Chapter 462 Surrender Without a Fight?

Hu Zongnan did not block the New First Army from entering Xi'an, and the Japanese did not prevent the 57th Army from entering Zhumadian. (Bar http://www.

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The 14th Division withdrew decisively, leaving only part of the troops behind the palace to block the vanguard, but the more than 1,000 people left behind were all drowned in artillery fire.

Not only that, the 14th Division that evacuated to the south was also bitten from behind by the 57th Army, and more than 4,000 corpses were left behind, so it escaped from Queshan and joined the 106th Division that responded to Xinyang. In the battle, more than 10,000 people of the 14th Division were annihilated, and most of them were killed or wounded. The motorized units of the vanguard marched at such a high speed that they could easily be caught up even if the Japanese fled. If the 14th Division hadn't withdrawn in time, it would have been almost locked up north of Queshan by the 57th Army and the 56th Army and completely annihilated. But in the end, except for the 59th Wing, it withdrew from Nanyang as soon as possible

But obviously the luck of these devils of Seishiro Itagaki was even worse, and after Seishiro Itagaki fainted, the devils who had no one to command slowly retreated steadily, but just gave the vanguard time to pursue. By the time dawn, Itagaki, who had been awakened by the bombing of the planes chasing behind them, immediately ordered to evacuate at full speed, and the tank and armored vehicles behind had already run over them.

If it weren't for Itagaki Seishiro's urgent command of the devils to organize a counterattack with the help of the cover of the slope terrain on both sides, I am afraid that the nearly 100 tanks that rushed up would have been blocked in this section northwest of Lantian long ago.

But Rao was like this, and the devil also left more than 5,000 corpses in this long place. Only then did he capture some people as hostages in Lantian and block the bombardment overhead, before fleeing into the mountains.

This is a kind of helplessness of the vanguard army. At this time, the vanguard army had mastered the ability to bomb the Japanese mainland from a long distance, and whenever something out of the ordinary happened to the Japanese, the vanguard army would send people to drop a burst of bombs, and even accidentally blow up the poison gas factory. The homeland has been bombed, and a cabinet has been changed for this, and more importantly, it is too embarrassing. They also did not have very good means of air defense interception, so the Japanese had a tacit understanding not to use drastic means as much as possible.

The vanguard army only regarded long-range bombing as a strategic deterrent, so the B-17 bombers were mainly used to train pilots. But this can be regarded as another harvest that allows the devils to use poison gas bombs, burn cities and slaughter villages, and keep the peace of the people.

This is a deliberate compromise between the two sides, and Seishiro Itagaki also knows. But people are forced to do anything. The soldiers under his command began to grab the people as shields. As a result, the planes of the vanguard army overhead could only hover in a hurry, but they did not dare to bomb on a large scale.

In the past street fights and other battles, there have been individual cases, and two or three hostages do not interfere with the overall situation. But this time, because the New Year was approaching, the people went home for the New Year and were blocked by the devils who rushed in. More than 2,000 people were arrested in several villages near Lantian.

More than 2,000 people were scattered in the devil's ranks, which made Sun Liren, who heard this information, itch with hatred, but he couldn't find a good way for a while.

"It's the New Year, and I'm going to give some gifts to our neighbors. I gave a gift first, and then I talked about letting them go! When Meng Xiang heard this, he held back the anger in his heart and ordered, "Let people rush in front of the devils in advance, evacuate the surrounding people first, and clear the wilderness." Let them be trapped in the mountains. ”

The B-17 bombing crew, after receiving the order, immediately prepared and set off at noon that day, and three hours later, the bomb had already fallen on the head of Fukuoka City. It was bombed until it was nearly dusk, and then returned. This kind of bombing from high to high has made the Japanese scratch their heads all the time.

As smoke rose from Fukuoka City, the Vanguard sent a telegram saying that they wanted to discuss with the Japanese side restrictions on poison gas and other weapons that violated international conventions, as well as the use of ordinary people as hostages.

The Japanese knew what it meant as soon as they heard it, did they really want to let the vanguard army do another poison gas bombing?

"Our new aircraft and new anti-aircraft guns for bombing 10,000 meters are almost ready to be developed, and patience is needed at this time. Ordered Itagaki to release the people. "The Japanese had to choose to be patient. They also could not afford the loss of the city from poison gas bombs. So it was pressed down layer by layer, forcing Itagaki Seishiro to let go.

At this time, the vanguard army also consciously cooperated to relax the pursuit of the devil, so that the devil breathed a sigh of relief, and then let go of the people who were dragging down the march.

But this is not the end, although the vanguard army stopped the large-scale pursuit, but the squads composed of snipers and special forces still roamed in the mountains on both sides, constantly intercepting the devils of the squad. And what awaits the devil ahead is the dilemma of the strong wall and the clear field. In the ice and snow, how long can this devil army without supplies last?

Seishiro Itagaki counted the remaining people, and there were only more than 26,000 people left, and most of the supplies were left near Araimda. The problem of eating for so many people was enough for him to have a headache. I thought that there were villages and tribes in the mountains and forests, and they could survive this month, and it would be good when the spring flowers bloomed. But who would have expected that the vanguard army would be directly airborne and rushed to the front to clear the field.

The more than 10,000 people led by the commander of the former corps stationed in Mongolia, Lian Nuanfan, were also taken care of by the fortified wall, although they were also chased for a while, but only lost more than 2,000 troops after the break, and the rest of the troops entered the Qinling Mountains along the Laoyu River. The plane overhead had already detected their movements, and directly organized personnel to rush ahead to remind the people to evacuate. The grain was taken away or buried. The well does not need special treatment, because it is close to the Liyu River, there is no shortage of water, just cover up and camouflage.

Because the vanguard army promised to solve their food problems, and the threat of devils, the people retreated cleanly.

It was cold, and even in the mountains, there was not much food to eat, and the vanguard army followed all the way, harassing from time to time.

"Don't be in a hurry, wait until the spring flowers bloom, and then it's not too late to clean up these little devils. Let them be savages in the mountains first. Meng Xiang also didn't care much about letting go of the devil. It is already good to be able to leave more than 10,000 devils around Xi'an. He now urgently needs to deal with problems in Xi'an and other places.

The vanguard army entered the city of Xi'an, and the 100,000 central army stood by and watched. During the day, the huge airship is even more terrifying. No one doubted that the vanguard army had the ability to easily capture the city of Xi'an. A lot of things can only be handled by the above.

How can you spit out what goes into your mouth? Xi'an is connected to the Longhai Railway and goes to the northwest, and it is inseparable from the support of Xi'an. Meng Xiang had already made up his mind to occupy this place, but with the actions of the devil, some plans were advanced. Hu Zongnan and Jiang Dingwen want the vanguard army to withdraw, no way!

"The people of Xi'an warmly invite and earnestly retain. Some officers and men of Xi'an nationality also need to visit relatives and friends. Brother, too! Meng Xiang was also vague and continued to carry out the last resort to the end. Under the banner of clearing out the remnants of the enemy, he quickly took over Baoji, Weinan, Tongguan and other places. When the tanks and cannons of visiting relatives and friends came out, not many soldiers resisted, and the recruiting office set up outside the city happily laid down the guns.

It is much better to join the vanguard army than to follow the central army, not to mention that there are fewer people who die on the battlefield, even if they usually get more military salaries, why not do it? Even when some of the descendants of Whampoa planned to be desperately loyal, they were persuaded by the senior brothers and teachers who joined the vanguard army.

Meng Xiang moved out of Jiang Baili to appease the Baoding department, and at the same time invited serious from Hubei. He was also a little disappointed with the Central Party's behavior in Sichuan and Hubei, and after cooperating with the Pioneer Army in Wuhan, he seriously accepted the invitation of the Pioneer Army. With his serious status in Huangpu, he still has some influence on some Huangpu students. In addition, the vanguard army has recruited some former instructors from other Whampoa military academies. This is still very demagogic for those Huangpu students.

The first three batches of Whampoa students were just when they were proud, and it might be difficult to win them over, but the others were only at the rank of captain, and the policies and momentum of the vanguard army were even more attractive. Although Lao Jiang is the principal, if Lao Jiang is not the head of the central government, it will be difficult to win over those military cadets to equalize their interests. At this time, under the pull of the vanguard army, the students of Huangpu and the Central Military Academy began to divide, some chose the Central Army, and some defected to the vanguard army.

Even those who were loyal to the Central Army, at this time the superiors had not yet given an order to clash with the vanguard army, and could only watch the vanguard army occupy the cities.

"The people are in need, and when the year is near, we plan to give food to the people. Hold on for time! "When the vanguard army entered the city, it maintained order, registered and distributed food, and immediately pulled the people to the side of the vanguard army, which made the vanguard army even more justifiable. Who dares to oppose such a reason, asking the vanguard army to stop distributing grain and withdraw, and the next day he will be scolded by the people of the city to the eighteenth generation of ancestors.

From the beginning of spring on the 5th to the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve on the 7th, the vanguard army rushing from three sides divided the grain and basically controlled the area around Xi'an. The speed is far faster than Lao Jiang's reaction.

At this time, Lao Jiang was still grinding his teeth with Meng Xiang, but Meng Xiang was holding a drag word and kept talking about him left and right.

"Niang Xipi, this Meng Ribai is a bandit, can he rebel?" Lao Jiang's annoyance was only left with this sentence. He couldn't wait to immediately arrest Meng Xiang and shoot him. But the vanguard army is not an ordinary bandit, and the pressure of an army of more than one million makes no one dare to name a bandit. The meeting of the Central Committee was held for three consecutive days, but there was no result, and no one dared to say anything to turn their faces, but only constantly condemned these acts of the vanguard army.

What condemnation is the vanguard afraid of at this time? The benefits of getting your hands are real. Those public opinion naturally have the media of the vanguard army to scold them, biting the name of relief to the people, and the vanguard army is actually doing it, what can others do?

Even if Lao Jiang turned his face, Meng Xiang was not very afraid at this time.

Originally, the concern was only for fear of internal chaos in China and the benefit of the Japanese. At this time, the Japanese were greatly injured, if it weren't for Meng Xiang's intention to keep them as swords, coupled with the instability of the rear, he would have directly waved his army south and drove them out.

But such a result is not necessarily the best, even if the vanguard army is united, China is not able to pick many European and American powers for the time being, so it is also necessary to use the general trend of history to obtain greater benefits. Although the livelihood of the people in those occupied areas is more difficult, Huaxia needs to awaken the people's national consciousness and use the heads of traitors and lackeys to sacrifice to get the chance of nirvana rebirth. So Meng Xiang also chose forbearance.

What's more, turning the other cheek at this time, there will inevitably be a scuffle under the intervention of all parties in the country. Although the millions of vanguard troops were able to suppress it in the end, Huaxia was also greatly damaged and was likely to miss a good opportunity in World War II. The vanguard army was not afraid of the armies of the Central Army and other warlords, but it was afraid of their trouble. Those deep-rooted and complex forces cannot be eliminated by the army.

At this time, it will take time for the vanguard army to implement and popularize the subsistence allowance and other policies, and when the people get the benefits, they will have won without the vanguard army's intervention. Giving in without a fight is the best policy.

Before Lao Chiang could make any moves, the Japanese took the lead. However, this shot was not aimed at the vanguard army, but at Lao Jiang.

The Japanese were bombed by the mainland again, and the vanguard army occupied the land of Henan, and many troops were surrounded and annihilated. The New Year calls for a new atmosphere, and the Japanese have learned the essence of it. At least Shunroku Hata needs to burn a fire and make some achievements to stabilize his somewhat shaky command throne. Knowing that the vanguard army was not easy to mess with, this time he chose the soft persimmon of the Central Army.

So on February 8, this day, the Japanese army began a large-scale attack. Nominally, it was to involve the Central Army and the Vanguard Army, so as to facilitate the safe evacuation of the two divisions that were still resisting in Xinyang and the devils led by Seishiro Itagaki, who had retreated. But it's actually for powdering.

On the 8th, which happened to be the first day of the Lunar New Year, the Japanese took advantage of this sudden force and attacked in three directions, which caught the Central Army a little off guard. One is to take advantage of the early morning assault to continue to attack Wuhan, the other is to attack Nanchang in the south, and the other is to directly raid Qinzhou, Fangcheng and other places in Guangxi. It was intended to threaten the supply lines of the Central Army.

In the original history, after the Japanese army occupied the coastal areas, the most important transportation of foreign aid from China was to rely on the route from French Indochina to Guangxi. This transport line once accounted for 85% of the central government's foreign aid traffic. The devil also had a plan to attack this place early on. Under the desperate and stubborn resistance of Lao Jiang, there was a great victory at Kunlun Pass.

But this was broken by the appearance of the Vanguard, which held the port and could bring in some civilian supplies directly through German-American transport, and some sensitive things could also be transported by submarine. The arms and weapons are produced by the base, and by the way, they do arms trading with the Central Army. Although the Central Army will not put all its eggs in the two baskets of the vanguard army and the copycat company, it still makes use of this line, but the importance is greatly reduced.

And the devil's attack here is just to knock and knock on Lao Chiang, and by the way, reach out to French Indochina for the next step and explore the way. This is the root of the base camp's agreement with Shunroku Hatata's plan. Hainan has already fallen into the hands of the Japanese army, and if these areas of Guangxi are again in the hands of the Japanese army, the French may not be able to sit still.

It was also a temptation for the Japanese army to turn its energies to the south in search of more wealth. They were also stimulated by the Germans. They keenly felt that the declaration of war by Britain and France on the Germans would not stop, and that new opportunities had come. They are taking this opportunity to stimulate the economy.

At this time, the Japanese economy was already in a slump.

Their raw silk exports were squeezed lightly by the nylon of the Vanguard Army and DuPont. They were also set on fire by spies of the Vanguard Army, and burned down several warehouses where raw silk was stored.

Other Japanese people really don't have many fist products, and they are all dumped in China. But on the territory of the vanguard army, the ban on the sale of Japanese goods made it impossible to sell a large number of their goods. European and American countries are not uncommon, and there is also competition from the vanguard army.

