Age of Conquest Reborn

Chapter 948 Yu Hanmou’s tricks

The Japanese Fifteenth Army unit responsible for attacking Guangdong from the direction of Leizhou Peninsula. After landing, they first ate up a brigade of the Guangdong Army, and then killed all the chickens and dogs in Haian, a small town with thousands of people. Finally, a torch

The town was burned to the ground, and the person who committed this evil act was the Kono Regiment of the Ninth Division of the 15th Army.

After Tang Qiuli learned about the Hai'an tragedy, he was so angry that he broke several teacups and turned pale. The special guards standing guard outside could hear the angry breathing of the division commander and the rapid footsteps walking back and forth through the door.

, suddenly, the division commander's thunderous shout came from the room: "Communications staff officer" The communications staff officer waiting outside hurried over.

"Record, Tang Qiuli, Vice Chairman of the Military Commission of the National Government, Commander of the North China ** Division, and Commander-in-Chief of the Military Joint Defense of the Five Southwest Provinces, ordered that all units under his command are not allowed to accept the surrender of the Japanese Kono Regiment. Once our officers and soldiers are captured

The officers and soldiers of the regiment are to be shot on the spot without reporting. This order is immediately issued to all units," this was Tang Qiuli's angry voice.

Once this order is issued, it means that the Japanese Kono Regiment has been sentenced to death. I don’t know how other troops will execute it, but all the troops of the ** Division will meticulously execute the division commander’s orders. In fact, from *

Since the bloody hand regiment, the predecessor of the * division, it has not had the habit of keeping Japanese prisoners. After all, Tang Qiuli has only publicly stated that he will not keep prisoners twice. The other time was against the Japanese soldiers who committed the Sucheng massacre in the Taihang Mountains.

Qingshui Brigade.

This is just the beginning. For Yamashita Fengwen's Fifteenth Army, killing Chinese people is their inherent habit. After occupying Hai'an, Yamashita Fengwen's main force immediately rushed to the important town of Xuwen on the Leizhou Peninsula. Where is the Guangdong division?

The army became the next target of the Japanese.

Facing the fierce Japanese offensive, Yu Hanmou, chairman of the Guangdong Provincial Government and provincial security commander, was frightened. Like all local bosses, he regarded his own territory as his life. Yu Hanmou was more nervous about his own territory than anyone else.

He knew very well how he obtained Guangdong, and even more clearly what losing Guangdong meant to him.

Let’s not talk about how it feels to be sheltered under the wings of others like a bereaved dog. If the soldiers in his hands are destroyed by the Japanese, it is still unknown whether Yu Hanmou can walk out of Guangdong. Those who want his life

It was too much. The loss of more than 4,000 people in Hai'an did not make Yu Hanmou pass out from heartache. He did not feel sorry for the people who were massacred by the Japanese army, but for his own soldiers. Is it easy to pull up this small number of people?

Finally, he was not frightened. Yu Hanmou immediately ordered the Third Division stationed in Xuwen to retreat to Leizhou, join the Fifth Division there, and build a defense line in Leizhou. This order was in line with the actual situation. Facing the superior Japanese army,

, the Third Division's strength of more than 8,000 people was simply unable to withstand it, and it was necessary to temporarily avoid the Japanese attack.

But Yu Hanmou forgot and allowed the Third Division to retreat, leaving tens of thousands of people in Xuwen to the Japanese army. After the Hai'an tragedy, the Japanese would not let the people of Xuwen go. If the Third Division blocked the Japanese army in Xuwen

In one day, the people in Xuwen City can successfully escape to the interior. As a soldier, protecting the people is one of his responsibilities.

But Yu Hanmou never thought about what would happen to the people. In his eyes, the people were nothing. As long as he could ensure that the troops were not wiped out, he could give up anything, let alone tens of thousands of people. When he learned that the third division had begun

After retreating, Yu Hanmou finally breathed a sigh of relief. In fact, he had to give up even Leizhou City.

At this point, Yu Hanmou knew that with his own strength alone, he could not stop the Japanese's fierce offensive momentum. He could only ask for help. Therefore, his request for help telegram to Tang Qiuli seemed pitiful, "Commander-in-Chief Tang Xunjian,

The Japanese offensive was fierce, Hai'an was lost, our Guangdong troops suffered heavy losses, and Xu Wen was about to be destroyed. With the strength of the Guangdong Province, it will be impossible to stop the Japanese attack. It is only a matter of time before the whole province of Guangdong falls."

"Therefore, Han Mou implores Commander-in-Chief Tang to take action to turn the tide for the sake of the millions of people in Guangdong Province. He has long heard that the troops under the Commander-in-Chief are brave and good at fighting. It is not too late to take action now. Han Mou hopes that Commander-in-Chief

The Commander-in-Chief's reinforcements are like a cloud of hope after a long drought. The whole province of Guangdong, from Han Mou down, only the Commander-in-Chief is looking forward to it, eagerly awaiting the success of Han Mou."

Tang Qiuli read Yu Hanmou's request for help telegram, smiled coldly, and ordered the communications staff to call Yu Hanmou back, "Hai'an was lost, and thousands of people were massacred by the Japanese army. If Xuwen is abandoned, where will the tens of thousands of people in Xuwen be left? What if?

If the Third Division held Xuwen for one day, the tragedy could have been completely avoided. If the army retreated before the people, why would the people of Guangdong look at the Cantonese army?"

After the telegram was sent, Tang Qiuli was still uneasy. What he was most worried about was the tens of thousands of people in Xuwen. The Japanese army was already red-eyed and would never let go of the unarmed people. He was waiting in fear to make him worry.

With the news of self-blame, Mei Xue was unable to comfort him with words and could only hold his hand tightly.

Mei Xue felt distressed that her husband's palms were cold and seemed to be trembling slightly. Mei Xue understood Tang Qiuli's mood at this time, and she also knew that the pain hidden in his heart and the hatred for the brutal crimes of the Japanese army could not be changed.

Feeling deeply guilty about the fact, in the evening, the news about Xu Wen finally came.

The Japanese army occupied almost an empty city. After learning the bad news that Hai'an had fallen and all the people in the town were massacred, the people of Xuwen immediately fled the city. Finally, they escaped before the Japanese army occupied Xuwen.

Fortunately, the people of Guangdong know what kind of birds Yu Hanmou's troops are. At the critical moment, they can't be counted on at all. It would be good if they don't harm the people.

Tang Qiuli breathed a sigh of relief. He felt weak all over and his limbs were weak. He sat down on the chair as if he was exhausted. Yu Hanmou himself and the other Guangdong troops were totally incapable of doing anything. If they dared to defend Nanning like the Gui army, the common people would die.

If there was a chance to escape, the telegram sent to Yu Hanmou during the day must have made him feel unsure. At this moment, Yu Hanmou might be thinking about how to escape.

It didn't matter whether Yu Han wanted to live or die. People all over Guangdong must avoid being massacred by the Japanese Fifteenth Army. Judging from the route of Yamashita Fengwen's attack, it seems that the main purpose is to occupy the southwestern part of Guangdong, at most occupy Guangzhou, and then use the main force

Turn to the direction of Nanning, otherwise, we will never attack along the Leizhou Peninsula. Zhanjiang, Wuchuan, and Yangdong are all places where we can land.

At the beginning of the war in the south, something went against Tang Qiuli's original plan. The main reason was that Yu Hanmou's Guangdong army was unable to cope with the situation, so the ** division troops had no choice but to intervene in the battlefield in advance. He issued an order that Ma Chaoyang's Southeast Mobile Corps immediately came from Jiangxi.

Ji'annan

down, via Shaoguan to Guangzhou, to take over the defense of the Guangdong army in the Guangzhou area. Feng Jiwu Corps dispatched six brigades of troops to march west from Fujian to control the eastern Guangdong area, and set up defenses in the Jiangmen and Zhongshan areas, interacting with Ma Chaoyang Corps.

support situation.

Tang Qiuli mobilized his troops in this way just to fight a tug-of-war with the Japanese army in the Guangzhou area, attract the main forces of the Japanese Seventh Army and the Fifteenth Army that attacked Guangdong to Guangdong, and reduce the pressure on Nanning.

, compared with the Japanese army's strength at 1.5:1, there is no advantage in strength. If Yu Hanmou's Cantonese army is included, the strength slightly exceeds that of the Japanese army.

At this time, we really couldn’t let Yu Hanmou run too fast or too far away. We should give this half-drawn emperor of Guangdong a reassurance. He immediately sent a telegram to Yu Hanmou, "Chairman Yu, the situation in Guangdong is not as corrupt as you said, and it is beyond control."

, the six brigades of our ** Division's Ma Chaoyang Corps and Feng Jiwu Corps, totaling 250,000 people, have entered Guangdong from two directions. Among them, 160,000 people from Ma Chaoyang Corps will be deployed in Guangzhou. "

"The Cantonese Army troops should be concentrated near Guangzhou, waiting for my orders. In addition, part of the equipment of the Cantonese Army can be replenished on the spot. Currently, the 3rd and 5th Divisions of the Cantonese Army in Leizhou have given up their plan to block the Japanese army on the Leizhou front line.

, immediately retreated to the vicinity of Guangzhou and stood by.

All Cantonese troops in southwestern Guangdong should abandon their current defensive areas and retreat to the vicinity of Guangzhou. It needs to be emphasized that all retreating Cantonese troops can only retreat after all the people have evacuated. Otherwise, the command of the troops will

Officials are assigned to engage in military law."

Tang Qiuli must emphasize this point. Otherwise, Yu Hanmou's men would definitely run faster than the common people and concentrate their forces to fight a tough battle with the Japanese army in Guangzhou. This was not Tang Qiuli's plan originally, but Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi's

The Battle of Nanning forced Tang Qiuli to intervene in the battlefield in advance. As for how long the battle in Guangzhou will last, we can only see the progress of the Battle of Nanning.

There was another major factor that prompted Tang Qiuli to make this decision, and that was the Fifteenth Army of Yamashita Fengwen who was madly massacring Chinese people. This was a group of red-eyed executioners. Tang Qiuli was determined to kill all the people near Guangzhou.

We must kill all these beastly Japanese troops, especially the Kono Regiment that caused the Hai'an tragedy. We must not let them go.

After Yu Hanmou received Tang Qiuli's second telegram, his previous dejection and doomsday-like depression were all gone. His face was flushed with excitement, and he kept mumbling: "Now there is hope." Just now, he

I also discussed with my staff how to escape and where to go. Although Guangzhou is good, if my life is lost, everything will be impossible.

The Japanese would never let go of Guangzhou, an important town in Lingnan. Yu Hanmou had no intention of fighting the Japanese to the death. Before receiving Tang Qiuli's telegram, he had already issued an order to the troops in southwestern Guangdong to immediately withdraw to Guangzhou to assemble. His eldest brother led

I want you to run away, but I don’t want any Leizhou or Zhanjiang. If you have men and guns, are you worried about not having any territory?

He also had bad intentions when he sent a telegram to Tang Qiuli asking for help. He wanted the Japanese division troops to block the Japanese for him so that Zhanjiang could escape safely. After being away from danger, he could make plans again. The Japanese were not impossible to cooperate.

Of course, he did not discuss this idea with anyone, including his close confidants.

(To be continued)