readx;? Wang Haitao led the troops to reunite with the 542nd Regiment at Xishan Bridge and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and finally rushed out of the dead land of Nanjing City, and the next thing to do was to find a foothold. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Info recalled the three months of guarding Nanjing, Wang Haitao's heart couldn't help but sigh with emotion, he was not busy in vain in the past three months.

The historical Nanjing Massacre will not happen again, and the Japanese army spent several months, paying tens of thousands of dead and wounded, to occupy the empty city of Nanjing, which was in ruins. According to Wang Haitao's estimate, the number of officers and soldiers killed and wounded in Nanjing City will not exceed 20,000, and several main forces, including the 36th Division, the 87th Division and the Teaching Corps, have suffered few casualties.

At present, among the troops that have crossed the river, the three divisions of the 90th Army, the 36th Division, the 87th Division, and the Teaching Corps have retained their combat effectiveness, and this also allows the Chongqing side to immediately mobilize troops to block the Japanese army, and this result should be acceptable to the Chongqing government. I did my best.

For the choice of a place to stay, Wang Haitao's goal is Jing County in southern Anhui. Historically, the military headquarters of the New Fourth Army was set up in Jing County, and with the weapons and equipment of the New Fourth Army, it should not have any problems relying on the strength in its own hands. In a mountainous area like Jing County, which is surrounded by mountains, the strength of the Japanese army should be relatively weak.

However, there is still a long way to go from here to Jing County, and the difficulties on this road can be imagined, if the Japanese army discovers their own troops, then it is certain that they will be encircled and intercepted, once the Japanese army has a large number of troops to besiege their own troops, let alone reach Jing County, whether their own troops can survive is a problem.

In order to avoid the Japanese army, he could only march at night and hide during the day. Thinking of this, Wang Haitao looked at his watch, it was already two o'clock in the night. Wang Haitao ordered the guard battalion to search and advance in the direction of Ma'anshan, the armored regiment and the guard battalion were five kilometers apart, and the 542nd Regiment was to serve as the escort to advance southward.

An hour after Tangshan Leopard led the guard battalion to set off, Wang Haitao led the 542nd Regiment and the Armored Regiment to also set off. Perhaps the Japanese troops were all thrown under the city of Nanjing, and in the hours before dawn, the guard battalion did not encounter a single Japanese soldier. At six o'clock in the morning, the sky was already slightly bright, and the guard battalion, after receiving Wang Haitao's order, left the main road and entered a valley from a small road, where all the men and horses were resting in concealment.

Unable to make a fire for cooking, the soldiers took out the dry food on their bodies and ate it with mountain spring water. The armored regiment was also overhauling the vehicles, replenishing fuel, and then doing some camouflage to prevent the Japanese planes from flying over to find the target, and the soldiers who were on guard at the mouth of the valley in the morning saw the Japanese transport convoy coming and going several times on the main road, but no Japanese army found that there was a unit competing and hiding in this valley.

During the break, Wang Haitao recounted the number of troops and the situation of weapons and equipment. At present, the 542nd Regiment is basically fully manned, with more than 2,700 officers and men, 480 guards battalions, 1,100 armored regiment crew personnel and logistics maintenance personnel, and more than 4,200 soldiers combined.

The 542nd Regiment was originally the best-equipped regiment in the 90 th Division, and with all the new weapons, there were nearly 100 heavy machine guns and more than 300 light machine guns, plus nearly 100 mortars of various calibers, and 15 recoilless guns of the 82 regiments.

Not to mention the guard battalion, Wang Haitao took special care of the guard battalion and the reconnaissance battalion when he was in the 90th Division, and the weapons and equipment of the guard battalion did not deteriorate after it was expanded into a guard regiment, and this guard battalion alone had 50 heavy machine guns of the 67th type, plus heavy mortars, 40 rocket launchers, and 82 recoilless guns, which could be said to be armed to the teeth.

The armored regiment now has 15 heavy tanks, 20 light tanks, 8 German-style heavy armored vehicles, and 18 German-style light armored vehicles. These are all Wang Haitao's confidence.

When it got dark, the troops were again moving south, and the personnel were still led by the guard battalion, as they had been when they had advanced last night. After a few hours of advance, the troops came to the vicinity of the town of Guli, and the guard battalion reported on walkie-talkies that a small squad of Japanese troops had been found in the town of Guli. This squad is supposed to be a squad of the logistics unit, and a checkpoint has been set up here in the town of Guli.

After Wang Haitao learned that it was impossible to bypass this checkpoint, he ordered the guard battalion to touch the checkpoint without using a gun. After staying for an hour, news came from the guard battalion that the Japanese army had been successfully touched and the troops could continue to advance. After a night's march, the troops found a shelter near Tongjing Town and stopped to rest.

Tongjing Town is already the periphery of Ma'anshan, only about 20 kilometers away from Ma'anshan, Wang Haitao expected that there would be Japanese troops stationed in Ma'anshan, so it was necessary to bypass Ma'anshan and not alarm the Japanese troops stationed in Ma'anshan, but Wang Haitao was not familiar with the terrain here, and the armored regiment had certain requirements for the road when it advanced. In desperation, Wang Haitao could only take the risk of turning on the radio and getting in touch with the reconnaissance group.

After Tang Xiaoshan received Wang Haitao's telegram two days ago, he ordered all the scattered troops of the regiment to concentrate on Ma'anshan. In the past two days, half of the troops have arrived at the concentration place, Zhumen Town, in the forty-mile mountains on the edge of Ma'anshan City. After Wang Haitao sent a telegram to Tang Xiaoshan, Tang Xiaoshan immediately sent a combat team to Wang Haitao's station, preparing to lure Wang Haitao and his troops to Zhumen Town.

Although Zhumen Town is only more than 40 miles away from Ma'anshan, there is no Japanese army coming here, first, because the main force of the Japanese army has pounced on Nanjing City, second, Zhumen Town is in the mountains, the location is remote, and there is only a simple road leading to Ma'anshan City, and third, the Japanese army has only stationed a large number of troops in Ma'anshan, and it is simply unable to send troops to this small town in the mountains.

After dark, the combat group was divided into two parts, four people followed the guard battalion to guide the way, and three people followed Wang Haitao and them to guide the way.

Under the leadership of the reconnaissance group, the guard battalion touched two more checkpoints of the Japanese army, bypassed Ma'anshan City, turned east from a few kilometers outside Ma'anshan City, and finally the troops arrived at Zhumen Town at four o'clock in the night. Zhumen Town is a small town with only about 200 households, and the area of the town is not large, so the armored regiment cannot enter the town at all.

Wang Haitao could only ask the 542nd Regiment and the Armored Regiment to find a place to camp outside the town, but fortunately, there was still a part of the tent in Zisi's storage ring, which came in handy at this time. The heavy weapons of the guard battalion were basically left in the camp outside the town, and Zi Si followed Tang Xiaoshan into the town with the lightly armed guard battalion. Tang Xiaoshan has already arranged the station, which is the only primary school in the local area.

This primary school hall is not very large, and it is very reluctant to live in the guard camp, but fortunately there is a room to stay. Wang Haitao took out a few hundred pieces of ocean and handed them to Tang Xiaoshan, and asked Tang Xiaoshan to prepare some food after dawn, so that the soldiers could eat a hot meal, and after settling down, the sky was bright.

When he woke up, it was past noon, Wang Haitao came out of the room and came to the courtyard, and the soldiers of the guard battalion were sleeping soundly except for the people who served as guards. I arrived too late last night, and I didn't bother to talk to Tang Xiaoshan more, and now Wang Haitao is anxious to know the situation of the reconnaissance group. After finding Tang Xiaoshan, without waiting for Wang Haitao to ask, Tang Xiaoshan began to report to Wang Haitao about the situation of the reconnaissance group in the past few months.

It turned out that after Tang Xiaoshan was ordered to carry out activities outside Nanjing, he divided the soldiers of his two battalions into pieces, and basically carried out activities outside Nanjing from south to east in platoons, and they not only had to monitor the situation of various units of the Japanese army, but also strike at the Japanese army's transportation and supply lines at favorable times.

Not long ago, after Wang Haitao ordered the destruction of a small group of Japanese troops that had infiltrated near Tangshan, Tang Xiaoshan organized a battalion of troops to search near Tangshan for more than 10 days as a company, and defeated four Japanese troops, a total of two squadrons of Japanese troops, and he also sacrificed five soldiers here, and more than a dozen were wounded, and all of them were sent to the Jurong base with serious injuries.

If he hadn't received Wang Haitao's telegram this time, Tang Xiaoshan would have prepared to gather troops to cross the Yangtze River from near Yangzhou, and then march west to look for troops.

The reason why this Zhumen town was chosen is that when the reconnaissance regiment first received the order to operate outside Nanjing, it had stationed a battalion in this Zhumen town, and the ground-type reconnaissance regiment here was very familiar, and there were some mass bases, and the key was that it was not far from Ma'anshan, Lishui Town, and Gaochun Town, and there were roads to pass.

Wang Haitao also told Tang Xiaoshan about the situation in Nanjing City in the past few months. Wang Haitao then sent a telegram to the military headquarters of the 90th Army that it had safely withdrawn from Nanjing, and asked about the current situation of the 90th Division. Su Zuxin's reply informed Wang Haitao that his troops had been ordered to retreat to Dingyuan and Mingguang in Chuxian County to establish a defensive line to block the Japanese army's northward advance.

The two divisions of the 74th Army and the two divisions of the 51st Army jointly formed the Huaihe defense line, using the Huaihe River to block the Japanese army from moving north, in order to protect Xuzhou City, an important town in northern Jiangsu, and the Huaihe defense line was commanded by General Yu Jishi, commander of the 74th Army, and all the troops withdrawn from Nanjing City were transferred to the Fifth Theater of Operations, with General Li Zongren as the commander-in-chief, to prepare for the Battle of Xuzhou.