Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang felt very happy.
But the Japanese and the National Army were not so happy.
Yu Province.
About 30 kilometers south of Xinxiang.
On the position of the 132nd Regiment of the 132nd Regiment of the 20th Division of the 3rd Group Army in the First Theater of the National Army.
A national army correspondent quickly ran into the regiment headquarters and reported nervously: "Commander, the Eighth Route Army is here."
The commander of the National Army jumped up, quickly ran to the window of the headquarters, raised his telescope and took a look.
In the field of vision of the telescope, more than a thousand Eighth Route Army soldiers wearing steel helmets, holding beautiful weapons and wearing gray military uniforms, guided by more than 20 tanks and more than 30 armored vehicles, marched over in a mighty manner.
"What is the Eighth Route Army doing?" the commander of the National Army's face suddenly darkened.
At present, Zhengzhou is still in the hands of the Chinese army. In the history of another time and space, Zhengzhou fell twice.
After the Japanese army captured Zhengzhou in 1941, General Wei Lihuang led the First War Zone to regain Zhengzhou, which is consistent with this time and space.
But the tragedy of Zhengzhou’s fall in 1944 in another time and space will not happen again in this time and space.
After Chu Yunfei led a new independent regiment to seize Xinxiang, he also moved the brigade headquarters to Xinxiang.
At this time, the National Army's 3rd Group Army was stationed in Zhengzhou. The 3rd Group Army was under the jurisdiction of the 12th Army and the 71st Army. The 12th Army was under the jurisdiction of the 20th Division, the 22nd Division, and the 81st Division.
, the 71st Army has the 36th Division and the newly formed 28th Division.
Regardless of the fact that the National Army's 3rd Group Army has 5 divisions under its jurisdiction, plus various directly subordinate units, according to the establishment, the total strength must be at least 60,000.
However, the first theater of the national army is severely underpaid, so it would be good if the 3rd Army had 40,000 troops.
In a real fight, the 3rd Army could not defeat Chu Yunfei's independent brigade.
In the past, the National Army's 3rd Army was to guard against the Japanese in Kaifeng.
However, Kaifeng has been captured by the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army. In addition to guarding against the 129th Division in Kaifeng, the 3rd National Army also has to guard against the New Regiment in Xinxiang.
During the North China Campaign, the Nationalist Army and the Eighth Route Army always lived in peace and harmony.
During this period, countless people fleeing famine poured into the Eighth Route Army's base areas.
The Henan Provincial Government and the national army's obstruction was of no help, because the people in Henan Province were already going crazy with hunger.
Although the Kuomintang and the Communist Party are united in the war of resistance at the moment, everyone knows very well that they will not really trust each other.
Even if the National Army and the Eighth Route Army cooperated to fight the Japanese on the battlefield, they would send a unit to guard against each other.
After the Wannan Incident, the relationship between the Eighth Route Army and the National Army became even more tense.
Of course, the relationship is only tense behind the scenes.
But on the surface, we are all still good brothers fighting the Japanese together, and no one dares to openly undermine the joint and unified war of resistance.
But now, the Eighth Route Army actually assumed a posture of attacking the national army's positions.
This made the national troops on the battlefield suddenly become nervous.
"Commander, the Eighth Route Army seems to be attacking?" the chief of staff pushed up the black round glasses on the bridge of his nose with a serious expression.
"It doesn't look like we are attacking." The adjutant on the side showed a puzzled expression on his face. "If it were an attack, the Eighth Route Army would definitely fire at our position first."
"Go down with the order and prepare to fight!"
The commander of the National Army graduated from the Whampoa Military Academy and led his troops to fight with the Japanese with real swords and guns, and he was relatively calm.
After a pause, the commander of the National Army added: "No one is allowed to shoot without my order!"
"Yes, Tuanzuo!"
The chief of staff and the adjutant all stood at attention, turned around, and went to convey the order.
However, the commander of the National Army quickly walked to the telephone, quickly shook the handle, and put the phone to his ear: "Hey, this is the 132nd Regiment, please pick up the division headquarters immediately!"
Just when the commander of the National Army reported to his superiors, more than 20 tanks and more than 30 armored vehicles from the Independence Brigade were about to arrive at the forward positions of the National Army.
The national soldiers on the battlefield pulled the bolts of their guns and prepared for battle, as if they were facing a formidable enemy.
In terms of combat effectiveness, these national army troops still exist. After all, they are troops that fought with the Japanese on the battlefield.
But the combat effectiveness of these national troops is not as good as that of the Japanese, let alone compared with the new regiment equipped with American equipment.
But after all, the Eighth Route Army was on the opposite side, and the Nationalist army did not dare to fire the first shot, lest they be accused of sabotaging the unified resistance war.
At the critical moment when both sides were firing arrows and crossbows, the Eighth Route Army's tank stopped sixty or seventy meters away from the national army's forward position.
The infantry of the Eighth Route Army also stopped one after another.
All the national troops on the battlefield were stunned.
What's happening here?
Just when the national army was stunned, the Eighth Route Army took out their marching pots and started to light fires to rebel.
