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Chapter 153: The calm before the storm

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    "Brother Yunfei, we have captured almost all of Zhenjiang City, and only part of Nancheng is left. I heard that the 152nd Division has taken over the position of the 132nd Division and is launching an attack on the Japanese army. I just don't know if they can do it!"

    The deputy commander of the 136th Division, Dai Anlan, and the division commander, Chu Yunfei, were at the headquarters of the Sixth Division at this time, but that old devil Gu Shoufu had already withdrawn before.

    "The 152nd Division is now one of the Class A divisions of our Eighty-Eighth Group Army. Although it has a relatively large proportion of recruits, with more than 13,000 people, there are also more than 8,000 veterans among them. Trust them.  ! The chief executive hasn¡¯t missed anyone yet!¡±

    Chu Yunfei said with a smile.

    "Brother Yunfei, I wonder where you will go after this battle?"

    Suddenly Dai Anlan looked at Chu Yunfei and said solemnly.

    Chu Yunfei knew what Dai Anlan meant.

    "What do you think of Yan Gong?"

    Chu Yunfei did not answer first, but asked instead.

    "To be honest! If the president wants to defect from the party, the country and I cannot accept it, and I'm afraid I can't do it either."

    After Dai Anlan finished speaking, he stared straight at Chu Yunfei. If this kind of thing spread, Zhou Weiguo might not tolerate it, so he could only gamble.  I bet this junior Chu Yunfei has the same thoughts.

    Looking at Dai Anlan's eyes, Chu Yunfei sighed and said: "Old senior, you are worrying too much about this matter! The president will not betray the party and the country. He comes from a wealthy family of the party and the country, and his husband is a veteran.  The connections within the party are intertwined. Mr. Zhou followed the former Prime Minister for a long time. It was not until the death of the former Prime Minister that Mr. Zhou began to slowly withdraw from the political arena and no longer interfered with political affairs. If the president wanted to betray the party, the country would be in danger.  He just betrayed himself and his father. Do you think he will do this again?

    Now, as our Eighty-Eighth Group Army is getting stronger and stronger, we, the main division commanders, may have guessed some of the commander-in-chief¡¯s thoughts.  As for our main division commanders, except for the 152nd Division who just joined us and is not from our Huangpu department, the rest all graduated from Huangpu.

    ¡°We are not fools, we all have some ideas in our hearts.  I can understand this, but on the premise that the President will not betray the party and the country, why don't we serve the President?

    ¡°Old senior, you are older than me and have more life experience than me.  There are some things that you should see more clearly than me.

    You should know very well how all this happened to us now.

    Most of us were just regimental commanders when we were transferred from the headquarters, and some were even just battalion commanders.  I graduated from the fifth batch of Huangpu. I fought in the north and south for many years, and in the end I was still a regiment leader.

    It was not until he came to the Eighty-eighth Army that he began to be promoted.

    As for you, senior senior, you should have more feelings than me.  You were just a brigade commander when you were transferred here.  You graduated from the third phase of Huangpu, how many years have passed now, and you are also the newly promoted brigade commander.  He was also the group leader before.

    Now the commander-in-chief thinks highly of us and invites us to serve as division commanders to fight the Japanese. I, Chu Yunfei, have accepted the commander-in-chief¡¯s sentiments.

    ¡°Besides, until now, what the junior student has done has not disappointed us seniors. Why should I follow the principal¡¯s advice to disintegrate the Eighty-Eighth Group Army, an anti-Japanese force?

    I, Chu Yunfei, am not only a student of the principal, I am also a Chinese, and I am also a soldier.  Soldiers should take protecting their home and country as their top priority, instead of focusing on politics!  "

    Looking at Chu Yunfei who was speaking impassionedly, Dai Anlan said with a wry smile: "It seems that I have been here for so long that I have forgotten my duty as a soldier! Brother Yunfei, I thank you for this.  remind!

