"Haha, Zhou Wu, your spirit is very good, which is why I have always trusted you.
But the current situation on the battlefield is not something that you can change as an independent brigade or as a 79th Army. ” "I don't ask for anything else, you just need to keep the fortifications you should keep and do your duty.
In my opinion, Jiangyin won't last long.
The old commander's voice was full of sighs.
Hearing that the army commander said that Jiangyin would not last long, Zhou Wu suddenly became anxious: "Why, I see that there are many troops in the defense fortifications in Jiangyin, plus the fire support of the battery, it should not be easily occupied by the little devils." ” Zhou Wu thought that with the Nationalist troops and strong fortifications in Jiangyin, it was not a big problem to fight with the Japanese army for a month or two.
"Hehe, the Japanese army is not only fighting in one direction towards Nanjing, according to intelligence, the devil has broken through Huzhou, Zhejiang, and is advancing along the west bank of Taihu Lake to Wu, and Lishui is approaching."
"There is also a Japanese army that has conquered Suzhou and is approaching Wuxi along the east bank of Taihu Lake."
"The Japanese army on the third route has captured Changshu and is heading towards Jiangyin, and it is estimated that it will reach Jiangyin in two or three days.
At that time, we will face the threat of two Japanese forces, both on land and on the river, and the situation will be very serious.
"The old commander was worried and pessimistic about the prospects of the war.
After hearing this, Zhou Wu hurriedly told the commander about the deployment of the independent brigade in Jiangyin.
The old army commander thought for a while and said: "Zhou Wu, you don't have artillery support in the Huashan position, will you feel struggling like this, I will put the 79th Army Artillery Regiment under your command, you have also cooperated in Changshu before, there should be no problem." ” "In addition, the 11th Division has been deployed to the left flank of the Independent Brigade, the other division is on your right flank, and the military headquarters is behind the Huashan position.
As long as the independent brigade can hold on, the 79th Army can sit back and relax, otherwise it will collapse on all fronts. ” "This time, the independent brigade was put on the front again, originally I didn't want to arrange it like this, but now only you have a little more troops in the 79th Army, and you can complete this difficult task."
"For example, there are only about 3,000 people left in the 11th Division, and the other division is less than 4,000, and it can't take on the defense task of Jiangyin at all, so I can only put them on the flanks to cover the left and right security of the independent brigade."
"If the Japanese army breaks through to the city of Nanjing from the other two directions, then Jiangyin will become an isolated city, and there will be no point in holding on any longer."
"At that time, the chairman of the committee will definitely launch the defense of Nanjing, and at that time, there will be the 11th division and another division on both sides of you, and the independent brigade should be able to quickly retreat to Nanjing to avoid being eaten by the Japanese army."
The old army commander briefly told Zhou Wu on the phone about the current battlefield situation, which can be summed up in one sentence, Nanjing is in danger.
At present, the Japanese army is rapidly occupying the city, and the national army is retreating all the way, and when he heard that some troops have fled to Danyang, the chairman of the committee was furious and shot several division commanders one after another, but he still could not contain this momentum.
Of the more than 700,000 troops of the Nationalist Army in the Songhu battlefield, less than 200,000 can still be found to command, and these troops are still scattered along the 300 or 400-kilometer long defense line from Jiangyin to Zhenjiang.
If the devils concentrate a division and attack one of them, it will inevitably cause a new round of rout and escape of the national army until it reaches Nanjing.
Putting down the phone, Zhou Wu's mood was very heavy, it seemed that the idea of holding on to Jiangyin for two months had failed, after all, no one could guarantee that the Japanese troops in other directions would not break through the defensive line.
If it really comes to that point, sticking to Jiangyin any longer is tantamount to self-destruction, and it has no meaning.
Their desperate purpose in defending Jiangyin was to prevent the Japanese army from landing on the Yangtze River and encircling Nanjing.
If the devils march together from the east and west banks of Taihu Lake, and encircle Nanjing in Zhenjiang and Jurong, then Jiangyin will be alone.
At that time, they will be attacked by the Japanese troops in the Yangtze River, Changshu, and Zhenjiang.
The only way out was to cross the river and go north, through Nantong, and retreat to Taizhou and Hai'an, but they didn't have boats.
In order to block the Japanese warships, the chairman not only sank the requisitioned large and small civilian ships into the Yangtze River, but also some small warships that could still fight.
Now where to find enough boats to cross the Yangtze River north Even if there is a boat, without the orders of the chairman of the committee and the military command department, who dares to cross from the north of the Yangtze River to Nantong without authorization Zhou Wu told Ding Ning about the current predicament faced by the Independent Brigade, and Ding Ning shrugged his shoulders, indicating that he had no choice.
"Brigade seat, judging from the current situation, Nanjing will be occupied by the Japanese army sooner or later, my uncle and sister-in-law are still in Nanjing City, or I will find my classmate who is on an errand in the Military Command Department, and ask him to find a way to send his uncle and sister-in-law to the countryside to avoid it, what do you think?"
Zhou Wu was silent for a while, and finally held back these words: "Lao Ding, I can't do this, if I let others know, I will definitely be talked about and scolded by the backbone, I am completely fake public and private, leaving a way out for myself." ” "Besides, even the chairman of the committee is still in command in Nanjing, I don't want to set this precedent, this will not have a good impact, it will be too bad.
And my dad has such a strong temper, if he knew that I used my connections to send them out first, he would have to scold me to death. ” Ding Ning was silent, the situation on this battlefield is ever-changing, and now he can only take one step at a time, hoping that things will not get worse.
In the next few days, Zhou Wu walked around the vicinity of Huashan a few times, looked at the terrain, chatted with Ding Ning in his spare time, and lived quite comfortably.
Until now, Zhou Wu did not give up, he firmly believed that the national army could block the Japanese army in Jiangyin for at least two months, and there were heavy troops on the east and west banks of Taihu Lake, so it should not be possible to flee to Nanjing in a short time.
In fact, Zhou Wu was wrong, and the real situation was even worse than what the old army commander said on the phone.
Now the national army does not run when it encounters little devils, but runs before it sees them, and it can't even pull it when they run.
What's more, even Nanjing did not stop, and went west directly into the territory of Anhui.
The chairman of the committee arrested a few officers who took the lead in escaping and shot them dead, but to no avail, the army was defeated like a mountain, and after all, he was powerless to return to heaven.
There are too few units like the 79th Army that have retreated and are still in formation, and most of them are in a state of chaos in which battalions cannot find regiments, regiments cannot find brigades, and brigades cannot find divisions.
A few troops were even more outrageous, they even hid in the mountains, became the king of the mountain, and made a living by robbing the property of passing merchants, which was simply insulting to the word soldier, which should be more hateful than a little devil.
After a few more days, Zhou Wu suddenly found that there were many more reconnaissance planes in the sky, and they were constantly hovering over the Huashan position, and it was obvious that the Japanese army might be about to attack Jiangyin.
Zhou Wu immediately ordered everyone to prepare to resist the Japanese landing in Jiangyin, and at the same time told Zhai Daping by radio that they were also ready for battle.
In addition, Zhou Wu specially reminded Zhai Daping that if the Japanese army landed from the fort on a large scale, he could send a distress signal, and he would consider sending some troops to rush to reinforcements.
After receiving the order, Zhai Daping immediately asked his subordinates to enter the fortifications, check the weapons and ammunition, and make relevant preparations, and at the same time asked Zhao Lijin to notify the commander of the garrison, so that he must cheer up and strictly prevent the little devil from forcibly landing from the fort. t1706231537: