Cross the Songhu battlefield and rise to become the most powerful warlord

Chapter 350 Recovery

350 Restoration

On the night of the 26th, Ning Yongchen led the last batch of soldiers under Ye Qingshan in the city out of Taiping Gate.

It happened to meet with the rocket artillery battalion where Wang Dachuan was.

An hour later, they met a battalion of the 208th Division that came to support them.

At ten o'clock in the evening, Ning Yongchen and others arrived at Ye Qingshan's command center.

At this point, all of Ye Qingshan’s direct troops in Jinling City were evacuated.

As for Alice, Pete and others who stayed in the city, Ye Qingshan did not take them away.

Because Ye Qingshan knew.

No matter who the National Army Command sent, they would not dare to do anything to Alice, Pete and others.

"Sir! Ning Yongchen reports in!"

Ye Qingshan gave Ning Yongchen a big hug.

This junior fellow student went from being hesitant at first to becoming his staunch supporter in the end.

During this period, this junior gave Ye Qingshan a lot of help.

"Just come back."

Ye Qingshan patted Ning Yongchen on the back.

“Return to your respective posts.

The final battle is not over yet."

Ye Qingshan looked at everyone and said.

"Yes!"

Everyone responded.

Ye Qingshan did not say clearly what they would do next.

At this time, the only people who knew about Ye Qingshan’s specific plans and deployments were a few trusted senior officials such as Zhou Pingkou.

No one else knew where Ye Qingshan was going to take them next.

However, Ning Yongchen, Lu Dahai, Wang Dachuan and others did not ask any questions.

Because they have unconditional trust in Ye Qingshan.

Anyway, they firmly believed that following Ye Qingshan was the right thing to do.

Just half an hour before Ning Yongchen returned, Ye Qingshan also received a telegram from Commander Chen Cheng.

He officially notified Ye Qingshan that he would replace Tang Shengzhi as the commander-in-chief of the Nanjing front.

In the telegram, Chen Cheng did not mention anything about Tang Shengzhi or the seizure of power.

And Chen Cheng told Ye Qingshan.

Let them continue to carry out the pursuit of the Japanese.

This means that Chen Cheng did not make any changes to the counterattack plan that Ye Qingshan had previously set.

The action plan that Ye Qingshan had previously formulated was still used.

After receiving this telegram, Ye Qingshan was in a very good mood.

Because the content of this telegram represents Chen Cheng's attitude.

At the same time, it also represents the attitude of some high-ranking members of the National Army.

Immediately, Ye Qingshan’s command center continued to move eastward.

Heading towards Zhenjiang.

As for the main force of the 208th Division, it was actually about to reach Zhenjiang.

What happened in Jinling City did not affect the foreign troops' counterattack against the Japanese invaders.

Especially Ye Qingshan's counterattack, which is currently the most advanced among all the national army teams.

Only Ye Qingshan’s command center was a little further back.

Just to wait for Ning Yongchen and others.

Five o'clock in the morning on the 27th.

Ye Qingshan arrived in Zhenjiang.

At this time, Zhenjiang had been recovered by Zheng Cuzi's army.

The Japanese did not choose to defend Zhenjiang, but abandoned the city after looting it.

Continue to retreat eastward.

"Send a telegram to the whole country, our army will recover Zhenjiang!"

Ye Qingshan gave the order.

Soon, the news spread.

This was after the National Army was defeated in the Battle of Shanghai and retreated westwards all the way to Nanjing.

A city that was counterattacked and liberated by the National Army.

"Sir, Commander Chen sent a congratulatory message from Jinling City!

Congratulations on our recovery of Zhenjiang!"

Ning Yongchen brought a telegram with a smile.

"Commander Chen didn't say anything else?"

Ye Qingshan felt that Chen Cheng seemed to be more patient than him.

"I didn't say it."

"Okay, got it."

"Sir, a telegram from Jinling City.

It was sent by Special Envoy Song."

After a while, Ning Yongchen came back and reported to Ye Qingshan.

"What did the other party say?"

Ye Qingshan did not take the telegram, but asked Ning Yongchen directly.

"This……"

As a result, Ning Yongchen hesitated.

Ye Qingshan raised his head and saw Ning Yongchen's expression, he knew there must be something wrong with the telegram.

"Just say it directly. What are you afraid of?"

"Yes.

The special envoy Song asked you to lead your troops back to Nanjing immediately to accept their investigation.

If you don’t obey, then…”

"Just what?"

Ye Qingshan's eyes were slightly cold.

"Order the other divisions to surround us and disarm us immediately."

"Damn it, where did this bastard special envoy come from?

His tone is bigger than that of a toad.

And fucking disarmed us.

Let him come and try to take my gun.

See if I dare to kill him."

It just so happened that Wang Dachuan, who had a bad temper, was right next to them and started cursing.

"Sir, do you need to call this special agent back?"

Ning Yongchen asked hesitantly.

Ye Qingshan had a blank expression on his face and cold eyes, and after a moment he said to Ning Yongchen, "Don't worry about it.

Just pretend you didn’t receive this telegram.”

"Yes!"

Soon, news came that Ye Qingshan led his troops to recapture Zhenjiang and received commendation from Chen Cheng.

Other units of the National Army also received this news.

Suddenly, other national army units finally began to counterattack towards other towns east of Nanjing.

