Chapter 947: Standing by and watching

The Japanese army finally made a move in the Beibu Gulf and the Leizhou Peninsula, Tang Qiuli's warning became a reality, the news came out, the rear was shaken, and the current geographical location of Chongqing, Liangguang and Yunnan-Guichuan were undoubtedly the southern barrier to protect Chongqing.

Chairman Chiang was so angry that he scolded his mother, and in addition to shouting bad luck, he was not slow to move, and transferred the main forces of the Central Army to the southeast of Guizhou one after another to block the passage of the Japanese army to Chongqing in the north.

At this time, the best direction of action of the Central Army should be to cooperate with the Gui Army and participate in the defense of Nanning; if the battle achieves the expected results, the Japanese offensive in the Beibu Gulf will stop in Guangxi, at least a temporary confrontation situation will be formed, and the insurance coefficient of Chongqing will be greater, and the day of the defeat of the Gui Army in Nanning will be the time when the Japanese army attacks Guizhou.

Whether it is Chairman Chiang or his subordinate military generals and staff, they all know this, but it is the inexplicable delicate relationship between Chairman Chiang and Li Bai, and the decades of grievances and grievances, life and death entanglements, which make Chairman Chiang unable to understand the devil's obstacles, and instead of adopting the correct way, he adopted the strategy of sitting and watching the Gui Jun family and fighting with the superior Japanese army in Nanning, but did not lend a helping hand.

Perhaps, in Chairman Chiang's heart, there is a faint expectation that he will borrow the hands of the Japanese to kill the Gui faction that has been difficult with him for many years, and he has repeatedly been unable to get rid of it, such as the Gui faction forces that are stuck in his throat, and pick up a ready-made big bargain, perhaps because he thinks that after the bloody battle between the Japanese and the Gui army, they will be somewhat injured, and then attack Guizhou, and the confidence is insufficient.

Perhaps, Chairman Chiang knew that Tang Qiuli was in the southern region and had six main corps, and if he didn't make a move, why should he let the Central Army be a substitute for the dead, maybe it was too much, presumably Chairman Chiang's heart was also extremely complicated, in short, after the Central Army went to the southeast of Guizhou, it immediately put on a defensive posture, built fortifications, built high walls and barriers, and waited for the Japanese to fight Mén.

After learning of the Central Army's arrangement in southeast Guizhou, Tang Qiuli roughly grasped the psychological activities of Chairman Chiang, and in his opinion, the Central Army's move was absolutely stupid, and Guangxi formed a relationship of dependence with the rear, and the Gui system could not resist it, and the result was that the strength was completely lost, and the Japanese army after the victory would take the power of victory and take Guizhou directly, and it was still unknown how long the Central Army could block it with the combat effectiveness and weapons and equipment of the Central Army.

The Japanese army also had another direction of attack, dividing its troops from Guangxi, advancing west into Yunnan, and attacking Chongqing from the southwest, which was also a fatal blow, and the Japanese army attacking Guangdong, intimidated by the deployment of the independent division Feng Jiwu's corps in Fujian, the corps directly under the division in Changsha, Hunan, and Ma Chaoyang's southeast mobile corps in Ji'an, Jiangxi, would never touch this mold, turn to attack Guangxi, and even press its forces in the direction of Nanning, which is very likely.

Only in this way, the defense of Nanning, which Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi were determined to fight, played a crucial role in stabilizing and even changing the situation in the southeast, and the situation was obvious, with the strength of the Gui army, it was difficult to resist the attack of the Japanese army, although he knew Chairman Chiang's thoughts, Tang Qiuli still decided to try it and persuade Chairman Chiang to participate in the defense of Nanning.

For this reason, he sent a long telegram to Chairman Chiang, "Chairman Chiang's honor, the war in the southeast has suddenly broken out, the Japanese army has pressed the border, and the purpose of attacking Chongqing in the north is very obvious, and Nanning, as a vital fortress in Guangxi, if properly managed, can be called the pillar of resistance to the next move of the Japanese army. ”

In addition, the Japanese army attacking Guangdong will also turn the spearhead of the attack to the direction of Nanning, Guangxi, in this way, the pressure on the Gui army has increased sharply, and there is a danger of annihilation of the whole army, and the corps directly under our independent division has entered the Liuzhou area in the northeast of Guizhou to provide assistance to the Gui army at any time, and the situation is difficult, and I hope that the chairman will make a correct decision, and I am eager to look forward to it."

After Tang Qiuli sent this telegram to Chongqing, there was a great shock within the national government, Chen Cheng, Yang Yongtai, Gu Zhu and others were also well aware of the current situation, knowing that Tang Qiuli's words were very correct, and they were the best strategy to deal with the Japanese attack.

The next step of the Japanese will definitely stretch out the knife to Guizhou, but the old man's mind is difficult to figure out, and several people decided to persuade the old man that it is not that many people care about the Gui family, and that Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi are killed by the Japanese is the most ideal, but for the sake of the safety of the Central Army and Chongqing, the southeast war situation is erosive, nòng is not good, and there is the possibility of moving the capital.

After seeing Chairman Jiang, several people felt that the old man's anger was not too good, and his mood seemed to be very irritable, perhaps because of the influence of Tang Qiuli's telegram, and even more worried about the future safety of the Chongqing government, Chen Cheng and others set their eyes on Yang Yongtai.

Yang Yongtai had the courage to say euphemistically, "Commission, I and Ci Xiu and others, after carefully studying Tang Qiuli's telegram, I think that what Tang said is very reasonable, the defense of Nanning is a key battle related to the safety of the rear, if this battle is won, the Japanese army will be forced to slow down the pace of attack, then the government can calmly dispatch, there is also a chance to breathe, therefore, the humble level believes that the main force of our Central Army, go south to Nanning, and jointly organize the defense of Nanning with the Gui Department as the best policy, of course, this battle needs to be dominated by the national government, supplemented by the Gui Department, I wonder what the chairman thinks? ”

Chairman Jiang frowned and listened to Yang Yongtai's words, his face immediately sank, and he suddenly said angrily, "Niang Xipi, he Tang Qiuli has hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the south, why don't you send troops to participate in the defense of Nanning, you have to let Jiang someone send troops, with ill intentions, if you don't use up my hard-earned family resources, he won't be at ease, you think this method is good, go and discuss it with Tang Qiuli, why bother to ask me?" ”

"Defending the southeast of Guizhou is a great achievement, I will not send a single soldier to Nanning," After speaking, he brushed his sleeves away, leaving the stunned Yang Yongtai and Chen Cheng and others, looking at the figure of Chairman Jiang, disappearing at the end of the corridor, and the sound of the cane on the stone road was like a hammer hitting their hearts, this is extremely serious, these people, the hardcore henchmen who are not Chairman Jiang, let them discuss with Tang Qiuli about sending troops to Nanning, doesn't it mean that they have betrayed the old man? Several people smelled the smell of danger from Chairman Jiang's words, and for a while, their hearts were extremely bitter.

The Central Army went south to Nanning and participated in the defense of Nanning, and there was no follow-up, and the Chongqing government did not have a saying, the Central Army still stood still on the front line in southeast Guizhou, Tang Qiu was half cold, he didn't want to send troops to Nanning, the key was that Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi's style of play in Nanning did not meet his requirements, not to mention, the two Guangxi bigwigs had not officially asked for an independent division to send troops to Guangxi, and Tang Qiuli did not want to leave the impression that Li Bai and the others were in danger.

Chang Feng led the troops into Liuzhou, northeast of Guizhou, has made Li Bai and the two not very comfortable, in the telegram, euphemistically mentioned this matter, moreover, defend the place, fight the troops, fight the consumption, care about the gains and losses of a city and a place, this is Tang Qiuli has always abandoned the tactics, he also proposed to Li Bai and the two of them, but it has no effect, Li Bai and the two of them are determined to do a battle with the Japanese army in Nanning, at this time, the independent division troops joined, the casualties are large, it is unavoidable, such a thing, Tang Qiuli will never do it.

The war clouds in the Liangguang region were dense and the artillery was full of fire, the Japanese offensive was like Cháo, Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi were ambitious to organize the defense of Nanning, Chairman Chiang, who was in charge of hundreds of thousands of troops in the southeast of the Central Army, Chen Bing, sat on the mountain and watched the tiger fight, and Tang Qiuli, the commander-in-chief of the military joint defense of the five southwestern provinces who held hundreds of thousands of troops, had nothing to do.

To say that Long Yun is a smart person who knows how to take precautions, but Yunnan is not important now, there are two Guangxi in front of it, Tang Qiuli has the feeling of standing by and watching, extremely depressed, should do something for the upcoming defense of Nanning, however, the opportunity soon came, on April 23, Tang Qiuli received a distress telegram from Yu Hanmou, chairman of the Guangdong Provincial Government and commander of the Guangdong Provincial Garrison.

From the moment he received the telegram, Tang Qiuli knew that Yu Hanmou couldn't stand it, speaking of which, Yu Hanmou was unlucky enough, among the five southwestern provinces, Yu Hanmou's strength was the weakest, his command was only a hundred thousand people, the equipment was several grades behind the armies of other local bigwigs, and the financial resources in his hands were also insufficient, and the training of the troops was even more messy.

With such strength, the offensive opponent encountered was the 15th Army of the Japanese Southern Dispatch Army, which was known for its boldness and toughness, that is, the troops of Yamashita Fengwen, the 15th Army landed in Hai'an on the Leizhou Peninsula, and as soon as it landed, it put on a desperate attack posture, and the 7th Garrison Brigade of the Guangdong Army defending Hai'an was more than 8,000 people, and in the face of the Japanese army's water-like attack, they could not even block a round.

The battle of Hai'an, but it was over in just over an hour, Yamashita Fengwen ate a whole brigade of the Cantonese army in one bite, and he didn't even burp, Hai'an Town was full of corpses of Cantonese soldiers and civilians, and the 15th Army completely implemented Yamashita Fengwen's order, and left no one in the occupied area of China.

Hai'an Town was killed, and then, Yamashita Fengwen waved his troops to take Xuwen, an important town on the Leizhou Peninsula, where there was a division of the Guangdong Army to defend.