Ge Sanmin heard that the plague epidemic in the base area was almost under control, and he was very happy, now it's okay, as long as the base area is still there, the people are still there, and the main force of the Jiangbei New Fourth Army is there, so there is no need to worry about a large number of devils coming here to sweep and encircle and suppress, over the years, the little devils and the puppet army have launched countless sweeps, encirclement and suppression of the base area, isn't it also dissolved and crushed by the New Fourth Army and those fathers and villagers in the base area one by one, the combat effectiveness of the little devils at that time was much stronger than the current one, and those little devils now, To put it mildly, they are not regular soldiers at all, some are still little dolls who have just walked out of the school, and the Japanese devils have even sent fourteen or fifteen-year-old dolls to the battlefield, which means that the days of these little devils are not long.
Zhou Wu asked them to hurry to Huai'an City in the north, and be sure to block them before the Miyamoto Brigade went out of the city, Ge Sanmin and Xiao Zheng hurriedly gave Zhou Wu a military salute, took the two fast horses that Zhou Wu gave to the two of them, and galloped towards Huai'an City in the north without looking back, the sound of horses' hooves gradually faded away, and soon disappeared into the distant canopy, gradually becoming two small black dots that were almost invisible.
Zhou Wu immediately said to Ding Ning and Huang Shuisheng Fat Man: "Time is very tight, it is estimated that after the little devil gets the news from us here, maybe he will attack here in advance, and we must start the retreat operation, in this way, those patients and the medical staff of the health company will withdraw first, the fat man, you will take out a company in a group to escort them to the west, and the other fellow villagers will retreat west with the brothers of the special service group, I have already notified Lao Chen and them, and asked them to quickly rush to the west bank of Gaoyou Lake to occupy a favorable terrain and ambush them.
Arrange the pockets of the encirclement, Lao Chen and the three brigades under the Jiangbei headquarters are the eastern part of the pocket formation of the anti-encirclement and suppression, the special service regiment of Fat Man and Huang Shuisheng and the first detachment that has just arrived in Jiangbei are the western part of the pocket formation, open the two big openings in the north and south, let those puppet army devils and the Kuomintang diehards in the north put in, and when they are all concentrated in the north of Tianchang and near Jiaoshan Town in the southwest of Hongze Lake, they will shrink the pockets on the north and south sides, and at the same time all the New Fourth Army and local anti-Japanese forces in Jiangbei will launch a counteroffensive.
If we cannot eliminate the enemy in the encirclement within three days, and when the entire Kuomintang Sixth Theater behind us is pressed over, we will quickly let go of the opening in the north, let these Kuomintang diehards flee north, and all units will concentrate their efforts on eliminating the devils or the puppet army, so that we can basically end the anti-encirclement campaign and ensure the security of our Jiangbei base area. ” Ding Ning listened to Zhou Wu's plan, thought carefully for a while, and said to Zhou Wu: "Brigade seat, your pocket array is indeed a good plan, and it can also take care of both the end and the end, this time the troops at hand exceed any previous campaign operation, reaching an unprecedented 50,000 people, and the regular army of the New Fourth Army also has more than 30,000, almost all the forces of the New Fourth Army in Jiangbei are concentrated, and there are 20,000 local anti-Japanese armed forces, and their role cannot be underestimated.
I think you can leave a part of the regular army of the New Fourth Army and some local anti-Japanese armed forces as reserves, as a mobile force for the campaign, which can come in handy at the most critical moment of the campaign, and we are now facing an unprecedented siege by the enemy in many ways, with the Japanese devils and Wang puppet army troops in the south, and the diehard army of the Kuomintang Sixth Theater in the north, coupled with the plague rampant in the base areas, our actions must be carefully considered and think twice, otherwise we will fall into an irreparable situation if we are not careful.
Ding Ning added ideas to Zhou Wu's pocket array plan, asking Zhou Wu not to send all the troops at hand, and to leave a few troops as reserves in case of emergency.
Zhou Wu nodded in agreement with Ding Ning's suggestion, and immediately ordered Chen Guofu of the Jiangbei First Brigade by radio, asking him to leave a regiment and quickly rush to the headquarters of the Tianchang Matan Independent Brigade, and at the same time sent a signal corps to the Tianchang County Brigade to convey the order, asking the Tianchang County Brigade to stay and cooperate with a regiment of Chen Guofu's First Brigade to serve as a reserve for this campaign.
Chen Guofu is also an expert in warfare, as soon as Zhou Wu sent him to leave a regiment to go to Tianchangmatan, he knew what Zhou Wu was going to do, he pointed to the telegram sent to him by Zhou Wu and said to the political commissar: "It seems that this time the division commander asked Comrade Zhou Wu to command the Jiangbei New Fourth Army, and he really looked at the right person, Comrade Zhou Wu can consider leaving a reserve, which means that he has a bigger plan, hehe, now there are those little devils and puppet troops who are suffering." ” At this time, the political commissar of Niu, who was commanding the front-line epidemic prevention and treatment in the epidemic area of the base area, hurriedly rushed to the brigade headquarters, and Zhou Wu saw that Lao Niu was back, so he hurriedly stepped forward and took his hand and said to him: "The political commissar has worked hard, we are about to retreat westward, the little devils who have come to invade our base area this time are menacing, and there are Kuomintang diehards in the north threatening our back, and the difficulties of this campaign are not small." ” Political Commissar Niu has been so busy for the past two days that his feet can't touch the ground, his glasses are full of bloodshots, and even his voice is hoarse, he listened to Zhou Wu's pocket formation plan to lure the enemy deep into the encirclement and annihilate him, and said to Zhou Wu in a hoarse voice: "Comrade Zhou Wu, you know this military matter better than me, I firmly support you, I promise to do a good job for you in the political and ideological work of the troops and the morale of the soldiers, the little devil is extremely vicious, and he actually attacked our base area with plague gas bombs, looking at the villagers who died in pain one by one, I was going to take my brothers to settle accounts with the little devils, and now the situation is much better, fortunately, Ding Ning and Lao Liu risked their lives to snatch the special medicine from the devils and the Kuomintang, and the rescued villagers in the base area are now stuck in the daily muttering of our New Fourth Army, saying that we are their saviors, and they have let their young and middle-aged relatives come to join our team to kill the devils, Comrade Zhou Wu, you will give it a go with the little devils on the battlefield in front, what logistics and ammunition supply soldiers, how much do you want, My old cow will give you how much to replenish in the rear. ” Zhou Wu nodded, and said to Commissar Niu with a smile: "Old Niu, thank you for your support, the soldiers and civilians in our base area must be evacuated to the western mountains, leaving a place for the little devils to drill, and the division headquarters and Jiangbei headquarters will also be evacuated, I see that you have worked too hard these days, rest for a while, and then go below How about it Now is the epidemic period of the plague, if you are infected with the plague, it will not be easy to do, I am equivalent to losing a right-hand man." ” As soon as Lao Niu heard that Zhou Wu wanted him to rest, he immediately said to Zhou Wu: "Lao Zhou, you also underestimate my old cow, don't talk about this little plague, I think we were on the Long March back then, we didn't eat or drink, just the snowy mountains and meadows have passed several times, you can rest assured, I can't be infected with this plague, the comrade Shen Lina of the health company has already given me a few shots of vaccination, I have been working in the epidemic area with my brothers for four or five days, and I have already been infected if I want to be infected, although my old cow is older than you, But the bones are still great.
"Lao Niu is very confident in his body, he didn't die even after such a difficult snow-capped mountain and meadow several times in a row, could he be smoked to death by the gas bomb thrown down by this little devil At this time, the communications staff officer of the brigade headquarters ran over with an urgent telegram and shouted to Zhou Wu: "Brigade commander, the Nanjing military commander has an urgent telegram."
As soon as Zhou Wu heard that it was Lao Ye and them, there must be new news, and immediately asked the staff officer to read the message, and the staff officer read: "Zhou Wu Brigade Zajun Jian: According to the latest intelligence on the inside line, the devil germ warfare detachment that created the plague epidemic in Jiangbei is about to set off to Jiangbei to watch the battle, and they are guarded by two squadrons of the Japanese military police headquarters in Nanjing, escorted by armored vehicles, it is estimated that the Japanese army in the middle came to Jiangbei, I hope your army can prepare for an ambush, Annihilate this notorious devil germ warfare detachment. ” As soon as Zhou Wu heard this, Lao Ye and they actually got the information of the top-secret devil germ warfare detachment, and now they finally found their rivals, it turned out that it was only the thirty or so little devils who made the base area so miserable, it was more than 30 little devils of these germ warfare detachments, and they threw down the poison gas bombs with plague germs, almost turning the Jiangbei base area into a real no-man's land, this time Zhou Wu would have killed and eliminated these miscellaneous pieces one by one, and he would have been the commander of the independent brigade of the Jiangbei New Fourth Army in vain.
Soon, the intelligence of the underground party of our New Fourth Army in Nanjing and Yangzhou also came, which further confirmed the correctness of the information of Lao Ye and their troops at the Nanjing Military Command Station, and the intelligence showed that about 30,000 devils and Wang's puppet army on the three roads had all been dispatched, and they were coming to the Tianchang base area, and the first was a division of Wang's puppet army, a unit of more than 7,000 people, all infantry, without artillery and other heavy weapons, and the gap between the nearest little devil keeper five or six miles quickly touched the base area.
At present, the vanguard of this puppet army has reached the Hengtang area on the south bank of Gaoyou Lake.
Zhou Wu already knew the terrain around Gaoyou Lake well, he didn't need a military map at all, even if it came out that this vanguard puppet army only needed two days to reach Matan at the current normal marching speed, Zhou Wu smiled and said to Commissar Niu and Ding Ning: "This puppet army division must be a bait, the little devils themselves are afraid of our ambush, and they are afraid that if the plague germ is still prevalent in the base area, so let those troops of the Wang puppet army be cannon fodder, and first see their reaction before deciding whether to attack, It seems that we are going to let this puppet army force go this time, so that we can lure the main force of the little devils behind them, if we are anxious and attack this decoy force, it may make those little devils behind us alert, thinking that we are not dead in the plague, and may quickly retract, then in this case, wouldn't we have arranged a big pocket formation in vain Once the devil team retracts, we can't catch the bacteriological warfare detachment of this devil in the middle lane, if they slip away this time, then if you want to find them again, it will be more difficult than climbing to the sky. ” t1706231537: