January 6, around 6 a.m. Fengyang Town's Duanwu Department and Wang Tong's Department were preparing to set out together to recapture Bengbu.
Before the operation, Duanwu had sent out scouts to conduct reconnaissance in the mountains outside the city.
The little Japs said that after waiting all night, no one came out, but that was not the case. At four o'clock in the morning, the scouts had already left the city from the south of the city, and detoured back to the road from Fengyang County to Bengbu and discovered the whereabouts of the Japs. .
Of course, it was not that the little devil was careless and even forgot to set up the sentry, but it was too cold. They entered the mountain from around 7 o'clock in the night and stayed there until around 4 o'clock in the morning. Many of the Japs' hands were frozen. So in this case, not only were their senses not as good as before, but their spirits were also not as good as before, and many Japanese soldiers even showed signs of lethargy.
In such a situation where the Japanese were in low spirits, the scouts could easily approach them and send back the detected intelligence.
At this time of the Dragon Boat Festival, we are in contact with many parties. The first person he wanted to contact was Zhou Weiguo, asking how the situation was over there.
Zhou Weiguo's reply was: "Multiple ambushes yielded small gains, but the Japanese army stopped moving forward. The Japanese army tried to attack my retreat from the west, but I repulsed it. Now the three parties are in a stalemate."
Duanwu called back: "Continue to pester them. Once the Japanese increase their troops, they can switch to guerrilla warfare. Our independent regiment has many guides, enough to deal with any situation."
Zhou Weiguo replied "received" and the two cut off contact.
Dragon Boat Festival contacted Commander Yu of the 51st Army. Commander Yu said that at around nine o'clock last night, all the Japanese soldiers withdrew. But they didn't go far, and started making moves again early this morning. But don't worry Duanwu. If the Japs want to eat up his two divisions, I'm afraid they don't have such a good teeth.
Moreover, Commander Yu once again thanked Duanwu for the weapons and ammunition he gave them. Without the support of these weapons and ammunition, I am afraid that the 51st Army would not have been able to fight so smoothly.
Commander Yu also told Duanwu that last night, Li Zhongren called and said that the 31st Army intended to send troops for reinforcements, but found that the enemy's 114th Division had moved. Therefore, Commander Li guessed that the Japs might be attacking in the east and west, attracting all the troops to the 51st Army, and then actually wanted to open a breakthrough from Changfeng County and Huainan area.
Duanwu felt that it was not impossible.
Again, the battlefield is changing rapidly, and the little devil's intentions are still unclear at this time. If Li Zhongren is careful, there will be no problem.
However, Duanwu still felt that Li Zhongren cared a little too much about his own people.
Because you can imagine that the Japs might want to open a breakthrough in the 31st Army's defense area, but they might also want to cut off and encircle and annihilate the 51st Army?
Although what the Japs did is somewhat obvious, it is not impossible.
Duanwu even felt that the Japs deliberately made it so obvious just to paralyze them.
This is a kind of reverse thinking. The more you think something is impossible, the more true it may be.
Therefore, Dragon Boat Festival will not give up any details, and he will continue to disrupt the situation to make the little devil show his true colors.
After contacting Commander Yu, Dragon Boat Festival once again asked the communications troops to contact Chen Shusheng. Chen Shusheng was now leading people, as well as Bengbu villagers, County Magistrate Zhou and others, near Liutaizi Village, which is 20 kilometers away from Bengbu, and was there. Last night, they almost encountered a little devil.
They saw the Japs, but the Japs did not see them. The Japs were stationed in Kangzhuang. Chen Shusheng felt that the Japs unit might be here for investigation. So he didn't move, just for fear of alarming the little devil.
Duanwu said that Chen Shusheng did the right thing, because today is the time for them to show off their talents.
During the Dragon Boat Festival, Chen Shusheng was asked to entertain the Sichuan Army brothers. Food, weapons and equipment, except the necessary ones, were all given to the Sichuan Army brothers. In this battle, he wants the Sichuan Army brothers to fight the Japanese with weapons and equipment equivalent to the Japanese.
Chen Shusheng understood what Tuan Zuo meant and replied: "Please don't worry Tuan Zuo, I know what to do."
When Duanwu saw the message, he was indeed relieved. Chen Shusheng was also an old man from Sihang Warehouse. And when he was in the 524th Regiment, he was the company commander of the machine gun company.
Now that the war has reached this point, it is a treasure to have a veteran who is a cadre at the company and platoon level.
After the power connection with Chen Shusheng was completed, the Dragon Boat Festival was ready to set off. His cavalry walked in front, followed by Wang Tong's troops, and at the end of the team were the three trucks of the little Japanese and the Japanese weapons and equipment.
The Japanese who had been nesting in the mountain saw this place with binoculars and quickly reported to squadron leader Yoshino that Chinese troops had appeared.
Yoshino, who was frozen like a dog, suddenly regained his energy and ran all the way to the mountain with a telescope to take a look.
But sure enough, a large Chinese army came out of the city, and there were even cavalry.
Yoshino was very happy: "Youhe, Dragon Boat Festival must be in that group of cavalry. Yesterday, news came from the headquarters that the 40th Regiment did not intercept the Dragon Boat Festival. The Dragon Boat Festival's cavalry came towards Bengbu, but they kept coming in Bengbu. There was no sign of Dragon Boat Festival, and I didn't expect him to come to Fengyang County.
Go and generate electricity for Prince Beibai, and tell him that the Dragon Boat Festival is in Fengyang County. They are preparing to march to Bengbu, and our Yoshino Squadron will ambush the Dragon Boat Festival halfway and kill the Dragon Boat Festival in one fell swoop. "
"Hi!"
The communications troops took the order and went to generate electricity, while Yoshino ordered other Japanese soldiers to prepare for battle and ambush Dragon Boat Festival.
At this time, Yoshino was even a little excited, because if he could kill the Dragon Boat Festival in one fell swoop, his contribution would be huge.
Because you can imagine that Duan Wu and his men were registered at the Shanghai Expeditionary Forces Headquarters. Commander Matsui even offered a high bonus of 200,000 oceans for killing the Dragon Boat Festival official to be promoted to the fourth level.
Therefore, whoever can kill Duanwu will reach the sky in one fell swoop. For example, he, a small squadron leader, is only a Cao commander. If he is promoted to the fourth rank, he will be directly promoted to the rank of major general.
And when that time comes, he commands a brigade. Isn’t that too much?
So just thinking about it makes Yoshino laugh.
He set up an ambush outside Fengyang Town with great fanfare, but when Kitashirakawa received the message, he cursed Yoshino as a stupid pig. If Dragon Boat Festival was so easy to kill, would it be his turn?
Of course, it was also his fault that he was too excited last night, waiting for the Dragon Boat Festival to attack Bengbu, and getting the Japanese defenders to brace themselves for fear of attacking Bengbu City at midnight during the Dragon Boat Festival.
But the Dragon Boat Festival didn't come at all. Kitashirakawa waited until around three o'clock in the middle of the night and finally couldn't stand it anymore, so he ran to sleep. As a result, it was still dark during this sleep.
And what about the communications officer? I didn't dare to disturb Kitashirakawa's washing.
Because everyone knows Kitashirakawa's temper. This devil prince can kill people with a smile! .....
