Facing the fresh morning breeze in the land of southern Guangdong, the convoy continued to move forward, Tang Qiuli's mood at this moment, quite a feeling of high spirit, counting, he also fought a war for ten years, from the northeast to the South Pacific, whether it was to beat the Japanese out of Chinese mainland, or to seize the Indochina Peninsula, or from the British, cut off most of India, did not have such an excited mood at this time, Tang Qiuli knew that this should be related to the future generations, that moment that made all Chinese excited.

The efficiency of the independent division's troops was absolutely efficient, and the battle to break through the Japanese positions on the outskirts of Hong Kong had just ended, and the engineer troops, driving forklifts and bulldozers, had already built a wide dirt road on the battlefield in the past, and from time to time there were dozens of military trucks, loaded with supplies, rolling up the dust in the sky, and rumbling through, and the logistical supply line connecting Guangzhou to Hong Kong had been able to run smoothly and unimpeded.

After advancing for more than ten kilometers, in front of him, a sea of tanks appeared, and there was a tank formation that could not be seen, Chief of Staff Zhao Yuhe, from the front seat, turned around, and said: "Division commander, we have arrived at the position of Commander Battle's armored troops, and if we go further, we will enter the battlefield!" ”

Tang Qiuli pointed to the columns of tank columns and said to Zhao Yuhe: "Yuhe, Battle is arrogant enough, more than a thousand tanks, just without any camouflage, blatantly parked in the open space at a glance, some people have no taste, if the Japanese army comes with hundreds of bombers, within an hour, Battle's tank troops will become piles of scrap metal!" ”

Zhao Yuhe heard it. The division commander is criticizing Battle, how can there be an indescribable doting element in his tone. As if praising this younger brother, he smiled and replied, "Division commander, I have already informed Commander Battle of the news that you have come to the front!" ”

As he spoke, an armored command vehicle drove towards him at a gallop. That speed, Tang Qiu couldn't reach it, and the armored command car braked beautifully. Stopped steadily in front of the convoy, rolled up a puff of smoke and dust, and jumped out of the car, a major general officer and several guards. It was Battle who came to greet him.

Tang Qiuli got out of the car with a smile. Battle trotted forward and saluted, "Report to the division commander, the commander of the armored corps, Battle, is directing the troops to standby, please instruct the division commander!" ”

Tang Qiuli looked at Battle with a warm gaze, it was not bad, and he was quite energetic. There is no pride on his face, which is after victory. He asked: "Battle, what is the situation with the losses of the troops, can they be pulled up at any time?" ”

Battle replied loudly: "Report to the division commander, the loss of the troops is not large, a total of 23 tanks have been destroyed, of which 12 have been urgently repaired on the battlefield, and the fuel and ammunition of all tanks have been replenished and can be put into battle at any time!" ”

Without waiting for Tang Qiuli to speak, Battle took a step closer and complained in a low voice: "Brother, why did you come to the front line, it's very dangerous here, and the infantry troops are fighting in the streets!" ”

Tang Qiuli smiled, stretched out his hand to sort out the combat uniform for Battle, patted away a few dusts on his body, and said: "What do I have to worry about, you have more than a thousand tanks, you can't protect my safety, Battle, the tanks are parked in broad daylight without camouflage, so they are not afraid of the Japanese air raid?" ”

In Battle's eyes, a naughty light flashed, and at this moment, Zhao Yuhe, who was behind Tang Qiuli, saw this young major general officer of the independent division who had experienced the baptism of the European battlefield, the commander who commanded the armored torrent, in his heart, that childlike innocence, perhaps, only in front of the division commander, would such a real side be revealed!

Battle said with a smile: "Brother, I'm worried that the little devil's plane won't come, I have already planned with Le Yiqin, my tank unit is so blatantly parked on the periphery of the effect city, his first batch of eight fighter regiments are on standby on the take-off line, if the little devil's bombers really come to the air attack, the aviation can also catch the battle, you don't know, Le Yiqin is full of complaints." ”

"When you talk to me on the phone, you say that you are biased, and if you hit Hong Kong, you will know that you will send infantry and tank crews to forget about his Southern Flying Group, more than 1,000 aircraft, and if you don't want to make any tricks, you can only watch other troops fight!"

Tang Qiuli nodded at Battle, and said with a helpless smile, "You, if you hook up with that militant Le Yiqin, there is nothing you dare not do!" However, you and Le Yiqin, it seems that they are busy in vain, the Japanese air force in front of them, the main forces are in the Pacific Theater, the Hong Kong battlefield, the Japanese can't take care of it, little brother, it's not bad, I don't have a hot head, drive the tank into the city of Hong Kong! ”

Battle was not convinced, how could he say it, he was also on the European battlefield, fought for more than three years, and he had experienced a bigger scene than this I don't know how many times, the "Lightning" armored assault division under his command was a famous ace unit in the German military circles, how could my brother look at people with old eyes, and just wanted to play a few words of justification, Chen Feng, director of the communications department of the independent division, stopped abruptly beside the two people.

