Wang Jun's face turned blue when he was scolded, but in fact, he really didn't know the location of the various divisions of Yu Hanmou's Cantonese troops now! Even the plan he gave was nothing more than a product of the Nanjing government.

He just read from the script, and Yu Hanmou also knew what the situation was. Standing up and giggling in the round, Wang Jun's face was very ugly. At this time, there is humanity.

"I think we can deploy defenses on both sides of the Guangzeng Highway along the line north of Fuhe, Shiqiao and Shitan to block the enemy attacking Canton and cover the retreat of the citizens......"

As soon as this proposal was made, everyone immediately nodded. At least this seems to be more realistic, compared to Wang Jun, but it is a lot more realistic. The most important thing is that even if there is a problem, you will have time to prepare for retreat. Chapter 683: The Fall of Yuefu (II)

After discussion, Yu Hanmou agreed to this proposal. At that time, he used verbal orders to assign tasks to each division, brigade, and regiment, telling them to move immediately and set off for their designated positions to prepare to meet the attacking Japanese troops.

In fact, the bigger reason why they opposed Wang Jun was that Jiang Zhongzheng refused to send a plane to help with the investigation! You must know that now the number of fighters gathered by Jiang Zhongzheng in Nanjing and other places is also more than 200!

This is a collection of all the fighters of the Gui system, the Yue system and his own Central Army! Not to mention asking for air combat support, even if it is to help with reconnaissance, it is good.

It's a pity that Jiang Zhongzheng didn't say a word about this. Everyone also knew what was going on, if it was the Central Army here, I was afraid that Jiang Zhongzheng would have sent planes to help in the war. It's a pity that they are a "ragtag" army.

Li Jiezhi, then the police chief of the Guangdong Provincial Parliament, recalled this way:

"This was the last military meeting of the headquarters of the Fourth Route Army before Guangzhou abandoned the defense. When Yu Hanmou had already decided to resist the enemy army in order to cover the retreat of Guangzhou, and entered into a discussion on the issue of military deployment and detailed rules, I invited three or four people, including Ma Binghong, chief of the quartermaster department of the headquarters, and Zhang Jian, chief of the military medical department, to another room to discuss the issue of the fall of Yuefu (II) in Chapter 683 of the rear service.

At that time, everyone thought that the opportunity was imminent, and unless a miracle occurred, it was only a matter of time before Guangzhou fell. We calculated that the distance between Zengcheng and Guangzhou was more than 100 li, and if we fought in Guangzengjian as planned, we could support at least three days, then at least five days would be left for us to evacuate.

So I decided to hurry. Evacuate all kinds of military supplies and hospital wounded and sick personnel to the vicinity of Shaoguan in northern Guangdong, and ask Jian Zuozhen, the sub-supervisor of the Fourth Route Army Station, to prepare water and land transportation as soon as possible. ”

It's a pity that what they don't know is that Yu Hanmou is ready to evacuate.

At dawn, Liu Shaowu, chief of staff of the headquarters of the station, hurriedly came to find Li Jiezhi. Li Jiezhi saw that his face was ugly. He asked, "What's wrong?!" ”

"Just now, I received a telephone call from the switchboard of the communication team that the enemy had crossed Zengcheng and advanced towards Guangzhou City. Mr. Yu (Yu Hanmou) and the personnel of various military organs have left before dawn, and we must leave Guangzhou as soon as possible. ”

Li Jiezhi was stupid at that time! felt that this news was very ridiculous, obviously last night's meeting of the Yu Mansion decided to mobilize all troops to the front line of Zhongxinfu and resist the enemy, according to Li Jiezhi's calculations:

At present, Yu Hanmou's army also has Liang Shiji's division, Zeng Youren's division, Zhang Ruigui's Zhong Fangjun brigade, Zhang Jiansun's brigade, Yu Boquan's chariot battalion, and Chen Zhang's Deng Qichang brigade, which was newly transferred from Qiongya, as well as Zhang Junsong's two tax police regiments, plus Li Jiang's nine squadrons of military police. There are more than 4,000 armed police officers in Guangzhou, with a total strength of no less than 35,000!

At least three or five days can be supported there, and it is absolutely impossible for the enemy to immediately drive straight to Guangzhou, and those people in the General Headquarters will not slip away without informing themselves and others?!

Li Jiezhi calmed down, guessing that Yu Hanmou and the others might go to the temporary command post in Dafuling, the northeastern suburbs, so he tried to call the headquarters and the Yu Mansion, but no one answered, and then his face changed suddenly!

"Brother Tianren. I bother you to go to the Guangzhou Garrison Headquarters of Guangxiao Temple to inquire about what's going on! ”

"Good! I'll be there right away! Liu Shaowu nodded with an ugly face, and then turned to leave. He also thinks this kind of thing is incredible! As the commander of the local garrison, the commander of tens of thousands of soldiers actually took the lead in fleeing for his life! It's still an invasion war!

It's a pity. Liu Shaowu's answer to coming back made him desperate!

"The personnel of the garrison headquarters have boarded the bus and are ready to go, and the chief of staff of the department, Zeng Qiqing, said that Mr. Yu and the staff officers of the headquarters did leave Guangzhou at 4 o'clock this morning and went to Huaxian about the time of departure."

After hearing this, Li Jiezhi's heart suddenly cooled by half! I was stunned for a long time and couldn't speak......

The state raises troops in order to defend the country and protect the people, and now that the enemy has not yet arrived, our group of people have fled for their lives, leaving the common people behind, and secretly giving up Guangzhou.

Examine one's conscience. I'd rather die than deserve to die! Bow down and ask yourself, would you rather die!!

"Ring, ring, ring, ring, ......" I don't know how long it took, but the phone that Liu Shaowu had left on the table rang. Li Jiezhi picked up the microphone tremblingly and said softly

"I'm Li Jiezhi, who is it?!"

"Director Li, I'm Zhang Jianye of the Military Medical Department! What the hell is going on now?! I went to the headquarters and the Yu Mansion in the morning. But not a single one! What the hell is going on here?! "It was Zhang Jianye, the director of the military medical department, who called to inquire about the situation.

And after listening to Zhang Jianye's words, Li Jie didn't know what to say for a while. Could it be that Mr. Yu has already sent his wife and children away and is ready to run away himself? ! What is this called?!

And how is the battle going now?! According to the recollections of the then commander of the 186th Division of the National Revolutionary Army:

On the evening of the 12th, he received a call from Commander Mo: The enemy's vanguard has arrived in Tamsui. On the evening of the 13th, he received a call from Commander Mo: He Brigade could not be contacted, and Huizhou had no troops to defend, so it was decided to abandon Huizhou that night and block the enemy from crossing the river on the west bank of the river.

At noon on the 14th, the enemy's vanguard had arrived in Huizhou. That night, after receiving an order from the headquarters, the main force of the enemy's two divisions landed at Xiachong and Aotou, and the first division landed at Nimshan, Yanzaobei, and Pingshan.

I don't know where I am. In order to take advantage of the obstacle of Zengjiang and concentrate forces to fight a decisive battle with the enemy, our army redeployed as follows: the 20th Independent Brigade concentrated near Zhengguowei in Zengcheng and attacked the enemy with cameras; The 186th Division should send a regiment to cooperate with Zhong Fangjun of the 153rd Division at Luofu Mountain to block the enemy on the Huiguang Highway.

The 186th Division occupied the existing positions on both sides of the Zengjiang River and blocked the enemy at the line from Xkou (the name of the place is forgotten) to the rocky beach; The 154th Division was assembled near Fuhe as the general reserve; The 63rd Army should send a brigade and command a regiment of the 186th Division near Luofu Mountain to take advantage of the favorable terrain on both sides of Luofu Mountain to flank the enemy advancing on the Huiguang Highway.

