~《》~    Chapter 538 Change of generals

(...There are actually many generals with very tough attitudes towards Japan in the war zones in various places. Once these generals meet the Japanese, they will break out like **. In the battle of Wuhan, I met Wang Jinzai, and in Guangdong, I met Zhang Ruigui, the "Liang Zhang Fei"; the steel backbone of our nation is actually condensed from such physical bodies... Excerpted from "My Memories of the War of Resistance - Cao Xiaomin")

On the beach where the tide has receded, many fishermen are driving mud horses and passing through the mud coating. They use their eyes that can find crabs in the dark soil to search for the ammunition and other supplies that the Japanese army sank to the bottom of the sea. When they find it, they will hook the waterproof packaging with a rope with an iron hook, and people on the shore will drag these supplies up... Everything looks like fishermen are collecting sea goods.

Sometimes the Japanese ships drove very close, and the Japanese on the ship didn't know what these fishermen were doing, but no one shot at the fishermen.

This was during the tacit ceasefire period. The fact that the Chinese team returned the dead Japanese corpses to the battle had spread among the Japanese army. Everyone knew that there would be no fire during these three days.

In addition to fishermen and some patrol officers and soldiers on the shore, there were many foreigners. Because they learned about the large-scale return of Japanese corpses, reporters from many countries came, and many people borrowed boats directly from Hong Kong. So many foreigners were there, and the fishermen who were still brave enough to finally pluck up the courage to search for supplies in the sea - ** promised that they would buy these military supplies from fishermen according to their weight.

The Aotou was also peaceful, and the Japanese army that occupied it also understood their situation: ** It was not that they were unable to destroy them, but they deliberately kept them!

The four shallow water gunboats that rushed up to serve as fire support were stranded on the shore by the ** cannons. The Japanese army in the town had lost other heavy weapons in the battle except for two carefully preserved war defense cannons. They no longer dared to challenge the ** Yonggu Fortification along the Australian and Tan Highway. A brief period of peace appeared on the battlefield. Sometimes the fishermen walked very close to the Japanese army in AoTou and the Japanese would not shoot. On the contrary, the Japanese greeted them. Some Japanese waved the cans in their hands and pointed at the fishing catch in the hands of the fishermen and shouted, trying to make an exchange; but the fishermen did not dare to go over-they were not worried that the Japanese would shoot but that they would be called traitors by others. Even some Japanese soldiers were ordered to hold gold watches to signal to them and did not dare to go over.

"More than 33,000 Japanese corpses have been searched and handed over. Some incomplete ones have also been handed over this afternoon. The rest are probably swept away by sea water..." The adjutant, who had counted the numbers, followed Cao Xiaomin and reported the situation.

"This time I see how those who questioned ended..." Chen Lifu was a little gloomy. He was in Daya Bay and finally visited the front line to see the real ruins of the war.

Now the blood bandage has turned dark black, and it was smashed by the waves to the shore. As many seagulls pounced down and swallowed, it gradually disappeared, but it is still the main object captured by reporters from various countries. Chen Lifu once personally came to the side of the blood bandage to take photos in a suit, which was a very exciting adventure for him. After all, the Japanese warship was within sight. He had been in Guangdong for five days, but he was still unsatisfied with a little lingering smell. He always asked Cao Xiaomin a lot of questions, which were also the work troubles he was worried about.

Because he had formed an allied army with Chen Guofu, Cao Xiaomin of course knew everything about Chen Lifu's problems and everyone got along well; and Cao Xiaomin also knew that the anti-corruption war in Chongqing that he had been looking forward to would start in the next two days - if it weren't for the need for the propaganda war in Daya Bay, it would have begun long ago.

"Look, there is still a peaceful scenery today. Tomorrow, these mountain ridge beaches will be in flames and blood again..." Cao Xiaomin used a telescope for the last time to see the whole battlefield, and sighed: "The mountains are the backbone, the flesh and blood are the bricks... The blood of this war will not dissipate in a hundred years..."

Yes, the last day of the three-day corpse return period. When the sun rises tomorrow, the two sides who can still look at each other today will open fire again. Chen Lifu couldn't help but sigh: The scenery on the beach he saw was still so beautiful in the short period of time when the war was temporarily extinguished. What if there was no war?

The two walked into the front line to attend the military meeting. This was the first time Chen Lifu participated in such a front line meeting. It can be seen that Cao Xiaomin really wanted to join their brothers and take him to observe the military operations.

There are new troops who have been replaced in every position they passed by, and every new officer and soldier is full of fighting spirit. But how many of these soldiers will survive the next bloody battle? How many people will want to be deserters?... The 155th Division of the 64th Army and the 151st Division of the 62nd Army have been replaced. The 153rd Division of the 63rd Army and the 157th Division of the 65th Army, and the front-line commander Zhang Ruigui.

Because Zhang Ruigui was extremely tough on the Japanese in the Shantou incident in 1933, in order to save a "Shantou News" president Zhang Huaizhen, he surrounded the Japanese overseas Chinese in Shantou, threatening the Japanese fleet, saying, "Ignore international public law and private law. As long as the Japanese ship dares to fire the first shot, my Zhang Ruigui's troops will kill all the Japanese overseas Chinese under surveillance, and all the consequences will be borne by me. Zhang Ruigui personally." He forced the Japanese to retreat, and he was named "Birth Zhang Fei". He was a powerful general who dared to be tough with the Japanese before the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan. He was the only general in the Guangdong Army in this battle who took the initiative to ask for it.

On the front line, Cao Xiaomin dared to replace him with the Kyoto-kang Li Hanhun, who was good at fighting, and he was shot dead by the People's Liberation Army in history. Zhang Ruigui was actually a real anti-Japanese hardliner in the Guangdong Army. He was the main force in three major victory in the northern Guangdong battles, but his deeds were not publicized because of his later position. However, his wife Wei Xiuying was appointed by Chiang Kai-shek as the "Commander-in-Chief of the People's Anti-X Rescue of the People in the Guangdong-Guangdong Border Region" and was shot dead by the People's Liberation Army in many similar themes we have seen.)

"This time our army was beyond the expectations of the Japanese, and used the air force and suicide squads to destroy their landing troops. The Japanese army would definitely change their tactics when they came again, so we must change our playing style..." Cao Xiaomin began to arrange new tactics. This time, he required all units to focus on suspicious soldiers and implement the Cao tactics on the Wuhan battlefield well, so that they can retreat step by step and kill the enemy step by step, mainly to annihilate the enemy and put the guards in a secondary position.

Zhang Ruigui at the meeting looked quite excited, and he looked like he wanted to see the Japanese army immediately. His excitement made Cao Xiaomin a little worried: Will this man retreat step by step?

Cao Xiaomin didn't know that Zhang Ruigui had another important plan to fight: to fight for military power and lay the foundation for Chen Jitang's return!

Zhang Ruigui turned out to be Chen Jitang's first favorite general and powerful general. Because he personally led his entire army to charge naked in the Guangdong-Guangdong War, he made military achievements and later bravely saved Chen Jitang's life at the military parade and was deeply trusted by Chen Jitang. He also wanted to continue to follow Chen Jitang. At the Guangzhou meeting, he already knew that Yu Hanmou, Zhang Fakui and even Li Hanhun would definitely push his troops to the front line, so he simply volunteered.

Chen Jitang was also not vague. With his close relationship with the British, he spent money to buy a large number of American Leimingden trench guns that Cao Xiaomin highly praised, which were transported to Zhang Ruigui through Hong Kong and intercepted some American instructors passing through Hong Kong to train the use of tactics of Zhang Ruigui's troops. The current 153rd Division is actually the best equipped unit in the Guangdong Army. In terms of firepower, it can even be comparable to the 187th Division in the 197th Division in the hands of Cao Xiaomin. Zhang Ruigui is naturally confident!

I want me to retreat while fighting? Of course, the military order must be abide by, but if I don’t fight a few big battles with the Japanese army, how can I be worthy of the title of “Born Zhang Fei”? Zhang Ruigui does not underestimate the enemy, but he has been preparing to fight with the Japanese army head-on in private!

The military meeting was very detailed, including the Yongguo fortifications exposed on the Australian and Thai highway this time, which may have become the focus of the Japanese army's attack, but Cao Xiaomin thought that the Japanese army might go around and attack secretly and talked about details. Of course, how to use these advance layout, especially the ambush that the Japanese army is likely to bypass the defense line, etc. Cao Xiaomin would not directly arrange the plan. He always believed that the commanders of the front line should decide everything. Just like Li Hanhun's troops in the previous battle, he just had to convey the strategy of holding the coast and forcing the Japanese army to gather on the beach to be annihilated. When to counterattack and how to counterattack are completely planned and decided by Li Hanhun.

The military meeting ended after dark. Cao Xiaomin and Chen Lifu rushed back to Guangzhou overnight, and all this large battlefield was left to Zhang Ruigui to take charge.

A war zone commander has a lot of work. Cao Xiaomin, who had just returned to Guangzhou, would soon arrange to arrange new command and tactics and other combat work overnight. At the same time, he would also meet social military representatives in Guangzhou the next day and visit the wounded in the hospital, etc. There were many things, but these had to be done and they had to be done well, which was related to the support behind a war.

But just after Cao Xiaomin finished his work late at night, Chen Guofu, who broke up after he came back, came to the door again. He came to tell Cao Xiaomin a top-secret message: Chen Cheng is going to use all the air forces along the Yangtze River to attack the Japanese army in East China in three days, and the escort force is the US Air Force Volunteer Team!

What!? Cao Xiaomin was shocked: When did he use the Air Force and did not start with Chennard and Zhou Zhirou after careful research? Who made Chen Cheng’s combat plan!?

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