Pu Tianzhen nodded and looked at Zhou Chao.
"Brother Zhou, how long until our blockhouse is finished?”
Zhou Chao waved his hand and looked at Qin Tian.
"Master, when will our fortress be completed? I heard that our troops have already begun to retreat from the Song Hu battlefield!”
Pu Tianzhen was very anxious.
"Master, our Heavenly Chief Troop has been training the tanks for ten days. The soldiers want to go to the Japanese to practice!”
Qin Tian rolled his eyes.
"What's the hurry? The new recruits need more training. Can you guys coordinate well in combat? I've watched you train a few times, and the tanks have already rushed out a few hundred meters, and the infantry have directly lost track of them! In this battle, without the protection of the infantry, the tanks would become live targets for the infantry!”
Pu Tianzhen scratched his head in confusion.
"Master, aren't you saying the opposite? How could tanks become live targets for infantry?”
Qin Tian sighed, picked up a pencil, and started to draw on the paper.
"The tanks will fight their way out alone. The enemy infantry can get close and blow them up with explosives and anti-tank grenades. Infantry and tanks worked together. Infantry followed behind the tanks. Could the enemy infantry get close to the tanks?”
Pu Tianzhen came to a realization and nodded at Qin Tian.
"Master is right. If this tank is not protected by soldiers, it will be easily blown up by infantry!”
"You bastard, why aren't you going back to your city east? The air defense unit needs to be trained! The performance of the Japanese fighter jets isn't that great. As long as the anti-air cannons are used properly, we can ensure that our armored division won't be attacked by fighter jets and bomber planes!”
Pu Tianzhen nodded and jumped into a T26 tank.
"Pu Tianzhen, aren't you Leopard Tanks? Why are you in a T26 tank?”
Pu Tianzhen spread his hands.
"Master, I exchanged this T26 tank with a Leopard tank from another regiment. The main reason is that in Suzhou City, our Leopard tank is too heavy. It can easily crush the road and even collapse the bridge! Therefore, I want to exchange a T26 tank as my command vehicle. This way, I can quickly report to you at Suzhou Gardens!”
Qin Tian heaved a sigh of relief.
Qin Tian brought the guard battalion to the eastern suburbs of Suzhou.
He watched as more and more refugees carried their luggage on their shoulders and dragged their wheelbarrows.
"Zhou Chao, go stop a commoner and ask him to come over for questioning!”
Zhou Chao brought over a dusty and exhausted old man in his sixties.
"Master, this old man escaped from the Songhu area!”
Qin Tian sized him up. This old man was extremely exhausted, his eyes bloodshot.
"Old man, what happened?”
"Boss, you might not know, but the Japanese have launched a surprise attack on Song Hu! Most of the troops had retreated! The devils were furious. Along the way, all the gardeners, whether soldiers or civilians, were stabbed to death by the devils with their bayonet and thrown into the wilderness to be exposed to the sun!”，The old man sobbed as he spoke.
"My family is all dead, all dead! I can't count on you soldiers, I can't count on you at all!”
Qin Tian frowned. He did not expect Song Hu's commoners to suffer such heavy losses.
"Zhou Chao, take the guard battalion and scout ten kilometers ahead!”
Zhou Chao didn't dare to delay. He led the eight hundred veterans of the Guard Battalion and sped up ten kilometers away from the eastern suburbs.
On the Song Hu battlefield, the slow devil army reached the expected speed. Chairman Chang Kaishen issued a retreat order, and scattered soldiers and civilians were everywhere.
Some of the soldiers even snatched all the food that the civilians had prepared to escape.
Commander Gu kept cursing as he retreated to Jin Ling City.
"Chairman Chang Kaishen is really too timid! The devils didn't have an overall advantage in Songhu, so why would they retreat?”
Chief of Staff Feng Yuxiang, as the main general of the northern army, immediately retreated to the Jinling defense line after receiving the telegram.
"Commander Gu, why don't we turn around and fight the Japanese! Otherwise, if they continued running, the soldiers would all run out!”
Commander Gu gritted his teeth in anger.
"Chief of Staff Feng, are you going to turn around and fight the Japanese now? Wouldn't that be a meaningless sacrifice for the soldiers? Now, there were no soldiers to cover the retreat. He did not know how so many soldiers could retreat unscathed!”
Feng Yuxiang was also very helpless. He had already cursed Chairman Chang Kaishen five hundred times in his heart.
"Chairman Chang Kaishen, if he commands blindly in the future, I will disobey his orders!”
Commander Gu was helpless. He knew that Chang Kaishen's habit of giving commands could not be changed.
"Feng Yuxiang, stop complaining and retreat! Otherwise, if the Japanese catch up, you and I won't be able to escape!”
Qin Tian looked at more and more defeated soldiers and commoners and knew that things were not good.
"Zhou Chao, stop scouting and return to Suzhou City with me immediately!”
Qin Tian returned to Suzhou Garden and signaled the signalman to immediately send a telegram to each regiment commander.
In less than an hour, the ten regiment commanders had gathered in Suzhou Garden.
"Master, what's wrong?"
Qin Tian pointed at the rattan chair in the courtyard.
"Sit down and talk!"
When everyone sat down, Qin Tian pointed at the noisy street.
"When you came, you should have seen many commoners and scattered soldiers, right?”
The regiment commanders nodded.
"Yes, they were very panicked, and their eyes were filled with cowardice and fear!”
Qin Tian sighed.
"Song Hu defense line, Chairman Chang Kaishen gave the order to retreat, resulting in the collapse of the entire line! Song Hu is only 110 kilometers away from us, and we are 217 kilometers away from Jin Ling City! How fast can the Japanese arrive?”
Pu Tianzhen and Li Weiguo discussed for a while before standing up from their chairs.
"Master, if we rest at night, we will need two days to travel 110 kilometers!”
Qin Tian nodded slightly.
"Yes, two days! Yesterday was the time when Song Hu's army retreated. We will arrive at Suzhou City by tomorrow at the latest. Everyone, go back and prepare! We'll take the initiative to attack and destroy the advance party of the Japanese!”
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