After Zhou Wu received Ge Sanmin's telegram requesting reinforcements, he immediately sent a telegram to the fat man: "Lao Liu, Ge Sanmin and Lao Ye have withdrawn from Nanjing City, and a large number of Kuomintang troops have arrived along the way, you have to speed up the march and try to bring Lao Ye and them over earlier."
After the fat man received Zhou Wu's order to speed up his march, he hurriedly urged his subordinates to immediately throw away all the things on his body except for guns and ammunition, and a group of brothers "kicked and crackled" and threw the things on his body on the way, the fat man found a few fellows who were familiar with the road, and these people were the guides, and they hurried towards Nanjing City, Zhou Wu asked them to speed up the march, indicating that Ge Sanmin and Lao Ye were in danger, otherwise with Ge Sanmin's unyielding character, He would not casually ask Zhou Wu for help in a situation that he could deal with, and it seemed that the situation under the city of Nanjing was quite critical.
Let's not talk about how the fat man took a group of brothers to march lightly and forcibly to the city of Nanjing to rescue Ge Sanmin and Lao Ye, and came back to talk about the old commander's 79th Army, since receiving the news that Qian someone's 18th Division and several other Kuomintang recalcitrant troops were about to attack the 79th Army, the old army commander immediately contacted the nearby Zhou Wu and their New Fourth Army, and Zhou Wu immediately transferred the independent brigade and Lao Chen's 1st Brigade and the New Fourth Army troops to the front line of Siyang to resist the 18th Division that came to attackAmong these Kuomintang recalcitrant army teams that stormed over, the other Kuomintang troops did not pose a big threat to the 79th Army, firstly, they were far away from the area around Lijiawan, where the 79th Army was stationed, and they could not rush here for a while, and secondly, the strength of those Kuomintang recalcitrant troops was still not as good as that of the 79th Army, and the old army commander had been running the 79th Army for so many years, plus these days, Zhou Wu had sent a large number of grassroots cadres of the New Fourth Army to the 79th Army to serve as those battalion and company officers of the 79th Army.
And under the 79th Army have gradually established a grass-roots party organization, all these credits have to be counted on the head of Lao Niu's political commissar, he for the implementation of this plan, can be described as painstaking, and now it is finally going to see the effect, so to speak, the 79th Army uprising is a matter of ripeness, Lao Jiang started the 79th Army uprising in advance, after Zhou Wu settled the old army commander and the main officers of the 79th Army in Chongqing to leave the dependents, the 79th Army uprising is logical.
Among the Kuomintang recalcitrant troops who attacked on the opposite side, the most difficult to deal with was the 18th Division of the Manchurian Division led by the old enemy Qian someone, Lao Jiang bypassed Commander Gu of the Sixth Theater this time and directly commanded the 18th Division, and the chairman of the committee had this hobby of directly commanding the combat troops below, and Division Commander Qian was directly under the leadership of the chairman this time, and he also felt very honored, thinking that this was an opportunity to show his face in front of the chairman of the committee, and if he didn't show it well, it would be a waste of this rare opportunity, Isn't it a piece of cake to have one more star on his epaulette Commander Qian is full of confidence, he has no reason not to be optimistic, since the last time he was about to surround the Zhou Wu team near Huai'an City, suddenly came the news of the unconditional surrender of the little Japanese devils, in order to be able to seize Nanjing, Shanghai and other big cities before the Communist forces, he had to give up the fruits of victory that was about to come, turned around and withdrew, this time his 18th Division received new American assistance, and the weapons and equipment were replaced with a large number of new ones.
Now in the eyes of Master Qian, the things left by those little devils are simply rags, and they can't be compared with the new American weapons and equipment in their hands now, this time it's the latest guy, the U.S. army has just been equipped, Lao Jiang finally won it from the Americans, and the first one was allocated to Commander Qian, so that his 18th Division could drink this oral soup first, so that the party-state would eliminate all the communist forces around Nanjing City and ensure the absolute safety of the party-state government when it returned to Nanjing.
The chairman of the National Committee not only replaced his 18th Division with the latest American-made weapons and equipment, but also invited advisers from the US military to guide the military training of the 18th Division, and the Military Affairs Department above also made an exception to pay the officers and men of the 18th Division double salaries.
Every day, under the guidance of US military advisers, they have engaged in military physical training, and they have also equipped a lot of American-made tanks and armored vehicles, and there is now an armored battalion under the 18th Division, all 36 American-made advanced tanks and armored vehicles, if this is placed on the endless battlefield of the Jiangbei Plain, how invincible it is, not to mention the 79th Army and the Jiangbei New Fourth Army's begging and flowering teams, even if the entire New Fourth Army has all come, it is not necessarily the opponent of our 18th Division.
