Anti-Japanese heroic righteousness

As for the south, leave a wing to guard the narrow area between Sanchagang Lake and Niushan Lake.

Wuhan's Binjiang Riverside Lake is known as the "city of hundreds of lakes", and the positions chosen by the base camp to build a line of defense will almost block all the advance routes of the national army, unless the national army can find enough ships in a short time Crossing the lake, but this is very unrealistic. The imperial army will naturally destroy all the ships in the lake area during the retreat, and will never leave any opportunities for the national army.

As long as the troops on the defense line stand firm for three days, the troops in the urban area of ​​Wuhan can use the transport ships stranded in Wuhan to quickly cross the Yangtze River. Three days is enough.

When the news reached Wuhan, it was already after five o'clock in the afternoon. When he got the telegram, Chief of Staff Isamu Kinoshita secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Secretly, he had exchanged telegrams with his old chief Neiji Okamura several times. Neiji Okamura believed that Wuhan was bound to be lost, and that if he persisted it would be at the price of the annihilation of the No.11 Army, but this responsibility is not He Okamura Neiji or Kinoshita Yu can afford it, and with this order from the base camp, things will become a matter of course.

When Isamu Kinoshita walked into the headquarters, No. 11 Army Commander Anan Weiji was curled up on an office chair with a messy beard and a pale face. Beads of sweat kept rolling down his face. The name of Wuhan's "stove" seems to be well-deserved.

"Anan-kun, it's all over!" Kinoshita Isamu handed the message in his hand to Anan Weiji, with a cold air in his tone, as if he was going south.

The corners of Ananwei's mouth twitched a few times. After a long time, he took the telegram and glanced at it in a hurry, but the tears rolled down like a flood that burst a bank. Then he howled like a wolf, stood up vigorously, and said "boom" " Kneel down, and tear off the military uniform on his body with a "crash", revealing a big snow-white belly and a bunch of wretched black hair on the chest, quickly draws out the command knife from his waist, grabs the blade in the middle, and directly hits himself The lower abdomen was pierced.

Kinoshita's face turned pale with fright. Anan skipped the cumbersome process of dissection and went directly to the topic.Although Anan Weiji's tactical literacy is poor, the samurai has a strong sense of honor and is fierce and aggressive. This defeat is a shame and humiliation for him. He cannot accept this reality for a short time, and it is completely reasonable to do such a thing.

"Anan-kun??????" Yuki Kinoshita let out a miserable cry, and suddenly rushed forward, grabbing the handle of the command saber, and took all his strength to snatch the command saber from Anan Weiji's hand.

"Mr. Kinoshita, I have no face to face the emperor, and I have no face to face the hundreds of thousands of warriors of the imperial army. It's my incompetence that caused today's defeat. You let me wash away my shame in the way of a samurai?" Anan Only a few hands were bleeding, but he didn't know it, and waved them in the air, screaming with tears and snot on his face.

"Anan Jun, you are not only a warrior, you are also the supreme commander of the No.11 Army. It is easy for you to go down with the sword, but hundreds of thousands of warriors of the imperial army will be wiped out because of your stupid behavior. Even if you When I met Amaterasu at the bottom, he would also call you an irresponsible coward, not a heroic imperial warrior. If you go down with the knife, you won't be able to wash away your shame, but you will bear the reputation of a coward, you know Anan-kun?"

Kinoshita Yusuke's words were like a fixation spell, and Anan Weiji was completely frozen. He stopped clamoring and looked at Kinoshita Yusuke dumbly. The ferocious look on his face gradually faded away, but he remained silent. Thinking about something.

Seeing that his words had an effect, Kinoshita breathed a sigh of relief secretly, stepped forward to help Anan Weiji who was kneeling on the ground, and said softly: "Anan Jun, to use an old Chinese saying, victory or defeat is a common matter in military affairs , This time the No.11 Army has indeed suffered unprecedented heavy losses, but it does not mean that we have failed. Now that we have withdrawn from the south bank and defended it with the Yangtze River, we still have a chance to fight back."

"Withdraw from the South Bank? Are you saying that Wuhan may not be lost?" With the support of Isamu Kinoshita, Anan Kei sat down on the chair again, looking at Isamu Kinoshita with a puzzled expression on his face.

"Anan-kun, your hand is injured, I'll call the medical soldiers to come in and stop the bleeding for you first?" Kinoshita Yong said and was about to go out.

"Wait, Kinoshita-kun, look, my hand is not in the way, why don't you tell me what's going on?" Ananwei stopped Kinoshita for a few minutes, then clenched his fists, signaling to Kinoshita that this would also stop the bleeding .

Kinoshita shook his head and said, "That's right. I asked Okamura-kun for tactical guidance. What Okamura-kun meant was that the army was coming so fiercely that the south bank could no longer be defended. It's better to just give up and rely on the natural danger of the Yangtze River and At the same time, they organized troops to launch a counterattack against the troops in the fifth theater. It would be best if they could get through the Ping-Han Railway, and even if they couldn’t get through, it didn’t matter. Although the headquarters decided to abandon Wuhan, it was only temporarily avoiding its edge. The reinforcements will still arrive as scheduled, and when these reinforcements go to the battlefield in Wuhan, a strategic counterattack will inevitably come."

Ananwei smiled wryly and said, "Why didn't you tell me these things?" After speaking, he subconsciously looked at his still bleeding fist, implying that if he had known this before, how could he have been so embarrassing just now? Fortunately, this is in his office, no one else saw it, otherwise it would definitely shake the morale of the army. At this moment, Anan was a little annoyed by his impulsiveness just now.

Isamu Kinoshita also smiled wryly. Strictly speaking, Central China is under the jurisdiction of Hisao Nishio. Naturally, Ningji Okamura cannot dictate to the Eleventh Army. With his personal relationship, he judged the battle situation with his strategic vision. As for the final decision-making power, it was still in the hands of Hisao Nishio or the headquarters, so these inferences could only be communicated with Isamu Kinoshita in private, and could not be made public.

When Kinoshita Yong said this, Anan could understand it, but he immediately put forward his own opinion. Since Hukou and Pengze fell one after another, in recent days, the New Fourth Army has continued to advance eastward. Madang, and there are reliable sources to prove that the New Fourth Army took advantage of the unique narrow river channel of Madang and began to cross the river. I am afraid that it will not take long for Wangjiang and Anqing on the north bank of the Yangtze River to fall one after another.

In fact, at this time, the troops on the north bank of the Yangtze River opposite Pengze and Madang are very empty. The headquarters did not consider that Jiang Haoran could reach Jiujiang and Pengze so quickly. The total force is no more than one squadron, and there is also a brigade of the Imperial Association Army. This defensive force cannot stop the advance of the New Fourth Army, not to mention that they have the New Fourth Division of Jiujiang behind them as a strong backing.