Nanjing, recovered!

Nanjing, recovered!

Nanjing, recovered!

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, a blockbuster news was instantly detonated throughout the East, and the world focused its attention on China and Nanjing, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, in astonishment.

Less than two months after the Japanese occupied Nanjing, the Chinese recaptured their own city, their capital, in a different way, in an incredible way.

This is one of the most incredible and unbelievable miracles in the history of world warfare!

It happened, literally!

There are miracles in this world!

If you don't believe me, then go to Nanjing, China, where miracles are happening.

In fact, the remnants of the Japanese army in the city have not been completely cleared, and the sporadic fighting continues, but it can no longer stop Leng Feng from leading the 'Yaksha' and the National Salvation Division to complete the recovery of the capital.

Finally, the flag of the Republic of China, which is full of red sky, can once again fly in the sky of the capital.

"Send a telegram to Chairman Chiang of Wuhan, saying that we have taken back the capital Nanjing." Leng Feng took a deep breath and solemnly ordered.

"Yes!"

"Wuhan, Chairman Chiang's Meritorious Record: Yu Qin led the 'Yaksha' special task force and the Capital Anti-Japanese War National Salvation Division, a total of more than 8,000 people, launched a battle to rescue 300,000 compatriots in the international security zone of Nanjing, our capital, at seven o'clock in the evening of January 30, the 27th year of the Republic of China. Qiu Qingquan, commander of the National Salvation Division of the Capital Anti-Japanese War. Leng Feng, the leader of the 'Yaksha' special operations team. At 7:06 a.m. on January 31, the 27th year of the Republic of China. ”

When Lin Wei received this telegram. Usually calm, he couldn't help but tremble with excitement. Shake.

Without any hesitation, just pick up the telegram and report it.

Lao Jiang said that he was accompanying his wife to keep the New Year, but in fact, at three o'clock in the night, Mrs. Song persuaded him to go up. The bed was rested, so when Lin Wei arrived, Lao Jiang hadn't gotten up yet.

Mrs. Song had already gotten up, and her face was tired. He doesn't seem to be in good spirits.

"Madame, hasn't the gentleman gotten up yet?" Lao Jiang's usual schedule is very strict, and only in rare cases will he get up late, which is also the first day of staying up late and not sleeping.

Under normal circumstances, even if you stay up late, you still get up on time the next day.

"Something?"

"Yes, ma'am, there is an important military briefing!" Lin Wei couldn't suppress the excitement in his heart.

"Your husband went to bed very late, and today is the first day of the Lunar New Year. Let him sleep a little longer, and you will come again. Mrs. Song said.

"But the gentleman commanded. The war report on Nanking must be submitted as soon as possible without any delay. Lin Wei said slowly, the importance of this telegram is self-evident, if it is reported late, he will have to be criticized.

"So, I'll go and see, and if he's awake, I'll call you, and if he doesn't, then wait a little longer, and wait until eight o'clock, and you'll report again, okay?"

"Yes, ma'am." What can Lin Wei say, Mrs. Song has said so, he can't have to go into Chairman Jiang's bedroom, right?

can freely enter Lao Jiang's bedroom to report work, and the entire attendant room can have a second honor for him and Chen Bulei, two outsiders, but others, that is not good.

After Mrs. Song entered, she came out of the bedroom after about three minutes.

"Your husband is awake and tells you to come in."

"Thank you, ma'am!" Lin Wei bowed respectfully.

"Weiwen, did you come here early in the morning, did you have any happy events?" Lao Jiang leaned his back against the bed, wore a set of cotton pajamas, and asked with a smile in a Zhejiang Fenghua accent.

"I really can't hide anything from your eyes, sir." Lin Wei smiled slightly and complimented.

"Don't be a sycophant, let's say, what a happy event, is there good news in Nanjing?" Lao Jiang is rarely in a good mood, and he is in his bedroom, Lin Wei is his cronies, so he doesn't need to keep a straight face.

"The Nanjing National Salvation Division and the 'Yaksha' have basically taken control of the capital Nanjing in the early hours of this morning, and are clearing out the remnants of the enemy in the city, in addition, the results of last night's battle are being counted, and it is expected to be reported at noon today." Lin Weidao.

"Is this true?" Lao Jiang was surprised, although he also guessed some, such as capturing most of Nanjing City and destroying how many Japanese troops he would destroy, but he didn't expect to take Nanjing City back so quickly.

It's kind of incredible.

"Incredible, it's incredible, when Tang Mengxiao guarded Nanjing, 100,000 troops, in less than three days, it fell apart, and now, this Leng Feng, and that Qiu Qingquan, with only 8,000 men and horses in their hands, defeated the well-equipped Japanese army, this is unimaginable, unimaginable!" After reading the telegram, Lao Jiang got off the bed with a bone, dancing excitedly.

"I also thought it was incredible, but we confirmed the contents of this telegram three times, every word, every punctuation mark."

"Okay, good, good, I want to commend Leng Feng, as well as Qiu Qingquan and all the officers and soldiers of the National Salvation Division." Lao Jiang said excitedly.

"They should be commended, but now they are in an extremely dangerous situation, Nanjing is surrounded by the Japanese army, and they must be evacuated quickly." Lin Wei reminded.

"Well, immediately telegraphed Commander Gu of the Third Theater and asked him to immediately send troops to attack and delay the Japanese army, so as to give Leng Feng and Qiu Qingquan more time to retreat." Lao Jiang ordered.

"Deputy Chief Bai of the General Staff Department has been working on the plan overnight, and now it is estimated that the plan is mature, do you want to listen to their plan first?"

"Well, okay, let's take a look at their plan first, we must send troops as quickly as possible, no matter how much it costs, we must ensure that Leng Feng and Qiu Qingquan withdraw from Nanjing safely!"

"Yes!"

The 30th Brigade of the 16th Japanese Division in the West Garrison Area stationed in Nanjing was basically disabled, and only the 19th Brigade in the East Garrison Area still maintained a considerable part of its strength.

The 19th Brigade received a distress message from the division headquarters and immediately sent the 20th Cavalry Wing to rush to help, but when the troops arrived outside the Zhongshan Gate. The Zhongshan Gate has already been occupied by the second detachment.

Facing the second detachment of the National Salvation Division, which was waiting for battle. The commander of the 20th Cavalry Wing, Toshimatsu Nakasa, could only order a detour. Go to Yaohua Gate, prepare to break into Nanjing from Taiping Gate, and rescue the trapped commander of the Nakajima Division, at that time, the battle in the city was still going on.

By the time they had rounded up to Yaohuamen, the fighting in Nanjing had basically subsided, and the Taipingmen had been occupied, and the commander of the 16th Division, Nakajima and his entourage, had no news.

Wait until Major General Caochang led a wing of the 19th Brigade to the city of Nanjing. I was beaten up by the 'Yasha' who had just obtained the heavy artillery, and I was almost beaten and didn't know where I was.

A squadron of chariots rushed out of the city gate, and the Japanese army, who did not understand the situation, was not an opponent at all, and was beaten to pieces for maintaining stability, and suffered heavy losses.

Fortunately, the 33rd Wing of the Japanese Army in Qinglong Mountain hurried to save the life of Major General Caochang by cutting off his arm.

However, Leng Feng did not let go of the 16th Division, the Japanese army that committed a lot of blood debts in Nanjing, Leng Feng gave an order from the very beginning of the launch plan: no prisoners were left.

The remnants of the Japanese army retreated in the direction of Tangshan, and Leng Feng ordered Liang Dong to personally lead the sixth and seventh detachments in pursuit. At the same time, let Li Ye lead the tank squadron to cooperate and chase the Japanese army.

Xie Jiyuan, who had been holding back the fire for a long time. After destroying the broken Japanese army, they also came out of Qinglong Mountain.

At noon on the first day of the Lunar New Year, Liang Dong led his troops to Tangshan in one go, defeated the main force of the 19th Brigade, and then the Japanese reinforcements stationed in Jurong, Chunhua and other places came up, and then led the team to withdraw!

In this battle, the two infantry brigades of the 16th Division lost more than 70 percent of their troops, lost countless weapons and ammunition, and the entire division suffered heavy losses, and some units were even destroyed.

This was the biggest defeat for the Japanese Army since it stepped into Chinese soil.

At noon, Leng Feng ordered all the National Salvation Division and the troops belonging to the 'Yaksha' to withdraw to the city of Nanjing, build fortifications, and prepare to deal with the counterattack of the Japanese army.

In order to better cope with the next battle, Leng Feng readjusted the combat unit and deployed the next defense and combat missions.

Except for one battalion of the National Salvation Division, everyone who stayed behind to serve as the guard of the 'Provisional Management Committee' crossed the river to the north and set up a defensive line east of Jiangpu Town to block the Japanese troops from Yangzhou and ensure the safety of Pukou.

In addition to the first team, Leng Feng also supported Liao Sen with a supplementary regiment, although it was temporarily reorganized, but it was originally a soldier, and if it was slightly integrated, it was much stronger than those who had not carried a gun.

In addition, Leng Feng also transported a shipload of weapons and ammunition to Jiangbei, enough to equip 3,000 people.

This allowed Liao Sen to arm the Japanese army in the prisoner of war camp in Pukou.

In this way, Liao Sen can use almost 6,000 troops.

The remaining two to seven detachments have also been supplemented and expanded accordingly, but Leng Feng strictly ordered that blind expansion was not allowed, so as not to weaken the combat effectiveness and not be conducive to the next battle.

Each detachment was two thousand people, and the maximum was not more than two and a half thousand.

As a result, the total strength of the National Salvation Division swelled to nearly 20,000 at once.

Fortunately, a large number of grassroots officers and veterans were exchanged from the Japanese, otherwise so many troops would really not know how to reorganize.

