Moreover, because the battle on the northeast defense line of Nanjing City was not going well and the position was repeatedly lost, Tang Shengzhi actually made a stupid move and ordered the troops to abandon their positions and retreat to Nanjing. Although Bai Fei had previously suggested that the defenders should abandon their outer positions, at that time the Japanese army was still far from the city of Nanjing, and the defenders' defensive front was too long to concentrate their forces, and it was easy to be broken by each one. Just like punching, you have to retract your fist in order to hit your opponent more favorably.

But now it's different, the Japanese are already in the city, and if you retreat, there will be no way to retreat.

Therefore, after Bai Fei found out, he was extremely angry, and just when he scolded Tang Shengzhi, the small Japanese gunboats could already be seen near Baguazhou in the Yangtze River waterway.

After Bai Fei got the news, he couldn't get angry anymore, and strictly ordered Wu Dazhong to sink him no matter what, and never allowed him to continue to go up the river and threaten the pontoon bridges in Xiaguan and other places.

A moment later, Wu Dazhong called and said: "Tuanza, the five gunboats of the Japanese army have already let us sink them all with bazookas..."

Bai Fei was about to praise him when he heard it, but he heard Wu Dazhong say again: "However, we found that a lot of ** routs are flowing along the north bank of the Yangtze River in the direction of Pukou, we intercepted some and asked about the situation, and learned that the Japanese 11th Division has captured Yangzhou and is now rushing towards Pukou. ”

Bai Fei was taken aback, and before he could speak, he saw Wang Weiguo hurriedly coming over again, and said: "Tuanzao, the big thing is not good, the Japanese Guoqi detachment has crossed the river from Dangtu County last night, and now the first army with Hu Zongnan has been connected with fire, and after the Japanese 18th Division occupied Wuhu, it also crossed the river last night, and is now following the Guoqi detachment towards Pukou." ”

Bai Fei finally became anxious, and hurriedly said to Wu Dazhong: "Continue to closely monitor the movement along the river, and at the same time prepare boats, you can take people to move to Pukou in case of emergency, but you must ensure the safety of the waterway and pontoon." ”

"Yes!"

After hanging up the phone, Bai Fei said to Wang Weiguo: "The more this time, the more we can't mess up, we must guard the Xiaguan here, don't when the Japanese haven't come yet, we will become a pot of porridge ourselves." ”

After Bai Fei finished speaking, he was about to rush to the Nanjing Garrison Headquarters, when he saw two gendarmes driving a car suddenly stopped not far away, and one of the gendarmes ran over and saluted: "Commander Bai, Chief Tang Shengzhi Tang held a meeting at the garrison headquarters, and our Commander Xiao asked me to pick you up, please go immediately." ”

Bai Fei hurriedly got into the car and followed them to the headquarters. Galloping all the way, when I arrived at the conference room of the headquarters, I saw that the commanders of all units had arrived, and the meeting had already started for a long time.

Bai Fei was furious in his heart, and secretly scolded: Tang Shengzhi of this dog x has excluded Lao Tzu from repeated meetings, and he is simply a complete bastard.

Tang Shengzhi saw Bai Fei walking in, looked up at him, and continued: "This is the case, now there are two divisions in Jiangbei attacking Pukou from Wuhu and Yangzhou, if Pukou is occupied, Nanjing will really become a dead city... Therefore, the main purpose of this meeting is to brief you on the situation and listen to your views on the current situation, and where to go, so let's all talk about it..."

All of you here are the military and political chiefs of various units, which one is not a human spirit? Naturally, everyone understands Tang Shengzhi's thoughts, everyone wants to retreat and want to live, but in this situation, whoever stands up first to "raise the flag" may have to bear serious consequences. Tang Shengzhi also wanted to tie everyone together when he convened the meeting, the so-called law does not blame the public, even if Chiang Kai-shek blames it at that time, someone will share it, right?

Therefore, for a while, everyone did not talk to each other. Bai Fei was angry in his heart, walked to the conference table and said: "Before the war, Chief Tang once advocated defending to the death, and now that he says such a thing, it seems that he has a new plan in his heart, so it is better to say it and let everyone hear it..."

Tang Shengzhi was generalized, and his face was angry, but then he disappeared, coughed, and couldn't care about his cheeks, and said: "Well, now Nanjing City is embattled, the situation is very urgent, and through our resistance these days, the defense of Nanjing has achieved a certain victory, Zhenyu, didn't you also say that it is better to retain the anti-war force than to defend it, I think what you said is very right, so I suggest that you plan to withdraw from Nanjing as soon as possible for the long-term continuation of the anti-Japanese war, I don't know what you think?" ”

Bai Fei saw him so shameless, and it was rare for him to have the same knowledge. However, most of the generals present agreed with Tang Shengzhi's word of retreat, while the remaining few did not speak, but they did not raise objections.

