Chapter 85, January 1, 1940
In the last month of 1939, because of the failure of the Guards Division to aid Taiwan, the Taiwan Corps of the Cadet Army launched a New Year's offensive after all the Taiwan Special Operations Brigade returned to Taiwan.
Jiang Dahe personally led the 101st and 102nd Divisions to launch a fierce offensive against Changhua County from the northwest coastal direction, breaking through Changhua in three days, encircling Taichung a week later, and breaking through the so-called most rearguard set up by Kobayashi Jizao in one fell swoop.
Jiang Chuanjun led the 103rd Division to march to Hualien from the southeast coast, and it took only two days to annihilate two squadrons of the Japanese army in Hualien, and behind the devils of the remaining two brigades and three regiments of puppet troops, it advanced to the area of Xiulin Township, which was only 50 kilometers away from Yilan.
The main force of the Taiwan Corps led by Jiang Dahe and Jiang Chuanjun was like a bamboo, pushing the front all the way north, and there was a tendency to drive the Japanese army out of Taiwan in one fell swoop. The Taiwan Special Operations Brigade led by Xiao Yat chose Nantou as the main direction of attack, and with only more than 500 troops, they broke through Nantou in one day, and forced down two regiments of puppet troops, and then took these two puppet armies as the vanguard to drive the two brigades of devils in Nantou into a rabbit and fled towards Yilan County as fast as rabbits.
The New Year's Offensive ended on January 5, 1940, and in just one week, Kobayashi Jizao had almost lost almost all the occupied areas of the Taiwan Corps that had been painstakingly recaptured, not to mention the loss of three brigades of devils and five regiments of puppet troops.
The Taiwan Corps launched a large-scale counteroffensive in Taiwan, and Chu Tiange's guerrilla troops were also dispatched, they first attacked Fuzhou without blood, and then marched to Changchang. With the support of a brigade sent by the Second Army from Yingtan, on December 28, 1939, they surrounded the devils of the two brigades of Nanchang in Meiling, and the two sides immediately launched a major battle in Meiling. After the capture of Nanchang, in consideration of the fact that the Japanese devils who participated in the Battle of Changsha were retreating to Jiujiang one after another, Chu Tiange changed his operational plan, took Nanchang as his base camp, scattered the guerrillas with a total of nearly four divisions under his command, infiltrated the west, north, and east Sange directions with small teams as units, and encroached on the areas controlled by the Japanese army little by little, and began to establish a guerrilla front with Xiushui, Wuning, De'an, and Xingzi counties as the focus of defense.
On January 1, 1940, when the Cadet Army was launching a counteroffensive and harassment against the Japanese army in Jiangxi and Taiwan, Ouyang Yun delivered a New Year's speech in Guangzhou.
After more than two years of development, in addition to many places in Hainan, where the terrain is too steep, which is not conducive to the transmission of radio and television signals, people there are still unable to watch and listen to radio, and most of the ordinary people in other places can see and listen to television and radio through cooperatives.
When Ouyang Yun first plagiarized the cooperative's production methods, he was ridiculed by Jiang Shuren and other economic elites, who believed that this would create a group of lazy people who depended on the collective. Now, with the emergence of various cooperatives and began to occupy a very important position in the economic model under the military system, Jiang Shuren and others have naturally transformed and have become the promoters of economic cooperatives.
The establishment of cooperatives has played a huge role in the consumption of television sets, among other things. At the beginning of the advent of the "Xuebing" TV set, although Jiang Shuren and others thought it was very good, they were not without worries, fearing that because most families could not afford this kind of high-tech product, it would not be able to form a market, and it would not be possible to guarantee the operation of the TV station. Ouyang Yun forced each cooperative to buy one on credit, and at first, Jiang Shuren was worried that this would cause disgust among the people, or that they would not be able to recover the cost. However, facts have proved that Ouyang Yun's coercive means have played a decisive role in the popularization of television. The latest statistics show that in Fujian, Guangdong, and Qiong, the number of television sets has exceeded 200,000, of which less than 50,000 are still in arrears.
Television has become popular, but television programs are scarce. This is also something that cannot be helped, after all, the focus of the work of the Cadet Army is now to resist Japan. As a result, such a situation has emerged, and the speeches of officials, science and education, which later generations found very boring, were as popular as TV dramas, movies, and variety shows at this time. No, when the television station announced the night before yesterday that General Ouyang Yun, the supreme head of the Xuebing Military Government, would make a televised speech at 8:30 a.m. the next morning, then the families were discussing where to watch TV or what kind of food to prepare to entertain their neighbors and relatives who came to watch TV......
The news that Ouyang Yun will deliver a New Year's speech on January 1 has also attracted the attention of some people with special identities in Fujian Yueqiong.
At half past eight o'clock in the morning of the same day, as the TV screen changed from the white tassel singing to Ouyang Yun in military uniform, in Fujian and Yueqiong, all the people sitting in front of the TV held their breath and watched quietly.
Ouyang Yun often appears on TV, and now he is very old. He first greeted the soldiers and civilians under his command and greeted the New Year, and then went straight to the topic and began to report on the development of the Cadet Army in the previous year and the results achieved - "...... Our air force has developed rapidly and has now become an important armed force in our fight against the Japanese invaders...... Surprise attack on the two supply fleets of the Combined Fleet, surprise attack on the Guards Division into the reinforcement fleet, our heroic air force not only inflicted heavy losses on the Japanese army, but more importantly, dealt a blow to its morale, and showed the world our determination to resist Japan to the end......" After Ouyang Yun finished saying this, the TV screen appeared inside and outside Fuzhou Airport, and the people from all walks of life welcomed the pictures of the air force pilots who had returned victoriously from the "capsizing" operation - in the US Consulate General in Guangzhou, George was sitting precariously and saw this picture, He turned to a tall white man beside him and said, "Wright, are the generals in the country finally interested in the white-sided dolphin?" Hehe, are they waking up a little slower? ”
Wright's eyes were completely attracted by a "white-sided dolphin" on the screen, and he said, "Your Excellency George, what I told you last time, are you trying to figure it out?" We've already gotten information from the Japanese that the Cadet Army did use that mysterious weapon that day. Do you know what that means that this weapon can track fighters autonomously? This will mean that the cadet corps will be able to strike first, and they will have full control of the initiative in air combat because they have this weapon......"
George smiled and said, "I told you earlier, it's not a mysterious weapon, it's just a big rocket." Hehe, autonomously tracking fighters? Does that rocket have eyes and bird's wings? ”
"Your Excellency, I am disappointed by your attitude. You know, I'm talking to you about a very serious matter. ”
"Alright, alright, Wright, I promise you, I will ask General Ouyang Yun about this matter. He's my friend, we talk about everything, and I'm sure he'll give me the answers I want. ”
"I hope so!"