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Chapter 108: Entering the city to fight

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    Chapter 108: Battle into the city (new book, please watch)

    Regarding how to fight this battle, Li Guoyao did not have a set plan in mind, but there was one thing he had to ask clearly!

    "Yu Die, since you know so much about the situation in Nanjing City, can you tell me how the headquarters, Nanjing Garrison Headquarters and Nanjing Municipal Government deal with ordinary citizens?"

    Compared with whether the city of Nanjing can be defended, Li Guoyao is more concerned about the safety of the people in the city!

    Lin Yudie said immediately: "According to the news I got, since Brother Li made the little devil's conspiracy public, the Japanese government immediately stated that it would restrain the military discipline of the frontline troops. If necessary, ordinary combat troops will not be  Allowed to enter Nanjing City. Secondly, the government also started to evacuate people two days ago, and now some people have been evacuated."

    "But you also know that in addition to the original one million people in Nanjing, there are also hundreds of thousands of refugees pouring in from Shanghai, Suzhou, Wuxi, Zhenjiang and other places. We want to bring all these one and hundreds of thousands of people into the city.  I'm afraid it's really not easy to evacuate Nanjing City, and time doesn't allow for it."

    Li Guoyao nodded and said: "This is indeed a headache, but the Nanjing Garrison Headquarters did not prohibit the evacuation of ordinary people, right?"

    "That's not true. Besides, how could they prohibit the people from evacuating Nanjing when the enemy is facing a formidable enemy?"

    Li Guoyao shook his head and did not explain. The historical battle to defend Nanjing was not like this. Before the Japs approached Nanjing, the Nationalist Government mobilized a total of about 13 divisions and 15 regiments with a total of more than 100,000 troops to defend Nanjing.

    Although there are many former elites of the national army in these troops, including Gui Yongqing's Teaching Corps, Sun Yuanliang's 88th Division, Song Xilian's 36th Division, Yu Jishi's 74th Army, Ye Zhao's 66th Army, and Deng Longguang's 83rd Army  and Xu Yuanquan's 2nd Army Corps and military police units.  However, the vast majority of these troops are incomplete troops that have just been withdrawn from the Songhu battlefield. There are few veterans, and most of the new recruits have not been trained. Many of them have not even fired their guns. The troops are very exhausted and exhausted, and their combat effectiveness can be imagined.  .

    "And these exhausted troops, with incomplete weapons, especially heavy weapons, faced a total of nearly seven divisions and two detachments, equipped with a large number of heavy weapons, aircraft, and warships. The Japanese army consisted of hundreds of thousands of troops.  In terms of strength and firearms, the Chinese army is at an extreme disadvantage, and the results can be imagined.

    But Tang Shengzhi, the commander of the Nanjing garrison, could not see this. To put it more clearly, he wanted to put on a show. He publicly stated many times that he vowed to live or die with the city of Nanjing, and even promised to Chairman Chiang that he would never retreat without orders.

    What¡¯s even more ridiculous is that in order to prevent the troops from retreating across the river privately, Tang Shengzhi adopted a desperate attitude.  He ordered all units to hand over the ships under their control to the headquarters, and evacuated the two ferries from Xiaguan to Pukou to Wuhan. He also ordered the 36th Division to block Yijiangmen, the only channel retreating from Nanjing City to Xiaguan Wharf, and use force to stop it.  Any troops crossing the river from Nanjing to the north bank, this "burning the cauldron" order laid hidden dangers for the subsequent tragic retreat.

    In fact, when he took office as the commander-in-chief of the Nanjing Garrison, Tang Shengzhi told reporters: "I am certain of at least two things when I am ordered to defend Nanjing. First, my troops swear to live or die with Nanjing and will not hesitate to sacrifice in the battle to defend Nanjing; second,  , Such sacrifices will definitely make the enemy pay a huge price."

    From Tang Shengzhi¡¯s public remarks, it can be seen that Tang Shengzhi, as the highest military commander in the battle to defend Nanjing, regarded adhering to the most basic policy of this battle.

    ??Whether it was to cross the river or to prohibit the troops behind from crossing the river, Tang Shengzhi's move was nothing more than an expression of his and the defenders' determination to fight against the odds and fight to the death.  However, Tang Shengzhi, who was enthusiastic about resisting Japan, forgot the most basic law of military science, that is, regardless of the commander's determination and enthusiasm, they must be combined with the military situation and objective environment at the time, otherwise, the consequences would be disastrous.

    Facing the powerful Japanese army with aircraft, artillery, tanks and warships, and the unfavorable terrain of fighting with its back to the river, Tang Shengzhi put more than 100,000 troops in such a dangerous situation. I wonder if he did not understand military common sense?  Or are they just taking desperate risks at the expense of the lives of more than 100,000 officers and soldiers for superficial political needs, personal needs, and feudal-like psychological needs?

    What is even more unforgivable is that before the Japanese army breached Nanjing on December 12, Tang Shengzhi issued an order to break out and retreat, and then fled directly, leaving a large number of disrupted troops and unarmed civilians to the Japanese.

    And Tang Shengzhi¡¯s decision directly led to the subsequent tragedy. This is because during the Battle of Nanjing, more than ten Chinese troops?The officers and soldiers were heavily surrounded by Japanese troops and lost their way out without organized resistance. With no choice but to do so, a large number of officers and soldiers changed into civilian clothes and hid in Nanjing as refugees.  in every corner of the city.

    Since then, the original soldiers have been mixed with thousands of real refugees, and some other officers and soldiers, with no way out, have collectively become prisoners of the Japanese invaders, and the brutal Japanese  Kou never took prisoners.

    So, a few days later, these Chinese officers and soldiers who were collectively captured were brutally massacred by the Japanese invaders.

    After massacring the prisoners, the only ones left were the Chinese officers and soldiers mixed in with the refugees.  Among the more than 100,000 refugees, it was impossible to distinguish who were real refugees and who were disguised refugees. Therefore, the brutal Japanese invaders deliberately used this excuse to drag all the young and strong refugees away.  Come out for "one-time processing"©¤©¤slaughter.

    As a result, real Chinese officers and soldiers were massacred, and real refugees were also massacred.  In this bloody and irrational atmosphere, killing a rabbit was like killing a rabbit, and large-scale robberies and rapes also occurred.

    From this point of view, although the Nanjing Massacre was an act of a beast by the Japs who were too cruel and lost their humanity, it also had a great relationship with the strategic layout of the National Government, especially the Nanjing Garrison Headquarters.

    In the previous Battle of Shanghai and the subsequent Battles of Xuzhou, Wuhan and Changsha, it was rare that so many Chinese officers and soldiers were captured by the Japanese invaders, and it was also rare that so many Chinese officers and soldiers disguised themselves as refugees and hid among the refugee groups.  Therefore, there was no such large-scale massacre.

    Nanjing, only in the Battle of Nanjing, only when tens of thousands of Chinese officers and soldiers collectively became prisoners of the Japanese invaders, and only when tens of thousands of Chinese officers and soldiers collectively disguised themselves as refugees, did the Japanese invaders, who suffered heavy casualties, take this rare opportunity to  On the pretext of not being able to tell who the refugees were, they raised their butcher knives and crazily slaughtered our brave officers and soldiers and innocent people. As a result, more than 300,000 Chinese people of flesh and blood, with parents, relatives, wives and children, cried, were angry, and felt injustice.  Farewell to this world.

    At that time, if the Kuomintang headquarters had made correct arrangements for the Battle of Nanjing, it could have prevented the more than 100,000 Chinese troops from being surrounded in the small city of Nanjing, and thus the Nanjing Massacre would not have happened.

    Fortunately, from what Lin Yudie just said, everything doesn't seem to be too bad. At least Tang Shengzhi has not ordered the troops to close the port or remove all the ships. There is still a chance.

    More importantly, Li Guoyao had already warned the National Government and the people of Nanjing in advance. As long as they could be given a few more days, perhaps the historical tragedy could be avoided, and at the very least, 300,000 people would not be killed or injured.

    However, if you want to buy time for the people of Nanjing City, you must enter the city to join the war.  Based on Li Guoyao's understanding of the battle to defend Nanjing, there was no difference between this and death. Not to mention the five thousand of them, even fifty thousand more would be useless.

    The Little Devils have seven divisions and two detachments outside Nanjing, and almost all of them are permanent divisions with a four-unit system. They are the real elite of the Japanese army. They are much better than those with a three-unit system in the later stages of the war.  The garrison division is completely different.

    It can be said that without entering the city, with Li Guoyao's systematic assistance and his commanding ability, these 5,000 people will soon become 50,000, or even 500,000, and defeat the little devils.  It's just a matter of time.

    But once he enters the city to join the war, it is still unknown whether he can come back alive. Even if he is lucky enough to evacuate Nanjing City, he has no idea how many people will be left in the end.

    However, thinking about the nearly one million unarmed people in Nanjing, and the numerous bones in the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall, 300,000 innocent souls seemed to be howling in his ears. After thinking again and again, Li Guoyao finally decided to lead the team  Enter the city and fight!

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