6.133 The Last Moments

"I'm just an idle old man now, what's the use? You General Huang are ...... this time."

Although Cao Kun said this, it does not mean that he also thinks so in his heart. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The young man walked straight to the opposite side of Cao Kun's desk, took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Cao Kun, the envelope was written in italics, "Mr. Cao personally opened", Cao Kun thought that the letter must have been written by Huang Haoran.

The young man's current behavior made Cao Kun feel a little unhappy, his eyes seemed to question why the young man didn't take out the letter before, the young man saw Cao Kun's doubts, and he smiled and said to Cao Kun:

"I did this according to the general's orders, if you reach an agreement with Gao Lingwei here tonight, then this letter will never appear in front of you, obviously, Mr. Cao didn't talk to Gao Lingwei just now, didn't he?"

Cao Kun took the letter and opened it and read it quickly, then he stood up from the chair with a somewhat depressed expression, and Cao Kun said to the young man, "You wait for me!" Then he turned and left the study.

About ten minutes later, Cao Kun returned. Cao Kun pointed to the young man and said to Mrs. Liu: "Fourth, this person is the envoy sent by General Huang in Nanjing, and it was General Huang's person who saved your life from the Japanese gun on the street a few days ago, and our Cao family owes him Huang Haoran!" ”

After listening to Cao Kun's introduction, Mrs. Liu immediately asked the young man to convey her gratitude to Huang Haoran, after which Cao Kun handed over a sealed document bag to the young man sent by Huang Haoran.

The young man took the document bag and immediately put it into his briefcase, and then asked Cao Kun for Huang Haoran's secret letter, which was burned to ashes in the ashtray. Then the young man made a phone call and went out, and then gunshots rang out outside Cao's house, and the Japanese and traitors hidden in the dark were killed one by one by the agents of the 99th Army who infiltrated the British Concession, Cao Kun understood that the young man was about to leave, and he couldn't help but ask the last question: "You... Can you tell me what's your name? ”

The young man bowed to Cao Kun and his wife before going out, and then he said three words: "My surname is Guan ......"

In the early morning, the shootout ended up with more than a dozen casualties, and the 99th Army Secret Service won a complete victory, and the men in black who were arrested by the British Concession patrol or sent to the hospital were either Japanese or traitors, and there were no casualties among the personnel of the Secret Service.

Mrs. Liu helped Cao Kun to stand by the window and watched the patrols and catchers coming and going on the street outside, these days the Cao family has been monitored by the Japanese spies, Mrs. Liu has reported several cases and has not seen so many patrols, now, as soon as the Japanese have an accident, these cuckolds have come out, Mrs. Liu is grateful to the young man surnamed Guan for helping them solve these flies outside.

However, the Japanese will not give up, and in a few hours, they will send more spies and traitors, and the patrol in the concession will still turn a blind eye.

"Zhong Shan, what did you hand over to General Huang, why do I think you seem to have given away your life?"

The attentive Mrs. Liu noticed that since the young man surnamed Guan left, Cao Kun had obviously become much more free, which was not like Cao Zhongshan in her impression.

"What else can I have this old thing, most of the Cao family's property is now in the hands of that beast of Shaoshan! I won't move your dowry and rouge gouache money, what can be handed over to Huang Haoran is just my old face, although Huang Haoran has great achievements, but his foundation in the government is still shallow, with Feng Yuxiang and Song Zheyuan, these old people who are directly related to him are helping him, his road can also go more smoothly, Huang Haoran is really anti-Japanese, I can see this! Helping him is kind of helping myself! If you can ask him to help me kill a few more Japanese, my sins will be lightened a little bit......"

Mrs. Liu's expression was a little gloomy when she saw Cao Kun talking, so she quickly changed the topic, and she said softly to Cao Kun: "Zhong Shan, it's easy that there are no Japanese outside, are we going to walk on the street, and I don't know when we have to wait until we find such an opportunity in the future?" I want to take a good look at Tianjin ....."

Cao Kun immediately agreed to Mrs. Liu's request, and after he fell ill in Tianjin, he relied on Mrs. Liu's careful care to get better, and now Cao Kun can be said to be obedient to his fourth wife.

The sun is rising... An old couple walked on the streets of the British Concession in Tianjin, holding each other, they talked very happily, such a warm picture touched many passers-by who hurried past them, who would have thought that these two old people had such a prominent identity and experience......

The young man who visited Cao Kun was Guan Yongbo of the 99th Army Secret Service, and Huang Haoran sent someone to meet Cao Kun in private was very sensitive, and Xu Xinghua did not dare to use people casually. Guan Yongbo was an "old man" who had followed Huang Haoran since the first Songhu Anti-Japanese War in 1932, plus he had been engaged in intelligence work in Shanghai for many years, so Xu Xinghua deliberately transferred Guan Yongbo from Shanghai to Tianjin.

Guan Yongbo did not disappoint Xu Xinghua, when he left Tianjin, he took away the folder handed to him by Cao Kun, what was in the folder, except for Cao Kun and his wife, only Huang Haoran would know in the world......

The other focus of the 99th Army Secret Service is in Wuhan. Almost at the same time that Guan Yongbo met Cao Kun, in the hospital in Hankou, Liu Xiang, a terminally ill Sichuan army boss, lay on a hospital bed and met with a doctor.

This doctor was arranged by Xu Xinghua, director of the Special Service Department of the 99th Army, to go to Hankou Hospital half a year in advance according to Huang Haoran's instructions. Since the dispatch of Liu Xiang to the Hankou Hospital was a temporary arrangement by Director Dai, in the minds of the "military command" agents, the doctor who entered the Hankou Hospital half a year ago did not have any suspicion at all.

It is impossible that no one expected Liu Xiang to come to Hankou Hospital half a year ago to recuperate. Even Xu Xinghua didn't understand why Huang Haoran made such an arrangement half a year ago, and now, he finally knows......

The doctor's method of lobbying Liu Xiang was very simple, he just explained to Liu Xiang one by one the medicines arranged for Liu Xiang by the "military commanders", and after he spoke for five minutes in a row, Liu Xiang took the initiative to write down a bunch of letters for him to pass on to Huang Haoran.

These letters are equivalent to Liu Xiang's will, and the weight of these things written by this local warlord who has been entrenched in Sichuan for many years is no longer something Xu Xinghua needs to care about!

Everything, naturally, Huang Haoran will arrange it!

In this battlefield without gunsmoke, Huang Haoran continued to harvest fruits, but on another battlefield full of gunsmoke, the Nanjing garrison had to usher in another retreat......

Huang Haoran's telegram to the highest authorities contained only cruel realities, no miracles. Shen Fazao's 87th Division's initiative to abandon Zhongshan had completely shaken the defensive foundation of Nanjing City, and under the powerful offensive of the Japanese army, the Nanjing garrison was in danger! At the end of the telegram, Huang Haoran said that for the honor of the country and the nation, he was willing to lead some officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Garrison to hold out in the urban area of Nanjing until New Year's Day in 1938. Huang Haoran's remarks not only won him more capital in front of the highest authorities, but also trampled Shen Fazao into hell.

After reading this telegram from Huang Haoran, the highest authorities said loudly: "China needs a hundred Huang Haoran!" "It is the first time in Qian Dajun's memory that the highest authorities have praised a person in such a high-profile manner!

As for Shen Fazao, the Judge Advocate General's Office received a call from the attendant's room later, and Qian Dajun said coldly on the phone: "For the matter of the 87th Division, the commission must be strictly investigated!" With the highest authorities' instructions, the officials of the Military Judge Advocate Office naturally did not dare to slack off, and they immediately sent people everywhere to collect evidence of Shen Fazao's crimes, and it was also a shame that Shen Fazao was a person who usually did not pay much attention, and the Military Justice Department did not make much effort to list Shen Fazao's "ten major crimes"! Coupled with the abandonment of the former prime minister's mausoleum, it seems that it won't be long before Shen Fazao will become a ghost under the knife!!

This time it's because of Huang Haoran again! In just over a month, three generals have been imprisoned one after another because of Huang Haoran! And these three people who were imprisoned were all former favorites of the highest authorities! Such an abnormal thing gave the rumors a soil for the birth, "those who are not on the right side with Huang Haoran will definitely not end well", this "golden rule" that cannot stand scrutiny at all soon spread throughout the officialdom of Wuhan.

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Chaotian Palace covers an area of about 30,000 square meters and is located in the southwest of the center of Nanjing. In ancient times, it was called Yeshan, because in the Spring and Autumn Period, Wu Wangfu sent to smelt iron and cast swords here, and the emperors of later dynasties built temples and palaces here. During the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, issued an edict to give the name "Chaotian Palace", which means "worship to the sky" and "see the Son of Heaven".

Perhaps blessed by God, this ancient complex was not bombed and shelled by the Japanese army, and after leaving the Baixia District, Huang Haoran's city defense headquarters moved here. Not long after Huang Haoran arrived at Chaotian Palace, Balakov and Bodinov's two big noses walked in angrily, Huang Haoran found an old house and invited Balakov and Bodinov in, at the beginning, Balakov and Bodinov's voices were very loud, and they seemed to vent their dissatisfaction for so many days.

Huang Haoran couldn't stand such a high-pitched bombardment, he knew that the Soviets loved wine, so Huang Haoran called Xu Zilong and asked him to immediately find a few bottles of high-altitude spirits to come back, Xu Zilong took his soldiers along the street to find all the way, and finally found the liquor Huang Haoran needed in a restaurant near the Confucius Temple.

Balakov and Bodinov, the two big noses, are the opponents of China's thousands of years of wine culture, the Soviet Union is now in the period of the Great Purge, drinking a bottle of high-end wine may be labeled as "capitalist", when Huang Haoran unscrewed the cap of the wine bottle, Balakov and Bodinov's IQ began to decline significantly.

After two cups, Huang Haoran knew that he could start to fool, the theory of the Soviets Huang Haoran was very clear, he started with liquor, and finally he was stunned by him to dialectics, Balakov and Bodinov were very surprised by Huang Haoran's performance, if they didn't know Huang Haoran's identity, Balakov and Bodinov really thought that Huang Haoran was from the Soviet Union.

After having a common language and common hobbies, the dialogue between Huang Haoran and Balakov and Bodinov became much easier, Huang Haoran explained to Balakov and Bodinov the fact that the Nanjing garrison is now unable to counterattack, Huang Haoran said that he is also very yearning for the Soviet Union's large corps combat strategy, but with the current quality of the Chinese army, such a large corps operation is afraid that it has not yet disrupted the Japanese, and the Chinese army itself will be chaotic first. Huang Haoran also emphasized his personal preference for active attack and artillery and armor, and his troops were very willing to take the initiative to attack the Japanese, of course, the premise was that Huang Haoran must have enough firepower and sufficient troops.

Balakov and Bodinov were moved by Huang Haoran's words, they have been in China for so long, Huang Haoran is the first Chinese general they have met with the idea of taking the initiative to attack! Moreover, Huang Haoran's military thinking is similar to the idea of the Great Corps advocated by the Soviet Union! Such a commander is what the Soviet Union needs, and advanced Soviet-made weapons should be in the hands of generals who can make it useful! Balakov and Bodinov, who were completely stunned by Huang Haoran, patted their chests and said that they could persuade the Soviet ambassador to tilt the distribution of Soviet aid in favor of Huang Haoran's army, and in just one hour, Huang Haoran used two bottles of liquor and his three-inch tongue to find a stable source of weapons for his troops, all of which I am afraid no one will believe even if they say it.

On the 30th and 31st, the tone of the battle was still that the Japanese attacked, the Nanjing garrison retreated, with Zhongshan Road South Road and Zhongshan North Road as the dividing line, half of Nanjing City in the east had basically fallen into the hands of the Japanese Central China Front, Huang Haoran successively withdrew the 66th Army and the 83rd Army from several city gates in the west of the city from Nanjing, Shen Laoer's 99th Division retreated to the south of the old city, forming a defensive line behind Feng Shengfa's 58th Division.

The fierce battle of Zhonghua Gate continued, the Japanese army successively blew up several gaps in the wall of Zhonghua Gate, Feng Shengfa, who had seriously reduced the number of troops, concentrated the main force of the 58th Division on the line from Zhongshan Road to Zhonghua Gate Castle, Feng Shengfa's troops continued to fight to the death with Gu Shoufu's 6th Division with the Zhonghua Gate Castle and the street fort on the street, the Japanese 3rd Division occupied the Central Gate area at noon on the 31st, the 10th Military Police Regiment was surrounded by the Japanese army in the fierce battle, the regiment commander Chen Lielin fought to the death, and less than 500 of the more than 2,000 people of the whole regiment escaped from Rujiangmen.

There was no turning point in the battle situation in the urban area of Nanjing, what the Nanjing garrison could do now was to withdraw while fighting, Huang Haoran ordered the personnel of the headquarters to start the second separation, and the Soviet advisers and most of the civilian officers and the second regiment of the gendarmerie left Nanjing City first, and by 10 o'clock in the evening of the 31st, only Shen Laoer's 99th Division, Feng Shengfa's 58th Division, the 10th Army and the 57th Army were left in Nanjing City, of which the 57th Army had completely lost its formation, and withdrew all the way from Jiangyin to Nanjing, and Miao Hanliu's army had already reached its limit.

Huang Haoran looked down at the watch on the table, there were still two hours before the advent of 1938, there were still more than 80,000 ordinary people in the international security zone who refused to leave, the east and north of the international security zone are now Japanese, the south and west are still under the control of the Nanjing garrison, the will and military facilities located in the international security zone have been transferred out of the city, Huang Haoran does not want to leave a reason for the Japanese to kill, the security zone is a security zone, and military facilities and any military equipment cannot be left.

These people who refuse to leave no matter what, Huang Haoran can only wish them good luck! In order to give these people as much hope as possible, Huang Haoran's rejection of Shen Laoer's plan to attack the Japanese army through the international security zone has been too different in history, and perhaps, after the fall of Nanjing, will also become different!

"Commander! Rujiangmen is lost! The Japanese are now coming in from the north! Isn't it to let the troops outside the city counterattack to the north, the current position of the headquarters is too dangerous, and it can't be rushed out with only one 99th division! ”

Zhao Xuanyang suddenly stumbled in, he was panting when he spoke, and now he understood why Director Xu didn't let himself join Huang Haoran! This guy is simply crazy! I simply want to live and die with Nanjing City! What time is it? The devils who rushed into the city were from at least four different divisions! Wuhu has also fallen into fierce battles in recent days, using the lives of more than 100,000 people to achieve a famous general! Is it worth it......

Huang Haoran glanced at Zhao Xuanyang, who was already flustered, he deliberately left this Zhao staff officer by his side, taking Zhao Xuanyang with him, it was equivalent to bringing a camera from the Central Union, Huang Haoran wanted the highest authorities to get first-hand information before the fall of Nanjing, only the more clear the brutality of the Japanese army, the highest authorities would understand that China has long had no way out!

"Panic what! Rujiangmen is far from here! The 58th Division has not yet been withdrawn! I'm the last one to leave! Staff Officer Zhao! Is this untenable? ”

"Ahh The last one!! Commander! It's too risky to do that! ”

Huang Haoran's words made Zhao Xuanyang completely collapse! Which of the senior officers of the Central Army did not retreat and not run at the front of the ranks? Fools are all troops that are easy to be bitten by the Japanese army, and the 99th Division is already a tired division no matter how much it can fight, does Huang Haoran still want to continue to be his big hero? What if the retreating troops in front fall into disarray? What if Fan Jie from Wuhu runs away first?

Zhao Xuanyang's worries were not imagined out of thin air, the chaos of the Songhu retreat was like what had just happened yesterday, and the losses brought by the chaotic Chinese army to their own people were even greater than those of the Japanese pursuers! Let's take the 10th Artillery Regiment as an example, if Huang Haoran hadn't made arrangements early, the bridge would have been blown up by the retreating troops in front when the 10th Artillery Regiment crossed the river! Zhao Xuanyang doesn't want to encounter such a situation!

"Commander! You can't take such a risk! Commission.... You can't sit without a commander!! ”

Zhao Xuanyang kept saying that he was for Huang Haoran, but in fact, he was only for himself!

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