Chapter 2
Standing in the left wing room and looking at the pile of weapons and ammunition in front of him, Zhang Wenbin slowly took a deep breath.
The weapons and equipment here were enough to equip a battalion. There were hundreds of Leenfield rifles, more than thirty light machine guns, nine Vickers machine guns, dozens of revolvers, and more than ten mortars.
As for the ammunition, there were hundreds of boxes beside them. They contained revolver bullets, rifle bullets, machine gun bullets, and grenades.
"What a pity! My military rank is still too low. Now, I can only hope that I can go to the front line during the defense of Jinling and get a chance to be promoted. That way, I might be able to do something.”
Zhang Wenbin muttered to himself. As a citizen who had transmigrated, he could not remain indifferent to this massacre. Whenever the people of the future thought of hundreds of thousands of people dying under the Japanese's bayonet, they could not help but feel heartache.
Moreover, he had the system. If he did not do something, he would feel sorry for himself.
He walked out of his mansion and looked at the chaotic streets. He couldn't help but shake his head again.
War was about to break out, and the defense of Jinling was inevitable. The Japanese's vanguard had already reached Jurong. It could be said that the Japanese's bayonet was already pointed at Jinling's nose.
Many of the locals in the city had already moved away from Jinling. However, many people around Jinling were unaware of the situation and were still pouring into Jinling City, thinking that it would be safe to enter the capital.
Suddenly, a group of soldiers rushed past Zhang Wenbin. Zhang Wenbin took a closer look. This group of soldiers was not the defeated soldiers at the back. They looked neat and tidy. They wore shiny black helmets on their heads and held German weapons in their hands.
This was the Jinling Garrison Command's direct jurisdiction.
"Stop right there. I am Staff Officer Zhang from the Jinling Garrison Command. Where are you going?”
Zhang Wenbin stopped the group of soldiers and asked in a deep voice.
An officer stopped. He recognized Zhang Wenbin.
"Good day, Staff Officer Zhang! We are the 1st Guard Battalion of the Garrison Command. We are ordered by Commander Tang to destroy all the ships crossing the river.”
The officer stood still and said to Zhang Wenbin.
"Destroy all the ships crossing the river?"
Zhang Wenbin frowned. He remembered that Tang Mengxiao, the commander of the Jinling Garrison, had ordered the destruction of all the ships crossing the river in order to show his determination to live and die with Jinling.
This was also the foreshadowing for the hundreds of thousands of people crowded in Jinling and unable to leave.
Zhang Wenbin thought that Tang Mengxiao was a fool. He was once a duke with great ambition, but his ability was very low. Ambition and ability did not match at all.
Before the battle to defend Jinling began, he had confidently vowed to defend Jinling. In order to show his determination, he had even destroyed all the ships.
But what happened after that?
He ran away! He left the 100,000 soldiers and hundreds of thousands of civilians in Jin Ling City and ran away.
In the end, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians wanted to leave Jinling, but they could not cross the river. They were all killed by the Japanese.
It could be said that half of the blame for the tragedy of hundreds of thousands of people in Jinling was on Tang Mengxiao, the commander. If you showed your determination, then so be it, but why did you destroy the ship? If you had died in Jinling in the end, people wouldn't have hated you so much!
However, you ran away in the end. Therefore, in the future, when Zhang Wenbin heard about Tang Mengxiao, he did not have a good impression of him!
"You guys stay here and don't move. I'll go to the headquarters. If the ships were destroyed, what would happen to the people in the city?”
Zhang Wenbin said with a dark face and rushed to the headquarters.
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Jinling Garrison Command
At this moment, the Jinling Garrison Command was filled with stars. The people sitting there were all major generals.
The person sitting at the head of the table was not Commander Tang Mengxiao, but the chairman.
The chairman held a cane in his hand and sat at the head of the table in his yellow military uniform.
Tang Mengxiao was holding a stack of documents in his hands.
"Currently, the Japanese 9th Division has already arrived at Jurong, and the vanguard is already heading straight for Jinling. The advance party of the Japanese's 3rd division and the 16th division had already occupied Zhenjiang, and they were expected to arrive at Jinling soon.
" In addition, our army also received intelligence that the Japanese's Yamada Division, Guoqi Division, 6th Division, 18th Division, and 114th Division are all following closely behind. They have formed a huge encirclement outside Jinling, ready to surround us and eat us up!”
On November 27th, there were only three days left until the start of the defense of Jinling. At this time, the Japanese soldiers were heading straight for Jinling.
And now, it was no different from history. The Japanese had already pointed their bayonet at Jinling's nose, at the chairman's nose.
The Generalissimo's expression was not good. Because of the defeat of the Battle of Songhu, his money bag was gone, so his mood was also very bad.
"Everyone! Now that they were on the brink of death, it was time to serve the country. Now, the Japanese had already pointed their guns at the head of the party.
All the countries in the world had their eyes on China. Jinling was the capital, and they couldn't give it up no matter what.
I hope everyone can work together to defend Jinling and repel the Japanese's attack!”
In fact, the chairman already knew that Jinling couldn't be defended.
Shanghai had fallen, and the gates of Jinling were wide open. The road from Shanghai to Jinling was smooth, and there was no danger at all.
The Wufu defense line that he had built before was a complete joke. His administrative organs had already moved to Wu Han and were currently preparing to move to Chongqing.
However, Jinling was the capital after all, so it was necessary to defend it symbolically.
Only a fool like Tang Mengxiao could not see these things. When no one was willing to defend Jinling, he jumped out to defend Jinling, thinking that he had a chance to show off.
Just as the chairman finished speaking, a lieutenant colonel walked in quickly. The words on his armband were undoubtedly not telling everyone that he was from the chairman's attendant room.
He came to the chairman's side and whispered in his ear before standing still.
The chairman's face first revealed a trace of astonishment, then he said,""Let him in!"
"Yes, sir!"
Soon, Zhang Wenbin, who was wearing a major's military uniform, walked straight in.
"Wenbin, why are you still in Jinling? Shouldn't you be in the camp in WuHan now?”
The chairman definitely knew about Zhang Wenbin. In fact, it wasn't just Zhang Wenbin. He also knew about the children of these veteran families.
Especially when he heard that Zhang Wenbin volunteered to join the army and then volunteered to be assigned to the Jinling Garrison Command, he knew Zhang Wenbin even more.
However, he later received news that Zhang Wenbin's father had arranged for him to leave Jinling as soon as the war broke out. The chairman didn't say anything about this matter. He knew that Zhang Wenbin was the only son of the Old Zhang family. There was nothing wrong with him doing this. The children of those veteran families all did this.
They had only joined the army to be gilded, that was all.
However, the chairman didn't expect Zhang Wenbin to still be in Jinling. After all, a war was inevitable in Jinling.
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