readx;? 7,000 people against 23,000 people, this is a ratio of one to three, according to normal combat power, if you want to carry the attack of 23,000 Japanese troops head-on, even the Central Army may need more than 100,000 people, and this is not guaranteed to be able to withstand it. www.biquge.info The New Fourth Army has only been in existence for a few months since its founding, and it has never formally fought the Japanese army face-to-face.

In Wang Haitao's view, as long as the tactics are used correctly, the Japanese army is nothing to fear, and he used an independent division of more than 10,000 men and horses in the Shanghai campaign to withstand the strong attack of the five divisions of the Japanese army for more than a month, and also won a great victory in Luodian, and in Songjiang, he completely annihilated the sixth division and the thirteenth division of the Japanese army, which were the most effective in combat. Therefore, in the face of the attack of more than 20,000 Japanese troops, Wang Haitao was still not nervous.

Wang Haitao's calmness made Ye Ting and others secretly ashamed, but Ye Ting thought that it was not easy for the Party Central Committee to form the New Fourth Army, and if the New Fourth Army suffered heavy losses in his own hands, he would be sorry for the Party Central Committee's trust in him. Just when Ye Ting was in a dilemma, Wang Haitao received a return telegram to Chongqing.

This reply was sent by Chiang Kai-shek in the name of the supreme commander-in-chief, and in addition to encouraging Wang Haitao, there was only one key sentence, that is, whether or not to fight was decided by Wang Haitao himself, and the New Fourth Army would be under Wang Haitao's unified command. Wang Haitao handed Chiang Kai-shek's reply to Ye Ting and said: "Commander Ye, I know your difficulty, so you can use the radio to call Yan'an for instructions." ”

Ye Ting also thought it was a good idea, so he also sent a telegram to Yan'an with a report and instructions. Half a day later, Yan'an's reply arrived, and the call back was sent by Mao and Zhu in the name of the ** Central Military Commission. The telegram asked Ye Ting to obey Wang Haitao's command militarily, but to preserve his vital strength as much as possible, and not to blindly fight with the Japanese army.

Ye Ting did not hide it from Wang Haitao, but handed the telegram directly to Wang Haitao. After reading the telegram, Wang Haitao knew in his heart that he was afraid that the New Fourth Army would leave the Kuomintang with an excuse that it would not resist Japan and disobey orders on the battlefield, and that Wang Haitao would use the New Fourth Army as a gunman and use the Japanese to consume the New Fourth Army. In fact, how to use the New Fourth Army, Wang Haitao really didn't think about it.

Here in Jing County, we seized all the time to reorganize the army for battle, and the Japanese army was not idle, and after all the men and horses arrived, the Japanese army finally took action. In Wuhu, the 101st Division, with the 101st Infantry Brigade, the 1st and 2nd Mountain Artillery Brigades, and the 1st Cavalry Squadron, formed a Sato detachment, the commander of the 101st Brigade, Major General Sato Shozaburo, the former brigade commander of the 101st Brigade.

The commander of the 101st Division, Lieutenant General Ito Masaki, led the remaining troops of the 101st Division, an independent heavy artillery wing, and a regiment of puppet troops from Wuhu City to Xuancheng County through Wuhu County, and joined up with the wing of the 21st Division that had already arrived in Xuancheng County. And in the direction of Hangzhou, the Akiyama detachment was formed.

The Akiyama detachment consisted of the 127th Infantry Brigade of the 114th Division, the 120th Wing of the Mountain Artillery, the Engineer Brigade, and the Cavalry Squadron, and the commander was Major General Mitsuzaburo Akiyama, the brigade commander of the former 127th Brigade. The Akiyama detachment had all arrived at the county seat of Jingde and was ready to launch an attack on Jing County.

At this time, Lieutenant General Ito Masaki, who was in Xuancheng, asked this wing of the 21st Division to attack Nanling County together with the Mountain Artillery Brigade, while he himself led the men and horses of the 101st Division to attack Jing County. Soon, the detailed information on the actions of the Japanese army was again sent to Wang Haitao's desk. After Wang Haitao showed the information to Ye Ting and the others, he walked to the map spread out on the conference table.

Wang Haitao said to Ye Ting and others who were surrounded in front of the map: "Now the situation is very clear, the Japanese army is attacking with the Sato detachment as the main attack on the Nanling side, and the wing in the east as the auxiliary attack, and attacking Nanling County on both sides. In the direction of Jingxian, the main force led by Masaki Ito came from the direction of Xuancheng, with about 10,000 men, and the Akiyama detachment from the direction of Jingde County numbered about 5 to 6,000 men. The Japanese army's method of attacking Jingxian was also to attack from both sides.

I have made some preparations in these four directions, and now the intensive training of the New Fourth Army has also been carried out for seven days, so let's do it, the Akiyama detachment in Jingde County will be blocked by your New Fourth Army, and the armored detachment and heavy artillery battalion that were originally assigned to the direction of Jingde County are still not moving, but the command of these two troops is still in the hands of the joint command.

After listening to Wang Haitao's words, Ye Ting understood that Wang Haitao had handed over a relatively light task to his New Fourth Army, and with his own team of more than 5,000 people, plus the special service battalion that had just changed its German equipment, as well as the assistance of an armored detachment and a battalion of heavy artillery, in the face of the attack of 5,000 or 6,000 people from an Akiyama detachment of the Japanese army, if this could not be defended, then the New Fourth Army might as well be disbanded.

Thinking of this, Ye said very seriously: "Commander Wang, don't worry, as long as there is still one person in my New Fourth Army, the position must be there!" Wang Haitao nodded and said: "Okay, I will hand over the south of Jing County to you General Ye, you will enter the position tonight to change guards with the original defenders, and I will send the fourth battalion commander Deng Fei to go with you." ”

The three companies of the fourth battalion have been repairing fortifications for more than half a month here, and now not only the fortifications in Caijiaqiao Town have been repaired, but also the fortifications in Sanxi Town and Langqiao Town behind them have also been repaired. Caijiaqiao was originally garrisoned by two companies of less than 400 people, so the fortifications could only be garrisoned by more than 400 people, Ye Ting originally planned to put a team on the first line of defense in Caijiaqiao Town, but only a maximum of 400 people could be placed here, so only a team of 400 people could be placed here.

The rest of the warriors all expanded their fortifications in Sanxi Town and Langqiao Town. According to Ye Ting's idea, put a team in Caijiaqiao Town and Sanxi Town, and put a special agent battalion in Langqiao Town, so that the second team could support the north gate of Jing County, but Wang Haitao didn't open his mouth to ask for help, and he didn't believe Wang Haitao's meaning in doing so, so Ye Ting just put the second team on the position outside the south gate of Jing County.

Chen Yi, the commander of the detachment, and Fu Qiutao, the deputy commander of the detachment, placed the command post of the detachment in a bunker on the position in Sanxi Town. At the command post, Chen Yi's subordinates set up an artillery unit produced by the German Zeiss company sent by Wang Haitao. Wang Haitao taught himself how to use this artillery mirror for a long time, and he also learned a little bit about it, but fortunately, there are soldiers from the heavy artillery battalion who specialize in measuring moments.

Speaking of the heavy artillery battalion, I was shocked when I saw the thick barrels and huge volume of the dozen German-made heavy guns, although I didn't see it firing the cannon, but with its size and the shells as thick as the thighs, I also knew that its power was not small. At this time, the signal troops sent by the independent regiment had already set up a telephone between the Caijiaqiao position and the command post, and with it they could directly know the situation of the Caijiaqiao position.

The next day, the Japanese attack on Nanling County and Jing County was launched at the same time. The first to engage the enemy was the 1st Company of the 2nd Battalion of the Independent Regiment stationed in Yangliu Town, and the vanguard of the Japanese army was a brigade of the 101st Wing, which stopped its advance 500 meters in front of the fortifications outside Yangliu Town. The prepared brigade quickly set up the four 92 infantry guns and eight mortars in the brigade, and the eight heavy machine guns of the heavy machine gun squadron were also lined up.

The soldiers of the second battalion and the first company on the position were all veterans, and at this time they were all waiting for the start of the Japanese artillery bombardment in the underground anti-artillery holes, and there were only a few soldiers in the positions who were observing. Ten minutes later, the Japanese artillery bombardment began, and the power of the 92 infantry guns and mortars was too small, not to mention the bunkers, even the trenches and sandbag fortifications were not seriously damaged.

After 10 minutes of shelling, the soldiers who were hiding in the anti-artillery holes quickly entered the position along the zigzag-shaped two-meter-deep communication trench. After the fighters of the first company entered the position, a squadron of Japanese infantry also formed an offensive formation at a distance of 400 meters, opened a skirmish line and began to advance towards the position.

"Three hundred and fifty meters, three hundred meters, two hundred meters," the soldiers at the observation post reported the distance of 200 meters, and the heavy machine guns on the Japanese positions began to cover the fire, and the bullets hit the bunkers, splashing sparks, and puffs of green smoke came out from the sandbags, hitting the mounds of dirt in front of the trenches, and the dust flew from the hits.

The soldiers were calmly ready for battle, but still none of them showed their heads. "One hundred and fifty meters!" As the number was reported by the observation post, the muzzles of black holes stretched out from behind the sandbags and trenches, and the light and heavy machine guns in the bunker were also loaded with bullets. "One hundred meters!" After the observer's voice shouted, the commander of the company shouted: "Hit!" The order spread throughout the position.

First of all, the heavy machine guns blocked the attack path of the Japanese troops with crossfire, the light machine guns fired at the Japanese troops in a fan, the submachine guns in the hands of other soldiers were adjusted to single shots, and the semi-automatic rifles exerted their power at a distance of 100 meters. The strength of these veterans is really not boastful, almost guns bite the flesh, a squadron of the Japanese attack only attacked for ten minutes and suffered more than half of the casualties, and even the squadron leader fell under the gunner's gun.

The rest of the Japanese troops retreated under the cover of heavy machine guns, and only a third of the soldiers were able to escape. When the captain of the Japanese army saw this situation, he couldn't help frowning. Although this was only a tentative attack, the soldiers of a squadron only retreated after more than ten minutes of attack, and the gunfire on the opponent's position was not dense, which obviously showed that although the Chinese army on the opposite position was not large in number, it was a well-trained elite army, which was by no means the combat effectiveness that those miscellaneous armies and guerrillas in China could have.

While the captain ordered the attack to be stopped, he went to the captain of the wing, Jio Garna, to report the situation to him. Soon the situation was reported to the division commander, Lieutenant General Masaki Ito. Lieutenant General Ito Masaki was still somewhat prepared for this, he knew that the Chinese army living here in Jing County would never be easy to deal with, otherwise he would not have transferred one of his own field divisions from the front line to clear out the Chinese army here.