On the way back to the public concession, there was no danger.

There were scattered defeated soldiers everywhere, and the wounded soldiers led by Meng Shaoyuan were almost scattered several times.

Fortunately, halfway through, Zhu Yanni, who got the news of Meng Shaoyuan's solo adventure, tried her best to organize a group of agents and successfully met Meng Shaoyuan.

"Gather our men at once."

As soon as he returned to the public concession, Meng Shaoyuan sent someone to settle Kong Chuanbo and the wounded, picked up a cup and drank a glass of water in one gulp: "The task of the interrogation is basically completed, and all personnel are ordered to return to the establishment." ”

"Understood."

"And." Meng Shaoyuan stopped Wu Jingyi: "Prepare weapons and a car for me, let Zhu Yanni's people follow me, and set off in an hour." ”

Wu Jingyi was stunned: "Just come back and have a task?" ”

Uh, this.

It's not that there is a task.

Instead, there is a great opportunity to make meritorious contributions waiting for him.

It's still a great achievement.

With Meng Shaoyuan's shameless character, knowing what would happen, how could he not seize such an opportunity to make a good contribution?

Only a fool will give up......

……

After the order to retreat was given, the chaos of the situation was far beyond the imagination of the authorities.

What kind of tragedy will happen once a person's breath is released?

The various units of the Chinese army retreating from the Songhu front line were already in great order and collapsed, and under the pursuit of the enemy, the officers and men of the various units were afraid that the Japanese army would take the back road and retreated in panic.

The roads between Shanghai and Nanjing, with limited capacity, were crowded with hundreds of thousands of troops and groups of ordinary people fleeing.

In the midst of the rout, the formation of the troops was completely scattered, almost the officers could not find the soldiers, and the soldiers did not want to find the officers, all the men ran desperately to the west, the supplies and weapons were discarded everywhere, and the wounded soldiers lay on the side of the road and groaned and no one cared about them.

Overhead, the planes of the Japanese army and navy continued to dive down and bomb indiscriminately, and the pursuing Japanese troops on the ground were in hot pursuit, and all the retreat roads were extremely chaotic.

The chaos on the way to retreat was unprecedented, everywhere there were blue-gray figures wearing the winter uniforms of the national army, troops wearing various steel helmets and no steel helmets were black and oppressive, everywhere was a boiling voice, and the whole scene was completely out of control.

On the side of a river near Fangjiayao, when the sappers were retreating, they actually planted mines on the highway bridge regardless of the fact that the follow-up troops had not yet withdrawn, preparing to stop the Japanese army by blowing up the bridge.

At this time, the 10th Artillery Regiment of the National Army just arrived.

"What's going on? What's going on? Peng Mengji, the commander of the 10th Artillery Regiment, jumped out of the car: "Why don't you cross the bridge, hurry, cross the bridge!" ”

"Commander, there's no way to cross the bridge." Battalion commander Yan Yuanyi's eyes were red: "There are mines everywhere on the bridge, and our heavy vehicles can't cross the bridge at all." ”

"What?" Peng Mengzhi was anxious all of a sudden: "Discuss with the sappers, dismantle the mines, dismantle the mines!" ”

"It's too late, there's no way to demolish it!"

Peng Mengji's body shook for a moment, and the whole person stood there in a daze.

A moment later, many soldiers who survived the 10th Artillery Regiment in the Songhu retreat witnessed a scene:

Their regiment leader, Peng Mengxi, suddenly howled and cried in front of everyone's eyes:

"It's all guns, German guns! New, it's all new. China only has such a decent artillery regiment, what should I do? What to do? ”

"Captain!" Yan Yuanyi also cried: "No way, no way, the Japanese are right behind our buttocks, there is no time, throw it away, throw it all into the river." ”

"My cannon!"

In the war, in the face of the enemy's indiscriminate bombardment, Peng Mengzhi, who was as steady as Mount Tai, cried so heartbreakingly at this time.

The brand-new German 150 mm FH-18 heavy howitzers were all pushed down the river.

You know, the army of the entire Nationalist government did not have a few 150-mm heavy guns.

"Cross the bridge, retreat!"

Yan Yuanyi gave the order to retreat on behalf of the grief-stricken Peng Mengzhi.

"Boom!"

On the bridge deck, there was an explosion.

"What's going on?" Peng Mengzhi stopped crying and looked at the bridge.

"He Fuxi, the commander of the second company, stepped on a mine on the bridge deck and killed all four brothers."

"I'm a fucking sapper!" That anger was completely exploded in an instant: "I have eighteen generations of your ancestors!" My cannons are gone, my soldiers are gone! ”

In fact, what about the chaos?

Even those division commanders and army commanders are not much better.

Li Yannian, commander of the 2nd Army of the 19th Group Army, dressed in a long shirt, changed his clothes and fled, and the troops under his jurisdiction were even more defeated and scattered, and the defeated soldiers were in groups.

Everywhere on the side of the road lay wailing wounded soldiers, shouting: "Do a good deed, make up for me!" ”

The scene of no one caring after such a serious injury was unbearable, and the miserable cries were heard endlessly.

Divisions and regiments that have disengaged are still unable to control their troops, and the situation of the troops that are responsible for the follow-up cover tasks is even worse.

For example, the 306th Regiment of Qiu Weida, the 51st Division, which was responsible for the general cover of the retreat.

The regiment retreated westward immediately after disengaging from the Japanese army at Qingpu.

However, when the 306th Regiment retreated to Kunshan, it found that the main force of the 74th Army had left Kunshan and moved towards Wuxi, and Kunshan was already in danger.

So the regiment could only retreat to the west again, chasing the main force of the division, using local villagers as guides along the way, and taking small roads to hurry, only then did it meet the 305th regiment covered by the palace in Wangting Town. Along the way, he engaged the Japanese army several times, and finally was able to get out.

After this battle, the 306th Regiment has already lost more than half of it, and there are few recruits left on the Songhu battlefield, and there are only more than 70 survivors of the 2nd Battalion under its jurisdiction, which can be described as extremely heavy casualties.

These defeated defeated troops held out their resistance in Shanghai for three months, and the chaos in front of them could not erase the tremendous contributions they made to the country during these three months.

The three-month bloody battle made it possible for the Nationalist Government to withdraw westward.

Various government units, arsenals, and factories have moved to Sichuan, and the sacrifices on the front line have bought sufficient time for this westward evacuation plan.

On 29 October, after the defeat of the first-line army in Songhu, the chairman of the National People's Congress presided over a meeting of the highest national defense meeting in Nanjing to make arrangements for an overall retreat.

At this meeting, the chairman of the NPC National Committee made a speech entitled "The Relocation of the National Government to Chongqing and the Future of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression", and analyzed the significance of the overall retreat:

"The most important point in military affairs is that not only victory must have a predetermined plan, but also a plan for defeat. Not only must victory be based on the initiative, but even retreat must have the initiative. Then, a temporary setback will not lead to a total retreat, but can grasp the final victory. If we take the initiative to retreat today, we can take the initiative in the future. ”

At the same time, he pointed out that in the period after the overall initiative to retreat, "Sichuan is the rear of the War of Resistance Against Japan", and proposed that "Chongqing should be selected as the residence of the Nationalist Government".

The meeting finally accepted the chairman's proposal and formally decided that the Nationalist Government would move west to Chongqing and that the Military Commission would be commanded nearby on the Beijing-Shanghai-Hangzhou front.

The next day, the Nationalist Government decided to accept the decision of the Supreme Council of National Defense on "moving the Nationalist Government west to Chongqing and away from the war zone."

……

"It's too messy, it's unorganized."

Nanxiang, the sedan was rushing, and Xue Yue, commander-in-chief of the 19th Group Army, frowned when he thought of the chaotic situation on the battlefield: "There is no organization, no order." ”

"Hurry up, drive faster." Xue Yue's guard, Lian Liumin, couldn't take care of military affairs, and the only thing he cared about was to protect Commander Xue.

Japanese troops have already appeared near Nanxiang, and it is dangerous to stay here for a moment longer.

"Antang, how is the situation of the 19th Army now?" Xue Yue asked Liu Antang, the chief of staff of operations who was sitting beside him.

"I don't know." Liu Antang smiled bitterly: "We have lost contact with the troops at all levels. Commander, at the critical moment of the Songhu Anti-Japanese War, you pulled up the guard regiment of the headquarters, and now you are such a guard as Xiaolian, what should you do if you encounter danger? ”

Sometimes, it makes sense to say that a person is a "crow's mouth".

Suddenly, a dense burst of gunfire rang out, the windshield was shattered, and the driver was shot and killed on the spot.

Fortunately, before he could breathe, he stepped on the brakes in time.

"Japanese, Japanese!"

Lian Liumin reacted quickly, pushed the car door, and rolled down.

A shuttle bullet fired, and the rear door was quickly opened.

Although Xue Yue was not injured, Liu Antang was shot in his left arm and his neck was also bruised.

Don't care about the pain: "Xiao Lian, withdraw, withdraw with the commander!" ”

Pulling out his pistol, he fired two shots at the opposite side with a "bang".

"Let's go, Commander!"

Lian Liumin pulled Xue Yue up and stumbled away.

A muffled snort from Liu Antang came from behind him.

"Commander, go, go! I'll cover you! ”

As soon as Lian Liumin turned around, the submachine gun in his hand fired wildly: "Come on, little Japan, come on!" ”

It was a lightly armed squad of the Japanese, and they had no idea who was sitting in the sedan they were attacking.

If they had known that they had attacked the commander-in-chief of the Chinese 19th Army, they would have pursued it at all costs, at the cost of casualties.

and will not be briefly blocked by a submachine gun.

In this case, Xue Yue, the "god of war", will die here inexplicably, and the "Chinese general who annihilated the most Japanese troops in the Anti-Japanese War" will no longer exist, and the history of the Anti-Japanese War will even be completely rewritten.

Xue Yue himself said that this was the most dangerous one he had encountered in his life.

The magic of history is that the driver stepped on the gas pedal before dying and did not let the sedan roll over out of control. Liu Antang used a revolver to block the Japanese army for more than ten seconds.

Lian Liumin used another submachine gun and held out for two or three minutes before he was shot and killed by the Japanese army.

But just for such a short time, Xue Yue temporarily got out of the battlefield, and found a sewer nearby and hid inside.

What is even more ironic is that the Japanese soldiers who successfully sniped the car still did not react, and they may have caught a big fish.

Because they saw the dead Liu Antang, wearing the rank of colonel, they thought that this was already a great achievement.

A colonel, with only a driver and guards, is also a completely understandable thing.