Rise From Eight Hundred

This time, there was no need for Tang Dao to elaborate. The two lieutenant generals looked at each other and nodded.

They all know that before the Japanese army arrives, the more complete the fortifications are built, the fewer casualties will be.

"Okay! I will personally call them back and tell them that the entire 26th Division of the 43rd Army has decided to live and die with Songjiang. The entire army has abandoned all baggage and is marching towards Songjiang." Lieutenant General Guo promised with a serious face.

No need to persuade, this is a unique way of expression among soldiers. I am already on the battlefield. Those who dare not come are just cowards.

At this time, the army of a province often represents the face of the province. If you want to survive, you must disgrace the entire province. For the Chinese who value reputation most, this is the most effective way to urge them to march. Way.

Tang Dao saluted and left.

Until Tang Dao's back disappeared outside the door, Lieutenant General Guo looked at his old partner: "Brother Yu Qing, how do you feel about this son?"

"The pillar of the country!" Liu Yuqing, who was a few years older than Lieutenant General Guo and had a kind-hearted face, was full of praise.

"Perhaps Rudong, you still think that he is just a young boy who has the ambition to forge ahead, so his intention to go to Songjiang cannot be fully believed. Just like the reason he just said that he should fight for himself not only for the country, but in fact, I can't Quan Xin, just for himself, he and his small army, where can they run instead of running?

But strangely, I can feel his sincerity. This is really an extremely contradictory thing. "

"Haha, it seems that Brother Yu Qing still likes this young boy! This is a roundabout way to help this little guy who must have other agendas!" Lieutenant General Guo said with a smile.

"Don't worry, no matter what the purpose of this Guawazi is, I won't blame him for daring to accompany you and me on a trip to Songjiang, even if he comes up with a new reason that is difficult to refute. Lieutenant General Guo cast his gaze in the direction of Songjiang, his face gradually became calm, and he sighed softly: "How many people in this world dare to live toward death!"

"Rudong, aren't you one of these few people?" Liu Yuqing smiled. "Now we can add a Tang Dao."

The two have been partners for more than ten years, and their deep relationship no longer requires flattery, otherwise Lieutenant General Guo would not have handed over the only infantry division in the army to Liu Yuqing. This is obviously what this man said from the bottom of his heart.

"Hey! Who doesn't want to live? It's just that in the current national crisis, as the saying goes, we Sichuan people will never let down the country." Lieutenant General Guo sighed again.

He turned to look at his old partner. "This time, I'm afraid you and I will really have to fulfill our vow to die in the same year and month."

"Haha! I can't say whether I can defeat the Japanese invaders, but in the sense of brotherhood, I will not disappoint you Rudong." Liu Yuqing, with a kind face, smiled lightly.

However, the desperate intention is already coming out.

An army of 700 will face tens of thousands of enemies. How can they survive the three-day period if they have no intention to fight to the death?

The two lieutenants looked at each other and smiled.

No one knew that the two men with calm smiles were talking about life and death.

"Rudong, let me ask you, what would you have done if Tang Dao had listened to your words and left?" As the two left the conference room, Liu Yuqing suddenly became curious about the other outcome and asked.

"Leave? The 43rd Army will have nothing to do with the Sixings Battalion from now on. How can we, such a short-sighted friendly army, safely entrust the wounded to them? Our army will take care of the wounded soldiers by ourselves." Lieutenant General Guo's steps were slightly After a pause, a smile appeared on his face again. "Fortunately, the guy who can attract the attention of Xie Zhongmin, who is famous all over the world in the first battle, did not disappoint me."

Liu Yuqing also laughed.

Of course he knew what his commander was talking about. In exchange for two mountain cannons, he wanted half of the 26th Division, which was short of major generals, to take a huge risk to support the Si Xing Battalion. That was really overthinking. .

The person who made Commander Guo make this decision was Colonel Xie Jinyuan who was in the concession and personally sent a telegram asking for help. The reason was not because they were in the same army, but because Tang Dao's son was from his 26th Division. The Jiegu Group has deep roots and is a person of great ability and wisdom. After being trained in the war in the future, it will definitely help the Sichuan Army greatly.

Before switching to the Battle of the Four Lines, Xie Jinyuan said that there was a high probability that his message would be thrown into the garbage by the commander of the First Army. However, in the Battle of the Four Lines, he directly defeated a main infantry regiment of the Japanese army with 400 troops. It has become a legend in the Chinese military circles. His words naturally attracted the attention of Lieutenant General Guo.

Naturally, from the very beginning when the two met, they gave Tang Dao various pitfalls and tests, both psychologically and tactically.

But now it seems that Tang Dao has finally passed the test of the deep-minded Commander Guo Da. This reassured Liu Yuqing, who was entrusted by Lao Wang.

Tang Dao, who returned to the Sixings Camp where the army was preparing to set off, was also wiping sweat. These big guys who were able to make a name for themselves in the turbulent war years were really all old foxes. There were many thieves digging holes. It was not that he had a future. The foundation of ninety years of historical experience was buried in it accidentally.

However, the idea of ​​the army lieutenant general who was as smart as a fox was slightly different.

Tang Dao had his own thoughts that he couldn't figure out, but whether he could gain the trust of the 43rd Army, a friendly force, was not as important to Tang Dao as he thought.

On the contrary, it is very important for Tang Dao to persuade his 43rd Army and the Northeast Army to defend Songjiang.

In fact, he also knew that Guo Zhongjiang would have thought of the reason for the congestion during the retreat that Tang Dao mentioned, but only he, a little butterfly from the future, would know that the sudden landing of Jinshanwei by the Japanese Tenth Army caused a huge What kind of disaster would the panic-driven retreat from western Shanghai cause?

The Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas were originally Jiangnan water towns, with crisscrossing waterways, but there was only one road from Kunshan to the outside.

More than 500,000 troops and all heavy equipment squeezed onto that pedestrian-friendly road, which was already a headache.

But what if the refugees who fled to Nanjing like a tide were added?

Moreover, it was not just the personnel, vehicles and equipment that caused the congestion, the Japanese army, which had already gained air superiority, would also send Japanese planes to bomb.

You don’t have to see it with your own eyes, just imagine that scene in your mind, and you might be horrified!

The Battle of Songhu, with more than 300,000 casualties, is an extremely rare battle-level casualty in the entire Chinese war history.

But in fact, the Chinese army of 700,000 fought against the Japanese army of 200,000 in the Songhu urban area for three months, and the Chinese casualties were only more than 100,000. However, it was because of this great retreat that the casualties of the entire battle increased to 300,000. Nearly 200,000 casualties were actually consumed on this tragic retreat road, most of which were wounded soldiers abandoned by the army that had completely lost its fighting spirit.

Along the way, there were white bones, and the soldiers who had shed blood for the country but never shed tears were wailing silently.

It was really a shame for the army.

The Japanese army failed to achieve all the strategies they had formulated because they held on to Songjiang City for three days and nights, but they won a great victory at the tactical level. Many Chinese troops were forced to abandon the wounded because they were scrambling to escape, which led to a complete collapse of morale. Even if they retreated to the well-equipped national defense line in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, they could not bear to fight again.

The abandoned people died, but the living people were not much different from the dead.

The 700,000 elite troops had lost their reputation as elite from the moment they abandoned the wounded, and it was inevitable that they would be completely annihilated in the subsequent battle of Nanjing.

It can be said that how the Songjiang battle was fought was completely related to the future of hundreds of thousands of troops.

Moreover, in addition to the army that retreated in a hurry, there were even more refugees, all of whom were Chinese compatriots.

In the recorded war reports, there was rarely any mention of the existence of refugees.

But Tang Dao knew that they also paid unimaginable casualties on the road of retreat.

When Tang Dao was still a soldier, the captain once took Tang Dao to visit a retired cadre on behalf of his unit. That was a veteran who participated in the Battle of Shanghai and later joined the Red Army. He was 96 years old, but when he talked about that thrilling battle, his eyes still glowed.

There was excitement and glory, but more of it was tears.

The old man had spent a long time that 99.5% of the human beings on this planet had not been able to spend. He had experienced the most tragic battles and the greatest patriotic war in the history of the Chinese nation. He could have been indifferent to everything, but when he mentioned the great retreat that should have been buried deep in his memory and forgotten, he burst into tears.

The old man said that when his comrades died under the artillery fire of the Japanese army, he was no longer as sad as he imagined. Too many deaths made him completely numb. Even if he was the only one left in the entire infantry squad, he gritted his teeth and held back his tears and walked forward. If he didn't go, he would die.

But he finally collapsed during that period of time, and collapsed to the point of crying loudly.