With tens of thousands of soldiers in his hands, all American-made equipment, and sufficient logistical supply strength, these hardware equipment could not help but greatly increase Lao Qian's self-confidence, and he was even optimistic that it was not a big problem to solve the 79th Army, which was about to rebel, and by the way, he took advantage of this opportunity to send troops to wipe out all the armed forces of the New Fourth Army entrenched in the Jiangbei area, which seriously threatened the capital Nanjing and the big city of Shanghai, and this was the main purpose of this campaign.
Otherwise, as long as the New Fourth Army is active in the Jiangbei area for a day, the newly relocated party-state government will not be at peace for a day.
As a result, Lao Qian was hot-headed, so he even crossed his superior, Chief Gu, and directly said to the chairman of the committee: "Mobilize the troops of the Sixth War Zone, starting from the Longhai Line in Xuzhou in the north, to the Yangtze River in the south, from Jinpu Road in the west, to the Yellow Sea in the east, and at the same time to arm and solve the rebel 79th Army, launch an attack on the Communist New Fourth Army in this area, completely eliminate the Communist forces here, and eliminate the New Fourth Army."
Lao Jiang listened to Lao Qian's proposal, and felt that Lao Qian was a talent, and his strategic vision was farther, the same as what he was thinking in his heart, but this stall was a little bigger, and the plan to find Lao Qian was clearly to tear his face with the Communist Party and fight a decisive battle, and now he is negotiating with the Communist Party for a peaceful nation, and it is obviously not the time to make such a big move at this time, but the prospects of this plan are indeed very tempting, Lao Jiang thought about it for several days, and finally made a compromise plan, The sixth theater of operations of Chief Gu was reorganized into the Jiangbei Pacification Command, under the jurisdiction of three corps and nine armies, with Chief Gu as the commander-in-chief of appeasement, and Lao Qian was appointed as the deputy commander-in-chief, specifically responsible for the campaign task of the war against the Jiangbei New Fourth Army, just like that, Lao Qian's luck was so good, he had not yet started fighting with the 79th Army and the Jiangbei New Fourth Army, his official rank had risen by one level, and he became the deputy commander-in-chief, and there was an extra gold star on the chapter on his shoulder.
But he is already a general of the front army who stands alone, which can be described as a spring breeze and a blessing.
As soon as Deputy Commander-in-Chief Qian took office, he immediately burned the first handful of work, he ordered his two corps and six armies to all be dispatched, respectively from the north, west, and south to outflank the 79th Army, of course, his 18th division is the pioneer of the lead, Lao Qian's order to his generals is: quickly attack and advance, cross the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal to the east, capture Siyang and Huai'an, encircle the 79th Army and the Lijiawan area, and at the same time pay close attention to the surrounding Jiangbei New Fourth Army things, As soon as they find signs of reinforcements to the Seventy-ninth Army, immediately attack them" The vast army drove towards Siyang and Huai'an, and the people who had not lived a few days of peace along the way were dumbfounded, and they all discussed: "What's going on with such a big battle, is there a little devil coming?"
The fellow said: "Hey, I said you don't know, this is going to fight against the New Fourth Army, I have never seen such a big battle against little devils before, this time it is so aggressive, it seems that the New Fourth Army must be destroyed." ” "Don't look at these fierce and fierce appearances, but I see if I can destroy the New Fourth Army, what kind of team is the New Fourth Army, that is the team of our common people, and their Kuomintang army can be wiped out at once" Some of the bold fellows whispered.
"Shhh Li Jiawan, the military headquarters of the 79th Army, the old army commander was dressed in military uniform, standing on the big playground in front of the military headquarters, next to Xiao Wu and Huang Division Commander and other cronies of the officers, Zhou Wu sent Lao Xu and Niu political commissar as representatives of the New Fourth Army to the 79th Army Military Headquarters, at this moment is standing behind the old army commander, the playground stands 79th Army officers above the platoon level, the old army commander is wearing this set of military uniforms on the Kuomintang blue sky and white sun mark is gone, replaced by a red cloth on the left arm, He glanced at the officers on the playground with a deep gaze, and said loudly to them: "Brothers of the 79th Army, we are going to revolt today, why, because around us, more than 100,000 Kuomintang troops are outflanking us, trying to wipe out all of our 79th Army in the area of Lijiawan, and the leader is Qian Mouren, a capable cadre under Jiang Someone, who has declared us a "rebel army", accusing our 79th Army of having ties with the Jiangbei New Fourth Army during the War of Resistance against Japan, and now they want to attack us.
Their reason is too far-fetched, during the Anti-Japanese War, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party cooperated to resist Japan, we and the New Fourth Army are friendly troops, how can we be slandered, this is just Lao Chiang's consistent method, its purpose is to wipe out our 79th Army, so at this critical juncture, we can't sit still, let Lao Jiang slaughter them, I decided to revolt in battle, officially defected to the New Fourth Army, if the brothers are not willing to follow me to the New Fourth Army, you can stand up, I Zhang will definitely not count, and will also give the road expenses, Send someone to send you out." t1706231537: