Chapter 396: Victorious Class Master

The Japanese army's request was reported by the brigade commander Huang Gang to the division commander Li Yuanhong, and then to Tang Renxin and Yu Hanmou. Tang Renxin was dismissive of the Japanese army's demands, and in Tang Renxin's opinion, why should he care about the demands of little Japan, just wipe them out! However, Yu Hanmou was quite interested in this request, and he had never met a Japanese general face to face, especially under such circumstances.

Tang Renxin could only take a guard company and accompany General Yu Hanmou to the building. The courtyard in front of the building was a mess, and there were already soldiers cleaning up the battlefield, and when these soldiers saw Tang Renxin and them coming, they all put down what they were doing and saluted. General Yu Hanmou strode to the third floor, and before walking up the stairs leading to the rooftop, Yu Hanmou stopped, readjusted the general's uniform on his body, and then walked up the stairs.

When he arrived on the rooftop, Tang Renxin saw that there were dozens of soldiers with weapons and surrounded dozens of Japanese legions. These Japanese soldiers formed a circle, and also confronted the squadron with bayonet rifles, and several Japanese officers were surrounded by them in the middle, one of whom was wearing a lieutenant general's uniform and holding a command knife, which was particularly conspicuous, presumably Lieutenant General Watahisao, the commander of the 11th Division of the Japanese Army.

After the arrival of General Yu Hanmou, the soldiers surrounding the Japanese army automatically separated a road, and General Yu Hanmou strode to the front. Lieutenant General Nakato Hisao of the Japanese Army also walked to the front of the team, and after looking at General Yu Hanmou, he bowed slightly and said: "Your Excellency is General Wang Haitao, commander of the 90th Army? I am Wasaki Watara, commander of the 11th Division of the Imperial Japanese Army. ”

General Yu Hanmou was stunned for a moment and replied: "I am Yu Hanmou, commander of the 12th Group Army of the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China. I heard that you asked to see me, are you preparing to surrender?" Wataku Jiuxiong was also stunned, a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes, and said: "It turns out that Your Excellency is not General Wang Haitao, I thought it was defeated by General Wang Haitao and his 90th Army, but I didn't expect ......"

General Yu Hanmou didn't want to say it, but after thinking for a while, he said: "It is indeed the troops of the 90th Army who defeated you, but General Wang Haitao is in Yingde County, and your 22nd Brigade was wiped out by General Wang Haitao with his team." Now if you lay down your arms and surrender, you still have a chance to meet him, otherwise ......" Watara Jiuxiong sighed and said: "Sure enough, I was defeated in the hands of the Ninety Army, and I am convinced of defeat, and now I officially surrender to your army." After speaking, he held the knife in his hand horizontally, and the Japanese soldier behind him silently put down the weapon in his hand.

When the news of the total annihilation of the 11th Division of the Japanese Army in Shaoguan, the commander of the division, Lieutenant General Watahisao, and the chief of staff Katamura 48 Daisa, surrendered to the 90th Army, and the commander of the 10th Brigade, Major General Shinjiro Amaya, was killed, Wang Haitao's 90th Division was withstanding the attack of the 132nd Brigade of the Japanese Army and was mobilizing troops to prepare to encircle and annihilate the Japanese troops in this brigade.

With this news, the Guangdong campaign that Wang Haitao won has already achieved its goal, and if the 132nd Brigade in front of him is annihilated again, it will be an unexpected joy. Wang Haitao not only sent the confidential office to Chongqing to report on Guangdong's great victory, but also reported the merits of the Guangdong army by the way. Chongqing received the telegram and was overjoyed.

It is definitely a thing that can go down in history to make the commander of the lieutenant general division of the Japanese army surrender, and the boost to the morale of the army and the people is incalculable. The Chongqing side immediately announced the victory of the squadron in Guangdong, and commended General Yu Hanmou and General Wang Haitao, as well as the officers and men of the 12th Group Army and the 90th Army. In the end, General Yu Hanmou was asked to escort the surrendered Wakushio and others to Chongqing as soon as possible.

When Wang Haitao was about to encircle and annihilate the 132nd Brigade, Commander Guzhuang Ganlang had learned that the 11th Division had been annihilated and that the division commander, Lieutenant General Watahisao, had surrendered. When the 132nd Brigade retreated, Wang Haitao's troops had not yet outflanked it, so they could only watch the 132nd Brigade withdraw.

As for attacking Guangzhou, Wang Haitao knew that now was not the time, and although his troops were strong, neither the heavy artillery brigade nor the armored brigade could compete with the heavy artillery on the warship. Therefore, Guangzhou City, which is protected by many planes and warships, is really not something that can be attacked by itself. After the retreat of the 132nd Brigade of the Japanese Army, the battlefield in northern Guangdong calmed down.

Wang Haitao gave Tang Renxin an order that after cleaning up the battlefield, all the captured Japanese weapons and equipment should be handed over to Yu Han's Ministry of Planning, and the defense of Shaoguan would also be handed over, and then all the troops of the 90th Army would be withdrawn to Guangxi and assembled in Hezhou to stand by. After issuing the order to Tang Renxin, Wang Haitao sent another telegram to General Yu Hanmou, asking General Yu Hanmou to come to Yingde County for a while.

