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Volume 1 On the Songhua River Chapter 966 Bai Chongxi who picks up rags

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    The Battle of Hongshui River was undoubtedly a devastating blow to Honma Masaharu. Many soldiers were concentrated on the south bank. They did not even see their opponents and were attacked by overwhelming artillery fire. Especially later, those flying all over the sky  The strange shells destroyed his will.

    What did Honma Masaharu see?  There were corpses of Imperial Japanese Army soldiers all over the place, layer by layer and piles, covering the land on the south bank of the Hongshui River. If it was a normal battlefield, he could still endure it. A burning flame flashed by a living person.  Turning into ashes before his eyes, the impact of that moment challenged his nerves.  [Search for the latest updates here]

    Masaharu Honma himself was relatively lucky. He took the remaining defeated troops and retreated to Binyang before he dared to stop and take a breath. Two heavy artillery brigades and several artillery regiments suffered more than 40,000 casualties.  , this price was too high. The Third Army and the Fourth Army of the Southern Expeditionary Force suffered a devastating blow. This blow was completely psychological. When the overwhelming rockets flew in, all the Japanese troops  Both officers and soldiers have an irresistible feeling, unable to escape, and can only resign themselves to fate and helplessly accept their fate.

    Someone must be responsible for such losses. Masaharu Honma realized that his days in the Imperial Army were over. If it hadn't been for this fiasco at the Hongshui River, even if it violated the order of the dispatched army headquarters, as long as he could  To eliminate the remnants of the Guangxi Army, he was confident that he would eliminate all factors that were not conducive to him. It didn't matter if he violated orders, as long as he won the battle.

    But now, because of his own order, all the artillery was lost, and more than 40,000 imperial soldiers died. Masaharu Honma asked himself, with his current qualifications and background, he could not withstand the overwhelming anger of the dispatched army headquarters and base camp. When the guests arrived,  After that, Honma Masaharu locked herself in the room and never came out again.

    Throughout the night, when Masaharu Honma came out of the house, she was already like a walking corpse. Her hair turned gray overnight. The movements of the Japanese Southern Expeditionary Force were still very fast. A senior staff officer of the General Headquarters risked the crash.  To avoid the danger, he took a small transport plane and landed in an open space outside Bin Town. Four heavily armed military policemen arrived randomly.

    The General Headquarters of the Southern Expeditionary Army did not deal with Masaharu Honma very harshly and severely. It removed Masaharu Honma from his position as commander of the Third Army and commander of the Nanning Campaign, and was escorted back to the mainland for trial. The Third Army and the Fourth Army  Merged to form the Nanning Front Army, with the former commander of the Fourth Army, Kenji Iijima, as the commander.

    In front of all the senior officers of the Third Army and the Fourth Army, the senior staff officer of the General Headquarters read out the order of the Commander-in-Chief General Hisachi Terauchi. The moment Masaharu Honma was handcuffed by the military police and escorted into the plane, everyone was shocked.  Everyone knows that Honma Masaharu's military career is over. What awaits him is an unknown ending. His Third Army designation has also been cancelled. For a Japanese Imperial Army, canceling the designation is the biggest  shame.

    On that day, many officers of the former Third Army chose to commit suicide by caesarean section. According to gossip later leaked from the newly formed Nanning Front Army, these officers who committed suicide, without exception, cried bitterly before their death.  He scolded Masaharu Honma. In those days, the guests burned people all day long, causing a beautiful Guinan town to smell so bad that it spread dozens of miles away.

    After the guests stayed for a few days, the remnants of the Japanese Third Army and the Fourth Army received orders from the dispatched army headquarters to return to Nanning for a short period of rest and replenishment in preparation for participating in the attack on Guizhou.  A large-scale attack with a force of 10,000 people on Northeast Guangxi failed, costing the lives of more than 40,000 Japanese soldiers and the career of a lieutenant general commander.

    This move also meant that the Japanese army fixed their defense lines around Nanning to Binyang in the north and to the Beibu Gulf in the south. The crisis pressing on Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi was completely resolved through an artillery bombardment by the Red Water River.  Well, on the night after the Battle of Hongshuihe, Chang Feng, chief of staff of the ** division and chief of staff of the directly affiliated corps, returned to the station after attending the banquet held by Bai Chongxi and received a telegram from division commander Tang Qiuli.

    At this moment, Chang Feng's head was still a little dizzy. Although he had pushed down a lot of wine, the enthusiasm of the Gui army officers led by Bai Chongxi could melt an iron man. All the words of praise were dedicated to the officers directly under the corps.  They, especially Chang Feng himself, became the focus of everyone's attention, and they looked at him with more awe.

    Chang Feng asked the guard to get a large basin of cold water, and he immersed his head in the cold water. His dizzy head finally became slightly clearer. Thinking of the scene at the banquet, he couldn't help but feel scared.  , resisted most of the toasts for himself, and with his drinking capacity, he might be unconscious for two or three days.

    After taking the telegram and looking at it for the first time, Chang Feng showed a dumbfounded expression, "Chief of Staff Chang, did you enjoy the battle at Hongshui River? I think Bai Chongxi's banquet must be extremely sumptuous."?Didn't your Excellency, Chief of Staff, take advantage of the drunkenness to give Bai Chongxi a few thunder rocket launchers?  The Japanese army was defeated this time, and the direct-affiliated regiments in Northeast Guangxi were fine and immediately returned to Liuzhou. In the Northeast Guangxi area, they paid attention to the upcoming Guizhou incident.  "

    Chang Feng was dumbfounded by the division commander's telegram. He had been with Tang Qiuli for several years, and this was the first time he had seen him joking with him in a telegram. It must have been the battle at Hongshui River that achieved the division commander's goal and defeated him.  Can you not be happy? As the first main field force of the ** Division, the Directly Affiliated Corps has always been given priority in the supply of equipment. The new weapons produced by the Dingbian Arsenal are first equipped in the brigades of the Directly Affiliated Corps, and then other field operations.  corps.

    Take this Hongshui River artillery battle as an example. Each of the ten field brigades directly under the corps is equipped with a Thunder rocket launcher battalion. Those are eighteen thirty-two-hole rocket launcher vehicles. Just one battalion firing a salvo is enough.  Five hundred and seventy-six rockets, a total of ten such rocket artillery battalions, fired in one salvo, which is more than 5,000 high-explosive rockets. The scene at that time made even Chang Feng himself feel numb and stunned for a long time.  , not to mention those Gui Army officers, whose expressions looked like they had seen a ghost.

    There are also four artillery brigades directly under the corps, with more than a thousand large-caliber artillery pieces. They forcibly overturned the seven or eight kilometers on the south bank of the Hongshui River, leaving not a blade of grass alive. In this battle, because no infantry was used,  The North Bank opened fire, and the casualties of the directly affiliated corps were extremely light. Three artillery pieces were lost and more than a dozen casualties were suffered. Compared with the casualties of the Japanese army, they were simply negligible.

    According to the battle plan reported by Chang Feng, he was still ambushing a big killer move on the north bank of the Hongshui River. More than 600 tanks from two tank brigades and more than 60,000 soldiers from four brigades were hidden in the dense jungle on the north bank.  , once the Japanese army forcibly crossed the Hongshui River regardless of casualties, when they just landed on the north bank, ambush tanks and infantry counterattacked, which was an unforgettable nightmare for the Japanese soldiers whose footing was not stable. Who would have thought that as soon as the Thunder Rocket Launcher came out,  , the morale of the Japanese collapsed, and they retreated hundreds of miles, which made Chang Feng depressed for a while.

    However, Chang Feng's later proposal to take advantage of the retreat of the Japanese army to launch an attack with all the direct-affiliated corps across the Red River and march southward to wipe out all the Japanese troops in Guangxi was rejected by the division commander, which made him feel very unhappy.  I didn¡¯t understand either. After thinking about it for a long time, I couldn¡¯t see the purpose and intention of the division commander. From this telegram, Chang Feng made some analysis. Could it be that the Guizhou front line was the key direction of the Japanese army¡¯s next attack?

    The next day, Bai Chongxi came to the door again. Chang Feng let him into the living room and chatted for a while. Chang Feng saw that Bai Chongxi was absent-minded and seemed to have something to say, so he asked directly: "Commander Bai, do you have anything to say?  But it doesn't matter, are we friendly forces with the Gui Army?" Chang Feng also roughly guessed that Bai Chongxi came home early in the morning with nothing more than weapons and ammunition, and he looked at it greedily, wanting to get some autumn wind in his place.

    Bai Chongxi's face turned red, as if he had made up his mind, and said: "Chief of Staff Chang, Bai must speak directly. You also know that our Gui Army troops suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Nanning and broke out from Nanning."  At that time, most of the soldiers had lost their weapons, especially the heavy weapons, and they were almost completely lost. The troops had to recover their strength without equipment. Bai had a ruthless request. During the battle of Hongshui River,  Can the weapons and equipment left by the Japanese army on the south bank be used by our Gui army to clean up the battlefield? Of course, it is reasonable if your army does not agree. "

    Chang Feng spit out the sip of tea he had taken into his mouth. Bai Chongxi came to visit early in the morning, blushing and embarrassed. It was because of the trophies on the south bank of the Hongshui River that Chang Feng simply gave up.  Forgot, not to mention the main field corps of the ** division, even the second-line corps, the Japanese weapons have become junk in the warehouse, and the army equipment, Bai Chongxi treats it like a treasure.

    Chang Feng looked at Bai Chongxi like a billionaire looking at a beggar, and said covertly: "Commander-in-Chief Bai, our army has not cleaned the battlefield at all. If your army is interested, you can do whatever you want. In everything, our army  How about not even taking a single bullet, but returning it all to your army?¡±

    Bai Chongxi didn't expect that Chang Feng was so easy to talk to, but he was stunned for a short time. Cleaning the battlefield is the right of the victorious side. There are more than 40,000 people, and the equipment left behind is not a small amount. In one word, they will all be discarded. Look.  Regardless of his eyesight, what else could Bai Chongxi say? He could only sigh that Tang Qiuli's troops were really wealthy and wealthy.

    After quickly thanking him, Bai Chongxi couldn't stay still for a moment and left immediately. Is there anything more exciting to him than the equipment of more than 40,000 people?  The equipment of the Japanese soldiers was several times better than that of the Gui army. Looking at Bai Chongxi's excited back, Chang Feng shook his head helplessly, somewhat pitying the big boss of the Gui family.

    The cannons and the terrifying rocket launchers fired for more than an hour, but there were still a few pieces of intact equipment left, and the parts were almost the same everywhere. I'm afraid Bai Chongxi will be disappointed
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