Just when the Battle of Songhu was in full swing, Jinling, the capital of the Nationalist Government, was bombed by the Japanese army for a long time, and the situation on the front line became more and more wrong.

At an operational meeting, General He talked about the situation of the Songhu War of Resistance, talked about the ferocity of the Japanese offensive, and expounded his own views.

When the Japanese army marched west into Jinling, it was only a matter of time before the capital fell, and the national army should consider the security of the capital in advance, otherwise it would be very passive. However, his remarks did not elicit any reaction from everyone present. Seeing that everyone did not, General He once again emphasized: "The war is about to burn to Jinling, where to go in the capital, we must make a choice immediately, I suggest moving west to Jiangcheng (Wuhan)." ”

The participants stared at the bald heads, and the room was still silent.

General He was suddenly a little anxious, Jinling was too close to the Songhu battlefield, and such a distance was uncontrollable, so he said his thoughts bluntly: "Because Xia Wei is located in the Central Plains, it is the intersection of the north-south railway, the waterway transportation is developed, the east can be the west, no matter which direction the action is extremely convenient, moreover, the Xia Wei city wall is strong and difficult to overcome, if we can't make a choice in time on this issue now, soon Nanjing will be besieged by a strong enemy, and then there will be no way to advance, no way back, The problem is very serious. ”

Although the bald head did not speak, he already had the idea of moving the capital in his heart.

This idea was born at a very early age, when I was chatting with the foreign consultant Falkenhausen.

But the problem now is that in the war with the Japanese army, the whole country is united, and moving the capital at this time will inevitably affect the morale of the front-line combat troops.

However, if the capital is not moved, it is only a matter of time before the Japanese army reaches Jinling.

Until there was a meeting, when he met Li Zongr, Li Zongr asked him directly: "I heard that the capital is going to be moved, is there such a thing?" ”

Without waiting for the bald head to answer, he asked again: "I also heard that the capital was moved to Sichuan, is this news reliable?" ”

The bald head did not answer, but asked him rhetorically: "Do you agree with moving the capital?" Where do you think the capital is most appropriate? ”

Li Zongr immediately replied: "If it is to move the capital, of course Sichuan is the first choice. ”

"Tell me why."

"Well." Li Zongr pondered for a while, and then said: "Because Sichuan is located in the range of China, the surrounding terrain is complex, and the form is dangerous, it has a particularly important position in national defense. In the national war, Sichuan was the ideal rear. There are various dangerous passes of the Yangtze River in the east, especially the Three Gorges between Yichang and Fengjie are the most precipitous. To the west, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, known as the roof of the world, serves as a natural barrier. There are Daba Mountain and Qinling Mountains in the north. There is the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau in the south. Sichuan has a population of more than 40 million, which is one-tenth of the '450,000,000' Chinese population. Sichuan also has the nickname of 'the land of abundance', which shows the abundance of materials. There are all kinds of mineral resources, and there are excellent conditions for the development of the national defense industry. ”

The bald head listened very carefully, and after Li Zongr finished speaking, he nodded and said: "Yes, it is most appropriate for the capital to move to Sichuan Ba County, Sichuan has a large population, vast land, rich products, popular culture, and many troops. It can be said to be the crown of all provinces. Since ancient times, it has been called the country of abundance, and it is blessed with unique nature everywhere, and it is the base of our country. ”

Li Zongr thought about it, seemed to have some doubts, thought about it for a while, and said to the bald head: "I said something that shouldn't be said, I don't know if the chairman is willing to listen to it." ”

"And it doesn't hurt to say it."

The bald head raised his hand, signaling him not to worry.

The bald head was also very hesitant at this time, and urgently needed someone to enlighten and enlighten him, but he was really overwhelmed by the war in the direction of Songhu and the Japanese devil's plane.

