The unfavorable news of the battle ahead is changing day by day, and the defeat and retreat of the national army have shrouded the famous city of Nanjing with a cloud of unease, and Zhuo Fei is not idle, how can he not take advantage of such a good opportunity. On November 25, when the defenders of Jiangyin Fortress and a large number of Japanese troops were fighting fiercely, a large number of leaflets suddenly appeared again in Nanjing, and for a time the residents of Nanjing City were panicked, and some people had already crossed the river from Xiaguan Wharf to Xuzhou with their families on the same day.

Dai Li was furious again and urgently ordered his subordinates to investigate the matter thoroughly, but it was a pity that by the time the military commander found the small workshop that printed these leaflets, the small workshop was already empty, and even the equipment used to print the leaflets was gone, and all the military commander could find was some paper and ink. The military commanders had no choice but to arbitrarily arrest some so-called ** elements and go back to the errand, and said that this incident was the CCP's intention to create a riot to undermine the people's desire to defend the land in Nanjing.

Zhuo Fei, who got the news, couldn't help but snort, and at night that day, more leaflets began to be distributed in Nanjing, and this time the military commander had no way to find the root cause, because most of these leaflets were directly stuffed into the cracks of people's homes. The people in the city of Nanjing were panicked, and the Nationalist troops who were ordered to defend the city were also panicked, and the Jiangyin fortress was almost alone after the retreat of the defenders of the Chengxi line.

The Japanese army had already begun to attack the fortress from the Chengxi Highway to the back of the Jiangyin fortress area, and the Japanese 3rd Fleet Haseki also assembled the 3rd Mine Squadron, the 11th Mine Squadron, and the 11th Minesweeper Team to form an attack fleet, preparing to completely open the Jiangyin blockade line and clear the waterway. The 11th Sentai sent two destroyers and one gunboat to join the formation to attack Jiangyin from the waterway, and the 1st Port Department also sent 4 tugboats. Huzhou and Wuxi fell one after another, and if the Japanese army broke through the Xicheng line again by taking advantage of the victory, it would be able to encircle Nanjing, the capital of China, with the army of the South Route advancing across the Taihu Lake.

Hansen finally played his role, and learned from the German embassy that the Xicheng Line was about to be broken by the Japanese army through Rabe's connections, and Hansen immediately informed Zhuo Fei, and that night, Zhuo Fei ordered people to print the news on leaflets and distribute them throughout the city. The Xicheng Line was about to be broken by the Japanese army, and the news of this earthquake made the people of Nanjing, who were still waiting and hesitating, make up their minds, and on November 27 alone, tens of thousands of Nanjing people crossed the river and fled from Nanjing.

Chinese like to follow the crowd, seeing their friends and neighbors leave Nanjing with their families, those stubborn people finally can't hold on, and since November 27, a large number of people have gathered at the Xiaguan Wharf every day waiting to cross the river. Hefman and Vivian, who have been idle and have nothing to do, were now put to good use by Zhuo Fei, with the contract that had been signed a long time ago, Vivian and Vivian went to find two foreign-funded shipping companies at Xiaguan Wharf, and on the same day, there were two more steamboats on Shimonoseki Wharf to transport people across the river.

"Don't care if the ship is big or small, what I want is the effect, so that others can see that people leave Nanjing every day. Tell the people who travel on the boat that people don't stop boating, and I give them an extra amount of money for every boat of people sent across the river. Vivien came back and complained that the ship company had arranged only two small steamboats, but Zhuo Fei smiled and gave a different answer. Even if those two steamboats can only send 1,000 people across the river at a time, as long as the people don't stop transporting day and night, they can always send more than 10,000 people across the river 24 hours a day.

The vanguard of the Japanese army arrived in Nanjing on December 7, but the real siege of Nanjing by the Japanese army began on the 9th, and in the 10 days from now, those two steamboats can send at least 100,000 people across the river. What's more, there are not only two steamboats on the Xiaguan Wharf that are transporting people across the river, what Zhuo Fei wants is to use those two steamboats to cause panic among the people in the city.

"Keep checking for me, I don't believe that anyone would be stupid and bold enough to spend that money in vain." A large number of Nanjing citizens cross the river and leave every day at the Xiaguan Wharf, and this matter absolutely cannot escape the eyes of the military commanders, but after the people of the military commanders disguised themselves as ordinary people and followed the steamboats to cross the river, they found that there was no one behind the people who crossed the river, and this was simply a spontaneous move of the people. The people who were asked about the reason for crossing the river only said that they were worried about the war, and that hundreds of thousands of troops could not stop the Japanese soldiers, and I was afraid that the city of Nanjing would also be lost this time.

The intelligence gathered by the intelligence officers of the military command made Dai Li crazy, and at this point, how could Dai Li not see that the people's crossing of the river was related to those leaflets, but the military was in charge of heaven and earth, but could not control the people crossing the river. Dai Li is not an ordinary intelligence agent, this is a senior spy who has been in charge of the military for many years, linking the people crossing the river with leaflets, Dai Li has already seen some suspicion from it, and no matter whether this matter is good or bad, in the inner desire to control, Dai Li must find out the mastermind behind the scenes.

The military commander's ability to do things is not as unbearable as Zhuo Fei saw in those film and television dramas in later generations, and in only half a day, the military commander has already found out that among the ships shuttling on the Xiaguan wharf, two steamboats belonging to the British shipping company were hired at someone's expense. Whether it is Dai Li, who is habitually suspicious of everything, or the military commander intelligence officers who are ordered to investigate this matter, they don't believe it, there will be stupid boldness in this world who spend money to help others, Dai Li's order, the military commander continued to investigate, and before dinner time, the military commander had already found Vivian and Hefman.

Vivian and Huffman's foreign nationality played a role at this time, and the surveillance personnel arranged by the military commander followed Huffman and their car all the way to Guangzhou Road, and saw the pair of foreign men and women driving into the courtyard in front. "Dehua Comptoir? What is it doing? The identity report of Vivian and Huffman soon appeared in front of Dai Li, and what made Dai Li's eyebrows rise was that the two foreigners in the report were employees of the Dehua Commercial Bank.

After learning that Vivian was American and Huffmann was German, Dai Li felt a little more relieved, as long as he was not Soviet, because the Soviet Union meant the CCP in Dai Li's heart. The Dehua Commercial Bank was just a cover that Zhuo Fei thought of in order to cover up his arrangements, but the people in the military command investigated the Dehua Commercial Bank thoroughly, but they found nothing. "No, there must be something in this that we don't know." Relying on his own hunch and many years of experience in intelligence work, Dai Li asserted that this German-Chinese firm had a great background.

Unlike other foreign merchants in China, the employees of the firm were almost all foreigners, and in the courtyard where they were rented, military surveillance officers found three Chinese, two large and three small. Why are there three Chinese living with these foreigners, and the three Chinese found by the military command are strictly considered minors, and the little girl looks like she is four or five years old at most.

Dai Li's interest in this German-Chinese firm became more and more interesting, if it weren't for the German flag planted on the small western-style building in the courtyard, maybe Dai Li's action team would have arranged for his team to break in and find out. In Zhuo Fei's eyes, the military commanders of this era are not as powerful as the national security in the later generations, and with Han Sen, Zhuo Fei believes that the people of the military commanders will not dare to rashly come to the door to find trouble.

The military unification directly traced down to the head of the Dehua Commercial Bank, and all the clues were broken, but in all the reports of the military command about the Dehua Commercial Bank, there was no clue that the Dehua Commercial Bank was related to those leaflets. Zhuo Fei, who was confident that he had not left a fatal flaw, simply stayed in his residence and did not go out again, and the things that needed to be done were only handed over to Huffman and them, and the military commander did not dare to come to the door to find trouble, and Zhuo Fei did not go out, so the progress of the military commander's investigation was put on hold.

On December 1, the Japanese army captured the Jiangyin fortress, and at the request of Matsui Ishine, the Japanese General Staff Headquarters issued the Continental Order No. 8: "The commander of the Central China Front must coordinate with the navy to capture Nanjing, the capital of the enemy country." Subsequently, the Japanese army occupied Zhenjiang, Jurong, Lishui and other places, and broke through the periphery of Nanjing and the defensive positions of Fukuo, and the troops approached the city wall of Nanjing, and Chiang Kai-shek immediately appointed Tang Shengzhi as the commander of the Nanjing garrison, commanding the 81,000 national army to resist the operation.

On December 4, 40 miles east of Jurong, a Japanese plainclothes reconnaissance team engaged in a brief exchange of fire with the outpost of the Nationalist army, and the peripheral battle of the Nanjing operation began. On December 5, the Japanese army engaged the 66th Army of the Nationalist Army, and on December 7, the Japanese army approached the city of Nanjing. Matsui Ishine sent a plane from the air to send a letter to Tang Shengzhi to persuade him to surrender. Tang Shengzhi ignored it and continued to order all troops to "do their best to hold on with the determination to live and die with the position, and never allow an inch of land to be abandoned." ”

The Japanese army's three-way offensive was like a bamboo, and the strategic points on the periphery of Nanjing fell one after another. Soon the Japanese broke through the first-line defensive positions on the outskirts of Nanjing. On December 9, the Japanese army entered the city of Nanjing, and used planes to throw an ultimatum from the commander of the Japanese "Central China Front" Matsui Ishine to the Chinese defenders to persuade them to surrender. Tang Shengzhi, commander of the Nanjing garrison, ignored Matsui's ultimatum and issued an order on the same day as "Wei Shen Zuo Zi No. 36" in reply. Trying to fight to the death in the spirit of "breaking the kettle and sinking the boat".

The purpose of the Japanese army's leaflets was to cause panic among the people in the city, and it was not only the defenders who saw these leaflets, but also the civilians who insisted on staying in the city. "Gentlemen, the Japanese army is about to storm the city, and out of humanitarianism, I think it's time." In Rabe's residence at No. 1 Little Pink Bridge, more than a dozen Westerners were gathering, and it was Rabe who was speaking at the moment.

"Gentlemen, the war is cruel, but the Chinese civilians in the city are innocent. I would like to set up my current residence as a shelter for Chinese civilians who have been injured or lost their homes in the fighting. Rabe's proposal was approved by everyone, and Hansen, who was fishing in troubled waters and beating the side drum, proposed to simply establish a safety zone on Canton Road and use the German flag as a warning to the Japanese army.