Chapter 52: New Year's Speech
The air battle that took place in the airspace near Kaohsiung had a great impact on the fighting on the ground in Tainan. The Japanese army in Taiwan originally had only one brigade and regiment, and even with the local police force in Taiwan, it was less than one division. It is obviously unrealistic to want to control the entire Tainan region with the strength of a brigade. Although there are only more than 5,000 people in the Taiwan Corps of the Cadet Army, its composition is very targeted, so in just a week, the guerrilla elite soldiers who originally belonged to the Spark Brigade appeared in Nantou County, and this is already Taichung.
As for Taiwan, Ouyang Yun was determined to win, so he did a lot of work before deciding to send troops, and did extremely detailed research and targeted arrangements. The entire Taiwan Corps was actually divided into three parts: the troops drawn from the regular army of the Cadet Corps were the main combat units, and they were responsible for attacking the city and destroying the grassroots ruling buildings of the Japanese; The special squad composed of wolf teeth and fox pupils roamed around, killing and destroying Japanese military buildings in remote areas or some more famous traitors; As for the Spark Brigade, they are responsible for developing local armed forces in the local area and establishing a base area centered on Kaohsiung.
The Japanese army did not have an advantage in terms of troops, and was taken by surprise, so the Taiwan Corps began to advance extremely quickly, and in just one week, it wiped out the main force of the Japanese army in the Tainan area centered on Kaohsiung, and captured Kaohsiung, Tainan, Taitung, Pingtung, and other small and medium-sized cities, opening up the situation at once.
Later, although Kobayashi Tatsuzo transferred the main force from Taipei to counterattack, because of the loss of air supremacy, his combat units were severely defeated by the Air Force of the Cadet Army, and in just three days, he lost more than 3,000 troops.
The total strength of the Japanese Taiwan brigade was only more than 14,000 troops, and in order to garrison Taipei and other places, at most one wing of troops could be mobilized to counterattack. Kobayashi was worried that the loss of troops would cause a defensive vacuum in some areas, so he could only shrink his forces and ask for help from Tokyo, hoping that the Ministry of War would send reinforcements to expel the Cadet Corps from Lu.
In this time and space, the strength of the Japanese army in China was doubled early compared with that time and space, but even so, because the Scholar Army firmly held Minyue Qiong, the advantage of the Japanese army was not as good as that time and space.
Originally, with Japan's complete reserve system, it was possible to quickly organize a new army and fight on the island of Taiwan. However, at this time, the Xuebing Army launched the Fujian, Guangdong, and Jiangxi Campaign, while the South China Front Army was losing one after another, which made the Japanese base camp realize the lack of troops in South China, so a difficult choice question was placed in front of them - whether to increase troops in Taiwan or South China first?
The Japanese have been operating in Taiwan for many years, and they have long regarded this place as a local existence, and after weighing it, the Japanese army still decided to increase the troops in Taiwan first and sweep away the snow in the backyard first.
This policy decision of the Japanese Army is in line with the policy line of the current Japanese cabinet, and the Japanese cabinet is happy to see this phenomenon, because in this way, it will have more reasons for them to make peace with the Nationalist Government.
In order to maintain a balance or even superiority in the strength of troops in South China, the transfer of troops from North China or Central China has become the only option.
Ouyang Yun did not expect that such a play he made in Taiwan would actually contribute to the progress of peace between Japan and the Nationalist Government.
The Japanese did not expect that their move would almost cause their reliable "ally" Chiang, to fall from the seat of China's highest authority.
Guo Biao and Mu Jiandie have not been idle in Chongqing, although the young marshal has not given a positive answer, but with the help of his three musketeers, Guo and Mu have accumulated considerable popularity through continuous visits to some Kuomintang veterans who are not in agreement with Lao Chiang's politics.
To a certain extent, the defeat of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Hong Kong has made the peace between the Japanese and the Nationalist Government even more bold, and the level of representatives sent by the two sides has become higher and higher, and the bottom line has gradually been touched. Japan's original bottom line, because of the hardline attitude of the military (in fact, the Ministry of the Army), was to cease fire in accordance with the de facto situation, and then set up a certain demilitarized zone in the area actually controlled by the Nationalist Government. With the defeat of the South China Front Army in Fujian, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi, the War Ministry no longer spoke loudly, and under the persuasion of some bigwigs in the Japanese cabinet, the Japanese army made concessions and agreed to return some places to the Nationalist Government, but in return, they demanded control of northeast Jiangxi - northeast Jiangxi is too important, and once Shangrao and Yingtan are recovered by the national army, then the next actions of the Japanese army in South China are bound to be more difficult. The Cadet Army was still nominally under the Nationalist Government, and the Japanese did this, on the one hand, they had some hope that the Cadet Army would be subservient to the central government, believing that the worst could also provoke the relationship between the Cadet Army and Chongqing.
