Section VII Retreat from the National Defense Line VIII

The mountain was indeed lost, and the retreating 21st Army not only did not play a role in helping the ^7th Regiment Army, but on the contrary, their panic quickly spread to the 9th Group, and the already panicked soldiers became even more frightened, and as soon as the vanguard of the Japanese army in a large group captured the outer positions, the defenders collapsed, and the Japanese fled to the rear in groups of three or five, and the Japanese conquered Kunshan without much effort. Whole\Ben\Small\Say\Net

The report of the third theater was quite timely, and Yang Sen was so annoyed that it was easy to get to the place where the Japanese ships could not reach the guns, and the area where the preset positions had been built, and he had just gained the upper hand, and he was actually about to withdraw again.

"No one is allowed to spread this situation," Yang Sen said with a gloomy face, and after a while, he said, "Order Yang Hanyu to send a regiment to launch a counterattack tonight." The artillery brigade and the baggage regiment packed up their things and prepared to leave. ”

"Commander," Chief of Staff Liu Yong immediately suggested, "the artillery regiment can leave after providing artillery cover, the Japanese army finds that there is no artillery cover, and it is easy to expose our intentions." ”

"Okay, the air defense regiment of the heavy artillery regiment will go first, and then the troops directly under the group army, let Yang Hanyu break off." This sentence popped out of Yang Sen through gritted teeth, although Yang Hanyu was his descendant, but now only his troops were the most complete and had the most personnel.

After dark, the squadron launched a counterattack, the Japanese army has been vigilant about this, in the Songhu battlefield, night battle is a common weapon of the poorly equipped squadron, their attack is usually launched at night, in the hazy night in the way of group charge to the Japanese army.

The training of the Sichuan army is aimed at the Japanese, night combat is their regular training subject, more powerful than the central army, three or five groups of assault groups from several directions to the Japanese position to launch an assault, the rocket launcher at this time has become a sharp weapon to destroy the Japanese firepower point, the assault group with the P18 front gun to open the way, all the way to spray flames, into the Japanese position, for a time the Japanese position people turned on their backs, chaos again.

When the counterattack was carried out, the other side of Taicang was quiet, the convoy pulled heavy artillery and drove westward, and at the same time as the front line was successful, Yang Sen also led the group army headquarters and the twentieth army headquarters to retreat westward.

The fierce counterattack of the squadron caused the illusion of the Japanese army, and the Japanese army did not immediately launch a counteroffensive that night, but decided to wait until dawn to attack, which is also their consistent practice of treating the squadron ** night battle, but after dawn, Taicang was already empty, and the 20th Army, which was still fighting hard last night, had gone to the city.

The deceived Japanese army was angry and angry, urging the troops to chase, but when they approached Shaxi Town, they heard a loud noise in front, and the Japanese army chased to the Qipu River, where the bridge over the Qipu River had been broken into two, and the Chinese soldiers on the opposite bank were packing up their things and running away.

Relying on the Qipu River, the 20th Army temporarily got rid of the pursuing troops, and Wang Jingjiu, who was not far from the northern line, also led his troops to flee into Changshu through Yuewang Town that night, and joined forces with Yang Sen in Changshu.

Nanjing Xiaguan Wharf. At this time, the underground gate was crowded. The embarkation and disembarkation were crowded with people. The ground that is not accessible is that the disembarkation ground is all soldiers. On the ship, he was carrying a large bag and a small bag, and he was a little panicked. November 20th. The Nanjing government officially announced the relocation of the capital to Chongqing. Subsequently, the central departments began to relocate. Some time ago, Lin Sen and Kong Xiangxi took away more than a thousand people. But some government departments remained in Nanjing. Now all these departments will be relocated to Chongqing.

With the Nanjing government to declare. The citizens of Nanjing began to be restless. Have the money or the way to start looking for tickets and ferry tickets. Days in a row. Nanjing's various traffic stations are overcrowded. There is a ticket to take the bus and the boat. Without a ticket, he began to walk on foot to the westward migration and slowly traveled long distances.

Migrate. Ongoing migration; Personnel. Factory. Countless people have left behind their ancestral inheritance. Leave the land where the generation has lived. Embark on a distant land with no prospects. I had only seen the distant scene in books or newspapers before. There is only one reason - not to be a slave to the country.

"Stand upright!" The little civil servants who were waiting in line to get on the boat saw several generals disembarking from the boat that had just landed. The leader is a soldier with the rank of lieutenant general. He was followed by two generals of the same rank. The officer who came to greet him was actually a colonel. And it looks like it has a lot of origins.

"What are you doing in Nanjing at this time? Has Shanghai been defeated from time to time? ”

"Have all moved the capital? That's when it came. What are you doing earlier...... "Someone whispered a complaint.

"Don't talk nonsense, haven't you seen that the Xiaguan Wharf has been under fire for the past few days, it seems that the accents are all soldiers from Sichuan, such a long way, to be able to come at this time, it can be said that you are going to be in trouble."

The senior officials had left a few days after the announcement, and now the people waiting in line to get on the boat are all small civil servants, who are more interested in all kinds of gossip.

In the past three months, the troops of various provinces that passed through Nanjing sang war songs and went to Songhu, and every day there were war reports and wounded soldiers sent back from the Songhu front, and some of the wounded soldiers were sent on the ships and headed for the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.

"It seems that the one who came to pick it up was from the chairman's chamberlain." A few people recognized the officer who greeted him: "It should be a big man." ”

"I don't know, this is Zhuang Jihua of Southwest Development, Huangpu Phase I." Someone next to him interjected disdainfully, he didn't even know this, and he was still mixing in the government department, what a waste of life.

Zhuang Jihua went back to Chongqing before going to Nanjing, and this time he went back to do three things, one was to see Sun Liren and Liao Yaoxiang's two divisions; The other is to discuss logistics with Hong Junqi, Song

The last thing for the T7 to resume combat strength was to meet with Liu Xiang and ask him to immediately convene the third phase of the reserve to enlist in the army for recruit training, and at the same time coordinate the relationship between the Sichuan Development Company, the Sichuan Provincial Government and the National Government after the Nationalist Government entered Sichuan.

The Sichuan Development Corporation is so large that it is enough to affect the economy of the Nationalist Government after the relocation of the capital. Such a behemoth must arouse the greed of the powerful. Whether Li Zhilong can watch this belongings, Zhuang Jihua is not sure at all, and can only count on Liu Xiang's assistance.

After Chongqing received the news of the total collapse of the Songhu battlefield, Zhuang Jihua left Chongqing by boat on 16 November, and Wuhan warned him that the skies in Wuhan were no longer safe and that it was better not to come by plane. Most of the 49th Army in Wuhan had already left, and a small amount of equipment remained undelivered, including important heavy artillery brigades, baggage regiments, air defense regiments, and automobile regiments. This made Zhuang Jihua angry, without these things, the combat strength of the 49th Group Army would drop by a quarter.

In order to support the eastern battlefield, Tan Jianwu, head of the rear department of the army, personally sat in Wuhan to transfer materials and arrange transportation capacity, Zhuang Jihua asked him to arrange ships to give priority to the heavy artillery brigade and the baggage regiment air defense regiment as soon as possible, and ordered the automobile regiment to bring its own fuel and drive to Nanjing overnight.

Later, Zhuang Jihua inspected the material situation in various places in Wuhan, and after the Songhu War, a large number of weapons and equipment must be replenished, plus many wounded, and a large number of medicines are also needed.

In particular, Zhuang Jihua must take this into account the replenishment of the 49th Group Army after it was put into the battlefield. After all this was arranged, Zhuang Jihua left for Nanjing.

"Commander Zhuang, the principal asked me to pick you up, and immediately go to the Ministry of Military Affairs to attend the meeting." As soon as Tang Zong saw Zhuang Jihua, he reported to him.

Zhuang Jihua didn't say anything, just nodded, and then walked out of the dock with him, and only after getting into the car did he ask: "Naijian, what is the content of the meeting?" Is it about the Wufu Defense Line? ”

"No, it's not, Wu Fu's defense line has been lost," Tang Zong sighed and looked at Zhuang Jihua, who was expressionless.

The real battle of the Wufu defense line was only fought for five days, and Li Jiayu's 47th Army, 18th Army, and 1st Army assembled on the Wufu defense line had been resting for half a month, and the strength of the troops had also been replenished, and after Yang Sen led the 20th Army and the troops directly under the group army to retreat to the Wufu line, four armies were assembled on the Wufu defense line, and there were also 36, 88, 87, and other German divisions, these troops were very sophisticated in terms of equipment, but the brutal battle had consumed most of these equipment, and the 36th Division was taken as an example, and the heavy equipment of the troops was almost exhausted. Except for the more flexible anti-aircraft guns and mortars, about half of which were saved, and the rest of the howitzer mountain guns were all lost. In addition to equipment, personnel is also a big problem, less than a third of the losses have been replenished, and this time it is no longer the soldiers of the security regiment who have undergone basic training, but a group of peasants who have never been trained, and the combat effectiveness of these people can be imagined.

In addition, there were also the seriously damaged 21st Group Army, Xue Yue's 19th Group Army, these troops were even scattered and completely unable to fight, so Chen Cheng had to transfer them to the Xicheng Line for rectification.

The well-equipped 24th Group Army still played a role on the Wufu line, with Li Jiayu and Yang Sen fighting bloody battles with the Japanese army on the left and right. Seven divisions and two brigades of the Japanese army pursued to the Wufu line, with a total strength of nearly 200,000.

Yang Sen's 24th Army became the main force on the Wufu line. But Janssen was not comfortable, the Wufu Line was a national defense line, known as the Maginot Line in the East. But he has the name of Maginot but not Maginot Actually, it is not a Maginot of a dense line of defense, but a fortress of support points, which are good if these supports are complete and strong; But these support points are sparse, most of the fortress is not reinforced concrete at all, only a small part is reinforced concrete, and most of the rest are piled up with stones, and even a small part is mud tamped, such a fortress cannot defend against heavy artillery at all.

Chen Cheng commanded his troops to fight the Japanese here for five days, and Yang Sen was so addicted that the Japanese left thousands of corpses and half a tank wing in front of his 24th Army position.

Despite the huge casualties and the fact that the Wufu Line was always shaky, it finally fell five days later, when the Japanese Sixth Division broke through from the 87th Division's defense area, and Chen Cheng once again ordered a retreat to the Xicheng Line.

Tang Zong briefly introduced the process of the loss of the Wufu line, and then said: "Now that the front line is in chaos, fortunately Yang Sen's 24th Group Army can still fight, and the 24th Group Army can show its face this time, and the chairman of the committee has just ordered Yang Sen to be promoted to general." ”

Zhuang Jihua's demeanor was not chaotic at all, just nodded slightly. Tang Zong glanced at his expression out of the corner of his eyes, as an attendant, he knew what Zhuang Jihua wanted to hear.

"The front line is very difficult, the Japanese army on the southern front is progressing faster, the defense lines of Nanxun and Wuxian have collapsed, the 10th Army and the 74th Army have retreated to Nanxun and Wuxing, and the 10th Army and the 74th Army have suffered great sacrifices. In view of the circumstances, the Chairman intends to accept Todman's mediation. ”

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