Chapter 586: Aftermath

As soon as Tang Enbo died, as the so-called "tree fell and scattered", these senior officers under him were all wiped out and had become prisoners, what did Tang Qiuli say, they only nodded and agreed, and it would not work if they didn't cooperate, those who wanted to pull out the gang were already lying there, so they were very cooperative.

However, the 110,000 troops in their hands are still scattered and stationed in the surrounding areas of Xiangfan, which is a force that can have an emergency at any time, don't look at the Japanese as a coward, faster than a rabbit to run, do it to their own people and bully the people, it is a group of wolves, if this problem is not solved, it will leave a disaster in the future.

After they arrived in Qiuquan, they detained and interrogated these officers separately, and ordered them to call or telegraph to their respective troops, saying that it was a meeting held by the regiment, and it would take a few days to end, and without an order, the troops were not allowed to move recklessly, and those who violated military law would be dealt with, which was an expedient measure to temporarily appease these troops.

In the evening, the troops staying in the ** area arrived at the periphery of Xiangfan, and the first thing to solve was the two divisions stationed in Xiangfan City, Tang Enbo's cronies, Tang Qiuli ordered the two division commanders to call their subordinates separately, and wanted to go to the officers above the battalion commander under their command to attend a military meeting at two different points, and the troops were ambushed in the venue.

Things went very smoothly, because it was the order of their division commander, these officers did not have the slightest vigilance, and even outside the venue, the guards had changed without noticing, and they were ordered to temporarily hand over their weapons, and the accompanying guards were also stopped outside the venue, and they didn't care, burping, laughing and talking about the scandal in Flower Street and Willow Lane, exchanging experiences of playing with women, and swaggering into the venue, only to be stewed with a spoonful, until the muzzle of the gun was on the door of the head, and it was not clear what was going on.

The troops outside the city of Xiangfan quickly marched into the city, occupied various key points, and took over the defense of the whole city, more than 20,000 soldiers of the two divisions were also controlled by the troops of the independent division, and at dawn, the city of Xiangfan had fallen into the hands of the independent division, and the citizens got up early in the morning and found that the soldiers patrolling the streets had been changed, and they all talked privately in surprise, however, there was no panic in the city, and Xiangfan remained stable for the time being.

What worries Tang Qiuli is that the other more than 90,000 troops left behind by Tang Enbo, the troops he brought to Xiangfan, plus the agents of Shen Jun's Investigation Department and Yu Deshui's Intelligence Department, are only more than 2,400 people, and it is far from enough to solve the more than 90,000 troops with loose discipline and complex soldiers, and the longer the time drags on, the more likely it is to have problems, and if there is a mutiny, it will be a disaster.

After thinking about it for a long time, he telegraphed Li Honggang's 29 th Corps to immediately end its rest in Haozhou and immediately march to the Xiangfan area, and the new recruits who had been replenished into the army were immediately sent to Huangyadong and handed over to the training headquarters for training.

Tang Qiuli also felt that this order was a bit harsh, the 29th Corps was okay to say, from Maozhou to Xiangfan, the marching distance was not far, for Sun Zhenbang's troops, it was extremely difficult, from the Taihang Mountains to Xiangfan, it was not an ordinary distance, but he was anxious, the current situation in Xiangfan was like a powder keg, as long as a little spark, it could explode, more than 90,000 routed troops, and it was a disaster wherever they flocked, so he could only order Sun Zhenbang to overcome a qiē difficulty, and he must arrive on time.

On the morning of the third day, more than 26,000 Li Honggang's troops rushed to the Xiangfan area, and in the evening, more than 50,000 Sun Zhenbang's troops also rushed to the Xiangfan area, so that Tang Qiuli had nearly 80,000 troops in his hands, which could completely solve the more than 90,000 soldiers of Tang Enbo's Eighth Army.

In order not to arouse the vigilance of the soldiers of the Tang Department, the senior officers who were in charge of the Tonggu control zhì issued orders to their respective troops, this is the national army unit that took over the defense of Xiangfan, the Japanese army is going to attack the southern Henan region, and all places will be allowed to pass and provide convenience, the soldiers of the Eighth Army heard it, my grandmother, the Japanese are going to call again?

It's no wonder, the Japanese drove us from Henan to Hubei, and they chased us over again, muttering in their mouths and beating drums in their hearts, and they were ready to slip away, but there were new troops in front, and they were somewhat confident and made up their minds, the situation was not good, and they immediately slipped away, and in this way, in the name of receiving defense, the troops were stationed in the various defense areas of the Eighth Army Corps, without arousing the slightest vigilance, in fact, Tang Enbo's troops were already in the midst of encirclement.

After the deployment of the troops, Tang Qiuli took the medicine according to the prescription, and also in the name of convening a military meeting, summoned all the officers above the commander of the Eighth Army Corps to Xiangfan City, and after the order was issued by the officers in his hands, Tang Qiuli waited with fear, at this time, if the nervous sensitive guy sniffed out a trace of ominous smell, it would mean a small-scale civil war.

Many commanders of the Eighth Army Corps, after receiving the order, muttered in their hearts, the division commander and the brigade commander have been going to Xiangfan for several days, and they have not returned, it seems that this time the Japanese offensive is not small, the commanders must not be able to discuss a good way, so they gathered everyone together, for the sudden order to join the military meeting, all kinds of reasons have been guessed, but I did not expect that this is an imperfect trap.

The next day, on the various roads leading to Xiangfan, those regiment commanders, riding horses and cars, drilled into the net in an endless stream, and after getting reports from various sentinels, Tang Qiuli was relieved, and finally there was no accident, and ordered all the troops, after waiting for the order, to take unified action and disarm all the troops of the Eighth Army Corps on the spot.

These people, after handing over the weapons they were carrying, the entourage was stopped outside, and they didn't care, they entered the venue, and found that there were more than ten times more guards in the venue than usual, and they were not the people of the corps guard regiment, there were a few guys with more active brains, and they vaguely felt that the situation was not quite right, and they were suspicious, and when they looked up, they were all their own commanders, although they looked at their mental state was not very good, they were not spirited, and their faces were familiar, probably they had used their strength on the belly of the girls, these regiment commanders, I can't help but feel sour, it's better to be a big official, and I have an advantage over us to make money and play with women.

Seeing that everyone was seated, Shanhu waved his hand and closed the door of the venue, Tang Qiuli walked to the front desk, these regiment commanders looked at it, oops, I don't know, there is another general, young enough, why didn't the Tang army leader show up? The whispers from ear to ear at the bottom began to talk.

Tang Qiuli smiled happily when he saw that the soldiers of the guard brigade had completely controlled the situation, and Li Honggang stepped forward, opened a piece of paper, and announced loudly: "Tang Enbo, the former commander of the Eighth Army Corps, has committed nine major crimes, and according to the order of General Tang Qiuli, vice chairman of the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government, chairman of the Northern Army Branch, and commander-in-chief of the General Headquarters of the Yellow River Valley Theater, he has been shot on the spot and disciplined."

As soon as Li Honggang's words fell, the venue was fried, and these regiment commanders were all officers of the Young Zhuang faction, and Tang Enbo also paid special attention to winning over and bribing these middle-level officers who held military power; many people here had received Tang Enbo's favors, and some of them were hand-picked by Tang Enbo.

There are even some bold guys, shouting and rushing to the rostrum, what Tang Commander was framed by a conspiracy, to ask for an explanation, etc., and so on, the mountain tigers who had been prepared for a long time made a gesture, a burst of gunshots, snipers in ambush on both sides, accurately hit the target, and more than a dozen guys who shouted particularly fiercely were drilled out of a bloody hole in their heads, and fell to the ground on their backs.

This is Tang Qiuli's established strategy, with thunderous iron-fisted means, to control the situation, these dozen shots, more effective than anything else, the messy venue, fell into a deathly silence, the officers of the Eighth Army would never have thought that Tang Qiuli would go on a killing spree, openly killing more than a dozen regiment-level officers, and they were stunned for a while.

After coming to their senses, under the pressure of the gun, they obediently sat down in their seats, and the bloody facts reminded them that the young Vice Chairman Tang on the stage dared to kill even Tang Enbo, not to mention that our little shrimp had fallen into the hands of others, and I couldn't tell what it was like in my heart, and the soldiers of the guard brigade stepped forward and escorted all these people out, and more than 600 officers above the rank of commander of the Eighth Army Corps were wiped out.

Solved these officers, Tang Qiuli immediately issued an order to act, and the troops suddenly surrounded Tang Enbo's troops with lightning speed, these soldiers, without the slightest defense, gambling money, drinking wine, and still guessing the boxing order, and some of them slept with their heads covered in broad daylight, probably because they were tired from visiting the kiln last night, and when they saw the muzzle of the black hole in front of them, they were all stupid, and they raised their hands obediently, and were escorted away by a string.

The operation to resolve the Eighth Army went very smoothly, only a few small exchanges of fire took place, however, the resistance was quickly crushed, seeing the corpses in one place, the soldiers of the Eighth Army no longer had the courage to pick up the guns in their hands, and it took only one day, more than 90,000 soldiers of the Eighth Army were all disarmed and escorted to the concentration camp in Xiangfan City, waiting for screening.

In the next few days, the troops of the independent division transferred a large number of men and began to go deep into the concentration camp for screening and liquidation, the soldiers were imprisoned together, and the officers were detained separately according to different positions, platoons, companies, battalions, and regiments.

With a force of 120,000 people, how many basically qualified soldiers can be singled out, and how many soldiers have not had the blood of the common people on their hands, Tang Qiuli really didn't count in his heart.

(To be continued)