Everyone quickly raised their heads. Xue Yue snatched the telescope handed over by the guard beside him and saw countless fighter planes flying over from the northwest. There was a huge red dot painted on those planes. What else could they be if they weren't Japanese fighter planes?
Xue Yue immediately turned around and said, "Quick! Quickly generate electricity to allow our air force to fight, and order all units to prepare for air defense."
Wu Yizhi shouted at this time, "No! Their target is our floating bridge!"
Xue Yue hurriedly looked back, and sure enough he saw that the Japanese planes did not turn to Hebei where the large forces were chasing the Japanese army, but flew straight towards the Xinqiang River. The planes continued to lower themselves, and black bombs fell like hailstones.
After coming down, the Japanese fighter jets flew the plane less than a hundred meters above the ground, constantly shooting and chasing the Kuomintang troops running around. The rolling river surface was blown up by bombs like boiling water. The Kuomintang troops on the riverside
There are some brave men who hold their guns and shoot at the Japanese planes in the sky, but most of them are running around with their heads in their hands. Crossing the river is already chaotic, but now the soldiers can't find the generals, and the generals can't find the soldiers. How many soldiers are there?
The pontoon bridge was blown apart by bombs, and even a large section of the pontoon bridge continued down the river and got stuck on another pontoon bridge, which looked extremely embarrassing.
Xue Yue gritted his teeth and looked at the sky. Although he suffered heavy losses from being bombed by Japanese planes, Xue Yue was not worried. The only bombs the Japanese planes could carry were those. There was always a time to leave. If he gritted his teeth and persisted, he would always be able to get through.
Ding ding, the phone rang suddenly. Xue Yue looked at Wu Yizhi. Wu Yizhi stepped forward and asked, "I'm Wu Yizhi, where?" "What?? Say it again!" "Okay, I'll report to Commander Xue immediately.
You have to endure it, and if you endure it, you will win."
After saying that, Wu Yizhi quickly hung up the phone and said to Xue Yue, "No, there's a call from the front. A large number of Japanese troops have appeared from the direction of Xinkai Town. It is expected that there will be no less than two divisions. They are attacking the middle of our army. A large number of Japanese troops have also appeared in Yueyang City."
For technical arms, it is estimated from the front that there are close to a hundred heavy artillery pieces over 100 mm, and our forward force suffered a heavy setback."
Xue Yue took a breath of cold air and said in surprise, "Impossible! Where did the Japanese army come from with so many troops?"
Ding ring, ring ring, another piercing phone call.
Xue Yue didn't wait for Wu Yizhi to get it, so he walked over and picked it up and said, "I am Xue Yue, where are you? What? A large number of Japanese gunboats appeared in the Xiangjiang River? Are there aircraft protection? Are they attacking Niutouzhou? How did the Japanese gunboats get past? We
Haven't we been sending people to keep an eye on the Yangtze River? What? Disguised as troop transports, damn it. You guys, hold on, you must hold on until dark first!"
Xue Yue's head was already covered with cold sweat. He only felt that a rope in the dark was slowly being put around his neck, and it was constantly tightening. He pulled his collar and said quickly, "Order all troops to immediately
To push back towards the Xinqiang River, we must retreat steadily and never turn into a rout. We must immediately send power to Changsha and let Changsha prepare for the response."
Wu Yizhi asked, "Should we immediately generate electricity and become the chairman of the committee?"
Xue Yue's eyes panicked for a moment, and finally thought that he couldn't hide it, so he nodded and said, "Okay, I'll write the telegram..."
--Zhangjiakou
He Long looked at his pocket watch, picked up his pipe, waved his hand and said, "Start the general attack!!"
A dozen signal soldiers rang the phone together and shouted at the phone, "Start the attack! Start the attack!"
More than twenty fighter planes that had been hovering in mid-air for a long time rushed towards the Japanese positions, and bombs exploded in the Japanese artillery positions and fortifications.
Behind the 120th Division, howitzers, mountain artillery, infantry artillery, mortars and even rocket launchers roared with their heads held high. From the sky, you can see hundreds of puffs of smoke appearing on the Japanese positions every second.
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"Kill!!"
"Come on!! Kill the Japanese!!"
Accompanied by artillery fire were the shouts of the infantry soaring into the sky and the blue sky and white sun flags flying all over the sky. The Japanese army had resisted the 120th Division's attack in Zhangjiakou for more than a week, and finally reached its limit. The Japanese positions outside the city were destroyed piece by piece.
The Eighth Route Army captured the city and quickly retreated back into the city.
"Moxi Moxi! This is Zhangjiakou. The Eighth Route Army's offensive is very fierce. Where are the reinforcements now? What? Three more days? You said it was three days three days ago! Baga!!" said Zhangjiakou.
