diskusbooks Chapter 683 The old lady leaned against the wall and drank porridge
Chapter 683 The old lady leaned against the wall and drank porridge
After Li Jiayu gave the order, he immediately led the Eighth Army to march quickly to Yanshi, a hundred miles away.
It was thought that the war situation was getting tense and a large number of central troops would gather in Yanshi, but Li Jiayu in the jeep seemed to see a familiar scene.
Teams of the Central Army were fleeing in the opposite direction of the battlefield, and it seemed like they were fleeing in an entire organization!
"Assholes! They are still like this after not seeing them for a few months. Stop them all and ask them where their weapons are!"
The main force of the Eighth Army continued to march towards Yanshi, but Li Jiayu's guard battalion loaded their guns and stopped the retreating Central Army.
The fleeing Central Army was originally a group of scattered soldiers. After being stopped by Li Jiayu's guard battalion, they were all timid and didn't dare to say a word.
"I am Li Jiayu, commander of the Fourth Army of the Independent Column. I am ordered by the Independent Column to cross the Yellow River to support Yanshi. Which unit are you from?"
Upon hearing Li Jiayu's name, the two hundred or so Central Army soldiers who had been as quiet as chickens began to flutter like boiling water.
A Central Army officer with the rank of major stood up, speaking with a strong Sichuan and Chongqing accent.
"Is it Commander Li Jiayu of the 36th Army?"
Li Jiayu looked at the major of the Central Army who could actually speak with a standard Sichuan-Chongqing accent. Could he be his old subordinate?
"That's right. Our unit is the former 36th Army of the First War Zone, and now the Fourth Army of the Independent Column. Who are you?"
The major officer stood at attention excitedly and saluted.
"Commander Li, I am Chuan Jianzhang, the major battalion commander of the 14th Army. I followed you, but we were later dispersed. I was assigned to the rank of Commander Liu Maoen of the 14th Army!"
Li Jiayu got a headache whenever he thought of this. At the beginning, they retreated from Zhongtiao Mountain to the south bank of the Yellow River, and many troops were separated from them in the name of reorganization.
It is called a reorganization, but in fact it is to weaken the influence of the Sichuan Army and allow the First War Zone to more directly control the 36th Army Group.
"So you are brothers from the Sichuan Army. You have suffered!"
"Commander Li, we brothers are not afraid of hardship, but we are afraid that no one will want us. When we heard that you and the 36th Army were assigned to the independent column, we all wanted to go with you. But we didn't get the news that you would take us over. Instead, we got the news that we had to fight the Japanese tanks head-on!"
Li Jiayu frowned, and finally understood why they deserted. It turned out that they just didn't want to be cannon fodder.
The Japanese tank troops were defeated by the Central Army, which had no anti-armor weapons. There was no suspense at all. What else could they be but cannon fodder?
"The Sichuan Army never shirks its duties. From now on, you will enter the reception team of the 8th Army of the 4th Group Army of our Independent Column.
If you are willing to change your status as a deserter, follow us and see how we fight, and then decide whether to continue fighting the Japs. If you are scared by the Japs, then stay in the reception team and return to the Central Army after the battle is over! "
Chuan Jianzhang threw his hat down and immediately became angry.
"Commander Li, our Sichuan Army never slacks off. I will fight the Independent Column today! Brothers, if you trust Commander Li, just fight them!"
Chuan Jianzhang's reorganized battalion had only been there for half an hour when there were only more than 200 soldiers left, but none of these soldiers were afraid of death.
"Battalion Commander, give them the job!"
"That's right. We used to eat from the same pot together. I don't believe it can be any worse now!"
Li Jiayu waved his hand and the two hundred-plus soldiers were temporarily incorporated into the guard battalion. Since they had no weapons and equipment for the time being, they were allowed to follow and gain experience and perform freely.
"Prepare some food for Captain Chuan and the others, but the situation is urgent, so we can only eat while walking. After the battle is over, I, Li Jiayu, will give the brothers of the Chuan Army extra food as an apology!"
These two sentences touched the hearts of the Sichuan Army soldiers who were separated, and their faces were filled with warmth.
"Brothers, don't say anything, from now on we are going home!"
Chuan Jianzhang took off his helmet and prepared to use it to carry rice. The soldiers who did not have helmets also took out bowls and chopsticks from their backpacks and prepared to eat rice.
Li Jiayu's forehead was covered with sweat, and he quickly waved his hand to ask Chuan Jianzhang and the soldiers to put away the things in their hands.
"Captain Chuan, well, it's my fault for not explaining it clearly. When we were on a forced march, we didn't eat rice, we ate compressed biscuits!"
The soldiers of the guard battalion gave some of their compressed biscuits to Chuan Jianzhang's team.
"Okay, this thing is very convenient to eat after tearing open the wrapper. We don't have time to reminisce now, let's go!"
Li Jiayu got back into the jeep and ordered the communicator to send orders to the 9th and 10th Armies, asking them to take in the retreating Central Army and try to incorporate them into the organization of the independent column.
The crossing point of the 8th Army of the 4th Army was only 60 kilometers away from Yanshi, which was only two hours for the armored and mechanized forces.
At ten o'clock in the morning, Li Jiayu had already heard fierce artillery fire, and the entire Yanshi seemed to have been completely occupied by the Japanese.
"What's going on? Immediately report to the First War Zone Command to verify the situation in Yanshi! An hour ago, they told me that Yanshi was firmly in the hands of the Central Army and asked us to encircle it from the south. In just one hour, Yanshi was lost?"
At the First War Zone Headquarters, Jiang Dingwen looked at the telegram sent by Li Jiayu with a sullen face. He never expected that his old subordinate, whom he used to despise the most, would dare to talk to him in such a tone?
It’s really a declining world and people’s hearts are not as old as they used to be!
"Call Li Jiayu back, the war situation is changing rapidly, the enemy's 1st Division, 110th Division, and rd Tank Division, more than Japanese soldiers are attacking Yanshi.
Our First War Zone lost more than 30,000 soldiers and fought bloody battles to hold on until now. Let him not talk without any pain. In addition, since their independent column is so arrogant, let's hand over Yanshi to them and see how long it will take to get it back! "
After Li Jiayu received Chiang Dingwen’s telegram, he actually saw that a large number of central troops began to retreat in a grand manner?
how?
Now they have abandoned their positions and retreated directly without even moving their defenses or handing over personnel, exposing their friendly forces directly to the enemy's firepower. This old lady is leaning against the wall and drinking porridge - can't she keep such despicable, shameless, obscene and vile things secret from others?
Li Jiayu looked at the retreating Central Army. Most of the soldiers did not have a speck of mud on their bodies. It was obvious that they had not exchanged fire with the Japanese. Is this the so-called "bloody battle"?