Just when Zhou Wu couldn't make a decision, the reconnaissance brothers came back and reported: "Brigade seat, Taizhou direction found that a large number of New Fourth Army activities under the city, according to the people who came out of the city, the little devils and puppet troops in the city have pressed on the city gates, and they have all gone to the city to resist the New Fourth Army that came to attack Taizhou City. ” When Zhou Wu heard this situation, he hurriedly asked the scout: "It is indeed impossible for those who are attacking the city to be the troops of the New Fourth Army, the New Fourth Army is farther from the direction of Tianchang to Taizhou than us, how can it be possible to reach the city of Taizhou before our independent brigade?"
"Oh, brigade seats, according to the common people, these New Fourth Army troops are not regular ones wearing military uniforms, they are the local guerrilla forces of the New Fourth Army, but there are quite a few of them, so those little devils and puppet soldiers who are guarding the city panic."
The Scout said.
"Oh, no wonder, it turned out to be the local armed forces of the New Fourth Army, according to this speed estimate, Chen Guofu of the Jiangbei Detachment and they may have to rush to Jiangdu immediately."
Zhou Wu said.
So Zhou Wu ordered Ge Sanmin and the fat man to retreat to Shuimo Town first, and after meeting with Huang Shuisheng who was waiting there, they immediately retreated to Gaoyou Lake by boat.
Ge Sanmin and the fat man hurriedly gathered their brothers and immediately retreated in the direction of Shuimo Town, and Zhou Wu ordered the scouts to continue to reconnoiter in the northwest direction, and once they found the situation of the New Fourth Army, they would report back immediately.
After a while, a scout from the front came to report: "A team of the New Fourth Army was found two miles ahead, and the leader was none other than Regiment Commander Chen of the Third Regiment of the Jiangbei Detachment, and he asked me to tell the brigade seat that they would be able to rush here immediately."
Zhou Wu heard this, his anxious mood calmed down a little, and he immediately ordered Ding Ning, who was entangled with the little devil in the southeast direction of Jiangdu, by radio: "The New Fourth Army has been dispatched, and it is about to rush to us to join us, you take your brothers to hold on to the position for another two hours, it is estimated that the situation on the battlefield may change, pay attention to defense, do not take the initiative to attack devils, and preserve combat effectiveness." ” After Ding Ning received Zhou Wu's latest battlefield situation, he ordered his brothers to quickly shrink their positions, and the brothers behind hurriedly dug pits and stood for reinforcements.
Soon Zhou Wu waited for more than ten minutes, and then met the brothers led by Chen Guofu of the Third Regiment of the Jiangbei Detachment of the New Fourth Army.
Chen Guofu said to Zhou Wu: "Brigade Commander Zhou Wu, our three regiments are only the forward, and there is the main force personally led by the commander of our Li detachment, which is rushing to this side, according to our analysis of the movement of the devils, we must hurry up and quickly rush to the city of Taizhou, so that it is possible to force the little devils who surrounded your independent brigade to withdraw from the siege, and we don't really want to attack Taizhou City, besides, with the combined strength of our Jiangbei detachment and your independent brigade, it is still very difficult to attack a large city with a fairly tight city defense.
We did this for only one purpose, which was to force the little devils to return to their food and grass supply base, so that the besieged brothers of the Independent Brigade could break through. ” Zhou Wu listened to Chen Guofu's analysis and said: "I'm really embarrassed to have to trouble your New Fourth Army to help this time, and I blame me for being gullible in intelligence at the time, and I was really ashamed to think about it." ” "What did Zhou Wu Lao Zhang say, now is not the time for us to discuss the reasons for the defeat, immediately take your independent brigade team and divide us into two roads, left and right, and go straight to Taizhou City, and then blapp, harassing the little devils and puppet troops in the city, as for whether these devils who surround your independent brigade will withdraw the siege and rescue Taizhou City, it depends on how the little devils in Taizhou City report to their devil heads."
Chen Guofu was anxious and said to Zhou Wu.
Zhou Wu felt reasonable, and immediately ordered his brothers to turn around and march to Taizhou City in the direction next to the waterway from Jiangdu to Taizhou City, Zhou Wu chose this marching route, and he had his own reasons, because he had ordered Huang Shuisheng, who was waiting in Shuimo Town, to rush to Taizhou City with a team from the waterway, and it was estimated that he should have rushed to Taizhou City at this time, and it was estimated that he was harassing Taizhou City together with the local armed forces of the New Fourth Army.
After receiving Zhou Wu's order to hold on and wait for the situation on the battlefield to change, Ding Ning immediately contracted the battle line and dug trenches, the regular army of the national army was really not covered, five or six hundred brothers went into battle together, sweated and dug hard, and soon built a temporary trench, and even dug a lot of anti-artillery holes, Ding Ning looked at the brothers desperately digging trenches, and felt that this time they should be able to turn the danger into a disaster and get rid of the entanglement and tail chase of the little devil on the opposite side.
Just when the brothers had just dug the trench and had not put their butts on the ground to rest for a while, the little devil who had caught up with them launched another round of attack on Ding Ning and them, Ding Ning ordered his brothers not to rush to exchange fire with the rushing devils this time, and let them close, and suddenly concentrate their firepower at a close distance of 100 meters, so as to improve the shooting accuracy and hit the little devils most effectively, so as to save the precious bullets and grenades.
Although they joined the New Fourth Army, Ding Ning's heart was uncertain whether the siege of Taizhou City would force the little devils to retreat, so when fighting, they had to be careful and prepared for a protracted war.
But this time the little devils are also very good, they ran to a place three hundred meters away from Ding Ning's position, and suddenly stopped advancing, not moving, Ding Ning couldn't understand what the little devils on the other side were going to do, so he hurriedly picked up the telescope and looked there, only to see that those little devils were all lying on the ground, and a large number of devils with mortars and small steel cannons came up behind them, and they were setting up guns on the ground.
Ding Ning saw that it was not good, and loudly ordered his brothers to hide in those dug anti-artillery holes first, and wait for the little devil to open fire, if he still stayed in the trench stupidly, before the devil rushed over, our men and horses here had already been bombed by them in a random manner, and fighting positional warfare was originally a matter of last resort, minimizing artillery casualties and preserving the combat effectiveness of the troops is the key to winning positional warfare, but you can't lose your brothers their lives in vain for a momentary mood, it's not worth it.
Sure enough, in less than two or three minutes, the little devil hit a large number of shells, which exploded into the trenches and burst into flames, thick smoke billowed out, and mud and slag fell straight into the trenches like rain.
When Ding Ning and them hid in the anti-artillery hole to avoid the shells from the little devils, Zhou Wu and Chen Guofu each led a team and were desperately rushing to Taizhou City, Jiangdu Canal is thirty kilometers away from that Taizhou City, according to the usual general marching speed, it will take five or six hours to get there, Zhou Wu thinks that it will be dark at night when he rushes to Taizhou City, Ding Ning They are stuck to the little devils who have caught up, if it takes a long time, big changes may happen.
Zhou Wu ordered the marching brothers to all be lightly armed, in addition to the necessary guns, ammunition and dry food, the rest of the miscellaneous and various things were all thrown on the road, in order to find the nearest route to Taizhou, Zhou Wu ventured to contact Huang Shuisheng by radio: "Shuisheng, I rushed over with the team, now there are still more than 20 kilometers away from this Taizhou, you are familiar with this place, see if there is a shortcut directly inserted under the city of Taizhou" Huang Shuisheng replied: "Brigade, there is a short road, but it is full of wild grass, the road is too small to walk, and there is a swamp in the middle. ” Zhou Wu heard that there was really a shortcut, in order to get to the city of Taizhou as soon as possible, he didn't care whether it was good to walk or not, whether there was a swamp or not, as long as he could get to the city of Taizhou, even if there was a sword mountain and a sea of fire in front of him, as long as he could pass some brothers, he could give confidence to those brothers who arrived there in advance, put pressure on the devils and puppet troops in Taizhou City, and force the devils to withdraw their troops, so as to help Ding Ning get rid of the pursuit and return to Gaoyou Lake smoothly.
Zhou Wu immediately ordered his subordinates to rush to the path pointed out by Huang Shuisheng, and when he arrived at the ground, he found that Huang Shuisheng was polite, where is this called the road, the grass and grass on it have to send someone to open the road while marching, which is halfway to the road, there is also a large mass grave, dilapidated, rotten and rotten coffins everywhere emit a vomiting stench, although it is early spring, but the smell of this place is really not good, Zhou Wu They covered their noses, held their breath and quickly passed through the mass grave, I thought I could set foot on a slightly larger road, but I didn't expect that there was a swamp in front of me.
This swamp is very large, three or four miles square, surrounded by dense reeds, it is now early spring, and the reeds outside have begun to draw out new branches, Zhou Wu looked at the reeds that were floating in the wind, and not only gasped in his heart, this unfathomable reed swing is really a difficulty, I am afraid that we will lose some brothers in the past.
Thinking that Ding Ning and the others were still fighting hard with the little devils who caught up, thinking that the commander of the third battalion of Lu Ping died in the battle on the Yangtze River side to save Lao Wang, and thinking that there were only about 30 people left in a reinforced company of his subordinates who loved to kill the fat man, and the fat man was almost killed by the little devils in the ambush circle, Zhou Wu really couldn't bear it, gritted his teeth and ordered his brothers: "All pay attention, quickly pass through that swamp" t1706231537: