readx;? After careful inquiry, Wang Haitao learned that the Japanese troops in Tongling City knew that the Tongling City could not hold the city after the city wall was blown down, and the supreme commander took hundreds of Japanese troops out of the city from the west gate, boarded the dock to meet their several gunboats, and hurriedly abandoned the city, so the 568th Regiment did not encounter any decent resistance in the city, and quickly occupied the Tongling County. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the next few days, Wang Haitao was doing the work of pacifying the people in Tongling County, leaving the 278th Brigade stationed in the city, while the 277th Brigade, heavy artillery battalion, and armored battalion returned to Jing County. The four damaged light tanks were not a big problem, and after emergency repairs by maintenance personnel, they were also driven back to Jing County. Three days after the capture of Jing County, the New Fourth Army also captured Guichi County by the Second Detachment and the Special Service Battalion, so that Wang Haitao's defense area was connected with Anqing's ** defense area.

When Wang Haitao sent the war report to Chongqing by telegram, it was not long before he was commended by Chongqing. This time, however, Chongqing also sent a number of political workers to the Jiangnan Theater, on the one hand, to resume administrative work in the counties reoccupied by Wang Haitao, and on the other hand, to set up a political training office in the Jiangnan Theater. After all, Wang Haitao's Jiangnan Theater is now in charge of six or seven counties, and he has four divisions and a New Fourth Army under the leadership of the first leader.

Wang Haitao did not care about Chongqing's dispatch of political workers to the Jiangnan Theater, and as long as these people did not target him and hinder him from attacking Little Japan, Wang Haitao would not interfere with their affairs. This time, along with this group of political work cadres, there was also an independent regiment, which served as a gendarmerie after arriving in Jiangnan, and was not under the command of Wang Haitao.

Ten days later, this group of political workers crossed the river from Anqing and arrived in Tongling County, where they met Wang Haitao, who was waiting in Tongling County. There are 86 of these political workers, headed by Zhang Rende, who is a deputy director of the Military Justice Department of the Chongqing Military and Political Department. After Zhang Rende saw Wang Haitao, he stepped forward to talk to Wang Haitao affectionately for a long time, and then took out a letter of appointment from the Military Commission and gave it to Wang Haitao.

The letter of appointment states that Zhang Rende has been appointed to the post of director of the Political Training Office of the Jiangnan Theater. In Wang Haitao's view, as long as these people in the Military Administration Department do not interfere with his war with Little Japan, as for what they do, Wang Haitao will not interfere, but in the future, it is enough to pay attention to having less open contacts with the New Fourth Army.

Wang Haitao held a banquet in the evening for the group of people who came this time, and the officers of the independent regiment who escorted them and stayed here to pick up the wind and wash the dust. After being introduced at the wine table, Wang Haitao learned that there were five county magistrates sent by the Executive Yuan and more than a dozen county administrators in this group of people. After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, the people at the table naturally tried their best to compliment Wang Haitao, the commander of the theater of operations, and Wang Haitao was also full of clichés, and this wine was enjoyed by the guests and hosts.

The next day, when Wang Haitao asked Zhang Rende where he planned to set up the military administration office, Zhang Rende obviously had been prepared for a long time, and immediately replied that the military administration office was located in Tongling County, and asked Wang Haitao to move the theater headquarters to Tongling County. Wang Haitao flatly refused on the grounds that Tongling County was too far away from the Japanese-occupied area, which was not conducive to commanding a war with the Japanese army.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Rende said something that made Wang Haitao secretly frightened. It turned out that Wang Haitao had aroused widespread dissatisfaction in military circles at this time, mainly the commanders of several other theaters, such as Gu Zhutong, the commander of the third theater. The reason is that several theaters can only retreat in the face of the attack of the main force of the Japanese army, and even Xuzhou is preparing to retreat to Wuhan and other places at this time. And only Wang Haitao's Jiangnan Theater not only reports great victories from time to time, but also constantly recovers lost ground. This made the commanders of the war zone who were losing and retreating very ugly.

Therefore, Zhang Rende persuaded Wang Haitao that as long as he worked hard to hold the existing place, it was already a great achievement, and there was no need to continue to attack the Japanese. The gun shoots the first bird, so let's take it when it is good. Wang Haitao knew that this was Zhang Rende's heart, because after all, he was now one with himself, and he was unlucky, and he couldn't get better.

But Wang Haitao naturally would not do this, this approach is completely contrary to Wang Haitao's fundamental purpose. All the efforts he made were to better fight the Japanese invaders, not to get promoted and make a fortune, and this rank of general and the title of commander of the Jiangnan Theater did not mean much to Wang Haitao and were not important. As long as he can hit little Japan, he can do it anywhere. But Wang Haitao still thanked Zhang Rende for his kindness.

Because Zhang Rende insisted on setting up the military and political office in Tongling County, it became very important to strengthen the defense force of Tongling County. In the Battle of Shanghai, Sun Liren was seriously wounded and was sent to Hong Kong for treatment; at this time, he had just recovered from his injuries and returned to Wuhan, and his original Tax Police Corps was also broken up, and now this independent regiment has 1,800 people, and the equipment is quite well-equipped, because it is a unit that has participated in the Shanghai Campaign, and its combat effectiveness is not weak.

Wang Haitao handed over all the six mountain guns and light and heavy machine guns captured by the Japanese army to this independent regiment, and promised the regiment commander that he would soon give them 100 submachine guns. After that, Wang Haitao and Zhang Rende said goodbye and returned to Jing County. Zhang Rende had no choice but to send a team to set up an office in Jing County.

After returning to Jing County, Wang Haitao was still not very at ease with Tongling, after all, Tongling was on the Yangtze River, and the Yangtze River was now the territory of the Japanese, in case the Japanese army came to attack by warship, it would be troublesome. Thinking of this, Wang Haitao still transferred more than 4,000 people of the 171st Division to Tongling to garrison, and with the fierce 171st Division here, there should be no more problems in Tongling.

After the 171st Division left, Fanchang County and Nanling County were taken over by the 150th Division of the Sichuan Army, and this order made Liao Zhen, the commander of the 150th Division, excited for a long time, and at the same time he was even more grateful to Wang Haitao. When the time came in 1939, seeing that the New Year was approaching, Wang Haitao decided not to carry out large-scale military operations before the New Year, and also let the officers and men who had fought for nearly two years take a breath and have a good New Year.

After everything calmed down, Wang Haitao missed Aunt Feng, who didn't know what was going on now, since the last time he said goodbye in Nanjing, it had been more than half a year, and he had been thinking about all aspects of things and directing the battle against the Japanese army every day for most of the year, and basically had no idle time. This time I was idle, and the New Year was approaching, and I couldn't help but miss Fenggu and the brothers of the Ninety Army who were far away in Xuzhou.

Wang Haitao asked the confidential department to send a telegram to Su Zuxin, chief of staff of the 90th Army, asking about the current situation, and also sent a telegram to Tang Renxin and Tang Longzai, commanders of the 90th Division, not only asking about the current situation of the two, but also asking about the situation of Fenggu. Soon, the two callbacks were delivered to Wang Haitao's desk almost simultaneously.

First of all, Su Zuxin's reply was that the Japanese army was now encircling Xuzhou, and that the 14th Division of the Japanese army, under the leadership of the division commander Kenji Dohihara, was attacking Lanfeng and Shangqiu, but under the stubborn resistance of the Teaching Corps and the 87th Division, they could not capture the two places, and Commander Li Zongren had received orders from Chongqing, and all the defensive forces in Xuzhou were withdrawn to Wuhan and Zhengzhou, and the 90th Army was ordered to be the rear of the whole army.

Tang Renxin and Tang Longzai's call back was very humane, first greeted Wang Haitao and others, and then informed Wang Haitao that everything was fine with the 90th Division, not long ago Tang Renli of Longzhou also sent a regiment of supplementary troops to the 90th Division, so that the 90th Division recovered a lot of combat effectiveness, please rest assured, and finally Tang Longzai told Wang Haitao that Feng Gu had been escorted to Wuhan, and sent a platoon of guards to protect it, and now Feng Gu was arranged by General Chen Cheng to live in a small building not far from the Wuhan Garrison Headquarters, and Tian Yu was also with Feng Gu.

With these two telegrams, Wang Haitao's heart temporarily settled down. At this time, because the New Year is approaching, and several troops under Wang Haitao are strict in military discipline, they have not committed any offense against the people, and they have won the support of the people, so the behavior of the labor army in various places continues to occur, and Wang Haitao also had to participate in some social activities and was busy again.

Seeing that it was already the 27th of the lunar month, and there were still three days to go was the Chinese New Year's Eve, on this day Wang Haitao participated in a pledge activity of the Jing County Chamber of Commerce to support the army, and just after the end, Tang Donglin, commander of the first battalion of the guard regiment, rushed to Wang Haitao's side and shouted: "Military seat, go back quickly, there is an emergency!"

Tang Donglin's shout shocked Wang Haitao, but Wang Haitao still said goodbye to everyone in the business community with a calm face before leaving with Tang Donglin. Coming outside, Wang Haitao asked, "Donglin, what's going on?" Tang Donglin said in a loud voice: "Junzao, it's a good thing to go quickly." Listening to Tang Donglin is a good thing, Wang Haitao settled down.

Back at the headquarters, even the soldiers standing guard at the door smiled at Wang Haitao, which made Wang Haitao a little confused. After entering the command headquarters, Wang Haitao habitually walked towards the command room, but Tang Donglin said: "Junzao, you go back to the bedroom, someone is waiting for you there." Tang Donglin's words made Wang Haitao stunned, usually someone looking for him is basically waiting for him in the command room, and no one will go to his bedroom to wait for him.

Wang Haitao still wanted to ask Tang Donglin in detail, but Tang Donglin had already turned around and ran away in his stunned kung fu, and at this time, Tangshan Leopard, who had always followed him closely, also left, which made Wang Haitao feel that something was wrong. Finally, Wang Haitao came to the bedroom door with a puzzled face, and was about to push the door, when a familiar female voice came from the room: "What a hurry, why hasn't he come back?" Another more familiar female voice replied: "Don't be like this, he is now the commander of the theater of operations, so many things to do every day?"

Wang Haitao stood at the door, as if struck by lightning, it took a while for Wang Haitao to come back to his senses, and pushed the door open, and sure enough, it was his wife Feng Gu who was sitting next to the bed, and it was Tian Yu who accompanied her by Feng Gu. The sound of pushing the door alarmed the two people in the room, and when they turned around, they saw Wang Haitao standing at the door. Wang Haitao only had Feng Gu in his eyes at this time, and Feng Gu only had Wang Haitao in his eyes. The two looked at each other wordlessly, and their eyes on each other had told each other that they missed each other deeply.