Xiao Jian looked back and saw that it was a female beggar, Xiao Jian said, "Who are you?" I don't know you! ”

"I'm Xiao Lili." As she spoke, the beggar took off the cloth covering she wore over her head, revealing her cloud-like hair and beautiful countenance.

"Chimiko! You're here too. Xiao Jian said coldly.

"I'm not Chimiko, my name is Xiao Lili, and I forgot about me so quickly. What did my dad say? Did you forget it too? ”

Xiao Jian immediately realized that he was out of shape, and when he saw Xiao Lili for the first time, he regarded her as a girl Chimiko he met in Japan. Xiao Jian said: "I'm sorry, I haven't forgotten, where is Commander Xiao now?" ”

Xiao Lili's tears came out all of a sudden, and she said sadly: "My father is now in Xiaguan, he refuses to cross the river, and little Japan has deployed heavy troops in Xiaguan, and the national army only cares about fleeing for their lives, and there are heavy casualties." Xiao Jian, Daddy is in a very dangerous situation, and now the little devil is arresting him. I'm worried! The current scene is extremely chaotic, everyone is fleeing for their lives, the army is defeated, and now only you can save him!. ”

"Tell me, where is he now?"

"Command the national army to cross the river at Xiaguan." Xiao Jian said: "Xiao Lili, let's rush to Xiaguan immediately to rescue the commander." ”

"How do you know?"

"I'm from Shimonoseki. My father didn't want to cross the river, so he asked me to go to the city to look for you. ”

"I saw the notice, the little devil went out of 100,000 oceans to arrest my father, there were only a few guards around him, and he already had the idea of killing himself. He wouldn't let me stay with him. Brother, I am an orphan, the master is dead, he is my only relative, I don't want him to die, only you can save him! ”

"Good! I'm desperate to get the commander out! Xiao Jian said: "Why do you want to retreat? Why?!!! It is a soldier's duty to protect the family and defend the country, Tang Shengzhi, you are a big liar, a coward, is Little Japan so terrible? How many people have you killed! Xiao Jian said: "Xiao Jian, I am going to Xiaguan to rescue Commander Xiao now, you and Battalion Commander Liu will take people to the Tiger Cave of Purple Mountain to wait for me, and I will come when I go." ”

Let's go together to save Commander Xiao. ”

"I'm enough for myself. I can't let you take the risk. You are the last capital I have left in Nanjing. Obey orders. ”

Sakura Yoshiko said, "Captain Xiao, let me go!" ”

"Nope! You can't even go! Xiao Jian said: "Camp Commander Liu, the peerless son will be handed over to you, you must protect her safety." ”

"Don't worry, as long as you go to the Purple Mountain, it will be my world. You can rest assured. We are waiting for you at Tiger Cave. ”

Xiao Jian didn't expect that the Chinese and Japanese armies were fighting fiercely, but Tang Shengzhi, as the commander of the Nanjing garrison, had no intention of defending Nanjing, and waited day and night for reinforcements to arrive. On the evening of December 11, Chiang Kai-shek suddenly sent a telegram to Tang Shengzhi: "If the situation cannot last for a long time, you can retreat in order to organize and counterattack." After receiving Chiang Kai-shek's retreat order, Tang Shengzhi did not argue with reason, completely forgetting that he had sworn that he was willing to live and die with Nanjing. Overnight, he studied with Luo Zhuoying and Liu Xing, the two deputy commanders and chief of staff, Zhou Hui, and decided to prepare for retreat, and on the morning of the 12th, he summoned staff officers to hastily formulate a retreat plan.

This is a plan of military humiliation, without careful arrangement, and is no different from a surrender plan. An army of 100,000 people, like a rabble. Chased and beaten by the Japanese army. On the way to Shimoshitaseki, there were corpses of the national army everywhere. Along the banks of Shimonoseki, rivers of blood flowed. The Japanese warships faced the defenseless masses in Shimonoseki and the incapacitated Nationalist troops, and the naval guns and machine guns were frantically pouring bullets. The bamboo raft temporarily set up by the commander-in-chief of the river crossing the river was vulnerable in front of the Japanese warships, and there were dead bodies floating everywhere on the river, and under the water, the dead bodies were sleeping. Most of them were corpses of the national army. These national soldiers did not die in the defense of Nanjing, but they were shot like lambs by the Japanese army. Dying on the battlefield is the highest honor for a soldier. But he was not killed in battle, but was killed by a stupid commander.

