Xu Rui said: "The military promised us at the beginning that as long as our independent regiment persists in the war of resistance, is not a traitor, and does not ask the military for a penny or a bullet, how should this war be fought? The military will never interfere.
It’s only been a few months, Lao Wang, you shouldn’t have forgotten so quickly, right?”
"Of course I haven't forgotten this." Wang Husheng nodded and said, "But attacking Feicheng is different. This is attacking a provincial city. It is a matter of great importance. How can I be justified if I don't ask the military for instructions?"
Wang Husheng did have concerns. When the 79th Division was temporarily reorganized into the New Fourth Army Independent Regiment, the military department did give the independent regiment an order to fight independently. However, at that time, Xu Rui had just accepted the reorganization, and the distance between Anhui and Anhui Province was not considered.
Wannan is also quite far away, so we don’t dare to be too strict in terms of organization.
If you are too strict, what if it triggers Xu Rui's backlash?
But after several months of contact, Wang Husheng had a good understanding of Xu Rui's personality. He found that Xu Rui had some problems with his life style, but he was really unremarkable in other aspects. He was really a Marxist through and through.
He is also a Marxist with superb military command attainments.
So, now, Wang Husheng dares to hold Xu Rui to a higher standard.
The higher standards are organization and discipline. All troops must obey the organization, and hilltopism and sectarianism are never allowed.
Why did the Beiyang Army quickly degenerate from the invincible new army when it was formed into a vulnerable defeated army in less than ten years?
The main reason is that the Beiyang Army has not fundamentally put an end to hilltopism. There are still many hilltops and factions in the army. With hilltops and factions, there must be tendencies. Regardless of whether they are soldiers or officials, they will do it when they see the benefits.
If you step forward to grab others, and if you encounter difficulties, you will instinctively push them over others. How can such an army have any fighting capacity?
Judging from the current situation, the National Army is also following the old path of the Beiyang Army. The army is also full of hills and factions.
However, our army will never and cannot follow the old path of the Beiyang Army, so it must emphasize organization and discipline, and must emphasize obedience to superior organizations.
The attack on Feicheng alone is not enough to show that Xu Rui lacks organization and discipline. After all, the military did promise not to interfere with the independent regiment.
But if Xu Rui really does not report to the military in advance, it will inevitably leave an impression of disorganization in the minds of superior leaders. Especially now that the leadership of the New Fourth Army is still very complicated, it is even more necessary to be cautious. Wang Husheng is doing this for Xu Rui's sake.
For the sake of the future, Gao Hanting, the commander of the fourth detachment, had a very unhappy relationship with some leaders of the military department because of this.
Therefore, Wang Husheng was really hesitant because he was worried that Xu Rui would leave a bad impression on the leader.
Xu Rui easily guessed Wang Husheng's worries, but unlike Wang Husheng, Xu Rui was not worried at all that he would leave a bad impression in the minds of military leaders. It was not that he did not respect the leaders of the military, but
It's because he is a time traveler from the future world and knows how to protect himself.
No matter which party organization it is, cleansing is always inevitable. Just like the human body, it is inevitable that some cancerous tumors and pustules will grow during the growth process. If you don’t scrape off these cancerous tumors and squeeze the pustules, you will be destroyed.
They will be killed by the virus, but in the process of scraping the virus and squeezing out the pus, some innocent people will inevitably be hurt.
At this time, taking sides is very important, but for a traveler who knows the direction of history, how to take sides is still a problem? In one sentence, just follow! As for those imperial envoys sent by the Communist International, I'm sorry,
I'm sorry that Mr. Xu is difficult to serve, but you should stay where it's cool.
So Xu Rui really didn't worry about himself, and then said: "Old Wang, if the military leaders ask about it afterwards, just say that at the beginning we just wanted to blow up the arsenal and conduct a raid and that would be it.
But who would have thought that four detachments would come over to join in the fun, and they would accidentally capture Feicheng."
"Accidentally shot him down?" Wang Husheng smiled bitterly and shook his head, "Old Xu, you are so mean-spirited. If the senior officials of the National Army heard what you said, would you be angry to death? They would fight until they vomited blood.
You were unable to defend even a large city, let alone recover it, but you accidentally recovered a provincial city, hey!"
"There's no way, who told them not to have that ability? Hehe."
"Okay, let's not ask the military department for instructions yet."
"Political Commissar, that's right."
Wang Husheng was finally persuaded and went to send a telegram to the fourth detachment.
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Gao Hanting, the commander of the fourth detachment of the New Fourth Army, is a legendary figure.
Gao Hanting was one of the founders of the 25th Red Army. After the 25th Red Army marched northward, Gao Hanting was ordered to form the 28th Red Army and stayed in the Dabie Mountains to fight guerrillas. The 28th Red Army had less than 2,000 men.
However, in three years, he defeated enemies that were hundreds of times stronger than his own. Chiang Kai-shek was so angry that he replaced the commander-in-chief of the suppression campaign three times, but to no avail.
The last commander-in-chief of the suppression campaign, Wei Lihuang, had 200,000 regular troops and assembled more than 100 returning regiments and security groups. He also built more than 80,000 bunkers and dug more than 40 blockade trenches in an attempt to trap the Red Army to death.