Chen Feng jumped down from the jeep, "Report to the division commander, I received a telegram from the commander of the Southern Flight Group of the Air Force, Le Yiqin!" Tang Qiuli laughed and said, "It's really an evil sect, saying that Cao Cao is here, this Cao Cao is coming!" ”

Tang Qiuli received the telegram, "Division commander, the troops of the Southern Flight Group of our Air Force were ordered to block the airspace of Hong Kong, and at about 7:30 this morning, in the airspace near Huoshizhou Island in the waters of Dapeng Bay, intercepted three Japanese transport planes in order to force them to the Guangzhou airport. ”

Tang Qiuli was so happy that his face was red, he handed the telegram to Zhao Yuhe, and said: "Yuhe, good news, Le Yiqin has caught a big fish, this guy, lucky enough, the ground troops, kill and live, a street, a house to gnaw down the Japanese army's barricades, he can be good, pick up a big bargain!" ”

Zhao Yuhe was also very excited, and said: "Division commander, this means that the Battle of Hong Kong has ended, but it is the first time I have seen the Japanese commander who escaped from the battle, and this Pauly Gavin can be regarded as a precedent for a senior commander of the Japanese army!" ”

Tang Qiuli shook his head and said: "I can't be optimistic yet, Poly Gavin must have been hiding from the Japanese troops, ordering Yu Deshui, director of the Intelligence Division, and Shen Jun, director of the Investigation Division, to immediately rush to Guangzhou to surprise and interrogate Poly Gavin, prompting him to give an order to stop resisting the Japanese defense forces in Hong Kong, in that case, our troops will reduce great casualties, and Hong Kong will be spared greater damage. ”

Just as Tang Qiuli judged, the more than 30,000 Japanese defense troops in Hong Kong did not know that their supreme commander, the commander of the Poly Gavin Division, had already escaped from Hong Kong by plane, and fell into the hands of the independent division troops.

Every house and every street is the focus of contention, urban street fighting is dull, monotonous, and cruel, and heavy weapons such as airplanes, tanks, and artillery have lost their due role, and urban street fighting, more importantly, is a test of the tenacious spirit, fighting will, and individual combat ability of the soldiers of a unit.

The five main infantry brigades of the Independent Division and the Sulu Mobile Corps, which attacked Hong Kong, boldly interspersed, have already cut the Japanese army's defense system to pieces, and a large battlefield in Hong Kong has become countless independent small battlefields, and fierce battles are going on in each battlefield.

The Japanese commanders did not expect this way of fighting, and the defensive line they built in accordance with the normal urban defensive warfare was to rely on urban street battles to gradually exhaust and consume the strength of the independent division's troops, saying that it was better to wait for reinforcements, or in order to reflect the will to fight of the soldiers of the Great Japanese Empire, anyway, the Japanese troops in Hong Kong, in the case of an absolute disadvantage in strength, did not want to lay down their arms and surrender to the soldiers of China, whom they looked down on.

Major General Kobayashi Koichi, chief of staff of the division, who was entrusted by Lieutenant General Pauli Gavin to take over the command of the 37th Division, did not know the purpose of His Excellency the division commander, he only knew that he could finally command the troops of a division in an all-round way, and although he had lost more than half of his troops, he did not know that he was just a substitute for the division commander His Excellency Pauli, who had already been imprisoned in Guangzhou.

As for the plan to blow up all the important targets in Hong Kong and turn Hong Kong into a dead city full of ruins, probably Lieutenant General Poly Gavin himself felt that it was too dirty and crazy, and at the headquarters of the 37th Division, only Lieutenant General Poly Gavin and Hamada Nakasa, the head of the Special High Division, knew about this plan, and even Kobayashi, the chief of staff, did not know anything about it.

Therefore, after Hamada Nakasa's plan failed, and Hamada Nakasa himself was killed by members of the special operations detachment of the Independent Division in the process of implementing the plan, no one in the Japanese army knew about this crazy plan, and Hong Kong was saved from being destroyed by the Japanese army, but the battle was still going on in the entire Hong Kong battlefield.

By about 7 o'clock in the evening of 21 July, more than two-thirds of the New Territories, Lantau Island, and Hong Kong Island had fallen into the hands of the troops of the Independent Division, and the Japanese defending units were divided and surrounded in areas of different sizes.

According to the changes in the battlefield situation, Tang Qiuli adjusted the campaign deployment in a timely manner.

(To be continued) (To be continued.) )