readx;? Just as Wang Haitao was in full swing preparing to meet the Japanese army, Su Yu arrived at the county seat of Jingxian County with a platoon of guards. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info After Wang Haitao learned that Su Yu had entered the city, he thought that he could meet the founding general in this opposite space, and he was also excited in his heart. Wang Haitao was about to go out, and the Tangshan leopard beside him said: "A team of thousands of people dares to call itself the commander! ”

After listening to Tangshan Leopard's words, Wang Haitao reacted, Su Yu's fame in this era has not yet come out, and it is far less than his current self, if he goes too far, it will make his subordinates not understand. So he said: "Mountain leopard, it is a guest from afar, and the New Fourth Army is the best team, so you should go to greet it." Tangshan Leopard continued: "Since the military seat said so, I will go to meet it on behalf of the military seat." ”

Wang Haitao thought about it, Tangshan Leopard was also a colonel regiment commander with thousands of subordinates, and it was not disrespectful to go to meet the commander of a detachment of the New Fourth Army, so he nodded and said: "It's okay, you go to greet the people of the New Fourth Army on my behalf, remember, be polite." Tangshan Leopard agreed, turned away. After a while, Tangshan Leopard's voice came from the door of the command room: "Report to the military seat, Commander Su of the advance detachment of the New Fourth Army has arrived." Wang Haitao stood up and replied, "Please come in." ”

With Wang Haitao's words, two people walked in from the door, and a pair of bright eyes on the emaciated face of the person in front looked at Wang Haitao, and Tangshan Leopard was following closely behind him. This person walked up to Wang Haitao, saluted a standard military salute, and said: "Su Yu, the advance detachment of the New Fourth Army of the National Revolutionary Army, has met Commander Wang of the Jiangnan Theater. ”

Wang Haitao looked at the face that he had seen many times in the information before the crossing, and the excitement in his heart did not appear, but smiled back with a standard military salute, and replied: "Commander Su has come from afar, hard work, please take a seat." Su Yu sat down and said: "Commander Wang has fought from the Shanghai battlefield to the Nanjing battlefield for several months, and has eliminated countless Japanese invaders, this record makes me admire.

First, to convey the greetings of Commander Ye Ting and Political Commissar Xiang Ying of our New Fourth Army to Commander Wang, second, to show that our New Fourth Army will obey the dispatch of the Jiangnan Theater after joining the Jiangnan Battlefield, and third, to convey the information that the Japanese have recently gathered a large number of troops and want to counterattack Jing County. ”

Wang Haitao smiled and listened to Su Yu's speech, and replied: "First of all, thank you for my greetings from Commander Ye Ting and Political Commissar Xiang Ying, as for the scheduling, we can't talk about it, now is the period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and your party has the slogan of the national united front, so since we have the same goal to fight the Japanese invaders, then we are allies and friendly forces." In the future, our two armies should strengthen ties and support each other so that we can better crack down on the Japanese invaders.

Speaking of the Japanese counterattack this time, according to the information I received, the Japanese army attacked Jing County from the direction of Xuancheng with one reinforced wing, and the other reinforced wing attacked Jing County from the direction of Jingde. However, since Commander Su is willing to help, then ask Commander Su's men and horses to harass the Japanese army attacking from Xuancheng to Jing County along the way, so as to delay the speed of the Japanese army's attack, what do you think, Commander Su?"

The reason why Wang Haitao handed over the task of the first battalion of the original reconnaissance regiment to Su Yu's troops was because this kind of raiding and guerrilla warfare was the strong point of the ** troops, second, this task would not allow Su Yu's troops to suffer many casualties, and third, as long as Li Yu's troops participated in the battle, they would share the spoils of war with them in the future, and no one would say anything.

Su Yu didn't say anything about this task, but he also understood that Wang Haitao still looked down on his troops. So Li Yu said: "Since General Wang is so confident in dealing with this counterattack by the Japanese invaders, then my troops are only responsible for delaying the Japanese army, I don't know if General Wang needs us to delay the Japanese army for a few days?"

In fact, now that Qinxi Town is ready to meet the enemy head-on, it doesn't matter how long it is delayed, Wang Haitao is also making an excuse for the spoils of the troops to be distributed to Su Yu in the future. Wang Haitao said: "My first line of defense is set up in Qinxi Town, and the normal marching speed of the Japanese army from Xuancheng to Qinxi Town is two days, I want you to delay the Japanese army for at least one day, can you do it?"

Su Yu replied: "Commander Wang, please rest assured, we promise that we will delay the Japanese army for more than a day." Wang Haitao said: "Okay, but your troops had better not block the Japanese army from the front, with your weapons and equipment, if you block the Japanese army from the front, you will pay a lot of casualties." That's not what I wanted. ”

Su Yu stood up and said, "Thank you Commander Wang for your kindness, I know how to do it." The military situation is urgent, and I need to rush back to the army immediately, so I will take my leave. Wang Haitao also stood up and said: "Okay, I won't keep Commander Su anymore, and when the Japanese army is defeated, I will invite Commander Su to drink." After speaking, Wang Haitao sent Su Yu out of the headquarters.

