Chapter 11: Wild Supplement (4)

After 15 June, Mo's work and life were very monotonous, except for fighting and retreating, the telegraph of the intelligence department remained turned off most of the time, and he did not know much about most of the things outside. Back in Mabu, it was already July 1. Unconsciously, another half a month passed, and a large number of telegram copies were accumulated, and the calls from Chen Zhengxin of Pingxiang and Zhao Guolong of Taiping alone accounted for half of them. The calls from Chen Zhengxin and Zhao Guolong were slowly cleaned up, and I had a superficial understanding of the changes in Guinan in the past half month.

Zhao Guolong was not idle for a while, the harassment on the Yongqin Highway was going on, and large and small battles occurred from time to time, and the Taiwan brigade in charge of the transportation of the Yongqin Highway was overwhelmed. Zhao Guolong is not belligerent, it is indispensable to fight, the new 19th Division is deep in southern Guangxi and western Guangdong, the supply is seriously insufficient, you can't eat if you don't grab it, and you can solve it all when you grab it, not only guns and ammunition but also food and clothing supplies, Zhao Guolong almost got half of the materials sent to Nanning. Except for the division commander Qin Jing, the other people of the new 19th Division were very much in favor of this kind of banditry, after all, it was always a pleasant thing to eat fish and meat from Hainan Island every day. Zhao Guolong's guerrilla warfare can be described as perfect, intercepting and disturbing the encirclement, all-encompassing, and on the most one day, the Japanese transport team was attacked six times in a row on the section from Xiaodong to Nanning on the Yongqin Highway.

Lieutenant General Jiu Na Chengyi, commander of the 22nd Army, often did not have enough to eat in Nanning and was in a hurry. However, it was not the Yongqin Highway that made him even more angry, but his ultimate goal in the southwest, Vietnam.

In May, Germany declared war on France and crossed the Maginot Line, and Lieutenant General Seiichi Kunashi asked the base camp to hope that Japan would declare war on France at the same time, and he would be able to lead his army to French Indochina. Japan's base camp is seriously aging, and a group of old devils with an average age of more than 60 years old pay attention to doing things. After studying for half a month, I gave Lieutenant General Jiu Nacheng a reply: Don't be bored for a while. The base camp is honest and believes that the situation is not yet clear, and the two sides have not yet won or lost, so they must not act rashly.

The Japanese base camp did not expect the French to be so indifferent, and the Germans entered Dunkirk with three strikes and five divisions, and by the time the Japanese cabinet reacted, France had already surrendered. Lieutenant General Seiichi Kuna thought that this was an excellent reason to take advantage of this opportunity to enter Vietnam, and although Japan had not yet established an alliance with Germany and Italy, it was in fact already a bitter gourd on a vine, and the German-Italian-Japanese tripartite alliance meeting had already been held several times, waiting for the written signing of the "German-Italian-Japanese Triple Alliance Treaty." Germany's victory was Japan's victory, and Germany's interests could also be converted into Japan's interests, Germany occupied France in Europe, Italy occupied France's former colonies in Africa, and Japan should of course occupy France's colonial areas in Asia, and French Indochina was the first step in occupation. On top of that, on the territory of Vietnam, there is also a Yunnan-Vietnam railway that the Japanese hate.

When it was too late to mobilize the troops, Lieutenant General Seiichi Kuna ordered Lieutenant General Akito Nakamura of the 5th Division to enter Vietnam and occupy Vietnam at all costs.

Lieutenant General Akito Nakamura knows himself well, the two brigades of the Fifth Division, the 21st Brigade is basically folded at Kunlun Pass, the 9th Wing under the 9th Brigade is not much left, and only the 41st Wing of Masao Fukuyama is still basically full. After the Battle of Guinan, the commander of the 9th Brigade and Major General Chuan Yuanqi went to Pingxiang from Nanning to prepare for the invasion of Vietnam.

The 41st Wing is the standard wing of four infantry brigades, and during the operation in southern Guangxi, it has been exploring the road and wandering around the Zuojiang River valley, and has not participated in the fierce battles in the Kunlun Pass and Nanning areas, thus maintaining the basic integrity of the troops, and is currently the strongest wing-level combat unit of the 22nd Army of the South China Front, with nearly 5,000 men.

