Ge Sanmin personally led an advance team of four or five hundred people to rush to Siyang City non-stop, Siyang City is located in the northwest of Huai'an, the location is just on the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, its city is divided into the sixth theater on the east and west banks of the canal, and the two American mechanics who rushed over to seize Huai'an City can only cross the river on a large scale if they first capture Siyang and grab the ferry over there.
Moreover, most of these Kuomintang troops have achieved mechanization, and even equipped with tanks and armored vehicles, and the number of artillery and trucks has also increased a lot.
And Ge Sanmin is different, Ge Sanmin brought the advance team this time is all lightly armed, carrying light weapons, machine guns are the largest heavy weapons, in order to have fire support, Ge Sanmin gritted his teeth and ruthlessly allocated all the mortars and grenadiers of the second regiment to the advance team brothers, in order to ensure that in case of a fight with the Kuomintang recalcitrant army on the opposite side, there can be fire cover, otherwise, everyone has all American-made weapons, and they are all old sleeves and Hanyang-made weapons on their side, and there are not even a few 38 big covers, How to withstand the attack of the well-equipped Kuomintang army Although the soldiers' fighting will, skills and tactics are the key factors that determine the outcome of the battle, the quality and quantity of weapons are also important factors, otherwise they can fight the enemy with spears and broadswords.
Light travel also has the advantage of light loading, that is, is it fast, flexible and flexible, no, Ge Sanmin and their advance team brothers only spent less than an hour to travel nearly ten miles away, and now they have arrived at the east bank of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal under the city of Siyang, looking at the endless surging river on the canal, Ge Sanmin did not have time to let the brothers go to the surrounding villagers to find boats, and ordered the brothers to cut down trees in the woods by the river, make wooden rows, and immediately cross the river to seize the ferry on the west bank.
Those puppet troops in Siyang City have long been gone, a platoon of brothers under Ge Sanmin easily controlled the new city of Siyang City on the east bank, according to those fellow villagers who stayed in the city, the Japanese devils ran early, and ran away half a month ago, before the little devils who killed these days left, they still can't forget to loot in Siyang City, and all the things worth a little money in the people's homes were robbed by those little devils, and some villagers fought with the little devils in order to keep the money they had left to live.
A few days ago, Siyang City was full of funeral teams, and the people hated itchy, and as soon as the little devils left, they gathered together to find those Wang puppet army and two dogs who stayed in the city to vent their anger, and those puppet soldiers saw that the situation was not right, and hurriedly ran to the south, now Brother Chen, you can no longer see the shadow of a puppet army, and now you see that our children are coming, the New Fourth Army is coming, and the villagers are not to mention how happy they are, and they have come out of the city to meet Ge Sanmin and them.
Ge Sanmin immediately sent a platoon of brothers to maintain order in Siyang City, as soon as the New Fourth Army team arrived, the original chaos in Siyang City was immediately stabilized, those bandits and traitors who wanted to take advantage of the chaos to rob and fish in troubled waters saw that Zhou Wu's New Fourth Army Independent Brigade arrived here, and they were so frightened that they immediately crossed the river and ran westward, and when they saw the Kuomintang troops who drove over, they reported to them with cheers: "There are many New Fourth Army troops in Siyang City, there are quite a few people, there are tens of thousands of horses, It has completely captured the eastern city of Siyang and seized the ferry on the canal. ” The commander of these two Kuomintang armies is the former Chen chief "civil engineering department" cronies on the battlefield of Luodian in Shanghai, the former commander of the 18th Division of the Central Army, surnamed Qian, the defense of Nanjing has not yet started, the 18th Division was transferred out of Nanjing by Chief Chen in the name of defending Wuhan city defense, and later in the entire seven or eight years of the Anti-Japanese War, almost never fought with the Japanese devils, several times at the critical juncture of the Battle of Changsha, Chief Xue, who felt that the troops were insufficient, asked Chief Chen to send reinforcements of the 18th Division, but was politely rejected by Chief Chen for various reasons, Later, under the direct dispatch of Lao Chiang, he was sent to Governor Hu in the northwest to blockade the anti-Japanese base areas in northern Shaanxi together with the Central Army troops of Chief Hu.
Division Commander Qian was ordered to command these two American armor divisions, and his subordinates had 40,000 elite soldiers, all American-made weapons, as well as heavy weapons such as tanks and armored vehicles, and the number of artillery was really quite a lot, and he was equipped with two artillery regiments, with thirty or forty large-caliber guns of more than 100 mm alone, and more small guns and mortars, and most of the troops marched with trucks and motorcycles, even more than the Japanese devils, and there were many horses, and there was also a cavalry battalion, which was responsible for forward reconnaissance, and the communication equipment was equipped to the company.
On the plain, a day's march of more than 100 miles, this time from Suxian, to the west bank of the canal here, more than 200 kilometers away, they only took three days, which was unimaginable in the past, Qian Division Commander took the telescope and looked carefully at the rough Grand Canal, and said proudly to the officers under him: "Haha, I think these people who ran out of Siyang City are a little alarmist, what New Fourth Army team came over tens of thousands of people, even if the New Fourth Army on the opposite side captured Siyang City first, With our current troops, tell me how much time it will take to cross the canal and take Siyang City."
"The division is clear, the small Siyang City is not to worry about, the New Fourth Army is cunning in combat, good at fighting guerrilla warfare, of course they are not our opponents when attacking the city, but if they don't come into direct contact with us, then we won't be able to catch them, and if we don't get it, we will have to be led by the nose and fall into passivity."
An officer under Division Commander Qian said, it seems that this gentleman still has some research on the New Fourth Army, knows his strengths and the strength of the New Fourth Army, and among those officers of the Central Army, he can be regarded as a clear person.
Commander Qian originally hoped that his subordinates would praise him, boasting about how powerful his team was and how invincible he was, but he never thought that this officer who didn't know the times would say a lot of difficulties, and then the old Qian couldn't hold it on his face, and the chief of staff next to him looked at it and hurriedly said: "Division, I don't think we need to worry about this Siyang City being captured by the New Fourth Army, our purpose this time is to capture Huai'an City first, crossing the canal does not necessarily have to be here in Siyang, we can march north, After those simple ferries twenty miles north of Siyang, although it is a little troublesome, but those New Fourth Army that can avoid Siyang City, suddenly insert into their flanks, then we have two plans to deal with the New Fourth Army team on the opposite side, one is to surround them from the flank, cut them off the city a few times, encircle and annihilate them, but leave a part of the team to contain the New Fourth Army on the side of Siyang, and the large army quickly went south, bypassing Siyang City to capture Huai'an City, Huai'an City now has no troops to defend, almost an empty city, It is effortless to capture the city, so that it is helpless to not only complete the task of capturing Huai'an City, but also turn around and encircle and annihilate the ranks of the New Fourth Army on the opposite side, and deal a heavy blow to the communist army. ” The chief of staff's suggestion is very good, but this arrogant Qian division commander thinks that the chief of staff's plan is too sloppy, we have 40,000 elite soldiers, and the weapons and equipment are better than the Japanese devils, why avoid the New Fourth Army soil bun team in front of it, and sneak to the ferry more than 20 miles away to cross the river, isn't this my own prestige No, I have to launch a fierce attack on the New Fourth Army team in Siyang City opposite, and completely destroy the fighting will of the New Fourth Army with the advantage of the mechanized armored team under my command, The chairman of the NPC National Committee has equipped us with such advanced US-made weapons, but he did not ask us to come here to fight guerrilla warfare, or we will not fight, or we will have to fight face to face As soon as the chief of staff heard that the division commander was going to attack the New Fourth Army head-on, not to sneak attack in a sneaky way, he shut up and didn't say anything, thinking that anyway, you are the military director, you have the final say, we are providing reference suggestions, anyway, if something happens, we will not find our heads, and we can't make trouble with him for this kind of thing.
It is true that there are tens of thousands of well-equipped troops under his command, and there is no problem in dealing with the New Fourth Army, which is only 10,000 people.
Division Commander Qian saw that the officers below were silent, thinking that they all agreed with his plan of crossing the river and attacking head-on, so he ordered an infantry brigade under his command to prepare for crossing the river to attack, and the artillery regiment also began to enter the artillery position, dig a pit, unload the shells, and prepare for a fierce artillery bombardment of Siyang City on the opposite bank.
If you want to cross the river, you have to have a boat, and Commander Qian's subordinates really have the ability, in just less than two hours, the boats in those villages around the river bank have been requisitioned, nominally requisitioned, in fact, it is similar to robbery, robbing the belongings that the people rely on for survival, these Kuomintang troops also forcibly captured hundreds of boatmen, and forced them to drive boats for the soldiers who were about to cross the river with guns, so angry that those villagers secretly cursed these Kuomintang soldiers in their hearts: You bitches will definitely not die well, When the time comes, the New Fourth Army on the opposite side will come over, and you will look good t1706231537: