October 16, 1938.

With the 187th Division of the National Army and the 361st Independent Brigade, the 5th Division of the Japanese 21st Army completely occupied the entire Meizhou area at 9 a.m. that day;

October 17, 1938.

The 18th Division and the 104th Division, which had been repaired in Daya Bay for a day, began to attack from Daya Bay and marched towards the three areas of Huiyang County, Huidong County and Haigang County respectively.

At 3 pm that day, the 151st Division, 152nd Division and the 9th Independent Brigade of the 62nd Army had a very fierce battle. The battle was not until 8 pm that day, and the two sides ceased fire;

October 18, 1938.

The 5th Japanese Division set out from Meizhou and divided into two groups, heading westward to attack Heyuan, where the 63rd Army was heavily stationed;

The other route also had a brigade of more than 6,000 troops to launch an attack on Huizhou City;

October 18, 1938, 7 pm.

The Guangdong defenders lost Meizhou, causing the triangular defensive formations of Meizhou, Heyuan and Huizhou to collapse completely. Faced with the fierce attack of nearly 70,000 Japanese troops, the defense wars in Heyuan and Huizhou were extremely difficult.

All departments are in a hurry, with Heyuan and Huizhou defense lines facing collapse.

Once Heyuan and Huizhou are lost, more than half of Guangdong's land will be completely taken down by the Japanese army!

The battle situation is very critical!

Therefore, the subsequent battle analysis showed polarization within the 12th Army of the National Army.

Some of them believe that they must defend Heyuan and Huizhou defense lines and would rather die than retreat;

Another part of the people believe that when he quickly evacuated Heyuan and Huizhou, he would preserve his vitality, concentrate his main forces, and do his best to defend Guangzhou, Dongguan, and the Pearl River Estuary.

Due to the large number of senior executives of the 12th Army holding these two opinions, Commander-in-Chief Yu Hanmou was unable to make up for a moment.

"Who should I listen to?"

Yu Hanmou said self-deprecatingly: "Does Heyuan and Huizhou defend? Or should you retreat now and save your troops?"

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Danshui Town, Huiyang County, Huizhou City.

Brigade Department of the 512th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army.

After reading these latest battle reports, Ouyang kept thinking about his understanding of the defense of Guangzhou before traveling through time and the future direction of the battle situation.

"Commander-in-Chief Yu Hanmou, he still has no confidence in defending Guangdong!"

The historical defense war between Guangzhou and the end lasted less than half a month, and it was announced that 80% of Guangdong's land fell and Guangzhou fell.

Apart from the objective reason why the Japanese army has strong military strength and weak power, the main reason is that it lacks a unified strategic idea within the 12th Army.

How to guard?

To what extent do you keep it?

How much land are you planning to lose?

How long will you last?

Half a month?

One month?

During the Guangzhou Defense War, Commander-in-Chief Yu Hanmou was unsure of how to defend Guangzhou, which led to the operational deployment of his various units.

Incomparable chaos!

It can be described in one sentence, that is, "I have no plans", and I lost Guangzhou in a confused manner.

"Yes, it's just a mess!"

Even this time, with the joining of the 512th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army, the 12th Army Group annihilated tens of thousands of Japanese troops in Daya Bay.

Commander-in-chief Yu Hanmou did not have much confidence in the subsequent battle.

"I guess Commander-in-Chief Yu Hanmou is more thinking about dying for his country. He completely lost the awareness of taking the initiative to attack and did not actively seek out fighter jets and annihilate the Japanese army."

Ouyang thought: "It is absolutely impossible to defeat the Japanese army in a defensive battle alone. Only by taking the initiative can you defend Guangdong."

Take the initiative!

But after thinking for a long time, Ouyang didn't come up with any good idea.

Finally, Ouyang gathered all the main military commanders and fighters of the 512th Brigade to the command center to discuss the creation of fighter jets and seek to annihilate the enemy.

Chief of Staff Wang Yaqiao said in a deep voice: "As the brigade commander, you said, according to the current defense strategy of the Guangdong defenders, it is only a matter of time before the entire country's army retreats. It may be ten days, eight days, or even two or three days."

"In a word, if you keep it for a long time, you will lose it. Just relying on passive defense, the whole of Guangdong will definitely lose it!"

Ouyang smiled and said, "That's why we called us all over to discuss good strategies and see if there is any good way to create fighter jets and severely damage the Japanese army."

For a moment, Li Yunlong, Jiang Daya, Zhou Weiguo and others were all silent.

This battle was not a small fight in Taihang Mountains, but a large-scale battle of hundreds of thousands of people. How easy was it to force the Japanese army to retreat?

Zhou Weiguo said angrily: "If the 12th Army did not take the initiative to give up Meizhou City, then our Chinese army will still have a large area of ​​deep space in Guangdong. However, with the fall of Meizhou, one-third of Guangdong's land has been trapped by the Japanese army in just three days. Now it is becoming more and more difficult to seek fighter opportunities!"

"Um!"

Everyone nodded in agreement with Zhou Weiguo's words.

Ouyang and others all agreed that voluntarily gave up Meizhou is a foolproof move!

The loss of Meizhou led to the loss of the deep space of our army, which not only failed to preserve Guangzhou, but also made the Guangdong defenders more passive.

Ouyang saw that everyone in the conference room was silent again, and immediately threw out a direction of thinking that he had considered.

"Comrades, Meizhou has become a past tense. So can we use the areas that have not yet fallen in Guangdong to do something?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Yunlong and others all had their eyes lit up.

Ouyang continued: "Although the scale of this battle is much larger than the thousands of people we used to do, many strategic principles are still very similar, such as surrounding the points and attacking the enemy in depth, luring the enemy into the east and attacking the west, etc., which are actually the same in essence."

After pausing, Ouyang said again: "This time we assume that there are no 100,000 Japanese troops, only 10,000 people. How should we use the terrain to break the ice against the current bad forms."

Simplify it with traditional Chinese?

From the small to the big?

No matter how complex the problem is, it is actually the same in essence.

Ouyang knocked on the table and asked with a smile: "How is it? Do you have any good ideas?"

For a moment, everyone present laughed.

Jiang Daya smiled and said, "Brig Commander, if you say this, there are so many ways to go!"

Long Dagu also said, "After all, Guangdong is so big, we have more choices in that corner!"

Everyone immediately started a heated discussion and the meeting lasted for several hours.

Finally, a plan that worked was made.

"good!"

Ouyang raised the pages in his hand and smiled and said, "I just said that no matter how many difficulties there are, there will always be solutions. Look, this solution will come out!"

"Brig Commander, although our combat plan has been made, the premise of all this is that we must obtain the support of Commander-in-Chief Yu Hanmou!"

Wang Yaqiao said in a deep voice.

"Um!"

Ouyang nodded and smiled, "Don't worry, I'll set out overnight now and go to Guangzhou in person to convince Commander-in-Chief Yu Hanmou."

"If this combat plan really works, then we will annihilate at least tens of thousands of Japanese troops in this battle and completely severely damage the so-called 5th Division of the Japanese army. As long as the 5th Division is defeated, the remaining 18th Division and 104th Division of the Japanese army will not be enough to cause trouble."

Upon hearing this, Wang Yaqiao, Liu Tongluo and others nodded, agreeing with Ouyang's point of view.

Li Yunlong smiled and said, "As long as the Japanese devils' 5th Division is hurt this time, Guangzhou can protect it, and we may completely drive the Japanese devils out of Guangdong!"

Zhou Weiguo followed closely and said: "The other key to this plan is to see how powerful the Hainan army under General Cai E's command is?"
Chapter completed!