During the banquet in the evening, the fat man was so drunk that he almost got under the table, and then Zhou Wu asked the fat man to carry him back.
After dispersing, Zhou Wu looked at the fat man who was carried back and said to Ding Ning: "Ding Ning, you see that the fat man got married a lot later than you, and everyone gave birth to a big fat son, when will you also have a successor for the independent brigade?"
Ding Ning heard Zhou Wu say this matter so straightforwardly, he felt a little embarrassed, and said with a red face: "Brigade, let's do our best, this matter is not in a hurry, you say yes" Zhou Wu smiled and said to Ding Ning: "Hehe, Ding Ning, these two months are the most comfortable and leisurely time since the Anti-Japanese War in Shanghai, I advise you not to worry too much about the affairs of the Independent Brigade, go home more to accompany your wife, and enjoy the family fun." ” Ding Ning agreed with a smile, and after sending Ding Ning away, Zhou Wu lay on the bed, and the shadow of Xiuying and them appeared in his mind, and slowly he dimly saw Xiuying walking over with his son with a bloody face, and he felt trembling in his heart, feeling that he was a soldier of the national army who defended his family and the country. couldn't even protect their wives and children's parents, so they could only watch them being killed by the little devil's plane.
Zhou Wu only felt that he was very helpless at this time, and even very cowardly, not even as good as an ordinary person.
Zhou Wu woke up, only to feel that the picture just now was the scene in his dream, his body was sweating profusely, and even the sheets under him were wet, and the staff officers in the brigade headquarters heard that Zhou Wu woke up from the bed, and immediately ran over and asked: "Brigade seat, what's wrong?"
"It's okay, you all go back."
Zhou Wu said to them lightly.
What makes Zhou Wu and Ding Ning feel strange is that in the next few months, the surrounding little devils and puppet armies have not moved, according to the news from Nanjing, the little devils are now stepping up the mobilization of troops to storm Wuhan, the temporary residence of the Nationalist Government in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, in order to be able to concentrate troops to attack Wuhan, the little devils had to mobilize the main division of the East China Dispatch Army around Nanjing to go up the river to reinforce, Originally, the base camp of the devils wanted to quickly solve the Fifth Theater of the Nationalist Army led by General Li Zongren, a veteran of the Nationalist Army, in the Battle of Taierzhuang launched in the spring of 1938, open up the Jinpu Line in one fell swoop, and quickly and effectively occupy Xuzhou, a military important town on the Jinpu Line connecting the north and south.
Unexpectedly, the little devil who attacked Xuzhou met General Li Zongren, who was good at fighting tough battles, and ran into a bloody encounter in a small town called Taierzhuang in southern and northern Jiangsu, and the devil's fifth division, known as the iron army of the Imperial Japanese Army, suffered heavy losses.
It was only then that Seishiro Itagaki's Fifth Division was saved from the fate of being completely annihilated by the national army, but this "iron army" experienced this battle and suffered a great loss of vitality, so that it could not recover for a considerable period of time later.
On the Western Front, in order to completely annihilate the main force of Lao Chiang's Nationalist Army, the Devil's Base Camp launched a large-scale attack on Wuhan, the temporary residence of the Nationalist Government at that time, in June 1938.
Divided into three routes, land, and air, they launched a large-scale onslaught on Wuhan, trying to capture Wuhan in the shortest possible time, forcing the Nationalist government to sue for peace or simply surrender, so as to quickly end their so-called "China Incident".
Occupy the whole of China.
Therefore, in this general situation, the little devils around Nanjing are really unable to draw out redundant devils and puppet troops to recruit those anti-Japanese forces around them, and these poor troops they left in East China to maintain law and order in the occupied areas are enough, let alone gather troops to sweep Gaoyou Lake, I am afraid that the sweep will not be successful at that time, and they will be taken advantage of by the New Fourth Army and the Independent Brigade to take advantage of the old nest.
Of course, the anti-Japanese armed forces around Gaoyou Lake also saw the plight of the little devils, and they all held back their efforts to recruit troops and expand their spheres of influence, but under the good situation of this great development, the interests of all parties overlapped and intertwined, and there were more contradictions, from the beginning of the war of words to small frictions, and later developed into real guns and real artillery, and the anti-Japanese armed forces around Gaoyou Lake continued to maintain a friendly situation except for the Jiangbei Detachment of the New Fourth Army and the independent brigade of Zhou Wu, and the other people and horses were almost about to fight.
The leader of the devils who stayed in East China seized the opportunity and took the opportunity to send the devils and puppet troops to destroy several anti-Japanese teams.
Zhou Wu and Ding Ning also became vigilant and arranged alert forces around Gaoyou Lake, but most of these anti-Japanese forces around them were taken by the prestige of the independent brigade to fight devils, and they did not dare to take the opportunity to attack Gaoyou Lake, so although you were fighting lively, only the independent brigade in Gaoyou Lake and the Jiangbei detachment of the New Fourth Army on Tianchang's side were safe and quiet.
In this way, Zhou Wu and his independent brigade spent almost a year peacefully in Gaoyou Lake, and in this year's time, Zhou Wu and his independent brigade were not able to rush out of Gaoyou Lake to fight the little devils, and the little devils were busy fighting with the million-strong army of the national army in Wuhan and other places, and they had no time to take care of the independent brigade on the side of Gaoyou Lake, let alone the Jiangbei detachment of the New Fourth Army, which was not easy to provoke.
Soon ushered in the spring of 1939, the little devil in front had already captured Wuhan, the temporary capital of the Nationalist Government, and the chairman of the committee took the national army to Chongqing, a mountain city in the land of Bashu.
The Kuomintang was mainly induced to surrender to the main peace faction, and formally put forward the strategic principle of "using China to contain China and using war to nurture war."
In the general situation of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Zhou Wu and the others did not expect that there would be waves of extremely dangerous and deadly waves to attack them in the future, and the opponents were not only old opponents such as the little devil puppet army, but also the national army robes that had fought together before, as well as various opponents of all kinds.
One morning in the early summer of 1939, Zhou Wu and Ding Ning had breakfast as usual and went to the following regiments to see the training situation, over the past year or so, the situation of the independent brigade has developed quite well, and the number of people has recovered to the scale of about 10,000 people through Zhou Wu and Ding Ning's recruitment, and it has been reorganized into three regiments, plus a special service regiment headed by Huang Shuisheng, this regiment is different from the infantry regiments headed by other fat men, Ge Sanmin, and Xiao Zheng, and the number is less than the other three regiments, but it has one more function, which is responsible for water warfare in the area of Gaoyou Lake and another side business: repairing and manufacturing boats.
In fact, this special service regiment is an amphibious marine corps in the modern sense, because there was no such advanced concept at that time, Zhou Wu temporarily called Huang Shuisheng their regiment, which is composed of more than 2,000 "waves in the white strips", which can not only fight in the water, but also fight on land, and can also touch into the devil's camp to conduct reconnaissance, as a "special service regiment", and it will be used as a reserve of an independent brigade.
Ding Ning finally got out of the way in more than a year, became a father, and his wife, Captain Shen Lina, the actual head of the health company, gave birth to a daughter for him, although it was not the big fat boy he originally expected, but Ding Ning was still very happy, and he was playing with this well-behaved daughter when he had nothing to do, and the couple raised the daughter named "Ding Dang" as a baby, and also recognized Zhou Wu as his father-in-law.
But this calm and serene, happy idyllic life was soon ruthlessly broken by the arrival of a mysterious figure, and on this morning, Zhou Wu received a report from his brothers who were reconnoitring outside: "Brigade Seat, caught a suspicious person, he said that there is important information to report to Brigade in person."
We feared that he would deceive us, so we searched him, and you see, these things were found out of him. ” Zhou Wu took the thing and looked at it, and his heart couldn't help but be shocked: it turned out that this was a letter of appointment from General Chen, the supreme commander of the Sixth Theater of the National Army, in the letter of appointment, the Sixth Theater Command of the National Revolutionary Army appointed Zhou Wu as the lieutenant general of the Soviet-Chinese Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army behind enemy lines, and the actual strength under its jurisdiction was the independent brigade currently in Gaoyou Lake, and at the same time, Zhou Wu was also authorized to be the supreme administrative head of the areas around Nanjing.
Then the national government recognized him as the supreme administrative head of the region.
In addition to these provisions, the Theater Command also authorized Zhou Wu to exercise controlled command over the ranks of the former national army system around them, and even the branches of the former Kuomintang spy organizations, such as the Central Command of the Military Command, which had always been independent and not subject to the control of the theater, were also handed over to Zhou Wu's jurisdiction.
Zhou Wu hurriedly showed this thing to Ding Ning, Ding Ning also looked inexplicable, and said to Zhou Wu: "Brigade seat, you said that our independent brigade has lost contact with the military department and the war zone for a long time, so it has been almost two years, why do you suddenly remember us now, and give us such a big benefit to the independent brigade, I see what is wrong with it, a big pie fell from the sky for no reason, I always feel that it is not a good thing."
Ding Ning has always been cautious, he feels that this matter is strange and needs to be carefully considered.
"What about this person now," Zhou Wu asked the Scout brothers.
"Oh, we have been temporarily detained on the island in the lake, and he said that there are more important confidential matters that must be explained to the brigade in person, and we reasoned that you are too busy to see you, and he has to see you in person before talking about it."
The Scout brothers replied. t1706231537: