February 4, 1941, the beginning of spring
In fact, the Yamashiro government's intelligence program to counterattack the three towns in Wuhan had been informed early on, and even many of the orders issued by the Ministry of Military Affairs and Administration to the Ninth Theater Command had been intercepted. The Eleventh Army Commander Sonobe and Lieutenant General Ichiro targeted the attack. They adjusted their deployment and recruited a division from China. They wanted to take this opportunity to severely damage the Ninth Theater in order to continue to maintain the Japanese army's absolute advantage on the battlefield in Central China.
But the problem is that all preparations are illusory in the face of absolute strength. The semi-permanent fortifications were smashed open, the bunker groups were torn apart, the waiting frontline troops were dispersed by the armored groups, and the puppet troops who assisted in the defense defected in organized form. The entire Central China battlefield was in In just a few hours, he escaped from Sonobe and Ichiro's control.
After the attack on Wuhan, the dispatched force headquarters also responded immediately. The fleet and aviation troops stationed at the station immediately sent reinforcements. However, soon, the dispatched force headquarters did not dare to mobilize troops at will.
In South China, the national army mobilized forty divisions to counterattack in the direction of Guangdong and Guangxi. Chief Li even visited the front line in person and shouted the slogan of driving the Japanese troops into the sea and regaining Guangdong and Guangxi. Moreover, according to the information obtained from the intelligence department, Look, the military leaders of Yunnan and Guangxi provinces did not intend to just play a supporting role, but wanted to have a real fight. Even if they could not invade Guangdong Province, they still wanted to regain the entire Guangxi Province.
The Nationalist Army in northern Guangdong has also made a move to go south. Although it has not yet gone south, there is no doubt about their determination to go south. As long as the Nationalist Army enters Guangdong Province from the west, they will go south regardless of the cost and fight for it. The military exploits of being the first to invade Yangguangzhou, after all, the national army in northern Guangdong is the real Cantonese army.
In order to cooperate with the operations in South China, the Navy dispatched the torpedo boat troops that had been hiding in the Beibu Gulf. They suddenly appeared outside Guangzhou Bay and attacked a fleet transporting refined oil from Tianzhu. After an attack, twelve vessels were fully loaded with refined products. All the oil cargo ships were sunk, the waterway was completely blocked, and the Guangzhou Port was paralyzed. What made the Japanese most desperate was that several battleships of the Third China Fleet were also blocked in Guangzhou Bay.
Speaking of which, the Japanese's Chinese fleet is really struggling this time. After Vice Admiral Shitaro Shimada became the commander of the Chinese fleet of the combined fleet, he concentrated nearly two-thirds of his main sea and air forces in Wuhan. Nearby, most of them were lost in the first wave of attacks in the early morning. In addition, the main force of the Third China Repatriation Fleet was blocked in Guangzhou Bay. Among the warships that Lieutenant General Shimada Shitaro could mobilize, there was only one Izumo. , there is not even a warship over a thousand tons. If it were not for the joint fleet and several warships waiting for repairs near Gaochang Temple, I am afraid that the comparison of the two navies in the Yangtze River area would be reversed.
In East China, the troops of the Third Theater were not idle either. The commander of the Third Theater, who had been dormant farming in the mountains, actually pieced together twenty full divisions, including an armored division equipped with T-27 tanks and Three heavy artillery regiments equipped with 122mm howitzers and an army of more than 200,000 people marched towards Hangzhou with great momentum and killed them. The headquarters of the Chinese Dispatch Army was so frightened that it quickly mobilized troops to support Hangzhou. Even the garrison troops stationed in the magic city All mobilized.
As soon as the Japs' garrison troops in the Demon City left the confines of the Demon City, chaos broke out in the peaceful Demon City -
Starting from the evening of the 4th, a large number of green-skinned hooligans rushed to the streets and used homemade incendiary bombs and grenades to attack small and medium-sized Japanese companies and residences of Japanese overseas Chinese. These people suddenly appeared and left immediately after attacking. Make any stop so that the military police and rogues cannot find any trace.
If the number of people is small, the Japanese military police Xiante agency may still be able to stabilize the situation, but the problem is that the scale has completely exceeded their capabilities. Thousands of green-skinned gangsters have participated, including Many military command personnel were centrally commanding, allowing these people to respond to each other from a distance, sometimes disperse, sometimes gather, and jump repeatedly in and out of the gaps between the military and police, leaving the Japanese and the concession authorities exhausted but unable to do anything.
At nightfall, just when everyone thought things were going to calm down. The Juntong Bureau gave another big gift to the Japanese. The Juntong Demon City Station's anti-traitor team took the initiative and used cars filled with explosives to attack several key points including the Secret Service Headquarters, the Gendarmerie Headquarters, the Japanese Consulate, and the Pseudo-Magic City Government. Although they failed to destroy these targets, they also caused huge damage to the Japanese.
In order to stabilize the order of the Magic City, the Japanese urgently dispatched sailors into the city to assist the military and police officers in enforcing comprehensive martial law and curfew on the Chinese border. The dispatched army headquarters and base camp only gave them one night. They must arrive at dawn on the 5th time to restore order in the magic city and preserve the face of the empire.
Frequent mobilization of troops will inevitably lead to loopholes of one kind or another. Just like now, the dizzy Japs not only mobilized the main garrison near Gaochang Temple, but also mobilized the sailors waiting to repair the warships. It was so huge. At this time, there was only a small team of Marines and dozens of officers staying in the officers' club in the factory area.
With the help of the underground party in Shanghai, the Military Command Bureau used frogmen to sneak into the Gaochang Temple, successfully boarded a destroyer on the dock, and decisively detonated the warship's ammunition depot. The huge explosion not only destroyed the destroyer, but also destroyed the surrounding areas. Several warships were damaged.
This is not over yet. In the early morning of the 5th, the 524th Regiment of the 88th Division, which had been imprisoned in the solitary camp, withdrew through the sewers with the help of the Military Command Station, and "forcibly" disarmed an F Army Indochinese battalion. Then they cooperated with the Military Command Bureau to invade the Japanese Consulate. After a fierce battle, only a dozen high-level officials of the bloated Japanese Consulate were spared, and all other staff were slaughtered.
This is not the most embarrassing thing. The most embarrassing thing is that after making such a big move, the 524th Regiment was not surrounded or annihilated by the Japanese. Instead, it disappeared again and did not appear until a few days later in the outskirts of Hangzhou and The troops of the three theaters attacking Hangzhou reunited.
In North China, the Sulu War Zone, which had been fated during the First World War in Peiping, also launched again. The Wuhua and Culture Department of the Sulu War Zone, in conjunction with the Jiaodong Army Division of the Eighth Route Army, sent 20,000 troops to conquer Zhaoyuan County and its surrounding areas in one fell swoop. After Zhaoyuan's land was scraped clean, he did not forget to destroy dozens of large and small mines, including the Linglong Gold Mine, which made General Yoshio Shinozuka of Peiping extremely angry.
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