"Yes! That's what our company commander said too," Liu Laopao answered loudly.

"What else did your company commander say?" Liu Xing asked with great interest.

"The company commander said: Today we sank the Japanese destroyer "Yugiri" and five torpedo boats.

We captured three tanks and requested that the commander replenish our ten lost trucks."

Commander Liu Xing said strangely, "Wasn't it three trucks?"

Liu Laopao didn't even blush, "Reporting to the commander, you saw wrong, it's ten!

The Special Company has fourteen hundred men and thirty-two trucks, which can't bring out our mobility.

The company commander said that it would be best to have fifty trucks, so we can patrol the entire defense area.

Wherever there is danger, we will go there to support."

Liu Xing said with a smile, "If that's the case, even soldiers made of iron can't stand it.

You can have such ideas, but I, as the commander, can't use you like that.

How about this! I'll replenish five trucks for you.

Tell your company commander to guard Jiangyin well and never let the Japanese attack Jiangyin."

"Yes! We will definitely not let the Japanese enter Jiangyin," Liu Laopao answered loudly.

When Lin Fan led Xiao Dongbei's team and a tank into Jiangyin County,

Even at night, Division Commander Huo made a special trip to check it out.

Even though he was the division commander of the main force division, his division didn't have a single tank.

Even when they were in the Northeast, their main force division didn't have tanks.

Now, a small special company not only has anti-aircraft guns, but also dozens of heavy machine guns and hundreds of machine guns.

Now they even have tanks.

Such firepower is even stronger than the firepower of the Central Training Corps.

Division Commander Huo Shouyi touched the tank and said, "Good! Good! With this thing, it will be easier for us to fight the Japanese."

Lin Fan looked at Division Commander Huo and asked, "Do you have any actions tonight?"

Division Commander Huo was shocked, "How did you know?"

Organizing a suicide squad to sneak attack the city was a plan he personally formulated and was strictly confidential.

If this kind of thing is leaked out and the Japanese find out, a team of a hundred people will be eaten clean by the Japanese.

Lin Fan pointed to his fully armed appearance and smiled, "Division commander looks so excited, it's obvious that there's a big move tonight.

Now the Special Company is also under the division commander's command, so we can't be left out of any benefits."

Division Commander Huo Shouyi laughed, "We have organized a suicide squad to sneak attack the Japanese camp.

You fought all day long, can you still hold on at night?"

Lin Fan put away his smile and said seriously, "Yes! To fight the Japanese, the Special Company can do it at any time."

Huo Shouyi asked in a consultative tone, "You really don't want to rest?"

Lin Fan replied decisively, "No need!"

"How many people are going?"

"A thousand people!" Lin Fan replied.

"Is that still a sneak attack?" Huo Shouyi was shocked.

"In Jiaxing, we also ran twenty *li* overnight and sneaked attacked the Japanese artillery positions."

Huo Shouyi's eyes lit up, "Do you want to attack the Japanese artillery again tonight?"

Lin Fan shook his head, "When we were in Jiaxing, we could guess the approximate location of the Japanese artillery positions, so we went there.

Now we don't know where the Japanese artillery positions are at all.

The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.

We can only move around in the Jiangyin defense area, these places we are familiar with."

Division Commander Huo's expression was obviously a little disappointed, "Isn't a team of more than a thousand people a bit too much?"

Lin Fan said seriously, "There is only one chance like this, if we want to fight, we have to fight hard.

Hit the Japanese hard."

Huo Shouyi also knew that such a sneak attack opportunity was indeed only for the first time.

After the Japanese suffer once, they will be prepared next time.

So he said, "We only have one hundred and sixty people going out.

Even if a thousand soldiers from the Special Company follow, they must obey the arrangements of Captain Zhong Qing."

Lin Fan said with a smile, "Yes! Let's go together!"

"Good!"

Lin Fan left Xiao Dongbei's Fourth Squad and Chen Sichuan's First Squad to guard the camp.

Leading the remaining squads behind Zhong Qing, the captain of the 112th Division's suicide squad.

Zhong Qing strictly followed Division Commander Huo's orders: sneak attack the Japanese camp, do not entangle, do not fight for a long time.

Change places after fighting for a while.

Lin Fan and his thousand-plus men quietly sneaked to the outside of the Japanese camp.

First, they crawled to the vicinity of the Japanese camp, and then there was a burst of fierce shooting.

The soldiers of the Special Company used the captured grenade launchers and mortars to bombard.

The suicide squad members of the 112th Division used machine guns, shooting and leaving.

For tonight's attack, most of the soldiers of the Special Company changed to machine guns, and several machine guns fired at the same time.

The fierce firepower made it impossible for the Japanese in the camp to fight back in the dark night.

Lin Fan walked up to Captain Zhong Qing, "Captain Zhong! Can we rush into the camp and kill all these Japanese?"

Lin Fan has always liked the guiding principle that the great man said: it is better to break one finger than to hurt all ten fingers.

Although Zhong Qing's expression could not be seen in the dark night, his calm voice could still bring out his emotions:

"We are here to sneak attack the Japanese, not to wipe them out."

Lin Fan quickly replied, "Yes!"

Tonight's commander is Zhong Qing, and what Lin Fan needs to do is to unconditionally obey the commander's orders.

The firepower and fighting style of the Special Company just now also gave Captain Zhong Qing a lot of confidence.

According to the original plan, they only needed to attack the Japanese camp closest to the city gate when they left the city.

After seeing the fierce firepower of the Special Company.

Not only did Captain Zhong Qing change the original plan.

Even after the suicide squad soldiers retreated, under the pitch-black night sky, the Japanese camps that were attacked did not dare to come out to pursue.

Zhong Qing led these thousand-plus people to continue to sneak towards the next Japanese camp.

He strictly followed Division Commander Huo's orders, and only attacked the Japanese in each camp for ten minutes before leaving immediately.

In ten minutes, the machine gunners of the Special Company could fire four magazines.

However, the barrels of the machine guns in their hands will definitely be damaged after such fierce and continuous shooting.

Lin Fan didn't care.

They have snatched a lot of machine guns from the Japanese in the past two days, so they are not afraid of consumption.

In one night, this team attacked six Japanese camps, until dawn came.

Only then did they quietly embark on the road back to the city.

There were no casualties in the entire operation that night.

It made Division Commander Huo Shouyi, who had been waiting at the south gate, very gratified.

Suicide squad! Triumphantly returning to the city!

On the evening of the 28th, when Chiang Kai-shek was discussing with his German military adviser Alexander von Falkenhausen how the Battle of Nanjing should be fought,

The telephone in his office rang.

It was from the German ambassador to China, Trautmann.

On the phone, Trautmann informed Chiang Kai-shek of the latest mediation results: the Japanese put forward five conditions: First, Chiang Kai-shek must step down.

Second, the entire five provinces of Central China will be autonomous.

Third, the Japanese army has the right to station troops in Shanghai, and Jiangsu is a demilitarized zone, and neither side can station troops.

Fourth, all textbooks and newspapers of the Nanjing government are not allowed to have anti-Japanese propaganda, and more publicity should be given to friendship.

Fifth, abolish trade tariffs, and Japanese warships have the right to navigate freely along the Yangtze River.

Hearing these peace talk conditions conveyed by Trautmann, Chiang Kai-shek did not say anything on the surface.

But in his heart, he was already furious and wanted to jump up and curse.

Finally, Trautmann asked Falkenhausen to answer the phone.

After answering the phone, Falkenhausen's face was quite ugly. He said to Chiang Kai-shek, "Principal, why don't you accept the Japanese conditions!"

Chiang Kai-shek looked at his old friend and didn't understand why. Just now the two of them were discussing the defense of Nanjing, but now he suddenly changed his mind.

Falkenhausen said with a wry smile:

"Japan, Germany, and Italy are in a military alliance.

In the eyes of the Japanese, our military advisory group in your country threatens their offensive pace.

They have repeatedly protested to our country, asking the country to transfer the entire military advisory group back home.

We are not allowed to continue to help Nanjing resist the war.

If I continue to do so, the country will take action against my family.

I have finished what the country asked me to convey to Mr. Chiang.

Mr. Chiang, you need to find your own way for the next battle."

Of course, Chiang Kai-shek understood that Falkenhausen was very sympathetic and supportive of the Nanjing government.

It's just that as a German, especially when his family is still in Germany, he must carry out the orders from the country.

Of course, Chiang Kai-shek could not agree to the mediation results that Trautmann had just put forward.

Of course, Chiang Kai-shek could not agree to the order conveyed by Falkenhausen.

But he was also unwilling to let Falkenhausen leave like this, he pleaded bitterly, but Falkenhausen said to him helplessly: "General! My family is still in the country, I can't ignore their life and death."

Alexander von Falkenhausen has been preparing for the War of Resistance since he became Chiang Kai-shek's military adviser in 1935.

He spent three months examining the area from the lower reaches of the Yangtze River to the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.

He pointed out that the biggest threat to the Nanjing government at that time came from Japan.

And he clearly pointed out: the manufacturing and military strength between the two countries are too different.

If fighting Japan, they can only implement step-by-step resistance, using space for time to prolong the entire war time.

Use a long strategic depth to wear down the Japanese army.

At the same time, he suggested that the Nanjing government should immediately establish a modern army and build its own military factories.

Build fortresses and fortresses between Shanghai and Nanjing to resist attacks from the coast.

That's how the Wu-Fu Line, Xi-Cheng Line, and Jiangyin Fortress came about.

And Falkenhausen personally went to see the locations of many fortresses on these two defense lines.

Facts have proved that the Jiangyin Fortress is indeed effective in blocking the Yangtze River.

The gap between the Japanese navy and the Nanjing government's navy is many times stronger than the gap between the armies.

But their naval fleet has been blocked at the Jiangyin Fortress for three months and has not made any progress.

Originally, there were twelve divisions of the National Army's elite on the Wu-Fu Line and Xi-Cheng Line.

They were used to defend these two defense lines.

Chiang Kai-shek dragged them all up to fight when the battle was tight.

This also caused these two defense lines, which were originally planned to last for at least two years, to be lost in less than half a month.

This responsibility is definitely not Falkenhausen's.

On November 24th, the Nine-Power Pact Conference that Chiang Kai-shek had been looking forward to finally passed a non-committal "Report of the Nine-Power Pact Conference" and made the following statement:

Emphasizing the effectiveness, necessity and universality of the peace principles of the Nine-Power Pact, and requiring China and Japan to stop hostilities and take peaceful procedures.

This is the result of three weeks of discussions in Brussels, the capital of Belgium, from November 3rd, with the participation of 19 countries including China, the United States, Britain, France, and the Soviet Union.

Japan and Germany refused to attend this meeting.

Chinese representative Gu Weijun, the ambassador to France, and Yang Yinpu, the economic specialist of the National Government's representative office in Geneva, participated in the entire agenda.

At the meeting, Chinese representative Gu Weijun requested that the participating countries impose economic sanctions on Japan, stop providing loans and military supplies, and provide military assistance to China, calling for an end to Japanese aggression.

However, the participating countries had their own interests and turned a blind eye to the current war of aggression in East Asia.

At this meeting, only the Soviet representative supported the Nanjing government's proposal, but they were unwilling to get involved in the conflict alone.

Three weeks of empty talk rejected the Chinese government's just request for sanctions against Japan.

This made Chiang Kai-shek extremely disappointed with the League of Nations.

In fact, such a result was already doomed in September.

It's just that the intelligence analysts within the Nanjing government did not pay attention to the actions of the big capitalists in the United States and Britain.

Before the start of the war in Shanghai, Germany, Japan, and Italy were already military allies.

After the war started, in order to avoid international interference as much as possible, Japan imported a large number of war materials from Britain and the United States.

Including various weapons, ammunition, oil, steel, etc.

At the same time, it also gave up great benefits and proposed large loans to the two countries to purchase these war materials.

This is because they saw that Britain and the United States had just emerged from the economic crisis and had not fully recovered their economic vitality.

It is precisely when a large number of orders are needed.

Japan cut its own flesh, shed its own blood, and supported Britain and the United States to drag their economies out of the quagmire.

The only purpose is: do not hinder his interests in the East.

The benefits he gives to Britain and the United States will be robbed back from the East in double through war.

The United States and Britain are also well aware of this.

This kind of thing that kills friends and does not kill the poor.

They have no reason to stop it, because there are their interests in it.

The Japanese's self-sacrificing behavior gave the two old empires that had just struggled out of the economic crisis a large number of job opportunities and economic benefits.

They are deeply involved in the war interests in the East, and of course it is impossible to make a vote that is detrimental to the Japanese.

After the start of the war between the two countries in the Far East,

American business circles entered Japan in a big way to invest in the stock market, giving strong economic support to the military government that was already unable to sustain itself.

These businessmen all put their treasures on the Japanese side, and of course they do not want the Japanese to lose this war.

In the eyes of these businessmen, there is only profit, never justice.

For the sake of profit, they can sell themselves!

The voices of businessmen in Britain and the United States directly affected the national policies of the entire country.

Under this circumstance, before the Brussels Conference, the representatives of Britain and the United States had already unified their calibers: all proposals for sanctions against Japan must be resisted.

This determined that this meeting was destined to be fruitless.

The Soviet Union was because the Japanese at that time held high the banner of opposing ** to please Britain and the United States, and it was destined to be a potential threat.

Therefore, supporting sanctions against the Japanese was just a country's endorsement and did not play a role.

In fact, the Soviets had sent twenty-five aircraft into Nanjing to help with air defense during the conference.

So far, it has shot down six Japanese planes and bombed Japanese warships.

This is an open secret, but the entire West has never reported on this matter.

Even after the Japanese were blown up by Soviet planes and Soviet pilots, they remained silent.

They just regarded it as being shot down by the National Army soldiers.

Although the Japanese have always had a stubborn and strong desire to occupy the land of the Soviets, they are still trying to restrain it now.

The newly established Red Soviet Union not only sent aircraft and pilots.

They also signed a loan of 25 million with the Nanjing government to purchase aircraft, anti-aircraft guns, tanks, and other agreements.

In contrast, Chiang Kai-shek, who was extremely disappointed with the Brussels Conference, had to face reality.

At that time, he was hesitant whether to defend Nanjing or not.

When seeking Falkenhausen's opinion, the old man gave a definite answer: "Defend! But don't defend!"

He further explained: "The terrain of Nanjing determines that it is not an easy city to defend.

Therefore, it must be defended politically, and it must be resolutely defended.

But militarily, it cannot be like the Battle of Songhu, where all the elites of the country are sent up.

All consumed.

We must prepare for a long-term war of resistance, so the defense militarily can only be a sacrifice.

Let the people of the whole country and the people of the world see the determination of the Nanjing government to resist the war.

But this sacrifice cannot be too great!"

This is the strategy of step-by-step resistance.

Although Chiang Kai-shek is sometimes not very clever in military operations.

But he is a master in politics.

Politically, we must do our best to defend, and militarily, we must defend!

He has fully grasped the essence.

Tonight, Chiang Kai-shek was originally a little happy to hear that the Jiangyin Fortress had sunk six Japanese warships and repelled the Japanese infantry. He specially invited Falkenhausen to talk about how to defend Nanjing specifically.

Unexpectedly, he would receive the news that the German government would withdraw the military advisory group.

Judging from the information revealed in this news, the possibility of himself purchasing new equipment from Germany in the future is very low.

This made Chiang Kai-shek even more distressed.

What made him even more distressed was that at today's routine military meeting, Wang Jingwei had already clearly launched an attack on himself at the meeting.

He put forward the argument that the country cannot be destroyed because of one person, and proposed accepting Germany's mediation and accepting the conditions put forward by the Japanese.

The first condition is to let Chiang Kai-shek step down!

How can this be tolerated!