The Iron-Blooded Army of Beacon Fire

Chapter 172 Severe Situation
With the appointment of Mr. Tang Mengxiao, the Nanjing Garrison Headquarters was also established. In fact, whether he should be the commander or not had little impact on He Wei. However, there was one thing that He Wei had to be vigilant and consider. That It’s a matter of Shimonoseki Pier.

In the original historical timeline, in order to show his determination to defend the city, this man ordered a collection of ships in the city and strictly prohibited anyone from crossing the river. If you said you would not allow the troops to cross the river, they were still being cleaned up. After all, the troops had to Defend the city.

But not allowing the people to cross the river caused the people in the city to suffer bloody misfortune for eight lifetimes. With this order, many people who had a chance to escape were forced to huddle in the city until the city was broken and faced with the butcher knife of the Japanese army.

Now because of his own planning and planning, at least 3 people near Xiaguan leave Nanjing by boat every day. The Military Police Headquarters has recently further reduced the ticket price. The ticket originally cost one yuan, but now it has been reduced to [-] cents. Money, the number of people buying ferry tickets is increasing sharply every day, and it is almost rising in a straight line, but what He Wei is afraid of is that if this guy is still out of his mind, he orders in the name of the garrison headquarters to stop transporting people across the river and confiscate the money. If there are all the ships, wouldn't his plan be in vain?Many people who could have crossed the river now had to hide in the city and wait to die.

When He Wei became aware of the possibility of this danger, he drove to the Military Police Headquarters and informed General Xiao. However, General Xiao disagreed and believed that no one would stop this kind of thing. After all, it was a matter of virtue and good governance to evacuate the people. , he believed that the new Commander Tang would not stop it. Commander Xiao also felt that He Wei was a little too worried. He Wei had nothing to do but told General Xiao to be more careful.

As a result, a few days later, around November 20th, one night, Commander Tang suddenly issued an order to the Military Police Headquarters. In order to boost morale and defend the capital to the death, he ordered the Military Police Headquarters to immediately Stop all shipping operations, and no soldiers or horses are allowed to cross the river.

The Military Police Headquarters immediately went into a panic after receiving the news. General Xiao was also shocked into a cold sweat. He did not expect that He Wei's prediction a few days ago would actually become a reality. In order to prevent Commander Tang's order, General Xiao stayed overnight He rushed to the Nanjing Garrison Headquarters and argued with him. It is said that the two sides were very unhappy. Commander Xiao risked the lives of all the people in the city to persuade Commander Tang to take back his order. Commander Tang, in order to boost morale, said that the river must be sealed.

He Wei, who later learned the specific details, was extremely indignant. He led hundreds of thousands of people to fight against the odds, but you really deserved it.

There was no concrete outcome to the dispute between Commander Xiao and Commander Tang, but the military police reacted violently. Many military police officers scolded Commander Tang. Some even openly stated that a person from the Hunan Army had no military power. , and a person with a history of resisting Chiang Kai-shek many times is not qualified to serve as the commander of this garrison, let alone to point fingers at the military police units of the Central Army.

What's more, some gendarmerie agents even threatened to kill Commander Tang. For a time, the gendarmerie troops were in a state of excitement. There was no other reason than that shipping was now the gendarmerie's source of wealth. Absolutely, such as killing parents, the gendarmerie Of course, the reaction of the troops could not be less intense.

Finally, some clever person came up with a solution and actually shut down operations for a day.

As soon as this news came out, the tens of thousands of people who were going to cross the river that day were all in a panic. They gave money and bought tickets. Good guy, if you say you won’t give it, you won’t give it. Suddenly, tens of thousands of people helped the old man and his wife. As a child, he knelt down by the river, crying and howling, begging the military police guarding the boat to let him cross the river.

It is said that the scene at that time was extremely touching. Later, some military police officers took the initiative to come out and knelt down in front of the people in grief, telling the people that they had no choice but to stop shipping this time, all because of orders from above.

At this time, several military police agents among the common people who had sneaked in in advance took the opportunity to ask the military police officer who gave the order. The military police officer bluntly said that the order was issued by the Nanjing Garrison Headquarters.

As a result, under the instigation of those spies, tens of thousands of ordinary people actually poured into the city and rushed to the Nanjing Garrison Headquarters. Then, under the instigation of those spies, the people knelt down again and begged the garrison headquarters. Give yourself a way to survive. Tens of thousands of people were crying and wailing on the street. The scene was not unspectacular. These tens of thousands of people blocked all the streets near the garrison headquarters, and they were surrounded by water. The entire garrison headquarters was almost fell into a state of paralysis.

Tang Mengxiao was also dumbfounded. He didn't expect that the order to close the ships that he issued to boost morale would actually cause such a big reaction from the people. He knew that he was going against the public's anger this time and had no choice but to withdraw his orders. That's it. , this absurd order was invalidated within less than a day after it was issued, and the work of transporting people across the river at Xiaguan Wharf resumed.

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And the tragic situation of the teaching corps that He Wei saw in the Xiaolingwei camp that day was just the beginning. In the past few days, He Wei had witnessed a large number of troops retreating from the Songhu front line, and almost all of these troops had been incorporated into the Sequence of the Nanjing Garrison.

These troops include Song Xilian’s Army No. 30 Sixth Division, Sun Yuanliang’s Army No. 80 Eighth Division, Wang Jingjiu’s Army No. 80 Seventh Division, Feng Shengfa’s Army Eighth Division, Wang Yaowu’s Army First Division, and Gui Yongqing’s Central Military Academy Teaching team.

In addition to these direct troops of the Central Army, there are also the Guangdong troops No. 60 Sixth Army, which retreated from the Songhu front line, and its affiliated 80th and [-]th Divisions, and No. [-] Third Army, and its affiliated [-]th Division and [-]th Division.

This is not over yet. In order to enhance the combat effectiveness of the Nanjing Garrison, the No. 40 40th Division and the No. 1000 [-]st Division of Xu Yuanquan's Department stationed in Hubei were transferred over. This unit has a close relationship with He Wei. He Wei previously The more than [-] supplementary soldiers recently added to Wei's special agent battalion came from these two divisions.

In short, after piecing together here and there, we finally managed to cobble together a dozen units with divisional designations for the Nanjing Garrison. The reason why we say divisional designations instead of divisions is because He Wei knows the quality of these troops very well. These are in Song Among the troops on the Shanghai front who had gone through bloody battles, the infantry divisions in better condition still had 4000 men left, and the worse ones only had 3000 men left. They were not enough to be called infantry divisions at all, and they were almost enough to be called strengthened infantry regiments.

Obviously, the higher-ups also knew the status of the subordinate units of the Nanjing Garrison, so they first made an expansion. This expansion, which is said to be an expansion, is actually better to say that it is an additional designation, mainly for the 88th, 36th and 87th Infantry Divisions. These three infantry divisions All the old Central Army infantry divisions were expanded into corps, but only an additional corps designation was added to each division, nothing more.

For example, the No. 80 Eighth Division has the designation of Army No. 70 Second Army added above it, the 36th Division has the Army No. 70 Eighth Army added above it, and the 87th Division has the Army No. 70 First Army added above it. The commanders of each corps are served by the division commanders of several divisions, and the subordinates are still the original divisions. This is equivalent to adding three corps-level numbers out of thin air, but the strength of the troops below has not increased at all.

Of course, some troops were actually expanded. The teaching corps was ordered to expand from the original three-regiment corps to the three-brigades-nine-regiment corps, and the artillery battalion, engineering battalion, baggage battalion, communications battalion, cavalry battalion, etc. were directly under the corps. All directly-affiliated battalion-level units have been expanded into regiment-level units.

为了满足如此庞大的扩编和其他各个部队的战损补充需求，军政部开始从后方抽调大量的新兵运到南京，军政部调徐海、淮扬、南抚、金陵等师管区后方补充营44个、南京补充兵训练处补充兵团4个、江西保安团1个共计40200人分别集中南京、浦镇、滁县等地，补充第36、第87、第88师、教导总队和第74军等部。

其中，No.80八师补充南京补充兵训练处第1团2100人、浔饶师管区3营2100人、南抚师管区2营1400人、金陵师管区1营700人，共计6300人。No.80七师补充南京补充兵训练处第2团2100人、徐海师管区4营2800人、淮扬师管区2营1400人，共计6300人。

第36师补充南京补充兵训练处第3团2100人、江西保安第5团1000人、安庐师管区3营2100人，共计5200人。

教导总队补充芜徽师管区3营2100人、淮泗师管区4营2800人、南京补充兵训练处第4团2100人、杭嘉师管区2营1400人、苏沪师管区2营1400人、金陵师管区2营1400人，共计11200人。

第51、第58师预定补充淮扬师管区1营700人、豫东师管区4营2800人、豫南师管区3营2100人、江汉师管区2营1400人、长岳师管区2营1400人、荆宜师管区2营1400人、赣南师管区2营1400人，共计11200人。

A large number of new soldiers were transported to Nanjing from various division-controlled areas in the rear and added to various units. Even General Xiao from the Military Police Headquarters called He Wei and asked He Wei if he needed additional soldiers. He could He Wei was trying to find a way to get a group of new soldiers for He Wei. Hearing what General Xiao said, He Wei couldn't help but refuse again and again when he thought about the quality of the new troops in each unit.

It's not that He Wei doesn't want them, it's just that the quality of the newly recruited soldiers who were sent to Nanjing really made He Wei shake his head. With more than 4 recruits transported to Nanjing one after another, He Wei can often be found at transportation points in the suburbs and within the city. see them.

