Age of Rebirth

Chapter 580: Dragon and Tiger Fight in Xiangfan

Tang Qiuli and his group appeared in the lobby of the hotel. Seeing the guests who checked in yesterday, they transformed into mighty generals and soldiers, which greatly shocked the attention of the hotel staff. Only the manager sneaked into the room, Want to make a call, obviously, he belongs to Tang Enbo, if not a hidden agent, at least he is an eyeliner.

As soon as he picked up the phone, a powerful hand grabbed his wrist like iron pliers. There was a sharp pain in his heart. Venus was flying around in front of his eyes. He could already hear his bones groaning in pain. He yelled, and when he made a slight movement, his mouth was tightly covered.

Immediately afterwards, he was grabbed by the belt and slipped up, and threw him onto the sofa. Only then did he see the person who subdued him. The heavy machine gun itself is an indescribable coercion. The manager absolutely believes that it is easier for this big man to kill himself than to kill a chicken.

When he followed Tang Qiuli down the stairs, due to his professional habits and the sensitivity of many years of gun forest rain, he instinctively observed everyone in the hotel, only to discover the abnormal behavior of the manager, and followed him quietly, just in time to catch him. He didn't need to be interrogated at all to know what he was going to do. [

Shanhu grinned, and the manager almost fainted from fright. This smile was too intrusive. A few soldiers came in and escorted the manager out. They knew how to deal with such things. Shanhu returned to the hall without alarming anyone, including Tang Qiuli, including Tang Qiuli, did not know what happened just now, and his actions were almost exposed.

A few cars drove towards Tang Enbo's secret private house in Xiangfan City. From a distance, it looked like an ordinary house with a common architectural style in northern Hubei. The black-painted gate was closed tightly. To a different place, the wall is very high, and there are no tall plants such as trees that are often seen on ordinary streets around. Outsiders want to climb, there is no place to stand, and, the lower part of the wall, there is a hidden place. loophole.

The car stopped at the gate, and a sudden situation happened. From the empty gate, a group of armed soldiers rushed out from nowhere, and surrounded several cars in an instant. The black muzzle pointed at the car. , Tang Qiuli in the car smiled contemptuously, and it could be seen that Tang Enbo was guilty of a thief and felt like an enemy on his own territory.

Shan Hu got out of the car and said to the thirty or so soldiers: "Go and inform your regiment commander Tang that General Tang Qiuli, the vice chairman of the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government, is here!" , rolled his eyelids, and said proudly: "What is Vice Chairman Tang, we haven't heard of it. Brothers only obey the orders of Commander Tang. Everyone put up their hands and got out of the car, damn it, if you dare to come here to act wild, you will be so impatient!"

The words are arrogant enough, and the vigilance is pretty good, but it also proves that Tang Enbo lives here, and he didn't lose his mind. Otherwise, these guards would not be on guard as if they were facing a big enemy. The pistol in his hand suddenly left his hand, and then, a cold muzzle was pressed against his forehead.

A tall man who was a full head taller, with a sarcastic sneer on the corner of his mouth, looked at him coldly. This lieutenant is a man of knowledge, and he knows that the heavy machine gun is on his forehead. If he flies down, his head is no better than a rotten watermelon. How much, he couldn't understand, the big man who was talking to him was five meters away from him, how could he come to him in the blink of an eye?

He squinted at his brothers. Just like him, he was pointed at the head by 20 people with guns. What a fucking hell. He had more than 30 people, but he was subdued by 20 people. No, he controlled two of them with a submachine gun Point to one's head, a pistol to another's head.

Shanhu asked: "Is Tang Enbo in there?" The lieutenant rolled his eyes a few times, hesitating and making no sound. The heavy machine gun on his forehead was still lethal, and he struggled to utter two words, "Yes, yes."

Shanhu escorted the lieutenant to call the house. Coincidentally, today, Tang Enbo held a meeting in the secret private house. The participants included officers above the brigade commander and above of the Eighth Army Corps, and personnel above the director level of various divisions of the Legion Department. It was Tang Enbo's confidants and confidantes, four NO.50 people, packed the spacious hall to the full, coupled with the non-stop smoking, the hall was filled with smoke, and everyone present at the meeting looked cloudy or uncertain.

There was only one topic of the meeting, the direction of the Eighth Army's next move and the foothold. Regarding this point, Tang Enbo himself could not make up his mind. Although Xiangfan is good, it is not a place to stay for a long time. The defense zone will be a problem sooner or later. Relying on their own large forces to suppress the border and adopting various threats and inducements to subdue the Xiangfan local authorities and local powerful factions, they can temporarily settle down. After all, it is not a long-term solution.

Tang Enbo himself knew very well in his heart that what he did in this Henan battle was a bit too low-handed. Since he was stationed in Henan, Tang Enbo had tasted the sweetness and benefits of being a local emperor. The Yellow River Basin theater is controlled, but there is no explicit affiliation relationship, and it still belongs to the central army command system.

The command of the legion is still in the military committee, in other words, it is still in the hands of the old man. Tang Qiuli can't use a single soldier, and that Tang Qiuli can't dictate to him. Everything has to be discussed. The national government is far away from Henan, and he can't control the near ones or the far ones, so Tang Enbo trembled.

After more than a year of comfortable life, the surrounding area of ​​Henan was full of fireworks, and his place was calm, but taking advantage of the chaos, he ordered his cronies to scrape a lot of oil and water. Anyang, the northern gate of Henan, is the best at fishing for oil and water. The two confidantes and teachers who knew that the Japanese suddenly came over when a cannon rang out in Anyang.

Tang Enbo himself admitted that he was stunned and terrified by the sudden Japanese attack. He knew better what kind of fellows his commanders were. , except for Liu Zhaoyu and Cao Guangtu's two divisions, none of these people could withstand a few shots from the Japanese, and it didn't count if they were scared to pee their pants, and they ran away without orders.

Therefore, as soon as the guns fired in Anyang, Tang Enbo withdrew the army headquarters to Xinzheng, hundreds of kilometers away from Zhengzhou. When Liu Zhaoyu's 53rd Division and the Japanese army were fighting desperately in Hebi, his army headquarters had already withdrawn to Xuchang. During the bloody battle in Xinxiang, he withdrew the regiment headquarters to Nanyang.

The louder the gunfire on the front line, the farther Tang Enbo's Eighth Army headquarters was from the front line. By the time Zhengzhou fell, Tang Enbo had already fled to Xiangfan in Hubei. Not only that, but Tang Enbo also took this opportunity to secretly order his trusted troops to abandon their positions. Retreat to the mountainous area in western Henan, the camera goes south, and joins me in Xiangfan.

There are also his sinister intentions here. Preserving strength is one aspect. You can also take advantage of the opportunity of the Japanese army to attack Henan to consume the 53rd Division and the [-]th Division. For Liu Zhaoyu and Cao Guangtu, these two are not with him. Commander, Tang Enbo has long wanted to get rid of them. In the Eighth Army, no one who does not agree with him is allowed to exist.

However, the prestige of these two men in the army is extremely high, and they have won the trust of the officers and soldiers. If they insisted, they might cause a mutiny. Just when the Japanese army began to attack Henan, Tang Enbo laid down his hands and gave orders to the 53rd Division and the [-]th Division. At the same time, he secretly ordered his cronies to save their strength first, and used these two divisions to block the opportunity of the Japanese, and gave up their positions and fled.

As a result, the 53rd Division and the 10,000th Division faced the betrayal of their friendly troops and the crazy attack of 3+ Japanese troops. The whole army was wiped out in bloody battles. The blood of more than [-] loyal and brave soldiers was sprinkled on the land of the Central Plains. A division commander died for his country, Henan fell, and Tang Qiuli's Yellow River defense line was smashed into a big hole by the Japanese army. [

During this period, Tang Enbo also received a telegram from Tang Qiuli. At that time, Tang Enbo was only thinking about how to escape. The Japanese cannons frightened him, so he didn't care about Tang Qiuli's order. Simply cut off all contact with the outside world, and ran southward desperately, so Tang Qiuli could not contact the Eighth Army Corps headquarters at all.

Tang Enbo, who fled to Xiangfan, Hubei in a short time, was shocked for a while, locked himself in the room, and calmed down to think about it. He felt that this matter was a bit out of line. He couldn't bear enough to go around. The crime of defeat in the war, the light ones were dismissed from office, and the serious ones were imprisoned until they were shot and beheaded, and this was so obvious that he couldn't deny it.

The more Tang Enbo thought about it, the more confused he became. He was deeply afraid that the military committee would hold him accountable for the defeat. The main reason was that he was afraid of losing the trust of the old man. Then he would have nothing to do with it in the future. As for Tang Qiuli, he hadn't taken it to heart yet. Not worried about being punished, he had no choice but to evaporate in the world, hide his whereabouts, cut off all contact with the outside world, only keep the communication channels with his cronies, control the troops, shrink in Xiangfan City, and think hard about countermeasures.

Therefore, not only Tang Qiuli could not find him, but even Chairman Jiang in Nanjing did not know the whereabouts of his confidant general. In addition, the Japanese army violently attacked Songhu and the Hangzhou Bay area, and wars broke out everywhere in North China. All the chairman's energy was put into the fierce battle, so he couldn't spare any energy to pursue this matter.

Therefore, Tang Enbo was able to live safely in Xiangfan, Gou Quan, of course, he was not someone who just waited for the military committee to punish him. If he lost his military power, that would kill him.

(To be continued)