On the morning of the next day, Zhou Wu asked his staff officers to summon all the officers above the platoon level of the Independent Brigade, and he wanted to discuss with these brothers the gains and losses of the battle of Taizhou, Jiangdu, analyze the causes, find out the shortcomings, and facilitate improvement.
Soon the brothers could not come except for the dead in battle, and the rest of the brothers who should have come came to the Gaoyou Lake cottage lobby, Zhou Wu glanced at the officers under him, and only felt that the number of these brothers in front of him was much less than before, and the price paid to save the Lao Wang Independent Brigade was too great, not only the veteran brothers who had experienced a hundred battles lost a lot, but even the officers of the platoon and company commanders also lost nearly half.
Ignoring Xiao Wang's obstruction, Mr.
Wang insisted on coming to the brigade headquarters to attend the meeting, but Xiao Wang had no choice but to consult Ding Ning's chief of staff first, and Ding Ning felt that there was nothing wrong with letting Mr.
Wang attend the meeting, so he agreed to let Xiao Wang bring Lao Wang to attend.
Mr.
Wang still had a bandage on his head, and he came to the brigade headquarters with the support of Xiao Wang, Zhou Wu saw it, hurriedly got up, held Mr.
Wang's hand and said, "Old man, don't come, take care of your body." ” "Brigade seat, the old man must come to thank you in person for his great kindness this time, if it weren't for the desperate rescue of all the brothers of your independent brigade, the bones of the old man would have been thrown into the Yangtze River a long time ago, I heard that this time in order to save me, the bad old man who was about to die, actually lost most of the good brothers of the independent brigade, I knew that after this incident, I was panicked, I didn't think about tea and dinner, how could the old man be so good, he wanted the lives of thousands of brothers of the independent brigade to save it, it was really ashamed."
When Lao Wang heard that the independent brigade was plotted by the little devils this time, and lost nearly 2,000 men and horses, he immediately fainted.
Lao Wang couldn't afford to feel sorry in his heart, so he had to come to the brigade headquarters this time to thank these brothers of the Independent Brigade who had saved his life in person.
Zhou Wu hurriedly helped Lao Wang and helped the old gentleman to the seat in the front row with Xiao Wang and sat down.
Ding Ning began to say to the brothers below: "Brothers, this brigade is to let everyone come here, just to let everyone discuss the gains and losses of our independent brigade in this battle, and the big guy will think of a way to find out the mistakes in this battle, learn from the good experience of the New Fourth Army, and avoid making the same mistakes in future battles." ” As soon as Ding Ning's words fell, the officers below were talking about it, especially the fat man, who complained to Zhou Wu and them with tears in his eyes: "Brigade seat, chief of staff, you see, this time our battalion has suffered the greatest loss, the whole battalion originally had nearly a thousand people, only this battle, now there are only two or three hundred brothers left, and the loss is more than seventy percent, you have to give us a battalion to make up for the people, this time the little devil seems to be specifically for our battalion, Even though we broke out of the encirclement under the guidance of Ge Sanmin and his second battalion, they still clung to it and chased it all the way to the edge of Shuimo Town in Gaoyou Lake.
"There is no doubt that the fat man's battalion suffered the most serious losses in this battle, because it was their battalion that first entered the ambush circle of the devil brigade, fortunately, Zhou Wu temporarily changed the combat deployment and ordered Ge Sanmin and Ding Ning to take the risk of turning around and returning to help, otherwise the losses suffered by the first battalion are not a matter of losing seventy percent, and even this fat man will not be able to return to Gaoyou Lake completely, and he may be eaten by the small devil army surrounded by the surrounding area.
Before the fat man's bitterness was finished, Xiao Zheng of the third battalion, who sacrificed the battalion commander Lu Ping next to him, stood up and said: "Commander Liu, there are still two or three hundred men left in your first battalion, but our third battalion is really gone, Battalion Commander Lu is killed, and the thousand brothers in the battalion are only left with the company under my command, and the brothers who survived are all scarred, almost none of them are not injured, and they are still lying in the health company According to Commander Liu's statement, our third battalion has to replenish the manpower." ” Zhou Wu heard the complaints of his officers, his head was big, this time he rescued Lao Wang, but he buried most of the independent brigade, it would be false to say that he was not distressed, not to mention that those veterans who had been following from the Shanghai battlefield were even fewer now, and they could be described as few as morning stars.
Ding Ning said to everyone: "Brothers, we are very clear about the situation of the Independent Brigade now, and we know that we have suffered a lot of losses this time, and we are not here to listen to your grievances today, but to carefully analyze the problems in the battle, find them out and correct them in the future battles, which is the main point of our meeting" Ding Ning reminded the following officers who complained and complained because they had suffered heavy losses: It is useless to complain and complain, and we must seriously learn a lesson in order to gain a foothold and develop in the future struggle.
Ge Sanmin, who had never spoken like this, spoke at this time: "Chief of Staff of the brigade, although we have suffered heavy losses this time, and the brothers have lost nearly half of them, but it cannot be said that we have failed, and together with the brothers of the New Fourth Army, the devil Shizuoka squadron was completely annihilated, and the brothers captured the command knife of this devil, but it is a pity that I can't find the squadron flag of the little devil, I don't think the number of devils who died will be less than us, and the large troops of the independent brigade made a big fuss in Taizhou City, which gave the people outside the city a sigh of relief, Now I heard that the people of Taizhou City are spreading the deeds of the Independent Brigade and the New Fourth Army, and a few storytellers even make up stories to secretly tell the people.
This time, it has made a name for itself as an independent brigade, and it will definitely be beneficial to our future recruitment.
If you want to talk about this defeat, that is, we can't get rid of the previous style of fighting positional warfare with devils, I have just carefully analyzed it, most of our brothers who died at the sacrifice were killed in positional warfare with little devils, and our weapons and equipment, ammunition supply and indispensable mobility capabilities were several grades worse than the field brigades of the little devils, plus we are now in the case of logistics and ammunition supply will be advantageous, we can't win this positional battle with the little devils no matter what.
In the battle to annihilate the devil Shizuoka squadron at the three-way intersection in Jiangdu, if our left and right flanks were not supported by the three regiments of the Jiangbei detachment of the New Fourth Army, it is difficult to say whether our independent brigade could surround this devil squadron with just this little strength of its own, and the combat effectiveness of the little devil is there, I don't say it, everyone also knows that at that time in Nanjing before, a devil heavy squadron could actually chase a full national army division all over the world.
This time, this Shizuoka squadron can also break through in the encirclement barely formed by the independent brigade, plus most of the devil brigade that followed up quickly, as well as those devil puppet troops who came out from Taizhou City to reinforce, it can completely counter-encircle our entire independent brigade, and then eat it in one bite. ” When Ge Sanmin said this, he paused, took a sip of water, and continued: "I think we have to abandon the previous practice of digging ditches and digging holes to fight a war of attrition with them as soon as we encounter them. ” Zhou Wu and Ding Ning listened to Ge Sanmin's analysis, and they both felt reasonable, Ding Ning hurriedly said to Ge Sanmin: "Then Ge Sanmin, tell me what our independent brigade will do in the future."
"Learn from the New Fourth Army and the surrounding anti-Japanese armed forces, first preserve strength, recruit troops, train new soldiers, establish good relations with all anti-Japanese armed forces, send people to Nanjing, Shanghai, Xuzhou and other big cities to engage in weapons, ammunition and medicines, in addition to resisting the sweep of Gaoyou Lake by devils and puppet armies, don't go out to fight easily, and wait until you have a certain strength, and then unite the surrounding New Fourth Army to engage in little devils for a while, but don't fight positional warfare and attrition war with devils, here I think that the Communist Party's 16-character guerrilla policy of Mr.
Mao is very practical, This is the highest level of guerrilla warfare, and this is the reason why the Jiangbei Detachment of the New Fourth Army, which is also poorly equipped and has personnel training inferior to our independent brigade, has been able to win many battles against the devils, and this is also a method that we must learn well.
Ge Sanmin said.
The fat man actually agreed with Ge Sanmin's opinion this time, he saw from the fact that the New Fourth Army had repeatedly rescued the independent brigade from fire and water, and that this anti-Japanese armed force led by the Communist Party was really not built, unlike what he knew before, and felt that the current independent brigade could only do what Ge Sanmin proposed in order to avoid the fate of being wiped out by the little devils, and only then could it have the opportunity to develop and grow, and even go out of Gaoyou Lake and kill Yangzhou, Taizhou, Nanjing and other big cities, and report the shame of the devils slaughtering the city.
Zhou Wu saw that the opinions of his brothers were almost unified, so he discussed it with Ding Ning, and said to everyone: "Brothers, I think Ge Sanmin's proposal is good, we are not so much the regular army of the national army now, in fact, it is a team with no superiors and no logistics supply, just like the bandits and bandits who used to occupy the mountains here as kings, so we can no longer fight a war of attrition with the invading devil puppet army in Shanghai and Nanjing, I plan to send another group of brothers to the Tianchang New Fourth Army.
Only by humbly learning from others the experience of guerrilla warfare can we change our methods of fighting wars, and only in this way can our independent brigade take root here and fight devils. ” Zhou Wu and Ding Ning decided on the spot to send an officer study team led by Ge Sanmin and the fat deputy to the New Fourth Army to study for a period of time, and gave them an order, asking them to humbly ask for advice in the New Fourth Army and conduct an actual combat test in a month.
Anyway, the communication between the Independent Brigade and the Jiangbei Detachment is very smooth, and after Chen Guofu and his colleagues received Zhou Wu's request to send people to the base area to study, they asked the captain of the Li detachment above, and the Li detachment leader readily agreed to Zhou Wu's request, and welcomed the officers and brothers of the Independent Brigade to come to the Tianchang base area as soon as possible to study and learn from the experience. t1706231537: