On November 8, Liu Qiwen's department was ordered to garrison the Nankou position in Songjiang County to snipe Jinshanwei to land the Japanese army. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

At about 9 o'clock in the evening, Liu Qiwen's troops suddenly encountered the Japanese army and engaged in battle, and he personally led the 644th Regiment and the 647th Regiment to hold the No. 30 railway bridge, determined to inflict heavy losses on the enemy.

At this time, the original garrison had retreated under Chen Cheng's secret order, and the rout was like a tide, causing Liu Qiwen's troops to suffer from the enemy on their backs, and several enemy planes took turns to drop bombs and strafe near the Songjiang Bridge.

The Japanese gunboats on the Huangpu River also concentrated their fire on Liubu, and the artillery fire was deafening, and the Japanese offensive was sharply reduced under the strong resistance of the Chinese army, but the battle was still very fierce.

The fierce battle lasted until about 12 o'clock on the 9th, when Wang Xirui, the commander of the 644th Regiment, died heroically in the fierce battle, and the Japanese army swept in from the right flank.

Liu Qiwen commanded steadily, was witty and calm, and led the reserve to attack the Japanese army, causing the Japanese army to suffer a heavy setback.

Under the leadership of Liu Qiwen, the officers and men of the 644th and 647th regiments shared the same hatred for the enemy, and became more and more courageous the more they fought, but the casualties were very heavy.

In order to preserve strength and cover the evacuation of the army and division headquarters, Liu Qiwen led his troops to move to Songjiang Xiguan and engaged in a fierce street battle with the Japanese army on Songjiang Shili Long Street.

The Japanese army sent several times the strength of the Chinese army to pursue Liu Qiwen's troops, Liu Qiwen led his troops to desperately block the attack, not giving up an inch of land, fighting for every house, and the Japanese army engaged in fierce hand-to-hand combat, and the tug-of-war battle lasted until 11 o'clock in the evening, and finally the Japanese army was defeated.

At this time, Liu Qiwen had not closed his eyes for two days and two nights, and he had not entered a drop of water, but he ignored these and led his soldiers to build fortifications on Xiguan Street in preparation for another battle the next day.

At about 2 o'clock in the morning of November 10, the Japanese army broke through the defense line of Songjiang Beiguan and surrounded Xiguan Street.

The gunfire slowly thinned out, the night sky gradually fell silent, and communication with the army and division headquarters was suddenly cut off, Liu Qiwen suddenly had a premonition that the battle situation might change, the army and division headquarters might have been transferred, and if the 644th and 647th regiments did not withdraw quickly, the whole army would be annihilated.

Liu Qiwen decisively decided to break through from North Street and move to Sheshankou.

However, when Liu Qiwen led his troops to the bridge from West Avenue to North Street, he was discovered by the Japanese army, who mounted heavy machine guns on the bridge and fired wildly at Liu Bu, causing serious casualties among the troops.

In the midst of the crisis, Liu Qiwen snatched the machine gun from the hand of the commander of the machine gun company next to him, jumped up, and began to lead his troops to charge!

Liu Qiwen shouted loudly: "Brothers, come with me if you are not afraid of death!" ”

While shouting, he opened heavy fire on the Japanese army, and for a while, the morale of all the officers and soldiers doubled, and the sound of killing shook the sky, and rushed towards the Japanese army, but the Japanese army could not resist and began to retreat.

Unfortunately, when he was about to cross the bridge, an enemy machine gun bullet hit Liu in the chest, and the general was killed by a bullet at the age of 39.

Due to the urgency of the military situation, he did not care about burying his body, so his subordinates covered his body with wooden planks from roadside shops.

After learning the news of General Liu's heroic death, the officers and men of the 322nd Brigade were overwhelmed with grief and hatred for the enemy, and fought back more fiercely against the Japanese army in the Battle of Songjiang, causing more than 1,000 Japanese casualties.

The officers and men of the 322nd Brigade did not know that the entire 67th Army, including the 322nd Brigade, had fallen into the heavy encirclement of the Japanese army, and the commander of the 67th Army, General Wu Keren, had died on the evening of the 9th.

On the afternoon of November 9, Wu Keren led his troops to break through and arrive at Baihe Port at the junction of Qingpu and Kunshan, preparing to cross the Suzhou Creek west to Kunshan from here, but the bridge had been blown up by Japanese aircraft.

