5.11 Songhu retreat

Chief Gu accompanied the highest authorities straight into the classroom of an elementary school. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 The info classroom was already packed.

The various units in Songhu had already begun to retreat one after another in accordance with the orders of the war zone, and the communication between the troops was also chaotic.

Some divisions have long since cut off communications and cannot be contacted.

The generals in the teacher were very eager to hear their supreme commander's views and instructions on the development of the battle situation, and one by one they were full of anticipation.

Chief Gu sat in the first position on the left hand side of the highest authority, and he felt that the top button of his uniform today was a little tight, so he kept adjusting his neck.

Chen Cixiu's performance was much calmer than that of Chief Gu, and Vice Chief Chen did not sign Gu Mosan's retreat plan, which also showed his attitude.

He will not do anything that the highest authorities don't like, and Vice Chief Chen knows very well that his current status is given by the highest authorities, and it is easy for the old man to ask you to get up, and it will not be too difficult for you to go down.

Gu Mosan's military aura is still too strong, so he lacks a little political sense. Although he made the most appropriate judgment based on the situation of the battle, he did not take into account the feelings of the highest authorities.

You must know that the highest authority is the final decision-maker, and his nod will not be carried out without any plan!

Gu Mosan also felt that more than half of the "low pressure" of the highest authorities was coming towards him, but now in front of so many people, it was difficult for him to explain it to his principal.

Hearing that Jiang Baili had eaten turtles because of the dissuasion of the highest authorities, Chief Gu felt that there was a fire burning under his buttocks.

The highest authority glared at Chief Gu, and then looked around at the generals in the room, and he decided to start with the international situation:

"Everyone should know that the countries of the Nine-Power Pact are meeting. The United States sympathizes with and supports us, Britain also sympathizes with and supports us, France and the Soviet Union also sympathize with and support us, and the nine-nation pact meeting will certainly make a decision to sanction Japan's aggression. As long as we can resolutely defend it a little longer, Shanghai will not fall into the hands of the enemy, and the war can end at an early date! ”

The high-pitched singing of the highest authorities did not elicit the enthusiastic response he had imagined, and there was a deathly silence in the room, with a grimace on everyone's faces.

The words of the highest authorities may sound right, but from the aggressive posture of the Japanese, it is really not clear that they have the slightest intention of armistice.

Could it be that his political vision has been dulled to such a point? In the eyes of the highest authorities, how can these people not see it?

The silence of the generals made the supreme authorities even more unhappy, and he felt that his generals had doubts about his judgment, and the supreme authorities, with a sip of water, went on to say:

"As long as we can continue to hold on to Shanghai, the countries of the Nine-Power Pact will definitely intervene. As a small Japan, it is an adventure to invade China, so how can it confront the United States, Britain, France, and the Soviet Union? As soon as these major powers come forward, they will repeat the scene of the three countries intervening in the return of Liao after the First Sino-Japanese War. Therefore, I have now decided to withdraw the order to retreat, and you will still hold on to your original positions. The troops that have been withdrawn will immediately return to their original positions, and the units that have been occupied by the Japanese will be responsible for restoring the positions that belong to whichever unit they belong to! ”

As soon as these words came out, the crowd was in an uproar.

In such a situation, the highest authorities actually want to let these tired divisions launch a counterattack?

The Japanese have just landed four more divisions of elite soldiers, and the three theaters have long been unable to support them.

But the words of the highest authorities are orders, and they have not been changed!

The chairman of the committee had already made a decision, and there was no point in continuing this meeting, and the military situation was urgent, and the commanders of the various units immediately rushed back to their headquarters and began to adjust the movements of the troops in accordance with the orders of the highest authorities.

The back team changes to the front team, and the striker becomes a defender, but how easy is it to pull the wild horse that has taken off the reins?

The order of the command was changed overnight, which plunged the Chinese army on the Songhu battlefield into chaos!

Units that had not received new orders continued to retreat, and those that had already received orders to return to their original positions began to turn back to the front line. The people on the highway shouted and neighed, and they were stuffed together. The already disorderly units began to steal each other's roads, mingling and shouting and swearing, many of the troops lost control, the officers could not find the soldiers, and the soldiers could not find the officers.

As a result of this toss, hundreds of thousands of troops in the Songhu area suddenly became extremely fragile on all fronts.

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In view of the fact that the 10th Army had already entered the city of Songjiang, the Japanese base camp believed that it was already in control, and on November 7 ordered the Central China Front to "sweep away the enemy near Shanghai and end the Battle of Songhu."

The Japanese forces on all sides then intensified their offensive. Soon, the 10th Army occupied Fengjing and pointed west to Jiaxing and Pingwang.

General Gu was in a hurry, if he didn't withdraw the troops, then the elite of the Central Army in the Songhu area would be dumplings by the Japanese, and Chen Cixiu was also moved by General Gu's words, and the two of them came to the highest authorities together and demanded that the troops be withdrawn immediately.

In fact, before Chief Gu and Vice Minister Chen asked for an audience, the highest authorities had already regretted it, and he remembered Jiang Baili's suggestion, and the top authorities, who were a little guilty, made a special phone call back to Nanjing to appease Jiang Baili, and then the highest authorities began to seriously look at the three national defense lines on the map.

Huang Haoran once proposed to rely on the defense line defense, and it seems that now it is really going to take this step!

Now retreat is inevitable, but if you just blindly take care of fleeing, then it is very likely that the corpses will be everywhere under the pursuit of the Japanese army, and if you want to withdraw the army, you must first have a solid defensive support, judging from the information sent by the staff officer, although there are 10 divisions near the national defense line, but most of them are troops with heavy losses in Songhu, and Huang Haoran's 99th Army, a large unit of three divisions and one brigade, is particularly conspicuous.

Thinking of what Huang Haoran said in Nanjing a month ago, it seems that Huang Haoran made a judgment on the Japanese army's movements today at that time, but it is a pity that the time has passed too long, and the highest authorities have already handed over Huang Haoran's report to the General Staff Headquarters for argumentation, but it is a pity that those military experts have not been able to come to a conclusion after studying it so far.

The highest authorities also forgot about the report.

Now that we talk about this, we are inevitably suspected of being an afterthought.

"Chairman, we must retreat immediately, the Japanese want to encircle us is now becoming more and more obvious, some of the troops below have collapsed, if we don't leave, we won't be able to leave!"

There was an obvious tremor in Chief Gu's voice, and Gu Mosan's mood should be very excited now.

The supreme authorities did not say anything, and Vice Chairman Chen knew that the chairman needed a step down, so he immediately sent a message to the supreme authorities:

"The chairman's counterattack strategy is very reasonable, but unfortunately the troops below are not in good shape, and the Japanese are too cunning...... The devil's movements are too fast, and they don't give our army time to prepare at all, and now that the situation has changed, the basis for counterattack has been lost, Chairman of the Committee, it's time to take a step back, take a step back and open the sky! ”

"Niang Sipi! The Japanese took advantage of it again! How did the intelligence department do it, every time the Japanese went ahead of us, and when this stage of the operation is over, I will take military discipline seriously! Serious military discipline! ”

Both Chief Gu and Vice Chief Chen breathed a sigh of relief from the roar of the highest authorities, and the old man now said that he had agreed to their withdrawal plan.

General Gu glanced at Vice Chairman Chen gratefully, this step was handed well, and the chairman of the committee just happened to get off the donkey, and Chen Cixiu, the "little chairman", really understood the temper of the highest authorities.

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Although the highest authorities were finally forced to admit the fact that the hundreds of thousands of troops in Songhu could not be withdrawn without withdrawing.

However, after the blind command of the supreme authorities, the Chinese army had lost the last opportunity to retreat calmly.

On the evening of the 8th, the 3rd Theater Commander's Headquarters finally ordered the left and right flank combat armies to retreat to the defense positions on the Wu and Phuoc lines.

This is tantamount to declaring the counteroffensive order issued by the highest authorities immediately null and void.

The generals who received the order finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The staff officers of the General Staff immediately rushed to work out a plan for retreat. Then this set of plans was sent out like snowflakes to the command posts of the various units.

On the thick paper, the marching routes and marching plans of each ministry were very detailed, and under the auspices of "Xiao Zhuge ", the General Staff showed extraordinary efficiency.

However, it is one thing to prepare a plan, and quite another to organize and implement the retreat in front of the enemy on the battlefield.

Because they hastily ordered a retreat under the critical situation of losing the opportunity and being forced to retreat, after receiving the order, hundreds of thousands of troops were afraid that they would run slowly and be captured by the war zone, so all the troops abandoned their positions and began to flee for their lives, forming an extremely chaotic rout situation.

Huang Haoran once again received a telegram to respond to the frontline troops of the Third Theater, and before this telegram, he received an order to lead a team to reinforce the Songhu front.

Huang Haoran directly suppressed the reinforcement order, Fan Jie was still a little worried at the time, after all, this was an order issued by the Commander's Department of the War Zone, isn't the military seat afraid of being charged with disobedience?

Looking at Fan Jie's sad face, Huang Haoran laughed:

"Chief of Staff Fan, I think the troops that did not carry out this order are definitely not the only ones in our 99th Army, you don't have to worry! Let the troops intensify their positions, reserve more ammunition, food and water, and sappers can lay mines. ”

"Junzao, we don't have many mines, and the Japanese have the habit of clearing roads with artillery fire, I wonder if we can use less and keep some of them for later?" Fan Jie, the chief of staff, was still very competent, and he immediately threw himself into the new job

"Did I say that the mines were planted to stop the Japanese?"

Huang Haoran's voice was a little sinister when he said this.

Fan Jie didn't react for a while, and subconsciously asked:

"I don't quite understand the meaning of the military seat, if it wasn't for dealing with the Japanese, could it be ......?"

Huang Haoran did not hide it from his chief of staff, he said his thoughts:

"That's right, these mines are prepared for the withdrawn Central Army, don't look at us now there are more than 60,000 people, but once they are deployed to the national defense line, I don't think there are too many people, Changshu is one of the important passages for the Songhu frontline troops, and there are at least 150,000 or 60,000 troops passing through us, if there is no minefield blocking, let them rush like a tide, even we have to collapse, Chief of Staff Fan, you inform Wang Shankui, tie up the various passages, the Central Army is in a hurry and has to pass through Lao Tzu in order, our defense area, There is absolutely no room for confusion! ”

"Yes! Military seat. ”

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Huang Haoran stood in the trench and observed the checkpoint on the right side with a telescope, a large number of central troops began to appear at noon, these troops had already lost order and control, crowded together in a chaotic manner, there was dust in the distance, and a large number of troops were marching towards Changshu, all wearing khaki military uniforms, all of them were troops of the central army system.

In accordance with Huang Haoran's order, the units of the 99th Army stabbed to death at various intersections, machine guns and mortars were erected, and in order to deter these routs, they had fired several shots, but they still failed to control the situation.

Some deserters tried to pass through the fortifications of the defense line, but they were deterred by the conspicuous minefield signs everywhere.

In the end, there were unbelievers who had the courage to step into it, but they didn't go far before they were blown up by a mine, and the people behind saw this tragic situation and immediately dispelled the idea of taking risks.

According to the order of the Theater Commander's Headquarters, the right-wing combat army retreated to the front line of Qingpu and Baihegang under the bombing and strafing of enemy planes. Most of the nearby timber and bridges along the way were damaged, and the troops suffered heavy casualties. On the evening of the 9th, Wu Keren, the commander of the 67th Army who led his troops to retreat, was shot by the enemy and sacrificed his life for the country. At the time of the transfer, the radio communications of some units failed, communication between the upper and lower levels was impossible, and commanders at all levels were unable to grasp the troops they were with, resulting in extremely disorderly order, and the headquarters of the right-wing combat army was moved to Kunshan on the evening of 9 July.

On the night of the 9th, the troops that passed through Changshu reached their peak!

At night, the 36th Division and the Tax Police Corps arrived in Changshu one after another.

Song Xilian's 36th Division arrived first, and the Central Army on the road was already in chaos, and Song Xilian was afraid that the troops would also fall into chaos, so he gathered his 36th Division together and waited for the opportunity to pass.

After consulting Huang Haoran, the officers and men of the 538th Regiment of the 139th Division rushed onto the highway with bayonets and viciously, brandishing the butts of their rifles in the chaotic crowd, and knocked down many people at that time.

The officer who led the team was Zhang Guangfu, the commander of the 536th Regiment of the 302nd Brigade of the 99th Division, and now he is the regimental seat of the 538th Regiment of the 139th Division, and his subordinates are also the original members of the original 536th Regiment.

The performance of the 536th Regiment in Songhu was not outstanding, compared with the 531st Regiment's surprise attack on the 22nd Brigade Headquarters and the 537th Regiment's attack on the Japanese Marine Corps Headquarters, the 536th Regiment's record was really a little flat.

So it's normal not to be promoted.

Where could the routed troops on the highway confront the strong army of the 139th Division, and they were quickly beaten to pieces.

A regiment commander of the Central Army stood up and pointed at Zhang Guangfu and scolded:

"Damn! Lao Tzu is ordered to retreat! What does it mean that your 99th Army pierced the intersection to death? Is it trying to rebel? ”

Zhang Guangfu replied coldly: "It's not that you all fly like flies, so our military seat ordered to control the highway, Changshu is an important stronghold of the national defense line, if it is broken by you idiots, wouldn't it be a joke for the Japanese?" ”

"I can't care so much! Lao Tzu's brothers want to live, if you 99th Army don't get out of the way, we will shoot! ”

Zhang Guangfu didn't say a word, raised his hand and shot the commander of the Central Army, and the fierce momentum of Commander Zhang frightened the defeated army back several steps.

In fact, the troops brought out by Zhang Guangfu were only two companies, and there were thousands of troops on the road, but these people didn't even dare to move in front of the 99th Army.

Huang Haoran saw it in the telescope, and couldn't help but keep shaking his head, these central armies are really a bit of a wretch!

The soldiers also have to see who brings!

These men are also regular troops, and if they are properly commanded, they become mighty lions; On the other hand, if the command is not right, even the sheep without the power to defend themselves are inferior.

No matter how loyal a soldier is, if he doesn't have a good leader, he is blind.

Zhang Guangfu asked his subordinates to stand on both sides of the road, and the cold and shining bayonets became the best sign of passage.

The routs were frightened by the methods of the 99th Army, they finally restored order under the cold tip of the knife, and with strong guidance, the originally blocked crowd began to flow rapidly, and the speed of the troops suddenly increased several times.

Ordering to shoot at his own people, Huang Haoran was indeed a little unbearable in his heart, but he understood that extraordinary means were needed at very moments, and if he could not shock these routs in the shortest possible time, then the gate set by the 99th Army on the national defense line would be tantamount to helping the Japanese and stopping his country's army.

Once the Japanese army followed and killed, and the withdrawn troops did not have time to pass, the losses would be great.

Although a few people have been sacrificed now, they can save thousands or even tens of thousands of lives, Huang Haoran has calculated this account, and it can be done!

Song Xilian also saw this scene on the highway, and admired the decisiveness of the 99th Army.

It seems that this Huang Haoran is really spicy!

No wonder he has made a lot of achievements in Songhu, and he is indeed a rare ruthless character!

Coming all the way from Suzhou Creek, Song Xilian can't forget the experience of this night.

In his diary, he wrote:

"The retreat on the night of the 9th was simply disordered. Because from Huxi to Qingpu, Nanxiang to Kunshan, the area is all the rivers and Hans, there is no place to wade, only one road to go. All the troops went west along this road. Everyone scrambled to be the first, and it was crowded. Commanders at all levels completely lost control of their troops. The Suzhou Creek Bridge, which runs from Qingpu to Nanxiang, was blown up by enemy planes. All vehicles have no way to go, and they are congested. In addition, when passing through Qingpu in the middle of the night, the machine guns in the southwest direction were very dense, indicating that the Japanese army was approaching Qingpu. In order to avoid encircling their troops by the enemy, they rushed forward desperately, creating extreme chaos. The enemy formed several small advance troops and advanced from the area west of Qingpu to the Nanxiang-Kunshan road on the north bank of the Suzhou Creek. The headquarters of Hu Zongnan's 17th Army Corps, on the bank of the Suzhou Creek in the southwest corner of Nanxiang, was attacked by enemy smugglers, and many of the headquarters personnel and guard companies were killed, and Hu Zongnan escaped alone. Xue Yue traveled from Nanxiang to Kunshan in a small car, but was strafed by enemy machine gun fire, the driver and one of his guards were killed, Xue Yue jumped from the car into a ditch and survived. ”

"The retreat was chaotic. Such a large corps could not carry out organized and gradual resistance in order to delay the enemy's movements, and there was no clear goal of retreat, resulting in the various units running their own ways and desperately rushing westward. The battlefield command did not understand the position of many troops, and the enemy army was left in a no-man's land. (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )