Tang Shengzhi looked at everyone and said, "Everyone should be aware of the situation of the war. In order to preserve the effective forces, Chairman Chiang has ordered the entire army to prepare to withdraw from Nanjing."
As soon as these words were said, everyone was immediately confused. Why is it so easy to evacuate? There are rules about who goes first and who comes last.
Tang Shengzhi began to issue a retreat plan. When everyone saw it, each army retreated in turn. Well, the plan was good.
"Excuse me, Commander Tang. The retreat route is said to be through waterways and railways, but the railways have been blocked by the Japanese army. As for the waterways, where is our ship?" Sun Yuanliang stood up and asked.
At this time, there are still more than 80,000 garrison troops. To retreat with so many people, a lot of ships are needed.
However, Tang Shengzhi had retreated all the ships to the upper reaches at the front. Now it is not easy to reorganize. The air supremacy is now completely in the hands of the Japanese.
"Each army will collect this separately." When Tang Shengzhi said this, everyone was immediately upset. What do you mean by collecting it yourself? Doesn't this mean that you are ignoring them? Liu Jie also stood up and said, "Commander Tang, isn't this right?"
It’s too appropriate.”
I saw a line of guards walking in. Tang Shengzhi slapped the table and shouted, "Be quiet. The ships are all upstream now. I will order the ships to Xiaguan, but I also hope that each unit will collect them first so that they can retreat more quickly."
Okay, let’s break up the meeting!”
The general Tang Shengzhi, who was left in the conference room looking at each other at a loss, immediately left the headquarters with his guards. He had more important things to do.
In order to show that Tang Shengzhi was really devoted to defending, his children and wife were still in Nanjing at this time. Tang Shengzhi hurried to his home with the guards, only to see a huge bomb blasted not far from the door.
As soon as he saw him coming back, the German blackback he raised rushed up with his tongue sticking out.
Tang Shengzhi patted the dog anxiously, entered the room and said, "Okay, we have to leave Nanjing overnight."
As he spoke, a lady wearing a cheongsam and a young man came over and said, "What's wrong? You're so anxious, and there are still a lot of things that haven't been packed yet."
When Tang Shengzhi heard this, he said angrily, "What's left that hasn't been packed yet?" As he walked into the room, he saw only four huge boxes on the ground. Tang Shengzhi asked, "What are these?"
Mrs. Tang Shengzhi pointed to the box and said, "They are all gold, jade, clothes, ancient books, jewelry, etc., but there are also children's toys. Braun's balls have not been confiscated. You know, Braun will not be happy without the ball."
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Braun is the German blackback.
Tang Shengzhi stamped his feet anxiously and said, "What time is it? Let's leave immediately!!"
Tang Shengzhi took four boxes of belongings, his wife, children and guards and left Nanjing on a steamer overnight. The 80,000 troops he left behind in Nanjing were completely in chaos.
First, after the meeting, Sun Yuanliang felt that there was no chance to leave Nanjing without a ship. At this time, Zhu Chi did not inform him about the pontoon. After thinking about it, he felt that keeping a useful life was the most important, and immediately left the army.
, he disguised himself and hid in a brothel he was familiar with. After all, the Japanese army would never attack a brothel, right?
Afterwards, the various troops who learned the news did not follow the deployment at all, but rushed to Xianguan to look for ships. You must know that there are no ships in the entire city of Nanjing. Whoever finds the ship first can leave Nanjing first. This is
A chance to live.
However, not all troops received the order to retreat. The 63rd Army, which had not yet received the order, saw a large number of troops running towards the river and mistakenly thought they were trying to escape. After the officers refused to listen, they simply opened fire.
The troops who were anxious to find a boat to escape were willing to fight, but they also fired back, and the fighting became lively for a while.
Other troops who did not know the situation heard the explosion of guns and artillery in Nanjing City, and they all thought that the Japanese army had invaded Nanjing City. There was chaos. Some took advantage of the chaos to rob, some ran around, some surrendered to the Japanese army, some took off their clothes and hid in civilian houses.
