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Chapter 152: The blocking battle before the breakout (1)

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    Chapter 152: The blocking battle before the breakout (1)

    At 8 a.m. on December 13, the gunfire that lasted for 8 days and 9 nights finally stopped. After several hours of chaos, the Japanese army finally completely occupied Nanjing.

    However, the Japanese commanders on the front line all knew that the battle was not over, because Nanjing basically became an empty city. Not only was there not a single soldier left in the city, but there were even a pitiful number of ordinary citizens. On the contrary, those  There are quite a few foreign expatriates.

    For the Japanese army, defeating the Nanjing defenders and capturing Nanjing City cannot be regarded as achieving their strategic goals, because if the Chinese army cannot be annihilated, the other side may counterattack Nanjing at any time.

    Therefore, after a simple meeting, the Japanese army decided that part of the main force would stay in Nanjing, and the rest of the troops would immediately leave the city to pursue the Chinese army that had retreated to the river.

    Since all the troops in the city had evacuated, the Japanese army did not encounter any resistance in the city, so there were not many troops left behind. Then the Japanese Sixth Division and the Ninth Division attacked from Yijiangmen, and the 13th Division  The regiment and the 16th Division went straight to Xiaguan from the direction of Zijin Mountain, while the Tiangu Detachment of the 11th Division stayed behind in Nanjing City.

    Yanshan. Temporary Brigade Headquarters of the Independent Brigade!

    As the first line of defense against the Japanese army, Li Guoyao deployed five regiments of troops here and personally commanded the operations on the front line.

    At this time, Zhang Tengjiao, Wen Debiao, Lu Dashan, Wang Yuanshun, Wu Dajun, Chen Zhiyang, Lu Wenlong, Zhang Hao and others were all present in the Yanshan headquarters!

    Looking at the exhausted subordinates in front of him, Li Guoyao looked a little solemn. It had been five days since he arrived in Nanjing on the afternoon of December 8.  In these five days, all frontline officers, including himself, did not have a good night's sleep.

    He himself is not too tired because his physique has been strengthened, but these people in front of him are ordinary people. After staying up for such a long time, even the toughest people can't hold on.

    But Li Guoyao knew better that even if they were tired and sleepy, they must continue to persevere, because there were still hundreds of thousands of troops in Xiaguan who needed them to cut off the rear!

    Li Guoyao cleared his throat and then said: "Brothers, after five and a half days of hard work, our independent brigade has evacuated nearly 300,000 civilians and 110,000 troops from Nanjing City. In addition, we have collected more than 40,000 broken troops.  , to protect the lives of hundreds of thousands of people, I, Li Guoyao, am proud of you! I also think everyone has reason to be proud of themselves!"

    Hearing Li Guoyao¡¯s words, the officers in the temporary headquarters clapped their hands one after another, and the small temporary tent burst into applause!

    After a long time, after the applause weakened, Li Guoyao said again: "Brothers, although the people have withdrawn, the mission of our independent brigade has not been completed yet, because there are still some people and hundreds of thousands of troops blocking the Xiaguan Pier.  We must ensure that all these people cross the Yangtze River, so that our mission can be completely completed, and then we can evacuate to the other side of the river!"

    "Brigade, why are we in the rear? Haven't the 87th Division and the 88th Division already withdrawn? In terms of combat effectiveness or other aspects, it is more appropriate for them to be in the rear!" said the regiment of the Second Guard Regiment.  Deputy Chen Zhiyang said in a deep voice.

    Li Guoyao shook his head and said: "It stands to reason that the troops of more than a dozen divisions in Nanjing City would not be able to have our miscellaneous army come to the rear, but the actual situation is that the direct troops of the Central Army suffered very heavy losses, and many troops fought  For example, Sun Yuanliang's 88th Division was almost completely wiped out in the Battle of Yuhuatai. Two brigade commanders, three regiment commanders, 11 battalion commanders, and below the company commander were killed in the battle.  There are more than 6,000 officers and soldiers, of which only more than 80 people are left in the 262nd Brigade. It can be said that the Battle of Yuhuatai is the final battle of the 88th Division, known as the elite "German Arms Division"."

    "Another example is the 87th Division. During the Battle of Guanghuamen, the 87th Division suffered two-thirds of its casualties. The remaining troops in the division were less than a thousand, and almost all of them were injured. Such a situation among the troops evacuated from Nanjing  It¡¯s very common. In their current situation, they simply can¡¯t take on the task of rearguard.¡±

    "More importantly, many commanders of the troops have fled, such as our Commander Tang, Gui Yongqing of the Teaching Corps, and Sun Yuanliang of the 88th Division. There are very few senior generals left in the city.  As far as I know, only Xiao Shanling, deputy commander of the military police, Song Xilian of the 36th Division, and a few others are still with the army. Do you feel more comfortable leaving your life and property to those units without a command center, or do you feel more comfortable leaving it to yourself?"

    ¡°So whether it¡¯s for ourselves or for the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians behind us, we should and must shoulder the mission of rearguard action.¡±

    Li ?As soon as Yao finished speaking, Zhang Tengjiao said: "Brigade Commander, brothers all understand the truth, and the current situation does not allow us to think more about it. The rear mission must be ours. It is useless to say anything else. We  Let¡¯s talk about how to fight specifically!¡±

    "Yes, brigade commander, the war has reached this point anyway, we can only continue the fight!"

    "Yes, let's not argue about whether we should fight or not. Let's talk about how to fight. There are hundreds of thousands of little devils!"

    Li Guoyao nodded and said: "Well, everyone is right, let's talk about how to fight! Now I will briefly talk to everyone about the current enemy situation!"

    Then Li Guoyao pointed to a map of Nanjing spread out on the table and said: "Brothers, we now have Japanese troops in three directions: southeast, southeast and west. In fact, we are already semi-surrounded by the Japanese army. Only the Yangtze River behind us  No Japanese troops were found in Tianqian, and after the Japanese army captured Nanjing City, in order to ensure the safety of Nanjing City and to expand the results, they would inevitably pursue us in the direction of retreat. Therefore, our current task is to prevent the Japanese army from attacking Xiaguan Pier.  At the same time, we will use ships to transport troops to Jiangbei until everyone has withdrawn to Jiangbei!"

    "There are only two routes for the Japanese army to pursue. One is to pursue all the way along the direction of our army's retreat, and the other is to go straight from Zijin Mountain to Xiaguan. Therefore, our interception plan is also like this, along the Yanshan line and Zijin  Set up blocking positions on the mountain line to block the Japanese pursuit!"

    Lu Wenlong then asked: "Master, what I want to know is how long do we need to hold on?"

    "This is not clear yet. It mainly depends on how many people have not retreated at Xiaguan Pier. In short, we must retreat before everyone has retreated!" Li Guoyao said.

    Hearing this, everyone felt sad. Although everyone did not know the actual situation in Xiaguan, the brigade commander had just mentioned some basic information, that is, the total number of soldiers and civilians evacuated from Nanjing City exceeded 400,000.

    Judging from the throughput of the customs terminal, it is simply impossible to transport all these 400,000 people in such a short period of time. You must know that in the past two days, only more than 20,000 people could be transported per day.  Calculated, these five and a half days can only transport more than 100,000 people at most.

    Although many ships were later collected, it is estimated that at most 200,000 people were transported to the other side of the river, and there were at least 200,000 people on the dock.

    As a result, I am afraid that their rear troops will have to fight with the Japs for at least three to five days. Thinking about facing the siege of hundreds of thousands of troops, it is still a question whether they can withstand it for such a long time.  !

    Thinking of the possibility of annihilating the entire army in one battle, everyone's hearts were cast into a shadow, and they all understood that this final blocking battle would not be easy to fight!  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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