But Chief Bai soon ran into trouble, his orders were only listened to by his own Gui army, and the rest of Lao Jiang's Central Army ignored him, the Yangtze River defense line from Xiangyang in Hubei Province to Jiangyin came down, at least there must be a frontal defense width of more than 1,000 kilometers, and the more than 100,000 Gui troops under his command alone could not hold it at all, and the defense of several important support points on the Yangtze River fortress was all in the hands of Lao Jiang's generals, and Chief Bai's orders were just a gust of wind in their ears, which does not work at all.
When Chief Bai saw that this was not going to work, the Yangtze River was in danger and could not be guaranteed, he hurriedly found his eldest brother, President Li Dai, the leader of the Gui family, and reported to him carefully about the situation of jumping into the river, and President Li Dai also felt very tricky, Lao Jiang's Central Army did not listen to his orders, and it was not a matter of one or two days, so what can be done to send a representative of the peace talks to negotiate with Jiangbei first, and buy more time to talk about it.
In the past few months after the victory of the Huaihai Campaign, Zhou Wu and his team ushered in the most calm and relaxed days, the troops returned to the old base area, those Kuomintang spy organizations and stragglers who were lurking and ready to sabotage where were the opponents of the PLA team under Zhou Wu, three down five divided by two, Zhou Wu sent out the team after several encirclement and suppression, and soon cleaned them up, and the place between Gaoyou Lake and Hongze Lake immediately restored peace.
The villagers in the land of fish and rice finally ushered in the liberation, and the common people had a good life, so they naturally wanted to keep the fruits of this hard-won victory, so there was a climax of sending their children to join the army in the base area, and many villagers brought their young and middle-aged children to Zhou Wu's team, asking to join the People's Liberation Army, cross the river to fight Lao Chiang, conquer Nanjing, and liberate the whole of China During this time, Zhou Wu finally had free time to be with his wife Shen Lina, since they got married more than two years ago, due to frequent wars, displaced, the couple got together less and more, it was rare to get together, and the days of being able to get together added up to less than two months, this time I finally had time, to accompany the family, my daughter Xiao Dingdang has also become a very sensible and obedient little girl, Zhou Wu treats her as his own, cares for her, and it is rare for a family of three to get together, and they are happy, so that people are not enviable.
After more than two months of such fairy days, spring returned to the earth, everything recovered, the willow trees by the Gaoyou Lake sent out new branches and buds, and Zhou Wu, who was accompanying his family at home, suddenly received an urgent telegram from the field army headquarters, asking him to immediately bring the political commissar and the chief of staff and several division commanders under his command to the headquarters to participate in the military meeting, and there was a big operation After receiving the telegram, Zhou Wu vaguely felt that the battle of crossing the river was about to begin, after several months of training and preparation, the morale of the troops was very high, and the ships necessary for the battle of crossing the river were also well prepared.
The food of the troops has been greatly improved, the training momentum of the soldiers is now higher than in any previous period, and with the addition of a large number of fresh blood, the morale of the troops under Zhou Wu, whether it is officers or ordinary soldiers, is "howling".
When Zhou Wu and political commissar Lao Niu, chief of staff Lao Xu, and fat man Ge Sanmin Xiao Zheng rushed to the field army headquarters, the venue was already full of heads and brains of other troops, and Commander Li looked very happy, and said to everyone with a smile: "Comrades, I called you here this time to announce a big event, and yesterday the Central Committee sent a telegram that the peace talks between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party officially broke down, and the chairman issued an order for us to immediately cross the river to fight, and wrote two lines of poetry to all the troops in Jiangbei who were preparing to cross the river to fight:" It is advisable to chase after the poor with the remaining courage, and not to become famous and learn from the overlords."
The combat mission of our East China Field Army is to launch an attack on the Kuomintang Yangtze River defense line from Wuhu in Anhui Province in the west to Jiangyin in the east, and strive to break through the Yangtze River defense line within three days and conquer Nanjing, the capital of the Kuomintang government.
"Yes" When many PLA officers below heard that they were about to start crossing the river, they were very interested and expressed their impassioned expressions.
"Okay, the morale is good, you can see the morale of the division commanders, the soldiers must also be high, this is very good, during this period of time, all units are stepping up the training of crossing the river, here I want to mention in particular, Comrade Zhou Wu's troops may be ahead of other brother units in this regard, they also have a water combat division unit that specializes in water operations, all of them are composed of soldiers who are familiar with the water, and the kung fu on the water is very good.
This time, Comrade Zhou Wu's army served as the vanguard, responsible for opening up an offensive channel and fighting across the river in the Jiangyin area.
