Under One Person: One Person Goes

Chapter 403 Rescue Planning
The fighting in the Songhu battlefield is still going on.

As Wang Yi thought, Chiang Kai-shek's side also did. A mainland daily newspaper plus several foreign media in the concession took turns to complain about Chiang Kai-shek in Chinese newspapers. While increasing circulation, they also used their military attachés or military observers in the concession to complain about Chiang Kai-shek, saying that he was useless except for causing trouble.

But Jiang had no shame, no, he had no shame at all, so he didn't care at all, and pretended not to hear anything and continued to play micro-management.

This kind of angry behavior is like cursing, "Fuck you! You guys are talking too much, why didn't I hear my subordinates? Someone in my army reported that there is a problem with my micro-control!"

Oh, they have to dare to report it. No one knows whether the trusted private soldiers around them are your spies arranged by Jiang. They dare not say bad things about you in bed, for fear of being retaliated by you on the spot and directly dragged to the battlefield to fill in the line.

As for the soldiers, they also have to come to you with a life.

The more this happened, the more it proved that Wang Yi's judgment was correct. The defeat of the Battle of Shanghai was already decided, and the capital of Nanjing was in danger. When the city was broken, the Japanese invaders' words of massacring the city were more and more likely to become a reality.

Thinking that Wang Yi's judgment was about to become a reality, Liu Wei began to organize a death squad. He led the troops to the other side of the Suzhou River, that is, the eastern district of the International Settlement, the so-called battlefield in the urban area of ​​the Japanese Concession, and directly pulled the wounded from the front line back to the other side of the river for treatment.

It was not for any other reason, but just that when he was defeated in the Battle of Shanghai, he could use the life-saving grace to get a group of more National Army troops on his side to help him fight, just like what Wang Yi did for Guo Ruyue and Zhou Weiguo.

Li Qiang ignored the risk of being exposed and went to the contact point with his superiors every few days. He wanted to know what kind of response the organization would give to the intelligence and judgments collected by the three of them. Nearly one million lives were involved in a city, and he really couldn't deal with it calmly.

What he did made things difficult for Wang Yi. Logically, for the sake of confidentiality, Wang Yi should not know the contact point between Li Qiang and the organization. However, Li Qiang had made many secret trips, which would always attract attention. Wang Yi had to activate his Yin Shen to leave his body around the clock to help Li Qiang clean up the mess.

Naturally, Wang Yi also knew about this contact point.

However, Li Qiang's urging did not quickly get the result he wanted. It was not that the organization did not believe in Wang Yi and his team's judgment, but that they needed more evidence to confirm this judgment.

The organization was not afraid of a confrontation with the Japanese. In this time and space, because Wang Yi had already laid out the route early on, the organization had preserved more seeds and manpower during the period when they overcame numerous obstacles to reach northern Shaanxi and re-established their base. In addition, the young marshal of this time and space had a secret meeting with Wang Yi before his military remonstration and made arrangements for the Northeast Army.

Although the organization in this time and space was still blocked by Chiang Kai-shek in the Shaanxi-Gansu base, Lao Xizi did not dare to confront the organization at all and remained in a defensive state. As long as the other party did not cross the line, he would never cause trouble for them.

But the organization also understood that once it was confirmed that Wang Yi's judgment was correct, the focus would not be on stopping the Japanese troops in North China from moving south, but on how to cooperate with Wang Yi in East China to rescue people in Nanjing City.

If people survive but land is lost, both people and land will survive. Mr. Wang understands this principle better than Wang Yi.

So they had to make a test, not to test Wang Yi, but to test Lao Jiang, to see if this guy really made a mess of the Battle of Shanghai.

Soon, Wang Yi in the concession heard a broadcast on the radio.

This is a public channel from Xinhua News Agency.

The gist of the broadcast was to publicly criticize Chiang, who, as the highest military commander in the Battle of Shanghai, ignored the overall situation and went to the front line to operate. This was an act of serious lack of trust in the abilities of his subordinates. If this continued, it would cause disunity between the top and the bottom, which was not a good thing.

This stimulated Lao Jiang's sensitive muscles.

He doesn't care how the foreign media complain about him. Anyway, they can't reach that far and can't control him. As long as they pay enough, it's fine.

As for what the people under his rule, or the common people, think, he doesn't care at all. Just kidding, don't underestimate the value of the "Central Daily News" which has annihilated 100 million enemies and occupied a small island.

This newspaper, which was widely distributed in the Kuomintang-controlled areas, was enough to confuse some people who were paying attention to the war, and made them think that the situation in the Battle of Shanghai was still a stalemate between the two sides, and that the Kuomintang army even had the upper hand.

After all, local troops from all over the country went to the Songhu battlefield to help, so they should win no matter how they fought.

The saying goes, "You have a plan, and I have a ladder to climb over the wall." However, Lao Jiang just couldn't stand the organization's voice channels mocking him.

After all, during the Four Crossings of the Chishui River, Chiang Kai-shek, a bronze player, was the only time he performed a diamond-level operation, which lasted until he started micro-manipulation, and then he gave up.

At this time, the other party actually revealed his dark history? One damn thing after another came out of his mouth, and he smashed the radios one after another.

But for the generals of the National Government who knew their immediate superiors well, this was the best opportunity to quickly send Chiang back to Nanjing.

I would like to say a few words to you, "Don't let the Red Party make a fool of us."

To be more direct, he almost patted his chest and said, "Chairman, you please return to Nanjing and take charge. If we can't defend Songhu, I will die on the battlefield without your military law."

Although they all knew that even if Chiang Kai-shek returned to Nanjing, he could still convey the military orders, but the back and forth was enough for them to say that they did not receive it with various reasons, and then they could just fire a few signalmen to get the job done.

With the best assistance from the organization, Lao Jiang was able to take advantage of the situation and finally ran back to Nanjing from the Battle of Songhu to take charge.

The generals of the national government also breathed a sigh of relief.

After all, the chaotic command system lacks micro-control from the top level, so for commanders like them, the pressure is really much less, and their energy can be relatively focused without having to worry about dealing with accountability from the prison.

However, in such a slightly relaxed atmosphere, the battlefield became even more tragic.

The Japanese army also received the news that Lao Jiang had escaped back to Nanjing, and they also understood that the command and deployment of the National Army would no longer be as sluggish as when Lao Jiang was there.

Knowing that the stalemate would not be a good thing, he suddenly became ruthless and mobilized several main divisions at once to reinforce the Songhu battlefield.

Such a large-scale military mobilization naturally could not be hidden from anyone.

It was already mid-October of the 26th year of the Republic of China, and the Battle of Shanghai was about to come to an end.

On this day, Wang Yi was still meditating at the newspaper office, wanting to use this last bit of free time to figure out where the future of the third level of reverse life lies.

Li Qiang brought Liu Wei and ran over here, and right away he gave Wang Yi a big piece of news.

"We've already had a fight with the Japanese."

"How's the battle going?"

"You lost. This is the letter that the organization asked me to give you. It also contains the details of the battle. Please read it yourself."

Li Qiang took out the information he had just obtained from his arms and handed it to Wang Yi.

Although Wang Yi had guessed the result, he was still surprised by the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army in the early days of the War of Resistance.

Over the years, I have tried my best to provide the organization with so many resources, including fresh troops, armaments, medicines, and food. In the end, this ambush, which was planned but unintentional, still did not achieve the desired effect.

There was a passage in the battle report that caught Wang Yi's attention: Within one minute of our army engaging the Japanese invaders, the Japanese invaders used transport vehicles as cover to block our firepower, identified several of our firepower points, and immediately organized a counterattack. Although our army carried heavy firepower, our artillery soldiers did not immediately form a scientific firepower suppression.

