The 44th Division of the puppet army assisted the troops of the 111th Brigade of the Japanese army to be stationed in Sihui, and the major general of the 111th Brigade, the brigade commander of the brigade Nagato Hohito, deployed the troops of the 44th Division of the puppet army to defend on the bank of the Suijiang River, but Li Shaoting, the commander of the 44th Division of the puppet army, almost did not hesitate, and he directly chose to surrender.

The reason why Sihui was taken so quickly has something to do with the surrender of the puppet army, if it weren't for the new regiment of the Honorary Seventh Division changing into the puppet army uniform, the gate of Sihui would not have been opened, and the Honorary Third Division and the Honorary Seventh Division would not have been so simple if they wanted to conquer Sihui.

Sun Weiguo's attitude towards the puppet army is obvious, for those who are forced to be puppet soldiers and do not endanger the people's country, Sun Weiguo can accept it, but for those puppet soldiers who are willing to do things for the Japanese and endanger the people's country, even if they choose to surrender, Sun Weiguo will not let them go.

Qin Xianliang and Chen Zhengwei immediately asked Li Shaoting, the commander of the 44th Division of the puppet army, to bring in, and Li Shaoting came to the house with a panicked expression on his face.

Looking at a young man sitting in the house, Li Shaoting looked around, he knew that Sun Weiguo, commander-in-chief of the 47th Group Army, was going to summon him.

But in addition to Qin Xianliang and Chen Zhengwei who he had seen in the house, there was only this young man, and Li Shaoting couldn't help but look at the young man carefully.

When he saw the young man for the first time, Li Shaoting felt that this young man would definitely not be Sun Weiguo, because he was too young.

However, when he looked carefully at the young man, Li Shaoting saw two golden triangles on the young man's collar badge, and he realized that this young man was Sun Weiguo.

"Commander-in-Chief Sun, I am guilty, I am sorry for the country, I am sorry for my compatriots, I don't expect Commander-in-Chief Sun to forgive me, but I hope that Commander-in-Chief Sun can give me a chance to die on the battlefield of resistance against Japan, only in this way can I atone for my sins and die with peace of mind."

Li Shaoting looked at Sun Weiguo, and said with a self-reproachful expression on his face.

"You are Li Shaoting, the commander of the 44th Division of the Appeasement Army?" Sun Weiguo looked at Li Shaoting and said.

"Yes, yes, it's despicable." Li Shaoting hurriedly replied.

"You only have more than 3,000 people, reorganize a supplementary regiment, the New Seventh Army already has three divisions under its jurisdiction, and the supplementary regiment will not be under the command of the New Seventh Army. Li Shaoting, from now on, your supplementary regiment will be assigned to the command of the Provisional Ninth Army, and you should report to Yin Jinshan, commander of the Provisional Ninth Army. I give you a chance and I hope you will cherish this opportunity. ”

Sun Weiguo looked at Li Shaoting, and he said with a serious expression.

"Yes, please rest assured Commander-in-Chief Sun, I will definitely cherish this opportunity, and I will definitely not let you down." Li Shaoting immediately replied.

"Okay, you can introduce the situation of the puppet army to me, and also tell me about the situation of the Japanese army that you know." Sun Weiguo looked at Li Shaoting and said.

Li Shaoting didn't dare to hesitate, he immediately told what he had learned.

The appeasement army belongs to Chen Yaozu under the direct command of five divisions, but the 44th division of these five divisions has surrendered, and there are four divisions to assist the Japanese army in the battle, in addition to these four divisions, there is also the first army of the appeasement army, this first army has more than 10,000 people in three divisions, and the army commander Wang Pingyuan.

According to Li Shaoting's complaint, the 20th, 30th, 43rd, and 45th divisions of the puppet army are all adapted from local security regiments, and these security regiments usually bully men and women.

On the contrary, Wang Pingyuan's troops of the First Army of the Appeasement Army can be convincing, the First Army of the Appeasement Army is the troops of the Northwest Army, they were ordered to fight in Guangdong, but because of the difficulties from top to bottom, they were almost wiped out, Wang Pingyuan was angry, so he took the troops to take refuge in the little devils, but this army did not do anything to hurt the heavens and reason.

Anyway, in the place where they are stationed, even the little devils will not mess around, and Wang Pingyuan is not willing to help the little devils fight at all, except for serving as a local garrison.

After Sun Weiguo learned of these circumstances, he asked Li Shaoting to immediately lead the supplementary regiment troops to Zengcheng and join the battle sequence of the Provisional Ninth Army.

At the same time, Sun Weiguo began to gather Gao Shen Wang Kunyao and Ge Haifeng, and he wanted to study the next battle plan.

"Commander-in-chief, we have just received a telegram from General Chen Lie, commander of the 54th Army, that the Japanese troops in Qingyuan have begun to evacuate, and the commander of the New Seventh Army, Dai Jitao, has also sent a telegram, and the Japanese troops in Zhaoqing have also begun to evacuate, and they have begun to send scouts, and I believe that they will be able to learn about the situation of the Japanese army in the near future."

After Ge Haifeng came to Sun Weiguo, he saluted and reported to Sun Weiguo.

Sun Weiguo nodded, his eyes looked at the map, and there was a thoughtful expression on his face.

With the loss of Sihui, Qingyuan and Zhaoqing are on the outermost periphery, and it is very likely that the Japanese troops in these two towns will be cut off and surrounded at any time.

The little devil should withdraw them at this time, but with Qingyuan and Zhaoqing being abandoned by the Japanese army, the Japanese army can only garrison a few points outside Guangzhou.

"Dongguan, Foshan, Huaxian, these three towns are relatively large, and the Japanese army is likely to use this as a base for defense, and according to the current situation, the Japanese army will be very tenacious here. However, if we do not uproot these strongholds, our attack on Canton will be greatly affected. ”

Sun Weiguo pointed to Dongguan, Foshan, and Huaxian, and he looked at Ge Haifeng Wang Kunyao and said.

"The commander-in-chief, the New Seventh Army, and the 54th Army sent a telegram that the Japanese army had withdrawn troops from Qingyuan and Zhaoqing and had entered Huaxian and Foshan." Yang Tiezhu, commander of the communications battalion, came to Sun Weiguo and reported.

"Commander-in-chief, it seems that as you deduced, the Japanese army is planning to defend these three strongholds on the outskirts of Guangzhou, and if we want to conquer Guangzhou, we must clear all three strongholds. However, at present we have four corps and eleven divisions at our disposal, and we have the upper hand. ”

Ge Haifeng had a confident smile on his face, he felt that with the current situation of the Chinese troops, it would not be too much of a problem to take Foshan, Huaxian, and Dongguan.

"First concentrate forces to attack Huaxian, transfer the 54th Army, 14th Division, 18th Division, Provisional Sixth Division, 201st Division of the Provisional Ninth Army, and the Honorary Fourth Division to launch a fierce attack on Huaxian, and the New Seventh Army Honorary Third Division, Honorary Seventh Division, and Provisional Fifth Division to launch a diversion attack on Foshan, and divisional and division troops to launch an attack on Dongguan."

Sun Weiguo immediately began to issue combat orders, saying that all the troops under his control were put into battle.

The Japanese army set up three strongholds on the outskirts of Guangzhou, and Sun Weiguo only wanted to capture Huaxian and then launch a direct onslaught on Guangzhou.