After all, now they are leading their troops to recapture a city.

Those will be very good additions to their resumes in the future.

In yesterday's battle, the various Nationalist troops outside the city were busy attacking the Japanese artillery and seizing their artillery.

Only Ye Qingshan's 208th Division seized some of the Japanese artillery.

Attack Zhenjiang as quickly as possible.

It was the first city to be recovered since the Battle of Shanghai.

Now, the Japanese artillery has been almost all snatched away.

Ye Qingshan's attempt to capture Zhenjiang again showed that the Japanese retreat was still continuing and there was no sign of resistance.

This also gave other units of the National Army the opportunity to imitate the 208th Division's recovery operations.

Soon, it was not long after dawn.

Good news also continued to come from the national army on other fronts.

More towns were recovered.

"Tell Commander Chen that the Japanese naval aviation will join the battle today.

Therefore, the Japs' retreat will stop today.

The Japs will certainly use the advantages of their naval aviation to re-consolidate their ground defenses.

Let the troops that counterattack and recover other cities be careful of the Japanese naval aviation."

Ye Qingshan also told Chen Cheng this important information.

Sure enough, by twelve o'clock in the morning, the vanguard of the 208th Division recaptured Danyang again.

As we continued marching eastward toward Changzhou, we discovered this clearly.

The Japanese have built a defense line west of Changzhou.

The Japanese retreated here and no longer retreated.

I really thought that we could drive the Japanese into the sea all at once this time.

That's too fantastic.

The old Japanese soldier Matsui Iwane had already withdrawn the main forces of all the Japanese divisions.

To do this, they abandoned a large number of artillery and gave up large areas of occupied territory.

It was these artillery pieces and occupied areas that bought the devils one day and saved the lives of countless of their soldiers.

"Sir, frontline troops reporting in.

The Japanese built a defense line west of Changzhou.

My reconnaissance troops launched two waves of exploratory attacks.

It was discovered that the Japanese resistance this time was very resolute.

We didn’t retreat as easily as we did yesterday.”

Ye Qingshan understood immediately after receiving the telegram.

The Japanese retreat has been completed.

The bottom line of retreat that the Japanese psychologically accepted was the Changzhou line.

Next, if they want to recover Changzhou, it will not be as easy as taking Zhenjiang.

The Japs fled without firing a shot.

To recover Changzhou, we must fight the Japanese again and pay a certain price in casualties.

This is no longer cost-effective for Ye Qingshan.

So Ye Qingshan ordered: "Tell the attacking troops on the front line to stop the pursuit."

"Yes!"

Anyway, Ye Qingshan knows.

They have now recovered the cities around Zhenjiang and Changzhou.

Sooner or later, this place will still be occupied by the devils.

Their recovery was only temporary.

Ye Qingshan also had no plans to develop in this area for a long time in the future.

This time, their recovery of Zhenjiang and other cities had more symbolic significance than practical significance.

The main purpose of recovering these cities and sending a telegram to the whole country to inform the people was to boost their confidence in the war of resistance.

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At the same time, off the coast of Songhu.

At this time, the two Japanese aircraft carriers arrived safely under the escort of many Japanese warships.

To be honest, the Japanese aircraft carrier fleet returned too late.

Or it could be that Ye Qingshan annihilated the Japanese 13th Division too quickly.

Originally, Tsukada still had hope in attacking the old devil.

Relying on the support of their naval aviation, they rescued the Japanese 13th Division.

As a result, the Japanese aircraft carrier fleet has not yet returned.

The Japanese 13th Division had been completely wiped out.

However, the Japanese aircraft carriers have already retreated to the waters off Songhu.

This would be if several waves of carrier-based aircraft were not launched to participate in the attack on the national army on the Nanjing front.

It doesn’t make sense either.

So, around two o'clock in the afternoon, the Japanese two aircraft carriers "Akagi" and "Kaga", and more than 30 carrier-based aircraft on the two aircraft carriers.

They took off one after another and headed to Jinling to join the battle.

Because of the reminder from the old devil Tsukada.

The commanders of the two Japanese aircraft carriers knew that at this time on the Nanjing front, the National Army was receiving support from an international flying group.

They didn't gain air superiority.

Therefore, the first batch of more than 30 carrier-based aircraft that took off from the Japanese navy's aircraft carrier were all fighter jets.

Their goal is to regain the Japanese's air supremacy in the Jinling airspace.

"Send a telegram quickly.

Tell Jinling that the Japanese naval carrier-based aircraft group has flown over to join the battle.

Let them be prepared for it.”

In Shanghai, the Kuomintang's hidden agents discovered a group of Japanese carrier-based aircraft flying in the sky.

Immediately activate the emergency radio station to issue an early warning to Jinling.

Soon, the news of the Japanese carrier-based aircraft group's deployment reached Luzhou Airport.

The international flying groups led by Johnson went into battle again.

One after another, Hurricane fighter jets took off first.

Next, it was the group that just arrived at Luzhou Airport yesterday afternoon.

Ye Qingshan bought the 25 P26 fighter jets from Joseph.

"Boys, today may be the last battle we are hired to fight.

The opportunity to make extra money is about to end.

So, guys.

You all have to perform well today.

Shoot down a few more enemy fighter planes, earn some extra money and go home to marry a wife!"

Johnson joked to all British and American pilots on the communication channel.