Chapter 1033 Conspiracy and Strategy

On the south bank of the Chishui River, the Sichuan army, which had been waiting for work at ease, was beaten head-on, and had no choice but to ask for instructions from General Toshiichi Terauchi, commander-in-chief of the dispatch army, to advance at all levels in Yunnan.

Without a strong opponent, the Japanese army sprinkled all the anger held in Loushan Pass and Chishui River on Long Yun's head, and after entering the territory of Yunnan, he rushed straight to Kunming, and Long Yun, who had already transferred all the party, government, and military organs and industrial and mining enterprises in Kunming, made up his mind to fight a good battle with the Japanese army on the periphery of Kunming.

To tell the truth, Long Yun didn't want to fight the Japanese army head-on at all, he knew how much capital he had, he couldn't afford to toss, he didn't want to fight, but the local celebrities and gentry in Yunnan stopped doing it, and rushed to Long Yun's official residence one after another, accusing Long Yun of being the chairman of the Yunnan Provincial Government and the commander of the provincial garrison, but when the Japanese hit the doorstep, he wanted to abandon the city and flee, ignoring the voices of millions of people in Yunnan Province, and being ashamed of being a son of Yunnan.

These old gentlemen and scholars, generous speeches, passionate, one more enthusiastic than the other, but do not understand the current situation, the blood is warm enough, but do not weigh their own capital, Long Yun does not dare to go against the wishes of these people too much, his forces, is supported by Yunnan locals, are his food and clothing parents, without the support of these gentry and celebrities, Long Yun is afraid that he will sing a one-man show and end up alone.

In the end, in desperation, Long Yun took out Tang Qiuli's telegram in an attempt to persuade these people that the abandonment of Kunming was temporary, and in order to avoid the sharp edge of the Japanese, the troops of the Independent Division, after the end of the Nanning Campaign, would enter Yunnan to fight against the Japanese, and at that time, Kunming would soon return to our hands.

Tang Qiuli's telegram was not taken out, but as soon as it was taken out, these people blew up at that time, with only one meaning, Yunnan is our own, those people from other provinces, there is no good thing, not their own interests, who cares about the personal feelings of Yunnan people, from the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, hundreds of years of history have been turned out, and the only conclusion is that people from other provinces only have plans and ambitions for Yunnan, and have never had good intentions, and that Tang Qiuli is no exception.

Long Yun was forced to have no choice, gritted his teeth, let go of the Yunnan army's family background, and fought to the death with the Japanese army in Kunming, which can be regarded as conforming to the will of the people, worthy of the fathers and villagers in Yunnan, just like that, the plan for the defense of Kunming was released, and these old gentlemen went away satisfied, and agreed to sell their property and raise money, that is, to smash the pot and sell iron, but also to improve the equipment of the Yunnan army.

After a few days of busy work, 100,000 Yunnan army troops, one after another concentrated in the direction of Kunming, Long Yun had no bottom in his heart, as the head of Yunnan Province, he had not yet impulsively reached this kind of Cheng dù, knowing that this battle could not be fought, and the disparity between the enemy and our strength, immediately, the plan for the defense of Kunming, reported to Tang Qiu where to leave, and implored Vice Chairman Tang to send elite troops into Yunnan for the sake of the joint defense of the five southern provinces to jointly defend Kunming.

After Tang Qiuli received Long Yun's telegram, he frowned at that time, this Long Yun, he was really confused, he wanted to fight with the Japanese army, and it was not his way of fighting, with the equipment of the Yunnan army and the soldiers, he fought a tough positional defensive battle with the Japanese army, wasn't that his own loss?

With the shortness of the other, the length of the enemy, waiting for the final result of the Yunnan army, is to fight for the light to pull down, Kunming still has to be lost, those old gentlemen's opinions, clearly scholarly spirit, where do you know the danger of war, abandoning the city is not afraid of the enemy, giving up Kunming is not running away, let alone giving up resistance, two different things!

Long Yun can be swayed, it is not a good phenomenon, his own troops, one hand on the hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops in Nanning, one eye on the more than 200,000 Japanese troops in front of Loushan Pass, can not free up their hands to enter Yunnan, even if three or five brigades are sent, they may hold Kunming, and the casualties of the troops will be amazing, which is not in line with Tang Qiuli's strategy of using troops.

What's more, there are also Japanese reinforcements from the Japanese mainland, and the current Yunnan is not the main battlefield, so Tang Qiuli's wording is more harsh in his reply to Long Yun, "Chairman Long, what the previous telegram said will not change, in order to abandon Kunming, avoid the edge of the Japanese army, and do not care about the gains and losses of one city and one place, the main force of the Yunnan army should be withdrawn to northwest Yunnan as the best policy, and the will of the people cannot be violated, and it must also be based on the actual situation." ”

"If the public will is broken, I will build a battle with the Japanese army on the outskirts of Kunming for one to two days, when the Japanese army has not formed an encirclement of Kunming, the Dian army will immediately withdraw westward, so as not to incur the loss of the elite of the Yunnan army and the annihilation of the whole army, and we must not have the intention of defending Kunming to the death."

"As for the entry of our independent division's troops into Yunnan to fight, it will take a few days, and only after the Nanning campaign is over will we have the ability and time to carry out this matter, and the time for the evacuation of the Yunnan army from Kunming will be issued by order, and at that time, the Southern Flying Group of the independent division's aviation unit will send a large number of fighters to cover the withdrawal of the Yunnan army, and Tang Qiuli, commander-in-chief of the military joint defense headquarters of the five southern provinces of the National People's Political and Military Committee."

Tang Qiuli can only do so much for Long Yun, he also understands Long Yun's hardships, if he doesn't fight, he can't explain to those blind xenophobic forces in Yunnan, and the final payment is the first time he has used this official title, which means that he will take the responsibility of giving up Kunming and let those xenophobic forces in Yunnan talk to him.

After Long Yun received the telegram, he thanked Tang Qiuli for his kindness, and it could be seen that Long Yun was sincere, and the matter in Yunnan was temporarily settled, on September 4, Tang Qiuli flew back to the Nanning front line from Guangzhou, and Mei Xue came randomly, although he was absolutely unwilling to let Mei Xue come to the dangerous front line.

But Mei Xue changed her usual gentleness and delicateness, her attitude was very resolute, she had no choice but to bring her, think about it carefully, she is really indispensable by her side, just sleeping alone at night is enough to torture people, as well as the usual food, clothing, housing and transportation, she also needs Mei Xue to take care of it.

As soon as he got off the plane, Ma Chaoyang, commander of the Southeast Mobile Corps of the Independent Division, took a large number of officers to the airport to greet him.

Without him, the whole corps worked together and held back a lot of energy, to play the prestige of the main corps in the Nanning Campaign, but the division commander suddenly left, everyone was worried that the Nanning Campaign would be in vain and could not be fought, these days, Ma Chaoyang was not annoyed to death, his headquarters, just like rushing to the market, every day there are many officers, come to ask for news, but Ma Chaoyang is also a puzzle, where can he answer!

Now it's okay, the division commander has returned to the front line, has he received an order to change the deployment of the campaign, the Nanning Campaign is a sure thing, it can't be changed, as soon as he saw Tang Qiuli's face, Ma Chaoyang stepped forward and saluted, "Welcome the division commander back to the Nanning front, all the officers and soldiers of my Southeast Mobile Corps, wait for the division commander's order!" Cleanly and neatly defeat Nanning and completely wipe out the Japanese army! ”

Tang Qiuli glanced at Ma Chaoyang meaningfully, and said, "Commander Ma, I haven't seen you for a few days, have you learned to knock on the side?" What kind of idea do you have in your heart, I don't know yet, I haven't heard Deputy Division Commander Tang say in the past few days, you haven't stopped making small moves, then okay, go to the headquarters, gather all the generals under you, and talk about it well. ”

Ma Chaoyang smiled embarrassedly, and when he heard that the division commander was back, the dozen or so brigade commanders of the Southeast Mobile Corps rushed over without waiting for the notice, and the big guy reported the situation in the past few days, Tang Qiuli glanced at Ma Chaoyang with some surprise, and nodded approvingly.

In the past few days, Ma Chaoyang has really not been idle, guarding so many tanks and artillery, as well as powerful thunder rocket artillery, looking at the hundreds of thousands of little devils inside and outside Nanning City, he just didn't let him fight, and he was anxious like fire in his heart, and called the brigade commanders together, everyone came up with ideas, didn't the division commander not let him launch a general attack? Well, then clean up the periphery and prepare in advance for the general attack on Nanning, this reason is very good and reasonable.

The operational plan for cleaning up the Japanese positions on the periphery of Nanning was reported to Tang Qiusheng, the deputy division commander who was acting under the command of Tang Qiuli and the commander of the Sulu Mobile Corps, and Qiusheng carefully considered the plan reported by Ma Chaoyang, which was very feasible without affecting the overall situation.

After obtaining the approval of the deputy division commander, Ma Chaoyang mobilized his troops to fight against the Japanese army in the periphery of Nanning, and the superior strength and firepower, coupled with the tank troops of the four brigades, the Japanese positions on the periphery of Nanning were like paper paste, vulnerable, and the pillboxes and hidden fortifications built of cement were reduced to ruins everywhere under the overwhelming artillery fire.

Ma Chaoyang fought very strategically, gave full play to his firepower superiority, did not fight hard, and after three or four days, the Japanese army's outer positions in Nanning were swept away, killing 17,800 Japanese troops, attacking the starting position, and advancing to the city of Nanning, and the casualties paid by the corps were only a few hundred, that is, more than the shells were fired.

In Ma Chaoyang's words, it was the result of the cannonballs, this series of actions really turned Nanning into a lonely city, surrounded by troops around Nanning on all sides, the muzzle of the cannon, the black hole pointed at the city of Nanning, if it weren't for Ma Chaoyang remembering that the division commander said that the little devil in Nanning was a bait, used to fish the old devil Shouyi in the temple to turn around, I am afraid that the Nanning that Tang Qiuli saw at this moment would be a ruin.

On 6 September, the Japanese troops on the front line at Loushan Pass still did not make any other moves, and Tang Qiuli was impatient to wait and issued an order to the troops to attack the Japanese army in Nanning in the early morning of 7 September.

The Japanese troops on the battlefield of Loushanguan, who had just reached the troops, suddenly began to act, and with rapid movements, they broke away from contact with the Central Army and turned south, but the route to the south surprised Tang Qiuli.

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