The fat man saw that the three brothers who had gone to report to Zhou Wu had returned, and hurriedly asked, "What did the brigade say?"
"Battalion Commander Liu, the brigade wants us to perform another double reed with these brothers who have surrendered to Chengcheng, and let go of the large enemy troops who rushed over from behind, and deceive them to the north of Tianchang."
The three brothers didn't even breathe, so they hurriedly said to the fat man.
The fat man is also a smart person, as soon as he heard Zhou Wu's meaning, he understood, it turned out that he still wanted to put a long line to catch big fish, and he temporarily surrendered to a regiment on the battlefield and did not count it, and deceived the tens of thousands of puppet army troops behind, which is the key part of this big drama.
The fat man immediately told Captain Wang about this meaning, Captain Wang and Lao Jiang are also old ghosts, of course they know how to play a wonderful double reed with the fat man and them now, and immediately smiled and nodded: "It seems that the skin on my body has to be worn for a while, Brother Jiang, immediately notify it, everything will be as usual tomorrow, how to fight or fight like this, should meet the large army behind or welcome the big army like this, communicate with a few major officer brothers, don't mess up when the time comes." ” Lao Jiang immediately went out to find his officers to ventilate, and the fat man and they immediately took off the military uniform of the puppet army, and returned to the original Shenjiabang peripheral position, at this time the sky was already bright, according to the plan he had agreed with the head of the Wang regiment in advance, he ordered his brothers to shoot at the pillbox over there, Zhang Ercheng and they could not be idle, and put a few empty shells with explosives poured over towards the Shenjiabang position, so as to engage in a battle for the large army of the puppet army that had rushed over not far from here, and made a strong momentum.
So, the guns and cannons in front of the Shen Jiabang position rang out, and the brothers on both sides were fighting inextricably, and the formation, as if the main force of the New Fourth Army was really storming the fortress Shen Jiabang area, made the middle road leader of the Wang puppet army who caught up behind him very nervous, and hurriedly sent his scouts to the place where the guns were ringing to see how many New Fourth Army were storming Shen Jiabang over there.
This Wang puppet army in the middle of the team is a branch of the original Kuomintang local armed forces, led by the Wang puppet government's No. 2 task Zhou Fohai's old subordinates, the former Kuomintang military commander major general, surnamed Li, a native of Guangdong, engaged in intelligence reconnaissance behind enemy lines, assassinating patriotic dissidents is very good, but for this kind of large-scale military operation commanding more than 10,000 people, this relies on Zhou Fohai to see the small fellow and old subordinates, and can be in urgent need of military support.
The commander of the Wang puppet army, who led a group of renegades from the military command to join him for his own sake, looked a little immature.
If you run into some local anti-Japanese armed forces, you can still pull the tiger skin and pull the banner, but once you run into a battlefield veteran like Zhou Wu and them, you will have to suffer.
The puppet army who went to reconnoiter saw that the battle in front was so fierce, and they were afraid of being shot in it, so they didn't dare to take a step forward, and looked at the fat man and them with a telescope, and hurriedly came back and reported: "There is a New Fourth Army in front of it that is storming the periphery of Shen Jiabang, and the number is not large, but the weapons are quite powerful, and there are even more than ten 60-mm mortars, which seem to be the main force of the Jiangbei column of the New Fourth Army." ” Commander Li, the commander-in-chief of the middle of the puppet army, listened to the report of the scouts and felt a little puzzled, since it was the main force of the New Fourth Army besieging Shen Jiabang, why did these scouts only see a small number of troops attacking there, so where are the other New Fourth Army teams hiding elsewhere waiting for us to go and drill their pockets At this critical moment when Commander Li was confused, several puppet soldiers came from the direction of Shen Jiabang on the opposite side, and they all saw that they were all disgraced, shouting that they had to meet Commander-in-Chief Li, saying that they were sent by Commander Wang, and that they had important military situations to report to the commander-in-chief in person.
These puppet soldiers arrived at Commander Li's place, and before the commander-in-chief of the puppet army's middle road opened his mouth to ask them, they panted and reported to the commander-in-chief: "Report to the commander-in-chief, we are the commander of the Wang regiment guarding Shen Jiabang sent us to report to you the enemy situation, it is a battalion of the Jiangbei Column of the New Fourth Army that stormed our position, the number is not large, but the weapons are quite good, and there are artillery, but they are also helpless against those pillboxes and fortifications around our position, They tried their best to storm here for several days but did not capture the periphery of our position, Commander Wang asked us to report to the commander-in-chief, our regiment has the confidence and ability to block the new Fourth Army besieging Shenjiabang on the periphery, please rest assured that the large army can pass through Shenjiabang from the main road south of the town, for this reason our regiment has arranged an inn in the town, welcome the commander-in-chief to Shenjiabang" After listening to the words of these brothers under Commander Wang, Commander Li completely believed that there was only a battalion of the New Fourth Army in front of him, which was not much different from the situation he had just sent out to reconnoitre, although he also did not believe that Commander Wang, who was born in this security regiment, could defeat the New Fourth Army team that came to besiege, but with the bunker group and strong permanent fortifications, plus more than 1,000 well-equipped men and horses, and the assistance of an imperial army squad, it should be able to resist the invading New Fourth Army on the periphery of Shen Jiabang.
That's not a big deal.
Commander-in-Chief Li immediately ordered his subordinates: "The large army quickly passed through Shenjiabang and continued to attack and advance in the direction of Tianchang, the time is pressing, there is no time to rest in Shenjiabang, our military headquarters will take a break in the town for a while, and immediately set off to advance in an hour." ” As soon as the large army of the puppet army on this side set off, the head of the Wang regiment and the fat man got the information, in order to confuse these Wang puppet troops who rushed over, the fat man immediately ordered his brothers to immediately charge the pillboxes and fortifications.
With a loud charge sounded, Zhang Ercheng's artillery began to bombard the Shenjiabang position, hitting the front of the smoke bursts, the cannon rumbled, although they were all empty shells with dismantled warheads, but the sound was indeed real, the brothers under the head of the puppet army on the opposite side also cooperated very well, bursts of machine guns, rifles and grenades took turns, blowing up the open area filled with gunsmoke, and it was very lively.
Commander-in-Chief Li heard that the fight in this place was really fierce, and it could be seen that it was not easy for this Wang Regiment Commander, and he entered Shen Jiabang through the big road in the south, and originally wanted to rest in this place, but when he saw that the fighting here was fierce and abnormal, the bullets were flying wildly, and the shells were whistling, he felt that the large army was a little difficult to do here, and if it was surrounded by the main force of the New Fourth Army guarding here, it would be difficult to get it, and hurriedly greeted the Wang Regiment Commander who came to greet him, and said to him: "The large army must quickly pass through the Shenjiabang area, You have worked hard, I will leave you some ammunition, guns and supplies, which can be regarded as supporting you to hold the Shenjiabang position, this place is a vital element for our "Peace Salvation Army" to clear out the New Fourth Army base area of the National Army, and it must not fall into the hands of the New Fourth Army. ” When Commander Wang heard it: There are also guns and ammunition for us, that's really good, don't want it for nothing.
Hurriedly stood up and saluted: "Please rest assured, thanks to the cultivation of the commander, I was able to become the head of the national government from a bandit, and I will swear to stick to Shen Jiabang to the death, and block the Communist New Fourth Army troops from the periphery, although I dare not guarantee to eliminate them all, but keep them out, our regiment can still do it." ” At this time, the commander-in-chief suddenly saw why he didn't see Captain Yamamoto's imperial troops in the crowd who came to greet him, and asked Captain Wang: "Commander Wang, why didn't you see Yamamoto Taijun and them?"
Commander Wang: "Yamamoto Taijun originally wanted to come over to meet the commander-in-chief, but their imperial army was quite brave and good at fighting, and it happened to catch up with the New Fourth Army to attack the position they held, Captain Yamamoto really couldn't pull away, the Taijun are taking our brothers to fight to the death with the New Fourth Army on the position, you see, well, the place where the gunfire is most intense in the northeast is the place where the Taijun and the national army are fighting desperately, or I will lead the way, let's go over there to have a look, and by the way, boost the morale of what you think." ” When Commander-in-Chief Li heard this, he hurriedly shook his head: "No need, Shen Jiabang has you and Yamamoto Taijun here, you will definitely be able to sit back and relax, so let's do it, it's not too early, we have to pass quickly, I'll leave it to you here, Commander Wang, if this time the New Fourth Army is successful, I will promote you to brigade commander, work hard, and you won't suffer a loss if you follow Chairman Wang." ” As soon as this commander-in-chief Li heard that the battle in front of him was so fierce, if he rushed over with Commander Wang, he would not be asking for hardship, maybe a piece of shrapnel would fly in front of him, and he would leave this place quickly.
The decision was made, this commander-in-chief Li hurriedly said goodbye to Commander Wang, and led the military headquarters and the rear team through Shen Jiabang like a smoke, heading towards the direction of Tianchang.
Before getting Zhou Wu's clear order, Commander Wang had to continue to act here in Shenjiabang, the fat man was going to run to the front again, they had to rush to the side of Tianchang before the Wang puppet army that had passed through the Shenjiabang area quickly, where they had to take a look at these enemy forces, and continue to lure the enemy to attack to the north, until they led these enemies in the middle to the edge of Hongze Lake, and also turned to the movement defense on the spot, but also to meet with the enemy's large forces again and again, luring them north, the risk is also quite large, if you are not careful, you may be surrounded by the enemy's heavy troops, that is not fun.
After the fat man received the news from Commander Wang that the enemy's large army had passed through Shenjiabang, he immediately left a platoon of brothers and the artillery company Zhang Ercheng and them to continue to stay in Shenjiabang in order to meet the large army of Zhou Wu and them who came later, and he took the 100th brothers and hurriedly marched to the north. t1706231537: