Bright Sword's Bloody War of Resistance

Chapter 355 The Central Army Enters Tainan

Tainan is located in the south of Taihang Mountain, bounded by Hanchang Highway, so it is named Tainan.

As I said before, the current Tainan base area is only the south-to-north area, and the southern areas such as Lin County, Huguan, Linchuan, and Gaoping are full of various armed forces from the national army, represented by the New Fifth Army and the Forty Army.

There are also Zhu Huaibing, Lu Zhonglin, Zhao Yunxiang and other remnants and many anti-Japanese armed forces entrenched here.

After Xing Zhiguo conveyed Zhou Weihan's order, the second and third regiments immediately launched operations.

West Garden, the headquarters of the Fourth Regiment.

Wang Yigong called the battalion commander Zhang Hao over.

"The order from the military region is to let our regiment go to Lin County to expand our team!" Wang Yigong said.

"Lin County is good. Our group is only short of [-] people, and we can gather [-] people with our eyes closed. The southernmost Rencun Town of our First Battalion is on the border with Yaolin Town in Lin County. There are many troops entrenched in the nearby mountains, and some people have guns, which are ready-made sources of troops!" Zhang Hao said.

"Don't be too happy. The situation over there is complicated. There are little devils and the national army. Don't capsize in the gutter. The most important thing is that the Eighth Route Army and the national army agreed before. The south is the territory of the national army, although Lin County is not within the range, it is better not to cause trouble easily!" Gao Zhiheng instructed.

No one can bear the crime of undermining the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.

"I have a good idea. Before we fought against the Ninety-seventh Army, our first battalion seized a lot of uniforms, most of which belonged to the 281st Regiment. Soldiers who entered Lin County could change into the uniforms of the 281st Regiment. Although we are defeated, this skin is still very useful, so we can cover up our true identities, we will leave after we get a ticket, who can find out?" Zhang Hao suggested.

"Let's do it like this, political commissar, tell the Second Regiment to do the same, don't let your traces show up!" Wang Yigong finally said.

The reason why Wang Yigong asked Zhang Hao to take people to Lin County was mainly because Zhang Hao also graduated from Huangpu and had worked in the national army and was familiar with its situation.

The next day, Zhang Hao selected more than a hundred soldiers who had served in the national army from the first battalion to go to Lin County together.

The entourage crossed the Zhang River near Rencun Town and arrived near Yaolin Town.

Everyone rested temporarily in a green gauze tent, Zhang Hao asked the accompanying guards to take out the map, and said to several cadres: "We are in Ge Village now, and Yaolin Town is more than ten miles south. Army, it's too hot during the day, let the soldiers rest in the green gauze tent first, and when it gets dark, bypass Yaolin Town and march to the mountains in the southwest!"

"Battalion Commander, why don't you send more people over, and take Yao Linzhen directly, and the captured puppet army just serves as a source of soldiers, how good it is!" said a platoon leader.

"What a fart, don't you know the virtues of the puppet army? It's far from those guys who dare to fight the little devil!" Zhang Hao scolded.

During the month after the Hundred Regiments War ended, the political cadres of the Fourth Regiment, headed by political commissar Gao Zhiheng, set about reforming nearly [-] puppet soldiers who had been captured.

During this month, after layers of screening, some blood debts and some diehard elements were eliminated, and a total of more than [-] recruits were obtained.

These recruits transformed from the puppet army clamored to join the Eighth Route Army one by one, but after being dispersed to the battalions, it didn't take long for them to show their prototypes.

In the first battalion, there were people who stole things from the local villagers, and some were caught as deserters because they couldn't bear the hardship.

At that time, Zhang Hao got up with two feet, and later he was punished for corporal punishment of the soldiers. How could he have a good face towards the soldiers who were reformed from the puppet army.

"Battalion Commander, the trainer said that soldiers should not be discriminated against just because they were puppet soldiers. Our Eighth Route Army must treat them equally!" A cadre beside him whispered.

"Hey, let me tell you, you can eat indiscriminately, but you can't talk indiscriminately. What I despise are those who fish in troubled waters and dawdle!" Zhang Hao quickly explained, and then continued: "Don't just stand still!" , Let the soldiers take a break!"

"Yes!" Several cadres who were in the meeting scattered away.

At the same time, a central army with the designation 280 regiment entered the southern part of Lin County.

The head of the regiment is Yang Han, the deputy head of the 280 regiment. Yang Han is a graduate of the eighth phase of Whampoa. The Battle of Shanghai, the Battle of Nanjing, the Battle of Xuzhou, and then the 74th Army was transferred to Xue Yue's Eastern Yu Corps to participate in the Battle of Lanfeng, which severely damaged the Japanese 51th Division led by Kenji Doi.

In 1938, Yang Han, who had been promoted to battalion commander due to his many meritorious service on the battlefield, was recuperating in a field hospital in the rear. It happened that Zhu Huaibing's 94th Division was transferred to northern Henan and formed the 97th Army. Became a miscellaneous brand.

As a result, the Ninety-seventh Army was defeated in Tainan, most of the officers and soldiers were captured, and the rest were scattered among the countryside in Tainan.

Yang Han himself was not spared either. He was imprisoned by the independent detachment at the time, but he did not do anything unusual during the [-]th Army prisoner riot, so he was released safely.

After returning to the National Army, it stands to reason that the remnants of the [-]th Army should be dispersed to the frontline armies, but Yang Han contacted the former regiment commander.

The head of the regiment is now the deputy commander of the 74st Division of the 51th Army. Later, Wang Yaowu, the former commander of the 51st Division and now the commander of the 74th Army, heard about it.

Wang Yaowu can be said to be the hottest general in the national army, Jiang's confidant and favorite general.

I heard that the soldiers under the command of the 51st Division had such an experience in the past, and Yang Han was one of the few officers in the [-]th Army who organized troops and launched a counterattack.

With such a brilliant performance, coupled with the fact that he is a direct descendant from the 51st Division, Wang Yaowu became interested in talents, so he personally recommended Yang Han to the Officer Training Corps to study at Shangfeng.

After a brief study in the Officer Training Corps, the Ministry of Military and Political Affairs issued a formal appointment, and Yang Han was promoted to the colonel and head of the 280 regiment and stationed in Lin County.

With the full support of the First War Zone, Yang Han selected [-] remnants of the [-]th Army to form a full regiment of the Central Army with his former cronies as the backbone, and used the vicinity of Luoyang as the training location for training.

Fate is unpredictable, Zhu Huaibing has been reduced from a powerful army commander to an idler, but the original deputy commander Yang Han has become the direct commander of the Central Army because of a blessing in disguise.

Those who were left in Tainan to fight against the Japanese had always been miscellaneous members of the national army, and Sun and Pang were quite critical.

Therefore, the 280th regiment entered Lin County this time as a representative of the Central Army. Correspondingly, Yang Han also obtained the command of the anti-Japanese armed forces and stragglers around Lin County.

The arrival of the 280 regiment this time can be said to be a bad person. The high-level national army did not send a full regiment of direct descendants into the enemy's rear just to silence Sun and Pang.

When did he, Jiang, care about the life and death of a local warlord with no name?
(End of this chapter)