After Wu Ming's in-depth analysis, the new Second Division General finally sorted out his mind and found a way out, and the big stone in his heart finally fell.

As soon as the meeting ended, Huang Shao and Xuan Tiewu came to visit again.

In the reception room, Wu Ming asked in surprise: "The two of you are coming here now, you must have informed us that the troops can leave soon, right?" ”

Huang Shao and Xuan Tiewu shook their heads and looked at each other with a wry smile.

Xuan Tiewu took the initiative to take over the conversation: "Senior Commander Wu, it's one o'clock in the morning, please wait for us for two hours, and set off at three o'clock in the morning at the latest, this is already the fastest speed we can get." ”

Wu Ming said solemnly: "That's good, let's wait for another two hours to fight for a glimmer of life under the heavy encirclement of the Japanese army, it depends on which of the enemy and us can seize the time...... Please don't lose your words, it's irresponsible to delay for even one more minute."

Huang Shao and Xuan Tiewu nodded helplessly, and discussed the details of the migration with Wu Ming, and then left, reporting the news that the Zhejiang Provincial Government had evacuated Hangzhou overnight under the escort of the New Second Division.

Bidding farewell to the two provincial government officials, the relocation of the division headquarters has been completed, Wu Ming looked at his watch, led the guards and staff officers out of Hangzhou Qingtai Gate, rushed to the military camp in the northwest of the city in the dark, and waited until everything was properly arranged, and immediately sent the militia to take over the first-line defense of Tongwu Village and Huangpoling and Yanziwu in the south of Minlin Town.

After the last battle, Wu Ming ordered the supplementary third and fourth regiments to go on the road first, and the supplementary fifth regiment to meet the large contingent of the provincial government on the front line of Songmuchang in the northwest of Hangzhou, while the Han Tiecheng regiment and the Fan Dao regiment served as the rear guard to cover the evacuation of the relocation brigade to the west.

The night is dark and the wind is high.

On the road south of the damaged Shanghai-Hangzhou Railway, a large group of Japanese troops appeared in black and oppression, and they rushed towards Qingyun Town in the southwest.

In the marching procession, more than a dozen officers rode tall horses, and after the infantry passed, there were machine gunners carrying heavy machine guns. Behind the infantry platoon were horse-drawn artillery and infantry guns, and further back, there were heavy men driving cars and pack wagons.

The officers and men of the New Second Division, who were ambushed in the reeds on the north bank of the Luotang River, held their breath and did not even dare to take a breath of air, staring at the Japanese troops on the other side of the river.

"Da-da-"

A burst of machine-gun fire rang out on the opposite bank, and the Japanese soldiers aimed their machine guns at the river bank and opened fire, and the bullets whistled through the reeds and the river to the south, cutting through large areas of reeds near and far like sickles.

The Japanese infantry rushed to the river, picked up their rifles, and fired indiscriminately at the other side of the river.

"Captain, did the little devil find us?" An officer and soldier of the militia regiment who followed the action looked at Second Lieutenant Sun Yongzhong, the leader of the detachment sent by the special service company to carry out the attack and harassment mission, in bewilderment.

Waiting until the Japanese infantry left, Second Lieutenant Sun explained softly: "The little devil is afraid of being harassed by us, so he takes the initiative to shoot a gun to do fire reconnaissance, if we accidentally fight back, they can be on guard in advance, don't be afraid, we have already studied the little devil this set thoroughly."

"Oh"

The officers and men of the militia who followed the special detachment on the left and right suddenly realized that the trip was worthwhile.

The Japanese marching procession stretched out six or seven kilometers long, and just as the headquarters of the 18th Division of the Japanese Army was marching into the empty town of Qingyun, there was a sudden sound of gunfire and explosions in the night.

"What's going on with the Eight Tooth Road?"

The commander of Nakajima's division turned to the chief of staff, Megumi Koto, and asked. Oto Osa was also inexplicable, and hurriedly sent someone to ask, and soon got an extremely bad news, the artillery that was left behind was attacked by cold guns, and there were about a hundred artillery casualties.

"Report to the general, the Chinese people are shooting at our artillery on the north bank of the Luotang River, and the machine guns used are Imperial Type 96 light machine guns, the number is four, and the cannons are the latest 60 mortars equipped by the Central Army of China, the number is two, and the destructive power is very large" The herald lowered his head and reported.

