Zhou Wu and Ding Ning heard the commander mention them again, and praised them, and felt very embarrassed, but these cadres of the New Fourth Army sitting next to them are also old revolutionaries, and they have never seen any kind of battle, they command the troops to fight, no matter the will to fight and combat deployment, they will not be inferior to themselves, but they old revolutionaries have not received systematic and formal military school education, but as the saying goes: what kind of mountain to sing what kind of song, these basically have not gone to military school, Some of the cadres of the New Fourth Army, who had not even read much of the books, were not as resourceful and easy to advance and retreat when they started the war, and they were so bitter that they could not help the little devils and the Kuomintang recalcitrant troops in the Jiangbei area The comrades in the room gave Zhou Wu another round of warm applause, and Commander Li waved his hand at everyone and said: "Now, I will deploy a specific combat deployment plan, and if the comrades have any suggestions, put them forward immediately, and wait for Comrade Ding Ning, chief of staff of the Second Regiment, to work hard and formulate a detailed battle plan, and we will discuss it carefully in the afternoon." ” Before the meeting, Commander-in-Chief Cheng Qi and Commander Li specially left Zhou Wu and Ding Ning a few of them, and nibbled on pickles with them, discussing the battle plan while eating.
After a meal, Ding Ning and they already had a general understanding of the commander's deployment plan, Ding Ning threw away his rice bowl, and immediately worked out a detailed battle plan with Zhou Wu, Ding Ning made a map, Zhou Wu made a simple sand table on the table, and Lao Xu and Niu Political Commissar helped on the side.
Although Commander Li had long known that Ding Ning's staff skills were quite good, and the battle plan drawings he made were quite good, today he looked at Ding Ning's handwriting again, and was greatly impressed with Commander-in-Chief Cheng: "Comrade Ding Ning is really amazing, and he has correctly expressed all our meanings on this small map. ” The simple sand table that Zhou Wu fiddled with is almost done, although the material of this sand table is very simple and rough, but it is also quite correct to lay out the battlefield position and the connection between the troops, combined with the battle deployment map drawn by Ding Ning, even if people who don't know the war can estimate it at a glance, not to mention these battle-hardened commanders of the New Fourth Army.
Looking at these combat deployment maps and sand table shapes, even the always picky Niu political commissar and political commissar couldn't help but praise again and again: "It's really worthy of being born in a professional class, I'm afraid we won't be able to learn it." ” In the afternoon, as soon as the heads and brains of the other regiments entered the conference room, they all gave a thumbs up and said: "It really opened our eyes, this is the real combat map, and when they saw the sand table on the table with clear rivers and precise shapes and positions, and the battle deployment map that was drawn clearly and correctly, they all gave a thumbs up and said: "It really opened our eyes, and this is the real combat map."
Everyone knew that these handiwork came from the hands of Zhou Wu of the Second Regiment and Chief of Staff Ding who wore gold-rimmed eyes, and couldn't help but pay tribute to them.
Commander Li said to Ding Ning: "Comrade Ding Ning, you should have a good understanding of this operational deployment, and now it is up to you to explain the specific deployment to the comrades." ” Ding Ning listened to the commander's words, and he also took the lead, stood up and pointed to the battle deployment map and sand table and explained to the comrades: "Comrades, the current military situation in Jiangbei is like this, the enemy is divided into three ways to rush towards our base area, and attack by a routine of separate and combined attacks, in view of the fact that the strength of our Jiangbei column is only more than 10,000, compared with the enemy's 780,000 troops, it is at an absolute disadvantage of 1 to 7, and it is almost impossible to confront the frontal confrontation head-on, so we can only temporarily give up the frontal position of the enemy's attack.
The regiments retreated step by step to the area between the Three Realms and the Fork Stream north of Lai'an and east of Jinpu Road, waiting for an opportunity to find fighters and destroy the enemy during the movement. ” Ding Ning began his speech, and the regiment commanders below shouted: "Then what are the specific combat missions and goals of our regiments?"
Ding Ning listened, took a sip of water and continued: "Regarding the specific deployment of each regiment, Comrade Chen Guofu's regiment is responsible for luring the enemy in the middle and leading them to the area west of Jinpu Road, and after completing the task of luring the enemy, it quickly turns to cut off the railway from Mingguang to Chuzhou on Jinpu Road, forcing the enemy on the middle road to abandon the railway to transport combat troops, and then lies in ambush in this area, and the second regiment led by Comrade Zhou Wu quickly penetrates to the area east of Tianchang on the west bank of Gaoyou Lake, taking advantage of the favorable conditions of the second regiment to be familiar with the terrain in this area.
