Soon, the scout came back in a hurry, and reported to the fat man the enemy situation in front of him: "The Yamada brigade has all crossed the deep river, and is desperately attacking the position of the second regiment of the independent brigade Ge Sanmin. ” When the fat man heard this, he felt very incomprehensible, why did Zhou Wu want them to stay here and ambush Huang Shuisheng's spy group, why didn't he take this opportunity to rush and block the Yamada brigade south of the deep river, intercept the devil brigade that had all crossed the river, and attack Ge Sanmin and his two regiments on both sides The fat man's heart was tickled, and he hurriedly reported his plan to Zhou Wu, Zhou Wu had just returned from Lijiawan with his men and horses at the moment, and when he heard the fat man's new idea, he felt that it was not feasible, he thought that the fat man's regiment and Huang Shuisheng's spy group had completely cut off their way of retreat from behind the Yamada brigade, which would inevitably cause the Yamada brigade to desperately break through, so that those devil soldiers would desperately break through to you in order to survive, which would be very unfavorable to the fat man's encirclement and annihilation of the Yamada brigade, and only properly let go of some retreats, Let Yamada rush to the south and still have a chance to escape, so that it is possible to obtain the maximum encirclement effect, from the last battle of encircling and annihilating Miyamoto's brigade, it can be seen that the best way to encircle the enemy is to encircle three and lack one, but not all of them are encircled, which is not good.
Therefore, Zhou Wu ordered the fat man and Huang Shuisheng in the telegram to stay where they were, and lurked in the preset ambush position south of Lijiawan, and when their large army drove the Yamada brigade to the south, the fat man and Huang Shuisheng could attack Yamada according to the original plan.
The fat man had no choice but to stay where he was honestly, but he was very unconvinced, thinking: Why is the brigade more and more careful in fighting now?
However, Zhou Wu's strict orders made the fat man dare not make a mistake, so after a few complaints, he continued to lurk in place with his brothers, and at the same time he sent a team of scouts from multiple routes, so that they could report to him at any time the enemy situation of the Yamada brigade in front of him, so as to prepare for a battle ambush.
In the west of Pangjia Village, where Ding Ning, who resisted the Kuomintang recalcitrant army of fifty or sixty thousand, they were reinforced by the puppet army division of Liu Haozi, who revolted on the battlefield, and their strength was greatly enhanced, although the combat effectiveness of these puppet soldiers who had just rebelled and defected was not as good as those New Fourth Army soldiers under Ding Ning, but after all, the weapons were much better than Ding Ning's, and there were more than a dozen small-caliber mortars alone, four 75 mm caliber mountain guns, and a lot of heavy machine guns, and there was plenty of ammunition.
The technology of these puppet artillery who came over from the uprising is also quite good, no matter from the perspective of artillery suppression and extended shooting, etc., the quality of these artillery is not as bad as Zhang Ercheng of the independent brigade, Ding Ning said to Zhang Ercheng, the commander of the artillery company who came over: "Haha, Zhang Ercheng, these artillery companies have competitors, and when this battle is over, I will discuss with Mr.
Xiao to merge these artillery companies into your artillery company to form an artillery battalion under our independent brigade, In this way, we will have the confidence to fight in the future. ” Zhang Ercheng said with a smile: "The chief of staff is right, if our independent brigade has an artillery battalion, then it will definitely come in handy to fight devils in the future, but I think those little devils will soon be finished, they can't eat the shells of our artillery battalion, it is estimated that we still have to fight against these bastard stubborn troops on the other side, those guys hate our New Fourth Army more than they hate little devils, I really don't know if they are from China When the Japanese devils were not completely driven out of the Chinese area, they mobilized so many heavy troops to besiege our New Fourth Army, The time they attacked the Japanese, the devils weren't so active, it's really not a thing. ” At this moment, Ding Ning and their brothers who threw over a part of the puppet army and the New Fourth Army have taken the opportunity to touch the junction between the two Kuomintang recalcitrant troops, this is the place where the two rivers meet, and there are Kuomintang recalcitrant troops stationed on the other side of the river, but in the open space in the middle of the confluence of the two rivers, I don't know if the Kuomintang recalcitrant army on the opposite side is not familiar with the terrain, or deliberately set aside such a place, in short, according to the brothers who have gone to reconnoiter many times before, there is indeed no Kuomintang recalcitrant army stationed there, Ding Ning and the recalcitrant army on both sides of the formation of a gap as wide as two miles, Ding Ning and they plan to quickly pass through this gap, interspersed with the back of the recalcitrant army on the opposite side, according to the scout's report, there is a regiment of the recalcitrant army stationed there, four or five miles away from here, if they can quickly surround and eliminate the recalcitrant army, Ding Ning and they may break the siege of this group of Kuomintang recalcitrant troops, and meet with the fat man in the southwest, so that they can be connected with the fat man and Huang Shuisheng and their two regiments, Completely repelled the stubborn Kuomintang troops who came to attack Pangjia Village, and smashed their attempt to encircle and eliminate Ding Ning at the moment when the Jiangbei New Fourth Army encircled and annihilated the Miyamoto Brigade and could not take a break.
As the chief of staff of the Independent Brigade of the New Fourth Army, Ding Ning, with his consistent experience, was very puzzled about the open land between the two rivers, why the recalcitrant troops on the opposite side turned a blind eye to the gap in this place, whether they were not familiar with this terrain, or they deliberately set aside this open land and waited for us to pass Ding Ning was very entangled, and wanted to contact Zhou Wu in Lijiawan by radio, and listen to what Zhou Wu meant, but it happened that the radio brought at this moment was broken, and it could only receive messages, not send messages, and it became a unilateral communication, Zhou Wu's messages received a lot, but Ding Ning couldn't send his thoughts over, and sent out scouts to contact, the way back and forth was too far, and when he received a reply, I am afraid that the gap here has long been discovered by the Kuomintang recalcitrant army, and it will be troublesome to send out heavy troops to garrison, and now the most important thing is determination, Ding Ning thought about it for a while, and decided that he couldn't wait any longer, it would be a waste to wait any longer, although Zhou Wu had already sent Xiao Zheng and other teams of the Jiangbei New Fourth Army to the west to reinforce Ding Ning, but Ding Ning believed that at this moment, the fifty or sixty thousand Kuomintang recalcitrant troops had surrounded Pangjia Village like an iron bucket, even if the reinforcements of the New Fourth Army arrived in time, they had to break through the layers of fortresses around Pangjia Village in order to meet Ding Ning.
These recalcitrant weapons are all American-made equipment, ammunition is sufficient, backed by the main railway artery Jinpu line, logistics materials can be transported from Su County, where the Sixth Theater Command is located, to this place in a steady stream, only by decisively rushing through the gap between their ranks, intercepting their isolated part, quickly encircling and annihilating it, so as to open the gap in the encirclement and rush out to fight with the New Fourth Army team.
Lao Xu saw that Ding Ning couldn't make up his mind, so he said to him: "Chief of Staff, why don't you take a look at the situation here first, let me take a battalion of brothers over to explore the way, if there is an ambush or other situation over there, then you can quickly insert it into the enemy's regimental headquarters, and then talk about it there, don't worry about us."
Lao Xu planned to take the men and horses to test it, and asked Ding Ning to take the rest of his brothers to quickly insert themselves into the stubborn legion headquarters, break the stubborn legion headquarters, and break out of the encirclement.
Ding Ning disagreed, he shook his head and said to Lao Xu: "Lao Xu, this is not good, how can you lead the team to test it, in case there is really an ambush of the Kuomintang recalcitrant army over there, wouldn't it be all over, you are the deputy commander of our independent brigade, in charge of military supplies, we independent travelers can't lack capable people like you, I think it is better to let the reconnaissance company commander take the scouts over, let them deliberately make a big move, search all around, carefully confirm that there is no problem again, and we will intersperse the past from here."
As soon as Lao Xu listened to Ding Ning's suggestion and felt that it was feasible, he nodded and called the commander of the reconnaissance company and ordered him: "You take the soldiers of the first company to the open field in front, carefully search the surrounding situation, and if you find that something is wrong, retreat immediately, don't fight with the enemy, the most important thing is to preserve your strength."
The commander of the reconnaissance company hurriedly nodded in agreement, and took the brothers of a company to rush towards the open field, the water of these two rivers is not very deep, and the brothers directly flowed over, and the brothers of a platoon served as a guard in the front, and the rest of the brothers followed closely behind to search and advance, and the brothers of the reconnaissance company carefully searched around, and found nothing abnormal, so they came back to report to Ding Ning: "Chief of staff, everything is normal in the open area in front, and nothing abnormal is found."
When Ding Ning heard the joy, he was just about to stand up and order his brothers to set off immediately to capture the Kuomintang stubborn army headquarters on the open side, when suddenly a bullet was fired from a distance, which happened to hit Ding Ning's left chest, Ding Ning's body shook a little, and immediately fell straight to the ground, Lao Xu looked at it, and hurriedly shouted to the reconnaissance company commander: "Pay attention to the enemy blockers on that side, the health soldiers, and the chief of staff of first aid" The reconnaissance company commander saw that the chief of staff was shot in the chest by the Kuomintang recalcitrant blocker opposite, and his eyes were almost on fire, at this moment, another bullet flew in, hitting less than half a meter next to the reconnaissance company commander, jumping up a string of mud blocks, smashing on the reconnaissance company commander, it was very painful, the reconnaissance company commander at this moment couldn't care about himself at all, he saw the approximate location of the blocker on the opposite side from the place where the shot came just now, and hurriedly grabbed the 60 mortar in the hands of a brother next to him, After roughly aiming, a cannonball was stuffed into it with a "clang".
I only heard a "poof" sound, the shells whistled out of the barrel, smashed into the position of the Kuomintang stubborn blocker, and several other mortars saw that the reconnaissance company commander was shelling, and they fired mortar shells one after another, and soon, the woods where the enemy blocker was hiding were soon surrounded by the smoke and flames of the shells, and several scout brothers hurriedly searched over there under the leadership of the company commander. t1706231537: