Shanghai, Marine Corps Command.

At this time, the Marine Corps Command had become the Shanghai Condemnation Command of Matsui Ishione.

Matsui Ishien is over 60 years old, thin and short. The pair of small eyes hiding behind myopia glasses always emit faint gazes, which makes people feel scared.

None of the staff members of the Shanghai Condemnation Army Command are afraid of Matsui Ishien.

Even the chief of staff of the Shanghai condemnation army, Iimuma, was a little afraid of Matsui Ishienen.

With a blue face, Iinuma walked to Matsui Ishien and reported: "Genius General, the Guozaki Detachment of the 10th Army has passed Nanxun, less than a hundred miles away from Wuxing!"

"Baga!" Matsui Ishigen cursed fiercely when he heard this, and quickly walked to the map.

At this time, Wuto Aki, the chief of staff of the Shanghai Sect Condemnation Army Command, had already drawn two huge red arrows on the large map with his several combat staff.

The arrowhead in the north represents the condemnation army in Shanghai. Starting from Dachang Town in the downtown area of ​​Shanghai, it barely crosses Taicang and is almost approaching Kunshan; however, the arrowhead in the south represents the 10th Army in the south has crossed Nanxun and is about to advance to Wuxing!

At this time, you don’t use a corner ruler to measure it. You can see it with your naked eyes that the progress of the 10th Army is far beyond the Shanghai condemnation army. According to the current trend, the 10th Army will definitely attack the outside of Nanjing before the Shanghai condemnation army, and then there is a high probability that the Shanghai condemnation army will invade the Nanjing city first!

Thinking of this, Matsui Ishien felt his chest blocked.

Although the base camp has ordered the formation of the Central China Front Army and Matsui Ishione is also the commander of the Central China Front Army, Matsui Ishione knows that his basic foundation is still the Shanghai Condemnation Army! No matter how good the tenth Army performs, it has nothing to do with him. Only when the Shanghai Condemnation Army performs well will the base camp recognize him!

Compared to Yanagawa Heisuke, Matsui Ishien undoubtedly needs the recognition of the base camp.

Because Matsui Ishione's performance in the Battle of Shanghai was not good, or even very poor!

It is said that the Chief of Staff Prince Miyamiya Hashihito has been calling him a waste in private many times. If he cannot perform well in the battle to capture Nanjing, Matsui Ishien is very worried that he will be dismissed.

After looking at the map for a long time, Matsui Ishigen said viciously: "Order, the 3rd, 9th, 11th and 13th Divisions to speed up and capture Kunshan as soon as possible. There is also the Chongteng Detachment just transferred from Taiwan. There is no need to land at Baimakou anymore, so that they can directly advance west along the Yangtze River and capture Jiangyin Fortress as quickly as possible!"

"Hayi!" Iinuma Masato bowed his head heavily.

...

Nanjing Command.

The Military Commission is holding a military meeting.

The theme of the meeting is only one: Nanjing, should you guard or not?

There were many senior generals attending the meeting, including He Yingqin, Bai Chongxi, Chen Cheng, and Gu Zhutong. Even local powerful figures such as Liu Xiang and Li Zongren have arrived in Nanjing.

The meeting first gave a military statement to Bai Chongxi, who was the deputy chief of staff.

Bai Chongxi finally concluded: "In short, the Japanese Shanghai condemnation army and the 10th Army have officially started a competition, chasing each other and advancing towards Nanjing! On the other hand, because our army retreated too quickly, the strategy of blocking the Japanese army on several national defense lines was no longer implemented."

Hearing this, Chairman Jiang's face turned gloomy.

Bai Chongxi said this to him, Mr. Jiang in the face!

Bai Chongxi didn't care at all and said, "This means that the Japanese army crossed the Su-Hangzhou Line and advanced to Nanjing, which is a predictable fact! The Party and the country must not have any illusions about this!"

Hearing this, a sound of lament immediately sounded in the conference room.

Liu Fei, the head of the combat team of the Military Command, who was responsible for formulating the combat plan, endured for a long time, but he still couldn't hold it back. He stood up and accused him: "Although the plan for the war of attrition was formulated before the Battle of Songhu, the later stage of the Battle of Songhu was not fully implemented according to this plan, and a large number of elite troops were invested in Shanghai, resulting in heavy casualties..."

Hearing this, Chairman Jiang's face immediately turned into black charcoal, and Liu Fei's slap in the face even more fiercely!

Chen Cheng looked at Chairman Jiang and quickly interrupted Liu Fei and said, "Team Leader Liu, now we are discussing guarding Nanjing. The Battle of Songhu has ended. Don't mention the past."

Liu Fei glanced at Chairman Jiang and sat back in depressedly.

Chairman Jiang breathed a sigh of relief and said in a deep voice: "Tell me, Nanjing, can you defend it or can't?"

Liu Fei, who had just sat down, stood up again and said, "Please forgive me for saying that Nanjing cannot be kept!"

After saying that, Liu Fei strode to the map on the wall, pointed to the map and explained: "Mr. I have all the masters. Look at the map. As long as the Japanese army occupy Wuhu and block the Yangtze River, Nanjing will immediately become a dead city! Moreover, the morale of the Japanese army is in full swing at this time, but our army suffered heavy casualties and its morale is even lower."

Bai Chongxi nodded and echoed: "Team Leader Liu is right. At this time, he was in Nanjing. I am afraid that even the more than 400,000 defeated soldiers who finally escaped from the Songhu battlefield will not be able to protect the more than 400,000 soldiers who finally escaped from the Songhu battlefield! Without these 400,000 troops, what else can the party and the country fight against the Japanese invaders? This is simply self-destruction!"

"Flat!" A slap suddenly hit the conference table heavily.

Everyone looked at each other urgently, but Tang Shengzhi stood up with a dark face.

Tang Shengzhi sternly said: "Nanjing is not only the capital of the Republic of China, but also the mausoleum of the Prime Minister. As a soldier and a senior general of the Party and the country, if you give up Nanjing without fighting a battle, you are worthy of the billions of people across the country and the Prime Minister first? In short, just one sentence, Nanjing must be defended, but you still have to defend it if you can't defend it!"

Liu Xiang lowered his head and said quietly: "What Brother Meng Xiao said is very true. Nanjing is the location of the tomb of the First Prime Minister, and it is also an international perspective. If we abandon Nanjing without fighting in a battle, we will definitely be despised by the world and despised by the Western countries. In the future, we will be indifferent to the heroic spirit of the First Prime Minister."

Tang Shengzhi and Liu Xiang brought both the Prime Minister out, but Bai Chongxi and the others dared not refute it.

Chairman Jiang was also very hesitant. Emotionally, he was still inclined to defend Nanjing. He even thought about finding the face he had lost in the Battle of Songhu from the Nanjing battlefield! But reason told him that Songhu was newly defeated, and more than 400,000 defeated soldiers and generals urgently needed rest and were unable to fight again! So defending Nanjing to the death is really a search for abuse and death!

Seeing that it was impossible to reach a unified opinion, Chairman Jiang had to announce the extension.
Chapter completed!