Chapter 232: Secret Flight

(.........If you have been stalemate with the Japanese in a place for a long time, you will establish a deep relationship with the local people. You will feel reluctant to leave when you are ordered to be transferred. If you are ordered to evacuate and know that you will fall here after leaving, your mood will become very heavy... Excerpted from "My Memories of the War of Resistance - Cao Xiaomin")

A railway called Jinpu Road seems to have divided the earth into two unrelated pieces. The war surged to the sky on the west side of Jinpu Road, while the moistening things in early spring were everywhere.

The heavy rains of a few days were enough to make farmers smile. Paddy fields greedily packed the clear blue sky into the earth like a mirror. The seedling farms in the fields were already tender green, and it was almost time to plant rice.

Many cadres of the Weiyang guerrillas went to the countryside and got along with the farmers - it is of course important to establish a relationship between the military and civilians, but their more important task is to examine every land in detail: which areas are dug out and diversion can prevent the Japanese from wading water, which places can borrow fields that have not yet been planted as blocking belts for delaying the enemy, and which places are very suitable as blocking positions...

Once the Japanese attacked northern Jiangsu, the northern Jiangsu defenders would face the situation where they had to confront the enemy with a huge disparity of strength. If they did not fully utilize their "home court" advantages and were driven straight by the Japanese army, it would directly affect the northern front war; therefore, no matter how strong the opponents were, they would have to withstand it.

The soldiers lack good enough training, and their combat level will definitely not be able to compete with the Japanese army. If they are head-on, they may even be fled by the enemy's artillery group. Therefore, this tactic can only be adopted, so that the entire northern Jiangsu land will become a blocking position, and every field and every ditch will play a role. Learning the road destruction tactics of the Battle of Eastern Anhui makes it difficult for the Japanese heavy equipment to move forward, and the blocking will only begin to be strengthened when the troops are far away from the support of the enemy's heavy artillery and tanks; as long as they are dragged to the end of the Taierzhuang battle, it will be victorious.

There were troops carrying out various training around Yangzhou City, including those who practice combat skills and those who start training. The emergency training caused panic at the beginning, and the people of Yangzhou thought that the *** was leaving again. But then they found that these troops were back in the city in the evening. When they found out that it was military training, they circled around Yangzhou City all day. In this way, the people got used to seeing this army with their baggage and everyone carrying their backpacks out of the city.

On the city tower, Cao Xiaomin and Xie Zhong were guiding the troops out of the city with the commander of the 57th Army Miao Chengliu: "I'll ask Commander Miu in Yangzhou City. If we leave, we should not disturb the people..."

The troops who left Yangzhou this time will never come back. On this day, a battalion of the 57th Army will be connected to Yangzhou. Unlike the secretly proud Miao Chengliu, Cao Xiaomin felt a lot of sadness: he fled to Suzhou in Shanghai and Wuxi in Suzhou, so difficult and dangerous, he has never abandoned a commoner who is willing to escape with him, but this time he abandoned him, people from a city, those who particularly support and love him.

"Miao is here to wish Chief Cao a victory and then make new contributions..." When he thought of posting the list to collect the salary the next day, Miao Chengliu was very happy. Since he learned that Cao Heliang was actually Cao Xiaomin, Miao Chengliu felt that as long as Cao Xiaomin's troops started war on the Jinpu Line, he would be the King of Yangzhou for a period of time.

After the first support force that detoured by Huaiyin, Cao Xiaomin's identity was already a secret, but in fact it had spread in the army. Although those who crossed the river with Cao Xiaomin in Nanjing and later acted as instructors in the 89th Army did not recognize his face, they listened to his orders along the way. In fact, many people on the school grounds believed that Cao Heliang was Cao Xiaomin, which made them secretly excited and were also very excited when training recruits.

After the group of people who came from Quanjiao arrived, Cao Xiaomin's identity was about to emerge. Even some veterans who had never contacted Cao Xiaomin were determined by various rumors. If Cao Heliang had such an experience, he would have been so famous with Li Tianhao or Zhang Jingyue, but no one had heard of Cao Heliang's name before he arrived in northern Jiangsu. Thinking about the attitude of Commander Xie Zhong towards Cao Heliang, even a very stupid person would probably understand.

After the second group of troops from Huaiyin arrived in the past two days, Cao Xiaomin's identity was made public in the top military leaders. The Chairman's order handed over to Cao Xiaomin by the Ministry of Military Affairs made Miao Chengliu sweat on his forehead: In northern Jiangsu, Miao Chengliu is not the boss, but the "Cao Heliang" he once made a fierce gesture at the military meeting!

Since then, Miao Chengliu was particularly afraid of seeing Cao Xiaomin, but he couldn't hide it. So at a new military meeting, Miao Chengliu readily agreed to Cao Xiaomin's defense plan. Although he was still worried about the Japanese attack, Miao Chengliu was greedy for the scenery of Yangzhou and wanted Cao Xiaomin to lead troops to fight and not issue orders to himself in the same area.

Cao Xiaomin's troops left today under the name of training, but the 57th Army's defense troops entered the city without any hesitation. The plaque of the city defense headquarters remained unchanged. Such a secret action is sure that Cao Xiaomin is going to have a big battle. Miao Chengliu was secretly happy, and he hoped that Cao Xiaomin's battle would be as big as possible.

Miao Chengliu guessed wrongly, and Cao Xiaomin didn't even want to fight!

After guessing the intention of the Japanese, Cao Xiaomin had already formulated a bluff and used the tactic of suspicion of soldiers but not attacking. If it weren't for knowing that the Japanese would be able to do anything on the battlefield on the Anhui battlefield on the other side of the Jinpu Line, they had to continue to make trouble with the Japanese! But now it's not possible. If he doesn't attack, he will come, so he will take a feint attack and detonate the Japanese's action!

He fought and retreated all the way until the Japanese vanguard arrived at Baoying. The plan was decided, but Cao Xiaomin still found that there were many things that were not considered. Now he thought the most about how to not delay the people's farming in this battle of large-scale borrowing of rivers and paddy fields, and not continue to cause food shortages in the next year.

If the Japanese are beaten hard, the Japanese will retaliate against the people; if the Japanese are stagnant, they will requisition more local people as laborers and plunder their supplies... The task of the battle is to delay the Japanese heading north as much as possible, but the longer the Japanese fight in northern Jiangsu, the more deteriorating the people's livelihood here is. It's really contradictory! Maybe I can't become a famous general in my life because there are too many things I have to worry about... Cao Xiaomin's mind always saw the scene of Li Tianhao sacrificing new recruits as bait as bait to wipe out the Japanese rashly into the army, but it was too difficult for him. He always couldn't bear to sacrifice, even if he had already learned to make choices after all his battles.

Like Cao Xiaomin, who was making choices about the people, was Li Tianhao in Quanjiao at this time.

The Japanese knew that Quanjiao would break through, but now the Japanese themselves were unable to take care of both. They fought Li Bin's troops on the Chubeng Railway. Although the scale was not large, they did not stop. The troops behind Li Bin's former Japanese troops were preparing to go south to cut off the way to the Gui army's return, and they were also stuck together with the 138th Division heading north and constantly exchanged fire. After repairing, Qin Lianfang's troops began to fight with the Japanese on the front line of Qingliu Pass. As for further south, Yang Sen's troops took advantage of the Japanese's continuous shift in the focus of the combat north, and they continued to recover lost ground. They fought several beautiful battles... Everything made the Japanese unable to take action against the Quanjiao defender, the *** troops with deep hatred.

In fact, the Japanese had already made a helpless concession: the nominal siege was already useless, and it was possible for Li Tianhao to leave at any time. Because Yanhata Ruo also understood that with the achievements of Quanjiao's defenders, if they were kept within their own sphere of influence but could not eliminate them, they would have to bear a lot of pressure; especially after the front line of Bengbu, if they did not return to destroy Quanjiao, it would be difficult to explain the base camp. However, did Quanjiao's *** be destroyed as soon as you say? The elite third division was also bleeding in front of Li Tianhao, who was said to have been a deserter in Shanghai... Now Yanhata Ruo is actually trying hard to create conditions and let Li Tianhao go!

Quanjiao's people had already become a family with the army. Here, everyone is soldiers, including the elderly, weak, women and children. Now they are obviously unable to bring them with them to the north, but this abandonment made Li Tianhao so painful! Li Tianhao's battle was fierce, but he never abandoned his brothers who fought to the death. Now, which of Quanjiao's men, women, old and young is not his brothers and sisters!?

It was already public that Quanjiao wanted to withdraw its troops. The people who had already packed up their luggage gathered in the west of the city and waited for notification and left together - they had long regarded themselves as a member of Li Tianhao's army! In fact, even if the Japanese lacked labor, they could tolerate it, and where the whole people participated in the War of Resistance and fought heavy casualties like Quanjiao, they would definitely have a massacre. Sometimes they could give up, but some situations could never be abandoned!

To leave, everyone must be brought with you! Li Tianhao decided: to feint the attack on the Western Front, let the Eleventh Tour cooperate first, let the weak and elderly people and women and children go first in the intermittent contact, which seemed to be a test breakthrough; the elite troops and the strong and the civilians who have always served as logistics supplies for the troops pretend to be broken rear troops, and when the people on the Western Front retreated, they suddenly advanced northward!

It seemed as if in order to bid farewell to Li Tianhao, the Japanese troops who were fighting with Liao Lei's troops deliberately gave up a lot of gaps after learning that Quanjiao had made a test breakout, which made Li Tianhao exclaim. During the period of his decisive battle in Bengbu, he had quietly transported many people away. Now he also guessed the Japanese's intention: the Japanese were going to let him go!

Since this is the case, it can be seen that the Japanese are weak. If they don’t win a big victory this time, I feel sorry for Quanjiao, the iron-blooded army fed through actual combat! Li Tianhao is about to move.

(Author: New Year, the beginning of the year, it was full of bombardment of high protein and strong liquor. The acute attack of gout was in pain... I couldn't write it today, but in the middle of the night I found that I couldn't sleep at all. Instead, I got up and wrote a chapter more comfortable, dizzy, so I'm like this every year)
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