Zhou Wu looked at the battlefield situation in front of him, and felt that the New Fourth Army was fighting quite hard, after all, the number of little devils was superior, and the weapons and equipment were not known to be many grades more advanced than the New Fourth Army on the opposite side, and these devils now have no way to retreat, the old nest Yangzhou City is in danger, and the back butt was desperately chased by Zhou Wu and them, and the sky was dark again, and there was no devil plane in the air for fire support and reconnaissance at night, so the devils at this time were like ants on a hot pot, and they were crazy to rush through the sniper positions of the New Fourth Army.
Return to Yangzhou City.
The troops on the opposite side to block the devils were the Third Regiment of the Jiangbei Detachment of the New Fourth Army led by Chen Guofu, and it had been several hours since they had been diagonally inserted from the direction of Tianchang to the back of the little devils besieging Gaoyou Lake, and had built a temporary defensive blocking position here to block these devils who had retreated from Gaoyou Lake.
In order to be able to break through the interception of the New Fourth Army, the little devil desperately launched a tidal wave of crazy attacks on Chen Guofu and them, and the soldiers on the forward position of the third regiment of the New Fourth Army who were responsible for blocking were killed and injured, but Chen Guofu still ordered the soldiers to continue to hold the blocking position and buy time for Zhou Wu and them.
The political commissar of the Third Regiment of the Jiangbei Detachment of the New Fourth Army, surnamed Niu, was an old Red Army political work cadre who had traveled 25,000 miles on the Long March, and later almost died on the Gobi Desert with the Westward Expedition of the Fourth Front Army.
Later, when the Anti-Japanese War broke out, he and a group of Red Army cadres were assigned by their superiors to the New Fourth Army that had just been established in the south of the Yangtze River, serving as the political commissar of the Third Regiment of the Jiangbei Detachment, and leading the New Fourth Army in the armed anti-Japanese work in the area around Gaoyou Lake with Chen Guofu and others.
Political Commissar Niu saw that the casualties in the battle were too great, and he was very dissatisfied with Chen Guofu's repeated insistence on holding his position and continuing to fight positional warfare with the little devils, and he demanded that Chen Guofu immediately change the operational arrangements, withdraw the New Fourth Army from the position, and directly join Zhou Wu and his independent brigade of the Nationalist Army to the west, otherwise the New Fourth Army here would be attacked from three sides by reinforcements from Yangzhou, Taizhou, and even Nanjing, and the consequences would be unimaginable.
Because Chen Guofu had not yet received the situation that Zhou Wu had broken away from the devil's attack at this time, and was desperately gathering the team to chase after the devil, he thought that the little devils besieging Gaoyou Lake had not completely withdrawn from the direction of Gaoyou Lake, so he did not agree with the plan proposed by Commissar Niu that he could withdraw from the sniper position now and turn to the west.
"Political commissar, our three regiments were ordered to break through here, the purpose is to contain the little devils besieging Gaoyou Lake, and now the independent brigade of the national army on the opposite side has no definite news that they have broken away from the attack of the little devils, so I can't order the troops to retreat at this moment, give me another half an hour, maybe the brothers of the independent brigade will be able to get rid of the siege of the devils."
Although Zhou Wu is a major general of the national army who belongs to the Kuomintang, Chen Guofu's belief in the bitter hatred of the little devils and the unusually rich practical combat experience in fighting the little devils, as well as his tenacious fighting will that is different from other national army officers, deeply moved Chen Guofu.
He has a feeling of being a hero and cherishing a hero, and he must rescue the brothers of the Independent Brigade from the encirclement of the little devils, otherwise a very important anti-Japanese armed force will be lost here.
Therefore, he ignored the bitter advice of Commissar Niu and insisted on blocking the devil troops in place until Zhou Wu and them got rid of the devil's attack.
"Comrade Chen Guofu, you are also an old Red Army, an old revolutionary, why are you so stubborn, don't listen to the opinions of your comrades, insist on going your own way, and engage in a word?"
"Comrade Political Commissar, I am fully responsible for this military operation, and if something happens, it will naturally be carried by me, Chen Guofu, and you have fulfilled your responsibilities as a political commissar."
Chen Guofu also has an attitude of not buying it, he is very annoyed that the political commissar is nagging in his ear at such a critical moment, affecting his decision-making and judgment.
"No" Commissar Niu's voice suddenly raised several degrees, and the excitement of emotion made the muscles on his slightly old face tremble, obviously he was very annoyed by Chen Guofu's attitude of not buying it and insisting on going his own way.
"I request that an enlarged meeting of the front committee be convened to vote on the battle plan for you and me," Commissar Niu shouted at Chen Guofu, who ignored him and observed the devil's enemy situation with a telescope.
Lao Chen saw that Commissar Niu was really anxious, and felt that it would not be good for anyone to continue to make trouble like this.
After all, he is still a deputy regiment commander, and the political commissar is his top boss, if he insists on going his own way, and his battle plan is really not approved at the enlarged meeting of the former committee, then he will be miserable this time, and he still has to give it when he should give the political commissar face.
"Alright then, let's get out of here and turn west to join the Independence Brigade."
Lao Chen finally softened.
The soldiers of the New Fourth Army alternately covered each other and evacuated the sniper positions in turn, and the little devils saw that the New Fourth Army on the front position began to withdraw from the position, and they did not have the heart to chase after them, mainly because it was already dark, and the New Fourth Army has always been known for being good at night battles.
