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In eight battles of large and small models for two consecutive days. The Japanese army www.biquge.info the heavy price of more than 1,700 killed and more than 2,500 wounded in Buhaibu, and all the forward positions were lost, and they had to retreat to the Japanese concession again; The garrison in the Yangtze River valley was killed and captured by the squadron that suddenly rose up, and more than 420 officers and men of the 6th Combat Squadron of the Navy were killed, and seven warships were sunk, five were captured, and six warships were damaged. Moreover, the wounded Japanese ships that fled east were still attacked by the squadron along the river from time to time, and there are still four ships that have not escaped from danger, and the casualty data on the attacked naval ships are still not counted; Two bombers were shot down by a squadron that was considered to have no air defense before the war, and the pilot and technician were killed and wounded. A large number of countries around the world reported the news of the defeat of the Japanese army, and the Chinese people in Shanghai, Nanjing, and other places excitedly marched on the streets to celebrate, and the impact was difficult to estimate.

The Japanese people, who had been full of confidence and firmly believed that the Japanese army would soon occupy Shanghai, panicked, and the anti-war cries began to spread, and sharp separatist contradictions began to appear in the Japanese government and the opposition, which were extremely dissatisfied with the army.

The bonfires of the Japanese army camp in Yangshupu were shining, mourning everywhere, and the solemn atmosphere made more than 2,000 officers and men of Gu breathe rapidly. Dry speech.

The chief of staff of the 6th Sentai stationed in Shanghai, Hisaku Yoshino, wore a white kimono. With a white ribbon on his head, facing northwest, and kneeling beside a bonfire, he was directly responsible for the bombing of the Hongkou barracks and the death of two prominent Japanese journalists on the front line due to his erroneous tactics and rash commands. Slowly raised the saber and stabbed it into the abdomen, the hideous face was sharply distorted, and the internal organs flowed out of the room, and the samurai who protected Yoshino Kuzo waved the long knife and fell suddenly, and the disembowelment who kept convulsing for a long time was finally freed.

The commander of the Japanese army, Koichi Shiozawa, and others watched all this from afar, with sadness in their eyes, shook their heads and sighed, turned around and walked to the dock, and soon held a final meeting in the conference room of the warship.

After the meeting. Koichi Shiozawa was relieved of his position as commander. He will be replaced by the commander of the Japanese Navy's Third Fleet, Kichizaburo Tsumura, who has just arrived with his troops.

In the small conference room, the air was solemn and the atmosphere was depressing, Shiozawa Koichi bowed deeply to Murakami, Tanaka, Ishikawa and other seven civil and military officials and apologized in a low voice, and all seven of them bowed in unison with a face full of grief and indignation.

After a brief farewell speech, Shiozawa Koichi invited everyone to sit down. Walked up to Koichi Ishikawa and bowed deeply again: "Ishikawa-kun, I regret that I didn't take your advice, which led to falling into this humiliating defeat situation, causing huge losses and humiliating the heroic Japanese Imperial ** team. ”

"The general doesn't need to blame himself so much, we didn't expect the squadron to resist so tenaciously before. Nor did he expect the enemy's methods to be so despicable and so resolute, and his subordinates felt deeply guilty and angry, and Ishikawa bent over and squeezed out this passage almost word by word.

"General, Ishikawa-kun, our intelligence department also has an unshirkable responsibility." Takayoshi Tanaka stood up in pain. bowed his head deeply, and the rest of the officials also quickly stood up and bowed deeply.

Murakami Aomatsu sighed and stood up: "General, ladies and gentlemen, although this is a profound teaching, it must not stop the determination and pace of the Great Japanese Empire to occupy China. Everyone's condolences

Shiozawa Koichi bowed deeply to Murakami: "Murakami-kun, there will be one thing to ask for in the end, and please Juncheng."

"General, please." Murakami returned the favor.

