As soon as I got down the stairs, Fang Buwei stopped.

In the command room, Tang Shengnan, Luo Zhuoying, Liu Xing, Zhou Lan and several combat staff members were fiercely discussing the battle situation of Shishi. It is not a good time to enter now.

Some words can only be said to Tang Shengzhi alone, otherwise they will have the opposite effect.

Fang Buwei listened quietly for a while and had already understood the general situation of the battle.

In the northeast, the Japanese army had attacked Qilin Gate, and the 36th Division prepared the Second Regiment, repeatedly attacked and defended Fuxing Bridge with the front enemy, fought to the death without retreating, with more than a thousand casualties, and two-thirds of the organization had been damaged.

On the north side, Qixia Mountain was hit hard by a fierce shelling, and the 41st Division of the 66th Army suffered heavy casualties, but fortunately, Qixia Mountain was not lost.

In the southeast, Tang Shengzhi ordered the 74th Army and the 66th Army to shrink their defense lines and headed up the 71st Army, which had just been withdrawn from Zhenjiang, to defend the Gaoqiaomen area.

At most tomorrow, the Japanese army will attack Takahashi Gate.

Needless to say, the 74th Army was bombed for half a day. Fortunately, Niushou Mountain is high and dense, and the casualties are not too serious.

The 36th Division, which suffered the most casualties in each unit of the Central Division, was the 74th Army.

Because when he was withdrawn from Shanghai, the 36th Division had a relatively complete structure and was used by the Chairman as a firefighting team. There was a regiment of the 36th Division in the east, south, west and north directions, each cooperating with the garrisons.

But today, in the northeast, the second reserve regiment in the Qilinmen area and the first reserve regiment in the southeast of Qixia Mountain, all suffered most of the casualties, with nearly 3,000 casualties.

At this point, the Japanese army has realized the intention of encircling three sides. If nothing unexpected happens, it will launch an attack on Fukuo tomorrow.

But Fang Buwei knew that this was not the most afflicting thing.

Only tomorrow will Tang Shengzhi know what a sieve-like defense line is.

This has little to do with Tang Shengzhi and the defenders of the front line, but the reason for the chairman.

The first is fortifications.

Fang Buwei has seen it a long time ago.

All the fortifications of the 36th Division in Mufu Mountain were tofu projects. When you break it gently, the ash blocks on the fortifications would be broken off, and then you would see the thin bamboo poles inside...

This was started in the third or fourth year. At that time, Fang Wuwei often saw steamers full of steel bars and cement shipments.

But now it has become lime and bamboo poles?

This is roughly the case in other defense lines.

It is hard to imagine that such a thing would happen at the foot of the emperor, but Fang Buwei is no longer surprised.

There is no worst, only worse!

Compared with Song Yuanliang, he at least did not use mud and used some lime.

Before the Battle of Songhu, Zhang Zhizhong gave him 300,000 yuan to repair steel and cement fortifications, but Song Yuanliang was greedy for all the money.

All the fortifications are made of mud...

This is the basic operation of the National Government officials, and Fang Buwei no longer wants to complain.

So when Tang Shengzhi heard that the thirty-year-old master was practicing fortifications, he agreed without asking.

Such fortifications, let alone anti-aircraft shells, will collapse with a slight shock. Which soldier dares to hide in it?

What's more, the Japanese bombs were thrown down like it was raining.

The second is the line of defense.

The left-behind troops in Nanjing have a total of 100,000 people, which sounds like a lot.

But these 100,000 people not only need to guard the outer positions, but also guard the Fuguo city walls, and also guard the commanding heights within Fukuo.

The city wall alone has more than 100 kilometers, one meter, can one person guard it?

But what the Chairman imagined was that if the outer positions were defeated, they could defend Fukuo after retreating. If Fukuo was defeated, they could defend the inner city even if retreating.

This is not even the Basic Law.

Fang Buwei doubted that the Chairman had considered whether his soldiers would die. It seemed that every time he retreated, there were still so many people...

The third is that there is no depth and no reserve team.

To put it bluntly, it’s still not enough people.

The Chairman's idea was that Nanjing was mountainous. As long as it controlled the hills and commanding heights, it could be high and guarded the gap between mountains, so the Japanese army would naturally not be able to attack.

But this man completely ignored the fact that the Japanese army had a large number of heavy artillery and aircraft and sufficient bombs.

Just like today, people first came to cover a few rounds of artillery fire and directly leveled the mountain. How can you guard it?

Even if there is no such strong firepower, the Japanese could make dumplings on the national army stationed on various hills as long as they break through a little and circumvent it.

If you retreat a little slower, you will be surrounded and killed by the Japanese army.

Fang Buwei realized that the Chairman was simply using the combat thinking of the cold weapons era and was commanding this battle.

Whether it is cutting corners, too long defense lines, too few soldiers, or defensive arrangements, they are all the fault of Chairman Jiang.

He also needs to add the article "knowingly, he will lose, but insist on sticking to it."

Many people in later generations said that the biggest person responsible for the defeat in Nanjing caused a tragedy.

The person who said this was either blind, had a bad conscience, or had everything stuck!

Where did you place the dignified President Jiang of the National Government?

Very underestimated!

Hearing the discussion inside, the sender began to send the latest military orders to the troops, so Fang Buwei asked Guan Dashan to push him forward.

Before he reached the door, Tang Shengzhi came out first.

"Not for coming!" Tang Shengzhi asked, then coughed again.

Fang Buwei obviously saw that Tang Shengzhi's face was very bad.

Can it be bad?

According to Chairman Jiang’s prediction, the peripheral positions must be kept for more than one month, but they were lost in one day?

Tang Shengzhi would definitely think that the Chairman expected to be able to guard the outer wall for at least twenty days, and how many days could he guard?

If Fang Buwei calculates for him, it will only take two days at most.

"How is the recruitment of civil servants?" Tang Shengzhi coughed for a while before stopping and asking.

"Not very ideal!" Fang Buwei replied, "Because most of them are old and weak, the number of people needed is relatively large. Commander Hu and Changjun met for a while, and finally thought that it would be better to try to satisfy the construction of Pukou first, and then consider Xiaguan..."

Just in case Tang Shengzhi knew that all the people had been transported across the river, he turned around and questioned him, so Fang did not want to give him some precautions first.

Tang Shengzhi pondered for a moment, then let out a heavy breath: "Well, it's also a good way..."

Seeing that he did not object, Fang Buwei sneered secretly again.

Xiaguan is at the westernmost end of Nanjing City and is the only direction that the Japanese army cannot attack.

Unless Nanjing City is completely broken, war will only occur in Xiaguan. By that time, Tang Shengzhi had already crossed the river.

But Pukou is different. If the Japanese army crosses the river, and counter-surrounds the First Army, there will be no way out.

Tang Shengzhi can't pay too much attention to the last retreat.

Seeing Tang Shengzhi rubbing his eyebrows and looking extremely tired, he knew that he had no time and no intention to deal with him.

"Commander, I have a few words to say to you!" Fang Buwei had no intention of going around with Tang Shengzhi.

(End of this chapter)
Chapter completed!