readx; Although the fifth column annihilated most of the Yamaguchi Wing in this operation, its own losses were also quite large. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 However, after the news spread, instead of causing any negative impact, it greatly boosted the morale of the people in Nanyue, and many joint defense teams and security regiments were gearing up to show their skills in the battle against the Yue Kou, in their opinion, the enemy was not as strong as they imagined, and at the same time, the fifth column also used vivid and concrete examples to tell them how to face the well-equipped and well-trained Yue army!

The commander of the 21st Army, Toshiyoshi Ando, was once again shocked by the huge war potential of the people of Guangdong, and finally understood why the British [***] team, which was equipped with advanced weapons in the last century, would return home in Sanyuanli, so he did not hesitate to cancel the operation of sweeping southern Guangdong, and reduced the Guards Brigade and the Reading Infantry Brigade with heavy losses to Zhuhai, Jiangmen, Heshan, and Foshan to deploy on the front line, so as to ensure the safety of the south bank of the Pearl River Estuary as the primary purpose.

Immediately afterwards, the 21st Army sent a large number of spies to go deep into various parts of Guangdong to collect information on local troops, and when this information was gathered in front of Ando Toshiyoshi, he once again fell into a situation at a loss: there were more than 500,000 local troops within the scope of just one province, and the headquarters of the commander of the Fourth Theater headed by Gao Fei continued to send regular army officers to strictly train them, and at the same time took care of them in terms of weapons and equipment! In this way, even if the troops of the 12th and 19th groups did not move, the huge number of local troops alone would be able to drag their four divisions to death in Guangdong!

Finally, Ando Toshikichi said in a report sent to the Tokyo headquarters: In view of the unprecedented number of local armed forces in Guangdong, and the 12th and 19th armies maintaining strong forces in northern Guangdong, they can only maintain a defensive posture in the Guangdong area, and if they want to seize the initiative, they need to invest at least three more divisions and regiments!

In order to provide maximum support to the local troops, Gao Fei not only sent the newly formed Reading Brigade to Nanyue as a mobile field force in the area to coordinate the actions of the Fifth Column and other units, but also ordered the 16th Group to advance its headquarters to Kaiping in the name of the commander of the theater to deter the Japanese army. In addition, the Fujian Government Affairs University and the Guerrilla Command have also sent a steady stream of military and political personnel to various parts of Guangdong to take over the restoration of local political power and the formation of local troops.

In the face of the powerful local troops in Yueyi, the Yue army felt that its troops were insufficient, so it had no choice but to take the initiative to abandon Jiangmen, Zhongshan, and Zhuhai, and once again retreat to the vicinity of Guangzhou, sparing no effort to build fortifications, and the situation on the battlefield was completely restored to the way it was before the Guangzhou Campaign was launched.

Gao Fei was very satisfied with the situation in Guangdong, and with the assistance of Yu Hanmou, he vigorously reorganized and trained the 12th Group, preparing to resume the offensive against the Guangdong army as soon as the Fujian air force could take to the skies to fight. However, at the critical moment when the fourth war zone was gearing up and fighting high, bad news came one after another!

In early March 1939, in view of Wang Jingwei's unrepentant insistence on peace negotiations with Yue Ben, Chiang Kai-shek ordered Dai Li, director of the Military Command Bureau, to immediately send someone to assassinate Wang Jingwei.

Midnight on March 20, Cao Lang Street, Hanoi.

Chen Gongshu and seven other military commanders jumped into the temporary residence of Wang Jingwei and others in Hanoi, restrained the guards of the building, rushed up to the second floor, split the door of Wang Jingwei and his wife's room with an axe, and rushed in.

The military commander's spies thought they were done, but they didn't know that it was Zeng Zhongming and his wife who were killed. It turned out that Wang Jingwei's life should not be extinguished, and it happened that that night that he gave up his room to Zeng Zhongming and his wife, who had just arrived from Hong Kong.

After the assassination, Wang Jingwei and others could not stay in Hanoi. The present side is also deeply afraid of losing this important figure. Pai Yingzuo, Inuyang and others took Wang Jingwei out of Hanoi and took a boat from Haiphong Port to Shanghai. The No. 2 man of the national political axe will establish his so-called New China in the Beijing-Shanghai-Hangzhou triangle under the firm control of the Yue army, under the protection of the bayonets of the invading army.

Although most of the Chinese people were very ashamed of Wang Jingwei's actions, because he followed the left and right of Mr. Sun Yat-sen in his early years, and held important positions in the Kuomintang and the Kuomintang for a long time, and had considerable influence in both the political axe and the military circles, after he arrived in Shanghai, a large number of [***] troops who were stranded in the enemy-occupied areas to conduct guerrilla warfare surrendered to the enemy one after another under his persuasion, and those miscellaneous troops who had been discriminated against accounted for the majority, thus making the situation behind enemy lines grim.

On 3 May, Lieutenant General Chen Anbao, commander of the 29th Army of the 32nd Group Army, received an order to counterattack Nanchang, and immediately commanded the 5th Division, the 26th Division, and the 79th Division to march towards Nanchang at a rapid pace.

Late at night on 5 May, Commander Chen led the army guard unit and two battalions directly under the 26th Division to Nanchang, but was surrounded by the army near Gaofang, fought fiercely in the middle of the night, and several breakthroughs were declared unsuccessful.

At 5:10 p.m. on 6 May, when Commander Chen was commanding his troops to fight, he was suddenly attacked and strafed by enemy planes, and was shot several times.

Since the Lugou Bridge Incident, General Chen Anbao has moved from the North China Battlefield to the Battle of Shanghai, and has fought in the north and south of the Great River. Subsequently, he led his troops to launch a vigorous guerrilla war behind enemy lines in the water towns of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the command post headquarters was infested in rivers, lakes and harbors, dealing a fatal blow to the enemy. In July 1938, he was promoted from division commander to lieutenant general commander of the 29th Army, a heroic unit of resistance that enjoyed great honors at home and abroad.

General Xue Yue, who was planning to organize a counterattack on Nanchang, was shocked to hear the bad news that Commander Chen Anbao had been martyred, and he was overwhelmed with grief and tears rained down! At this time, the battle for the counteroffensive in Nanchang under his command had been going on for more than half a month. General Xue Yue faced the mountain of corpses and blood on the battlefield, knowing that he could no longer compete for the initiative on the battlefield, and then recovered Nanchang. After a long period of painful thinking, he resolutely decided to take the initiative to take responsibility for the loss of Nanchang, hoping that the command would order the counteroffensive to be stopped in order to reduce the senseless sacrifices.

So General Xue Yue took the initiative to call Chiang Kai-shek: An Bao Nanxun fought hard and frustrated the fierce front. Today, Anbao was martyred, and the mourning has been deep, so please show mercy.

"Yue has no command, Nanchang is not defeated, and I am loyal, please punish him heavily, to comfort the martyrs!"

Chiang Kai-shek was silent for a long time after receiving Xue Yue's telegram, and finally sent a telegram back to Xue Yue and General Gu Zhu of the Third War Zone: "[***] The attack on Nanchang has been in vain for a long time, and the enemy has been prepared for a long time under the fortified city, and it is difficult to be effective. The 3rd and 9th Theaters were ordered to stop the attack on Nanchang. ”

May 9th. The Chinese [***] team completely stopped the siege, and the Battle of Nanchang ended. In this battle, the army suffered more than 24,000 casualties; The total number of casualties in the squadron was 51,378.

The Battle of Nanchang had just ended, and the Soviet Union staged a farce to counter the invasion of the other side on Chinese soil!

On May 12, 1939, about 700 Outer Mongolian troops crossed the Haraha River west of Nomenkan and entered the territory of the puppet "Manchurian Empire", where they clashed with the Manchu army.

The commander of the Kwantung Army, with the approval of the chief of staff of the Xianyuan Palace of the War Department in the base camp, decided to punish and crush the aggressive acts of the Soviet-Mongolian army. Two additional tank wings and one unit of the 7th Division were transferred to the 23rd Division, and 13 infantry brigades, 112 anti-tank guns, more than 70 tanks, 400 automobiles, and a flying regiment were coordinated to prepare for a counterattack against the Soviet-Mongolian army.

In this regard, the provincial headquarters of the Central Army launched a fierce debate, with one side advocating severe punishment of the Soviet troops, and the other side arguing that it was necessary to cause less trouble, and the two sides could not argue. In the end, Itagaki came out and said: "Just for the trivial matter of a division, you can use such a red face and quarrel endlessly? Simply leave it to the Kwantung Army to deal with it itself. ”

On the surface, the Itagaki land minister took a moderate and conciliatory attitude, but in fact connived at the Kwantung Army's war against the Soviet Union.

The commander of the Kwantung Army, with the consent of the Ministry of War and the approval of the chief of staff of the War Department at the base camp, was in fact the acquiescence of the emperor, and immediately galloped like a wild horse that had escaped the leash.

On 27 June, a large number of aircraft groups were suddenly dispatched to launch a lightning attack on Tamsk, shooting down and destroying 124 Soviet planes. It is said that only four military planes are missing, but in fact there is no damage. Immediately afterwards, the Kwantung Army, with the main force of the 23rd Division and other supporting units, forcibly crossed the Haraha River and swept the western flank of the Soviet-Mongolian Army with an unstoppable momentum. In the endless steppe, the Soviets and the Mongolian army fought brutally, and the Soviet army blocked the Japanese army with superior heavy artillery and tank groups, and drove it back to the right bank of the Haraha River, and the Soviet army confronted each other on the line three kilometers away from the river bank. In late July, the Manchu army launched another large-scale offensive, but it did not break through the Soviet-Mongolian defense line, and the two sides were once again in a state of stalemate.

While the war was raging in the Nomenkan area, the spy received information from Moscow that Hitler's Germany was secretly engaged in so-called friendly negotiations with the Soviet Union, and the two countries were preparing to form an alliance and sign a non-aggression pact.

The top officials, including the emperor, believed that even the signing of the smallest agreement between Germany and the Soviet Union would be a shameless betrayal of the Soviet Union. Because as long as Germany and the Soviet Union were friendly, even temporarily, and in fact relieved the pressure on the Soviet Union's Western Front, the Soviet Union would concentrate heavy forces in the Far East to deal with it!

Only then did he realize that it was the same as when Hitler weighed China in the Far East together and abandoned China because he thought it was powerful, and now Hitler weighed it together with the Soviet Union and thought that the Soviet Union was more powerful.

In order to prevent the collusion between Germany and the Soviet Union, he turned to the British, and on 15 July, diplomats from the two sides began to negotiate in Tokyo to deal with some unpleasant incidents that occurred in the Tianjin concession. On 24 July, the two sides reached an agreement, and the British and British political axes issued a political axe proclamation at the same time: The British political axe fully recognized the reality of the fact that the Chinese army was engaged in large-scale fighting in China, and recognized that under the condition that this state of affairs continued, the Chinese army had special requirements to ensure its own security and maintain law and order in the areas it occupied, and it was necessary to exclude all actions and causes that hindered the army or were beneficial to its enemies. In attaining the above objectives, the British political axe had no intention of imposing any act or measure on it!

In this way, Hitler's act of colluding with Soviet Russia was resoundingly countered, and at the same time, the goal of isolating China was achieved, while the despicable British Prime Minister Winston Churchill achieved the goal of containing the Soviet Union with an attitude of fully supporting Hitler's military operations in China, and at the same time, he did not hesitate to sacrifice China!

At the same time, the British [***] team stationed in Hong Kong sent a large number of troops to patrol the waters around Hong Kong day and night to strictly investigate arms smuggling, so that the United States became China's only choice for importing weapons! What is infuriating is that while the United States is selling weapons and equipment and other strategic materials to China, it is still providing aviation fuel and scrap steel to China, making a lot of war money!

After the news of the joint statement issued by the British political axe and the political axe of the British government appeared in the newspapers, it caused an uproar in the Kuomintang area, and everyone from Chairman Chiang Kai-shek to the ordinary people were very indignant at the British political axe's behavior of falling into the ground, and at the same time they also had a premonition that the situation of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression would become more severe in the future.

Gao Fei didn't have much reaction after getting the news, because he had long known the British political axe's stance on the Sino-Chinese war: at the most tense moment of the Songhu Anti-Japanese War, the car of the British ambassador to China was hit by a bombshell dropped by a Japanese bomber, the driver and two random people died on the spot, and the ambassador himself was seriously injured. It is said that this political axe did not even meet this request of theirs, so the incident can be forgotten by both sides!

How can he tolerate even the attack on his own ambassador, how can he stand up for an irrelevant China? However, Gao Fei firmly believes that the British political axe is so tolerant and annihilated, and it will eventually suffer its own consequences!

After the British government in Hong Kong strictly investigated the smuggling, Gao Fei immediately ordered the 1st Division of the 153rd Division stationed in Bao'an to retreat to Fenggang to deploy defense, so that it could support each other at any time with the main force of the 153rd Division stationed in Longgang and Huiyang.

Just when Yu Hanmou was puzzled by the move of retreating the garrison for no reason, Gao Fei selected officers who understood Chinese among the troops in the name of the theater command, and then secretly gathered dozens of selected people for training.

After Yu Hanmou connected the two events, he deduced a creepy conclusion that forced him to reconsider his position: Do you still want to go with Gao Fei and the 19th group?

However, when the 151st Division completed its training from Fuzhou and returned to Guangdong with all the new equipment, the other division commanders of the 12th Group all showed envious eyes, eager for their troops to go to Fujian to change their equipment immediately. Looking at the eager eyes of the division commanders, and then at the large number of new faces that appeared among the officers of the 151st Division, Yu Hanmou suppressed all the doubts in his stomach and cooperated with Gao Fei's work wholeheartedly - he didn't want to end up like Chen Jitang!

After the Battle of Nanchang, the attention of the headquarters and the Chinese dispatch army was all shifted to the direction of Nomenkan, and the Chinese battlefield ushered in a rare calm, Gao Fei used this precious time to transfer the seven divisions of the 12th Group back to Fujian in turn for training, and he himself also returned to Fuzhou to prepare to deal with the threat brought by Okamura Ninji's 11th Army from the north.

"Goofy, what do you look like?" In the office of the provincial political axe, Cai Yuyan held out a stack of things wrapped in red cloth as if offering treasures.

Gao Fei curiously untied the red cloth, and the two stacks of banknotes that were neatly stacked were revealed, and looking at the somewhat strange Chinese on the face of the ticket, he exclaimed in surprise: "Is this our own printing?" ”

Cai Yuyan and Mike Rosen looked at each other and smiled, and nodded very proudly: "This set of counterfeit banknotes is difficult to distinguish from the bank staff, and it can almost be real!" ”

"Great!" Gao Fei stood up excitedly, kept walking around the room, and said: "In this way, we can use this money to purchase a large number of materials in enemy-occupied areas, causing inflation, so that I have no stability!" ”

Michael Rosen said cautiously: "General Gao, this matter still needs to be considered in the long run!" ”

Cai Yu looked at Gao Fei's puzzled eyes, and hurriedly explained: "Gao Fei, you are imagining things too simply! Directly send people to infiltrate the enemy's war zone to buy supplies, although the effect is the fastest, but it is easy to be discovered by the enemy, and it needs to be dealt with in a better way! ”

Then he added: "Even if it is not appropriate to use it for the guerrillas, if it is discovered that these coins are flowing out of the guerrilla-controlled areas, they will definitely strike at them desperately, and on the contrary, they will be in danger, so I think it is better to use real money for the guerrillas." ”

Goofy asked, "Then what else can be done?" We can't just do business with Yu himself and give them the counterfeit money. ”

"Mr. McRosson has come up with a solution, which I think is very good, but I need your approval, because the investment will be very huge. ”

"What's the solution?" Goofy hurriedly asked. Ever since he met Mike Rosen, this shrewd Jewish old man has been constantly surprising Goofy, and hopefully this time will be no exception.

Cai Yuyan set his eyes on Mike Rosen and asked him to explain the plan himself.

The Jewish banker cleared his throat and said, "We can invest in opening a bank in the Shanghai Concession, run a currency business, and take the opportunity to mix counterfeit banknotes with real banknotes and put them out." ”

Gao Fei nodded and said: "If someone finds out, it can be said that it is a counterfeit currency deposited by the customer, and it can be replaced directly, and it will not involve the bank!" However, if it is discovered by the person himself, he will definitely suspect us first, and only we have the motive to do so! ”

(To be continued)