Terauchi Shouichi wants to make a time difference, after capturing Chongqing, there is still time to return to Nanning, he has to do this, a field main force of the devil Tang Qiuli, moving in the direction of Nanning, is definitely not a good thing, he smelled the smell of danger from it.

Terauchi Shouichi secretly scolded those bastards in the intelligence headquarters of the base camp and provided the information provided to the southern dispatch army of China, and unanimously determined that when the troops of the Imperial Japanese Army attacked the government troops of China, Tang Qiuli would not reach out to rescue at all, and the intelligence from Chongqing, the temporary capital of China, showed that the contradiction between Chiang Kai-shek and Tang Qiuli had risen to the point of irreconcilable Cheng Dù.

Previously, Tang Qiuli also escaped an assassination attempt by Chiang Kai-shek's henchmen, and the situation in the southern battlefield seems to prove this, there is no intelligence to show that there is a cooperative action between the government army and Tang Qiuli's troops, even the least coordination can not be discussed, and the two sides seem to have a posture of not getting along with each other.

However, Terauchi Shouichi saw from the experience of the old way that whenever the troops of the Imperial Japanese Army attacked the government army of China, Tang Qiuli's troops would appear in another battlefield, and the fate of the 15th Army of Yamashita Fengwen in the Battle of Duyun was the result of this kind of suddenness.

This time, when he commanded more than 300,000 imperial troops, attacked all the way to the north, and approached Chongqing, the temporary capital of China, Tang Qiuli's troops happened to appear in Nanning again, and the target was more than 100,000 imperial troops in Nanning. will cause great losses to the imperial army, and the two sides seem to have a tacit understanding.

Shouichi Terauchi even had a deeper consideration. The base camp regards the government of China as its main rival. Is it wrong to get the goal, you should first destroy the troops of the devil Tang Qiuli, and then attack Chongqing. This idea, since the total annihilation of the 15th Army, Terauchi Shouichi has had it.

Of course, he didn't dare to hand over this construction to the base camp, according to an old friend of Shouichi Terauchi in the base camp privately told him to attack Chongqing. It was a strategic decision made by His Majesty the Emperor himself, and he even gave up the occupation of Guangzhou for this reason, in order to avoid fighting with Tang Qiuli's troops as much as possible. First destroy the government of China, then deal with Tang Qiuli, and then occupy the southern part of China, which is used as an advance base for attacking Southeast Asia.

But this is completely unrealistic, this branch of the devil, like a ghost, hovers over South China, I don't know when. will pounce and bite the dispatch army hard. It also means that tens of thousands of imperial soldiers are broken. Avoiding fighting, but unable to dodge, Terauchi Shouichi only asked for help from the mainland.

He knows very well that by doing so, he is already weakening his prestige, since the fall of the 15th Army and the martyrdom of Yamashita Fengwen, there are already heavyweights in the base camp, and he has started the procedure of impeaching himself, if the hundreds of thousands of emperors in Nanning are wiped out by Tang Qiuli, and the Leizhou Peninsula and Guinan and even the Beibu Gulf are lost, his officials will be at the end, just wait to go home and retire.

Therefore, Terauchi Shouichi telegraphed almost several times a day to inquire about the situation in the direction of Nanning, and the answer he received was that there was no serious incident, Tang Qiuli's troops were still continuing to march in the direction of Nanning, and there was no Chinese army on the Leizhou Peninsula, which made him unable to feel at ease, and felt that an invisible net was heading in the direction of Nanning.

The anxious Terauchi Shouichi was almost forcing the Japanese troops advancing north to defeat the government troops who dared to block the attack in the shortest time and at the fastest speed, and he was not satisfied with the three days of fighting, and the order of his vanguard was that Zunyi must be captured within forty-eight hours.

Xue Yue, who was in Zunyi, was greatly relieved to learn that the Fourth Army and the 60,000 troops who went to reinforce were safely withdrawn from the Xifeng defense line.

The reason why he stayed in Zunyi and did not retreat to the Loushan Pass defense line was entirely to boost the morale of the troops and play a reassuring role, the commander-in-chief did not leave, and the incomplete troops would not panic and retreat like when Gu Zhutong was there.

The remnants of the Fourth Army and the Seventh Army, as well as the troops of the Thirteenth Army and the Twenty-first Army, after passing through Guò Zunyi, it was already early in the morning, Xue Yue was beside him, and there was only one guard regiment left.

The eyes are full of greenery, the mountains and lush jungles of northern Qianbei, as far as the eye can see, a round of spraying sunrise rises, and the distant mountains and jungles are dyed into a faint golden yellow, and the mist is steaming, and the sound of cannons can already be faintly heard. ”

In the more and more clear artillery sound of the Japanese army, Xue Yue, commander-in-chief of the southwest defense line of the Central Army, left Zunyi and went in the direction of Loushan Pass.

In the eyes of the commander of the vanguard of the Japanese army, the commander of the 108th Division, Suzuki Saburo, the terrain of Zunyi is much more precipitous than that of Xifeng, and the strange thing is that the gate of Zunyi is closed, like a tired old man, standing silently between the mountains, and there is no shadow of the soldiers and fortifications in Zhina, and the entire ancient city is not defended!

Such a situation, but make Suzuki Saburo suspicious, if you see the fortifications and pillboxes with strong walls in Zunyi, and the soldiers of the government army in Zunyi, Suzuki will not hesitate to order, the chariot troops cover the infantry, and immediately launch an attack, but the situation in front of him is too abnormal, too quiet, so quiet that Suzuki has no bottom in his heart.

After receiving the order from the division commander, the commander of the artillery wing stared at the bull's eye and used a high-powered telescope to carefully look at the terrain south of Zunyi City, until his eyes were dazzled, and he did not see where the position of the government army in China was as stated by the division commander, but only saw the tall trees and dense jungles all over the mountains, and there was no target, where did the artillery shell?

The commander of the Japanese artillery wing was confused for a while, and worked for more than an hour, and finally built a field artillery position, Suzuki telegraphed what he saw to the commander-in-chief, General Terauchi Shouichi, and soon, received a call back, "Attack according to the original plan, don't be fooled by the little tricks of the Shina people, remember, you only have forty-eight hours." ”

Suzuki was relieved, and the order came, "Order, artillery wing, immediately shell, tank detachment, enter the attack position," but the phone call of the commander of the artillery wing made him almost burst his lungs, "Your Excellency the division commander, please indicate the target of the shelling?" "Baga, stupid work, that's your business, you want to blow up the hidden Chinese soldiers."

The fierce artillery fire of the Japanese artillery poured shells on all the highlands and peaks south of Zunyi City, and the smoke of gunpowder rose, and the waist-thick trees fell to the ground with a bang, and after more than an hour, the so-called targets were covered, and the smoke of gunpowder dissipated, and in the binoculars of Suzuki and the commander of the Japanese artillery wing, not a single soldier of the government army of China was seen.

The commander of the Suzuki division was in disbelief, where did the Shina soldiers hide? Under such heavy artillery fire, there is no trace of it, what kind of people are they? At this time, the commander of the artillery wing called and asked whether to continue the shelling? Suzuki thought about it for a moment and gave a decisive order: "Immediately adjust the target of the shelling, the focus is on the city of Zunyi, and one point must blow up the hidden soldiers of China, otherwise, when the infantry attack, they will be attacked suddenly." ”

The Japanese artillery fire was fired from outside Zunyi to the city, and from inside the city back to the outside of the city, and shells fell on almost every suspicious corner.

Don't be a soldier of the Shina government army, before the arrival of the Imperial Japanese Army, he had abandoned the city and fled, leaving an empty city, such a thing, I have never encountered it before, I fought a few times, it can be regarded as a battle, and the commander of the Suzuki Division can also judge a rough idea, the current situation, what is going on?

At about five o'clock in the afternoon, the Japanese tanks covered the soldiers of the two wings, from the collapsed section of the city wall, rushed into the city of Zunyi, the premonition of the commander of the Suzuki division became a reality, the city was empty, not even a ghost shadow could be seen, only the destroyed houses, still smoking curling smoke, the smoke was misty, and the waves drifted into the sky.

At 5:30, Terauchi Shouichi received a telegram from the commander of the avant-garde division, Suzuki Saburo, "Your Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, our division has occupied Zunyi," just such a simple two sentences, Terauchi Shouichi was full of suspicions, he knew Suzuki Saburo's character, this guy can fight without fakes, but he can boast of the results of the battle, and it is also a good thing to do, a simple battle, in his mouth, can become a big battle.

No, with questions, Terauchi Shouichi drove into Zunyi City under the protection of the guards, and what he saw along the way made the mystery in his heart even heavier, why didn't he see the corpses of the soldiers of the Shina government army, did not see the destroyed fortifications and trenches, and after entering the city, he didn't see a single civilian figure of the China, and there were Suzuki division soldiers who saluted him everywhere.

After seeing Suzuki, Terauchi Shouichi understood that the Suzuki Division, which was both artillery and chariot, fought against an empty city for most of the day, that is to say, more than 300,000 troops of the Japanese Empire were blocked by an empty city for almost a whole day.

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