    "If you hadn't woken up the person in the dream, I might have done something regrettable.

    yes!  Before, we only held positions such as regimental commanders, but now we are valued by the commander-in-chief, and now we can be promoted to major generals and division commanders. If we really listen to one person's words and disintegrate the 88th Army, we will really become national sinners!  "

    The afternoon of April 15, 1938

    The battle in Zhenjiang finally came to an end after two days of fighting.  But this is just the end of the landing battle.

    Now the Sixth Division, the Twenty-second Division and the Nineteenth Division of the Little Devils had to withdraw from Zhenjiang due to too many casualties.

    The Sixth Division is one of the standing divisions, with more than 28,000 people in the division. This time, more than 12,000 people were killed in the battle. It can be said that nearly half of them were killed.

    The 19th Division was also very miserable. The division of more than 25,000 people was eaten up by nearly three infantry regiments in one bite, and more than 11,000 people were killed.  OtherwiseAs he retreated quickly, his last infantry unit was about to be bitten by the 136th Division.

    With no other option, the 19th Division could only fight and retreat at the same time.  At the same time, other regiments in the division were added to the infantry regiment, and some unnecessary baggage was discarded.

    Only the 22nd Division was better. Because he entered the battle late, the losses were not much, only about 2,000 people were killed. In the afternoon, he received an order to cover the 19th Division and the 6th Division to withdraw from Zhenjiang.  If we don't withdraw, the 19th Division will be surrounded by the 136th Division!

    After the Battle of Zhenjiang on the 15th, Gu Shoufu led three divisions and began to retreat toward Shangdang Town.

    "Then the two sides began to call a truce, but everyone knew that the truce was only temporary.

    Yan Junliu did not expect that there were three divisions in Zhenjiang. As a result, he was driven out of Zhenjiang in just two days. He did not have time to mobilize his troops.

    But now that things have happened, Yan Junliu also decided to have a good fight with the 88th Army.

    On the morning of April 16, Yan Junliu ordered the 106th Division from Yunyang Town, the 17th Division from Jincheng Town, the 116th Division from Jurong, and the 18th Division from Jing'an to immediately go to Shangdang Town.  nearby.

    In addition, the Sixth Division was ordered to withdraw to Jurong for repairs and wait for the arrival of domestic supplementary troops and weapons and equipment.  The same is true for the Nineteenth Division.

    Since then, Yan Junliu can be said to have mobilized all the troops he can mobilize.

    The most cautious division in hand is the Third Division stationed in Nanjing.

    However, Yan Junliu felt that the troops were not enough, so he also mobilized the 11th Independent Brigade and the Taiwan Wan Brigade from the Shanghai dispatched army. The two brigades, with 16,000 troops, took trains from Suzhou, Wuxi and other places to go northward, preparing to  Attack the Eighty-eighth Army from both front and rear.

    ¡°However, this deployment of troops naturally takes time, and it also requires the mobilization of logistics and ammunition to supply these, so there was a sense of tranquility between the Eighty-Eighth Group Army and the Central China Expeditionary Force.

    But it would be wrong to call it peaceful.

    On April 16, Zhou Weiguo ordered the 132nd Division to attack immediately and defeat the remnants of the Sixth Division in Shangdang.

    At this time, the little Japanese who had just suffered a defeat were naturally in no mood to fight, and Tani Shoufu did not want his troops to suffer heavy losses again.

    After asking for instructions from the Central China Dispatch Army Headquarters, they began to retreat towards Yunyang from Shangdang.

    Then Zhou Weiguo ordered the 134th Division to march eastward and occupy Yangzhong, Dagang and other cities along the Yangtze River when the little devil's divisions had just received the order and had not had time to move.

    The 135th Division moved westward and began to occupy towns along the Yangtze River such as Xiashu and Gaozi, and surrounded the 18th Division of Jing'an there, and prepared to help the old man come out of Baohua Mountain.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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