Age of Rebirth

From a distance, there were nearly ten thousand people gathered there, and there were bursts of wild laughter. Tian Xiaozhu ordered: "Prepare for battle." When he arrived at the scene, he saw a scene he will never forget.

A few young women were stripped naked by more than a dozen men, and they were violently raped in the street. The crowd around them kept applauding. The blood all over Tian Xiaozhu's body poured onto his face. He raised the submachine gun in his hand and aimed towards the sky In one shot, the sound of gunfire alarmed everyone, and even the dozen or so violent thugs stopped twitching crazily.

Tian Xiaozhu was about to step forward to arrest the dozen or so thugs, but someone shouted, "Look, it's Chinese soldiers, kill them!" With a whimper, sixteen soldiers from the Independent Division were surrounded by nearly ten thousand thugs. In the middle, just as Tian Xiaozhu was about to stop drinking, his abdomen felt cold, and a sharp dagger pierced his abdomen. Before losing consciousness, Tian Xiaozhu poured all the submachine guns in his hand into the blood-dripping dagger, with a hideous face. man's chest.

The other soldiers shouted heart-piercingly: "Squad leader!" Immediately, there was a burst of short and intense gunshots, and then tens of thousands of mobs drowned out the soldiers.

Ten minutes later, sixteen bloody corpses covered with knife wounds were dragged backwards by the thugs, and together with the Chinese women, were hung on the trees on both sides of the street. [

On this night, the Independence Division Indochina Peninsula Garrison Area and the small patrols of the garrison troops in various cities were attacked by mobs to varying degrees. The heroic soldiers did not die on the battlefield or fell under the guns of Japanese soldiers. .On the streets of the city they kept quiet.Fell under the butcher's knife of the mob.

Major General Ma Chaoyang, Commander of the Indo-China Peninsula Garrison Region, after receiving reports from various places in the Vientiane Command, his face was livid, his teeth were gritted, and he ordered the communication staff: "Report to the division commander immediately, and at the same time, report To Deputy Commander Tang, and order the troops. According to the command of the division commander, if you encounter an attack, you can fire before the mob, and kill these bastards for me!"

Tang Qiuli's private plane.At about four o'clock in the morning, he landed at the Yangon Field Airport. When he got off the special plane, he felt a tense atmosphere. The security inside the airport was obviously strengthened. I saw little lights of fire everywhere in the city.

Tang Qiuli ordered the head of the airport security regiment who came to greet him: "Send the guards immediately. Follow me to the division." All the roads to downtown Yangon were cut off by mobs, Deputy Commander Tang’s opinion is, please set up a headquarters at the airport, Commander.”

Tang Qiuli snorted angrily, and said sharply, "Put me through the phone number of Deputy Master Tang." The head of the group said in a low voice, "I'm sorry, Master, all the wired telephone lines are dead." Tang Qiuli stopped talking, But the anger in his heart instantly evaporated, and he had nearly a million troops in his hands.But they can't even enter Yangon City, what a fucking mess!

After the airport received a telegram from Tang Qiusheng.The preliminary preparations have been made. As soon as Tang Qiuli arrived, the confidential communication team immediately started working. After 10 minutes, the contact with Tang Qiusheng and Chang Feng was communicated. Tang Qiuli said coldly: "Mei Xue records, order immediately Deputy Division Commander Tang, Commander Chang Feng, and Commander Ma Chaoyang, report the speed at which the troops are advancing, and where they are arriving now?"

Mei Xue had already changed her identity to Tang Qiuli's confidential secretary. After repeating the order, she immediately handed it over to Liu Tianhong. Tang Qiuli was very dissatisfied with Tang Qiusheng, Chang Feng, and Ma Chaoyang in his heart. My special plane took off from Dingbian at about [-]:[-] that night, and arrived at Yangon Field Airport at [-]:[-] in the morning.

For more than six hours, the heavily armed troops, facing a group of irrational mobs, have not yet been able to control the order in various places, and even Yangon has not opened up the channel. This can only explain one problem. Several commanders, When conveying their orders to the troops, they discounted it, causing the troops to be tied up when they entered.

Sure enough, as Tang Qiuli expected, when Tang Qiusheng and Chang Feng answered the call, they more or less revealed that they were afraid of hurting citizens, and when they gave orders to the troops, they asked to shoot cautiously, especially Chang Feng. Some of the troops directly under the command went to Mandalay, and some entered from the east of Yangon.

His order to the troops was, "Mainly focus on persuasion and counseling, and never shoot unless it is absolutely necessary, so as not to cause casualties to civilians." Tang Qiuli cursed angrily after reading Chang Feng's telegram, " The kindness of a woman! The opinion of a scholar!"

On the contrary, Ma Chaoyang's telegram made Tang Qiuli very comforted. Only Ma Chaoyang's troops in the Indo-China Peninsula Garrison District carried out their orders firmly and faithfully. Some troops are still on the way of emergency march.

Therefore, his call back to Ma Chaoyang was very simple, "Ma Chaoyang, when you are not benevolent as a woman or a gentleman, you are not afraid of killing mistakes, but you are afraid of not being able to bear it. Let go of your hands and feet, and use violence to control violence. Before that, I want to hear from your troops that they will completely control the target city, block all exit passages, and not let a mob go!"

Ma Chaoyang, who received the telegram from the division commander, threw his hat on the table and shouted loudly: "Immediately convey my order to all brigades and regiments, dispatch tanks and armored vehicles, and mount light and heavy machine guns first. , You don’t need to ask for instructions, just talk to them with guns and bullets, before [-]:[-] noon today, all troops must enter the intended target city, let go, if something goes wrong, I will take full responsibility!”

The second order he issued was, "According to the current specific situation in Yangon and Mandalay, in order to control the situation so that the riots will not continue to expand, the independent division is directly under the corps, and the command of the Sulu Mobile Corps At the same time, Chang Feng, the chief of staff of the division and the commander of the directly subordinate corps, was ordered to return to the temporary division headquarters to report on his duties immediately."

The issuance of this order means that the command rights of the deputy division commander Tang Qiusheng and the chief of staff Chang Feng have been deprived, and the commanders of the two corps have been removed from the command power at the same time. This is the first time in the history of the independent division. One is the third person of the independent division, and the other is the chief of staff of the division, the fourth person. The impact on the troops can be described as huge.

The treatment of Chang Feng was even more serious. They were directly transferred back from the front line. Shan Hu and Mei Xue glanced at each other, and then at Tang Qiuli with a livid face. Tang Qiuli obviously wouldn't listen to anything.

In Yangon, Tang Qiusheng, the deputy commander of the independent division headquarters, after seeing this telegram, smiled bitterly, and said to Yang Ketian, the chief of staff of the division headquarters: "Ketian, immediately convey the division commander's order to the brigade commanders. , indicating that command has been handed over to the division commander."

Yang Ketian hesitated for a moment, and tentatively said: "Deputy division commander, do you want to explain to the division commander? Explain the situation we are facing?"

Tang Qiusheng shook his head, and he asked himself, "Am I indecisive? Or is it that I'm not cruel enough, or that I lack experience in dealing with emergencies?" He walked forward, looked at the hundreds of corpses lying outside the division headquarters, It was left behind by the thugs who attempted to attack the division headquarters a few hours ago, and he personally ordered the shots to be fired. Suddenly, Tang Qiusheng felt unprecedentedly tired. [

Chang Feng silently read Tang Qiuli's telegram, and calmly said to the communication staff: "The full text conveys the commander's order to all brigades and regiments. The guards will be driven back to the temporary division headquarters in Yangon immediately," between words , indescribably lonely.

After Tang Qiuli took over the command of the two corps, the first call he received was from Liu Hongzhang, the commander of the first brigade of the corps. What is the order? Persuasion and counseling, what we are facing is a group of irrational lunatics who don't understand the language, and they deliberately make trouble. One, thousands of people were injured!"

Tang Qiuli said coldly: "Liu Hongzhang, thank you for being able to say, your tanks and armored vehicles are made of paper? Are they decorations? The guns in your soldiers' hands are fire sticks? Or are you Liu Hongzhang a bear?" You softie? Remember, they are not ordinary people, but a group of inhumane thugs. Next, don’t I need to teach you how to do it? Before ten o’clock this morning, I want to hear your report on controlling the situation in Mandalay! "

Liu Hongzhang grinned, and said: "Master, it will be easy with your order. We don't pay attention to the little devil, let alone these mobs! It won't take ten o'clock, and you will be able to receive it in three hours. My report!"

Tang Qiuli's order to the brigades and regiment leaders of the Sulu Mobile Corps was just a few simple words, "I order the first to fifth brigades of the Corps to form an encirclement circle around Yangon and block all roads, railways, At the port, no one is allowed to leave Yangon, and the rest of the troops, if they are blocked while entering the urban area, shoot and kill them, don’t hesitate, after four hours, I will hear a report on controlling the situation in Yangon!”

Afterwards, he issued the following order to Shen Jun, Director of the Investigation Division, and Yu Deshui, Director of the Intelligence Division, "Shen and Yu, the two directors, immediately start sorting out all the materials and registering them. After receiving my order, start immediately. Arrest, authorize you, you can arrest any suspicious person, no evidence is needed, you must dig deep, dig out the mastermind behind the scenes, never let any mob go, if you encounter resistance to arrest, you will be shot on the spot!"

After finishing all this work, it was already bright, Tang Qiuli sat on a chair tiredly, without saying a word, Mei Xue brought in breakfast, he just took a few mouthfuls, and then put down his chopsticks, compared with the usual posture of wolfing down, it was worse. Too much, obviously no appetite, moreover, she was very preoccupied, which made Mei Xue's heart ache for a while.

In Mei Xue's memory, even in the face of the Japanese army's massive attack, her husband would talk and laugh happily, devouring his food, what happened today?At this time, Tang Qiuli's mood was very complicated, because he was about to face Chang Feng.

(to be continued) (to be continued...)

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