The devils who chased after them were still unwilling to let Ding Ning and them escape, and hurriedly and urgently ordered all the devil troops around Nanjing City to go out to intercept the people who came to attack the Army General Hospital, and at the same time ordered the military police headquarters to carry out a large-scale search in Nanjing City to arrest all anti-Japanese elements who thought it was suspicious, so that Nanjing City would be under the bloody white terror again, and the people would once again suffer the tribulations brought by the little devils.
Station Chief Ye of Nanjing Station had already received the information provided by the internal agents of the Devil's Command, and immediately carried out the operation of evacuating and going underground, and overnight, those military commanders and Communist underground party personnel who were active in Nanjing City disappeared without a trace overnight, as if they had evaporated from the world.
It is said that the fat man returned to the base area with the life-saving drugs snatched from the sixth war zone in Su County, Zhou Wu immediately called someone to call the fat man over, and said to him: "Fat man, you can grab these medicines hard, now the plague in the base has spread, many villagers have appeared in different degrees of plague symptoms, the health company is now day and night in the epidemic area prevention and control, although there has not been a plague epidemic in our team, but if you go under this situation, it is estimated that the situation is not optimistic, The chief of staff has not yet heard from them, and according to the enemy situation from the underground party comrades in the direction of Nanjing, Yangzhou, and Taizhou, the three brigades of the Japanese devils and the five divisions of the Wang puppet army have already pounced on a place less than fifty or sixty kilometers away from Gaoyou Lake, Lao Ge and Xiao Zheng and they are already exchanging fire with the puppet army over there, and the situation in the base area is in danger, and the division commander and political commissar have already rushed over to prepare to form a Jiangbei anti-enemy front committee here in our independent brigade to unify all the anti-Japanese armed forces of the New Fourth Army in Jiangbei.
Deal with the Japanese devils and puppet armies who are about to invade. ” When the fat man heard that the big army of the little devils was coming to invade the base area, he immediately cracked his mouth, and said to Zhou Wu nonchalantly: "Brigade seat, it's better for the little devils to come, so that we can hold them down and beat them hard, these devils throw gas bombs at our base area, but they hurt us, it's not okay not to give them some color to see."
"Fatty, you think too lightly, this time the little devils and the puppet army are optimistic that we will not be able to resist their attack after the plague in our base area, it is estimated that they will also have to wait for a while before they start thinking about us to attack, but now several regiments of our independent brigade are all in Taizhou, Yangzhou, there is only one regiment and the brothers of the special service group at hand, at this time, if those devils drive the puppet army to attack, we have so few troops, plus the plague epidemic in the base area, I am afraid that it will be more auspicious."
Zhou Wu's view of this battle situation is not as optimistic as that of the fat man.
The fat man listened, shut up, think about it, at present, there are quite a lot of people infected with the plague in the base area, every day although the health company and all the medical staff in the base area go into battle to prevent and control this plague, but after all, because of the lack of streptomycin, a special drug for the prevention and treatment of plague, a large number of infected people died quickly and painfully, every day there are corpses burned and buried, every day there are grief cries come out, especially in the base area, especially the independent brigade stationed in the Tianchangmatan area of the common people are even more panicked, at this time rumors are spreading, Some people have begun to flee to the north and south.
Fortunately, Political Commissar Niu took a group of political cadres of the New Fourth Army and local cadres and comrades to eat and live in the homes of the villagers, and carefully explained to the villagers every day, telling them: "Don't be afraid, we have obtained a batch of special medicines to prevent and control this plague, as long as this special medicine is injected down, it will be effective immediately, this plague is imposed on us by the little Japanese devils, we can only unite in order to have the hope of defeating this plague alive, if you flee, Even if you can escape to the Kuomintang in the north, if you don't have this special medicine to cure the plague, you still have to die, what's the use, believe in our New Fourth Army, believe in our Communist Party, you see we are not afraid, eat and live with you, what else are you afraid of. ” As soon as the batch of special drugs snatched from Su County by Zhou Wu and other fat men arrived, they immediately sent people to the health company, ordering Shen Lina and Shi Gazi to save those dying villagers first, or quickly fight against the plague just like the war with the little devil, and there can be no delay and sloppiness The special medicine is good, the fat man's batch of snatched streptomycin quickly took effect, originally those vital signs have been seriously weakened, and even have been shocked and dehydrated, the infected people who began to appear dark spots on the skin under the antibacterial effect of a large dose of streptomycin, the symptoms were quickly reduced, Shi Gazi added the Chinese herbal medicine to the food of these infected people in a timely manner, and the gratifying effect soon appeared, and several originally strong fellows have almost recovered, as soon as the news came out, Zhou Wu, who had been worried about the spread of the plague for several days, finally smiled, and hurriedly radioed the good news to the division commander and political commissar who were also waiting for the news, and after the division commander and political commissar knew about it, they immediately reported the situation to the military headquarters, and Commander Chen and political commissar Liu immediately sent a telegram to the Jiangbei Anti-Japanese Command, commending the independent brigade for its extraordinary performance in the struggle against the plague and plague, paying tribute to the efforts and sacrifices made by all the officers and men of the independent brigade, and encouraging the independent brigade and all the New Fourth Army under the Jiangbei command.
