"What message?" Chairman Jiang glanced at Wang Shihe with some confusion, and found that he was also full of doubts, so he immediately asked.

"It's a plain code message, the content is......" Before the attendant finished speaking, Chairman Jiang had already reached out and took the message.

After a hurried look, Wang Shihe and the attendant both found that Chairman Jiang's face was constantly changing, and finally he was all blue.

"Bastard, this Qiao Youhua is simply a big rebellious bastard thing! How dare he send such a message in my name? A sense of disobedience and betrayal for Qiao Youhua's love made Chairman Jiang can't help but roar angrily.

Wang Shihe took the telegram and glanced at it, his face suddenly changed greatly, and he looked up at Chairman Jiang in horror, and he didn't know what to say for a while.

The atmosphere in the office was extremely depressed for a while, and after a long time, Chairman Jiang said, "Go and find Chen Cheng and He Yingqin for me." ”

Wang Shihe bowed his head respectfully and answered, and hurriedly took the order to leave.

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Shanghai, the headquarters of the Japanese army in Central China.

"General, I just got the news that the Zhina Dragon Tooth Task Force of the Quanqi Detachment has captured Xuancheng, Guangde, Wuxing and even Suzhou in less than three days, and has cut off the connection between the imperial army on the Nanjing front line and the rear!" Tsukada reported to Matsui Ishine with a panicked expression.

"Nani? What did you say? They actually captured Suzhou? Baga Yalu, why didn't we get the news until now? What did the imperial army in Guangde, Wuxing and Suzhou eat for? Why is there no debriefing? ”

Tsukada said with a sad face: "General, do you know, the main force of the imperial army is used in the direction of Nanjing and Hangzhou, Guangde, Wuxing and even Suzhou are not many troops left, and there is no radio station, as for Xuancheng, after the destruction of the Guoqi detachment, it is an empty city."

Moreover, this branch of the army was extremely fast, and it attacked these cities almost with lightning speed, and the imperial army stationed there was wiped out before it had time to react, so it failed to report the enemy situation in time! ”

"What about the 8th Garrison? Wasn't it sent to Xuancheng? Matsui asked with the corners of his mouth twitching.

"I also encountered the Chinese army in the Battle of Guangde, and was completely annihilated by the Dragon Tooth Task Force!" Tsukada said with a sad face.

"Yaga, a bunch of rice buckets!" Matsui Ishine was furious, so many troops couldn't even stop a regiment-level unit, but after thinking about it, even the Kunisaki detachment was wiped out by this regiment-level unit, and his anger decreased slightly.

A Japanese staff officer hurriedly walked in and saluted the two: "Your Excellency Commander, Your Excellency Chief of Staff, you have just received a clear-code telegram issued by the Dragon's Tooth Task Force in China!" Suzhou has been captured by the Chinese Dragon's Tooth Task Force. ”

Tsukada took the message and hurriedly read it, his expression changed, and he handed it to Matsui Ishone.

After reading Matsui Shigen, the old devil, he was immediately furious, and slammed the table and said: "Baga Yalu, this Qiao Youhua must be eliminated, otherwise it will be a big trouble for the imperial army!" No, he has now become a big problem for the imperial army, we must retake Suzhou and open up contact with the 6th, 16th and other front-line divisions, otherwise the Battle of Nanjing will most likely fail because of this! ”

"Your Excellency General, please calm your anger, Suzhou must be recaptured, but from the humble point of view, this Dragon Tooth Task Force lone army attacked Suzhou in depth, and did not retreat immediately, but Xuancheng wants to stick to the end, it is definitely self-defeating, and the imperial army just mobilized heavy troops to encircle and annihilate it, and there will be no future trouble!" Tsukada attacked.

Matsui Shigen thought about it for a while, nodded happily and said: "Yo Xi, it makes sense, immediately mobilize the 9th Marine Corps and the 3rd Division to form a mixed corps, set off quickly, and be sure to recapture Suzhou within three days and open up the logistics supply line of the imperial army!"

Completely wipe out this small force of China, and the government of China will not promote them as heroic troops against the imperial army? Let the imperial army personally wipe out this heroic army, and it will definitely be able to deal a severe blow to the resistance enthusiasm of the army and people in China, which will be greatly beneficial to the imperial army's conquest of China! ”

"Hai, the general is wise, let's arrange it!" Tsukada slapped a sycophant without a trace, saluted and turned to leave.

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Wuhan, Office of the Chairman.

Chen Cheng and He Yingqin were notified, and they rushed over, but found that the old man had a black face, and the atmosphere in the office was a little depressing.

Before they came, they had already heard some rumors, and Chen Cheng took the lead in speaking: "Commission, what are the instructions for urgently summoning the lowly to come?" ”

Chairman Chiang pointed to the telegram on his desk: "See for yourselves. ”

Chen Cheng and He Yingqin stepped forward and picked up the message and read it respectively, their expressions were different, but there was some horror in their eyes, this Qiao Youhua really didn't know how thick the sky was.

"What do you guys think about this?" Chairman Jiang turned around and asked.

