Ding Ning saw that Zhou Wu's mood was up, and hurriedly opened the topic, and said to Zhou Wu: "Brigade, don't worry, we will have what we should have, and we can't come in a hurry, while you have free time now, I advise you to go around Gaoyou Lake and familiarize yourself with the surrounding waters and terrain, so that it will be beneficial to fight devils in the future."
Ding Ning meant that he wanted Zhou Wu to take a walk around this huge Gaoyou Lake, to see the terrain, and to relax, so as not to be in a bad mood when he thought of his tragically dead relatives.
In the next three days, Zhou Wu and Ding Ning took a boat to walk around Gaoyou Lake, carefully observing a lot of dangerous waterway terrain, this day they took a boat to a narrow waterway in the southeast of Gaoyou Lake, and the cottage brothers who led the way pointed to the dense reeds in front of them and said to Zhou Wu: "Brigade, that is the famous lion's mouth in Gaoyou Lake, because the terrain suddenly narrowed down to this place."
The peninsula on both sides is like a man's arm, where Gaoyou Lake is divided into two halves, and there is only a narrow waterway with a width of only two miles in the middle, and the water depth is very shallow, only small boats can pass, and slightly larger ships will run aground, unable to pass smoothly, at first the big boss wanted to set up a guard and fortification in this lion's mouth, and then felt that it was impossible for the outside ships to enter here, so he gave up. ” Zhou Wu heard the words of this brother, and hurriedly picked up the binoculars and looked at the reeds on both sides, and sure enough, as this brother said, the two lakes and peninsulas with dense reeds on both sides are like a person's two arms bend, tightly dividing the vast and wide lake into two halves from the north and south, as long as the wide waterway in the southeast direction is tightly guarded, and a platoon of troops is arranged at this throat, with sufficient weapons and ammunition, the devils and puppet troops attacking from the southeast and southwest directions can be blocked to the death.
Most of the little devils use boats loaded with more than ten or twenty people, it is impossible to pass through the place where the water depth is so shallow, and the unique terrain on both sides gives the ambush team a good concealment, and it is still condescending, the water within a radius of a few miles can be seen completely clearly on both sides, it is really a good place to ambush and block, and it must not be wasted.
Zhou Wu immediately asked Fat Man and Huang Shuisheng to each send a platoon of brothers to form an ambush detachment, and equip them with enough guns, ammunition and dry food.
In this way, Zhou Wu and they took a look, in a few days almost the entire Gaoyou Lake around, Zhou Wu looked at the vast Gaoyou Lake, felt that the big boss was really a waste of this treasure land, in addition to the raw materials for making guns and ammunition in the lake, other food and drink, with everything, in the reeds flocks of wild ducks flying everywhere, children's fist-sized duck eggs scattered everywhere, even in the lake in such a cold winter, there are many fish that cannot be called swimming around, There are countless rare birds and beasts on the small islands dotted in the lake, the woods are dense, the land is fertile, Zhou Wu looked at the fertile land on those small islands, and had a kind of idea in his heart to return to the countryside, if he drove away the little devils and stopped fighting, I Zhou Wu would definitely buy a thatched hut here, live a life of no one to disturb, leisurely farming and fishing, that is not like a fairy Ding Ning looked at Zhou Wu's fascinated look, and also felt that this place was simply a peach orchard in troubled times, a paradise on earth, if such a good place was ruined by those little devils and puppet soldiers, it would be evil, and nothing could be said to let the little devils spoil here.
Zhou Wu turned around and said to Ding Ning: "Ding Ning, I see if we can put the fleeing people outside on these small islands first, let them cultivate the fields, fish and hunt, and recuperate, which can not only feed themselves, but also provide soldiers and logistics support for the development and growth of our independent brigade, you see how it is."
Ding Ning also had this idea in his heart, and as soon as he heard Zhou Wu mention it, he immediately agreed: "Yes, why didn't we think of this before, there are so many people fleeing outside, we can only watch them anxious before, but now there are so many small islands in Gaoyou Lake for them to settle down, I think it will definitely work, Luzao, if you welcome the fleeing villagers in, your goal of learning from the New Fourth Army can also be achieved, okay, it's really a good thing to kill two birds with one stone, I agree." ” The group returned to the cottage, and the brothers of the various reconnaissance detachments sent out three days ago have come back one after another, and the news from the front is neither good nor bad for Zhou Wu and them, since the little devil was bullied by the Independent Brigade and the New Fourth Army before the New Year, there has been no major movement in the New Year, and according to the intelligence of the unexposed insiders who were planted in Yangzhou City, the supreme commander of the little devil in Nanjing, Matsui Don't Devil's base camp, was transferred, A new relative who seems to be a relative of the little Japanese emperor will serve as the supreme commander of the devil army in Nanjing, and he will officially take up his post in about half a month, and it is estimated that the new Japanese emperor will also engage in the trick of three fires when the new official takes office, and the anti-Japanese armed forces in the area around Gaoyou Lake may be swept away by the little devils and puppet soldiers again.
As soon as Zhou Wu heard this information, his heart became angry again, thinking that the little devil would come to the door in half a month at most, and the medicine and ammunition that his independent brigade was most in short supply now had not yet been found, and when the time came, what could he do to fight with the devil, he couldn't be stupid and then use the flesh and blood of his brothers to fight to the death with the little devil armed to the teeth, this is not called heroic and fearless, this is a stupid job, a stupid job that is not responsible for the lives of his brothers, the number of independent brigades is not large, and it has not fully recovered its vitality, so it can no longer be tossed like this.
Several other brothers who specialized in scouting the devil's medicine and ammunition came back and reported: "Luzao, the little devils have fully implemented curfew and martial law in Yangzhou, Taizhou, and Nanjing, and all the people who enter and leave the city gate must be searched, all the boats on the river are opened and inspected, and sentry posts have been set up on all the main roads leading to the anti-Japanese base areas, and pedestrians and vehicles are checked.
Issuing a certificate of good citizenship. ” When Zhou Wu heard this, he thought: The little devils started early enough, they actually extended their claws to the countryside and the countryside, they captured the big city, and they were ready to free up their hands to open their hands to open the knife to the people in the countryside and countryside, and then frantically plunder the wealth of the villagers who were already poor, and then isolate those armed forces who insisted on resisting Japan in the countryside and reached the "Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere" that the devils have always claimed, and then wiped out the national army that was still resisting, the Communist Party's anti-Japanese armed forces, and annihilated the whole of China.
Ding Ning listened to the report of the reconnaissance brothers, his brows tightened, and he didn't speak for a long time, and finally he said to Zhou Wu: "Luzuo, I see that Luping and they are in danger of going to the countryside this time, and they should be prepared to rescue Luping and them, the little devil has already stretched out his hand to the countryside, it is estimated that Luping and they will have a lot of difficulties this time, and immediately send the brothers to investigate outside, and report it as soon as there is news about Luping and them."
"Ding Ning is worried about Lu Ping, who went to the countryside to buy sulfur saltpeter, and he was afraid that they would be intercepted by the little devil puppet army halfway, and it would be troublesome.
It's really a pot that can't be opened, just when Zhou Wu and they were worried about the safety of Lu Ping and their party, a brother hurriedly ran outside, and he didn't take the breath to report Zhou Wudao: "Report to the brigade, it's not good, Battalion Commander Lu They were intercepted by little devils in a place called Dawanggang in the southeast of Gaoyou Lake, there are many little devils and puppet soldiers, it is estimated that there are three or four hundred, Battalion Commander Lu saw that my legs and feet were fast, and quickly asked me to come back and report" When Zhou Wu heard this, he really fell into the way of the little devil, and hurriedly asked this brother: "When were they attacked by the devil in Luping?"
"Just two hours ago, when we drove the ox cart to Gaoyou Lake with sulfur saltpeter collected from the countryside, something went wrong, and a large number of little devils and two devils desperately chased after them, they took trucks and electric donkeys, and immediately caught up with us, Battalion Commander Lu hurriedly stopped the devils with his brothers on the spot, and sent me to report back quickly and ask for support" The brother who came to report and asked for support ran over and ran enough along the way, and after saying these words, he sat on the chair and gasped for breath.
"Bring the map," Zhou Wu shouted to the brigade staff officer beside him.
Zhou Wu and Ding Ning quickly searched on the map, and soon found this place called Dawanggang in the northwest direction of Yangzhou, at this time a traffic artery, the southeast can go directly to Yangzhou and Nanjing, the west can go directly to Taizhou, to the north is Gaoyou Lake, to the northwest can reach the New Fourth Army Jiangbei Detachment of the Third Regiment station, from Gaoyou Lake is twenty kilometers away, Yangzhou, Taizhou, Nanjing, Gaoyou County direction of the devil and puppet army can arrive within two hours, now from Luping they were surrounded by two hours has passed two hours, It is estimated that the little devils in the vicinity have received a lot of information and rushed over a lot, and they must make a decision immediately, immediately send troops to support Lu Ping and them, and snatch them and those hard-earned sulfur saltpeters from the mouths of the little devils, Zhou Wu saw from the military map that there is a small waterway near Dawang Port that leads directly to Gaoyou Lake, so that they can take a boat to quickly get out of the lake and rush to Dawang Port by water.
Zhou Wu immediately ordered the fat man to take a company to Dawang Port by clipper first, and gave them all twenty box guns and flower machine guns, and gave the fat man all the light machine guns and grenades of the Independent Brigade, and said to him: "Fat man, you must rush to Dawang Port before they are eliminated by the little devils in Luping, and snatch back all the people and things for me." t1706231537: