At this time, less than a day had passed since Qi Xieyuan received Sun Chuanfang's agreement to send troops for joint operations. The news of the fall of Danyang reached his ears. This news brought him shock and shock, too fast! Not at all.
Give yourself a chance to react.
Just yesterday, he was still nervously asking for help because the Lu army was marching to Danyang City. However, in less than a day, Danyang City had become someone else's possession. He had hundreds of remnant soldiers who had escaped from Danyang City.
Nothing is left.
Danyang City is the last hurdle on the way south to Shanghai. The fall of Danyang City means that Shanghai is no longer safe to defend. Fengjun faces the vast plains of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the Zhili army waiting to be killed!
The most frightening and despairing thing is not the destruction of Danyang City, but the speed with which Fengjun and Lu troops attacked the city. As for the destruction of Danyang City, Qi Xieyuan knew that it was expected. In the past two years, Zhang Zongchang's
He had also heard a little about the reputation of the White Russian Army, and its strength should not be underestimated. Moreover, the Lu Army also had armored units and a follow-up army of 100,000 troops, while he only had a single garrison division in Danyang.
It was not that Qi Xieyuan was unwilling to increase the number of troops stationed, but that the Lu army was moving too fast. Suddenly, the 30,000 soldiers he supported were still on the way, and Danyang had already declared the city broken, so he could only urgently order his own support.
The soldiers returned to defend Shanghai.
Shanghai is Qi Xieyuan's last stronghold. If Shanghai falls, it means that the entire Jiangsu Province has fallen, and he will have no foothold. But judging from the current situation, Shanghai may also be in danger.
The enemy's attack speed is too fast!
Sun Chuanfang has always agreed to joint operations, but judging from the current situation, it is still a question whether he can hold Shanghai before Sun Chuanfang's supporting troops arrive, let alone a desperate counterattack.
Now Qi Xieyuan is really like an ant on a hot pot - spinning around. He can't sit still, and he can't stand still. In addition, there are always trusted generals around him who are constantly prying into his mouth, intentionally or unintentionally. Qi Xieyuan is even more angry.
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How could Qi Xieyuan not know what they meant? If there was no hope of winning, they just wanted to run away in advance. It was not that Qi Xieyuan had never seen such people before, but when he was facing danger today, his subordinates had such thoughts.
, he still couldn't help but feel chilled.
In order to stabilize the morale of the army, Qi Xieyuan ordered that he would fight Fengjun to the end. He wanted his soldiers to see his determination. He would never give up resistance and would rather be broken than destroyed. At the same time, he also ordered that if there was any wavering in the army,
Those with military morale can be shot on the spot without reporting.
As soon as such a tough order was issued, the whole army had only one way out, which was to fight the enemy to the end. If you ran away, you would definitely die. If you made up your mind to fight, there might be hope of survival. The whole army was already tense.
in preparation for war.
Faced with the menacing attack of the Lu army, Qi Xieyuan ordered the entire front to be retracted, abandoned other areas around Shanghai, and concentrated all 50,000 troops in Shanghai, where they would surely fight the enemy to the bitter end.
Qi Xieyuan knew that if he could hold Shanghai for two days, then Sun Chuanfang's supporting troops would definitely be able to arrive, and then the situation would be greatly improved. However, whether he could hold Shanghai for these two days was still a difficult question.
Sun Chuanfang had already received the news that Danyang City had been breached, which made him nervous and accelerated his march to support.
The Feng Army and the Lu Army were approaching with great ferocity, and I am afraid that the drunkard was not interested in drinking. For Zhang Zuolin, if he did not send troops to support him, capturing Qi Xieyuan would only be a matter of easy capture, and I am afraid that Feng Army would not stop attacking.
I'm afraid the next target of the military's guns will be me.
In order to ensure his own safety, Sun Chuanfang had no reason to refuse Qi Xieyuan's request for joint operations, but judging from the current speed of the Lu army's advance, everything was still unknown.
When he heard that the enemy troops were divided into two groups, with one hundred thousand troops of the Lu Army marching to Shanghai, and one division of Han Baihang's army marching to Nanjing, Sun Chuanfang also made countermeasures in the shortest possible time.
Sun Chuanfang was able to assemble only 100,000 troops in such a short period of time, marching all the way to Shanghai. When he heard the news that a Fengjun division was attacking Nanjing, he did not hesitate to send two divisions.
Go north to Nanjing for support. For him, if he can hold Nanjing, he will have a basis for the subsequent counterattack, which will be much easier to fight. As for the 100,000 Lu army that was injured, Sun Chuanfang believed that his 80,000 army plus Qi Xieyuan
An army of 50,000 is enough.
Sun Chuanfang has this confident strength. In the past few years, his strength in the south has been different from the same. Even if he faced Zhang Zongchang's White Russian Army, Sun Chuanfang thought that he still had some confidence, so he felt that he
Sending 80,000 troops to Shanghai is enough.
On this day, the sky was bright and the curved moon hung in the dark blue sky. Han Baihang's train had arrived in Nanjing. For safety reasons, they did not get off at Nanjing Station, but chose to get off at Nanjing Station some distance away.
We got off the bus in the wilderness, and then secretly entered Nanjing via the trail.
Han Baihang's caution is not unreasonable. Railways have always been the lifeblood of war. If you control the railways, you can control the direction of the war to a certain extent. In so many years of war, the enemy ambushed near the railways one after another.
The Nanjing Railway Station in the distance was already under the complete control of the enemy, waiting to catch him off guard. Han Baihang could not afford to take the risk. He had to be responsible for the lives of his own soldiers.
Under the cover of the gray sky in the early morning, Han Baihang's troops quietly walked around the trail. What they didn't know was that at Nanjing Station a few kilometers away from them, Qi Xieyuan's soldiers were lying quietly in the dark.
After waiting all night, I didn't get the train I was waiting for.
When Han Baihang learned about this later, he was not only frightened. If he had not got off the train on a sudden thought, he might have fallen into the big pit of Nanjing. Fortunately, with his many years of military experience and preparedness
Psychologically, I saved myself and my brothers in this division.
The sky was slowly getting brighter, and the shops in Nanjing opened their doors one after another. The young man removed the door panels and diligently cleaned the environment in the store. The shopkeeper also took out his account book and arranged the work for the day.
.They didn’t know yet that a battle was about to break out not far away outside the city.