Shaoguan City, Guangdong, the Seventh Chief Command.

Commander Yu Weiqi, Deputy Commander Jiang Guangqing, Guangdong Governor Wu Tiecheng, Shaoguan Mayor Zeng Yangfu and other military and political officials gathered together.

In June 1937, the Japanese invading army invaded Nan'ao Island, Guangdong Province from sea.

At that time, Yu Weiqi was the highest military commander in Guangdong Province. Due to subjective and objective reasons, Nan'ao Island was eventually lost, which was the first land that Yu Weiqi lost during the War of Resistance.

On October 12 of the same year, the Japanese army forcibly landed in Daya Bay with 70,000 troops, 500 warships and 100 fighter jets and attacked in the direction of Guangzhou.

At that time, Guangdong was the only remaining sea outlet in the country, and the rest became enemy-occupied areas. Therefore, Guangdong was particularly important in the overall situation of the national war of resistance.

At that time, the Kuomintang troops stationed in Guangdong had more than 130,000, plus local armed forces, and more than 500,000 guns. In theory, we had a great advantage in the number of troops.

However, due to insufficient enemy information, Yu Fuqi agreed to dispatch nearly 50,000 troops to the north to participate in the Wuhan defense battle, seriously weakening Guangdong's defense power.

In addition, the early evacuation of the party, government and military organs of Guangdong Province, such as the early evacuation of Guangzhou, led to the fall of the Japanese invaders in Guangzhou and other places.

Shaoguan is a mountain city located in the northern part of Guangdong Province, and it was the second largest city in Guangdong after Guangzhou at that time.

After the Japanese army occupied Guangzhou, Shaoguan became the temporary provincial capital of Guangdong and the anti-Japanese center of Guangdong.

The Japanese army originally thought that Guangdong would be in their hands after capturing Guangzhou, but they did not expect that the mountain city of Shaoguan would become the anti-Japanese center.

Therefore, the Japanese army was determined to take down the city of Shaoguan and open up the transportation line in Guangdong.

But Shaoguan is a mountain city surrounded by mountains that are easy to defend and difficult to attack. It was not easy for the Japanese army to capture Shaoguan.

In order to capture Shaoguan, the wartime government headquarters of Guangdong Province and open up the Guangdong-Hankou Railway, the Japanese invaders launched two large-scale attacks on northern Guangdong in December 1939 and May 1940 respectively.

At that time, Yu Shiqi had 120,000 troops. Although his weapons were not as good as the Japanese army, relying on the mountains and ridges in northern Guangdong and the shame brought by the loss of Guangzhou, Yu Shiqi and his soldiers were determined to avenge their revenge in this battle.

Both battles in northern Guangdong ended with Yu Weiqi's 12th Group winning. Not only did Yu Weiqi's masterpiece of avenging shame during the War of Resistance, but it also defeated the strategic attempt of the Japanese invaders to use Guangdong to cut off the Guangdong-Han Railway, threaten the rear of Hunan and Guangxi, and ultimately force the southern provinces to surrender.

The Japanese army still couldn't defeat the city of Shaoguan after two large-scale attacks, so they adopted a siege strategy. In order to cut off the material supply line in Shaoguan, the Japanese army blew up the only bridge in Shaoguan, Qujiang Bridge.

However, the Chinese people drove ships to deliver supplies to the defenders in a fire, which surprised the Japanese army.

Because Qujiang Bridge was bombed by the Japanese army, the authorities felt that it was difficult to defend Shaoguan without an air force. Therefore, the National Government established a temporary aircraft manufacturing plant in Shaoguanzhong and produced many fighter jets.

In the subsequent series of air battles, these fighters caught many Japanese aircraft.

Thanks to the joint efforts of the military and civilians, Shaoguan has been holding on for more than two years.

Now, Yu Fuqi and others have finally waited for the coveted opportunity to counterattack: the two armies of the Chinese Tiger Army are fighting fiercely with the 23rd and 24th Army of the Japanese South China Front Army.

The Japanese South China Front Army was formed on February 10, 1940 and is responsible for the large-scale combat units in southern China and the ** Indian region.

Due to the butterfly effect, the front army did not leave the combat sequence of the Japanese Chinese dispatched troops according to the original historical trajectory, and was transferred to the Japanese base camp to directly govern the Indian ** dispatched troops.

Instead, it is still affiliated with the Chinese Expeditionary Army, and a few months ago, the South China Front Army was greatly enhanced one after another, and the base camp has successively transferred three armies from the Myanmar Expeditionary Army to its jurisdiction.

Currently, the South China Front Army has the 23rd Army, the 24th Army, the 26th Army, the 27th Army and other Japanese troops, with a total strength of more than 500,000.

Hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops suddenly increased their transfers to Guangdong. At the beginning, Yu Fuqi and others were all nervous and thought that the Japanese invaders would invest heavily in the attack on northern Guangdong and Guangxi.

Let’s not talk about Guangxi. Not only were there heavy troops stationed in the Fourth War Zone, but it also received strong help from Yang Fan a year ago and started large-scale military construction, which has formed an extremely solid strategic defense system.

And in the Seventh War Zone, the troops seemed extremely weak.

In August 1940, since the commander-in-chief of the Fourth War Zone was moved to Liuzhou, Guangxi, and the military command of Guangdong was vacant, the Military Committee of the National Government decided to restore the system of the Seventh War Zone, with 200 kilometers north of Shaoguan, Guangdong to Guangzhou, and Yu Weiqi and Jiang Guangqing were appointed as the commander-in-chief and deputy commander-in-chief, with 17 divisions.

There are quite a few 17 divisions, but each division usually only has six or seven thousand people, and it is completely impossible to compare with a mechanized division of the Hu Ben Army with 20,000 people.

In other words, the current total force in the Seventh War Zone is actually only about 120,000.

Before this, we could only rely on the mountainous terrain to persist in the war of resistance. However, at this moment, the Japanese troops in Guangdong and Guangxi suddenly expanded more than three times.

Moreover, these newly transferred Japanese troops not only brought a large number of technical equipment such as tanks, combat vehicles, heavy artillery, etc., but also sent thousands of combat aircraft in Guangdong.

In this case, it would be strange if Yu Fuqi and others did not have the sense of urgency that they were as dangerous as if they were tired of.

However, what puzzled Yu Fuqi and others was that after the arrival of these powerful Japanese troops, they did not rush to launch a full-scale attack on northern Guangdong and Guangxi. Instead, they mobilized a large number of civilians and soldiers to start crazily building fortifications in Guangdong.

Until now, more than 470,000 Chinese Hu Ben Expeditionary Army entered Guangxi to fight. With an extremely fierce offensive momentum, it was finally recovered several towns and soldiers, and pointed directly at the Japanese army in Guangdong. Yu Fuqi and others gradually came back to their senses.

It turned out that the Japanese army did not come to the Fourth and Seventh War Zones at all, but were guarding against the Chinese Hu Ben Expeditionary Force using Guangxi as a forward base to launch a full-scale counterattack against the Japanese-occupied areas in South China!

After finding out the situation, Yu Fuqi and others were both grateful, but also felt an inexplicable sense of humiliation: the little Japanese devils did not regard our Seventh War Zone as a dish at all!

"The Chinese Tiger Army's air strike against Tokyo, Japan, has boosted the morale of the military and the people, and has also completely angered the Japanese government. All the Japanese invaders are going crazy now.

At present, all the war zones in China are facing great military pressure, especially the sixth war zone and the third war zone are even more in danger, and the battlefield situation is extremely unoptimistic.

The Party and the country are facing life and death again. We should work together to share our worries and sorrows for the Commissioner and fight bloody battles for the great cause of the Chinese nation's war of resistance!”

After retracting his thoughts, Yu Fuqi put down the telegram in his hand, "At present, the Fourth War Zone has achieved a series of exciting and brilliant results under the coordinated combat of the Hu Ben Army, and is even about to complete the restoration of the entire Guangxi area!

Similarly, our Seventh War Zone must seize the opportunity at this time and cooperate with the Fourth War Zone and the Hu Ben Army to fight a beautiful strategic counterattack!
Chapter completed!