Zhao Yongfu immediately asked his company commander to bring a team of brothers who were familiar with the water to immediately go to the river to face the Fu Devil gunboat, originally he wanted to personally lead the team to deal with the devil ship, but considering that the vicinity of Bagua Island is estimated to be attacked by the devil, his own nest cannot be lost, so let his brothers deal with it first. Look at the battle situation in the back and judge the intentions of the devil fleet before making a decision!

At this time, there were a large number of Japanese troops attacking the city in almost all directions around the city of Nanjing, of course, among the Japanese troops besieging Nanjing, the division of Gu Shoufu in the south of the city attacked the most fiercely, and the defense of the city here was of course the most tragic, the central army troops defending the position fought with Gu Shoufu's devil troops for a day, and there were fifty percent casualties, and the city outline position in the south of the city was quickly captured by the devils, and a regiment of thousands of brothers on the city outline position were all killed, and the rest of the troops had to retreat to the castle tower of the Zhonghua Gate, Relying on the city wall to fight against the devils who rushed up.

In the underground command post of the garrison headquarters, the staff officers under Chief Tang kept answering the phone calls from the front, and the calls were all asking Chief Tang to send troops for reinforcements, and there was an emergency everywhere, and the news that the position was conquered by devils and suffered heavy casualties came everywhere, and Chief Tang was angry, and asked his staff officers to order the commanders on the forward positions: "Even if there is only one person left, you have to defend the position for me!" ”

"What are the latest instructions from the chairman of the Wuhan side?" Commander Tang felt that this must not be able to hold the city of Nanjing, originally with his prediction, the 200,000 **** troops in the city of Nanjing can hold for more than a week, but today just started fighting, less than a day, the position outside the Zhonghua Gate in the south of the city was all occupied by devils, and the troops defending the city lost more than half of the battle, although the commander of the independent division Xu rushed over there with hundreds of men and horses to reinforce, but what is the effect of less than a battalion of troops to defend the city? It's just to increase the morale of some of the brothers defending the city.

The situation on the other side of Yuhuatai is also not optimistic, although the two gendarmes under Commander Hu are desperately resisting the onslaught of the devils, but the casualties of the troops are also very heavy, most of the officers and soldiers are killed under the bombers and artillery fire of the devils, the sky over Nanjing City is now full of all kinds of planes of devils, and they are desperately throwing countless bombs inside and outside the city, and the devil artillery is also desperately bombarding the city wall of Nanjing City.

However, the Central Army troops who rushed to reinforce Zhonghuamen and Yuhuatai were still grinding in Nanjing, and Chief Tang was angry and anxious, and he couldn't understand why these Central Army troops were slow to move? It is only a distance of more than 10 kilometers from the city to Zhonghua Gate and Yuhuatai, but these troops always use various reasons to shirk it, sometimes saying that the road ahead is congested by refugees, and sometimes saying that the troops have been bombed by devil planes.

And the south of the city saw that the devils were about to conquer Zhonghua Gate and Yuhuatai, Chief Tang couldn't help it, and hurriedly sent a telegram, giving a detailed report to the chairman of the committee on the situation in Nanjing, and asking the chairman to decide!

At this moment, Chief Tang did not have the pride and ambition he had in front of the chairman of the committee, and now he felt that he was indeed a little too impulsive at the beginning, and regretted that he should not listen to the opinion of Chief Li and them to give up Nanjing City, and he took over the work of defending Nanjing, and now it is good, the city defense of Nanjing City is the same as that made of tofu, and it cannot withstand the blow of the main force of the devil's siege, and the solid city wall of Zhonghua Gate was bombarded by the devil's plane and artillery, and the outer position of Yuhuatai was also robbed by the devil. In the east and west of the city, a large number of devils have been found to attack the city, and the warships of the devil's Third Fleet have appeared on the river north of the city, and the entire Nanjing city is about to be swallowed by the devils, and the defense of Nanjing is in danger!

There was no way, Chief Tang had to send a report to the chairman of the committee, of course he didn't dare to propose to evacuate Nanjing City, wasn't this a slap in the face? The co-author just patted his chest in front of the chairman of the committee half a month ago and promised to live and die with Nanjing, and what he said was still lingering, but now he asked to evacuate Nanjing?

Chief Tang couldn't stand still, pacing back and forth in the command post with his hands behind his back, suddenly there was a loud noise, followed by a violent tremor, and the roof in the basement suddenly shed a lot of sand and dust, and the guard next to him immediately stepped forward and wanted to take Chief Tang to hide in the air-raid shelter next to him, but was pushed away by Chief Tang: "This is the basement, where else can I hide?" ”

Soon, an officer under his command came to report: "Just now the devil bomber dropped a big bomb, which caused a big explosion, and most of the buildings near the center of the explosion were destroyed, sir, let's withdraw, while the devil has not yet entered the city, quickly retreat to the side of the Rujiangmen wharf!" ”

"It's ridiculous, the chairman of the committee hasn't heard any news yet, as the commander of the city defense of Nanjing City, how can he leave behind his subordinates who are fighting bloody battles against the Japanese invaders on the forward position and retreat without authorization? Say no more! Chief Tang said this, but his heart was already a little empty. He didn't want to leave this hellish Nanjing City early, but without the chairman's clear retreat order, if he left his subordinates who were still resisting and left the city, he would be guilty of escaping from the battle, even if he ran out of Nanjing City, the chairman would not be able to spare him!

After an afternoon of anxiety and pins and needles, when it was almost dark, his communications officer finally came over with a secret telegram to report: "Report to Chief Tang, Chairman of the Committee on secret telegram!" ”

Like a man who fell into the river and was about to drown, he suddenly grabbed a tree, his eyes lit up, and he hurriedly shouted: "Hurry up, the chairman must have a new instruction!" ”

The communications officer was a little shocked when he saw that Chief Tang was so out of shape, but he soon opened the telegram and read it, and the chairman of the committee did not give a clear order to retreat in the telegram, but asked Chief Tang to make his own judgment on whether to retreat or not according to the actual situation in Nanjing, and the chairman repeatedly stressed that Nanjing is the capital of the Nationalist Government, and now all countries in the world are watching the performance of the Chinese military units in the defense of Nanjing, and whether or not the defense of Nanjing is successful or not is directly related to the direction of the later war against Japan. I hope that Commander Tang can lead the various troops defending the city, unite sincerely, and resist the enemy outside the city of Nanjing! I can't hold it up, I can do it with the camera!

Chief Tang snatched the telegram and read it carefully several times, but he didn't find the word retreat from this telegram, which was a heavy blow to him!