Chapter 108: The Erguang Incident
readx;? At noon the next day, the receiving officers and troops sent by the Fourth Army arrived at Longzhou Port. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Wang Haitao greeted the visitor and saw that the receiving official was the director of the quartermaster department of the headquarters, surnamed Bai, and his name was Bai Yuyun. And the unit is a battalion led by Liao Lei. The battalion also drove twenty trucks, which were presumably temporarily requisitioned from the 170th Division.
After Wang Haitao took Bai Yuyun and Liao Lei to meet with the deputy manager of Krupp, they came to the munitions warehouse on the dock together. Bai Yuyun's eyes widened in surprise when he saw that in the warehouse, in addition to the weapons and ammunition on the goods list in his hand, there were dozens of cannons and ten armored vehicles, as if there were ten 105 howitzers and five 150 heavy guns in the cannons.
Wang Haitao explained that these heavy weapons were all given to him after being purchased by his overseas family. The white jade cloud's eyes when he looked at Wang Haitao had a stupid taste of looking at the money and nowhere to spend it. After counting and inspecting, the arms sent were consistent with the manifest in hand, and Bai Yuyun sent the payment of $550,000. And the deputy manager has also completed his errands and can return to China on an errand.
Bai Yuyun ordered Liao Lei to lead his troops to guard this warehouse, and he hurried to the city to send a telegram to the headquarters, telling the headquarters that there were suddenly dozens of more artillery pieces and ten armored vehicles, and asked the headquarters to send trucks to tow the artillery as soon as possible.
Wang Haitao took advantage of the excuse of sending the Germans to the German freighter and found an opportunity to put the $550,000 in money into the storage ring. Of course, it is still necessary to give the assistant manager a little hush money.
It would take three days for the second convoy sent by the headquarters to reach the port of Guangzhou, and during these three days, Wang Haitao selected a dozen soldiers and began to teach them how to drive and maintain the ten armored vehicles. Three days later, the convoy sent by the command arrived at the port of Guangzhou.
After all the goods were loaded onto the trucks and the cannons were hung up, the convoy, which was even more imposing than last time, drove out of the port of Guangzhou and headed for Nanning, the headquarters of the Fourth Army. After settling the fees with the port authority, Wang Haitao also returned to Nanning with the team.
It was still the square last time, Bai Chongxi, Li Pinxian, Ye Qi, Xia Wei, Liao Lei, and a large group of divisions and regiment commanders all arrived, and after the convoy drove into the square, it caused a burst of discussion. Wang Haitao got out of the car and came to Bai Chongxi with Bai Yuyun, standing up and saluting. Bai Yuyun said: "Report to the commander-in-chief, deputy commander-in-chief, and chief of staff, that the arms received at the humble post have been completed and transported back safely." Please instruct. ”
Bai Chongxi replied: "Director Bai is lucky, go down and rest." He turned his face and said to Wang Haitao: "Haitao, these heavy weapons this time were donated by your overseas family?" Wang Haitao replied: "Yes, Commander Bai." ”
Bai Chongxi smiled and asked, "Haitao, since it was donated by your family, how do you think these heavy weapons should be distributed?"
Wang Haitao replied without hesitation: "Report to Commander-in-Chief Bai, the lowly post is now also a member of the Fourth Group Army, and these heavy weapons should be distributed by the commander-in-chief Bai, and the lowly post has no complaints. ”
Bai Chongxi and the others looked at each other and smiled, and Bai Chongxi said, "Okay, good." I declare that these artillery pieces, together with the original artillery, will form a separate heavy artillery brigade, which will be under the direct jurisdiction of the command. Ten armored vehicles were handed over to the 15th Army to form an armored assault company. In addition, in view of the contributions made by Wang Haitao, commander of the Independent Brigade, and his family to our Fourth Group Army, Major General Wang Haitao was specially rewarded with 500,000 yuan in treasury bills to encourage them. ”
As soon as Bai Chongxi's words fell, the officers below applauded warmly, among these officers, there were those who were jealous of Wang Haitao, and some were envious, but none of them thought that they should not be rewarded. Because 500,000 treasury bills and a heavy artillery brigade are negligible.
Wang Haitao was about to thank him, but Bai Chongxi said softly: "Haitao, I heard that you got married last year, and I still have a villa in Nanning City, give it to you, you go and bring your family to Nanning City, so you can take care of it sooner or later." ”
Wang Haitao hurriedly said: "How dare you accept such a generous gift from the commander-in-chief, the commander-in-chief should take back his life." ”
Bai Chongxi said with a smile: "A villa is nothing compared to a heavy artillery brigade donated by your family. ”
At this time, Chief of Staff Ye Qi also smiled and said: "Brigade Commander Wang, Commander-in-Chief Bai sincerely sends it off, don't let down Commander-in-Chief Bai's wishes, accept it." ”
Wang Haitao said: "Then I thank Commander Bai for his love." ”
After these things were dealt with, Bai Chongxi was about to start dividing up the firearms that were shipped this time, which had nothing to do with Wang Haitao, so he stepped aside. In the end, the Seventh Army became the largest player, and was given the equipment of two regiments, and the rest was given to the Fifteenth Army.
The next day, Wang Haitao received another villa and 500,000 treasury bills from Bai Chongxi. After seeing this villa composed of a two-story building, a meadow and a garden, Wang Haitao, who was very satisfied with this, personally went to Longzhou County, brought his family to Nanning City, and handed over 500,000 treasury bills to Fenggu as a family, and then returned to the barracks with peace of mind.
In the blink of an eye, in March 1936, Li Zongren began to make many public statements attacking the Chiang Kai-shek government's attitude toward Japan. And Chiang Kai-shek also deliberately wanted to take back the ruling power of Erguang. constantly bribed senior military and political officials in Erguang, and some people even used the position of lieutenant general and division commander to persuade Wang Haitao.
Wang Haitao naturally did not throw himself into the arms of Lao Jiang, so he handed over the person to the headquarters of the Fourth Army on the spot. Wang Haitao knew that history had not deviated from the direction because of his arrival, and that the "Erguang Incident" in history would come soon.
Sure enough, on May 12, 36, Hu Hanmin, the nominal leader of Guangdong, died of illness, and Chiang Kai-shek took the opportunity to announce five decrees to return power in Guangdong to the central government. Chen Jitang was unwilling to sit idly by, and immediately contacted Li and Bai in Guangxi to jointly send troops to the north to oppose Chiang.
On June 2, 36, the Erguang Allied Army sent troops to Hunan Province, and the historical "Erguang Incident" arrived as scheduled. The process is also the same as in history, first Yu Hanmou, commander of the First Army in Guangdong, issued a telegram to submit to the central government, and then Huang Guangrui, commander of the Air Force, led dozens of planes north to surrender to Chiang. Chen Jitang, who was like ashes, had no choice but to go to the field and avoid Hong Kong.
Chiang Kai-shek, who had obtained Guangdong, wanted to solve the Li and Bai in Guangxi by force, and sent several large armies to attack Guangxi in several directions. Li and Bai had been running Guangxi for many years, and they were not comparable to Chen Jitang, so they immediately mobilized the entire group army and local militia groups totaling more than 200,000 men and horses to defend against the danger and fight to the death with Chiang. Under such circumstances, Wang Haitao's independent brigade naturally received an order to go out of the Hunan and Guizhou borders and hold Quanzhou and Guilin.
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