Three miles away, Zhou Wu and they only took about twenty minutes to arrive, and the brothers couldn't help but give a thumbs up when they saw that Ge Sanmin had intercepted such a long train, and by the way, they had captured more than a hundred puppet soldiers guarding the station: "It's good, it's really amazing, now we will be much easier." ” Zhou Wu carefully observed in the station, and decided to let the brothers work hard first, all of them got on the train to unload the grain, oil, rice, noodles, clothes, shoes and hats, etc., and put them here at the station for the time being, and vacated the train carriages to load the brothers and rush to Lang Village.
Hearing Ge Sanmin say that rare and precious Western medicine was also found on the train, Zhou Wu was very happy, and ordered Ge Sanmin to send a squad of brothers to guard the hard-won medicines, and rush to Lang Village with the brothers of the second regiment, so that they could hand over the medicines to the health company, so that they could use this batch of medicines to save more wounded comrades.
For a time, the small station was crowded with people, and the brothers were happily moving and unloading things, and the more people were doing things, so many things on this train were quickly moved to the platform and bungalow of the small station by the brothers of the second regiment.
Zhou Wu was afraid that the puppet army behind him knew that this station had been conquered by the New Fourth Army, so he sent a team and a train to pursue him, and ordered Ge Sanmin to take a group of brothers to plant explosives on the railroad tracks one or two miles behind, and as soon as the train transporting the brothers of the second regiment here departed, all the railroad tracks behind them would be blown up.
Ge Sanmin was really reluctant to bear the mountains of grain, oil, rice, noodles, clothes, shoes, hats and other materials on the small station, and suggested: "Brigade seat, I think the brothers who sent a platoon stayed at the station, guarding these materials, you see what good things, the villagers in the base area are now lacking these things."
Zhou Wu thought about it for a while, and felt that Ge Sanmin had some truth in what he said, it is true that the base area is now blocked by devils, Wang puppet army and Kuomintang diehards, and the materials are quite short and tight, if this cart of grain, oil, rice, flour, clothes, shoes and hats and other things can be left, it will play a certain role in alleviating the material shortage in the rear.
Zhou Wu ordered Ge to send a team of twenty or thirty people to stay at the station to prevent Wang's puppet army from pursuing Langcun from the direction of the railway, and he himself took the large army of the second regiment to quickly board the train, and in a long whistle, the train slowly started and galloped away in the direction of Langcun sixty or seventy kilometers away.
Most of the brothers of the Second Regiment had never taken a train, and now they sat on this fast-running train, very excited, forgetting the fatigue of fighting and running for days, looking at the dark night scene outside the car window, talking loudly to each other, and the atmosphere was quite lively and happy.
The train driver was very professional, and after running at a high speed of 60 kilometers per hour for a while, he slowly slowed down the speed of the train, and he said to Ge Sanmin, who was at the locomotive: "Commander of the New Fourth Army, the railroad track in front was destroyed by the guerrillas here a few days ago, and the sappers of Ergouzi spent a lot of effort to barely repair it, but they couldn't drive too fast. ” Ge Sanmin nodded, hurriedly returned to the back carriage and reported the damage to the railroad track in front to Zhou Wu, of course Zhou Wu knew about the situation, met with Ding Ning and discussed, and decided to let the train drive slowly first, and then it was so slow, it was better than running on two legs, and it would be much less labor.
The slowed down train moved forward for some distance, and stopped at a place ten miles away from Lang Village, and the train driver said: "The railroad tracks in front have been completely destroyed by the guerrillas. ” Zhou Wu and Ding Ning saw that the train had stopped, and hurriedly ran to the front of the car, Ge Sanmin said: "Brigade seat, the driver said that the railway in front was destroyed by the local guerrillas, and he was afraid that if he drove over again, he would derail and overturn."
Zhou Wu asked the train driver: "Master, where is this place, how far is it from Lang Village?"
"Sir, this place is still more than ten miles away from Lang Village, and the railroad tracks in front of it have been destroyed by the guerrillas."
The train division felt that the head of the New Fourth Army was very polite and polite to people, and did not have the aggressive momentum of being a big official.
Zhou Wu immediately said: "Lao Ding, I think let the brothers get off here, it will take a lot of effort to contact the local guerrillas to send people to repair these damaged railroad tracks, and with these efforts, we can also reach Lang Village on foot." ” "Okay, I'll go and inform them immediately, get off the bus immediately, and walk to Lang Village" Ding Ning agreed, and hurriedly went back to the carriage to greet the brothers of the second regiment to get off the car.
The brothers of the second regiment got off the train, and Zhou Wu asked Ge Sanmin not to forget the pile of Western medicine on the train, that is a treasure, and now the front line is in urgent need, don't leave it on the train.
"This master, I think you should also join our New Fourth Army team, and go with us to fight devils and two dogs" The train driver was quite refreshing: "No problem, I have long heard about your New Fourth Army, and when I look at it today, it is really different from those national soldiers and two dogs, not only is it good at fighting, but it is also very good to people, just like that, I joined your New Fourth Army, but I still have family members in Yangzhou City, I am afraid that if the devil and the second dog know about me, it will be unfavorable to my wife and children." ” When Zhou Wu heard this, he turned his head and said to the political commissar Niu: "Old Niu, when this battle is over, contact the underground party comrades in Yangzhou and try to transfer the family of this driver master to the base area. ” Commissar Niu hurriedly nodded: "Okay, when this battle is over, I will immediately contact the comrades of the underground party." ” When the train driver saw that the commander of the New Fourth Army was going to use the power of the Yangzhou underground organization to bring all his family members to the base area, he was moved, and thought that he had made the right choice this time, and he would follow the New Fourth Army in this life.
Immediately, the train driver Mao Sui recommended himself: "Sir, I used to pass by here often when I was a railway maintenance worker, and I am familiar with the terrain here, so I will lead the way and lead my brothers to Lang Village."
Zhou Wu listened: "Okay, thank you, after you join our team, everyone will be comrades."
You've helped us a lot this time."
The train driver was a railway maintenance worker in this area before driving the train, and he was quite familiar with the terrain in this area, so he immediately took the brothers of the second regiment to Lang Village.
The original distance of more than ten miles was reduced by half of the distance under the guidance of this train driver, and it only took Zhou Wu and them half an hour to see Lang Village.
"Brigade, we have arrived at Lang Village, twenty hours earlier than expected, according to the reconnaissance brother, there is no sign of Wang Puppet Army passing around Lang Village."
When Zhou Wu heard that most of Wang's puppet army had not yet arrived here, wouldn't it be better, he took Ding Ning and others to the river, and said: "Send reconnaissance to expand the search area, and find boats to cross the river along the river, cross the river, set up a blocking position on the other side of the river, and attack the enemy in Bandu."
At this time, a few panting scout brothers ran outside: "Report to the regiment commander, a large number of Wang puppet army teams are coming this way along the main road, it is estimated that there are tens of thousands of horses, there are still ten miles away from here, according to their marching speed, they can reach here in an hour." ” As soon as Zhou Wu heard this, the main force of Wang's puppet army finally appeared, and immediately changed the original battle plan to attack the enemy in Bandu, and ordered Ge Sanmin and them to quickly build a temporary sniper position on the riverbank, and block the large forces of Wang's puppet army that had entered the trap by the river south of Lang Village.
At the same time, he sent people to Binhu Town behind to contact the fat man who stayed behind, and asked him to immediately bring his men and horses to the direction of Lang Village, and join the main force of the Second Regiment to attack most of Wang's puppet army.
Ding Ning raised objections to this battle plan: "Brigade seat, fat man, they only have a total of about 100 brothers, give up the Binhu Town, which is very important to our base area, what if the puppet army sends a cavalry to raid Binhu Town, then our second regiment and the base area will not be attacked by the enemy."
Zhou Wu didn't think so: "Lao Ding, it is impossible for the puppet army to send troops to raid Binhu Town now, because now their large forces have almost all fallen into the encirclement set up by our column, although in terms of numbers, it is not a real encirclement of the puppet army, but in the area of Lang Village, I estimate that the number may exceed the Wang puppet army, and all the men and horses of our Jiangbei column plus local armed forces are concentrated here." ” Ding Ning just wanted to speak, only to see a few more reconnaissance in front of him to report: "Report to the regiment commander, we met a regiment of brothers by the river five or six miles to the west, they heard that our second regiment arrived here, they didn't believe it, saying that we couldn't have such a fast speed, and then we got the contact password, and they believed it, and the regimental commander Chen of the regiment asked us to come back and tell you that they had repaired the blocking position by the river and were ready to fight with the Wang puppet army here."
When Zhou Wu heard this, it was really Chen Guofu and their regiment here, since the first regiment was here, the column headquarters and the third regiment and other local troops should also be nearby, and it seemed that they were going to start a general attack on the large army of Wang's puppet army in the small place of Langcun. t1706231537: