Age of Conquest Reborn

Chapter 582: Dragon and Tiger Fight in Xiangfan

Tang Qiuli and his party appeared in the lobby of the hotel. They saw that the guests who checked in yesterday had transformed into mighty generals and soldiers, which greatly shocked the attention of the hotel service staff. Only the manager sneaked into the room.

If you want to make a phone call, it is obvious that he belongs to Tang Enbo. Even if he is not a hidden agent, he is at least an informant. (Baidu search,)

Just as he picked up the phone, a strong hand pinched his wrist like an iron plier. There was a sharp pain, and stars were flying in front of his eyes. He could already hear his bones moaning in pain, and he couldn't help but scream.

, as soon as there was some movement, his mouth was tightly covered.

Immediately afterwards, he was grabbed by the belt, lifted up, and thrown onto the sofa. Only then did he see clearly the person who was subduing him. The sweat on his face started to fall. It was a mountain tiger, with that hill-like body and the hand in his hand.

The heavy machine gun itself was an indescribable coercion. The manager absolutely believed that it would be easier for this big man to kill himself than to kill a little chicken.

When following Tang Qiuli downstairs, due to professional habits and the sensitivity of years of being exposed to bullets and bullets, he instinctively observed everyone in the hotel. As a result, he discovered the manager's unusual behavior and followed him quietly. He just happened to catch him.

If you need to interrogate him, you will know what he wants to do.

Shan Hu grinned. The manager was so frightened that he almost fainted. This smile was so captivating. Several soldiers came in and escorted the manager out. They knew how to deal with such things. Shan Hu returned to the hall without disturbing anyone, including

Not even Tang Qiuli was aware of the scene that had just happened, and his actions were almost exposed.

Several cars drove towards Tang Enbo's secret private house in Xiangfan City. From a distance, it looked like an ordinary house with a common architectural style in northern Hubei. The black door was closed tightly. If you look carefully, you will see that

Going to a different place, the wall is very high, and there are no tall plants such as trees that are common on ordinary streets. Outsiders want to climb, and there is no place to stand. Moreover, the lower part of the wall is vaguely hidden.

loophole.

The car stopped at the gate, and something suddenly happened. At the originally empty gate, a group of soldiers with live ammunition rushed out from nowhere, and instantly surrounded several cars. The black muzzles of the guns were pointed at the cars.

Tang Qiuli in the car gave a contemptuous smile, which showed that Tang Enbo had a guilty conscience and was facing a formidable enemy even on his own territory.

Shanhu got out of the car and said to the thirty soldiers: "Quickly go and inform you that the commander of the Tang Army and the vice chairman of the Military Commission of the National Government, General Tang Qiuli, are here." The soldiers hesitated. One of them should be the lieutenant leading the team.

He rolled his eyelids and said proudly:

"Vice Chairman Tang, we have never heard of it. Brothers only listen to the orders of Commander Tang. Without the orders of the Commander of the Corps, even a mouse cannot sneak in. Everyone raises their hands and gets out of the car, *

*, If you dare to come here and act wild, you are already impatient."

The words were arrogant, and the vigilance was quite good, but it also proved that Tang Enbo lived here and did not miss the mark. Otherwise, these guards would not be as heavily guarded as if they were facing a powerful enemy. As soon as the lieutenant finished speaking, his hand

The shell gun inside suddenly left his hand, and then, the cold muzzle of the gun was pressed against his forehead.

A big man who was a full head taller than him had a sarcastic sneer on his lips and looked at him with cold eyes. This lieutenant was a discerning person and knew that what was on his forehead was a heavy machine gun. If you put it down, his head would be no better than a rotten watermelon.

How much? He couldn't understand how the big man who was talking to him was five meters away from him, how could he be in front of him in the blink of an eye?

He squinted at his brothers. They had twenty people pointing guns at their heads just like him. He was really damned. He had more than thirty people, but he was subdued by twenty people. No, he was alone.

Control two people, with a submachine gun pointed at one person's head and a pistol pointed at the other person's head.

Shan Hu asked: "Is Tang Enbo inside?" The lieutenant rolled his eyes a few times and hesitated without making a sound. Shan Hu smiled coldly, and murderous intent suddenly burst out. The lieutenant trembled, and his whole body felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar.

The heavy machine gun on his forehead was still lethal. He struggled to spit out two words, "Here, here."

Shanhu escorted the lieutenant and called the house. What a coincidence. Today, Tang Enbo held a meeting in a secret private house. The meeting was attended by officers above the brigade commander of the Eighth Army, as well as personnel above the director level of various divisions of the Legion.

They were Tang Enbo's confidants and cronies, numbering forty or fifty, who packed the spacious hall to the max. Coupled with non-stop smoking, the hall was filled with smoke, and everyone present had a gloomy look on their face.

There was only one topic at the meeting, the direction and foothold of the Eighth Army's next move. On this point, Tang Enbo himself was undecided. Although Xiangfan was good, it was not a place to stay for a long time. The Eighth Army was stationed without orders and was designated by the non-military committee.

Sooner or later, it was a question of the defense zone. With the help of our own troops to suppress the border and various threats and inducements, we were able to surrender the local authorities and local powerful factions in Xiangfan, and then we were able to temporarily settle down. After all, it was not a long-term solution.

Tang Enbo himself knew very well that in this battle in Henan, what he did was a bit too much, that is, too low-key. Since he was stationed in Henan, Tang Enbo had tasted the sweetness and benefits of being a local emperor. Because of the special status of the Eighth Army, although he returned to

The war zone in the Yellow River Basin is controlled, but there is no explicit affiliation. It still belongs to the Central Military Command System.

The command of the legion is still in the hands of the military committee. In other words, it is still in the hands of the old man. Tang Qiuli cannot use any soldiers. Tang Qiuli cannot dictate to him. Everything has to be discussed.

The national government was far away from Henan, and he couldn't control the ones that were close or the ones that were far away. So Tang Enbo started to tremble, created clever names, expropriated and extorted money, and made a lot of money, which made Henan a mess and made the people miserable.

After more than a year of comfortable life, fireworks were everywhere around Henan. Things were calm here. Instead, he took advantage of the chaos and ordered his cronies to scrape a lot of oil and water. Henan's north gate, Anyang, was the best at fishing for oil and water.

Two of his close confidants, little did they know that with the sound of cannon fire in Anyang, the Japanese suddenly attacked.

Tang Enbo himself admitted that he was stunned and frightened by the sudden Japanese attack. He knew better what kind of things his division commanders were. They were good at flattering horses, making money and playing with women. When it came to fighting, Tang Enbo himself looked down on them.

, except for the two divisions Liu Zhaoyu and Cao Guangtu, none of these people could withstand a few shells from the Japanese. It didn't matter that they wet their pants in fear, and they ran away without orders.

Therefore, as soon as the guns fired in Anyang, Tang Enbo withdrew the corps headquarters to Xinzheng, a few hundred kilometers away from Zhengzhou. When Liu Zhaoyu's 53rd Division and the Japanese army were fighting in Hebi, his corps headquarters had already withdrawn to Xuchang

, Cao Guangtu's 130th Division and the superior Japanese army were fighting a bloody battle in Xinxiang, and he withdrew the legion headquarters to Nanyang.

The louder the gunfire on the front line, the farther Tang Enbo's Eighth Army headquarters was from the front line. By the time Zhengzhou fell, Tang Enbo had already gone to Xiangfan, Hubei. Not only that, Tang Enbo also took this opportunity to secretly order his trusted troops to abandon their positions.

Retreat to the mountainous area in western Henan, and move the camera south to meet me in Xiangfan.

Here he has sinister intentions. On the one hand, he can preserve his strength. He can also take advantage of the Japanese massive attack on Henan to consume the 53rd Division and the 130th Division. Liu Zhaoyu and Cao Guangtu are not of the same mind as him.

Division Commander, Tang Enbo has long wanted to eradicate him. In the Eighth Army, dissidents who are not of the same mind as him are not allowed to exist.

However, the prestige of these two men in the army was extremely high and they won the trust of the officers and soldiers. If they were forced to do so, they might provoke a mutiny. Just as the Japanese army began to attack Henan, Tang Enbo took a vicious step and attacked the 53rd Division and the 130th Division.

The order was to hold on to the spot, and at the same time, he secretly ordered his cronies to preserve their strength first, use these two divisions to block the Japanese, abandon their positions and escape.

As a result, the 53rd Division and the 130th Division faced the betrayal of friendly forces and the crazy attack of hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops. They fought bloody battles for a long time and the entire army was wiped out. The blood of more than 30,000 loyal soldiers was sprinkled on the Central Plains. Liu Zhaoyu

Two division commanders, He and Cao Guangtu, died for their country, Henan fell, and a large hole was opened in Tang Qiuli's Yellow River defense line by the Japanese army.

During this period, Tang Enbo also received a telegram from Tang Qiuli. At that time, Tang Enbo was focused on how to escape. The Japanese artillery scared him out of his courage, so he didn't bother to pay attention to Tang Qiuli's orders.

He simply cut off all contact with the outside world and ran south as hard as he could. Therefore, Tang Qiuli could not contact the Eighth Army headquarters at all.

Tang Enbo, who quickly fled to Xiangfan, Hubei Province, calmed down from the shock, shut himself in the room, calmed down and thought about it, and felt that what he had done was a bit outrageous. Let alone other things, just losing the city and land was enough.

It was enough for him to bear the guilt of defeat, which ranged from losing his official position to being imprisoned or even being shot and beheaded. This was so obvious that he couldn't deny it even if he wanted to.

The more Tang Enbo thought about it, the more unsure he became. He was deeply afraid that the Military Commission would hold him responsible for the defeat. The main reason was that he was afraid that he would lose the old man's trust, and then he would have no chance to hang out in the future. As for where Tang Qiuli was, he didn't take it to heart yet.

Not worried about being punished, he had no choice but to evaporate from the human world, hide his whereabouts, cut off all contact with the outside world, only retain communication channels with his cronies, control the troops, huddle in Xiangfan City, and think hard about countermeasures.

Therefore, not only Tang Qiuli could not find him, but even Chairman Chiang Kai-shek in Nanjing did not know the whereabouts of his beloved general. In addition, the Japanese army violently attacked Songhu and the Hangzhou Bay area, and war broke out everywhere in North China. Chiang Kai-shek

All the Chairman's energy was put into the fierce fighting, and he could not spare any energy to pursue this matter.

Therefore, Tang Enbo was able to stay safe in Xiangfan. Of course, he was not someone who would sit back and wait for death, waiting for the military committee to punish him. If he lost his military power, it would be better to take his life. Under the guidance of his senior staff, he launched an action.

(To be continued)