To make persistent efforts to completely defeat the disaster brought to us by the Japanese devils, and to smash the conspiracy of the Japanese devils to wipe out the Jiangbei base area, the military headquarters decided to send an additional unit of the New Fourth Army from Jiangnan to Jiangbei to join the Jiangbei New Fourth Army to fight against the devils' encirclement and suppression of the base areas.
Since the division commander and political commissar have temporarily handed over the current command to Zhou Wu, the commander of the independent brigade, the reinforcements sent by the military headquarters are also under the command of Zhou Wu, so that together with the New Fourth Army under the original Jiangbei Command Headquarters and those local anti-Japanese armed forces, Zhou Wu now commands nearly six brigades of the regular army of the New Fourth Army, ten county brigades of anti-Japanese armed forces, and those anti-Japanese armed forces who sympathize with the Communist Party, and the number of people is nearly 40,000 or 50,000.
It is completely able to confront the Japanese devils who came to encircle and suppress the three brigades and regiments and the Wang puppet army of those traitor armies who did not make a weapon.
The division commander and the political commissar rushed to the headquarters of the Tianchangmatan Independent Brigade that night, and as soon as they met, the division commander and the political commissar said to Zhou Wu: "Comrade Zhou Wu, you have done a good job, we are here to help you this time, not to give orders to you, we have already decided that you will be fully responsible for this encirclement and suppression operation of the Japanese devils against our base area, and this decision was decided by the leading comrades of our Jiangbei Command Headquarters at a meeting.
If there is a problem, we will point it out, and if there is no problem, we will support you strongly. ” Zhou Wu listened to the words of the division commander and the political commissar, and was very excited, delegating power to him in this way, which showed that the superior leaders trusted him Zhou Wu, a former Kuomintang soldier, and it was also a test for him Zhou Wu, not only to test his military command ability, but also to test his ability to adapt to emergencies, such a test opportunity is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Zhou Wu secretly made up his mind in his heart, he must do this thing well, even if he is tired to death, it is worth it.
Hearing that the division commander wanted to listen to his Zhou Wu's future battle plan against the devils, Zhou Wu said to the division commander: "Division commander, all the units of the New Fourth Army in our Jiangbei Anti-Japanese Command are fighting the plague here in the base area, and the second and third regiments of the Independent Brigade are fighting against the Japanese devils and Wang Puppet Army on the front line in Yangzhou, Taizhou, and the reinforcements sent by the military department have not yet arrived in Jiangbei, and now I have no mobile forces in my hands.
I estimate that we have only one way to retreat, that is, to take the initiative to abandon the base area around Gaoyou Lake and retreat to the mountainous areas of northern Anhui to the west, to avoid the enemy's attack, and to stay in place with all our forces in place, and to launch an attack on a certain weak point of the enemy after hitting the troops. ” The division commander nodded, and said to Zhou Wu: "Comrade Zhou Wu, your strategy of letting the enemy in first and then closing the door and beating the dog is good, but it is a bit passive, think about it, there are so many fellow villagers here in Tianchang, and many fellow villagers are suffering from the plague, how do you let them travel long distances like your independent brigade, running back and forth for hundreds of kilometers" The division commander first affirmed Zhou Wu's plan, but he put forward the specific difficulties in implementing this plan.
The plan of locking them up and encircling and annihilating them is more suitable than dealing with the little devils and puppet troops who come to suppress them, but now it is different, the plague is epidemic in the base area, and people are dying every day.
Zhou Wu hurriedly said to the division commander: "Division commander, since it was the little devil who cast this poison gas bomb, then they must know that in the current plague outbreak period, they will not be able to attack our base area in the past few days, even if they can't hold back and want to attack us, then according to my estimate, it is also the puppet army of the cannon fodder Wang Jingwei government to take the lead, I plan to take two preparations, on the one hand, speed up the prevention and control of the plague, and extinguish this epidemic as soon as possible, and now there are a batch of special drugs snatched from Suxian County to take effect, People's hearts have stabilized, as long as the people's hearts of the people in our base area are stable, it is estimated that as soon as Ding Ning's batch of drugs arrives, this epidemic should be able to be controlled, as long as we control the epidemic, then our article below will be much better. ” When the division commander heard this, he hurriedly asked Zhou Wu: "Then tell me what you plan to do?"
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