It took Xiaolu an afternoon to mobilize the morale of the senior officers, assign their respective defense areas and tasks, and teach the tactics of street fighting and positional warfare. I www.biquge.info where have you ever seen such an advanced tactic, and compared it with your previous personal experience, your confidence has been strengthened.

To instill confidence in senior officers, it is not enough to rely on encouragement, and it is not enough to shout slogans alone. The troops from all over the country came, and they were very enthusiastic at first, and after fighting the Battle of Songhu, their confidence was lost, and many people became afraid of the Japanese army. The Chinese army was poorly equipped and the quality of its soldiers was low, and it was simply impossible to defeat the Japanese.

Staying in Nanjing to fight the Japanese is simply cannon fodder, and everyone's distrust of the government is also one of the elements.

So, let the soldiers have confidence, let the officers have confidence. Let the officers have confidence and win, let them see the hope of victory, and defeat, let them know the way out.

Xiaolu announced the plan to them, and answered the means to realize the plan, and everyone knew that there was only one way, and only by fighting well, could there be any hope of survival.

Of course, he didn't tell them any plans, because among these people were people from Nanjing, and some secrets were not allowed for them to know.

The officers gained confidence, and Xiaolu set out to solve the communication problem again. was about to go to find it, but unexpectedly, Lao Jiang summoned him again. As soon as they met, they asked, "Why did you tell everyone about the retreat plan in the first place?" ”

Xiaolu said: "Senior officers can't lead troops if they don't have the intention to fight." As long as an officer is afraid of death and flees without permission, the whole campaign is over. ”

Lao Jiang: "You can set up a team of warlords. Those who flee without permission will be killed. ”

Xiao Lu: "What if the Overseer wants to escape?" I first told them that there was hope for life, then I was disciplined, and finally I didn't know how to fight. Everyone is not afraid of death, and we can only overcome it if we work together. Conversely, if the officer flees from the battle, the soldier can shoot him. ”

Lao Jiang: "You must not retreat in advance. ”

Xiaolu: "It takes something more to do it." ”

Lao Jiang: "What? weapons? ”

Xiaolu: "Radio." ”

This time, Lao Jiang really spent a lot of money, and according to Xiaolu's requirements, he allocated more than 30 telegraphs, no matter how good they were, they were all equipped anyway.

Historically. In the Battle of Nanjing, the Chinese army invested nearly 110,000 people, the battle began on December 6, retreated on the 12th, and the Japanese army entered the city on the 13th.

There are many reasons why the war is so poor, weapons and equipment are of course factors, the soldiers' army does not have the will to fight is also a factor, and the tactics are blindly rigid, rigid and rigid, and the command is not smooth.

Tang Shengzhi and the others fled by boat. Less than three days after the start of the Nanjing War, Tang Shengzhi realized that he could not withstand it, and after receiving Lao Chiang's order, he hurriedly ordered the staff headquarters to issue a vague retreat order to all troops, and jumped on the small steamer he had left privately in advance to cross the river and escape. And before escaping, he did not notify the overseers of Rujiangmen and the north bank of the Yangtze River.

The communication was not smooth, and it was evident at the time of the retreat. The retreating soldiers in the city fled to the Yangtze River, and the 36th Division of Song Xilian, the supervising team, did not know that the troops had been ordered to start retreating, and desperately blocked the passage of the rout. In order to escape by seizing the road, the rout army used tanks, mortars and machine guns that were originally intended for street fighting to force a breakthrough, and the two sides fought fiercely at Rujiangmen.

When the rout finally killed the Governor and the team opened a way to seize the road and fled, the corpses on the ground had been piled up in several layers, and Xie Chengrui, the commander of the Second Regiment of the First Brigade of the Teaching Corps, who was later posthumously promoted to major general, was trampled to death by the rout because he fell to the ground when he broke through the siege of Rujiangmen.

That's what the trail is meant to avoid.

Xiaolu gathered about thirty people and specially formulated a cipher code for them, stipulating discipline. Later, he dispersed everyone to conduct a training exercise in sending and receiving telegrams, and when he became proficient, he summoned various commanders to send and receive telegrams and convey orders

Exercise.

In this way, the original problem of Tang Shengzhi's poor command to guard Nanjing was corrected.

At night, Captain Luo came to tell Xiaolu, first, there are still some people who have not retreated, there are probably tens of thousands of people. Some foreigners did not retreat, several embassies did not. Second, the ferry found more than 200 of them. They are all hidden in the river fork of Baguazhou on the other side, and if necessary, they can come out at any time to pick them up, and they can transport 4,000 people at a time, and they can transport 40,000 people away in one night. In addition, the ships that meet Jiangyin are also ready.

When talking to Captain Luo, Xiao Shanling was also present. Xiao Shanling, born in 1892. A native of Yiyang, Hunan. The third phase of Baoding Army Military Academy.

Historically, he participated in the defense of Nanjing, originally served as the deputy commander of the military police headquarters and the acting director of the Capital Police Department, served as the mayor of Nanjing during the war, and was responsible for the defense of Shangxinhe, Yuhuatai, Guanghuamen and other positions during the war.

On the morning of December 12, Xiao Shanling led his troops to fight fiercely with the Japanese army, killing and wounding all the attacking Japanese troops that day, and when preparing to fight with the Japanese army in the streets, he was ordered to retreat by his superiors. Outside the Yifeng Gate that day and night, he commanded the gendarmes to fight fiercely with the pursuing enemy, and when crossing the river, he was wounded by a Japanese motorboat machine gun, and he pulled out his gun and killed himself with the last bullet, martyrdom. Later, he was promoted to lieutenant general.

Xiao Shanling saw the small road to collect the ferry, but did not speak. When Captain Luo left, he said: "General Lu, there are just two of us here, you tell me the truth, Nanjing, how long are you going to defend?" ”

Xiaolu said: "I think, at least half a month, at most three months." It depends on how well everyone understands the tactics of war. I'm not worried about the Japanese army. The Japanese army's tactics were dull and the easiest to deal with. That's what I'm talking about. Those of us who are soldiers want to survive and rush a way, it is not difficult. The most important thing is not to mess around. ”

Xiao Shanling: "Okay. We keep. ”

Xiaolu said: "What I'm most worried about is the tens of thousands of people who haven't left. The big war is coming, why don't they leave? ”

Xiao Shanling: "Your method is okay for smart people, but not for those foolish people." Also, some of those who don't leave, many of them are old and weak, and they have no relatives to vote for. I'll figure it out. ”

Xiao Shanling went to do some work, both soft and hard, and the tens of thousands of people who didn't leave, insisted that they take most of them.

November 18, 1937. nanking

In the morning, Xiaolu drew ten people in each unit and taught them to make Molotov cocktails, explosives packs. The men quickly learned and immediately went all over the city to gather all the materials. While teaching tactics, he didn't forget to boost the morale of these hundreds of people.

These troops, although generally not highly educated, are much better educated than the northeastern bandits on the trail. In addition, the level of education of officers in these units is relatively high. All the officers who came to learn were middle and low-ranking officers, and while teaching skills, Xiaolu also established his own prestige.

The bottles and kerosene of the whole city were almost exhausted. Explosives from various units have also been collected, and the government has also mobilized several batches of ammunition, and the defensive weapons are basically sufficient.

At noon, the trail ran several positions outside the city, and the positions basically carried out his thoughts, but many soldiers were tired and did not like to do it. Xiaolu saw that these troops were uneven, so he had no choice but to do his work patiently.

When I came to Yuhuatai, I saw soldiers gathered around and making trouble. It turned out that there was a ruffian who didn't want to work, so he led a group of people to make trouble and injured the squad leader, and the others saw that the road was uneven and made trouble.

Xiaolu said: "The troublemakers should be arrested first." Interrogate. "After the interrogation, the facts were clear, the soldier pleaded guilty to the crime, heard that the young officer was kind, and decided that Xiao Lu did not dare to do anything to him.

Xiaolu said: "Now, the big war is imminent, and you are disturbing the morale of the army, which is logically a capital crime." Now executed, are you convinced? ”

Soldier: "What do you dare to do to me!"

With a wave of his hand, two people set him up and shot him dead.

Xiaolu said: "Military discipline is not strict, and if you start a war, you will harm others and yourself." Shoot him, save people harm. ”

The whole army was solemn.

In the evening, the trail began to check the readiness of the various units for street fighting.

Each regiment was assigned a block, and the entire city of Nanjing was divided. Some units were making serious preparations, others were lazy, and even worse, some officers and soldiers entered empty houses and began to collect people's belongings, without the intention of preparing for war.

A group of ruffians robbed the people's belongings, and were spotted by Xiaolu and their commanders when they were patrolling, and they were shot on the spot. The path was unusual, King Kong was angry, and those who were not convinced were convinced.

November 25, 1937. Nanking.

Wuxi fell.

When the news reached Nanjing, Xiaolu immediately wrote a leaflet, asking the police and gendarmes to spread it throughout Nanjing: "Wuxi fell, the Japanese massacre in Wuxi, in order to cover up the crime, set fire to the city of Wuxi." ”

Leaflets were scattered throughout Nanjing. This time, the people believed it, and the remaining tens of thousands of people withdrew from Nanjing overnight. At this point, there were no more civilians in Nanjing, and only some foreigners remained in the city.

Xiaolu and Xiao Shanling visited several foreign organizations, the main one being the International Committee headed by the German Rabe. He explained to them the massacre and fire of the Japanese in Wuxi, and persuaded them to leave. However, these foreigners are very screwed, and they just don't leave.

In the past few days, Xiaolu has taken his guards and the puppet army captured at sea to the city of Nanjing, and organized them into a regiment, with himself as the head of the regiment and Wang Santai as the deputy commander. They are also responsible for street fighting in a neighborhood. And Captain Luo's people were all sent out by the small roads, those who destroyed the highways, those who destroyed the railways, and after five or six days, five or six anti-tank trenches were dug on the roads, and the railways were all dug up.

The activities of Captain Luo's advance team are known only to senior officers. The senior officers saw that Xiaolu's promises were being fulfilled, and they were even more confident.

Xiaolu's troop deployment this time is different from history. Only a few positions outside the city were carefully arranged to block the position, and all the positions were connected to the city of Nanjing by a communication ditch. Historically, the local defense lines for dozens of miles outside the city were easily broken down one after another, and the defenders fled back to Nanjing.

In the past ten days, Xiao Lu personally taught the tactics of war to as many as 5,000 soldiers. Almost every day, one or twenty people from each unit were drawn to make up four or five hundred, and they were given a lecture, and after a few days, everyone knew Xiaolu, and everyone had trust in Xiaolu.

On this day, he received several telegrams from Wuhan, one of which said that the weather was fine, his health was good, his relatives were safe, his business was very good, and so on.

Things in Wuhan are really good.

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1. I pinched together the remarks of the three Nanjing military conferences.