Chapter 252: North or South
PS: 20,000 yuan is collected, it's not easy, ask for a one-month ticket!
"It's finally time to break through, and the days of this safe zone are too much. Mom is aggrieved, Lao Tzu has long wanted to have a fight with the little devil! ”
"yes, I thought that the division and the counselor didn't think about breaking through at all......"
"Break through, hehe, it's better to say suicide!"
"Captain Zhou, what do you say?"
"When I say suicide, we people ...... with guns"
……
Hearing that they wanted to 'break through', everyone's eyes lit up, and it was not a matter to stay in the safe zone, not to mention that the Japanese were becoming more and more eager to ban the safe zone, and the time limit given was becoming more and more strict.
"Silence!"
Leng Feng threw a glance at Zhou Linjun, why does this guy always go against everyone?
Anyway, the breakout is the theme of today's meeting.
"I think that there must be a general direction for breaking through the siege, we are now in the city, and we are not familiar with the situation outside, so how to choose this direction is worth studying." Zhao Hai, the leader of the third team, said.
"Captain Zhao is right, if we want to break through, we must first choose a direction, and then draw up a breakthrough plan in this direction. Leng Feng affirmed.
No one spoke for more than ten seconds.
"I'll say a few words." Liao Sen said, "Just now Leng Shenzao said that if we break through, we must choose a general direction and formulate a detailed plan around this general direction, which is correct, and I firmly support it." ”
"Brother Jianchu. Don't put a top hat on me. Something to say quickly. ”
"Good. Teacher, Leng Shenzao, colleagues, what I want to say is that we are trapped in Nanjing City and do not know much about the situation in the outside world, but it is not difficult to choose the direction of the breakthrough. Before the city of Nanjing was broken, the garrison commander's headquarters issued an order to break through the siege, which was nothing more than two directions, one was to the north, crossing the Yangtze River and going to Jiangbei, and the second was to the southwest and southwest of Anhui, and we could choose both directions. ”
Qiu Qingquan and Leng Feng nodded together. Liao Sen was right, breaking through to the east. That's absolutely not possible, the east is in the direction of Songhu, and now it is the Japanese theater of operations.
Drilling into the stomach of the Japanese army, isn't that looking for death?
To the west, it didn't work, the Sixth Division was stationed on the front line of Wuhu, and it was a hard confrontation with the elite Japanese army, which was the egg hitting the stone.
Only by going to the mountainous areas to the south, taking advantage of the natural geographical conditions of the mountainous hills and rivers to block the pursuit of the Japanese mechanized troops, can there be a glimmer of hope to be able to stand out.
There is another option, that is, Jiangbei, in view of the fierce battle between the Japanese Third Division and the national army in the Huai River area, and the northern Jiangsu area, the Japanese army is empty, but it is also a breakthrough direction.
But in front of everyone is a mighty Yangtze River, there is no ferry, how to cross the vast Yangtze River, not to mention that there are Japanese warships and patrol boats on the river.
In addition to the National Salvation Division, once the siege is broken, there may be more people who will follow along, and tens of thousands of people may be possible, so without hundreds of ferries, it will not work at all.
Where to find hundreds of ferries?
Even if there were ships, they were in the hands of the Japanese, guarded by Japanese soldiers and police, and they could not be easily obtained.
“…… Taking into account all factors, I think that we can only break through to the south, tear a hole in the Japanese blockade line, jump out, and adopt the strategy of not taking the main road but taking the small road, and then our national army stationed in southern Anhui will send a unit to respond, so that we can smoothly jump out of the Japanese theater and return to the rear to rest and fight again. Liao Sen analyzed and explained, said thousands of words in one breath, and almost gave the direction and policy of the breakthrough.
"What Deputy Counselor Liao said is reasonable, but the strength in our hands is not enough to highlight the blockade line of the Japanese army's subordinates, and the first consideration is how to get out of the city."
"Yes, if you can't even get out of Nanjing City, how can you talk about breaking through?"
"Now we are discussing which direction to break through, only this is decided first, and we are discussing the issue of getting out of the city." Qiu Qingquan snorted coldly and pulled the question back.
"What the division said is right, whether to retreat south or north, we must decide now." Leng Feng said slowly, from Liao Sen's words just now, I have already heard something, these people should have communicated in private, and their opinions are basically inclined to "retreat south".
"I think we can only break through to the south and to the north, the Yangtze River is dangerous, we have no ships, and there are Japanese warships on the river, so we can't pass at all." Zhao Hai, the leader of the third team, said loudly.
"Well, the Yangtze River is dangerous, we don't have a boat, and most of our soldiers don't know the nature of water, in such a cold day, once you fall into the water, if you don't drown, you have to freeze to death." Zhou Linjun, the leader of the fifth team, snorted.
"Yes, the Yangtze River is already controlled by the Japanese Navy, we have no warships to cover, once we cross the river, it will become a live target......"
"Actually, we can choose to break through at night, so even if there are Japanese warships to intercept them, how many can they intercept?" Shen Zhiming knew Leng Feng's thoughts, stood up and said, "What's more, the Japanese fleet is concentrated in the Madang area, from Nanjing to the lower reaches, there are only two destroyers and some patrol boats and gunboats, and the strength is not strong. ”
"What about boats, we need a lot of boats to cross the river, and we don't have a single boat in our hands now?"
"It's not that there are no boats, we have five boats in our hands, which can transport 500 people across the river at a time!" Leng Feng said slowly.
"Is there a ship?" The news came as a surprise to everyone.
"I can confirm that before this, Leng Shenza had led the 'Yaksha' to attack the Shimonoseki Pier and robbed five ships, one of which was a passenger ship, two small steamers, and two galleons, and these ships are now hidden in a safe and reliable place and can be used at any time." Shen Zhiming explained.
"If there is a boat, then it is a good choice to cross the river and go north." Ju Youlin said.
"You can only transport five hundred people at a time, which is too little." Kim Yong-hee shook his head.
"Yes, there are too few boats, if you want to cross the river. At least more boats. A round trip of at least two hours. It has dragged on for a long time, which is very bad for us. Chief of Staff Long Yingqin said.
"Director Long has a point."
"Yes, we need at least forty to fifty boats, and it's not enough to have a small boat, we need a big ship......"
"It's quite close from here to the edge of the Yangtze River, but how can we get out, the Rujiang Gate is basically intact, and the fortifications are very strong......
……
Everyone, you have a word. What I said was basically the practical difficulties of finding the "northward advance" again, and they all died in denying the direction of the "northward advance", and everyone was frightened by the evacuation that night.
Many people here were lost in Nanjing because they couldn't find the boat that night, and they got on the boat to cross the river and evacuate, including some people who guarded the 36th Division of the boat.
The evacuation that night left them with deep fear, people crowded, people pushed people, and how many people fell into the river and drowned because they did not squeeze into the boat. I don't know how many froze to death.
Leng Feng didn't say a word, he was emphasizing the natural danger of the Yangtze River. Without ships, Japanese warships patrolled, they did not think that it would actually be more difficult to retreat south.
Qiu Qingquan saw that Leng Feng was silent, and his heart sank slightly, I don't know if he didn't express his position, or if he didn't agree with everyone's words.
For this subordinate, he is becoming more and more incomprehensible.
"Brother Leng, tell me what you think, too?" Qiu Qingquan gently pushed Leng Feng and asked.
In the conference room, there was a sudden silence, Leng Feng, the chief of staff, had not yet expressed his opinion, his opinion was the most important and could not be ignored.
And for the situation outside, 'Yaksha' and Cold Front are much clearer than they are.
"Okay, Master." Leng Feng nodded, prepared the wording a little, and then spoke, "Everyone, whether it is retreating south or north, this is always an extremely dangerous military operation, and the danger in the process of action is unpredictable, but as long as we are fully prepared, we will naturally be able to turn evil into good fortune and become auspicious in trouble." ”
After speaking, Leng Feng stood up and ordered: "Counselor Wu, Cong Hu, do me a favor!" ”
Wu Xiaoyun and Cong Hu nodded, walked over, took out a huge map, and unfolded it on the blackboard in the conference room.
"This is a map drawn by the Japanese, so detailed!"
"Where did Leng Shenza get this, and it also marked the deployment and deployment of the Japanese army, so detailed, where did the information come from......"
"My goodness, such detailed information!"
"What's the big deal, isn't it just a few maps snatched from the Japanese!" A discordant voice rang out.
It was Zhou Linjun, the leader of the fifth detachment, who had been picking his nose at Leng Feng since Leng Feng entered the conference room, and he didn't like it.
“……”
As soon as the map was unfolded, the sound of exclamation rose unconsciously, and even Qiu Qingquan and others who learned about some of the situation couldn't help but show surprise.
Leng Feng made such an important thing out of silence, and it must have consumed a lot of energy and manpower.
"The deployment of both the enemy and us here is the last month, I'Yaksha' based on the map of the captured Japanese army and the hard work of the intelligence personnel, in order to obtain the things marked on this map, we have sacrificed a lot of people, they are all heroes of the country and the nation." Leng Feng said.
The map is very large, but in order to be intuitive and clear, some detailed information cold fronts are not marked, and can only be used when it is specific to a certain area.
"Since everyone thinks that the Yangtze River is a natural danger, then we will take the Yangtze River as the dividing line, and divide the enemy situation into the north of the Yangtze River, and the south of the Yangtze River, let's talk about the north of the Yangtze River first, most of the information in our hands comes from the enemy report of the Fifth Theater Commander's Department, the Japanese army does not deploy many troops in the north of the Yangtze River, and there has not yet been a large-scale battle with the national army, but the intention to advance north is very obvious, this is not that we don't consider it first, the current Japanese army in the north of the Yangtze River is mainly based on the 11th Division Tiangu Detachment and the main force of the 13th Division, Among them, the Tiangu Detachment of the 1st Division served as the garrison of the Yangzhou area, and the 13th Division was in Chuxian, Liuhe, Lai'an and Quanjiao...... Pukou, across the river from the city of Nanjing, was only garrisoned by a garrison brigade of the Japanese army......"
Everyone listened carefully, after all, many of them did not have a systematic understanding of these situations, and the news in the safe area was blocked, even if there was a channel for contact, they did not know many situations.
"This is the case in Jiangbei, and as for the situation along the Jiangbei coast, this needs to be understood in detail." Leng Feng said, "I won't go into detail about this for the time being, let's talk about the situation in the surrounding areas of Nanjing." ”
"After the Japanese army captured Nanjing, in order to prevent our defenders from breaking through from Nanjing, two blockade lines were set up in the southwest direction, the first line, Chunhua Tangshan, Jurong line, the second line of defense is Hushu, Moling Pass to Danyang line, no matter where we break through, the first thing to tear these two nets, if it is half a month ago, we want to break through, it is really difficult, now it is much better, after the Japanese army occupied Nanjing, the inside and outside of Nanjing City was divided into two garrison areas, the east garrison area is outside the city, the west garrison area is in charge of the city, The 16th Division will take over the garrison ...... in the Nanking area" (to be continued. )