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Danyang County.

Lijia Village.

The temporary headquarters of the Loyal Rescue Army.

This was originally a railway guard outpost set up by the Japanese invaders on the Beijing-Shanghai line, and about eighty puppet troops were stationed here.

After the New Fourth Army's base was expanded, the local guerrilla forces instigated the puppet troops stationed there to rebel, but the New Fourth Army did not incorporate them, but allowed them to continue to be stationed there.

When the Zhongjiu Army and the New Fourth Army launched a joint military operation, this place became the command center.

The battlefield was set in a triangular area formed by the three villages of Lijia Village, Gujia Village and Yunhe Village.

When the Japanese train group drove in, the distance between the front and the rear was just within the preset ambush area.

The group of trains looked like a long snake. Our ancestors had rich experience in dealing with this kind of long snake formation. They cut off the head and tail, cut the middle, and then divided it into sections to cook. With the "cooking" method left by our ancestors, Xu Baichuan and the New Fourth Army naturally copied it.

When the Japanese train entered, the front and rear sections of the railway were blown up at the same time, followed by the simultaneous explosions of multiple railways within the preset battlefield. These explosions separated the trains and overturned many of them. Then, the Zhongjiu Army and the New Fourth Army, who were lying in ambush in the dark, launched an attack on the Japanese at the same time.

Before the war, Xu Baichuan knew that even if it was an ambush, it would be difficult to resolve the battle quickly. But when the battle started, he was still shocked by the slow progress of the various units.

His idea was to deploy a large number of troops, eliminate several enemy groups in the shortest possible time, and then concentrate superior forces to defeat the enemy with more troops and completely win the battle.

However, within the first hour of the battle, the enemy was divided into seven sections, and the Loyal Rescue Army failed to capture a single one despite their all-out efforts.

"Commander-in-chief, the Japanese resistance is too fierce! Reinforcements, give me a corps of reinforcements, I promise to deal with them within half an hour!"

On the other end of the phone, Liu Xinjie, who was responsible for quickly annihilating the enemy in the first phase, called for help.

Liu Xinjie led the Songhu Column. There was no doubt that among the six major commands of the Loyal Rescue Army, the Songhu Column under the Songhu Command was the most powerful unit. Xu Baichuan hoped that the Songhu Column could annihilate the enemy within a section at the beginning of the war and then provide nearby support.

But Liu Xinjie's call for help made him realize that either the Songhu Column had encountered a tough challenge, or he had underestimated the combat effectiveness of these enemies.

But now, except for the guard company directly under his command, he has no other support.

What worried Xu Baichuan the most was that the Japanese seemed to be aware that the troops available for ambush were insufficient, and the enemies in several sections had already shown signs of connecting with each other.

Once they merge together, the rest of the battle will be much more difficult.

Xu Baichuan got angry and shouted into the phone:

"Liu Xinjie, I am now using all the strength I can to push forward! If you can win, we will definitely win this battle. If you cannot resolve the battle, I, Xu Baichuan, will die here today, but my 10,000 loyal soldiers will be wiped out!"

"Don't worry, Commander-in-Chief. Once the reinforcements arrive, I will personally lead the charge and fight to the death!"

After hanging up the phone, Xu Baichuan was about to send his own guard company to attack, but suddenly he remembered that he had another force that he could use.

His eyes turned to the New Fourth Army battalion commander next to him.

The opponent was the battalion commander of the New Fourth Army's Special 1st Battalion, and was also the reinforcement sent by the New Fourth Army to Xu Baichuan in this battle.

It is difficult to carry out large-scale mixed operations between the two sides. After all, everyone knows the relationship between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. But in order to show sincerity and be responsible for the battle, the New Fourth Army still assigned its most elite force to Xu Baichuan.

However, before the war, Xu Baichuan stated that he would not easily mobilize the 1st Special Battalion unless it was absolutely necessary - when he said this, Xu Baichuan felt that he had a sure win.

But fortunately he didn't say anything definite, otherwise he would have lost all his face.

"Captain Zhou, take your soldiers to the third section immediately to assist the Songhu Column in resolving the battle. Captain Zhou, whether this battle can be successful depends on whether the battle in the third section can be resolved before the Japanese troops join forces! I hope you can put aside your grudges and put the overall situation first!"

The commander of the Special Battalion 1, Zhou Weiguo, said loudly: "Don't worry, Commander-in-Chief! Our troops will never hold back their strength!"

