Jin Zhao looked at the telegram in his hand in a daze, and Qiu Guozhen next to him saw Jin Zhao stunned there, and couldn't help but remind, "Meng Bo, now that the Yue army has captured the Liuhe River, the flank and rear of my 19th Route Army are seriously threatened by the Yue army, and now the military seat has given the order to retreat on all fronts and retreat to the second line of defense, I don't know what you think?" ”

After Qiu Guozhen's reminder, Jin Zhao discovered that at the bottom of the telegram, there was indeed an order for the military headquarters to retreat, ordering all units of the 19th Route Army to take cover alternately and retreat to the second line of defense (that is, the line of Jiading and Huangdu). Seeing this, Jin Zhao sighed helplessly and said, "I don't know what you think of the retreat order of the military seat, our reading group is willing to advance and retreat together with 156." Saying that, Jin Zhao raised his head and looked at Weng Zhaoyuan, the commander of the 156th Brigade.

Weng Zhaoyuan sighed helplessly, then turned around and walked to the corner, took out a cigarette and lit it, and smoked it silently. Retreating means that this month's fighting has been in vain, and the blood of thousands of soldiers has been shed in vain, and they are really unwilling. But if you don't retreat, now the army has threatened the rear of the 19th Route Army, and if you are not careful, the 19th Route Army may fall into the heavy encirclement of the army, and even if you want to retreat, it will be impossible to retreat.

There was silence in the room for a while, everyone lowered their heads in a heavy mood, Jin Zhao knew that the situation was critical now, and he had to make a decision as soon as possible, so he glanced at the chief of staff, Qiu Guozhen.

Qiu Guozhen cried out in his heart, Nima! None of you are silent, but you let Lao Tzu be this wicked person. However, thinking that as the chief of staff of the 156th Brigade, it was also his duty, so he walked behind Weng Zhaoyuan and said, "Brigade seat! Now that the Liuhe River has been lost, Wu Song has no need to hold on, and if he does not retreat, he can only increase casualties. What's more, now that the military seat has ordered the entire line to retreat, if we don't retreat, our 156th Brigade will become a lone army, and if we don't make trouble, the whole army will be wiped out. ”

"Humph! What about the total annihilation? Weng Zhaoyuan snorted coldly and said, "The little devil wants to occupy Wusong and eat my 156th Brigade, okay!" My 156 Brigade is all good men, there is no one of them, even if the whole army is wiped out, Lao Tzu has to break off the two front teeth of the little devil and let him bleed three catties of blood. ”

Seeing that Weng Zhaoyuan didn't listen to persuasion at all, Jin Zhao thought for a while and said, "Now is not the time for the brigade to be arrogant, although Wu Song should be defended, but at present, the army has captured the Liuhe River, and Wu Song's strategic position has been reduced to the minimum. Our 156th Brigade, and even the entire 19th Route Army, the battle of Zhabei on the 28th and 9th of January and the achievements of defending Shanghai in the past month are obvious to the people of the whole country. However, I still say the same thing, since I read that the regiment is controlled by the 156th Brigade, it should advance and retreat together with the 156th Brigade. If the brigade insists on fighting, even if we fight to the death of a soldier and a bullet, we will never take half a step back. If the brigade decides to retreat, our reading force is willing to assume the responsibility of breaking off. Now that the situation is critical, whether to fight or retreat, please make a decision as soon as possible. ”

At this time, Ding Rongguang also opened his mouth to persuade, "Brigade, as the saying goes, stay in Qingshan without worrying about no firewood, we will withdraw from Wusong today, and we will still kill devils in another place tomorrow." What's more, after such a long battle, the soldiers are already exhausted, and they really can't fight anymore, so it's a big deal to wait until we have enough spirits to kill back. ”

Weng Zhaoyuan thought for a while, threw the cigarette butt to the ground, gritted his teeth and said, "Since that's the case, then retreat!" ”

Hearing that Weng Zhaoyuan finally relented and agreed to retreat, everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Although the decision to retreat has been decided, there is a serious problem to be faced next, that is, how to retreat. Retreat is a kind of technical work, and if it is not planned well, a bad retreat can turn into a rout on all fronts. Everyone discussed urgently for more than an hour, and one by one, their faces were red and their ears were red, and they almost had a big fight. However, the battle is not about who will retreat first, but who will stay behind. In the end, Jin Zhao defeated Ding Rongguang and successfully took over the heavy responsibility of covering the broken back.

After the agreement, Weng Zhaoyuan officially issued a retreat order, ordering the 4th Regiment and 5th Regiment of the 156th Brigade to be divided into two columns to break through the encirclement and retreat in the direction of Jiading.

After Jin Zhao left the brigade headquarters, he hurried back to the regimental headquarters of the Reading Force Regiment and began to arrange the retreat. On the evening of the same day, at 10 o'clock in the evening of March 1, 1932, the 156th Brigade, which had been holding on to Wusong for nearly a month, began to retreat in an orderly manner in accordance with the orders of the military headquarters.

After receiving Jin Zhao's order, the various departments of the Reading Force began to prepare for retreat in an orderly manner. At this time, Jin Zhao was staying in the regiment headquarters, smoking a cigarette depressed. Thinking about it, it has been more than a month since he came to this time and space, and for more than a month, he has tried his best to change history, but in the face of the powerful habitual surname of history, Jin Zhao feels that he is so weak, everything is still running quietly according to the original historical trajectory, and the Songhu War of Resistance finally failed. At this time, Jin Zhao's heart was full of confusion, was he really powerless to change history? This question has always lingered in Jin Zhao's heart, lingering well, making Jin Zhao extremely depressed.

Jin Zhao knew in his heart that Shanghai was indeed not an ideal battlefield of resistance. First of all, Shanghai is a coastal city, and under the condition that the Chinese army basically has no navy, all kinds of warships of the little devils can drive into the Yangtze River unscrupulously, and even drive into the downtown area of Shanghai through the Huangpu River, causing unimaginable casualties to the Chinese army; Secondly, Shanghai's well-developed transportation, mild climate, and its geographical environment in the Yangtze River Delta are too flat, and for the mechanized city of Yuben, which is much higher than that of the Chinese army, Shanghai's attack is even much easier than that of the three eastern provinces. In the face of the Yue army, which had the advantage of sea, land and air, it was difficult for the extremely backward Chinese army to defeat the Yue army in Shanghai, and at this time, the strength of the Yue army had increased to 100,000, and the various departments of the 19th Route Army, including the Fifth Army, were only more than 50,000 people, and these more than 50,000 people had been fighting hard for more than a month, and they were already exhausted and suffered heavy losses. Even if Lao Jiang made up his mind to mobilize a large army and the army to fight a large-scale decisive battle in Shanghai, it would only make the Battle of Songhu break out five years in advance, even if Huaxia could win by luck, it would also suffer heavy losses. Jin Zhao thinks that he has a golden finger in his hand, and he can complete the great cause of exterminating Tumei like the pig's feet in the online novel, but Jin Zhao needs time to develop now, and the current Huaxia also needs time to prepare for a full-scale war of resistance.

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