(...It was very dangerous to fly at that time, because the sky was dominated by Japanese planes. The flight plans of senior generals were highly confidential, but they would still leak secrets. Many of our generals had been intercepted in the air... Excerpted from "My Memories of the War of Resistance - Cao Xiaomin")

"Fight!..." With a command, a group of people ambushed in the field opened fire. There were two machine guns, both of which were Japanese Type 96; grenades were covered with overwhelming force... "Dada, dadada..." The machine gun sounded tighter, and bullets swept towards the moving Japanese like pouring. The group of Japanese devils ordered to quickly reinforce a field airport under construction did not expect to be attacked on the side of the road, and the enemy was ambushed under his nose, at the distance where the grenades could be thrown into the queue!

Because the situation was urgent, because they had never been attacked along the way, this time the Japanese rescuers did not follow the discipline of infantry training. They drove to the point where the incident happened.[]

The huge explosion of cluster grenades caused two cars to hit the roadside, but the remaining one escaped by luck. The Japanese machine gunner on the roof was shooting desperately, and the people rushing up the roadside were shot one after another... The Japanese machine gunner was killed, and the deputy shooter beside him immediately rushed out of the encirclement without stopping...

"Kill!..." As he shouted, the attackers had already rushed to the Japanese. Although many of them had been killed by the Japanese on the very short charge, the charges continued to turn the battle into hand-to-hand combat... "Dada, dadada..." The Japanese machine guns kept firing from a distance, and a gap was made by bullets on the side of the attacker! It was the Japanese car that rushed out of the encirclement and came back. Their gun skills were obviously superior to the attacker and injured...

"Hi! It's so embarrassing. The two battalions were ambushed and attacked, but they couldn't get a hundred Japanese..." The attackers who retreated in embarrassment were very discouraged: although they killed and injured more than half of the Japanese, leaving the Japanese reinforcements without the ability to continue to go to their destination to rescue, the plan they planned in advance went bankrupt. A Japanese car breaking out killed a rebellion and snatched from the side. In the end, they had to retreat in a hurry.

"I think it's better to fight the puppet army in the future, the Japanese are too strong..." "I think we should fight more with the Japanese. Today I see that our troops' combat level needs to be improved severely..." "The comrades fought very bravely this time, why can't they take the Japanese..." "We have suffered hundreds of casualties, so we should fight less in such a battle..." Various discussions filled the retreating team, and everyone was very moved by this head-on battle with the Japanese. This is one of the rare battles in the main forces of the New Fourth Army in Jiangnan. In comparison, everyone has to admit that the gap between them and the Japanese is too big in terms of military literacy...

"It seems that the one who knows the Chinese the most is the Chinese!" After receiving a secret telegram, Hata Shunrok began to believe Wang Hansheng's opinion that the national army might give up northern Jiangsu. The telegram he received said that it had been found that Cao Xiaomin had flew to Henan after leaving Huaiyin. Now the Northern Line War Zone has arranged Henan's army aviation troops to intercept...

"I finished reading your masterpiece last night, and I really benefited a lot!" Hata Shunruo looked at Wang Hansheng in front of him with admiration. The latter's military rank would soon be changed to Major General, because he had sent a telegram to the base camp to ask for credit for Wang Hansheng.

"...The National Army guerrillas usually complete sneak attacks in our rear and will basically use the capture for military use, especially weapons and food; while the New Fourth Army Eighth Route Army is different. They will leave some weapons and food and clothes cut off from our soldiers to the people... When our troops search, they will often massacre the whole family of the people who have our military uniforms and other items in their homes. As a result, more and more people who survived the massacres will be sent to the New Fourth Army Eighth Route Army because they will give these people full of hatred weapons..." Hata Shunruo read a passage and then looked up and asked Wang Hansheng: "Then I want to know, what should we do if we find the people who have our military products in our homes in the search? How to identify which people are ordinary people and which are Chinese guerrillas?"

"I think this is still difficult, but basically we can draw conclusions through cross-examination. If we send more Royal Army troops mainly locals during the search; and, generally, families with old and young families with good crops are not likely to be guerrillas; of course, they will also sympathize with the guerrillas and provide them with help when they are used..." Wang Hansheng said: "I mentioned in the book that to make the rear stable, people must have the same houses and the farmer have the same fields as the farmer, and at the same time, they will punish the people in a row. Once someone verifies the situation, they must punish the neighbors together..."

"I found that your book mentioned dealing with the Communist Party many times, but there was no suggestion when dealing with the Kuomintang guerrillas; do you think the Communist army's troops are more threatening than the Kuomintang troops?" Hata Shunruo suddenly asked a question, which made Wang Hansheng secretly sweat: In order to complete the military command task, he almost did not mention dealing with the Kuomintang in his discussion!

"Yes!" Wang Han said with a stern head: "In my opinion, the Communist army is even more cunning. They usually rarely fight us, but they develop very quickly; the situation in the past two days has shown the problem. Once they are on the rise, they can cause such a big storm in our occupied areas, which is something that even the Kuomintang guerrillas cannot do... The Communist army is not without combat effectiveness, but not exposed, and they occupy a large number of rural areas, which has a great impact on our grain collection work. They also kill the gentry who cooperates with us in various villages and distribute the fields and grain to other people; these activities are ignored because they are not directly targeted at our troops, but in the long run, our occupied areas will not be considered an occupied area... We can clearly see the threat of the Kuomintang guerrillas, but the threat of the Communist guerrillas will be ignored. This is their danger!"

Wang Hansheng's words made Hata Shunruo deeply ponder: The intensity of the attack of the Jiangnan Detachment of the New Fourth Army was indeed surprised by him. They had the ability to break through the airport and surround the site to attack the Japanese army on the road to rescue. Although most of them were poorly equipped and had low combat quality, these troops were very destined and usually opened fire at only 100 to 150 meters away from the Japanese army. Such snipers can often cause considerable casualties to the Japanese army.

It seems that it was time for a thorough sweep of the New Fourth Army in the occupied area, and Shinroku Hata finally made up his mind.

"We are the No. 1 division in the world! Everyone says, are there any enemies we cannot defeat, and are there any positions we cannot defend!?..." Almost every grassroots officer was encouraging morale, and his face was covered with yellow soil and sweat, and the officers and soldiers of the First Division, who were covered with blood, were all high morale. They were ready to fight with their backs, and even if they were both enemies, they would be stuck in Chenliukou without retreating! Just in northern Jiangsu and Jiangnan, the battlefield of the Lanfeng Battle was in chaos because of Tuohiro's ambitions, and they gave up the mobile battle ahead and defended the important towns along Longhai Road. As a result, under the strong attack of various units of the National Army, they began to retreat step by step...

Hu Zongnan commanded the 78th Division, the 36th Division and an elite regiment of the First Division of his own First Army, after two days of hard fighting, he finally conquered Chenliukou and Gaotangzhai. At this point, he finally cut off the ties between the 14th Division and the Japanese army on the North Bank again. Of course, they have now become a back-to-water formation, and they have to guard against the enemy on the opposite side, and the combat mission is particularly critical. Seeing that the 14th Division has become a turtle in the jar, Hu Zongnan did not want to swallow it in one bite. He gave the defenders a death order: under any circumstances, all troops must stick to their original position without his military order, and all generals who lost their positions will be executed on the spot!

On the Lanfeng side, the 88th Division, which was killed by the entire army, suffered heavy casualties, captured Lanfeng Station the night before, and the 87th Division had just captured Xulou; north of Sanyi Village, Yu Jishi commanded the 20th and 51st Divisions to attack Yangzhan and Liangzhan. As long as he took it down, he would completely wrap the 14th Division in an iron barrel.

"Captain Yu has ordered that the time limit is limited until tomorrow morning, and Yang Yu must be blocked. Liang Yu must be blocked. Judging from the situation of the war, it should be no big problem..." "The 87th Division and the 88th Division also issued military orders to take down Lanfeng County within tomorrow..." "The 58th Division, the 155th Division have issued a death order, and must be taken down Luowang Station within tomorrow..." The staff members kept reporting the latest battle situation. Chiang Kai-shek, who had just slept for a sleep, listened and pointed at the map, but he was more concerned about the battle damage report: such a strong attack on the Japanese army with excellent equipment and air superiority must be covered with blood on the front line. These elite Central Army divisions that he had finally rebuilt with painstaking efforts are probably going to be destroyed again...

"The defenders of Guide seem to be insufficient. They ordered the troops withdrawn from Xuzhou to select two divisions into the combat sequence, in order to block the enemy..." Chiang Kai-shek left Lanfeng and looked at Guide, where there were only two regiments of the Forty Division, the 187th Division and the 24th Division. The 40th Division was the famous general tax police regiment. After the Battle of Songhu, they rested in Anhui and were transferred to Guide in early May to guard the north of Guide City to Zhuji Station. The 187th Division was transferred from Guangdong, and most of the troops were recruits and had no combat experience to defend Guide City and its positions south of Guide City. The 24th Division was a unit that retreated in the Battle of Xuzhou. It lost a lot, with less than 50% of its combat effectiveness and was used as a military reserve. Such troops could not resist the Japanese army advancing westward. Then add two more divisions. Only in this way can all the Japanese Second Army be sucked up. When they all pressed over, it was the day of the implementation of the "Tianhe Plan"!

Because the situation of the war began to develop towards his own expectations, Chiang Kai-shek was a little proud, but at this time, the staff officer who was passing the telegram came over sweating profusely. He no longer read the telegram but handed it to Chiang Kai-shek. The telegram was very simple:... General Cao Xiaomin was intercepted and shot down by Japanese planes...

(Author: Heat stroke, high fever, dizziness all day long to write this chapter...)
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