A trace of embarrassment appeared on Xu Baichuan's old face. He could tell that Zhou Weiguo was implying something about the National Army - the Loyalty Rescue Army had never betrayed their teammates, but other National Army soldiers were very good at betraying friendly forces.

It is estimated that the New Fourth Army officer in front of him had been cheated by the National Army.

After Zhou Weiguo left, Xu Baichuan looked at the map worriedly, secretly hating himself for being careless. If he had known this would happen, he should have asked the New Fourth Army for more troops.

"I wonder if the New Fourth Army's Special First Battalion is just a name!"

Xu Baichuan couldn't help but murmur.

"Don't worry, Commander-in-Chief. The New Fourth Army's Special 1st Battalion is really not just a name—" The deputy commander in charge of intelligence said at this time: "This New Fourth Army's Special 1st Battalion is the strongest in the New Fourth Army in terms of equipment and personnel quality."

"Speaking of Zhou Weiguo..."

The deputy commander sighed and said, "I have investigated him. He graduated from the Central Military Academy and studied in Germany. After returning to China, he easily became a colonel and a regiment commander of our army. During the Battle of Nanjing, his troops were defeated and he was injured. Finally, by chance, he joined the New Fourth Army and was promoted to regiment commander after many battles."

"After the establishment of the New Fourth Army's Special 1st Battalion, he was transferred from regiment commander to commander of the Special 1st Battalion and fought many tough battles."

"That's fine, that's fine."

Xu Baichuan briefly put his mind at ease.

……

When Liu Xinjie found out that the reinforcements were the Direct Guard Company and the New Fourth Army's Special 1st Battalion, he was instantly ecstatic.

He knew this unit of the New Fourth Army very well. When Zhou Weiguo arrived, he handed over a battlefield to the Special First Battalion without saying a word:
"Captain Zhou, in fifteen minutes, my troops will launch a new round of charge. Your troops must follow up then! We'll...see you in the carriage!"

Liu Xinjie's trusting attitude made Zhou Weiguo very happy. He said without hesitation: "See you in the car!"

Because of the addition of the Special 1st Battalion, Liu Xinjie drew out some troops, which greatly increased the number of troops he could mobilize. Together with the direct guard company, a new round of charge was immediately organized.

As he promised on the phone, he would personally lead the charge. Under his leadership, the fresh troops finally destroyed the area in front of them with hand-to-hand combat after a fierce battle. With the demise of this stubborn enemy, all units of the Songhu Column launched an all-out counterattack, which lasted two hours and 43 minutes. The Japanese invaders in the third section were completely wiped out.

This fierce battle, which lasted for nearly three hours, made Liu Xinjie and Zhou Weiguo terrified.

It was already 1941, and if the July Incident was taken as the seventh point, the war had lasted for three and a half years.

Three and a half years of war caused serious losses to the veteran soldiers of the Japanese invaders. At the beginning of the war, a Japanese battalion could fight on par with a Nationalist division, and even overwhelmed the Nationalist division.

However, after many battles, the Japanese army's large-scale recruitment and expansion of its troops caused the quality of its soldiers to decline seriously, and there were very few records of a battalion defeating a division of the National Army.

But the enemy before them reminded them of the Japanese army at the beginning of the war.

There were about 900 enemies, and the battle lasted for nearly three hours, but not a single one surrendered!

However, there was one thing that did not go beyond the predictions of our personnel - even when the Japanese army lost, even when they were completely wiped out and killed in battle, they did not think of blowing up these munitions.

Obviously, they must have received instructions.

The two finally met in the core battlefield. After the battle, Zhou Weiguo said to Liu Xinjie, looking at the corpses on the ground, "Commander Liu, please report the enemy's situation to the headquarters immediately. This enemy force is definitely the main force of the Japanese Type A Division! Please ask your general commander Xu to adjust the battle rhythm. We can't continue like this!"

"I understand. Captain Zhou, please lead your team to the second section immediately to provide support. I will give you another team to lead. Is that ok?"

The reason why Liu Xinjie made such arrangements was because he saw Zhou Weiguo's command level.

Zhou Weiguo was stunned. He didn't expect that the commander of the Zhongjiu Army would hand over a whole brigade to him.

But Liu Xinjie didn't care about that. He called the head of the Second Corps and ordered, "From now on, the Second Corps will accept the full command of Captain Zhou. Do you understand?"

"Yes!"

The officers of the Songhu Column were of extremely high quality. They responded to orders immediately and did not resist orders in the subsequent battles.

After Zhou Weiguo led his team away, Liu Xinjie took advantage of the troops gathering to report his own judgment of the enemy to Xu Baichuan at the command center.

Unfortunately, this information came too late.

Because just twenty minutes ago, the Japanese troops in the fifth section and the Japanese troops in the sixth section connected with each other and launched a counterattack. The Southern Jiangsu Column and the Northern Jiangsu Column were caught off guard and lost a large area, allowing the enemy to have sufficient combat defense depth.

Xu Baichuan had no choice but to use the forces of the two columns to contain the enemy and ensure that the battle in the third section was not affected.

Looking at the sky that was already brightening, Xu Baichuan said worriedly:

"We're in big trouble."

The previous estimate was to resolve the battle within five hours, but now three hours have passed and only one segment of enemies has been resolved. Even if the speed of the next battle is increased, it will take at least an hour to resolve the enemies in the first, second and fourth segments.

The most troublesome are the enemies in the fifth and sixth segments. They have already joined together and have a greater combat depth. The most optimistic estimate for defeating them is three hours.

Maybe it will take longer. "Send a telegram to the New Fourth Army, telling them that the battle may last at least five hours longer than we expected! Let them make adjustments!"

"Send a message to the district commander and inform him of the situation."

……

Xu Baichuan was just worried, but the Japanese were going crazy.

After learning that the train group carrying arms had been ambushed, their first reaction was to immediately gather reinforcements for rescue.

The munitions must not be destroyed.

But sadly, at this time, the Japanese army was facing a serious shortage of troops in the Jiangsu area.

Because of the "Viper Plan", the Japanese army strengthened the deployment of troops on the front line. However, during the period of launching a sweep against the Eighth Route Army in North China, there was only one way to urgently strengthen the deployment of troops on the front line:
Dispatch troops nearby.

Therefore, most of Jiangsu’s troops were transferred to the front line.

And this time, Takeda Yoshihei secretly mobilized so many troops that Jiangsu was left empty.

Fortunately, Takeda Yoshihei deliberately ensured the distance between the two transport groups. Theoretically, it would only take one hour for the seven battalions of reinforcements to arrive at the Lijia Village battlefield.

But just when the first group turned around, the railway line was attacked by countless guerrillas, and there was no hope of direct reinforcement from the railway.

The frustrated Japanese army could only order five battalions of Japanese troops to go on foot to support the Lijiacun battlefield. However, these five battalions were blocked at every step since they set out. Before the third section was destroyed, the five battalions that retreated along the railway line to provide reinforcements had advanced less than 10 miles.

By this time the sky had already brightened, and the Japanese planes could now conduct reconnaissance. The Japanese were terrified because they saw that countless people had been mobilized and were gathering towards the Lijiacun battlefield from all directions.

what does this mean?
This means that the other party’s goal is not to blow up, but to seize!

The destruction of munitions that could arm an army of 200,000 would certainly cause the Japanese great pain. However, if munitions that could arm an army of 200,000 fell into the hands of anti-Japanese forces, it would not be a matter of great pain, but they would have to face at least 200,000 new anti-Japanese armed forces!

The Japanese are crazy.

Someone suggested that the weapons be destroyed immediately, but was slapped in the face.

“First, with all these arms delaying the war, this war will last a long time!
Second, since this battle will last a long time, we have enough time to take them back!
Third, the weapons have not been completely taken away from us. Are you crazy?"

The Japanese military completely ruled out the possibility of blowing up the munitions.

After all, it’s still poverty.

If it were the US military, they would have to bomb it first as a sign of respect - it would just be a matter of losing a few thousand coffee cups.

But the Japanese were reluctant to do so because it would be a shame to destroy so many weapons.

For them with limited resources, the equipment that can be used to replace an army of 200,000 is truly invaluable.

And this was exactly the core of Zhang Anping's calculation: the Japanese would not be willing to blow up these munitions until the very end, even at the very end. We took advantage of this and tried our best to ensure their safe storage.

After rejecting the proposal to bomb the village, the Japanese could only deploy their forces around the triangular battlefield of Lijia Village.

Rescue, mobilize all the troops that can be mobilized!

You must rescue, and you must take advantage of the opponent's greed and fight a beautiful annihilation war!
……

Shanghai.

After Zhang Anping received Xu Baichuan's telegram, his expression became serious.

The battle was more intense than Lao Xu had imagined, and it lasted a full five hours longer than Lao Xu had expected.

This means that more enemies will come to support, which means that the New Fourth Army troops who are blocking the enemy will need to hold out longer.

But this also has an advantage - the Japanese are very likely to draw troops from the front lines.

At this time, it’s time to choose one of the two.

After taking a deep breath, Zhang Anping sent a telegram to the Chongqing Bureau headquarters and the Third War Zone.

[Chongqing Bureau Headquarters:

At dawn on January 1, our troops, together with the New Fourth Army, successfully intercepted a Japanese military ammunition transport train near Lijia Village, Danyang County! Our troops have cooperated with the New Fourth Army to evacuate this batch of ammunition! Please send a telegram to the armed forces of each district station and to the plainclothes mixed teams to immediately launch various types of activities to delay the enemy! 】

【Third War Zone:
At dawn on January 1, our troops successfully intercepted a Japanese military ammunition transport train near Lijia Village, Danyang County. It is estimated that ammunition sufficient to arm 2 troops will be seized by our troops! Our troops are now cooperating with the New Fourth Army and have begun to urgently transport the captured ammunition! Please consider the overall situation and set up a battle array on the front line to entangle the enemy and prevent the enemy's front-line troops from returning for support! 】

After reading the two telegrams again, Zhang Anping nodded, indicating that they could be sent.

It’s a choice between the two. It depends on which one the National Government chooses!

……

chongqing.

As soon as Lao Dai entered the headquarters of the Military Intelligence Bureau, the director of telecommunications on duty rushed over and handed him a telegram from the Beijing-Shanghai area.

"Boss, urgent call from Beijing-Shanghai district!"

Old Dai took the telegram and started reading it. After reading it quickly, he jumped up and hit his head hard on the roof of the car. But he didn't care about the pain and cursed:

"Zhang Anping, are you crazy? I'm going to kill you!"

He got out of the car without caring about the pain, kicked the car hard, and ran to the telecommunications room at high speed. After running in, he immediately said:

"Send a message to tell the Beijing-Shanghai Station to blow up the munitions and evacuate immediately!"

After the telegraph operator went down to send the message, Old Dai covered his head and grimaced in pain, cursing: "Zhang Anping, I'm going to kill you! I'm going to kill you! Bastard! Bastard!"

He didn't care about Zhang Anping's cooperation with the New Fourth Army. Even if he did, he wouldn't be so angry.

What made him angry was that Zhang Anping had the wild idea of ​​using all the belongings of the Zhongjiu Army to rob arms.

There are enough weapons and equipment to arm an army of 200,000, including some heavy weapons. How long will it take to transport these things?
This is behind enemy lines!

Once surrounded by the enemy, all his loyal reinforcements would be gone!

"Mad man, Zhang Anping, you are a fucking mad man!"

Old Dai cursed without any manners, saying that his former sweetheart had now become his ugly enemy.

……

Shanghai.

Zhang Anping looked at Lao Dai's telegram. Although there was no scolding in it, the tone was extremely harsh. The words "must", "immediately" and "right away" were all used.

【Old Dai must be mad with anger.】

Zhang Anping closed his eyes and then said, "Call back, the content is:
Japan, Germany and Italy have formed a military alliance. The Japanese invaders will definitely go to war with Britain. Once the war starts, the Burma Road will be completely closed! my country will lose its blood transfusion channel!

Once this happens, any gun will be extremely valuable! For the benefit of the party and the country, and for the future of the nation, I have made up my mind! "

Miao Fengxiang looked at Zhang Anping in astonishment. This was tantamount to disobeying orders!
Zhang Anping looked at Miao Fengxiang coldly, and Miao Fengxiang immediately said, "Yes!"

……

A telegram came from the Beijing-Shanghai area. As Old Dai looked at the words on the telegram, the bastard with his neck stiffened on the battlefield of Songhu seemed to appear before his eyes again.

I've made up my mind!

He knew that Zhang Anping was telling him that even if he disagreed, he had to do it, and he had even made plans for the worst - the worst plan was that the Zhongjiu Army would be severely damaged, but the munitions would no longer fall into the hands of the Japanese.

"Asshole, this is clearly a great achievement, why are you making things more complicated?"

Old Dai was helpless with his stubborn nephew. Although he wanted to shoot Zhang Anping, the issues Zhang Anping was worried about touched him.

This is enough equipment to arm more than a dozen main divisions. If we can really rob it, even half of it, that would be seven or eight main divisions!
Interested?
He was really moved!

Rubbing his big bump on his head, Lao Dai was making a choice in his mind. Finally, he gritted his teeth and shouted:
"Someone, take me to the attendant's room! Now!" (End of this chapter)