The next day, Jiang Intermediary officially announced the relocation of the capital to Chongqing, as the supreme leader Lin Sen rushed to Sichuan on the Yongsui warship, a large number of government offices and schools began to evacuate, and the people who saw the government also left began to follow the long westward journey, but in the city of Nanjing, there are still a large number of people who can't even make up the travel expenses and are not ready to leave Nanjing at all, no matter how the police and others persuade Jiang Intermediary to hold a meeting again, this time not only Bai Chongxi, He Yingqin and others, but also Li Zongren, Tang Zhisheng and others also summoned over.

Jiang Zhong said, "Yesterday there was a meeting, and when it came to the issue of the guards in Nanjing, I went back and thought about it all night, but I still couldn't make up my mind, do you have any ideas?" Everyone knew about the situation in Nanjing, and suddenly fell into silence again.

Falkenhausen was the first to break the deadlock and said: We can consider using our European method to declare Nanjing an undefended city to the whole world, and then withdraw all the troops, leaving only some policemen to maintain law and order. ”

Jiang Intermediary shook his head and said that it was inappropriate, "Asia is Asia, Europe is Europe, this is inappropriate." ”

As soon as everyone heard it, they understood that Jiang still wanted to guard.

Liu Fei stood up and said, "If you don't concentrate the strength of about 10-20 regiments and symbolically defend it, you will also have an explanation." ”

Jiang Zhong closed his eyes and nodded, such an idea was quite consistent with his thinking.

Li Zongren also got up and said, "Since ancient times, there have only been two successful battles in the defense of Nanjing, one is that the Jin soldiers attacked the Song Dynasty, and the famous general Yu Yunwen fought once in Quarry, but that time was because the Song Dynasty's naval army was in absolute superiority, and the other time was when we were in the Northern Expedition, Sun Chuanfang attacked Nanjing, but that time it was our army in absolute superiority, but now there is a huge disparity in the strength of the enemy and us, and we have no troops to use on the periphery of Nanjing, so we can't defend it." If you defend the city of Nanjing. I'm afraid I won't be able to hold it for 1 day. Under the city wall of Nanjing, except for Yuhuatai and two small hills of Purple Mountain, there is no danger to defend at all. The Qing army that defended Nanjing was so strong that it was attacked by the Taiping army after 10 days. The section of the city wall blown up by the Taiping Army is near the venue, if you are interested, you can come with me after the meeting. So I also suggest a symbolic hit will do. ”

At this time, one of the people sitting in the back stood up and shouted, "Then don't you fight?" The first prime minister was watching us from the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum. ”

As soon as he said this, Jiang Zhong's eyes lit up, and he looked over to see that it was Tang Zhisheng.

I saw Tang Zhisheng cough a few times first, and continued: "Nanjing is the capital of my country. It is related to the international view and is where Premier Sun's mausoleum is located, if you give up Nanjing, how will you treat the Prime Minister's soul in the sky? Therefore, we must defend it to the death, and we must survive with Nanjing! ”

Everyone looked at Tang Zhisheng, who was coughing and awe-inspiring at the same time, and they couldn't speak for a while, especially Li Zongren and Liu Fei, who had just talked about the past and the present, and Liu Fei was just that. After all, it is Guijun's junior character, but Li Zongren is uncomfortable, and chuckled, "I finally know what it means to be ashamed today, Nanjing is obviously a dead place." What person who knows the soldiers can't see it? I think General Tang seems to be seriously ill and has not recovered. ”

Tang Zhisheng pressed the table hard and said, "The art of war, put it to death and come back to life, Nanjing is not guarding the city, but the hearts of the people in the world." The gap between China and Japan is known to the whole world, and no one knows when Nanjing can be recaptured after the loss, if it retreats without a fight. What does this make the world think? What do other countries think? What do our soldiers think? Will they feel that the tide is over and they will not be willing to fight? ”

Li Zongren was speechless, and it took a long time to say, "You are gambling with the lives of the soldiers." ”

"You're betting on the national fortunes of the Republic of China!!" Tang Zhisheng replied immediately. He looked at Jiang Intermediary in the first place and said, "Commission, if they don't dare, let me guard Nanjing City." ”

Bai Chongxi and the others felt extremely harsh when they heard Tang Zhisheng's words, but no one stood up and said that they were willing to defend Nanjing City, Jiang Zhong looked at Tang Zhisheng, and was extremely conflicted in his heart, with his thoughts, of course, he hoped to hold Nanjing City, this is the capital of the Republic of China, once lost, I don't know when it can be recaptured, the political significance here is too great, will he be regarded as a loser by the international community if he loses the capital.

But it is not appropriate to choose Tang Zhisheng as the guard general to guard Nanjing, Jiang intermediary knows in his heart that Nanjing cannot be defended, and yesterday Jiang Cheng's prophecy was once again true, Tang Zhisheng really stood up and asked to defend Nanjing City, after the 77 incident and the lesson of Jin Shanwei twice, Jiang intermediary unconsciously had some fear of Jiang Cheng's prophecy.

Jiang stood up and asked, "Then who wants to guard Nanjing?" ”

There was silence, and no one was willing to take responsibility for the loss of the capital.

Jiang Intermediary sighed: "I'll think about this matter again." ”

Jiang Cheng on the other side left Ba Shun and the others behind. Let them lurk outside the city of Nanjing, and let Jinshan take people to Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province to send a letter to themselves, they crossed back to Heitie Island, so long been busy with their own affairs, but the Taiyuan side was delayed, so they were ready to return to Taiyuan in the next step, according to the time calculation, the battle of Xinkou was almost fought.

-- Shanghai

At this time, Shanghai had gradually quieted down, and the only place where there were still Chinese troops was the Sixing Warehouse near the Suzhou Creek.

Xie Jinyuan slowly raised his head, looking at the dense plaster flags and the Japanese army outside, his brain couldn't help tingling, it seemed that there must be thousands of people.

"Commander, is we all left?" While loading the Czech machine gun magazine, Chen Shusheng, a daredevil, secretly looked at the outside and said.

Xie Jinyuan took out a cigarette and handed it to him and said, "What's wrong?" Scared? ”

Chen Shusheng's eyes widened and said, "How can you be afraid?" These little devils are really stupid, so many cannons don't know how to use them, and they don't even bomb planes. ”

Xie Jinyuan looked at the concession behind the warehouse and said, "That's not that the little devil is stupid, it's that the little devil is unwilling to provoke Europeans and Americans." ”

At this time, countless Chinese in the concession gathered in Suzhou Creek, watching the battle in the Sixing warehouse across the river, and hundreds of concession guards with guns to maintain order. Countless people waved the blue sky and white sun flag, cheering for the warriors on the opposite side.

At this time, a group of students ran over, and when they saw that there was a truce on the opposite side, they said to the besieging crowd, "Hello everyone, I am a student of the Central Technical College, we want to sing to cheer for the soldiers on the opposite side, can we sing along with us?" ”

The crowd watching the battle was loud and better, and an aunt said in Shanghainese, "What are you singing about?" ”

The schoolgirl thought for a moment and said, "We just learned a song. It came from the north, but it sounded good, and I saw the female student singing with her classmates one by one.

"Commander, listen, there seems to be a singing." Chen Shusheng said in surprise suddenly.

When Xie Jinyuan heard it, didn't he, he hurriedly followed the singing, but found that the singing came from the concession.

Xie Jinyuan waved his hand and said, "Don't make noise, listen!" ”

But I heard a louder and louder singing voice"

After a hundred years of sleep, the Chinese people have gradually woken up

Open your eyes. Watch carefully

Which will be a captive to confess himself

Because of cowering and forbearance

People are becoming more and more arrogant

Speak up, shout loudly

The Great Wall will never fall

The Great Wall will never fall

This is a place where the whole country is in the army

Historically, robbers have invaded

Eventually, he will die

The Great Wall will never fall

Thousands of miles of Yellow River water

The rivers and mountains are beautiful, and the colorful peaks and ridges are stacked

Ask me what kind of country is like being infected

Rush out of the way and wave your hand

We must devote ourselves to the prosperity of the country

Shall the land be trampled down again?

Each one takes on a mission

The Great Wall will never fall

Thousands of miles of Yellow River water

The rivers and mountains are beautiful, and the colorful peaks and ridges are stacked

Ask me what kind of country is like being infected

Rush out of the way and wave your hand

We must devote ourselves to the prosperity of the country

Shall the land be trampled down again?

This sleeping lion is waking up."

Xie Jinyuan's eyes became more and more blurred when he heard it, yes, it has been almost a hundred years since the Opium War, and our China is still in chaos, and now even Little Japan has hit the doorstep, and China is in danger of extinction.

The singing is getting louder and louder. Soon it reached the Japanese position, and since this was the last Chinese position, Matsui Ishine arrived with a group of generals to prepare for the moment of complete occupation of Shanghai.

"What is this song?" Matsui Ishine asked.

