Chapter 1560: Hong Kong in Danger
On Hong Kong Island, all daily necessities, especially food, are already pitiful, and merchants are hoarding, and people often have to pay four or five times more than usual prices to stock up on a pitiful amount of supplies.
On the streets, there was a mixture of fish and dragons, and many people took advantage of this chaotic situation to act in groups and do misdeeds, among them, the Victory Club acted the most arrogantly, not only extorting and looting and so on, but even openly waving the banner of welcoming the imperial army into Hong Kong, and attracting a large group of people to wreak havoc everywhere, which is simply annoying.
On the Japanese side, the deployment of the attack on Hong Kong has been fully rolled out!
On the army side, the main force was the 23rd Army, and its commander, Takashi Sakai, cooperated with the 38th Division stationed in the vicinity of Shawan in the northeast of Bao'an County to attack Hong Kong by land.
The unit has under the jurisdiction of the First Artillery Corps, the Heavy Artillery Wing, and so on, equipped with more than 40 24-caliber howitzers, 15-centimeter caliber cannons, and countless other light artillery such as mountain artillery.
On the air force side, nearly 60 fighters from the Qiqihar side and the Zhejiang side have gathered at the Guangzhou airport, which can carry out carpet bombing of important targets in Hong Kong at any time!
In addition to the army and air force, the navy sent the Second Squadron to assist, under the command of Commander Masaichi Shinjimi, under which there were one light cruiser, three destroyers, seven or eight mine boats and gunboats, which were used to deal with the British naval fleet, and two operation ships, Chiyomaru and Akitsu Maru, were specially equipped to sabotage the wired communications of the Hong Kong troops.
Such a formidable enemy is eyeing Hong Kong across the Lo Wu Port.
As for Hong Kong, although the British army also took precautions, they were not prepared for the coming of the battle at all, they only had four or five old fighters, plus some civilian fighters, but only a dozen planes, all of which were parked in Kai Tak Airport, and the ships were not worse than the Japanese army, but now they were busy transferring property, and they did not pay attention to dealing with the war that might break out at any time.
In such a state, it is not surprising that the Japanese army fully occupied Hong Kong in more than ten days in history, and countless British troops and even Hong Kong Governor Yang Muqi became prisoners of the Japanese army!
In the battles in history, the British army can be said to have been in a situation of passive beating from the very beginning!
The planes were all reimbursed in the first wave of Japanese bombing, one of the navy's ships was sunk, and the remaining few ships did not even have the courage to exchange fire with the Japanese army, so they fled directly.
The remaining Anglo-Indian and Canadian troops stationed in Hong Kong, on this isolated island surrounded by water on three sides, were beaten by the Japanese army like wild dogs in a hole, and they had no power to resist.
The incompetence of the coalition forces has not only harmed themselves, but also the people of Hong Kong.
Seventy or eighty thousand people were slaughtered, countless women were brutally humiliated to death, and even had enough of playing in the Japanese army, so they were directly cut in two, which was unbearable!
Yang Muqi Mardexi doesn't know this.
But Xu Yun on Lantau Island and the lone wolf who had just arrived had a clear understanding, because they had both participated in the Battle of Nanjing with Lu Yuan, and they knew too well the brutality of the Japanese army, once the Japanese army captured Hong Kong, they were sure that Hong Kong would become the second Nanjing!
Lantau Island is an outlying island, facing Hong Kong across the water, and the mountainous areas within it are densely covered with complex terrain, with few flat lands, and the area is even larger than that of Hong Kong Island, which is extremely conducive to the concealment of troops.
Because Lantau Island's unique geographical environment is not conducive to any economic development, Lantau Island at this time was a desert island except for a small number of fishermen.
Lantau Island today is a little different from what it used to be.
Of course, it's the internal difference, but on the surface, it's still a desert island.
In the middle of the mountains, scattered fields have been reclaimed, houses have been built in the midst of mountains and trees, and the wharves on the shore have been heavily disguised, and if you had reconnoitred from above, nine times out of ten it would have been treated as a harbor for fishermen to park their fishing boats, and would never have been used as a naval base.
In the bay of the port, dozens of caves where submarines were parked were cast with cement and steel bars along the mountain to avoid being bombed by the Japanese army.
In order to build these caves and avoid being discovered by the Japanese army, they were built at night, and the caves were filled with a thick layer of soil and planted with plants and trees, so that they appeared to be part of the coastline at all.
Not only are these caves built, but the training of the navy and the army is basically carried out at night, sometimes even without the light of torches, and the training is carried out by the moonlight, so that the navy and those newly recruited soldiers can adapt to fighting in a harsh environment.
It is precisely because of this that although the Japanese army has conducted countless reconnaissance of Hong Kong, as well as the establishment of traitors and even the establishment of traitorous organizations such as the Victory Society, they have not been able to discover that on the outlying island of Lantau Island, a team with a strength that cannot be underestimated has been built up by Lu Yuan.
In the Lantau secret headquarters, Xu Yun and Lone Wolf, Luo Qinghu and Chairman Chen were looking at the map, and there were thick documents on the table, which were all kinds of information collected by the secret agents they sent out from Bao'an County and Hong Kong Island.
More than 500 elite members of the Pingshui Yongqing detachment led by Lone Wolf and more than 500 people drawn from Trojan Horse County, totaling more than 1,000 people, had arrived on Lantau Island two days ago with the assistance of the Luoqing Tiger Platoon Gang and joined Xu Yun at the base.
Looking at the intelligence transmitted back about the Japanese army in Bao'an County, several people were numb for a while, in their eyes, Hong Kong is now in danger!
"Damn, Lao Tzu said that the Japanese army would attack at any time, but Yang Muqi, this old thing, hummed haha, it's obviously not the same thing!" Luo Qinghu scolded angrily.
"They haven't fought with devils, and they haven't tasted being treated like animals by devils, of course it's not the same thing!"
Xu Yun sneered: "When the devils really capture Hong Kong, these British guys will know that they are powerful, and they will definitely regret it for ignoring our reminders again and again!" ”
"What's the use of regretting it then?" President Chen said angrily.
Now, they want to defend Hong Kong, not only because Hong Kong is a way out for everyone, but also because of the existence of Hong Kong, so that the international material resources for the motherland can be continuously sent to the mainland.
If there is no Hong Kong left, I am afraid that it will have to spend a huge price to open up new supply routes!
Otherwise, the soldiers and civilians who are desperately resisting in the country will be consumed alive because of the lack of various strategic materials, and this situation is something that none of them wants to see.
"Don't panic, everyone, the head of the regiment has already set off a few days ago, and he came by gunboat, if nothing happens, he will be able to join us tomorrow and the day after tomorrow!"
The lone wolf smiled: "Yang Muqi doesn't listen to you, I don't know if the deserter is coming, will Yang Muqi listen to his words?" ”
Everyone laughed, after all, in their eyes, no one dared to disobey Lu Yuan's words.
(End of chapter)