Zhang Fakui, who led the Eighth Army to a major defeat in eastern Zhejiang, was sent back to his hometown in northern Guangdong by Chiang Kai-shek to recruit troops. During the subsequent re-division of war zones, he returned to his hometown in Guangdong and took charge of the Guangdong and Guangdong directions in western Guangdong, Leizhou Peninsula and Guangzhou.
The commander of the Seventh Theater Command of the coastal operations west of the Gulf mainly targeted the Japanese troops on Hainan Island.
In order to contain Zhang Fakui and prevent him from becoming a dominant force, after Jiang Dingwen was transferred to the director of the Xi'an camp, Yu Hanmou, the former deputy commander of the fourth theater, was promoted to be mainly responsible for the east of Guangzhou Bay, including the Pearl River Estuary and the coast of Shenzhen Bay, as well as Hailufeng in eastern Guangdong, Fujian
Defense of coastal areas and other places to resist the threat from Taiwan occupied by Japanese troops.
According to the cooperation agreement with the National Government, An Jiajun rented Qinzhou Port from the Guangxi Clan, then rented Fangcheng County to build a deep-water port in 1938, and the following year built Beihai Port at the southern port of Hepu, three ports
Distributed in a triangle, there are railways and highways connected to Nanning, Guangzhou and other places. It is used to receive materials transported from northern Guangxi and northern Guangdong, and then transported to various places in the south from three ports.
At the beginning of this year, the 9th Division of the Third Guards Army of the Anjia Army suddenly entered Qinzhou Port. In the following month, the 8th Division and the 7th Division entered Beihai Port and Fangcheng Port respectively. This aroused the interest of Zhang Fakui and Zhang Fakui.
Li Zongren was extremely vigilant, and all ministries quickly increased their vigilance.
At this time, Li Zongren's Xingui clique, due to its long-term operations in Xuzhou, occupied a dominant position in Anhui, Shandong and northern Jiangsu. Coupled with the existence of the Guangxi Military District, its strength was second only to the Central Army. What particularly pained Chiang Kai-shek was that for
Li Zongren had no interest at all in joining the expeditionary force and continued to stay in Xuzhou as commander of his fifth theater and chairman of Anhui Province.
Entering February, the Anjia Army intensified. Three divisions of the Second Guards Army took special trains directly to Suixi, Guangdong, where they disarmed one regiment of the local garrison, leaving two regiments to set up depots. The main force moved south to Leizhou Peninsula. In February
In the middle of the year, they invaded Xuwen in the southern part of the Leizhou Peninsula.
At the same time, a naval fleet of the Anjia Army appeared in Guangzhou Bay. About two regiments of Marine Corps officers and soldiers forcibly landed on Naozhou Island and Donghai Island, and occupied Dongying and Xiying. The French Vichy government invited a regiment
The troops were disbanded on the spot, and the French colonial government was announced to be dissolved. From now on, Guangzhou Bay will return to the embrace of the Chinese people, and the Zhanjiang Municipal People's Government will be established. It will be temporarily controlled by An Jiajun and apply to the National Government for registration.
The three divisions of Zhang Fakui's Eighth Group Army stationed on the Leizhou Peninsula, faced with the three-dimensional advance of the Anjia Army's army, navy and air force, did not dare to resist at all, so they surrendered the defense area and retreated to Huazhou and under the salute of the officers and soldiers of the Second Guards Group.
Maoming was garrisoned on the front line. Zhang Fakui was shocked and angry. He called An Yi personally, but the answer he received was that An's army planned to launch an attack on Hainan Island. After landing on Hainan Island, the Leizhou Peninsula would be handed over to Zhang Fakui again.
Zhang Fakui was dubious and asked the Nanjing National Government for instructions.
Chiang Kai-shek personally replied to the telegram, telling him to "be patient" and "not to relax his vigilance" and to "defend the area around the Leizhou Peninsula and the northern part of Qinlian."
backing".
Zhang Fakui felt a little at ease, but after careful thought, he felt something was wrong. Based on what he knew about the strength of the Anjiajun Navy, if he really wanted to launch a landing operation on Hainan Island, there was no need to detour to the Leizhou Peninsula and use Xuwen as the starting point.
Although the southern part of the Leizhou Peninsula is the closest to Hainan Island, it does not have a good natural harbor suitable for large ships to berth. It is only suitable for landing craft with a shallow draft. However, with Zhanjiang Port as the starting port, compared with Qinzhou, Fangcheng Port and Beihai Port, there are no
What advantages.
Zhang Fakui immediately sent someone to inquire about the movements in Nanjing. Only then did he learn that Japan frequently sent personnel to contact Chiang Kai-shek, trying to return Hainan Island to the National Government in exchange for Chiang Kai-shek's peaceful goodwill and to prevent the Chinese Expeditionary Force training in Yunnan from becoming an opponent of the Japanese army.
, and hopes to obtain urgently needed strategic materials such as tungsten ore, bristles, tung oil, etc. from China in the form of gold, silver or industrial products, as well as food, cotton, coal, etc. for local use, in order to alleviate Japan's military production problems.
There is a shortage of civilian supplies.
The British and American intelligence agencies discovered the Japanese attempt. The two governments immediately sent diplomatic representatives to Nanjing to mediate with the Nationalist Government. However, the current world situation is complicated and confusing. The Japanese army is showing off its power on the American continent and has a certain advantage in the Pacific region.
Chiang Kai-shek, who originally believed that the Allies would win, began to hesitate and was unwilling to make a bet prematurely. Therefore, although the Nationalist Government reached an agreement with Britain and France on the surface, it secretly still contacted Japan and quietly established operations in Xiamen and Xiamen, which were far away from the Anjiajun's sphere of influence.
Shantou and other places formed naval forces to prepare for the peaceful takeover of Hainan Island from Japan when the time came.
An Yi was very reluctant to have Chiang Kai-shek on the wrong side on this issue, so he issued special instructions to cut off Chiang Kai-shek's claws on Hainan Island.
In this way, the Anjia Army Guards Group, which originally did not need to start from the Leizhou Peninsula, made an exception and placed three divisions here to conduct beach landing drills with great fanfare, demonstrating the Anjia Army's resolute attitude. Upon seeing this, Chiang Kai-shek immediately stopped his activities.
The small actions in the coastal waters of Fujian were stopped, but the atmosphere in the Qiongzhou Strait became tense due to the stationing of the Anjia Army.
Throughout March, about 500 small landing ships with a displacement of about 100 tons gathered in Hai'an Bay, Jiaowei Bay, and Dongchang Port in Xuwen County. At the same time, engineers also repaired six field military airports and two flight operations here.
The brigade then moved in, including the First Battalion of the 11th Air Division. Colonel Xiang Shuang, a rare ace female pilot of the Anjiajun Air Force, once again stood on the front line of the war against Japan.
The Japanese army sent out reconnaissance aircraft several times, but they had just taken off over Hainan Island. They were already discovered on the Leizhou Peninsula. Xiang Shuang and her comrades quickly took off to fight. Each time, the Japanese army was driven away over the Qiongzhou Strait.
, after many times in succession, the Japanese army knew that Anjiajun had deployed radar in the offshore area, so they had no choice but to sit still in frustration.
At this point, the smell of gunpowder in the air was already very strong.
The Japanese army had to once again strengthen the defenses along the line from Wenchang in the east to Lingao in the west. They also set up garrison stations in Haikou and Chengmai, so that no matter which direction the Anjia army landed, they could concentrate superior forces to fight them.
At the same time, in order to prevent the Anjia army from landing from other directions, Tufu Bay, Lingshui Bay, Riyue Bay in Lingshui, Danzhou Bay in Danxian County, Haiwei Port, Changhua Port and Basuo Port in Changjiang, Ya
The county's Yazhou Bay, Sanya Port, Dadonghai Yulin Port, Yalong Bay and Haitang Bay have all raised their alert levels.
While the Anjia Army and the Japanese army were dispatching their own troops, Anjia Army intelligence personnel lurking within the Japanese army and at the top of the puppet army sent back detailed information about the Japanese army on Hainan Island.
The Japanese army has seven ** garrison units in Hainan Island: Haikou, Lingao, Changjiang, Yazhou, Wanning, Qinglan, and Shilu. The ** garrison has six infantry brigades, including the brigade.
It also has three infantry squadrons and one machine gun squadron, and no other arms. The total number is 4,900.
At the same time, the 169th, 170th and 171st Divisions of the 57th Army of the Army were deployed in Qiongzhou, Chengmai and Yazhou respectively. These three divisions were established after the Pearl Harbor Incident and belonged to the C-class division of the two-brigade system.
There are two infantry brigades, of which the brigade has four infantry brigades, and the infantry brigade has four infantry squadrons, a machine gun squadron with eight heavy machine guns, and an artillery squadron with four infantry cannons. The division has no direct artillery wing, only an artillery squadron directly under its jurisdiction.
The total number of engineers, baggage teams and communications teams is 12,000.
Considering that Hainan Island is close to the heartland of the Anjia Army and there are too many places to guard against landing, the Japanese army mobilized the 11th, 14th, 15th and 52nd Infantry Brigades from other theaters, as well as the **Field Heavy Artillery Brigade.
21st Regiment. The Japanese ** Infantry Brigade has five infantry brigades and an artillery team, communications team, engineering team, baggage team, etc., with a total number of about 5,500 people. The number is small, but the combat effectiveness is not weak.
We must know that most of these ** infantry brigades were established around 1938. The officers and soldiers fought from the Northeast to Southeast Asia, and from Southeast Asia to the subcontinent, Australia or Africa. They have experienced hundreds of battles and their combat effectiveness is compared to that of recruits.
The C Division was not inferior. Coupled with the 21st Regiment of the ** Field Heavy Artillery, which was responsible for twenty-four 150mm heavy howitzers, the total strength of the Japanese army on Hainan Island was nearly 100,000.
In addition, the Wang puppet regime also took over all levels of political power from the National Government in Hainan, and established five divisions of puppet troops to maintain public order and carry out encirclement and suppression of the Qiongya Red Army, which was already in extremely difficult circumstances.
The storm is howling and the waves are rolling.
As early as the end of March, Lieutenant General An Jin, commander of the garrison and the Guards Group, after inspecting the preparations for the three ports in the Beibu Gulf, secretly went to Leizhou Peninsula to inspect the preparations for the landing operations of the Third Guards Group Army.
Since most of the officers and soldiers in the Guards Group are landlubbers, what An Jin is most worried about is the mental state of the officers and soldiers and whether they can adapt to the waves of the sea. On the first day of arriving in Xuwen County, An Jin met Lieutenant General Fang Pengxiang, commander and political commissar of the group army.
Accompanied by the officers, they inspected the training sites of each division in Hai'an Bay, Jiaowei Bay, and Dongchang Port.
At every training place, there are crowds of people on the sea. Some soldiers are holding tripods made of bamboo tubes, and the squares are floating on the water, allowing the wind and waves to beat them, standing firm and motionless; some are shouting "Charge!" "Kill!" and follow the waves.
He rushed towards the beach, and then jumped from the beach to the waves. A wave would come from behind at any time. He staggered forward, unable to stand at all. When he hit the waves head-on, the waves hit him and the waves hit his body.
It splashed in all directions, choking and making people shake their heads; there were also many officers and soldiers who rushed straight to the shore without caring about the oysters, clam shells, seaweed and other things hidden under the water.
I am practicing how to adapt to the rising and receding waves and land on the beach.