Shiozawa Koichi slowly glanced at Ishigo, "Ask Murakami-kun to recommend Ishikawa-kun, who is talented and extremely loyal to the Japanese Empire, to the new commander." Ishikawa-kun has a wealth of combat experience. He has a deep understanding of the squadron, especially his keen sense of the battlefield situation is unmatched, please don't let Ishikawa-kun take any responsibility that doesn't belong to him, and create opportunities for Ishikawa-kun to have room to show his talents. ”

Murakami looked at the nervous Koichi Ishikawa, and praised the imperial officer's unarrogant and conscientious attitude, and nodded to tell Shiozawa Koichi that he understood.

Zhenru Town, Headquarters of the Nineteenth Route Army.

Cai Tingcuo slapped the telegram on the table and roared angrily: "What do you mean" to be stoic and take care of the overall situation? This is the attitude of the Central Military Commission? Our own territory and people have been ravaged to such an extent, why are the top brass of our army still so lucky and obsessed? The ammunition and supplies that had been promised to be replenished were not enough, so why did the reinforcements of the 87th and 88th divisions, which had been halfway out, be strictly ordered to return to the station? Even the independent division was ordered by them to conceal Jiangbei and stop all operations, didn't they see that the two Japanese aircraft carriers and twelve warships with powerful firepower had arrived, and the follow-up thousands of Navy 6 Sentai and Kurume Brigade were coming ashore? Do they have to wait for the enemy to gather forces and launch another large-scale attack, and wait for the more than 30,000 officers and men of our 19th Route Army and the two main divisions of the 24th Army to be killed in battle, so that they feel comfortable?

"Xianchu. Don't talk like that". Jiang Guangding interrupted Cai Tingcuo's complaints, turned to An Yi and Ye Cheng and shook his head. Extremely helpless.

An Yi Tie blushed and patiently analyzed: "It is estimated that it is the Cambodian conspiracy of the Japanese again, and the Japanese have been defeated again and again in the past few days, and the Japanese need time to adjust their plans very much" And the reinforcements are new and exhausted, even if they move the light and heavy weapons carried with the ship, it will take half a day to a day, so they once again mediated through Britain and the United States, in order to win the time to delete the heart, our central government is extremely contradictory, on the one hand, the various departments of the Mugong'er Road Army praised them and shouted resistance to the end, on the other hand, they once again accepted the Japanese blindness, All hopes are pinned on negotiations. They thought that they could achieve their so-called peace without the need for arduous, unhesitating resistance and determination to break the cauldron and break the boat.

As long as you think about it, you will understand that the two inappropriate orders of He Jingzhi and the sudden visit of Mr. Huang Xie tried to appease us and persuade us to temporarily stop all military operations actually represent the opinions of the central government and Chairman Chiang, otherwise this would not have been the case.

To tell you the truth, at 9:10 p.m., I also received two secret telegrams from the General Staff Headquarters and the Commission, also ordering our headquarters to suspend all military operations, and I even received information from the central government requesting that An Yi return all the captured Japanese ships and release their prisoners.

I am as saddened by this as you are. I felt that the reason why we were bullied was that there were too many soft bones in the temple, and I even suddenly remembered such a somewhat anachronistic sentence: Poor people must have something to hate! ”

Everyone didn't expect An Yi to say such self-pity, self-pity, and even a little vicious words, and they were all depressed and sighed secretly.

Cai Ting took a few wrong steps to come to An Yi, pulled over a stool and sat down, and asked in a low voice: "Brother An, is there no solution?" ”

An Yi smiled bitterly: "Yes, and I am doing it, but I can't guarantee that it will be useful, I can only put pressure on the bosses of the Central Military Commission in Nanjing, and strengthen their determination to resist the war by knocking on the side, so as to prompt those few to withdraw their compromise."

Seniors, colleagues. I think it's not just the efforts of my colleagues in Nanjing. We should also make a big noise, strive to take the initiative, and not passively wait, the specific idea is."

At half past eleven in the evening, the 6th Army School of the Central Committee in Nanjing.

Yu Jishi, Sun Yuanliang, Guan Zhenglin and other more than 20 Huangpu generals and colonels were all dressed in military uniforms, standing outside the door of the military minister He Yingqin's house with a grim expression, and submitted a petition to the panicked He Yingqin in solidarity with the officers and soldiers of the 19th Route Army, as a Chinese ** person, must stand up to resist the war to the end in the face of national disasters, and one by one expressed their request to lead their troops to aid the Honghu battlefield and fight to the death with the brutal Japanese invaders.

He Yingqin did not have the slightest mental preparation, under the sad and indignant questioning of the generals, he was at a loss of words, if Zhang Zhizhong hadn't come to relieve the siege and pacify, it was likely that thousands of lovers in the entire military academy would have taken action. Despite this, it still alarmed all circles in the military and the upper echelons of Nanjing, and soon spread the word, causing a tremendous negative impact on the Central Military Commission and He Yingqin himself.

At 9 o'clock in the morning of the next day, the headquarters of the 19th Route Army held a press conference, at which Jiang Guangding, Cai Tingcuo, and the generals of various divisions expressed their firm determination to resist Japan to Chinese and foreign reporters and the people of the whole country.

During the interview and question-and-answer session, Cai Tingcuo skillfully revealed He Yingqin's order not to resist, which caused an uproar among more than 100 reporters and more than 300 representatives from all walks of life in Shanghai.

An Yi sat aside. In a word, this young general, who is publicly identified as the former chief of staff of the enemy at the headquarters of the 19th Route Army, is naturally the target of Chinese and foreign reporters and representatives from all walks of life.

Over the years, An Yi has been deeply loved by the press and all walks of life across the country for his distinctive personality and humorous language style. In addition, An Yi's hard-line attitude toward the Japanese army in the past few days and the remarkable achievements made by various units under his command in the battle against Japan have deeply inspired the whole people, so reporters and representatives from all walks of life have raised questions to him.

An Yi, as the former chief of staff of the 19th Route Army, nominally accepted the leadership of two generals, Jiang Guangding and Cai Tingcuo, so he was very clever and very low-key, and responded to the questions asked by reporters. Always let the two generals Jiang and Cai answer. On issues that had nothing to do with the two generals, he also cautiously expressed his views after consulting the two generals, which made the reporters who interviewed him unsatisfied, but he did nothing.

The reporter of "Declaration" saw that the familiar An Yi was so abnormal, and after thinking about it, he finally seized the opportunity to ask An Yi loudly: "General He Yingqin, Minister of Military Affairs, about "stoicly waiting to take care of the overall situation." Can it be understood as the unanimous attitude of the Chinese side? Can it be seen as the end of the war of resistance of the squadron? ”

An Yi was taken aback: "Old Zhou, don't be alarmist

An Yi's reaction and the casual call to call the reporter as Lao Zhou caused a burst of laughter at the scene, but An Yi said very seriously: "Commander-in-Chief Jiang and Commander Cai said very clearly just now. We, the officers and men of the 19th Route Army, will never take a step back. There will be no rumors that they will retreat thirty kilometers according to the demands of the Japanese, unless the Japanese army steps over our corpses! ”

"Good!"

The crowd applauded.

An Yi continued: "As for the meaning of General He Yingqin's order, I can't understand it for a while. It is estimated that General He is far-sighted and has no deep meaning. But I An Yi can't retreat, take a step back, many of my An Yi's industries are under the nose of the Japanese army, General He Yingqin is different, his hometown is in Guizhou, far away from Ninghu, it is estimated that he will not touch,"

Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then burst into applause, Jiang Guangding, Cai Tingcuo and others looked at An Yi and laughed vigorously, thinking that this guy was so retaliated, He Yingqin was afraid that he would become the target of public criticism.