At the door of the headquarters, a guard platoon brought by Su Yu was waiting there with horses, and Wang Haitao saw that these soldiers were only equipped with Hanyang-made rifles, and only a few were equipped with shell guns. Su Yu was about to say hello to Wang Haitao and get on the horse and leave, Wang Haitao said, "Please wait a minute." ”

In Su Yu's puzzled eyes, Wang Haitao came to a soldier's side, asked for the soldier's rifle, and after checking it, he found that it was only a half-new Hanyang-made rifle, and it was basically impossible to shoot accurately at a target a hundred meters away with this rifle. Wang Haitao turned around and whispered a few words to Tangshan Leopard, and Tangshan Leopard replied: "Yes, military seat." Then he turned and walked away.

At this time, Wang Haitao said to Su Yu: "Commander Su, the weapons and equipment under your command are indeed a little worse, and I still have some weapons and equipment, so let's change the clothes of these soldiers for you, so that I can rest assured when you go back." Su Yu naturally would not object to such a good thing, and after being polite to Wang Haitao, he didn't say anything more.

After a while, a truck drove to the front of the command department under the escort of the guards, Tangshan Leopard jumped out of the car, ran to Wang Haitao, saluted and said: "Report to the military seat, weapons and ammunition have been ordered to arrive." Wang Haitao nodded and said, "Unload the car." Then he said to Su Yu: "Here are 50 Chinese rifles, each with 200 rounds of ammunition, 20 Baigemen submachine guns, each with 500 rounds of ammunition and four magazines, and five imitation Czech-style light machine guns, each with five magazines and 2,000 bullets. Please accept it, Commander Su. ”

These guns and ammunition are really a relief for Su Yu's detachment, and with this batch of guns and ammunition, the combat effectiveness of his detachment can be greatly improved. Su Yu didn't expect that Wang Haitao would give him so many weapons and ammunition at once, this favor is not small, at this time, the eyes of the soldiers of those guard platoons were completely attracted by this batch of guns and ammunition. After Su Yu thanked Wang Haitao repeatedly, he and his soldiers left Jing County with this batch of weapons and ammunition.

A few days later, the 1st Battalion of the reconnaissance regiment reported that the Japanese Nagano detachment had reached Xuancheng, and a reinforced wing of the 114th Division had also reached Jingde County. After a few days of consideration, Wang Haitao has decided to annihilate one Japanese army this time, and it is best to annihilate the Japanese army on the other road, even if he can't be annihilated, he will also be severely damaged.

Now that the Japanese army had arrived at the place of attack, the Xiangbi attack was about to begin, and Wang Haitao ordered all units to prepare for battle, and the Japanese attack could come at any time. Two days later, the 1st Battalion of the reconnaissance regiment received news that the two Japanese troops left the garrison at the same time and rushed towards Jing County. The 1st Battalion of the reconnaissance regiment was ready to attack and harass the Japanese troops coming from the direction of Jingde County.

As soon as the Yongye detachment from the direction of Xuancheng left Xuancheng for more than ten kilometers, the vanguard stepped on a mine, and after a long day of thunder, it did not continue to walk a few kilometers forward, and a volley of bullets flew out of the woods on the side of the road, hitting several Japanese soldiers, and when the Japanese army sent troops to search, they found nothing. In this way, bullets flew from the side to knock down several soldiers, and this kind of attack annoyed the Japanese troops, who remained tense at all times, and only walked out about 20 kilometers in a whole day.

Not long after the wing on the other side came out of Jingde County, the soldiers of the vanguard team also stepped on a jumping mine, which was different from the land mine of the New Fourth Army, and its lethality was enough to kill more than a dozen nearby Japanese soldiers. This kind of jumping mine could not be detected by the Japanese mine's mine detectors, so in a whole day, this wing advanced 10 kilometers at the cost of nearly 100 soldiers killed and wounded amid the explosion of the mines.

It took the Yongye detachment four days to approach the town of Qinxi, while the company in the direction of Jingde had only covered more than half of the distance. After the Yongye detachment approached Qinxi Town, the vanguard discovered the defenders' positions outside Qinxi Town. The commander of the Nagano detachment, Major General Kameiichiro, learned that there was a position of the defenders of Shina in front, and immediately ordered the artillery brigade to establish an artillery position and prepare to launch an artillery bombardment on the positions of the defenders of Shina.

The 1st Battalion of the Independent Regiment stationed in Qinxi Town had 12 60 mortars, 8 82 mortars, 4 100 heavy mortars, and 4 120 heavy mortars, plus the mortars of the 1st Company of the regimental heavy fire battalion, and already had the strength to compete with the Japanese artillery. The Nagano detachment had never encountered a Shina unit with artillery that could compete with itself, so when the artillery position was set up, it was only two thousand meters away from the position outside the defenders' Qinxi Town, which was already within the range of the defenders' heavy mortars.

Li Chunshan, commander of the first battalion, carefully observed the Japanese troops outside the town with binoculars in the fortifications on the wall of the town, and the Japanese troops set up a position with more than 10 mortars and four 92 infantry guns 500 meters in front of the position, and eight heavy machine guns were lined up at 400 meters, and several hundred Japanese troops of a squadron also entered the attack position at 300 meters. Just as Li Chunshan continued to observe, with the sound of artillery, the Japanese shelling of the defenders' positions began.