"I don't know if you haven't discussed this matter with Lin Sen, Senior Officer Lin, the relocation is a big move, the action is very big, the road is long, and you have to sail against the current. If you haven't discussed it with him, I think it is urgent to seize the time, the war in Shanghai is tight, the victory or defeat is not optimistic, and the Japanese will come to Nanjing at any time, so it is imminent to move the capital, and we have to hurry up. ”

The bald head felt that what Li ZongR said was reasonable, and he said, "You are right, I will go to him immediately." ”

In the middle of the meeting, the bald head left the venue and got in the car to find Lin Sen.

Lin Shen was 70 years old at the time, a high-ranking Kuomintang official, and had served as the foreign minister of Mr. Sun's Marshal Office.

When the bald head saw Lin Sen, he told Lin Sen in detail about the relocation of the capital, Lin Sen listened, stroked his long beard, and said slowly: "The capital was moved to Ba County, Sichuan, I raised my hands in favor, Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang's experience in choosing Sichuan to govern Shu is worth our reference." There is a mantra that there is no army without Sichuan, and there are 18 provinces in the country, even if 17 provinces are lost, as long as there are SC provinces, as long as Sichuan is consolidated, China has hope, we can base ourselves on Sichuan, build Sichuan, and counterattack the devils at every opportunity to recover all the lost territory. ”

The bald head nodded again and again when he heard this, and a smile appeared on his face: "What Lin Lao said is very true, the two of us coincide, let me make an analogy, Sichuan is like a big camel." The camel is the most endurable of all kinds of animals, he can survive in the desert without eating or drinking, which is something that no animal can do, Sichuan is a large land with a lot of room for maneuver, it is the big camel of our country, it can withstand the capital of the country, and it is a natural base for the rejuvenation of the nation. ”

Lin Sen and the bald head of the two military and political leaders unified their understanding, the bald head immediately began to prepare, and decided that the administrative director He Lian with a capable team composed of various departments went to Chongq to make a front station for the relocation of the capital, and before He Lian left, the bald head instructed him to do three things.

Find a house, build roads, and build an arsenal.

Finding a house is for people from various government agencies to live and work.

After moving the capital, at least four roads should be built, and Ba County is directly connected with Shaanxi, Hunan, Hubei and Guizhou.

The arsenals of Jinling and Jiangcheng were relocated to Ba County (now Chongqing), and in addition to the relocation of the past, two garment factories, artillery shell factories, three bullet factories and five grenade factories had to be rebuilt.

Preparations for the relocation of the capital have begun, and in October, there were discordant voices within the Kuomintang, and the relocation of the capital was inevitable, but Jinling still had to be defended, and if Jinling did not guard anything, packed up his things and left directly, it would not only make the soldiers fighting on the front line feel cold, but also make the people of the whole country feel cold.

Among them were those who drafted the speech.

The bald head planned to make a big mobilization before moving the capital, and he was going to make an important speech, and the person who drafted the speech did not understand the move.

As the bald secretary, Chu Minyi conveyed the thoughts of these people: "From a military point of view, Jinling cannot be defended. However, politically speaking, Jinling must be collected, and it is still necessary to defend it to the death, if it is to defend to the death and boost the morale of the troops, the capital cannot be moved, once the capital is moved, the political influence is great, and the determination to defend it will be shaken, in that case, the soldiers will definitely not want to defend Jinling. ”

At the end, he also made an analogy, like the Spanish conquest and siege of the capital Madrid, Jinling will be fought as Madrid all year round.

Although the bald head was very angry, he still patiently explained: "Moving the capital and fighting are two different things, although it has an impact, but moving the capital is for better command of the operation, even if Jinling falls, you can also organize forces to fight back and recover Jinling." It is quite normal to have advances and retreats in wars. Today's retreat is for tomorrow's advancement. In particular, in dealing with a strong enemy, we must adhere to the principle of protracted warfare, regardless of the gain of power in one city and one place, and we have temporarily moved the capital to Sichuan in order to coordinate and organize a future counteroffensive against Jinling in Sichuan, Hunan, Hubei, and other places. ”