"Commander Li's first thought was Zhou Wu's water battle unit, and asked his army to serve as the vanguard.
Zhou Wu hurriedly stood up and saluted Commander Li: "Report to the commander, we promise to complete the task and open a passage for the large army crossing the river behind."
Commander Li nodded: "I believe in the strength of your troops, your main enemies at present are those enemies on the Jiangyin Battery, after I go back, I will send you some information we have, try to outwit it, if it doesn't work, attack head-on."
After Zhou Wu returned to his station, he immediately brought in his cadres above the battalion level, and Zhou Wu said to everyone: "Brothers, our troops are about to start crossing the river, and the task given to us by the headquarters is to open up a river-crossing channel on the Jiangyin side to ensure the smooth crossing of the river by the large troops behind, this task is quite important, our troops are actually the vanguard of the East China Field Army, The obstacle in front of us is the Kuomintang 104th Army stationed at the Jiangyin Fort, this military veteran Chiang's young army descendant troops, under the direct command of Tang Enbo, fully equipped with American-style equipment, combat effectiveness is good, and there is also the fire support of those large-caliber giant guns on the Jiangyin Fort, which poses a great threat to our troops crossing the river, we must successfully cross the river and open the channel, we must first pull out this Jiangyin Fort, annihilate the Kuomintang 104th Army before the next move, everyone talk about it, How can we fight the first battle of crossing the river?"
As soon as the fat man heard that he was fighting the Kuomintang army on the side of the Jiangyin Fort again this time, he hurriedly said: "Commander, this is still negotiable, we are no longer than the New Fourth Army three or four years ago, we have to calculate the strength at hand, and now there are so many troops, why don't we all rush across the Yangtze River together."
The fat man's first division has been replenished with many soldiers this time, and a batch of weapons and equipment have also been replaced, and he feels that he has never been so well-off, so he is angry when he speaks, and naturally his voice is louder.
Zhou Wu smiled slightly: "Lao Liu, don't look at the main force of the Kuomintang army in Jiangbei was annihilated by our People's Liberation Army, but there are still some Kuomintang troops in Jiangnan who can fight, especially those subordinate teams of Gui Department Bai Commander, their combat effectiveness is not worse than ours, the Kuomintang 104th Army guarding Jiangyin is also a hard stubble, formerly known as one of Chief Du's expeditionary forces, and later reorganized into the Youth Army, the officers and soldiers in it are all under the age of forty, and the weapons are all American-style equipment, If you ask the Americans to train them, you should not underestimate them. ” Chief of Staff Lao Xu also nodded: "Lao Zhou is right, the chairman doesn't often say that we must despise the enemy strategically when dealing with them, but in terms of specific tactics, we must take it seriously, think of all the difficulties that may be encountered, and not be careless, underestimating the enemy is to defeat the battle." ” Political Commissar Niu, who had not spoken, also interjected at this moment: "Lao Xu and Lao Zhou are right, although our team has replenished the soldiers, replaced a batch of weapons and equipment, and the morale of the soldiers has reached an unprecedented high, but compared to the enemy's equipment, we are still at a disadvantage, so we can't underestimate the enemy and paralyze carelessness, the victory in the decisive battle of Jiangbei is only a key step for us to fight against the Kuomintang army, even if we cross the Yangtze River and liberate Nanjing, the nest of the Kuomintang reactionary government, we can't take it lightly, The mouth of the Yangtze River is full of imperialist warships, and it is not known whether they will intervene in our civil war with the Kuomintang army at that time, so we must also take these factors into account when we cross the Yangtze River. ” Political Commissar Niu is worthy of engaging in political and ideological work, speaking of the head is the truth, Zhou Wu nodded again and again after listening to it and said: "If the political commissar doesn't say it, I have forgotten that on the Yangtze River estuary, especially on the Yangtze River from Nanjing to Jiangyin, the warships of the United States, Britain and other imperialists are free to enter and exit as if they were their own territorial waters, once we cross the river to fight, they will definitely not stand idly by, and will definitely provoke and make trouble, in the Northern Expedition more than 20 years ago, At that time, the Northern Expeditionary Army of the attacking warlord Sun Chuanfang was shelled by imperialist warships in Nanjing, causing a large number of casualties among the officers and men of the Northern Expedition, but the old Chiang at that time swallowed his anger and did not dare to tear his face with the imperialists.
When the fat man heard this, he scolded: "Lao Jiang is a soft egg, we are different from him, if those foreign warships dare to fire at us, Lao Tzu will immediately sink their warships, what are we afraid of, I don't believe in this evil" t1706231537: