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Chapter 119 Nanjing, to defend or not?

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    Shanghai, Marine Corps Headquarters.

    By this time, the Marine Corps Headquarters had become Matsui Iwane¡¯s Shanghai Condemnation Force Headquarters.

    Matsui Iwane is over sixty years old. He is thin and short. The small eyes hidden behind his myopia glasses always cast a faint gaze, which makes people feel scared.

    There is no staff officer at the Shanghai Condemnation Army Headquarters who is not afraid of Matsui Iwane.

    Even Mamoru Iinuma, chief of staff of the Shanghai Condemnation Army, was a little afraid of Matsui Iwane.

    With a livid face, Iinuma Mamoru walked up to Matsui Iwane and reported: "Your Excellency, General, the Kunozaki detachment of the Tenth Army has passed Nanxun and is less than a hundred miles away from Wuxing!"

    "Baga!" Matsui Iwane cursed fiercely when he heard this and walked quickly to the map.

    At this time, Akira Muto, the chief of staff of the Shanghai Condemnation Army Headquarters, had already drawn two huge red arrows on the map with several of his combat staff.

    The arrow in the north represents the Shanghai Condemnation Army, starting from Dachang Town in the urban area of ??Shanghai. It has barely crossed Taicang and is almost approaching Kunshan; however, the arrow in the south represents the Tenth Army has already crossed Nanxun and is about to advance to Wuxing.  !

    At this time, there is no need to measure it with a square ruler. Even with the naked eye, it can be seen that the progress of the Tenth Army is far beyond that of the Shanghai Condemnation Army. According to the current trend, the Tenth Army will definitely attack before the Shanghai Condemnation Army.  Go outside Nanjing City, and then there is a high probability that the condemnation army will be sent into Nanjing City before Shanghai!

    Thinking of this, Matsui Iwane felt his chest tightening.

    Although the base camp has ordered the formation of the Central China Front Army and asked Matsui Iwane to concurrently serve as the commander of the Central China Front Army, Matsui Iwane knows that his base is still the Shanghai Condemnation Army!  No matter how good the performance of the Tenth Army is, it has nothing to do with him. Only if the Shanghai Condemnation Army performs well will the base camp recognize him!

    "Compared to Yanagawa Heisuke, Matsui Iwane undoubtedly needs the recognition of the base camp more.

    Because Matsui Iwane¡¯s performance in the Battle of Songhu was not good, even very bad!

    It is said that the Chief of Staff, Prince Kanin Miyazaihito, has repeatedly called him a waste in private. If he cannot perform well in the subsequent battle to capture Nanjing, Matsui Iwane is worried that he will be dismissed.

    After looking at the map for a long time, Matsui Iwane said fiercely: "Order, the 3rd, 9th, 11th and 13th divisions should speed up and capture Kunshan as soon as possible, as well as the Chongteng detachment just transferred from Taiwan, so there is no need to  They landed at Bai Maokou and ordered them to march westward along the Yangtze River and capture the Jiangyin Fortress as quickly as possible!"

    "Hai!" Iinuma Mamoru nodded heavily.

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    Nanjing Headquarters.

    The Military Commission is holding a military meeting.

    The theme of the meeting was just one: Nanjing, should it be defended or not?

    There were many senior generals attending the meeting, not to mention He Yingqin, Bai Chongxi, Chen Cheng, and Gu Zhutong. Even powerful local factions such as Liu Xiang and Li Zongren came to Nanjing.

    The meeting started with Bai Chongxi, deputy chief of staff, making a military situation statement.

    Bai Chongxi finally concluded: "In short, the Japanese Condemnation Army in Shanghai and the Tenth Army have officially started a competition. They are chasing each other and rushing towards Nanjing! On the other hand, our army, because it retreated too hastily, the originally planned plan was  The strategy of blocking the Japanese army along several defense lines has become impossible to implement."

    Hearing this, Chairman Jiang¡¯s face darkened.

    Bai Chongxi¡¯s words are a slap in Jiang¡¯s face!

    Bai Chongxi did not care, and said: "This means that the Japanese army crossed the Suzhou-Hangzhou line and advanced to Nanjing. It is a predictable fact! The party and state must no longer have any illusions about this!"

    Hearing this, a cry of lament immediately erupted in the conference room.

    Liu Fei, the leader of the combat team of the Military Command Department who was responsible for formulating the battle plan, endured it for a long time, but in the end he couldn't hold it back. He stood up and complained: "Although a plan for a war of attrition was drawn up before the Songhu Battle, there was no plan for a war of attrition in the later stages of the Songhu Battle.  This plan was not fully implemented and a large number of elites were sent to Shanghai, resulting in heavy casualties"

    Hearing this, Chairman Jiang¡¯s face immediately turned into black coal, and Liu Fei slapped him even harder!

    Chen Cheng looked at Chairman Jiang and quickly interrupted Liu Fei: "Team Leader Liu, what we are discussing now is the defense of Nanjing. The Battle of Songhu is over, so don't mention the past anymore."

    Liu Fei glanced at Chairman Jiang and sat back in his seat depressedly.

    Chairman Chiang breathed a sigh of relief and said in a deep voice: "Everyone, tell me, can Nanjing be defended or cannot it be defended?"

    Just sat downLiu Fei immediately stood up again and said, "Please forgive me for speaking bluntly, but Nanjing will never be defended!"

    After saying that, Liu Fei strode to the map on the wall, pointed at the map and explained: "Commissioners and gentlemen, look at the map. As long as the Japanese army takes Wuhu and blocks the Yangtze River, Nanjing will immediately be destroyed."  It has become a dead city! What¡¯s more, the Japanese army¡¯s morale is at its peak at this time, but our army has suffered heavy casualties and its morale is even lower.¡±

    Bai Chongxi nodded and agreed: "Team Leader Liu is right. In the decisive battle with the Japanese army in Nanjing at this time, I am afraid that even the more than 400,000 defeated soldiers who finally escaped from the Songhu battlefield can't be saved! Without these 400,000 troops,  What else does the party-state have to fight against the Japanese invaders? This is simply suicidal!"

    "Fine!" A slap suddenly hit the conference table hard.

    Everyone looked anxiously, but Tang Shengzhi stood up with a dark face.

    Tang Shengzhi said sternly: "Nanjing is not only the capital of the Republic of China, but also the site of the former Prime Minister's mausoleum. As a soldier, as a senior general of the party and state, if we abandon Nanjing without a fight, will we be worthy of hundreds of millions of people across the country, and worthy of the former Prime Minister? In short  In one sentence, if Nanjing can be defended, we must defend it; if we cannot defend it, we must defend it!"

    Liu Xiang lowered his head and said quietly: "What Brother Meng Xiao said is absolutely true. Nanjing is the site of the former Prime Minister's mausoleum, and it is also a place for international viewing. If we abandon Nanjing without fighting, we will surely be despised by the world.  He is despised by all the Western countries, and he will not be able to face the heroic spirit of the former Prime Minister when he is under the Nine Springs in the future."

    Tang Shengzhi and Liu Xiang carried out the former Prime Minister, and Bai Chongxi and the others did not dare to refute.

    Chairman Chiang was also very hesitant in his heart. Emotionally, he still tended to stick to Nanjing. He even thought about regaining the face he lost in the Battle of Songhu from the Nanjing battlefield!  But reason told him that Songhu was newly defeated and the more than 400,000 remaining defeated soldiers were in urgent need of rest and recuperation and were unable to fight anymore!  So to stick to Nanjing is really to seek torture and death!

    Seeing that it was impossible to reach a consensus, Chairman Chiang could only announce an extension.

    At that moment, Chairman Chiang stood up and said: "In this case, whether to defend Nanjing or not will be discussed in a few days. The top priority is to first deal with the evacuation of Nanjing citizens and party and government agencies." (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.  com
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