"Damn the new second division of China, it's coming to harass us again"

Lieutenant General Nakajima was furious, but in the darkness of the night he did not dare to rashly order the pursuit of the small forces that attacked them, he had already suffered a big loss in Kip Stone Town, a squadron chasing the enemy fell into the opponent's elaborate mine formation, and most of it was reimbursed, and by the time the reinforcements arrived, there was no one alive.

The raiding and harassment squad dispatched by the New Second Division, in close coordination with the officers and men of the militia regiment, used all kinds of terrain to carry out raiding operations, sniping Japanese officers with sniper rifles, harassing with light machine guns and 60 mortars that were easy to divert, and quickly moved after a short period of fighting, and when the Japanese artillery and machine gunners reacted and fired back, the other side had disappeared without a trace. From Jiaxing all the way south to Qingyun Town, almost a brigade is almost gone.

The special officers and men of the New Second Division, who were shooting guns and artillery, soon disappeared on the other side of the river, and the guard units guarding the Japanese artillery took rafts and quickly crossed the river in pursuit; from time to time some people stepped on mines, and some people fell into traps full of steel nails, and the sound of explosions and screams spread far and wide in the night, and after losing 40 soldiers in succession, the artillery guard units had to give up the pursuit and report to the division headquarters in a gloomy manner.

"Don't pay attention to the small army of China that is harassing us, our goal is Hangzhou, and we must not fall behind the 7th Division," Nakajima Sadao drew his command knife and roared loudly.

"Hail"

As the order reached the ears of the 12th Wing of the Field Artillery, Sueyoshi Nakasa, Asano, and the 12th Wing Commander of the Heavy Troops, Masaki Kawauchi, the two did not feel relaxed, but became more and more nervous.

As expected, about a quarter of an hour later, just as the baggage troops were preparing to cross the small river west of Qingyun Town, the new 2nd Division's raiding troops launched another surprise attack, firing a dense barrage on the other side of the river, killing eight Japanese car drivers and more than 30 baggage soldiers on the spot.

In particular, two 60 mortars fired more than 20 shells in a short period of time, hitting four ammunition trucks, with the result that three of the ammunition trucks full of ammunition were ignited and exploded, and the violent explosion blew up the small stone bridge that the engineers had just repaired, resulting in the death of more than 80 baggage soldiers.

After the attackers fired intensively in a short period of time, they quickly broke away from the battle, and the Japanese troops who were passively beaten gritted their teeth with hatred, but they were helpless in the face of the vast night.

In order not to be disconnected, the Japanese had to stop and wait for the sappers to repair the bridge, and as a result, the new 2nd Division's assault squad went around to the north bank of the baggage queue that was resting in the middle and launched an attack on the Japanese army.

As a result, more than a dozen shells hit the ammunition truck transporting the shells, immediately triggering a series of explosions.

In the sound of "boom", four ammunition trucks set off a raging fire, hundreds of kilograms of shells were detonated one after another, and wooden boxes full of shells flew into the air, blooming like fireworks, and countless sharp fragments flew out of the magnificent fireballs, turning the camp next to the artillery and the surrounding devil soldiers into flesh and blood.

The location of the four ammunition trucks was all blown out of a huge deep pit, and the bumpy road, which had been destroyed by the engineers of the New Second Division, was uprooted and the big trees on both sides were uprooted, lying on the road in a disorderly manner.

At this time, the 18th Division was blown up with four ammunition trucks, more than 90 heavy soldiers, more than 40 artillerymen, 87 seriously wounded, and 169 lightly wounded.

However, what Nakajima Sadao didn't know was that the 7th Division, which was moving south at high speed, also encountered a similar attack and suffered very heavy losses.

In the early hours of the morning, at the Donghu official residence in Wuchang, the senior members of the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government gathered one by one with bated breath in front of a large operational map indicating the latest situation of the enemy and us.

At present, the fierce battle between Guangde and Si'an is in full swing, and the Chinese army has launched an arc-shaped defense 75 kilometers east of Nanjing, starting from Zhenjiang through Danyang, Jintan, and Liyang to Lanxi, and the Chinese and Japanese armies are engaged in bloody battles on this line, but almost every moment the central government will receive news that a certain place has been lost, and the situation is extremely dangerous.