Fox Pupil's activities in Hong Kong were semi-public before, with the Office of the Scholar Army as a cover, and the United Kingdom did need some products of the Cadet Army, so the members of Fox Pupil were basically not worried that their activities would be held hostage by the Hong Kong authorities. Of course, the situation has changed now, because the GMD secret service, which had been watching from the sidelines, actually joined forces with the Japanese, so that even if the Hong Kong authorities were able to tolerate Fox Hitomi, Fox Hitomi did not have the strength to fight two opponents at the same time. Therefore, the action of the fox pupil can only go underground.
In 1939, this New Year's Day, because the Cadet Army Air Force suffered huge losses in the air battle in Taiwan, the Cadet Army did not hold any celebrations to show that it would not forget this shame. In the evening of the same day, Ouyang Yun delivered a speech on television, greeting the people of Minyue, Qiong and Qiong on behalf of all the officers and men of the Cadet Army, and at the same time briefly expounding the development goals of the Cadet Army in 1939 and the difficulties it would face.
At the beginning, the development of the television industry system by the student army was not understood by some generals and even government officials, and their idea was that instead of having the energy and money, it was better to increase investment in the military and people's livelihood. In this era, television sets are an absolute luxury, but China is now facing the greatest humiliation in thousands of years. However, with the popularization of television, those who opposed it at the beginning saw its powerful propaganda effect and its ability to popularize science and education -- once the cadet army achieved any results in battle, or if there was any new policy, it would soon be able to get information popularization throughout the province through television broadcasting. And it is precisely because of the TV that the once ignorant and backward Fujian and Qiong places have now begun to transition to a civilized society. Xuebingjun TV (also known as Guangzhou TV) will spend an hour and a half every day to broadcast science and education films, these science and education films are compiled by Li Ziwen according to Ouyang Yun's instructions, not only the popularization of scientific knowledge, but also the teaching of history and national culture, among which the most popular among the people, but some tips to get rich - what breeding, processing, turning waste into treasure, these are especially popular with the people at the bottom of the society, in the words of some social experts, this is a real good deed to improve people's livelihood.
As the leader of the military and political affairs of the Cadet Army, Ouyang Yun rarely appears on TV, because he has too many things, even if he does not put an end to showing up, he has no time, so in the Cadet Army system, Jiang Shuren and Ji Xingwen are the senior officials who appear on TV the most, and the others have the most opportunities to appear on TV with white tassels. Bai Tassel is mostly singing on TV, or giving his voice at a certain event, while Jiang Shuren is explaining the government of the Cadet Army, and Ji Xingwen is to report on the war situation, or to commend some troops, etc.
Ouyang Yun rarely appeared, but his income through TV was the first person in the entire Minyue Qiong Sandi, because the songs sung by Bai Tassel were basically his works, and even some TV series were his copyrights, although he actually only provided a creative idea. Ouyang Yun's speech on the night of the New Year was just a speech in the hearts of the people of Minyue Qiong, but in the eyes of many well-intentioned people, it was completely different things. For example, Huang Minzhen, a representative of the Chongqing government, couldn't help jumping when he heard the sentence "If anyone dares to sabotage the overall situation of resistance against Japan and betray the country, it is the enemy of the student army, and if there is one person in the student army, he will fight to the end against them, traitors and scum", his heart couldn't help jumping, and then he ran to the basement without thinking about anything, preparing to send a report to Chongqing.
So far, there are still two divisions of the Scholar Army following Li Zongren and Zhang Zizhong to resist Japan, perhaps because of this posture of the Scholar Army, the relationship between the Chongqing government and the Scholar Army has recently eased, and this Huang Min was really stationed in this general environment.
Huang Min really knew that the Chongqing government was making peace with Japan, so to his ears, Ouyang Yun's words were targeted, that is, for some people.
The Japanese and the Americans, including Xue Yue, also heard this, and the Japanese were surprised and delighted, knowing that the matter of peace between the Daoist and the Nationalist Government had been completely exposed; The Americans, on the other hand, are very worried, because American intelligence personnel have heard about the peace between Japan and the Chongqing government, and they are concerned about the direction of China's political situation and do not like large-scale civil strife in China. Although the Americans maintained trade relations with the Japanese, they certainly did not want China to be defeated by Japan, because in that case, if Japan was the dominant power in Asia, it would certainly threaten his interests in Southeast Asia. This matter was also not concealed from Xue Yue, after all, he had been in the national government for many years, although these news were confidential, but with his magical powers, it was impossible not to know the truth, and when he heard this news, he was very worried. Before he saw the strength of the Xuebing Army, he might have scoffed at this sentence, but now, he sincerely hopes that the Xuebing Army and the Nationalist Government must not fall out, otherwise, there will be extremely serious internal friction, and it will be too cheap for the Japanese.
Ouyang Yun's speech was in charge of Chen Shichang, and he only made slight changes on the basis of the original draft, and what he didn't expect was that his speech would bring danger to Guo Biao and Mu Jiandie in Chongqing.