On November 18, when Xue Yue left the town and continued to advance towards Jiangyin in the Xicheng defensive line, he wanted to leave the 89th Regiment behind, but Lin Junxiong firmly disagreed, knowing that his injury might take at least two months to recover.

"Big brother, is the Xicheng defense line really as impregnable as you said?"

"This line of defense was proposed by German military advisers and participated in the whole process, according to the rigor of the Germans, there should be no problem, right, what's wrong?"

"No, I'm just worried that the next target of the Japanese attack will be Nanjing, and because of the stubborn resistance of the Chinese army, which crushed their wild rumors of occupying China for three months, I am afraid that they will have cruel revenge."

"This time, the chairman of the Xicheng defense line personally dispatched troops to deploy the defense, and I heard that nearly 400,000 troops were invested in the national army from Wuxi to Jiangyin. In addition, in order to make good preparations for a long-term war, the chairman of the NPC National Committee has set the seat of government in Chongqing, the rear area, and is currently carrying out the work of relocating the government. Brother, you can recuperate in peace and come back early and we will fight side by side. ”

"Okay, big brother, be careful!"

"Brother, there are only two dozen people left by your side, are you sure there is no problem?"

"Big brother, I'm not as important as your commander, the Japanese will never send a large number of spies to assassinate my little commander. Don't worry, I'll go to Wuhan to recuperate in a few days, the climate there is warmer, which will help the injury recover, and the wind will rise, and it will snow here. ”

"That's the best, this place is about to become a battlefield, take care, brother!"

"Big brother, take care!"

On November 22, Xue Yue reached the middle of the defense line near Jiangyin, and Xue Yue ordered his troops to be stationed to find a handover of the defense line. However, the people sent out all day did not find the person who was handed over, and when they asked the Nanjing side, they received a vague answer, and later Xue Yue said that he would report the matter to the chairman of the committee, and the other party simply charged the person with running away in fear of danger. Xue Yue began to feel a little uneasy, there was no map of the location of the fortifications, no location of the fortifications, and no key, the legendary impregnable Xicheng defense line could not even find a shadow, how to deploy to resist the approaching Japanese army.

Xue Yue had a headache, and he ordered the officers and soldiers to immediately look for fortifications in the direction of the defense line provided by Nanjing. When the people sent out to find the fortifications came back one after another, Xue Yue couldn't believe his ears, his heart seemed to be pierced by stitches and needles.

Xue Yue didn't believe it, and took people to check everywhere, the actual situation was even worse than he imagined after getting the news, and the scenes in front of him pushed him to the brink of collapse. The so-called national defense fortifications, reinforced concrete machine gun bunkers are on the line of three or four hundred meters north and south of the highway and avenue, and there are only more than ten dirt bags like mounds. Some of them were dug up coffins, not cement fortifications. None of the bunkers have communication trenches, and each bunker can only accommodate 1 squad of soldiers and 1 machine gun, and they cannot communicate with each other. Some of the concrete of the fortifications can be crushed with your hands, and the inside is actually dirt. In one fortification, the machine gun had a firing port as large as a window, and in one fortification, the destruction was exposed, and the so-called steel bars were replaced by bamboo chips.

Xue Yue had a gloomy face, and returned to the headquarters without saying a word, the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, those who built fortifications used the country's manpower, material and financial resources to build such unbearable fortifications. He dialed the chairman's office, and for the first time he said that the chairman was in a meeting; An hour later, the phone called again, and it said that the chairman was meeting guests; Two hours later, calling again, Chiang Kai-shek finally answered the phone.

"Boling, why are you in such a hurry?"

"Chairman, I have led the troops to retreat to the position you specified, but I can't find any fortifications, only some unsightly scenes."

On the phone, Xue Yue reported everything he had seen, and to his surprise, Chiang Kai-shek was not angry, but shifted the topic to something else. Xue Yue couldn't bear it anymore and yelled at Chiang Kai-shek: "Chairman, can you tell me what's going on with this defense line?" ”

"Niang Xipi, what are you yelling about? The duty of a soldier is to obey orders, and when encountering difficulties, they must find ways to solve them, instead of shouting like this. ”

Xue Yue calmed down, and he began to feel that everything was not as simple as he imagined.

After half a ring, Chiang Kai-shek sighed on the other side of the phone and said, "Do you think that it costs nothing to suppress bandits?" ”

After finishing speaking, he hung up the phone, Xue Yue finally understood in his heart that Chiang Kai-shek followed the advice of German military advisers and began to build a defensive line after the 128 Incident in 1932, but at that time, it was the time to exterminate the communist army, and the financial and material resources that should have been used to build the defensive line were transferred to suppressing bandits. Thinking that Chiang Kai-shek had always pinned his hopes on the European and American powers to mediate and blindly retreat from the war, it turned out that the so-called reliance on some defensive lines was just some jokes, and the Nationalist Government had no bottom in his heart about this war.

Xue Yue sat down in his chair dejectedly, he felt like an abandoned child, he wanted to howl and cry, Chiang Kai-shek's ambitions, which had always made him believe to be true, turned out to be just a means to win over and use him; The leader he has always believed in turned out to be just a person who does not dare to face reality and hopes for other countries; He has always believed that the Nationalist Government does not carry the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, but a place for some politicians and capitalists to obtain interests.

