The sky is slightly bright, and the official residence of the chairman of Wuchang East Lake.

In the small conference room, the attendant room and the bigwigs of the military committee exchanged words one after another, and a telegram from Hangzhou made everyone look at each other, not knowing what to do.

Chiang Kai-shek looked around and asked, "Have you finished reading it?" ”

The generals and the staff of the chamber nodded silently.

"I have said a long time ago that Wu Ming's opinion must be taken seriously, and the fact that it has been treated cautiously has fully proved that once you ignore General Wu Ming's suggestion, you will suffer a big loss, and it was recommended to strengthen the first-line defense of Hangzhou Bay, and it was recommended that Songhu withdraw its troops early, and it is still the case, but what is the result?"

Chiang Kai-shek's right hand slapped heavily on the table, his face flushed, his tone was heavy, and he looked very angry.

Caution?

He Yingqin and Qian Dajun glanced at each other, and they both felt a trace of helplessness in each other's eyes.

Previously, Chiang Kai-shek only forwarded Wu Ming's suggestion telegram to Hangzhou, when did he say that he was cautious? However, He Yingqin and Qian Dajun didn't dare to talk back, and the two hurriedly lowered their heads and put on a posture of listening to the teachings.

Bai Chongxi is an old god, and now most of the Gui army has safely withdrawn to the mountainous areas of southern Anhui, out of the battle with the Japanese army, and its strength has been preserved. When the members of the military committee refuted Wu Ming's suggestion before, he was a mud bodhisattva for a day and didn't say a word.

After a while, Chiang Kai-shek said with great annoyance: "The Japanese army has landed on the front line of Zheshan, and has successively broken the two lines of defense built by our army, and according to the speed of the attack, it will not take half a day to reach the city of Xiaoshan." Do you think that the First Division of Zhejiang Security will be able to hold Xiaoshan? Once it fails, Hangzhou is in danger...... Alas, Wu Ming is still right......"

Chiang Kai-shek shook his head when he said this, and looked at the generals and staff in the banquet with disappointed eyes.

Most of the people present couldn't help but blush, because when Wu Ming judged that Hangzhou was critical, everyone refuted it in unison, from the poor logistics of the Japanese army to the fatigue of the troops, to the desire of the Japanese commander to capture the capital Nanjing, and finally compared the importance of Nanjing and Hangzhou, and refuted Wu Ming's judgment in a complete way

Now the impossible has happened, and the cruel reality is like a beautiful slap in the face, pumping everyone to shame.

Everyone didn't dare to speak, and looked at Lin Wei in unison.

Since Wu Ming and his new second division joined the Songhu battlefield, good news has been reported frequently, and even Lin Wei, who has a very good relationship with Wu Ming, has also gained a lot of weight in the military committee. This time, Wu Ming was unfortunately said that it was difficult for others to speak, so they could only turn to Lin Wei for help.

Although Lin Wei didn't want to speak, the situation was critical, and it was no longer the time to hold him accountable, the most important thing was to solve the problem. He stood up and said to Chiang Kai-shek: "Chairman, the matter has come to this point, no matter how much you blame, it has nothing to do with the overall situation, the most important thing now is to transfer the important officials of the Zhejiang Provincial Government and the money, grain and taxes as soon as possible, if the Japanese army succeeds, then ......."

Speaking of this, Lin Wei stopped.

Chiang Kai-shek suddenly understood, touched his chin and said quietly: "Wei's words are reasonable."

Chiang Kai-shek looked around, his eyes fell on the face of He Yingqin, who was sitting on his right, and asked: "Jingzhi, now that Nanjing and Hangzhou are both in distress, what do you think is good?" ”

He Yingqin's face turned blue, the situation was stronger than others, and he didn't have a superior vision like Wu Ming, where was there any good way to deal with it?

The Japanese army on the south bank of Taihu Lake attacked Si'an, Guangde, Xuancheng, and Wuhu to the west with one unit, and the troops attacked Nanjing from Langxi, which was also the main basis for everyone to judge that the Japanese army would not attack Hangzhou. Now the Japanese army has captured Yixing and is attacking Liyang, the Japanese army in the north is marching to Changzhou and Danyang, and the Japanese army in Jiangyin invaded the South Gate by Xicheng Highway all the way, and entered Zhouzhuang Town from Changzhou to Jiangyin Highway all the way, approaching Jiangyin, and the situation was extremely critical.

As for the southern front, the main force of Zhang Fakui's department is in the border area of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui, and it is beyond the reach of the whip, and only Wu Mingxin's second division can be used in the surrounding areas of Hangzhou.

In fact, there are three divisions along the coast of Zhejiang, but they are distributed along the long coastline of Wenzhou, Taizhou, Ninghai and Ningbo, and the northernmost garrison is a regiment of the 157th Division of the Guangdong Army stationed in Sanjiang City, Shaoxing.

Thinking of this, He Yingqin said with some embarrassment: "The call from the two generals Huang Jikuan and Xuanti must not be asking the chairman to send troops to rescue, but like Zhang Xianghua who was in Nanxun at the beginning, they want to ......."

He Yingqin shook his head and smiled bitterly.

"Oh, I see"

Chiang Kai-shek was slightly stunned, and then smiled bitterly.

At the beginning of Jiaxing County, Liu Jianxu privately transferred the weapons and equipment of the new second division to supplement the first regiment to the 28th Army, but under the attack of the Japanese army, he was defeated, lost his wife and lost his troops, and completely fell out with the new second division.

The same is true now.

Huang Shao also made a special call to reprimand Wu Ming for being whimsical and indiscriminately meddling in the military and political affairs of Zhejiang Province, who thought that things would come true immediately, so he had to brazenly ask Wu Ming to lead the new second division to the rescue, Huang Shao was afraid that Wu Ming would make a mistake, so he asked Chairman Jiang to command and dispatch on his behalf.

Chiang Kai-shek slapped the table and scolded Huang Shao and Xuan Tiewu for not knowing the hearts of good people and deserving of this catastrophe. When he was tired of scolding, Chiang Kai-shek asked Lin Wei to call and ordered Wu Ming to rescue Hangzhou urgently, after all, Zhejiang is a rich place, and there are more than 1,000 taxes and grains in the province, plus many wealthy gentry and wealthy families, and they must not fall into the hands of the Japanese army.

Xu Village in the east of Yuhang County, the headquarters of the new Second Division.

When Wu Ming woke up and returned to the headquarters, it was already noon. Last night, I first saw off Zhang Dongning, and then discussed the battle situation with Zhang Ying and others, and I was busy until the second half of the night before falling asleep.

Just let the attendant prepare lunch, Du Pingzhang, the chief of the confidential section, hurriedly rushed into the room and handed Wu Ming an urgent telegram: "Division, Wuhan Chairman Jiang urgently telegraphed"

Wu Ming frowned, his eyelids jumped, Wu Ming didn't sleep well all night last night, he was always worried that something would happen, and now it's finally here.

After receiving the telegram and reading it carefully, the Japanese army landed on the south bank of the Qiantang River and collided head-on with the Chinese troops guarding the coast, as a result, the coastal troops were routed in one fell swoop, and the war soon developed in depth. At present, the Chinese and Japanese armies are fighting fiercely on the front line of Dangwan, and the First Security Division of Zhejiang has suffered huge losses, and it is about to be unbearable. The Military Committee demanded that the new Second Division must immediately rush to Hangzhou to relieve the crisis.

Zhang Ying, who walked into the headquarters, saw Wu Ming checking the telegram against the map, and hurriedly asked, "Master, what's wrong?" ”

Wu Ming handed the urgent telegram to Zhang Ying: "Last night, the Japanese army landed off the coast of Zheshan on the south bank of the Qiantang River, and is now storming the position of the First Division of Zhejiang Security. Huang Shao, Xuan Tiewu and other military and political officials asked us to rush to Hangzhou for rescue, but they were afraid that we would not allow it, so they asked Chairman Chiang in Wuhan to issue an order on their behalf."

After reading the message, Zhang Ying laughed: "Some people will complicate simple things. ”

"Okay, don't say anything"

Wu Ming waved his hand with interest: "Since we have already made a decision, let's implement it, you inform Luo Yuming and let him lead his troops to rush to the Qiantang River Bridge, the Qiantang River Bridge is the traffic lifeline connecting the north and south of the Qiantang River, and it is extremely important." Tell Luo Yuming that if the Qiantang River Bridge cannot be defended, it must be blown up in time to prevent the Japanese army from attacking from the south to the north."

Zhang Ying agreed and immediately went out to send a report.

Seeing that Sun Chengyuan commanded the staff officers to pack up their things and prepare for relocation, Wu Ming picked up a topographic map of Hangzhou and came to the courtyard, and just wanted to spread it out on the big stone slab for people to wash clothes, Zhang Ying trotted all the way to the front: "Division, news has come from Xiaoshan that the Japanese army has defeated the Zhejiang Security Division that is guarding the defense line of Dangwan. Ma Zhizhai led the remnants to retreat to Xiaoshan County, preparing to block the Japanese army through street fighting"

"What?"

Wu Ming was in a hurry, took the telegram, read it in a hurry, his face became more and more ugly, and he slapped the big stone slab angrily, and said dissatisfiedly:

"What is Ma Zhizhai doing? We've worked together for so long, how come he doesn't even have the slightest military knowledge? The location of the Qiantang River Bridge is so important that he can't resist the Japanese offensive, so he should retreat to Hangzhou in time, blow up the Qiantang River Bridge, and join us. ”

Wu Ming's anger did not subside, Du Pingzhang rushed over again, and said to Wu Ming anxiously with a telegram: "Division, urgent telegram at six o'clock this morning, the main force of the Japanese army launched an attack on Deqing County, and the Second Division of Zhejiang Security suddenly encountered a strong enemy, and was unable to form an army, and retreated from the Yingxi defense line in the north of the city to the county seat to continue fighting. According to the latest information, after more than five hours of fighting, the Japanese army basically wiped out the Chinese troops in Deqing County, and the remnants of the 2nd Zhejiang Security Division have retreated to the mountainous and hilly area southwest of the city."

"Do you know which unit the Japanese army dispatched?" Wu Ming took a deep breath and asked calmly.

"The war report didn't say it"

Du Pingzhang shook his head.

Seeing that Wu Ming was about to get angry, Du Pingzhang said again: "However, our telecommunications department has preliminarily judged that the Japanese troops going south should be the 2nd and 7th Divisions and the 18th Division by listening to the Japanese radio station. ”

After annihilating the 114th Division of the Japanese Army, the New 2nd Division mastered the Japanese army's cipher code and kept abreast of the movements of the Japanese army's various units in a timely manner. After the battle of Jiaxing, the Japanese army changed the cipher code, who knew that the temporary third division cut off the headquarters of the Kunisaki detachment in one fell swoop, and obtained the cipher code again, because the war was urgent, the Japanese army did not have time to replace, so it was able to obtain valuable information.

Wu Ming shook his head: "I don't even know who the enemy is, what a bad battle this is."

Okamura Ningji's move was very vicious, the Japanese troops who landed on the south bank of the Qiantang River attacked Hangzhou from the south, and in the north, the two main divisions of the Japanese army and the 18th Division also pressed towards Hangzhou, attacking from the north and south, and stunned Hangzhou into a sandwich.

Seeing Wu Ming's face change greatly, Du Pingzhang stopped talking. Zhang Ying said in time: "Pingzhang, you tell all the unfavorable news"

Du Pingzhang said with a wry smile: "Division, two hours ago, a Japanese inland river fleet followed the channel of the Qiantang River, traced the river, passed through Hangzhou without entering, and went to the Zhangshusha line near Zhuantang Town before stopping, and it is estimated that it will land there. ”

"Huh?"

Wu Ming took a sharp breath and asked anxiously, "How many troops are there in the Japanese army?" ”

Du Pingzhang shook his head: "I don't know, but judging from the size of the fleet, the number of troops carried should not be much, at best, a wing, due to the suddenness of the incident, our intelligence officers cannot get further information."

Wu Mingru was mourned and sat on the stone bench. Okamura Ningji is really powerful, if he doesn't make a move, he will make a big move, so that the opponent has no power to fight back.

"What should I do with the new Second Division, and how should I deal with it?" Wu Ming pondered hard.