Chapter 219: Concealed Weapons

(... When I met many old brothers who came to meet in northern Jiangsu, I realized my weight in the hearts of my brothers. They came to fight like that just to meet with me; such brotherly feelings can only be born in such a war environment... Excerpted from "My Memories of the War of Resistance - Cao Xiaomin")

Yangzhou finally started fighting, and Hata Shunruo didn't feel anything about it. He just felt that the guerrilla activities in the Yangzhou area were too rampant, so he sent a stern telegram to Colonel Eaglemon Takashi, asking him to severely suppress the local guerrilla activities. But Bai Chongxi in Xuzhou was very happy: Yangzhou has started fighting, and his hidden back-up can make a move!

Just as Cao Xiaomin and his friends were training, the Japanese finally repaired that section of the railway. The Huaihe battlefield on the Bengbu line began to ignite again. Although the 51st Army had natural dangers in the Huaihe River, it was difficult to resist. Because the entire 59th Army was transferred to southern Shandong, the 51st Army now had one army to support the north bank alone. Soon the Japanese made a breakthrough in Bengbu and entered the opposite small Bengbu many times. The Japanese who had received the information that the 59th Army had been transferred due to the emergency military situation on the northern front were even more trying to cross the Huaihe River.

Bai Chongxi had secretly transferred away from the main 89th Army and Li Mingyang's regiments in the northern Jiangsu battlefield (at that time, Li Mingyang had not yet become a climate in Taizhou, and there were two regiments of miscellaneous troops, which were the commander-in-chief of the guerrillas in the fifth war zone. In the novel, Cao Xiaomin's division was his direct subordinates.), and the 171st Division and other units of the Gui Army who secretly moved south were basically in place. Seeing that annihilation battle to open the gate and let the Japanese go north was about to start again.

Li Zongren has always admired his brother's use of troops, but he is still worried about whether such troops can completely wipe out the enemy of the northern offensive. Of course, he was even more frightened by the military actions on the southern Huaihe Line: except for the 10th Army, which was ordered to hold on to the west bank of the Huaihe River, the other troops were all his Gui army's foundation. Although this battle was fought well, he would be greatly injured if he had a slight mistake!

On the southern Huaihe Line, Bai Chongxi actually prepared a big show of encircling Bengbu! First, the guerrillas led by Li Bin attacked the railway between Chuxian and Bengbu, causing the Chubeng Railway to be paralyzed again. They also asked them to feint attack Bengbu, causing the Japanese army in the northern offensive to be attacked from both sides, and the Japanese troops in Chuxian had to be dispatched to respond. At this time, Bai Chongxi would actually attack Chuxian with the troops of Li Tianhao, the troops of Quanjiao defenders!

If Cao Xiaomin is bold, he will do whatever he wants. Bai Chongxi's move is really a way to attack and attack and chaos! When the Japanese discovered that northern Jiangsu was empty, what if they took advantage of the opportunity? After Li Tianhao's troops took Chuxian, they would no longer go west but headed northeast to fill the big loophole after the 89th Army left! This shift was completely beyond Hata Shunroku's estimate, because in his concept, Quanjiao's defenders did not have enough attack power, and could only protect themselves when the Japanese army could not take action to destroy him. Even if it was considered

It should be a breakout to the west and a meeting with the 21st Army. Who would have thought that Bai Chongxi would use Li Tianhao's troops to attack Chuxian and completely paralyzed the southern section of the Jinpu Railway! (How bold is Bai Chongxi to use troops? Look at the original combat plan of the Battle of Southern Guizhou and the first round of the Northeast War during the Civil War. Bai Chongxi originally asked the new army to chase them alone, allowing them to chase them into the Soviet Union. It is hard to say the former, and if the latter was adopted by Chiang Kai-shek at that time, it would probably be two worlds later...)

Whether Li Tianhao dared to attack Chuxian was not at all due to Bai Chongxi's concerns, because he sent a telegram to Li Tianhao: Capture Chuxian, continue to march into northern Jiangsu, and meet with Cao Xiaomin!

In the past two days, Cao Xiaomin was already aware of the highest level in the highest position. Zhang Qiushan, who was escorted to the rear with Xie Liushenko, had already arrived in northern Jiangsu safely and was planning a counterattack in Yangzhou to report to Chiang Kai-shek.

Since Cao Xiaomin is now incognito, Chiang Kai-shek is happy to pretend to be deaf and dumb: Cao Xiaomin is a grassroots hero, and it is just right to let him restrain the enemy in northern Jiangsu. On the contrary, once he returns to the rear, it is difficult to arrange his position - he has never studied military achievements but is very high, so he is a commander or a division commander?! He can accumulate merits in terms of military achievements! Okay, since you are willing to stay in northern Jiangsu to lead the guerrillas, then let you continue to fight in the front, and wait until the battle is over!

After learning that the bold Yangzhou counterattack plan was actually made by Cao Xiaomin, Bai Chongxi was completely relieved of the battlefield in northern Suzhou. With this evil star, he would not be afraid of Yangzhou's fight! In order to add a fire to the battlefield in Yangzhou, he had secretly ordered the battle of bravery, tenaciousness and energy to be seriously injured in the defense of Nanjing, Miao Chengliu, who was resting and deploying defense in the Nantong area, to cooperate this time and prepare to counterattack Yangzhou at any cost...

