Lost and Spy

Chapter 420 Chaos

On the way back to the International Settlement, there was no danger.

There were scattered defeated soldiers everywhere, and the wounded soldiers led by Meng Shaoyuan were almost dispersed several times.

Fortunately, on the way, Zhu Yanni, who got the news of Meng Shaoyuan's lonely adventure, tried her best to organize a group of special agents and successfully escorted Meng Shaoyuan.

"Gather our people immediately."

As soon as he returned to the International Settlement, Meng Shaoyuan sent people to settle down the wounded such as Kong Chuanbo, picked up a cup and drank a glass of water in one breath: "The task of interrogation is basically completed, and all personnel are ordered to return to the establishment."

"clear."

"Also." Meng Shaoyuan stopped Wu Jingyi: "Prepare me a weapon and a car, let Zhu Yanni's people follow me, and leave in an hour."

Wu Jingyi was taken aback: "I just came back and have a mission?"

Uh, this.

It's not that there is a task.

But there is an excellent opportunity to make meritorious service waiting for him.

It's still a great achievement.

With Meng Shaoyuan's shameless personality, knowing what will happen, how could he not seize this opportunity to make a good contribution?
Only a fool would give up...

……

After the general retreat order was issued, the chaos of the situation far exceeded the imagination of the authorities.

What kind of tragedy will happen once a person's breath is vented?
The various units of the Chinese army retreating from the front line in Songhu were in chaos and disorganized. Under the pursuit of the enemy, the officers and soldiers of each unit panicked and retreated in fear of being taken by the Japanese army.

The few roads between Shanghai and Nanjing with limited traffic capacity were crowded with hundreds of thousands of troops and ordinary people fleeing in groups.

During the retreat, the organizational system of the army was completely disintegrated. Almost the officers could not find the soldiers, and the soldiers did not want to find the officers. All the people ran westward desperately. Supplies and weapons were discarded everywhere, and the wounded soldiers were lying on the road. No one cares about moaning.

Overhead, planes from the Japanese Army and Navy swooped down and bombed indiscriminately, and the Japanese pursued on the ground followed closely behind. All the retreat roads were extremely chaotic.

The chaos on the way back was unprecedented. There were blue-gray figures in winter military uniforms of the national army everywhere. Troops with various helmets and no helmets were in the dark, and there were loud voices everywhere. The scene was completely out of control.

By a river near Fangjiayao, when the engineers were retreating, they planted mines on the highway bridge regardless of the retreat of the follow-up troops, planning to blow up the bridge to stop the Japanese army.

At this time, the 10th Army Artillery Regiment just arrived.

"What's going on? What's going on?" Peng Mengji, the head of the 10th Artillery Regiment, jumped out of the car: "Why don't you cross the bridge, hurry up and cross the bridge!"

"Regimental Commander, there is no way to cross the bridge." Battalion Commander Yan Yuanyi's eyes were red: "The bridge is full of landmines, and our heavy vehicles cannot cross the bridge at all."

"What?" Peng Mengji became anxious all of a sudden: "Discuss with the engineers and soldiers, dismantle the landmines, dismantle the landmines!"

"It's too late, there's no way to dismantle it!"

Peng Mengji swayed a bit, and stood there in a daze without saying a word.

After a while, many soldiers of the 10th Artillery Regiment who survived the Songhu retreat witnessed the scene with their own eyes:
Their group leader, Peng Mengji, suddenly burst into tears under the eyes of everyone:

"These are all guns, German guns! New ones, all new ones. There is only one decent artillery regiment in China. What should I do? What should I do?"

"Regiment leader!" Yan Yuanyi also cried: "No way, no way, the Japanese are right behind our buttocks, there is no time, just throw it away, throw it all into the river."

"My cannon!"

In the war, facing the enemy's indiscriminate bombing, Peng Mengji, who was as stable as Mount Tai, cried so heartbreakingly at this time.

Those brand-new German-made 150 mm caliber FH-18 heavy howitzers were all pushed down the river.

You must know that the entire national government army does not have a few 150mm heavy artillery.

"Cross the bridge, retreat!"

Yan Yuanyi gave the order to retreat for the grief-stricken Peng Mengji.

"boom!"

There was an explosion on the bridge deck.

"What's going on?" Peng Mengji stopped crying and looked towards the bridge.

"Second company commander He Fuxi stepped on a mine on the bridge, and all four brothers were killed."

"I hate your mother's engineer!" The anger was completely exploded in an instant: "I hate your ancestors for eighteen generations! My guns are gone, and my soldiers are gone!"

In fact, the confusion is not limited to this?

Even the situation of those division commanders and army commanders is not much better.

Li Yannian, commander of the 19nd Army of the 2th Group Army, dressed in a long gown, changed into clothes and fled.

There were wounded soldiers lying on the side of the road crying, "Do a good deed and give me a shot!"

It is unbearable that no one cares about such a serious injury, and the miserable crying can be heard all around.

The divisions and regiments that have been out of contact are still unable to control the troops, and the situation of the troops responsible for the follow-up cover mission is even worse.

For example, the 51th Regiment of Qiu Weida of the 306st Division, which was responsible for the general cover of the retreat.

After the regiment broke away from contact with the Japanese army in Qingpu, it retreated westward immediately.

However, when the 306th regiment retreated to Kunshan, it was discovered that the main force of the 74th Army had left Kunshan and turned to Wuxi, and Kunshan was already in jeopardy.

So the regiment could only retreat westward again, chasing the main force of the division. Along the way, with local villagers as guides, they took trails and followed the road. Only then did they meet the 305th regiment in Wangting Town.Along the way, he fought with the Japanese army several times before finally being able to escape.

After this battle, the 306th regiment has already lost more than half of it, and there are not many recruits left on the Songhu battlefield. There are only more than 2 survivors in the second battalion under its jurisdiction, which can be described as extremely heavy casualties.

These defeated and defeated troops persisted in resisting in Shanghai for three full months, and the chaotic situation before them could not obliterate the great contributions they had made to the country during these three months.

Three months of bloody battle made the national government's westward withdrawal possible.

Various government units, arsenals, and factories moved to Sichuan one after another. The sacrifices at the front bought enough time for this westward withdrawal plan.

On October 10, after the defeat of the first-line army in Songhu, the chairman of the general committee chaired a national defense supreme meeting in Nanjing to prepare for the deployment of the overall retreat.

At this meeting, the chairman gave a speech titled "The Relocation of the National Government to Chongqing and the Future of the War of Resistance", and analyzed the significance of the overall retreat:
"The most important point in military affairs is that not only victory must have a predetermined plan, but also defeat must have a foreseeable plan. Not only victory must be on the initiative, but even retreat must be on the initiative. Then a temporary setback will not lead to a complete retreat. We can grasp the final victory without deliberation. Today we take the initiative to retreat, and we can take the initiative to advance in the future.”

At the same time, it pointed out that in the period after the overall voluntary retreat, "Sichuan is the rear area of ​​the Anti-Japanese War", and proposed that "Chongqing should be selected as the seat of the Nationalist Government".

The meeting finally accepted the chairman's proposal, and it was formally decided that the Nationalist Government would move westward to Chongqing, and the Military Commission would stay in command near the Beijing-Shanghai-Hangzhou front.

The next day, the Nationalist Government resolved to accept the decision of the National Defense Supreme Council on "moving the Nationalist Government from Chongqing to the west and away from the theater of operations".

……

"It's so messy and unorganized."

Nanxiang, the car was flying. Xue Yue, the commander-in-chief of the 19th Army, frowned when he thought of the chaotic situation on the battlefield: "There is no organization, no order."

"Hurry up, drive faster." Lian Liumin, Xue Yue's bodyguard, can't take care of military affairs, the only thing he cares about is protecting Commander Xue.

The Japanese army had already appeared near Nanxiang, and it would be dangerous to stay here for a moment longer.

"An Tang, what's the current situation of the 19th Army?" Xue Yue asked Liu Antang, the Chief of Operations Staff who was sitting beside him.

"I don't know." Liu Antang smiled bitterly: "We have lost contact with all levels of troops. Commander, at the critical moment of the Songhu War of Resistance, you pulled up all the guards from the headquarters, and now there is only Xiao Lian Guard, what should you do if you are in danger?"

Sometimes, it makes sense to say that a person is "crow's mouth".

Suddenly, dense gunshots rang out, the windshield was completely shattered, and the driver was shot and killed on the spot.

Fortunately, before he died, he stepped on the brakes in time.

"Japanese, Japanese!"

Lian Liumin reacted quickly, pushed open the car door, and rolled down.

A shuttle of bullets was fired, and the rear door was quickly opened.

Although Xue Yue was not injured, Liu Antang was shot in the left arm and his neck was bruised.

Regardless of the pain: "Xiao Lian, get out, get out with the commander!"

Pulling out his pistol, "Bang Bang" fired two shots at the opposite side.

"Let's go, Commander!"

Lian Liumin pulled Xue Yue up and ran away stumbling.

Liu Antang groaned from behind.

"Commander, go, go! I'll cover you!"

As soon as Lian Liumin turned around, the submachine gun in his hand fired wildly: "Come on, little Japan, come on!"

This was a lightly armed Japanese team, and they had no idea who was sitting in the car they attacked.

If they knew that they had attacked the commander-in-chief of China's 19th Army, they would have pursued them desperately, regardless of casualties.

Instead of being briefly blocked by a submachine gun.

In this case, Xue Yue, the "God of War", will die here inexplicably, and "the Chinese general who wiped out the most Japanese troops in the War of Resistance" will no longer exist, and the history of the War of Resistance will even be completely rewritten.

Xue Yue himself said that this was the most dangerous time he encountered in his life.

The miracle of history is that the driver stepped on the accelerator before he died, and did not let the car lose control and overturn.Liu Antang used a revolver to block the Japanese army for more than ten seconds.

Lian Liumin used another submachine gun and persisted for two to three minutes before he was shot to death by the Japanese army.

But in such a short time, Xue Yue temporarily left the battlefield, and found a sewer nearby, and hid in it.

What's even more ironic is that the Japanese army who successfully sniped the car still didn't realize that they might have caught a big fish.

Because they saw the dead Liu Antang wearing the rank of colonel, they thought this was already a great achievement.

A colonel with only one driver and guard is also completely understandable.

(End of this chapter)