This time, Li Yunlong earned a large number of tanks, and Chu Yunfei's independent brigade was also allocated more than 40 tanks, as well as more than 70 armored vehicles and more than 500 cars.
However, most of them were Joffre tanks, and there were only about 10 Leopard tanks.
Although the tank cadets selected by the independent brigade have just graduated from the Taiyuan Eighth Route Army Tank School and are not yet good at combat effectiveness, they have no problem driving the tanks.
The commander of the National Army and the officers and staff looked at this scene with confused faces.
What is the Eighth Route going to do?
Demonstration? Show of force?
"Send a few people to ask what the Eighth Route Army wants to do?" the commander of the National Army issued the order.
"Yes." The adjutant immediately arranged for a few soldiers to quickly go to the Eighth Route Army.
From a distance of sixty or seventy meters, both sides could almost see each other's faces.
The commander, adjutant, and chief of staff of the National Army still looked solemn. They raised their binoculars and looked at the cannon barrels and machine guns of tanks and armored vehicles, pointing at the positions of the National Army.
Although the strength of both sides was almost the same, with the equipment of the Eighth Route Army, they could easily defeat their regiment and capture their positions.
"This boy Chu Yunfei is really rich." The commander of the National Army sighed with emotion.
Speaking of which, the commander of the National Army and Chu Yunfei were both students of the fifth phase of Huangpu, and they had met once before.
But now, Chu Yunfei has nearly 30,000 troops under his command, comparable to a group army, equipped with tanks and heavy artillery, as well as aircraft and air support.
And his regiment has less than a thousand soldiers.
Chu Yunfei lived the life of a group army commander, but he still lived a miserable life.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! It’s really hard to compare people to each other, and you have to throw away when comparing goods.
In just a few minutes, the soldiers who went to ask questions came back and reported to the commander of the National Army: "Regiment, the Eighth Route Army is conducting military exercises."
"Where can't military exercises be held?" the commander of the National Army said angrily, "They have to be held in front of our position? What should we do if the gun goes off? Has Chu Yunfei shouldered this responsibility?"
"Commander, what should we do now?" the adjutant asked.
"Let brothers turn off the insurance and wait and see what happens." The commander of the National Army looked solemn.
The Eighth Route Army's momentum just now seemed like it was going to really attack, and the commander of the National Army was very nervous.
But knowing that the Eighth Route Army would not attack, the commander of the National Army felt that he could do it.
"Yes." The adjutant hurriedly went to give orders to each battalion to prevent any brother from misfiring his gun and causing a big mistake.
However, within half an hour, various meat buns, white-flour steamed buns, and the aroma of meat wafted towards the national army's position.
On the national army position, there was a sound of swallowing saliva.
Immediately afterwards, the sounds of swallowing saliva became one.
The heads of the National Army soldiers poked their heads out of the trenches, looking straight at the temporary camp of the Eighth Route Army opposite.
In the camp, a large marching cauldron was set up, and the Eighth Route Army cooks wearing white aprons were busy.
"smell good!"
"It seems to be the smell of meat buns and white flour steamed buns."
"Platoon commander, I'm hungry..."
"Go away, do you think I'm not hungry?"
On the national army position, a burst of whispers suddenly sounded.
At present, there is a severe drought in Henan Province, and the national army cannot collect food. Although the national army has food and salary issued by the government, most of it has been embezzled by the officers above. Needless to say, the military salary has depreciated seriously, and the currency issued by the government cannot buy anything at all.
thing.
The food distributed by the munitions department was not only small, but also mixed with a large amount of stones. Every meal was so sparse that a human figure could be seen in it.
As for meat, oil and water, that is even less likely.
Under these circumstances, the main force of the direct line of the national army is better, but it is not much better.
Many soldiers in the national army are sallow and thin, how much combat effectiveness do they have?
Now the soldiers of the national army smelled the long-lost smell of meat buns, and they were suddenly seduced. They stared straight at it with nothing else in their eyes.
After about 10 more minutes, the first batch of meat buns came out of the oven, and the Eighth Route Army soldiers were eating them.
In addition to meat buns, there are also white-flour steamed buns, fried noodles, and scallion pancakes.
This situation made the eyes of the national troops in the trenches and foxholes almost pop out of their heads.
"They say the Eighth Route Army is rich, this guy is so damn rich."
At this moment, the Eighth Route Army on the opposite side shouted: "Brothers from the national army across the way, you can come over and have lunch together, fresh meat buns, steamed buns and fried noodles."
The Eighth Route Army soldiers were very enthusiastic, smiling and shouting while eating meat buns, steamed buns and fried noodles.
At first, the national soldiers were a little afraid of their commanders.
But when a Chinese soldier climbed out of the trench, a large number of Chinese soldiers followed him.
One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and a large number of National Army soldiers poured out from the entire 132nd Regiment's defense line, running towards the Eighth Route Army's camp.
When the battalion commander in the trench saw this situation, he was stunned on the spot and looked at each other, not knowing what to do.
"Snapped!"
