Xue Boling immediately asked people to arrange vehicles to enter the city.

It is only a few dozen miles from the location of the Ministry of Defense, and it can be reached in an hour by car. When the command service squad asked what vehicles to arrange, Xue Boling thought for a while and said: "Just the most ordinary Yellow River brand jeep, the other vehicles are too conspicuous and not very good." ”

The duty team immediately went to arrange three Huanghe jeeps. The front one is a guide car, the middle one is Xue Boling, and the back one is a guard squad.

Xue Boling frowned after reading it and said: "One is enough, the garrison squad is not needed, and there is no need for guidance, I am familiar with Nanjing." To the Ministry of Defense to keep a low profile. ”

With that, he pulled the car door and sat in. Personal guard Daniel Zhang waved his hand and signaled that all the guards in the squad were withdrawn, and only he himself followed.

After pulling the car door, Daniel Zhang sat in the co-pilot's seat.

"Let's drive!" Xue Boling lay down on the back seat, he had not had a good rest during the march in the past few days, and he was afraid that if there was a fierce battle in the future, rest would be necessary.

The car sped forward, and Nanjing outside the window was unrecognizable. Daniel Zhang had also spent time in Nanjing before, so he was naturally familiar with Nanjing. It's just that the scene in front of him is unrecognizable, almost none of the buildings are intact, and the ruins are astonishing.

When passing by the Sanshan Gate, many people poured out of the city gate with their families, causing traffic to be paralyzed for a while. The car was also forced to stop.

"What's going on?" Xue Boling woke up.

The guard Daniel Zhang looked at it and said, "It seems that the disaster victims who ran against the road are blocking the road, so I'll go down and see if people get out of the way." ”

Xue Boling lifted the curtain on the car and looked out, the entrance and exit of the city gate were blocked by these refugees who ran back, and it seemed that when the troops entered the city, they would have to take other roads.

Daniel Zhang had no choice, so he had to get out of the car and go to the chief guard standing guard at the city gate to discuss.

At present, the traffic at the city gate is maintained by armed police forces, and although these people are wearing police uniforms, their ranks are different from ordinary police ranks, and they are still based on the army.

Daniel Zhang found the other party's commander, who was a lieutenant of an armed policeman. After revealing his identity, the captain of the armed police frowned and said, "You have also seen the current situation, so we have a lot of manpower." These ordinary people are all thinking about running outside, and we individuals can't control it. Not to mention getting out of the way for the car to pass, I'm afraid it's hard for people to pass. ”

"What then? Now the chief has an urgent matter to go to the Ministry of Defense, and the military situation has been delayed, and our brothers can't afford it. Daniel Zhang said a little angrily, in his opinion, it was because this person did not leave a good passage in advance.

However, Daniel Zhang still did not dare to attack, after all, the other party was not a soldier under his own hands. He had to try to ask, "I don't know if it's okay to go through the other gate to enter the city?" ”

The lieutenant shook his head: "I'm afraid that's the case with every road and gate to the west. These days, since the announcement of the lifting of martial law in Nanjing, the ordinary people who are officials have been rushing out, and the most people have rushed to this time at noon. ”

Daniel Zhang felt that this was not the way to go, and he asked, "When will the crowd disperse?" ”

"I'm afraid this won't be less until the evening." The lieutenant thought about it and said, "Sir, I don't think so." You go and talk to the chief and see if you can get him out of the car, and I'll let you go through the small door exit over there. After passing the city gates, I asked our men to drive our car to the commander to the Ministry of Defense. This car will stay here for now, and when there are fewer people and we change shifts, we will drive the car into town and give it to you. ”

Daniel Zhang thought about it and felt that this was a feasible solution, and he said to the lieutenant: "Well, I'll go and ask the commander." ”

After speaking, Daniel Zhang ran to the parking position to describe the situation to Xue Boling, and after listening to it, he immediately decided to take the lieutenant's suggestion, park the car here, and go through the small door.

Daniel Zhang immediately ran back and let the lieutenant take charge of the arrangements.

"Okay, I'll arrange it." After the lieutenant finished speaking, he immediately arranged for someone to open the small door. At the end, he walked up to Daniel Zhang again and asked, "Brother, are you reinforcements?" ”

Daniel Zhang was stunned, and said solemnly: "Don't inquire about what you shouldn't ask!" ”

"Yes!" The lieutenant laughed happily.

With the help of the armed police guarding the city, Xue Boling rushed to the Ministry of National Defense building at about one o'clock in the afternoon. When he arrived at the Ministry of National Defense, Huang Ke was having lunch, and after Chen Liewen reported the news of Xue Boling, Huang Ke put down his chopsticks and said: "Let the canteen clean the box and prepare some simple dishes, they must have not eaten yet." ”

So, Huang Ke and Cui Wu met for the first time in the canteen before the defense war.

"Boling has worked hard all the way, you don't know, Cui Wu and I are looking forward to you passing through the autumn water. What do you think? Have all the troops entered the city? Huang Kele said hehehe.

Xue Boling said: "Report to the two commanders, the troops are now stationed outside the western suburbs, waiting for the order of the Ministry of Defense to be dispatched. ”

After saying this, Huang Ke and Cui Wu looked at each other and smiled: "Okay, you Xue Boling, you are still taboo when it comes to this kung fu." ”

Although he said this, Xue Boling could see that Huang Ke had a positive attitude towards his approach.

"How many soldiers will you bring this time?" Cui Wu asked the question he was more concerned about.

After Xue Boling reported the number of troops, he used a regiment to move back and forth to confuse the Japanese army, and the matter was also reported incidentally.

"You left a regiment to confuse the Japanese? It's a little interesting, let's talk about what you think. Huang Ke lit a cigarette and leaned back on the chair in the box and said.

Xue Boling smiled and said: "Originally, I planned to take the train directly to Nanjing Station, but it will take two days to repair the damage to the railway, and the two batches of troops cannot all arrive at night." In order not to waste time, I asked the second batch of troops, led by the chief of staff, to march towards Nanjing on the highway. In this way, it was difficult to ensure that it would not be discovered by the Japanese reconnaissance personnel who had mixed into the rear, so I would simply leave a regiment to move back and forth. ”

Cui Wu nodded and said: "Gao, this not only ensures the normal movement of the main force of the troops, but also confuses the Japanese, so that they don't know how many reinforcements there are." ”

Huang Ke also laughed and said: "Yes, in addition to these, the Japanese must have thought that we were doing it on purpose when they saw that regiment." Boling, you're a good one. ”

After speaking, he turned his head to Cui Wu and smiled, "How is it?" With such a tiger general and such a tiger army, are you sure of the siege of Matsui Shigen? ”

Cui Wu put on his military hat, stood up and said, "If you can't defeat the Japanese army, I will definitely come to see you!" ”

At this time, Fourteen Tsai walked in and approached Huang Ke's side and said, "Commander, General Yu Chengwan and Mayor Xiaoshan Ling have all arrived!" ”

Huang Ke stood up and said, "Okay, there is another tiger general." Let's go to the conference room to talk, tomorrow is the ceremony of the 30th anniversary of the National Day. ”

As they spoke, they stood up and walked to the conference room.

……

The movement of troops around Nanking attracted the attention of the Japanese army. Their scouts, who were hiding in the rear, immediately reported the news to the Japanese army in East China: Recently, reinforcements were approaching Nanjing, well-equipped, and the number was unknown.

The news was reported to the Japanese military leadership, and the Japanese military leadership instructed to continue the reconnaissance and be sure to find out the number and number of the other party.

As a result, the Japanese reconnaissance personnel in the rear began to jump up and down. A group of Japanese spies found that the reinforcements of the Chinese army seemed to be endless, from Anhui to Jiangsu and then to Nanjing, and the reinforcements of the Chinese army could be seen everywhere along the way.

This made the Japanese scouts wonder, what the hell is going on?

After careful investigation, they found that the so-called reinforcements of the Chinese army were all the same troops, but they were constantly rushing back and forth on the way to Nanjing, pretending to be suspicious soldiers, making people think that a large number of reinforcements from the Chinese army had arrived.

The investigators immediately reported the news to the top level, and the staff of the Japanese East China Front analyzed it, and compared it with the aerial reconnaissance, they also proved this conjecture, that is, the Chinese army did not have the so-called reinforcements at all, and the reinforcements that appeared were just their pretense of suspicion.

Matsui Ishine and King Hatohiko also smiled faintly after seeing it.

At this time, in fact, it doesn't matter whether the other party has reinforcements or not, and now they have made up their minds to attack Nanjing City on the day of Nanjing's National Day.

……

At 8 o'clock in the evening, on the outskirts of Jinan, more than 100 Y-3 transport planes were waiting at several military airfields in the field that had been rested and reorganized.

An hour later, nearly 3,000 airborne troops will take off from here in these planes and rush to the front line of Suzhou and Kunshan under Japanese occupation, where they will open up new battlefields.

This is destined to be a day that will go down in history, because such a large-scale airborne operation is unique not only in the Chinese battlefield, but even in the world battlefield.

The first and third regiments of paratroopers loaded with equipment were assembled, and Huang Zheng, the commander of the third regiment, and Ji Xingwen, the commander of the first regiment, also followed the unit to participate in the parachute jump.

An order came from the tower, and the troops began to prepare to enter the aircraft. Huang Zheng raised his hand to look at his watch, the time was almost up, he and Ji Xingwen waved their hands and said, "Let's see you in Suzhou!" ”

Then, the order began to be delivered, and the officers and men boarded the plane in turn. Hundreds of transport aircraft began to spin their propellers, and the sound of huge engines resounded through the sky.

With the guidance of the ground personnel, one transport plane after another began to slide out of the runway and flew in formation in the air to the southeast.

Huang Zheng looked at the land that was slowly moving away, and he knew that this night would be the longest night!