Shen Lina thought that she was temporarily ordered to participate in combat operations this time anyway, and of course she had to listen to the fat man's command here, so she nodded and said to the fat man: "Okay, Division Commander Liu, our teams are all under your command, cross the river, have you brought the soldiers of our health camp over" Shen Lina asked the fat man, on the Dianqiao position, didn't their health camp have a group of health workers on the position to rescue the wounded, and now the fat man and they crossed the river to catch up, but Shen Lina didn't see his own health workers, A little worried, he hurriedly asked the fat man.
"Ah, don't worry, I've already sent someone to send them down, now that the big battle is over, we are going to start chasing the enemy, the health officer will let them go back first, so as to save time for a situation."
The fat man said to Shen Lina, and there was still some suspicion in his tone that the doctors and nurses in the health camp would hinder his pursuit action.
"Oh, that's fine, then Master Liu, let's have a meeting here, the big guys are all talking, how to catch up better" Shen Lina thought that since the fat man sent all the hygienists under her back to the rear, she also saved some thought, so it was okay, there would be no worries when the battle started.
The news that the 18th Division was completely annihilated by the Jiangbei New Fourth Army along the shore of Hongze Lake reached Lao Jiang in Nanjing, and Lao Jiang was furious and hurriedly convened a meeting of the leaders of the Ministry of National Defense, at which he scolded the generals under him, slapped the table, kicked the chair, pointed at the tip of the nose of the Minister of Defense and scolded angrily: "Do you know that the Minister of Defense is so deserved, this 18th Division is the first elite of our party-state, and now it has been eaten by all of Jiangbei, and Master Qian is worthy of being my Huangpu student, and he is worthy of praise.
I see that he and his 18th Division were killed by these rice buckets of you, so I immediately ordered the armies of Anhui, Jiangsu, Shandong, and Henan to attack immediately, and encircle Jiangbei in the north and south of the Waste Yellow River.
The chairman of the committee was really angry, the 18th Division was a trump card in his hand, and it was eaten by Jiangbei in this way, and there was not even some bones left, which really hurt the heart of Lao Jiang, and he immediately dismissed Chief Gu from his post as commander-in-chief of the Xuzhou bandit suppression, and asked him to immediately go to Nanjing to explain the battle situation.
Chief Gu received the telegram from the chairman of the committee, he was stunned, what he had been worried about finally came, it seems that this time Lao Jiang blamed him for the annihilation of the 18th Division, this time it is more than auspicious to go to Nanjing, maybe he will be arrested and imprisoned by Lao Jiang, those cronies under Chief Gu persuaded him: "Sir, don't go to Nanjing, you can't come back this time." ” Chief Gu shook his head and sighed: "If you don't go, what can you do if you don't go to Lao Jiang, you will be even more suspicious of me, then this time I just jumped into the Yellow River and can't wash it away, anyway, I can't avoid it, I have to go, so let's do it, you don't have to die here, immediately retreat towards Xuzhou cover, be careful not to retreat too anxiously, those who were chased over saw the flaws, and now if you want to live, you can only cooperate sincerely with each other and get through the crisis together, don't play football anymore, and everyone will be finished at that time."
Before retreating, organize a feint to force those who catch up to have scruples, and it is not too late for you to retreat calmly, Lao Jiang has already mobilized a large number of troops from Shandong, Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu and other places, let them fight here, we should also retreat, it is important to retreat to Xuzhou first to preserve our strength" As a result, there was a strange scene on the line of the waste Yellow River, and those who were retreating to the north actually stopped retreating, and some of these teams actually attacked the fat man who was chasing them and the surrounding Lao Chen and their team, which was very lively, Lao Chen, Huang Shuisheng and the fat man were confused by this move: it was obvious that the enemy was retreating in the direction of Xuzhou, why did he go against the norm now and pounce on us in turn Zhou Wu had already received a telegram from the headquarters at this moment, saying that many Kuomintang troops around the Jiangbei base area had been dispatched in a big way, pressing over the base area from all directions, and the number of them had exceeded that of any previous campaign, and that the leaders of the headquarters considered the current grim situation and believed that it was quite dangerous for the Jiangbei New Fourth Army to continue to stay in the Jiangbei area, and that it was not cost-effective and unrealistic to fight hard.
In view of the extremely great disparity in the strength of the enemy and ourselves, the leaders of the General Headquarters reported to the central authorities for approval and ordered the Jiangbei Advance Corps and other local armed forces of the New Fourth Army to withdraw northward, break through the encirclement in two ways, and join the Eighth Route Army on the Shandong Peninsula.
The northward route by land is to cross Lianshui, take Xiangshui, cross Linyi and enter the Yimeng Mountain base area to join the local Eighth Route Army, and the waterway takes Yancheng, along the coastline of the Yellow Sea to land near Rizhao in Shandong, join up with the Eighth Route Army in the Jiaodong area, abandon the anti-Japanese base area in Jiangbei, re-establish the base area in Shandong, develop arms, resist the siege of the Kuomintang reactionary army, and jump to the outer line, which is more conducive to future operations It just so happened that the First Army of Zhou Wu's advance corps was in the middle of the two waterways, and naturally the leaders of the headquarters and Commander Li handed over the advance task of this major transfer to Zhou Wu, and asked Zhou Wu to immediately retreat north, ignoring the Kuomintang troops of Gu who were retreating in the direction of Xuzhou, avoiding them, going north by Lianshui, and at the same time reoccupying Yancheng Port, organizing the team to retreat in the direction of Shandong here in Yancheng Port, and this retreat task on the sea route was very heavy.
Since the comrades in the anti-Japanese base areas in Zhejiang had to withdraw to Shandong by sea, the higher authorities instructed Zhou Wu to retreat by land first, and wait by sea until the New Fourth Army troops in Jiangnan, Zhejiang and other places were gathered before evacuating, so that the retreat time of the sea route would be more than half a month later than that of the land route, which means that Zhou Wu had to hold Yancheng Port for more than a month to ensure the completion of the evacuation task by sea, otherwise, The comrades who withdrew from the direction of Jiangnan and Zhejiang were about to encounter the encirclement and interception of the Kuomintang troops who had an absolute advantage, and the tragedy that occurred in the Jiangxi Soviet region more than 10 years ago was about to be repeated in the Jiangbei area, so Commander Li made a special trip to Binhu Town and told Zhou Wudao in person: "Zhou Wu, this evacuation task is very important, and it is related to the life and death of our entire Jiangbei New Fourth Army.
Relying on the people in the Yimeng Mountains of Shandong and the Jiaodong Revolutionary Base Area, to re-develop our ranks, in a few years, we will still have to come back, this is still very firmly believed, although we are now going to give up here, here for seven or eight years, I am really reluctant to let the people here, but there is no way, for the needs of the revolutionary situation, we must make some concessions and sacrifices, for the overall situation of the national battlefield, we Jiangbei New Fourth Army should make some sacrifices, you have to be mentally prepared in this regard, Keep abreast of the emotions of the comrades below and do not have ideological fluctuations. ” Zhou Wu heard this, he was really going to evacuate in a big way, to be honest, he was reluctant to leave this place, after all, he had been here for seven or eight years, and the villagers in the local base area were like their own relatives, and no one could do without anyone, once they retreated suddenly, as soon as the Kuomintang army came, the local villagers were going to suffer again, and they really couldn't bear it, the Japanese devils had just gone for less than a year, and the civil war suddenly ignited again, and the villagers who had not enjoyed the peace and tranquility were going to suffer from the war again.
When will this endless war be the end Zhou Wu fell into deep contemplation after sending Commander Li away.
At this time, he received a telegram from the fat man, and he was also puzzled by Gu someone's abnormal behavior, he took the telegram and said to the chief of staff next to him, Elder Xu Heniu, and the political commissar: "You see, Gu someone did not retreat but advanced, and concentrated the strength of a division to launch a counterattack against us, this enemy will not have any conspiracy, would make such an abnormal move."
"This must be a smoke bomb before the enemy wants to run" Chief of Staff Elder Xu quickly discovered the purpose of the enemy's abnormal move, according to the surrounding reinforcements before the large troops arrived, all Gu could do now was to retreat, he couldn't do it in order to deal with the attack that had not yet started, and send a team to counterattack Ah their enemy is now making such a counterattack, it must be a feint, the purpose is to aid the attack speed of our Jiangbei New Fourth Army pursuit troops, and provide guarantee for their safe retreat, Other than that, Lao Xu couldn't think of any reason to be worthy of the enemy's doing "Yes, I think so too, Gu someone will definitely release smoke bombs for his team to successfully withdraw to Xuzhou, so let's think it is better to order Liu Xiaolei's first division to attack quickly, go up, and open a safe passage for our land evacuation."
Zhou Wu nodded and said to the political commissar.
"Okay, I'll see it, Lao Zhou, you just give an order to Division Commander Liu, the land route has fallen, so who will go to the direction of Yancheng by sea" The political commissar nodded in agreement with Zhou Wu's opinion, as a political commissar, as long as he grasps the general direction, as for the specific operational action plan, he will not interfere.
Zhou Wu immediately called back to the fat man: "In view of the enemy's abnormal behavior, order your troops to block the enemy's counterattack in the same place, and wait for the reinforcements to arrive, and then launch a pursuit of the enemy, pay attention to the enemy's movements at any time, and estimate that this group of attacking enemies is feints" t1706231537: