Chapter 1675: The Battle is Over
At 12 o'clock in the morning of November 18, 1939, there was no more gunfire in Guangdong, and a ceasefire began between China and Japan.
The remnants of the Japanese troops stationed in Guangzhou began to gradually lay down their arms, and they began to move out of their positions one by one.
The devils left Canton under the supervision of a large number of Chinese officers and soldiers, and at the same time as they left, the Chinese troops quickly took over the Japanese positions and quickly checked the weapons and ammunition.
If they found any signs of damage to the weapons laid down by the Japanese army, they would not let the little devils leave.
These little devils are smart, they probably know their current situation, and they throw away all their weapons and ammunition.
However, among the little devils, there are still many people, they hide the grenades in private, and when they leave the position, these devil soldiers directly pull the grenades, and choose to die with the Chinese troops, but these devil soldiers often have not had time to get close to the Chinese troops, and they are directly beaten into a sieve.
The New Seventh Army and the Provisional Ninth Army deployed a lot of Browning heavy machine guns nearby, and as long as they found any abnormal behavior of the devil soldiers, they would directly pull the trigger and shoot.
Thousands of devil soldiers were killed by heavy machine gun bullets, and the remaining devil soldiers did not even take the corpses of their comrades, and they began to evacuate Guangzhou in embarrassment.
At half past two in the morning, the devil soldiers began to evacuate Guangzhou, and at the same time, the 201st Division of the Ninth Army, the Honorary Fourth Division, and the newly formed 11th Division quickly assembled in Xinhui, while the troops of the 62nd, 63rd, and 65th armies were hidden around Xinhui.
At half past three o'clock in the morning, when the devil soldiers began to evacuate Guangzhou, hundreds of planes of the Japanese 21st Independent Air Force, the 15th Air Force, and the First Air Force began to prepare for takeoff.
The Kimura detachment of the Japanese army stationed in Xinhui also began to send personnel to meet the devil soldiers who broke through from Guangzhou, and at this time, according to the agreement between Sun Weiguo and Kimura Takuya, at four o'clock in the morning, the Japanese army would hand over Xinhui to the Chinese troops, of course, the Japanese army would not plan to do so.
The Japanese army was preparing to concentrate the forces of the air force to carry out a carpet bombing of Guangzhou, and at the same time, the Kimura detachment would quickly blow up all the weapons, ammunition and medicines stored in Xinhui, and they would quickly meet the Guards mixed brigade troops to break out.
At 3:40 a.m., the 62nd Army and other troops began to launch a fierce attack on Xinhui, and the troops of the New Seventh Army and the 54th Army in Guangzhou City also quickly began to pursue the little devils who broke out, and the troops of the Ninth Army rushed to Xinhui to support the 62nd Army and other troops.
"Where is Sun Weiguo, I want to see Sun Weiguo, now that the negotiations between us have ended, he can't continue to treat me like this, I want to leave here immediately."
Inside a makeshift command post, Takuya Kimura shouted loudly, by which point they were completely imprisoned.
Now that Takuya Kimura and the others want to leave here, it is simply impossible.
At this time, no matter how Takuya Kimura shouted, no one would pay attention to him, only the officers and soldiers with submachine guns outside, if they dared to mess around, these officers and soldiers would immediately pull the trigger.
"Da-da-da-da."
At the same time that Takuya Kimura was completely imprisoned, the troops of the Honorary Third Division of the New Seventh Army had already chased after the Japanese troops who had evacuated Guangzhou.
Heavy machine guns began to be erected, and bullets quickly shot at the devil soldiers.
The little devils were caught off guard and killed many people on the spot, and the commander of the 38th Division, Lieutenant General Kenkichi Hirata, was lucky not to be killed when he was in Guangzhou, but this time, he was directly beaten into a mess by the Browning heavy machine gun.
"Boom, boom." Infantry artillery, mortars, grenadiers, mountain artillery and other artillery began to fire shells.
One by one, the shells began to explode around the ghost soldiers, and a huge explosion sounded, and a large number of ghost soldiers fell to the ground.
The little devils suffered heavy casualties, and the commander of the 21st Army, Toshiyoshi Ando, looked at the front viciously, and his face was full of anger.
He knew that he had chosen to negotiate in order to preserve the Guards Mixed Brigade troops, and he had even chosen to lay down his arms for this purpose, but this was also the result he had in mind.
But now that this scene has happened, Ando Toshikichi has an indescribable panic in his heart, and he doesn't know how to command it at all.
If he was on the position in Guangzhou, Ando Toshikichi would still be able to command the troops to resist desperately, but now his subordinates do not have any weapons, and there are Chinese troops all around, so he has no ability to break through at all, and suddenly, in Ando Toshikichi's mind, he began to have an idea, which is to surrender directly to the Chinese troops.
At four o'clock in the morning, here in Xinhui, as the troops of the Provisional Ninth Army began to enter the battle, the Kimura detachment guarding Xinhui had not had time to blow up the weapons, ammunition and medicines, they were routed, and the little devils began to flee desperately.
At the same time, the Japanese aviation units began to sortie, and they began to carpet bomb Guangzhou according to the plan.
The Japanese bombardment lasted for more than three hours, and the former bustling city of Guangzhou was completely in ruins, and there were almost no intact buildings left here.
There were traces of minced meat and blood everywhere, and the smell of gunpowder and blood mixed together was disgusting.
At seven o'clock in the morning of the 18th, the troops of the Provisional Ninth Army completely captured Xinhui, and after the Japanese Kimura detachment paid the price of more than 1,000 casualties, they quickly withdrew to Zhongshan.
After the troops of the 151st Division and the 154th Division of the 63rd Army pursued to Zhongshan, they began to be attacked by Japanese naval guns, and they had to stop the pursuit.
At 7 o'clock on the morning of the 18th, the Kimura detachment began to withdraw from Guangdong under the transport of the First Fleet of the Chinese Dispatch, but the troops of the 104th Division, which had arrived here before that, had already withdrawn to Hainan Island.
At the same time as these devil soldiers withdrew, the commander of the 21st Army of the Japanese Army, Lieutenant General Toshiyoshi Ando, and the commander of the Major General Brigade of the Guards Mixed Brigade Takeshi Suida led more than 5,000 wounded Japanese soldiers to choose to surrender, knowing that if they did not surrender, they would be slaughtered without any value.
At 8 o'clock in the morning of November 18, 1939, the troops of the 21st Army stationed in Guangdong suffered a devastating blow, and its 18th Division and 38th Division were completely annihilated, while the Guards Mixed Brigade and the Second Wing of the Heavy Artillery directly under the Army suffered a devastating blow, with only more than 5,000 of them surviving, and the 104th and 106th Divisions also suffered certain losses.
In the Battle of Guangzhou, the Japanese army invested four divisions and one mixed brigade, while the Chinese troops invested six corps, with a total strength of more than 200,000 on both sides.
In addition to the safe evacuation of more than 20,000 people from the 104th Division and the 106th Division, most of them were completely annihilated, and a few became prisoners, while the Chinese troops also paid the heavy price of more than 20,000 killed and more than 20,000 wounded.