On land, the swing fixed with a triangular iron bracket swung higher and higher, and the wave bridge paved with iron chains and wooden boards swung faster and faster. Many officers and soldiers were blistered and their legs were sore and painful, but they continued to practice;
Many people stretched out their hands and started spinning rapidly on the spot, or two people were spinning hand in hand. They were spinning so fast that they were dizzy and refused to stop. In the end, the officers and soldiers fainted and fell to the ground. This was the officers and soldiers exercising.
Endurance to increase resistance to seasickness.
An Jin saw the enthusiasm of the troops in training and kept nodding in praise, saying that the war preparations of the Second Guards Army were much better than those of the Third Army.
Returning to the military headquarters in Xuwen County, An Jin curiously asked how Fang Pengxiang stimulated the officers and soldiers to exert 100% energy to train so risklessly.
Fang Pengxiang said with embarrassment that at the beginning, the troops were still resistant to the sea. After all, on land, everyone fought with guns and cannons. It was really hard work. As long as you showed what you had trained on weekdays, you could face all powerful enemies.
The officers and soldiers of the Guards are confident of defeating their opponents.
However, the sea is different. We are all sitting on the ship. As long as the landing craft hits one or two shells, the whole ship will be wiped out. Their death is too uncomfortable and worthless. They are the guards officers and soldiers who regard honor as life.
Unbearable.
In addition, the ocean currents in the Qiongzhou Strait are constantly changing in the four seasons. The southwest monsoon prevails in summer, and the ocean currents flow from west to east, while in other seasons they flow from east to west. The sea surface is extremely turbulent, which makes many officers and soldiers who are accustomed to land warfare look pale and fearful.
All kinds of strange words and small stories emerged in an endless stream.
In this case, the troops first carried out education on situational tasks.
In accordance with the unified deployment of the group army, all officers and soldiers of the 7th, 8th, and 9th Guards Divisions held various conferences and small meetings. Grassroots officers and soldiers were in the military camp to study ideological education materials issued by the General Political Department, focusing on reviewing China's humiliation over the past century.
History. The Sino-Japanese War, the September 18th Incident and the Marco Polo Bridge Incident caused harm to the Chinese people, exposed the ferocious nature of the Japanese army, and accepted re-education of nationalist ideas. The central issue is that Hainan is an inseparable and important part of the territory of the Chinese nation. Japan must not be completely destroyed
Drive China out, and the label of colonialism will always be placed on the heads of the Chinese people who have stood up.
All three divisions held an enlarged meeting of the Party Committee of the National Democratic Party of China with the participation of cadres at regiment level and above, and conducted short-term training. A meeting of cadres at battalion level and above was held at the regiment level, and company and platoon cadres were trained at the battalion level. It usually lasted a week, and criticism and criticism were carried out at the meeting.
Self-criticism, combined with party spirit and sense of responsibility, allows the majority of commanders and political cadres to ask themselves: Have you adopted a positive and responsible attitude towards crossing the sea to liberate Hainan Island? What harm will being negative and saying weird things do to the execution of the task, the party, and yourself? Subsequently,
Political officers and political departments at all levels will make a personal ideological appraisal of each commander and fighter, and submit their personal determination and plans to the political department for review and filing.
After a series of education, many commanders and political cadres felt ashamed, and some even cried bitterly. You must know that the Guards Group is all composed of injured veterans. Not only did they receive good care during the treatment period, but they also participated regularly
In political and ideological studies, almost all officers and soldiers are party members. Looking back on the training and care they received in the army, they felt even more guilty for sacrificing the ardent expectations of their comrades and their own responsibilities. They wrote letters of apology one after another, admitted their mistakes, and took the initiative to become
The pioneer of beach landing.
At the same time as ideological education, a series of movies reflecting the heroes and model figures of Anjiajun were staged in each company in turn. After the movie performances, each company organized discussions to allow the officers and soldiers to speak freely, which greatly stimulated and promoted the thoughts of the officers and soldiers.
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In just one month, the troops have transformed from being afraid of the sea to being fearless, establishing a style of striving to be the strongest, and strengthening the determination and courage of the officers and soldiers to overcome individualism, obey the collective and perform tasks.
Secondly, the troops carried out ideological education on remembering the bitter and thinking of the sweet.
At present, the rural areas of the Democratic Republic of China have implemented land reform, reduced or exempted public grain and agricultural taxes, and further accelerated urban industrialization. Coupled with the establishment of education, social security and medical systems, officers and soldiers have clearly felt this rapid change.
The political department compared the happy life with that of Hainan Island under Japanese occupation. The people there not only had to bear the exploitation of the Wang Puppet regime, but also had to provide food and supplies for the Japanese garrison. They were starved to death every day.
It will happen. The day the Japanese invaders occupy Hainan Island, they will suck blood and nutrients from Hainan Island. The iron ore mined from the Shilu Iron Mine will be turned into guns and ammunition, warships and cannons, threatening the safety of the Chinese nation.
At the same time, the direct air distance between Hainan Island and the capital Chang'an is less than 400 kilometers, and its aircraft will threaten the safety of party and state leaders at any time. To protect the hard-won happy life, Hainan Island must be captured.
The officers and soldiers who felt that their own interests had been violated were filled with enthusiasm and wrote petitions for war, vowing to fly across the Qiongzhou Strait to expel the Japanese invaders.
The third is to launch a meritorious campaign.
You must know that in the huge political and military system of the Anjia Army, military merit is linked to military rank, promotion of position, as well as benefits and treatment received. The more military merits you have achieved, the greater the possibility of being promoted, and the benefits you will receive during your service
The more military pay and allowances you receive, the greater the amount of demobilization pay you will receive when you retire. This is the most direct benefit.
At the same time, when officers and soldiers have made meritorious service in the army, the military political department will promptly convey the good news of their meritorious service to the local government. The local government will beat gongs and drums, go to the families of military families to express condolences, and put a special gold-plated nameplate on the door for people to pay their respects.
, the government will send a large amount of consolation money every year and festival. Families with different military merits will have subtle differences. The higher the military merits, the more glorious the family will be and the higher the treatment they will enjoy. This is an indirect benefit.
It can be said that military merit is closely related to the vital interests of the majority of commanders and soldiers. When serving as a soldier in the Anjia Army, no matter whether you are injured or sacrificed, your life and death will be properly taken care of. As the saying goes, if one person performs meritorious service, the whole family will be honored, the superiors will love him, and the people will take care of him.
Respect, be famous at home and abroad, even appear in movies, be exiled for hundreds of generations, and be immortalized forever.
In this way, the troops began to understand the significance of the attack on Hainan Island, reminisce about their past events, compare whether the attack on Hainan Island was unlucky or lucky, etc., and then let the officers and soldiers introduce the hero medals they had won in previous battles, and
Through letters from family members, officers and soldiers are filled with passionate feelings of meritorious service.
The fourth is to exaggerate the power of our navy and air force to the majority of officers and soldiers, telling everyone that when they land on the beach, they will be covered by huge ships and artillery, and the air force will suppress the Japanese beachhead and depth. As long as everyone has good swimming skills, even if they fall into the sea, they will not be able to survive.
They will be rescued in time, and the risk of crossing the sea is actually not high.
However, this does not mean that everyone can relax in training. Falling into the sea means being separated from the unit, and there is no opportunity to make contributions, and there is no benefit.
Under such circumstances, the morale of the participating troops was at an all-time high, and the officers and soldiers consciously practiced more every day. Most of the landlubbers had unknowingly become masters of chopping up the waves.
An Jin was very satisfied with the war preparations of the Third Guards Army. He stayed in Xuwen for a week and met with the main cadres of each division and regiment. Then he left Leizhou Peninsula in early April and returned to Haiphong Port, where the group headquarters was stationed, to preside over
military affairs.
The battle against Hainan Island has thus entered the final countdown.
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