"There is no way, if no one attracts the attention of the Japanese army, our breakthrough will not be very successful. Even if you can break through, you will lose a lot of people. Leng Jie said coldly.

"But they are also brothers who have fought with us in blood, don't they care?" Guo Qi lost his voice.

"Didn't we care? Aren't we resisting outside the safe zone in the hope that we can get them to come out and join us? But they've been hiding in the safe zone, what can we do?

In the past few days of fighting, we have lost thousands of people, and if we do not retreat, it will be difficult for us to break through when the Japanese army completely loses patience. Leng Jie retorted.

"Captain Leng, how are you going to break through? Now the outside of the city is full of Japanese soldiers! Liao Yaoxiang did not continue to dwell on the sacrifice of soldiers in the security zone in exchange for the breakout of others.

"Actually, it's not difficult to break through." Leng Jie took out a map and pointed in the direction of Zhonghua Gate, "I sent someone to find out the situation of the sewer, which could have been directly connected to the Waiqinhuai River outside the Zhonghua Gate, but the previous battle caused that section of the sewer to collapse."

It means that we need to assemble inside the Zhonghua Gate through the sewers, and as long as we break through the defense line of the Zhonghua Gate, we are half the battle.

The Japanese troops outside Nanjing were mainly concentrated in the east, and there were not many in the south, and only one part of the Sixth Division could not stop us. ”

"Zhonghua Gate? It's not easy to break through here! And as long as we attack here, the Japanese army will definitely guess our intentions. Guo Qi questioned.

"So we need a force to defend Zhonghua Gate after capturing it, and wait for the troops in the city to break through before leaving." Leng Jie said.

"And what about the brothers in the safe zone?" Guo Qi asked.

"The Brotherhood defending Zhonghua Gate will hold out until dawn, and we will leave someone to answer this side of Xinjiekou.

As for the brothers in the safe zone, it depends on whether they are willing to break through with us. That's all we can do, and if they are still stubborn, we won't be able to sacrifice our brothers who want to leave Nanjing City in vain. Leng Jie pointed to the soldiers who were still fighting bloodily outside.

"I think we can let Chief of Staff Qiu come out and preside over the overall situation!" Guo Qi hesitated for a moment and said.

Leng Jie's face suddenly changed greatly, but he didn't expect Guo Qi to also know about Qiu Qingquan. Don't think about it, it must have been Li Jing who told Guo Qi, because he and Li Jing and their cronies knew about it, and Qiu Qingquan didn't want to reveal his identity at this time, otherwise he would have come out a long time ago.

Thinking of Li Jing's move, Leng Jie's face was extremely gloomy.

To put it bluntly, these veterans of the teaching corps don't treat him as their own at all, even if he saved their lives.

Ordinary soldiers are fine, but these officers are basically from the Whampoa Military Academy, how can they tolerate Leng Jie, a junior of the tenth phase of Whampoa, standing on their heads.

The seniority theory is very common among Huangpu students, and that is from the time when Huangpu was founded, and most of the troops of the Central Army are from the Huangpu Military Academy, so this situation is even more serious.

Before it was safe to do so, there were already people who wanted to seize their command.

"Chief of Staff Qiu?" Liao Yaoxiang was a little puzzled, but he knew that the other party also knew about this by looking at Leng Jie's expression, "Didn't Chief of Staff Qiu evacuate with the captain?" ”

"No, Chief of Staff Qiu stayed to deal with the aftermath and didn't have time to retreat." Guo Qi also felt a little guilty when he saw Leng Jie, whose face was not very good.

"Then where is Chief of Staff Qiu?" Liao Yaoxiang asked.

"It's in the third battalion of the second regiment, under Battalion Commander Li. Chief of Staff Qiu hid his identity, if it weren't for Battalion Commander Li's sharp eyes, I wouldn't have known about it. Guo Qi explained.

"Then why didn't Chief of Staff Qiu come out?" Speaking of this, Liao Yaoxiang looked at Leng Jie with a suspicious look in his eyes.

"Director Liao, this is not the reason for being cold. It was Chief of Staff Qiu himself who wanted to hide his identity, and Leng didn't have the courage to murder Chief of Staff Qiu. Leng Jie said coldly.

Liao Yaoxiang looked at Leng Jie, and then at Guo Qi, and actually guessed some reasons. After all, Qiu Qingquan is also a high-ranking officer in Nanjing, and if he reveals his identity at this time, he may become the target of these abandoned soldiers.

"Wang Guangming, send someone to invite Chief of Staff Qiu, since both of them feel that Leng is not qualified to lead the army in Nanjing, Leng is willing to give up his command."

"Yes, sir!"

Wang Guangming looked at Guo Qi viciously, and his previous favor suddenly disappeared, and Liao Yaoxiang was also listed as one of the people who forced the palace.

Before leaving the room, Wang Guangming directly bumped into Guo Qi's adjutant, and although the latter was angry, he endured this breath when he saw the spies and soldiers holding submachine guns inside and outside the room.

Seeing this situation, Liao Yaoxiang couldn't help but sigh, if he were him, he wouldn't have a good face.

It is equivalent to Leng Jie doing so many things in Nanjing City and saving so many people, but in the end, he was picked with peaches.

If you can take the army in the city to fight Nanjing City, even if it is only a few thousand people, it will be a great achievement.

But now, Leng Jie's credit may be robbed.

Maybe it wasn't Qiu Qingquan who wanted to rob it, but Li Jing and Guo Qi forced Qiu Qingquan to come out and give this credit to the other party.

If Qiu Qingquan came out early, it wouldn't have happened, but he would come out at this time.

Liao Yaoxiang knew that from this time on, the soldiers of the national army who were still resisting in these places in Xinjiekou began to split.

Originally, as Leng Jie's teaching corps to control the situation, most of them may no longer obey Leng Jie's command.

And it is precisely among these soldiers that the strength of the teaching corps is the strongest.

Liao Yaoxiang didn't have a problem, if Qiu Qingquan really came out to take over the command, then he could only listen to Qiu Qingquan.

He just hoped that this division would not affect the breakthrough of the entire army.

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"Battalion Commander Li, are you taking revenge? You must know that it was Chief Leng who saved your life, but I didn't expect that it was you who stabbed you in the back! ”

Leng Jie can endure it, it doesn't mean that Wang Guangming can endure it, when he came to the third battalion with more than a dozen soldiers of the spy company, he couldn't hold back.

"What for?"

Seeing Wang Guangming grabbing Li Jing's collar and scolding, the officers and soldiers of the third battalion immediately turned unkind. The soldiers of the same special service company also raised their guns and even loaded their bullets.

For a time, the whole station was full of gunpowder, and the officers and soldiers who knew what was going on knew what was going on, but they were confused if they didn't know it.

Why did the spy company and their three battalions get on the bar? Listening to the meaning, it was still his own battalion commander who stabbed the knife of the cold regiment commander.

"What? Are you going to fight among yourself before you are out of danger? Just when the atmosphere was tense, Qiu Qingquan stood up.

"Sir Qiu!"

Seeing Qiu Qingquan come out, Wang Guangming let go of Li Jing, and then gave a military salute without being salty or light. The same is true for the latter, but when he saw Qiu Qingquan come out, he also had confidence in his heart.

"Who are you? How do you do it to your comrades? Qiu Qingquan didn't know Wang Guangming, so he asked.

"Report to the commander, Wang Guangming, the commander of the spy company under the command of the commander of the second regiment Leng regiment, was ordered to ask Chief Qiu to go to the discussion!" Wang Guangming said lightly.

"How did Leng Jie know I was here?" Qiu Qingquan was a little puzzled, and he didn't understand why the other party invited him at this time.

"Chief Qiu has a few loyal subordinates, and he thinks that Chief of Staff Qiu is more suitable to command everyone, so he launched a pressure on our regiment commander." Wang Guangming scoffed.

"Li Jing, what are you doing?" Qiu Qingquan kicked Li Jing over and said angrily.

"Sir, you are the highest officer in the city, you should come out to command everyone, only you can serve the people." Li Jing explained loudly.

"Insufficient success, more than failure!" Qiu Qingquan scolded.

"Sir Qiu, don't pretend. At the beginning, you people fled faster than anyone else, but now when you see that you have done a great job, you come out to pick peaches and pretend to be something! ”

Wang Guangming's words were very difficult to hear, and for a while, even some officers and soldiers of the third battalion looked at Qiu Qingquan with some anger in their eyes.

It's not that they hate Qiu Qingquan, but they hate those high-ranking generals who abandoned them and fled, and Qiu Qingquan, who is the chief of staff of the Teaching Corps, is undoubtedly one of the senior generals.

Qiu Qingquan glanced at Wang Guangming, perhaps wanting to remember him, before going to the headquarters set up in the Central News Agency.