Chapter 945: Lù out of sharp teeth

In the name of the director of the former enemy command post of the Central Military Commission, Tang Qiuli issued an order to the Central Army and the local troops in Guangxi and Guangzhou, and his deployment was to arrange a defensive line in the Beibu Gulf and the Leizhou Peninsula before the Japanese army launched an offensive, of which about 120,000 troops of the Central Army and about 80,000 troops from the Liangguang and Guangxi regions were mobilized.

After the order was issued, the first to react was the Central Army, and it was Chen Cheng, chief of staff of the Nanjing Xingying Battalion, the former enemy command post of the Military Commission, who sent a telegram back on his behalf, "Vice Chairman Tang Xun Jian, the troops transferred are stationed in various parts of the southwest, the Sixth Group Army He Yingtǐng Division, the Eighth Group Army Liu Zhenbang Division, stationed in the Xikang area, the 11th Army's Wang Fulin Division, and the 27th Army's Wu Shifu Division, stationed in the western and northern Sichuan areas respectively, and it is relatively difficult to collect troops, and it is expected to reach the new defensive area, about two months later, the situation is unavoidable. I also hope that the vice chairman will forgive me and send capable cadres to the above-mentioned areas to urge all ministries to carry out their orders. ”

This is a telegram full of lies, and it will take two months before it can reach the Liangguang region, and everything is too late, and it is clearly a "drag" word, and he still underestimated Chairman Chiang's determination to preserve his strength, and originally thought that he would be happy to send such a big favor to the old man, and he hurriedly stretched out his hand, but he knew that Chairman Chiang changed his usual routine and became cautious.

In fact, after Tang Qiuli's order reached several Central Army units, Chairman Jiang immediately summoned his henchmen and cadres to study Tang Qiuli's intentions together, which was an excellent opportunity and a great benefit, but everyone had fought with Tang Qiuli many times, and they had an instinctive wariness against him, and they always felt that it was a trap.

On the contrary, military generals, such as Chen Cheng and others, advocated taking advantage of this opportunity to expand the influence of the central government to the Liangguang area, but the civilian officials opposed it, and in the end, Chairman Jiang made a final statement, "Don't argue anymore, let's see if we talk about sending troops, and then we will talk about it, and we will control the time of sending troops, and we will not be used as gunmen." This was the final decision, and Chairman Jiang and the civilian officials had the same opinion, believing that Tang Qiuli's order harbored evil intentions and provoked the central army to clash with local forces in Guangzhou.

Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi also reacted quickly, and the day after receiving the order, they called back and made it clear that in full compliance with the order of Vice Chairman Tang, the 19th Army and the 36th Army of the Gui Army had already moved to the Beibu Gulf area.

After seeing Yu Hanmou's reply, Tang Qiu was relieved to leave this point, and he was gone, Yu Hanmou's reply, anyone who saw it would be angry, "Vice Chairman Tang Xun Jian, since the signing of the military joint defense agreement of the five provinces, Hanmou only Tang Commander-in-Chief Ma is the first to look forward, and all the armed forces in Guangdong Province are under the dispatch of the commander-in-chief. ”

This is a nice thing to say, which makes people feel comfortable, but the following telegram has changed its flavor: "However, Vice Chairman Tang is already well aware of the current situation in Guangdong Province, the local situation is not quiet, the people are uneasy, the finances are erosive, the troops are in dire need of equipment, and the food and salary are in dire straits.

After reading Yu Hanmou's reply, Tang Qiuli was almost angry, and he didn't know what this Yu Hanmou thought, he regarded himself as a rich man with a lion mouth, asking for money, guns, and bullets, how could he be so confident that he could eat himself, thinking that he would meet his requirements, he had seen a thick-skinned person, but he had never seen such a shameless person, why was he poor and crazy?

What about this person, there are all kinds of things, for people like Yu Hanmou, Tang Qiuli doesn't even have the heart to reply a sentence, and fighting with such a person is simply insulting his IQ, and he has done everything he should do, everyone's circumstances are different, Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi still have to help, as for Yu Hanmou, Tang Qiuli gave him three words "Go to death" Then, he stayed at the headquarters of Feng Jiwu's corps in Quanzhou, and put all his thoughts on paying attention to the movements of the Japanese army.

As early as the beginning of March, the Japanese Emperor Hirohito issued an imperial decree to form the Southern Dispatch Army of the Imperial Japanese Territory, which was the structure of a front army, and Emperor Hirohito appointed the senior general Terauchi Shouichi, who was then the military staff officer of the Japanese base camp, as the commander, and the former deputy chief of staff of the army, Lieutenant General Nagada Tsuki, served as the chief of the general staff of the Southern Dispatch Army.

