Liu Yuan returned to the army, and immediately had two group armies under his command, namely the 33rd Group Army and the First Strategic Group Army of the Southwest Special Region, with a total strength of nearly 200,000 troops. And Nie Rongzhen naturally changed from the commander of the First Strategic Group Army of the Southwest Special Administrative Region to the party representative.

"Lao Nie is right, the armament of our strategic group army is very good in the southwest, and when we get to Nanjing, I'm afraid we will become the only new force, who does the principal not need us to use?" Liu Yuan thought about it and said, "The little devils have a great appetite, their strategic intentions are obvious, after taking Shanghai, they are willing to do it in Nanjing, and Kyoto cannot be easily lost, that is the political center." ”

Nie Rongzhen understood Liu Yuan's intentions very clearly, stood up and said, "If I am Matsui Shigen, I will fight like this, and order my Japanese army to break through Jiaxing, and quickly march to Kexuancheng and capture Wuhu, so that hundreds of thousands of defeated troops in Nanjing will have no way to retreat, and then our army can only cross the Yangtze River north, and the Japanese army at this time can use their naval and air power to wipe out our troops." ”

Liu Yuan knew the strategy of the Japanese army because he knew the history of the Battle of Nanjing, while Nie Rongzhen only looked at the combat movements of the Japanese army, and he probably understood the movements of the Japanese army. Sure enough, it is a generation of handsome talents.

"It seems that there is only a division of troops, so I and you have one generation, you go to Wuhu, try to resist the march of the Japanese army, Zhang Zizhong and Wang Yaowu will bring you, and I will take the other troops to Nanjing." Liu Yuan thought for a moment and said.

"If the principal doesn't follow our strategy, can the Wufu line still be held?" Xie Yingbai asked, he was very unoptimistic about the war on the front line.

"I can't care so much, let's go to Nanjing first, our ancient capital will definitely not be able to escape the fate of war." I just hope the war doesn't get too bad. After Liu Yuan finished speaking, he said to Zuo Quan, "Urge the boss to let him go quickly, it's really not good, heavy weapons can be slow down and then on the battlefield, now is the time to need soldiers." ”

"Mr. He, you want to go to Wuhu with me, so that we can resist for a while." Nie Rongzhen suggested.

Liu Yuan thought for a moment and made a decision, and said, "Okay, Zuo Quan has drawn up the marching route and told Mr. He, hurry up." Liu Yuan immediately clapped his head and said.

Under the command of Liu Yuan, the First Strategic Group Army of the Southwest Special Administrative Region was like a highly efficient machine, running at a rapid pace, and groups of troops rushed to their destinations either by boat or by railway.

The fighting in Shanghai was still fierce, the Sixth Division and the Eighth Army fought fiercely, and the Eighth Army was defeated, losing many positions in succession.

The 18th Division of the Japanese Army, with the support of artillery, continuously attacked the 57th Division, and at the same time Jiaxing was attacked by the 114th Division of the Japanese Army.

A large-scale bloody battle broke out on the Songjiang battlefield, and Xue Yue commanded his 19th Group Army to fight a bloody battle with the 15th Division of the Japanese Army, forcing back the 15th Division of the Japanese Army.

Chen Cheng had already begun to order the troops to gradually withdraw from the battlefield, and telegrams from Liu Yuan and Chen Cheng reached Chiang Kai-shek's desk at the same time, and on November 30, Chiang Kai-shek was forced to unify the order to withdraw from the battlefield.

Du Yuming personally commanded the 33 rd Group Army to take charge of the break, and the other units retreated in an orderly manner in the retreat plan drawn up by Liu Yuan temporarily, and all those who panicked, fled, or fled were all shot on the spot; at the same time, a large number of officers who had graduated from military academies and officers who had been transferred from other units temporarily added that in the army, they were responsible for maintaining order in the troops and ensuring that the troops did not completely fall into panic.

The Japanese were aware of the problem of the retreat of the Chinese army and launched a strong offensive against the 33rd Army.

In this life, because of Liu Yuan, he finally asked for the doom of the whole army to retreat, but there were still some troops who became extremely flustered, Master Feng Sheng is an example, the whole army lost all the heavy weapons, wounded soldiers, and only cared about fleeing by themselves, Liu Yuan did not ask Chiang Kai-shek at all, gave Gu Zhu the same telegram, and asked for Feng Shengfa's life.

Feng Shengfa is a graduate of the first phase of Whampoa, Liu Yuan's classmates, even Chiang Kai-shek is reluctant to kill people, Liu Yuan ordered to go down, he asked for his head, and the generals of other departments immediately became honest, although it is good to escape, but at least they can continue to live after escaping, there are lessons from the past, everyone retreats according to order.

A group of officers with blue sky and white sun emblems were planning to blow up the heavy artillery, and this thing could not be thrown to the Japanese. Several artillerymen had tears in their eyes, crying and grabbing the officer's sleeve, "Sir, you can't blow it up, that's our lifeline, without him, what will we do to fight devils." ”

The angry officer went up and gave the artilleryman a whip, "Still beating devils, don't you see them?" These wounded soldiers, how can they be pulled away without a car. Are you going to let me go with these cannons in a car? The little devil has to blow us up."

Yu Xuezhong rode a white war horse, hurried on the road, saw the scene on the road, was very angry, ran over, and gave the officer a few whips.

"Mahler, such a good cannon, you want to fucking blow it up, your life is expensive, or its life is expensive." Yu Xuezhong turned out to be the Northwest Army and had a short temper.

"We can't leave him to the devil." The officer said aggrievedly.

"Don't leave it to the devils, leave it to us. Without you, we'd still be fighting devils. Yu Xuezhong glanced at the officer with disdain, this officer was at least a lieutenant colonel.

"Nonsense, now the whole front is retreating, who is still staying on the battlefield to fight devils, who do you think you are? You don't want to leave this stuff to the devils. The officer glanced at Yu Xuezhong vigilantly, and several artillerymen were also anxiously holding their guns, as if as long as one of them said badly, they would shoot.

Yu Xuezhong took out the letter of appointment and shouted loudly, "Contemptible, Cai Tingkai, the commander of the 117th Division, in the name of Liu Yuan, the commander of the Third Theater, is responsible for blocking the Japanese army in Taicang, I hope that the brothers can leave useful guys behind and fight devils for us." ”

The middle-aged officer took the letter of appointment unconvinced, looked at it and saw that tears flowed out, "Why did the commander come back, if the commander didn't leave, how could we lose Shanghai, how could my brothers die in vain." ”

"General, we can't give you this weapon." Another lieutenant colonel saluted.

"Are you going to blow them up for what?" Yu Xuezhong looked at the young officer in front of him with gunpowder smoke on his face in confusion.

"No general, your Southwest Army is a soldier, and we are also soldiers, we are willing to stay and live and die with you and fight devils together." The young officer looked at Yu Xuezhong persistently.

The other officers also puffed out their chests and said seriously and passionately, "Yes, we all have to stay and fight devils." ”

Yu Xuezhong nodded, "Okay, it's Chinese soldiers, we lost in Songhu, but we also have to lose with dignity, let the little devils see the blood of our Chinese soldiers!" ”