The commander of the 21st Army, Guzhuang Ganlang, saw that the opinions of his three divisions were not unanimous, and he was not in a hurry to express his opinions.

"We still have to fight on Hainan Island, no matter what Li Tie is hiding on Hainan Island? We also have to fight, only in this way can we find out the reality of Hainan Island.

However, judging from the information fed back by our intelligence department, the empire has suffered too much loss on Li Tie in recent years. So we can't take it lightly.

My opinion is that we will attack Hainan again in three months, after all, our troops have already gone through the battles of Xuzhou and Wuhan in succession, and now they have just occupied Guangdong.

Now that there is no formed Chinese army around Guangdong, these three months can also allow the soldiers to take a good rest. ”

Hearing that Changgu Ganlang wanted the troops to rest for three months, several division commanders present immediately came to their senses: "This is the commander-in-chief, who asked the soldiers to burn, kill and loot for three months." "This reward is wonderful.

So the division commander said that he could rob the bank and smash the shops to enrich the soldiers' pockets, and the division commander said that he could organize the soldiers to rob the Chinese flower girls again.

Seeing that several division commanders were talking more and more disagreeable, Guzhuang Ganlang reminded: "I don't care how you toss, but remember the discipline of our imperial soldiers, and we must destroy the corpses afterwards."

It doesn't matter if it's the property of Chinese or foreigners, and it doesn't matter how many Chinese flower girls you have harmed, let alone how many Chinese you have killed.

I have only one request, to kill all the people involved in the other side afterwards, so that if the matter is revealed, we can shift the blame to the local bandits and hooligans. ”

Several division commanders immediately stopped arguing and agreed in unison. Seeing that several division commanders were no longer arguing, Guzhuang Ganlang continued:

"In the next three months, we will send more reconnaissance planes, submarines, and in-depth ships to conduct detailed reconnaissance of Hainan Island in various directions and in multiple batches.

We must find out the true strength of Hainan Island in the shortest possible time, and then our army will occupy Hainan Island in one fell swoop. Shoshichiro Iida! Guzhuang Miro said at the end and named the head of the Iida Brigade.

"Hey! Please tell the commander. The commander of the Iida Brigade replied loudly.

"Three months later, no matter whether the intelligence on Hainan Island is detailed or not, we will launch a surprise attack on Hainan Island, and at that time, the task of this vanguard army can only be entrusted to you." Guzhuang Ganlang nodded to the point.

"Please rest assured, with the place where the birds on Hainan Island don't, where can there be 100,000 elite soldiers, and even if there are 100,000 elite soldiers?

The elites of our Great Japanese Empire can destroy them in a matter of minutes, and I hereby make a military order to the commander, if I cannot occupy Hainan at the first time, I will thank the emperor. ”

Seeing that the task of the vanguard army was handed over to him, the commander of the Iida Brigade actually wanted to make a military order, and threatened to cut his stomach if he did not succeed, he was really fearless and fearless, and he would not die if he did not die.

Hainan Island is now a tiger's den in Longtan, how can it be so easy for their Japanese army to occupy it, but unfortunately the commanders of the divisions present do not know.

"Well, this is worthy of being a warrior of my empire. It's just that the intelligence of the empire described Hainan Island as like a tiger's den in Longtan, and General Tu Feiyuan personally wrote to me to be careful of Hainan Island.

So I have to pay attention to this matter, in fact, I myself don't believe that a small merchant can cause much trouble to the Empire. Commander-in-Chief Guzhuang Ganlang said with a confident smile.

From this time on, the Hainan Escort Army was mobilizing troops and horses, and the Japanese army was also actively preparing, but the three divisions that occupied Guangdong began to do all kinds of evil in the whole of Guangdong because of the permission of Guzhuang Ganlang.

In less than a month, a large number of burning, killing, and looting began to occur in various parts of Guangdong, and the people of Guangdong, who had been extensively poisoned by the Japanese army, began to pour into Guangxi in large numbers.

The people of Guangxi also began to organize militias on their own, ready to resist Japanese aggression at any time. Guangxi soldiers have been known as wolf soldiers since ancient times, and they are the first in the country in terms of mountain combat capability, and they are still the first in the country in terms of fierceness.

In the previous life, if it were not for the fact that Sichuan accounted for the first place in the country in terms of the number of troops, Guangxi would be the first in terms of population alone.

In this way, Guangxi is also the second largest province in terms of the number of troops among many provinces. The Guangxi soldiers led by Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi were known as the best soldiers in the country in the anti-Qing Dynasty, the Northern Expedition, the warlord war, and even the later Anti-Japanese War and the Civil War.

Although the Japanese army had the experience of occupying Guangxi, the Japanese army had never occupied any county or region in Guangxi for more than three months, and almost all the areas occupied by the Japanese army were repeatedly contested by both sides.

In this life, Guangxi began to fight against the Japanese army in advance, and as Li Tie, who knows the trend of history, where would he let go of this Guangxi soldier who can fight well.

As soon as the Japanese army landed in Daya Bay, Li Tie ordered Wang Yaqiao to send 20,000 of the latest rifles and 10,000 boxes of grenades to the Guangxi army by boat. It was precisely the intention for the Guangxi soldiers to take advantage of the complex terrain of Guangxi's mountainous and forested mountains to teach the Japanese army a lesson.

During the three months of rest and recuperation, the Japanese army really sent two wings of the 104th Division under the 21st Army to attack Guilin, Guangxi, but both of them were defeated.

Originally, Guilin was a mountainous terrain, and the whole Guilin not only had high walls and thick walls, but also almost every house in Guilin had tunnels and air-raid shelters. This made the Japanese air force bombing and artillery bombardment extremely ineffective.

Although the defenders of Guilin were poorly equipped, both the defenders and the common people were strapped with explosives and grenades to form death squads to launch suicide attacks on the Japanese army.

When gray-haired old men, women, and even children pulled grenades hidden in their clothes, the soldiers of the two wings of the 104th Division, which was not very strong in combat, collapsed.

Therefore, when the two wing commanders who attacked Guilin fled back to Guangdong in embarrassment and reported to the commander-in-chief of Guzhuang Ganlang how the Guangxi soldiers were not afraid of death, Guzhuang Ganlang also extinguished the idea of occupying the entire territory of Guangxi first and then Hainan Island.

However, in order to prevent Hainan from connecting with the mainland through Guangxi, Guzhuang Ganlang still decided to send the 5th Division, a veteran division, and Lieutenant General An Tengliji, the commander of the division, personally led the army to attack Nanning, Guangxi.

After all, Nanning is also very close to Guangdong, and it is also the closest to the coastline, as long as Nanning is laid, it can also be achieved to cut off the connection between Hainan Island and the mainland.

Therefore, taking advantage of the fact that the regular army of Guangxi's Gui system was out on the march, the Fifth Division was ready to attack Nanning.

And just when the Fifth Division had not yet set off, Li Tie was also preparing for the upcoming war in Hainan.

On November 20, 1938, in a remote tavern in Beiping City, Bai Fengxiang, the former commander of the Northeast Army Cavalry Division and the first hero to capture Commander Chiang alive during the Xi'an Incident, was drinking boringly.

Since Bai Fengxiang captured Commander Jiang alive, as soon as Zhang Shaoshuai was placed under house arrest, he was removed from his post and placed in Beiping. Later, when the Lugou Bridge Incident broke out, he went to Nanjing several times to ask for troops to resist the war, but he was not approved by the Nanjing government.

Since Bai Fengxiang was the first real culprit to capture Commander Jiang alive, all the warlords did not dare to take him in. Originally, Bai Fengxiang heard that Yang Hucheng had returned from his overseas investigation, and he still wanted to go to Yang Hucheng, but as soon as he came out of Beiping, he heard that Yang Hucheng was also under house arrest by Commander Jiang, but unfortunately he was now alone and couldn't find out where Zhang Shaoshuai and Yang Hucheng were under house arrest, otherwise he would have to save the two even if he risked his life.

However, a while ago, I heard that Zhang Shaoshuai was rescued, but until now he has not found any trace of the young marshal, and he does not know the truth of this news, and although Beiping was occupied by the Japanese army, it is indeed the most well-informed place in the country, so he has been staying in Beiping to inquire about the news.

This tavern was opened by a sworn brother when he was a bandit, and since he was dismissed, he wants to return to the Northeast and continue to be his ringing horse.

But who knows that now all the Xiangma in the Northeast either ran to the Heihe Soviet border and defected to Ma Zhanshan, or went to Manchury to defect to the left of the Sino-Mongolian-Soviet border.

At present, there are still some anti-Japanese troops in the northeast, but they are either under the banner of the Red Army, or they are not large-scale rogues, and they really have no future.

Could it be that he is a cavalry division commander of the Northeast Army who is going to die of old age in this remote alley? Just when Bai Fengxiang was a little disheartened, a pot of spirits was placed in front of him.

Bai Fengxiang opened his drunken eyes, and suddenly his drunken spirit was gone, replaced by a pair of soul-grabbing essences.

"It's you! Li Tie sent you? ”

The person who came smiled, took out an empty bowl for some reason, poured a pot of spirits into the empty bowl, and then said heartily: "My boss said that he wanted to know if Bai Fengxiang, who dared to kill tigers on the mountain and capture dragons in the sea, still had the courage." If he still has the guts, come with me. My boss gave him an army and told him to fight devils. ”

"Wang Qi, what are you kidding? As far as your boss is concerned, can he give me an army? Where did he come from? Bai Fengxiang naturally knew Wang Qi, who had a lifelong relationship with him.

"You don't have to worry about this, if you want to talk to my boss, just dry the wine in front of you, and if you don't want to follow, you can continue to sleep with your big head, right? My boss said that Zhang Shaoshuai is in a very safe place, if you can live for twenty or thirty more years, you will still have a chance to meet him.

But if you continue to be depressed like this, you may not even have a place to bury your body in a few years. Wang Qi said lightly.

"The young marshal really didn't die!" Bai Fengxiang was surprised when he heard the news of Zhang Shaoshuai. Looking at the bowl of spirits in front of him, he no longer hesitated, picked up the spirits and drained them.

Wang Qi looked at Bai Fengxiang appreciatively and drank the liquor in front of him: "Good man, good amount of wine, but you didn't ask clearly and drank this bowl of wine, aren't you afraid that I will poison the wine?" ”

"There's no reason for you to kill me, and besides, let alone a bowl of wine, I can still drink three more bowls, and I can't get drunk." As soon as Bai Fengxiang boasted about Haikou, he felt a little confused:

"What did you put in the wine? Why me? Before the words were finished, Bai Fengxiang fell to the ground with a thud, unconscious.

Wang Qi looked at the owner of the tavern and shook his head helplessly, first kicked Bai Fengxiang who was lying on the ground with his foot, and then sighed:

"The boss is so right, this Northeast man's temperament is too anxious, he drank the wine before I finished speaking, but this is also very good, you have to drink it sooner or later, if you don't drink, how can I take you out of Beiping safely?"

A day later, a carriage pulling the coffin passed through the strict inspection of the Japanese army in Beiping City and slowly left the city. And on the city wall, there is a photo of a bounty for the capture of Bai Fengxiang.