Facts have proved that most of the commanders of the New Fourth Army overestimated the combat effectiveness of the New Fourth Army because of Huangqiao.

In the Battle of Huangqiao, the reason why the New Fourth Army East Condemnation Detachment was able to defeat the strong with weak and defeat the more with fewer was Li Yu's superb tactical command ability played an extremely critical role in it. As the leading tactical commander in New China, Li Yu has grown up rapidly in his years of war career and began to show his talents. It is no exaggeration to say that in terms of tactical command ability alone, few people at Li Yu could match at this time.

Unfortunately, Li Yu has only one. Although Ye Ting has a great reputation, he has mediocre ability in military command. Xiang Ying is even more a pure political worker. He likes to reach out to the military level. There are a few powerful figures in the regiment-level commander below. Unfortunately, they cannot decide the fate of the New Fourth Army.

The New Fourth Army advanced to Maolin and, as the vanguard of the entire army, had friction with the 40th Division of Zhan Zhongyan.

The 40th Division was provoked first, and the New Fourth Army was tolerant again and again. However, the 40th Division became even more aggressive and tried to seize the equipment of the New Fourth Army's teaching corps. The commander Zhou Zikun could no longer bear it and ordered a counterattack. The 40th Division had just suffered a loss under the Anti-Japanese and National Salvation Army in southern Anhui and lost a regiment's strength. As a result, another regiment was annihilated by the New Fourth Army's teaching corps in Maolin.

After hearing the news, Shangguan Yunxiang was furious and immediately ordered his subordinates to launch a centripetal attack on Maolin.

The senior management of the New Fourth Army realized that the situation was not good and tried to break through the north, but was stubbornly blocked by the Di Army. After two days and nights of fierce fighting, the New Fourth Army had never been able to break through the defense line of the Army. However, more and more national troops were crushing from the rest of the other directions. Seeing that the encirclement was shrinking and smaller, Xiang Ying strictly ordered all units to defend the defensive positions, and urgently sent telegrams to Yan'an for assistance.

After receiving the report, the Central Committee immediately sent Zhou Enlai to negotiate with the Kuomintang.

However, the Kuomintang in turn accused the New Fourth Army of taking action first.

Seeing that there was no hope of breaking through, and his desire to ask the central government to force the Kuomintang to cease war was already dashed, Ye Ting proposed to meet Shangguan Yunxiang and discuss the issue of staying or leaving the New Fourth Army. Shangguan Yunxiang pretended to agree, and when Ye Ting arrived at his headquarters, he would detain him. At the same time, the Army's attack on the New Fourth Army was even more intense, and the New Fourth Army was in a desperate situation.

Xiang Ying once again held an enlarged meeting of the Party Committee to discuss the strategy of breaking through.

At the meeting, Liang, the leader of the Qingyang Independent Regiment, boldly proposed to launch a fierce attack to the west with a side division, creating the illusion of returning to Yunling to break through to Qingyang. After the attention of the Kuomintang army was attracted to this side division, the main force turned east and launched a fierce attack to the weak points of the entire encirclement, breaking through the encirclement of the Army in one fell swoop.

Xiang Ying was a little hesitant. Liang Dabang's plan was clearly the gecko's tail to survive. Although the sacrificed tail was of course unlucky, even if the body waiting for an opportunity to break through, it may not necessarily break through. The risk is too great.

"Secretary Xiang, you can't hesitate anymore." Liang Dadao was anxious and stomped his feet and said, "Maolin has become a dead place. If you stick to it, you will be wiped out. Do what I just said, or there may be a glimmer of hope."

"But..." Xiang Ying frowned, "Which unit should be sent to lure the enemy?"

"Our Qingyang Independent Group is willing to take on this important task," Liang Dadan said without hesitation.

As the political commissar of the Qingyang Independent Group, Shu Tongwen stood by Liang Dadan without hesitation and expressed his full support for Liang Dadan's decision. Liang Dadan sent a grateful glance to Shu Tongwen. Liang Dadan was very satisfied with his political commissar.

Xiang Ying turned his attention to the other commanders, and most of the commanders attending the meeting had Liang Dabang's opinions at the same time.

Seeing that most of the commanders attending the meeting were Liang Dadan at the same time, Xiang Ying finally made up his mind and said, "Okay, then we will break through separately, but relying solely on your Qingyang Independent Regiment, the strength is still a little weak." After saying that, Xiang Ying turned his head and said to Zhou Zikun, "Comrade Zikun, you have no objection to the troops from your teaching corps to strengthen the Qingyang Independent Regiment, right?"

"No objection, we teach the corps to obey the chief's decisions completely."

Liang Dabang, Shu Tongwen stood up and saluted Xiang Ying, "Teacher, take care of him."

"You must take care of yourself. Although you are luring the enemy, you cannot fight to the death. If you have the chance, you still have to break through." Xiang Ying reminded.

"I understand." Liang Dabang, Shu Tongwen bowed to Xiang Ying again, and then turned around and left.

(Split Line)

Back at the regiment headquarters, Liang Dadan immediately convened the above-mentioned bones in the company to hold a meeting.

Because the Qingyang Independent Regiment was far away, the last one reached Yunling. When Liang Dadadao led his troops to Yunling, the New Fourth Army headquarters, Jiangnan Detachment and the Teaching Corps had already set off first, so the Qingyang Independent Regiment naturally became the defender in the transfer sequence.

After the main force of the New Fourth Army was surrounded by Maolin, they had fought fiercely with Shangguan Yunxiang's Army for seven days and nights. However, the defense line under the Qingyang Independent Regiment was basically not attacked. They fought a battle with Zhang Wenqing's 79th Division yesterday afternoon, and as a result, they easily defeated a regiment of the 79th Division, which made Zhang Wenqing so angry that he was furious.

Therefore, the Qingyang Independent Group's personnel are relatively complete.

In Xiang Ying's impression, the Qingyang Independent Regiment had just been expanded from a guerrilla team into a regiment, with fewer troops and weak combat power. It is precisely because of this that Xiang Ying wanted the Qingyang Independent Regiment to serve as the rear guard of the entire army.

However, Xiang Ying did not know that in the past six months, especially after the Anti-Japanese and National Salvation Army in southern Anhui wiped out the Japanese independence army and became the main force of the 14th Brigade, the strength of the Qingyang Independence Regiment has also greatly improved. First of all, Liang Dadan made a fortune and used the cavalry battalion theory that belonged to the Anti-Japanese and National Salvation Army in southern Anhui to obtain four types of heavy machine guns plus eight crooked handles, and four base-based ammunition was removed with four base-based ammunition.

Secondly, Wang Laohu's 1 battalion directly participated in the Battle of Hulu Valley. Not only did he add a lot of good equipment from the Anti-Japanese and National Salvation Army in southern Anhui before the war, after the war, he made a fortune after dividing the seized spoils. After the 1 battalion was built, Liang was surprised to find that Wang Laohu's grandson was actually wider than his regiment commander, and he already had an artillery company under his command.

Of course, in the end, Liang Dadan confiscated the artillery company without saying a word.

Finally, taking advantage of the defeat of Hulu Valley, the Japanese were in panic. The Qingyang Independent Regiment launched a series of offensives in Qingyang County, depriving no less than twenty strongholds or artillery towers, annihilated more than a thousand Japanese and puppet troops, and seized a large number of weapons, equipment and ammunition.

Now, the Qingyang Independent Regiment has four infantry battalions, one cavalry company, one heavy machine gun company and one artillery company.

Whether it is equipment or force, the Qingyang Independent Regiment is already the leading main force in the New Fourth Army sequence. That is, Xiang Ying doesn't know this, otherwise he would have used the Qingyang Independent Regiment to replace the current striker of the Teaching Corps.

"Brothers, I won't say much else, I'll just say one thing." Liang Dadan's eyes flashed over the faces of the officers attending the meeting, and said, "It is said that we can raise soldiers for a thousand days and use them for a while. We will buy these possessions not for decoration, but for use. Now Gu Zhutong and Shangguan Yunxiang are going to eat us. What do you think we should do?"

"What else can I say? These two dogs are dead."

"Captain, what else can I say to these Kuomintang reactionaries?"

"Damn, I won't beat you for a day and I will go to the house to remove the tiles. Have these dog-goers forgotten the feeling of being beaten by us in the Soviet area back then?"

Before Liang Dadan finished speaking, the battalion commanders, company commanders and platoon leaders below were in an uproar. These officers were basically veterans who had participated in the civil war for ten years and had always lacked a good impression of the Kuomintang army. When they were adapted from the New Fourth Army, they were very upset for a while. When they first changed into the New Fourth Army uniform, many people took off the blue sky and white sun logo on their hats and sewed them with red five stars again.
Chapter completed!