Although Terauchi Shouyi was a general with high seniority and prestige in the Japanese army, his reputation in the battlefields of southern China and Southeast Asia was not as good as that of the famous generals in the history of the Japanese army, Lieutenant General Yamashita Fumi, known as the "Tiger of the Malays", who was the commander of the 15th Army of the Southern China Dispatch Army, which was known as the "Steel Army" and swept through Southeast Asia.

Yamashita Fengwen was a famous man in the battlefields of southern China and Southeast Asia in World War II, and his most famous achievement was that he drove 8,000 kilometers by bicycle in Singapore with 30,000 infantry in two weeks, and captured 130,000 British, Indian, and Australian troops, leading the collapse of British colonial rule in the East.

Yamashita Fengwen's 15th Army, the biggest achievement in Southeast Asia, is to beat the British, can be said to sweep the British, Burmese and Australian coalition forces such as sweeping, this person is known for his courage and fierceness, good at wearing chā and long-distance running, once studied at the Munich Military Academy in Germany, and has a soft spot for the German ** team blitzkrieg.

Often dare to use a large force to outflank the Anglo-Burmese coalition army of tens of thousands of troops, attack the city, conquer all the invincible, like a tornado, swept through Southeast Asia, the British army is full of teeth, and retreated, and finally, had to defeat India, the Chinese expeditionary force of 150,000 people, into Burma to fight, but also suffered in the hands of this person, staged a tragic and tragic retreat of the savage mountain.

Emperor Hirohito came up with such a fierce general, which shows that he is determined to win the Southeast Asian region, and the Japanese South China Dispatch Army is also a strong force, under the jurisdiction of the third, fourth, seventh, eighth, eleventh, and fifteenth armies of the army, with the second and third flight groups, with a total strength of more than 560,000 troops, and more than 900 combat aircraft of various types.

At first, the operational plan drawn up by the General Headquarters of the Southern Dispatch Army was to take the Third Army and the Fourth Army as the main force and the island of Taiwan as the base to cross the Taiwan Strait and attack the coastal areas of Fujian.

The Seventh, Eleventh and Fifteenth Armies were the main forces, with Hainan Island as their base, crossed the Qiongzhou Strait, landed on the Beibu Gulf and the Leizhou Peninsula, attacked the Liangguang, Yunnan-Guichuan, and Hunan regions, and captured Chongqing, the seat of China's government.

In addition, the base camp of the Japanese army, there is also a strategic need to use southern China as a base to further occupy Southeast Asia, Southeast Asia has rich natural mineral deposits, like a piece of flowing oil, the eyes are greedy from Emperor Hirohito, the Japanese officers at all levels salivate, the eyes are red, but these places, in the hands of others, are in a hurry, jumping in a hurry, and insomnia at night.

These natural resources have always been an important source of iron ore, oil, rubber, tungsten, tin and other strategies on which the Japanese economy depends, although the Japanese have long cherished the heart of victory, but due to the actual colonial occupation of Britain, the United States, France, the Netherlands and other countries, they have always been unable to start, and now, Germany is in Europe, Britain and the United States and other countries are busy dealing with the situation in Europe, which gives the Japanese an opportunity to create a zào, so Emperor Hirohito can't wait to do it.

Although the plan is good, the plan to land along the coast of Fujian has encountered great difficulties, and there is only one reason, the damned devil Tang Qiuli transferred one of his main corps to Fujian, and this corps has not yet been defeated in the battle against the imperial army, and the famous Kwantung Army has suffered great losses under its command, and the commander of the corps, Lieutenant General Feng Jiwu, is a henchman that Tang Qiuli relies on a lot, and his combat style is extremely fierce.

Feng Jiwu's Niangziguan Garrison Corps, large-scale exercises and large-scale training along the coast of Fujian, caused great pressure to the Japanese South China Dispatch Army, the original plan was to attack Taiwan and Hainan at the same time, but the unexpected situation, all the deployments, Feng Jiwu Corps stationed in Fujian, became a thorn in the throat of the Japanese South China Dispatch Army.

At the meeting, the high-ranking Japanese generals who held opposing views almost quarreled, and the hardliners, represented by Yamashita Fumi, were very dissatisfied with the emergence of the Chinese army in Fujian and strongly demanded that the headquarters carry out the offensive according to the original plan.

Yamashita Fengwen also said contemptuously, "Gentlemen, if you think that Fujian has a branch army to defend, it will be difficult, then, I personally request, Your Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, to give my 15th Army the task of capturing the coastal area of Fujian alone," Yamashita Fengwen's tone of speech was similar to that of an ordinary trip, and his contempt for the squadron and the ** people has been deeply rooted in the bones of this fanatical militarist.

No one spoke, Yamashita Fengwen was arrogant enough, not only despised the squadron, but also looked down on Lian, and the commanders of the Third and Fourth Armies, who were despised, also surprisingly did not refute, but the anger of the gods could not be suppressed, and the commander-in-chief, General Terauchi Shouichi, frowned.