Sure enough, as the fat man expected, the puppet army commander took Lao Wang and they went, and those puppet army teams laid down their weapons one after another, and followed the puppet army commander to the fat man, these puppet army officers saw that the fat man had brought a lot of New Fourth Army soldiers and horses, so they rushed to him: "Report to the commander of the New Fourth Army, we have been waiting for you to come, we don't want to work for them anymore, little devils, we are willing to abandon the darkness and surrender to the New Fourth Army team."
When the fat man saw this situation, he was overjoyed, and hurriedly reorganized the puppet army team that had defected, and it was still the same old method, willing to follow the New Fourth Army to fight devils and stay, and the rest would be uniformly marked with white stripes to let them go home first, and then go to the Tianchangmatan Independent Brigade Brigade Headquarters to collect the travel expenses.
Just when the fat man was busy reorganizing the puppet army team, Lao Ye and they also came back happily, as soon as Lao Ye met the fat man, he happily shouted to him: "Lao Liu, great, we didn't expect this time to be so smooth, as soon as the puppet army in those villages saw us, they immediately obediently surrendered to us, we didn't go in this time, but walked all the way in." ” The fat man saw Lao Ye so happy, and hurriedly said to him: "Lao Ye, if you surrender to you, you can watch it, how to deal with it, we don't care." ” Lao Ye smiled and said to the fat man: "Lao Liu, where do I have the ability to absorb so many puppet army teams, in this way, wouldn't it be to support our Nanjing Military Command Station to kill these puppet troops or let your New Fourth Army deal with it, which of you has a lot of preferential treatment for prisoners compared to us, and it is estimated that there must be a lot of people who want to defect to your New Fourth Army team." ” As soon as the fat man heard Lao Ye's words, he fell right into his arms, and immediately said with a smile: "Since Lao Ye said so, then I will be respectful and obey my orders, and I will accept these puppet army brothers."
"The fat man saw that Lao Ye didn't want to accept those puppet army captives, so he was happy to take advantage of the situation, most of the soldiers in the puppet army were the children of poor people captured by the devil, as long as they were slightly reorganized, they could form a force with not weak combat effectiveness, the New Fourth Army is now vigorously expanding its troops, like the puppet army that captured and surrendered to Cheng is what the fat man can't ask for.
The fat man counted the puppet army teams in the surrounding villages, except for three or four percent of the puppet soldiers who were unwilling to follow the New Fourth Army to fight devils and want to go home, the rest of the three or four thousand people temporarily joined the New Fourth Army, the fat man is confident now, he now has seven or eight thousand men and horses on hand, plus Lao Ye's military brothers, the power is not small, when the fat man reported this matter to Zhou Wu, Zhou Wu was also very happy, and said to the fat man: "Lao Liu, you guys did a good job this time, The soldiers who surrender without a fight are a great victory, okay, I will make a contribution for your regiment, and when you capture the Jiangyin Fort, pay attention to the cooperation between the troops, and try to let our New Fourth Army do the tasks of attacking the fortifications, Lao Ye They are from the military command, and it is definitely not possible to attack the fortifications, and we must take into account the feelings of the puppet army brothers who have just defected, and pay attention to the reasonable deployment of troops," The fat man had troops at hand, and he spoke a lot more angrily: "Don't worry, brigade, this time you can definitely take the Jiangyin Fort occupied by that devil, you can wait for our good news at the brigade headquarters."
At this moment, the brothers who were scouting the situation of the devil's fleet along the Yangtze River hurriedly came to report: "Regiment commander, the little devil's fleet is coming."
When the fat man heard this, he immediately asked the scouts: "Where is the devil fleet now?"
"The fleet is more than ten miles away from the Jiangyin Fort, and the devil warships escorting in front are only four or five miles away from us, and there are many warships escorting, all of them are large warships of more than 1,000 tons, and gunboats are also patrolling near the fleet, and the Yangtze River has been blocked by little devils, and all ships are not allowed to sail, otherwise they will be sunk immediately."
The fat man listened to the situation report of the scouts, but he was not so nervous, since he had so many men at hand, the fat man had a lot of confidence, and he hurriedly asked the puppet army officers who had just surrendered: "Do you know the situation of the devil's fleet?"
Those puppet army officers looked dazed, shook their heads and said: "Report to the chief, we don't know the situation of the devil's fleet, and the little devil is also secret to us, but he just ordered us to station around the Jiangyin Fort for defense, and we don't know anything else." ” In this case, the fat man believes that it is impossible for Junliu Hata of the Nanjing Devil Command to tell these puppet army teams about the fleet escorting gold cultural relics, and the devils have always looked down on these Wang puppet army teams, and usually only use them as cannon fodder, let alone inform the puppet army of this extremely confidential situation.
The puppet army brothers don't know the situation of the devil's fleet, so they can only rely on the detailed information provided by Lao Ye's military commanders, and the fat man hurriedly asked Lao Ye: "Lao Ye, how many warships escorted by the devil have been dispatched this time, can we block those ships after occupying the Jiangyin Fort?"
"According to the intelligence from the inside line that our military commander has planted in the devil's headquarters, these devil's escort warships were temporarily transferred by Shunroku Hata from the devil's Third Fleet, and he didn't get the information about these warships, but only the number of ships the devil transported supplies and the route of travel."
Lao Ye is also helpless, this time the devil in order to smoothly transport this batch of materials to the sea, took very strict confidentiality measures, the military commander embedded in the devil headquarters can only get the approximate situation, the details given to Lao Ye before, is the devil's defense at the Rujiangmen wharf in Nanjing, now the devil's fleet has long passed the Rujiangmen wharf, in fact, those information have long lost their value, useless.
"Oh, then, our battle will not be good, the devil warship has fierce firepower, in case we can't hold that Jiangyin fort, wouldn't we have to watch these devil fleets escape from under our noses" The fat man worried.
"I don't think so, although the devil warship has fierce firepower, it may not be able to beat those cannons on the Jiangyin Battery, as long as we can capture that battery first, and then use Commander Huang and his naval brothers to sneak into the river to cooperate with the attack, it is estimated that we can intercept this fleet."
Lao Ye is very optimistic, he studied the Jiangyin Fort very carefully, he was studying this fort a few years ago, and probably knew some of the situation in the fort, and the fat man was much more unfamiliar with the Jiangyin Fort, since the Jiangyin Fort was evacuated eight years ago, he had never set foot here, thinking that eight years ago, their 79th Army Independent Brigade could not hold the Jiangyin Fort, this time it is estimated that it is enough, as everyone knows, the situation has undergone earth-shaking changes, even the opponent's little devil has also undergone many changes, At this time, those devil navy is far less than those fierce and abnormal old devils eight years ago, those old devils, with the high-rise buildings on the side of Shanghai Hongqiao, with a marine corps of less than 3,000 people, can resist the onslaught of the two armies at that time, so that at the beginning of the Songhu Campaign, the Japanese devils got a respite, and a large number of reinforcements from the country rushed to Shanghai, until the final capture of Shanghai, forcing more than three times the number of Japanese troops to retreat, there was a big rout, It directly caused the Nanjing Massacre.
Lao Ye has been in the heart of the devil for a long time, of course, he can see the changes of the little devil over the years more clearly than the fat man, so when he heard that the fat man had doubts about stopping the devil's warship, he hurriedly told him that the current little devil is not as good as those old devils eight years ago, as long as we can grit our teeth and guard the Jiangyin Fort and cut off that throat, the devil's fleet will definitely not be able to go out of the Yangtze River estuary, let alone carry our Chinese treasure to Oriental Japan.
The fat man looked at Lao Ye's determined look, made up his mind, and hurriedly ordered his regiment: "A regiment is divided into three roads, and immediately begins to capture the Jiangyin Fort in front, Lao Ye, you are responsible for reconnaissance and leading the way, the brothers sent by our brigade headquarters are estimated to be able to arrive soon, now don't wait for them, as soon as the fight starts here, they will definitely be able to hear, and the brothers who have just thrown over are divided into two regiments, which are commanded by the original regiment commander, you don't need to charge to attack the battery, Just cover our charge with the artillery and machine guns in your hands."
When the two puppet army commanders who had just defected heard that the commander of the New Fourth Army wanted them not to charge forward, they stayed where they were and used machine guns and artillery to provide fire support for the fat man's New Fourth Army attack team.
So when they heard the task assigned by the fat man, they thought they had heard it wrong at first, but after getting a clear answer from the fat man, the two puppet army commanders smiled, and said to the puppet army officers under them: "Brothers, this time we are in the right team, I have long heard that the New Fourth Army treats prisoners preferentially, and the officers and soldiers are equal, this time I really saw it, brothers, the brothers of the bear goblin treat us like their own family, when the brothers of the New Fourth Army charge ahead, can we shrink behind?"
"No, we are also Chinese, we can't lose face here" The puppet army brothers who had just joined the ranks of the New Fourth Army shouted in unison, they were fed up with the little devils, this time the fat people and their New Fourth Army regarded them as real people, these brothers are also hot-blooded men, seeing that the brothers of the New Fourth Army are about to launch a charge attack on the devil battery, how can they stand idly by t1706231537: