The 75 mountain guns on the Huang Shuisheng gunboat did not listen to the desperate fire on the enemy ships, and those Kuomintang warships were blown up and had no power to fight back, and they turned around and ran towards Yancheng Port to the south, in order to escape, these guys actually forgot that the large-caliber naval guns on their warships could fire back at those small gunboats, but even the commander didn't have the heart to fight, and asked us soldiers to be in a hurry to have a fart, so so, Three or four large warships of the Kuomintang fleet were beaten by Huang Shuisheng's four small gunboats converted from steamers and ran away, and they ran into Yancheng Port at full speed before they settled down, gasping for breath and glad that they finally got rid of the pursuit of the deadly gunboats, but they didn't know that at this time, Huang Shuisheng had already taken the Kuomintang sailor prisoners who fell from the enemy ship to retreat north, and when the enemies in Yancheng Port came to their senses, they wanted to pursue again.
Huang Shuisheng's fleet had already sailed more than 100 nautical miles away from Yancheng, and if he wanted to chase after him, he would not be able to catch up.
In order to be able to report to the top, these Kuomintang naval officers wrote a report to the Admiralty in Nanjing, boasting that they had driven away the defenders of the city and successfully recovered Yancheng.
As soon as the admiralty of Nanjing, which received the report, saw that the task had been completed and that Yancheng had regained control, they immediately reported to Lao Chiang, who was also very happy, praised the navy a few words, and encouraged them to make persistent efforts, continue to carry forward the revolutionary spirit of sincere unity, and strive to annihilate Jiangbei as soon as possible, so that the officers and men of the Kuomintang navy were all happy and harmonious.
As everyone knows, this batch was regarded as a thorn in the eye of Lao Jiang, and most of the north of the Yangtze River had been successfully withdrawn to the vicinity of Xuzhou at this time, and if there was a longer distance, they could quickly enter southern Lunan and join the Shandong People's Liberation Army there victoriously Besides, Lao Chen and the others, after receiving Zhou Wu's order to quickly turn around and rush to Lianyungang in the northeast, knew that this operation was to feint against Lianyungang, which was controlled by the Kuomintang army, and to contain the enemy there to intercept the Huang Shuisheng fleet heading north by sea.
Knowing that whether his team could get there in time before Huang Shuisheng's fleet arrived in Lianyungang was crucial to the survival of Huang Shuisheng's fleet, he repeatedly ordered his brothers to speed up the march and march in a hurried northeast direction without stopping.
After Ge Sanmin and Xiao Zheng received this order from Zhou Wu, they felt that the matter was important, and they had to personally lead the team to Lianyungang to rest assured, so they each took a regiment of troops and marched towards Lianyungang in the northeast by two roads, they were much closer to that Lianyungang than Lao Chen, and immediately after receiving Zhou Wu's order, they rushed to Lianyungang three days later, and the Kuomintang troops defending the city heard that there was a movement of a large force in the south, and immediately panicked, while sending a telegram to Nanjing and Xuzhou, On the other hand, he ordered the marines who were preparing to go to sea to intercept the convoy that might go north by sea to immediately withdraw to the city to defend against the threat of attack from the land direction.
After receiving the news from Lianyungang, the Kuomintang Ministry of National Defense in Nanjing, after some research and judgment, believed that Jiangbei had already flowed to the northern Jiangsu region, and it was very likely that it would meet with Shandong in the north; at this time, these Kuomintang bureaucrats discovered the strategic intention of the Jiangbei People's Liberation Army and hurriedly reported the matter to the chairman of the committee, Lao Chiang, who looked at the deployment map of the Kuomintang army on the map and found that he had been deceived, and the troops urgently transferred from Anhui, Jiangsu, Shandong, Henan, and other provinces were now gathered around Xuzhou.
At present, most of the main forces in Jiangbei are in the area from Xinyi to Linyi, that is to say, the strategic plan carefully woven by Lao Jiang to encircle and annihilate the Jiangbei People's Liberation Army in one fell swoop in the Soviet-Central Plain has gone bankrupt, and it will also face the danger of losing Lianyungang, an important seaport in the east, at any time Lao Jiang felt that the situation was serious, these Jiangbei combat effectiveness was extremely fierce, once they were allowed to enter the Lunan Mountains and join those in Lunan, it would be even more powerful, and what they were good at was mechanized troops, and they couldn't stop the Jiangbei team in the plains, so it would undoubtedly be more difficult to eliminate those Jiangbei in the Yimeng Mountains of Shandong.
Lao Jiang immediately convened a meeting of the generals of the Ministry of National Defense and the Xuzhou Bandit Suppression Command, and demanded that the troops near Xuzhou immediately disperse the pursuit of those teams going north, hold strategic points such as Taierzhuang and Ganyu line, and prevent Jiangbei from entering Lunan and Shandong to join Shandong Before the military meeting in Nanjing was over, news came from Xuzhou that a contingent had broken through the Jinpu line near Xuzhou and was attacking Xiaoxian.
Now even the chairman of the committee can't figure out what this Jiangbei is going to do, since it is going in the direction of Shandong, but why did this force suddenly go westward and enter the territory of Anhui, and the area around Xiao County is all heavily garrisoned, didn't they rush over to find their own death?
But the worse news came again, the team that broke through the Jinpu Road did not continue to march towards Xiao County, but blew up the railway on the Jinpu Road eyeline, destroyed the telephone poles, harassed the garrison team everywhere, and burned the material supply base near Xuzhou, and the railway line of dozens of kilometers north and south of Xuzhou on Jinpu Road was all damaged by this force.
After they arrived near Xuzhou, they divided the entire division into more than ten action teams, each of which was responsible for an area on the Jinpu Road, carrying out constant harassment and attacks, bombing railways, intercepting the Kuomintang army's military columns to the front line, attacking the enemy's baggage troops transporting materials and ammunition, and destroying the highway and those telephone poles on both sides.
At this time, although I came to these strange places in Xuzhou, I was still able to get the help of the local underground party comrades and fellow villagers, and I attacked for three days in a row, and soon all the railways near Xuzhou were stripped of the tracks, and even the roadbed was blown up into potholes.
Chief Gu in Xuzhou soon found that he could no longer call outside, and could only rely on the radio station to communicate with the departments below, and most of the supplies and ammunition supplies sent to the front-line departments were intercepted by this force, he knew very well in his heart that this was an old trick, and this trick was used to deal with the Japanese devils back then, and it was tried and tested, and even the Japanese army with extremely strong combat effectiveness felt a headache, and he could not effectively solve this problem for a while, and he also understood that this force was harassing and attacking traffic near Xuzhou.
The purpose is to lure him out, so that a large number of Xinyi line of the northward retreat team smoothly through northern Jiangsu, into the Lunan Mountains, now even around Yungang has appeared in the team, the chairman has repeatedly strictly ordered him to send troops to rescue, originally he wanted to have a decisive battle with Zhou Wu's Jiangbei near Xuzhou, with his superior strength and terrain conditions, as long as the deployment is appropriate, should be able to fight a victory, even if it can not completely eliminate Zhou Wu's Jiangbei, but concentrate forces, the goal of encircling a part of its annihilation is still very hopeful, But now the situation near his lair is very bad, the lines of communication are cut off, the supply of materials can not be at the forefront of the troops, communication can only rely on radio contact, the security is greatly reduced, it seems that this time in the Jiangbei near Xuzhou to surround Zhou Wu, the idea of annihilating one part of it is about to fall through.
Commander Gu had no choice, so he sent a long telegram to Lao Jiang in Nanjing, analyzing the situation on the battlefield and the pros and cons of various plans to Lao Jiang in detail, and letting Lao Jiang choose by himself, which plan to use, and resolutely implement it by himself.
After suffering a big loss in Yancheng and Dianqiao last time, he no longer dared to assert his own opinions, and did not listen to Lao Jiang's orders, although he went to Nanjing last time, Lao Jiang was still polite to him, but he still vaguely felt in Nanjing that if he took his own actions again, with Lao Jiang's character, he would never hesitate to make a move, and he would take action when it was time to act.
In order to keep his head and the black gauze hat on his head, Chief Gu simply reported all his ideas and combat plans to Lao Jiang.
Nanjing soon replied, the chairman of the committee chose to ask Chief Gu to immediately divide his troops to attack, reinforce Lianyungang, and eliminate the harassing enemy near Xuzhou, Chief Gu received this telegram, was silent for a while, turned his head and sighed to those cronies officers beside him: "No way, we have lost here in Jiangsu, even if a large number of troops join the battlefield now, it will not be able to stop the rendezvous between Jiangbei and Lunan, it seems that our colleagues in the Xuzhou Theater will have to suffer in the future."
"Commander, since we understand the intention of this time, why not concentrate our forces to hold the line between Taierzhuang and Ganyu, the team on the sea route in Lianyungang is only a small part of it, we can completely ignore it, now like this, it is to lose the watermelon to pick up sesame seeds, although we can keep the safety of Xuzhou and Lianyungang, but let Jiangbei go" Lao Gu's chief of staff said, this gentleman is also from the Huangpu Military Academy, he has a very good set of military warfare, analyzes things very thoroughly, and has his own unique opinions, He won the trust of Chief Gu, and he felt that the chairman's plan was a good idea and could not be copied and copied.
Chief Gu shook his head helplessly and said: "This can't be helped, you also know the character of the chairman, who has the courage to disobey his orders now Anyway, I don't dare, in case we make our own decisions and win, it's okay, what should we do if we can't block Jiangbei?"
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