Because they did not master the scientific artillery method, they were careless and reckless, and became a living target for the Japanese invaders. If it were not for the assistance of the Northeast Army soldiers who had received formal artillery training, the number of casualties would have been even greater. The Japanese invaders' individual combat quality was so strong and precise that the National Army could not compare. After this battle, the organization basically believed in Comrade Wang Yi's judgment that the Battle of Songhu was doomed to fail and Nanjing had no strategic location to defend. Our army would continue to harass behind enemy lines and do its best to delay the Japanese invaders' reinforcement of the Songhu battlefield. We also sent people south to convey the mission to the commander of the first detachment of the newly formed Fourth Army, asking them to cooperate with Comrade Wang Yi in carrying out the rescue operation in Nanjing City.

Comrade Wang Yi, please take good care of yourself! Remember, if people survive and land is lost, both people and land will survive!

Wang Yi finished reading the letter before handing it to Li Qiang and Liu Wei.

"It seems that our efforts have not been in vain. The organization has trusted our judgment and has given us instructions."

Li Qiang and Liu Wei were surprised when they read the report in the letter about the organization's first proactive attack but failed to win. But they felt more at ease when they saw Wang Yi's still relaxed expression.

"Don't just look at the bad side, you also have to look at the good side. At least our organization fought against the elite Japanese troops, and the casualties ratio was three to one. This is already a very happy thing. Many of our soldiers are fighting the Japanese for the first time. How can we fight on equal terms with these elite soldiers who have fought for several years and received strict military training?
Look at what is said here. The Japanese did not expect us to take the initiative to attack. They underestimated the enemy and advanced rashly. Many of their casualties were caused by their own pursuit. Compared with the Japanese, our biggest advantage is that we are fighting at home and are more familiar with the terrain than they are. Not to mention the depth of the country. If the National Army could fight and retreat like our officers and soldiers, the Songhu battlefield would be lost, and the Japanese would not dare to easily make the decision to pursue the victory and attack Nanjing directly. "

"Then what should we do next?"

The two threw the difficult problem back to Wang Yi.

"What should I do? I haven't figured it out for a while. Give me a day to think about it. You two should go and have a rest. We won't be able to relax for the next period of time."

"If I can save millions of lives in Jinling City without any difficulty, I'd be willing to shorten my life by ten years!"

"It's not that serious. Come on, everyone go get some good sleep."

After sending Liu Wei and Li Qiang away, Wang Yi closed the door and stared at the picture of begonia leaves hanging on the wall in a trance.

The sound of gunfire coming from afar was like an alarm clock, constantly reminding Wang Yi that the day of the Nanjing Massacre was approaching, and he had to use the historical knowledge in his mind to come up with a plan as soon as possible.

He thought about this for a whole day and night.

Saving lives has never been an easy job, let alone saving the lives of nearly a million people in a city.

He himself did not dare to hope that when the Japanese broke through Nanjing, they would only get an empty city. He just wanted to make the scar that had been difficult for the Chinese nation to heal from modern history to the present day smaller. He would be content if the number was reduced by half.

But how to do it is a difficult problem.

If the news broke out now that the Battle of Shanghai was doomed to fail, Nanjing was in danger, and the Japanese invaders were about to massacre the city.

Not to mention whether the Chinese people can believe it, just shaking the morale of the army is a big problem. We are all fighting, and you tell me that we are bound to lose the Battle of Shanghai, and the Japanese are going to break into Nanjing and massacre the city. What's the point of fighting? Everyone can only take care of themselves.

Although it is also possible to arouse the fighting spirit of the National Army soldiers and make a desperate rebound, in which the desperate army will surely win.

But times have changed. In the era of cold weapons, it might have really been effective, but in the era of hot weapons, Maxim was enough to reduce the possibility of a bottoming out rebound to almost zero.

Moreover, given the nature of the Nationalist Army, it is more likely that they will only take care of themselves when their parents remarry and their father dies. This may even end the Battle of Shanghai ahead of time, and that day will come earlier.

The second issue is the rescue personnel issue.

