Chapter 516: Preparing for War
The evacuation of the citizens of Nanchang is continuing, the weather has been good in recent days, the spring rain has not yet arrived, and the citizens have a lot less trouble on the road; The garrison headquarters is busy maintaining order in the city, while the government is busy with personnel evacuation, the citizens of Nanchang plus the refugees who have fled, there are nearly 400,000 people around Nanchang to evacuate; Such a large crowd is not something that can be accommodated in one place;
Those who were willing to evacuate and cooperate with the government's anti-Japanese war work were designated as patriotic groups by He Jianye, and those who were unwilling to evacuate and cooperate were identified as traitors by He Jianye; Under the threat of bayonets and the army, and under the forced "mobilization" of the Nanchang Municipal Government and the Jiangxi Provincial Government, hundreds of thousands of Nanchang fathers and elders left their homeland where they were born and raised. Embark on a migration road to Gannan that I don't know when I will be able to turn back.
On January 27, the theater hospital of the Ninth Theater began to be evacuated from Nanchang, and the wounded soldiers and equipment that had not recovered were transferred to Changsha through the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway; He Jianye began to take over the church hospital, and the doctors left here were more than 10 doctors from the medical team who aided China, as well as more than 100 nurses who were sent here to help. With the departure of a large number of medical staff and wounded patients, the place seemed empty; The nurses began to clean and disinfect the church hospital, and the medical team was sorting out the medical equipment left behind!
"Dr. Chen, thank you so much for staying; However, this is about to become the place where the fighting will be fiercest, and I still advise you to retreat, the devil's planes and artillery will not bypass this place to bomb! In the church hospital, He Jianye still wanted the medical team to retreat to the rear;
"It is your job to defend the city, and it is our job to heal the wounded; In the past few days, there has been a great retreat in Nanchang City, and the price of materials has come down; I'm going to buy some regular medicines and equipment to prepare for the next treatment, but the merchants here only recognize the ocean; And we don't have the funds anymore! Dr. Chan said,
"It's my negligence, in this way, I will immediately ask someone to send 200,000 yuan of the ocean over, Dr. Chen, you have full authority to deal with it!" In addition, I have also prepared a batch of medicines and equipment, and I will have someone send them over and ask Dr. Chen to use them! He Jianye said,
"Dr. Chen, you are medical experts, and your survival will make the fighters desperate; I still recommend that you evacuate to the area around Fengcheng, and only the first responders will be left here; From Nanchang to Fengcheng, only a few tens of kilometers, we are fully capable of transporting the wounded to Fengcheng! Dr. Chen, think again! He Jianye is still persuading,
"You'd better go and get busy with your city defense! Here's one of your companies, and it's safe and sound; "Dr. Chan started to chase people,
The evacuation of Nanchang City continued, and finally on February 1, there were less than 50,000 people left in Nanchang City and the surrounding area; Among them, the staff of various government agencies, railway bureaus and police accounted for more than 5,000 people, and the rest were capitalists who organized their workers to dismantle and ship all kinds of machinery!
The avenue to the south of Nanchang is full of people fleeing; Refugees don't move so fast, they can walk up to 10 kilometers a day; The first citizens to leave have arrived in the Qingjiang area, and there are still citizens in Nanchang City who continue to pour out, this road is destined to be a road of blood and tears!
After a few days of cultivation, Zeng Da came back alive again; The shrapnel scratches have already scabbed, and there is absolutely no need to continue living in the church hospital!
"Send a telegram to Huang Wujun and ask him to pay attention to the road conditions; Once the evacuation of the refugees on the avenue is complete, you can lead all the artillery and air defense batteries towards Nanchang; Temporarily stay in Chaowangzhou camp! He Jianye explained to Zeng Da,
"Adjutant Li, order the army of the Chaowangzhou battalion, leave a company to guard the camp, and the rest of the personnel all enter the city; Sub-regional stationing in private houses!" As soon as He Jianye entered the war room, he gave an order,
The people were almost evacuated, and He Jianye began to use the materials left in the city to build the city fortifications; Why is it only starting now, I am still afraid of the spies and traitors of the devils, there are too many citizens, and it is impossible for He Jianye to catch them all;
Nanchang as a thousand-year-old city, has complete underground facilities, relying on the criss-crossing rivers around Nanchang City and the lakes in the city, Nanchang's sewer construction is very reasonable, no detailed drawings are impossible to rely on the sewer to make a detailed urban defense plan!
"Xie Yong, you go to Yang Shunsen and order the engineer company directly under the headquarters to clean up the sewer according to the situation; Clean up now, measure the height and width of all the sewers, assess the condition of the sewers, and mark the sections of the road that the devils on the ground can't bear with the 500-pound bombing! Then come back and report! He Jianye said,
He Jianye took advantage of the fact that Nanchang was basically vacant, and sent all the soldiers to conduct surveys and build fire support points; Let the engineer company use the sewers to temporarily reinforce the main passages with sufficient space to ensure that in time of war, the brethren can safely move and attack through the sewers;
As for the precious steel bars, cement, rails and sleepers, which were used by He Jianye to build underground hospitals and material and ammunition warehouses......
February 6, 28th year of the Republic of China (1939), Wuhan; Headquarters of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army; A staff officer of the Japanese army walked quickly to the corridor where the commander was, where Gangmura Ningji was leisurely basking in the sun;
"Your Excellency Commander, dispatch the army urgently!" The staff officer bent down and handed over a folder, and in the folder was the Japanese army's Renhao battle plan, which detailed the "Operational Essentials for Nanchang" to the 11th Army;
"The 11th Army should break through the positions of the defenders of China with a sudden attack from the present state of confrontation, capture Nanchang along the Nanxun line, and divide and crush the enemy along the Zhejiang-Jiangxi line. At the same time, it is necessary to advance from the side of Poyang Lake in one section to make it conducive to the main force to fight; After capturing the vicinity of Nanchang, the strategic line south of Nanchang should be secured. The purpose of the capture of Nanchang was to cut off the Zhejiang-Jiangxi railway and cut off the main communication line of the enemy in Anhui Province and Zhejiang Province south of the Yangtze River; ...... According to the equipment and personnel supply situation, the dispatch army set the operational time for the attack on Nanchang in early March, and the specific attack time was determined by the headquarters of the 11th Army according to the situation. ”
"Command, staff and war room work together to develop a detailed plan; All divisions and independent mixed brigades are fully ready for battle, and officers above the brigade commander are ready to go to the headquarters to prepare for operational deployment! "Gangcun Ningji received the order of the dispatch army and immediately reacted;
The strength of the 11th Army was expanded to 7 divisions (i.e., the 3rd, 6th, 9th, 13th, L6th, 101st, 106th Divisions) and one . Independently mixed into the 14th Brigade, but they were also widely stationed; The 14th Independent Mixed Brigade has just been formed in Jiujiang, with three divisions used in western Hubei and northern Hubei, and four divisions in Yongxiu in northern Jiangxi and Yueyang in northern Hunan. Bringing together all the senior officers for military deployment is not something that can be done in a few days.