The 158th Division, the 152nd Division, the 9th Independent Brigade and Zhang Junsong's Tax Police Regiment were the second-line corps, assembled near Guangzhou; The 157th Division should take a shortcut and quickly concentrate on Zijin and Heyuan.

On the 15th, the enemy had built a bridge in Huizhou. At dawn on the 16th, the enemy had crossed the river. The 151st Division's special service battalion made a slight contact with the enemy, and then retreated in the direction of Xiangshui. After the enemy crossed the Dongjiang River, he sent a detachment on the right side with four artillery pieces. Along the direction of Huizhou and Heyuan, go out of Longmen Yonghan to surround my flank; Another part (about a brigade) advanced to Zhengguo through Xiangshui and Henghe, and the main force advanced along the Huiguang Highway.

In the early morning of the 18th, near Futian.

"Tom tom tom...... Rumble! Rumble!! The "bombardment......" artillery roared, and machine guns, rifles, and mortars were fired simultaneously for a while. The sound shook the sky, and the valley thundered! The Japanese troops who were marching down the mountain were caught off guard and were beaten squarely!

But this Japanese army was not weak, and immediately looked for concealment and fired at the fire in accordance with the tactical regulations of the Japanese army!

"Bang bang bang...... Da ...... "The two sides immediately fought against each other, but after all, the Japanese army was suddenly attacked because of the heavy losses!" can only barely resist the attack of the Cantonese army.

The two regiments of the commander of the 459th Brigade of the 153rd Division of the Army, Major General Zhong Fangjun, and Ye Zhinan's regiment were engaged in the battle with the Japanese army here.

Xiao Bingjun, who served as the political instructor of the 153rd Regiment of the 459th Brigade of the 916th Division at the time, recalled:

Large forces of our army took cover in the grove and took the enemy by surprise. In the face of the head-on attack, machine guns, rifles, and mortars were fired simultaneously, and the sound shook the sky, and the valley thundered. The enemy was thrown into disarray. Soon after, it was dawn and the enemy's follow-up troops continued to arrive, and a fierce battle ensued.

Indeed, at the beginning, because it was an ambush, the 459 Brigade took some advantage. But next! As soon as dawn came, the follow-up troops of the Japanese army came up, and the 459 Brigade immediately fell into passivity!

At about 8 o'clock in the morning, the artillery wing of the Japanese army arrived! Immediately, I saw them slowly pushing the artillery to the commanding heights of Luofu Mountain. Zhong Fangjun saw through the telescope that the Japanese army had pushed the artillery up the mountain, and his face became gloomy......

"Tom tom tom...... Rumble! Rumble!! Boom ...... "The Japanese artillery fire was the first to sound!" The position of the 459 Brigade was a burst of indiscriminate bombardment! The roar of "buzzing ......" was heard, and the Japanese fighters also arrived!

Japanese fighters painted with "Hinomaru" in the sky flew by with a strange roar! The 7.7mm caliber guns on the ground were a burst of "sudden ......"!

The two regiments of the 459 Brigade on the ground are also unbearable! The fire of light and heavy machine guns together is a fierce sweep in the air!

"Assault!!" There was a strange roar from the Japanese position, but I saw the Japanese cavalry "rumbling ......" towards the position!

"Tutu Tu Tu ...... Da Da Da ...... Bang! Bang ......" The gunfire was mixed and chaotic on the position, and countless Cantonese soldiers roared angrily and fought with the Japanese soldiers who pounced on them!

The Japanese cavalry divided into two wings and flanked the 459th Brigade, while at the same time the Japanese infantry also launched a charge towards the position! After a while, the two sides collided! Caught in a tragic hand-to-hand fight!

"Lose your grandma!" The roar of rage continued to sound on the battlefield! In the roar, countless soldiers brandished broadswords, rifle butts, and bayonets to kill the Japanese army!

"Poof......" A veteran of the Cantonese Army who wielded a big knife and slashed over the Japanese soldiers had just cut a Japanese soldier, but was immediately stabbed in the chest and abdomen by several Japanese soldiers next to him! Fell miserably......

