|The mountain was indeed lost. The retreating 21st Army not only did not play a role in helping the army. On the contrary, their panic quickly spread to the Ninth Group. The soldiers who were already anxious became even more frightened. Just a large group of Japanese vanguards had just captured the outer positions. The defenders collapsed. They left the positions in groups and fled to the rear. The Japanese army conquered Kunshan without any effort.

The notification of the third war zone was quite timely. Yang Sen was so angry that he finally arrived at a place where the Japanese naval guns were not enough. He also built a preset position. He just occupied the upper hand and was about to withdraw again.

"No one is allowed to spread this situation." Yang Sen said with a gloomy face. He waited for a while and said again: "Order Yang Hanyu to send a regiment to launch a counterattack tonight. The artillery brigade and the baggage regiment packed up their things and prepared to leave."

"Commander." Chief of Staff Liu immediately suggested: "The artillery regiment can leave after providing artillery cover. The Japanese army found that there was no artillery cover and it was easy to expose our intentions."

"Okay. The air defense regiment of the female baggage regiment of the heavy artillery will leave first. Then the army will be directly under the army. Let the Yang Hanyuan break the rear." This sentence was revealed by Yang Sen gritting his teeth. Although Yang Hanyuan is his direct line, only his troops are the most complete and the most personnel are the most.

After dark, the Chinese team launched a counterattack. The Japanese army was already wary of this. On the battlefield of Songhu, night battles were common weapons of the poorly equipped Chinese team. Their attacks were usually initiated at night. In the hazy night, they attacked the Japanese army in a group charge.

The Sichuan Army's training was aimed at the Japanese. Night battle was their regular training subject. It was even more powerful than the Central Army. Groups of assault teams launched assaults to the Japanese positions from several directions. At this time, the rocket launcher became a powerful tool to destroy the Japanese firepower points. The assault team opened the way with P18 submachine guns, sprayed flames all the way, and rushed into the Japanese positions. For a moment, people in the Japanese positions were overturned and chaotic.

While the counterattack was in progress, the other side of Taicang was quiet. The convoy pulled heavy artillery and drove to the west. At the same time, Yang Sen also led the Group Army Command and the 20th Army Command to retreat westward...

The fierce counterattack of the Chinese team caused the Japanese army to have an illusion. The Japanese army did not launch a counterattack immediately that night. Instead, they decided to wait until dawn to launch an attack. This is also their usual way of treating the Chinese team's night battle. But after dawn, Taicang was empty. The 20th Army, which was still fighting hard last night, had already left the city empty.

The hidden Japanese army was angry and urged their troops to chase after them. When they approached Shaxi Town, they heard a loud noise in front of them. The Japanese army chased to the Qipu River. The bridge on the Qipu River had been broken into two parts. The Chinese soldiers on the other side were packing their things and running away.

Relying on Qipu River, the Twentieth Army temporarily got rid of the pursuers. Wang Jingjiu, who was blocked by Lu Du not far from the northern line, also led his troops to escape into Changshu through Yuewang Town that night. He joined forces with Yang Sen in Changshu.

At this time, Xiaguan Pier, Xiaguan was crowded with people on board and disembark. Those who boarded the boat were all crowded with people. Those who boarded the boat were soldiers. Those who boarded the boat were frightened by the officials and nobles carrying large and small bags. On November 20, the Nanjing government officially announced the relocation of the capital in Chongqing. Then the central departments began to move. Although Lin Sen and Kong Xiangxi took away more than a thousand people some time ago, some government departments remained in Nanjing. Now these departments are going to move to Chongqing.

With the statement of the Nanjing government, citizens in Nanjing began to become restless. Those with money or access began to look for tickets and tickets. For several consecutive days, all traffic stations in Nanjing were crowded. Those with tickets took a bus and took a boat. Those without tickets began to walk on the long distance of moving westward.

Migration. Continuous migration; personnel, factories, countless people abandoned the ancestral property passed down from generation to generation, left the land where they lived for generations, and set foot on the distance without knowing the prospect. Before, I only saw the scene in books or newspapers. There is only one reason - not to be a slave to the country.

"Standing at attention!" The young civil servants who were waiting in line to board the boat saw several generals coming down from the boat that had just landed. The leader was a soldier with the rank of lieutenant general. Two generals with the same rank followed behind him. The officers who came to greet him were actually on the rank and looked quite familiar.

"What are you doing when you come to Nanjing at this time? Is Shanghai defeated from time to time?"

"The capital has been moved? I came here at this time. What have I done before..." Someone was complaining quietly.

"Don't talk nonsense. Haven't you seen that Xiaguan Wharf is getting out of the army these days? It seems that the accent is all soldiers from Sichuan. It's so far away that you can come at this time. It's a sharp end to the difficulties."

The high-ranking official left the day after the announcement was released. Now the people who are waiting in line to board the boat are all small civil servants. What they are more interested in is various gossip.

The Nanjing government issued an announcement to relocate the capital, saying that "the warriors from all directions all went to the trouble." In the past three months, the troops of various provinces passed by Nanjing sang war songs to Songhu. Every day, there were war reports and wounded soldiers sent back from the Songhu front line. Some of the wounded soldiers were sent on board and headed towards the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.

"The person who came to pick him up seemed to be from the chairman's servant room." Some of the officers who were greeted: "It should be a big shot."

"I don't know this. This is the first phase of Zhuang Jihua and Huangpu developed by the southwest." Someone next to me interrupted disdainfully. I don't even know this. I'm still lying in government departments. It's really a waste of life.

Before Zhuang Jihua arrived in Nanjing, he went back to Chongqing. This time he went back to do three main things. One was to check out the two divisions of Sun Liren and Liao Yaoxiang; the other was to discuss logistics issues with Hong Junqi. Song

The Chinese team has not had three or five months, and has not had a large amount of weapons and equipment to replenish combat power. The last thing is to meet with Liu Xiang. He asked him to immediately convene the third reserve force to join the army and conduct recruit training. At the same time, he coordinates the relationship between the Sichuan Provincial Government and the National Government after the National Government entered Sichuan Development Company.

Sichuan Development Company is too huge. To some extent, it is enough to affect the economy of the National Government after the capital is moved.

Such a giant must have aroused the greed of the powerful and powerful. Whether Li Zhilong could keep an eye on this family fortune? Zhuang Jihua was completely unsure of it. He could only rely on Liu Xiang's help.

After the news of the collapse of the battlefield from Chongqing to Songhu, Zhuang Jihua left Chongqing by boat on November 16. Wuhan warned him that the sky in Wuhan was no longer safe. It is best not to come by plane. Most of the Forty-Ninth Army in Wuhan had left. There was still a few equipment left that had not been transported away. Among them, the important heavy artillery brigade, baggage regiment, air defense regiment, and automobile regiment. This angered Zhuang Jihua. Without these things, the combat power of the Forty-Ninth Army will drop by a quarter.

In order to support the eastern battlefield, the military rear minister Tan Jianwu personally took charge of Wuhan to transport supplies and arrange transportation capacity. Zhuang Jihua asked him to arrange ships to transport heavy artillery brigades and air defense regiments as soon as possible. He ordered the car regiment to bring its own fuel to Nanjing overnight.

Then Zhuang Jihua inspected the materials in various places in Wuhan. After the Battle of Shanghai, a large amount of weapons and equipment must be needed. In addition, many wounded and medicines were also needed in large quantities. Especially after the Forty-Ninth Group Army was put into the battlefield, Zhuang Jihua had to take this into consideration. After all this was arranged, Zhuang Jihua set off and left for Nanjing.

"Commander Zhuang, Principal Zhuang, asked me to pick you up. Go to the Ministry of Military Affairs to attend the meeting immediately." Tang Zong reported to him as soon as he saw Zhuang Jihua.

Zhuang Jihua didn't say anything. He just nodded. Then he followed him out of the dock and waited on the bus before asking: "Naijian. What's the meeting? Is it about Wu Fu's defense line?"

"No. No. Wu Fu's defense line has been lost." Tang Zong sighed and looked at Zhuang Jihua. The latter's expression was still on his face.

The real battle on the Wufu defense line only lasted five days. The First Army of the 18th Army of Li Jiayu, who gathered on the Wufu defense line, had been resting for half a month. The troops were also replenished. Yang Sen led the 20th Army and the army directly under the army to retreat to the Wufu line. Four armies were assembled on the Wufu national defense line, and there were also 36,888,87 German divisions. These troops were very well-equipped in terms of equipment. However, the cruel battle had consumed most of these equipment. Taking the 36th Division as an example, the heavy equipment of the troops was almost exhausted. Except for the more flexible combat defense artillery and mortars, about half of the remaining howitzers and mountain cannons were saved. In addition to the equipment and personnel, it was also a big problem. The personnel were supplemented less than one-third of the losses. Moreover, this time the supplement was no longer basically trained security regiment soldiers, but a group of farmers who had never been trained. The combat effectiveness of these people can be imagined.

In addition, there were severely damaged 21st Army and the 19th Army of Xue Yue. These troops were disbanded and could not fight at all. Chen Cheng had to transfer them to the Xicheng Line to rectify.

The well-equipped 24th Army was also the well-equipped. Li Jiayu and Yang Sen fought a bloody battle with the Japanese army on the left and right. They chased Wu Fu 1, and two brigades of seven Japanese divisions and two brigades. The total force was nearly 200,000.

Yang Sen's 24th Army became the main force on the Wu Fu line. But Yang Sen was not comfortable. The Wu Fu line is a national defense line. It is known as the Magino line in the east. But he has the name of Magino but does not have the reality of Magino. This is not a dense Magino line. It is a fortress mainly based on support points. If these support points are complete and strong, that's not bad; but these support points are sparse. Most of the fortresses are not steel and concrete at all. Only a small part is steel and concrete. Most of the remaining ones are piled up by stones. Even a small part is compacted by earth. Such fortresses cannot defend against heavy artillery at all.

Chen Cheng commanded his troops to fight the Japanese army for five days here. Yang Sen was addicted to it. The Japanese army dropped thousands of corpses and half of a tank wing in front of his 24th Army position.

Despite the huge casualties and the Wufu line was always shaking, but it was five days later that the Japanese 6th Division broke through the defense zone of the 87th Division. Chen Cheng once again ordered the retreat of the Xicheng line.

Tang Zong briefly introduced the process of the loss of Wu Fu Line. Then he said: "The front line is now in chaos. Fortunately, Yang Sen's 24th Army can still fight. The 24th Army has shown its face this time. The Chairman just ordered the promotion of Yang Sen to general."

Zhuang Jihua's expression was not at all distracted. He just nodded slightly. Tang Zong glanced at his expression in the corner of his eyes. As a servant, he knew the best at observing words and expressions. He understood what Zhuang Jihua wanted to hear.

"The front line is very difficult. The Japanese army on the southern front is faster. The defense line of Nanxun Wu County has collapsed. The 10th Army and the 74th Army have retreated to Nanxun Wuxing. The 10th Army and the 74th Army have died greatly. In view of this situation, the Chairman intends to mediate Todman."
Chapter completed!