The belief in Xue Yue's heart collapsed, and all his ideals were suddenly confused, and he even wanted to escape from all this. But thinking of the duty of a soldier to protect his family and defend the country, thinking that tens of thousands of Chinese sons and daughters will become slaves of the island country, he knows that he can't fall yet, no matter how unsatisfactory everything is, he must adjust his state, even if he tries his last breath, he must write his life calmly without regrets.

Xue Yue ordered people to improve and strengthen the existing available fortifications and build some temporary fortifications.

Time entered December 1937, when Xue Yue was anxiously deployed on the front line, Lin Junxiong enjoyed a short period of peace, the doctor said that he was in good health, and now there is no major problem, but after all, he injured his internal organs, and he had to recuperate for two months to fully recover.

With Xue Nai's support, Lin Junxiong went to the backyard to watch the training of the shadow team, watching Xie Qin repeatedly defeated and defeated under Dusheng, but also admired his tenacity, and when he stopped to rest, the members of the shadow team all gathered around to chat with Lin Junxiong. Everyone talked and laughed for a while, and the team members continued to train under the leadership of Du Sheng, and Lin Junxiong left Xie Qin behind.

"Brother Xie, it's been almost a month, do you have any ideas?"

"Commander, Brother Xie, I can't afford it, you better call me Lao Xie, so I feel more down-to-earth. Speaking of the feelings of the past month, I would like to thank the head of the regiment. After getting along with the Shadow Team, I felt like a frog at the bottom of the well, and I admired many novel training methods and their skills. More importantly, they have such an iron-blooded and tender commander as you, I heard them say a lot of things about your past, and I admired you even more, I finally found my way to struggle, I implore the regiment commander to let me stay by your side, learn from you, follow you out of the world, and die without regrets. ”

"Lao Xie, I don't dare to take your praise seriously, if you are willing to stay, I am naturally very welcome. My ideals and goals are given by the party, but the road of struggle must be taken by myself, in Weixin you know about our party is about the same, now my identity situation is a little embarrassing, but if one day, the Japanese are beaten away, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party are incompatible, I will resolutely stand on the side of the party, stand on the side of the people, I want to tell you this first. ”

"Rest assured, no matter where your road leads in the future, Xie Qin will definitely be with him to the death, and please don't dislike Xie Qin."

"Okay, we will be brothers in the future, and I will definitely take you on a road that may not be smooth, but the end must be bright."

On December 3, Lin Junxiong was about to leave for Wuhan to recuperate, he called Xue Yue to tell him about it, and Xue Yue told him that the Japanese army was advancing, and it was estimated that the war would start soon, and asked him to recuperate and return to the army as soon as possible. When Lin Junxiong asked about the defense of the Xicheng Line, Xue Yue said that everything was fine.

After hanging up the phone, Lin Junxiong was a little puzzled, if the Xicheng defense line was really so impregnable, then how could Nanjing be broken and the Nanjing Massacre, which shocked the whole world. There was an indescribable uneasiness in his heart, and he also knew that he was powerless to change all this, so he could only wait quietly to see if God would have mercy and let that scene of the death of the country not be staged again.

When Lin Junxiong and his entourage arrived in Wuhan, it was already December 10th, looking at the scene of singing and dancing in Wuhan, Lin Junxiong was a little sad, such a moment of national disaster, many people were still indulging in drunken dreams and death.

The group rented a larger courtyard in Wuchang to live, Lin Junxiong asked Du Sheng to look for Wu Hansheng's substation in Wuhan, and he went to the largest Huiji Hospital in Wuhan to review the injuries accompanied by Xue Nai.

Lin Junxiong was lying on the hospital bed, listening to the heroic and stubborn resistance of the national army on the radio, but retreating step by step, and his heart was very anxious.

Dusk Sheng found Wu Hansheng's sub-station in Wuhan, which was a restaurant called Wangyunxuan, but the first news that Dusk Sheng brought back made Lin Junxiong stunned, the Japanese army launched an attack on the Xicheng defense line from many places, and on December 9, broke through the defense line from several places, and had gathered under the city of Nanjing, and the Nationalist Government had completed the government relocation to Chongqing at the end of last month.

Lin Junxiong wondered, it stands to reason that Xue Yue should not lie to himself, and the Xicheng defense line should not be so vulnerable. It is said that the construction of this defense line concentrated a large number of people and property in Shanghai and Nanjing at that time, and there was also strict German supervision, Xue Yue also said that there was no problem, what was the problem, could it be that the combat effectiveness of the national army was too poor? Do you remember that Falken said that he would train an army of 80,000 people, and he would complete the all-German equipment of the 300,000 national army?

History moves according to a predetermined trajectory, and those things that run on the trajectory of history are destined to happen. On December 13, Lin Junxiong got the news of the fall of Nanjing on December 12, he sighed, looked into the distance, and said sadly: "The black hour of the Nanjing people is coming, and the black moment of the Chinese people is coming." ”

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