Chapter 10: Anqing (26)

It was not until late at night that Mo Di learned from many sources, synthesized Shangfeng's report, Chen Zhengxin's secret report, and secretly translated telegrams from various places, that he figured out the process of the Japanese army's occupation of Kunlun Pass.

The 9th Wing of the 9th Brigade of the Japanese Army consisted of four infantry brigades, two of which attacked the peak pass, which was the 2nd and 3rd Infantry Brigades, and one was entangled with the 600th Regiment at Ertang, which was the 1st Infantry Brigade. Because the assault on Ertang could not be effective for one day, the 9th Wing decided to send the 4th Infantry Brigade to make a detour from the Ertang battle front last night, bypassing Ertangwei and flanking the Chinese troops in Ertang. But early this morning, when the operation was about to begin, they received an order from Imamura Jun to ignore the battle in Ertang and rush to Jiutang along the Yongbin Highway to occupy Kunlun Pass first. Coincidentally, when they went to Wutang, the headquarters of the 170th Division and the 200th Division had just left, and if they encountered, they were afraid that the headquarters of the 170th Division and the headquarters of the 200th Division, which had few people around, would be killed by them.

He Weizhen led his troops to Jietang, which was still five kilometers away from Kunlun Pass, and when he heard that the Japanese army had occupied Kunlun Pass, he sat on the ground with weak feet and could no longer stand up. Bai Chongxi panicked and asked He Weizhen to take advantage of the unstable foothold of the Japanese army to launch an attack immediately. He Weizhen's face is like a dead face, this is an impossible task, the 131st Division rushed nearly 80 miles today, walked more than 370 miles in five days, did not eat a good meal on the way, let alone sleep a good night, it is already the end of the crossbow, with this kind of combat power and the Japanese army who are waiting for work at the Kunlun Pass, it is no different from sending them to death. Wei Yunsong, who told the Taishou about his hardships, explained to the Guilin camp: On the Kunlun Pass, two infantry brigades of nearly 2,000 people were gathered, the pass was dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it was impossible to take Kunlun Pass with only one 131st Division, even if it was to fight, it would have to wait until the 188th Division arrived, and the two divisions could work together to launch an attack. Bai Chongxi lamented: When the 188th Division is in place, I am afraid that the temporary fortifications of the Japanese army have been upgraded to permanent fortifications!

Chairman Chiang of Chongqing did not have much hope for the 131st Division and the 188th Division, and asked them to deploy defenses in the Silong area, not to let the Japanese army continue to advance northward, and as for attacking Kunlun Pass, it was better to wait for the Fifth Army to arrive.

"That can't be the case!" Mo Dou's voice is a little weird, different from usual, three points of helplessness, three points of pity, and four points of hatred. The red and blue pencil in his hand was pruned in two and thrown away.

Qin Guosheng had never seen Mo Di lose his temper like this, and hurriedly asked: "Boss, what should you do in the face of such a battle situation?" ”

"Stirring up, harassing, and night attacks by the squad, we can't let the Japanese troops on Kunlun Pass have a minute of peace. Even if General Du Yuming's Fifth Army was in charge of the main attack, the 31st Army could not give up any opportunity to weaken the Japanese army. Chief Wei Yunsong, I know that more is better than less, let him stick to Silong, he will definitely not take a step beyond the thunder pool, in this way, the Japanese army on Kunlun Pass will have to get away. In his opinion, Kunlun Pass, far away from Nanning, two infantry brigades, only need to be piecemeal, it is better to make these two thousand infantry restless and sleepless, and they can't survive or die, however, he is far away in Mabu, far away from water can not quench his thirst, and he has the heart to propose to the above, and he is soft-spoken.

After meditating for a long time, he smiled bitterly, and said to Qin Guosheng: "Guosheng, you are from Guixian, you should go to Kunlun Pass!" ”

Qin Guosheng shook his head and said, "When we go to Nanning, we all take a boat and go up the Yujiang River, not by land. I studied at the Sixth Branch of the Central Military Academy in Nanning, and I went to Nanning by fireboat, and I heard from my classmates in Binyang that the road was very tortuous and undulating, and every time I took the car, I had to vomit and faint to death several times. Boss, have you been? ”

Mo Di nodded and said, "I've been." When I went to Nanning to study, I passed by car, and when I withdrew from Nanning to Guilin, I also passed through there, and when I came back, I took the special car of the Gangtian instructor, and I also stopped and boarded at the Kunlun Pass with the Gangtian instructor on the way. Instructor Gangtian once pointed to the steep steps in front of the pass and said to me that as long as the road is dug up and the tanks and cannons cannot be used, this place will basically become a battle with cold weapons. ”

Qin Guosheng exclaimed: "So dangerous! ”

Mo Di picked up a half-truncated pen on the ground, found a piece of paper, drew a topographic map near Kunluntou, and said while drawing: "Binyang Kunlun Pass is the gateway and barrier of Nanning City, the terrain is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, it can be described as "a man is a pass, ten thousand people are not open", it is a place where soldiers must fight, and it has been valued by military strategists of all dynasties. There is a stone tablet on the pass, engraved with a poem by Zhang Pengzhan of the Qing Dynasty, the poem cloud: the north water returns to Linpu, and the south controls the ancient Yong. One pass through the bird road. 10,000 lock snail peak. I copied this poem, and a few years later, I still remember it."

Qin Guosheng smiled, his boss is good at calligraphy, and he will copy the inscription anywhere, and he has been in Mabu for these days, and the ancient monuments and monuments of the left and right ten miles have made him walk all over.

Kunlun Pass, according to legend, is the Han Dynasty Fubo general Ma Yuan built, has a history of more than 1,000 years, Tang Yuan and 14 years Pei Xing set up the first base stone for the pass, the Northern Song Dynasty Jingyou two years to build the city, all dynasties have been reinforced, rebuilt. During the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, Liu Jiqing, the magistrate of Xuanhua County, inspected the Kunlun Pass, took the Guancheng for a long time and was dilapidated, it was allocated to rebuild the Guancheng, and rebuilt the three wings of the Guanlou (two pillars and three trusses wood), and a few zhang at the south entrance of the Guan, built a pavilion across the post road. On the upper floor, the statues of Di Qing, Yu Jing and Sun Wei are enshrined. During the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, the local people changed to worship the three gods of Emperor Guan, the prince of Emperor Guan, and the three gods of Zhoucang, which was the temple of Emperor Guan.

Mo Di continued to draw the picture, while introducing, said: "This place is easy to defend and difficult to attack, the northern army code can resist the southern enemy, the southern army code can resist the northern enemy, the pass was originally built to resist the southern enemy, but once the southern army occupies, it is difficult for the northern army to capture it." During the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty, Shi Dakai, the winged king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, led his troops back to Guangxi from Jinling, and Xiao took Lai Yuxin to Nanning through Pennsylvania, and led 20,000 troops to take the shortcut Kunlun Pass. Unexpectedly, Ou Yang Guang and Wei Huaiyu, the commanders of the Batang Regiment, led two thousand regiments to practice and guard the danger. Laibu attacked for several days and nights, suffered heavy casualties, and could not win. I had to detour to Wuming from Silong, and then enter Nanning from Fengfeng Pass. ”

"Two thousand militia groups block ten with one, and resist 20,000 Taiping troops!" Qin Guosheng couldn't believe it, he and Shi Dakai were both fellow villagers of Guixian County, and the worship of Shi Dakai was admiration, and the 20,000 army could not open the pass defended by the 2,000 militia regiments, which showed that this geographical advantage was very strong, and he couldn't help but worry about the attacking side, 2,000 Japanese troops were not equivalent to 2,000 militia regiments, and the Fifth Army with 200 divisions was missing, and it was only more than 20,000 people, and I don't know if the history of decades ago would repeat itself.

"Boss, in fact, we can put our opinions up to the peak, even if we can't go back, we can let others complete the task of harassing the enemy." Qin Guosheng said: "For example, tell Zhao Guolong the news and let him do it." ”

Mo Di shook his head, Zhao Guolong went to the 46th Army, he already knew, Zhao Guolong's resignation telegram he saw, the head of the 56th Regiment Yang Litian also specially called to report to him, Yang Litian is Mo Di's brother-in-law, the husband of the second sister, five years older than himself, is a regular student of the sixth branch of the Nanning Central Military Academy, originally in Guilin Yongfu District as a small appeasement commander, life is very leisurely, this time the new 19th Division fought too badly, the 56th Regiment was abolished, only to make up for Yang Litian's appeasement 4th Regiment as a whole, It can also be regarded as moving from the local army to the regular army. The day before yesterday, Zhao Guolong had already arrived in Lingshan Taiping to take up the post of chief of staff of the New 19th Division, and he learned from the telegram he sent him that the next task of the New 19th Division was to ambush the transportation channel from Qinzhou to Nanning, and try not to allow the Fifth Division in Nanning to get supplies. Zhao Guolong, as a military commander who had been fighting in the rear of the enemy, was pinned on high hopes by Qin Zhen, commander of the new 19th Division, and Kan Weiyong, deputy commander of the division. It's a pity that Chen Zhengxin went to Longzhou, otherwise, he would be the most suitable candidate.

The 41st Wing of Longzhou also fell into blood mold because of meeting Chen Zhengxin. Swaggering into Longzhou, a Japanese army in the form of an occupier, that night, a Japanese soldier because of the rape of a local woman, was stained with a blood-stained crossbow arrow to seal the throat, the body was thrown from outside the wall into the barracks, there was a note tied to the body, the content of the note was: The villagers do not understand state affairs, the country is at war with the country, and the country has its own government to worry about. Here in Longzhou, the French army has come, and the Vietnamese have also come, and now it is not uncommon for the Japanese army to come. But the guest army that enters the land shall not disturb the people, nor shall it rob, nor murder. If there is a transgression, the person is an example. Attached: This poison is to see the blood to seal the throat, which is unique to Longzhou, in addition, Longzhou also has the head lowering technique, blood Gu technique, and exorcism, which can be tasted one by one.

The commander of the 41st Wing of the Japanese Army, Masao Fukuyama, was shocked and angry, crisscrossing China, from north to south, he had been threatened like this for a long time, but the black and blue corpse in front of him was full of strangeness and fear, so that Fukuyama Masao had to suppress his anger and think of countermeasures. Early the next morning, the Japanese army politely invited some squires in Longzhou, pointed to the corpses of the Japanese soldiers with black hair, and asked what was going on, Chen Zhengxin changed his suit, squeezed into the crowd of squires, not in a hurry, and told the 41st Wing Wing Captain Fukuyama Dazuo in a standard local dialect that Guangxi has a ghost out of Longzhou since ancient times, which refers to the blood Gu technique of Longzhou, this kind of blood sealing the throat is made of the sap of the arrow poison wood in the yard, and it is not surprising, almost everyone in Longzhou will use it. Yesterday this soldier of your army violated a local woman, was retaliated by her family, shot with a blood crossbow, this kind of corpse, can not be touched or touched, who touches who dies, can only pile wood and burn, and then bury deeply.

Masao Fukuyama said that the people who shot the soldiers of the Imperial Army must be handed over. Chen Zhengxin shook his head and said that the traitor dies, this is this subway law. Masao Fukuyama threatened, aren't you afraid to take you all hostage? Chen Zhengxin smiled and told the Japanese army that in this way, the Japanese army would not want to drink a sip of water, eat a mouthful of food, or even smell a breath in Longzhou, otherwise they would either die here or go home crazy. It's a big deal, the people of the entire Longzhou City will be finished together.

After consultation, the Japanese army withdrew from the old city of Longzhou, retreated to the area of the old French consulate on the south bank of the Zuojiang River, and sent people to Longzhou County every day to buy rice and vegetables to solve the food, and they could also move around freely, but they must not disturb the people, otherwise they would be poisoned by tricks and poisoned, and they would be responsible for the consequences.

Masao Fukuyama was shocked and angry, and he actually withdrew from the county town that he had occupied, and was also marked as a prison, what kind of occupier is this, this is a typical wreck! However, the folk customs here are indeed terrible, the villagers are carrying row knives on the street, and many people are also carrying a single-shot loading rifle called Longzhou Kuaili, the long spear thorn is shining with cold light, and some wild things are hung on the tip of the spear, which are sold along the street. They don't have the least respect for the imperial army, nor do they have any social authority, and the way they look at them is clearly the same as seeing a beast.

He may never know that the person who shot the Japanese army was Chen Zhengxin's person, and it was also Chen Zhengxin's person who carried Lao Kuaili to swagger in front of the Japanese army, Chen Zhengxin knew that with his special service group, he wanted to fight with a wing of the Japanese army, which was beyond his strength and was not an opponent at all, but how to make Longzhou not be plundered by the Japanese army, and he wanted to break his head to come up with such a bad move, but the effect was very effective. Every day, watching the Japanese soldiers rowing boats, coming from the south bank of the Zuojiang River to buy vegetables and rice, and paying a lot of money to local merchants, Chen Zhengxin couldn't help but smile, the Japanese actually have a day of honestly abiding by the rules.

However, Chen Zhengxin knew that he could not suppress the 41st Wing even if he sealed his throat with blood, so he decided to hold a rally on the streets of Longzhou on the first day of December.

After receiving Chen Zhengxin's telegram, Mo Di laughed, this is a loss, this is a loss, this is a loss, this 41 Wing! At this time, a thought that had been entangled in my mind resurfaced, the war in Nanning was tight, why did the Japanese send a brigade to Longzhou. These Japanese did not consciously block the entry of Vietnamese materials, because of the loss of Nanning, the entry of Vietnamese materials has lost its meaning, if it is not to block the Yonglong Highway, what is the purpose of this 41st Wing's trip? Is it just to feel that the ground is a prison? The Japanese army was able to endure such humiliation as a prison, and its goal must be not small, and it was incomprehensible what it was.