Chapter 456: Li Tie's Strength
Because the Japanese attack on Hong Kong was carried out, although it took more than two months, it did not cause much shock in the world, and the eyes of the world are still deeply attracted by the European battlefield in full swing.
However, although the small battle of Hong Kong did not cause a huge shock to the countries of the world, it was indeed a great shock to the warring parties of China and Japan.
After the small battle of Hong Kong, Li Tie was very satisfied with the performance of his newly established Huaxing Fourth Army, and was very satisfied with the actions of the Hongmen disciples and Hong Kong citizens to fully support him to resist foreign aggression.
After two months of small corps operations, the Huaxing Fourth Army has transformed into a real army. With the battle of Hong Kong, the Huaxing Fourth Army has become an army that can be pulled out and won.
In addition to the Huaxing Fourth Army, which has more than 20,000 people, Hong Kong also has a full 100,000 Huaxing security forces, and these 100,000 people alone are enough to do a good job in Hong Kong's defense.
In addition, there are 300,000 militiamen from Hong Kong Hongmen and various gangs, and these militias have a large supply of firearms from Li Tie, but it can be said that Hong Kong is now a sea of people's war.
It is impossible for any enemy who wants to invade Hong Kong to completely occupy Hong Kong without more than 200,000 regular troops and without the ideological preparation for a long battle of one year or two.
Now that Vietnam, Hainan, and Hong Kong have been strategically connected, with these three strategic fulcrums, he can rest assured that he can implement the follow-up plan.
In the same small battle of Hong Kong, the Japanese government did not expect that it had mobilized nearly 150,000 troops by land, sea and air force and still failed to defeat the Hong Kong defenders.
Fortunately, the Japanese military did not lack hindsight, and after analyzing the entire battle of Hong Kong, the Japanese summed up a truth.
If you want to defeat Hong Kong, you must first blockade Hong Kong, and if you want to blockade Hong Kong, you must first destroy the enemy in Hainan, but if you want to defeat the enemy in Hainan, it is impossible to defeat Hong Kong without hundreds of ships, thousands of aircraft, and more than 200,000 troops attacking at the same time.
If Japan hadn't launched a full-scale war of invasion of China five years ago, it would have been easy for them to mobilize these forces.
Even if we want to launch it now, it can be achieved without force, but the problem now is that if so many troops are to be deployed, there will be a serious shortage of military strength in the occupied areas around China's coastal areas.
If, at this time, the Chinese Nationalist Army launched a counterattack, the Japanese forces on all fronts in China would suffer great losses. What's more, on the left and right sides of Hainan Island are Vietnam and Hong Kong, and the strength of these two places has now been thoroughly explored by the Japanese army.
Although the air force and navy of the two places are not large-scale, the armies of the two places have already become large-scale, whether it is the third army of Hua Xing in Vietnam or the fourth army of Hua Xing, which has just fought with the Japanese army, they are all capable of recruiting and fighting well.
Coupled with the more powerful Huaxing First Army and the Second Army on Hainan Island, the Japanese military suddenly found that even if they could occupy all of China in the future, they should always be careful of sneak attacks from Huaxing.
However, just when the Japanese military department could not make up its mind whether to pull out the nail of Huaxing before going south, a mysterious guest, Nanzao Yunzi, led the Japanese military headquarters, and then this person was secretly taken to the emperor's palace.
Three days later, the mysterious man quietly left the palace and took a direct flight to Hainan. A week later, the Japanese army withdrew the 23rd Army stationed in Shenzhen and transferred the 23rd Army north to Hubei to strengthen the defenses of Hubei and Jiangxi.
At the same time, the 23rd Army and the 11th Army began to train actively, and it seemed that the Second Battle of Changsha would soon be launched again.
A few days after the end of the Battle of Hong Kong, Commander Chiang, who was in Chongqing, received good news that Li Tie had sent people to send a large amount of armaments and supplies.
Hearing this news, Commander Chiang, who was already happy about the failure of the Japanese army's attack on Hong Kong, jumped even more happily, and he took the initiative to ask to check the newly arrived armaments.
It turned out that since the first Battle of Changsha for more than a year, although the Japanese army was no longer able to launch a large-scale campaign, Commander Chiang's life was not good.
On the one hand, Wang Jingwei's puppet government in Shanghai, under the care of the Japanese, showed signs of becoming more and more prosperous, and now Wang Jingwei had an army of 600,000 people around him.
In addition, in the past year or so, the finances of the Nationalist Government have become even tighter, and many bigwigs of the Nationalist Army have shown signs of defection and surrender to Wang Jingwei, saying that they can save the country.
"Phew! Niang Sippi's. The hatred of destroying the family, the hatred of destroying the country is not shared with the sky, where is there any forbearance and humiliation, in order to repay the truth, at this time either you die or I die.
It's a shame that these literati and writers claim to be knowledgeable and educated, all of them are soft bones, and they don't say as good as fart, just like the one that Li Tie often talks about who is not afraid of hooligans and martial arts, but afraid of hooligans who have Wenhua, which is really too sophisticated.
Alas, it's a pity that I haven't seen him for a few years, Li Tie's wings have completely hardened, and now even I have to give him some face. I still have a little conscience as a little fellow, except for helping my national government at ordinary times, and I can always give me charcoal when it is critical.
He had just received the list of weapons and losses sent by the troops, and was worried that the army's new weapons had not yet been found, and Li Tie's arms had arrived. ”
That's why Commander Chiang is really happy. However, Commander Chiang, who originally just wanted to go out for a walk, came to the outskirts of Chongqing, and when he saw the scene in front of him, he was still stunned.
"How can there be so many weapons? Is Li Tie really an immortal? Besides, how did he get so many weapons under the heavy blockade of the Japanese army? Commander Chiang was shocked in his heart.
It turned out that the arms in front of him were piled up like a mountain at this time, and more than a dozen mountain-like arms were all covered with tree branches and various camouflage cloths.
Fortunately, I came to the front of me, and if I was far away, I might not be able to see it.
Just when Commander Jiang was still shocked, Dai Li, who had been here for a long time, immediately ran over with a list and sent the list in his hand to Commander Jiang respectfully.
While smiling, he explained: "This Li Tie's ability is really getting bigger and bigger, I heard that this batch of materials was transported from the sea, hundreds of vehicles kept going out of several provinces and cities day and night, and made countless camouflages, and it took more than half a year to transport them from the sea to the secret warehouse in Huaxing, a suburb of Chongqing.
We have just been notified, and we know that this batch of arms was given to our national army by Li Tie, and this is a list of all the goods, and I am still counting them. ”
Commander Jiang picked it up and looked at it, and gasped, 10,000 Czech light machine guns, 300,000 Czech standard rifles and 500,000 grenades, as well as countless ammunition of various types, nearly 1,000 light and heavy artillery:
"This Li Tie is really rich, he has so many weapons as soon as he shoots, where did this kid get so many weapons and ammunition, did he rob the Czech Republic after paying off the Czech?"
Dai Li, who was beside him, saw that Commander Jiang seemed to be in a good mood, and immediately said with a smile: "Where is Li Tie robbing the Czech Republic, at that time it was Hitler in Germany who robbed the Czech Republic, it is said that after Germany occupied the Czech Republic last year, he took the entire Czech arsenal and national armaments storage.
The Czech Republic produces hundreds of thousands of machine guns, millions of rifles, thousands of artillery pieces and thousands of tanks every year. I heard that half of the world's arms sales are made in the Czech Republic.
According to our reports in Europe, after the German occupation of the Czech Republic, not only did they empty the Czech bank reserves, but they also confiscated all the Czech arsenals.
I heard that they grabbed no less than a million light and heavy machine guns, millions of rifles, not to mention tanks and armored vehicles, and armed ten armored divisions and thousands of tanks at once.
So these light weapons were actually picked by the Germans, so these weapons actually flowed out of here, but strangely I haven't heard of these weapons being sold to the outside world.
How did Li Tie get this from the Germans? Today's Germans occupy most of Europe, but they are so rich that even if Li Tie gives money, these strategic materials may not be able to be bought. ”
"Alas, no matter how Li Tie got it, anyway, the more arms he gave us, the better, but it's a pity that we don't have such a powerful arsenal in China, and if we also had such a strong arsenal, we would have driven the Japanese out of China a long time ago.
Look at Li Tie, a small Hong Kong armed hundreds of thousands of people, and the Japanese were beaten without temper. Why is it that the Japanese can always block ten when they beat our national army, and they will be defeated in a hundred battles when they beat their Huaxing Guards? Could it be that Li Tie's military command ability is very strong? Commander Jiang said sourly.
"How can it, I have been friends with Li Tie for many years, just his two brushes, as a company commander, he is to promote him, how can he beat the Japanese army?
The main thing is that the elite soldiers and strong generals under him are too experienced, look at the people under him, which one is not a hundred battles army that can fight well.
Looking at the generals under him, needless to say, Wang Yaqiao is a great talent in the world of literature and martial arts, and he is also a recognized military genius. In addition, whether it is Yang Hucheng or Bai Fengxiang, whether it is Jiang Guangnai and Cai Tingkai, they are all rare tiger generals.
I heard that in this battle of Hong Kong, Zhao Dabao, the commander-in-chief of the Fourth Army of Hong Kong, turned out to be just a cavalryman, and later became Li Tie's driver. Unexpectedly, after more than ten years, the small cavalry at that time was also the head of an army.
If you want to say that this Huaxing company is rich, a small cavalryman was stunned and asked him to train him to become a military commander. And Hong Kong, that small place, has also been trained by Li Tie with hundreds of thousands of militiamen, but I'm afraid that Li Tie's plan is not small? The more Dai Li's words were heard, the more awkward they became.
Commander Jiang also seemed to hear Dai Li's voice, and saw Commander Jiang smile and say, "Yunong, this doesn't look like your style."
Did Li Tie offend you somewhere, I found that you have been wearing small shoes for Li Tie in front of me for the past two years? It seems to be something after Liu Xiang died.
I heard that when you went to Hainan Island to present the medal on my behalf, the two of you had a very unpleasant quarrel, could it be that the two of you who are usually so good that you are about to wear a pair of pants still broke up? Commander Jiang deliberately joked.
"The principal clearly sees that I wear a heart of loyalty to the country, and the world can learn from heaven and earth, and everything I do is based on the general interests of the nation, without the slightest selfishness.
Yes, Li Tie and I used to be like brothers, although we didn't worship, but we were also called brothers, but in the past, Li Tie was young and just a businessman, of course I had to defend him everywhere.
But now his strength has been greatly different, after more than ten years of development, he wants money and money, people and people, and he still has the rank of a major general in our national government.
It can be said that he is now the most powerful warlord in the country, and his ability has seriously threatened the rule of our national army, so I have to kill my relatives in righteousness.
In dealing with him, I have always put the interests of the country first. That's why I'm worried that Li Tie will become stronger and bigger, and it will be even more difficult to deal with the trend of forming a big tail in the future. Dai Li said righteously.
"Alas! I don't know what you said, in the past few years, the local warlords have almost exhausted us by taking advantage of the current reason of the War of Resistance, and I see that the Japanese are at the end of their power. In a few more years, we will definitely be able to counterattack.
But we can't touch Li Tie yet, because he now controls not only Hong Kong and Hainan Island, but also Vietnam and Southeast Asia's access to the sea.
This batch of supplies was sent to us by Li Tie through the Vietnamese border. We will have to rely on him a lot in the years to come. So we must maintain a good relationship with Li Tie, as long as he does not participate in the political struggle at home, I don't care how he wants to toss him overseas.
Now that the Japanese have just attacked Hong Kong, although they have not succeeded, I can see that it will not be long before the Japanese will have to formally declare war on Britain sooner or later.
Once Japan declares war on Britain, all small countries in Southeast Asia will be within the range of the Japanese attack, and as long as the Japanese divide their forces to attack, the pressure on our China will be even less.
Maybe we'll have to organize a group of troops to go abroad to save the British. If that day comes, we'll be able to open our mouths to the English lions. Commander Chiang was full of longing.
"Yes, when the time comes, we will send Li Tie's troops abroad to fight the Japanese, and then we will secretly whip his hind legs behind his back, and his strength will be exhausted in a few times." Dai Li: Okay, you suddenly thought of a great idea, and you became very excited.
Commander Jiang on the side had a dark face and glared at him fiercely: "Niang Xipi, what can't you hide in your stomach?" Do you have to shout it? Or what is the king of Chinese agents? Is there a king of agents like you? ”
Seeing Commander Jiang's angry and happy expression, Dai Li knew that what he had just said had reached Commander Jiang's heart. The guilt in Dai Li's heart flashed.
"I'm sorry, Brother Li, you really can't forgive me for killing Liu Xiang, in this case, you can't be a friend, you can only be an enemy." Dai Li said fiercely in his heart.