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Volume 1 On the Songhua River Chapter 954 The Great Battle

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    Chapter 954: The Great Battle

    The first battle in Nanning ended with the 314th Regiment of the Guangxi Army wiping out a Japanese regiment. This battle undoubtedly played a huge role in boosting the morale of the Guangxi Army and strengthening the confidence to defend Nanning. It also achieved what Bai Chongxi valued most.  With the goal of winning the first battle, Bai Chongxi, the commander-in-chief of Nanning City Defense, admired the superb command art displayed by regiment leader Wu Xiaoxian during the battle.  {}

    Such generals cannot be fixed in passively defensive trenches. They should be given greater command and arbitrary power. Therefore, as the colonel commander, Wu Xiaoxian commanded nearly a division of troops and moved freely around Nanning.  , Bai Chongxi gave him the greatest freedom and authority, expecting this young leader who has created miracles to give him more surprises.

    The war in Nanning that had been burning for several hours was extinguished. All the Gui Army troops were talking about this complete victory. There were also many intermediate commanders like Wu Xiaoxian who looked forward to creating such a miracle in future battles.  , became famous in the Gui Army, but the pressure in Bai Chongxi's heart has not eased at all. At the beginning, it was just a bargain, and the more cruel things are yet to come.

    Tang Qiuli, who had already arrived in Guangzhou, was even more aware of this. The Japanese troops from six divisions were pressing forward across the entire line, clearly setting up a decisive battle posture in an attempt to eliminate the main force of the Gui army on the Nanning front line and open the road to Chongqing.  The situation at the gate made Tang Qiuli even more worried about the situation of the Gui army.

    As for the 15th Army of Yamashita Fengwen, the Japanese army that invaded Guangzhou in the north, it was worn down by Chutian's special operations detachment and had no temper at all. Instead of advancing with great success, it has now become cautious and steady. Yamashita Fengwen is quite annoyed.  , Tang Qiuli believes that the only one who can confront the Japanese army head-on is his own troops. Not the Gui Army, nor the Central Army. Regardless of the firepower configuration, the training level of the soldiers, and the command art, but as far as the experience of fighting the Japanese army is concerned,  As far as the army is concerned, no one in the ** division can surpass it.

    Tang Qiuli planned to prepare a big bag for Yamashita Fengwen in the Guangzhou area, put it into the 15th Army, and beat the craziest dog, the Japanese Southern Expeditionary Army, to death with a stick. Ma Chaoyang's Southeast Mobile Corps and Feng Jiwu Corps  The six brigades formed the main body of the Guangzhou battle. At present, the troops are basically in place, waiting for the Japanese army to arrive.

    Everything went according to his plan. Only Yu Hanmou really annoyed Tang Qiuli. He retreated nearly a thousand miles and scattered half of his troops. The Cantonese army assembled in Guangzhou only numbered about 70,000 people, and many of them were even equipped with heavy weapons.  If you get lost and can drag back a rifle, you are considered a good soldier.

    Yu Hanmou came to Tang Qiuli many times with a sad face to complain. He kept asking for guns, money, and equipment for the same reason. The Guangdong army was now under Vice Chairman Tang, and he could not go to war with the Japanese empty-handed.  Do your best?  Tang Qiuli saw through Yu Hanmou's petty thinking and instructed the logistics minister Zhang Quan to immediately transport the Japanese weapons in stock to Guangzhou according to the standards of the three divisions. These weapons were not used by the ** division troops anyway and were idle.  It was also idle, and it was given to Yu Hanmou's troops, which could be considered useful.

    Zhang Quan's efficiency was good. Within a few days, all the Japanese equipment of the three divisions were transported to Guangzhou. Yu Hanmou was so grateful that he almost burst into tears. He regarded Tang Qiuli as a living Bodhisattva. At Tang Qiuli's suggestion,  The Guangdong Army was reorganized into four armies and moved to Zhaoqing and Yunfu in the northwest of Guangzhou. It served as the left wing of Guangzhou and cooperated with the Guangzhou Campaign.

    Tang Qiuli only asked Yu Hanmou to stick to the above-mentioned area and not retreat under any circumstances. After receiving his order, he attacked decisively and surrounded the Japanese troops attacking Guangzhou near Guangzhou. Yu Hanmou said that he would resolutely implement the order of the Vice Chairman.  Even if the Cantonese army fights to the last man, it will never give up its position.

    Satisfied, Yu Hanmou led his troops and rushed to the northwest of Guangzhou to set up defenses. This guy's resolute attitude made Tang Qiuli uneasy. If the Guangdong army fled as soon as the Japanese army arrived, Guangzhou's left wing would completely collapse and the Japanese army would outflank Guangzhou.  Although the front-line Japanese division troops would not be encircled, the plan to annihilate the enemy in the Guangzhou Battle would come to naught. It would also be very difficult to contain the main force of the Japanese army from pressing towards Nanning indiscriminately. Therefore, Tang Qiuli issued an order,*  The remaining troops of the Corps directly under the *Division immediately went forward to the Wuzhou area of ??Guangxi to stand by.

    Tang Qiuli instinctively felt that Yu Hanmou's Cantonese army was unreliable. The staff office had suggested that the Cantonese army should not be used in the Guangzhou battle and be borne by the entire ** division. Taking into account the division commander's concerns,  However, Tang Qiuli himself could not explain why he sent the Guangdong army to the left wing. This decision later almost put the troops on the front line of Guangzhou in an extremely dangerous situation.

    The ** Division troops were deployed on the front line in Guangzhou. Naturally, they could not hide it from the Japanese. The Japanese army base camp urgently discussed countermeasures. If Tang Qiu left the army and did not join the southern war, the Japanese would not be nervous. Since it was unavoidable, with the strength of the Southern Expeditionary Army,  Can't take advantage?Finally, the Japanese base camp decided to form the Guangxi Front Army with the Japanese troops stationed in Taiwan as the main force and two divisions brought in from China.

    This front army has five divisions and 120,000 troops. The combat area is Guangdong and is not affiliated with the Southern Expeditionary Army. This troop deployment is obviously directed towards Tang Qiu. Temple Shouichi also regards it as a strategic  The Reserve Seventh Army was deployed in the direction of Guangdong. In this way, the Japanese troops concentrated in the direction of Guangdong amounted to three armies, plus one front army, with a strength of 460,000.

    An unexpected change occurred in the battle situation in Guangdong. Yamashita Fengwen's Fifteenth Army was followed by more than 300,000 Japanese troops, while in the direction of Guangxi, there were only the Japanese Third and Fourth Armies, with more than 200,000 troops. The scale of the Nanning defense battle was  Compared to the Battle of Guangzhou, which was much smaller, Tang Qiuli once again changed the direction of the development of the southern war situation.

    At this point, Tang Qiuli completed the task of containing the Japanese army. The Japanese army could not and did not dare to divide their troops in the direction of Nanning, Guangxi. Bai Chongxi could safely carry out the defense of Nanning. Tang Qiuli informed Bai Chongxi of this situation, and Bai Chongxi breathed a sigh of relief.  What he was most worried about was that the Japanese troops attacking Guangdong would divide their forces and press on the right wing of Nanning. Bai Chongxi was relieved, but Tang Qiuli's pressure increased sharply. For this reason, he ordered Tang Qiusheng's regiment in Wuhan to immediately go south.  To the front line in Changsha, Hunan, as the strategic reserve of the ** division, it can join the Guangzhou battlefield at any time.

    The southern battlefield has gradually formed two main battlefields, one is Nanning, Guangxi, and the second is Guangzhou, Guangdong. The Central Army deployed in Guizhou is still in a detached position of sitting on the mountain and watching the fight between tigers. The first one to start was the Nanning defense battle.  .

    On May 8, the Nakagawa Division of the Japanese Third Army was the first to arrive at the outskirts of Nanning. Outside Nanning City, the Takashima Regiment that was killed by Takeo Hyo-sen's regiment was exactly the sequence of this division. The division commander, Lieutenant General Takeo Nakagawa,  He couldn't understand how this guy Takashima could be wiped out by China's local army, and the whole army was wiped out. No one escaped, so Nakagawa's wish to understand the battle was in vain.

    However, although Nakagawa Takeo is more arrogant than Takashima, he is not as brainless and stupid as Takashima. Using an incomplete division to attack Nanning, which is heavily defended, is asking for trouble. Just look at the defenses outside Nanning.  The positions were not even filled with enough troops from the two regiments of his own. The only thing he could do was to wait for the main force of the army to arrive.

    From May 10th to 12th, the main forces of the Japanese Third Army and the Fourth Army gradually arrived at the outskirts of Nanning. As more than 200,000 Japanese troops gathered under Nanning City, the 180,000 Gui Army soldiers guarding the city felt unprecedented pressure.  The pressure is on and the war is about to break out.

    At 5:30 in the morning on May 13, the Japanese army launched a fierce attack from two directions: Shajing in the western suburbs of Nanning and Wuxu in the southern suburbs. At the same time, they sent a division of troops to the north of Nanning via Luancheng.  , trying to surround Nanning City on all sides. Bai Chongxi was prepared for it. The guests of the Gui army guarding Luan City mixed into the first brigade and Chongzuo guard the first division, and started a fierce battle with the Japanese army. On May 13th, the front-line battle in Nanning began  .

    On this day, the Gui Army troops on the outer positions of Nanning really saw the ferocious firepower of the Japanese army. Lieutenant General Masaharu Honma, commander of the Japanese Third Army and commander of the Nanning Campaign, had no psychological burden on fighting the China-Guangxi Army.  In order to achieve the effect of the campaign, he concentrated more than a thousand artillery pieces of various calibers from two heavy artillery brigades and five artillery regiments, divided into two artillery groups, and carried out an overwhelming attack on the Gui Army's Nanning peripheral defense positions.  of shelling.

    Countless artillery shells, with screams that rent the air, fell on the Gui army's position. Clouds of gunpowder smoke rose up. First, we saw earth flowers blooming, and then, rows of earth waves continued to rise. The ground  As if being lifted up, the huge roar and shock wave made people panic. The bunkers and bunkers built with sandbags, soil, and logs could not withstand such intensive artillery fire. The gravel and soil flew into the air, among which  , mixed with the broken limbs and broken arms of the Gui army soldiers, filled with gunpowder smoke, covering the rising sun.

    Nanning trembled in the smoke and fire. With violent explosions, the steel fragments, with a metallic trembling sound, whirled and cut into the bodies of the Gui Army soldiers. A shell fell, and the bodies of several Gui Army soldiers were high up.  Throwing up, the fortifications and trenches collapsed and were filled up under the intensive artillery fire. The barbed wire was torn into sections of wire. The earth was shaking, and the artificial buildings were helplessly destroyed amidst the raging steel.

    The bombardment lasted for a full hour and a half, and tens of thousands of tons of steel were poured onto the Guangxi Army's positions. Masaharu Honma led a large number of senior generals to observe the effects of the bombardment on a high ground outside Nanning City. Your Excellency, Commander  Today's dress, extra cool, military green general's cloak, snow-white gloves, stationary posture, and an expression that seems to have everything under control, all indicate his mood at the moment. As the bombardment lasts longer, Ben  Jian Yaqing's face became more and more proud.

    (To be continued)
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