Let's go back and talk about the main force of the national army that broke through from Nanjing and the remnants of the 367th Regiment.

At this time, the troops that broke through from Nanjing, including the remnants of the 367th Regiment, had been transferred to Langxi in southern Anhui, and Langxi was still under the control of the national army at this time.

Hearing that the troops breaking through Nanjing had arrived in Langxi, Gu Zhutong, commander-in-chief of the 3rd Theater of Operations, hurriedly took Luo Zhuoying, commander-in-chief of the 19th Group Army, from Xuancheng and hurried over.

At this time, Luo Zhuoying was no longer the deputy commander-in-chief of the Nanjing Garrison.

Since Luo Zhuoying was Chen Cheng's hardcore confidant, the defeat in the Battle of Nanjing did not have any adverse effect on him, so he still came back and continued to be the commander-in-chief of the 19th Army.

Gu Zhutong, as the commander-in-chief of the 3rd Theater of Operations, commanded four group armies and an independent brigade, but this time he came to Langxi, he didn't bring anyone, but only Luo Zhuoying alone, the intention is self-evident, obviously to create an opportunity for Luo Zhuoying to incorporate the remnants of the national army that broke through from Nanjing.

Although the remnants of the breakout from Nanjing have their own backgrounds, including the original 87th Division, the original 88th Division, the Teaching Corps, and even the 66th Army and the 83rd Army of the Guangdong Army, these remnants have already disrupted the structure, and in addition to the needs of the situation, it is not impossible for the 3rd Theater to be incorporated on the spot.

Gu Zhutong rode forward on horseback and said: "Brother Luo, I have already given you the opportunity, whether you can incorporate the remnants of the breakout from Nanjing, and how many people you can recruit, it depends on your ability." ”

"Rest assured." Luo Zhuoying understood in his heart, "I understand my humble duties. ”

"Brother, remember the action must be fast!" Gu Zhutong thought for a while, and then said, "I heard that Xue Yue has officially submitted an application to the commission, requesting that the more than 50,000 remnants who broke through from Nanjing be added to his first corps!" In this regard, your old elder brother is also embarrassed, it is not to support Xue Yue, and it is not even better not to support it. ”

"Rest assured." Luo Zhuoying nodded, "I know what to do. ”

Gu Zhutong hummed softly, suddenly remembered one more thing, and said: "By the way, there is another thing, although Zhong Yi has sacrificed his life for the country, his 367 regiment still left more than 300 remnants, these more than 300 remnants are terrible, that is really a top elite, you have to focus on recruiting!" ”

After a pause, Gu Zhutong said again: "I heard that Liu Yuanlan, the commander of the guard brigade of the chairman's chamber, and Shi Zude, the commander of the special service brigade, all specially greeted the commission, and asked by name to integrate these more than 300 remnants into their troops. ”

Luo Zhuoying said: "Boss, I won't hide it from you, in fact, I have already sent people to contact the more than 300 remnants of the 367 regiment, and I also specially arranged a good show for them!" ”

"Oh, really?" Gu Zhutong said, "Then I'll have to wait and see." ”

Luo Zhuoying looked up at the sky and said, "Boss, it's getting dark, let's hurry up, otherwise I am afraid we won't be able to reach Langxi County before midnight." ”

Gu Zhutong nodded.

At that moment, the two of them sped up and went straight to Langxi County.

……

In Langxi County, the shelter.

More than 300 remnants of the 367th Regiment temporarily settled at the shelter.

After the defeat of the Battle of Nanjing, the Nationalist Army Command set up a large number of shelters in southern Anhui, northern Anhui and southern Jiangsu to contain the remnants of the Nationalist army who fled and retreated from the Nanjing battlefield.

However, it should be noted that these shelters are places provided by the local government in accordance with the requirements of the High Command, and are not dispatched agencies of the High Command, because the High Command does not have so many manpower and financial resources to set up shelters in various places.

In addition, the High Command also explicitly asked the local government to provide rations to the shelters to ensure the livelihood of the remnants of the national army.

Regrettably, however, this order issued by the General Headquarters to the local governments has basically become a dead letter, because the local governments have not even been able to complete the task of requisitioning grain sent by the central government, and they are eager to break the grain in the warehouse into two grains, and where can they get the surplus grain to feed the remnants of the shelter?

Therefore, the remnants of the national army living in the shelter can basically only find a way to solve the rations by themselves, whether it is stealing, begging, or even robbing, anyway, the local government will not provide even a grain of food.

The 300,000 Sichuan troops who went out of Sichuan with great courage and high spirits were disgusted by one person because of this.

At this time, although the 367th Regiment was already famous, even so, it was impossible for the Langxi County Government to come up with food to feed them, and the people of Langxi County were already living extremely hard, and it was impossible to have excess food to feed the national army, so the more than 300 remnants of the 367th Regiment could only find a way to solve the rations by themselves.

Today it was the turn of Guo Qi, the commander of the baggage battalion, to go out to raise food.

In the evening, when they saw Guo Qi coming back empty-handed, He Yunpeng, Liang Feng, Yuan Qiang and others who were guarding the gate immediately showed disappointment on their faces, and it seemed that they were going to be hungry again tonight.

Speaking of which, since they moved into the Langxi County Shelter, they seem to have only drunk two porridges.

Liuzi sighed, leaned on Shen Xian, the commander of the anti-aircraft artillery battalion, and said weakly: "Camp, hungry." ”

Shen Xian also sighed, stretched out his hand and stroked Liuzi's eyes, and said, "Close your eyes and sleep, you won't be hungry when you fall asleep." ”

Liuzi really closed his eyes and tried to fall asleep, but he couldn't fall asleep for a long time, and then he opened his eyes again and said, "Yingza, I'm too hungry to sleep." ”

Li Sifu stood up and said angrily: "Turtle son Di, I went to the magistrate of Langxi County, I don't believe it, he can't even take out a few hundred catties of grain in a county town?" ”

"It's useless to look for it." Yuan Qiang walked out of the gate on crutches, shook his head and said, "You can't even enter the gate!" ”

"What are you talking about? The gate won't let us in? Li Sifu became more and more angry and said, "Turtle son Di, if he dares not to let Lao Tzu enter the door, Lao Tzu will blow him up!" ”

"Alright, don't shout." Sun Zhi didn't have a good breath and said, "Are you trying to rebel?" ”

Li Sifu was immediately silent, and only sighed after a long time: "Alas, if the group seat is still there, it would be good Liao, if the group seat is here, he will definitely have a way, and he will not let everyone go hungry." ”

Hearing Li Sifu mention Zhong Yi, the faces of several battalion commanders immediately became gloomy.

Although none of them believed that Zhong Yi had died in battle, the cruel reality was that Zhong Yi did not rush to Langxi to join the big guy within the scheduled time limit.

Two days have passed now, and Zhong Yi is still nowhere to be seen.

As time passed day by day, the mood of several battalion commanders and even more than 300 remnants of soldiers became heavier day by day, because they knew very well that the longer the time dragged on, the lower the possibility of Zhong Yi coming back to meet them! In other words, the higher the probability that Zhong Yi has sacrificed his life for the country!