newbobooks Chapter 159: The First City to Fall
Chapter 159: The First City to Fall
159 The first urban area to fall
Ding Ding Ding!
"Hello, is this the 154th Division? Yes, this is the headquarters.
I am Chief of Staff Ye Qingshan."
Ye Qingshan is in the headquarters and now receives countless calls and telegrams from front-line troops every day.
Moreover, Ye Qingshan's new position at this time was Chief of Staff of the Headquarters.
In this way, it would be normal for Ye Qingshan to give orders in the headquarters.
Anyway, those who knew that Ye Qingshan and Tang Shengzhi were not on good terms were basically Tang Shengzhi's direct generals.
They are all drinking tea in the headquarters' meeting room now.
Ye Qingshan's new position did not make other national army generals on the front line feel anything was wrong.
"What, your defense zone was breached by the devils?
Damn it, why couldn’t they even hold on for three hours?
What a fucking bullshit excuse.
There are still tens of thousands of people in the city behind you who have not been able to evacuate. Don’t you know?
Tell your division commander to immediately organize a suicide squad and launch a counterattack.
Successfully take back the lost neighborhood for me."
boom!
Ye Qingshan hung up the phone, frowning angrily.
At this time, Xiao Wusheng came over with a telegram again and looked at Ye Qingshan worriedly: "Sir, why don't you take a nap?
You haven’t slept a wink for a whole day and night.”
"Sleep, shit, how can I sleep?"
Ye Qingshan snatched the telegram from Xiao Wusheng's hand and started reading it.
"Another request for reinforcements."
Ye Qingshan threw the telegram on the table.
At this time, Ye Qingshan redefined the defense zones for all the Kuomintang troops that retreated into the city.
Let them rely on the streets and houses in the city to block the Japanese attacking forces step by step, and fight street battles and guerrilla warfare with the Japanese.
But unfortunately, not all Kuomintang officers knew how to fight street battles at this time.
At this time, the various Nationalist troops that retreated into the city were actually still fighting a positional battle with the Japanese.
It's just a matter of moving the place from outside the city to inside the city.
This also resulted in even more serious casualties among the various Nationalist troops retreating into the city.
As the news spread that Ye Qingshan had sent 1,500 new recruits to Zhou Pingkou's troops.
The commanders of the various national army units on the front line requested reinforcements.
"Now, except for the elite 88th and 87th Divisions, and General Wang Yaowu's 51st Division, all other divisions are requesting reinforcements.
Where can I get so many soldiers for them?"
At this moment, Ye Qingshan truly felt that the mess he had taken over was so difficult to clean up!
"Sir, this was just delivered by the operations staff.
You asked me to compile a statistical list of the number of all the militias in the city and all the major militias.
I sent it to you."
The young martial artist handed Ye Qingshan another thick booklet.
After hearing this, Ye Qingshan immediately took it and started to read it.
He wanted to know how many militiamen he had recruited from the veterans he had sent out into the city.
At the beginning, Ye Qingshan still had a rough idea of the number.
In the past two days, Ye Qingshan has been busy trying to seize power and command the various national troops in the front lines.
I haven't had time to count the number of militiamen in the city again.
Now, with the various Nationalist troops on the front lines having no new recruits, it seems that they are really going to collapse.
Ye Qingshan could only send some militiamen to the battlefield in advance.
Therefore, he needs to know the specific number of people in each militia brigade in the city.
“How come there are less than 20,000 militiamen in the eight districts I divided the city into?
I remember that two days ago, the number of people who signed up for militia had exceeded 10,000.
So, in these two days, the number of people joining the militia was only a few thousand.
Where have the hundreds of thousands of young and strong men in the city gone?
Are they all hiding in basements and shelters?"
After Ye Qingshan saw the statistical number of militiamen, he was shocked and angry.
“Sir, there’s nothing I can do.
All the adult men who were willing to sign up have already signed up.
But most of them are still unwilling to sign up.
They are all scared!"
The young martial artist looked at Ye Qingshan's ugly expression and quickly explained.
"Scared, damn it, I know they are scared.
But at this point, being afraid is useless.
If they were afraid of the Japs, they wouldn't have killed them. If they were afraid of the Japs, they wouldn't have killed their wives, children and the elderly.
Really, they haven't seen the cruelty of the Japs yet.
Do you really think that the fate of the people outside the city who were massacred by the devils will not befall them?"
Ye Qingshan understood what Xiao Wusheng said. The people were afraid and terrified. This was human nature.
But Ye Qingshan was anxious!
But Ye Qingshan also knew that when it came to conscription, he could not adopt the brutal method of conscripting young men that the National Army had used before.
The soldiers you forcefully recruit will have no will to fight.
You can only take other measures to awaken the people's consciousness of resistance.
"First, select 5,000 of these 10,000 militiamen who have handled weapons and received simple training.
Send it to the front-line units."
Jingle Bell!
The telephone at headquarters rang again.
"Commander, speak up!
what! "
boom!
Ye Qingshan was so angry that he threw the phone away. With red eyes, he looked at Xiao Wusheng and shouted, "Go, send a telegram to Sun's 88th Division and Wang Yaowu's 51st Division.
Let them take out two support troops to reinforce the defense zone of the 154th Division.
Faster.
The Japanese 10th Division broke through the defense zone of the 154th Division, and tens of thousands of civilians behind them did not have time to evacuate.
The Japs, who are worse than beasts, are slaughtering the people there wantonly.
Tell Commander Sun and General Wang Yaowu to recapture the defense line over there and stop the Japanese.
I will send them 3,000 new soldiers as soon as possible."
"Yes!"
After hearing this, Xiao Wusheng immediately ran to the telegraph room to send a message.
At this time, there were constant sounds of gunfire in the southern part of Jinling City.
They are not soldiers from the Japanese 10th Division, but are fighting against the National Army.
And they shot and killed the civilians they saw.
"Ah, help!"
Countless people fled everywhere, but unfortunately they were soon stopped by the Japanese.
"Baga, you damned Chinese pigs, all of you go to hell.
Fire! "
Da da da!
The Japanese machine gunner had a ferocious look on his face and fired wildly at the large number of civilians who were blocked in the street ahead.
No matter whether they are men or women, old or young, no one will be spared.
Half a day later, the streets were littered with the bodies of civilians.
This fallen urban area turned into a hell on earth.
The Japanese burned, killed and looted everywhere. They celebrated what they believed was an impending victory through this killing.
"Baga, blow open this door!"
A small group of Japanese soldiers arrived in front of a villa in the south of the city.
They set their sights on this villa.
At this time, the Japanese devils didn't just kill people at will.
They also looted property and searched for supplies everywhere.
Especially at this time, the lowest-level Japanese soldiers were actually very poor.
One of the reasons why the Japanese soldiers liked to kill was to rob property.