Before defending Nanjing, Tang Shengzhi had been a strong defender, and he was very excited, and repeatedly said in public that he wanted to "live and die with Nanjing", but his performance at this time was similar to his sworn appearance at that time, and others couldn't help but blush for him when they saw it. However, his face is small, and what he is most afraid of is that no one responds after the retreat suggestion is proposed, then he will not only lose face, but will be known by Lao Jiang, and taking his life will only be a thought.

At this time, Tang Shengzhi saw that everyone reacted so enthusiastically, and immediately put down his hanging heart. He coughed and continued: "I have reported the current situation to the committee in detail, but I have not received feedback yet, and now the situation is so urgent, I can only rush to the right and withdraw first, but this is the way out..."

Tang Shengzhi said this and looked at Bai Fei. So everyone knew in their hearts that Chiang Kai-shek handed over the retreat to Bai Fei to take care of, he once said that without Chiang Kai-shek's order, no one was allowed to retreat through, and now although everyone expressed their admiration for the retreat, but if Bai Fei did not agree, this matter was still in vain.

Everyone, you look at me, I look at you, and finally taught the captain of the corps Gui Yongqing to stand up and say to Bai Fei: "Brother Zhenyu, I heard that you once tried your best to persuade not to defend Nanjing in front of the commission, for which the commission also left a pontoon bridge as a way to retreat, the current situation is imminent, everyone is also in favor of retreating, what do you think of it, if you don't approve of retreat, we will continue to resist desperately, it's a big deal, martyrdom for Nanjing City..."

Bai Fei knew that Gui Yongqing was just retreating as an advance when he said this, so he stood up and said: "Chief Gui don't worry, I know the current situation, I agree with the retreat, but how to withdraw must have a detailed charter, more than 100,000 troops in Nanjing City, if everyone rushes backwards, without the Japanese to do it, we don't know how many people will die if we trample on each other..."

Gui Yongqing saw that Bai Fei agreed to retreat, and said happily: "That's nature, that's nature, let's study it..."

Everyone immediately began to discuss fiercely, and finally Xiao Shanling stood up and expressed his willingness to serve as the commander-in-chief of the retreat, and led the military police troops to break off the rear for everyone, while the rest of the people led their troops to evacuate in turn.

Bai Fei also stood up and said: "Bai is not talented, I am willing to stay and break the queen with Commander Xiao for everyone, I only have one request, after you withdraw from the position, it is best to plant a large number of mines and explosives along the way..."

Everyone said that they would do it.

Moreover, because the battle on the northeast defense line of Nanjing City was not going well and the position was repeatedly lost, Tang Shengzhi actually made a stupid move and ordered the troops to abandon their positions and retreat to Nanjing. Although Bai Fei had previously suggested that the defenders should abandon their outer positions, at that time the Japanese army was still far from the city of Nanjing, and the defenders' defensive front was too long to concentrate their forces, and it was easy to be broken by each one. Just like punching, you have to retract your fist in order to hit your opponent more favorably.

But now it's different, the Japanese are already in the city, and if you retreat, there will be no way to retreat.

Therefore, after Bai Fei found out, he was extremely angry, and just when he scolded Tang Shengzhi, the small Japanese gunboats could already be seen near Baguazhou in the Yangtze River waterway.

After Bai Fei got the news, he couldn't get angry anymore, and strictly ordered Wu Dazhong to sink him no matter what, and never allowed him to continue to go up the river and threaten the pontoon bridges in Xiaguan and other places.

A moment later, Wu Dazhong called and said: "Tuanza, the five gunboats of the Japanese army have already let us sink them all with bazookas..."

Bai Fei was about to praise him when he heard it, but he heard Wu Dazhong say again: "However, we found that a lot of ** routs are flowing along the north bank of the Yangtze River in the direction of Pukou, we intercepted some and asked about the situation, and learned that the Japanese 11th Division has captured Yangzhou and is now rushing towards Pukou. ”

Bai Fei was taken aback, and before he could speak, he saw Wang Weiguo hurriedly coming over again, and said: "Tuanzao, the big thing is not good, the Japanese Guoqi detachment has crossed the river from Dangtu County last night, and now the first army with Hu Zongnan has been connected with fire, and after the Japanese 18th Division occupied Wuhu, it also crossed the river last night, and is now following the Guoqi detachment towards Pukou." ”

Bai Fei finally became anxious, and hurriedly said to Wu Dazhong: "Continue to closely monitor the movement along the river, and at the same time prepare boats, you can take people to move to Pukou in case of emergency, but you must ensure the safety of the waterway and pontoon." ”

"Yes!"

