In the headquarters headquarters, Qiu Qingquan took out the map, and in its opinion, even if he retreated, he couldn't run like a headless fly. The staff officers around him have gone, so Zhang Wei has become the only candidate for discussion. The pencil in Qiu Qingquan's hand sketched on the map.

"Now we have a few ways to go, one is to retreat from the rear to the river to find a ferry, the other is to forcibly break through from the front, Commander Tang's retreat order, let us retreat to the back to the river, but now we can't find troops at all, many small units can't find the formation, if we break through the front, we don't know how many defense lines the Japanese army has, and it is even more difficult to break out, we can break through the Japanese defense line around the horses, and find a way to contact the troops of the Guangdong army."

Zhang Wei still agrees with Qiu Qingquan's opinion, and now continuing to go to the river is tantamount to looking for death, there are few ferries, and it is extremely chaotic, if you break through head-on, there is still a glimmer of life.

Historically, the Cantonese troops that broke through head-on finally rushed out, although the losses were great (the divisions, brigades and regiments were routed, one or two thousand people were contained, and a large number of senior officers were killed), but for Zhang Wei and Qiu Qingquan at this time, this was the safest and most likely way.

"Counselor, I think that it is more likely to break through head-on, now the troops are out of touch, chaotic, backward is a dead end, head-on rush may be able to hit the past, maybe you can still run into the Guangdong troops."

Well, the pen in the hand of the madman Qiu dropped on the map and glanced at the guards beside him. The guard understood that this was the commander's intention to break through, and hurriedly handed Qiu Qingquan a German-style steel helmet and a shell gun for self-defense. The Browning gun on Qiu's waist now may not be effective when it comes to hitting red eyes on the battlefield.

Qiu Qingquan put on his armed belt and steel helmet, and motioned to Zhang Wei: "Company Commander Zhang, let's go." ”

Walking out of the command post of Fuguishan, Qiu Qingquan and Zhang Wei saw the chaotic scene outside, some soldiers were running in all directions, some were staying on the ground and were at a loss, and the 20th small artillery company of Su Luotong not far away was still firing at the Japanese bombers that had just flown away from the sky.

Zhang Wei looked at these soldiers and thought, instead of watching them break up, it is better to put them together, not to mention that the battle to break through will be extremely tragic, and relying on these people under his command, even two lines of defense will not be able to hold out.

Qiu Maniac is resolute, taking advantage of Zhang Wei's thinking effort, with the guards personally down to drive people away, the scattered and stunned soldiers saw the chief of staff coming, they also began to move closer to the surroundings, not long after, Qiu Qingquan's guards rushed to find more than 300 troops, there are routed soldiers, there are the headquarters of the team, there are the team directly under the team, anyway, they are all soldiers of the headquarters, after Qiu Qingquan so rectified, the radish and cabbage together, forced to make up half of the battalion of troops.

Qiu Maniac picked out the officers from the team, found a scattered battalion commander of the Sixth Regiment, and simply handed over the more than 300 people to this battalion commander, while he, Qiu Maniac, commanded this battalion commander and Zhang Wei.

After learning of the specific situation, the battalion commander greeted Zhang Wei and assured Qiu Qingquan that he would atone for his crimes. In Qiu Qingquan's eyes, leaving the army and running away is a big crime of killing his head.

Qiu Qingquan gathered the scattered soldiers, and at the same time collected the ammunition and dry food near the headquarters headquarters. It was almost impossible to find supplies on the way to break out.

Qiu Qingquan walked over: "Are you ready?" ”

Zhang Wei replied: "Ready, Senza, besides, what if we encounter a rout of other troops?" The reason why Zhang Wei asked this question was because he knew in his heart that the Japanese army had a heavy defensive line, and if he wanted to seize a glimmer of life, he had to work hard, and the desperate capital was the troops, and now there were more than 500 people in total. Don't you see how many divisional and brigade-level units of the Guangdong Army broke through and finally broke out? How many more?

If you want to survive, you have to find more people to walk with and more people to play with.

Qiu Qingquan looked at this Zhang Wei and seemed to understand his thoughts: "Do you want to do that?" Five hundred people is really not enough, and more people have to be found to go crazy together. ”

In the end, the two of them discussed for a while, plus the battalion commander of the sixth regiment. It was unanimously decided to collect the rout on the road, combine into troops, and break through together. As for the work of gathering, whoever sees it is responsible, and the stragglers and routs found are unified and managed.

The team that broke through slowly began to advance, and Zhang Wei's search squad walked in the front, and the whole squad spread out as a vigilance for the entire team. Zhang Wei led four infantry platoons to spread out in the front, while the rest of the men and horses, commanded by Qiu Qingquan personally staring at the battalion commander, were arranged in the flank and rear directions, and everyone had a gun, bayonets and grenades were also necessary for everyone. As soon as the search squad spotted the enemy, they immediately opened fire to warn them.

The artillery fire near Fugui Mountain was intermittent, and the Japanese offensive on the 12th could be said to be a succession of battles, and the weakening of the artillery fire was also a signal, a signal for the Japanese army to advance. Judging by the speed of the artillery fire, Zhang Wei felt that the Japanese advance should have attacked the city a long time ago, and the follow-up troops were still searching and advancing on the periphery. They are the biggest threat to Zhang Wei and his party.

Zhang Wei and Qiu Qingquan also discussed the breakout route when discussing how to deal with the rout, Zhang Wei himself did not attach much importance to the breakout route, at first in Zhang Wei's eyes, he felt that as long as he could get out, it would be a victory, and the route was not important, and he could choose at will.

Subsequently, Qiu Qingquan's words gave him a slap in the face.

"If you are uncertain, you will lose cleanly." Zhang Wei used to feel that he had more advantages and a stronger sense of superiority than these "natives", and it was not until today that he understood why people could leave their names in history. It's not a little bit worse.

Search forward from the area of Purple Mountain, two kilometers forward is the Zhongshan Mausoleum, that is, Zhang Wei's platoon of the earliest defense area, the northeast direction is the area of Ma Qun, rush to this area to have the hope of going out, Qiu Qingquan told Zhang Wei that there are Xiaoling Gate, Baishui Bridge and Qilin Gate near Ma Qun.

According to the pre-war prediction of the headquarters headquarters, the Japanese troops in this area were relatively weaker, because it was more labor-saving and time-saving to outflank the defenders of Nanjing along the direction of Chunhua, Moling, and Qixia.

That is to say, if you charge outward near the herd of horses, as long as you fight desperately, perhaps, there is still a glimmer of life, after breaking through, whether it is to get closer to the troops of the three theaters, or to find a way to take a boat or car to the rear (Anhui, Hunan and other places), there is room for choice.

Five minds are uncertain, and you lose cleanly. Once a tactical objective has been decided, it must be executed without hesitation. Zhang Wei's Nanjing breakthrough really kicked off.

Zhang Wei took his rifle and cautiously moved forward, and so far, he has not encountered an enemy situation. The reinforced company behind him spread out at a width of 150 meters in the front, and behind and on both sides were the troops personally supervised and led by Qiu Qingquan.

There were dead bodies everywhere along the way, there were Japanese soldiers, but more national troops. Distant gunfire loomed, the sounds of other battlefields, and gunfire from inside the city. Zhang Wei knew very well what would happen next, but he was powerless to change. I can only pray in my heart, that my arrival will change the fate of some people.

"I'm sorry, I can't do anything now, I can only kill more enemies in the future to avenge you."