Zhang Ercheng was directing the anti-aircraft artillery shooting next to the artillery commander at this time, and when he saw that the devil plane was about to fall down this way, he hurriedly shouted to the brothers who were desperately firing shells at the devil plane: "Danger, evacuate and lie down" Before the words fell, the smoke-emitting devil plane was planted on the anti-aircraft artillery position of the national army with fuel and bombs, Zhang Ercheng saw with his own eyes that the falling position happened to be in the position of the artillery commander, Zhang Ercheng's heart tightened suddenly, and he hurriedly ran towards the place where the fire was burning there.
Soon, the artillery brothers on the position pulled the artillery commander out with all hands and feet, Zhang Ercheng saw that his face was scorched, and his whole body was covered with blood, and when he saw that he was about to die, he hurriedly shouted to the infantry position next to him: "The health soldiers hurry up and rescue the wounded" When the military doctor of the health company arrived, the artillery commander was breathless, and the military doctor and nurse tried their best to rescue in vain, tossing and drumming for a long time and failed to bring the artillery commander over, Zhou Wu received the news, and hurriedly took Ding Ning and them to arrive, looking at the body of the artillery commander who took the lead in the army, Zhou Wu and the brothers present were silent and took off their hats to salute.
At this time, the devil plane swooped down here again, and Zhang Ercheng shouted to the artillery brothers with grief and indignation: "Artillery brothers, we want to avenge the regiment commander and beat these devil planes so hard that they dare not throw bombs here."
The artillery brothers were burning for the regiment commander's nest of death at this time, and when they heard Zhang Ercheng shouting like this, they immediately turned their anger into the flames of the anti-aircraft artillery, and smashed them towards the devil plane that was swooping down, and the whistling anti-aircraft shells and dense machine gun bullets like a torrential rain were desperately smashed towards the devil plane, and immediately a devil plane that was too late to pull up was hit.
There was a burst of cheers on the antiaircraft artillery position, and there were also bursts of cheers on the infantry position next to it, and amid the cheers of everyone, the light and heavy machine guns of the air defense group were naturally not to be left behind, and they rained bullets on those devil planes that were desperately pulling up.
Seeing this, the other devil planes hurriedly and desperately pulled up the plane's height, threw down the bombs hanging on the planes, and ran towards the Yangtze River in a hurry.
On the way to the Yangtze River, two devil planes were angry and threw two aerial bombs on the planes among the villagers who were looking up at the sky in Shitang Town, causing a tragedy in which more than 20 people were killed and 50 or 60 people were injured.
But there are still many wounded people waiting outside, not getting timely treatment and dying, seeing this situation, Shen Lina was so anxious to come to Zhou Wu, asking Zhou Wu to quickly think of a way to solve the problem of too many wounded, and some died because they didn't have time to rescue them in time.
Zhou Wu didn't have much to do now, but when he saw the wounded who died in pain because they couldn't get timely treatment, Zhou Wu hurriedly found the old army commander and thought of a way to treat these wounded and the people in Shitang Town who were injured by the devil's plane.
The army commander thought about it for a while, and asked Zhou Wu's independent brigade and the 11th division and the hospital of the military headquarters to rescue those who were seriously wounded, and the rest of the wounded who were relatively minor were quickly transferred to Zhenjiang and Nanjing, and the independent brigade sent a company of troops to escort them, so that the current problem could be solved.
Zhou Wu saw that many people in Shitang Town were killed because they watched the excitement of the devil planes in the sky, and felt that they should evacuate as soon as possible, the faster the evacuation, the better, the evacuation speed of these two or three small boats at night is too slow, and the evacuation operation will start during the day, although there is a danger of being bombed and strafed by the devil planes, but it is better than nesting in Shitang Town.
Zhou Wu informed Mr.
Wang, who was in charge of the evacuation of the people across the river in Shitang Town, of this meaning.
Mr.
Wang also saw the scene of the devil's plane dropping bombs and killing the villagers just now, and felt that Zhou Wu was reasonable, and agreed to take a risk during the day and organize the people to cross the river and evacuate.
The evacuation operation began soon, and many people now do not have to do the persuasion and mobilization work hard, and have asked to board the ship to evacuate Shitang Town as soon as possible.
Zhou Wu saw the commotion on the dockside, and felt that this would not work, at this time, if the devil plane bombed again, wouldn't it cause a greater tragedy He immediately ordered Xiao Wang's security regiment to strengthen the control of the order of the wharf, and there must be a step-by-step, orderly take turns to board the ship, otherwise it will cause immeasurable heavy losses, Zhou Wu also issued an order to Xiao Wang: strictly ensure the order of the wharf boarding, if a tragedy occurs, the head of the security regiment will be dealt with by military law.
Commander Xiao Wang received Zhou Wu's order, which was related to the problem of his own head, so he naturally did not dare to be careless, and immediately personally led his men and horses to the dock to maintain order, and soon stabilized the order on the dockside, and the evacuation work was carried out smoothly, and the speed was also accelerated a lot.
The old army commander stayed in Shitang Town for two days, and after the 79th Army had all arrived at Shitang Town, the army commander decided that except for a small part of the troops remaining in Shitang Town, the rest of the troops quickly moved closer to Zhenjiang and prepared to join the 23rd Army of the Nationalist Army guarding Zhenjiang to defend Zhenjiang, the last urban barrier in Nanjing.
However, before the troops set off, the theater command sent an urgent telegram, demanding that the 79th Army quickly withdraw to Jiangning, a suburb of Nanjing, where it would organize a defensive position southeast of the capital together with the Nationalist Government Teaching Corps stationed in Jiangning.
All weapons, equipment, and supplies were replenished in Jiangning, and they must arrive quickly within two days, otherwise they will be punished for delaying the fighter plane and disobeying orders on the battlefield.
The old army commander couldn't figure out what was going on in the heads of these bureaucrats above, and if he didn't defend the Zhenjiang fortress, he had to rush to Jiangning to do something Zhenjiang Tiger is located in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the surrounding terrain is precipitous, the traffic extends in all directions, the city area is large, and the logistics supply is also quite sufficient, it is a good place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it has always been a place where soldiers must fight.
It is really unreasonable why those people above only put the 23rd Army, which was missing half of its establishment, in Zhenjiang, and transferred the 79th Army, which was far away from Zhenjiang, to Jiangning.
The army commander told the Nanjing Theater Command about his thoughts, hoping that the theater command would give full consideration to the important strategic location of Zhenjiang, but he never wanted to be scolded by the theater command, reprimanded the old army commander for meddling in his affairs, and once again sternly demanded that the 79th Army immediately carry out the order to march west to Jiangning, otherwise it would not be severely punished according to military law for disobedience.
The old army commander had no choice but to call his subordinates to tell them about the situation, and when the division commanders and brigade commanders below heard this, they immediately scolded them, and scolded the people in the theater headquarters for not knowing how to be flexible and sticking to the rules, and even completely exposing Zhenjiang to the devils who advanced west from Wujin to the end.
Zhou Wu was the first to stand up and said: "Army commander, can we be a little flexible and implore the theater command to change the operational deployment, even if we can't send all the 79th Army to Zhenjiang for defense, can we consider sending a part of the troops to Zhenjiang to assist the defense of the 23rd Army first." ” "If Zhenjiang is really occupied by the devils in a short period of time, then the eastern front of Nanjing will be completely occupied by the devils, and the defensive position in Jiangning will be attacked from both sides from the east and the south, and it is really hard to say whether it can withstand the attack of the devils." t1706231537: