Over the next few days, Wang Haitao and his troops were stationed in this small village called Tiancun. It's not that Wang Haitao is not in a hurry to go to the Jurong base, but Wang Haitao learned from Zhang Yunlong's mouth that the current form of the New Fourth Army is not optimistic, and he thinks that he should try his best to help the New Fourth Army.

Historically, the Southern Anhui Incident in 1940 did not happen because Wang Haitao, a figure who should not have appeared in history, appeared, and history has undergone great changes because of his appearance. First of all, the strength of the Japanese army is much weaker than in history, in which the Japanese army once captured Yichang City, the gateway to Chongqing, which directly endangered the safety of Chongqing.

But now the Japanese army has not even been able to capture Changsha, although the Japanese army in Wuhan has concentrated its forces and recaptured Yueyang, but it is already strong and unable to launch further attacks. The current Chinese armed forces, with the support of the United States and Germany, are much stronger than they have historically. Among the main units of the Central Army, there are five German mechanic divisions alone, which are regular German armament divisions with all-German equipment. And Chen Cheng's descendant, General Huang Wei's Eighteenth Army became the trump card among the trump cards because of Wang Haitao's help, not only heavy artillery brigades, but also armored regiments.

It is precisely because of such changes in history that Lao Jiang has more confidence in his heart, and he is even more desperate to deal with the CCP. However, the CCP army has changed a lot compared to history. In particular, the New Fourth Army, which was rooted in southern Anhui, had only more than 10,000 people during the Southern Anhui Incident in history, and its base area was only in the surrounding areas of Huangshan, and its weaponry was much worse than that of the Kuomintang army.

But now, with the foundation laid by Wang Haitao for them back then, and the Jurong base taking care of them under Wang Haitao's orders, the number of the New Fourth Army alone has exceeded 50,000 in the regular army, as well as those guerrillas of all sizes. In terms of weaponry, although it cannot be compared with Wang Haitao's 90th Army and the ace main division of the Central Army, light machine guns are also equipped at the platoon level, and each squad can be guaranteed to be equipped with more than two semi-automatic rifles or one or two rushing and frontal guns. Other fighters are also mainly Japanese-style equipment, and company-level troops can form an artillery squad with two to four mortars. Such strength naturally made the surrounding Kuomintang troops dare not act rashly, and they could only make small fights to make some trouble for the New Fourth Army.

Wang Haitao has not been idle in the past few days in Tiancun, and after learning that Zhang Yunlong's eighth detachment has just been established, he asked his soldiers to urgently train Zhang Yunlong's troops. In addition, all the Japanese-style equipment seized on the road was also transferred to Zhang Yunlong. Zhang Yunlong's Eighth Detachment had just been established, and it used old-fashioned firearms that had been replaced by the main force.

There is such an unwritten rule in the New Fourth Army that the source of weapons and equipment depends on capture, and the more you win battles and the more you capture, the better the equipment of the troops will be, and the stronger the combat effectiveness. Although Zhang Yunlong's eight detachments numbered more than 600 people, they had not fought a few battles, and there were no captures, so naturally weapons and equipment were not good. Zhang Yunlong was also preparing to fight a second battle with Little Japan in the near future, but he met Wang Haitao and them first.

After waiting in Tiancun for several days, Wang Haitao and his entourage finally waited for General Tan Zhenlin, commander of the Third Column of the New Fourth Army, and Peng Deqing, political commissar of the Third Column, and others who rushed to Tiancun with General Tan Zhenlin. Tan Zhenlin and his entourage arrived in Tiancun in the evening, and Zhang Yunlong, Xie Yunhui and Wang Haitao of the eighth detachment all came to the entrance of the village to welcome the arrival of Tan Zhenlin and his entourage.

At the entrance of the village, Zhang Yunlong and Xie Yunhui stepped forward to salute Tan Zhenlin and others, Tan Zhenlin returned the military salute, didn't care about the cold noise with the two, and looked at Wang Haitao, who was standing with a smile. Tan Zhenlin strode forward, walked in front of Wang Haitao, saluted Wang Haitao and said: "General Wang, although we haven't seen each other for a few years, General Wang has beaten the Japanese crown and made great achievements, and I have heard of it!"

Wang Haitao returned the military salute, and while stretching out his right hand to Tan Zhenlin, he replied: "It is the duty of my Chinese soldiers to strike the sun crown, I don't care about military merits or anything, what I care about is that the Chinese soldiers can work together to drive all the sun crowns out of China as soon as possible." Tan Zhenlin also stretched out his right hand, shook Wang Haitao's outstretched right hand, and said at the same time: "General Wang said well! It is the duty of my Chinese soldiers to drive out the sun crown, and I hope that all Chinese soldiers can do what General Wang said!"

At this time, Zhang Yunlong interjected: "Commander, General Wang, please come into the village, I have asked people to prepare wine and food, and everyone will chat while eating." Tan Zhenlin smiled and said to Zhang Yunlong: "Okay, I want to see what your kid has to entertain me today." After speaking, he beckoned everyone to enter the village together. After arriving at the largest room in the village, Wang Haitao saw that there were already several tables in the courtyard, with bowls and chopsticks on the tables, and a few people were busy in the house.

Zhang Yunlong invited everyone to sit down, Tan Zhenlin, Wang Haitao, and Peng Deqing sat on the table in the middle, Zhang Yunlong and Xie Yunhui also sat down, and several cadres of the detachment sat down. After a while, another group of people entered the courtyard and sat at other tables. Feng Zisheng and Wei Changxing, who were under Wang Haitao, were also invited, accompanied by several captains of the eight detachments.

