At the time of the attack on Anting, Chairman Chiang was convening important military and political officials to discuss whether to abandon Nanjing.

Before today, in fact, they had been discussed twice, but no results were discussed, and most of the important personnel were inclined to abandon Nanjing, because since the Battle of Songhu has been fought until now, the 80-odd divisions that have been put into the battlefield have not only lost more than half of their strength, but their combat effectiveness has also been sharply reduced to less than one-third of the original.

However, there are also those who insist on guarding, and the representative figure is Tang Shengzhi.

Chairman Chiang was very conflicted, he knew that Nanjing had become a dead place, and there was no strategic need to defend it, but he was even more worried that after the fall of Nanjing, the Nationalist Government would become a de facto local power, and would this have an impact on local warlords such as Yan Xishan, Long Yun, Li Zongren, and Liu Xiang. Moreover, Nanjing is, after all, the mausoleum of the former prime minister.

Therefore, after several meetings, the top level of the state government failed to form a unified opinion.

After receiving the news of the attack on Anting, the meeting was immediately interrupted, and Chairman Chiang immediately took a group of military and political dignitaries attending the meeting to the basement of the Fuguishan official residence, where the headquarters was located.

Liu Fei, head of the combat group of the Military Command Department, introduced the important position of Anting: "There were originally three highway bridges, one railway bridge and more than a dozen wooden bridges in western Huxi, but after our army withdrew to the south bank of Suzhou Creek (Wusong River), in order to prevent the Japanese army from crossing the river, most of the bridges have been blown up, and the Anting Highway Bridge is the only bridge left at present. ”

Chairman Jiang's face changed suddenly, and he asked, "How many troops are left on the south bank of the Wusong River?" ”

After the loss of Songjiang, the passage for the troops of western Shanghai to withdraw to Jiaxing and Hangzhou through the Shanghai-Hangzhou Railway and the Shanghai-Hangzhou Highway was cut off, and if the troops of these dozens of divisions wanted to withdraw safely, they could only go west along the south bank of the Wusong River, then retreat north through the Anting Bridge, and then retreat to Kunshan along the Shanghai-Nanjing Railway and the Kunshan-Shanghai Highway.

That's why Anting's geographical location is so important.

Liu Fei sighed lightly and replied with a bitter expression: "Up to now, only nine divisions have decided to withdraw from the Anting Bridge to cross the Wusong River, and the remaining forty divisions are all uncontactable, and most of them are still on the south bank of the Wusong River, and are retreating in the direction of Baihegang and Anting through various positions in Beixinjing, Hongqiao and Longhua. ”

Chairman Chiang's face became more and more ugly, these 50 divisions that had withdrawn from Suzhou Creek before were all German armament divisions, including the most capable Central Military Academy Teaching Corps, the First Army, the 18th Army, and the 74th Army, all of which were on the south bank of Suzhou Creek.

"What the hell is going on in Anting?" He Yingqin asked, "The Japanese army on the southern front has just crossed Songjiang, and although the Japanese army on the northern front has already captured the Liuhe River, it is still far from Anting, why was Anting suddenly attacked by the Japanese army?" ”

"The specifics are not yet known." Liu Fei shook his head and said, "But I judge that it should be a small group of Japanese troops." ”

"A small force of Japanese troops? How could a small group of Japanese troops cause such a big mess? Speaking of this, Chairman Jiang couldn't help but burst into a foul mouth, "Niang Xipi, pick up Xue Yue for me, isn't he in Anting?" ”

Liu Fei shook his head again and said, "Commander-in-Chief Xue can't be contacted. ”

"Xue Yue can't find it, the staff officers of the 19th Army Headquarters can always find it, right?" Chairman Chiang became more and more annoyed.

Liu Fei still shook his head and said: "The phone at the headquarters of the 19th Group Army is open, but no one answers, and I don't know what happened over there." ”

"This Xue Yue." Chairman Jiang was completely furious, "What the hell is he doing?" ”

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What is Xue Yue doing? He's running for his life!

The staff officer, wearing his lieutenant general's uniform, finally attracted the attention of the Japanese and gave him a chance to escape by swimming, but he dared to climb ashore just in case he swam nearly a thousand meters westward, and by the time he climbed ashore, he was already exhausted and purple, and the November weather in Shanghai was extremely cold.

The future god of war was so embarrassed at this time that he was almost like a refugee on the run.

Seeing a person suddenly crawling out of the river, several national soldiers who were hiding in the reeds by the river suddenly became alert, and immediately aimed the muzzle of the black hole at Xue Yue, but fortunately, one of the veterans of the 9th Division had seen Xue Yue twice, and recognized Xue Yue on the spot, and took off his cotton military uniform for Xue Yue to wear.

Xue Yue poked his head out of the reeds wrapped in a cotton military uniform, and at this time, the bomber group of the Japanese Army Aviation had already arrived, and dozens of bombers were bombing indiscriminately on the Anting Bridge and the Songjia Highway, and the bridge, the highway, and the fields were full of soldiers and soldiers of the national army who were desperately evading, and the scene was becoming more and more chaotic than just now.

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The scene was indeed chaotic, but there was a group of people who were never chaotic.

At this time, the 20 or so Japanese soldiers who remained on the south bank had been cleared, and the officers and soldiers of the 19th Brigade and the artillery were guarding the two barricades, closely monitoring the rout of the national army in the vicinity.

The lesson of the bridge guarding troops is just around the corner, and Xu Shijiu knows that now is not the time to be merciful!

......In the chaos, there were several national routs trying to rush into the barricades to avoid the Japanese bombardment, Xu Shijiu immediately fired a short shot, and set up a smoke and dust belt in the open space in front of the routs, which was a warning shot, and the national rout soldiers were startled, and hurriedly went in other directions.

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Ohara Shigemi hid behind the crooked-necked willow tree that Xue Yue had just dodged on the other side of the river, and looked coldly at the two barricades on the south bank, these two circular barricades were like two stone lions guarding the gate squatting in front of the detonation headquarters, and if the Japanese army wanted to blow up the bridge, they must first deal with the national troops in these two barricades.

Seeing that the national army was extremely heavily guarded, and it was not in the slightest chaos under the indiscriminate bombardment of the air force, Ohara Shigemi knew that it was impossible to blow up the bridge again, and immediately gestured to several team leaders hidden behind him, and several team leaders scattered with their respective combat teams.

Owara Shigemi knew very well that there was no chance of staying here any longer, and he couldn't get anything but wasting time, so it was better to go elsewhere as soon as possible and continue to cause chaos on the way to the retreat of the national army, but before leaving Antei, the Ohara brigade took off the white towel around his neck, which became more difficult to identify.

Ohara Shigemi's prediction was very accurate, and not long after he transferred in with more than 80 special combat members, Huo Yuzhang, commander of the 54th Army, rushed to Anting with the division headquarters of the 14th Division, and a regiment of the 14th Division arrived with him.

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Nanjing, High Command.

Liu Fei, head of the combat group of the Military Command Department, made more than a dozen phone calls, and finally found Huo Kuzhang, the commander of the 54th Army, who had just withdrawn to Anting, and learned from Huo Kuangzhang that the small force of Japanese troops attacking Anting had been repulsed, the Anting Bridge was safe and sound, and the 14th Division of the 54th Army had taken over the defense of the Anting Bridge.

Liu Fei breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly reported the situation to Chairman Jiang.

However, before Chairman Chiang and the leading military and political dignitaries could breathe a sigh of relief, an even more shocking bad news was immediately transmitted to the Nanjing Headquarters, and Qingpu, the first barrier to protect Anting, the only retreat route, had been lost more than half an hour ago, most of the 174th Brigade of the 58th Division guarding Qingpu was annihilated, and the brigade commander Wu Jiguang was martyred.

Chairman Chiang hurriedly walked to the large map posted on the wall and looked at it, and his face immediately became gloomy.

He Yingqin, chief of the General Staff, Gu Zhenglun, commander of the military police, and other generals also looked at each other, this little Japan advanced too fast, right? I just laid down Songjiang yesterday, and I arrived in Qingpu today? Moreover, before it gets dark, Qingpu is lost? As soon as Qingpu is lost, Anting will only be left with the barrier of Baihe Port!

Looking at the map, Chairman Jiang asked in a deep voice, "Which unit is guarding Baihe Harbor?" ”

Liu Fei flipped through the folders, his originally calm face suddenly turned pale, and he didn't dare to answer for a while, until Chairman Jiang's eyes looked over, and he replied stubbornly: "Guarding Baihe Harbor is an independent brigade of the 58th Division, with more than 800 officers and soldiers......

"An independent brigade?!" Chairman Chiang's eyelids jumped when he heard this, a brigade guarding Qingpu resulted in less than a day for the Japanese army to be defeated, and now an independent brigade guarding Baihe Harbor can last for a long time? Half a day, or two hours? Once Baihe Port is lost, where will the dozens of divisions that are being withdrawn from Beixinjing, Nanshi, and Pudong go?

He Yingqin also felt that this matter was too fucked, and instructed Liu Fei: "For Zhang, don't hurry up and contact the troops, no matter which troops are contacted, let him rush to Baihe Port immediately." ”

Liu Fei hurriedly ran to the next door to make a call, and came back when it was dark, and his face was bitter, he called for more than an hour, Zuihou only contacted two troops, one was Huo Yuzhang's 54th Army, said to be an army, in fact, there was only Chen Lie's 14th Division, and there was only half a regiment around him, and the other was Sun Yuanliang's 88th Division, but this would be almost to Kunshan.

Dozens of other divisions were all on the way to retreat, the phone was not connected, the radio was also turned off, and Liu Fei knew that it was useless to get in touch, because the troops were all scattered, and there were at most a few guards and staff officers left around the division commanders, and there was also a guard platoon or something, and the troops below had lost contact.

At this moment, the hearts of all the people in the headquarters, including Chairman Chiang, were all hanging, because it was only 30 miles from Qingpu to Baihe Port, and the Japanese army's mechanized troops could reach it in just over half an hour.

Could it be that the dozens of main divisions withdrawn from Beixinjing, Nanshi, and Pudong were really going to be dumplings by the Japanese army? Could it be that these dozens of divisions are really in a catastrophe?

At this moment, Chairman Jiang's shiny head couldn't help but ooze layers of cold sweat.