Four hundred and twentieth chapters counterattack (seven)
Xue Yue also said in a low voice, "I didn't say to abandon Changsha. I meant to send a unit and the youth army directly to Hengyang to prepare for defensive operations. I think the temporary 54th Division and the 10th Army will establish a defense system first."
, we will select another unit to go to Hengshan on the flank of Changsha, and when the Japanese army attacks Hengyang, we will cut off the Japanese army's logistics supply line, and then we will find a way to counterattack. If everything goes well, we can even counterattack back to Changsha."
Wu Yizhi shook his head and said, "No, it's too risky. What if the Japanese army stops marching after they capture Changsha?"
Xue Yue laughed and said, "This is absolutely impossible. The Japanese troops in South China are attacking Guangxi. Why are they attacking Guangxi? That is to open up the Hunan-Guangxi artery and cut off our Kuomintang-controlled areas."
Seeing Wu Yizhi's disapproval, Xue Yue shook his head and said, "Then let me think about it again."
The war in Changsha was urgent, and the Japanese troops in northern Jiangsu felt worse than Xue Yue.
——Xinyi River
The Xinyi River is a large river located between Lianyungang and Huai'an. The terrain of northern Jiangsu is flat and easy to attack and difficult to defend. It is a rare natural barrier. After the New Fourth Army and the 115th Division captured the East China Sea, they divided their forces to attack various places. The Japanese troops in northern Jiangsu
Reacting immediately, after confirming that there were no large New Fourth Army troops around, the Japanese troops in Yancheng and Huai'an immediately mobilized their troops to the south bank of the Xinyi River, set up positions, and prepared to use the terrain here to intercept the New Fourth Army in Hebei.
A battle of forced crossing began.
"Tie it tight, this is what we are going to sit on later, yes, yes, just tie it like this." In the south of the Xinyi River, soldiers of the New Fourth Army were tying the raft with wood. Chen Yi looked at the Japanese flag on the other side of the river and said.
"Are the Japanese planning to use such a river to block our New Fourth Army?"
Ye Fei had just been appointed as the division commander and was about to start a big fight. He pointed to the opposite bank and said, "The land in northern Jiangsu is extremely open. Commander, look at it, there are no mountains or forests on the other side, but it's just a little devil's position."
It relies on Muyang County to set up, and it is not easy to pass this one kilometer with little loss."
Chen Yi squinted his eyes and said, "We must fight even if we suffer losses. We fought a smooth battle in the East China Sea, relying on our absolute firepower advantage. Now we are going to fight a tough battle and let the soldiers test the Japanese firepower first."
More than twenty New Fourth Army warriors lined up. Ye Fei filled a bowl of wine for everyone and said, "Comrades, there are more than a thousand little devils in front of us who want to block our way. Tell me, is this possible?"
"impossible!!"
"Okay! After drinking this bowl of wine, let's go and try to see how many jins the Japanese have and dare to stop our tens of thousands of troops with a thousand people."
More than 20 people drank their wine and threw it on the ground. The leader, Zhu Wei, took off his clothes, threw it on the ground and said, "Comrades, let's go!!"
It was late at night, and the river was flowing. The Japanese army's searchlights swept over the river from time to time. Every once in a while, the Japanese army would use machine guns and mortar fire to conduct reconnaissance. Driven by Zhu Wei and others, the three rafts
, came to the river, Zhu Wei whispered "Hurry! Hurry!!"
In order to avoid being discovered by the Japanese army as much as possible, except for the commander on one ship, everyone else had a big ocean in their mouths so as not to make any noise.
Suddenly, a searchlight hit Zhu Wei's boat, and the raft, which was paddling desperately, was suddenly exposed to the searchlight. Zhu Wei only heard a quack like a duck, and then a siren, and he immediately knew something was wrong.
Seeing that there were still three to four hundred meters away from the other side, Zhu Wei shouted, "Jump!"
The soldiers had just jumped into the water and continued to swim to the other side of the river. Guns and guns were fired from the other side of the river. The river seemed to be boiling. Countless shells and bullets hit the water. Zhu Wei's raft was suddenly torn into pieces.
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While attacking, the Japanese troops kept using searchlights to look for other rafts, but no trace of any rafts could be found.
Ye Fei on the other side stomped his feet and said to Chen Yi next to him, "Commander, look, the Japanese defenses are tight. It's almost impossible to sneak across. Let's attack by force."
Chen Yi looked at the time and said, "Okay, don't waste any more time, start the attack immediately at three o'clock in the morning."
Time passed little by little, and the Japanese army's position had returned to calmness from the joy of victory. Chen Yi waved his hand and shouted, "Start!"
Hundreds of rafts entered the river together. The rushing sound of paddling and the mighty rafts immediately attracted the attention of the Japanese searchlights. Before the Japanese sirens could sound, Ye Fei, who had been staring at the movements of the Japanese troops, shouted loudly, "Fire!"