After hanging up the phone, Bai Fei said to Wang Weiguo: "The more this time, the more we can't mess up, we must guard the Xiaguan here, don't when the Japanese haven't come yet, we will become a pot of porridge ourselves." ”

After Bai Fei finished speaking, he was about to rush to the Nanjing Garrison Headquarters, when he saw two gendarmes driving a car suddenly stopped not far away, and one of the gendarmes ran over and saluted: "Commander Bai, Chief Tang Shengzhi Tang held a meeting at the garrison headquarters, and our Commander Xiao asked me to pick you up, please go immediately." ”

Bai Fei hurriedly got into the car and followed them to the headquarters. Galloping all the way, when I arrived at the conference room of the headquarters, I saw that the commanders of all units had arrived, and the meeting had already started for a long time.

Bai Fei was furious in his heart, and secretly scolded: Tang Shengzhi of this dog x has excluded Lao Tzu from repeated meetings, and he is simply a complete bastard.

Tang Shengzhi saw Bai Fei walking in, looked up at him, and continued: "This is the case, now there are two divisions in Jiangbei attacking Pukou from Wuhu and Yangzhou, if Pukou is occupied, Nanjing will really become a dead city... Therefore, the main purpose of this meeting is to brief you on the situation and listen to your views on the current situation, and where to go, so let's all talk about it..."

All of you here are the military and political chiefs of various units, which one is not a human spirit? Naturally, everyone understands Tang Shengzhi's thoughts, everyone wants to retreat and want to live, but in this situation, whoever stands up first to "raise the flag" may have to bear serious consequences. Tang Shengzhi also wanted to tie everyone together when he convened the meeting, the so-called law does not blame the public, even if Chiang Kai-shek blames it at that time, someone will share it, right?

Therefore, for a while, everyone did not talk to each other. Bai Fei was angry in his heart, walked to the conference table and said: "Before the war, Chief Tang once advocated defending to the death, and now that he says such a thing, it seems that he has a new plan in his heart, so it is better to say it and let everyone hear it..."

Tang Shengzhi was generalized, and his face was angry, but then he disappeared, coughed, and couldn't care about his cheeks, and said: "Well, now Nanjing City is embattled, the situation is very urgent, and through our resistance these days, the defense of Nanjing has achieved a certain victory, Zhenyu, didn't you also say that it is better to retain the anti-war force than to defend it, I think what you said is very right, so I suggest that you plan to withdraw from Nanjing as soon as possible for the long-term continuation of the anti-Japanese war, I don't know what you think?" ”

Bai Fei saw him so shameless, and it was rare for him to have the same knowledge. However, most of the generals present agreed with Tang Shengzhi's word of retreat, while the remaining few did not speak, but they did not raise objections.

Before defending Nanjing, Tang Shengzhi had been a strong defender, and he was very excited, and repeatedly said in public that he wanted to "live and die with Nanjing", but his performance at this time was similar to his sworn appearance at that time, and others couldn't help but blush for him when they saw it. However, his face is small, and what he is most afraid of is that no one responds after the retreat suggestion is proposed, then he will not only lose face, but will be known by Lao Jiang, and taking his life will only be a thought.

At this time, Tang Shengzhi saw that everyone reacted so enthusiastically, and immediately put down his hanging heart. He coughed and continued: "I have reported the current situation to the committee in detail, but I have not received feedback yet, and now the situation is so urgent, I can only rush to the right and withdraw first, but this is the way out..."

Tang Shengzhi said this and looked at Bai Fei. So everyone knew in their hearts that Chiang Kai-shek handed over the retreat to Bai Fei to take care of, he once said that without Chiang Kai-shek's order, no one was allowed to retreat through, and now although everyone expressed their admiration for the retreat, but if Bai Fei did not agree, this matter was still in vain.

Everyone, you look at me, I look at you, and finally taught the captain of the corps Gui Yongqing to stand up and say to Bai Fei: "Brother Zhenyu, I heard that you once tried your best to persuade not to defend Nanjing in front of the commission, for which the commission also left a pontoon bridge as a way to retreat, the current situation is imminent, everyone is also in favor of retreating, what do you think of it, if you don't approve of retreat, we will continue to resist desperately, it's a big deal, martyrdom for Nanjing City..."

Bai Fei knew that Gui Yongqing was just retreating as an advance when he said this, so he stood up and said: "Chief Gui don't worry, I know the current situation, I agree with the retreat, but how to withdraw must have a detailed charter, more than 100,000 troops in Nanjing City, if everyone rushes backwards, without the Japanese to do it, we don't know how many people will die if we trample on each other..."

Gui Yongqing saw that Bai Fei agreed to retreat, and said happily: "That's nature, that's nature, let's study it..."

Everyone immediately began to discuss fiercely, and finally Xiao Shanling stood up and expressed his willingness to serve as the commander-in-chief of the retreat, and led the military police troops to break off the rear for everyone, while the rest of the people led their troops to evacuate in turn.

Bai Fei also stood up and said: "Bai is not talented, I am willing to stay and break the queen with Commander Xiao for everyone, I only have one request, after you withdraw from the position, it is best to plant a large number of mines and explosives along the way..."

Everyone said that they would do it.