A voice said: "Everyone is inside."
The voice immediately said at the beginning: "The leader said, chop them up and throw them into the river to feed the fish."
Hearing this, Takenoda Iso could no longer remain calm, and immediately turned around and shouted at Xu Rui: "Nishimura-san, they are coming to kill us, run, let's run!"
Xu Rui kicked open the cabin window, turned around and asked, "Zhuye Sang, do you know how to swim?"
"Know a little." As soon as Takenodaji nodded, Xu Rui couldn't help but grab his arm and threw him out of the window. Before he fell into the water, Takenodaji vaguely heard the cabin door being opened by Chinese people. It was knocked open, and then there was the sound of fighting and screams. Finally, Nishimura yelled, "Takeno-san, leave quickly..."
Hearing this, Takenoda Iso burst into tears immediately and whispered, Nishimura-san, I will always remember you.
Immediately afterwards, Takenoda Iso heard the sound of arrows hitting the water. He looked back quickly and saw a dozen Chinese people standing on the edge of the barge, drawing their bows and firing arrows in his direction. Fortunately, , no Chinese entered the water, and Takenodaji plunged into the water with a sudden force and began to sneak.
Takenoda Iso didn’t know that this was just a show.
Leng Tiefeng shot another random arrow at the water, then turned around and said: "Old Xu, you spent so much energy on such a good show just to let this little devil go? Are you sure this little devil Can it be of great use? I'm not telling you, maybe this little devil will never come back up again if he plunges into it."
Xu Rui said: "Didn't I say it before? Anyway, idle time is idle, so let's just treat it as a free move. As for the little devil Zhuye, maybe it's useless, maybe it can really come in handy, who knows?"
Leng Tiefeng shook his head and asked: "What to do with the tugboat and barge? Did they sink?"
"It sank." Xu Rui also felt a little regretful when he spoke. It's a pity that the Dameishan base area is not next to the Yangtze River, and the Meihe River cannot be navigable by ships. Otherwise, keeping this tugboat and barge would really be of great use, if nothing else. , it is much more convenient to transport goods or soldiers. A barge can carry thousands of people!
Leng Tiefeng nodded, turned around and ordered Han Feng: "Fengzi, take a bundle of grenades and go to the bottom cabin to sink the ship."
Han Feng agreed and went to collect grenades. Xu Rui said to Leng Tiefeng: "Let's go, we can finally go home."
This trip lasted for nearly ten days. Xu Rui really missed the base area. He didn't know what the situation in the base area was like now.
Half an hour later, Xu Rui and Leng Tiefeng led the Langya Squadron to catch up with the large group of people.
Under the cover of night, thousands of civilians were seen forming a long winding dragon on the river. They were carrying equipment on their shoulders, carrying it on their backs, or pushing equipment in wheelbarrows. They were marching toward the base area in a mighty manner. Behind and behind the civilians, independently The guard company directly under the regiment and the Wolf Fang Squadron are respectively responsible for the tasks of opening the road and cutting off the rear.
In addition, there is also a cavalry battalion of Tiegang lurking in the dense forest of Prince Mountain less than ten miles away.
In order to ensure that this batch of equipment can be transported back to the base smoothly, Wang Husheng has made full preparations.
However, even after preparing sufficient defensive measures, Xu Rui and Wang Husheng decided to march at night, as far away from densely populated areas as possible, in order to ensure that nothing went wrong. Fortunately, at this time, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui provinces Although the pseudo-reform governments in the three provinces have been formed, their coverage only reaches the county level. The vast rural areas below are still under the control of clan forces in various places. These clan forces may not necessarily help the revolution, but they will not help. The Japanese, therefore, turned a blind eye to the independent transport teams passing through the border and ignored them.
Taizi Mountain is only a hundred miles away from Pu County and less than two hundred miles away from Meizhen.
Therefore, by dawn the next day, the transportation team of the independent regiment had already entered the boundaries of Pu County.
Pu County has now become the forefront of the defense of the Dameishan base area. The Japanese have stationed an infantry brigade here. In addition to this Japanese brigade, there is also a puppet garrison brigade. The brigade commander Wang Yi is the former member of the Wannan Independent Regiment of the National Army. Chief, Yang Banan's boss, this guy has completely sold himself out to the Japanese.
There are two ways to go back to the base from Taizi Mountain on the Yangtze River. One is to go around Huilonggou and over Qingfeng Mountain. This is the route that the independent regiment took after plundering the arms in Huilonggou. The other is Going directly through Pu County, this road is much closer than taking the detour to Huilonggou. You can go home before evening this evening.
In order to avoid long nights and many dreams, Xu Rui decisively chose to pass through Pu County.
Based on Xu Rui's judgment, the Japanese garrison and puppet troops in Pu County would never dare to act rashly.
Facts have proved that Xu Rui's judgment was completely correct. After discovering the transportation team of the independent regiment, the Puxian Japs urgently called the Central China Condemnation Army Headquarters in Nanjing for instructions, but Nanjing replied that they should ignore it.
At this time, the commander of the Condemnation Army in Central China, Shunroku Hata, had completely focused on the Nanxun battlefield. He was anxiously waiting for the winner between Okamura Neiji's 11th Army and Xue Yue's 1st Army. However, Hata Shunroku did not Relax your vigilance against Xu Rui, but at this time, the victory or defeat of the 11th Army is obviously more affecting people's hearts.
By the way, just when Xu Rui left for Suzhou to set up a checkpoint, Central China sent troops to launch the Wuhan Battle.
What is more surprising is that the vanguard of the Wuhan Battle turned out to be the Botian Detachment, which was reorganized with the Taiwanese garrison regiment as the basis. After the Chongteng Detachment was nearly wiped out in Nantong, the Japanese base camp quickly recruited reserve troops to rebuild. The Taiwan Brigade was formed, and the Botian Detachment was formed based on the Taiwan Brigade.
The Botian detachment had originally landed at Lianyungang, planning to attack westward along the Longhai Line to the Ping-Han Railway, and then turn around and head south to Wuhan. However, the Yellow River burst its banks and forced the Japanese army to change their plan, so the Botian detachment reboarded the ship. They were urgently transported to Wuhu by sea. After a short rest, they took advantage of the rainy night to launch a surprise attack on Anqing.
Guarding Anqing was Yang Sen's 27th Group Army. Yang Sen's troops performed heroically in the Battle of Songhu. In a bloody battle, the entire army of 18,000 people was beaten down to less than 7,000. The banks of the Suzhou River were filled with raindrops in central Sichuan. The blood of the soldiers. Because of their heroic performance in the Battle of Songhu, Chairman Chiang gave Yang Sen’s 20th Army priority in replenishment and re-equipment.
However, in the battle to defend Anqing, the performance of Yang Sendi's troops was disappointing.
In just one day, one of Yang Sen's army groups was defeated by a mere Botian detachment, and the important town of Anqing was lost. Chairman Chiang was so angry that he cursed: Abandoning a famous city, laughing at an allied country.
After the fall of Anqing, Jiujiang opened its doors. Okamura Ningji led three and a half divisions of the 11th Army to quickly approach Wuhan along the north and south banks of the Yangtze River. Pengze, Hukou, Jiujiang, and Ruichang were lost one after another, and were led by the Germans. The Madang Fortress, which was designed and had high hopes by Chairman Chiang Kai-shek, soon fell, and Chairman Chiang was so angry that he killed another Huangpu disciple.
This was already the second Huangpu disciple ordered to be shot by Chairman Chiang after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War.
The first one was Long Muhan, the commander of the 88th Division guarding Bozhou. After the Battle of Xuzhou, he was ordered to be shot.
The person who was shot this time was Xue Weiying, the commander of the 167th Division. The reason was that the support horse deliberately did not take the main road at that time, but only took the small road. As a result, it was less than a hundred miles and it took three days to reach it, which directly led to the guarding of the Madang Fortress. The Marine Corps was completely destroyed, and the Madang Fortress was also declared lost.
However, as the Japanese army surged forward along the north and south banks of the Yangtze River, Xue Yue's 1st Army Corps entrenched on the Nanxun Line posed an increasingly greater threat to the Japanese army's flanks, because as the Japanese army continued to advance, the front line It is also being stretched continuously, and the logistics supply line is getting longer day by day.
The lengthening of the supply line further increased the threat from Xue Yue's 1st Army Corps.
The Kumamoto Division and the Botian Detachment, which were advancing along the river, faced the risk of being retaken by Xue Yue's 1st Army Corps at any time and blocking the Yangtze River waterway. Therefore, Okamura Neiji took the initiative to seek a decisive battle with Xue Yue's 1st Army Corps in the direction of the Nanxun Line. , to completely solve the flank threat of the Japanese army attacking Wuhan.
Okamura Neiji assembled more than two and a half divisions of troops. He originally thought that he could easily defeat Xue Yue's 1st Army Corps. However, after the battle started, the situation quickly evolved into a stalemate.
Xue Yue is far more tenacious than Okamura Neiji imagined. Most of the other senior KMT generals will order their troops to retreat after their defense lines are breached. In this way, as long as the Japanese take advantage of the opportunity, the KMT will most likely be defeated. In the Battle of Xinkou, the Jinsui Army and the Central Army were defeated by half of Sakagaki Seishiro's division.
But not Xue Yue. After the defense line of the frontline troops was breached, Xue Yue was not allowed to retreat. Instead, he ordered the troops to gather troops on the side of the breach, organize defense on the spot, and be ready to counterattack at any time, so that the Japanese troops could break through layer by layer. The Nationalist Army's defense line advanced little by little, and more and more Nationalist troops gathered behind the Japanese army. The threat from the flanks gradually increased, and in the end they even fell into a tight siege by the Nationalist Army!
In this way, the Matsuura Division, which was responsible for the main attack from the Nanxun Line, fell into a tight siege by the National Army!
When Shunroku Hata received the report from the Pucheng defenders, it happened to be that the Matsuura Division was in a tight siege. Seeing that the Matsuura Division was about to be completely wiped out by Xue Yue's 1st Army Corps, how could Hata Shunroku have the thought to take into account the transport team passing through Ura City? ? At this time, as long as the main force of Xu Rui's independent group does not run out from Dameishan to cause trouble, Shunroku Hata will already be in high demand.
At this time, Xu Rui, who was eager to return to the base area with the cement factory equipment, did not know that because of his time travel and his efforts, the history of the Anti-Japanese War was about to change, and this small change triggered a More and more subsequent changes eventually fundamentally changed the direction and outcome of the Sino-Japanese War. (To be continued.)