Akira Akira next to him listened to it and said, "This is the person singing." It seems to be a new song. ”

Matsui Ishine asked, "What are the lyrics talking about?" ”

Shadow Zuo Zhaozhen said with a serious expression: "The whole country is a soldier, robbers will die when they come in, and the Great Wall will never fall." Your Excellency, Commander, please order an attack at once, or the morale of the countervailers will grow stronger and stronger. ”

Matsui Ishone listened to the singing that grew louder and louder. He took a step back slightly, and shouted, "The Great Wall will never fall? Their Great Wall is already under the banner of our empire, attack me! Offensive! The arrogance of these people must be defeated. ”

Order. Gunfire rang out, and numerous grenadiers exploded on the building of the warehouse.

"Hurry up, enter the position, the people will perform and sing for us, and we will show them to kill the little devil!!" After saying that, Xie Jinyuan took a shot at the devil who rushed to the front, only to see that the devil's brain immediately collapsed, and he couldn't die anymore.

Due to Jiang Cheng's advance reminder, Xie Jinyuan's regiment brought a large number of machine guns and ammunition, and the Sixing warehouse was a six-story building with a reinforced concrete structure, and the Japanese army could not penetrate the fire network composed of machine guns without being able to use artillery, and suffered heavy casualties in a short time.

Seeing that Xie Jinyuan played well, the people by the Suzhou Creek became even more excited, singing one after another, and some people didn't care when their throats were dumb, as if this would allow the soldiers to kill more devils.

King Hatohiko, who had just come to Shanghai, scolded: "These damned people of China should all be killed." ”

Matsui Ishone didn't look good on his face, and looked at the wing captain who actually commanded the battle viciously, and the wing captain was so frightened that he hurriedly went out and ordered the troops to attack.

Shadow Zuo Zhaozhen, who was holding a telescope next to him, suddenly said, "Your Excellency the Headquarters, look at it, these people seem to be dressed very similarly to the corpses found in the Tianjin warehouse and the Shanghai Headquarters. ”

Matsui Ishine looked at it, isn't it, and said excitedly, "It turned out to be them, give me a fight, and you must get rid of these rats." ”

King Hatohiko of the Asaka Palace was puzzled, "Who are these people?" Matsui-kun seems to be excited. ”

Matsui Ishine gritted his teeth and said, "These are the criminals of the Tianjin bombing case and the Shanghai Command attack, please see, Your Royal Highness, they are wearing special clothes, we have experimented, at a long distance, our rifles have no effect at all." ”

King Hatohiko of the Asaka Palace couldn't help but be stunned: "There are still such troops." They must be wiped out once and for all. ”

I saw countless Japanese soldiers rushing to the Sixing warehouse with explosives bags under the cover of machine guns and grenadiers, and even two tanks squeaked over.

"There are Japanese tanks. Preparation of anti-aircraft artillery. Xie Jinyuan shouted.

Seeing only two cannon shots, the two Japanese tanks instantly turned into a ball of fire, and the singing and cheering by the Suzhou River became louder.

At this time, musicians Gui Taosheng and Xia Zhiqiu, who were in the concession, also came to the scene and shouted, "Everyone, be quiet, be quiet." ”

Everyone looked at the two, not knowing what they were going to do.

Gui Tao shouted, "Everyone, listen to me, I just wrote a song for our Captain Xie and the warriors of the Sixing Warehouse, let's sing it to Captain Xie together." ”

As soon as I heard the song dedicated to the warriors of the Four Elements Warehouse, everyone applauded excitedly.

At this time, the Japanese offensive had reached its most intense stage. Only one squad of Japanese soldiers was seen passing through the blockade line and coming to a shooting corner. With huge bags of explosives, they ran to the corner of the warehouse while covering the shots.

"Oh no, stop them!" Xie Jinyuan shouted, they can guard the Sixing warehouse for so long, they all rely on this sturdy building, once it is blown up, where will there be thousands of Japanese opponents outside.

"I'm coming", I only saw Chen Shusheng, who was still shooting just now. He violently took the cluster grenades stacked next to him, and after pulling the fuse, he jumped into this small group of Japanese soldiers from the sixth floor, only to hear a loud bang. Chen Shusheng and more than a dozen Japanese soldiers melted into flames.

"Tree Born!!" Xie Jinyuan looked at the smoke that slowly dissipated and shouted, tears slowly remained, these soldiers were all trained by Xie Jinyuan, and each one died. Xie Jinyuan felt like he had been cut on his body.