The Japanese commander Io Mizukawa threw the phone to the ground in anger.
He stared with blood-red eyes, looking at the roof that was constantly falling with dust due to the shock wave of the explosion. He clenched his fists and yelled. The Japanese officers around him looked at the crazy Io Mizukawa and lowered their heads.
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Mizukawa Ifo suddenly felt that his whole body had lost all strength. He waved his hand and said, "You guys should exit first."
After the door was closed, not long after, the Japanese officer outside heard a gunshot. The Japanese officer quickly kicked the door open and went in. He only saw Io Mizukawa staring at the sky, with the pistol in his hand already on his forehead.
The skylight was opened, and blood and brain matter flowed all over the floor.
The Japanese officers were frightened and felt that it was expected. They calmly tidied up and ordered the Japanese troops to start retreating. The army that set out from Peiping to Zhangjiakou for rescue was still entangled with the guerrillas in the Taihang Mountains.
, it was not until they encountered the Japanese troops retreating from Zhangjiakou that they gave up the advance with lingering fear. God knows what these Japanese troops encountered. Even going to the toilet had to go in groups one by one, otherwise they would often disappear. The guerrillas in the Taihang Mountains became
This left a lingering shadow in the hearts of these Japanese soldiers.
--Nanjing
Nishio was watching the Noh play and kept tapping to the rhythm of the songs and dances. Suddenly he heard the sound of opening the door. Nishio turned around and saw it was Seishiro Itagaki. Nishio smiled and waved and said, "Come on, this is from Tokyo."
The singer is really amazing."
Itagaki Seishiro waved his hand and told the singers to retreat. The singers glanced at Nishio and saw Nishio nodding before retreating. Nishio asked, "What happened?"
Seishiro Itagaki sighed, "One good news, one bad news. The good news is that Okamura Neji succeeded in the battle in Changsha. Our army has crossed Xue Yue's tribe across the river, intercepted and divided it into several sections. The victory in Changsha has been determined, and Okamura
Ningji is continuing his offensive, and I am also preparing for the South China Front Army to begin its advance to try to divide the area controlled by the Chongqing government into two parts."
Nishio clapped his hands and said, "Okay! In this case, Jiang Jie will have to consider surrender."
Itagaki Seishiro said with a wry smile, "I'm afraid Chiang Kai-shek won't consider it anymore. The North China Front Army came to report that Zhangjiakou has fallen."
Xiwei's eyes widened and he asked, "What? Zhangjiakou?? Is it the Eighth Route Army? Isn't it only half a month ago?"
Itagaki Seishiro shook his head and sat down and said, "The Eighth Route Army's offensive was too fierce. It seems that after the Soviet Union and Germany united, they increased their support for Yan'an. Now that I think about it, the National Army should no longer be able to compare with the Eighth Route Army in terms of combat effectiveness."
Already."
Nishio said anxiously, "Hurry up and let the North China Front counterattack. Once this family is lost, Hebei and Manchuria will be in danger."
Itagaki Seishiro thought for a while and said, "There are too few troops in North China. The current troops cannot encircle and suppress the Eighth Route Army. We should wait until the war in Changsha is finished."
Nishio narrowed his eyes and said, "Then continue to mobilize troops to Changsha and continue to increase the attack on Changsha!"
——Dongzhi County
Liu Dake slowly put down the telegram, his eyes filled with tears. The room was packed with New Fourth Army commanders and fighters. Everyone was in unbearable grief. Zhang Yunyi slapped the table and shouted, "The National Army is so cruel, killing my comrades and destroying my home. We
It’s better to go back and fight with them!”
"Yes, let's fight!"
"Kill one and count as one!!"
"Down with the reactionaries! Avenge the comrades!"
One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and all the commanders and soldiers said with red eyes.
Liu Dake waved his hand and said, "Calm down, everyone!! I am also very sad about Comrade Xiang Ying's sacrifice, but what we have to do now is to take the troops out safely. We just got the news that the National Army and the Japanese Army are besieging our rear guard.
, our rearguard troops fought and retreated, and have now retreated into the mountains and forests. Thanks to some patriotic soldiers of the National Army, they could not bear to harm our troops and let many of our comrades leave. This has protected the lives of our comrades and our goal to the greatest extent.
No change, continue north, cross the river, and fight in the north of the Yangtze River."
Zhang Yunyi lowered his head, tears slowly falling to the ground.
Liu Dake continued, "Gao Jingting's troops have arrived in Jiangbei and are waiting to be picked up. That is to say, as long as we walk another hundred miles, we will be safe. Don't worry, everyone, we have gone to Jiangbei now, but one day, our Red Party will come back.
