Chapter 19: A Thousand Clues

6.19 Confusion

Jiang Baili made a phone call to Huang Haoran before leaving the presidential palace, because he used the phone in the attendant's room, and the people next to him were relatively mixed, Jiang Baili only hurriedly said a few words on the phone, and Huang Haoran heard the most important sentence clearly, that is, the chairman of the committee wanted to go to Zhongshan to have a look. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Although the highest authorities approved Huang Haoran's troop adjustment plan under the persuasion of Jiang Baili, the highest authorities are still a little dissatisfied in their hearts, so now they want to use such an inspection to express the anger in their hearts!

Huang Haoran could only shake his head and smile bitterly on the phone, no way, he is a big boss and a big boss in the whole of China, and now he wants to add a "show" in person, where can Huang Haoran object?

Fortunately, Wang Jingjiu, the commander of the 71st Army, is a fairly kind person, and Huang Haoran is not afraid that someone will play yin behind his back.

Wang Jingjiu, the word is flat, Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province, Feng County, in 1932 Shanghai Anti-Japanese War Wang Jingjiu was the deputy commander of the 87th Division, during the war his father died of illness, Wang Jingjiu insisted on commanding the operation in the front, did not return to his hometown to mourn, in the line of fire Wang Jingjiu wore filial piety clothes to lead the army to meet the Japanese invaders, the officers and soldiers of the department were deeply moved, bravely killed the enemy, Wang Jingjiu also became famous because of this battle.

Huang Haoran was a staff officer of the 261st Brigade of the 87th Division in 32 years, and he was also Wang Jingjiu's old subordinate.

Let's take a trip, Zhongshan is the main barrier of Nanjing's east gate, and it is an important commanding height, Huang Haoran originally planned to meet Wang Jingjiu.

Fan Jie saw Huang Haoran, who was full of gloom, constantly spinning around the phone, and wanted to laugh, but he still held back......

Nanjing City is still making final defensive preparations, the Japanese army in the direction of Zhenjiang and Guangde has launched a new offensive, Liu Xiang's 23rd Army Corps of the Sichuan Army is fighting with the 10th Army of Yanagawa Heisuke on the line from Xuancheng to Guangde, the Governor's Department of the Third Theater understands the importance of Guangde, if the Japanese army cannot be blocked here and let the Japanese break through the line of the 23rd Army to take Xuancheng, then the next step of Matsui Shigen must be to go straight to Wuhu, so that all the land passages in Jiangbei will be completely cut off by the Japanese army, The hundreds of thousands of troops near Nanjing had no way out.

Therefore, Gu Zhutong gave Liu Xiang a death order, even if he hit the last person, the Sichuan army was not allowed to retreat a single step!

The officers and men of the poorly equipped 23 Army Corps were not afraid of a strong enemy, fought one after another, bravely killed the enemy, played a military might, blocked a division of the Japanese army in Guangde, and delayed the pace of the Japanese army's encirclement of Nanjing.

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Huang Haoran's new order was soon issued to all troops, with the examples of Gui Yongqing and Sun Yuanliang in front, this time the commanders of the various armies did not dare to be negative, and the teaching corps, the 74th Army, the 71st Army and the 78th Army all began a large-scale redeployment, these four troops had nearly 80,000 men, such a large-scale army movement made those Nanjing citizens who had not had time to leave feel highly nervous.

By the end of November, all the Nanjing government agencies had moved to Wuhan or Chongqing. Before the outbreak of the 813 Songhu Anti-Japanese War, Nanjing's population was about one million, and now there are only more than 300,000 left, and the number of soldiers and civilians in Nanjing is close to 1:2.

Soon, a large number of citizens gathered at the gates of Nanjing's major organs to inquire about it, and they wanted to get some reassurance from the mouths of these government personnel left behind.

However, no one stood up to answer them, the left-behind personnel in the agency were busy carrying and burning documents, and the leaders of various departments had already left Nanjing, so there would be officials willing to deal with these ordinary people at this time?

The uneasiness of the citizens soon turned into dissatisfaction with the government, and attempts to storm the government offices began, and the gendarmes in the city opened fire, which in turn attracted well-meaning Western journalists, who raised their cameras and competed for the best positions, but no one stopped the gendarmerie.

In the eyes of these Western journalists, those blood-soaked Chinese are a backward nation, an opportunity for promotion, and they are more willing to publish these bloody facts in newspapers in exchange for manuscript fees and in exchange for their awards.

The confusion lasted for about ten minutes, and the citizens were defeated in front of the gendarmes, who left crying and looking for any way to get out of Nanking.

Huang Haoran stood in front of the window of the Nanjing City Defense Headquarters, listening to the shrill sirens on the street, his heart was dripping blood!

Why is it that the highest authorities have no intention of leaving Nanjing? What the hell is he holding onto?

Does it show your composure and calmness? But the price to pay is too great!

Huang Haoran needs more rights and freedoms, and as long as the highest authorities do not leave Nanjing, then he can only ask for instructions every day and report everything.

In this way, commanding operations can only be tied.

At this time, the phone on the table suddenly rang, and Fan Jie picked up the receiver and spoke inside:

"Hey! This is the City Defense Command! I'm Fan Jie! Who are you? Oh! Commander Song! What's the matter with you? Such..... Good! I'll help you find Commander Huang! ”

Huang Haoran heard Fan Jie mention himself, and immediately turned around and walked to the phone.

Fan Jie covered the earpiece and whispered:

"It's Song Xilian of the 78th Army, who came to ask for supplies, and his 36th Division didn't get supplies from Minister He, so he wanted to ask the commander for some."

Huang Haoran smiled and said: "It turns out that I came to turn my fate, Song Xilian is also my old chief, and this face is ...... to give."

After speaking, Huang Haoran took the microphone and said with a smile:

"Commander Song, why do you remember that my old subordinate has come down?"

Song Xilian obviously choked on the phone, he should be drinking water, hearing Huang Haoran's ridicule, Song Xilian hurriedly explained for himself:

"What did Commander Huang say, when I was in the 87th Division, I guessed that Commander Huang was definitely not a thing in the pool, but I didn't expect Commander Huang to become famous in the first battle of Songhu, and now his subordinates only have to bow down and obey orders, where can you be worthy of being a military commander......"

Huang Haoran didn't like to flatter each other like this, so he asked Song Xilian directly:

"Brother Yin Guo, if there is anything, just say it directly, you and I are both soldiers, we should be happy!"

This sentence of Brother Yin Guo made Song Xilian a little embarrassed, although Song Xilian was indeed a few months older than Huang Haoran, but now after all, it is the relationship between the chief and his subordinates, and Song Xilian can't do the matter of being the eldest brother in front of the top boss.

"Commander Huang, you are so polite, how can I afford to be the commander of your sentence......"

"Dang! When! What I admire is Brother Yin Guo's demeanor on the battlefield of resistance against Japan, everything that is iron-hearted and a little devil is my brother Huang Haoran! ”

Song Xilian listened to what Huang Haoran said so freely, and knew that if he was polite, he would be a little hypocritical, so he also shouted heartily on the phone:

"Brother Youchen! Thank you very much! ”

In this way, the two young generals formed a good relationship.

"Since Brother Yin Guo calls me Brother Youchen, then I want to break the fortune today!"

Song Xilian was happy in his heart, he understood that he had made the right call, since Huang Haoran was so refreshing, Song Xilian was no longer polite, he directly asked Huang Haoran to make a request:

"Brother Youchen, my troops have suffered great losses in Songhu, you know, if the 78th Army is a full army, my Song Xilian will not come to this fate if he is killed, Brother Youchen transferred my 78th Army to Lulang, I understand that you want to use my troops as a strange soldier, but now I have the 36th Division in my hands as a semi-crippled division, and the ordnance is lacking, I am really afraid that I will miss your big event! Brother Youchen! Allocate me some men and weapons!" ”

Huang Haoran knew that Song Xilian was telling the truth, the 78th Army only had one division of the 36th Division, and Song Xilian, the army commander, was promoted in the line of fire in Songhu, saying that he was the commander of an army, but in fact it was only a division's strength, and the same as the 78th Army, there were Wang Jingjiu's 71st Army and Sun Yuanliang's 72nd Army, these three armies were actually the original 88th Division, 87th Division and 36th Division with a corps-level number, and the army commander was also the division commander.

The situation of the 88th Division, the 87th Division and the 36th Division is similar, they are the first batch of troops to be put into the Songhu battlefield like the 99th Division, and the consumption is naturally very large, take Song Xilian's 36th Division as an example, when the establishment of the two brigades and four regiments retreated to Nanjing, there were less than 3,000 people left, and Song Xilian fought very hard in Songhu.

However, the supply of soldiers and ordnance should be under the jurisdiction of Minister He's Ministry of Military Affairs, and Huang Haoran didn't have much supplies in his hands, so Song Xilian's request seemed to be finding the wrong person.

"Brother Yin Guo, the matter of soldiers and ordnance is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Military Affairs......"

Huang Haoran's words were interrupted by Song Xilian halfway through, and Song Xilian said angrily on the phone:

"Brother Youchen! If Minister He can get what I want, will I still come to you? When I first arrived in Nanjing, I led the remnants of more than 3,000 people to meet the chairman of the NPC National Committee. The chairman of the committee said to me: 'I have transferred you back to take part in the task of guarding Nanjing. Minister He is still in Nanjing, and he needs to replenish the soldiers, weapons, and equipment. You can report to Minister Ho immediately. After I came out of the chairman's office, I went to the Military Affairs Department in Sanpailou to meet Minister He, and at that time most of the personnel of the Military Affairs Department had already moved to Wuhan, and only a few personnel remained in Nanjing with Minister He. As soon as we met, Minister Ho said to me: 'After 50 years of hard work since the Meiji Restoration, Japan has developed into a world-class power with a modern army, navy, and air force. And our country does not have its own industry, machine guns and cannons have to be bought from foreign countries; If there is no unity within the country and there is no organization and training of the people, how can they engage in such a large-scale war? Then he shook his head and lamented the great sacrifices and losses in the Shanghai battlefield, as well as the difficulties in replenishing the soldiers and materials. It was only after I had to say that Minister He transferred about 4,000 people from the two supplementary regiments stationed in Wuhu to our division to replenish them, and also allocated some light and heavy machine guns, rifles, communications equipment, and engineering equipment, so that I could barely pull up the shelves of a division, but it was thousands of miles away from the requirements of actual combat, and now that the Japanese are getting closer and closer to Nanjing, I am panicking! Now my unit only has enough ammunition for one day of combat, I can't let my subordinates play with bayonets with little devils, right? Hi! I said the wrong thing again, even my soldiers are short of bayonets, where do I have the capital to fight white-knuckle battles with little devils!! ”

Huang Haoran waited for Song Xilian to finish venting before he said into the phone:

"Brother Yin Guo, I didn't say that the Ministry of Military Affairs doesn't care about me! 2000 rifles, 300 light and heavy machine guns, 12 mortars, is it enough? ”

Song Xilian didn't expect Huang Haoran to be so generous, and he didn't know what to say for a while.

Huang Haoran continued to enlighten Song Xilian:

"As long as it is a troop that dares to fight, I, Huang Haoran, will not be treated badly, I said earlier that I will give you these ordnance plus a batch of ammunition, and it will be transported to Ma'anshan tomorrow, and you let your subordinates go to the commander of the 139th Division, Wang Shankui, Brother Yinguo, my brother is so capable, please let me go with my brother in this oil pot in Nanjing!"

Song Xilian felt Huang Haoran's sincerity, and he replied solemnly:

"Dare to disobey!"

The 78th Division of the 36th Army was tied to the chariot by Huang Haoran from this moment......

After Huang Haoran ended the call with Song Xilian, Fan Jie leaned over and asked in a low voice:

"Commander, where did you get such a batch of ordnance for Song Xilian? After our troops have been reorganized, their families have been emptied, and the materials you promised to the 78th Army are not a small amount, and Deputy Commander Wang has no ability to solve it for you......"

Huang Haoran glanced at Fan Jie, then sat on the chair, he picked up the teapot on the table and poured a few sips directly into his mouth, and said to Fan Jie with a smile:

"Do you know anything, Chief of Staff Fan, do you know how many munitions have been taken from our territory by those moths in the 'Military Command' these days? What I gave to Song Xilian is nothing, it's not yet time, and when I finish dealing with the trouble at hand, I will send all the arms detained in Yanziji to all troops, and this batch of materials is more suitable for use on the little devil's body than anywhere! ”

"Commander, I'm afraid that if you do this, the 'military commander' will be with you endlessly?" Fan Jie was still a little worried, he didn't want Huang Haoran to make such a big enemy for himself all of a sudden.

"That's why I said it's not time yet! Now that the supreme authorities are still in Nanjing, I really can't move the 'military command', but when Nanjing City is a pot of porridge, who cares about the lives of these spies? As for the lack of morality that the 'military commanders' usually do, which one dares to be angry and dare not speak? When the time comes, the commander will let them go to the front line to communicate with the little devils, and no one will ask if they die! ”

After Fan Jie listened to Huang Haoran's plan, he suddenly began to pity Zhang Guili's group of spies......

Who made you meet the demon king Huang Haoran? I also rushed to do business with the 99th Army, now it's okay, right? Soon your lives will be at the cost of your life!

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As soon as the teaching corps had completed the change of guard with the 71st Army, the supreme authorities personally took Huang Haoran, Jiang Baili, Tang Shengzhi, Luo Zhuoying, Zhou Wei (chief of staff of the Chief's Department), Wang Jingjiu, Song Xilian, Shao Baichang (commander of the Jiangning Fortress) and others to Purple Mountain, Yuhuatai, Lion Rock Fort, and other places to inspect Nanjing's Fukuo positions.

The government's focus has shifted to Wuhan, and the top authorities have nothing to do in Nanjing, so why don't they leave? Huang Haoran felt that this was a mystery.

On the way to inspect the Purple Mountain, Huang Haoran asked Qian Dajun, the director of the chamberlain: "Director Qian, when did the chairman and you leave Nanjing?" The Japanese are getting closer and closer to Nanjing! ”

Qian Dajun has also been familiar with Huang Haoran these days, he looked at the people around him and didn't notice him, so he quietly said to Huang Haoran: "It will be a few more days...... German Ambassador Todmann is coming to Nanjing to meet the chairman, so he can't leave for the time being. ”

Huang Haoran felt that it was very sudden, so he asked Qian Dajun: "What is Tao Deman doing in Nanjing at this time?" Didn't the Japanese proposal be rejected by the commission? ”

Qian Dajun whispered: "Tao Deman came to Beijing to meet the chairman of the committee this time because he wanted Germany to mediate the Sino-Japanese war, and he conveyed the six armistice conditions proposed by Japan: (1) recognition of the independence of the puppet Manchurians and Inner Mongolia; (2) Expand the "He-Mei Agreement" to stipulate that Huawei will not be stationed in the region; (3) Expanding the demilitarized zone under the Songhu Agreement; (4) China-Japan economic cooperation; (5) China and Japan jointly defend against the Communist Party; (6) Eradicate the anti-Japanese movement. The chairman of the NPC National Committee consulted the opinions of 'Xiao Zhuge ', Tang Shengzhi, Gu Mosan, Xu Yongchang, and others, and they all said that they could accept it. Yan Xishan, an e-commerce company, also agreed. The chairman of the NPC National Committee told Todman that the above conditions could be used as a basis for negotiations, but he did not dare to trust Japan, which has always been a good friend of China, and demanded that Germany always serve as a mediator to the end. ”

Huang Haoran knew that the plan of the highest authorities would inevitably fail, and he sighed in his heart, and his expression was a little gloomy.

Qian Dajun saw that Huang Haoran was very optimistic about Germany's mediation, and whispered to Huang Haoran: "Germany hopes that China will join the anti-Soviet front, and it does not want the war between China and Japan to turn into a long-term one. Japan's policy toward China also did not want a protracted war, but rather a strategy of successive annexations; Therefore, the possibility of peace negotiations is quite high. If there is negotiation, it will always take some time, and the Japanese army will probably not attack Nanjing during this period. In this way, we can take advantage of this opportunity to reorganize and enrich the troops. ”

Huang Haoran knew that although this was what Qian Dajun said, it was actually the idea of the highest authority, but he didn't expect that the highest authority still had illusions about peace, and he was really a little disappointed in the highest authority!

In order to meet the needs of the Anti-Japanese War, at the beginning of 1936, the Prime Minister's Cemetery Management Committee, the then management body of the Zhongshan Cemetery, began to conditionally allow the military to intervene in the cemetery area and strengthen the protection of the cemetery, and the Zhongshan Cemetery was organized as the 13th District Regiment of the Protection Regiment District. Later, the infantry school mountain artillery was also ordered to build an air defense position in Zuosuo Village.

At the beginning of 1937, the military established garrison barracks in six places within the cemetery, including Mingping Road, Sanmao Palace, Bancang Village, Wangjiawan, the East District Office of the Cemetery, and the Northeast District Office. Under the guidance of the protection regiment, the cemetery area gradually established air defense basements, shelters, and shelters, and equipped with communication equipment and protective equipment. In addition, the Nanjing Garrison Command also blockaded the Purple Mountain and built a series of blockade projects such as barbed wire fences and guard boxes. The General Staff Headquarters also instructed the cemetery to cultivate creepers and other plants to cover the fortifications.

After the start of the Songhu War, the mountain artillery company under the garrison headquarters built field artillery positions in the Jiangwangmiao and Huangma and Qingma areas, and the entire Zhongshan has become a huge fortress...... (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.) )