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Volume 3, Chapter 653: The East Wind Breaks (Complete)

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    September 23, the twenty-eighth year of the Republic of China, the eleventh day of the eighth lunar month. This is a day that will always be remembered by the world. On this day, the Japanese army lost six elite soldiers at Fangcun Creek in the hinterland of Qianligang in western Zhejiang.  The division and a field heavy artillery brigade totaled 150,000 people, and the entire situation in Jiangnan changed dramatically.  It¡¯s 4:30 in the morning, the darkest time before dawn.  There was a dull loud noise five kilometers northwest of Fangcun. Most of the Japanese soldiers who had just entered the camp to sleep after running all night did not hear the loud noise, but many people were still alert.  Lieutenant General Shinohara Seiichi, the commander of the 116th Division who set up the division headquarters in a two-story Western-style building by the Fangcun River, got up from the bed and listened carefully. There was a continuous sound of muffled thunder.  From far to near, it's like thunder in summer.  Lieutenant General Shinohara put on his coat and walked to the outside room. He waved to the two guards who came forward: "Go and see if it's raining. Why is the thunder hitting so hard and long!" A guard hurriedly got off.  Building, I walked out of the door and looked up at the sky. There were no raindrops. But at this time, the roar became louder and louder, more and more terrifying, and the whole earth began to tremble violently.  "What on earth is it?" Most of the Japanese soldiers in Fangcun and the villages and camps in the south woke up. After all, the sound was already very noisy, especially because the ground kept shaking, just like the earthquakes that often occur in the Japanese archipelago, even if they were asleep  Like pigs, they will wake up after being shaken.  "No, it's the sound of a flash flood!" I don't know who screamed, and suddenly the camps were in chaos.  Shinohara Seiichi, who was listening carefully from the window on the second floor, had already heard the terrifying roar of the mountain torrent breaking through everything. The surging momentum was as heavy as thunder and poured out thousands of miles. His lips trembled in fright, and he turned around and ran downstairs.  Just after I rushed out of the gate of the small western-style building, I felt the strong wind, the mountains shaking and the earth shaking. The roar was getting closer and closer, and became clearer and clearer. The woods by the river were violently swaying and overturning under the impact of the fierce airflow, "crackling".  The sound of trees breaking could be heard from time to time.  Makoto Shinohara ran away as soon as he jumped, but how can human legs run faster than a torrent that is as fast as lightning?  Quickly, the lieutenant general commander of the 116th Division was knocked to the ground by the approaching huge wave, and was immediately swallowed by the turbid yellow flood.  At this time, the Japanese soldiers stationed on the mountains on both sides of Fangcun River to guard against sneak attacks by the New Second Army or blocking the tunnels on Jiuligang Mountain were all awakened by the loud noise. They came to the mountain pass one after another and watched from a distance.  The yellow-brown torrent rushing down made people stunned with fear.  Under the impact of the huge flash flood that ran like a giant snake and was as fast as lightning, the entire Fangcun River suddenly turned into a vast ocean, with vegetation splashing up and down the mountain, and the turbid waves drained away.  Accompanied by continuous rumbling noises, large trees 20 to 30 meters high were broken or uprooted like fragile dead branches under the impact of the rapidly falling giant current.  Wherever the mountain torrent passed, patches of trees and vegetation swayed like feathers. The indomitable momentum and huge destructive power made the Japanese troops on the top of the mountain feel desperate.  In the turbulent waves, countless Japanese soldiers were swept away by huge waves tens of meters high. Although many of them grew up on the beach and have excellent water quality, the current is fast and fast, and there are whirlpools everywhere.  In addition, there were a large number of trees involved in the flood, as well as the beams, masonry and tiles of the houses that were washed away. They were either hit on the body, or bruised and injured. They were exhausted within two seconds and lost in the blink of an eye.  Consciousness is swept away by the flood.  The 150,000 Japanese troops stationed in the villages on both sides of the Fangcun River had no time to move and were all swallowed up by the floods. Those Japanese soldiers who were originally on the mountain or whose camp was close to the high ground and managed to escape with their lives had no idea what to do.  , I was scared to death for a moment.  The flood raged for a full three hours before the roar gradually faded away. The thunderous turbid current rushed into the distance with destructive violence. The sky was now bright, and the sound of running water was heard in the howling mountain wind.  