December 8, night.

After nightfall, the 19th Brigade began to retreat in an orderly manner, with the artillery company, heavy machine gun company and the first group of wounded personnel retreating. Gao Shenxing, on the order of Xu Shijiu, led the guard platoon to escort the medical team and the wounded.

"Silly guy, come here to help."

"Silly, come and help me."

"Silly, I'll leave this to you."

"Silly, this is my backpack, don't lose it."

Heixiazi became the busiest person. This one asked him to help carry a gun, and the other asked him to carry a backpack. Heixiazi was famous for his good temper in the guard platoon. Heixiazi had no choice but to accept everyone. In a short time, he had already carried six or seven guns on his shoulders, four or five backpacks on his back, and each of his left and right hands held a Czech light machine gun.

When another veteran tried to hang the gun in his hand on Heixiazi's shoulder, the medical nurse Cao Jiao couldn't stand it anymore, so she stood in front of Heixiazi and said to the veteran: "He has carried enough guns. If you really can't carry them, why don't I come and help you carry them, okay?"

The guard platoon is located outside the Guanyin Hall and is also responsible for helping the medical team do some heavy physical work. Hei Xiazi is diligent and strong, and hardworking. Both Cao Jiao and Wang Yulan like him very much.

The veteran was depressed at that time. He really asked a big girl to help him carry the gun and stop engaging in the national army.

Amid the laughter of the other veterans, the veteran hid behind the team in shame. Cao Jiao saw that Heixiazi was sweating profusely. Under the dim moonlight, she could clearly see the sweat flowing down his forehead. She felt a little distressed for no reason. She took out a handkerchief and wiped the sweat on Heixiazi's forehead.

Heixiao grinned at Cao Jiao, and two rows of snow-white and neat teeth appeared on his black face.

Looking at Heixiazi's silly smile, Cao Jiao's mood became relaxed for no reason and said softly: "Brother Heizi, are you tired? I'll help you get the machine gun?"

"No, I'm not tired." Hei Xiazi grinned again.

Cao Jiao looked at the group of veterans watching the show dissatisfiedly, and lowered her voice and said, "Brother Heizi, you are too honest. Don't help them carry guns and backpacks in the future."

"It's okay, I'm very strong, and this little physical work is nothing."

When Cao Jiao pouted and wanted to say something else, Wang Yulan's shout suddenly came from the front, and she said hello to Heixiazi and went to the front to find Wang Yulan. As soon as Cao Jiao walked away, several veterans immediately surrounded Heixiazi, and all of them learned from Cao Jiao's tone: Brother Heizi, are you tired? I'll help you get the machine gun? Brother Heizi, you are too honest...

Hei Xiaozi was not bothered, but just happily walked forward with six or seven guns on his backpack.

The veterans were making trouble, and Gao Shenxing caught up from behind and scolded viciously: "Whatever you make, I'm afraid that Xiao Ri Wuben doesn't know if we have evacuated Zutangshan or what? He's all closed the beak for Lao Wuzi and walked along the way. Who dares to make trouble again? Let's see how Lao Wuzi deal with him."

The veterans of the guard platoon were silent and were quite afraid of the platoon leader Gao Shenxing. The veterans were quite afraid of the platoon leader Gao. In the past, the guard platoon had a few thorns, but after being beaten by the platoon leader Gao, they immediately became obedient. Nothing else, the platoon leader Gao was too unfair to beat him, so no one could survive two moves under his hands.

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The main peak of Niushou Mountain.

When Xu Shijiu walked into the 58th Division headquarters, the entire cave was almost empty.

The order to retreat had been issued to all units, including the chefs, grooms, correspondents, and telegraphers of the division headquarters, basically all had withdrawn. In the end, a few staff officers were burning documents. Feng Shengfa stood in front of the sand table with a frown and sighed. Obviously, he was extremely depressed about the sudden evacuation of Niushou Mountain.

"Master's seat." Xu Shijiu walked to Feng Shengfa and stood attentively, saluting.

Feng Shengfa turned around and returned the ceremony, asking, "Ajiu, what is the casualties in the army?"

Xu Shijiu said: "Fortunately, the little Japanese company only has 5th and the 6th offensive was quite fierce. Today and yesterday did not attack much. However, in order to suppress the engineers of the little Japanese company to repair the road, the ammunition and medicine consumed a lot of ammunition and medicine. The mortar company had few shells left, and the heavy machine gun company also consumed almost twelve bases of ammunition and medicine."

The twelve bases in two days are indeed an amazing consumption for the national army.

Feng Shengfa nodded slightly, and he didn't care about the consumption of ammunition and drugs. In this Nanjing defense battle, the supply of ammunition and drugs from each division was still sufficient. The reserve of ammunition and drugs left by the Ministry of Military Affairs was enough. The 14 divisions of the defenders lasted for more than half a year! Feng Shengfa's only concern was the casualties of each regiment and battalion, especially the 19th Brigade.

The 19th Independent Brigade is the fist unit of the 58th Division.

On the 5th and on the 6th, the 19th Brigade had reported the number of casualties to the division headquarters. A total of about 300 casualties were killed, of which more than 100 were killed and more than 50 seriously injured. The remaining minor wounded men were bandaged and could still fight. In other words, there are still more than 600 veterans who can fight against each other, and their combat effectiveness has not been weakened by the six major factors.

"Where is the emotions of the troops?" Feng Shengfa asked again, "Is there any ups and downs?"

