The story begins after the fall of Guangzhou, when Chiang Kai-shek appointed Zhang Fakui as acting commander of the Fourth Theater at the Nanyue Conference, and Yu Hanmou's position at that time was deputy commander of the Fourth Theater and commander-in-chief of the Twelfth Army, and Zhang Fakui became his immediate superior.
After Zhang Fakui took office, he personally went to Weng Yuan, the seat of the general headquarters of the Twelfth Army Group, and summoned officers above the brigade commander to speak. Zhang Fakui's troops and Yu Hanmou's Twelfth Army were in the same vein, both developed from the First Division of the Guangdong Army, and when it came to this glorious experience, the commander of the Iron Army was enthusiastic: "Our First Division of the Guangdong Army... Since its establishment, it has developed day by day, and after countless battles in the two Guangdong and the north and south of the great river, it has never lost a battle, and it is the strongest unit in the National Revolutionary Army. ”
Speaking of this, his words turned sharply: "Unexpectedly, this time, your Twelfth Army only made a few small contacts with the enemy in the Battle of Huiguang, and then collapsed and abandoned the important town of Guangzhou in South China, causing great losses. This is not only a great shame and humiliation for the comrades of the First Division of the Guangdong Army, but also a great shame for the people of Guangdong! ”
The gentleman was not ashamed to his face, and Zhang Fakui not only shamed Yu Hanmou and his subordinates in person, but also was ashamed and righteous: "Because Guangzhou abandoned its defense, it affected the defeat of the Battle of Wuhan." If Guangzhou had not fallen, the Battle of Wuhan would certainly have been able to support it. ”
Yu Hanmou and the others seemed to have taken dumb medicine, and all of them could not make a sound.
In fact, Yu Hanmou has not been criticized in public for the first time, since he abandoned Guangzhou without a defensive war, he has gone up from his political enemies and colleagues to the people of Guangdong, and basically all of them have opened their mouths. People want faces, trees want bark, and the "old strategists" are determined to think bitterly, change the character of the little daughter-in-law who has done nothing in the past, actively replenish the weapons of the soldiers, and on the other hand step up the education and training of the troops.
Zhang Fakui's almost humiliating words accelerated Yu Han's pace of trying to get a gun. He then set up a supplementary officer training regiment in Nanpu, Wengyuan, and transferred middle and lower officers from the Twelfth Army to the regiment for short-term training. At the same time, he also added a political work corps to the supplementary training corps, recruited a group of patriotic young people for intensive training, and after the training was completed, he was assigned to various units to carry out propaganda and agitation work. After rectification, the former "Guangdong Merchant Group" has taken on a new look, the officers and men of all departments have united, their morale has been greatly boosted, and their will to fight has been markedly enhanced compared with the past.
After the Battle of Huiguang, the japanese army's range of activities was limited to a small area around Guangzhou. In late August 1939, Yu Hanmou's command post launched a summer offensive, and the Japanese army could not even stay in this small area, and had to carry out a sweeping defense war. Since then, Ando Riki has felt the need to "capture the main force of the Guangdong Army commanded by Yu Hanmou, who is stupidly moving north of Guangzhou, and give a devastating blow."
In the Battle of Northern Guangdong (1) series, to be continued...