The sun gradually climbed up the hillside, and the night began to be driven away by the sunlight, but the sunlight could not dispel the smoke that still filled the sky.
The city of Nanjing still heard bursts of gunfire and explosions from time to time, indicating that the remaining defenders in the city were still resisting.
"Sir, it's time to go!" A staff officer came over and said softly to the stunned Tang Shengzhi: "The evacuation of the headquarters has been basically completed. Please transfer the command position immediately!"
Tang Shengzhi sighed, shook his head with a wry smile, and walked out of the messy headquarters. When he walked out of the headquarters, he suddenly found that the sunlight outside was so dazzling that he could hardly open his eyes.
At this time, fierce street fighting was already taking place in the southeastern area of Nanjing City. The Japanese army was further compressing the living space of the defenders, and it was only a matter of time before the whole city fell. In the headquarters, the guards were pouring gasoline on the headquarters.
Because Tang Shengzhi ordered that this house must be burned down.
Tan Daoping, Chief of the First Section of the Operations Department, and several staff officers were collecting documents. When they walked out of the headquarters, they found that the guards were already pouring gasoline. There were only a few guards left in the entire headquarters. Others
Everyone had retreated. There were many scattered one-yuan legal notes and a corpse scattered on the messy ground. In the chaotic atmosphere, Tan Daoping and his staff hurriedly burned the remaining documents and left in a hurry.
He arrived at the headquarters and ran towards Yijiangmen.
At this time, both sides of Yijiang Gate were covered with barbed wire fences, leaving only a narrow path in the middle. The officers and soldiers of the 36th Division raised their rifles to take aim. They still followed the previous order and prohibited anyone from entering or exiting, regardless of whether they were
Civilian or military.
In front of them, the Eighty-seventh Division, the Eighty-eighth Division and the national army officers and soldiers who retreated from the front were noisy with them, mixed with the cries of the common people, and messy gunfire sounded from time to time around them, and in
Behind them, there are countless ordinary people who are helping the old and young, and they are coming in an endless stream.
Thousands of people were crowded at the dock at Yijiangmen, but there were only a few boats on the river. At this time, the Yangtze River had become the dividing line between life and death.
Whenever a boat docks, a group of people jump on it. Even if many reckless people fall into the river, it cannot stop people's desire to survive. Even if the boat is crowded with people, there are still people on the edge of the boat around it.
Holding hundreds of hands, they were some people who would rather be drowned by the river than stay. The boat just sailed to the other side. When the boat reached the middle of the river, many people were unable to support their bodies and could only fall down helplessly.
Floating in the water to the east along with the river.
Song Xilian, the commander of the 36th Division, stood on the pier, looking at the apocalyptic scene for a long time and speechless. Due to the chaos that occurred during the retreat, the retreat order issued by the headquarters was not conveyed to him, so he
He was still carrying out the order from the previous days, prohibiting anyone from entering or exiting, but looking at the situation in front of him, how could he not understand that something big must have happened in the front, and maybe the front had been completely defeated, otherwise it would not be like this.
chaotic.
Here, many broken soldiers and wounded soldiers who have retreated from the front line, as well as miscellaneous troops from the rear, baggage, vehicles, family members, old and weak women and children, etc., have crowded the roads along the river. There are already people on the river in the distance.
The Japanese patrol boats appeared, and they kept firing machine guns at the river. From time to time, artillery shells crashed down with ear-piercing screams. The retreat of the entire dock was completely out of control...
At this time, Su Rui was also on patrol with a squad of soldiers. The church where Su Rui was located was not very far from Yijiangmen, about three kilometers away. If Su Rui wanted to, he could make it within half an hour.
Arrive at Yijiangmen.
But Su Rui didn't want to join in the fun, because he knew how difficult and miserable the retreat from Yijiangmen was. Instead of going somewhere to win the one-in-10,000 chance, it would be better to give the Japanese army a try here, even if it was just
It is better to die in battle than to be drowned in the cold river.
Sometimes Su Rui even maliciously speculates that if he died in Nanjing, the history textbooks of future generations in this time and space would have written such a paragraph: "After the defeat in Nanjing, there was a brave major of the national army.
He led hundreds of remnant soldiers and dozens of female students in a desperate battle against the Japanese invaders, and never surrendered until the moment he died in battle!"
Suri divided a kilometer around the church into four defensive areas, and sent a company of troops to defend each defensive area.
He left the remaining company in the church as a mobile unit. Su Rui also set up Wang Dezi's artillery battery position near the church to support the surrounding troops in four directions with artillery fire at any time.
Su Rui also divided more than 30 female students headed by Xu Yaoshan into two teams. One team of more than ten people was responsible for cooking, and the other team of more than 20 people was responsible for treating the wounded. When Su Rui arranged everything
After everything was done, something unexpected happened to Ling Suri.
Pastor Tabitha, who had been hiding in his room for three days, also appeared in front of Suri. Looking at the pale Tabitha, Suri asked with concern: "Pastor Tabitha, are you okay?
?”
Tabitha shook her head and said: "Thank you for your concern, I'm fine. I've thought a lot in the past two days, and now I understand that since some things are unavoidable, I should face them bravely. In the past, I was too cowardly
Got it!"
Suri stared into his eyes and found that although Tabitha's face was still pale, her eyes were very clear. Suri nodded: "Tabitha, I'm very happy that you think so. Now that Nanjing City has been captured, next time
We are going to fight the Japanese when we come down, aren't you afraid?"
"Fear?"
Tabitha smiled self-deprecatingly, "How could I not be afraid? But I have figured out that one cannot always live in fear in this life. Because of fear, I have run from Germany to the United States, and from the United States to
Huaxia, I'm tired of running and I don't want to run anymore. Mr. Major, I want to fight with you!"
After that, Tabitha looked at Suri sincerely and said: "Mr. Major, can you give me a gun? I also want to fight those damn Japanese dwarfs!"
Suri looked at Tabitha, a smile gradually appeared in his eyes. He took out a pack of Hardman cigarettes from his pocket and gave one to Tabitha. After the two lit the cigarettes, Suri let out a long breath.
Yan Ring then said: "NO, NO, dear Mr. Pastor, your stage is not on the battlefield. You should stay in a place where you can better display your talents, such as the operating table."
"How do you know I'm a doctor?" Tabitha looked at Suri in surprise, "I don't think I told you that I'm a doctor."
"Hahaha..." Suri laughed loudly. He blew out a smoke ring and then patted Tabitha on the shoulder and laughed: "You never told me your original occupation, but who made you careless?
I forgot your diploma in my room. I didn't expect you to be an outstanding surgeon and a top student who graduated from the University of Heidelberg in Germany. Now I don't have to worry about kidnapping a doctor to work for me.
Come on. Let’s go, I’ll take you to see your operating room in the future, I guarantee you will be satisfied!”
As Suri said this, she pulled Tabitha towards a small room in the hall like an old friend.
Just as Suri led Tabitha towards a temporary operating room, the two felt a dull loud noise coming from outside, followed by a tremor from the ground.
The two stopped, and Suri's expression slowly darkened. He turned to look at Tabitha, sighed and said helplessly: "Tabitha, it seems that I can't take you to visit your operating room.
It's time, the Japanese are about to attack..."
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