"Commission, Minister He's words, I don't dare to agree." Bai Chongxi looked at He Yingqin beside him, turned his head and replied bluntly to Chairman Jiang.

"Jiansheng, have something to say." Chairman Jiang waved his hand.

"Commission, dare to ask what is the root of the country?" Bai Chongxi immediately asked.

"Of course it's the people, and the people are the state." Chairman Jiang blurted out without thinking in a thick Zhejiang accent.

"Since the people are the foundation of the country, do we want to abandon the hundreds of thousands of citizens in the capital? As a member of the party, it is the duty of our soldiers to protect the national territory and protect the lives of the people, if we can abandon hundreds of thousands of citizens of Nanjing today, then hundreds of thousands of people can also abandon the national political axe tomorrow. Bai Chongxi said generously: "Everyone should have heard of the name of the army, how can the fallen area be a corpse for thousands of miles? Now the Tiger Ben Regiment is in Suzhou to give Yue Kou a heavy blow, just imagine, if the army enters the city of Nanjing, there is almost no war south of the Yangtze River, what will I do? They will retaliate, and they will pour out all their anger on my ordinary civilians. ”

"At that time, the city of Nanjing will be a river of blood, and it will be unbearable." After saying this, Bai Chongxi asked Chairman Jiang with an awe-inspiring expression: "Commission, can you bear to see the blood flowing into the national capital and the corpses and bones like mountains?" That is the foundation of the existence of our people's civil affairs axe, how can it be easily discarded? ”

Chairman Jiang was speechless by Bai Chongxi's words, and fell silent, as if he was thinking about something.

He Yingqin, who was on the side, couldn't stand it anymore when he saw this, and immediately turned his head and pointed at Bai Chongxi and said: "Bai Jiansheng, you are alarmist, Shanghai is also a metropolis, and after the army captured Shanghai, there was no wanton massacre of our civilians, how did you know that I would slaughter my Nanjing citizens?" ”

"Hmph." Bai Chongxi snorted coldly and retorted: "Shanghai is an international metropolis, with many concessions from various countries, in order not to destroy the reputation of the Yue Army, of course it is impossible for me to wantonly kill our people, but Nanjing is different, Nanjing is where our national capital is located, and its political status is much greater than Shanghai, if Nanjing is lost, the whole country will be shaken!" And once we take advantage of this to evacuate the defenders of Nanjing, the army will not be able to find and annihilate our main force, and the heavy losses caused to them by the Tiger Regiment, it will inevitably vent its anger on our civilians, and in order to blow and weaken the resistance determination and will of our people, the extremely vicious army will definitely take action against our people! ”

"Hmph, one-sided, if the army really wants to retaliate, I think Qiao Anbang and other people should be sent directly to the military justice department! An important prisoner of war like Hatohiko Asakanomiya, who is a small colonel, has the qualifications to execute without authorization? If this causes the army to retaliate, then he Qiao Anbang is responsible for this! He Yingqin refused to give in to each other, and said in a cold tone.

"It's really not a backache to stand and talk, Qiao Anbang can lead thousands of rabble to fight for nearly a thousand miles, first defeated the Guoqi detachment and the 18th Division, and then recovered Suzhou City in one fell swoop. If it weren't for the Tiger Ben Regiment led by him to spread the good news in the rear of the army, I'm afraid Nanjing would have been lost for a long time! If he didn't kill the old devil of Asaka Palace, how could the main divisions of the Yue Army, which had already arrived in Nanjing, turn back to the division? How could the siege of Nanjing be lifted? It can be seen from this that Qiao Anbang not only has effective tactical command ability, but also has a strategic vision that the young commanders of our army do not have! At least much better than some people who can only talk high! Bai Chongxi looked at He Yingqin with disdain.

"You're ......!" Of course, He Yingqin could hear that Bai Chongxi's last sentence was about him, and he immediately turned pale with anger.

Bai Chongxi ignored He Yingqin, but turned his head to Chairman Jiang, who was already sitting on the sofa opposite, and said: "Commission, such talents will definitely become pillars of the party and the state, and it is too late to cultivate, how can you blame?" What's more, Qiao Anbang led the soldiers of the regiment to make many military exploits and outstanding military achievements, what is the crime? ”

"Well, Jiansheng is right, I am also planning to commend Qiao Anbang and the entire soldiers of the Tiger Regiment." Chairman Jiang nodded, and then his tone changed, and said: "Jiansheng, I suddenly have an idea, now that the main force of the army has been withdrawn, can we not give up Nanjing again?" Now that our army has a chance to breathe, we only need to replenish the troops, or in less than half a month, the reinforcements from Yunnan will be able to arrive, and even if the army attacks again, we will have the ability to fight with it. ”

Hearing Chairman Chiang's sudden idea, Bai Chongxi couldn't help but be taken aback, he knew that Chairman Chiang's old mistake had been made again, although Jiang Gong's political attainments were unmatched by the entire national political axe, but his tactical and strategic vision really did not dare to compliment.

If you really do what you say, then you will undoubtedly push the 100,000 [***] elites under the city of Nanjing to a dead end, and even the Yunnan reinforcements who have come all the way will also be put in.

Because, at this time, although there were still 100,000 [***] in Nanjing, but these 100,000 [***] in terms of the quality and morale of the soldiers could not be compared with the time of the Battle of Songhu, many of the veterans of the army had already been exhausted, and the recruits were replenished five or six times, and a large number of well-trained elite veterans died in battle, which directly led to a plummeting combat effectiveness of the troops.

Originally, the battle situation in Nanjing was on the verge of collapse, and more than 100,000 [***] soldiers were completely relying on their enthusiasm to serve the country and sacrifice their lives in a bloody battle, if it were not for the capture of Suzhou by the Tiger Ben Regiment and the forced return of the main divisions of the army, then Nanjing is estimated to have been lost.

So even if these more than 100,000 [***] have a chance to breathe, they will not be able to fight with the Yue army again.

Once Chairman Chiang finds that his 100,000 elites are in an emergency, he will inevitably send reinforcements from other theaters to help Nanjing, a strategic dead land, and then the defense of Nanjing will become a bottomless pit, a bottomless pit that can exhaust the backbone of China's resistance.

To put it further, when the hundreds of thousands of anti-Japanese backbones of the national political axe are lost, the whole of China will really perish.

You must know that the entire War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression was led by the Central Army headed by Chairman Chiang and the Huangpu faction, and as long as the Central Army is still there, as long as the Whampoa soldiers are still there, then it is a fool's dream to say that I want to destroy China.

On the other hand, if Chairman Chiang's central direct forces are completely lost, he will lose control over the local warlords all over the country, and then the situation of the national unified war of resistance will collapse in an instant, and the local warlords will fall into a situation where they are fighting their own battles and being broken one by one by the Japanese army.

In fact, such a large-scale battle as the Battle of Songhu not only caused heavy losses to the Central Army participating in the war, but also caused a large number of middle- and grass-roots officers who participated in the two Northern Expeditions from the Huangpu Department to die.

Therefore, Bai Chongxi did not hesitate, and immediately persuaded: "Commission, this matter, must not, after months of bloody battles, the quality of the soldiers and morale of my Nanjing garrison have been greatly inferior to the beginning, and the combat effectiveness has plummeted, and I said before the war that Nanjing is surrounded by plains on three sides, backed by the Yangtze River, and the army only needs to be surrounded on three sides, and Nanjing will become a dead land!" If it weren't for Qiao Anbang and his Tiger Regiment, the roundabout troops of the Yue army would have captured Pukou long ago, cutting off the only way for our Nanjing defenders to retreat. ”

"Therefore, taking advantage of the fact that the main divisions of the army have returned to Suzhou, we should make every effort to evacuate the citizens of Nanjing, and then withdraw the troops to Jiangbei and enter the Suzhou-Anhui region to rest and recuperate, so as to fight again!"

"Well, it is true that Nanjing can no longer be defended." As early as the place where the war began, He Yingqin had always disagreed with the defense of Nanjing, and of course he would not agree with Chairman Chiang's idea of continuing to hold Nanjing, but he also did not approve of the evacuation of the citizens, and immediately said: "However, the evacuation of the people is very important, and it is very likely to delay the evacuation of our 100,000 defenders, so please consider it carefully." ”

Just when Chairman Jiang was in a dilemma, Wang Shihe, the chief of the guard, suddenly held a telegram in his hand, walked in excitedly, stood up and saluted Chairman Jiang: "Bench, great victory, great victory!" ”

"Huh?" Chairman Jiang, Bai Chongxi and He Yingqin were all taken aback, and immediately asked, "What kind of victory?" ”

A few hours ago, the Tiger Regiment in the south of Suzhou successively annihilated nearly 10,000 marines and an infantry brigade, and killed two major generals of the Yue Army, captured countless victories, and achieved an unprecedented victory. Wang Shihe replied in a somewhat excited voice.

"What? Annihilated tens of thousands of troops? Chairman Jiang and the others immediately got up when they heard this, and said in disbelief: "And the marines of the army?" In the early days of the Battle of Songhu, Zhang Zhizhong led five divisions of the Central Army to storm Shanghai, but he could not defeat it, so that the battle situation was stiff, and later with the continuous increase of troops in the army, the Battle of Songhu finally ended in [***] defeat.

At first glance, when he heard that the Tiger Ben Regiment had completely annihilated tens of thousands of troops in the first battle, including this Marine Corps that he hated to the core, how could Chairman Chiang not be shocked?

"Yes!" Wang Shihe nodded, and said: "Commander Qiao Anbang also said in the telegram that he is leading the soldiers of the Tiger Ben Regiment to march to Shanghai, and he is bound to recover Shanghai, and the shame of our army's battle of Songhu will be revealed!" ”

"What? Attack Shanghai? He Yingqin suddenly exclaimed: "Is this Qiao Anbang crazy? Want to attack Shanghai with just one regiment? ”

"Commission, this is a great opportunity, the Tiger Regiment with the power of consecutive victories, the front of the troops pointed directly at Songhu, so that the army is bound to be in chaos, so we don't care whether the Tiger Regiment can recover Shanghai, this is very beneficial for us to evacuate the people of Nanjing and evacuate the troops, at least in terms of time!" Bai Chongxi said keenly analytically.

"Commission, don't hesitate, we can't live up to the hard work of Qiao Anbang and the Tiger Bentuan!" Bai Chongxi saw Chairman Jiang's hesitation, and hurriedly continued to persuade.

(To be continued)