"Beat, beat me to death." Yang Ruifu, the battalion commander next to him, shouted, squeezing past a soldier next to him. Sweeping with the MG-34, the Japanese saw that such losses were too great and had no choice but to retreat.

At this time, a new song came to me, and only "China will not die."

China will not die

Look at that national hero, Captain Xie

China will not die

China will not die

You see, those 800 brave men are alone in the eastern battlefield

There was artillery fire on all sides

There are jackals on all sides

I'd rather die than back down

Would rather die than surrender

Our flag flutters in the encirclement"

"Captain, this is talking about us." Yang Ruifu laughed as he played.

"We are national heroes, brothers, have you heard, the common people say that our national heroes, give me a hard beating of these little devils, tell them, our China will not die!!"

Under the leadership of Xie Jinyuan, the Sixing warehouse was guarded for five days and five nights, and on the night of the next day, Yang Huimin smuggled to the Sixing warehouse with the national flag, looking at the blue sky and white sun flag that had been fluttering in the siege of countless Japanese troops, and looking at the Japanese soldiers who were constantly charging and being killed, even Matsui Shigen began to have some doubts, can the empire really achieve the final victory?

Five days later, after running out of ammunition, Xie Jinyuan retreated with the rest of his troops to the back of Suzhou Creek, which was also the final battle of the Battle of Songhu. After arriving at the concession, the British army immediately disarmed Xie Jinyuan's troops and escorted them to the open space on Jiaozhou Road, where Xie Jinyuan's lone army began a long isolated island life, which became the most frequented place for the common people in the concession during the Anti-Japanese War, and was called the "Chongqing" of Shanghai

――Nanjing Jiang looked at Xue Yue on the bed, stood up and said angrily, "What the hell is going on?" How did the dignified left-wing commander become like this. ”

Dai Li, who was next to him, said, "When retreating, the Japanese army attacked us frantically, and finally it turned into a rout, the Japanese planes continued to attack the air, General Xue's car was hit, the driver and the guard were killed on the spot, and General Xue was forced to jump into the Suzhou Creek, which infected the wind chill." ”

Jiang asked anxiously, "So when will it be okay, have you taken penicillin?" ”

Dai Li said, "I have already been beaten, and the doctor said that it will take a week, and it will hurt my muscles and bones, and it may take more than a month to get out of bed." ”

Jiang Zhong sighed helplessly, instructed Xue Yue's family to take good care of Xue Yue, and then asked Chen Bui next to him, "How are our troops retreating?" ”

Chen Bui replied, "Now the rear troops have also retreated to the Wufu line, the Japanese army is storming the Wufu line, our army has lost more than 30,000 casualties in the retreat, and because the retreating troops in front do not know the situation, they have planted mines indiscriminately, resulting in one of our heavy artillery regiments being unable to cross the bridge and can only be blown up." ”

Jiang Intermediary thought as he walked, now that most of the military forces in Jiang Mediation's hands have suffered serious losses, who should the defenders of Nanjing City choose.

The first choice in Jiang's intermediary's heart is actually Li Zongren or Zhang Zhizhong of the Gui department, but Li Zongren made it clear that Nanjing could not be defended, and Zhang Zhizhong resigned and returned to his hometown because of the contradiction with Chen Cheng during the Battle of Songhu, as for Gu Zhutong and Chen Cheng both arranged a retreat in Anhui, Feng Yuxiang heard that he wanted to defend Nanjing, and went directly to the Wufu line to say that he wanted to defend it, and for a time Jiang intermediary could not find anyone to replace Tang Zhisheng, who was recommended by Mao Sui.

Jiang Zhong had no choice but to ask Tang Zhisheng for orders, constantly explaining his thoughts, and leaving Sun Yuanliang, Luo Zhuoying and others to assist, hoping that nothing would go wrong, and at this time, Jiang Cheng had already come to Shanxi with arms, and by the time he learned that the Nanjing defender was still Tang Zhisheng, it was already too late.

-- Xinjiang

A man full of books stepped off the plane, looked at the people who came to greet him at the airport, hurriedly stepped down and held the hands of several people tightly, and said excitedly, "Great, comrades, it's really nice to see you." Then he looked at Dongfang and said with a smile: "I, Wang Ming, are back!" (To be continued......)

PS: Regarding the problem that the battle situation has not changed, let me tell you, the protagonist's golden finger is mainly in the direction of Yan'an, and industrial construction is not a result in a few days, so it will be relatively slow, and the line in the south is mainly the protagonist's own mental changes, and the south is actually stronger than the north, so the battle situation is roughly the same as history.