The fat man is now more and more brainy in the war, but it is not like the previous time when he fought and rushed on the battlefield in Shanghai, regardless of the overall situation, this time he really wanted to fight with the little devil in Yamada, but Zhou Wuyou ordered him and Huang Shuisheng to resist the Yamada brigade and the puppet army division to continue to attack the base area, hold the line of Tianchangmatan, and wait for the main force of the army to solve the enemy in the north, and then turn back to deal with the Yamada little devils.
So the fat man listened to Huang Shuisheng's proposal, and immediately asked his subordinate communication troops to contact Zhou Wu by radio, and reported the situation here, Zhou Wu was ambushing in the area of Lijiawan at this time, waiting for the Miyamoto Brigade to come out from the direction of Huai'an, and listened to the fat man's report on their enemy situation, and quickly ordered the fat man and Huang Shuisheng not to act in a hurry first, just keep the status quo, the Miyamoto Brigade in the north has not yet entered the encirclement, in case the Yamada Brigade is in a hurry, there may be an accident, If the Hata Shunroku in Nanjing ordered Yamada and the other devil puppet army from the other two roads to make a detour to the area of Dacheng Town, then the Jiangbei New Fourth Army would suffer this time, so Zhou Wu thought that the situation was still complicated by the northern front, and when Miyamoto really got into the trap, he could let the fat man and Huang Shuisheng close the net and launch an attack on the Yamada brigade.
Ding Ning had already taken the Jiangnan detachment of the New Fourth Army to get in touch with Ge Sanmin's first regiment and Xiao Zheng's third regiment, they were at this time in the area of the Three Fairy Temple, more than 50 kilometers west of Huai'an City, and the forward troops of the 79th Army were also connected, according to the scout report of the 79th Army, the Miyamoto Brigade had rushed to the place less than five or six miles away from the Three Fairy Temple, and Ge Sanmin and they were desperately digging fortifications in the area of the Three Fairy Temple, intending to block the Miyamoto Brigade.
As soon as Ding Ning heard that Ge Sanmin was digging fortifications in the area of the Three Fairy Temple, he hurriedly ordered him: "Don't dig trenches, if you want to fight a positional battle with the Miyamoto Brigade, immediately take the team to the back of the Miyamoto Brigade and drive them in the direction of Lijiawan, I will contact those forward teams of the 79th Army, ask them to provide intelligence and help, and drive Miyamoto to Lijiawan with us, note that the location of the siege and annihilation of the Miyamoto Brigade is in the area of Lijiawan, not this."
The area around the Three Fairies Temple, where the terrain is flat, there is almost nothing to cover around, it is not suitable for encirclement and annihilation wars, and the Three Fairies Temple is relatively close to Huai'an City, and those puppet soldiers and devils around will soon be able to come to the rescue of Miyamoto, which is very unfavorable for our encirclement."
Ge Sanmin and Xiao Zheng received the order of the chief of staff Ding Ning, and immediately gave up the action of digging trenches, and ordered his brothers to run forward quickly, and inserted themselves behind the Miyamoto Brigade in front, and the team of nearly 5,000 people of the second and third regiments quickly put into the rapid march, under the guidance of the local villagers who were familiar with the road, Ge Sanmin and Xiao Zheng took the small road to bypass, and after marching for about two hours, the brothers who were reconnoitring in front came back to report to Ge Sanmin: "Regiment commander, the baggage troops that found the devils in front of them, numbering more than a hundred, All of them were trucks, followed by a large team of trucks, all of which were ordinary people, and it seemed that they had been coerced and forcibly requisitioned by the little devils to help the devils deliver supplies. ” When Ge Sanmin heard this, he laughed, and said to Captain Xiao Zheng: "Xiao Zheng, it seems that we have now rushed to the back of the Miyamoto Brigade, these baggage must be Miyamoto's team, you see we rushed up first, snatched these things, and then intercepted the road and the woods on both sides here, cut off the back road of the Miyamoto Brigade, leaving one team to stop the Miyamoto Brigade from retreating, and the rest of the troops drove Miyamoto towards Lijiawan." ” Xiao Zheng nodded and agreed with Ge Sanmin's tactics, among the several regiment commanders under the Independent Brigade, Xiao Zheng was the youngest and the youngest, he knew that he could only learn humbly in front of Ge Sanmin and the fat man, so Xiao Zheng agreed with the general plan, even if there were any different suggestions, he would not confront Ge Sanmin face to face, but let Zhou Wu coordinate through other euphemistic ways, so Xiao Zheng's popularity is very good, and the relationship with the fat man and Ge Sanmin is quite good, Even the fat man who has never praised people is not, in front of Zhou Wu, he praised Xiao Zheng, not only has a set of battles, but also has a good character.
Ge Sanmin is an old man after all, he will not immediately order his troops to quickly catch up with the battle because of a reconnaissance by the scout brothers in front of him, the battle is not comparable to other work, and if he messes up, he can start again, this is a matter of losing his head, he and so many of his soldiers of the New Fourth Army are tied to their own lives, any decision is crucial, and thousands of people must not be careless.
Ge Sanmin sent out several teams of scout brothers to reconnoiter again, telling them: "Go farther, look carefully, take a flare gun, and in case of emergency, send a signal immediately, and we will come immediately."
As soon as the scout brothers left, Ge Sanmin and Xiao Zheng ordered their brothers to rest for a while, and then make a decision when the news of the scout came.
"Where to shoot" A red signal flare appeared in the sky, and Ge Sanmin's heart tightened: it must be those scout brothers who are in trouble, he originally thought that it would take a while to see this red signal flare, but he didn't expect to come so soon, so let's do it, they should still come, and everyone is ready to fight Dense gunfire rang out in the place where there was a signal flare in front, and Ge Sanmin shouted: "The second regiment is to the left, and the third regiment is Xiao Zheng, you are to the right, rush over, surround and destroy all those devils' baggage troops, and then seize the favorable terrain on both sides of the road to prevent the Miyamoto brigade from retreating towards Huai'an City."
The brothers of the second and third regiments rushed out of the woods and rushed towards the side of the road below, and the gunfire in front of them was the brothers who went to reconnoiter and a pair of devil infantry guarding the devil's baggage troops suddenly encountered, and the leader of the scout platoon saw that the two sides were full of arms, and they couldn't hide, so they drew their guns and shot, and those devils shouted and surrounded them, bullying these scout brothers for being small in number, and wanted to bully more and less, and first eliminated this group of New Fourth Army scouts.
There were more than 200 devil soldiers in this team, and when they saw that the scouts of the New Fourth Army in front of them thought they were bullying, they rushed up like bees, and they never thought that these scout brothers were so powerful, they actually withstood the siege of so many little devils, and retreated to the woods on the side of the road while fighting.
The devil soldiers were in hot pursuit, and only three or four of the seven or eight scout brothers sent out were still fighting tenaciously, and the left arm of the leader of the reconnaissance platoon commander was pierced by the devil's machine gun bullet, and the red blood flowed outward, he saw that there were fewer and fewer brothers around him, and the devils were about to surround him, so he gritted his teeth and shouted to the three brothers under him: "Go back and report to the regiment commander, I am here to stand" The three brothers couldn't leave, so they had to go back with the platoon commander, the reconnaissance platoon commander was annoyed, and said to them at the top of his throat: "Don't be stupid, there are so many devils on the other side, you can die together together, and if you can run out, one counts as one, quickly report the enemy situation here to the regiment commander, immediately" The platoon commander of the three brothers was annoyed, so he hurriedly turned around and ran towards the woods over there, a devil's bullet came, hitting the reconnaissance platoon commander's left thigh, the reconnaissance platoon commander knelt on one knee with a "poof", his body almost fell to the ground, shook twice, barely climbed to a big tree, and shot at the little devil who rushed over with a gun in one hand.
The devil officer ordered his opponent: "The person in front of him is dying, rush up and capture him alive."
A large number of little devils howled and rushed up, and the reconnaissance platoon commander shot desperately at these little devils, but soon the bullets ran out, and he wanted to immediately change the magazine and shoot again, but he remembered that his left arm was crippled and could not move, and the reconnaissance platoon commander threw away the twenty-shot box gun, stood up straight on one leg, and faced his chest at those little devils, ready to accept the bullets from the little devils.
Unexpectedly, those little devils just howled there, and did not shoot, and the reconnaissance platoon commander quickly understood that these little devils were going to capture themselves alive.
The reconnaissance platoon commander immediately rolled to the ground, leaned against the back of a big tree, and groped out two American-made grenades from his waist, these two American-made grenades were sent down by the quartermaster Lao Xu last time, the reconnaissance platoon commander smiled bitterly, put the ring of the grenade on his little thumb, slowly lit a cigarette, and waited for the little devils who slowly pounced over.
When they saw the reconnaissance platoon commander sitting under the big tree smoking and waiting for them, they were all very surprised, and suddenly their glasses flashed an extremely frightened look, only to see the reconnaissance platoon commander's glasses sitting under the big tree raise the two American-made grenades in his hands, and the small pull ring on the grenade was gone.
At this time, a bright light suddenly flashed, followed by an earth-shattering explosion, and the reconnaissance platoon commander and a dozen little devils were blown up by the powerful air wave of the American-made grenade explosion, and they were all reduced to dust.
At the moment of the grenade explosion, the three scouts who ran back had just run to Ge Sanmin and they were about to report the enemy's situation, when an explosion sounded over there, and Ge Sanmin hurriedly asked the scout: "Is it your platoon commander who died, it was the explosion of American-made grenades, and the little devils don't have this kind of grenade."
The three scouts hurriedly nodded: "Regiment commander, that's right, it was our platoon commander who died with the devil, we were supposed to stick there with him, but the platoon commander had to let us rush back to report, there are more than 200 devils, all of them are old devils, and their combat effectiveness is very strong."
When Ge Sanmin heard this, he hurriedly ordered several battalion commanders under him: "The first battalion will go up to the left, the second battalion will attack head-on, and the third battalion will cut off the retreat of this group of devils on the right. t1706231537: