Xu Rui had anticipated the coming brutal blockade of the Japanese and had already prepared for it. The Trojan horse plan he had just launched was prepared to deal with the Japanese blockade.
However, at this time, Xu Rui did not know that the Japanese were about to launch a blockade of the Dameishan base. At this time, Xu Rui and Wang Husheng were accompanying Luo Zhongyi, the chief of staff of the Suzhong Military Region, to Tianchang County to report to Commander Zhang of the Suzhong Military Region.
Members of the army and Deputy Commander Li personally came to express their gratitude.
In Tongcheng Town, Tianchang County, Xu Rui met Li Yu, the acting commander of the Central Jiangsu Military Region.
At this time, the commander of the Central Jiangsu Military Region, Zhang Dingcheng, has already left for Yan'an. After arriving in Yan'an, he will enter the advanced class of the Central Party School and is unlikely to return to the Central Jiangsu Military Region in the future, so Li Yu is still the acting commander in name.
, but in fact everyone knows that it is only a matter of time before the pronouns are removed.
When he first met Li Yu, Xu Rui was really a little excited.
Because Xu Rui was born at the turn of the century and grew up under the red flag of the new generation of the People's Liberation Army! In the hearts of the new generation of People's Liberation Army commanders and fighters like Xu Rui, General Li Yu is simply a military god-like existence! In terms of military attainments, even Peng Dehuai
, Lin Biao could not compare with General Li Yu.
Lin Biao's record was the Battle of Liaoshen, but in the Battle of Liaoshen, the four fields had an overwhelming advantage in terms of military strength and firepower, and the logistics support crushed the National Army. But even so, Lin Biao once appeared
His confidence was shaken and he called the central government to request a withdrawal to Changchun. However, it was Chairman Mao who objected that led to the Liaoshen Campaign!
General Li Yu's victory was the Battle of Huaihai. Compared with the Battle of Liaoshen, the conditions in the Battle of Huaihai were much worse.
Before the start of the Huaihai Campaign, the total number of people in Zhongye and Dongye was less than 600,000, while the Kuomintang army had seven corps with more than 800,000 people. Among these seven corps, there were even elite Kuomintang troops like Qiu Qingquan's Second Corps.
The elite of the army, these are troops fought out of the blood and fire of the India-Burma battlefield, also known as the Chinese Expeditionary Force!
In addition, these 800,000 Kuomintang troops have just been replaced with beautiful weapons and equipment that have been phased out by the US military.
It should be noted that although these beautiful weapons were eliminated by the US military after the Pacific War, they are all intact equipment and have excellent technical performance, especially the American field howitzers, which are enough to outlast the Japanese army in terms of range and lethality.
There are several streets of howitzers. Although there are artillery columns in Dongye, they are completely incomparable with the artillery of the Kuomintang army.
But even under such extremely unfavorable conditions, Zhongye and Dongye still won the Huaihai Battle, and also fought a battle of annihilation, annihilating 600,000 people from six regiments of the National Army! Even Qiu Qingquan, who fought on the Indo-Burmese battlefield,
The Second Corps was also completely wiped out, and its commander Qiu Qingquan also died among the rebels.
Such a result can be called a miracle in the history of world military affairs.
In the following decades, military academies around the world included the Battle of Huaihai in their textbooks and explained it to military students as a classic battle example.
After the battle, CEO Chen Yi said modestly that the victory in the Huaihai Battle was achieved by more than a million former civilians in the Central Plains using wheelbarrows. To be fair, it was the cooperation of one million former civilians and 400,000 militiamen.
Although it is one of the indispensable factors, it is General Riyu who really plays the decisive role.
If it weren't for the godly command of General Li Yu, even if there were five million more former civilians and one million more militiamen, the People's Liberation Army would not be able to win the Huaihai Battle. Therefore, under the leadership of a new generation of People's Liberation Army commanders like Xu Rui
In my mind, General Li Yu is like a military god!
The reason why Xu Rui came to visit in person this time was not so much to thank the Suzhong Military Region for its great help, but rather to meet General Li Yu.
"Commander Li!" Xu Rui stood at attention, gave a respectful military salute, and then said with a smile, "You are so young."
"You are younger." Commander Li chuckled, stretched out his hand to shake Xu Rui's hand, and then said with a smile, "Compared to you, I am already an old guy, haha."
With a few jokes, the distance between Xu Rui and Commander Li quickly narrowed.
Commander Li personally poured water for Xu Rui and Wang Husheng, and then said: "Commander Xu, Lao Wang, your counter-mopping up this time is really shocking. With just one military division, you not only defeated the little Japanese's big plan
They raided and almost wiped out two and a half Japanese divisions. Such a record is simply jaw-dropping!"
Xu Rui said in his heart, Mr. Li, Mr. Li, this kind of record is just like playing house compared with the Huaihai Battle commanded by you a few years later. But Xu Rui can't say this, otherwise he will be regarded as a lunatic.
, or a few years later, this statement will come true, and scientists will put it in an iron cage and use it as a guinea pig to detoxify and study.
At that moment, Xu Rui said: "It's just a fluke. If we hadn't met an idiot like Hebian Zhengsan, it would have been really difficult for our military division to win this counter-mopping up."