After receiving Bai Chongxi's top secret telegram, the old brothers of Quanjiao defender Xiaomin were ready to go north. Now they are preparing for war: the last time they seized a lot of trucks when they annihilated the 13th Division's logistics corps. Now they are busy loading the trucks with wood and earth buns and turning them into earth armored vehicles! The gasoline has been severely damaged during this period of time. The short opportunity for the Japanese Air Force to be completely occupied by the air was quietly transported to a large number, enough to support them to fight a battle and then use cars to reach the northern Jiangsu defense zone; the Chuxian Japanese did not dream of facing a mechanized force!... Bai Chongxi is of many use to this surprise soldier, and he gave Li Tianhao so many combat instructions that the Japanese were even better than the southern fronts. Quanjiao defender was the throat-sealing weapon prepared by Bai Chongxi secretly lie down for Hata Shunruo!

Ying Senxiao in Yangzhou City did not realize that the surroundings were full of crises, but was just worried by the Matougang guerrillas: this small guerrilla team actually caused such a big train tragedy in Pukou, and then created a bloody case in Yangzhou City. Now, he was also sent by road digging and other harassing means to encircle and suppress them, trapped a squadron that was only six or seven kilometers away from the old city!

"...The number of guerrillas is far beyond estimates, but their equipment is poor, and the imperial army can fight head-on. Only the roads are completely destroyed, and there are many water nets in the Matougang area. The guerrillas launched sneak attacks first, and our army had too many wounded soldiers; if they want to withdraw, they must be abandoned..." The telegram sent by the troops who went to attack the guerrillas was obviously looking for reinforcements!

He was attacked on the road, perhaps because the car was bombed, causing a lot of casualties, because the road was damaged. If the car was gone, the wounded could not be brought back... Ying Sen Takashi and his staff were calculating the situation in Matougang while making reinforcements. However, he was so angry that he was extremely angry: it was obvious that the power of this squadron was enough to destroy the Matougang guerrillas, but they accidentally got ambushed and injured many people. Now they can't come back without the car! This squadron leader should be shot!

There is no other way, so he can send troops to reinforce! Ying Senxiao's troops are stretched: there are only two squadrons in Yangzhou City now! He can only send another squadron to go. As for the safety of Yangzhou, he still doesn't believe that the Chinese guerrillas can pose a threat to Yangzhou City. As for the Taizhou direction, they have two squadrons watching. But he didn't know that the troops sent to Matougang are actually almost exhausted!

OK, the Japanese in Yangzhou have increased their troops! Cao Xiaomin has already obtained more than 300 Japanese have left the city!

The Japanese who attacked Matougang had been annihilated about sixty people in the half hour of Cao Xiaomin's first round of attacks and confrontation. Later, the more than 20 people who pursued the river were all broken into pieces by a group of guerrillas with hoes and swords under their noses. The troops that continued to reinforce the river were killed by the sudden ambush firepower, and the number of injured was also here. In this way, nearly one-third of the Japanese were killed, and almost half of the remaining troops were injured. Moreover, in order to support the troops that crossed the river, the troops with less than two hundred people were now separated by a small river, and they could only build positions on the spot and dare not attack again.

If you don’t attack, I won’t fight! Cao Xiaomin just kept commanding the troops to strengthen their way back, and was preparing to ambush the Japanese reinforcements. This time, all the elite troops were sent to the war, and the water police force and other more than a thousand people dispatched by Li Mingyang were used!

We suffered heavy losses in Suzhou! Xie Zhong, who still remembers the crushing defeat in Suzhou and was chased by the whole city, has sneaked into Yangzhou City. The troops attacking Yangzhou according to the plan will not use force attacks to fight street battles with the Japanese. On the contrary, they will let the "little gods" and other guerrillas who are very familiar with Yangzhou pretend to be harassing troops in the city to take advantage of the chaos to rob merchants, and take the Japanese in Yangzhou City to travel around the garden. Other troops who sneak into the city will not appear immediately. They will set up ambush on different sections of roads, use the directional thunder tactics that Cao Xiaomin had developed in Shanghai at that time on the unblocked streets, and eat the Japanese who were led around in the city.

"Boom!" "Boom!" Continuous explosions were not mines but war defense artillery and mortars! The last Japanese mobile unit in Yangzhou was attacked!

The Japanese stopped the car in front of a broken road. They thought it was just a guerrilla team that dug up the road and delayed them to support friendly troops, but they did not expect that they could only five kilometers away from the city. In the city, they could use a telescope to see the fire exchange and just beyond the place where the mortars were supported in the city and encountered an attack. And as soon as they started to fight the guerrilla team, they were stanced to eat them in one bite: the only war defense cannon actually shot their cars one by one, and the mortars and grenade launchers began to fire rapidly on their dense formations without any ammunition, with more than ten machine guns - all the machine guns of the guerrilla team were concentrated and fired wildly!

"Puff puff puff puff..." The sound of the continuous sound of bullets hitting the human body made the Japanese frightened: Could it be the main force of the regular army? "Boom!" "Boo buff!" The successive grenade explosions were actually the guerrillas tied the grenades to the large crossbows they usually used to fire torches and burn ships and shot them into the Japanese clusters like mortars... The guerrillas took out the most fierce firepower they could exert, and in the first round of attacks, they killed and injured the reinforcements!

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