"Qiao Youhua falsely passed on the military order, whether according to the law or military law, he committed a capital crime, but he inflicted heavy losses on the Japanese army in a very short period of time, recovering hundreds of miles of lost territory, and made great achievements.

In addition, at the moment of national crisis, it is the time to employ people, and it is appropriate to deal with it cautiously! He Yingqin said ambiguously.

Chairman Jiang's eyes turned to Chen Cheng, and Chen Cheng hurriedly said: "Commission, Minister He is reasonable, and he also thinks that this is not the time to be held responsible, besides, Qiao Youhua has indeed made great achievements, and now he is an anti-Japanese hero in the eyes of the people, and he needs to be treated with caution!" ”

Although he did not deal with He Yingqin, at this important juncture of the country's life and death, Chen Cheng's opinions were rarely consistent with He Yingqin's, and Chairman Jiang was definitely a good hand in politics and people.

Chen Cheng paused, and continued: "And there is one thing that I think should be considered carefully, that is, Qiao Youhua built a matter of evacuating the citizens of Nanjing, Qiao Youhua said in the telegram is right, since the start of the Songhu war, our army and the Japanese have been fighting bloody battles for more than three months.

Even if our army was defeated in the end, it also caused great casualties to the Japanese army, and it is very likely that the Japanese invaders, who have accumulated grievances and hatred, will use violent and bloody means after capturing Nanjing, in order to demonstrate their strong force, kill one by one, or release the suppressed feelings of ordinary Japanese soldiers, etc., so as to carry out a bloody massacre of civilians in our capital.

There are countless examples in history of breaching enemy capitals and slaughtering cities, and we have to prepare for the worst! ”

As early as the middle and late stages of the Battle of Songhu, he advised Chairman Chiang to withdraw the main forces in the Songhu area before the situation completely collapsed, and relied on Wuxi, Jiangyin and other permanent defense lines to continue to attrition to resist the Japanese army.

However, Chairman Chiang pinned his hopes on the adjustment of the so-called League of Nations Pact countries, and stubbornly delayed the best time for retreat, and after the Japanese army sent more than 100,000 troops from the 10th Army assisted by Liu Shengping to land on a large scale from Jinshanwei in Hangzhou Bay, the hundreds of thousands of troops gathered in the Songhu area had to retreat.

However, the battle was in chaos, along the way the Japanese planes bombed in the sky, the ground troops pursued fiercely, and the retreat turned into a rout, with hundreds of thousands of troops losing more than 100,000.

The number of troops that could be withdrawn to Nanjing to participate in the garrison operations was sharply reduced to less than 150,000, and each unit was greatly weakened, and its combat effectiveness was severely reduced.

"There are nearly 700,000 people in Nanjing, and if you really want to evacuate, it won't be able to be evacuated in a while!" He Yingqin said with some concern.

"Therefore, it is necessary for all the troops in the Nanjing Garrison Theater to fight bloodily and fight to the death without retreating, in order to cover the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people from Nanjing, the national capital, from this point of view, Qiao Youhua's move is understandable!" Chen Cheng said.

"Extenuating circumstances? Brother Cixiu, do you know that his Qiao Youhua's telegram directly put more than 100,000 troops in the garrison theater to death, which is equivalent to ruining the hundreds of thousands of elites in the commission! Of course, He Yingqin said this not against Qiao Youhua, but at Chen Cheng, and at the same time, he also wanted to test what Chairman Jiang thought.

Chen Cheng was not to be outdone, and counterattacked: "As a soldier, it is my duty to defend the national capital and sacrifice my life for the country, if it were not for Qiao Youhua's sideways appearance to kill the Japanese army's roundabout Guoqi detachment on the northern road, now the Guoqi detachment should have crossed the Yangtze River north and hit Pukou."

Once Pukou is cut off, the hundreds of thousands of defenders of Nanjing will become turtles in the urn! How many people will be able to escape?

Qiao Youhua said well in the telegram, for the sake of the country and the nation, why are our soldiers afraid of life and death? Instead of being surrounded and annihilated by the Japanese army, and even hundreds of thousands of compatriots were also lost to the iron hooves of the Japanese invaders, it is better to fight hard and fight the Japanese invaders to the end!

If little Japan really wants to eat the hundreds of thousands of defenders in Nanjing, don't even think about it if you don't pay the price of three divisions!

Putting it to death and then revitalizing, maybe, fight a decisive battle in this strategic dead land, and maybe you can win unexpectedly!

We all know that Nanjing is a strategic dead land, but the capital of the Republic of China knows that it cannot be defended, and Qiao Youhua and his task force, the chess pieces that were killed halfway, have completely stirred up this mortal game!

If he can really hold on to Suzhou and cut off the Japanese army's logistical supply line, we will mobilize troops from Wuhu and other places to cooperate with the more than 100,000 troops in the Nanjing Garrison Theater to launch a fierce attack on the Japanese army in Zhenjiang and other places at any cost, and maybe we will be able to turn defeat into victory! ”