In January 1941, the Anhui Incident broke out, and a company covered the breakthrough
On the night of January 4, 1941, more than 9,000 people from the New Fourth Army headquarters and directly subordinate units in southern Anhui set out from Yunling, Jing County, Anhui Province, and were ordered to move, and were surrounded and attacked by 80,000 troops of the Kuomintang Third Theater in the Maolin area, and the New Fourth Army was forced to defend itself.
The Third Regiment of the Second Column of the New Fourth Army was an avant-garde force, and after being attacked at Piling, they fought bloodily with the enemy for three days and seized the commanding heights.
On the afternoon of the third day, Zhang Zhenyou, the commander of the first battalion, went to the first company to convey the order of his superiors: "Now the only way to survive is to break through, and the first company stays in Piling to cover." After three days, you must find a way to break through. There are two roads, one is southern Jiangsu and the other is northern Anhui. Commander Zhang encouraged everyone: "Goodbye! Comrades, we are the New Fourth Army of Iron, and may all of you come back alive! "Commander Zhang is an old Red Army, but also a tough guy, he said goodbye, his eyes were red, he knew that the comrades who left cover had a difficult task and could be sacrificed at any time.
Yunling, Jing County, the former site of the New Fourth Army Headquarters
A company blocked the recalcitrant army, suffered heavy casualties, and completed the blockade task
The main force of the troops withdrew from Piling that night, and Commander Zhang sent someone to send food and ammunition drawn from each company to the first company. The Kuomintang recalcitrant army frantically attacked in an attempt to eliminate the blocking troops, and one company held out at Piling for three more days, and the front of the position was full of enemy corpses, but the first company suffered heavy casualties, the original 90 people, now only more than 20 people are left.
Completing the cover mission, they decided to break through. At night, full of grief and indignation, they buried the remains of their fallen warriors. Just after descending the mountain, they encountered a group of enemies, and everyone took advantage of the dark night to launch a charge.
The team highlighted the enemy's first blockade line, rested in place for a while, counted the number of people, only to find that the company commander and instructors were scattered, leaving only a row of 17 people, including Yangtze River Shengwu. The burden of leading the breakthrough fell on Jiang Shengwu's shoulders. He looked at the eager eyes of the soldiers, took a deep breath, and said firmly: "Comrades, the company commander and the instructor have been scattered, we still have 17 people, we must have confidence, we must stand out from the siege!" ”
Soon, they set out again, and although the enemy's mountain-searching troops looked up at the mountains during the day and waited at the intersection at night, doing everything in their power to hunt down the New Fourth Army, these 17 men were in the enemy's blockade circle, walking on the cliffs at night, and cleverly lurking during the day.
The New Fourth Army held off the recalcitrant army
On the way through, the recalcitrant army searched, and dangers abounded
One day, the team was lurking in the grass to rest, and Yangtze River Shengwu and a small warrior were putting up a sentry, when they overheard someone on the mountain shouting: "Don't move!" Hands up! They were taken aback, and when they looked back, it was the enemy who was shouting at the top of the back hill. Then, gunshots crackled on the top of the hill, and the enemy soldiers shouted loudly while firing their guns: "New Fourth Army, don't run!" You are surrounded, surrender! Lao Tzu has seen you. ”
The captain of the Jiang platoon and the little soldier laughed darkly in their hearts, which was the enemy's bluff. At this time, several grenades were thrown down on the top of the mountain, and the noise was deafening, waking up the soldiers who were sleeping in the grass. Everyone is quietly preparing to fight the enemy to the death. But the enemy only screamed at the top of the hill and soon withdrew.
Under the leadership of Captain Jiang, 17 people walked for several more nights to reach the hills around Maolin. At this time, the alarm had not yet been lifted, and the recalcitrant army was still searching for the New Fourth Army.
The warriors were so hungry that they couldn't sleep at all, so they had to grab raw rice and chew it up, and their mouths were full of white foam, and their teeth were sore. Break through for many days, in order to avoid the enemy, you can not expose the target. Avoid smoke during the day and fire at night, although everyone carries rice on their backs and cannot eat a cooked meal. One of the warriors had a stroke of genius and said, "Put the rice in the water for a while, it will be loose and crispy to eat, like eating fried noodles!" So the warriors later ate cold water mixed with raw rice to fill their hunger.
Encounter enemy soldiers and go around
One day, they were resting on the mountain, and suddenly, gunfire broke out from down the hill, and the enemy surrounded the mountain in several ways. Enemy machine gun fire, dense bullets. The machine gunners of our army's "Hercules" could not bear it, and they wanted to return fire with one machine gun, but the commander of the Jiang platoon hurriedly stopped him, saying: "You can't fight, you hit the exposed target, you can't get out." ”
The enemy will soon search here, "What to do?" "Everyone looks at the platoon leader." Don't panic. The head of the river platoon looked at the mountain, the trees were dense, and remembered the "hide-and-seek" game he loved to play in his childhood. He said softly, "Comrades, come with me." Pay attention to concealment, do not make a sound. "Seventeen men, crawling under the trees, did not take long to the foot of the mountain.
They climbed to the foot of the mountain and heard the noise of the top of the mountain. The enemy officer scolded a soldier loudly: "You just saw someone here, what about people?" Where did it go? ”
"I saw someone..." Snapping, the enemy officer slapped the soldier a few times, and the voice was crisp and loud. The warriors listened, really relieved. The enemy did not find the New Fourth Army, blamed each other, dogs biting dogs, a pinch of hair.
There was another noise on the top of the hill, and suddenly, a soldier shouted, "Look! There was a small road here, and the New Fourth Army must have run down the hill along this road. "The enemy ran down the hill in a cacophony from the path. The situation is critical and everyone is very anxious. One of the warriors whispered, "Shall we climb up the mountain again, shall we?" This sentence reminded the Jiang platoon leader, and he took the soldiers and climbed the steepest slope, and after a while, he climbed to the top of the mountain again, finally shaking off the enemy.
At dusk, the enemy fired another round of gunfire at the bottom of the hill and returned in disappointment. The 17 warriors were all tired and sweaty, panting, their clothes were torn with thorns, their bodies were full of bruises, and everyone was in a high mood, laughing while wiping sweat.
Maolin Mountainous Area in Southern Anhui Province
After more than 20 days of fighting, he crossed the Yangtze River and returned to the base area
After more than 20 days, I arrived at the Yangtze River. One night they saw a shining light at the bottom of the hill, and soon the firecrackers and drums sounded. A warrior asked, "What day is it?" Captain Jiang counted the days, and he told everyone: "Today is the Chinese New Year's Eve." ”
Captain Jiang recalled the past, when he was studying in the teaching group, he lived in Shuinandu, not far from here, and he once went to this small village, where the masses supported the New Fourth Army.
Captain Jiang chose a relatively secluded one and knocked on the door for half a day, but no one responded. For a long time, I heard an old lady say in fear: "Our family does not harbor the New Fourth Army, boss, don't come in!"
"Big Lady, open the door, we are the New Fourth Army!" Captain Jiang told the people in the house that the old lady opened the door. Seventeen people entered the room, and the old lady used a lamp to illuminate it, and saw that all the people who came were full of long hair, their faces were emaciated, and their clothes were ragged. She said with a cry, "Oh boy! You have suffered! Damn the Kuomintang!"
The old lady took out everything she could eat at home and let everyone eat a full meal. In order not to bother the old lady, late at night, they bid farewell to the amiable and respectable old man and withdrew to the mountain to rest.
The next day, the commander of the Jiang platoon finally contacted the underground party organization of the CPC, took a small boat, crossed the Yangtze River, returned to southern Jiangsu, and found the large unit of the New Fourth Army.
The New Fourth Army broke through
In the southern Anhui Incident, the Kuomintang reactionaries surrounded and suppressed the New Fourth Army with heavy troops in an attempt to eliminate the New Fourth Army; our army fought bloodily and the troops were scattered, but the officers and men of the New Fourth Army were infinitely loyal to the party, marching day and night, circling with the recalcitrant army, and under the cover of the common people, after dozens of days of fighting, some of the officers and men finally crossed the Yangtze River, returned to the base area in southern Jiangsu, and threw themselves into the anti-Japanese battlefield.