"Report to Chief Tang, Yang Longfei, the commander of the 25th Regiment of the 67th Division, has been ordered to arrive, please give instructions to the commander!"

"Report to Chief Tang, Fang Luocheng, the commander of the 67th Regiment of the 87th Division, has been ordered to arrive, please give instructions to the commander!"

"Report to Chief Tang, Tie Haichuan, the commander of the 88th Regiment of the 89th Division, has been ordered to arrive, please give instructions to the commander!"

Tang Shengzhi, who was standing in the corner of the office window and pondering, was stunned when he heard the voices of Yang Longfei and the others, after all, the voices of these three young people were not small, and he was planning for the Nanjing battle situation in the next few days just now, and he was suddenly pulled back to reality from his illusory thoughts, Chief Tang's body trembled subconsciously, and the glasses on the bridge of his nose almost slipped off his face.

Tang Shengzhi pretended to be calm and helped the frame of the glass: "Oh, it's all here?" Come, move three chairs, and sit down! ”

Fang Luocheng looked a little impatient: "Sir Tang, time is urgent, we won't sit down, you just tell us which of our regiments is in which defense area, we have to go back and deploy quickly, when will this devil attack the city......"

"You guy, you're really an impatient, I haven't spoken yet, so you're going to start giving orders? Why don't I give you the position of garrison commander? You don't want to sit, do you? Okay, let's all stand, I'll make a long story short...... This time, I summoned your Iron Triangle to Nanjing, but I didn't invite you to come over to watch the show, because at present, Nanjing is surrounded by the Japanese army, and the war situation is about to break out. I personally ordered the construction of two groups of defensive positions, one with Zhonghua Gate and Guanghua Gate as the main peripheral positions, and the other group with Qixia Mountain and Yuhuatai as the main compound positions. Today, I will go back to democracy, and the three of you will go to which group of positions, say for yourself, and I will arrange it. ”

"Of course, it's the outer position, I heard that the defense area of the 9th Division of the Japanese Army is blocked outside Guanghua Gate, I just looked at the deployment of the troops participating in the battle, there is only one integrated reinforced brigade on the side of Guanghua Gate, and it is definitely not possible to fight with a division of the enemy, our 67th Regiment is willing to help the field......" Fang Luocheng took the initiative to ask after hearing this.

Before Tang Shengzhi could speak, Yang Longfei took the lead and shouted: "With the broken copper and iron in your group's hands, it won't be your turn to help the field, right?" Sir Tang, our 25th Regiment has just been withdrawn from the Songhu battlefield, and most of the troops are elites who have fought with the Japanese with bayonets. ”

Tie Haichuan also rushed to speak: "Chief Tang, our regiment has not caught up in several vicious battles, and the officers and soldiers of the whole regiment are shouting every day to eat devil meat. In my opinion, it is very appropriate to hand over the task of Guanghuamen to our 89th Regiment, which is reasonable and reasonable. ”

The three of them argued and began a fierce quarrel. This made Tang Shengzhi, who was sitting behind the desk, feel crying and laughing, this is neither going to a banquet nor going to pay homage to his birthday, to put it mildly, he is going to be responsible for the garrison of the peripheral positions, to put it bluntly, he is going to die! He originally thought that one or two of the three guys would be willing to stay in the compound position in the city to garrison, which would be conducive to his own deployment and would not cause a dispute between the three of them. It's a good thing now, none of these three stunned young people are willing to stay in the compound position to watch the battle, and all of them want to go to the outer positions to fight with the Japanese, as if this life is not their own. In fact, not only these three boys, but today there were no less than 40 middle-level officers who went to their office to take the initiative to go to the front line to fight the Japanese, and all of them had the determination and belief that they would die, and no one thought of leaving Nanjing alive.

"Don't make any noise, can you be quiet for a while?!" After Tang Shengzhi shouted, the three of them reined in, but they were still unambiguous on the issue of asking for war, and they were about to quarrel after a while......

