Chapter 10: Anqing (33)

On December 31, the Battle of Kunlun Pass was a great victory, and the national army fought fiercely for 14 days, recovering the dangerous Kunlun Pass, killing Major General Nakamura Masao, commander of the enemy's 21st Brigade, annihilating more than 4,000 Japanese troops, and shooting down and destroying more than 20 Japanese planes. When the news came out, the whole country rejoiced, and the media around the country published headlines one after another, praising it as a great victory at Kunlun Pass.

The battle by the Anhui River has also been going on for ten days, and although these ten days have not been as shocking as the Kunlun Pass, they have also been heart-wrenching and thrilling.

Liu Maizai is a local, familiar with what happened in the local area, he knows, it is impossible to cross the river from Shipai, think that at the beginning, the imperial army chased Hao Wenbo to flee in a hurry, hiding in Tibet, and crossed the Anhui River in Shipai, just like changing a force, taking advantage of the Anhui River, actually blocking the pursuing soldiers in Jiangdong, and also invited reinforcements from the Mo enemy regiment, turning the tables in one fell swoop. This time, we must not go back to the same old path. So, Liu Maizai decided to cross the river in advance, cross the Wan River at Jiangjiazui, and then attack Shipai along the south bank of the Wan River.

Knowing that Liu Maizai stopped marching in Jiangjiazui, the thin monkey was happy and said to Luo Wei: "Liu Maizai, this stupid person, chose to cross the river in Jiangjiazui, this is not looking for death!" First, there is no ship, and even if you find a ship and cross the other shore, it is not easy to get supplies. Since this is the case, tell Hao Wenbo to send a few boats over to transport Zhong Liang's heavy firepower over, set up a position on the opposite bank, and beat him for a half. ”

Luo Wei did not agree to transfer Zhong Liang's heavy firepower to the past, thinking that it was enough to have Hao Wenbo's two battalions on the south bank of the river, and to fight the unobstructed river on the covered riverbank, and the other party did not have enough artillery, if he could not fight the advantage, it would really be a vain game.

Shi Zhong told them that Liu Maizai had artillery, two 70-caliber curved guns in the 11th year of Taisho, and the Japanese squadron also had the Taizheng grenadier canisters accompanying the team, but here, the hand cannon was of little use, because the riverbed of the Anhui River in the Jiangjiazui area was relatively wide, beyond the strike distance of the hand cannon, and if he wanted to hit from Hebei to Henan, he was afraid that he would be weak, so he relied on two curved guns, although the firing range could reach 1550 meters, but the accuracy was limited, so there was no need to worry.

Luo Wei, as the battalion commander, said to his right and left hands, if Liu Maizai, the enemy army, really dares to cross the river in Jiangjiazui, halfway through, Hao Wenbo fights in Henan, and we fight in Hebei. It's just that in this way, our purpose will be in vain, the support of the Anqing side cannot be obtained, and the supply of the eleventh tour will also be in vain, and it will not be worth it.

The thin monkey smiled, his original idea had been so ingrained in Luo Wei's thinking, it was really rare. However, Luo Wei's consideration is indeed reasonable, it is quite difficult to drag a battle that can be won quickly, and not to cause losses to himself, I remember that Huang Tianhua once said that fighting like this is no longer a simple war, but the art of war.

Lao Tzu also plays an artist.

If Liu Maizai had known that he had fallen into the calculations of such a group of guys who ate people and did not spit out bones, it was estimated that he would return to Anqing overnight, but unfortunately he didn't know, not only did he not know, but he was also proud, and he was full of ambition to introduce the Anhui River in front of him to the Panasonic squadron leader and the Anhui wine made from the water of this Anhui River.

