Chapter 90: Retreat (1)

For a long time, Chiyoshi Iijima didn't speak, in fact, they didn't know much about the Snow Fox Brigade. He saw that the commander's expression was very bad, and as a secret agency, he was very clear about the situation on the Nanjing battlefield.

I wanted to say I didn't know, but I didn't dare. Today, I heard that the imperial armies on the east and west sides suffered heavy losses and had to stop the offensive, so I immediately learned about it and knew part of the situation.

We know only a little about the deployment of the national army in Nanjing, but we know the situation in Nanjing, after all, there are spies lurking in the city. At the same time, the city continued to evacuate the people, and a large number of wounded soldiers were withdrawn from Nanjing, and it was not difficult to know the situation inside. He also said: "The Snow Fox Brigade has been upgraded to a general team, with more than 3,000 troops. Xue Ru, the captain of the team, knew very little about her, but knew that she was sixteen or seventeen years old, and she didn't know anything about her background and family background. But our people learned that her ancestral home is from Shaoguan, Guangdong, and she seems to have something to do with Xue Yue, but they can't be sure. ”

He said several times in succession that he didn't know, and saw that Commander Hatohiko of the Asaka Palace had no expression, listening to his report, and then said: "According to the analysis of the secret service, the soldiers of the Snow Fox Corps are complex, and they are the units of various units together, and there is no regular number. They are not under the command of other troops, but directly under the command of the headquarters, and they have never participated in the battle of Nanjing, and today's operation is also a part of the operation, assisting the troops of the 74th Army in the battle, and the specific reason is not clear. ”

King Hatohiko of the Asaka Palace nodded: "Your task is to find out everything about this snow fox as soon as possible, if you still can't figure it out, you know." ”

Chikichi Iijima hurriedly stood up: "Hey, I will do my best to report to the commander if there is a situation." ”

Waving his hand to King Hatohiko of Kamiya, he let Chiyoshi Iijima out, and after a long time, he finally knew that the Snow Fox Brigade was promoted to the general team, but the strength did not increase. Even if it's so powerful to assist other troops, what if the entire army is a snow fox?

Fan Zhaoshou said: "Your Excellency Commander, I don't think Xue Ru is taken seriously, otherwise with her ability, we will not be able to attack in the front, and we may suffer heavy losses as on both sides." It is better to increase the frontal attack and break through from the south, once the troops enter the city, they will only have 3,000 men, and they will not be able to face a large number of imperial troops. Besides, once she takes full command, it may be dangerous. ”

King Hatohiko of the Xianggong nodded: "Yes, early tomorrow morning, order the 6th Division, the 9th Division, and the 3rd Division to increase the intensity of the attack, and the 114th Division and the 16th Division will contain the left and right forces, so that the Snow Fox will not be able to reinforce the south." It would be better if they were engaged in frontal combat, and Xue Ru's victory was based on trickery. In the face of a strong attack, she couldn't help it. Order the air force and the chariot heavy artillery wing to bombard the city and the city walls intensively to see how their tricks can hold back the steel of the Imperial Japanese Army. ”

Iito agreed to report the situation to General Matsui Ishone, commander of the Central China Dispatch Army, and coordinated the aircraft and heavy artillery wings, intending to break through the entire frontal defense line in one fell swoop.

While King Hatohiko of the Asaka Palace was studying tactics, the staff of the Nanjing Garrison finally finished formulating a retreat plan and notified the officers above the division commander to come to the headquarters for a meeting. Luo Zhuoying said: "Commander Tang, do you want to notify Xue Ru to come to the meeting?" ”

Tang Shengzhi felt a burst of anger in his heart, didn't this make Xue Ru look at himself embarrassed? Liu Xing said: "Commander, the troops are retreating on three sides, and Nanjing will inevitably stay to contain and block the team. All the troops are half-crippled and exhausted, and the Snow Fox Corps has been participating in the battle, whether to let them stay behind to block. ”

Luo Zhuoying looked at Liu Xing very dissatisfied, knowing that this was revenge. Xue Ru has always proposed to retreat, but at this time, she left behind to block, and she couldn't disobey at all, otherwise Tang Shengzhi would catch the reason to deal with her. No one wants to stay when they retreat? He couldn't afford to offend other generals because of Xue Ru, so he didn't speak. Of course, Tang Shengzhi understood what Liu Xing meant, nodded and said, "Inform Xue Ru to come to the meeting." ”

Xue Ru put down the phone and said to Wu Yuzhao: "Check the troop communications again and order the troops to be ready for battle." Increase the preparation of dry grain fried rice and fried noodles, and prepare at least three days of rations. I went to the headquarters for a meeting. ”

Wu Yuzhao was stunned for a moment, and then said, "This is a retreating meeting?" ”

Xue Ru nodded: "It should be, I think Commander Song should also go, and I'll talk about it then." ”

Wu Yuzhao nodded in agreement, glanced at his watch, it was already three o'clock in the afternoon, and it seemed that the Japanese army would not attack. But according to what the captain said, once he retreats, street fighting will start tomorrow, and Snow Fox has been preparing for so many days, and it is finally about to begin. But how did the captain know?

Looking at Xue Ru, who led the guards away, Wu Yuzhao looked at Xiang Wenbin and asked, "The captain is really a fox spirit, right?" ”

Xiang Wenbin came from the Sichuan army, and they were not the same as Wu Yuzhao, and they had already identified him as a snow fox, so he smiled and said, "Whatever." The vixen also confuses you young people, how old am I. Besides, it's better if it's really a vixen, are you afraid of losing if you fight with a goblin? ”

"Okay, you say bad things about the squadron leader behind your back, wait until I tell her," Li Wenxiu said with a smile.

She is no longer the shy and timid woman, in a few months, she has studied with the army, transferred to war, and has become a qualified staff officer. The pain of being raped by devils is a thing of the past, and people are a lot more cheerful, talking and laughing.

Women have an obvious advantage in the men's world army, and the entire army is just her and Xue Ru. Li Wenxiu, who is good-looking, is still very popular. She is the same, she follows Xue Ru for everything, and she is very casual with men, but she just doesn't let it go further.

Many staff officers and officers treated her very well, and she spoke very casually. Xiang Wenbin said: "Whatever, don't look at the captain small, he is not such a stingy person." Okay, you guys rest, I'll go check it out. ”

Wu Yuzhao said: "You go to the first regiment, I will go to the second regiment, and come back as soon as possible." It is not yet known what the retreat plan is. ”

Wu Yuzhao went to the second regiment in the west, Xiang Wenbin went to the first regiment in the east, and Li Wenxiu went to the first and second brigades in the middle.

Xue Ru didn't have a car, she walked to the headquarters, and when she arrived, several army and division commanders had already arrived, and they knew earlier than Xue Ru.

Among these people, only Yu Jishi, Song Xilian, Wang Yaowu and Feng Shengfa knew Xue Ru, and the other division commanders did not know each other. But at this time, is there still a female captain in Nanjing who doesn't know that she is pointing a gun at the commander?

Although the participants in the meeting were all division commanders and army commanders above the rank of major general, it was not surprising that she was a colonel here. This is a unit directly under the command of the theater, and the level is large enough.

Tang Shengzhi hadn't come yet, and the last one to come in was Xiao Shanling, he had too many things to do, and he arrived last. According to Wang Yaowu, Xue Ru finally recognized the generals of the entire Nanjing defense force. Looking at these people whose names he had only heard in later generations, sitting in front of him, Xue Ru was also a little excited. Some of them she had heard of and some of them had not.

A total of 134 divisions plus auxiliary troops, there are less than 100,000 people, that is, Nanjing has suffered as many as 20,000 casualties in just a few days. These are all elite units of the national army, and according to later generations, more than 50,000 people were captured, that is, half. According to his own arrangement, Xue Ru believed that there would not be that scene in history.

Nanjing has long known that he is lost, and he is not in a bad mood, whether there is still a massacre, Xue Ru does not know, after all, the citizens of Nanjing do not listen to themselves, and many people choose to stay.

According to Xiao Shanling, there are still nearly 200,000 people in Nanjing. This made Xueru feel a little more relaxed, even if the Japanese army killed all the 200,000 people, it would not reach the original historical figures, especially to keep these troops.

With Wang Yaowu's introduction, he saluted and said hello. Soon everyone thought it was strange, Xue Ru was good? is not arrogant, not proud, very easy-going little girl, how can she treat Tang Shengzhi like that? It must have been Commander Tang who went too far.

Tang Shengzhi arrived, Luo Zhuoying, Liu Xing and Zhou Wei came out together,

At the beginning of the meeting, Zhou Wei announced the retreat order, Tang Shengzhi didn't look at Xue Ru, because she was the lowest, of course, she sat the farthest, Xue Ru stared at Tang Shengzhi, saw him stand up and said: "This is the order of the commission, we resolutely follow it, avoid being surrounded by the Japanese army, leave the living force, and persist in the protracted war of resistance." ”

No one will stand up and say that they want to read the telegram, then there is nothing to do. Now the division commanders can no longer sit still, and since they are retreating, of course, the sooner they are arranged, the better.

Soon Zhou Yu instructed the staff officer to distribute the plan to each officer, Xue Ru took the plan, read it and put it on the table casually, without any expression on his face. I don't remember what the original historical retreat plan was, but there was nothing wrong with it.

Xue Ru was a little strange, the meeting was held by an officer above the division level, and Song Xilian was the army commander and the commander of the 36th Division, he should have attended the meeting, but how could later generations record that the 36th Division did not know the retreat order? There was also a shootout, so that the city gates were chaotic, and no one could get out?

She glanced at Song Xilian strangely, Song Xilian nodded and smiled, meaning to tell Xue Ru to rest assured, they were the last to retreat according to the plan, so tell her to rest assured. Xue Ru was not worried, but strange, could it be that Song Xilian also ran away in advance in history and did not notify the troops?

There is also the fact that the retreat direction of the troops is not all in Xiaguan, why did these generals squeeze into Xiaguan? Could it be that they are all commanders who fled? There are many incomprehensible places, which make Xue Ru constantly examine these generals. According to later generations, only most of the 83rd Army and the 66th Army broke through and retreated from the front, and the other troops basically rushed to Xiaguan, why is this?

Xue Ru is studying why, of course she doesn't understand it, because history has deviated, and it is not the same as the original. At least in the original plan, only the troops retreated in batches, and the time was different, and there were no blocking troops left. The second difference is that this time, due to the incident of Xue Ru directly pointing at Tang Shengzhi, the order to destroy the ship in the original history was not issued, but only collected and centralized.

The most important point is that Tang Shengzhi's words are the key in the end. After reading out the retreat plan, Tang Shengzhi said: "The 87th Division, the 88th Division, the 74th Army, the 83rd Army, and the teaching team, when they cannot break through the encirclement, if there are boats, they can cross the river and assemble in Chuxian County and be placed under the command of the Third War Zone. ”

In the original history, this sentence was the cause of the disaster. Xue Ru did not have the experience and talent to command the group army in battle, and he did not know that such an ambiguous order lowered the seriousness of the retreat plan. It turns out that in history, most of the ships were destroyed, how can there be so many boats crossing the river? That's why that's what happened.

Xue Ru has a planned arrangement and has been keeping in touch with Song Xilian, although there are not many boats, it is okay. Besides, he planned to teach the devil a lesson in the street battle in the city, and he didn't care too much about Tang Shengzhi's verbal supplementary order.

There are so many different places, how could Xue Ru figure it out. Of course, he has no opinion on the task of leaving him to block, whether Tang Shengzhi is taking revenge on himself, he didn't think about it at all.

Seeing that there were no objections, Tang Shengzhi announced the dismissal of the meeting, and the retreat plan was very detailed, since they all understood, there was no need to be verbose. Seeing that Xue Ru didn't ask anything, Tang Shengzhi didn't bother to care anymore. Today, the two divisions of the 74th Army achieved good results, and they wanted to be amazing, but they were assisted by the Snow Fox Corps. It was not reported at all, and even the army commander did not know, let alone him, the commander.

For Xue Ru's self-righteous behavior, Tang Shengzhi was extremely resentful. Anyway, the plan is to designate Xiao Shanling as the commander-in-chief of the Nanjing guard, and he is the commander of the Nanjing garrison. The garrison command stipulated that Xue Ru accepted the command of Xiao Shan's order.

Since Xiao Shanling didn't ask, of course Tang Shengzhi didn't care, he was going to lead the headquarters to leave.

Looking at Tang Shengzhi who was leaving, Xue Ru said to Wang Yaowu, Feng Shengfa and Xiao Shanling: "I know this time, how to arrange it is your business, if you still want to implement our plan, go to my headquarters to study, if you don't want to implement it, you can retreat, I will leave last." ”

Wang Yaowu smiled: "Wait for me." ”

Feng Shengfa also nodded and left with Wang Yaowu to follow their army commander Yu Jishi, only Xiao Shanling and Xue Ru returned to the headquarters of the Datong shop.