform of the Pinghu area. ”

Wu Chunan scratched his head, obviously not knowing where to start, looked around and saw the map spread out on the table. He put the water glass aside, pointed to the map, and said, "This place is Pinghu." ”

Mo Di and Jin Tongxuan were both taken aback, and Jin Tongxuan asked, "Xiao Wu knows the map?" ”

Wu Chunan nodded, and said proudly: "What's so difficult about this, I have also painted, a few years ago, I worked in Luotian County Government, and I was responsible for the logistics of the provincial surveying and mapping team in Luotian." After Gao Jingting left Hongshan, Hongshan was changed to Yingshan County, and County Magistrate Zhang came to take up his post, and transferred a lot of personnel from Luotian and Xishui counties to assist in the work. When I arrived in Yingshan, in the past two years, in my spare time, I rearranged the old map of Yingshan in the past, which can be regarded as a map. ”

Mo Di and Jin Tongxuan looked at each other and smiled, they found a treasure!

"Pinghu has a long history, outstanding people, located in the throat of the north and south of Luotian, the Southern Song Dynasty built a town here to resist the Jin soldiers. At that time, the Yuejia army killed the thieves in this place, defeated the Jin soldiers, and leveled the Hulu, from which the name of Pinghu was obtained. This is the Ba River, we call it the Heaven River, Pinghu This place is a famous river sandwiched by two mountains...... "Wu Chun'an is eloquent, gushing endlessly."

With Wu Chun'an's assistance, Mo Di and Jin Tongxuan studied a set of combat plans and sent them to Liao Hanguo. Liao Hanguo was analyzing the feasibility of the battle plan with his two helpers, and received a telegram from Lingyun, which said: Brother Hanguo can report the progress of the battle in time, and the brother is extremely looking forward to this, victory is in sight, and Lingyun is on it.

Li Ruiquan laughed and said: "We have also studied fart, everyone has already seen victory on Lingyun, and we are still afraid of wolves and tigers." Fighting according to the plan is, don't think about it, our thinking is not as good as Mo Tianzong, and we can't come up with better ideas no matter how much we think about it. ”

Liao Hanguo laughed, and Li Feng also shook his head: People are more angry than people!

When the meal was ready, the soldiers also rested for a while, and some even slept for a while. After dinner, the platoons began to organize their equipment and prepare for battle.

The work of preparing for battle was harder than marching, and it was not until late at night that the preparations barely met Liao Hanguo's requirements. Seeing the pine ming and pine resin piled up on the ground, Liao Hanguo nodded.

In July, the south wind in the valley is cool, the pine trees on the mountain are blown by the south wind, making a burst of pine waves, the Ba River is like a funnel, the wind from the downstream blows upstream, the wind blows upstream, the wind becomes stronger the upstream, and the wind becomes more and more violent when it reaches the river.

By the light of the flashlight and looking at the watch on his wrist, Liao Hanguo said, "Prepare to fight." I saw the brothers carrying Shu Mingzi in a company unit, carrying a bamboo tube filled with pine resin, and quickly leaving in a company unit.

On the way here, Li Ruiquan saw bamboo tubes hanging on the pine trees and knew that this was used to collect pine resin, which has extremely strong combustibility. Referring to Mo Di's plan, Li Ruiquan asked each soldier to collect more than five bamboo tubes filled with pine resin around the periphery and put them together. There were more than 1,000 men in a regiment, five per man, and it would have taken many pine forests to find it, and it was difficult to say how many pine forests it would take to find it, and it was difficult to say what was too slow to get it back, until after twelve o'clock in the evening, when the last group of brothers who collected the bamboo tubes returned to the station, and walked around the perimeter for three hours. According to statistics, there are six or seven thousand bamboo tubes, which are piled on the ground, a big pile. The brothers who came back first did not take advantage of it, and Liao Hanguo asked them to pour down a pine tree in a row as a unit, split it into wooden blocks, and then tie it into pine torches.

At Li Ruiquan's request, the reconnaissance company decided on a most suitable location, which was the southern end of the tidal flat at the bend of the Ba River, where the river had a backwater bend, and the Japanese troops camped thought that it was relatively safe because of the river as a barrier, and the patrol posts basically did not go to this area. And because of the convenient access to water, it has become a dense area for tents.

In the second half of the night, the moon went down, and the sun had not yet risen, only a pitch black sky, and the deep hands could not see the five fingers. At the request of Li Feng, led by the reconnaissance company, the brothers marched forward, gently slid into the water, lay on the ground and stood in the water, forming a conveyor line, the pine resin tubes were passed up one by one, and the torches were passed forward one by one, and soon, outside the Japanese tent, pine wood blocks and pine resin tubes were piled up on two hills.

After all the brothers retreated, the reconnaissance company commander Guo Wanquan lit the torch of Songmingzi in his hand and stuffed it.

The fire, after a little black smoke, rose into the air. The south wind blew, and in less than a minute, the flames were rising. The two nearest tents were set ablaze at once. When a few sleek Japanese jumped out of the tent, the patrolling Japanese soldiers blew a shrill whistle.

When they saw that the fire was starting from the south, the fire had already begun to spread, and more than two dozen tents close to the fire were all ignited and quickly swept around.

The Japanese soldiers whose tents had been burned out gathered one after another on the northern hillside where there was no fire, and the hillside was soon densely packed with water.

"First, don't fall in love with the battle, second, after throwing the second*, you must retreat quickly, and third, the Japanese army catches up, ignore it." The commander of the second battalion said to the fighters under his command.

On the slopes of Dingjiawan, each soldier of the second battalion, who had been ambushed here for a long time, carried one * in one hand, and his palms were already sweating with anxiety.

"Throw!" The first one* is out of hand.

"Throw it again!" The second one.

"Withdraw!" With a shout, the second battalion on the hillside ran cleanly.

As for what became of the dense Japanese army group below, the second battalion couldn't take care of it so much.

At this time, the Japanese guns rang out, shooting aimlessly around, and at this time, Liao Hanguo, the colonel of the 514th Regiment, had already gotten into his tent and snoring.

The Japanese troops on the banks of the Ba River made a fuss until dawn, and then stopped the gunfire. After confirming that there was no enemy situation in the vicinity, the Japanese army began to clean up the mess on the river beach. The losses were heavy, quite heavy, a third of the tents were burned, along with the contents of the tents, backpacks, clothing, guns, ammunition, nothing. Although some Japanese soldiers ran out of their tents, except for a crotch cloth and a full body of smoke, they squatted by the Ba River, crying like ignorant babies.