The Eighteenth Army was still of no avail in the end. Gao Hanting even dared to launch a massive counterattack and attack Wei Lihuang's headquarters.
If Wei Lihuang had just changed his headquarters location, he would have become a prisoner directly.
After the July 7th Lugouqiao Incident broke out, the 28th Red Army was reorganized into the Fourth Detachment of the New Fourth Army, which had jurisdiction over the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Regiments, with a total strength of more than 3,000 people. It was the most powerful among the four detachments of the New Fourth Army. When Chen
While Commander's First Detachment and Commander Su's Second Detachment were still fighting hard to establish the Maoshan Anti-Japanese Base Area in southern Jiangsu, Gaohanting had already established an area of more than an area in Tongcheng, Shuxian, Wuwei, and Chaoxian with its back to the Dabie Mountains.
In the central Anhui Anti-Japanese Base Area, which covers an area of 40,000 square kilometers and has a total population of more than 2.5 million, the army has grown to more than 9,000 people.
Unfortunately, in 1937, Wang Ming returned to China with the "imperial edict" of the Communist International to seize power. Since the New Fourth Army was closer to Wuhan, it was far more influenced by the Communist International than the Eighth Route Army, so it was the first to be affected.
When Wang Ming proposed that everything should go through the united front and everything should obey the united front, it was actually a disguised handover of military command to the Kuomintang. Gao Hanting refused to give up the anti-Japanese base in central Anhui. As a result, he was put on various charges and was brutally killed.
Although people far away in Yan'an wanted to rescue him, they were too far away. After learning that Gao Hanting was in custody, they quickly wrote a secret letter asking the Southeast Bureau to handle it carefully, and made it clear that if necessary, Gao Hanting would be sent to Yan'an for treatment.
Further review was organized, but unfortunately, Gao Hanting was secretly executed without waiting for the secret letter to be delivered.
There are no ifs in history. If Gao Hanting had not been wrongly executed, if Zuo Quan had not been sacrificed on the Taihang Mountains, these two famous generals with outstanding military exploits would probably have been awarded the title of marshal. Then the list of generals of New China would probably not be the current top ten marshals.
General, but the twelve marshals and the twelve generals.
However, at this time, Gaohanting was in the most glorious moment of its short life. Not long ago, taking advantage of the precious opportunity of the Japanese troops in central Anhui to sweep away the Dameishan base area and shrink their forces in other directions, the four detachments took the opportunity to launch a large wave of attacks.
A large-scale attack, the two county towns of Wuwei and Lujiang were recovered in one fell swoop.
Now the four detachments control as many as four in the county alone!
In other words, the Japanese now only control the narrow strip of land on both sides of Feiwu Highway.
After sending away several of his regiment leaders, Gao Hanting said to political commissar Xiao Huadong: "Old Xiao, don't mention it. The reason why we were able to successfully recover the two counties this time is really thanks to Xu Rui's independent regiment. If it weren't for the independent regiment,
We really can’t find this kind of opportunity to attract the main force of the Kawaguchi detachment to Dameishan.”
Xiao Huadong nodded and said: "Yes, this time we recovered two county towns, half of the credit must be recorded on the head of the Independent Regiment. I don't know how the anti-mopping up operations are going in Dameishan now. Independent Regiment
Can the regiment with one regiment face a large-scale raid by a detachment of the Kawaguchi detachment alone?"
"Facing it alone? Who said they are facing it alone?" Gao Hanting said with a smile, "Old Xiao, I have no intention of taking the benefits of the Independent Regiment in vain. I have decided to let the Eighth Regiment and Ninth Regiment go north tomorrow to put on a show
The posture of attacking Feicheng, even if the Kawaguchi detachment cannot be transferred back from Damei Mountain, at least the Japs in Feicheng must be held in check."
Xiao Huadong nodded and said quietly: "That's all we can do."
However, as soon as Xiao Huadong finished speaking, the director of the Communications Department walked in and reported: "Commander, political commissar, our radio station just received a text message from Datong News Agency."
"Datongshe?" Gao Hanting said, "Why does it sound familiar to me?"
Xiao Huadong shook his head and said helplessly: "Hey, isn't this so-called Datong Society created by Xu Rui, the leader of the Independent Regiment? Last time the Independent Regiment won a great victory in Dawan, Teapot Ao, and killed
Isn’t it just a matter of using the announcement issued by the Datong News Agency to kill Japanese Major General Shuichi Hamura?”
"Oh, I remembered." Gao Hanting suddenly nodded, then clapped his hands and shouted, "Political Commissar, don't mention it, Xu Rui is very good at this. We will also have to set up a news agency someday. The name is,
Just call it Wantong News Agency, the news agency of our Anti-Japanese Base Area in central Anhui."
Xiao Huadong waved his hand and asked the director of the Communications Department: "Director Liu, what did Datong News say?"
Officer Liu showed a strange look on his face and said: "The text message from Datong News Agency said that they had just defeated the Kawaguchi detachment's raid and wiped out all the invading enemies. Datong News Agency also quoted Xu Ruiyuan, the leader of the independent regiment.
They said that their Dameishan Independent Group was definitely not someone to be trifled with, and even let the Japanese in Anhui..."