"Anhui, the full name of Anqing and Huizhou, referred to as Anhui, comes from this river." Liu Maizai said: "The Anhui River takes the Changhe River as the main source, originates in Huangmeijian, Yuexi County, also known as the Milky Way, flows south, passes through the pavilion to the front of the store, is the Changhe, to the old fish pond Zuona diving, to the mouth of the Liu River Zuona Anhui water. The old fish pond is called the Anhui River at the beginning, flows through the Shipai town and turns to the northeast, and then comes to the Jiangjiazui here. Further downstream, Jiangjiazui entered the lake area, scattered into the Yangtze River, and there was no way to cross the river, so I chose to cross the Anhui River in the south of Jiangjiazui. ”

The little devil of Panasonic nodded, the water surface of this place is not narrow, the river surface is more than half a mile, and the riverbed is even wider than one or two miles, crossing the river from here is not a good choice, but it is much better than the scattered lake area downstream, you know, in this kind of winter, crossing the river is an extremely troublesome thing.

Knowing that Liu Maizai chose to cross the river in Jiangjiazui downstream, Hao Wenbo was happy and told Zhao Jin that in addition to preparing guns and bullets, each soldier should also prepare two sacks to make it clear where the enemy troops were crossing the river. Liu Maizai wanted to change places to transition, so he poured out the sand in the bag and transferred to the past. Zhao Jin laughed, asked the soldiers to wear Japanese-style steel helmets, and put the captured Japanese army marching backpack on their backs, and the small sapper shovel hanging on the side of the backpack must be indispensable. Tell the brothers not to be afraid, there is a river surface of four or five hundred meters in front of them, lying on the shore and aiming at random shots, we can hit the people on the boat, the people on the boat can't beat us, the artillery on the other side is limited, the advantage is exhausted, as long as it is a soldier, as long as it is a soldier, they all smiled and agreed.

In Jiangjiazui, Liu Maizai looked for a boat for three whole days, but there was none. The thin monkey couldn't help it, so he rowed three small boats from the upstream and sent them over, Liu Maizai bought it at a high price as if he had obtained a treasure, and the soldiers of the Shizhong reconnaissance company who supported the boat received the money and pretended to be reluctant to leave. There were three boats, and the boats were not very large, each boat could only squeeze a maximum of forty people, and only one company could be crossed at a time. This kind of offensive intensity, even Zhao Jin on the other side shook his head, but he had prepared more than 500 guns on his side, and only the crosshairs were aimed at the three boats on the river.

After a day of preparation, and a few careful visits to the terrain on the north bank of the river, Liu Maizai's first crossing of the river finally began on Christmas Day, December 25.

As Liu Maizai said, after the Anhui River crosses the stone pai, it is no longer a river, but a number of scattered rivers, flowing at will, from Jiangjiazui first through a small riverbed that dries up in winter, is a sandbar almost 400 meters long, after walking this sandbar, only to the main channel of the Anhui River. The main channel is wide but not deep, and the boats are far away in the river, connected only by a simple pier made of wooden planks.

A company of puppet soldiers got on the boat, and the draft of the boat immediately deepened a lot, and it almost ran aground, but fortunately, there were also a few good boat operators in the puppet army, and you took a pole and he took a pole to prop the boat away from the dock, and the three boats went to the middle of the river in parallel, and it was already half an hour past.

The wind on the river was very cold, a little biting, and the puppet soldiers were very uncomfortable sitting on the boat, shrinking their heads, caged their sleeves, and the ear protectors of the cotton military caps had already been put down, blocking the cold wind on the river, and still blowing their noses red. The rifle was caged in the crook of the hand, and no one wanted to touch this kind of cold guy on a freezing day.

Only the sound of a German-made box cannon was heard, and all the people on the boat immediately raised their heads, only to see that the brothers sitting in the row at the bow of the boat suddenly burst into the Anhui River, and then heard the dense gunfire coming from the south bank of the river.

"There's an ambush!" Liu Maizai, who was standing on the north bank of the Anhui River, was frightened by this sudden burst of gunfire, followed by the second burst of gunfire. Looking up again, the three boats on the river could no longer see a person sitting, except for those who saw the opportunity early, and those who were lying on the bottom of the boat were either shot and fell into the river, or took the initiative to jump into the river.

