Chapter 50: The General's Determination

"Oops!" With a crisp shout. A soft body tilted his whole body violently, and Senior Commander Gao almost couldn't grasp the steering wheel. Don't ask, this is the Tang University reporter next to me.

It's too hard to walk! Gao Quan thinks that his driving skills are still quite good, but when the car is driving, it still bumps up and down, and this is the third time Tang Wenjuan has hit him! Hong Yingying, who was on the other side, was also a little pale, and her hand was clutching the handle on the door. Fortunately, Colonel Hong was in good health, so he could barely maintain his balance and not staggered like reporter Tang.

The people in the car are like this, and I don't know what happened to the people in the back compartment? Gao Quan was thinking about Huiqin in his heart, and he ignited the fire and restarted. It was so hard that the truck turned off!

"Tuk! Tuk Tuk! "I started a few times, but I didn't fight! In a fit of rage, Gao Quan opened the door and got out of the car. There's no way to go! Looking at this road, which is more uneven than cultivated land, Gao Quan smiled bitterly, just this kind of road, still want to drive? It's almost the same to drive a tank!

Since Gao Quan launched a road-breaking campaign on the north bank of the Xinqiang River, due to the positive response of the broad masses of people in the south bank of the river, the main highways in northern Hunan have all been destroyed, and vehicles with more than two wheels are simply unable to move an inch!

Gao Quanneng drove this German-made transport truck to such a long distance, in addition to the excellent quality of the truck itself, and his superb driving skills are also inseparable. It's just that in this extremely bad road condition, even the trucks produced by Mercedes-Benz were forced to break down after suffering from bumps.

Hatefully kicked on the front wheel, and as soon as the other side of the car door opened, Director Hong and Reporter Tang also got out of the car. In the back compartment, Jin Hu, Hu Biao, Hui Qin, and two correspondents also jumped to the ground from the carriage, looking at the faces of several people, it was obvious that the bumps on the road made these people also uncomfortable.

"What's wrong? Is the car broken? How is this all the way? Can I still drive? "In the end, it's a journalist, and it's a series of questions.

"The car is broken, I can't drive, and I'm afraid the road in the future will have to be changed to walking." Gao Quan glanced at the few people around him who were watching him, and made this decision in great frustration.

"Good! I don't have to ride with you in the car anymore! When Tang Wenjuan heard that she was going to walk, she clapped her hands happily and cheered!

Gao Quan was depressed for a while, if it weren't for the fact that your legs weren't good and you couldn't walk a long road, would I need to drive on this kind of road and suffer this kind of foreign sin? In the end, it seems like you're all riding with me in the car!

"It's just right not to take the car, and it doesn't have to be so bumpy anymore." The same sentence came out of Huiqin's mouth, why is it so good? "Come, one pill per person, and holding it in your mouth can relieve dizziness and vomiting." Huiqin is a doctor in the end, and when she opened the medicine box, she began to give everyone motion sickness medicine. Of course, the distribution of medicine was also initiated from Gao Quan, and the person has the highest position!

The 15th Army marched all the way south, and the Japanese followed in pursuit. The Xiangbei Highway was seriously damaged by the local people, which seriously affected the marching speed of the Japanese mechanized division. The Heavy Infantry Wing and the Heavy Artillery Wing were all seriously affected, and they were trapped in the boundless mud ponds and potholes halfway through the pursuit.

Although the Chinese army in the Ninth Theater also has heavy weapons, it is still much less than the Japanese army, and when it retreats, it is much more sharp than the Japanese army. As a result, several armies of the 15th Group Army, on the way to retreat, finally slowly distanced themselves from the Japanese army.

Chief Xue's Ninth Theater was not limited to the group army of the Lin Zheng, but the group army-level troops assembled on this battlefield alone included the 1st, 19th, 15th, 27th, 30th, and 20th group armies, plus more than a dozen armies directly under the Central Military Commission, as well as advance columns and guerrillas in the border areas.

The river in front is the Boluo River where Qu Yuan, the great poet of Chu during the Warring States Period, jumped to his death. Looking at the rolling river, Gao Quan's heart was surging for a while. Qu Yuan jumped into the river here to martyrdom in order to go to the country, and thousands of years later, he Gao Quan was going to be on the side of the Boluo River to attack the Japanese invaders who invaded China!

The 52nd Army erected several pontoon bridges over the Boluo River, and the 500th Division also crossed to the other side of the river by means of these pontoon bridges, joining the ranks of the army retreating south.

On this day, in a small school south of Lukou, a major event occurred that almost changed the overall situation of China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.

This primary school is now the temporary headquarters of the Ninth Theater, and Xue Yue, the acting commander of the Ninth Theater, is here to command hundreds of thousands of troops in China's Ninth Theater to fight against Japan.

On this day, in this small school, two heavyweights came. One of them was the director of the Guilin camp, General Bai Chongxi. Bai Chongxi is also the deputy chief of the general staff of the Central Military Commission, and people habitually call him General Bai. The Central Military Commission gave it the right to coordinate and command the Chinese army south of the Yangtze River. The other is General Chen Cheng, commander of the Ninth Theater of Operations. Xue Yue was still the acting commander at this time. Chen Cheng is also the head of the Political Department of the Military Commission, so Gao Quan calls him Minister Chen.

Chief Bai and Minister Chen came together at this time, of course, not for tourism, these two came with a special mission.

Since the beginning of the Battle of Changsha, the Japanese troops on the three routes of northern Jiangxi, southern Hunan, and northern Hunan have advanced vigorously, but our army has rarely won victories. Especially now, the new wall and river defense line, which had been laid out for many days, was lost, and the elite 15th Group Army was defeated and retreated. Chongqing's committee members were worried, and they no longer had hope in their hearts about whether they could hold Changsha.

Today's China, in terms of strength, cannot defeat Japan at all. In order to ensure that the country will not be destroyed and the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression will continue, it is necessary to preserve the vital strength of the Chinese army so that it can be entangled with the Japanese invaders for a long time in the future. Giving up Changsha and going to Hengyang for a decisive battle has become the next choice for the commission. Chief Bai and Minister Chen were ordered to convey the retreat order to Chief Xue this time.

When the two Shangguan arrived in the Ninth War Zone, Chief Xue naturally greeted them warmly, and there was no such thing as hospitality, and during the war, there were no such conditions. The polite greetings between the two sides have been completed, and the army has a banquet and hospitality. When there was no outsider next to him after the meal, Minister Chen said what he meant.

I thought that Xue Yue was also a confidant general of the commission, and he should obey the orders of the emperor, but how did he know that Xue Boling started from the strategic position of Hunan, and talked all the way to the fact that the gains and losses of Changsha are related to the life and death of the country and the nation.

"As a member of the party-state, you should defend the national territory to the death. Although I, Xue Yue, am not talented, I am willing to learn from Song Zhiyue Fei and serve the country loyally! For the country and the people, fight the battlefield with the Japanese invaders, although there is no regret in death! Xue Boling is willing to live and die with Changsha! ”

Loud and sonorous. For the country and the people, the general is nothing more than that! Chief Xue's righteous and awe-inspiring words made the two ministers in front of him look at each other and be dumbfounded. This, this is also too unexpected!