As November began, the rain began to increase in the south, and it was just evening, and the sky was already completely dark. Anting, a little-known water town in the south of the Yangtze River on the Shanghai-Nanjing line, is in a hurry at the moment. The noise of mules and horses is mixed with tired gasps and painful moans, and the mixing of various sounds does not seem lively, but makes people feel a sense of sadness from the bottom of their hearts, and there is an inexplicable solemnity and sadness mixed in the process. In the twilight, at the end of the darkness, cold flashes erupted from time to time, intermittently illuminating the gloomy clouds in the night sky.

The night was faintly mixed with the rumbling roar, but no one in the crowded town of Anting cared about this, because they all knew that it was Shanghai, which was suffering from the ravages of Japanese naval guns and was making the last struggle. In November, the Japanese army suddenly adjusted the pace of attack, and the total strength of the Japanese army on the Songhu battlefield was about to reach 270,000, including 9 divisions and 2 brigades of the army, the main force of the 3rd and 4th fleets of the navy, and the air force.

At dawn on November 5, the newly formed Japanese 10th Army, under the command of Yanagawa Heisuke, was escorted by a fleet to make a sudden landing at Caojing Town, Quangong Pavilion, Jinsiniang Bridge and other places near Jinshanwei in Hangzhou Bay, in an attempt to outflank the southern part of the Chinese army's defense line in Songhu in one fell swoop. Because Chiang Kai-shek always believed that the Japanese army would attack the front of Shanghai with all its might, there would be no possibility of landing from Hangzhou Bay, so as to put the troops defending Hangzhou Bay into the front battlefield one by one when the fighting became fierce and the army was exhausted. By the time the Japanese army landed at Jinshanwei, on the northern shore of Hangzhou Bay, from Quangongting to Zhapu, there were only two infantry companies of the 62nd Division of Tao Guang, six companies of the 2nd Artillery Brigade and 6 companies of the 2nd Artillery Regiment, and a small number of local armed defenses.

After the successful landing of the Japanese army, the Shanghai Dispatch Army and the 10th Army were combined to form the Central China Front, under the unified command of Matsui Ishine, and the Japanese base camp stipulated that its combat area was to connect the east of the Suzhou-Jiaxing line, and the task was to dampen the enemy's will to fight, obtain a place for the purpose of ending the war, and coordinate with the navy to eliminate the enemy near Shanghai. The 6th and 18th Divisions rushed to the Songjiang and Shanghai-Hangzhou railways respectively according to the pre-deployment. After Chiang Kai-shek learned of the news of the Japanese landing in Jinshanwei, he immediately ordered Chen Cheng, the former enemy commander of the Songhu battlefield, to deal with the situation, and Chen Cheng urgently ordered the 67th Army of Wu Keren of the Northeast Army of the Right Wing Army to reinforce Songjiang, but failed to retreat the enemy.

On the night of November 8, the Japanese army broke into Songjiang Castle from the east, south and west with strong firepower, and the 67th Army was completely annihilated, and the Japanese army occupied Songjiang. Immediately, the troops were divided into two routes, one along the east bank of Taihu Lake, through Zhejiang and Anhui to Nanjing, and the main force pointed to Fengjing Town, Jiaxing, and Pingwang. On the 9th, the Shanghai-Hangzhou railway and highway were cut off. At the same time, the 16th Division, under the command of Nakajima Imasago, successfully landed at Baimaokou in Taicang, Jiangsu, and the advance was directed at the Beijing-Shanghai railway and highway, forming a trend of convergence.

After the six divisions of the Japanese army on the north bank of the Suzhou Creek forcibly crossed the Suzhou Creek on October 31, they quickly moved closer to the Japanese troops who landed on both routes, and the 700,000 Chinese troops in the Songhu area were suddenly in a dangerous situation. [On the evening of November 8, Chiang Kai-shek ordered a general retreat, with all troops withdrawn from the battle in Shanghai and retreating to Nanjing, Suzhou, and the area west of Jiaxing by two routes. Due to the haste of the order, the command was out of control, and the result of the great retreat turned into a full-scale rout.

Anting, this water town that was not originally a key point, has become a temporary resting place for many scattered national troops, a large number of officers gathered here to try to regroup the soldiers of their original troops, but the effect is not very good, too many national soldiers have long been separated from the original troops, and the retreat order of the national government has made the morale of these national soldiers have fallen to the lowest point, they would rather be a deserter than return to the original army.

In fact, it was not only the national army that temporarily gathered in Anting, but also a large number of refugees who withdrew from Shanghai with the troops. The haggard Yao Jinfa will be a little anxious, the dozen or so subordinates who originally followed him out of Shanghai are now only three or five people still with him, and his dignified captain and company commander of the national army is now not as good as a squad leader.

"Let's go, we can't stay here, don't look at the 67th Army has been transferred to Shanghai from the north, but the little devil has already begun to copy our back road, if you don't go now, I'm afraid that you won't be able to leave." Yao Jinfa is not a man who can fight, but he has a smart head. After walking around Anting Town and chatting with countless defeated soldiers and officers, Yao Jinfa now has only one thought in his heart, he must not stay here in Anting for long, once the Japanese army follows and chases, these guys in Anting Town who lack guns and ammunition will definitely not be able to resist.

Yao Jinfa, who didn't want to lose his life in vain, immediately beckoned the three or five soldiers under his command to follow him out of Anting, people are blindly obedient, some of the routs saw Yao Jinfa and his gang braving the drizzle to leave Anting, and somehow followed, and some anxious refugees also followed, and when they walked out of Anting Town, Yao Jinfa and they were already followed by more than 100 rout soldiers and dozens of Shanghai refugees.

Stepping on the mud and burying his head in the road, the slippery feet made Yao Jin can't help but scold his mother secretly, but now is not the time to sigh. Although the sky has brightened, the lazy autumn day has not yet appeared, and the sky is only a dead white. Yao Jinfa only said that he was going to Suzhou, but he didn't know how far Suzhou was from Shanghai, and the defeated soldiers and refugees who followed him naturally wouldn't talk much.

After Anting is Huaqiao Town, in Huaqiao Town, Yao Jinfa finally found a person who understands, after careful inquiry, Yao Jinfa knew that this place is still dozens of kilometers away from Suzhou. "Kunshan, go to Kunshan first, there is a train station in Kunshan, maybe we can take the train to Suzhou." Yao Jinfa and his gang smashed open the doors of several large households in Huaqiao Town, and after barely filling their stomachs with rice porridge, Yao Jinfa drew a big pie again for his defeated soldiers and went to Kunshan to take a train to Suzhou.

But after Yao Jinfa and his gang left Huaqiao Town, Yao Jinfa suddenly changed his plan, the journey to Kunshan is not short, the railway is directly connected to Shanghai and Suzhou, Kunshan is just a station in the middle. Yao Jinfa pondered so carefully that he found that he should immediately walk northeast along Huaqiao Town, so that he could directly pick up the train from Shanghai to Suzhou, and also save the labor of walking to Kunshan.

The commander said whatever he wanted, and the routs and refugees under Yao Jinfa had long run out of ideas, since Yao Jinfa said that he was going to pick up the train, the routs and refugees who were brought by Yao Jinfa and mixed with a full meal naturally just continued to follow. In order to cut corners, Yao Jinfa and his gang abandoned the road and walked all the way to the northeast in those fields that seemed gentle but were actually extremely difficult to walk.

There is actually a lot of gravel hidden under the dead grass in the field full of dead grass, and it is very uncomfortable to step on it, and the withered but very hard vegetation on the surface will always inadvertently hook the trouser legs of pedestrians, and scratch people's legs and feet. At the beginning, these full-stomached soldiers and civilians walked quite fast, but after climbing over two mountain beams, everyone's speed began to slow.

Fortunately, Yao Jinfa has been cautious since he left Huaqiao Town, and he will send sharp soldiers to observe whether it is safe on all sides before he has walked a while, so the refugees can rest for a while every distance they advance. But as soon as the incident was long, the formation of these hundreds of people was still very long, and it looked slow and messy. "Smack! Syllable! …… "When I stopped to rest again, there was a sudden sound ......of gunfire in the distance, and the first person to stir up was the exhausted refugees.

"The devil is coming! ......" Some people shouted, but they were immediately stopped by the routs around them who were also panicking: "What the hell are you arguing about!?" I'm afraid the devil doesn't know you're here! ......Amid the shouting and scolding of the rout, the rioting refugees finally began to quiet down. "Boom" "Boom" A few clouds of smoke suddenly rose from the explosion in the crowd, and the routs and refugees who were crowded together were caught off guard.

Although most of the rout soldiers fell on their stomachs at the first explosion, some of the rout soldiers and refugees were drowned in the smoke of the explosion. "Boom...... Rumble...... Rumble! "Shells fell one after another, shrapnel and gravel shot furiously around with the explosion, and the whole crowd that was pulled and lying on the ground was beaten into blood gourds." Yes! "Help!" Help me! "Mom!" The rout soldiers and refugees who were not killed but were seriously injured let out all kinds of heart-rending screams for help, which were far more lethal than the shells themselves to some extent, and Yao Jinfa, whose ears were still bulging and had not fully recovered, was stunned by the screams that were becoming more and more clear.

The Japanese army came, the Japanese army really appeared, and the defeated soldiers under Yao Jinfa suddenly collapsed again, and in front of them there was a large area of earthy yellow dust pressing over. It was the Japanese army, and the panicked routs found that the explosion above their heads did not seem to stop at all, but the enemy had already rushed over. Bang! Thundered! The grenades fired by the Japanese grenadiers continued to fall mercilessly, and with the shrapnel splashing everywhere, they easily swept down the routers and refugees who were standing up like mowing grass, and dozens of Japanese soldiers who rushed at full speed rushed into front of Yao Jinfa and them in the blink of an eye.