Ge Sanmin received a report from his regiment commander, saying that he had captured the enemy's supreme commander, and hurriedly came with a few guards, and when he saw a few people in front of him wearing the uniforms of the national army generals, he hurriedly stepped forward to take a closer look, and found that it was right, the middle-aged man in front of him was Chief Du, he was not like those who made himself into a soldier in order to escape for his life, but was still wearing the uniform of a general in the Kuomintang army, with a straight waist and a high head, as if he was not captured.
As soon as Ge Sanmin saw it, he knew that the general of the national army in front of him was Chief Du.
Because in the photos of the high-ranking generals of the national army who were arrested, they remembered the appearance of Chief Du very well, and it was absolutely right.
Ge Sanmin hurriedly stepped forward and said to Chief Du: "I am their superior, if you have anything to tell me directly." ” Chief Du looked at Ge Sanmin and shook his head: "Your level is not enough, I want to find your highest level" When Ge Sanmin heard this, he was obedient, Chief Du's frame was not small, and he was not qualified as a PLA division commander in his eyes, so he hurriedly called and reported to Zhou Wu, and as soon as Zhou Wu heard it, he reported the news that Ge Sanmin and they had found Chief Du to the General Front Committee, and Commander Li ordered Zhou Wu to escort Chief Du to the headquarters, and he came to meet the supreme commander of the Kuomintang army on the battlefield of Xu Beng.
Zhou Wu rushed to Ge Sanmin and said to Chief Du: "Chief Du, I am Zhou Wu, the commander of the First Army of the Jiangbei Advance Corps of the East China Liberation Army, and our Commander Li has asked you to go and talk about it."
As soon as Chief Du heard this, the PLA officer in front of him was Zhou Wu, who was famous in the Jiangbei area, and his attitude immediately eased up, and he said to him: "You are the brigade commander Zhou Wu who used to be in the independent brigade of the 79th Army."
It seems that Zhou Wu was quite famous in the Independent Brigade of the 79th Army at that time, so that as soon as Commander Du heard about it, he immediately remembered it, and asked him, Zhou Wu hurriedly nodded: "Commander Du, it is here, I think we listened to your teachings and guidance on the Songhu battlefield back then." ” When Chief Du heard this, his body shook suddenly, and he shook his head and sighed: "Don't mention the previous things, I'm ashamed to say it, you Zhou Wu fought very well in Shanghai, and in Luodian, he actually withstood the attack of the devil division, amazing, I don't know that your old commander, General Zhang, is really the back waves of the Yangtze River pushing the front waves now, I, a first-term student of Huangpu, your senior, became a prisoner of my junior today, it's really a joke played by God." ” When Zhou Wu was in the Independent Brigade of the 79th Army, Chief Du was also in Shanghai with troops to fight against the Japanese devils, as the commander of the first mechanized unit under the chairman, he was invited by the old commander of the 79th Army at that time to go to Luodian to guide the application of mechanized operations and infantry coordination tactics, at that time, he heard that the independent brigade of the 79th Army fought a lot of battles, and also knew about Zhou Wu, and later after the defense of Nanjing, Zhou Wu did not know where to go, He was transferred to Yunnan to form an expeditionary force into Burma to resist Japan, ten years have passed, time has passed, I never thought about the anti-Japanese general, the "devil buster" in the national army, but today he has become a senior officer in East China, Chief Du can't help but sigh, the old army commander is a little familiar, but he is also busy with military affairs, and he lost contact after the start of the Anti-Japanese War "The old army commander is also a person in our People's Liberation Army now, he no longer leads troops to fight, and he is enjoying his days in the liberated area, hey, Chief Du, the 79th Army has revolted on the battlefield, don't you know such a big thing" Zhou Wu replied.
"Oh, so that's the case, it's still Zhang Ercheng's far-sightedness, and now he has ended up in a long life, Du is different from him, a war criminal and a prisoner, and he will spend the rest of his life in the prison of the Communist Party for the rest of his life."
"Chief Du is also an anti-Japanese hero, and now he has laid down his arms again, I believe that we will handle your affairs properly, or follow me to the headquarters and see our Commander Li."
Zhou Wu hurriedly said to Chief Du.
Chief Du followed Zhou Wu to the headquarters of the General Front Committee, Commander Chen and Commander Li were already waiting outside the door, and when they saw Chief Du coming, the two hurriedly greeted him, held his hand and said to him: "We are old friends, we can meet here today, it is also fate, come and come, let's sit down and have a good chat."
In the first battle of Chenguanzhuang, the four elite field corps of the national army under Chief Du were all exhausted, except for a small part of the national army that ran out of the encirclement, most of the rest were captured or annihilated, the news reached Nanjing, Lao Jiang was silent, regretting that he should not have let Chief Du stop breaking through, thinking that the national army in East China did not have the strength to completely eat the four field corps under Chief Du, considering the situation on the battlefield in North China, let Chief Du stop for a while, but he never thought that the situation began to decline rapidly here, so that he was finally surrounded by East China, The supplies were all cut off, and in the heavy snow in winter, even if the general attack was not launched, the hundreds of thousands of national troops of Chief Du would have to freeze and starve to death, and that's it, the elite under his command was all lost, and Jiangnan had no troops to defend, and now it was too late to regret it, and it was impossible to hold the Yangtze River.
When the news of the fiasco on the battlefield of Xu Beng came, there was a panic in Nanjing, and there was internal strife within the Kuomintang The victory in the decisive battle greatly increased the strength of the East China People's Liberation Army, and the field army headquarters decided to reorganize Zhou Wu's troops, and set up a naval division under his ranks, which will be trained from now on, and ships will be recruited to prepare for crossing the river to fight In addition, Lao Cheng's tank pair was expanded into a tank regiment, and the captured national army tanks transferred from other friendly teams were supplemented into the tank regiment, Lao Cheng served as the commander of the tank regiment and became the first armored corps commander of the East China Field Army.
I am afraid that this tank soldier business is about to be abolished, I never thought that it would take a few years of work, and now I have become the first tank regiment commander of the East China People's Liberation Army, it is really a bit of a surprise, although the position has not been upgraded, but from the commander of the infantry regiment to the commander of the tank regiment, but in Lao Cheng's view, it is absolutely different, how can the power of this tank regiment be compared to the tank is the king of land warfare, galloping in the plains, try to ask who can compete Huang Shuisheng became the commander of the newly formed water warfare division, and like Lao Cheng, he finally returned to his old job, he transferred a large number of excellent brothers from his original infantry division to the water warfare division, collected a large number of wooden boats, and took the captured gunboats of the national army, and practiced the formation day and night in the Luoma Lake in Suqian, and in just one month, he brought out a water combat team, Zhou Wu took the fat man and Ge Sanmin and they went to Huang Shuisheng to take a look, Although the equipment of the boat is not like this, but Huang Shuisheng's trained subordinates have high morale, the sound of killing is shocking, and they are practicing well on the misty Luoma Lake, Zhou Wu is very satisfied, patted Huang Shuisheng on the shoulder and said to him: "Shuisheng, don't look at the fact that we only have these wooden boats and small gunboats now, when we cross the Yangtze River, we will also have big warships, and then you, the sailor, will have to gallop on the sea outside, but don't always sway in the lake."
Zhou Wu's words caused the fat people around him to laugh, Huang Shuisheng was even more happy, he also did not expect that he could go from a small platoon commander of the national army to the commander of the first water division of the East China People's Liberation Army, not so much a water war division, in fact, it is the predecessor of the PLA Navy, and after the liberation of the whole of China, a navy must be established.
The battle of crossing the river was the first test to test the effectiveness of their naval division, and whether they fought well or not directly affected the existence of their own naval division.
After the Huaihai Campaign, the local Kuomintang troops in northern Jiangsu and other places fled south, and the first army of Zhou Wu's advance corps was like a bamboo, and soon took Huai'an, an important town in central Jiangsu, and then conquered Yancheng, Yangzhou, Taizhou and other places, and the troops were on the north bank of the Yangtze River.
More than two years after leaving the Jiangbei anti-Japanese base area, Zhou Wu returned here with his team, on the edge of Matan and Gaoyou Lake in Tianchang County, Zhou Wu and his team were warmly greeted by the local villagers, many villagers beat gongs and drums to welcome the return of Zhou Wu's team, some of the old underground party and militia brothers who had been lurking saw the arrival of Zhou Wu and their People's Liberation Army team, and had mixed feelings, in these two years or so, they were forced to go underground and deal with the Kuomintang team that came to clean up.
Many of these good brothers died under the butcher's knife of the Kuomintang army, and some villages were even completely slaughtered by the Kuomintang local security regiment, on the grounds that the common people in these villages were harboring, and the survivors in these villages immediately rushed to join the PLA team to fight the enemy as soon as they saw the return of Zhou Wu and their team, and Zhou Wu saw the tragic scene of the destruction of the villages along the way, and immediately agreed to the request of these fellow villagers, and organized them into a battalion, called the "revenge battalion", and followed the large army across the Yangtze River.
Settle accounts with the Kuomintang reactionaries The People's Liberation Army (PLA) troops gathered on the north bank of the Yangtze River, and may launch a campaign to cross the Yangtze River at any time, which can frighten the Gui faction who has just come to power, and Chief Bai, who is known as the "Little Zhuge " in the Kuomintang army, has been busy in the past two days, constantly mobilizing troops and dispatching generals to organize defense on the front line of the Yangtze River, in an attempt to prevent the PLA from crossing the Yangtze River to the south, so as to protect half of the country that they have not won easily and snatched from Lao Chiang t1706231537: