The snow was still falling, and gusts of cold wind swept the snowflakes and drilled straight into Rao's neck.

Gu Zhenlong held on to the railing and stared fixedly in the direction of Xiaguan.

Since getting on the boat, Gu Zhenlong has been standing by the side of the boat for half an hour.

Who persuades whom.

After Fang Buwei got on the ship, he explained the itinerary to a few soldiers who drove the ship, but he happened to be absent.

When he got out of the cockpit and saw Gu Zhenlong, who looked like a snowman, Fang Buwei sighed, patted the snow on his body, took the coat from Zhang Zhichang, who had a blue nose and swollen face, and put it on him.

"Let's go inside, it's not too late to come back next time!"

"Next time?" Gu Zhenlong said in a trembling voice, "I don't know if I can set foot on the land of Nanjing again in my lifetime......

"Don't worry, definitely!" Fang is not a categorical return.

"Don't let my heart go!" Gu Zhenlong shook his head.

After a long time, Fang Buwei heard him say: "You, Lao Tzu, is this considered to run away without a fight?" ”

Hearing that the voice was wrong, Fang Buwei tilted his head slightly, and saw that Gu Zhenlong's eyes were shining with tears.

"Letting you go back to Wuhan to recuperate, it's a military order from the commission, what does it have to do with fleeing without a fight?" Fang Buwei sighed.

knew where Gu Zhenlong's heart knots were, but Fang Buwei didn't know how to persuade him.

Gu Zhenlong felt sorry for his 20,000 elite soldiers, and even more pity for the military police order formed by him

Four days ago, that is, on the night of 18 November, after the Third Supreme Operational Meeting was held at the chairman's residence, the chairman finally decided to transfer troops to hold Nanjing.

In view of the difficulty in organizing and training the military police, the chairman of the National Committee ordered Gu Zhenlong, commander of the military police, to move the rest of his troops to Changsha on the same day in order to ensure that the military police would not be interrupted and that the military police would not lose their mastermind under any circumstances.

This surplus refers to the remaining soldiers after the elite is transferred.

The chairman of the committee asked Gu Zhenlong to transfer a full 20,000 elite soldiers, led by Zhang Zhen, deputy commander of the military police, to assist the city defense army in holding Nanjing.

In addition to the military police, the only full-fledged troops holding Nanjing were the 41st and 48th Divisions, which had returned from Hankow.

The rest were all withdrawn from Shanghai.

Like the 87th and 88th Divisions, there are less than 30% of the veterans, and the rest are all newly recruited from the miscellaneous troops after they were withdrawn to Nanjing, and the guns have not been fired much.

It's not bad for such a soldier not to cover his ears when he hears the sound of cannons.

Gu Zhenlong had already expected that his 20,000 elite soldiers would not survive a few.

Without elite soldiers, the gendarmes can only really be gendarmes, let him go to Changsha to continue to be the commander of this gendarme, what's the point?

Gu Zhenlong was already disheartened, and his stomach problems were getting worse, so he asked the chairman of the committee to let him go to Wuhan to recuperate.

After the chairman of the committee agreed, he ordered Zhang Zhen, the former deputy commander of the military police, to temporarily assume the post of commander of the military police, and to transfer the rest of his troops to Changsha, and the headquarters of Nanjing was handed over to the former chief of staff of the military police headquarters, and Xiao Shanling, the current deputy commander of the military police, to hold Nanjing.

"Do it when you know you can't do it? Tang Mengxiao, are you really stupid or fake......" Gu Zhenlong muttered.

Fang Buwei could guess what the chairman of the committee thought, but he couldn't guess why Tang Shengzhi advocated sticking to Nanjing.

At the three meetings, only Tang Shengzhi advocated sticking to it, and the rest of the personnel unanimously suggested abandoning it.

But the chairman of the committee agreed to Tang Shengzhi's recommendation?

Fang Buwei didn't know the details of the three meetings, otherwise he could deduce that Tang Shengzhi was actually the chairman of the committee.

On 12 November, when the entire territory of Shanghai fell, the chairman of the NPC National Committee convened a meeting of the adjacent high command, which was not attended by many people.

There are only He Yingqin, Minister of Military Affairs and Chief of Staff of the Supreme Command, Bai Chongxi, Minister of Military Training and Deputy Chief of Staff of the Supreme Command, Xu Yongchang, Minister of Military Orders, and Liu Fei, Lieutenant General of the Operations Group of the Base Camp of Operations against Japan.

The chairman of the committee asked these four people whether Nanjing was abandoned or defended, Bai Chongxi and Liu Fei agreed that it could not be defended, and He Yingqin and Xu Yongchang did not express their position.

On 17 July, the chairman of the NPC committee convened a meeting for the second time, and this time Tang Shengzhi, director of the training director's department, and Gu Zhenlong, commander of the garrison, were added.

Bai Chongxi and Liu Fei insisted on the original proposal, Gu Zhenlong seconded the proposal, He Yingqin and others still did not express their position, but their attitude was self-evident.

Only Tang Shengzhi advocated holding on, saying that he should fight with the enemy to the end.

As soon as Tang Shengzhi finished, the chairman of the committee praised him loudly and asked him who would be the commander-in-chief.

Tang Shengzhi said that Gu Zhenlong, commander of the garrison and commander of the military police, and Gui Yongqing, deputy commander of the capital garrison and commander of the teaching corps, served as the chief and deputy commander of the city defense.

Gu Zhenlong gritted his teeth angrily, and greeted Tang Shengzhi from top to bottom in his heart.

It's not that he's greedy for life and afraid of death, and doesn't want to fight.

Everyone knows that Nanjing is a place of four wars and must not be defended.

The purpose of the Japanese army's attack on Nanjing was to fight a decisive battle with the main force of the Nationalist army and realize the ambition of killing China in March.

If the national army really wants to stick to Nanjing, it will be a big deal for Japan.

The chairman of the committee has been fooled twice in a row, but he still doesn't know the lesson, so he has to do it again?

In fact, Bai Chongxi, Gu Zhenlong, and even Tang Shengzhi all knew what the chairman was thinking.

It is nothing more than that Nanjing is the capital and the place where the prime minister's mausoleum is buried, and if it is not abandoned, the chairman of the NPC committee will definitely be infamy.

So he wanted to find someone to blame.

The problem is, knowing that he can't hold it, he has to give away the lives of tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of soldiers, in vain, isn't this pot so big that it is boundless?

Even if he dies in battle, he will be exhumed and whipped.

Who dares to carry it?

It was only after realizing this that He Yingqin, Xu Yongchang and others did not express their position.

Even these big guys don't dare to carry this pot, how can he Gu Zhenlong, how can he afford such a big infamy?

It doesn't matter if he loses his life, it's his duty as the commander of the garrison to defend Nanjing, and Gu Zhenlong has nothing to say.

But even if you die, you can't let future generations poke your backbone.

He decided to pull a pot blocker.

Gu Zhenlong immediately stood up and said: He is the commander of the garrison, and it is his proper duty to hold on to Nanjing, but another person with high moral integrity is needed to preside over the overall situation.

The chairman asked him who was suitable, and Gu Zhenlong directly recommended Tang Shengzhi.

Tang Shengzhi's face turned red, but he didn't say a word of objection.

The chairman was overjoyed.

That's what he meant meant in the first place.

He really wanted to defend the city, and even more wanted the defending troops to fight a few battles with the Japanese army in Nanjing decently, so as to tell his subordinates that he Jiang had done his best.

But Gu Zhenlong's qualifications are a little shallow, and he can't carry this pot, so he summoned He Yingqin and Bai Chongxi, wanting one of them to stay and preside over the overall situation.

But they are all foxes for thousands of years, who doesn't know how to talk about fasting?

Bai Chongxi directly advocated abandoning it, and He Yingqin made a bunch of retorts, but he didn't express his position.

Xu Yongchang didn't even answer.

Seeing that no one was fooled, the chairman of the committee had no choice but to convene the second enlarged meeting of the neighborhood.

Someone really jumped out.