By this time, the Japanese army had poured into the city through the gap in the city wall, and hundreds of Chinese soldiers resisted calmly without command until they were killed. By 16 o'clock on the 12th, Zhonghua Gate, Guanghua Gate, and Zhongshan Gate were all broken by the Japanese army, and fierce gunfire rose one after another in the streets and alleys.

Chiang Kai-shek issued an order to retreat, the army was defeated, and the city of Nanjing could no longer be defended, so Tang Shengzhi began to implement the hastily formulated retreat plan. After giving the order to retreat, he entrusted the responsibility of retreat to his assistants, and he himself took the lead in withdrawing from the battlefield.

Due to the inadequate deployment of the retreat plan, there was widespread chaos in the retreat operation. After Tang Shengzhi withdrew, the Nanjing army and civilians fell into an unprecedented state of disorganization. The most humiliating scene in the history of the Anti-Japanese War began.

The road leading to Shimonoseki Wharf was crowded with soldiers and civilians rushing for their lives and retreating national troops. People pushed and trampled each other like ants on a hot pan, and there was not a single boat in sight on the riverside. The Japanese warships in the river continued to machine gun fire at the residents who had fled from the city and the national troops who had withdrawn from the city, and the green and blue water had been stained red with blood.

It turned out that before the war, Tang Shengzhi, in order to show his determination to break the cauldron and fight against the water, cut off his retreat and asked Yu Pengfei, the minister of communications, to withdraw the two large ferries that had been in Xiaguan, and strictly ordered the 1st Army guarding Pukou and the 36th Division guarding Rujiangmen to stop the troops and soldiers who were withdrawing from Nanjing to the north bank of the Yangtze River or from inside the city to outside the city through Rujiangmen, and if they did not obey, they could shoot and shoot. What is even more serious is to sink the ships along the Yangtze River to the bottom of the river.

After the order to retreat was issued, the defenders of Rujiangmen failed to receive the order in time, and were still making every effort to prevent the retreat of the front-line troops, causing the blockage of Rujiangmen. The troops retreating from the fierce battle were in disarray, and they all rushed to cross first, and even Major General Xie Chengrui was squeezed down by his own people and trampled to death. According to Song Xilian, a Kuomintang general who participated in the defense of Nanjing, later recalled: "There were originally two ferries between the mouth of Xiaguan and Pukou, which could carry seven or eight hundred people each time, and it took about 45 minutes to make a round trip. It was dark at 5 p.m., and it was not dawn until 7 p.m., i.e., a full 14 hours of sailing during the night. If the transport authorities of the garrison commander's headquarters had been able to get their hands on these two ferries, they would have been able to transport at least 30,000 people across the river, but they let them go to Hankow. What remained on the banks of the Xiaguan River were only a few small steamers and two or three hundred civilian boats, and there were too many people to cross the river, but there were too few boats, and there were even gunfights between the various units in order to grab the boats. ”

Most of the officers and men had no boats to ride, so they had to dismantle the door panels to make rafts to cross the river, and seven of the nearby temples alone were demolished. Others are clinging to cedar rafts, planks or tree branches and trying to swim across the Yangtze River, which is nearly 2 kilometers wide. Because it was a cold winter, the river was bitterly cold, and many soldiers froze to death in the river.

Xiao Shanling, the mayor of Nanjing and the commander of the garrison, led the military police to the river, and found that there were no boats that could cross the river, so he ordered his headquarters to cross the river on their own rafts. By the early morning of the 13th, most of the officers and men of the gendarmerie had not yet crossed the river due to the large number of men and the lack of boats. At this time, the Japanese 6th Division came after the rear and opened fire on the retreating Chinese soldiers and civilians. Xiao Shanling ordered the military police to block the Japanese army on the spot to cover the crossing of the river by other soldiers and civilians. The Japanese did not expect the retreating Nationalist army to suddenly launch a counterattack, and they were caught off guard and had to retreat in a hurry. But it didn't take long for the Japanese to make a comeback under the cover of machine guns, charging fiercely. The riverside was wide and unobstructed, and the gendarmerie troops fought against the water, which was extremely difficult, and the gendarmes led by Er Xiaoshan Ling were surrounded by the Japanese army......

The rolling Yangtze River has become the burial place of countless soldiers and civilians in Nanjing. Thousands of refugees flocked to Shimonoseki Pier and found chaos everywhere, as soon as the ferry docked, countless people rushed up for their lives, ignoring the warning shots of the retreating soldiers. For a moment, shouts, cries, scolding, and cries for help from those who fell into the water rang out. The officers and men of the Nationalist who were crossing the river were killed and wounded by the fire of the Japanese troops who were chasing after them, and many of them died under the guns of their own people. The surging Yangtze River was littered with the corpses of soldiers, and blood stained the river red.

The ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, which was prosperous in the past, was devastated and corpses were everywhere, becoming a living hell on earth. Xiao Jian thought of all this and was heartbroken.

At this moment, a fierce gunshot rang out behind him, and the bullets rushed towards him like a torrential rain, Xiao Jian grabbed Lili Lili and squatted on the ground like lightning, pressing her body against her, escaping a life-and-death catastrophe. Xiao Jian looked up and saw that it turned out to be a devil's three-wheeled military motorcycle driving towards him, and there were three heavily armed devils sitting in the car, a machine gun spit out tongues of fire, and kept shooting at the pedestrians fleeing on the street, one by one, the pedestrians immediately fell to the ground, struggling in pain, blood spurting out. There are old people, there are children. The Heavy fired, and the other two devils brandished their sabers and commanded the Heavy, howling like wolves. At this moment, they found a middle-aged pregnant woman with a big belly, a ghost in the car let out an excited howl, the motorcycle immediately stopped, and a ghost jumped off the motorcycle, holding a saber high, blocking the middle-aged woman's way. The middle-aged woman's face was like ashes. One of the devils slashed through the clothes that stabbed the pregnant woman with a saber, and Lili Lili involuntarily screamed: "Beast, kill him!" ”

As soon as Lili Lili's words fell, Xiao Jian's dart broke through the air and shot accurately at the devil's throat, and immediately, the devil fell to the ground like a dead dog. Then two more knives flew away, and the other two devils spurted blood from their mouths, and they fell to the ground, seeing that they couldn't survive.

Xiao Jian smiled and said, "Xiao Lili, the little devil sent me a car." ”

"Brother Xiao is so powerful, let's run!" Xiao Lili said as she put her old cloth hat back on and returned to her original beggar appearance.

Xiao Jian looked at Xiao Lili's makeup, nodded and said, "Didn't you say that you were going to Xiaguan to save your father?" The little devil sent the car, don't be in vain. ”

"Good! Let's hurry up, it's full of devils. ”

At this time, the middle-aged woman stood in place in fright, and a deep knife wound was revealed in her clothes that had been cut by the saber, and blood stained her chest red. Xiao Jian rushed to the woman's side and said loudly, "Sister-in-law, go home quickly!" The middle-aged woman woke up from a dream, holding her hands on her chest and running away like a frightened bird.

"Are they dead?" Lili Lili looked at the three Japanese who fell to the ground.

"Rest assured, from the moment they raise their knives, they are all dead." Xiao Jian said calmly. He felt that he had made the right choice to stay.

"Well deserved!"

After a while, another three-wheeled motorcycle came, and there were three devils sitting on it, one of whom was carrying a machine gun, and like the previous motorcycle, he was constantly sweeping the residents on the street. Bullets of sin constantly hit the panicked inhabitants. Xiao Jian picked up the machine gun from the ground and solved it suddenly. Xiao Jian immediately picked up another machine gun and said to Lili Lili, "Let's go!" ”

Xiao Lili said: "I'm afraid! ”

"Baga!" At this time, a group of bloody Japanese soldiers with bayonets outflanked Xiao Jian.

"Don't be afraid, rest assured, they are all the living dead. You hide under the car, I'll deal with them! Come right here. We went to Shimonoseki at once, and with this play, soon, I would be here in a moment. ”

"You're going to kill them? There are a lot of them, be careful! Xiao Lili hid under the motorcycle in horror, trembling all over.

"Little Japan, you all deserve to die! This is, the land of China! ”

"I know." Xiao Jian smiled and said, "The bullets of the little devils can't hit me!" Don't walk around! ”

Xiao Jian said as he looked around, holding a machine gun, surrounded by devils chasing panicked residents with bayonets, and there were no more weapons in the city to resist the devils, and the devils became unscrupulous. If he wants to save Xiao Shanling, he must get out of here as soon as possible. There are too many devils in the city. There are dozens of miles from Nanjing to Xiaguan, Xiao Shanling is the commander-in-chief of the river, and the devils have occupied Nanjing, and they want to kill the retreating national army. Xiao Shanling is the first target of the devil. Xiao Shanling must not be allowed to fall into the hands of devils. He had to rush to Shimonoseki as fast as he could. Without fear, he strode towards the devil's motorcycle. He knew that although he had a gun in his hand, he could not use it. Don't alarm the devils around you. This time, he decided to use his throwing knife stunt. He learned martial arts at the age of three and has experienced five martial artists before and after. His first initiation martial artist was Lin Dafu, the father of Lin Sumei, whom he was married to. When Lam Tai Fu was young, he studied Wing Chun with Ip Man as his teacher. Five years later, he returned to Nanjing, opened a martial arts hall, and sold opium. opened a gambling hall and established the Xiao Hutou Gang, which soon became the black boss of Nanjing and became a well-known figure in Nanjing. Lin Dafu is strong in martial arts, and the city government is very deep. Xiao Jiantian is extraordinary, Lin Dafu likes him very much, and in less than two years, Xiao Jian learned all the martial arts that Lin Dafu taught him. Xiao Jian's second master was a young ** monk, Master Yuantong, who lived in his house for five years, and after five years, Xiao Jian learned Shaolin's seventy-two stunts. Among them, the best ones are Shaolin darts and light skills, and Xiao Jian learned the best. At the age of sixteen, he was admitted to the Central Military Academy with his passion for sheep life and amazing martial arts, where Xiao Jian secretly joined the Communist Party of China. After graduating from the military academy, his father sent him to Japan to study economic management, less than a year, he was admitted to the Japanese non-commissioned officer school, two years later, he was hunted down by the Japanese military department for participating in the assassination of the Northeast murderer demon king Ghost Wood, he fled to Germany, was admitted to the Berlin Military Academy in Germany, and after returning to China, Chiang Kai-shek personally met him. wanted to keep him as his chief guard, but Xiao Jian politely declined. He participated in the Battle of Lihu, in which he led a squad that destroyed the devils in a row, creating a record of winning more with less. Received a telegram commendation from Chiang Kai-shek. In the Battle of Songhu, after the defeat of the national army, he participated in the defense of Nanjing with the army.

Within thirty meters, his throwing knife was bloody. The devil saw that Xiao Jian was fearless, "Horn Ga! The machine gun roared. However, Xiao Jian's throwing knives were one beat faster than the devil's bullets, and ten flying knives flew towards the throats of ten Japanese soldiers, and there were ten more Japanese corpses on the ground.

Xiao Jian jumped on the motorcycle, the motorcycle became his mount, and the machine gun and the ** on the Japanese army became his trophies.

"Xiao Lili, get in the car!"

Xiao Lili jumped into the car, and at this moment, a small group of devils rushed over, Xiao Jian held a gun in one hand and a motorcycle in the other, and shot at the oncoming devils......