When the commander of the National Army saw this scene in the headquarters, his face changed drastically. He took out his pistol and fired a shot into the air with a stern tone:
"Come back to me. Anyone who dares to take a step forward will be killed without mercy!"
But at this moment, the gun barrels and large-caliber machine guns of more than 20 tanks and 30 armored vehicles of the Eighth Route Army were turning in unison, pointing in the direction of the National Army headquarters.
"Put up the heavy machine gun..."
The commander of the national army suddenly turned pale and his orders suddenly stopped.
Because he saw a large number of Eighth Route Army troops coming forward and mingling with the soldiers of the 132nd Regiment.
These Eighth Route Army soldiers showed warm smiles, put their arms around the National Army soldiers, and called them brothers.
If he ordered shooting at this time, he would definitely kill the Eighth Route Army soldiers.
Shooting deserters is nothing, but shooting Eighth Route Army soldiers is destroying the united front of the national war of resistance.
But what frightened the commander of the National Army even more was that more than 20 tank guns and dozens of large-caliber heavy machine guns were already aimed at his regiment headquarters.
The next second he gives the order to fire, the entire regiment will be wiped out immediately, not even the scum will be left.
"Commander, what should we do now?" the chief of staff asked in a deep voice.
"Report the situation to the division headquarters immediately." The commander of the National Army took a deep breath, he already had a bad premonition.
About two hours later, the commander, adjutant and chief of staff of the National Army, as well as more than 100 key soldiers withdrew from the position in embarrassment.
Of the soldiers and officers of the 132nd Regiment who went to eat with the Eighth Route Army, only a few came back.
These more than 100 close and key soldiers are all from the training team of the National Army. Even if they eat rice bran every day, they are still loyal to Principal Chang. And these key people basically serve as squad leaders, platoon leaders, company commanders and other positions. They are basically
They looked down upon those low-level national army soldiers who were caught as young men. Beating, scolding and corporal punishment were commonplace.
When the Nationalist soldiers arrived at the Eighth Route Army camp, they were fed meat buns, vegetables, sweet steamed buns and fried noodles.
After eating and drinking, we visited the weapons and equipment of the Eighth Route Army, American semi-automatic rifles, American submachine guns, large-caliber heavy machine guns, tanks and armored vehicles, as well as various luxury weapons such as mortars, mountain cannons and anti-tank rocket launchers, which greatly impressed the Chinese soldiers.
Open your eyes.
In addition, these soldiers came here in disobedience, and I heard that on the Eighth Route, there was meat to eat every day.
After this series of attacks, most of the Nationalist soldiers defected to the Eighth Route Army, and only a few of the Nationalist soldiers who were eating and drinking ran back.
…
The news reached the headquarters of the Independent Brigade of the New First Regiment of the Xinxiang Eighth Route Army.
"Deputy Commander, this method really worked. Today alone, our independent brigade has expanded by more than 2,000 people."
Fang Ligong reported to Chu Yunfei with a smile on his face.
After witnessing the Eighth Route Army's disaster relief in Henan Province, Fang Ligong, like Chu Yunfei, is now a die-hard supporter of the Communist Party and the Eighth Route Army.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Not only on the positions of the 132nd regiment, but also on the national army positions of the other two regiments, the Independence Brigade also used the agreed method, achieving immediate results.
This method was learned by Political Commissar Qin from the Independent Brigade to the 129th Division for exchanges and experience.
"Haha." Chu Yunfei was overjoyed when he heard this, "These soldiers are simply inferior to the National Army. Only when they come to our Eighth Route Army can they display their true combat effectiveness!"
"What the deputy commander said is true." Fang Ligong nodded with deep sympathy, "Most of these soldiers are veterans who fought with the Japanese army on the battlefield. They have rich combat experience, but they don't have enough to eat in the national army.
If you can’t even eat enough, how can you talk about fighting ability?”
"Pass my order and continue to increase the intensity." Chu Yunfei's tone was full of confidence and expectation, "Our independent brigade must participate in the next battle against the Japanese."
Fang Ligong: "Yes!"
There is a severe drought in Henan Province, and the Eighth Route Army provides disaster relief.
Not only did the people in Henan Province completely turn to the Eighth Route Army, but even some national army troops in the first theater also switched to the Eighth Route Army.
During this disaster, the soldiers at the bottom of the national army were miserable, and they were no better than the common people.
In other words, the Japs from the North China Front Army were killed by the Eighth Route Army.
Otherwise, it would be like another time and space, when the Japs from the North China Front took advantage of the severe drought in Henan Province to launch an attack.
Under the micro-control of Principal Chang, the national army was defeated for hundreds of miles, and the people were left unattended. Corpses were scattered for hundreds of miles, and people died of hunger everywhere.
The food for the Eighth Route Army was not only white flour for the main soldiers, but also meat every three days.
This naturally attracted low-level soldiers of the national army.
After all, many soldiers of the national army were drafted into the army, and even if they were not drafted into the ranks, they were just serving as soldiers to earn a living.
Not only the independent brigade of the new regiment, but also the 129th Division in Henan Province are also increasing their efforts to recruit soldiers from the national army.
This chapter has been completed!