Busy, busy, still busy, Leng Feng wanted to split himself into two, three to use, but it was still not enough.

"Hey, hey, okay, okay, I'll report to Deputy Director Leng right away."

"Deputy Director Leng, the first batch of people have gathered at the Xiaguan Wharf, a total of 5,000 people, safe your orders, the first batch of people to cross the river are all women, children and children."

"Got it, tell Liu Xinyu that as long as the conditions allow, cross the river immediately, I estimate that the Japanese will react soon, and they must be fast!" Leng Feng snuffed out the cigarette butt in his hand and said solemnly.

"Yes!"

"How's the refugee camp in Jiangbei going?"

"We delivered 500 military tents in the first batch, as well as cotton clothes, quilts and other materials, and it is not a big problem to house 5,000 people."

"Pay attention to air defense, tents should be scattered, hidden, safe, and the weather is so cold, it is necessary to distribute heating coal to the people as soon as possible."

"Please rest assured, Deputy Director Leng, General Fei Wusheng's dispatch has already passed first, and they are more experienced in relocating refugees than us."

Buzzing......

"It's a Japanese reconnaissance plane, it seems that the Japanese bombers are coming, we have no air defense weapons, immediately inform Mr. Rabe that the security zone must be the target of the Japanese bombing, let them withdraw quickly, quickly!" Leng Feng ordered eagerly.

Sure enough, as Leng Feng expected, the Japanese were not stupid, and understood that this time the 'Yaksha' attack planner came from the safe zone that they had tried to ban in every possible way.

So in retaliation, the first thing they want to bomb is the Nanjing International Security Zone, and it is indiscriminate bombing.

As for other targets, apart from the obvious walled positions, they really didn't know where to throw bombs, the city of Nanjing was bombed into a pile of ruins by them earlier, God knows, where are the enemies hidden?

The Japanese retaliation came quickly, and bombers taking off from Danyang, Suzhou and other places flew over the city of Nanjing, dropping dozens of tons of explosives on all buildings within the international security zone.

Dozens of buildings, thousands of houses were reduced to rubble in the bombardment and burned into a sea of fire.

Mr. Rabe finally evacuated the safe zone with a group of refugees, and his eyes were red when he saw the international safe zone that had turned into a sea of fire behind him, if it wasn't for the cold front to notify them to evacuate in time.

I am afraid that the 200,000 refugees in this safe zone do not know how many will die under the bombing of Japanese planes.

"Mr. Rabe, are you alright?" Leng Feng came to the bombing site immediately after the bombing and met John Rabe, who was dragging a suitcase.

"General Leng, I'm not dead, the children are fine, thank you for notifying us to evacuate in advance, otherwise, there will be corpses all under this ruin."

"Mr. Rabe, are you still opposed to withdrawing Jiangbei with us?" Leng Feng asked, there is still any objection to the mobilization of the people in Nanjing to evacuate to Jiangbei, Rabe is one of the opponents, he still has a trace of illusion about the Japanese, within this month, the Japanese stopped violating the security zone, which makes him think that the Japanese killed. Killing and looting are only temporary, and they will eventually return to normal.

The Japanese army occupied the city, not to destroy the city and the people, so he felt that as long as Leng Feng and them left, even if the Japanese reoccupied the city, they would be safe.

But now it seems that the first thing the Japanese bombed was the safe zone, and they never thought that there were 200,000 innocent people here, and such executioners and murderers were unreasonable.

If they do stay, will they be killed as accomplices?

It's a very real and cruel question, and the bombing of the Japanese with their planes says it all.

It was simply impossible to stay and beg the Japanese to let them live.

"General Leng, I am not against the people withdrawing to Jiangbei with you, but the people who have withdrawn to Jiangbei, they have no food, no clothes to keep out the cold, no place to live, how will they survive?"

"Didn't Mr. Fei Wusheng explain to you that if we occupy this city, then we have all the resources of this city, and the mountains of grain piled up in the warehouses of the Japanese are not enough?"

"Will the general give out those grains to the people?"

"Why not, these are all forcibly taken by the Japanese army from our people, and it is also appropriate to return them now."

"No, no, General Leng, I didn't expect you to be such a selfless and generous person, I misunderstood you, I want to apologize to you!" John Rabe felt ashamed and apologized to Leng Feng.

"Did Mr. Rabe think that I would keep the food for myself and use it to recruit troops and expand my strength?" Leng Feng laughed, I have to say that Rabe is quite familiar with the national conditions of this era.

There is a saying that if there is no food, you will not gather troops, and if there is no food, who wants to follow you to fight hungry, so every general who leads troops to fight regards military rations as his life.

So when it comes to the food in the mouth, no one wants to spit it out, especially in this situation.

At the beginning, he asked Tang Mengxiao, the commander of the Nanjing garrison, for food in the safety zone, and less than half of the promised grain finally arrived, and he organized people to ship it himself.

(To be continued.) )

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