Back to Jiangnan! Back to Jiangxi! Even back to Jinggangshan!!"
Zhang Yunyi shed tears and said, "Okay! One day we will not only fight back to Jiangnan, but also fight into Nanjing, drive away the Japanese, and then fight to Chongqing to capture Chiang Kai-shek alive!"
Everyone nodded fiercely. Liu Dake put the telegram in his arms and said, "Continue to march north immediately!"
——In a mountain forest in northern Jiangsu
Lin Sanhu walked into a tent. In the tent, Su Yu was tied up like a rice dumpling and was talking to Chen Yi. When he saw Lin Sanhu, he quickly wanted to stand up and talk.
Lin Sanhu hurriedly waved his hand and said, "You'd better not get up. The wound has scabbed over, and if it cracks again, I don't know what to do. Even though we have a lot of medicine, don't waste it."
Chen Yi looked at Lin Sanhu with a red face and said, "Comrade Lin Sanhu, I think your 115th Division is very strong. It has been two days since we joined forces with you, and you haven't told me how many troops we have here?"
Lin Sanhu chuckled and sat on a horse with a golden sword and said, "It's not much. This year, my development in Shandong was average. This year, I led our 115th Division in Hebei, Shandong and other places.
The 50,000 people who came out are now only less than 200,000. I brought about 130,000 main troops this time. These troops are our main forces, and there are only 4,000 light and heavy machine guns."
, Lin Sanhu took out a handful of soybeans from his pocket, ate them, and continued, "This is because our troops are farther away from the rear, otherwise they would not develop so slowly."
Su Yu waved his hands excitedly and wanted to say something. Lin Sanhu looked at Chen Yi with a puzzled expression. Chen Yi patted Su Yu and said, "Don't be excited. I know what you want to say. Why do you guys develop so fast?"
203 How much equipment has the commander added to you? Your division almost has more equipment than our entire New Fourth Army."
Lin Sanhu said with a crooked mouth, "203 did give us a lot of equipment. For example, our heavy weapons were basically German and Soviet-style weapons that 203 got for us at the beginning. I heard that it cost a lot of money, but since then
Since last year, a lot of our equipment has been seized from the Japanese army, but we have some contempt for those Japanese weapons, and most of them are given to the second-line troops. Many of the real main force are produced by our arsenal."
With that said, Lin Sanhu took out a Mauser pistol from his waist, handed it to Chen Yi and said, "Look, this gun was provided for us by our Yan'an Arsenal. Some commanders and soldiers like to ask for the original German or Soviet style, but
I think we’re doing pretty well ourselves. Take a look.”
Chen Yi took the pistol, quickly dismantled it into parts, put it back together, nodded and said, "It's a good gun, but it doesn't seem to have a few bullets. It's a pity."
Su Yu also whined and catered.
Lin Sanhu said with a crooked mouth, "It's not like Jinggangshan back then. How can I still have a chance now?"
Chen Yi looked at Lin Sanhu and said with some envy, "It's better for you. We have our own base area and liberated area, where we can set up arsenals and produce. We basically rely on seizures. Wherever Gu Zhutong asks us to go today, will Jiang intermediary tomorrow?"
Let us go here and it will be difficult for us to have a stable base."
Lin Sanhu chuckled, took out a telegram and handed it to Chen Yi and said, "It will be there soon. The latest order from the central government is for our 115th Division to help the New Fourth Army rebuild the base areas in northern Jiangsu and central Jiangsu. It requires all except a few big cities in the Grand Canal.
For liberation, whether it is the National Army or the Japanese Army, as long as they do not cooperate with us, they will all be rushed back to their hometowns. The National Army will be sent to the south of the Yangtze River. We will not be able to send the Japanese Army to Japan, so we will send them all to the sea."
Su Yu heard it and whined anxiously.
Chen Yi quickly patted Su Yu comfortingly, smiled at Lin Sanhu and said, "Did you deliberately provoke him? You know he can't command the battle, and you want to kill him."
Su Yu whined and pointed at Lin Sanhu, as if he was also blaming him.
Lin Sanhu ate soybeans and said, "You can't blame me. In fact...after the Nanchang Uprising, from the Southern Expedition to the Jinggangshan period, Su Yu and I were the two who fought well. Later, due to different experiences, we
Different styles have been formed. Because I have shouldered the important task of defending the Party Central Committee for a long time and am the main force directly commanded by Chairman Mao, I have a heavy burden and I am more cautious in fighting. As for Su Yu, because I am often alone outside, fighting is more risky.
In fact, I am still looking forward to fighting together with Su Yu this time when I go south, but it seems that there is no chance."
Su Yu closed his eyes angrily and stopped paying attention to him. Chen Yi and Lin Sanhu burst out laughing.
