Chapter 209: The Wenxi Incident (10)
Bai Fei and Kong Lingwei negotiated the purchase agreement, and the two sides arranged their own personnel to negotiate.
Since Bai Fei's pharmaceutical factory is on Hainan Island, it is necessary to package and transport the drugs to Leizhou and other places across the sea, and Seven Star Company will send someone to pay for it. Of course, all this is not a problem, the pharmaceutical factory after these days of production, plus the previous inventory, the inventory has exceeded more than one million, and there is no shortage of stock in a short time.
But what annoys Bai Fei is that since he met Kong Lingwei that day, Kong Lingwei is like a fart, constantly swaying in front of his eyes all day long, even he can't hide in the barracks, and he either asks him to go here to play all day long, or invites him to go there, Bai Fei has a headache about this, and at first he basically pushes and dodges, but he can't hide, so he goes out with her to hang out a few times.
He knew in his heart that Kong Lingwei liked him, but he didn't understand why she suddenly liked him? I really don't understand this, so when I went out with her, Bai Fei was thinking more about how to solve this problem, so he hinted a few times openly and secretly, saying that he was not interested in her, but Kong Lingwei always found other topics to diverge at critical moments, and then he was like no one else, and he showed favor to him as always, which made Bai Fei cry and laugh helplessly.
In this way, the time slowly came to the end of October, when the battle situation in Wuhan was still deadlocked, but the battle of Guangzhou was losing one after another. Although Yu Hanmou's 12th Group Army stationed in Guangdong had 80,000 troops, its troops were too scattered and its equipment was outdated, so it was unable to effectively resist in the face of a joint attack of more than 70,000 men from three divisions of the Japanese army and the air force of the Japanese Navy's Fifth Fleet. Therefore, in less than ten days, the Japanese army has successively occupied Tamsui, Huizhou, Boluo and Zengcheng. On October 21, the Japanese army attacked the suburbs of Guangzhou. Seeing that there was no hope of being trapped, Yu Hanmou ordered the defenders of Guangzhou to retreat, and Guangzhou fell on the afternoon of the 21st.
At this time, the nearest unit of the Japanese army besieging Wuhan was still dozens of kilometers away from Wuhan, which was far from the original plan of the Japanese to quickly take Wuhan. However, because of the loss of Guangzhou, the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway was cut off, and Guangzhou's port to the sea also fell into the hands of the Japanese army, and Wuhan lost the necessity of heavy defense. At the same time, Wuhan and its surrounding political departments, industrial and mining enterprises, important materials, etc., have also been almost transferred, a large number of civilians have already moved to the southwest, and the whole Wuhan has been almost an empty city.
Faced with this situation, Chiang Kai-shek decided not to be a lonely city anymore and decided to abandon the city on his own initiative. On October 25, the Nationalist army abandoned Wuhan, and the next day, the Japanese army occupied Wuchang and Hankou, and on the 27th, occupied Hanyang. This was the end of the battle for Wuhan.
The Battle of Wuhan lasted four and a half months, and the Japanese army gathered nearly 300,000 troops at first, and participated in the battle with more than 300 planes and more than 120 ships of various types. Although the Nationalist army suffered more than 400,000 casualties during the entire campaign, the Japanese casualties were also quite large, and it is conservatively estimated that about 150,000 were wounded and killed. And at the end of the battle, the Japanese did not capture Wuhan by virtue of their strength, but the Chinese army took the initiative to withdraw from the battlefield for strategic considerations.
In addition, the Japanese base camp once believed that "as long as Hankou and Guangzhou are captured, they can dominate China", so the Japanese Imperial Council decided to launch the Battle of Wuhan and quickly capture Wuhan in order to force the Chinese government to submit. To this end, it also stipulates that "the concentration of state forces to achieve the objectives of the war within this year" and "the end of the war against China." However, the Chinese government did not succumb to the loss of Wuhan and Guangzhou, and Japan's war of aggression against China did not end with the occupation of Wuhan and Guangzhou by the Japanese army. After the fall of Wuhan, the Chinese government stated that "the temporary changes in advance and retreat must not shake China's determination to resist the war" and that "the gains and losses of any city must not affect the overall situation of the war of resistance", and said that it would "be more mournful, more persevering, more down-to-earth, more hard, and more courageous" and strive for an all-round and protracted war of resistance.
It can be said that the Battle of Wuhan not only caused the Japanese army to suffer another strategic defeat, but also became a turning point for Japan to move from strategic offensive to strategic conservatism, and the Japanese army's strategic plan for a quick battle was completely shattered after the end of the Wuhan Campaign; At the same time, Japan's national strength began to deteriorate rapidly due to the enormous losses of the war. It was precisely because of this that the Japanese base camp later made the decision to make a full-scale invasion of Southeast Asia. Of course, this is a later story, so I won't show it for the time being.
As mentioned above, during the Battle of Wuhan, Jiujiang failed to implement the scorched earth combat policy well before the fall, resulting in a large amount of materials being obtained by the Japanese army after the fall of Jiujiang. At that time, He Yaozu, director of the first division of the chamberlain, and Dai Li, director of the Military Command Bureau, jointly submitted a report to Chiang Kai-shek, which provoked Chiang Kai-shek to be furious. In late October, Guangzhou and Wuhan fell one after another, and although the government strictly ordered the implementation of a scorched earth policy, there were disagreements within the Kuomintang, and the Wuhan garrison commander Guo Cheng withdrew without respecting the order, so that the Wuhan airport could not be destroyed and was eventually used by the Japanese army.
When Dai Li reported the incident to Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Kai-shek was very angry. At the right time, the Japanese army began to move south from Wuhan, and on November 8, it invaded the northern part of Hunan, and occupied Linxiang and Yueyang on the 9th and 11th. Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek overrode public opinion and made up his mind to burn down the ancient city of Changsha, and then issued a secret order to Zhang Zhizhong on the morning of the 11th, ordering him to "burn the whole city if Changsha is lost."