Hao Jinyuan thought about it carefully and felt that Wang Zhengdao was right, so his expression became better. Just when he was about to say something, the phone at the command center rang, and Hao Jinyuan immediately went to answer the phone.
After putting down the phone, Hao Jinyuan reported to Wang Zhengdao: "Master, this is a call from the garrison headquarters, asking us to go over for a meeting."
Wang Zhengdao said doubtfully: "What the hell is Tang Wuneng up to? Now that all the peripheral positions are basically lost, he can't think of a way to recapture them. Why should we hold a meeting at this time?"
Hao Jinyuan said calmly: "He said on the phone that he wanted to convey the leader's instructions and ask all senior military officers to go there."
Hearing that Tang Wuneng wanted to deliver the leader's instructions, Wang Zhengdao couldn't say anything else and could only go to the garrison headquarters with Hao Jinyuan.
Not long after Hao Jinyuan and Wang Zhengdao arrived at the garrison headquarters, senior officers from Nanjing also came one after another.
After everyone had arrived, Tang Wuneng walked in from the outside, sat down on the main seat, and said seriously: "Now that all the outer positions of Nanjing have been lost, do you have any suggestions?"
After Tang Wuneng finished speaking, someone immediately said: "Commander Tang, do you have any other suggestions? We can only fight in the streets of Nanjing City and fight the Japanese."
The speaker was thirty-six or seventeen years old, but his face was serious and somewhat majestic. The most eye-catching thing was that there were two gold stars on this person's shoulders. He was obviously a lieutenant general.
After hearing this man's words, Tang Weneng said: "Commander Yu, the current situation is too dangerous. If we really fight against the Japanese, I'm afraid the entire army will be annihilated."
Commander Yu said sarcastically: "Before the war broke out, Commander Tang vowed to live and die with the city of Nanjing. Now that the Japanese troops are approaching the city, some people are going to take back what they said."
The reason why this person dared to ridicule Tang Wuneng in this way was because he was a direct descendant of Principal Chang and a student of the first batch of Whampoa Military Academy. His name was Yu Liangzhen, and he was also the commander of the 74th Army. He was a very powerful person in the National Government.
Hearing Yu Liangzhen mocking himself like this, Tang Weneng was angry, but he knew that these Huangpu students were not easy to mess with. They had a lot of classmates and friends within the party and the army, and they had formed a thick network of relationships. And because they were
No one in the direct lineage of Principal Chang had any choice but to pretend to sigh and said: "Mr. Tang also wanted to defend Nanjing, but the leader has issued an order. In order to preserve our strength, we are told to evacuate Nanjing when it becomes impossible to do anything."
Yu Liangzhen said in an uncertain tone: "Is it really the leader who gave the order?" After saying that, he looked at Tang Wuneng with his eyes filled with suspicion.
Seeing Yu Liangzhen's suspicious eyes, Tang Weneng was extremely angry, but there was nothing he could do about these emperor's disciples, so he took out a warrant from his arms, handed it to Yu Liangzhen, and said angrily: "This is the leader's personal warrant. If Yu
If the commander doesn’t believe it, then see for yourself.”
Yu Liangzhen quickly took the order, then opened it and looked at it carefully. He saw that it read: "If the situation cannot last, you can retreat at once to preserve your strength for a future counterattack."
Yu Liangzhen was a student of Principal Chang, so he naturally recognized the handwriting on it, so he had no choice but to say nothing and handed the warrant to other people present at the meeting.
After everyone read the warrant, they all had nothing to say. After all, most of the main forces guarding Nanjing were direct descendants of Principal Chang, and all the officers were from Huangpu. These people were the most loyal to Principal Chang, even in their hearts.
If you have any opinions, you won't object to Principal Chang's order.
Seeing that everyone present at the meeting was silent, Tang Wuneng said: "Since everyone has no objections, Tang decided to abandon Nanjing, and all the ministries will retreat alternately tonight to retain their strength in order to counterattack in the future."
Everyone present at the meeting knew that Nanjing could not be defended, and in addition to Principal Chang's order, they had no objections to evacuating Nanjing, but they did not expect to be so anxious. You couldn't help but look at me, I looked at you, and you were worried.
Some little calculations.
At this time, Tang Wuneng began to arrange how to evacuate, and waited two or three hours before the arrangements were completed.
After arranging the evacuation, Tang Wuneng announced the adjournment of the meeting and left the conference room first.
At this time, Chief of Staff Zhou Pingsheng was well prepared. When he saw Tang Wuneng coming out, he came up to report: "Commander, my subordinates have collected the ships left by the 11th Division and the 58th Division. Now they are ready. We can evacuate at any time."
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Tang Wuneng frowned, and then asked doubtfully: "These two troops are the direct descendants of the leaders. How do you choose to confiscate their ships? Besides, you can just confiscate one."
Zhou was afraid of death and said helplessly: "Commander, the troops who left ships in Nanjing are all direct descendants of the leader, so my subordinates can only choose the ones closest to us. The reason why we commandeered two ships is because their ships
It is not as big as ours and can only transport about a thousand people at a time. However, there are more than 2,000 staff and security forces in the headquarters, so my subordinates can only collect two ships."
Tang Wuneng thought about it. Most of the people in the headquarters were his direct descendants. He couldn't leave them as a last resort. Anyway, the people who were robbed were all principal Chang's direct descendants. There was no difference between offending one and offending two.
Now that it was time to save one's life, I didn't care about this, so I calmed down and said simply: "It doesn't matter so much, all the outer positions have been lost, the Japanese will soon besiege the city, we will evacuate now."
The situation was becoming more and more critical. Zhou was afraid of death and wanted to leave Nanjing earlier, so he immediately ordered the personnel in the headquarters to pack up and evacuate, and then rushed to the dock with Tang Wuneng.
As the threat from the Japanese army was getting bigger and bigger, Tang Wuneng immediately boarded the ship after arriving at the dock. After waiting for the people from the headquarters to arrive, he immediately left Nanjing.
After Wang Zhengdao and Hao Jinyuan returned to the station, they found out that the ship had been confiscated by people from the headquarters. The two of them immediately became furious. After all, this ship was the last guarantee of the 11th Division.
At this critical moment, Wang Zhengdao couldn't care less, and immediately ordered the guard camp to be assembled, and then led people to the dock, intending to seize the ship.
When they arrived at the dock, they found that the boat was empty. Seeing this, Wang Zhengdao cursed angrily, but he had no choice but to take the people back to the division headquarters.
When Hao Jinyuan saw Wang Zhengdao coming back, he hurriedly asked: "Master, how is the situation? Has the ship been snatched back?"
Wang Zhengdao said bitterly: "There are no boats on the pier anymore. It seems that Tang Wuneng's grandson has run away."
Hearing the result, Hao Jinyuan said anxiously: "That's what we can do. The evacuation is so urgent now. Even if there is a boat, it will be dangerous, let alone now."
Wang Zhengdao said calmly: "I'm going to ask someone to see if I can evacuate with the others," then he picked up the phone and called.
But after three consecutive phone calls, no one answered. At this time, a scout came over and reported: "Master, our friendly forces on the left and right wings have given up their positions and begun to evacuate. The Japanese have already pressed forward."
Wang Zhengdao's face immediately turned ugly, and then he cursed loudly: "These bastards have already started to evacuate. No one can escape if they act like this."
Hao Jinyuan said sadly: "Now that Tang Wuneng has run away, the people below naturally have their own thoughts, and I'm afraid they can no longer evacuate as planned."
Wang Zhengdao immediately ordered the investigators to continue to inspect the situation, and then after thinking about it, he calmly said: "The situation has been completely messed up. It seems that the Songhu retreat will happen again, and we need to make some preparations."
Hao Jinyuan sighed and said: "The reason why we were able to escape the battle in Shanghai was because we were prepared in advance, but the situation is different now. Our reserved ship was robbed by Tang Wuneng, and we were unable to cross the Yangtze River at all.
It’s really dangerous now.”
After hearing what Hao Jinyuan said, Wang Zhengdao kept walking around the division headquarters and thinking about how to deal with the current crisis.
At this time, another investigator came over to report the situation: "Master, most people are evacuating to several docks, especially the Xiaguan dock. It is overcrowded. The situation is now completely chaotic. I heard that there are still several
A division commander abandoned his troops and escaped by boat."
This situation did not surprise Wang Zhengdao. After all, many generals were good at this, so he said calmly: "We must find a ship now. Only in this way can we get out of danger."
Hao Jinyuan frowned and said, "But we don't have any ships at all now, and the situation is getting more and more dangerous. Even if other troops leave some ships, they won't let us get on board. I can't abandon the troops and run away alone.
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Wang Zhengdao said calmly: "Now on the Yangtze River, there are two small fire wheels, the same two that Li Yunsheng robbed Xingtang."
Hao Jinyuan's eyes lit up, then he thought about it and sighed: "I understand what Master means, but now I can't contact this student, and the situation is so dangerous, I'm not completely sure that I can get him back."
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Wang Zhengdao said calmly: "Send a telegram to Commander Chen and report the current intelligence. I think the commander will be able to contact Li Yunsheng. As for whether he will come back, it depends on how much face the commander and you have."
Wang Zhengdao was not sure whether Li Yunsheng could bring the ship back to meet him. After all, the situation was too dangerous.
Hearing what Wang Zhengdao said, Hao Jinyuan nodded, and then asked cautiously: "Even if Li Yunsheng can come back, he has been away for three or four hours. Can he make it in time?"
Wang Zhengdao looked at the map on the wall, and then said confidently: "We will retreat in the direction of Jinshan Pier, and send small troops to alternately block the Japanese army. This can buy a lot of time. As long as Li Yunsheng can come back, we should be able to make it in time."
Seeing that Wang Zhengdao had already prepared a countermeasure, Hao Jinyuan no longer hesitated and immediately sent a telegram to Chen Xiucheng in Wuhan to report the situation and asked Chen Xiucheng to contact Li Yunsheng.