"Okay, okay, don't talk about it! In this way, since the three of you are rushing to Guanghuamen to set up defenses, then I will give you an idea. I think it's okay, the three of you decided to draw lots, the three pieces of paper are written on Qixia Mountain, Zhonghua Gate and Guanghua Gate three defense areas, as for what you catch, it depends on the will of God......" Before the words fell, he set his eyes on Fang Luocheng and Yang Longfei again, "Don't be unconvinced, to say something unpleasant, with your current spirit of not fearing death, this is the fairest way so far, but as long as the three of you have a person who spares his life, I will not make such a decision." Come on, I've written it all, one person chooses one, which one is chosen, if I hear that there is a private change of defense area, military law will be engaged! As he spoke, Tang Shengzhi rolled the three pieces of paper in his hand into a paper ball, tossed them in his hand a few times, and then threw them on the table.

Fang Luocheng and Yang Longfei shot almost at the same time, and each of them took a paper ball on the far right and in the middle, and after opening the paper ball, their faces bloomed with joy. Tie Haichuan's heart suddenly swelled with unease, he picked up the last piece of paper with apprehension, and after opening it, his face turned iron-blue, and he almost scolded all the dirty words......

Fulfilling the wishes of the two, Yang Longfei and Fang Luocheng drew Guanghua Gate and Zhonghua Gate respectively, while Tie Haichuan was much less lucky than the two seniors around him, and he drew Qixia Mountain, the main ——— of the compound position.

"Looking at the expressions on your faces, it is not difficult to guess the result, this time it is really some people are happy and some are worried. But there is no way, this is the rule set before the lot, you have to afford to win and lose, if you don't have anything to say, just hurry back to your respective stations and actively prepare for the battle, I'm afraid the next few days will not be as harmonious as now......"

With mixed feelings, the three officers saluted the supreme commander of the Nanjing Garrison Headquarters in front of them with a standard military salute, and they all knew in their hearts that Nanjing would soon become a purgatory on earth, and the fierceness of its battle was definitely as good as the Battle of Songhu a month earlier. Whether it is a peripheral position or a re-established position, it will become a bloody death place with the Japanese army, and perhaps this will be the last military salute they inflict on the old commander.

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As General Tang Shengzhi said, at this time, the outside of Nanjing has long been surrounded by Japanese troops on all sides like iron barrels, and the city is not at peace at the moment, almost all the citizens of Nanjing know that the city where they live and live will soon become a battlefield full of artillery fire, but they can do nothing, because at the moment not only the defenders in the city have blocked the city gate, but even the outside of the city and the city wall area are surrounded by the Japanese army. As soon as the head is exposed, it will be beaten into a sieve in the second second. On the contrary, staying in the city can live for a few more days, and it is difficult to say that the national army defending the city will be able to beat the little devil away......

On the way to the front line of Guanghuamen, Yang Longfei received a contact from the underground party organization of the Chinese Communist Party in Nanjing, asking him to meet at a junction called "Zixuan Teahouse" near the Nanjing Drum Tower Hotel.

On this day, Yang Longfei changed into a rather old-fashioned Chinese-style navy blue robe, wore a top hat, and carried a Browning pocket pistol, which was his habit.

He walked casually all the way to the door of the Drum Tower Hotel, looked around, and soon locked his eyes on a very conspicuous plaque, on which were written four large characters made of tin: Zixuan Teahouse. Yang Longfei took a step and walked in the direction of the teahouse......

During the preparation for the war, every shop seemed to be extremely deserted, and there was almost no business, especially the elegant places like the "Zixuan Teahouse", which were liked to be visited by literati and ink writers, and at this time, those who liked to sip a few sips of tea and recite poems had long since lost their sights.

There is only one customer in a huge teahouse! And as far as this person's dress is concerned, like himself, he is completely out of place in the quiet place of the teahouse. Wearing a long shirt and a top hat, I just don't know if he will have a box cannon on him?

Yang Longfei walked into the teahouse seriously, and under the courteous greetings of the people in the hall, Yang Longfei ordered a cup of Huangshan Maofeng.

Seeing this, the person sitting on the side walked over unhurriedly, sat opposite Yang Longfei's table, and started to talk without a word, in fact, this is a "code word" that has been agreed in advance, which is used to better determine the identity of the other party when they connect.

The man picked up his tea bowl and took a sip of tea and asked, "Mr. also likes to drink tea?" ”

Yang Longfei stammered his tongue and said, "It's okay." ”

"That'...... What kind of tea does the gentleman like to drink? ”

"Isn't it? Huangshan Maofeng. ”

The man smiled and asked, "Is it good to change the tip of the Xinyang hair?" ”

"Forget about the tip of the hair, I'm light-mouthed. If you want to, sir, give me a change of clouds and mist in Lushan. Yang Longfei's eagle-like eyes immediately fixed on the person opposite.

The man seemed to be very satisfied with Yang Longfei's answer, and he raised his right hand: "It's Comrade Yang Longfei, right?" Hello, hello, my name is Cui Zhicheng, and I am currently the representative of the underground party in Nanjing. I'll tell you the truth, I've been waiting for you here for two days, and my superiors have given me an order that if I don't see you before five o'clock this afternoon, I'm going to leave......"

Yang Longfei was puzzled: "Withdraw? The city of Nanjing is now surrounded by the Japanese army, and you alone will not be able to fly out if you put on your wings, unless you go out of the city and mutiny. ”

"You're joking, Comrade Yang Longfei. As the saying goes, there will eventually be a gap in a hundred secrets, and the Japanese will block the city wall, which does not mean that he can seal the mountain as well. Unless they set fire to the mountain, there is always a way for us to get out. Don't forget, back then, hundreds of thousands of horses and horses of your national army pursued and suppressed our Red Army 25,000 miles away, and in the end, didn't you let us run away? Choi Zhicheng smiled confidently.

Yang Longfei nodded in understanding and asked, "Is there anything wrong with me this time?" ”

"Entrusted by the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee, I am now responsible for conveying to you the latest instructions given to your ministry by the superior leaders...... After the end of the Nanjing Campaign, the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee gave your unit two options for the following movements: The victorious troops in the campaign will continue to stay in Nanjing and wait for the next instructions, and if they are defeated, they will retreat to Shandong, try to get in touch with the guerrilla detachment of our party stationed in Shandong, and formally incorporate the 25th Regiment of your unit into the battle sequence of the 18th Group Army. One thing I need to explain to you is that since our Eighth Route Army has just been reorganized, most of the main forces are still operating in the vicinity of the Shanxi-Shaanxi-Sui border area. Therefore, our army does not have too many armed forces stationed in Shandong, which may add some trouble to the subsequent rebuilding of your department, I hope you can understand. Okay, these are the two post-war deployments formulated by the higher authorities for your department, you can read it again for yourself now, and if you understand it correctly, you can burn it......" Cui Zhicheng read a note taken out of his robe and handed it to Yang Longfei.

After a rough sweep, Yang Longfei took out a match from his pocket, lit it, and burned the note in his hand while asking, "Didn't the higher-level departments hear about the order issued by the Nanjing Garrison Headquarters?" The garrison commander Tang Shengzhi personally issued a death order: the defenders of Nanjing swore to live and die with the city. To put it literally, if Nanjing is defeated, there is no possibility for me and the officers and men defending the city in Nanjing to retreat. ”

"Comrade Yang Longfei, please obey the orders given to you by the provincial party committee and don't act rashly! You must know that the future Sino-Japanese war will not be limited to North China and East China, and the ambition of the Japanese is to annex the whole of China, and not just to be satisfied with eating a single Nanjing. Your command skills should be put on the battlefields of the whole country where you are more needed in the future, and not on the gains and losses of one city or one place. Remember, this is just the beginning, and besides, our party is not optimistic about the death order of Commander Tang Shengzhi of your army, as for the final result, let's wait and see. Remember, guard against arrogance and rashness, don't be rash, and focus on the overall situation...... It's not early, I'm leaving, it's a long time coming, we'll have a date later...... Man, settle the score! I paid for this tea together......" After that, Cui Zhicheng stood up and prepared to leave.

"Okay...... This man, wait a minute, you can let me calculate how much money the two of you have in total......" After hearing the shout, the man hurriedly ran over from the counter.