"Tongtongtongtong" dozens of infantry guns and mortars fired crazily at the newly discovered fire points. The rafts in the river ran forward crazily as if they had been stung by a wasp.
But the Japanese army was in a defensive position after all, and it could not be exploded by mortars and infantry artillery. The Japanese machine guns and artillery kept tilting bullets and shells following the searchlights, and the barrels of the machine guns fired by the Japanese machine gunners turned red.
"Quick! Change the barrel!" A Japanese machine gunner saw that it was almost done. After unloading the bullet chain, he shouted loudly. The soldier next to him rushed forward with gloves on to unload the barrel. As he was unloading, he saw
A smoking object rolled over. The soldier lowered his head in confusion, only to see that it was an object that was bigger at one end and smaller at the other. The soldier's eyes got bigger and bigger, and he shouted "Grenade!!"
Before he finished speaking, with a bang, the Japanese machine gun position on the left fell silent under a cloud of black smoke.
"Dududududu" The Japanese soldiers in the position were surprised to find a familiar charge horn blowing in the middle of their position, followed by the explosion of grenades and the Chinese shouting to kill. Everyone's heart sank.
The Chinese are coming to kill us, what should we do?"
Ye Fei on the opposite side was confused. He could see clearly that the raft in front of him was still one or two hundred meters away from the river bank. Who was to the south?
However, the soldiers of the New Fourth Army in the river thought that some comrades had already landed on the river bank. While cheering for these comrades, they rushed forward even more desperately. The Japanese army's firepower was stalled for a while because of this, and suddenly four or five rafts were leaning against each other.
When they reached the river bank, these soldiers all carried the best weapons, many of them also carried submachine guns, and they brought enough grenades. After a while, a bank position was established.
The Japanese commander felt confused. He never expected that the defense line he established could not last even one night. Although the county seat was still in his hands, the Xinyi River had been forcibly crossed, and it was only a matter of time.
"Kill!!" "Charge!!" "Da da da" "Boom"
In the dark night, the New Fourth Army that had sneaked into the Japanese army's positions rushed and killed everywhere. The Japanese army had no idea how many New Fourth Army troops had rushed in. Since many of the New Fourth Army soldiers were armed with Japanese weapons, some Japanese soldiers listened to the sound of three-wheelers shouting everywhere.
The voices of Badagai and Waibazi were not clear at all whether they were from our own people or from the New Fourth Army, and they were frightened.
Compared with soldiers of the Chinese army, the Japanese army has always had a huge advantage: autonomy. When one unit completes its mission, it will immediately assist other units with completely different tasks based on the actual situation and the intelligence obtained in advance.
, and the National Army soldiers often went up the mountain without orders, and did not dare to make any move even if their friendly troops were about to be slaughtered right next to them. But the New Fourth Army and the Eighth Route Army were completely different. These troops were organized by the Red Party.
The troops have greater autonomy than the Japanese army. Every person and every squad will immediately rush to the place where gunshots are heard after completing their mission. This makes even though there are only nearly a hundred New Fourth Army troops rushing forward, with a huge momentum.
It is larger than a regiment of the National Army. As long as these New Fourth Army soldiers are not killed in battle, they will continue to attack.
Ye Fei quickly organized the second group of teams to cross the river. With the protection of the beachhead, the losses of this second group were much smaller. It was already dark at this time. The Japanese army took another look and found that their losses had exceeded
A squadron, and what's even more terrible is that the New Fourth Army's artillery fire has no intention of stopping. At this time, half of the Japanese artillery has been lost. The Japanese commander was weighing the situation when he heard a harsh whistling sound.
He looked up and saw dozens of meteors appearing in the dawn sky. The meteors were extremely huge and were rushing towards his artillery position. Then, there were explosions one after another, and the explosive gas
The waves were huge, and the rising mushroom cloud seemed to despise his own bravery.
"Whoosh...whistling...whistling heavy artillery???"
These four terrifying words flashed through the hearts of all the Japanese soldiers.
Since the Eighth Route Army used rocket launchers in the Shanxi Campaign, this mysterious roaring heavy artillery has quickly spread among the top brass of the Japanese army. Although there are strict orders not to allow lower-level Japanese soldiers to discuss this thing, the Japanese soldiers still know about it through word of mouth.
There is a mysterious heavy artillery unit among the Red Party troops. It is an extremely mobile and powerful unit, all equipped with heavy artillery of over 100 mm. Any imperial army that dares to challenge them will have no choice but to retreat in the end.
The Japanese commander was first surprised, then overjoyed. He did not bring heavy artillery, but the New Fourth Army had heavy artillery. So it was understandable that he retreated. Without any hesitation, he immediately ordered the Japanese troops to evacuate Muyang County and retreat to Huai'an.
When the last Japanese military flag was thrown to the ground, it was already bright. Chen Yi and Ye Fei walked to the south bank of the Xinyi River together. They couldn't help but feel happy when they looked at the Muyang County town bathed in the sun.
"Fortunately, Commander Lin gave us three of these rocket launchers. Otherwise, we don't know how much effort it would take to attack them." Chen Yi sighed as he looked at the Japanese positions that had been ravaged by rocket launchers.
"Isn't that right? There's just a little less ammunition." Ye Fei licked his lips and said. Before Lin Sanhu separated, he gave Chen Yi three rocket launchers. After Chen Yi saw the power of the test firing, he immediately classified these three rocket launchers as military equipment.
Of course, Jiang Cheng, who was directly under the ministry and was known to be the source of the rocket launcher, was immediately regarded as a living Tang monk by Chen Yi and others. After Chen Yi knew that Jiang Cheng liked spicy food, he even cooked a dish of Mapo Tofu for him and served it to him.
It was a great Hongmen Banquet, until Jiang Cheng promised that he would equip the New Fourth Army with rocket launchers.
"Teacher!! Commander!! Look, who is this?" A shout came. Ye Fei looked around and saw only a group of people coming. Ye Fei looked around and saw a group of shirtless men and women in the middle.
Among the charred men, one of them was strong and strong. Who else could it be if it wasn’t Zhu Wei?
Ye Fei smiled and spanked Zhu Wei and said, "You're not dead! I thought you were beaten to death."
Zhu Wei chuckled and said, "I'm lucky, why don't we just swim over?" Then he led a few comrades to pick up the machine gun point that had been blocking us, blew the charge horn again, and bluffed for a while. Fortunately,
Everyone came up too, and my calves are still shaking now."
Chen Yi nodded and said, "Okay, you are our number one hero."
Just as he was talking, a staff officer came over and said, "Commander, there is something going on."
Chen Yi and Ye Fei asked the soldiers to repair, then walked over and asked, "What happened?"
The staff officer replied, "The Japanese have indeed withdrawn from the county town, but our soldiers went to ask the fellow villagers to open the door, but no one opened the door. The doors were all closed. I was wondering if there was something wrong?"
Chen Yi frowned and said, "This is not possible. The common people are the source and guarantee of our fighting power. Let's go! Let's go and see together."
Chen Yi led people into the county town and looked around. Sure enough, every household had its doors closed. Occasionally, someone opened the door to observe the situation. When they saw Chen Yi and others, they hurriedly closed the door.
Chen Yi frowned, knocked on the door of a family and said, "Fellow, fellow, we are the New Fourth Army, a Chinese army. Open the door, we will not harm you."
I only heard a panic voice coming from inside saying, "No one, no one, boss, I beg you to leave... Whatever you want, we will throw it out."
Chen Yi and Ye Fei looked at each other. Ye Fei also felt something was wrong and said to the guard next to him, "Where are the local guerrillas? Call them over and ask what's going on?"
After a while, a man dressed as a teacher came over and saluted Chen Yi and others, "Hello, Chief!"
Chen Yi yelled, "What's going on in Muyang? Why don't the people dare to take to the streets? Have you guerrillas done something outrageous that makes the people misunderstand us?"
The teacher hurriedly said, "Chief, this...this is unjust...actually it's like this. The Japanese have made a statement before, saying that our New Fourth Army is just passing by temporarily and will leave sooner or later. If anyone dares to cooperate with us,
When the Japanese army comes back, the whole family will be killed."
Chen Yi stamped his feet and said, "Who said we were passing by temporarily? We want to establish a liberated area here."
The teacher said in a low voice, "The Japanese are talking about Huangqiao. When they talked about Huangqiao, our New Fourth Army had strong troops, but in the end we withdrew. Now that we have been attacked by the National Army and the Japanese Army for so long, our strength has declined. Why?"
Maybe stay in one place for a long time?"
Chen Yi sighed, looked at the closed doors of every house with understanding and said, "Our New Fourth Army...has lost the support of the people."
Ye Fei quickly said, "Then what should we do now?"
Chen Yi said loudly, "Then tell all the people that our New Fourth Army will not leave again this time! Tell the soldiers that anyone who dares to violate discipline will be severely punished by military law! Let us use military discipline to tell the people what kind of army we are and what kind of army we are."
Believe in the eyes of the people."
Ye Fei and the people around him nodded to express their understanding.
--Nanjing
"The New Fourth Army has overwhelming momentum. It has captured Muyang, Guannan, Binhai and other places, continuously cut off the canal, and returned troops to Huai'an and Yancheng. In addition, troops of the 115th Division appeared in the direction of Lianyungang, and the Lunan guerrillas launched a breakthrough attack.
During the war, the railways were basically cut off, and Ganyu and Guanyun counties have been attacked. It seems that the Red Party is coming with great force!" Xiwei looked at the intelligence and shook his head.