Once the lure is successful, a company-sized contingent is left to block the enemy, and most of the main force of the Second Regiment is sent to rush to Shenjiabang in the southwest of Gaoyou Lake, to capture and hold this important road, and cut off the enemy's retreat on the right, while the Third Regiment led by Comrade Lin Quan takes advantage of its familiarity with the local situation in the Soviet Union and Central China to mobilize the broad masses of revolutionaries.
Destroy all roads and bridges in the area east of Jinpu Road and west of Gaoyou Lake that can be used for enemy maneuvering, the villages along the enemy's road will be cleared of strong walls, and the villagers will evacuate to the mountainous areas to the north in advance, and the main force of the three regiments, while cooperating with the first regiment to destroy the enemy's communications, will send most of the main force to quickly move from the three realms to the direction of Hongze Lake in the east, and when the first and second regiments lure the enemy to Binhu Town in the middle of the three realms and forked streams east of Jinpu Road, they will concentrate their forces to squeeze the enemy from north to south, and at this time the first regiment will also immediately attack.
From west to east, along the Jinpu Road, the enemy launched a squeezing attack, forcing the enemy to gather closer to Binhu Town, without receiving a clear order from the column headquarters, the first and third regiments must not launch a general attack at will, but can only find the weak point between the enemy's various units to attack, after the attack is successful, regardless of the results of the battle, must immediately retreat, if a small group of the enemy pursues them, concentrate their forces and resolutely destroy them, otherwise do not exchange fire with the enemy at will, and in the movement and operation, try to avoid the Japanese wing, Once most of these enemies are squeezed to Binhu Town, the First Regiment and the Third Regiment are ordered to launch a general attack on the enemy from two directions at the same time, crushing the enemy with superior numbers, and the enemy will definitely flee in the direction of Yangzhou, Nanjing, and Gaoyou Lake.
It is also not to confront the enemy head-on, and to attack the weak points of the enemy's junction until the enemy who came to clear them is crushed and retreated. ” After listening to Ding Ning's deployment, the comrades felt that there was no problem, only the political commissar Niu of the Second Regiment could not understand: "Comrade Ding Ning, since our Second Regiment is going to attack from a long distance and capture Shenjiabang, the enemy's retreating transportation artery, then why do we finally ask us to abandon this important place, not to block the retreating enemy at Shenjiabang, but to move north to attack the enemy who is in the encirclement?
Moreover, it can also kill and injure a large number of the enemy's living forces, which will be of great benefit to us in opening up a new anti-Japanese base area in Jiangbei. ” Commissar Niu actually thought well, why not take this opportunity to destroy a few more enemies, and work hard to attack from a distance, capture and defend this important transportation point, and in the end he has to give up, isn't it a waste of time to go back and forth Ding Ning heard the words of Political Commissar Niu, and explained to him with a smile: "The reason why we put our second regiment in this place of Shenjiabang, the main road of transportation, is not to destroy more enemies and devils, with all our current troops, we can't form an absolute encirclement advantage over one of the enemies, and the second regiment can't encircle and annihilate the enemy in Shenjiabang, and put it there to monitor the enemy reinforcements in the direction of Yangzhou and Nanjing, creating a situation of Yangzhou, Nanjing soldiers coming to the city, If we want to encircle and eliminate the defeated enemy in the Shenjiabang area, I am afraid that we will have to put two regiments there to block these desperate fleeing enemies, and our weapons and equipment are far inferior to the enemy, and we may not be able to take advantage of the enemy's positional warfare with the enemy in the Shenjiabang area, which is a vast plain and water network area.
Moreover, the number of people was so small that of the enemy, which could only cause unnecessary casualties among a large number of comrades. ” After all, he was also from the old Red Army, and he knew very well that with our current inferior equipment, it would be impossible to fight a face-to-face positional battle with a well-equipped and numerous enemy, Ding Ning's explanation was in line with objective conditions and reasonable, and the placement of the Second Regiment in Shenjiabang, the main transportation route, could only play the role of monitoring and containing the enemy's reinforcements in the direction of Nanjing and Yangzhou, and if we wanted to take the opportunity to eat the defeated and retreating enemy in one bite, there was still no such condition.
Therefore, Political Commissar Niu stood up and said to Commander Li: "Commander, I have no doubts, no matter how great the difficulties encountered by our Second Regiment, we will overcome and solve them, and the military operation will be decided by Regiment Commander Zhou Wu and Chief of Staff Ding Ning, as long as it is not a matter of principle, I will firmly support it, and I will never interfere with the regiment commander's decision-making, and strive to do a good job in ideological and political work and take care of the lives of comrades is my goal." ” Chen Guofu also said that they had no problem with the first regiment, but suggested that the second regiment should travel long distances to return to Shenjiabang to contain and monitor the enemy's reinforcements as soon as they joined the New Fourth Army. t1706231537: