Okamura Ningji looked at the map, vaguely felt in his heart that he had slowly lost the opportunity to get through Guixiang, he fought a surprise attack this time, it was by his own surprise counter-killing that Xue Yue was defeated, but there are too many Chinese, and the Chinese army is too much, although the Nationalist Army and the New Fourth Army of the Third Theater have been contained, making them unable to directly support Changsha, but the long battle has made the Third Theater withdraw troops to resist Hengyang, and in Changde, The reinforcements from Chongqing have been assembled one after another, and as long as they show the slightest flaw, they will pounce. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

The only thing that reassured Okamura Ninji was that due to the large number of factions among the Nationalist Army, and the precedent of Xue Yue forcing the miscellaneous army to break off when he retreated, the Nationalist Army could not coordinate well with each other, and the main reason why the reinforcements from all walks of life only dared to watch the battle from afar and did not dare to come to the rescue.

Just when Okamura Ningji and Xue Yue were fighting in Changsha, the chess game of Bai Chongxi and Ando Toshiyoshi in Guangxi also reached a critical moment.

Nanning, this is a lower reputation among all the provincial capitals in China, far less than Guilin, which was once the capital of Guangxi, but the geographical location here is extremely important, since ancient times it is a place where soldiers must fight, and the Japanese army also sees it very clearly, in the Japanese General Staff Headquarters "Soldier Geography" also emphasizes that "once you enter Nanning, take the place as a base, then the traffic extends in all directions, and you can reach Guangdong, Hunan, Guizhou, and Yunnan." Therefore, the Nanning-Lang Son road formed the main artery connecting the Chiang regime to the southwest. In order to cut it off directly, it was first necessary to seize Nanning. Once Nanning is occupied, there is no need to place heavy troops near Tokyo Bay to accomplish the purpose of the operation. ”

The strength of the South China Front of the Japanese Army was far inferior to that of the Central China and North China Fronts, and because of the complex topography of Guangxi, high mountains and dense forests, many of the heavy weapons of the Japanese army could not be used, which made Bai Chongxi, who flew from Chongqing to Guangxi to sit in the town, see an opportunity.

After Bai Chongxi came to Nanning to sit in the town, he made up his mind to fight a big victory, one is to defend his own foundation, and the other is to let the whole country see, not only the Eighth Route Army can win the battle, but the Gui Army can do the same!

Bai Chongxi has this self-confidence in addition to believing in his own command ability, the most important thing is that Guangxi during the Republic of China, although it is not as economically as good as Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but whether it is the spiritual construction of Geming or the construction of the system is the number of the country, in the past Northern Expedition War, the first victory was that Li Zongren led the Gui army to defeat the invincible Wu Peifu, captured Changsha, which made the military heart shake, in the Gui-Tang War, the Hunan army known for its fierceness of more than 100,000 people was defeated by the Gui army tens of thousands of people and was absorbed. At the beginning of the Central Plains War, the 100,000 Hunan army was defeated again in the face of less than 30,000 Gui troops. It can be said that the Gui army is the trump card army among the miscellaneous armies, with extremely high quality soldiers and good at mountain warfare.

At this time, the total population of Guangxi was only more than 10 million, and since the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the number of people who joined the army and participated in local militia groups exceeded 1 million, second only to Sichuan, but in terms of population ratio, it is a well-deserved first.

Bai Chongxi looked at the map, at this time he couldn't help but have some regrets about the strategic deployment after the last winter offensive, at that time, the Japanese army gave up a lot of non-strategic places for insurance, which directly made Kaiping, Yangjiang, Yangchun, and Xinxing a rich area in Guangdong become an unguarded area, Bai Chongxi saw that it was profitable, and immediately ordered the Gui army to take these places before the central army, and as a result, the defense line was easily expanded by thousands of kilometers, if the Gui army was given enough time to digest slowly, it would naturally greatly increase the strength of the Gui army, but now it has only been a few months, and most of these places are plain areas, and as a result, under the counterattack of the Japanese army, they did not hold out for even a month, and they retreated all the way to Xingye, and only then did they use the terrain to repel the Japanese attack. But Bai Chongxi knew that the army's military spirit had been lost, and it was difficult for Xingye to hold it. Now the Japanese army is also very tired and needs to take a rest, so they are in Yulin City. On the other hand, the Japanese navy saw that France's dominance in East Asia was getting lower and lower because of the declaration of war with Germany, and in disregard of France's protests, it used warships and planes to bombard Beihai, Qinzhou, and other places, and mobilized the Taiwan army to attack the defense city. The Gui army only held out for eleven days, and then retreated all the way to Nanning, at this time Bai Chongxi was facing a two-way attack, and he had to find a way to win.

"Sir Bai! All the supplies in my Nanning City have been delivered, are we also preparing to evacuate? Du Yuming, commander of the 5th Army, walked in and asked.

Du Yuming was 36 years old at this time, he was a native of Shaanxi, and at this time he mastered the Fifth Army, which was known as the First Mechanical Army of the National Army, which was also the trump card in the hands of Bai Chongxi, and the Fifth Army had three divisions, all of which were fully staffed, including almost half of the tanks in the National Army at this time, mainly equipped with more than 80 Soviet-made T-26 tanks, 100 German-made "Haosu" armored vehicles, more than 400 American-made Ford trucks, and more than 40 motorcycles. The heavy artillery regiment under the army has 24 150-mm howitzers, and each division is equipped with a large number of mountain artillery and field artillery. Such equipment is even the Japanese army will be blushing when they see it.

Bai Chongxi looked up and saw that it was Du Yuming, and sighed, "Nanning is the capital of my Guangxi Province, and it really takes courage to retreat without a fight..."

Du Yuming persuaded that "Bai Changguan Fangcheng and other places have been lost, from Beihai to Nanning there is no danger to defend, only the Kunlun Pass in the north of Nanning can be relied on as a barrier, if our army stubbornly defends Nanning, in the end it may only be able to keep Nanning, but also can not keep Guangxi, if we hold Kunlun Pass, we can counterattack Nanning, and retreat can protect half of Guangxi." ”

Bai Chongxi smiled and said, "It's easy to say, it's hard to do, the people of Guangxi have supported my Gui army for decades, but now they want to retreat like this, it's really unbearable.... Immediately issued an order in my name, ordering all the troops to withdraw from Nanning in turn, and advising the people to go out of the city to avoid the fighting, and the army was cut off. ”

"Chief Bai, the chairman's phone number." At this time, Li Jishen walked in and said.

Bai Chongxi frowned and walked over, took the phone and said, "Hello, I'm Bai Chongxi." ”

"Jiansheng, is this Nanning really unstoppable?"

"The commission, it's not that it can't be defended, it's just that the value of guarding is not great, the Japanese army is attacking on a large scale, our army can take advantage of the favorable terrain to fight in order to eliminate the Japanese army's living forces, as long as its main force is eliminated, Nanning can be recaptured at any time, please rest assured."

“.... Jiansheng, this year is the year of the presidential election in the United States, France and Britain and Germany have declared war, we can't count on it, the Soviet Union and Yan'an have been eyebrow-raising for a long time, and recently I heard that the Soviet Union secretly sent senior officials to Yan'an, they are Sima Zhao's heart, everyone knows! We're going to rely on the United States in the future, so we have to give the Americans a good influence at this time, you know... President Roosevelt was still supportive of us, but we had to prove that we were worthy of support, so I personally don't think it's appropriate for you to give up a provincial capital like that. ”

Bai Chongxi sighed in his heart when he heard Jiang Agent's words, he knew that the location was different, and the things he thought about were naturally different, Jiang Intermediary wanted to start from a national perspective, and naturally he didn't want a big city like Nanning to be captured, but how could Bai Chongxi be willing? Just for the sake of the final victory, some sacrifice is necessary.

Bai Chongxi strengthened his determination and said, "Chairman of the Committee, please rest assured, I will definitely report the results of my retreat with a great victory, please give me a month, if there is no great victory within a month, I will resign myself!" ”

Jiang intermediary hurriedly said on the phone again, "Hehe, Jiansheng is serious, okay, I'll wait." ”

Bai Chongxi slowly put down the phone, picked up his hat and said, "Let's go, let's take a look." ”

Du Yuming proposed: "Sir Bai, should we leave some troops to fight guerrillas and harass the logistics and supply of the Japanese army?" ”

Bai Chongxi smiled and said, "Where do you think this is?" This is Guangxi! My Bagui disciples have not yet been in the habit of being slaves to the country, you look at it, the Japanese army thinks they have taken half of Guangxi? But I feel that they have half a foot in the tomb that we Guangxi people have built for them! ”

Du Yuming said in disbelief: "Could it be that those people still dare to attack the Japanese army?" ”

Bai Chongxi shook his head at Du Yuming and said, "General Du, don't you know how the Eighth Route Army in the north developed? Don't forget, you and I are also from the people's homes..."

Li Jishen hurriedly said, "Now is not the time to talk about this, let's hurry up and retreat to Kunlun Pass." ”

Bai Chongxi walked out of the headquarters and saw that the crowd on the street was much less than a few days ago, after all, the population of Nanning was not large, and the surrounding houses were also empty, Bai Chongxi felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, but he just held back and continued to walk.

"Report !! Urgent military situation, the Japanese Fifth Division has broken through our defensive line, and our army is retreating north. A communications soldier hurriedly ran to say.

Bai Chongxi frowned after hearing this, and said, "Immediately order the troops to defend Guigang, my Kunlun Pass echoes from afar, Commander Du, immediately notify all departments, be sure to withdraw to the north of Kunlun Pass within 24 hours!" In addition, let our sappers leave some gifts for the Japanese army, so as not to be told by others that we Guangxi people do not know how to be polite. ”

- A day later

"Report to the sir, the gates of Nanning City are wide open, and we went in to investigate and found that there was already an empty city inside."

A Japanese scout ran to Toshiyoshi Ando's side and said.

Ando Rikichi touched his beard and said with a smile: "Bai Chongxi, it's just like this, our army is like a bamboo, probably so scared that the Gui army doesn't dare to fight." ”

The surrounding Japanese troops laughed, but the S sent by Ishihara said, "Bai Chongxi, I have heard about it for a long time, this person is called Xiao Zhuge by the Chinese, and Li Zongren in the Battle of Lunan is on par with him, I am afraid that he has other plans for abandoning Nanning." ”

Ando Toshikichi shook his hand indifferently and said, "No matter what his purpose is, there is nowhere to play under the iron heel of our Imperial Japanese army, and the conspiracy and trickery must have enough strength to be useful, but the various departments cannot relax, we must continue to go north, break through the Kunlun Pass, open up Guixiang, dismember the Zhina, and force Jiang to surrender in order to be regarded as the final victory." ”

"Wow, the general is victorious but not arrogant, he is really a famous general."

"That's right, in front of the general, what little Zhuge is, it's all waste! Where are the opponents of our samurai of the Great Japanese Empire! ”

Listening to everyone's praise, Ando Toshikichi nodded with satisfaction, and said in agreement, "Immediately enter Nanning City!" After the Fifth Division arrived, they attacked Kunlun Pass together and went north to Hunan. ”

Ando Rikichi rode a high-headed horse, walked on the road, looked at the streets and houses in Nanning, although he was proud, but he also felt that there was no cheers of the people and the eyes of a timid girl, and he always felt that something was missing.

"Boom" Suddenly, Ando Toshikichi heard an explosion, followed by a series of explosions, and the surrounding Japanese soldiers immediately looked around with guns on guard, Ando Toshikichi swallowed his saliva and shouted, "Go and check, what's going on?" ”

After a while, a soldier came back and reported, "Report, it was our soldiers who entered the house, but they didn't expect there to be a mine, and it exploded, and three imperial soldiers were broken." ”

Ando Toshikichi took a breath and said, "Let the sappers check carefully, it's just a small skill of carving insects, it's harmless, let's go to Bai Chongxi's headquarters to have a look." ”

Toshikichi Ando was brought to Bai Chongxi's headquarters like the moon held by the stars, only to see a turtle painted on the white wall, a plaster flag tied to the turtle's head, and a Rendanhu painted on its nose. Bai Chongxi actually despised me so much, he was obviously a turtle with a shrunken head! I'm going to catch him and cut off his head with my own hands!" ”

- Kunlun Pass

"You see, this is the information from all over the place, riots broke out in Guangxi occupied by the Japanese army, the local people have taken up arms to resist the rule of the Japanese army, there is a small island in the north, less than 100 households, every three families sell a musket, and actually killed a few Japanese soldiers, a few young people in Binyang, stole all the horses of a Japanese cavalry squad, a village in Quanzhou, thousands of people in the whole village used fire and farm tools, sneaked up on the Japanese at night, and actually grabbed a heavy machine gun and eliminated ten Japanese soldiers, This is called the Ten Steps, and there must be vanilla; In the ten-room city, there will be loyal men. The Japanese army will not be able to stay in our Guangxi! This battle will be won! Bai Chongxi took the information and handed it to the officers around him, his eyes full of pride.

Du Yuming looked at the intelligence, nodded with a sigh and said, "The people are not afraid of death, let alone us, Qiu Ba?" Commander Bai gives the order, we will definitely complete the task! ”

Bai Chongxi looked at the resoluteness of the soldiers around him, nodded with satisfaction and said, "Our purpose in this battle is to completely annihilate the Japanese army!" The South China Corps, which severely damaged the Japanese army, made the Japanese army no longer dare to look directly at me Guangxi, and now, I give a combat order! (To be continued.) )