Chapter 150 Jinling Spring (Crab) Dream
On the evening of 12 June, the building of the Xuanwu District Nationalist Government in Nanjing was littered with scattered pieces of paper and hurried workers, all with worried expressions.
Since the Red Army launched an all-out offensive at the end of May, all the battlefields have been full of bad news. Two days ago, the fighting on the north bank of the Yangtze River ended. Xuzhou and Hefei were lost one after another, and the north bank of the Yangtze River opposite Nanjing had all fallen into the hands of the Red Army. Thanks to the information received with the help of the British and Japanese, the Red Army on the north bank of the Yangtze River was building artillery positions there, and within a day or two, heavy artillery from the rear would arrive, and the entire long channel would be cut off.
The British and US Yangtze River Fleets, which originally wanted to "do a little favor," yesterday led the overseas Chinese in Nanjing to evacuate from the Xiaguan wharf after losing air supremacy and facing the threat of shore defense cannons. Most of the officials of the Nationalist Government in Nanjing also withdrew yesterday from the Guò Yangtze River waterway and land lines of communication. Under the pressure of the Red Army on both the southern and northern fronts, they have now fled to Shanghai.
On the southern front, Wuhu was lost, the 15 th Army was completely annihilated, and the distance from Wuhu to Nanjing was only seventy or eighty kilometers, and it could be reached by water or even half a day. There is no danger to defend here, let alone soldiers, counting the Ma'anshan and Nanjing garrisons, the Nanjing Nationalist Government can muster less than 10,000 troops on this front. Nanjing is now a dead city, and it may face a flanking attack by the Red Army on both the southern and northern fronts at any time.
In the evening, more bad news came, the defenders of Jiangyin "revolted". At this moment, the remnants of the artillery party forces west of Jiangyin have all become turtles in the urn. The news came from the Japanese, and people were panicking. In the era when rumors were flying all over the sky and communication was not smooth, fortunately, the Japanese reminded them, otherwise Song Ziwen himself would not have noticed, and took the waterway to take a warship to pass through the Jiangyin Fortress, and if the traitor who threw the red bandits on the fortress was shot with artillery, the consequences were really unimaginable.
In this process, the Japanese were very enthusiastic, and the three shallow gunboats that had sailed to Shimonoseki never left, and still docked there to enthusiastically offer support to Song Ziwen. Help with the evacuation. But Song Ziwen said that he would not get on the Japanese thief ship. Chairman Song received information that the Japanese envoy had been pestering Vice Chairman Wang Jingwei every day in the past few days, and that if he had boarded the Japanese ship, it would have been a big question whether he would be able to completely disembark. He didn't want to be the second Zhang Zuolin.
The waterways are impassable. The only way Chairman Song can walk is in the air. Well, there are still two Boeing airliners here at Nanjing Airport. It was enough for Chairman Song to evacuate himself and his henchmen from Nanjing. The reason why he has not left until now is mainly for political considerations, the so-called Son of Heaven guarding the country. The king died. He Song Ziwen didn't have the courage to live and die with Nanjing, but he still had to pretend to be a façade for "the last evacuation of Nanjing".
Even if there was no news of the "uprising" in Jiangyin, in fact, Song Ziwen's insistence in Nanjing, that is, until today, he had planned to leave Nanjing on the cruiser Zhongshan this evening, but now he could only go by air.
Outside Song Ziwen's study, the secretary and guards were busy burning a pile of so-called confidential documents, and the radio on the side was broadcasting the radio of the Red Army's high-power radio.
The first thing that began was the "March of the Soviets," which was routinely broadcast every seven o'clock. This piece of music full of Russian style is magnificent, and Song Ziwen heard it for the first time, and he also had a feeling of blood boiling. And this song is said to have been written to the Red Army by the person Song Ziwen hated the most.
The person Song Ziwen hated the most was not Li Runshi or Wu Hao who stayed in Wuhan, but the one called Lin Hanshen!
He was pitted by Lin Han too badly.
When Lin Han returned to China in 1933, he Song Ziwen entertained him with good wine, good food and good women, but he was played hard by him. In the past two years, Song Ziwen smashed pots and sold iron, and finally formed a decent air force, but because the "returned students" used were all communists, they all became wedding clothes.
When the war broke out in September 1934, Song Ziwen also had more than 200 planes in his hands. Among them, about 150 can be lifted into the air for battle. As a result, the two "uprisings" in Hanyang and Jiujiang immediately brought more than 60 of the most advanced Hawk II fighters, including airplanes, ground support and airfield facilities, to the side of the Red Army, and the result was that the Red and White armies reversed their air supremacy overnight, which made Song Ziwen a laughing stock all over the world.
The large-scale mutiny of the air force under his command had a great impact on the air force, and out of suspicion, the air force that did not have an "uprising" elsewhere was implicated, and was therefore banned from flying, and the air force really became an "air force". In order to put an end to similar incidents, Song Ziwen had to order a purge of the air force, and although it temporarily prevented the occurrence of another incident of pilots defecting by plane, the air force that had been built up with great difficulty was also destroyed.
The consequence of the purge is that the remaining pilots are even more alienated from Germany, and the Air Force is a technical branch, and the money burned to train one pilot is more expensive than buying two planes, and it is impossible for anyone to replace them in the short term. As a result, during the June War, Red Army planes were seen flying all over the sky and throwing bombing bills everywhere, but the air force of the Nanjing Nationalist Government seldom dispatched them, or when they did, they simply threw the Red Army in the air -- for example, because Gao Zhihang's flight team was discriminated against and persecuted during the purge incident, the defenders of Hangzhou, who were surrounded by the Red Army at that time, also rushed to the hospital in a hurry, and allowed the pilots of Gao Zhihang's flight team to fly planes to bomb the Red Army.
"That damn fake Taoist!"
Song Ziwen gritted his teeth and cursed Lin Han, the matter of the air force was just the biggest thing that Lin Han had pitted him, in addition to sabotaging the issuance of overseas treasury bonds, smuggling arms for the Germans for the communist bandits, and even aiding the great assassin Wang Yaqiao, almost all of this stubble could be recorded on this person's head. Song Ziwen even suspected that the death of his brother-in-law Chang Kaishen had an inexplicable relationship with this person.
Secretary Yang Yongtai walked over and said to Song Ziwen:
"Chairman Song, the plane is ready, it's time for us to evacuate."
On the radio beside him, the evil "Soviet March" was still playing, Song Ziwen glanced at the radio fiercely, raised his foot and kicked the radio hard, kicking it to the ground, smashing the electronic tube inside, and no more sound came out.
The waterway had been cut off, and he could only evacuate by air, and it was impossible for him to move the radio as well, and he could only take some light personal belongings with him.
Song Ziwen glanced at the furniture in the room hatefully, and then left with Yang Yongtai. He knew that the owner would change soon.
Half an hour later, Song Ziwen took a car to the Nanjing airport in the suburbs and boarded the American plane that picked him up. The news of the "uprising" in Jiangyin has not been leaked so far, otherwise it would have been chaotic here. Song Ziwenhe took his cronies and family members to board the plane one after another, and then took off in the night. From Nanjing, there was only a little more than an hour's air flight, but it was not easy to take off at night, and there were also risks, but now that the Red Army would kill the city of Nanjing at any time, he no longer had the courage to wait until dawn.
When Song Ziwen's plane landed at Shanghai's Hongqiao Airport, he did not know that the man he hated the most had also landed at the same airport more than an hour earlier, and that the He70 passenger plane he was flying was parked on the tarmac less than 100 meters away from the Boeing passenger plane he was on.
What Song Ziwen didn't know was that when he got on the passenger plane, the commander of the airport guard battalion had secretly defected to the Red Army, and he was about to detain Song Ziwen and his party as a suicide letter for his "uprising", but was rejected by the underground party who contacted them.
The reason why they allowed Song Ziwen to leave safely was because the leaders at the top of the CCP believed that detaining Song Ziwen at this time and leaving the Nanjing Nationalist Government leaderless would only cheapen the pro-Japanese traitors in the top echelons of the Artillery Party who moved to Shanghai, such as Wang Jingwei and others. Song Ziwen is no longer unbearable, so far, he still sticks to the final bottom line, and does not learn from Wu Sangui to lead the Japanese into China to help suppress it.
Soon after Song Ziwen left, the remnants of the Nationalist government in Nanjing also crowded onto the Zhongshan ship and the gunboat sent by the Japanese, and then set off from the Xiaguan wharf at 10 o'clock that night and fled to Shanghai.
After November 1932, Song Ziwen contacted the Jiangsu-Zhejiang faction in the Whampoa faction to impeach He Yingqin and successfully seized power. However, he served in Jinling and Nanjing, where he held the post of chairman for two and a half years, and his "Jinling Spring Dream" was awakened and shattered by the rumbling artillery of the Red Army's offensive in early summer.
At this time, the news of the loss of Jiangyin came, and for a while, there was a great chaos in the city of Nanjing, and the remnants of the defenders and the local ruffians began to rebel. The underground party, which had infiltrated Nanjing for a long time, joined forces with some officers and soldiers of the artillery party who had already decided to "revolt" and barely maintained law and order in Nanjing.
At dawn, more than 1,000 Red Army troops on the north bank of the Yangtze River crossed the Yangtze River and entered the city of Nanjing without encountering any resistance, and then planted a red flag on the roof of the Nanjing government building. Nanjing was declared peacefully liberated. In the afternoon of the same day, the advance team of the southern front also came to the city of Nanjing after a night of rapid marching, but unfortunately it was a step late, and the credit of the leader of the artillery party was cut off by Lin Shuai's "friendly army" north of the Yangtze River, which made Peng Shuai, the head of the Red Army on the southern front, depressed for a long time.
Let's update this chapter first.,I'm writing the next chapter.,Proofread after twelve o'clock.,There may be a lot of typos in this chapter.。 I'll update it first. In addition, Gaiden