On the north bank of the river, the old cannon was arguing with a lieutenant colonel of the national army with red eyes and a thick neck. Seeing that Lu Yuan was coming over with a few defeated soldiers, the old cannon pointed at the lieutenant colonel of the national army and shouted: "Sir, he and his subordinates want to detain our anti-aircraft machine guns, saying that they want air defense." ”

"Sir? This little kid is your chief? Before Lu Yuan could speak, the lieutenant colonel of the national army had already pointed at Lu Yuan and laughed loudly. The fart chief, a little fart kid even dares to pretend to be the chief. Lao Tzu told you to quickly move the anti-aircraft machine guns on the ship to Lao Tzu, otherwise, Lao Tzu will detain your boat and see what you can do to transport these refugees. ”

Stretching out his hand and brushing away the other party's fingers, Lu Yuan, who had a gloomy face, said slowly, "The anti-aircraft machine gun is used to protect the ferry, it can't be given to you, if you insist on robbing it, then you have to ......."

"What has to be?" The lieutenant colonel of the national army immediately raised his head and said defiantly.

"Kill!"

"Kill?"

Lu Yuan coldly burst out of his mouth with a killing word, which made the lieutenant colonel of the national army stunned for a moment, and then laughed, "Kill, he wants to kill me, just because he is a little hairy kid who wants to kill me!" The lieutenant colonel of the national army immediately took out his gun and pointed it at Lu Yuan, with the intention of shooting if he disagreed.

"Stop" a colonel of the National Army in his thirties came over and stopped the lieutenant colonel. "My name is Zhao Zhengtao, and I am the chairman's bodyguard, and the chairman sent me to be responsible for the resettlement of refugees crossing the river." Zhao Zhengtao stretched out his hand and pointed at Lu Yuan, and asked the lieutenant colonel of the National Army and the other soldiers of the National Army behind him. "Do you know who he is?"

"His name is Lu Yuan, I think many of you have never heard of his name!" Zhao Zhengtao's cold gaze swept over these officers and soldiers one by one, and after a slight pause, he said, "Two days ago, when the battle in Nanjing City was the worst. It was he who sent 250,000 refugees across the river. It was he who led his men to fight in the city for a day and a night, and wiped out most of the Japanese vanguard that had infiltrated the city. It is still him, and now he is crossing the river with more than 100,000 refugees. I was appointed by the Provisional Military Council to be in charge of the evacuation of refugees throughout the city of Nanjing. What he said was not wrong, and anyone who disobeyed his orders was killed, and he heard it! ”

"Yes, I heard it, those who disobey orders will be killed!" In less than a day, the chairman himself had already issued three orders in a row, and the contents of the telegrams were exactly the same, ordering the Jiangbei troops to ensure the safety of Lu Yuan at all costs. In particular, in the telegram sent by the chairman of the CPPCC National Committee to Zhao Zhengtao, he clearly told Zhao Zhengtao that he should rush to the riverside to urge Lu Yuan to retreat. Bang, Zhao Zhengtao gave a military salute to Lu Yuan, "On the order of Chairman Jiang, Lu Yuan immediately set off for Chongqing. ”

Lu Yuan was very confused and asked, "What am I going to Chongqing for?" ”

"The chairman wants to see you." Boom, the soldiers at the scene were stunned, the chairman wanted to see Tang Hu, what a great honor it was. Manniu was so excited that he only pulled Lao Pao's arm and couldn't speak, while Lao Pao just smirked: The chairman of the committee knows that we are the head of the committee, so I am sure that I will be promoted this time. Lu Yuan sighed at the moment that his luck was not ordinarily good, why did he get involved with this big boss so quickly, and his face was straight at the moment.

"Colonel Zhao, please go back and tell the chairman that I still have a large number of refugees on the other side, and there are still my friends and brothers fighting in the city of Nanjing, and Shu Luyuan cannot go to Chongqing now. I promised my brothers that I would take them to protect the refugees until they had evacuated, and when I had finished fighting with my brothers in the city, I would go to the chairman of the committee to plead guilty. ”

"Sir, there are some reporters in front of you who want to meet you." At this time, Lao Cannon's words interrupted Lu Yuan's thoughts. "Nope!" Lu Yuan, who was in a state of irritability, said without thinking, "Nanjing is almost gone." Which kind of reporter is still coming. ”

"Sir, let's see you for a while." Lao Pao could fully understand Tang Hudi's mood, and said with a wry smile: "This is said to have been approved by the chairman. Besides, it's not easy for those journalists to come all the way. The old cannon looked to the side. Only then did he lower his voice and said carefully: "Why did the above approve them to come to the interview at this time?" In my opinion, this is for the sake of my own face. ”

The old artillery's reminder made Lu Yuan react immediately, excused, this is to find an excuse for the government to order the defenders of Nanjing to retreat! There is nothing more right to speak than these soldiers who are fighting on the front line, especially the words of heroes like Lu Yuan.

Lu Yuan, who had figured this out, immediately laughed at himself, and then nodded at the old cannon, "I'll see them later."

The riverside was full of refugees who had just disembarked, and they were packing up their belongings after they had escaped from the fighting, and they were talking excitedly with the soldiers who were helping them, and they would soon be sent to the rear. "Commander Lu has arrived!" Pull through and shout,

The originally noisy riverside fell silent, and the routs who had just withdrawn from the city all stood up in a hurry. The refugees were obviously stunned for a moment, and then the applause like a tide instantly rang out, and when Lu Yuan was surrounded by a large group of soldiers and walked into the middle of the refugees, the crowd bowed to Lu Yuan and paid respect.

"Chief Lu, say a few words!" "Chief Lu, say a few words!" Cheers and applause from refugees and students rang out along the riverside, and people rushed forward, Lu Yuan smiled bitterly twice and waved his hand to the crowd. The crowd fell silent again, but Lu Yuan didn't know what to say, what should he say? Did you say that Nanjing was going to be lost? Is their home gone? How much disappointment will it bring to the people when this is said?

"Chief Lu, I heard that the national army is about to retreat?" For a long time, a voice broke the silence.

"Yes, the national army is about to retreat." Lu Yuan fixed his mind: "The Japanese army is well-equipped, and its operations are purposeful and targeted. And those troops in Nanjing City are far inferior in terms of weapons and equipment and the quality of personnel. Now we are facing a very serious situation, the Japanese army has absolute air force and artillery superiority, with our current strength to force a sniper will suffer heavy losses. The outlying positions in Nanjing have been lost, and the Japanese army has formed an encirclement of us, and if we do not evacuate the battlefield as soon as possible, then all the troops in the city will face the state of total annihilation. For China today, time, time is the most important thing. Only by mastering sufficient time can we finally accomplish the great cause of resisting Japan. ”

The scene continued to be silent, what Lu Yuan said just now was the news that people didn't want to hear the most, and everyone was more willing to hear the news of victory. "Chief Lu, I am a reporter from the Central Daily, and this time you have struck hard at the Japanese and successfully transported hundreds of thousands of refugees across the river under the unfavorable situation of being surrounded by many people. We know you're not a soldier, ...... excuse me." Obviously, this reporter had already received some kind of instructions in advance, especially emphasizing that Lu Yuan was in a situation of being "heavily surrounded" and that he could only succeed in "breaking through" by relying on "tenacious and bloody battles."

If it weren't for the desperate efforts of the brothers of the national army in the city, who had no regrets and continued to stabilize their positions everywhere with inferior equipment, perhaps the miracle of the large-scale transfer of hundreds of thousands of people would not have happened. However, in the words of the chairman now, all the credits and victories were achieved under the leadership of Lu Yuan. Suddenly, one of the female students among the refugees stood up and shouted at Lu Yuan, "Chief Lu, I heard you once say to your subordinates in Rujiangmen that if the blood flag does not fall, Nanjing will live forever, will the national army troops in the city retreat?" ”

Lu Yuan nodded silently, and then said vigorously word by word, "At this point in the battle of Nanjing, the defending forces in the city are now holding back the three divisions of the Japanese army and more than 20,000 Japanese troops on the periphery, although they are now blocking the Japanese army outside the city of Nanjing. However, the Japanese army, with superior artillery fire and absolute air supremacy, inflicted heavy casualties on the defenders. At present, the outer positions such as Purple Mountain and Yuhuatai have been lost, and all the units in Nanjing City have suffered great losses, and the loss of Nanjing is a foregone conclusion. ”

"I'm not a soldier, so I don't have the determination to kill myself, but I will definitely not easily allow the Japanese army to occupy the city of Nanjing. I may not be able to fight to the last soldier and fight the Japanese to the death, but I can make the Japanese pay for the horrified and unbearable casualties. At the same time, I would like to warn those soldiers who are willing to die for the country that even if they sacrifice themselves, they must do so with a purpose, and it is best not to sacrifice lightly when they cannot make the Japanese army pay the price. ”

Lu Yuan's words made the scene quiet, many people didn't understand the deep meaning of Lu Yuan's words just now, and only the defeated soldiers who followed Lu Yuan in the city could understand the meaning. The refugees and defeated soldiers on the riverbank silently watched Lu Yuan and a dozen of them, watching Lu Yuan and his brothers get on the boat. Because they want to return to Xiaguan Wharf, they want to go back to Nanjing City, and they want to fight to the death with the devil in Nanjing City. There were occasional low sobs from the crowd, it was some female students from the refugees, Zhao Zhengtao also mixed in with these refugees and watched the ferry boat in the distance, even if he had moved out of the banner of the chairman, there was no way to persuade Lu Yuan to stay in Jiangbei.

"Don't you guys regret it? This will return to the city, maybe it will end up with no corpses? On the ferry boat back to Xiaguan Wharf, Lu Yuan looked at the old cannon with a smile, but the people who were looked around by Lu Yuan did not show the slightest hesitation. Unlike Huang Haishan and Gao Qi, these guys are all unambitious guys in the army, and they can follow Lu Yuan to do something that many people can remember them, and they can't wait to die in Nanjing City now.