As soon as he got down the stairs, Fang Buwei stopped.

In the command room, Tang Shengnan, Luo Zhuoying, Liu Xing, Zhou Hui and several operational staff officers were in a fierce battle situation, and it was not a good time to go in now.

There are some things that can only be said to Tang Shengzhi alone, otherwise it will be counterproductive.

Fang Buwei listened quietly for a while, and had already understood the general situation of the battle.

In the northeast, the Japanese army had attacked the Qilin Gate, and the 36th Division had prepared the 2nd Regiment to repeatedly attack and defend the Fuxing Bridge with the former enemy, fighting to the death without retreating, with more than 1,000 casualties, and two-thirds of its establishment had been disabled.

On the north line, Qixia Mountain suffered heavy artillery bombardment, and the 41st Division of the 66th Army suffered heavy casualties, but fortunately, Qixia Mountain was not lost.

In the southeast, Tang Shengzhi ordered the 74th Army and the 66th Army to shrink the defensive line respectively, and put the 71st Army that had just withdrawn from Zhenjiang on top to defend the area around Gaoqiaomen.

At most, tomorrow, the Japanese army will attack Takahashimon.

Needless to say, in the southward direction, the 74th Army suffered half a day of bombardment, but fortunately, the Niushou Mountain was high and densely forested, and the casualties were not too heavy.

The heaviest casualties among the central departments were the 36th Division, followed by the 74th Army.

Because when it was withdrawn from Shanghai, the 36th Division was relatively complete, so it was used by the chairman as a firefighting team, and there was a regiment of the 36th Division in each of the eastern, southern, western, and northern directions, which cooperated with the garrison of various armies.

It's just that today, in the northeast, the second reserve regiment in the Qilinmen area and the first reserve regiment on the southeast line of Qixia Mountain have suffered most casualties, with nearly 3,000 dead and wounded.

At this point, the Japanese army has realized its intention to encircle on three sides, and if nothing else, it will launch an attack on Fukuo tomorrow.

But Fang Buwei didn't know, this was not the worst.

Wait until tomorrow to know what a sieve-like line of defense is.

This has little to do with Tang Shengzhi and the front-line defenders, but is the reason for the chairman.

The first is fortifications.

Fang Buwei has seen it early.

The fortifications of the 36th Division on the Shogunate Mountain were all tofu scum projects. With a gentle hand, the ash on the fortification will be broken off a large piece, and then you will see the thin bamboo pole inside......

This was built three or four years after the military council allocated a huge amount of money, and at that time it was not uncommon to see steamers full of steel and cement loaded with steel bars and concrete.

But now it's lime and bamboo poles?

The rest of the defense line is roughly like this.

It's hard to imagine that such a thing would happen at the feet of the Son of Heaven, but Fang Buwei is already surprised.

There is no worst, only worse!

Compared with Song Yuanliang, at least they didn't take mud paste, and they also used some lime.

Before the Battle of Songhu, Zhang Zhizhong gave him 300,000 yuan to repair reinforced concrete fortifications, but Song Yuanliang was greedy for all the money.

All the fortifications were made of mud......

This is the basic operation of the officials of the national government, and Fang Buwei doesn't want to complain anymore.

Therefore, as soon as he heard that the thirty main masters were repairing the fortifications, Tang Shengzhi would not even ask, so he agreed.

Such a fortification, not to mention anti-artillery shells, will collapse with a slight shock, which soldier dares to hide inside?

What's more, the Japanese bombs were dropping like rain.

The second is the line of defense.

The left-behind troops in Nanjing, with a total of 100,000 people, sounds like a lot.

But these 100,000 people must not only defend the outer positions, but also defend the city wall of Fuguo, and even more importantly, they must guard the commanding heights in Fukuo.

The city wall alone is more than 100 kilometers, and one meter can be defended?

However, the chairman envisaged that if the outer positions were defeated, they would be able to defend the inner city after retreating, and if they were defeated, they would be able to defend the inner city.

This is not even about the Basic Law.

Fang was not suspicious, the chairman of the committee had thought about whether his soldiers would die at all, as if every time he retreated, there were still so many people......

The third is that there is no depth, no reserves.

To put it bluntly, there are still not enough people.

The chairman's assumption was that Nanjing was mountainous, and as long as he controlled all the hills and commanding heights, he would be able to hold the gap between the mountains from a high position, and the Japanese army would naturally not be able to attack the top of the mountain.

But this completely ignored the fact that the Japanese army had many heavy artillery and aircraft, and that there were plenty of bombs.

Just like today, people first came to cover the mountain with a few rounds of artillery fire and directly razed the mountain for you, how do you hold it?

Even if they didn't have such strong firepower, the Japanese only needed to break through a little bit and outflank them in a roundabout way, and they would be able to wrap dumplings on the national troops stationed on the hills.

If you withdraw a little slowly, you will be surrounded to death by the Japanese army.

Fang didn't realize that the chairman of the committee was purely thinking about the battle of the era of cold weapons, and he was directing this battle.

Whether it is cutting corners in the fortifications, or the defensive line is too long, the soldiers are too few, and the defensive arrangement, they are all the pots of Commissar Chiang.

I also want to add to him the clause "I know that I will lose, but I insist on sticking to it".

Many people in later generations said that the biggest person responsible for the defeat of Nanjing and the tragedy was Tang Shengzhi.

The person who says this is either blind, or has a bad conscience, or has been completely obscured by something!

Where did you put the dignified President Chiang of the Nationalist Government?

Te underestimates people!

Hearing the discussion inside, the dispatcher began to send the latest military orders to the various armies, and only then did he let Guan Dashan push him forward.

Before he reached the door, Tang Shengzhi came out first.

"No, I'm coming!" Tang Shengzhi asked, and coughed again.

Fang Buwei obviously saw that Tang Shengzhi's face was very bad.

Can it not be bad?

According to Chairman Chiang's prediction, how could the outlying positions have to be defended for more than a month, and as a result, they were lost in one day?

Tang Shengzhi would definitely think that the chairman of the committee is expected to be able to defend the outer Guo city wall for at least 20 days, and how many days?

If you want to let Fang not count it for him, it will be two days at most.

"How's the Minfu recruited!" Tang Shengzhi coughed for a while before he stopped and asked.

"Not ideal!" Fang Buwei replied, "Because most of them are old and weak, so the number of people needed is relatively large, Commander Hu and Song Changjun touched each other, and finally thought that it was better to meet the construction of Pukou as much as possible, and then consider the ...... of Xiaguan."

In case Tang Shengzhi knew that all the people had crossed the river, he turned around and questioned, so Fang Buwei wanted to give him a precaution first.

Tang Shengzhi groaned for a while, and exhaled heavily: "Well, it's also an old way......

Seeing that he really didn't object, Fang Buwei secretly sneered again.

Xiaguan was at the westernmost end of the city of Nanjing, and it was the only direction that the Japanese could not hit.

Unless the city of Nanjing is completely breached, there will be a war in Xiaguan, and at that time, Tang Shengzhi has already crossed the river.

But Pukou is different. In case the Japanese army crosses the river, comes to a counter-outflanking, and surrounds the First Army inside, then there will be no way back at all.

For the last retreat, Tang Shengzhi can't pay too much attention to it.

Seeing Tang Shengzhi rubbing his eyebrows, looking extremely tired, Fang Buwei knew that he didn't have time or heart to deal with himself now.

"Commander, my subordinates have a few words to say to you!" Fang Buwei didn't have the heart to go around in circles with Tang Shengzhi.

(End of chapter)