"What?" "Didn't we hear this morning that the Japanese army is still more than 100 kilometers away from Jinling?" Why did he suddenly attack?”
" I don't know the exact reason," Tang Shengzhi said anxiously." But at four o'clock in the afternoon, the Japanese sent out planes to bomb the Qixia area. The troops there suffered heavy losses and are in urgent need of backup!"”
"The first to attack us was the vanguard of the second division of the Japanese. They were equipped with a large number of motorcycles and came very quickly. The Japanese's attack was unusually fierce. The troops in front could not hold on any longer!”
President Jiang clenched his fists tightly and tapped the table lightly with his knuckles.
The attack was too sudden, and Jinling was not fully prepared. This disrupted all his plans.
It seemed that the sudden madness of the Japanese was indeed due to their desire for revenge. The damage Lin Chao had done to them was too great.
"Tang Shengzhi, get the people above the division level to come over and discuss!" President Jiang ordered loudly.”
"Yes, CEO!" Tang Shengzhi turned around and left.
"What about Qixia's defense?" Chen Cheng asked President Jiang.”
President Jiang looked at Sun Yuanlang who was standing at the side.""Lin Chao could achieve such a fierce result with a few hundred people. Your 88th Division is the elite of our adjustment division. Even if we don't let you wipe out the enemy, we can at least hold them off, right?”
"You have to hold on for two days. At that time, I'll get someone else to replace you! Hurry up and go!"
Sun Yuanlang was helpless. He did not reap any benefits because Lin Chao led his men to fight valiantly.
Now, he was tricked into leading his team to stop the Japanese.
How could the Japanese who had gone crazy and wanted revenge be so easy to defeat?
Otherwise, how could so many soldiers die in the Battle of Songhu and not be able to stop them?
However, military orders were like mountains, so he could only accept them.
"Yes, I won't let you down!”
Sun Yuanlang saluted and turned around to lead the team to aid Qixia.
He felt regret in his heart. If he had known earlier, he would not have come back.
Now that he had been ordered by the CEO, if he dared to ignore the Qixia defense line and turn around to escape, he would be killed.
Next time, he would be shot by President Jiang.
Sun Yuanlang had rushed to Qixia, and the other high-ranking members of the national army had already gathered in the meeting room.
President Jiang sat in the main seat and looked at all his subordinates."The Japanese army is now heading straight for Jinling. What do you think of this?”
Everyone looked at each other, and no one dared to express their opinions first.
CEO Jiang looked around and saw that everyone was silent. He was instantly unhappy.
Li Zongren stood up." From a military point of view, I don't agree with defending Jinling."”
"Our army has just suffered a great defeat on the Songhu battlefield. Those who have retreated are all remnants of the army that have not been replenished. Our army is lacking in morale, so defending Jinling is not a wise decision.”
"I have the same idea," Bai Chongxi stood up as well. I suggest that we should move west, preserve our forces, and rely on the favorable terrain to launch a counterattack against the Japanese!”
"That makes sense. Sit down!”President Jiang said calmly.
He tapped his knuckles lightly and looked at the others in the meeting.
Everyone became even more silent after Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi spoke.
" You're the director of the Security Executive Department of the Military Committee. What's your attitude?" President Jiang turned to Tang Shengzhi.”
Tang Shengzhi suddenly stood up and frowned.""Now that the enemy is approaching Jinling, how can we abandon them?”
"Jinling is where Mr. Sun's mausoleum is located. In the face of a great enemy, if we don't fire a shot and leave Jinling, not only will we be letting down Mr. Sun's spirit in heaven, but we will also be letting down our people.”
"I advocate that we defend Jinling to the death and fight the Japanese to the end!”
Tang Shengzhi's words were full of righteousness, which moved CEO Jiang.
If he didn't put up any resistance and left Jinling, what would the people think of him?
" Meng Xiao," President Jiang said happily." I like your words. Now that I'm handing Jinling over to you, do you have the confidence to defend it?"”
Tang Shengzhi saluted,"I swear to live and die with Jinling!"”
Li Zongren saw that President Jiang did not take his advice and did not care about Tang Shengzhi's words.
He looked at Tang Shengzhi and said sarcastically,"Meng Xiao, you're really amazing!”
Tang Shengzhi snorted coldly."Duke De (Li Zongren), the war has come to this point, and we're still not willing to fight. We're letting this country down!"”
This sentence made Li Zongren very angry.
Tang Shengzhi no longer looked at him. He turned to President Jiang and promised,""I will defend Jinling. I promise not to panic in the face of danger. I will not retreat without your order. I swear to live and die with Jinling!”
" Meng Xiao?" President Jiang was overjoyed." I'm relieved that Jinling is in Meng Xiao's hands."”
"Pass down the order. From today onwards, Tang Shengzhi will be the commander of the Jinling garrison. He will take up his post immediately and lead eleven divisions under his jurisdiction, totaling 150,000 troops to defend Jinling!”
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On the other side, Sun Yuanlang had already brought the 88th Division to Qixia.
Sun Yuanlang stood on a tall mountain and looked at the Qixia camp.
At this time, the Qixia position had already been bombarded by the Japanese artillery, and many fortifications had been blown up.
In the distance, there were also some Japanese tanks and armored vehicles rushing over.
The artillery fire at Qixia did not stop. Under such suppression, how were they supposed to defend against the Japanese?
"How do we fight this war? Going over is suicide!"
Sun Yuanlang was terrified. His only thought now was to escape.
So what if he had elites under him? They were still made of flesh and blood.
What else could he do if he rushed over like this other than being blown into minced meat?
However, he didn't dare to run away just because CEO Jiang had given the order.
He had no choice but to make the same choice he had made in Songhu, sending a regiment to support the Qixia position.
Sun Yuanlang looked at the fierce artillery fire and could not help but feel his scalp tingle."In Songhu, if the devils weren't afraid that the concession couldn't use artillery, would they have allowed Lin Chao to achieve such a great result? With the firepower of the Japanese army now, even if you found ten more Lin Chao, they would not be able to withstand it!”
He had already found an excuse for himself before he even went to the battlefield.
Soon, Sun Yuanlang received news that President Jiang had flown to Hankou and the command of Jinling had been handed over to Tang Shengzhi.
When Sun Yuanlang heard this news, he knew that his chance to escape had come.
He did not care about anything else and immediately led his main force to retreat.
In order to escape, he did not even care about the life and death of his troops. He sent another regiment to prepare to stop the Japanese army and buy time for him to escape.
The troops along the way saw that the main force of the 88th Division had already retreated. They thought that the Japanese had already broken through the Qixia Front and wanted to retreat and form a defensive line. They also retreated with them.
The Qixia base, which was already weak in defense, was even more lacking in support. It was like a lone army that had been thrown out.
Soon, the Japanese destroyed the Qixia camp and tore a hole in the outer defense of Jinling.
The tens of thousands of troops that defended the Qixia camp all died for their country because they didn't retreat.
At this moment, Jinling's external defense was useless. The ghost could attack Jinling from Qixia.
At this point, the Jinling defense line had completely collapsed!
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