Zhou Wu didn't want to speak, but later he saw that this Director Xia was so aggressive that he even dared to buckle his hat to Commissar Niu, so he was immediately furious and scolded: "Director Xia, if you have any opinions about our brothers who came from the Kuomintang army, you can respond to the superiors and complain, Zhou will accompany you at any time, and advise you not to be so aggressive, and make our second regiment unstable and ununited, you can criticize the comrades' practices, that's just for things, don't engage in personal attacks, and bring big hats to people indiscriminately." ” Director Xia saw that the people around him had opinions about him, and thought that if he continued to make trouble like this, he would not be able to take advantage of the second regiment, so he immediately softened, his face showed an embarrassed look, and he reluctantly squeezed out a smile and said: "Comrade Zhou Wu, don't be angry, I'm also for the comrades, okay, everyone is for a common goal?"
Zhou Wu saw that Director Xia's tone softened, and thought to himself that this kind of person can't be offended, and he will accept it when he sees it, once he offends this kind of person, he will have to suffer in the New Fourth Army in the future.
Political Commissar Niu's mood also eased at this time, and said: "Comrade Xiao Xia, today's matter is over, and after this battle, our Second Regiment will hold an enlarged meeting of the Party Committee to deeply review your approach, and if you have any objections, you can report to the higher-level column headquarters." ” Political Commissar Niu knew very well that Director Xia's actions hurt the hearts of Zhou Wu and his brothers very badly, and that a resolution must be formed at the meeting of the regimental party committee to prevent this kind of thing from happening again in the future, so as not to cause unwarranted losses to the anti-Japanese forces.
Zhou Wu and the others saw that the political commissar Niu said so, it would be meaningless to dwell on this issue any longer, no matter what happened, they had to give the political commissar a face.
So Zhou Wu hurriedly signaled to Zhang Ercheng, who was huffing, and asked them to go down and rest first, and in the middle of the night, we had to set off and rush to Binhu Town on the edge of Hongze Lake in the north.
When Zhou Wu and the others were maneuvering with the reinforcements of the devil wing near Shen Jiabang, the fat man and more than a hundred brothers had successfully bypassed the Wang puppet army that had invaded the base area in the middle, and rushed to this lakeside town near Hongze Lake first.
Binhu Town is surrounded by water on three sides, only the south side faces the direction of Tianchang, mainly the plain terrain, there are some low hills in the south, although the altitude is not high, but some small hills suddenly rise and fall in the place of a horse and a flat river, it looks quite majestic, as soon as the fat man arrives here, he immediately takes his brothers everywhere to observe the terrain, and feels that this place is very suitable for ambush.
Especially the first pass, where there was only a path that could only accommodate two or three people in the middle, and the surrounding area was full of low and undulating hills, and if you put a reinforced platoon of troops in this pass, you would have put two Maxine heavy machine guns and four Czech light machine guns here.
Not only can it prevent the passage of the Wang puppet army in the middle from here to the western base area, but it can also hold on here, which is enough to support the arrival of the brigade and other teams of the New Fourth Army.
The fat man immediately ordered his company commander surnamed Chen to quickly bring all the machine guns brought by his forty or so brothers, prepared enough ammunition for them, and personally led him to the mountain pass in front of Binhu Town.
The remaining sixty or so brothers were divided into two groups to guard the entrance of Binhu Town, protect the people living inside, and in case the front could not be held, they immediately covered the retreat of these fellow villagers to the northwest base area.
As soon as Liu Bang and the others arrived at the mountain pass, they immediately began to dig trenches on the slopes on both sides, which were worthy of the soldiers brought out by the fat man, and the trenches dug out were horizontal and vertical, twice more beautiful, and the speed was quite fast, and in less than half an hour, a simple fortification had been dug up, the Maxine heavy machine guns were placed, and the four Czech light machine guns were placed in the front and rear positions on both sides.
The fat man carefully arranged the deployment of various firepower points, and then took his brothers to squat down in the trench, smoke a cigarette, and chatted and talked while Wang Puppet's army had not yet arrived.
The company commander surnamed Chen is also a local, who lives in Gaoyou County, and was originally studying in high school in Yangzhou, but as soon as the devil came, he made Nanjing City upside down, and the news of the massacre reached Yangzhou, and this young man was angry, and immediately decided to put pen to paper, and even his parents in Gaoyou City did not say hello, so he went directly to the 63rd Division of the Kuomintang stationed in Yangzhou City and asked to join the army to fight devils.
At this time, the 63rd Division had not yet retreated from Yangzhou, and when it saw that this educated young man was going to join the army, he was asking for it, and at that time Nanjing fell, Yangzhou City, which was not far behind Nanjing, was in a panic, and most of the people fled from Yangzhou City one after another, and fled to the relatively safe north.
There were also some soldiers in the 63rd Division who deserted and became deserters, and they were worried that there would be no new recruits to replenish them, but now when I saw that this high school student surnamed Chen had brought a few classmates who asked to join the national army to fight devils, he immediately accepted them, and after only three or four days of military training, he sent this Chen classmate to the following company as a platoon commander.
At that time, the 63rd Division was also withdrawn from the south of the Yangtze River, and was chased and beaten by little devils along the way, and the middle and lower-level officers suffered heavy losses.
The 63rd Division resisted Yangzhou for three days, and finally because the enemy was outnumbered, it could not hold Yangzhou City, so it evacuated to Suxian, the theater headquarters in the north.
The order to retreat was conveyed, but by the time it was conveyed to classmate Chen, the little devils had already entered Yangzhou City, and they were searching the city for the remaining national officers and soldiers who resisted all over the world.
This classmate Chen took seven or eight of his brothers, and after a night of hiding with the little devils in Yangzhou City, he escaped from Yangzhou City in the appearance of ordinary people, and returned to his hometown in Gaoyou County to hide.
Later, the New Fourth Army came to recruit troops from Gaoyou County, and Chen saw that they were all fighting devils anyway, regardless of whether they were from the Communist Party or the Kuomintang, so he simply signed up for the New Fourth Army.
This time he told his parents, his parents were still reasonable, and they still trusted the New Fourth Army team, and let him go after telling him two sentences, and he was assigned to Chen Guofu's third regiment as a soldier, and later he saw that this little family had a very high level of education, and he would use his brains to fight, so he made an exception and promoted him to the platoon commander.
In the battle, Chen made rapid progress in learning, was good at using his brains to fight skillfully, and his position was that the sesame seeds were blooming and rising, and he became a deputy battalion commander under Chen Guofu in less than three or four years.
This time, Zhou Wu and their independent brigade came over, and Chen Guofu specially introduced this deputy battalion commander Chen to Zhou Wu, saying that he was a manufacturable material, and he would train hard with Zhou Wu, and he might also be a character in the future.
Zhou Wu considered that he was the deputy battalion commander of the third regiment of the original Jiangbei detachment, so he gave this classmate Chen to the fat man and asked him to be a company commander under the fat man, so let's see his situation first.
Company Commander Chen looked at the terrain on this side of the mountain pass and said: "Battalion commander, it would be more perfect if we could add a few more firepower points to our position, you look at the terrain between the two mountains and all the way, it is impossible for the puppet army to rush over in a swarm, they can also see that there is danger here, and they will definitely send a small team to reconnoitre, and then the large army will come over in a long snake formation." ” "We have limited manpower here, although we occupy this fortress junction that is not open for thousands of people, but after all, we can't withstand the impact of a large number of troops of the puppet army, I mean to ambush another team two or three miles ahead to increase the firepower point."
"In this way, our defensive ambush line will be lengthened, and we can destroy more puppet troops when we fight, and it will be easier to cut them off, so that we can avoid the situation that we can't resist the impact of a large number of puppet troops because we have fewer people in ambush."
When the fat man heard that this Company Commander Chen still had a set, plus Zhou Wu had personally explained to him before, although this Company Commander Chen was young, he was introduced by Commander Chen Guofu, and he had to exercise him well, he was a good seedling for fighting.
I saw the fat man nodding with a smile and said, "You are right, the command of the ambush position here today is up to you, I will watch you command, and I have something to say." ” The fat man had long wanted to train a deputy in his heart, but now he felt that this Chen Company Commander was really good, so he immediately asked him to command this ambush battle to see how capable the good seedling Chen Guofu greatly appreciated Unexpectedly, the student soldier accepted the task honestly and unceremoniously, and he gave a military salute to the fat man and said: "Thank you battalion commander for your trust, I promise to command this ambush battle, you just watch from behind, you don't have to run to the front in person." ” The fat man wanted to personally bring more than forty brothers here this time, the purpose was to get over the addiction of ambush warfare, but he didn't expect that this front-line commander who had just been appointed by himself would ask him to lean back, didn't this cost the fat man's life, he immediately shook his head desperately and said no.
"This won't work, you want me to lean back and watch you fight, then don't suffocate me to death, I promise not to interfere with your command, but you must ensure that I can go to the front line to beat these Wang puppet troops, otherwise I can command it myself" Company Commander Chen saw that the fat man was in a hurry, and hurriedly smiled and said, "Battalion commander, don't worry, don't you just let you go to the front line to kill those puppet soldiers?"
The fat man turned his anger into joy, and happily patted Company Commander Chen's shoulder and said: "Boy, do a good job, you have a higher culture than me, you have more ink in your stomach, you are a cadre material, and you will be promoted in the future, but don't forget our brothers, if you forget your roots in the future, I don't care how big an official you are, I still come to the door to settle accounts with you." ” t1706231537: