In June 1940, Tao Yong, the commander of the Su-Anhui detachment, saved Ye Fei's advancing column in the defense of Guocun. After the victory of Guocun, in order to unite Li Changjiang, the captured personnel of the Li Department were released, the supplies were returned, and a number of defense areas were ceded.
Li Mingyang and Li Changjiang were grateful and promised to help the New Fourth Army advance eastward and maintain neutrality in the event of Han Yan's attack. On July 9, the Jiangnan Command of the New Fourth Army led the main force to join the Tingzong and Suwan detachments, and was renamed the Northern Jiangsu Command, with ** and Su Yu serving as the principal and deputy commanders.
They established an anti-Japanese base in Huangqiao to counter the "fortress advance" policy of Han Deqin, the chairman of the Kuomintang Jiangsu Province. In order to implement the food blockade, Han Deqin colluded with the Japanese puppet army, and Zhang Shaohua's department in Jiangyan erected barbed wire and power grids, confiscated grain, and smuggled it to the Japanese puppet stronghold.
Tao Yong went to the battlefield in person and took on the main attack. Zhang Shaohua's bunker was unusually strong, with several barbed wire fences, bells and tin cans, which rang at the slightest touch and were connected with high-voltage electricity.
Tao Yong personally selected 70 people to form a brave team and move forward bravely. The battle lasted until the next morning, when our army annihilated more than 2,000 recalcitrant troops and captured a large number of supplies.
Tao Yong and the commanders and fighters of each regiment congratulated each other on victory, and suddenly several soldiers came to report in a hurry, and it turned out that a soldier of the second column had snatched a machine gun. Hui Yuyu wanted to find Wang Bicheng to reason, but Tao Yong said with a smile, they are all our soldiers, there is no difference between hitting the enemy with a machine gun, everyone don't fight, continue to look for the enemy to take it!
Tao Yong's words made everyone dissipate.
In addition to being ashamed, Hui Yuyu was deeply moved by Commander Tao's broad mind.