Chapter 438: The Great Victory in Southern Guizhou (Part 2)
"It can't be done! It can't be done." The middle-aged man immediately waved his hand and said, "The army's chariots and horses are tired. If we lose strength because of this, then we will be guilty of a big sin."
Du Yuming laughed after hearing this and said, "If our help can arrive earlier, we can launch the attack earlier. It would be a real sin if we were late. Okay, I have a high rank. Listen to me and order the ministries to cut down trees to clear the way!"
Everyone gathered firewood with great enthusiasm. Although most of them were hard-working mountain people who had been cutting firewood and trees since they were young, they were still not as efficient as the troops. With the addition of the Fifth Army, the road was opened much faster.
In order to speed up the process, Du Yuming simply allowed the troops to use precious explosives to blow up some dangerous places. A 500-mile secret passage was quickly formed. At Kunlun Pass, Bai Chongxi's Gui army was living under the superior artillery fire and aircraft of the Japanese army.
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——Kunlun Pass
"Military seat, it's already the eighth day. The enemy's offensive is getting more and more powerful. If this continues, we will lose all our capital." An officer, covered in blood, stumbled to He Xuan and cried. His eyes
The blood was red. In these eight days, the troops he had worked so hard to pull out disappeared one by one. The Gui army fighting in the local area exploded with its greatest combat power. No one wanted their hometown to be ravaged by the Japanese army and die together.
They can be seen everywhere, and the ferocity of the battles made even the Japanese soldiers feel numb.
Although He Xuan was from the Gui Army, he was actually from Hunan. He was originally a classmate of Bai Chongxi. He first served in the Hunan Army and became acquainted with Peng Dehua. After the Northern Expedition, he lived in seclusion because he was unwilling to participate in the warlord melee. He was jointly signed by Bai Chongxi and Li Zongren.
He joined the Gui Clan only after being invited to do so, and he is a fierce general in the Gui Clan.
"Chao Wei, you should know that our position is the center point of the entire battle. If we lose the Kunlun Pass, we will lose everything. Even if we lose everything, we will be nailed here!" He Xuan looked at his regimental commander.
Chao Wei didn't know the current situation. He only had less than 20,000 people, but the Japanese army had as many as 40,000 to 50,000. Even excluding feign attacks and those guarding the rear, there were still as many as 30,000 to 40,000. There was no superior firepower such as heavy artillery. It can be said that the fall was only a matter of time.
The problem is, now the troops are completely supported by a breath of energy.
"Military seat, I don't think Commander Bai regards us as true direct descendants. How can there be any reason to give the most difficult tasks to his own people?" Chao Wei said with a hum, his eyes full of grievances, and he looked at the nearby hills.
The Guangdong and Sichuan troops were all watching the show with their legs crossed.
He Xuan said angrily, "What nonsense are you talking about? If there are no Japanese who want to use you now, I will destroy you immediately. You go back to me immediately. You are still in the position! If you are dead, the position is still there."
You have to stay with me too!”
Chao Wei didn't dare to say anything more and quickly saluted, "Yes! I'll go back immediately!"
He Xuan looked at Chao Wei's back and knew that there must be more than one person like Chao Wei in the army. He thought for a while and said, "Come here, give me an order. In this battle, the squad leader will retreat and kill the squad leader. The deputy squad leader will act as his deputy."
...If the division commander retires, he will be killed, and the deputy division commander will act as his deputy; if the army commander retires, he commits suicide, and his head will be handed over to Commander Bai by Battalion Commander Xu of the Special Agent Battalion!"
After learning the military order issued by He Xuan, the soldiers of the 46th Army no longer thought about anything. There was only one thought in their minds: "Hold on, fight off the little devils...and survive until victory!"
——Nanning
Ando Rikichi looked at the battle report and slapped his hand on the table. Eight days... It took the imperial army more than 4,000 lives to advance the front to Lingcun, and they were still short of breaking through the Kunlun Pass.
Knowing how long it would take, Ando Rikichi narrowed his eyes slightly, picked up the phone and said, "Hey, pick up General Imamura immediately."
"How is the war going? How long will it take to break through the Kunlun Pass?"
Imamura, who was supervising the battle in Wutang, looked at the National Army positions with binoculars and said, "The terrain here is very dangerous, and the Chinese are fighting very tenaciously. It will take about ten days to break through."
Ando Rikichi shook his head and said, "No, it's too long. We only have the 46th Army in front of us now. Bai Chongxi still has too many cards in his hand that have not been played. We can't spend all our efforts here... use special
Play it!”
Imamura's eyes widened and he said, "Your Excellency, Commander, please give us a little more time. We have a way to break through it."
Ando Rikichi said sternly, "This is a war, not a samurai duel. I order you to use special ammunition immediately!"
Imamura hung up the phone helplessly. In his heart, he was extremely reluctant to use poison gas. It was not that he had any thoughts of kindness or fairness and justice in his heart. It was just that he felt that using poison gas would mean admitting that he could not use normal means.
Defeating the enemy in front of you is a sign of weakness.
Imamura's order was issued, and a group of Japanese soldiers wearing gas masks began to get busy. The cannonballs with front sections painted red and skulls painted on them were taken out of the boxes. The cannons slowly aimed at the 46th Army's position.
A red flag was waved, and amid the roar of cannons, poisonous gas bombs were fired one after another onto the mountain. The green poisonous gas in the shells quickly leaked out. When the frontline regiment commander Chao Wei heard the soldiers' exclamations, he quickly looked
When he went there, he only saw green clouds and mist already covering the blocking position on the mountain. But he knew that his subordinates did not have many gas masks in their hands, so he could only use cloth belts to comfort him. He hurriedly said, "Quick! Let the brothers quickly
Retreat! Don't wait to die here."
"Captain, the military commander has issued a strict order, anyone who retreats will be killed!" said a guard.
Chao Wei stamped his feet and said, "Then we can't let our brothers die in vain! The military commander didn't know there would be poisonous gas."
"Who says I don't know?" A group of people walked into Chao Wei's headquarters, led by He Xuan. He Xuan said, "Isn't it just poisonous gas? Those who have masks wear masks, and those who don't have to wear masks.
We are in the mountains and forests. There are many windy trees here. It won’t take long for the poisonous gas to dissipate. Tell the brothers not to be afraid. I, He Xuan, am here to accompany the brothers." With that, He Xuan took out his gas mask and handed it to them.
He said to Chao Wei, "You on the front line need this more than I do, take it."
When Chao Wei saw He Xuan, he was so frightened that his hat was about to fall off, and he quickly advised, "Commander, you'd better leave quickly. It's very dangerous here. Look at that. There was a shell just dropped on the tenth floor of my headquarters."
How many meters away is it? And you should use this mask."
He Xuan smiled and said, "I, He Xuan, am not a man of wealth. What should I be afraid of? Even if I die, are the deputy commander and chief of staff still there? Well, give me good command and repel this Japanese attack."
Chao Wei knelt down with a loud thud and said, "Military, I beg you, please go. If something happens to you, how will I explain it to the whole army?"
He Xuan roared angrily: "Wherever there is Chao Wei, there is He Xuan, and where there is Chao Wei, there is Chao Wei! What are you afraid of? Cry for me and go to the front line to fight the Japanese! I will give the mask to you if you want to give it back.
I, just grab one from the devil!"
Chao Wei was moved to tears. He wiped away his tears, picked up the mask and rifle handed over by He Xuan and shouted to the soldiers around him, "The soldiers are not afraid of death, so what are we afraid of? Everyone is ready to follow me and kill the little Japs."
Get off!"
At this time, groups of Japanese soldiers were walking up the mountain. They all wore gas masks and looked at the silent positions in front of them. They excitedly waved their rifles and ran towards the positions in large strides.
"Hit!" Chao Wei shouted loudly, and countless machine guns, rifles, and mortars rang out. Some soldiers who were weak due to poisoning also tried their best to help load magazines and open grenade caps. The Japanese army did not expect it at all.
The 46th Army actually dared to defend, and dozens of them died in a few swipes. Chao Wei shouted loudly, "Go! Grab the mask!!"
At the command, the soldiers of the 46th Army rushed out of the trenches like tigers descending from the mountain. The Japanese soldiers were so frightened that they retreated. In the faint poisonous fog, they couldn't see how many people there were. He Xuan took a rifle and shot a Japanese soldier to death.
, he quickly stepped forward and took off his mask, laughing loudly and said, "Go, give it to the military commander, just say that I, Chaowei, took it from the Japanese to honor him."
——Liuzhou
Bai Chongxi looked at the battle report and couldn't help but shed tears from the corners of his eyes. They were all direct descendants of his Guangxi clan. In order to fight this battle well, he had to let his Guangxi clan stand up first, otherwise the warlords from all walks of life would not fight for Guangxi.
Yes, Bai Chongxi looked at Chongzuo on the map and said, "Du Yuming, Du Yuming, hurry up..."
——In the mountains and forests
On the road paved with wooden planks, the Fifth Army was marching quickly. Tanks and trucks pressed the wooden planks into the soil, which made the road harder and easier to walk on. Du Yuming looked at the sun hanging high in the sky,
Du Yuming slapped himself in the face, and when he looked at his hand, he saw a mosquito corpse the size of a thumb. These days, Du Yuming has become accustomed to these snakes, insects, rats, and ants. He sighed and took out a gauze hat.
He said, "This is still useful, otherwise I would have been bitten to death by these mosquitoes before I even arrived."
The gauze hat is actually a hat with a circle of gauze under it, which can be used as a mosquito net to protect the person's head. As for the hands outside, there is really no way. Du Yuming can only apply the ointment sent by the local people, which is better than nothing.
"How far have we gone? How long is it until Chongzuo?" Du Yuming asked the staff officer next to him.
The staff officer next to him immediately took out the map, looked at it and said, "We are already 70% to 80% of the way. We can reach Chongzuo in two days at most. Then we can attack Qinzhou from the south and Nanning from the north."
Du Yuming nodded and said, "How many tanks and trucks do we have these days?"
"There are still about fifty tanks available, and there are still more than seventy armored vehicles. Thanks to God's grace, it didn't rain, otherwise it would be unimaginable." Another staff officer said.
Du Yuming pointed to the front and said, "Order the troops to rest for half a day in Chongzuo, order the newly formed 22nd Division to go south to Qinzhou, and at the same time protect the back roads of our advancing troops, and then the Honorable 1st Division and the 200th Division will concentrate all armored troops, motorcycles and those who can quickly
Carrying heavy firepower, we attacked Nanning and told them to be quick! We just want to catch the Japanese by surprise!"
——Liuqiao Town
Liuqiao is a small town outside Chongzuo. Since there are no activities of the National Army and the front lines are attacking key points, there is only one brigade of Japanese troops guarding here. This is because it is close to Chongzuo and worries about Chongzuo.
The reason for the attack by the leftist National Army was that anti-Japanese sentiment was extremely strong in Guangxi, and there were even citizen riots and gun-grabbing uprisings, so these Japanese troops were stationed in a camp outside the town.
A team of more than a dozen Japanese soldiers was patrolling on the road outside the camp. Suddenly, the leader of the team heard bursts of engine noise, and then felt that the ground seemed to be shaking. He looked into the distance of the night and felt only darkness.
There seemed to be something banging.
He looked at it strangely, raised his gun alertly and shouted, "Baga! Is there someone? Come out!"
Other Japanese troops were scattered around, looking carefully into the distance.
"Bear" "Bear" "Bear"
Suddenly, he heard a loud noise, and the car lights turned on one by one. The squad leader's hands were shaking when hundreds of car lights were shining on him. He could clearly see the blue sky and white sun flag floating on the car.
"Baga!!!" the squad leader yelled like crazy, raising his gun as if to attack.
"Tong" an anti-aircraft machine gun bullet penetrated his body, and he could clearly feel that his body seemed to have lost something. Then he found that he had become shorter, and then it was pitch black.
An anti-aircraft bullet actually broke the Japanese soldier's neck alive.
"attack!"
Dai Anlan shouted loudly, and the torrent of steel formed by hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles surged like a big pond. The Japanese troops in the big pond had discovered something unusual here, and the piercing siren sounded, and the Japanese troops came out of the house in panic
Dai Anlan was not willing to wait for the gun to wear clothes. One round of the T-26's 45mm cannon blasted open the Japanese camp door, and another round blew a tent into pieces. Tanks and armored vehicles rushed towards him with creaking sounds.
After entering the gate of the Japanese military camp, machine guns and tank guns were fired at the surrounding Japanese troops, killing them indiscriminately. I don’t know how many Japanese soldiers who had not even put on their clothes were blocked in the camp gate and killed.
This small battle ended in less than 20 minutes. Dai Anlan did not ask about the result, and directly said, "Arrange an infantry company to clean up, and the rest of the troops will immediately go north to attack Nanning!"
——Nanning
"Ding-ring-ring-ring" "Ding-ling-ring-ring"
The harsh sound of the phone made Ando Rikichi very dissatisfied. He cursed and picked up the phone and said, "Baga! Do you know what time it is now?"
"Reporting to your Excellency the Commander, there is an urgent military situation. A large number of National Army troops suddenly appeared behind our army. They also have many tanks. Now our army has lost several strongholds in Dongmen, Dongluo, Luobai, and Liuqiao, and
Those troops are still attacking Nanning. If there are no more troops to stop them, they will reach Wuyou and Nama Town at dawn!"
"Nani????" Ando Rikichi listened to the phone dumbfounded. He never imagined that in just one night, his escape route would be raided, or by a mechanized force???