To say that when Wang Haitao's subordinates began to train the people of the Eighth Detachment, these people of the Eighth Detachment were not convinced at all. Wang Haitao's subordinates are also very simple, it doesn't matter if they are not convinced, let's try it, whatever project the people of the eight teams choose to compete, as long as they can win themselves, then they are not qualified to train them. As a result, several of the strongest captains of the eight detachments took out all their skills and were completely defeated by Wang Haitao's soldiers, and the people of the eight detachments were convinced by Wang Haitao's subordinates.

After everyone sat down for a while, the dishes were served on the table, and the conditions in this mountain were limited, nothing more than some game from the mountains and vegetables grown by themselves, and the wine was home-brewed rice wine. However, Wang Haitao, who is sitting here, is not thinking about the wine and food, Wang Haitao is concerned about the current form of southern Anhui, and is more worried that the southern Anhui incident in history will be repeated in two years.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, the kind words that should be said are almost done, and then Wang Haitao asked Tan Zhenlin: "Commander Tan, I heard that the situation of the New Fourth Army is not very good now, and I ask Commander Tan to tell me the truth, what is the situation in southern Anhui now?" Tan Zhenlin replied with a smile: "General Wang, this is not the place to talk, I will talk to General Wang in detail after dinner." ”

With Tan Zhenlin's words, Wang Haitao's mind was not on the dinner table, and seeing Wang Haitao's situation, Tan Zhenlin and the others hurriedly ended the meal. After dinner, Tan Zhenlin, Peng Deqing and Wang Haitao came to the house where Wang Haitao lived, Xie Yunhui asked to bring tea and retreated, there were only Wang Haitao and the three of them in the house, and then Tan Zhenlin told Wang Haitao about the current form of southern Anhui.

Over the past few years, with the foundation laid by Wang Haitao and the constant help of the Jurong base, the situation of the New Fourth Army in the mountainous areas of southern Anhui has been very good; not only has the base area been expanded into this area including the eight counties of Qingyang, Jingde, Jixi, Qimen, Xiuning, Tunxi, Yixian, and Shexian, but the number of people has also expanded from more than 10,000 to more than 50,000, and there are nearly 100 guerrilla units of all sizes.

Originally, there were five divisions of the Nationalist Army around the New Fourth Army, and these five divisions were all miscellaneous armies in the Nationalist Army, and their combat effectiveness was not strong, and even some divisions were not as effective as a column of the New Fourth Army. However, just recently, Chairman Chiang ordered Commander Gu Zhutong of the Third Theater to transfer three divisions from the Third Theater into southern Anhui, nominally to strengthen the defense of the Japanese army south of the Yangtze River, but in fact the spearhead was directly aimed at the New Fourth Army.

These three divisions are all the Central Army, and they are the main divisions of the Third Theater of Operations, which are well-equipped and have strong combat effectiveness. With the support of the Third Theater and the Central Army of these three divisions, the other five divisions also gained momentum, and the friction with the New Fourth Army continued to escalate. For this reason, Commander Ye Ting also sent many telegrams to the central government asking for instructions, and the central government's reply was: "If people don't offend me, I won't offend anyone, and if people offend me, I will offend others." ”

Now, in accordance with the instructions of the Central Committee, the New Fourth Army has given a tough response to the Kuomintang troops that have created friction, and this has made the relations between the two sides even more tense. Chairman Chiang rebuked the Chinese Communists for this incident and demanded that the New Fourth Army leave southern Anhui and go to northern Anhui. The Chinese Communists are studying Chairman Chiang's request and have not yet given a reply.

After listening to Tan Zhenlin's introduction, Wang Haitao's heart couldn't calm down. If my estimate is correct, the historical Southern Anhui Incident will be staged again after being postponed for two years. This is definitely a tragedy that makes relatives hurt and enemies happy, and if such a thing really happens again, the only one who can get the most benefit is small Japan. He said that he should have prevented such a tragedy from happening, but now that he only has 400 people in his hands, how can he prevent this tragedy from happening?

Besides, with his current status, not to mention that Gu Zhutong, commander of the Third Theater, would not give himself face, how could General Ye Ting of the New Fourth Army listen to his own opinions? This matter is really a tricky matter. Seeing that Wang Haitao was silent in thought, Tan Zhenlin said: "General Wang, as a senior officer of the Kuomintang, has always been helping our New Fourth Army, and I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to General Wang on behalf of Commander Ye Ting and all the officers and men of the New Fourth Army. However, General Wang does not need to worry too much about us, our New Fourth Army, the tens of thousands of horses, will never be afraid of the Kuomintang army. ”

Wang Haitao sighed and said: "I'm not worried about your New Fourth Army, but I'm worried that once you really fight, there will only be casualties in each other's deaths and injuries, which will only make Little Japan take advantage of it, and make Little Japan more proud." Tan Zhenlin also said: "Yes, playing in the same house will only cheapen the Japanese invaders, which is also one of the main reasons why our CCP has repeatedly tolerated it." ”

Wang Haitao thought for a while, and now he is powerless about the situation in southern Anhui, and only after arriving at the Jurong base first, can he decide how to change the current situation in southern Anhui according to the development of the Jurong base. Therefore, Wang Haitao said to Tan Zhenlin: "I can see Commander Tan today, and Commander Tan can bluntly tell the southern Anhui form, Haitao is here to express his gratitude, Haitao has other important things to go north, I am afraid that there is no time to visit Commander Ye Ting, so I can only ask Commander Tan to greet him." ”