For the next four days, Sihang Warehouse fell into silence.
The Japanese were busy digging tunnels and no longer even launched tentative feint attacks, while the Songhu Independent Regiment was busy adjusting their schedules and secretly recharging their energy.
Both sides have a tacit understanding that they will no longer play tricks.
Not a single shot was heard for four whole days and nights.
But Xie Jinyuan's heart was in tremendous torment.
Because he always cared about the 88th Division and the hundreds of thousands of national troops in western Shanghai.
In the past four days, Sophia has been receiving sporadic news from the concession. Through this news, a clear conclusion can be drawn - the main force of the national army in the west of Shanghai has not withdrawn.
More than 700,000 troops are still fighting fiercely with the Japanese.
Such a conclusion made Xie Jinyuan feel deeply desperate.
It’s already like this, why haven’t you withdrawn yet?
Why haven't you withdraw yet?
…
The time came on the morning of November 8, around 9 o'clock.
Having a premonition that big changes were about to happen in the west of Shanghai, Xie Jinyuan was very sleepy, but still refused to go back to sleep.
Yan Yan advised: "Captain, it's my turn to be on duty today. You go to sleep. I'll wake you up if there is any news."
"I'm not sleepy. Even if I'm lying on the bed, I can't fall asleep." Xie Jinyuan shook his head and said, "How about you go to sleep?"
"That's okay, then I'll go to bed." Yan Yan has no obsession with the outcome of the Songhu battle, because he knows the final result.
Although the national army in this time and space moved the wounded and heavy equipment four days early, the Japanese also landed one day early, so the final result will not be much different.
Hundreds of thousands of national troops must have been defeated.
The three lines of defense will inevitably be abandoned.
In the end, even the capital Jinling will be captured.
However, the number of casualties of the national army should be less.
Because more than 30,000 wounded people in the central cluster and the right wing cluster have been transferred to the concession, this is the exact news fed back from the rescue committee. There should have been more than 40,000 wounded, but during the transfer, they were repeatedly bombed and dived and strafed by Japanese planes. In the end, more than 10,000 wounded people did not survive to enter the concession.
The wounded in the left wing cluster were not sent to the concession.
A strict guess is that it was sent to Suzhou or Jiangyin.
Therefore, this retreat should not be as exaggerated as the death of 100,000 people.
In short, these results are foreseeable and there is no suspense.
But just as Yan Yan was about to turn around and leave, the phone on the table suddenly rang.
Xie Jinyuan grabbed the phone as a reflex: "Hello, hello, this is the Songhu Independent Group, I am Xie Jinyuan."
"Uh, hello, Captain Xie." Sophia's pleasant voice came from the other end of the phone. "I just received reliable news that the League of Nations Conference in Geneva has ended."
"The League of Nations Convention is over? What was the result?"
Xie Jinyuan's heart suddenly rose to his throat, even affecting his breathing.
In his memory, except for the shortness of breath due to nervousness when Long You first went on the battlefield, this situation never happened again.
"The results were very bad." Sophia sighed. "Because Japan and the Nationalist Government did not declare war on each other and only characterized the war as an incident, the member states of the League of Nations believed that they should not be overly involved, and in the end they just issued a paper statement to condemn the Japanese government and urge the Japanese army to stop the war."
"Just condemnation?" Xie Jinyuan couldn't believe it.
…
"Is it just a condemnation?" Although Chairman Standing looked calm on the surface, in fact, his lungs were almost exploding with anger. It was too much, it was really too much. In the end, he actually issued a statement of condemnation?
"Yes, I just issued a statement of condemnation." Chen Yanji couldn't bear to look at Chairman Standing Committee's face.
Bearing the resentment of the 700,000 soldiers on the Songhu battlefield, and the huge pressure of the mountains and rivers overturning, I looked forward to it day and night for four whole days and nights, even half of my beard was gone, and finally I was looking forward to such a result. ? My heart is broken!
Chen Yanji deliberately controlled his eyes and did not look at Chairman Standing, but from the corner of his eye, he still saw Chairman Standing's right hand trembling slightly. He was really angry.
"Ding ding ding..." The phone rang again.
Chen Yanji picked up the phone, then covered the phone and said, "Commissioner, Chen Cixiu called again, saying that part of the Japanese 16th Division has captured Zhitang, which is only one step away from Taicang."
As soon as he finished speaking, the captain of the guard Wang Shihe hurriedly came in and reported: "Principal, the 9th Army sent an urgent message. Xiaokunshan Town has just been lost. The forward of the Japanese 6th Division is less than thirty miles away from Qingpu!"
Upon hearing this, Chairman Standing no longer cared about his ability to remain calm despite the collapse of Mount Tai, and immediately walked quickly to the map of Songhu posted on the north wall.
Wang Shihe quickly followed and found Xiaokunshan and Taicang from the map.
Looking at Xiaokunshan and Taicang that Wang Shihe pointed out on the map, Chairman Standing felt his eyes go dark, because the distance from Taicang County to Xiaokunshan Town was less than fifty kilometers, and there was only a small opening.
Now the two fresh forces of the Japanese army are advancing from the north to the south and are preparing to block this gap.
Once this hole is blocked, the more than 700,000 troops of more than 90 divisions and brigades on the Songhu battlefield will be covered. If such a situation occurs, it will be difficult for the government to persist.
Thinking of this, the civilization stick leaning on the ground began to tremble violently.
"Quick, quick, quick, call Gu Mosan and withdraw all the troops!"
Chairman Standing Committee finally thought of withdrawing the troops from the Songhu front line, but it was a pity that it was too late.
What's even more troublesome is that the senior generals of the national army on the Songhu front line have not made a retreat plan. Because they are worried about being accused of "shaking the morale of the army," the senior generals on the front line have adopted a desperate posture. A retreat plan? It didn't exist, so after the order to retreat was given, the troops were completely in chaos.
The Central Army felt that the local motley crew should be cut off from the rear.
The local army believes that the central army should carry forward the style.
The baggage troops felt that the combat troops should protect them.
The combat troops believed that we were the main force and should withdraw first.
There are also a large number of army commanders and division commanders like Sun Yuanliang who abandoned their troops and ran away directly.
The final result was that the 700,000-strong army herded sheep all at once, which was a chaos.
How chaotic is it? When Xue Yue, commander-in-chief of the 19th Group Army, was crossing the bridge, he was squeezed into the Wusong River by a swarm of defeated troops and almost drowned.
…
Xie Jinyuan stared at the big map on the wall and remained silent for a long time.
Yan Yan patted Xie Jinyuan's shoulder and was about to say a few words of comfort when a faint red light suddenly bloomed outside the window, followed by a faint explosion.
"The regimental commander and chief of staff are Nanshi!"
"The fighting started again in Nanshi!"
The little yellow robe guarding the window shouted.
Yan Yan and Xie Jinyuan quickly came to the window.
Then at the same time, he raised his telescope and looked outside.
Xie Jinyuan used his own six-fold telescope.
I mainly use the 25x sight specifically for the M82.
But the height of the second floor is too low and it is impossible to see clearly.
So the two of them moved to the fifth floor. They didn't dare to go to the rooftop. After all, it was daytime.
But the fifth floor is high enough, and you can see clearly when standing in front of the fifth floor window.
"I remember that the person responsible for attacking Nanshi was the 5th Infantry Brigade of the Japanese 3rd Division."
"Since this brigade landed in Wusong at the end of August, it has been fighting hard against the Chinese army on the Songhu battlefield for more than two months. It has suffered serious attrition and is exhausted, so the offensive in Nanshi is not fierce."
"But today, uncharacteristically, a large-scale attack was suddenly launched..."
After pondering for a moment, Yan Yan said: "If I guessed correctly, Riichiro Katayama, an old devil, should have smelled something in advance."
Yan Yan still hopes to save some face for the government.
Therefore, it is not said that there is a Japanese traitor in the high-level government. Leaks happen all the time.
However, Xie Jinyuan sighed and said: "The League of Nations Conference has ended, and the National Army on the Songhu front line should withdraw. The Japanese are afraid that they have heard the news in advance that the National Army is about to withdraw, so they launched an attack in advance. The Japanese want to entangle them." The main force of the national army is here so that the Japanese who are outflanking on both sides can have a chance to make dumplings."
"Nanshi will definitely not be able to hold on any longer." Yan Yan sighed.
"Yes." Xie Jinyuan sighed, "I spent such a high price, but I couldn't hold it even when it arrived."
He said solemnly: "Nanshi has fallen, and it is our turn for the Songhu Independent Regiment to appear next! We have to use a hearty victory to tell Songhu and even the compatriots across China that the national army is still there, Songhu, Still not fallen!”
"Huh?" Xie Jinyuan suddenly turned around and stared directly at Yan Yan.
