After hanging up the phone, Sun Dianying was so angry that she cursed: "Damn it, his Thirteenth Army is his darling, and our New Fifth Army is his stepmother. At this time, we are still watching from behind!"
"If I don't live well, no one can live well!"
When the Chief of Staff Feng Yangtian saw this, he immediately said: "Military, why don't you contact the Japanese and agree to the Japanese's conditions on the surface, but secretly we can delay the time and let the brothers breathe a sigh of relief!"
After hearing this, Sun Dianying's face became uncertain. Deputy Army Commander Xing Zhaotang, who was also present, hurriedly stopped him: "Military seat, no, our unit has recruited a lot of soldiers in Tainan, and most of them are from Lingchuan. If our unit
If we are really ambiguous with the Japanese, I am afraid that the morale of the army will be in chaos and we will be defeated if we don’t attack!"
The conversion that Xing Zhaotang said was relatively euphemistic, and it took care of Sun Dianying's face. How could Sun Dianying not understand the truth behind it?
After the Nationalist Army occupied Changzhi, Lingchuan became the defense area of the New Fifth Army, a disguised private land. Over the years, Sun Dianying ran around like a bereaved dog, and finally got a piece of territory.
Therefore, Sun Dianying cherished it even more.
The national army in the Changzhi area, such as military supplies, was replenished from the rear, and administrative and financial powers were controlled by Fan Hanjie.
Fan Hanjie used this to grasp the lifeline of the New Fifth Army and the Forty Army. Of course, Fan Hanjie did not treat Pang Bingxun and Sun Dianying badly.
The New Fifth Army previously had a temporary third division and a fourth division with six subordinate regiments. The remaining three independent regiments and the special agent regiment were expanded privately.
In order to defend the Changzhi area, Fan Hanjie once ordered all ministries to conduct a thorough inspection of pay, cut the ranks of the old and weak, and at the same time, in disguise, recognized the establishment of ten regiments of the New Fifth Army.
After ensuring military pay and supplies, Sun Dianying obeyed the order and placed a group of old and weak soldiers in Lingchuan. Later, he recruited new soldiers and trained troops in Tainan. So far, the New Fifth Army has a total of more than 13,000 soldiers.
With such strength, no matter what the actual combat effectiveness is, even the Japanese look up to Sun Dianying.
During most of the half-year stay in Lingchuan, Sun Dianying never lost contact with the Japanese. However, Wang Tianxiang, who originally acted as the representative of the New Fifth Army to contact the Japanese, was detained by the Political Training Department.
After an interrogation, they actually pulled out the radish and brought out the mud. The Political Training Department discovered that Wang Tianxiang was suspected of being a communist.
This also led to Wang Tianxiang leading the team to leave, and then Sun Dianying's contact with the Japanese weakened.
Before the war started, the Japanese army in Xinxiang sent people to contact Sun Dianying. If the New Fifth Army could march to Xinxiang and vacate Lingchuan, the Japanese army could give the New Fifth Army a formal establishment and the autonomy of one place.
No one who can stand tall and behave like a traitor wants to be a traitor, and Sun Dianying was no exception. At that time, she declined the conditions offered by the Japanese.
At this time, Chief of Staff Feng Yangtian brought up the old matter again. Sun Dianying couldn't help but regret it, and gave Feng Yangtian a look, but said: "According to what my cousin said, it makes sense. Since our department is stationed in Lingchuan, it has the responsibility to defend the land. The people of Lingchuan
How can we make peace with the Japanese when we have high hopes for our ministry?"
What he said was so righteous that if Xing Zhaotang hadn't known Sun Dianying very well, he would have almost believed it.
As expected, Sun Dianying continued to say: "Cousin Zhao, you have always been responsible for the contact between our department and the Eighth Route Army. Since some people can't count on it, can you contact the Eighth Route Army to send a reinforcement force? In the worst case, you can also let us
The 280th Regiment of the 94th Division, which is adjacent to our unit and is stationed in Linnan, needs reinforcements!"
After Xing Zhaotang left, Sun Dianying and Feng Yangtian looked at each other and smiled, and Feng Yangtian said: "Military seat, I'm afraid the relationship between Deputy Commander Xing and the Eighth Route Army is not as simple as it seems!"
"Haha, you and I have been through a lot of ups and downs along the way. Whether it's the National Army, the Eighth Route Army or the Japanese, as long as... it's okay!"
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That night, in the early morning, it was summer, and it was the time when people and horses were exhausted.
The 11th Regiment of the Fourth Division was temporarily established. The first commander of the 11th Regiment was Wang Tianxiang. Later, it was reorganized by recruiting local troops from Lingchuan, with more than 1,100 people.
A bonfire was brightly lit within four to five hundred meters outside the position. Above the position, the sentry in charge looked around with his eyes wide open.
In the daytime battle, the Japanese army did not take action. Instead, it was a regiment of the puppet army Zhang Lanfeng who fought with the New Fifth Army.
Although the soldiers of the 11th Regiment had undergone half a year of training, they lacked experience in battle and still suffered more than 300 casualties when facing the puppet troops.
After a day of fighting, the little devil figured out the combat effectiveness of the New Fifth Army.
It's night, the moon is dark and the stars are sparse.
About three hundred Japanese troops took advantage of the darkness and quietly approached the 11th Regiment's position. After the Japanese troops under their command clearly saw the situation around the 11th Regiment's position, they waved their small hands and more than two hundred Japanese troops rushed forward at full speed.
By the time the vigilant sentries discovered it, the Japanese army was less than 300 meters away from the position.
"The little Japs are coming!" the sentry immediately pulled the trigger at the attacking Japanese army.
The high-speed rotating bullets flew into the crowd of Japanese soldiers and lost their traces. An old Japanese soldier on the opposite side raised his 38 cap and fired a shot in the direction where the sparks had just appeared from the gun muzzle. The sentry immediately responded to the sound.
When the officers and soldiers of the 11th Regiment on the position discovered that the Japanese army was already close to Chi Chi, the two sides immediately strangled each other.
A young Japanese soldier jumped into the trench and stabbed the chest of the soldier on the opposite side with his bayonet.
The soldiers of the 11th Regiment on the opposite side had immature faces and fluff hanging from their mouths. They clutched the tail of the bayonet with both hands and kept struggling with their feet on the ground.
Seeing the fallen soldier still struggling, the little devil showed a mocking expression on his face, and then he stabbed in with all his strength.
This kind of scene has happened many times on the 11th Regiment's position.
During the day, facing the puppet troops, they had to pay heavy sacrifices to repel the enemy, not to mention the situation when they were fighting hand-to-hand with the Japs.
After hearing the news, Zhang Shiping, the commander of the 11th regiment who came for reinforcements, saw the soldiers falling one after another under the butcher's knife of the little devil. His eyes were splitting, and he said angrily: "Fight with these idiots!"
The reinforcements of the guard company did not change the status quo of the battlefield. Zhang Shiping refused to retreat and died on the spot. Only a few of the more than 700 Lingchuan disciples of the 11th Regiment who were present survived.
In the direction of fighting the Japanese army, the New Fifth Army deployed six regiments on the front and rear lines of defense, and the 11th Regiment was located in the middle of the first line of defense.
At this time, there were Japanese and puppet troops on both the east and west sides. The central part was broken through by the Japanese troops. The follow-up troops quickly pressed forward, and then the Japanese and puppet troops in the middle road surrounded the east and west roads.
The 10th and 12th regiments on the east and west sides were attacked from both sides by the Japanese army and were quickly defeated.
The three regiments of the temporary third division of the second line of defense in the rear had not yet engaged the Japanese army. They collapsed upon hearing the news. The Japanese army took advantage of the victory and pursued it. By daybreak, they surrounded Lingchuan County, where Sun Dianying's headquarters was located.