Age of Rebirth

Chapter 970 Liu Zhi who ran away

Ever since the No.15 Army was incorporated into the Japanese China Southern Expeditionary Army's combat sequence, the commander of the army, General Yamashita, has not lived a day of comfort, and his depression has accompanied him almost every day since he went to the national battlefield.read a novel

After landing on the Leizhou Peninsula, the No.15 Army has been rushing to the front, fighting at the forefront, but Yamashita Feng is not happy. Are the Chinese troops they encountered still troops?From Hai'an to Maoming, they were chasing along the way, constantly chasing, and there was almost no sign of the Chinese soldiers. My brave and skilled troops almost became the receiving troops. Towns and cities fell into the imperial army without any battle at all. hand.

According to the captives, what he was chasing after was the local troops in Guangdong. If Yamashita didn't believe it, the troops who didn't even dare to fight were still called troops?Such an opponent can't let himself feel the passion of fighting. On the contrary, he is still an insult to himself and the No.15 Army. When he was depressed, General Yamashita chopped off the heads of more than a dozen soldiers of the Cantonese Army with his own hands. The unhappiness in his heart, in his opinion, is just a way to adjust the boring chasing life.

Yamashita was worried, worried that his troops would lose their ferocious nature in such a pursuit. It wasn't until they encountered organized resistance in the Yangjiang area that Yamashita found a sense of fighting. It's nothing more than harassment by a small group of troops. [

As the No.15 Army continued to attack in the direction of Guangzhou, Yamashita learned that in Guangzhou, the so-called Chinese devil Tang Qiuli, who was rumored to be miraculous, organized a Chinese army in Guangzhou City to resist his own attack. This made Yamashita's fighting cells overflow to the limit, and he had a passion to meet his opponent.

He was about to pounce on Guangzhou and face to face with Tang Qiuli when he received the damn order from the commander-in-chief Terauchi Toshiichi to stop attacking Guangzhou and turn to Nanning to gather. After receiving the order, Yamashita was almost furious To go crazy, from the bottom of his heart, he looked down on Terauchi Shouichi, who was rigid in thinking and conservative in style, and thought that this old guy should retire.

Similarly, Yamashita also had a lot of complaints about Masaharu Honma's disastrous defeat on the south bank of the Hongshui River. In his opinion, it was the huge mistakes in the command of Masaharu Honma that led to the death of more than 4 heroic imperial soldiers. The root cause of Yu Sui was that if he was in command, the attack direction would never be limited to only one guest, but at least three or four directions should be chosen to attack the northeastern part of Guangxi.

The command method is rigid, and the final defeat is inevitable. As for the final outcome of Masaharu Honma, the self-respecting Yamashita Homo has no sympathy. He looks down on General Toshida Terauchi and all the generals of the Southern Dispatch Army. This time he attacked Guizhou. He resolutely rejected General Shou of the Temple's order to increase the strength of two divisions in the attack direction of Dushan. The No. 15 Army can complete the attack task independently, and will also be the first to reach the city of Guiyang. Yamashita sent his reply to the Commander-in-Chief.

After the capture of Dushan, Yamashita did not feel like he was meeting his opponent. According to the intelligence of the dispatched army headquarters, the Chinese government army was defending here, and it was also the most elite army in China. But within a few hours, Dushan broke in. When the sun flag was set, all the defenders surrendered except for some of them who were killed. Even the artillery supporting the attack did not fire a few shots, and the battle was over.

Dushan City was covered in rubble, almost in ruins. Shan Xiafeng was standing on the mountain road in the north of the city, surrounded by a procession that could not be seen from the beginning to the end. A staff officer came to ask for instructions, "Your Excellency, Commander, what should I do with the captured Chinese prisoners of war?" ?Also, do we keep troops in Dushan in order to improve local security?"

Yamashita looked at this young staff officer with eyes like an idiot, he must be a newcomer, right?Don't know the rules of my Yamashita Bongwa No.15 Army? "Baga, kill all the Chinese captives and Chinese people," Yamashita gave very clear instructions, and his expression was as simple as taking a breath.

The staff officer trembled and couldn't believe his ears. He said in a low voice, "Your Excellency, there are more than 2 Chinese prisoners of war and local people. Kill them all?" "Baga, is my order still unclear?" Yamashita not only scolded, but also slapped the staff officer loudly across the face. He hesitated because of the inferior Chinese, who doubted the commander's order. He really doubted whether he was a samurai of the Great Japanese Empire.

The dense gunfire roared wildly for a long time before it stopped. The corpses of soldiers and ordinary people from more than 2 countries covered the streets and alleys, and the bright red blood gurgled into a small stream in the city. A river of blood formed, rolling small blood-red waves, and merged into the Caodu River. Dushan became a dead city. The one who caused the Dushan tragedy was the Ninth Army of the [-]th Army who caused the Haian massacre in Haian Town, Leizhou Peninsula. Division Kono Regiment, the Japanese soldiers of this regiment seem to have a special preference for massacring ordinary Chinese people, and Yamashita served as the commander to meet their requirements.

On the evening of June 24, the No. 15 Army's [-]th Division [-]st, [-]rd, and [-]rd Regiment approached Duyun, another important town in southeastern Guizhou, and, before dark, defeated the commanding heights in the southwest of Duyun with swift and violent actions. On Xiyun Peak, a regiment of guards from the Central Army captured Xiyun Peak, and Duyun was already under Japanese artillery fire.

Liu Zhi, the commander of the Qiannan East Road Defense Line of the Central Army, is already like an ant on a hot pot in Duyun City. Liushenzhu, his headquarters, was originally in Dushan. The Japanese army just started to attack. After giving the order to stick to it, he took all the staff of the headquarters and fled the city. He ran all the way to Duyun. Just after taking a breath, he received a report from the vanguard of the Japanese army that they had occupied Xiyunfeng, the barrier in the southwest of Duyun. .

Liu Zhi believed that he was the most unlucky person, so he led a group of officers from the General Headquarters of the East Route Army to Dushan to check military affairs and combat readiness. As a result, the Japanese launched a fierce attack on Dushan on the very night of their arrival. Fortunately, I saw the opportunity early and ran fast, otherwise, the majestic commander-in-chief of the Eastern Route Army would have become the ghost of the Japanese soldiers.

Running to Duyun and being chased by the Japanese was the bad idea of ​​Chen Cheng, that little devil. The supreme commander wanted to go deep into the front line, understand the situation first-hand, and prepare for the Japanese attack. A word from Chongqing almost made me a dead man.

Liu Zhi was out of ideas. He was thinking about where the next step would be the safest to withdraw. It was the chief of staff who reminded him: "Commander, we have a group army of more than 8 troops in Duyun, and we still have a favorable position. If the command headquarters retreats again, it will be hard to explain where Chairman Jiang is. According to the meaning of the post, a military meeting will be held immediately, and the defense will be evenly arranged. If the commander-in-chief withdraws to a safe area, there will be no criticism and criticism. Criticism, there is also an explanation to the upper and lower."

Liu Zhi just woke up like a dream, and said repeatedly: "It makes sense, hurry up and call the officers above the brigade commander of the No. 19 Group Army to participate in the military meeting, go quickly, really." The thing, but he felt that the reality of Duyun was already under Japanese artillery fire, and it was extremely unsafe. He explained the situation so that he could retreat to Fuquan overnight. Duyun, he didn't want to stay for a minute longer.

The unit that defends Duyun is the No.19 Group Army of the Central Army, Guohua Department, which has two armies and six divisions, plus an independent brigade, with a total strength of more than 19. The No.19 Group Army is in the sequence of the Central Army and belongs to the latter. Guo Hua has the rank of general and graduated from the ninth phase of Whampoa. Among the generals of the central army, he is a relatively capable general. If it were not for this, Chairman Jiang would not have given No.[-] The group army is placed in such an important position.

Liu Zhi retreated all the way from Dushan to Duyun. As soon as he entered the city, Guo Hua received a report. After waiting for a long time in the group army headquarters, Commander-in-Chief Liu did not arrive. Dare to say, this commander-in-chief, who commanded 6 or [-] horses, didn't even enter the city at all, but stayed in the north of the city temporarily. According to the description of the subordinates who came back, all the personnel of the headquarters may withdraw north again at any time, even the radio station They were all in the car and did not move down.

Guo Hua said for a while that he had lost contact with a brigade of the defenders in Dushan in the morning. I am afraid it was more or less ominous. It just so happened that Commander-in-Chief Liu Zhi withdrew from Dushan and asked him for news. He was going to meet Liu Zhi, but he received an order to hold an emergency military meeting, and it was the Eastern Route Army Commander-in-Chief Liu Zhi who personally presided over it.

When he arrived at Liu Zhi's temporary station, Guo Hua's heart skipped a beat when he saw the commander-in-chief. Liu Zhi's mental state was very poor, as if he had been greatly frightened, his face was pale, his eyes, his eyes The sluggish, chubby body was piled up on the chair like a puddle of mud, and even Guo Hua didn't feel it when he came in. [

"Commander-in-Chief, Guo Hua, Commander-in-Chief of the No.19 Group Army, has been ordered to come here, and please give instructions to the Commander-in-Chief," Guo Hua said loudly, full of anger and loud voice, Liu Zhi finally responded, and said forcefully, "It's Commander Guo. Please sit down." After speaking, he raised his hand to signal, Guo Hua didn't speak, but sat down straight with a soldier's demeanor.

After a while, the military officers at all levels who participated in the meeting arrived one after another, and the meeting officially started. Liu Zhi, who presided over the meeting, seemed very anxious, and changed his usual habit of speaking in a calm, slippery, nonsense manner, and said straight to the point : "Everyone, Dushan has fallen, the Japanese army has approached Duyun, and the battle situation is very critical. I have decided to hand over the military command of Duyun to Commander Guo. Commander Guo will have full power to plan and defend Duyun. Department, withdrew to Fuquan overnight, adjourned the meeting."

This is the end?The twenty or so generals of the No.19 Army who participated in the meeting looked at each other in amazement.

(To be continued)

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