, it really has everything, the 80,000 troops who were supposed to defend Nanjing City have now become like a bunch of headless flies.
The commander of the 74th Army, Yu Jishi, was a relative of Chiang Kai-shek and a native of Fenghua, Zhejiang. His uncle was the director of the Munitions Department of Huangpu Military Academy and the cousin of Chiang Kai-shek. Therefore, he was very clever in Nanjing and managed to get a small steamer.
Seeing the small steamer, the 74th Army shouted loudly, while other troops were even more jealous. Finally, each troop began to ignore the wooden door panels. The Eight Immortals crossed the sea and each showed their magical powers and found a way to cross the river.
Such a noisy scene woke up the entire city of Nanjing.
——Jiang Xinzhou
This is a piece of land in the middle of the Yangtze River, with a larger one and a smaller one. The larger one covers an area of 15 square kilometers, and the smaller one has an area of 12 square kilometers. Jiang Cheng's floating bridge was built on these two islands. At this time, Qinglong Mountain had already
Under the fire of the Japanese army, Jiang Cheng and his people moved here. Jiang Cheng looked at Nanjing City in the distance from the mountain of Jiangxinzhou and said, "They should be discussing their retreat now."
Zhou Weiguo next to him said, "Brigadier Zhu said that Commander Sun has been summoned and should be in a meeting."
Jiang Cheng nodded and said, "Weiguo, do you still have any relatives in Nanjing? I remember that your fiancée seems to be in Nanjing. It's better to get him out as soon as possible."
Zhou Weiguo scratched his head, nodded and said, "There is no order to evacuate yet. As an officer, it seems that I shouldn't evacuate my relatives first."
Jiang Cheng knocked the helmet on his head and said, "Pedant, what time has it been, and you are still saying these things? If you withdraw as soon as possible, you will be safe as soon as possible. Send a few brothers there, and by the way, ask our team members to see if there is any Nanjing."
Those who have relatives inside should gather on the shore first and evacuate immediately once the pontoon bridge comes together."
At this time, Jiang Cheng saw that the river surface not far away seemed to be full of people. Jiang Cheng looked at it and said, "What's going on? Send someone to have a look immediately."
After a while, a team member came over with a Nationalist soldier and said, "My boss, Brigadier Zhu has sent someone here."
Jiang Cheng quickly asked, "What happened?"
The soldier quickly said, "Commander Tang ordered the entire army to evacuate Nanjing. Now Nanjing is in chaos. Please tell your commander to take action immediately."
Jiang Cheng asked, "Where is Brigadier Zhu? Why doesn't he come?"
The soldier choked up when he heard the voice and said, "Our brigade is stationed at Yuhuatai. The brigade commander said that the position is too important, and the pontoon was built by him and others. If he escaped, it means that he was afraid of death. There should be martyrs in Nanjing."
general, he is willing to be the first."
Jiang Cheng's eyes were red and he said, "I'm confused, how can Nanjing be defended in this city? Bashun! You lead people to rescue Brigadier Zhu immediately and come back. If I'm not wrong, the Japanese will know about us right away."
The situation here, in addition, send a report to the organizations in Nanjing city and ask them to retreat immediately."
In fact, most of the college students in Nanjing have been evacuated, and more students from nearby Nanjing are left. Since it is dangerous for these people to return home, they might as well stay in Nanjing where there is a large army.
"What are you asking us to leave overnight?" a middle-aged teacher-looking man said in surprise.
"This is an order from 203. According to the regulations of the Central Special Branch, 203 is only second to the direct orders of the central government and is at the same level as the orders issued by the Special Branch. We must obey it," said a young woman.
"But we still have a lot of things that we haven't prepared yet, and for the people, it's really difficult to organize late at night." A middle-aged man dressed like a worker said.
"No matter how difficult it is, we must do it. Everyone knows that the Japanese are preparing to organize a massacre in Nanjing City. Although this news is really unbelievable, everyone, look at it, 203 and the Party Central Committee attach so much importance to this matter, it means this
There is a certain truth to the matter, and we cannot be sinners, so I suggest that we retreat immediately." The young woman said.
"Okay, then let's take action immediately. Everyone will act according to the plan and try to guide the people to gather in the direction of the library, which is the entrance to the pontoon.
——Inside Nanjing City
"Uncle Liu, Liu Yan, get up quickly." With anxious shouts and frantic knocking on the door, the surrounding houses lit up their kerosene lamps one after another.
"Who is it? In the middle of the night? Are you not allowed to sleep?" Liu Yan yawned and opened the door. When he saw it was Hu Ping, he was surprised and said, "Hu Ping, why are you here? What's going on at this late night?"
Hu Ping saw Liu Yan in pajamas and looked unprepared. She pushed him over angrily and said, "Liu Yan, you are sick. How many times have I told you that you are ready to leave Nanjing at any time in the past few days. Why are you still like this?"
,You, you want to make me mad?"
"Ahem, hum~" With a majestic cough, Liu Sanfa came over and said, "What's going on? In the middle of the night, a man and a woman alone, what are you doing?"
Hu Ping didn't bother to argue with him and said directly, "Uncle Liu, the National Army is going to abandon the city. Get ready quickly and leave Nanjing with us."
"What? The National Army has abandoned the city? That little son of a bitch, Tang Shengzhi, is no longer defending?" Liu Sanfa said with his eyes wide open in surprise. He had only defended the city for a few days and was about to retreat. Is this a joke?
Hu Ping said anxiously, "It's not a joke, it's absolutely true. Tang Shengzhi has disappeared. Now the 74th Army will also run away. By tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, the entire Nanjing city's defenders will definitely run away. The Japanese will kill people when they enter the city. Liu
Uncle, just listen to my advice and go."
Liu Yan saw Hu Ping coming to him again and again to ask him to leave Nanjing. Knowing that the Red Party had probably got some inside information, he also persuaded him, "Grandpa, let's go. Now it's red and white cooperation, and the Red Party
He won’t lie to us.”
When he mentioned this, Liu Sanfa glared angrily and said, "The Red Party has deceived us a lot. If Chairman Chiang hadn't been so smart, the world would have been taken over by these idiots."
"Is it okay to be taken away by the Japanese now?" Hu Ping said tit for tat, and the two of them stared at each other like a bullfight.
Hu Ping turned her face away and said, "Liu Yan, I tried my best. Remember to run to the Nanjing Library until you reach the riverside. There will be people there to pick you up. I have to inform other people that I have to say goodbye."
Liu Yan watched the beautiful figure leave. He stretched out his hand to grab something, but was knocked down by Liu Sanfa. "You look like a loser. Have you never seen a woman? You really like it. I'll just go and talk to the Hu family. Now,
Like this, are you still going to take care of her in the future?"
Liu Yan said in surprise, "Grandpa, do you agree?"
Liu Sanfa laughed and said, "This little girl has some courage. She is much better than a loser like you. The devils will be driven out one day. From now on, the world will either be from the White Party or the Red Party. You married a Red Party member."
People are only good for our family and not bad for us. Okay, let's get ready and go to the library first."
At this time, the left-behind students from each school were gathered together and began to put the things they had prepared on the cart. Since there were no horses in Nanjing, we could not get trucks or anything like that, so the students had to take turns pushing them.
"I said, Fang Kun, what time has it been? Just throw these things away." The speaker was an underground member of the Red Party, named Li Rengang, who was the vice principal of the middle school. Fang Kun was the principal.
Fang Kun tied up the box hard and said, "These are all unique books. These books are treasures left by our ancestors and cannot be thrown away. Okay." Fang Kun patted the box hard and said, "Children.
, let’s all pull together.” Then he started pushing from behind.
"Old Fang, it's bad, Mr. Jiang doesn't want to leave anymore." A middle-aged woman ran over and said anxiously.
Fang Kun adjusted his glasses and shouted, "Isn't this nonsense? Now we finally have a chance to leave the city. If we don't leave now, when will we leave? Why don't we wait until the Japanese plane poops during the day? I'll go take a look."
Li Rengang said worriedly, "How about I go and you take the children to evacuate? Are all the children here?"
Fang Kun stood on tiptoes and looked around and shouted, "Zhao Yan, come here!"
A young female teacher came over.
"Zhao Yan, go to each class and ask if everyone is here. Lao Li, you take the people away first, and I'll go see that old man Jiang. Alas, what a world." Said Fang Kun and the man
The middle-aged woman left.
Fang Kun entered the room and saw a gray-haired old man lying on the bed. His walls were all filled with photos.
"Jiang Xu, get up quickly and come with us." Fang Kun sat on the bed and said.
Jiang Xu turned around, pointed at the wall again and said, "Look, from Xuantong, Xinhai, and the Northern Expedition to today, Nanjing has changed hands countless times, but Nanjing has never fallen into the hands of foreigners. If we
If we all run away, what will the Japanese think of us?"
As he spoke, Jiang Xu sat up and shouted, "They will say that we are a group of cowards who don't even dare to keep their own capital and only dare to run away when they see the enemy." After that, he turned around and lay down again and said, "If Japan
If someone really wants to kill me, just let me die standing up and let everyone know that we will not give in."
Fang Kun pointed at him and said, "Why are you doing this?"
Jiang Xu pointed to a box at the door and said, "This is the result of my lifelong study of Qing history. Take it with you. When the world becomes stable, someone will compile this one day. Take it with you. I hope it can be given to future generations."
Work less."
The door slowly closed, Jiang Xu stood up and looked at the sky, sighed slowly, patted the railing and said, "The Republic of China! My Republic of China! Haha."
——Fukiaokou
Zhou Weiguo looked at several bunkers and nodded. It was already dawn. Zhou Weiguo saw several planes flying across the sky. They were Japanese planes. The Japanese would soon discover that Nanjing was abnormal, and there was not much time left.
"Here they come, captain, look, someone is coming." A member of the special forces team said.
When Zhou Weiguo saw it, it was a group of students pushing a vehicle slowly towards them. Zhou Weiguo quickly shouted, "Okay, quickly pull up the pontoon bridge."
I only saw the sound of a motor inside a bunker, a burst of iron chains, and the pontoon was slowly pulled up from the water. In fact, the pontoon was only less than a few centimeters under the water, and it only served as a cover-up. Several soldiers quickly got up.
The bridge is running, and they want to ensure the safety and reliability of the bridge.
The team arrived quickly, and a student at the front handed over an envelope and said, "This is a letter of introduction. These are the students and teachers of No. 8 Middle School."
Zhou Weiguo hurriedly waved and said, "Hurry up and get on the bridge. Hurry up. The Japanese plane will find us soon."
As he spoke, Zhou Weiguo and his soldiers began to guide the students across the bridge. If you look from above, you can see convoys and crowds running towards this place from all directions.
At this time, a group of people dressed as engineers came running towards the bridge with a troop.
"Wait, don't crowd." A car was opened by the army, and the students next to it shouted.
"Get out of here, damn, these unscrupulous people actually know it. Okay, brothers, come on, God knows when this devil will come, let's cross the bridge!!" A man dressed as an officer laughed.
When Zhou Weiguo saw a group of rioters rushing towards him, he frowned and shouted, "Everyone, hurry up and cross the river, Erniu, tell the brothers to get ready and bring the microphone."
Zhou Weiguo took the microphone and shouted, "Brothers from the National Army in front, please stop!! Otherwise we won't be polite!!"
The officer smiled and said, "Damn, we're not here to be polite. We built this bridge, so there's no problem if we want to get on it now, right? Brothers, get on it!"