Two days later, Tang Renxin's side had completed the handover and began to lead the troops of the 90th Army to Guangxi, while General Yu Hanmou rushed to Yingde County under the protection of the guards. When Yu Hanmou rushed to Yingde County, the defense of Yingde County had been handed over to the 63rd Army, and a large number of captured Japanese-style weapons and equipment were also handed over to the 63rd Army.

For Wang Haitao's behavior, General Yu Hanmou was grateful and extremely admired at the same time, General Yu Hanmou knew that if it was himself, he would definitely not be able to be so generous, you must know that this is the weapons and equipment of a division of the Japanese army, even if you can't use it, you can sell it casually, it is also tens of thousands of money. In this victory in Guangdong, his 12th Group Army was basically the role of beating the side drum, and there were definitely a lot of combat exploits in the end, which were all given to him by Wang Haitao.

With these things, the meeting between Yu Hanmou and Wang Haitao was very different for the first time. General Yu Hanmou put himself in the same position as Wang Haitao, and he called Haitao's brother extremely affectionately. Wang Haitao had the idea of handing over the captured Japanese equipment to the Guangdong army, first, these Japanese-style equipment were not used by his own troops at all, and he was not short of money. The Second Cantonese Army was now extremely short of heavy weapons, and with these weapons in hand, once the Japanese army attacked northern Guangdong again, the Cantonese army would be more sure to block the Japanese attack.

At this meeting, Yu Hanmou patted Wang Haitao on his chest and assured that if Wang Haitao was useful to the Guangdong army in the future, the Guangdong army would definitely help. In the end, Yu Hanmou still took out fifty big yellow croakers and gave them to Wang Haitao, Wang Haitao really couldn't refuse, so he took it and took the troops from Qingyuan County to Wuzhou, Guangxi through Sihui County.

Qingyuan County was captured by the Japanese army, but the 132nd Brigade retreated to Guangzhou, leaving only an infantry squadron and a cavalry squad to monitor the movements of the squadron. Now that Wang Haitao's troops are advancing towards Qingyuan County, the news was immediately reported to Commander Guzhuang Ganlang, which made Commander Guzhuang Ganlang very nervous. The 11th Division's jade shattering has already put Guzhuang Ganlang under great pressure, and if he wants to lose Guangzhou again, then he will have only one way to go to the military court.

Commander Guzhuang Ganlang immediately ordered all the troops around Guangzhou to concentrate on Guangzhou City and rush to repair the fortifications. He also ordered the 28th Division to immediately return to the aid of Guangzhou City, and the naval fleet also sent warships to Guangzhou Bay. If it were another squadron, Guzhuang Ganlang would not hesitate to order the aircraft to take off and bomb, but after knowing that the Chinese army facing it had extremely strong air defense capabilities, Guzhuang Ganlang decided not to use the aircraft anymore. Infantry losses can be replenished immediately, but the replenishment of aircraft and aviation is not so easy.

After Wang Haitao passed through the empty county town of Qingyuan, he did not stop, and went directly from Sihui to Guangxi, until Wang Haitao led the troops into Guangxi, and Commander Guzhuang Ganlang breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that this terrible army would not come to attack Guangzhou. But within a few days, an order from the base camp of the Japanese mainland was delivered to him. He ordered that the post of commander of the 21st Army be dismissed from the post of commander of the 21st Army and that he should immediately return to Japan for investigation, while the post of commander of the 21st Army was temporarily replaced by Lieutenant General Toshio Miyake, commander of the 104th Division.

The 90th Army, which returned to Wuzhou and Hezhou, rested in the two places for half a month, set off again, this time to Longzhou County. When Wang Haitao took the 90th Army to Longzhou County, 10,000 people in Longzhou County went out of the city to welcome the soldiers who returned triumphantly. After a simple welcome ceremony, all the troops returned to their respective camps, the logistics office had already prepared a celebratory banquet, officers at and above the regimental level went to the city to participate in the banquet, and the soldiers in the battalion also had wine and food. However, according to the old rules, the guard brigade will not participate in the banquet today, and will serve as the guard of the entire Longzhou County.

Full of wine and food, Wang Haitao returned home, this time for a few months, Aunt Feng was both missing and worried, until she knew that Wang Haitao had returned to the teacher victoriously, and her heart was relieved. Xiao Biesheng is newly married, and after a few months of lovesickness, this night has been fully confided, and it is naturally infinite. Wang Haitao also worked hard and worked hard.

After resting for two days, Wang Haitao began to worry about military factories, hospitals, and pharmaceutical factories again. Under the leadership of commanders at all levels, all units thoroughly summed up the gains and losses of the Guangdong Campaign, and conducted targeted training in view of the deficiencies. In the battle, everyone saw the role of large-caliber heavy artillery, armored vehicles, and tank vehicles, so the importance of heavy artillery and combat vehicles increased a lot.

In addition, the front-line commanders also pointed out that although mortars have many advantages, there is still a gap between them and artillery in terms of firing distance and power, and whether it is possible to provide a certain number of artillery pieces for front-line troops? made Wang Haitao also have a headache.

Wang Haitao knew that artillery was much stronger than mortars, but the problem was how could he have so many artillery to equip his troops. According to the calculation that a regiment is equipped with an artillery battalion with 18 guns, excluding the heavy artillery brigades, the whole army will be equipped with 432 artillery pieces, but at present, in addition to the heavy artillery brigades, there are only more than 100 75-caliber and 85-caliber artillery pieces allocated to all divisions of the army. There are 300 guns in the middle, such a large number, plus cannonballs, how can Wang Haitao not have a headache?