After Qiao Youhua finished speaking, he waved his big hand and said, "Come on, please ask Commander Tang to go to the side hall to rest." ”

Several heavily armed dragon-toothed men were ordered to step forward and say to Tang Shengzhi and Luo Zhuoying: "Please! ”

Seeing his subordinates escorting Tang Shengzhi and the others away, Qiao Youhua said to Liu Xing: "Brother Liu, the situation is urgent, you immediately issue the following order with the Theater Commander's Department, Nanjing is the capital of the National Government, and there is no room for mistakes, so it is strictly ordered that all troops on the front line are not allowed to retreat without authorization, and should rely on the existing compound position to fight against the Japanese invaders."

If necessary, you can rely on Nanjing City, Purple Mountain, Niushou Mountain and other important places to continue to fight with the Japanese invaders, in a word, all the garrison troops participating in this battle, should hold the spirit of sacrifice and swear to live and die with Nanjing City! In addition, the 36th Division at Shimonoseki Pier was transferred to me to launch a sortie attack on the Japanese if necessary, so as to relieve the pressure on the troops on the defense line of the Fulang position. ”

"Okay, I'll do it right away." Liu Xingshen nodded approvingly.

As soon as this order was given, the troops in the Nanjing Garrison Theater, which had been somewhat discouraged because the outer defense line was broken through by the Japanese army, felt a little more at ease, and Qiao Youhua transferred the 36th Division from the Xiaguan Wharf to the area of Purple Mountain to participate in the battle.

It has also greatly relieved the pressure faced by the divisions and brigades on the front line, and the front has been able to stabilize for the time being.

Qiao Youhua used his own strength to avoid the destruction of Nanjing, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians became lambs to be slaughtered.

Early the next morning, Wu Ming also rushed to Nanjing City with the infantry of the Dragon Tooth Task Force, and Qiao Youhua arranged for them to be deployed around the headquarters and completely controlled the headquarters.

At the same time, sufficient weapons and ammunition were taken out from the Nanjing military depot and replenished.

The evacuation of Nanjing continued, and hundreds of people dragged their families out of the city one after another, while the police in the city tried to maintain order.

Everything is going on in an orderly manner, and Qiao Youhua has basically changed history so far.

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In Hongkou, Shanghai, a special operations brigade borrowed by Matsui Ishine from North China received an order to attack, and immediately left the temporary station in a military truck under the leadership of Yamashita Fengwu Dazuo, the supreme commander of this special combat team.

Yamashita Fengwu, born in a famous Japanese family, graduated from the Japanese Army University and the Berlin Military Academy successively, studied the combat command of a small unit in Germany, and returned to China after completing his studies, forming the first real special forces in Japan.

After the outbreak of the war of aggression against China, he and his special forces were ordered to be transferred to the combat sequence of the North China Front, but they did not have a suitable opportunity to participate in the battle.

Until the appearance of Qiao Youhua, who inflicted heavy losses on the Japanese army in Central China in the south of the Yangtze River, Yamashita Fengwu seemed to be a lonely swordsman who had found a suitable opponent, and immediately asked the commander of the North China Front, Terauchi Shouichi, to fight, which coincided with Matsui Ishine borrowing troops from the North China Front.

So Yamashita took his special forces on a warship and came to Shanghai, and after a day's rest, he received an order from Matsui Ishine to attack.

Headquarters of the Japanese Army in Central China.

Tsukada came to Matsui Ishine's bedroom outside, Matsui Ishine, who had just gotten up, heard footsteps open the door and walked out, seeing that Tsukada Tsuka's face was not very good, and asked, "What's wrong?" What happened again? ”

"The front-line troops reported that the defenders of Nanjingchina suddenly sent additional reinforcements, and the 6th and 16th divisions were thwarted in their attacks and suffered heavy losses. The defense of the Shina was once again solidified. Tsukada explained: "Without the air fire support of the air force, the artillery fire of the Shina people is not inferior to that of the Imperial Army, and they can even engage in an even artillery battle with the Imperial Army!"

Coupled with the fact that the Chinese army was held in danger and had strong fortifications, the imperial army had to pay a great price for every step forward! ”

The facial muscles at the corners of Matsui Ishone's mouth couldn't help twitching, and he looked up at the weather: "The weather seems to be improving a little bit today, order land-based aviation and sea-based aviation to prepare for an attack, bomb the defense line of the China Army, and assist the ground forces in breaking through!" ”

"Hay!" Tsukada suddenly bowed his head in response.

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In the city of Nanjing, on the banks of the Qinhuai River.

Many small boats are shuttling back and forth, transporting away the people gathered on the shore one by one, some of these boats are organized spontaneously and some by the theater command.

They will follow the Qinhuai River out of the city, which will save some effort and speed much faster than taking the land route.

Suddenly, the mournful air raid sirens sounded. Many people immediately fell into a panic, and the dozen or so gendarmerie policemen on the shore who were responsible for maintaining the continuity were also a little overwhelmed.

In the sky, two Japanese bombers swooped in from high altitude with a piercing rumble.

俅俅俅俅...... Several bombs fell on obvious targets such as the Qinhuai River and Xuanwu Lake.

Boom Boom! An earth-shattering explosion suddenly sounded on the bank of the Qinhuai River, and the huge shock wave instantly destroyed a large number of willow trees and buildings on both sides of the riverbank.

A bomb even fell into the Qinhuai River, setting off a shocking wave, many wooden boats were destroyed in an instant, and the common boatmen suffered heavy casualties.

In the compound of the theater headquarters, Qiao Youhua looked up at the sky and saw that the heavy snow had stopped, the sun that had not been seen for many days was shining brightly, and the weather was clearing, but Qiao Youhua's mood was heavy.

The weather is sunny at this time, which is not a good thing for the military and people of Nanjing, and the plane of the little devil will pose a great threat to the military and people of Nanjing.

"Brother Liu, please immediately order the city defense troops to organize the air defense forces to do their best to cover the evacuation of the people in the city!" Qiao Youhua walked into the house and said to Liu Xing.

"Okay, I'll call right away." Liu Xing didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly nodded and walked towards the phone.

Fortunately, at this time, Nanjing City still stored a large number of anti-aircraft weapons and ammunition, and had a certain amount of air defense force.

The roar of anti-aircraft machine guns and light machine guns quickly sounded throughout the city, and two Japanese bombers, one was shot down, and the other was so frightened that it quickly pulled up and fled quickly.

At the same time, more Japanese fighters were suppressing the positions of the defensive forces outside Nanjing, and the previous two bombers were only a small episode, and the two Japanese pilots did not strictly follow the order to bomb the Chinese defenders on the ground first, and instead bombed the city of Nanjing, which they considered to be of higher strategic value.

However, more devil fighters and bombers launched intensive and fierce dive-strafing and bombing on the defense lines of various units in the Purple Mountain, Niushoushan and other garrison theaters.

As soon as Liu Xing sent the phone, the rapid phone rang again, and several phones rang at the same time.

"Headquarters? I am the 88th Division, my unit was heavily bombed by enemy planes, suffered heavy losses, and asked for reinforcements! ”

While Liu Xing was coping, he went to answer other calls, and found that without exception, they were all calls for help.

couldn't help but look at Qiao Youhua: "Brother Qiao, the situation is extremely critical now, the Japanese army has dispatched fighters to help in the battle, and all the troops have suffered extremely heavy losses!" All reinforcements! What are we going to do? ”