As long as the Japanese intended to export, the vanguard army would generally intervene. If it is profitable, it will be sideways, and if it is not much oil and water, it will be put aside for the time being. Not only in Europe and the United States, but also in other parts of China, there are pioneers whose products are crowding out the market for Japanese goods.

The industrial and commercial production developed by the vanguard army since 37 years began to gradually replace foreign products with the help of low taxes and government subsidies.

At the beginning, the Germans were dissatisfied with the Japanese, even because after the Japanese invaded China, the market share did not increase much for the Germans, so the Germans would be even more alienated from the Japanese. At this time, there was a vanguard army to pull the German economy, and the Germans were also slow to refuse to form an alliance with the Japanese, preferring to China.

The growing vanguard army has an army that can threaten Soviet Russia more, and a large number of light industrial products, which can subsidize the shortage of German industry, and the copycat companies that seem to be very close to the vanguard army also have the ability to provide a large number of weapons, and it is also a large export and cooperation area of German machinery and technology, which makes Hitler always flatter Meng Xiang.

But in order to get the most out of World War II, Meng Xiang would only maintain a neutral attitude at first, and could get more benefits from Britain, France, and even the Americans. Just like at this time, with the outbreak of the European war, with the popularity of some military supplies, the share of the Japanese was constantly squeezed out.

The Japanese are getting less and less foreign exchange for exports, while military spending has not been reduced. The war machine of the army, once it is activated, rarely fills up. As a result, the foreign exchange earnings of the Yellow Women's Army became a major pillar, and tens of thousands of Japanese female workers worked hard to convert oil, ore, rubber, scrap steel, etc.

But even then, there are fewer and fewer resources available. With the beginning of the war in Europe, the prices of all kinds of materials began to rise sharply, and there were vanguard armies that continued to snatch a share of scrap steel from the Americans.

Among the materials demanded by the Japanese, steel was a major constraint on their development. At this time, with the intervention of the vanguard army, the Americans do not mind having one more customer, but the total amount of scrap steel is limited. The amount of money received by the Japanese did not increase but decreased.

The vanguard army has scrap steel, and it can also carry out electric furnace steelmaking to reduce energy consumption. The Japanese use more scrap steel and pig iron to save energy. If it is changed to smelting ore, the transportation of coal alone will be a big burden, not to mention that at this time the northeast is stuck half of the vanguard army.

Although the Japanese continued to search in the northeast, the vanguard army, with the help of aircraft and submarines, as well as the Yamato-class battleships under training, stuck the Bohai Sea and part of the Yellow Sea area. The cost of escorting was too high, and after several attempts, the Japanese had to switch to transportation through the Korean Peninsula. And if you want to clear the waterway, not to mention, the prestige of the vanguard shore guns and giant artillery, plus a Xinzhenyuan, makes the Japanese dare not act rashly.

The transportation corridor in the Tohoku region was cut in half, making the supply of raw materials to the Japanese much smaller. Coal, pig iron, and grain all need to be transported from the Northeast, which makes the Japanese very uncomfortable.

The vanguard army also attacked the Japanese cargo ships in a controlled manner, so that the Japanese still had a way to pass, which was lower than the price of their desperate efforts, and they could only endure it temporarily.

In the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, because of the guerrilla columns of the vanguard army of the rats, the scope of activities was constantly expanded, so that the plundering activities of the Japanese were also greatly affected.

The base areas in Jiangsu and Zhejiang have also been continuously expanded, not only the surrounding areas of Jingdezhen and the middle and upper reaches of the Fuchun River basin have been gradually controlled, but even in the east, Meng Xiang has built a shipyard in the west mountain of Taihu Lake. Although it could only produce torpedo boats, it suddenly controlled the area around Taihu Lake, and even the devils came to clean it up, and after being killed by the torpedo boats of the vanguard army, three gunboats were also withdrawn in disgrace.

The Japanese have repeatedly suppressed bandits, but they have never been able to exterminate them. Although the vanguard army of Rat Yi was under the banner of guerrillas, its equipment and quality were not inferior to those of the vanguard army in the north. After Meng Xiang increased the number of clone soldiers, he sent another 5,000 clone soldiers in one go to help maintain internal stability. This makes it possible for them to attack and expand their territory with confidence. Compared with the subsistence allowance policy also implemented in the base areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the gentry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang hoped to enjoy the stability under the protection of the vanguard army.

Why is the territory of the Northern Pioneer Army prosperous, in addition to the support of the Pioneer Army, there are no harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and the most important thing is stability.

The Japanese could not even break through the defense line of the vanguard army, which gave everyone full confidence, especially after the Central Plains War, there was a big explosion of industrial and commercial growth on the territory of the vanguard army, which was caused by the large inflow of capital and talents.

In stark contrast, it was the decline of the Kokudo and Japanese economies. RO！ ~！