After discussing the decision with Li Tiejun, Qiao Anbang said goodbye and left, and just walked out of the second battalion headquarters, he happened to meet Yang Jie, the commander of the second regiment, and hurriedly arrived with the guard company.

Ignoring Qiao Anbang, Yang Jie went directly to the second battalion headquarters.

Qiao Anbang didn't care either, and strode back the way the meteor came.

After returning to the temporary station of the security group, Qiao Anbang immediately found Yali, took her to a forest not far from the road, and extracted the batch of equipment for the first division from the aircraft, and then Qiao Anbang sent someone to inform Li Tiejun to come and collect it.

At the second battalion headquarters, Yang Jie walked in breathlessly, and saw that the division commander Li Tiejun was happy, so he hurriedly stood up and said, "Master, it's too late for your humble position." ”

"Hmm" Li Tiejun was in a good mood, so he didn't blame Yang Jie for coming late, nodded, and then ordered: "Commander Yang, immediately send an order down, and each battalion will immediately let the pheasant and the security group see it, and they must not be stopped." ”

"Huh? Master, just let them go? Have you figured it out? Yang Jie asked in surprise.

"They are all Chinese, bent on killing the enemy and serving the country, what else is not clear! Released now! Li Tiejun waved his hand impatiently.

"Yes!" Seeing Li Tiejun's resolute tone, Yang Jie no longer hesitated, and immediately took the order.

As soon as Yang Jie walked away, a soldier walked in in a hurry, stepped forward and saluted: "Report to the division's seat, the security regiment on the opposite side sent someone to tell us to go to the western woods to get weapons and equipment!" ~”

"Hmmm! Got it. Li Tiejun waved his hand to the soldier and motioned him to go down, then turned to Qian Dashan and said, "Battalion Commander Qian, you immediately take someone to the western woods and bring back all the weapons and equipment for Lao Tzu." ”

"Yes! Humble duty understands! Qian Dashan suddenly agreed, and immediately turned around and strode away.

In the woods to the west, Qiao Anbang watched the officers and soldiers of the First Division move their weapons and equipment out one by one, and a trace of joy flashed on his face inadvertently.

This is also one of the reasons why Qiao Anbang made up his mind to give away the equipment of the first division, the first division of the National Revolutionary Army, it can be said that there is no one from the division commander to the private, all of them are good, during the battle of Songhu, the whole division fought a bloody battle with Yue Kou in the area of Fuzaobang for more than two months, although there were heavy casualties, but it also made Yue Kou pay the price of blood, demonstrating the military prestige and combat power of our squadron, as well as the determination to resist.

Soon, after about half an hour, the men of the 1st Division had finished moving all the equipment, and after getting the equipment, the officers and men of the 2nd Battalion moved the barricades and made way for the security regiment.

Joan Bang sat in an armored car, picked up the radio intercom and gave the order to advance.

The security regiment, which had been stagnant for almost a day, was on the road again, and because Li Tiejun ordered all the defense areas of the First Division to be released, this time the security regiment was never stopped in any way.

In less than an hour, Qiao Anbang led the security team to the edge of the Yangtze River.

"Third child, are we going to cross the river from Pukou to Nanjing?" In the armored command vehicle, Qiao Anguo asked Qiao Anbang with a military map in his hand.

"No, Xiaguan is guarded by the 36th Division, so it is necessary to say that we will not be allowed to cross the river, and it is useless for us to go to Nanjing at this time in the battle situation!"

"And where do we cross the river from?" Qiao Anguo continued to ask with a puzzled face, after all, he was not a traverser, and it was impossible to have a foresight of the battle situation between the two sides and the subsequent development around Nanjing at this time, in his opinion, he should lead his troops across the river and obey the deployment of the Nanjing Garrison Headquarters.

Qiao Anbang looked on the map for a while, frowned and pondered for a moment, then pointed to the map and said, "This is it." From here we crossed south. ”

"And the county?" Qiao Anguo looked at the map Qiao Anbang pointed to and said in surprise.

"Yes, it is Hexian, and the other side of Hexian is Dangtu, at this moment, the garrison of our army in the area of Dangtu is empty, and we went just to strengthen the garrison of Dangtu!" Qiao Anbang said thoughtfully. In fact, the reason why he chose to cross with the county to the south is because Qiao Anbang knew that the reason why the defense of Nanjing ended in failure so quickly, in addition to the shortcomings of the first-level command, there are two main reasons, the first is when the defenders of Nanjing are fighting bloody battles with Yue Kou on the front line.

The Kunisaki Detachment, which was formed from the 9th Brigade of the 5th Division of the Chinese Army, crossed the Yangtze River from Tucihu Lake and rushed along the west bank to Jiangpu.

Second, the Yamada Detachment, which was formed by the 103rd Brigade of the 13th Division of the Chinese Army, crossed the river from Zhenjiang and successively captured Yizheng and ** counties and approached Pukou.

Once these two partial divisions of the Yue army captured Jiangpu and Pukou, then more than 100,000 Nanjing defenders would become turtles in the urn, and it was very likely that they would be surrounded and annihilated by the Yue army.

It is no exaggeration to say that if there were no devils on these two paths, Nanjing City would not have been lost so early, as long as Nanjing is as solid as a rock, the national political axe should have thought of evacuating the people in advance and organizing a retreat. Or draw reinforcements from the rear to win the battle to defend the capital.

Therefore, Qiao Anbang chose to cross the river from Hexian because he wanted to kill the Kunisaki detachment of Gou Yue and sweep away the threat of the western front for the defenders of Nanjing.

Although the Kunisaki detachment is a hard stubble, Qiao Anbang can only go up hard, because he has no choice, or at this time, the whole of China has no choice but to resist, isn't it?

"Well, I'll organize the ships!" Qiao Anguo saw that Qiao Anbang had made up his mind, and he was about to get out of the car.

"Big brother, what are you going to do?" Jo Anbang stopped him.

"Collect boats, otherwise how can you cross the river?" Qiao Anguo asked puzzled.

"You can rest assured about this, the problem of the ship will be left to me." Qiao Anbang smiled mysteriously, then turned around and got out of the car, and went straight to the communication company.

After finding Yali, Joan Bang asked Yali to extract a large transport ship from the flying machine, because only Yali could drive the ship, so no one would drive any more ships.

After having a ship, Qiao Anbang first asked all the infantry to board the ship and sent the infantry across the river, and then the armored vehicles, trucks, and artillery of the whole regiment were loaded and transported to the opposite bank in batches.

After all the officers and men and equipment of the security regiment had crossed the Yangtze River, it was already dark, and Qiao Anbang immediately ordered the troops to camp in Ma'anshan, north of Dangtu.

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At the same time, the 88th, 87th, and 36th divisions withdrew to Nanjing, and then the Nanjing Garrison Command began to deploy infantry, and the total number of troops participating in the defense of Nanjing was about 110,000 people.

A total of 13 divisions participated in the battle, including: the Central Military Academy Teaching Corps, commander Gui Yongqing.

Jiang Fangjun - Commander: Liu Xing. It has two divisions: 112th Division (Division Commander: Huo Shouyi), 103rd Division (Division Commander: He Zhizhong) 2nd Army Corps - Corps Commander: Xu Yuanquan. It has two divisions: 41st Division (Division Commander: Ding Zhixin), 48th Division (Division Commander: Xu Jiwu) 66th Army - Army Commander: Ye Zhao. It has two divisions: 159th Division (Division Commander: Tan Feng) and 160th Division (Ye Zhao)

71st Army - Commander: Wang Jingjiu. It has one division: 87th Division (Division Commander: Shen Fazao) 72nd Army - Army Commander: Sun Yuanliang. It has one division: 88th Division (Division Commander: Sun Yuanliang) 74th Army - Army Commander: Yu Jishi. It has two divisions: 51st Division (Division Commander: Wang Yaowu), 58th Division (Division Commander: Feng Shengfa) and 78th Army - Army Commander: Song Xilian. There is one division under its jurisdiction: 36th Division (Division Commander: Song Xilian) 83rd Army - Army Commander: Deng Longguang. There are two divisions: 154th Division (Division Commander: Wu Jianxiong) and 156th Division (Division Commander: Li Jiang)

On the military side, the participating troops included the 9th Division - Division Commander Yoshizumi Ryosuke, the 16th Division, Division Commander: Nakajima Imago, Yamada Detachment (13th Division) - Commander of the 103rd Brigade: Yamada Toji.

10th Army - Commander: Yanagawa Heisuke, 6th Division - Division Commander: Tani Toshio, 18th Division - Division Commander: Ushijima Sadao 114th Division - Division Commander: Shigeharu Suematsu, Kunisaki Detachment (5th Division, 9th Brigade) - Detachment Leader: Noboru Kunisaki.

The commander-in-chief was General Matsui Ishone, commander of the Central China Dispatch Army.

Lishui County.

The blue sky and white banner that was originally planted at the head of the city was rudely pulled out by several hideous-looking soldiers and thrown down.

At the same time, the gunfire in the whole city had gradually stopped, and a major general of the army strode up to the city with a majestic expression with a saber on his shoulder.

The two devil soldiers who had just planted the plaster flag saw the major general and hurriedly gathered their feet and saluted: "General! ”

"Hmm!" The Major General nodded with satisfaction, and immediately approached the sun flag fluttering at the head of the city and saluted the sun flag.

Several devil adjutants behind him also hurriedly followed and saluted.

At this moment, a Dazuo officer ran over with an excited expression: "General, our department has cleared out all the remnants of the enemy in the city!" Lishui County has been completely broken by us! ”

"Hmm!" Hearing this, the major general of the army turned his head and said to Dazuo: "Nagano-kun, our goal is not here, but Nanjing, pass the order to go down, rest for two hours, continue to advance, the goal should be Tu, and then cross the Yangtze River according to the original battle plan, and copy the back road of the Shina Army around Nanjing!" ”

"Hay! Please rest assured that General Kunisaki understands his humble duties. The commander of the 11th Infantry Wing of the Kunisaki Detachment, Yuichi Nagano, suddenly bowed his head and replied with a bang.

"Hmm!" Major General Kunisaki nodded slightly, and then turned to look in the direction of Dangtu.

Kunizaki Deng's heart was full of fighting spirit at this moment, he led the detachment since the landing in Hangzhou Bay, almost invincible, invincible, all the squadrons in front of him along the way were repelled or annihilated by him.

In the battle of Lishui County just now, Kunizaki Noboru only used two infantry brigades of the 11th Wing to win easily, and all the ** who defended the city were wiped out except for a few who escaped.

Kunizaki Noboru looked into the distance, but in his heart he imagined that he would lead his troops to capture Nanjing, the capital of China, and make the first battle for the empire.

As everyone knows, there is a newly formed "Tiger and Wolf Division" waiting for them in front.