December 8, 1944. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info Guiyang.

Captain Evans, an American, finally arrived in Guiyang.

Evans was the last U.S. military officer to leave. Dushan Airport is one of the bases of the United States Air Force of the United States of China. Recently, Operation One destroyed a number of similar air bases.

Evans' mission is to destroy the airfield. The plane carried all the important supplies, he had no workload, blew up the building, and it was over.

A few days ago, I left Dushan County, Guizhou, and walked along the mountain road zigzags for a few days before arriving in Guiyang. He came back with a reporter in his jeep. The reporter spoke English and offered to ask for a ride. Evans was not good at Chinese, and it was impossible for the guerrilla interpreter to follow him, so he asked this reporter to accompany him.

When passing through Duyun County, the entire county was burned to the ground. The reporter told him that it was burned by his own people, and before the Japanese came, the government began to burn houses and cities.

Along the way, there were people who wanted to rob, and when they saw that he was an American, they didn't dare. There were people who wanted to requisition jeeps, but when they saw that he was an American, they didn't dare. There are people who want to take a ride, but when they see that he is an American, they still don't dare.

Along the way, he saw an army retreating in an orderly manner ahead.

The defeated soldiers were ragged, yellow-skinned, with incomplete weapons, weak walking, and some of them even robbed the people of food. On the side of the road, they also saw some wounded soldiers. The wounded soldiers were unable to walk, and no one cared about them. No, some people asked, it seems that there are guerrillas helping the wounded soldiers.

There were also military vehicles in the retreating ranks. The military vehicles were not pulled by wounded soldiers, not military supplies, but by young ladies and old mothers, large and small cages. Apparently the personal belongings of the officers.

The reporter told Evans that it is difficult to imagine that Chinese officers would rather throw away their weapons and soldiers than keep their personal property, and it is difficult to imagine that they have the determination to fight the enemy to the death.

Evans also saw that some high-ranking officers came to greet him and let them go along the way, and some even asked them to leave their families a little later. Once, Evans saw an officer with two women dressed in flamboyant clothes, driving through the city. This is unimaginable in the armies of other countries.

The reporter told him that the officers of the Chinese army were deducting military expenses at various levels and were in arrears with soldiers' salaries. Some did not even have food, so the soldiers had to rob the people of food. In order to embezzle salaries, officers often overreported the number of soldiers. The actual number of soldiers was two-thirds of the reported number at best, and less than half at worst.

Why are you saying this to me?

You know, we Chinese journalists, we can't publish articles that write about this. Even to the newspaper, to get into trouble for themselves. If you write it, it's different. I hope to have some help for China.

I see. Thank you for your trust in me.

So many of the soldiers fled. The Japanese troops participating in the "No. 1 Operation" this year were basically reserve troops with poor equipment and training, but they were still invincible in the face of the Chinese army.

Evans wrote a report on the situation. He was actually an intelligence officer who secretly gathered intelligence for the U.S. government. He is very grateful to this angry young reporter who seems to have no intention and has no scheming. In fact, he didn't know that this angry young man was a trained intelligence officer with an extremely high IQ. His mission was to influence this American.

When he arrived in Guiyang, Captain Evans immediately rushed over to see Tang Enbo.

Tang Enbo was very polite to him, learned from him about the situation at the front, knew that the Japanese army had retreated, was very happy, and invited him to a meal in the best restaurant in Guiyang. The dishes are very high-class and the cooking is extremely exquisite.

Captain Evans finished talking with Towneburgh at the dinner table and went to see the commander of the U.S. Army.

Sending off the Americans, Towneberg hurriedly returned to the command. The situation on the front line has changed, and he needs to think about how to respond.

Zhang Fakui commanded a large number of mixed troops of miscellaneous armies on the Guiliu line, including the Gui army, the Guizhou army, the Guangdong army, and the Central Army. Some of the commands did not move, and some were more eccentric, and the Japanese army drove straight in. There have also been strict military laws, but because of the different standards, the troops have been messed up.

The 93rd and 97th armies were completely disobedient. As soon as Tang Enbo shouted in Guiyang, the two "descendant troops" scattered and scattered when they arrived in Guiyang, and in the end, the men and horses of the two armies could not even get together the two divisions, and they basically lost their combat effectiveness.

When Yang Sen, deputy commander of the Ninth Theater and commander-in-chief of the 27th Group Army, heard the news, he was unwilling to help the Fourth Theater. Messing with Zhang Fakui will only offend people, "If you don't fight, you will be guilty, but if you lose the war, you will be guilty", and ran back with his 20th Army (Army Commander Yang Hanyu) and 26th Army (Army Commander Ding Zhipan), and while running to contain the Sichuan soldiers of the 93rd Army and the 97th Army. As a result, when he ran back to Guiyang, the number of troops not only did not decrease, but increased, and he was really strong.

Soon, Yang Sen, who ran back to Guiyang, became the chairman of Guizhou Province.

The most bitter thing is that there is no army, and Commander Zhang Fakui had no choice but to follow the troops, and when he ran to Guiyang, he became the commander of the light pole.

At this time, the powerful figure in Guiyang was Tang Enbo, who held a group army in his hand, including the 13th Army (Army Commander Shi Jue), the 20th Army (Army Commander Yang Gancai), the 29th Army (Army Commander Sun Yuanliang) and the 94th Army (Army Commander Mu Tingfang). A few months ago, Commander Tang was defeated in Henan, and this protégé of the Son of Heaven went to the Guizhou Theater to serve as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy.

Tang Enbo was afraid of the Japanese army and did not dare to take the initiative to meet the enemy. Fearing that "the enemy will be chased in by defeat", as soon as the Japanese army came, he retreated, which was better than defeating the battle anyway.

Zhang Zhizhong assisted Tang Enbo, and the Japanese devils had not yet entered Guizhou, so the two of them discussed how to carry out the scorched earth war of resistance, "fortify the walls and clear the wilderness", who would burn houses, who would blow up bridges, and who would fight guerrillas.

Sun Yuanliang led the 29th Army from Shaanxi to Guizhou, and Shi Jue's 13th Army and 29th Army were arranged on the Machangping line. Then, the 29th Army was asked to cross Duyun and go to Dushan to block the Japanese army.

Their biggest fear was that the Japanese army would drive straight into Guiyang and occupy Guiyang, and if Guiyang was lost, Chongqing would be in danger. So, they discussed and carried out a scorched earth war of resistance. The Japanese army can't feed the war with war, see how far you can fight.

Tang Enbo was the first senior officer to know the news of the 29th Army's recapture of Dushan. After receiving the news and confirming the authenticity, he was really relieved.

Tang Enbo is not tall, with a black face, and is known as Tang Blackhead. He graduated from the Japanese non-commissioned officer school, and went to Japan to study under Chen Yi's sponsorship, and later, Tang Enbo was promoted by Chen Yi, and later after Chen Yi's recommendation, he joined the Jiang Group and was promoted for several things.

His current wife is Chen Yi's daughter-in-law.

First, he performed well as an instructor, trained hard, studied infantry drills, and was appreciated by Chiang. The second is that he is absolutely loyal to Chiang, they are fellow villagers and absolutely obey his orders. Many of the soldiers in the Jiang group fought badly, and many of them did not end well.

The second is that Tang Enbo is dressed very dirty, with one trouser leg pulled up to the knee and one trouser leg wrapped around the heel, known as the man's head. This is very pretentious, and it is well received by superiors. It can be seen that he can manage the relationship with his superiors.

This detail is not about how frugal he was, not how simple he was, but how scheming he was.

Later, Tang Enbo was in charge of Henan, his ambitions swelled, he did a lot of business, and he wantonly incorporated miscellaneous armies, and he had the idea of being the king of the Central Plains. Although Jiang knew it, he still used him.

There is a lot to be said about the so-called big business. His station was in Henan, with the Wuhan Occupation in the south, the Shanxi Occupation in Hebei in the north, and the Shandong Occupation in the east. The special defense zone and the Japanese army are inextricably linked economically. The occupied areas need a lot of materials, and the southwest has them, and the southwest needs some industrial products, and the Japanese have them.

Lao Tang's vision is extremely accurate, he set up a company, sold the goods from the eight rear areas to the occupied areas, and transported the goods from the occupied areas to the rear, from the large development of the city. His army was raised in this way, and officers at all levels in the army had a talent for business.

Busy with business, where is the interest in fighting?

In the Battle of Central Henan, hundreds of thousands of troops in the Central Plains were defeated by the Japanese army almost overnight. He had no choice but to retreat and run. The countless grain burdens looted from the people of Henan all fell into the hands of the Japanese army. When they fled, even the people attacked the rout army and seized their baggage.

Towneburgh is another wonder. His hundreds of thousands of troops in Henan were crushed by the Japanese army, and instead of being punished, he was sent to another front line, which was related to his painstaking management of his image and the network of relationships at the top. To put it bluntly, he is Lao Jiang's confidant. Even if he had the ambition to be the king of Henan, it was also acquiesced by Lao Jiang.

Compared with Sun Yuanliang, this person can be described as coarse and fine, scheming, and the rough lines on the surface cover up his cunning. This person's ability to make money is far higher than Sun Yuanliang. Compared to him, Sun is really far inferior, no matter which aspect, he is several light years behind. (Light-years is time.) Terrible. ）

When Tang Enbo was defeated in Henan, everyone took care of everyone, and when the ordinary people gave lectures, they went to the barracks to see the excitement, and when they saw that no one was in charge, they began to take things. The things went smoothly, and soon, people from all walks of life knew that there was a cheap price to pick up, and they came in groups, and then the bandits and others began to rob the guns of the stragglers, and later developed to the guns of small units.

Word spread quickly. Towneburgh really has no face in the world. After the defeat, he bragged about how powerful the Japanese army was. He mobilized everyone to speak together, and they had the right to speak, and suppressed this humiliating matter.

There is another interesting thing about Tang Enbo, the four pests of Henan, the water and drought locust soup. The water is the Yellow River, which also refers to the Huayuankou breach. During the drought, there were successive droughts, mainly the 42-year drought. Locusts are locusts, and after several years of drought, locusts are rampant, and the soup is Towne. During the disaster, Tang Enbo collected grain, called soup grain, and was unceremonious.

There are some people in the Republic of Kazakhstan who defend him, and they are very powerless, and how many Henan people have heard his ancestors tell his story, and they say it very clearly.