Through this period of understanding of the French army stationed in Vietnam, the 9th Brigade and Major General Chuan Yuanqi knew that the French army was divided into two parts, one part was the French Indochina Colonial Army, which was the French government army, the headquarters was in Hanoi, the commander was called Langsa, the rank of major general, and the colonial army had a total of four regiments, about 5,000 people, stationed in South Vietnam, North Vietnam, Phnom Penh and Laos. The colonial army of North Vietnam had only one military headquarters and one infantry regiment, with a total of no more than 1,500 men.

In addition, it is the Foreign Legion of France. The French Foreign Legion is a regular army unit composed of foreign volunteers, with the same equipment as the French regular army, founded in 1831, when in order to solve the problem of foreigners in France and replenish the French army killed and wounded in the war, it was formed by the order of the then French king Louis Philippe. Volunteers can join the army by concealing their nationality and name, using a false name or changing their name, so many criminals change their names to join the French Foreign Legion in order to escape the laws of their home countries. The Indochina Peninsula, also known as Indochina by the French, was garrisoned in Dien Bien Phu in North Vietnam by the 5th Infantry Regiment of the 1,300-strong Foreign Legion.

Combined, the two armies were less than 3,000 men, far from being an opponent of the formidable Imperial Japanese Army, and Major General Kawagen 7 believed. His gaze had been on the map for a long time. However, it can be seen from his skeletal eyes that the focus of his gaze is by no means the simple North Vietnamese combat map in front of him.

The Japanese overlooked a very important factor, and Major General Chuan Yuanqi did not estimate that in Vietnam, in addition to the French troops, Vietnam itself had a large native army, which was responsible for security and law and order. These local Vietnamese puppet soldiers, who were dressed in tights on their upper bodies and crotch pants on their lower bodies, had flat hats on their heads and large slippers on their feet, and there were eight formed regiments with 11,000 people, four of which were stationed in Hanoi. After the three Franco-Vietnamese wars, the French colonizers gained a solid administration of Indochina, which had grown accustomed to French administration and some had even considered itself a member of the French after decades of rule. The native Vietnamese army, French-speaking and loyal to the French colonizers, managed the troops in the manner of the French army, and was equipped with the Lebel M1886 rifle, which the Vietnamese called the "Ganle" rifle. They will be the biggest variable in whether the Japanese will be able to enter Vietnam smoothly.

During this time, the Japanese army robbed the Sino-Vietnamese border, and the French rulers have always turned a blind eye, robbing the Vietnamese, and it has nothing to do with the French. What's more, there are many Vietnamese, and it doesn't matter how many they kill, there is no need to stand up for them. Having an ugly image of Japan in front of the Vietnamese could also contribute to French colonial rule. In the eyes of the French, Japan and China were at war, and the so-called fire at the city gate affected the fish in the pond, and it was inevitable to get a few shells in once in a while, so there was no need to pay too much attention to it. The most important thing is to be kind and wealthy. In 1939, the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway from Haiphong to Kunming had become the lifeline of China's military transportation, and the gains made by the French on this line had even exceeded the total gains of the North Vietnamese region, and this profit was obviously premised on harming the Japanese, so it was the manager's priority not to clash with the Japanese.

When the news of the German occupation of Paris came on 14 June, Lieutenant General Akito Nakamura could no longer suppress his ambition and took advantage of the great defeat of France in Europe to enter Vietnam, occupy the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway, and cut off the last transportation line in China. Ordered the 9th Brigade and Major General Kawagen 7 to let the 41st Wing of Masao Fukuyama Osa attack with all its might.

Only the 1st Infantry Brigade of the 41st Wing remained, led by the 9th Brigade and Major General Chuan Yuan 7, and was held in Pingxiang, while Masao Fukuyama led the other three brigades to Lang Son. In the past six months, he has been plundering the Sino-Vietnamese border, and he is already very familiar with the roads, and the villages and towns and military strongholds along the way are even more clear, and the advance of the Japanese army is very smooth, and in a little more than half a day, he will reach Lang Son from Dong Deng.

The French governor Matthew, who got the news, was furious and scolded: "Japanese monkeys dare to bully us!" "Let General Langsa lead his troops to meet the enemy.

The French are the most stupid in the world to fight, and they can only fight with two methods, one is to make a rectum-like fortification to hold on, not to take a step beyond the thunder pool, or to beat a small snare drum and charge with small broken steps.

Although the French Foreign Legion no longer uses this boring method of warfare, they still insist that the real war is to put themselves in position on flat ground.

The Japanese army walked out of the mountain road of Langshan very smoothly, and walked to Langzhuang, which is the open Red River Plain, and Fukuyama Masao saw that a trench suddenly appeared in front of him, and a low wall from the mound, the flag was waved on the wall, the drums and horns in the wall were sounding, and the French troops on the wall were wearing the Red Army uniforms, one by one, like a fresh target.

At this time, a French liaison with a flag waving shouted and ran out of the opposing position, and Masao Fukuyama waved his hand, and the troops stopped marching. The French liaison officer ran to the Japanese soldiers, and after babbling and shouting, he stood aside with his hands tied, as if waiting for a reply.

"Does anyone know French?" Masao Fukuyama asked.

Shake your head left and right.

Masao Fukuyama said, "Send someone out and tell him to call someone who knows Japanese to speak." ”

Left and right were stunned, the Frenchman in front of him obviously didn't understand Japanese, if he was asked to go back and spread the word!

Sure enough, after speaking Japanese, Chinese, and even a few words of Vietnamese that no one could understand, the liaison officer in front of him just shook his head and couldn't understand, and in the end, a small adjutant of the baggage team was sensible and said a few words of English to the French, and the French understood and ran back.

This time, I waited another half an hour.

At this time, the flags of the French positions in front of him were moving, as if trying to make a passage, and Masao Fukuyama looked through his binoculars, and the small wooden door on the low earthen wall was also opened, and a well-dressed officer was tidying up in the gate. It is estimated that this goods are ready to come over for negotiation, Fukuyama Masao said in his heart.

The French were in trouble, and they negotiated a small guard of honor, lined up in two columns, beating small snare drums, sandwiching well-dressed officers in the middle, white gloves and black riding boots, and a bird feather stuck in their hats.

Masao Fukuyama watched it with relish, and the Japanese soldiers also watched it very attentively, although there were no binoculars and he was not tall, but it was still quite strange that such a lively scene was actually played in the battle.

After a long time, the French representatives did not come, and the French shells arrived first! The Japanese did not expect that the French, who had never been very rigid in fighting, had actually learned to deceive, and all this in front of them was acting, just to cover the attack of the French Foreign Legion from the flank.

And the arrival earlier than the French Foreign Legion was the artillery fire of the French army, and the Japanese army was in chaos.

By the time the French artillery fire stopped, the charge of the French Foreign Legion had reached the right side, and the Japanese were in a hurry.

The French army on the front also appeared, still with a small drum beat, or a small broken step, a 7.5mm caliber MAS36 rifle clamped under the armpit, and the muzzle pointed straight ahead.

The Japanese army collapsed without a fight, and the French army pursued the victory. The Japanese only hated their parents for giving birth to two legs, and they retreated into the mountains until they stopped their retreat, and when the time came, all the baggage and heavy weapons were abandoned.

Masao Fukuyama, who was out of breath, was about to sit down and take a breath, only to hear the sound of gunfire on the mountain, and a group of Vietnamese soldiers wearing tights, crotch pants, flat hats on their heads, and big slippers on their feet rushed down the slopes on both sides, armed with Ganle rifles, and screaming in a variety of ways.

The extremely exhausted Japanese army could not meet the battle, and could only use the last strength to support themselves to retreat quickly, and they had a belief that if they retreated to China, they would survive.

However, the Chinese did not welcome them either, and Chen Zhengxin had already laid heavy troops on Zhennan Pass, and the Guangxi border guards who had previously fought the Japanese in Pingxiang concentrated all their light and heavy machine guns on the walls of Zhennan Pass, waiting for the final blow. Chen Zhengxin led his own spy group to ambush on the mountains on both sides of Langhuai, and as soon as the gunfire on the Zhennan Pass rang out, he immediately attacked and attacked.

At this time, Wei Qicai, the commander of a battalion, ran over and told Chen Zhengxin that the Japanese reinforcements about an infantry brigade set off from Pingxiang and were about to arrive at Zhennan Pass. Chen Zhengxin was shocked, and immediately ordered the border guards on Zhennan Pass to withdraw the city tower, and he also withdrew the ambush and retreated from the Langyao Road.

Chen Zhengxin was annoyed, the boiled duck could actually fly!