Zhou Wu just heard that the commander of the second detachment of Jiangbei had not yet sat on his ass, so he was directly reorganized into a regiment, and it was also a second regiment, and he felt a little lost, although his brothers in those independent brigades broke through from Gaoyou Lake, and there were less than three or four thousand brothers left who could fight, but it was much larger than the scale of a regiment, but then I heard what Commander-in-Chief Cheng said, and I felt that it was very reasonable: After all, I, Zhou Wu, did not come to the New Fourth Army to be a big official, if I wanted to be a big official and climb up, Zhou Wu had already become the lieutenant general of the Soviet-Chinese Anti-Japanese Salvation Army in the national army, so why did he go through all the hardships to defect to the New Fourth Army.
As long as you can lead your brothers to resist Japan and kill devils, not to mention being a regiment commander, it is not bad to be a company commander and platoon commander, so why bother with reputation.
At this time, Commander-in-Chief Cheng, who spoke, said to everyone: "There is a heroic contingent in our Jiangbei guerrilla column, that is, the independent brigade that has just been thrown over from the Kuomintang army, and under the leadership of Comrade Zhou Wu, they fought in Shanghai, defended Nanjing, and fought all the way to Gaoyou Lake, and fought to the death against the Japanese devils who invaded our territory.
For the indomitable fighting will and spirit of this heroic unit against the little devils, here, on behalf of all the comrades of the Jiangbei Command of the New Fourth Army, please allow me to pay tribute to Comrade Zhou Wu, and please stand and accept our respect. ” Commander-in-Chief Cheng motioned to Zhou Wu, who was sitting below, to stand up, Zhou Wu was unprepared for a while, and he was at a loss, or the political commissar Niu quickly pulled Zhou Wu, Zhou Wu stood up, and suddenly the applause of the comrades resounded throughout the room, and everyone looked at Zhou Wu with a look of admiration, to be honest, he was able to survive the battlefield in Nanjing in Shanghai, and was able to escape death in Nanjing City and cross the Yangtze River, establish an anti-Japanese base in Jiangbei, and persistently struggle against the little devil and other puppet armies for two or three years, It is indeed not easy for such a contingent of the Kuomintang Central Army, which does not have the logistical support and supply of the theater above, nor the full support of the common people below, and it can be called a miracle, a great miracle.
Zhou Wu looked a little embarrassed in the thunderous applause of everyone, and hurriedly said to everyone: "This time our independent brigade defected to the New Fourth Army, not a matter of one or two days, but after our independent brigade crossed the river, the brothers of the New Fourth Army gave our independent brigade many selfless help, and many times when our independent brigade was in a desperate situation, it was the rescue of the Jiangbei detachment of the New Fourth Army that enabled us to survive to this day, here, I want to thank all the leading comrades of the New Fourth Army, You regard me Zhou Wu as your own comrades, so that I am very moved, although I am not yet a member of the Communist Party, but I must be a Communist Party member of the standard of self-demand, and strive to become one of them, for the trust and help of comrades, I Zhou Wu can only work hard to kill the enemy, fight to the death, will invade our country, kill my compatriots, and lewd my sisters The Japanese devils drove out of China to repay, and others dare not have delusions, and I hope that all the leaders and leaders present here will give more advice. ” Who said that Zhou Wu was not good at speaking, there was no hint from Ding Ning in these words, it was completely Zhou Wu's feelings, and the sincere expression of his heart was quite reasonable and infectious, which immediately attracted another round of warm applause from the comrades present.
Commander-in-Chief Cheng nodded with satisfaction and said to everyone: "Comrades, Comrade Zhou Wu is now our comrade, although he only made him a regiment commander, but he is a very good person in fighting, and even the little devils in Nanjing are afraid of him, which is quite remarkable.
There is also Comrade Niu Fugui, who served as the political commissar of the Second Regiment, and here I would like to remind you in particular that we should pay attention to our work methods in ordinary times, be patient with these comrades of the Second Regiment who have just been voted over from the Kuomintang, carry out our work step by step, and refrain from engaging in dogmatism and indiscriminately putting big hats on others, so that we can unite all the anti-Japanese forces that can be united more broadly, and unite all those patriotic anti-Japanese forces under our banner.
As soon as Political Commissar Niu heard that he was named by Commander-in-Chief Cheng, he hurriedly stood up and promised: "Commander-in-chief, please rest assured, if I am an old comrade, of course I know this problem, and I will definitely assist Commander Ma to do a good job in the work of the Second Regiment, and I will never hold him back."
"Commissar Niu told the truth, when he first came into contact with Zhou Wu and them, he was prejudiced against the Independent Brigade, and he had repeatedly obstructed the cooperation between the Jiangbei Detachment and the Independent Brigade, but after so many days of understanding, he gradually saw the valuable qualities of Zhou Wu and them and the heroism and resoluteness of the Japanese devils, and felt that such a Kuomintang team could do this, which was already quite good.
Searching for the truth of resisting Japan and saving the country in the course of the battle, isn't it the same with the New Fourth Army itself?
After Commander-in-Chief Cheng finished speaking, the new commander of the Jiangbei Column Li immediately said to the comrades: "Comrades, let me tell you about the current military situation, since Wang Jingwei's puppet regime came to power, they quickly formulated a battle plan to wipe out our anti-Japanese forces in Jiangbei, according to the information from our underground party comrades in Nanjing, the Japanese East China Dispatch Army Headquarters in Nanjing sent a wing, together with the puppet army of the Wang puppet government, with a total of 780,000 troops.
Recently, a large-scale clean-up operation has been launched against our base areas.
They pounced on our base area in three ways, the middle route was dominated by the First Army of the "Peaceful Founding Army" of the Wang puppet government, and a brigade of the little devils supervised the formation, which pounced from the north of Yangzhou to the direction of Tianchang, with a number of about 20,000 people, and the left road was dominated by the Second Army of the "Peaceful Founding Army" of the Wang puppet government, and a brigade of the little devils followed them, attacking and advancing along the west side of the Jinpu Road from the direction of Lai'an, trying to make a detour back to our base area and retreat, and to divide and attack the enemy on the right flank, causing a great encirclement of our Jiangbei guerrilla column.
In one fell swoop, all our anti-Japanese forces in Jiangbei were wiped out. ” As soon as Commander Li's words came out, the comrades below shouted, some advocated that the enemy was outnumbered, and that the existing base areas in northern Anhui and the Soviet Union should be abandoned and retreated to northern Jiangsu, so as to preserve the anti-Japanese forces and wait for the enemy to withdraw his troops, while others insisted on every inch of rivers and mountains and every inch of blood, and resolutely advocated not giving up an inch of land and fighting a hard-fought positional battle with the invading enemy.
Commander Li saw it, and hurriedly smiled and motioned to Zhou Wu to come and talk about it first.
Zhou Wu stood up and said to his comrades: "Comrades, this time the enemy is menacing, the number of people exceeds our Jiangbei column by more than seven times, and there is a full-fledged field wing of the little Japanese devils, the strength should not be underestimated, the enemy's weapons and equipment are not allowed to be repeated, presumably the comrades know, and they also have the fire support of the heavenly devil aviation, if our column fights a defensive battle for positions with these large numbers and well-equipped enemies, it is not my pessimistic estimate, It is good that our entire column can fight the enemy for a day, and it will be completely wiped out by these enemies, and this idea of fighting a positional war with the enemy is the most undesirable, and our independent brigade has suffered considerable losses in this regard before. ” Zhou Wu paused when he said this, he was afraid that other comrades would have different opinions, so he paused a little to see the reactions of others, but the room was silent and quite quiet, and the comrades listened carefully to the explanation of this former national army officer, as if the students were listening to the teacher's lecture in the classroom.
Commander-in-Chief Cheng Qi and Commander Li nodded and asked Zhou Wu to continue, sure enough, Zhou Wu, who graduated from the Whampoa Military Academy, was not simple, and immediately grasped the key point of the enemy's clearance, the enemy relied on the advantage of being outnumbered and well-equipped to fight a positional attrition war with the Jiangbei Column, and in the case of a comparable number of people, he could not be sure of winning the enemy, not to mention that he was now at an absolute disadvantage of one to seven, so he was not looking for death Zhou Wu continued: "Our troops are so small in number than the enemy, and only by concentrating our forces to strike at one of the enemy's routes can we smash the enemy's purge this crackdown, and we must also fully mobilize the local militia and patriotic anti-Japanese armed forces, so that they can attack and harass the enemy's supply lines on the periphery, and it is best to contain a part of the enemy's combat troops, so that we can be more sure to smash the enemy's attack and win this anti-purge battle." ” Commander-in-Chief Cheng Qi nodded in agreement with Zhou Wu's proposal, and discussed it with Commander Li, who stood up and concluded: "We feel that Comrade Zhou Wu's plan just now is right, in the current situation where the enemy is strong and I am weak, we can only avoid the enemy's edge and evacuate the existing anti-Japanese base areas, and the main forces of the Jiangbei Column must all jump to the periphery, gradually meet in the movement, seize the advantageous fighters, launch an attack according to the weak point between the enemy's various teams, annihilate or defeat an enemy, and then quickly withdraw from the battlefield.
Continue to look for the next advantageous fighter, and so on, in order to drag the enemy down and collapse until the enemy is forced to launch an encirclement and attack and retreat.
The main method and spirit of this kind of fighting, just like our Chairman Mao's resistance to the encirclement and suppression of the Kuomintang army in the central Soviet region during the Red Army period, are all adhering to the spirit of "the enemy advances and we retreat, the enemy is stationed and disturbs us, the enemy is tired and we fight, and the enemy retreats and pursues" in the 16-character principle of guerrilla warfare.
It is true that fighting a war depends on a strong will to fight and correct ideological and political guidance, but it is also quite important to be good at objectively analyzing the enemy's situation and formulating a reasonable and feasible combat plan in the light of the actual battlefield situation. ” t1706231537: