Shanghai, Marine Corps Command.

At this time, the Marine Corps Command had become Matsui Ishone's Shanghai Dispatch Command.

Matsui Ishine is in his sixties, thin and short, hiding in the pair of small eyes behind his myopic glasses, always shooting a faint gaze, which makes people feel hairy when they look at it.

None of the staff officers of the Shanghai Dispatch Army Headquarters were not afraid of Matsui Shigen.

Even Mamoru Iinuma, the chief of staff of the Shanghai Dispatch Army, was a little afraid of Matsui Ishine.

With a blushing face, Iinuma Matsu walked up to Matsui Ishine and reported: "Your Excellency, the Kunisaki detachment of the Tenth Army has passed Nanxun, and it is less than a hundred miles away from Wuxing!" ”

"Yaga!" Matsui Ishone cursed viciously when he heard this, and walked quickly to the map.

At this time, Mu To, chief of staff of the Shanghai Dispatch Army Command, had already drawn two huge red arrows on the large map with several of his operational staff officers.

The arrow on the north represents the dispatch of troops from Shanghai, starting from Dachang Town in downtown Shanghai, which can cross Taicang and is about to reach Kunshan; However, the arrows representing the Tenth Army in the south had already crossed Nanxun and were about to advance to Wuxing!

At this time, there is no need to measure at all, even with the naked eye, it can be seen that the progress of the Tenth Army is far more than that of the Shanghai Army, and according to the current trend, the Tenth Army will definitely send the army outside Nanjing before Shanghai, and then there is a high probability that it will send the army to enter Nanjing before Shanghai!

Thinking of this, Matsui Ishine felt a panic in his chest.

Although the base camp has been ordered to be organized into the Central China Front, and Matsui Ishine is also the commander of the Central China Front, Matsui Ishine knows that his basic plate is still the Shanghai Dispatch Army! No matter how good the performance of the Tenth Army is, it has nothing to do with him, only if the performance of the Shanghai Dispatch Army is excellent, the base camp will recognize him!

Compared with Yanagawa Heisuke, Matsui Ishine undoubtedly needs the recognition of the base camp more.

Because Matsui Shigen's performance in the Battle of Songhu was not good, even very poor!

It is said that the chief of staff, Prince Kanin Miyajihito, had repeatedly scolded him in private for being a waste, and if he did not perform well in the next battle to capture Nanjing, Matsui Ishine was worried that he would be dismissed.

After looking at the map for a long time, Matsui Shigen said viciously: "Order, the 3rd, 9th, 11th and 13th divisions speed up and capture Kunshan as soon as possible, and the Shigeto detachment that has just been transferred from Taiwan will no longer have to land at Baimaokou, so that they can directly march west along the Yangtze River and capture the Jiangyin fortress as quickly as possible!" ”

"Hello!" Iinuma was stunned.

……

Nanjing High Command.

The Military Council is holding a military meeting.

The theme of the meeting is one: Nanjing, to keep or not to keep?

There were many high-ranking generals attending the meeting as observers, not to mention He Yingqin, Bai Chongxi, Chen Cheng, and Gu Zhutong, and even Liu Xiang, Li Zongren and other local powerful factions went to Nanjing.

At the meeting, Bai Chongxi, who was also the deputy chief of staff, made a military statement.

Bai Chongxi finally concluded: "In short, the Japanese Shanghai Dispatch Army and the Tenth Army have officially started a competition, and they are chasing after me and rushing towards Nanjing!" On the other hand, our army, because of the hasty retreat, the original strategy of blocking the Japanese army on several defense lines could no longer be implemented. ”

Hearing this, Chairman Jiang's face darkened.

Bai Chongxi's words are slapping him Jiang in the face!

Bai Chongxi didn't care, and said: "This means that the Japanese army crossed the Suzhou-Hangzhou line and advanced to Nanjing, which is already a predictable fact!" The party-state must no longer have any illusions about this! ”

Hearing this, a lamentation immediately sounded in the conference room.

Liu Fei, the head of the combat team of the Military Command Department, who was in charge of drawing up the battle plan, endured it for a long time, but after all, he still couldn't hold back, and stood up and complained: "Although the plan for the war of attrition was drawn up before the Battle of Songhu, the plan was not fully implemented in the later stage of the Battle of Songhu, and a large number of elites were invested in Shanghai, resulting in heavy casualties......

Hearing this, Chairman Jiang's face immediately turned into black charcoal, and Liu Fei slapped his face even harder!

Chen Cheng looked at Chairman Jiang and quickly interrupted Liu Fei and said, "Team Leader Liu, now we are talking about defending Nanjing, the Battle of Songhu has ended, so don't mention the past." ”

Liu Fei glanced at Chairman Jiang and sat back in his seat depressedly.

Chairman Jiang breathed a sigh of relief and said in a deep voice: "Let's talk about Nanjing, can you hold it or not?" ”

Liu Fei, who had just sat down, stood up again and said, "Please forgive me for being blunt, Nanjing will never be defended!" ”

After speaking, Liu Fei strode to the map on the wall, pointed to the map and explained: "Commission, and the princes, you look at the map, as long as the Japanese army occupies Wuhu and then blocks the Yangtze River, Nanjing will immediately become a dead city!" What's more, at this time, the morale of the Japanese army was at its peak, but our army suffered heavy casualties and its morale was even lower. ”

Bai Chongxi nodded and echoed: "What Team Leader Liu said is right, at this time, in a decisive battle with the Japanese army in Nanjing, I am afraid that even the defeated generals of more than 400,000 remnants who finally escaped from the Songhu battlefield will not be able to save it!" Without these 400,000 troops, what would the party-state do to fight against the Japanese invaders? This is simply self-defeating! ”

"Ping!" A slap slammed into the conference table.

Everyone looked at it urgently, but it was Tang Shengzhi who stood up with a black face.

Tang Shengzhi said sharply: "Nanjing is not only the capital of the Republic of China, but also the mausoleum of the former prime minister. In short, in a word, Nanjing, if you can keep it, you have to keep it, and if you can't keep it, you still have to keep it! ”

Liu Xiang lowered his head and said quietly: "What Brother Meng Xiao said is very true, Nanjing is the mausoleum of the former prime minister, and it is also the place of international view. ”

Tang Shengzhi and Liu Xiang brought out the first prime minister, and Bai Chongxi and they didn't dare to refute.

Chairman Jiang was also very hesitant in his heart, emotionally, he still tended to stick to Nanjing, and he even thought that the face he lost in the Battle of Songhu would be recovered from the Nanjing battlefield! But reason told him that Songhu was newly defeated, and more than 400,000 remnants of the defeated army urgently needed to rest and recuperate, and they were no longer able to fight! Therefore, to defend Nanjing is really to find abuse, to find death!

Seeing that a unanimous opinion could not be reached, Chairman Chiang could only announce an extension.

At that moment, Chairman Jiang stood up and said: "In this case, whether to defend Nanjing or not to wait for a few days to be discussed, the top priority at the moment is to first deal with the evacuation of the citizens of Nanjing and the party and government organs. ”