Just when the big army of little devils had just passed through the New Fourth Army's blocking position and ran towards Yangzhou in a hurry, Zhou Wu and the brothers of the Independent Brigade chased after the general, but they couldn't touch a little devil, because those evacuated little devils had already quickly passed through the position of the New Fourth Army and went to Yangzhou, so Zhou Wu and the brothers of the Third Regiment of the Jiangbei Detachment of the New Fourth Army led by Lao Chen met not far from the southeast of Gaoyou Lake.
As soon as the brothers of the leading unit of the Third Regiment of the New Fourth Army, who were retreating westward, encountered the first company of the independent brigade led by the fat man, they thought that the fat man was wearing the uniform of the national army, and they came from the direction of Gaoyou Lake, thinking that it was the puppet army that ran out of the lake to the direction of Yangzhou, and shouted: "Comrades lie down in front of them and find a large number of puppet troops, ready to fight" The fat man on the opposite side had only heard of the name of the New Fourth Army before, and he didn't know anything about what kind of military uniform the commander of the New Fourth Army was wearing, and he thought it was also the same national army sequence, of course, it was the same as their independent brigade, but he met a team wearing all kinds of clothes on the way, holding an old Hanyang-made sleeve and a Czech light machine gun, and the fat man couldn't react for a while, and he always thought that this was where the armed men ran here to join in the fun.
Just when the teams on both sides were about to fight, the three liaison officers of the New Fourth Army behind the fat man and Zhou Wu and them ran up out of breath, shouting at the fat man: "Commander Liu, don't get me wrong, the opposite side is our New Fourth Army."
When the fat man heard this, he hurriedly inserted the twenty-shot box cannon into his waist, stood up and said to the three liaison officers of the New Fourth Army: "Haha, it's really strange, I didn't expect that your New Fourth Army is poorer than our independent brigade that fell in Gaoyou Lake, I just thought I had met a bandit team to pick peaches in the chaos, I'm really embarrassed, I'm sorry." ” The brothers of the leading troops of the three regiments on the opposite side also knew at this time that the national army team in front of them was the independent brigade of the national army that they were going to respond to this time, and they also hurriedly stood up and hurriedly walked towards the fat man, and one of the cadres of the New Fourth Army who led the team stepped forward and gave a military salute to the fat man: "I'm sorry, just now we thought that your unit was a puppet army, but I didn't expect it to be the brothers of the independent brigade of the national army, there was a false alarm." ” The fat man smiled heartily: "It's okay, brothers of the New Fourth Army, this is called not fighting and not knowing each other, fortunately I didn't shoot and handed over fire, fortunately, fortunately."
The fat man shouted in his heart that he was lucky, if he really started a firefight this time, then he would definitely have no good fruit to eat when he went back to Zhou Wu.
Soon, Zhou Wu, Ding Ning, and Ge Sanmin also came up with a large army, and the main force of the three regiments led by Chen Guofu on the opposite side also arrived, and the brothers of the third regiment of the Jiangbei detachment of the New Fourth Army and the independent brigade of the 79th Army of the National Army met in the southeast of Gaoyou Lake, and the brothers on both sides held hands and hugged each other to celebrate.
Seeing this situation, Zhou Wu and Ding Ning said to Lao Chen and Niu Political Commissar on the side: "Lao Chen, your New Fourth Army is also very good, only these two or three thousand troops, you can resist the several rounds of onslaught attacks of four or five thousand little devils, your weapons can be described as miserable, but we have to admit that the combat effectiveness and fighting will of your New Fourth Army are several times stronger than ours, admire, admire, and you must ask your New Fourth Army for advice and advice if you have the opportunity in the future." ” Lao Chen smiled, and just wanted to say a few humble words to Zhou Wu, but Commissar Niu picked up the conversation first: "Brigade Commander Zhou Wu has won the award, your independent brigade fought to the death against the Japanese devils in Shanghai Luodian and Nanjing defense battles, and it has long been prestigious, and now our New Fourth Army and your independent brigade are friendly troops in the same trench, we are all our Chinese armed forces, as soldiers, we have the responsibility and obligation to drive these little devils who invaded our country and killed my brothers and sisters out of China, Brigade Commander Zhou Wu, do you say that I am right?"
After all, Political Commissar Niu was born as an old political work cadre, and he did not leave his old profession in three sentences, and at this time, he started the unity work of the anti-Japanese united front for Zhou Wu.
"That's, that's, the commander of the New Fourth Army has a point, hey, Lao Chen, you can introduce me."
Zhou Wu said to Chen Guofu.
"Oh, Brigade Commander Zhou, this is Comrade Niu Dagui, the political commissar of our Third Regiment, he is an old Red Army, unlike us guerrilla comrades who stayed in Jiangnan, and he has also gone through the Long March."
Chen Guofu introduced this, but he soon realized that it was very inappropriate for him to introduce his superiors to a major general of the national army in this way, although now everyone is a national army and is united under the banner of the anti-Japanese united front.
However, the 79th Army, the predecessor of the Zhou Wu Independent Brigade, participated in the war of encircling and suppressing the Soviet area of the Red Army, and his political commissar Niu walked a long march of 25,000 miles because of an officer of the national army like Zhou Wu. t1706231537: