Chapter 1121 is all under control

Bengbu, the headquarters of the Southern Expedition.

After reading the telegrams sent by the divisions from the front one after another, Zuo Quan couldn't help but be overjoyed, turned to Qiao Youhua, and said, "Youhua, according to the current situation, everything is under our control!" ”

Qiao Youhua smiled slightly: "Yes, it's time for us to set off now, it's not good if it's too late!" ”

"I'll arrange it." Left Authority.

Qiao Youhua raised his hand to stop him and said: "Oh, by the way, tell Li Yunlong that after crossing the river, don't take over the defense of Nanjing, just take over the city and order them to be responsible for maintaining law and order, I believe Chairman Jiang will send someone to receive it soon!" In any case, this is the former capital of the National Government, so let's give them a favor! ”

Zuo Quan was a little worried: "If we don't station, will the puppet army in the city come out of chaos, so that Nanjing will fall into a state of anarchy and uncontrolled chaos?" I am worried that if such a situation occurs, it will cause great losses to the vast number of innocent people. ”

Qiao Youhua stood up, and while sorting out his military uniform, he said calmly: "Don't worry, absolutely not, because the high-level puppet army now stationed in Nanjing are all high-ranking officials of Wang Jingwei's puppet government, and they are also high-level officials of the former national government, they know the severity, and they know what to do now!" In the final analysis, their group of wall grasses are better than us when they see the wind and turn the rudder!

Take 10,000 steps back, even if someone wants to fish in troubled waters, the Central Committee and the military will not sit idly by and watch them do anything wrong! Now that the devils have withdrawn and Nanjing has ushered in the recovery, this is no longer the sphere of influence of the puppet army! It will be more convenient for the agents of the military and the central command to do things! The puppet army will have some scruples! ”

After listening to Qiao Youhua's analysis, Zuo Quan put his mind at ease, nodded, turned around and strode away.

Qiao Youhua took off the military hat on the wall, and instructed Zheng Yunshan, the head of the guard regiment who had been waiting by his side: "Yunshan, order the guard regiment to assemble immediately, we are going to pull out!" ”

"Yes!" Zheng Yunshan suddenly agreed, and after standing up and saluting, he also turned around and took the order to leave.

Qiao Youhua put on his military hat and came to the communications office, which was only separated by a wall from the war room of his headquarters. The communications personnel who followed him on his southern expedition this time were led by Wan Yinger, deputy director of the Communications Department.

Wan Ying'er now has more than a dozen confidential officers and orderlies under her command, and unless there are special circumstances, there is no need to personally receive telegrams. Therefore, when Qiao Youhua walked into the house, she was supervising the work of her confidential officers.

As the command center of this southern expedition, the headquarters carried eight high-power radios, in addition to a number of spare radios, after all, they not only had to maintain contact with more than 100,000 combat troops, but also kept in touch with the troops left behind and the other three columns.

Because she was too focused on supervising a female confidential officer to receive the message, Wan Yinger didn't notice Qiao Youhua's arrival until a light cough came from behind.

She hurriedly turned around, and was a little surprised and surprised when she saw Qiao Youhua, but she quickly came back to her senses, quickly stood up ****, and saluted Qiao Youhua: "Commander!" ”

"Well, there's nothing else, the troops are about to move south, so hurry up and prepare for your confidential office!" Qiao Youhua said.

"Okay, I'll arrange it right away." Wan Yinger nodded happily in agreement.

After the arrangements were made, two hours later, Qiao Tianyou, Zuo Quan, and the accompanying communications, and the logistics personnel, under the protection of the guard regiment, left Bengbu in a mighty manner and rushed to Nanjing along the railway line.

At the same time, Li Yunlong, who had already captured Pukou Station, was leading more than 60,000 troops to cross the river, because the Japanese army had decided to abandon Nanjing and retreat to Dangtu and Wuhu, so only the puppet army was left to block Li Yunlong's troops from crossing the river.

When the puppet soldiers saw that the devil was about to run, they knew that the sky in Nanjing was about to change, so they naturally would no longer work hard for the little devil, so they simply symbolically put a machine gun into the sky, and after fooling the last group of Japanese troops, they immediately sent personnel to secretly communicate with Li Yunlong's subordinates, expressing their willingness to surrender the city.

Li Yunlong and other front-line commanders reported this information to Qiao Youhua and Zuo Quan, and after obtaining Qiao Youhua's consent and approval, they reached an armistice agreement with the puppet army and organized troops to officially cross the Yangtze River, but they followed Qiao Youhua's previous instructions and did not enter the city to take over the defense.

Instead, the tens of thousands of puppet troops who surrendered were incorporated into the Anti-Japanese Salvation Army on the spot, and they were ordered to continue to be in charge of the city defense, responsible for maintaining law and order in the city, and waiting for other troops to come to take over the defense of Nanjing.

At the same time, Qiao Youhua and Zuo Quan, who had rushed to the Huaiyuan area, jointly announced to the Chinese people that Nanjing, the capital of China, had been recovered by them at this time.

In any case, the Nationalist Government is the only government that represents China today, and Nanjing is the national capital of the whole of China, which is a very celebratory event at that time, and will also greatly boost the morale of the anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians throughout the country, and strengthen the belief that the anti-Japanese soldiers will win against Japan.

As soon as the news came out, the whole country was shaken, and then, all parts of the country, except for the Japanese theater, whether it was the Kuomintang region or the area controlled by the Eighth Route Army, there were large-scale demonstrations and celebrations, and millions of Chinese people rushed to tell each other to celebrate another substantial and major victory in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.

After telegraphing the whole country and reporting the good news of Nanjing's recovery, Qiao Youhua and his wife sent a telegram to Chairman Chiang in Chongqing, informing them of the current situation in Nanjing, and explaining that neither the Eighth Route Army nor the Dragon's Tooth Corps had any intention of bringing Nanjing under their jurisdiction, and asked Chairman Chiang to send another force to take over the defense of the area around Nanjing!

With such a favor, Chairman Jiang is so smart that he can see it at a glance.

This time, however, Chairman Chiang gladly accepted it, because Nanjing was the capital of the Nationalist Government, and it was of great significance to him, the president of the Nationalist Government, and to the authority of the entire Nationalist Government.

Therefore, Chairman Jiang rarely appreciated Qiao Youhua more and reduced his hostility. After thinking about it, he still sent a telegram back to Qiao Youhua in the name of the chairman of the Nationalist Government, praising him for his bravery in fighting and loyalty to the country, and he can be called a model for the party-state soldiers.

Qiao Youhua and Zuo Quan didn't care what Lao Jiang thought in their hearts, and they also laughed at this verbal commendation.

Two days later, they also led the guard regiment and follow-up troops to Nanjing, at this time, except for a division of the East Route Army, which had already captured Zhenjiang and was still on standby in the local area, the main force of the column led by Li Yunlong had already followed the Japanese army to pursue Dangtu County, and the two Class A infantry regiments of the West Route Army were connected across the river, and after the division was realized in Dangtu.

It is advancing to Wuhu and other places.