About 40 kilometers north of Changxing is Yixing County. Both counties are on the west bank of Taihu Lake. Yixing was occupied by the Japanese. The garrison troops had a garrison and their troops were dispersed. Some time ago, the troops who reinforced Lijiaxiang from Changxing from water were set off from here to Taihu Lake to fight against Liu's commander of the 76th Division of the National Army.

About fifty miles southwest of Yixing is Zhangzhu, the garrison of the National Army. The national army here has nominal military strength. The Japanese once attacked and cleared this area. The commander-in-chief of the guerrillas in the three provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui died in this mountainous area.

Yixing has mountains, water and plains, and there are many hills in the mountainous areas to the west. The sheep intestine path is rugged and uneven, the river network is densely packed and the land transportation is inconvenient, and heavy weapons cannot be transported. After the Japanese invaded Yixing, most of them were concentrated in county towns, and the vast mountainous areas and rural areas were out of reach, so a lot of space for activity was left.

The 59th Division and the 60th Division of the National Army stationed this area, and the Japanese could not clear it out, so the two sides were in a stalemate between them more than 20 kilometers.

Xiaohuang Mountain is located in the south of the National Army station and Yixing.

On the surface, they are peaceful, but the current garrison of Company Commander Qing is even more interesting. It is in the same triangular situation as the Japanese and the National Army. However, in the north, near the western Liyang Mountains, Liyang connects to the highway. Apart from agriculture, there are no useful strategic materials, and it is not a major transportation route. After the Japanese occupied the first time, they did not have garrisons. The reason is simple. There are too few garrisons and they will be sneak attacked by guerrillas. The National Army is closer to this side and can run back and forth in one night.

As early as July 1932, the Qianma Poor Peasants Association was established in the Liyang Special Branch, and led the victims to fight against rent. In August 1932, the Qianma Branch was established.

On December 1, 2017, the Japanese army captured Liyang City, and Liyang fell once. In order to prevent the Japanese looting, the former horses established a self-defense regiment. The former horse watchtower was the commanding heights and armed with armed forces to defend their homes.

On January 4, 2018, the Japanese invading army withdrew from Liyang.

On January 9, 2018, the Japanese army withdrew from Liyang City. Taking advantage of this gap, Zhan Rumin, a staff officer of the Kuomintang Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui Border Region Guerrilla Command, led his army into the city.

The Japanese obtained information and the newly formed Fourth Army was about to advance eastward. On March 19, 2018, the Japanese army invaded Liyang City again. The national army Zhan Rumin set fire to the wharf street in the name of "scorched earth resistance to Japan". Then he fled Liyang in a hurry. At that time, the wharf street was shining with flames and thick smoke. Most of the wharf streets were old brick and wood structures, and many large merchants and carved beams and painted buildings were burned. The essence of hundreds of years of business was ruined and ruins.

A very strange situation has formed in which you have me and I have you: the national army is around and the Japanese are in the middle town.

The upcoming base of the newly formed Fourth Army is west of this area of ​​three no-counsels.

Yixing has always had a traditional folk custom of "farming and reading through family generations, scholars, farmers, industry and commerce are the first". Therefore, not only should children from wealthy families study, but also ordinary children of workers and peasants study in every way. Before the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, there were more readers in Yixing than in other regions. Since most children from poor families choose free normal schools, there are naturally more people who are teachers.

The saying that "no school is not suitable" has been circulated in the Jiangnan region. During the war, people in Yixing were still devoted to running schools with full enthusiasm, and studying has its own historical origins.

It is precisely because of this relatively stable situation that Yixing is located in the most developed center of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui. Many literati who were baptized by war and forced to migrate in large and medium-sized cities along the route often settled down after fleeing here. Running schools and studying has become a common demand of this group of people.

Gaochun also has temporary garrisons of ten counties, known as the backpack county magistrate. The ten county magistrates are: Ding Songlin, the county magistrate of Zhenjiang County, An Weinan, the county magistrate of Changshu County, Li Miaoshi, Wujin County magistrate Xu Guang, Kunshan County magistrate Chen Xiafei, Wujiang County magistrate Chen Liren, Wuxian (Suzhou) County magistrate Xu Baoguang, Jurong County magistrate Gu Darong, Jintan County magistrate Zhu Hanxi, and Danyang County magistrate Cao Zongduo.

Ten county magistrates worked in the paper pot factory in Gaochun, mainly promoting anti-Japanese war, collecting taxes, collecting intelligence and instigating rebellions, leaving many footprints in the Zhangzhu area.

On April 28, the Fourth Army Advance Detachment, organized behind the scenes, had already gone north, and its destination was Jiangning County, south of Nanjing.

This is an opportunity that is highly military secret in the organization that has not been known to Li Yuan's level.

Li Yuan was looking at the map and organizing a new order. After the arrival of Langxi Lao Liu, he also transferred from the Independence Company to Qingwu O. The next day, he said: to send the supplies to Gaochun, west of Liyang as much as possible.

This is actually very obvious. The newly formed Fourth Army garrison headquarters should have chosen to go to Nanjing in Gaochun, about 80 kilometers west of Liyang and about 100 kilometers northward. Most of them are plains, with rivers crisscrossing, which is also not conducive to the Japanese heavy weapon maneuver.

After reading the map for a long time, I remembered that even if the newly formed Fourth Army came, the base area was northwest of Changxing, two or three hundred miles apart, and it seemed that I really had nothing to do.

Sighing, I would just do it first to make up my own acre and three-pointer.

In fact, what Li Yuan didn't know was that this was the third war zone deliberately used bad things under the instructions of Lao Chiang. Lao Chiang wiped out the guerrillas organized for ten years, and the more they suppressed it, the more they suppressed it, and this time the organization took the initiative to join forces to fight against Japan. Lao Chiang thought it was an opportunity and was eager to let the newly formed Fourth Army fight with the Japanese. The first order was to blow up the Japanese railway transportation line in Nanjing.

Isn’t this just stabbing the Japanese hornet’s nest? Lao Jiang’s wishful thinking made Ding Dangxiang think that he was a good plan to kill two birds with one stone. He simply underestimated the organization’s representatives’ understanding of the interests of the old man’s surname and the speed of developing the troops was so scary that Chiang shot himself in the foot.

The organization of the orders of the Third War Zone is not vague. If you, Chiang Kai-shek's army, can't do anything, I dare to fight the Japanese with 10,000 people, and I also demand that this first battle be powerful and famous, so that the anti-Japanese armed forces in Jiangnan know how powerful they are in organizing the army.

Li Yuan finally realized that the biggest difference between fighting in Jiangnan and the north was in terms of mobility.

Without trains and cars, the north relies on horses and the south relies on boats. Li Yuan has been here for quite a long time. Although he knows the use of the boat, he has not paid attention to the importance of the boat because he is in the mountains most of the time. After fighting the Japanese with Commander Liu once last time, he has a new understanding of the purpose of the boat.

There is no mobility in Jiangnan! When the troops are maneuvering on the plains, rivers in Jiangnan are densely spread everywhere. In places without bridges, crossing bridges is the most basic requirement. Long-distance marching has a fast ship and convenient transportation of materials.

An important task of the county brigade now is to use these rivers. As for most of the ships, most of the ships are in the hands of local landlords and sergeants and armed forces of the Taoist sects. Most of these local forces are in towns. After the Japanese came, most of them were forcibly collected by the Japanese. The ships were not anything else and could not be hidden in the rivers. Some local landlords and squires who were unwilling to give up the ships had to surrender to the Japanese and transform into a maintenance meeting. Although they surrendered to the Japanese, not everyone was willing to do. There was a lot of work to do in the middle.

However, the inclusion of these local armed forces involved too many interests of landlords and gentry, and the work was not going smoothly.
Chapter completed!