Qiao Anbang took Kong Xiangjie and others out of the headquarters, and at this time, the six Type 92 infantry guns of the artillery squadron directly under the 55th Infantry Wing of the devil were ready, and with the order of the artillery squadron leader, the six Type 92 infantry guns opened fire one after another.

"I ...... ...... The sharp cannonballs ...... whistled and smashed down on the improvised fortifications built by **, "Boom......!" "As soon as the shell landed, it exploded, and the debris of the ** position was blown up, and the dust and smoke were billowing out.

Fortunately, the officers and men of the Tiger Regiment and the 37th and 36th armies had already received the order to retreat, and they were withdrawing in the direction of the east gate under the cover of the reconnaissance company of the Tiger Regiment.

"Your Excellency, Wing Commander, the Zhina Army, they are running away!" A staff officer with a telescope in his hand found the ** who had retreated, and hurriedly reported to Wing Commander Notomi Shotoku, who was sitting on the side resting.

"What?" Hearing this, Ye Fu Changde got up, took the binoculars and looked at it, and immediately said angrily: "Baga Yalu, the people of China are cunning and big, and they ordered the artillery squadron to stop the shelling, and the first and second brigades immediately pursued!" ”

"Hay!" The chief of staff bowed his head abruptly, and then turned to leave.

"Kill Quack!" After receiving the order, a devil Nakasa immediately pulled out his command knife and led a large group of devils to chase in the direction of the retreat of the Tiger Ben Regiment.

"Brothers, it's time for the little devils to see how powerful we are! Fire with all your might, and kill these dog-called Oriental pirates! Zhang Xudong, the commander of a reconnaissance company in an armored car, shouted an order into the walkie-talkie.

"Kill them!"

"Come on, little devil, let you taste the power of grandpa."

Soon the intercom was filled with the angry shouts of the armored soldiers.

Twenty armored fighting vehicles roared forward, and forty vehicle-mounted machine guns opened fire one after another, "Da Da Da...... Suddenly, suddenly, ......" dense rain of bullets suddenly erupted, whistling towards the devil crowd.

"Ahhh......h

Because they were charging through the streets of the city, lined with shops and houses, they were suddenly hit by such heavy fire that the devil soldiers could not disperse at all, and thousands of people were crowded in the narrow streets like a flock of lambs slaughtered by the dense machine-gun fire of the reconnaissance company as a live target.

"Bagaya Road, ask for reinforcements from the wing leader!" Seeing this, the captain of the devil team roared angrily.

However, before the devil soldiers could send the request to the wing headquarters, Zhang Xudong had already retreated according to Qiao Anbang's order.

All the armored combat vehicles were retreating backwards, and the machine-gun fire still did not stop, and the devil Nakazo just wanted to lead his troops to pursue, but he was immediately hit and suppressed by the fierce fire of the reconnaissance company, and he had no choice but to watch the reconnaissance company calmly withdraw.

Outside the city, the artillery battalion of the Huben Regiment was still shelling the positions of the 18th Division, and the devil's positions were completely caught in a sea of fire by the fierce artillery fire.

At the same time, Qiao Anbang had already led the remnants of the guard company, the third battalion, and Kong Xiangjie to successfully withdraw from the east gate of Wuhu and enter the position of the Tiger Regiment.

The officers and men of Kong Xiangjie's subordinate were all overjoyed and enthusiastic when they saw that the devils of the Tiger Regiment could not raise their heads with fierce artillery fire.

After entering the position, Qiao Anbang immediately took Kong Xiangjie and others into the regiment headquarters, and at the same time followed by the commander of the second and third battalions.

"Ladies and gentlemen, Wuhu has been lost, and you can't stay here for a long time, so I announce that all troops are ready to retreat immediately!" Qiao Anbang commanded with an awe-inspiring expression.

"What retreat?" Kong Xiangjie's face changed greatly, and he hurriedly asked, "Head Qiao, didn't you say that we will definitely be able to recapture Wuhu?" Why retreat now? ”

"Commander Kong, now that the situation is urgent, the army has captured Wuhu, and while our artillery has taken the devils off guard, we should retreat immediately. Once the devil air force arrives, it will cause us a lot of losses. Therefore, in order to avoid unnecessary losses, we should transfer immediately. Jo Anbang replied. He knows very well the disadvantages of not having air supremacy, if the devil plane comes, the target must be the artillery of the Tiger Regiment, although Qiao Anbang can make the artillery battalion retreat, but he has lost his artillery firepower, and he wants to have a hard time with the 18th Division of the Yue Army, so let's dream.

The devil's direct artillery wing is not a vegetarian, so Qiao Anbang can't risk his own artillery unit. The infantry has lost a good replenishment, and it is not so easy for technical arms such as armored and artillery, and it is even more difficult and troublesome to train one artillery and armored soldier than to train ten infantry.

"But have you thought about it, Commander Qiao, once we give up Wuhu, the devil can immediately cross the Yangtze River west and outflank the back road of my Nanjing Theater, and the consequences will be unimaginable!" Kong Xiangjie said anxiously.

"What did you say?" Qiao Anbang suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his mind, but he couldn't catch it.

"The consequences are unimaginable." Kong Xiangjie replied puzzled.

"No, it's the last sentence!" Joan Bang said.

"I said that once we give up Wuhu, the devil can cross the Yangtze River west to threaten the rear of our army, why do you have any questions, Commander Qiao?" Kong Xiangjie didn't know what medicine was sold in Qiao Anbang's throat, and his tone was a little unhappy.

Qiao Anbang suddenly jumped up when he heard this, and suddenly realized that he was excited and said, "Great, I have thought of a good way." ”

"What's the best way? Including Kong Xiangjie, everyone didn't know what was wrong with Qiao Anbang.

"A good way to turn the tide of the defense of Nanjing, and even turn defeat into victory." Qiao Anbang said thoughtfully.

"What?" Everyone looked at each other for a moment, and Kong Xiangjie was even more excited and asked, "What you said is true?" What the hell is going to do it? "You must know that at this moment, the main force of the army is already approaching the periphery of Nanjing, and anyone with a discerning eye can see that Nanjing has reached the most dangerous moment.

If Nanjing is lost, the whole country will be shaken, and it will be a great blow to the morale and determination of China's army and people to resist the Japanese army, so how can a patriot like Kong Xiangjie not be in a hurry.

"Yes, what is a good way to do it, you can say it quickly." Li Yifeng, the commander of the third battalion, also urged.

"Everyone, please come with me." Qiao Anbang said and turned around and walked towards the battle map, and everyone hurriedly followed.

Picking up a command pole, Qiao Anbang pointed to the map and turned his head to the crowd: "Ladies and gentlemen, everyone knows the current situation in the defense of Nanjing, I won't elaborate too much, the army has approached the periphery of Nanjing, and the situation is very critical, and the 18th Division and the Kunisaki detachment that we defeated before are all devils' partial divisions, and their task is to return to the rear of our Nanjing Theater, outflank the rear of our army, and cut off the retreat of our troops in the Nanjing Theater." ”

Saying this, Qiao Anbang paused under the earnest eyes of everyone, and continued: "In all fairness, this strategic deployment of the devil is simply seamless and perfect for them, and once its strategic purpose is achieved, then the consequences will be extremely heavy for our army. ”

"Encircle and annihilate all the troops of our army around Nanjing." Kong Xiangjie looked at the map and gasped, and said coldly.

"That's right! Commander Kong is right, the ultimate strategic goal of the devil is to annihilate all the troops of our army in the Nanjing Theater, and then capture the city of Nanjing! Qiao Anbang nodded and praised, it seems that this Kong Xiangjie still has a bit of strategic vision, and it is normal to say that he has no ability to resist the one-day onslaught of a field division of the Yue Army with thousands of remnants of the defeated generals?

"So if you want to save the battle situation in Nanjing, it seems impossible on the surface, but the words of Regiment Commander Kong just now reminded me." Qiao Anbang looked at Kong Xiangjie with some gratitude and said: "The devil's strategy is to attack head-on, detour on both wings, cut off the rear road of our army, and annihilate our army in one fell swoop." My idea is that we should also follow the example of the devils and decisively launch an attack on the occupied areas, preferably in the direction of Shanghai. ”

"Attack on the occupied zone?" The crowd was shocked.

"Yes." Qiao Anbang nodded, then turned around and pointed to the map with a command pole and said: "You see, since the Battle of Songhu, the troops of the Yue Army who participated in the Battle of Shanghai, except for the 114th Division and other units to attack in the direction of Hangzhou and other central Zhejiang, almost all of the rest were used in the direction of Nanjing, and the Yue Army left in Shanghai had at most one division. ”

"In order to concentrate forces to capture our capital Nanjing, the number of troops left behind in the cities and towns captured along the way can be described as very small, and even in some places there are no troops left at all. It's not that the devils are stupid, but because these places have become the rear of the devils. Therefore, if we take the initiative to attack and launch an attack on the occupied areas, even if we cannot recover Shanghai, we will be able to disrupt the logistical supply of the devils, and it must be known that at this time, the divisions and regiments on the front line of the army have been continuously fighting on a long distance, and the supply line is full of three or four hundred kilometers, and once we cut off their logistics lines, the divisions and regiments of the devils on the front line will suddenly fall into a situation of running out of ammunition and food, so that no matter which one we can do, the divisions and regiments of the devil's front line will be forced to return to the division, so that the current crisis in Nanjing can be easily solved. ”

"But once the divisions on the front line of the army return to the division, we will also be surrounded by tens of thousands of devils' troops, and it will be difficult to evacuate safely." Kong Xiangjie's face was a little heavy on the side, and he continued Qiao Anbang's words.