Wang Husheng said: "And the reason why this counter-mopping up was successful was thanks to your Central Jiangsu Military Region's special agent group. If Chief of Staff Luo hadn't arrived in time with the Soviet Central Military Region's special agent group and fought tooth and nail to stop it, Meixian would have been killed.
The Japanese have already occupied it. If that were the case, we would have lost this counter-mopping operation."
Commander Li said: "Isn't it right to help our brother troops within our ability?"
"The key point is that the situation in your Suzhong Military Region is quite serious." Wang Husheng said, "I heard that because you removed the secret service group, your Suzhong Military Region lost a town?"
"That's not the case." Commander Li waved his hand and said, "The Yangcun town you mentioned is too close to Tianchang County. We originally planned to give up, so it has nothing to do with the presence of the special agent group."
"But it is an indisputable fact that the special agent team has helped us a lot!" Xu Rui said, "To express our gratitude, our military division has prepared a small gift. Commander Li, please don't despise it. Don't accept it.
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"Commander Xu is too polite. I already said this is the right thing to do, so why should I prepare any more gifts?" Commander Li waved his hand repeatedly.
"Commander Li, you must accept this small gift!" Xu Rui forced the gift slip into Commander Li's hand, and then said, "And please don't call me commander again. It's too shameful. For an old revolutionary like you
, how dare I call myself commander in front of the old Red Army, you should just call me Xiao Xu, so that I can feel more at ease."
"Okay, then I'll call you Xiao Xu, but this gift..." Commander Li said as he glanced at the gift list in his hand, and then his eyes widened immediately.
I saw the gift list written suddenly:
Type 38 rifle: 5,000 pieces;
Crooked light machine guns: 80 pieces;
Type 92 heavy machine guns: 20 pieces;
5.5mm rifle ammunition: 50,000 rounds;
7.7mm heavy machine gun ammunition: 20,000 rounds;
Melon grenade: 500;
80 light mortars: 10;
80 mortar shells: 20 rounds;
Type 92 infantry guns: 4 pieces;
92 infantry artillery shells: 8 rounds;
75 caliber Italian mountain guns: 12 pieces;
75 caliber Italian artillery shells: 1200 rounds;
Seeing the end of the gift list, Commander Li wiped his eyes vigorously and couldn't believe it.
However, after wiping my eyes, I discovered that at the end of the gift list, it still clearly stated twelve Italian mountain cannons of 75 caliber, plus 1,200 rounds of artillery shells!
Good guy, this is a mountain artillery camp!
Not counting this, it also comes with ten base shells!
Good guy, if this is a small gift, are there any big gifts in this world?
With these guys, the Central Jiangsu Military Region can seriously form an artillery regiment!
Luo Zhongyi stood behind Commander Li and was surprised when he saw the numbers on the gift list clearly.
Along the way, Luo Zhongyi came back by car with Xu Rui and Wang Husheng. He did not go with the gift-giving team, so he didn't know what kind of gift Xu Rui had prepared. Now that he saw the details of the gift list, Luo Zhongyi was inevitably a little surprised.
This much weaponry is enough for them to arm a brigade!
There are so many cannons, enough to create an artillery regiment!
Xu Rui rubbed his hands and said: "Commander Li, this gift is a little light, that is, the last Italian mountain artillery battalion can barely handle it, but this is really not a gift from our Dameishan Military Division, it is from the 30th
It was given as a gift from the friendly forces of the Second Army, so Commander Li, you don’t have to feel any psychological burden at all.”
This Italian mountain artillery battalion was really not a gift from Xu Rui.
Although Chairman Chiang admitted his defeat and promised to pay a ransom of 12 million, Xu Rui still discounted, released him, and returned most of his equipment. However, the Italian mountain artillery battalion was detained, and three
The people of the Twelfth Group Army were not convinced, so Li Motang approached Xu Rui and asked for the cannon. Xu Rui just replied, "We didn't see him."
This is just telling lies with open eyes, but Xu Rui has the confidence to tell lies.
To be honest, Xu Rui really doesn't look down on this Italian mountain artillery battalion now. These 75-caliber Italian mountain artillery are not necessarily much worse than the Japanese mountain artillery in terms of range and firepower, but the two specifications of artillery are mixed together. Logistics
The pressure of support would increase exponentially, so Xu Rui simply borrowed flowers and offered Buddhas to send to the Soviet Central Military Region.
Wang Husheng also felt that the courtesy was too lenient and said: "Commander Li, Lao Xu originally wanted to give you twenty rocket launchers so that your Central Jiangsu Military Region could form an infantry and artillery battalion. However, when the time came, Chief of Staff Zhang of the Military Headquarters asked
It has taken away more than half of the production capacity of our Dameishan Arsenal, so these twenty rocket launchers may have to wait until later."
After a long while, Commander Li finally came to his senses and asked, "Xiao Xu, is this really a gift for us?"
"Of course." Xu Rui said with an extremely certain tone, "Judging from the time, the cavalry regiment transporting the gifts should have entered Tianchang County, and it will be almost time to arrive at Banta Town."
"Xiao Liu!" Commander Li immediately raised his head and shouted, "Immediately notify Commander Wang and ask him to lead a regiment out of Banta Town to meet the brother troops from the Dameishan Military Division."
"Yes!" Guard Xiao Liu agreed, turned around and ran away.