But these Japanese soldiers were immediately chopped down by the soldiers of the Cantonese army who shouted "Lose your grandma" behind them! Such a situation is constantly being staged on the battlefield! Countless bloods were sprinkled all over the battlefield!

The Japanese army finally retreated...... But then the fighters and artillery came again frantically and roared! Look at the Japanese fighter planes flying in the sky. and the soldiers of the 459th Brigade of the Japanese artillery who kept roaring, but none of them retreated!

"Lie down!!"

The sound of "boom boom boom ......" and the roar of machine guns suddenly rang out! And when the roar of planes and artillery ended, the Japanese attacked again!

Under the double blow of aircraft and artillery, there were heavy casualties on the position! But there was still no one to retreat, and everyone fought with the Japanese army again! Unfortunately, there are too few living people, and the Japanese army's troops, weapons and individual soldier quality are higher than those of the Cantonese army! I'm about to attack it!

"Assault!!" Those Japanese soldiers who were originally crawling forward shouted, and all the Japanese soldiers immediately raised their bayonets and rushed towards the position of the Cantonese army!

The roar of the heavy machine guns of the "Sudden ......". It's the Japanese heavy machine guns covering their stormtroopers! And after a while, the Japanese army relied on the superiority of troops to kill the position again! The two sides are slaughtering together! However, the Cantonese army gradually lost its support......

"I'll lose you grandma! You old bean yellow book lineage!! ! Shovel! When the soldiers on the battlefield heard this voice, they couldn't help but feel warm in their hearts! This is the voice of Huang Zhihong, the head of their 916 regiment!

It turned out that Huang Zhihong saw that there was no longer a force to use, so he did not hesitate to personally lead the special service company of the regimental headquarters to charge the enemy! When the soldiers of the Cantonese army on the battlefield saw that the regiment commander was coming, their morale was greatly boosted! Leng withstood the Japanese army's fight all at once! Hold it up!

And Huang Zhihong, who was wearing an officer's uniform, naturally became the focus of the Japanese army's firepower. Heavy machine guns, light machine guns, etc., all fired at him! In order to kill him on the position and break the momentum of the Cantonese army!

And on the battlefield, once it is used as a special hunting object by light and heavy machine guns, it is extremely difficult to escape! Especially in this state of white-knuckle fighting!

The scheming of the Japanese army was finally not in vain, and Huang Zhihong was really hit by ......a heavy machine gun! With a roar, it flipped down. Fell into the pit and went!

"Commander!!" The whole group roared, and what they heard was the angry words of their leader: "Give me a good kill devil!" Lao Tzu is not dead yet, howl a**! ”

In fact, Huang Zhihong has already been seriously injured! The blood poured out desperately as if he didn't want money, but he still gritted his teeth and roared at those Cantonese soldiers! In order to stabilize the morale of the army!

The Japanese army finally retreated again. And Xiao Bingjun and Xu Yimin, the deputy of the regiment, hurriedly rushed to the bottom of the hill with a few people to find their regiment commander. After seeing Huang Zhihong in a pool of blood, everyone was sobbing quietly.

"Howl a**! I'm not dead yet! Huang Zhihong gasped for breath and said loudly to Xu Yimin, the deputy of the regiment: "Xu Yimin, deputy of the regiment!" You command for me when I can't command the troops! Remember! No order is not allowed to take a step back! ”

"Yes!!" Xu Yimin, the deputy of the regiment, had red eyes. Say it loud! Then Huang Zhihong took out his private seal with difficulty and handed it to Xu Yimin, which was regarded as a simple handover of command.

"Quick! Come! Carry the regiment commander away......" Xiao Bingjun roared angrily, called a few people, put Huang Zhihong on a stretcher, and carried him off the battlefield......

Xiao Bingjun recalled:

"The deputy commander of the regiment, Xu Yimin, still continued to hold his position, and the other departments, although the number was small, still strongly supported. The battle lasted until 2 p.m., and the ammunition and food were exhausted. The officers and men were hungry and thirsty, and because they were bombed by enemy planes, the rear was in disarray. As a result, all provisions could not reach the position.

The brigade commander Zhong Fangjun saw that the troops were killed and wounded, fighting alone, and there was no backup, while there were more and more enemies, surrounded on three sides, and the situation was dangerous; That is, an order to retreat. At this time, the retreating soldiers, each looking for a way to survive, could not be mastered, in broad daylight, between mud fields and puddles. The target was greatly exposed, and the enemy planes were allowed to bomb indiscriminately, and the enemy artillery determined the target and pursued it ferociously, and the remnants of the troops who left the battlefield were killed and wounded, and so far many people were killed and wound......ed."

The two regiments were completely scrapped. Zhong Fangjun looked at Huang Zhihong, who was carried down and covered in bandages, and was speechless for a while. Xiao Bingjun cautiously reported the battle situation and losses. Chen Rongshu, the chief of staff standing beside Zhong Fangjun, shook his head and sighed.

"The Japanese artillery is powerful! The shooting is very accurate, and we have suffered a lot from this! The firepower can't match theirs, and the training can't keep up......"

Chief of Staff Chen Rongshu is a graduate of the Japanese Noncommissioned Officer School, and he still knows the Japanese army very well. The Japanese artillery is indeed more than a step stronger than the current Cantonese army!

The absence of the air force, the lack of firepower, and the gap in the quality of individual soldiers and the lack of preparation led to the crushing defeat of the Guangdong army!

"You take this money and transfer it to the regimental headquarters for food for the troops, and escort Commander Huang to the rear for recuperation...... Zhong Fangjun took out a roll of money and handed it to Xiao Bingjun and instructed. Then let them evacuate.

In the evening, the troops retreated to the rocky beach. Zhong Fangjun, who had not said a word along the way, suddenly walked out of the camp and laughed wildly!

"We soldiers! When you defend your family and defend the country, kill the enemy and die! However, today they have withdrawn from the battlefield and let the land fall! Shameful! Shameful!! As he spoke, Zhong Fangjun suddenly grabbed his pistol and was about to shoot at the head!

"Bang!" A gunshot rang out, but it was taken down by the guards!

"Brigadier Commander!! You can't do that......" Zhong Fangjun looked at his guard, laughed miserably and didn't speak. The wound was not bandaged, and he walked back to the camp.

That night, Zhong Fangjun stepped into the Pearl River in military uniform. The battle was not dead, but he did not commit suicide with a gun. This brigade commander chose to throw himself into the river of the mother of the boy in Yuefu, and washed away the shame of not being able to protect his family and defend the country with his life......

Zhong Fangjun was injured and drowned, and no one rescued him in time, and when he found out, he was already dead and buried in a coffin prepared by the local people.

On the afternoon of the 19th, the enemy had occupied the front of Zengcheng and advanced his position.

At dawn on the 20th, under the cover of powerful artillery fire and air force and tanks, the enemy attacked Zengcheng, and the fierce battle lasted until about 4 o'clock in the afternoon.

The Japanese invaders used planes and tanks as cover in this attack, and along the lines of communication, they adopted the tactics of rapid attack, fierce pursuit and fierce attack, and central breakthrough. Division Commander Li Zhen led the division headquarters to retreat to Fuhe and reported the combat situation to the front-line commander.

The 154th Division withdrew to Liangkou for defense. The headquarters of the Fourth Route Army retreated to Qingyuan one after another from the 21st. The 152nd Division Deng Qichang Brigade retreated to Yuantan. The 158th Division retreated to Huaxian. The 9th Independent Brigade retreated to Qingyuan. The tax police regiment retreated to Sanshui and Sihui. Chen Chongfan commanded the troops and artillery to go along the Guangcong Highway to Wengyuan.

22nd, Guangzhou, fallen. rq！！！