"Yes." Qiao Anbang's face was also solemn, and he immediately said to everyone in an extremely heavy tone: "Everyone, don't hide it, the result of this will definitely be nine deaths, and it is very likely that we will be wiped out, I don't want to hide this from you, although I am your commander, everyone has the right to decide their own life and death." ”

"However, what I want to say is, as Chinese men, descendants of Yan and Huang, how can we sit idly by and watch the land fall and our compatriots suffer? How can we sit back and watch the devils annihilate our hundreds of thousands of troops, how can we let the devils invade our national capital Nanjing, as we all know, if Nanjing is lost, the Jiangnan region will be completely lost to the enemy, Qiao and you are all Chinese men, how can we bear to see tens of millions of compatriots in Jiangnan become slaves of the country, and since then they have lived a miserable life and suffered all the humiliation! Qiao Anbang said sonorously.

"Tuanza, I'm willing to go! As long as I can save Nanjing, and I can save hundreds of thousands of compatriots in Nanjing, I will go to the soup and fight the fire, and I Li Yifeng will not hesitate to do it! Li Yifeng, the commander of the third battalion, was the first to say immediately.

"Lao Tzu also goes! Ge Lao Tzudi, none of our Sichuan Yankees are afraid of death! Zhao Gengyuan was also very excited on the side.

"Tuanza, you can give the order." The second battalion commander Cao Er said with a resolute face. He was born in the Qiao family, as long as Qiao Anbang gave an order, even if he was allowed to die, he would not hesitate to do so.

"Captain Qiao, you just give the order!" Kong Xiangjie's gaze at Qiao Anbang at this moment was already full of admiration, when Qiao Anbang talked about retreating just now, he was simply disappointed in Qiao Anbang in his heart.

In fact, Qiao Anbang did plan to retreat to the first battalion of Dangtu and his eldest brother just now, and then make plans, because Qiao Anbang thought that as long as they held the Cixi Lake ferry, neither the 18th Division nor the Guoqi Detachment would want to cross the Yangtze River easily.

However, Kong Xiangjie's unintentional sentence just now pointed out him.

At this moment, the main energy of the army is on the capture of Nanjing, as Qiao Anbang said, from the front line of Nanjing to Shanghai, the rear of the army is extremely empty, once a squadron suddenly appears in Kunshan, Xuancheng behind these devils, it can definitely cut off the logistics of the devils, and even threaten Shanghai.

If it is just an ordinary ** army, it is obviously impossible to achieve this goal, but now it is Qiao Anbang's Tiger Regiment fully equipped with American equipment, and the whole regiment is mechanized, not to mention anything else, the speed of marching, it is definitely much faster than that of the devil.

Moreover, the weapons and equipment of the Tiger Ben Regiment are advanced, and it is absolutely possible to sneak attack the rear of the devil and completely disrupt the battle situation.

Qiao Anbang patted Kong Xiangjie on the shoulder, and then said: "Very good, I am very moved by the courage of the brothers, the boy is alive, he can be loyal to the country and filial piety to the nation, even if he dies, this life will not be in vain, I think even if we die in this battle, your heroic names will definitely be engraved on the Chinese martyrs' monument in the future, and we will always be admired and respected by future generations!" ”

Saying that, Qiao Anbang turned his head to Kong Xiangjie and said: "Commander Kong, you go and arrange it immediately, your troops will immediately change their clothes, you will screen out all the soldiers who can drive and serve as artillerymen, and let them do their old jobs." ”

"Change gear?" Kong Xiangjie was a little puzzled.

"Yes, for American-style gear." Joan Bang replied lightly.

"American-style equipment? Do you use American-style equipment? "When he was fighting with the devil in the city just now, Kong Xiangjie saw the firepower of the tiger group, even the devil was beaten and couldn't raise his head.

"Yes, I'll equip you with trucks later, the most important thing for us to sneak attack the rear of the devils this time is speed, so it's definitely not possible to walk, all troops must be fully mechanized!" Qiao Anbang nodded in reply.

"Good! I'll arrange it right away! Kong Xiangjie hurriedly responded, and then turned around and left impromptuly, in the final analysis, he is also a professional soldier, and he naturally can't ask for advanced new equipment.

After Kong Xiangjie left, Qiao Anbang ordered Cao Er, Li Yifeng, Li Jupeng and others: "All battalions immediately prepare, let the artillery battalion, baggage battalion, and health team withdraw first, and then you will quickly march towards Gaochun County after the armored assault team and reconnaissance company pad!" ”|

"Yes!" Everyone immediately stepped forward and immediately turned around and left.

After seeing everyone leave one by one, Qiao Anbang turned around and said to Yali, who was sitting in front of the radio not far behind him: "Immediately send a telegram to the eldest brother, let him lead a battalion to rush to Gaochun, we will meet in Gaochun!" ”

"Tuanza, are you sure you want to give up being Tu?" Yali asked, puzzled.

"Hmm." Qiao Anbang nodded seriously and said: "As long as we can cut off the logistics of the devils and force the troops on the front line of the devils to return to the division to rescue, then the siege of Nanjing will not be saved and solved, so it doesn't matter if Tu guards it or not." ”

"Oh!" Yali answered, and immediately turned her head to shoot the telegram.

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