According to the information he had learned, it was not that there were no people from Jinling City who escaped before it was broken, but those were wealthy families who naturally had no shortage of money. They brought their families and gold and silver jewelry with them, and once they paid the money, they ran away to the mountain city to continue enjoying their lives. Those who could not escape, and those who stayed behind were the poor people in Jinling City.

If you can't afford a ticket, you will run into Japanese troops if you leave the city and flee south or east, so it's useless.

The only way to survive was to flee to the riverside and take a boat across the Yangtze River.

However, General Tang, who was the commander of the Jinling garrison at the time, burned all the civilian and commercial ships in the city of Jinling. He kept one ship and escaped, but he cut off the livelihood of the people in the city of Jinling.

Therefore, in order to save people, we must first purchase a large number of ships in Jinling City, and they must be guarded to prevent them from being burned by General Tang.

Also have the soldiers of the Fourth Army in the south prepare boats so they can pick up people at any time or cross the river to rescue people.

Therefore, there were two difficult problems that Wang Yi had to solve. One was to release the news that the Japanese invaders might massacre the city at the right time and in the right way. Only in this way could the people in Jinling City have time to react and escape in advance before the Japanese invaders arrived.

The second is that there must be a group of ships in Jinling City that can carry the people of Jinling City to escape and troops that can be mobilized by oneself, that is to say, there must be one's own people in the national army.

Wang Yi has already made arrangements for the latter problem. With Wang Yi's help, Guo Rugui, who was hiding his own people, and Zhou Weiguo are now at the peak of their careers and have been transferred to the Jinling Teaching Corps.

This team fought to the last man in the Battle of Nanjing, and the entire unit was destroyed.

With Lao Guo, a hidden ally, Zhou Weiguo and this army, the only problem left to be solved is the ships, which is much easier to deal with.

But the first two points are not the biggest problems, they are easy to solve, and Wang Yi can also grasp the opportunity. It's nothing more than a few days before and after the defeat in Songhu. He let Liu Wei use Jianghu inns and spread the news slowly in Jinling City through hearsay and small talk, so as to induce some Jinling people to flee.

The biggest problem was that when Nanjing was broken and the Japanese invaders entered the city to carry out massacres, there was a group of people who could cooperate with the Nanjing Teaching Corps to divert the attention of the Japanese invaders and save the remaining people trapped in Nanjing.

Nearly a million lives were at stake. No matter how well prepared the first two were, how many people could have escaped?

After the massacre, the population dropped sharply from nearly one million to between 20 and 30, or even less. It was almost an empty city, a ghost town.

"Alas, after thinking it over, I didn't expect that I would have to take people to this city for a walk. Zhang Zhiwei, Zhang Zhiwei, don't learn from me. One of us must stay to preside over the overall situation of the alien world. This time, it's my turn to beat you."

After a night of thinking, Wang Yi also preliminarily determined a plan to rescue people in Jinling.

While Wang Yi was thinking for a day and a night and finally came up with a rough rescue plan, he was in southern Jiangsu, that is, the Shangqing Maoshan area.

Zhang Zhiwei, who had been tasked with the organizational mission of going south to contact the comrades who had been transferred previously for reorganization, was climbing a mountain with a soldier in simple clothes, looking at Mount Mao not far away.

"Do you miss Mount Longhu? This place is not far from Mount Longhu. With your strength, why don't you take a walk?"

"Forget it. I just went back to the mountain not long ago and ruined my master's business. This time when I go back, he will definitely hit me with lightning."

"Ha, you are a fearless person, but you also have a tendency to give in. To be honest, I have to thank you for this. Otherwise, I would not have been able to save my leg. And if you hadn't taken me everywhere and protected me during this period, the reorganization and adaptation work would have been difficult to do."

"I can't help it. We are all for the Anti-Japanese United Front. I can understand the comrades' thoughts. If it weren't for the overall situation, I would have wanted to kill that inhuman thing with lightning alone. Even in the current situation, we probably have to fight a few tough battles."

Just as the two were sighing with emotion, a young soldier came jogging over to communicate.

"Report, Commander, Special Envoy, someone is coming from the organization."

(End of this chapter)