It was faintly heard, but at this moment, the mountain and the mountain were already filled with mud and a mess.  The originally vast and green riverside and wilderness have long been changed beyond recognition, leaving only pieces of broken tree roots and exposed rocks. Various artillery and guns are scattered everywhere, and corpses of Japanese soldiers are hanging on the rocks and broken bones.  On the tree trunk, it was shocking.  From the Fangcun River Valley to the fifty or sixty-meter-high mountain surfaces on both sides, all vegetation and soil have long been cleaned away.  The surviving Japanese soldiers were still in shock, and the loud shouts of killing had already sounded.  The officers and soldiers of the New Second Army in the tunnel rushed out with shouts and launched an attack on the Japanese army.  At the same time, from the northeast of the mountain, a fleet of ships sailed forward in a mighty manner. The officers and soldiers of the New Second Division and the New Third Division, who had already recharged their batteries, came towards Fangcun with a majestic appearance and a look on the world.    The ensuing battle was very simple. The Japanese troops stationed on both sides of Fangcun Creek were only two to three thousand people. Under the attack of the New Second Army who were familiar with the terrain, they almost collapsed at the first touch.  Most of the Japanese soldiers witnessed the tragic situation of the annihilation of the army and had no fighting spirit. They surrendered under the call of Japanese traitors who surrendered and naturalized among the officers and soldiers of the new Second Army.  The headquarters of the Japanese Eleventh Army in Quzhou City.  When the flood peak of tens of meters high rushed out of the mouth of the stream and swept towards the Changshan River, Okamura Neiji was notified in time.  The small number of Japanese troops left behind to guard the Xikou Highlands said that the peak of the flood was estimated to be forty or fifty meters high, and that all the bodies churning in the water were corpses. It was estimated that the frontline troops were in danger.  After listening to the report of the communications staff, Okamura Neji, who only went to bed at three in the morning and suppressed his anger to get up, almost staggered and almost fell to the ground.  The chief of staff, Major General Shigemao Aoki, who followed the communications officer into the room, had a very serious look on his face: "General, you are leaving for the airport immediately and take a plane to Hangzhou or Nanchang. It is only thirty-five kilometers from Xikou to here. At Hongfeng's speed,  It will arrive in Quzhou in less than an hour. "Although the water level will drop a lot after the flood reaches the Changshan River, it will definitely submerge the nearby city of Quzhou. Both the airport and the highway will be paralyzed by then.  If you want to leave again, you can't leave!" Okamura Neiji's face turned pale: "If more than 100,000 troops are lost, how can I have the dignity to go back? Let me live and die with this Quzhou City!" Major General Aoki said loudly:  "Commander, this is not your responsibility. Who knew beforehand that Wu Ming had ulterior motives, impounding water upstream of Fangcun Creek and then blowing up the dam? According to the telegram, the water stored in this dam is at least hundreds of millions of cubic meters. It was definitely not an overnight success.  , but after more than a month of investigation by the aviation force, nothing was found. How can this be blamed on the commander? " "Besides, in addition to the six divisions stationed in Fangcun, our 11th Army currently has the 3rd and 101st.  The division is at Guchongkou. The 34th Division protects the safety of the railway line from Quzhou to Nanchang. The 40th Division ensures smooth water and land routes from Hangzhou and Ningshao areas to Quzhou. There is also an independent 14th Brigade.  Guarding Jinhua, the 7th Tank Regiment is stationed in Longyou" "To safely withdraw these troops to Nanchang and Hangzhou, we still need the general to plan a strategy, and we must not give up on ourselves!" "But -" Okamura Neiji shouted: "Field battle.  The 7th Heavy Artillery Brigade was also lost in Fangcun, one of the few decisive strategic forces in the empire Previously, the Tenth Army lost the 6th Field Heavy Artillery Brigade. General Yanagawa Heisuke had a disembowelment for this reason. I must also do so.  You have to take responsibility!" "General! Please forgive me for being rude!" Major General Aoki waved his hand, and several attendants rushed up, picked up Okamura Neji and ran away.  Okamura Neji shouted loudly: "Let me go let me go" But no one paid attention.  Aoki said: "General, please feel free to leave, I will be responsible for this matter" After saying that, Aoki Shigesei began to exercise command authority on behalf of Okamura Neji, ordering the various units of the 11th Division located in eastern Jiangxi and western Zhejiang.  Evacuate quickly.  In particular, the 7th Tank Regiment located near Longyou Railway Station immediately retreated to high ground to avoid the peak of the flood. After the flood receded, they rushed to Jinhua and retreated to Hangzhou.  At the same time, let the 3rd and 101st Divisions in Guchongkou withdraw to the Ruoling line, build defensive positions to warn the enemies in front of them, and immediately withdraw to Yushan by road after the flood recedes.  Finally, Aoki Shigemai called the aviation force at Quzhou Airport and asked them to leave a transport plane waiting for Okamura Neiji and all other planes to take off, because it would not be long before the land there would turn into a marshland and it would be too late to fly away.  .  After everything was dealt with, Aoki Shigemagi committed suicide by caesarean section.  In just a quarter of an hour, the flood swept across, and the entire Quzhou City was engulfed by huge waves more than ten meters high. The flood did not recede until three hours later.  At two o'clock in the afternoon, the leading troops of the New Second Army arrived in Quzhou by motor and sailing boats, leaving two battalions to eliminate the remaining enemies in the city. The rest of the troops continued to move south along the Qujiang River. As a result, several motorized and sailing troops were found at Lingshan Port, a tributary of the Qujiang River, which had just withdrawn from Longshan.  The tanks and armored vehicles of the 7th Japanese Tank Regiment that came down were stuck in the mud and could not move, so they immediately reported to the military headquarters.  At 8 o'clock in the evening, the New Second Division took a motor boat and rushed to the east of Lingshan Port between Shangweitou and Yantou, and launched an attack on the arduous trudging seventh regiment of Japanese tanks.  In the dark, the Japanese tank soldiers were unable to destroy the tanks in time. Nearly half of the more than 4,000 Japanese soldiers, including the baggage soldiers transporting ammunition and fuel, were killed because of their stubborn resistance, while the rest were captured without help. The New Second Army captured 90 medium-sized vehicles in one fell swoop.  and light tanks, thirty-five wheeled armored vehicles, twenty artillery tanks, and more than four hundred trucks.  In the direction of Changshan County, the Japanese Third Division and the 101st Division were camped step by step. After the flood from the Changshan River receded, they immediately took the time to cross the Changshan River from Huding Mountain, and then?? Try your best to retreat towards Yushan.  The strength of the New Second Army was limited, and one brigade of the Independent Division could only follow suit and "escort" the Japanese troops out of the boundaries of western Zhejiang and retreat to eastern Jiangxi.  In the early morning of September 24, when all the results of the battle were tallied, Wu Ming sent a message reporting the victory of Qianligang to the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government.  The Battle of Qianligang broke out on August 18. The Japanese army successively mobilized the 16th, 6th, 13th, 23rd, 32nd, and 116th Divisions and the 7th Field Heavy Artillery Brigade to attack  Fangcunxi launched a fierce frontal attack.  Relying on the terrain and solid fortifications, the New Second Army defended itself layer by layer. For more than a month, the New Second Army's defensive forces withstood the pressure, killed and wounded more than 30,000 Japanese troops, and gradually attracted the main force of the Japanese army.  He reached the preset trap and finally used the strategy of flooding the Seventh Army to annihilate six Japanese divisions and a field heavy artillery brigade, and then annihilated a Japanese tank regiment.  This battle lasted for thirty-six days, and all 180,000 Japanese troops were wiped out. Almost all the remaining troops of the Japanese Eleventh Army were disabled. The entire Central China Front suffered unprecedented heavy losses.  What is particularly important is that after the flood receded, the New Second Army successively seized eight Japanese army flags from various places in Quzhou, including the flags of elite units such as the Sixth and Sixteenth Divisions. This means that eight  This army regiment will permanently withdraw from the army. This is really an unprecedented shame and humiliation faced by the Japanese army after the Meiji Restoration.  When the news of the victory of the New Second Army came, all walks of life across the country and overseas Chinese were elated. In Chongqing, Chengdu, Kunming, Xi'an, Changsha and other cities, hundreds of thousands of people spontaneously held unprecedented grand rallies and parades to celebrate the victory.  Especially in the accompanying capital Chongqing, local soldiers and civilians, regardless of gender, old or young, were immersed in festival-like excitement, with cheering crowds everywhere.  In the streets and alleys, national flags are hung in front of every house to show patriotism.  The streets were full of large slogans: "Celebrate the great victory of Qianligang", "China must win", "Long live General Wu Ming", "Long live the New Second Army".  All over the country, whether in cities or villages, firecrackers and gongs and drums were noisy. People from urban newspapers loaded up large bundles of extras in cars and scattered them on the streets. All kinds of national salvation groups rushed to the streets, marching and shouting.  Slogans, songs, impromptu speeches, and opera performances were used to vilify the invaders.  People even painted a large portrait of Wu Ming, the commander of Qianligang Victory, on drawing boards the size of three door panels and carried them in front of the parade.  At this point, the fame of Wu Ming and the New Second Army was known all over the world, and Wu Ming became an unprecedented national hero and illustrious god of war in the eyes of the people across the country, and was worshiped by the world.  Under the pressure of public opinion, the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government made an exception and promoted Wu Ming to general, and upgraded the New Second Army to the New Second Group Army, which had jurisdiction over the New Second Division, the New Third Division, the New Fourth Division, the New Fifth Division and the Only Division.  There are eight divisions in total, namely the Du Second Division, the Du Third Division, and the Du Fourth Division. They are based in Shangrao in eastern Jiangxi and Quzhou, Jinhua, and Ningbo in Zhejiang. Among them, Shangrao, Jinhua, Ningbo, and other places need to be recovered by the New Second Army on their own.  After Okamura Neiji returned to Nanchang, he received the exact battle report from the news broadcast of Phoenix Radio Station. He could not hide his feelings of self-blame and had a disembowelment in grief and indignation. Twenty-four officers under Yamada Otsuzo, commander of the Central China Front Army, committed suicide and apologized. He had just resigned.  Itagaki Seishiro, Minister of War, rushed to Nanjing to take over as commander of the Central China Front. At the same time, Japan urgently dispatched six new divisions to Shanghai to prevent the Chinese army from launching a full-line counterattack.  The first thing Seishiro Itagaki did when he arrived in Nanjing was to withdraw all the troops west of Lin'an and Fuyang and south of the Qiantang River in Zhejiang, and strictly guard the defense lines of Tianmu Mountain and Qiantang River. At the same time, the troops that invaded eastern Jiangxi were withdrawn to Dongxiang via railways and highways, with their backs  Relying on Nanchang and relying on the mountains in the north and south to resist the threat from the New Second Army.  Wu Ming expanded his troops while advancing slowly. By the end of October, he completely recovered the lost lands in eastern Jiangxi and Jinhua, Zhuji and Ningshao. He also recovered Xiaoshan, which had been lost before the Zhejiang-Jiangxi War, and confronted the Japanese across the Qiantang River.  For more than a year after that, the Japanese army did not dare to look south. Chiang Kai-shek was also worried that Wu Ming would make greater contributions and did not dare to mobilize the New Second Army to fight. Wu Ming was also unwilling to consume too much Japanese troops and let Britain, France, the United States and other countries steal the troops behind his back.  He was very happy, so he always stayed in the Zhejiang and Jiangxi areas.  With the outbreak of the Pacific War, the Japanese army was unable to mobilize troops to attack the New Second Army. Central, western and southern Zhejiang were peaceful for most of the time, and the economy recovered greatly. Ningbo became a country where overseas supplies poured into the country.  As a major trading port, Wu Ming and the New Second Army made a lot of money.  Time flies, and in the blink of an eye it is late March 1945. Due to the heavy losses suffered by the US military in the Battle of Iwo Jima, there are many concerns about attacking the Japanese homeland.  In response to the strong request of the Americans, Wu Ming, with the help of the American fleet, led his troops to recover Taiwan and the Ryukyu Islands.The United States dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese mainland, and the Japanese government surrendered.  After the war, Wu Ming launched a purge operation against the Japanese in the Ryukyu area, repatriated them to Japan, and massacred some of the recalcitrants.  Because Wu Mingbu's massacre was secretly photographed by an American reporter, it aroused strong international public attention after being reported by the New York Times.  In early 1946, in order to obtain assistance from the United States, Chiang Kai-shek ordered the transfer of the New Second Army back to China to prepare for the encirclement and suppression of northern Jiangsu and the Shandong Liberated Areas.  Wu Ming announced his resignation in Ryukyu, the New Second Army mutinied, and the 200,000 troops disappeared. Then the Ryukyu Restoration Organization declared independence and established the Ryukyu government.  The Ryukyu Self-Defense Force immediately appeared. Among them, most of the veterans of the New Second Army, Long Shaogang, Zhang Dongning, Dai Ziran, Luo Yuming, Yang Sixian, and Yin Dizhong, served in the Ryukyu Self-Defense Force. Others, such as Mao Liangwu and other important figures, served in the Ryukyu government.  High-ranking official.  The people of Ryukyu elected Wu Ming as the honorary president of the Republic of Ryukyu.  In the summer of 1946, Wu Ming and his family appeared in Hong Kong and began his glorious career of economic domination of Hong Kong and political behind-the-scenes manipulation of Ryukyu.  (Complete book)
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