Lin Wei walked into the conference room and came to Chiang Kai-shek: "Chairman of the National People's Congress, the Zhejiang Provincial Government is calling"

Chiang Kai-shek waved his hand, didn't say much, returned to his seat and sat down, and nodded to Lin Wei: "Weizhi, Huang Jikuan, what's the matter with them?" ”

Lin Wei pondered in his heart for a while, and reported in a low voice: "According to Huang Shao and Xuanti's calls, the new Second Division and more than 70,000 people in Hangzhou are currently under the encirclement of the 120,000 Japanese army."

"What?"

As soon as Chiang Kai-shek heard Huo Ran stand up, he took the map from Lin Wei's hand, strode back to the map, and looked at it carefully.

Qian Dajun was very surprised: "The 120,000 army ...... How is this possible, there is so much pressure on Nanjing's side, is it still the result of the division of troops by the Japanese army? ”

Lin Wei glanced at Qian Dajun: "According to the telegram jointly signed by Huang Jikuan and Xuan Ti, the Japanese army originally had the Second Division, the Seventh Division, and the Eighteenth Division to oppress Hangzhou from the northwest, northeast, and east respectively, and the main force of the Japanese Fourth Division, which landed on the south bank of the Qiantang River in the early hours of yesterday morning, has captured Xiaoshan County, and occupied the Zhuantang line, and the situation of attacking Hangzhou from the southwest has been completed. ”

Lin Wei turned his head sideways: "Brother Mu Yin, three first-class divisions, plus half of the main division, do you have an army of 120,000?" ”

Qian Dajun was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth. The standard configuration of the Japanese division is 28,000 men, and the second, fourth, and seventh divisions are the main divisions, far exceeding 30,000, and there are far more light and heavy weapons than ordinary divisions.

Lin Wei pointed to the map and explained in detail the layout of the Japanese army to the bigwigs, and after listening to the introduction, many people secretly pinched a cold sweat. They are not worried about the safety of Wu Ming and the new Second Division, but they are concerned about the millions worth of taxes and grain in Zhejiang Province, and now the treasury is empty, and without this batch of funds to replenish it, I am afraid that the salaries of government personnel will not be able to be opened in half a year.

Bai Chongxi sighed faintly: "There are more than 400,000 elite national troops around Nanjing, and when the Japanese army still loses their armor and is defeated, Wu Ming supports the Hangzhou front alone, which is not easy."

"yes"

Chiang Kai-shek's brow furrowed.

The city of Hangzhou is bordered by the sea in the east, blocked by the Qiantang River in the south, and the three main divisions of the Japanese army in the northeast, east and southwest. However, the 2nd Division of the Japanese Army rushed directly to Yuhang and Lin'an, and once it succeeded, it would be a result of the annihilation of the entire army.

There was silence in the conference room, such a predicament, I'm afraid only the gods can save it, right?

Chiang Kai-shek and other people who studied in Japan know that after the Meiji Restoration, the Second Division of the Japanese Army has always been known as the first main force of the Japanese army, and now its division commander is Okamura Ninji, who has far-reaching influence in the Japanese army and is as cunning as a fox, and almost no one is optimistic about the future of the new Second Division.

He Yingqin slammed the table and muttered: "It's a pity, it's a pity" Of course, what he regretted was not Wu Ming and the new second division, but the millions of taxes and grain in Zhejiang.

Chiang Kai-shek was in an extremely bad mood, and after thinking about it, he turned his gaze to Zhou Zhirou: "General Baifu, I wonder if the Air Force can support Wu Ming's department by one or two?" ”

Zhou Zhirou stood up and said bitterly: "Seat, you know the way, our Central Air Force has lost more than 100 planes after continuous battles with the Japanese army, and the loss of pilots is particularly heavy. At present, Japanese planes are frequently attacking and harassing Nanjing, Wuhan, Lanzhou, and other places, and even if our air force is unable to defend these important cities, how can we divide a unit to the mountains and mountains of the southern front to block the Japanese army? ”

Zhou Zhirou sighed heavily, turned to face the east, and said guiltily: "Brother Wu Mingxian, please forgive my brother for being powerless" After speaking, Zhou Zhirou bowed slightly in the direction of Hangzhou, and was already in tears when he sat down.