The vast majority of this group of soldiers come from various military division areas. The recruitment methods in these military division areas can basically be called forced recruitment, which is the so-called capture of soldiers. This group of soldiers is no exception. Most of them are ordinary farmers in the fields. , were captured by the recruiting officers in the rear in various ways and brought to the military division area, and then transported to Nanjing City by train. When they were replenished to each unit, they were tied into a string with ropes and chains, and were sent to the pick-up station under the supervision of the recruiting officers. Soldiers.

Not to mention basic combat training such as shooting and shooting, and the most basic training of recruits such as standing at attention and walking in step, these recruits are just a group of peasants wearing military uniforms.

In fact, He Wei is confident that he can train the young men captured in this way well. If he is in the rear area and is not in a hurry to use troops, he would not mind getting some young men captured for He Wei.

But the Japanese are about to attack. They got such a group of new recruits just to cause trouble for themselves. In fact, it is these new soldiers who constitute the main force of the Nanjing garrison. In less than half a month, even a group of gods would not be able to train peasants who cannot even walk in line or listen to commands into combatants who can engage in fierce battles.

To be honest, He Wei didn't have the slightest confidence in letting this group of troops to fight the Japanese army head-on. He also understood why historically Nanjing was lost after just one week of fighting, so these new recruits were used to fight the Japanese army head-on. Come on, it's a miracle that we can hold on for a week.

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In Xiaoling Guard, the temporary headquarters of the secret service camp, He Wei and the chiefs of the secret service camp were gathered together. Everyone looked solemn. Outside the window, from time to time, there were various sounds of killing and beatings and corporal punishment. For a period of time, no matter what happened in other troops or what happened in the city, He Wei had only one order for the spy battalion, and that was to train, crazy training.

After more than a month of training, the officers and soldiers of the special agent battalion have made great progress in both physical combat skills and tactics. But now, when the Japanese army is about to approach the city, He Wei has ordered to slowly reduce the intensity of the training. The soldiers began to be given a lot of time to recharge their batteries, because they were about to fight with real swords and guns, and further high-intensity training would not be of any benefit in actual combat. Therefore, in addition to the latest training in the secret service camp, the In addition to basic physical fitness and shooting training, most of the time is left for the soldiers to rest.

The loud shouts of death that He Wei and the others heard now came from the teaching corps of Xiaoling Guards. These days, the spy battalion has been staying away from people and is stationed in the Xiaoling Guards camp of the teaching corps to teach all the actions of the corps. It's all under He Wei's eyes.

In the past few days, he had watched the teaching corps accept more than 1 strong recruits, and in He Wei's view, these recruits were no different from farmers in the fields.

The teaching corps is to use these soldiers to expand the entire corps into more than a dozen regiment-level units. He Wei really can't imagine that the teaching corps built with these strong men should be worthy of the name of the Royal Forest Army, and the teaching corps The officers were also very worried about this.

"I said battalion commander, do you have any orders for our special agent battalion now? I've asked a few old acquaintances, and their troops have already begun to enter their predetermined positions. I estimate that this time they are going to put some troops in Nanjing. With three lines of defense, I wonder where our spy battalion can be thrown?"

Communications platoon leader Sun Xisheng said that he had been in Nanjing for a long time and had many acquaintances, so he was naturally well-informed. After several inquiries, he also had a general understanding of the deployment of the Nanjing garrison.

What the officers of the special agent battalion are currently most concerned about is the future use and command of the special agent battalion. What will the special agent battalion do?With what kind of tactics?Join this battle to defend the capital?

Now He Wei hopes that the special agent battalion can have the authority to move freely. It seems that the problem is not big at present. The special agent battalion itself is under the command sequence of the military police headquarters and listens to the command of the military police headquarters. Now the entire military police headquarters is controlled by himself. He was thrown into the water. He had a very high say in the military police. The military police themselves did not participate in the front-line combat. Now they were busy transporting people across the river to make money. How could they have time to take care of their own secret service battalion?
Therefore, He Wei believes that the actions and command of the spy battalion can still be in his own hands.

According to He Wei's idea, the small number of people in the spy camp must not be thrown to the front line to fill in the lines. The best tactic is to conduct mobile operations at the innermost gates of Nanjing to maximize the time for the fall of Nanjing. To delay for a while to buy time for the people to cross the river, this was his positioning of the spy battalion in future battles.

"It's okay, don't worry. Now the use of our special agent camp is mostly decided by us. Just wait for the order. I will go to the Military Police Headquarters in a few days, so I can relax."

He Wei said in a very relaxed tone, which reassured the main cadres in the camp. He didn't care about this matter. But he didn't expect that even if he didn't care about this matter, a few days later Something went wrong.

(End of this chapter)