Xu Shijiu said: "The army's emotions are quite stable. Although the brothers who gave up the Zutangshan position are a little confused, the low-level officers have already made the company and platoon-level officers do comforting work."

Feng Shengfa sighed and sighed again: "Ajiu, I really let you talk."

When he decided to defend Niushou Mountain to the death, Xu Shijiu once told Feng Shengfa that what if the military seat or chief seat, or even Chairman Jiang ordered the retreat, would Feng Shengfa do? Feng Shengfa did not answer at the time, but he did not think that this situation would happen, but he did not expect that such a situation would really happen.

Unfortunately, it was managed by the 58th Division to be like an iron barrel defensive position!

If Chunhua Town had not been lost, if the Japanese army wanted to capture Niushou Mountain, it would take less than ten days or half a month to kill three or five thousand people. It would be a pity.

Xu Shijiu also sighed and said sadly: "To be honest, the 51st Division decided not to defend Fangshan and Qinglong Mountain with all their strength, but chose to set up the front of Chunhua Town. I had already expected such a situation. Speaking of which, the 51st Division performed well. I thought they could only hold on for two days at most, but ended up for four days."

Feng Shengfa waved his hand and said, "Ajiu, let's not talk about these things anymore. Fortunately, there is still a Fukuo position to rely on."

Xu Shijiu sighed: "The loss of Chunhua Town is indeed nothing. It's nothing to give up the Niushou Mountain position, because Fukuo's position is even stronger than Niushou Mountain. Moreover, even if Fukuo is lost, the troops can still rely on the streets and alleys to fight street battles with Xiaojiben. As long as we are determined to die, Xiaojiben cannot gain any advantage, but if we are afraid of humble positions..."

Feng Shengfa was silent. He knew what Xu Shijiu was worried about. He was actually worried that the defense battle in Nanjing has been broken until now, and the Fukuo position with the city walls and Zijin Mountain as the barrier may not last for a few days. In other words, the defense battle in Nanjing will soon enter a cruel street battle stage.

The street battle in Nanjing will come so soon, I'm afraid no one would have thought it would be?

Once the street fighting stage enters the stage, more than 100,000 people from the 14 divisions on the Nanjing battlefield will no longer be able to break through. Nanjing Wucheng, the prosperous capital of the Six Dynasties, gathered with gold and powder, will also turn into a rubble field in the Japanese artillery fire. The senior officials of the National Government have really prepared their mentality to "not break the jade than to lose the whole thing"? Chairman Jiang really would be willing to fight the elite troops of the 71st Army, 72nd Army, 74th Army, 78th Army and the teaching corps to compete with the little Japanese army?

If you make up your mind to fight hard, that's nothing. Although the 14 divisions guarding Nanjing have more than 100,000 troops, they have to bite a piece of meat from their own body since childhood. The eight divisions and two detachments besieged Nanjing have 200,000 people. If there is no casualties of 100,000 or 80,000, they will not be able to conquer Nanjing Wucheng!

After all, the guy in the hands of the Kuomintang is not a fire stick!

If you don’t want to fight with the Japanese and want to preserve your vitality, you should break through from the front before the Japanese army has formed a tight encirclement net. Once you retreat to the Fukuo position, the Japanese encirclement will be greatly reduced. If you order a breakthrough at that time, the consequences will be disastrous.

Xu Shijiu was afraid, Feng Shengfa was also afraid, just because Chairman Jiang was on both ends of the rat. Before Fukuo's position was lost, he still had a lucky mentality and hoped that a miracle would happen. But when Fukuo's position was lost, he immediately changed his mind and couldn't bear to leave these dozen elite troops, and then gave orders to retreat...

If this is true, the morale and fighting spirit of the 14 divisions in the Nanjing Garrison District and the more than 100,000 troops will be collapsed in an instant. In the end, not only will these 100,000 troops still not be able to be saved, not only will Nanjing still not be able to defend, but also will not suffer too much loss. No matter how the Nanjing defense war is fought, there will probably be no worse result.

Feng Shengfa even knew that Chairman Jiang’s determination must not be overestimated.

During the Battle of Shanghai, it was not once or twice that Chairman Jiang's indecisiveness and the defeat of the national army was caused by both ends of the rat!

If it weren't for Chairman Jiang's indecisiveness, Zhang Zhizhong had already led his troops to clear Yangshupu and Hongkou districts as early as the first stage of the Battle of Shanghai. If it weren't for Chairman Jiang's two rats and having a lucky mentality for the intervention of Western powers, the Battle of Shanghai would not have caused a major defeat in the end.

If it weren't for Chairman Jiang's head and rat, Xiao Japanese would not have been able to cross the four national defense lines until now, let alone hit the city of Nanjing!

Feng Shengfa was really afraid that Chairman Jiang would lose his links at critical moments again.

But what's the use of fear? Feng Shengfa was just a small division commander. He could not make the decision of the Military Commission at all, and it was even more impossible to change Chairman Jiang's decision. The only thing he could do was to implement the orders of the military captain without fail and lead more than 9,000 officers and soldiers of the 58th Division to retreat to the Fukuo position.

"Ajiu, don't think so much." Feng Shengfa patted Xu Shijiu on the shoulder and said, "As a party-state soldier, it is better to take the troops to retreat to Fukuo's position as soon as possible. First enter the city to settle the wounded, medical teams, student soldiers and other non-combatants, and then seize the Yuhuatai position as soon as possible."
Chapter completed!