"Report to the committee, I still have a question I don't understand." Chu Minyi also said: "It is said that German Ambassador Todmann was entrusted by the Japanese to negotiate with us, and this shows that the Japanese Government has been looking for a way to make peace and looking for conditions acceptable to our Government. It's not that we don't want peace, but we really choose the timing and conditions. I believe that the real intention of the Japanese government to attack Jinling is not to really attack Jinling, but to force us to sign an alliance under the city, and if the two sides can reach an agreement, the Sino-Japanese war will not soon come to an end, which will be beneficial to the country and the people. Therefore, several of them think that the capital can not be moved for the time being, and there is no hurry to wait and see. ”

The so-called alliance under the city is roughly the Japanese devils with their guns on the side of the four eastern provinces, and if they sign a treaty with China, as long as the conditions they put forward are excessive, it is impossible for the national army to agree.

But if the muzzle of the gun is set under the city of Jinling, and the Japanese devils negotiate the conditions again, the national army will have no room to refuse to maneuver, and if you don't agree, then I will hit your capital.

A few writers actually thought about the major event of moving the capital left and right, and the more they listened to it, the more annoyed they became, and they felt that they couldn't say a word on the phone, so they slapped the table, started a fire, and reprimanded loudly: "Is it you who command me, or I command you." If you are told to write, write it to me quickly. Usually Chen Bui writes, but now there is no Zhang Butcher, do you want me to eat pigs with hair? ”

After speaking, he hung up the phone with a snap.

Putting down the phone, thinking about it with a bald head, I feel that there are still many people who can't figure it out about such a big event as moving the capital, and if this problem is not done well, it will affect people's hearts.

He's going to figure out a way.

The war at the front was tight, and the rear discussed the major matter of moving the capital.

After the more than 20 armies of the Sichuan Army arrived at the front line to fight, they stared at the Japanese army in Chen Jiaxing, and the two sides launched a fierce battle on the south side of Luodian, during the day the Japanese army attacked the Sichuan army position, and at night the Sichuan army attacked the Japanese position.

Yang Sen led the 20th Army, not simply with the Japanese devils to fight a positional battle, he dug two trenches along the shore of Fuzaohama, one in front and one in the front, when the Japanese devil's artillery came, he hid in the second trench, the Japanese devil's artillery did not fight, and immediately ran to the first line of defense through the communication trench.

At this time, the infantry of the Japanese devils will press up.

Unfortunately, the disparity between the weapons and equipment of the Sichuan army and the Japanese army was too great, and once the two sides exchanged fire, the disadvantages of the insufficient firepower of the Sichuan army would be exposed, and the ferocious attack of the Japanese army could not be suppressed at all.

Later, Yang Sen also found that the casualties caused by fighting bayonets with Japanese devils were actually much smaller than those caused by fighting with Japanese devils.

As a result, positional combat turned into bloody bayonet battles and hand-to-hand combat.

The two sides fought fiercely on a kilometer-long front, fighting repeatedly, and corpses were everywhere.

There were more than 5,000 people in the 26th Division of the 20th Army, and after a few days of bloody battles with the Japanese army, only 600 people remained in a division, and 13 casualties among the 14 battalion commanders.

During the battle for positions with the Japanese army, they fought bloodily for several days, fighting for every inch of land, and never retreated, proving with blood and life that the Sichuan army was not a miscellaneous card, but a trump card.

Later, the 26th Division was rated by the Kuomintang Military Committee as one of the five divisions with the best record in the Battle of Songhu.

By 16 October, the 20th Army had almost lost all casualties.

At dusk, the smoke of gunpowder spread on a scorched earth position, and the sky and the earth were dull and bloody.

The two were stunned and died in battle, Xia Yuan took out the bayonet that was bent from the body of the Japanese army, wiped the plasma from his face with his hands, and looked at the ten Sichuan army brothers around him.

Who would have thought that a few days ago, it was still a defense line held by thousands of people, but now there are only a few hundred people left.

The Japanese devils were repulsed, and those who survived held their guns to the ground and looked at the corpses that had accumulated in layers.

A soldier looked at Xia Yuan in a daze, Xia Yuan sat on the corpse, the corpse accumulated layer by layer, blood flowed, he sat on the corpse, his palm was dyed with black blood, took out a crumpled cigarette case, lit a cigarette, and swallowed the clouds and spit out fog on the position.

"Brother, you're really good, you just killed a dozen Japanese devils."

A soldier walked up to Xia Yuan and sat down, with a look of disbelief on his face.

In the melee just now, he noticed that the Japanese devils who rushed to the side of this tall soldier in front of him were all killed by him alone, and his bayonets were bent, and how terrible his combat ability was, you can imagine how terrible it was.

"Hmm." Xia Yuan took a puff of cigarette, exhaled the smoke, and said, "How many have you killed?" ”

"Two, not as good as you." The soldier said.

"Killing two is already very powerful."

Hand-to-hand combat is already very cruel, the fight of swords and flesh, watching acquaintances turn into a pile of white flowers, and the flesh and blood that are cut open, are under tremendous psychological and physical pressure.

When fighting for their lives, both sides will burst out with far more strength and endurance than usual, and they are like that, and so are the Japanese devils. If you can kill two Japanese devils, that's also a first-class good hand.

Xia Yuan can kill more than a dozen Japanese devils, but he completely relies on his perverted combat power.

Breaking through Ming Jin, his stamina, physical strength and strength far exceed any ordinary person, even if Tyson comes, he is not his opponent.

The power of Xia Yuan's punch was enough to kill a cow.

It's easy to fight the Japanese devils.

"Only two of them were killed, and I have to kill more Japanese devils to avenge Uncle Huai."

Xia Yuan looked at the soldier in front of him, his cheeks were blackened by gunsmoke, his eyes were bright, and he looked about the same age as a second stunned.

He thought that when he came out of Yudi, there were few people who followed him.

Although it is said that people will die, and war is to kill people, but those who follow themselves are dead, and I don't know if they have fallen into a misunderstanding.

After smoking a cigarette, the cigarette butt touched the blood on the ground and made a sizzling sound.

A group of people came from afar, stopped beside the two of them, and the soldiers next to them stood up suddenly, Xia Yuan didn't stand up, and raised his head to look.

is a regimental leader.

"Something?" Xia Yuan looked at each other.

"God of War, I didn't expect it to be you." When the regiment commander saw Xia Yuan, his face showed emotion, "When I was in the rear, I noticed the battle situation of the second battalion, the Japanese devils fought a few times, and the position of the second battalion was unstoppable, this is not the credit of the second battalion, it is your credit." ”

"You know me?" Xia Yuan raised his eyebrows.

"I don't know, but I've seen a description of you in the newspaper, six feet tall, strong in combat, more than a dozen Japanese soldiers are not the opponents of the god of war, all the way south from Luodian, in the bloody battle of Yangxing, killed more than 1,000 enemies, many people in the army said, you came to Fuzaobang. It is also said that with your participation in the battle, the position is never lost. ”

The head of the regiment said eagerly: "When I saw it today, it really deserved its reputation. ”

The commander of the Sichuan Army was quite emotional.

The entire regiment has fought a bloody battle with the Japanese army so far, and the casualties have reached a terrible 93 percent, and the first and third battalions have suffered all casualties, but the situation of the second battalion is good, and it still retains about a company's strength.

It's a bit strange to say that the casualties of a battalion can be sustained by one person.

The facts are happening right in front of you, and even if you don't want to believe it, you have to believe it.

At first, when he saw the newspaper, he thought that the person who wrote the newspaper was exaggerating, but when he really saw the combat ability of this god of war, he would find that what was written in the newspaper was still too conservative.

It is not an exaggeration to call him the god of war.

In a few days of bloody battles, the Japanese launched more than 20 attacks on the position of the second battalion, and the scale of its attack was maintained at more than one squadron, but the Japanese army fought for several days, and the position was still not lost, firmly in the hands of the second battalion, and in the follow-up operations, the casualties of the Japanese army became larger and larger, and in the back, the heavy artillery of the Japanese army began to focus on bombing the position of the second battalion.

But even so, the positions of the 2nd Battalion were not lost.

In contrast, the first battalion, on the first day alone, the position was captured by the Japanese, and it took five counterattacks to recapture the position.

Although the situation of the third battalion is better than that of the first battalion, it is not much better, the Japanese attack, the third battalion with flesh and blood, and the Japanese army hand-to-hand, can be able to hold the position, but also in the first day of the operation, the casualties are huge, the second day, the position was lost, and it is very necessary to counterattack several times with the death squad before the position is knocked down.

After several days of bloody fighting, the casualties of the battalions were extremely high.

However, the second battalion position with the participation of the god of war, the Japanese army fought several times but did not defeat it, suffered huge casualties, and still failed to defeat it with tanks and heavy artillery.

During hand-to-hand combat, the god of war was even more alone, killing all the way, and the Japanese soldiers who killed lost their armor and fled in a hurry.

Xia Yuan smiled: "I didn't expect my fame to be so big now." ”

"The god of war said that he laughed, now that it has been rumored in the army, who can take you under his command and fight a blocking war, no matter how the Japanese devils fight, they will not be able to fight in."

This regiment leader is very modest, and his attitude towards Xia Yuan is also quite good.

After all, he is facing the god of war, from the rumor that he has been rumored to the present, at least one Japanese army has been killed, and even far more than this number, even the commander-in-chief is full of praise for it, as long as the other party can live, promotion is definitely not a problem.

But the other party didn't seem to be here, he went all the way south from Luodian, beat the Japanese devils in Luodian, and continued to fight the Japanese devils after running to Yangxing, and then went to Fuzaobang, and then ran to the Sichuan army, and never stayed in one place at ease.

Why did the god of war run around, so far, no one guessed what he thought.

Xia Yuan shook his head: "This is a big word, in front of the guns, no one dares to guarantee that they will survive, after fighting for so long, I am just a little luckier and a little more experienced." ”

What he said is indeed true, in addition to the powerful combat effectiveness brought about by the system, it is more dependent on the combat experience accumulated in the Korean battlefield.

The firepower of the US army is far more ferocious than that of the Japanese devils, and when they attack the position, they always have to plow the position with artillery before ordering the troops to attack.

After experiencing the bombing of the US army, and then experiencing the bombing of the Japanese army, it will be relatively simpler in the face of the bombing of the Japanese army.

The Japanese army is a little stronger than the US army, perhaps that is, the individual quality and combat capability of the Japanese army are far superior to that of the US army.

"God of War, we are going to change guards with the original Guijun brothers, where are you going next?"

"You're leaving?"

"Well, the 20th Army suffered huge casualties and needed to be transferred to the rear to rest."

"What time is it?"

"Fifteenth."

"Fifteenth"

The 20th Army of the Sichuan Army fought for a few days, but failed to realize the counteroffensive against the Japanese army from the south bank of Fuzaobang, and the Gui warlords arrived, and their task was to counterattack the Japanese army, but no one expected that in just one day, six divisions of the Gui Army were crippled by the Japanese army, and Bai Chongxi hid his face and cried bitterly at the headquarters.

At this time, the Gui army, known as the wolf soldiers, was rushing to Songhu with great momentum.

The Sichuan army left, and Xia Yuan stayed behind and waited for the Gui army.

The position was empty, leaving behind a trail of corpses, exposed to the wilderness.

There were at least more than 4,000 corpses left on the position, and the 26th Division suffered heavy casualties, and when they left, only more than 600 people remained.

Xia Yuan remembered that when he first met the Sichuan army, there was a long queue, and the brothers of the Sichuan army all had a look of death on their faces, but now they have become skeletons, all over the wilderness, the autumn wind is bleak, and the unguarded position is a little more desolate.

"Battle of Songhu."

Xia Yuan leaned in the rudimentary trench, holding a gun, and grinding his rough palm.

The Battle of Songhu was like a huge meat grinder, devouring the lives of every soldier who stepped into the battlefield.

From Liuhang to Dachang, the Nationalist army held out here for 40 days, and in 40 days, the distance of the Japanese army was less than 5 kilometers. (End of chapter)