Chapter 14 Out of the City and Into the Army
Gao Quan distributed food to the residents near Yueyang for free, so that the 500 division had a pretty good reputation among the people in this area, plus this is the army of his own government, it is a team to fight devils, and many young and middle-aged people in the Yueyang area are willing to follow such a team to fight devils, so that in the afternoon of the same day, someone actually appeared, and someone took the initiative to ask whether the army could recruit people.
In these years, the team has always been short of people, and no matter how many people there are in the 500 divisions, it will always be insufficient. What's more, a while ago, Gao Quan had been staying in Chongqing, and his troops had suffered a lot of losses in the battle with the 16th Division last time, and they had not been fully replenished until now. The independent brigade has been upgraded to a regular brigade by the Ministry of National Defense, and the troops will be expanded, with one division under the jurisdiction of three brigades, and his troops can recruit more people!
Just robbed the arms warehouse of the devil, Gao Quan has guns and ammunition in his hands, even if he arms another brigade, he will be rich. As a result, the 500th Division set up more than a dozen conscription offices in Yueyang, and the vigorous large-scale conscription activities began again.
As for the problem of money and food after there are many people, how could the rich people in Yueyang snub General Gao? During the occupation of the devils, these people were more or less unclear and unclear, and it was always inevitable to make certain compromises with the devils in order to save their small property. Now these people don't need Gao Quan to say hello at all, and they take the initiative to come to the door one by one. Those who delivered food, money, and cloth and materials lined up to march to the division headquarters.
General Gao greeted all these people with a straight face, sent them out with a smile, and received all the benefits as ordered. People are sincere enough to send you something, don't you? Isn't that stupid?
After Gao Quan took Yueyang, he conscripted soldiers and wantonly accepted money and grain, and of course Okamura Ningji of Xianning knew. This commander of the 11th Army, who has always been proud of his ability to read and write words, was so angry that he slapped the table three times a day and scolded "Baga" five times after hearing the news. The old devil was furious, and usually only ate one bowl of rice, but at noon that day, he ate three bowls of rice in a row, and he walked in the yard for a whole afternoon.
Yueyang is a very important place, and it must not be lost! The Sixth Division fought on the north bank of the Xinqiang River, but Yue Yang behind his ass was lost, this situation is too bad! Not only can the Chinese attack the Kumamoto Division from behind at any time, but the morale of the front-line soldiers will also be greatly affected.
Due to the extremely important military geographical location of Yueyang, Commander Gangcun could not and did not dare to give up Yueyang at all. All divisions, brigades, and detachments on the front line have now exchanged fire with the Chinese army, and if they want to draw people down from the line of fire, they are simply dismantling their own platforms. The front line couldn't draw people, and Yue Yang couldn't lose it, Okamura Ningji gritted his teeth in the end, and simply temporarily deployed a brigade and regiment-level detachment from the reserves, and immediately set off to rescue Yue Yang!
Another brigade-level detachment! Gao Quan was completely speechless about this. The devil seems to be particularly interested in dispatching brigade-level detachments, and a brigade is opened at every turn, which was the case when he was in Xinyang, and now he is here again!
However, although there is nothing new in the devil's set, it is really effective, and if he doesn't want to fight to the death with a brigade of devils in Yueyang City, Gao Quan has no choice but to withdraw from Yueyang City!
Although the devils who come to China deserve to die, the degree to which the devils deserve to die must also be prioritized. When his strength was not so strong, Gao Quan still believed that grasping the key point was the key.
The devils of the 6th and 16th divisions are obviously much more damned than other devils. Now that the Sixth Division, which is close at hand, is not fighting, let him wait here stupidly, and play with a miscellaneous brigade of devils of unknown origin, then how can he do it? Not to mention, when he asked for war in front of the principal of Chongqing, he said that he was going to fight the Sixth Division!
After hearing the scout's report that a devil brigade had come from the direction of Xianning, Gao Quan gave the order to march almost without any hesitation. Yes, an attack, not a retreat! Even though the next move of the 500 divisions was to retreat from Yueyang City, their next target was the New Wall River! It's the 6th Division!
The conscription office in the city was immediately removed, and a notice was posted in a conspicuous position in the city, saying that the government army in this city would give up for the time being, and that it would go south to fight a decisive battle with the main force of the Japanese army, and that a new Japanese army would come in the short term. As for whether to immediately pack up and go to the countryside to take refuge, or to leave the homeland and stay in the city to gamble that the Japanese will not embarrass the city people, these are left to the people in the city to choose, Gao Quan now does not have the energy to do the evacuation work. The road is chosen by himself, whether he goes or stays, he is just responsible for telling everyone the truth, and leaving the choice to the people in the city.
The most unfortunate are the rich merchants in the city. These people just visited Gao Quan two days ago, donated a large amount of property, for the war of resistance, it can be said that they have made a lot of efforts, but also broke a lot of money! Now, only two days have passed, and the national army has withdrawn as soon as it says it will withdraw. What to do if they are left behind? The Japanese are here, knowing that they have funded the anti-Japanese team, can they have their good? Leave, right? There are a lot of their properties in the city, and it's hard to give them up!
In the end, these wealthy gentry and wealthy men who had contributed a lot of money to resist the Japanese wept and wept and took refuge in the city with their families. After all, if the money is gone, you can earn it again, and if your life is gone, you will have nothing!
There are also those who have husbands or sons at home and have just joined the 500 division a few days ago. These families are now all family members of the Anti-Japanese War, and if they stay in the city, it will be purely the same as suicide. With these people taking the lead, many people around who were not involved in the family also followed them out of the city to find relatives to hide. In the end, less than a third of the city's residents remained.
After the 500 divisions left the city, they slowly marched south. Due to the capture of a large number of Japanese military uniforms in the Japanese army warehouse in Yueyang City, the reconnaissance battalion all changed into devil uniforms, and each person only tied a white towel to his arm to show the difference from the authentic devil. Subsequently, the more than 1,000 scouts disguised as devils were divided into action groups and lurked towards the front of the New Wall River.
It didn't take long, and one piece of information was passed to the front of the high school one after another. The location of the 6th Division of the Devils, as well as the Uemura Detachment and the Nara Detachment, was marked in detail by Gao Quan on his marching map. Those two detachments, Gao Quan can ignore them, but the sixth division of Inaba Shiro is the commander of the division is the target of his attention.
The 6th Division is claimed to be the most powerful division in the Japanese army, along with the 2nd Division. Each of the four main field wings under the command of this division has extremely strong field combat capabilities. At present, all the capable soldiers of the Sixth Division are concentrated on the north bank of the Xinqiang River, and they are fighting fiercely with Zhang Yaoming's 52nd Army on the opposite side, looking for an opportunity to cross the Xinqiang River.