"My day! How dare you jump! Zhao Jin's eyes were straight: "In this winter, I don't know how cold the water is!" ”

"That's better than getting shot." Hao Wenbo on the side replied.

Zhao Jin laughed and shouted: "Stop, don't shoot, let them swim back in the river." ”

"Why?" Hao Wenbo asked puzzledly: "Know?" An old friend? ”

"It's not." Zhao Jin said: "After fighting once, it won't be fun next, and Chief of Staff Hou still has to keep these baits for fishing." ”

Hao Wenbo smiled dumbly: "Fuck, you really have the same heart and eye for Luo Wei Thin Monkey Shizhong!" Okay, okay, with you here, I'm happy, the past two days in Shipai Town have been very nervous, Hong Xilou's small song has also stopped, every household boiled eggs, will be sent here in a while, you eat ten or eight, until a mouthful of smells. Ha ha! ”

"The town's fathers are boiling eggs?" Zhao Jinleng paused for a moment before continuing: "Our treatment is not low!" Can you send some to Jiangbei so that the brothers in the guard battalion can also taste it. ”

"Don't worry, it's theirs. Let's help the Shipai people block Liu Maizai, and let them suffer one less military disaster, a few eggs are nothing. Hao Wenbo said: "When Liu Maizai is brought back, there are still large pieces of meat and a bowl of wine waiting, and the Shipai people are not ambiguous about this." Hey, I said, you procrastinate, do you want to eat a few more eggs? ”

"What's the matter, I'm new to the new arrival, but I don't know that there are eggs to eat, Tuanza, you are scheming, you must have known it a long time ago." Zhao Jin said. Hao Wenbo's position is the detachment leader, but all his subordinates know that he hates people to call him the detachment leader the most, and the most favorite thing to listen to is the group seat, and Zhao Jin can't get rid of the vulgarity, and it is much easier to call the group seat.

"Hahahaha!" Hao Wenbo laughed away, singing a little song in his mouth: "I am watching the mountain scenery from the city tower, and I can hear the chaos outside the city. The banner waved the flip, but it turned out to be a soldier sent by Sima. ”

It took a long time for Liu Maizai in Jiangbei to recover from his stupid state, watching dozens of wet subordinates climb up from the river, trembling all over, dripping with water, and a few of them dripping with blood, Liu Maizai almost didn't kneel. There is an ambush on the other side! These days, in order to make sure that the other side is safe, Liu Maizai specially sent a reconnaissance unit to conduct a detailed observation on the other side, and there was no sign of an ambush, not only did there be no fortifications, but there was not even a place where people might be ambushed, how could there be an ambush all of a sudden, and it was not one or two, from the sound of gunfire, at least one battalion. Where did these people come from! Falling from the sky? Hao Wenbo he knows, and Zhao Jin understands even more, they can't have the ability to fly away, the question is who else is in this place except Hao Wenbo's eleventh tour and three detachments?

Packed up the defeated soldiers, returned to Jiangjiazui, a little number, folded more than fifty people, fortunately, not long after, the three boats that drifted down with the water returned to Jiangjiazui under the control of the soldiers, otherwise, they really had to go home.

"Zhao Jin is good, this ambush is just right." Shi Zhong said: "I estimate that next, Liu Maizai should use mortars, but there are only two cannons, and they are all pepper and not spicy." ”

"I think Yoo Mai Jae will ask Anqing for help." The thin monkey said: "There is not enough artillery fire, and if you want to cross the Anhui River like this, I am afraid that it will be a little difficult." Every time one company is sent over, and the remaining half company comes back, Liu Maizai has these six companies on hand, how big a dead head can it be! ”

Luo Wei nodded and said to Shi Chong: "Reconnaissance company, pay close attention to Anqing Road, if there are artillery reinforcements, report immediately, the assault company will do it, and clean them up before Hongpu." ”

Zhong Liang also laughed on the side and said, "Grandma's, you can send reinforcements without surrounding the point, where can you find this kind of good business." ”

The guards are in a group, and their mentality has been extremely good, and they never do it if they are cheap, and they will definitely be cheap when they do it.