On 1 December, the artillery outside the city rumbled, and the forward troops of the devils were already approaching the outskirts of the city. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Don't be stunned and don't speak, whether this is to withdraw or continue to fight, make a statement."

Liu Xing, commander of the Jiangfang Group Army, became more and more haggard on his thin face, he looked at the silent crowd, reached out and knocked on the table, breaking the silence in the conference room.

"Then I'll say a couple of words first, Yixing was lost, Liyang and other places were also broken through by the 114th Division of the local enemy, the main force of our National Revolutionary Army has moved westward, and my Jiangyin has become a salient on a front, becoming a lonely city, and there is no point in defending it anymore, my opinion is to take advantage of the waterway to still pass, immediately organize a retreat, otherwise when the waterway is cut off, then there will really be no more life, my words are finished."

After the deputy commander had finished speaking, Major General Yiding sat back in his chair and waited for the rest of the people to make a statement.

Major Li Yuchun, acting chief of staff of the 112th Division, had just arrived from the front line to attend the meeting, and he was shot in the arm by a bullet, and at the moment he was hanging a bandage around his neck.

"I agree with Commander Zeng's suggestion, we should retreat immediately, early this morning the devils concentrated dozens of planes to bomb the position of our Huashan 667 Regiment indiscriminately, the position changed hands several times, if we continue to fight, the brothers will fight out."

"Our 103rd Division also suffered heavy losses, and the troops of nearly 10,000 people are now only left with a bare shelf, if you don't believe it, there are really corpses all over the field, and if you continue to fight, I, the division commander, will have to become a bare pole, and I also recommend retreating immediately!"

After the commander of the 103rd Division, Lieutenant General He Zhizhong, smoked his cigarette fiercely, watching his brothers die one by one in front of him, his heart was dripping blood.

Lieutenant General Ouyang Ge, the principal of the Electric Thunder School, was silent for a long time and then spoke: "The order of the Commander's Department is to hold on for three days, we might as well hold on for another day, if we evacuate now, we will inevitably be charged with disobeying the military order, and we will not be able to get it."

After hearing Lieutenant General Ouyang Ge's words, Lieutenant General He Zhizhong, who had just sat down, slapped him angrily on the table: "Ouyang Ge! Go to the front line and see, Lao Tzu's brothers are bleeding desperately and dying in pieces! The bullets are all gone, and they are fighting with bayonets and devils all the time! Go and ask them if they can keep it one more day! It's not your person who died, you don't feel sorry, Lao Tzu is distressed! ”

Lieutenant General Ouyang Ge also stood up: "What the fuck are you angry at me!" Didn't Lao Tzu's people die? Lao Tzu's people died half a month ago! They all sank into the river and fed the fish, and Lao Tzu was also heartbroken, but the Governor's Department asked us to stay for three more days, and you are withdrawn now, are you worthy of those dead brothers?! ”

"Lao Tzu wants to withdraw now because he doesn't want the people who are still alive to die, orders and orders, bullshit orders, where do those idiots in the chief's department still care about our lives and deaths, they are all busy running for their lives!"

"Master He, be cautious!" Liu Xing saw that the excited He Zhizhong began to lead the topic to the chief's department, and hurriedly stopped him.

"Principal Ouyang, you also sit down, you have something to say, this is a meeting, not a vegetable market." Liu Xing waved his hand to let Ouyang Ge, the principal of the Electric Thunder School, sit down.

The atmosphere in the conference room was a little solemn for a while, and Liu Xing was silent for a long time before turning his gaze to Lieutenant General Xu Kang, the commander of the fortress who was smoking fiercely.

"Lao Xu, tell me your opinion."

Xu Kang threw the cigarette butt on the ground and stepped on it hard, he glanced around at the people with sad faces, and slowly spoke: "I advocate defending to the end, we still have enough shells in several forts in Jiangyin, withdraw the infantry outside to the city, with the assistance of the forts, we will destroy as many devils as possible."

The reason why Xu Kang advocated holding on to the death was that he didn't want to turn his back on the infamy of losing his position, you must know that the government of Jiangyin Fortress had invested a lot of manpower to build it, and the guns of several forts in Xishan and Huangshan were bought back from Germany, and he would definitely not be able to take it away if he retreated, so he was unwilling to destroy it or throw it to the devils.

"You're going to let all my brothers die here before you willingly!" He Zhi slammed the heavy vat on the table, kicking his eyes and talking angrily.

"Raising soldiers for a thousand days and using soldiers for a while, if the soldiers are afraid of death, then simply go back to farming!" Xu Kang sneered.

"That's it! Don't make any noise! Liu Xing, commander of the Jiangfang Group Army, looked at the noisy crowd and was particularly irritable, and now some people want to continue fighting, and some people want to withdraw, making it difficult for him to make a decision for a while.

Liu Xing was silent for a moment and then ordered: "Call Nanjing now and tell them about our situation, whether to fight or withdraw, and we will obey the order."

Soon, Jiangyin's call went directly to Nanjing, and the military committee that stayed in Nanjing quickly replied, considering that it was no longer meaningful to hold Jiangyin, and asked the Jiangyin defenders to dismantle the new artillery and immediately break through in the direction of Nanjing.

"Ladies and gentlemen, our army has done its best to defend Jiangyin, although our side has suffered heavy losses, but also annihilated thousands of enemies, I hope you will convey your words to our soldiers, they fought bravely and tenaciously, and played the blood of our army, today's evacuation is not a failure, this is a strategic consideration, it is to preserve strength, we will definitely return here!"

After Liu Xing's words were finished, although Xu Kang, the commander of the fortress who insisted on holding on to the death, was extremely reluctant, he still agreed to evacuate.

"From 6 o'clock this afternoon, all the batteries in the fortress will cover and fire at the enemy until 12 o'clock, cover the retreat of our infantry regiments, and when the infantry is withdrawn, blow up all the artillery, and must not leave it to the enemy, General Ouyang, you lead people to collect speedboats and fishing boats as much as possible, and leave them for the blocking troops......"

Under the intensive arrangement, the commander of the Jiangyin fortress issued an order for the Jiangyin defenders to break through and retreat.

In accordance with the requirements of the retreat, the front-line units alternately covered the retreat to Zhenjiang, the commander sailed to Nanjing by boat, and the troops responsible for the cover behind the palace crossed the river to Jingjiang.

"Battalion commander, battalion commander, let us retreat!" Company commander Qin Shou was sent by Yang Ling to the commander to ask for ammunition, but the ammunition did not come back, but he came back with good news.

Hearing that they were going to retreat, the ragged soldiers on the battlefield suddenly burst into violent cheers, and many of them even hugged their heads and cried, shedding tears of excitement that they could withdraw from their positions alive.

"Go and invite Camp Commander Zhao over." Yang Ling immediately ordered someone to call Zhao Wenbin.

Retreat is not as simple as directly losing the position and running back, once it is found and bitten by the devils in the opposite position, not only can it not be evacuated, but it will fall into a bitter battle, and the retreat is likely to fall into a big rout.

When the Songhu battlefield retreated, it was because of improper command, which caused the retreating troops to fall into chaos, and the devils chased the soldiers and fought fiercely, which caused a big rout in the later stage, so Yang Ling didn't want to repeat the mistakes of the past.