Wu Keren commanded the troops to wade across the river, when the Japanese planes in the sky repeatedly bombed and harassed, and the Japanese ground troops also searched in the vicinity in a roundabout way, Wu Keren was calm and calm, and commanded his subordinates to cross the river first.

In the evening, the Japanese spy Xiang Yutian, hidden in the 67th Army, with a team of Japanese troops, suddenly arrived, and in the battle, Wu Keren was unfortunately shot and died at the age of 43.

Subsequently, our army abandoned the positions on the south bank of the Suzhou Creek except for Nanshi, and moved to the line of Qingpu and Baihegang, and the Japanese army occupied Hongqiao Airport and Longhua Town, and continued to advance to the line of Qingpu and Baihegang.

Wu Jiguang, commander of the 174th Brigade of our 58th Division, was killed while commanding the troops to block the attack, and the line was abandoned on the 10th.

On November 10, the Japanese Sato detachment landed in Pudong, and the 5th Infantry Brigade launched a general attack on Nanshi, and Fengjing Town fell.

On November 11, the enemy's 6th Division captured Qingpu and advanced to the bank of the Suzhou Creek.

On the same day, our troops in Nanshi were ordered to withdraw from their positions, and Wu Tiecheng, the mayor of Shanghai, issued a letter to the citizens, declaring the fall of Shanghai with deep sorrow.

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On Dao Department Street in the south of Nanjing, near the headquarters of the former Kuomintang Central Investigation Bureau, there is a two-story Western-style small western-style house with the house number 76.

This is a very quiet place, not far behind the house is the city wall of Xuanwu Gate, outside the door is an empty overgrown wasteland, open the window on the upper floor to overlook, the blue waters of Xuanwu Lake at a glance.

Perhaps it was fate that Li Shiqun had a special fate with "76" in his life, since the secret service headquarters and the Fuxing Agency merged to form the Military Command Bureau, No. 76 Dao Department Street has become Li Shiqun's residence.

It was a secret organ of the Kuomintang Military Command Bureau.

Since the fall of Shanghai on November 11, Nanjing has become a dangerous city.

The Japanese army came from the Beijing-Shanghai Railway Line, the Beijing-Hangzhou National Highway, and the Yangtze River Upper Road, and the situation of the entire city of Nanjing was precarious.

The 83rd, 66th, 71st, 72nd, and 78th armies, as well as Gui Yongqing's teaching corps, totaling about 300,000 men, retreated from the Songhu front, and were ordered to defend Nanjing.

Chiang Kai-shek appointed General Tang Shengzhi, an old soldier from Hunan who had been idle, as commander of the Nanjing garrison, although the Nationalist authorities repeatedly claimed that Nanjing was impregnable, but in fact the hearts of the people were shaken.

On November 20, the Nationalist Government announced that the capital would be moved to Chongqing on the same day.

For a time, the people were panicked, and all the large and small organs in Nanjing retreated to the rear, and the dignitaries, wealthy businessmen, or by steamship or car, fled from Nanjing one after another with all their furniture.

At this juncture, Xu En, director of the First Division of the Military Command Bureau, found Li Shiqun.

In the past few days, Li Shiqun has been in a state of restlessness, he saw the chaotic state of various organs, and he was already ready to slip away, but the Military Command Bureau had not yet given the order, so he had to stay hard.

Hearing that Director Xu En had summoned, he was extremely uneasy.

"Shiqun, are you here? Quick, quick, sit down and let's talk. Xu Enzeng pointed to the sofa, with a smile on his face, much more polite than usual.

Li Shiqun sat down on the sofa and looked at Xu Enzeng, waiting for his speech.

"Is your wife still in Shanghai? How is she lately? Xu Enzeng asked.

"Thank you Chief Xu for your concern, she's fine, she brought a letter a few days ago and is ready to come to Nanjing." Li Shiqun replied truthfully.

"Really?! In times of war, you husband and wife should naturally be together, otherwise the two places will be worried! Xu Enzeng glanced at Li Shiqun, who was in good order, and nodded with concern.

Li Shiqun felt very strange in his heart, this Xu En had taken the wrong medicine? How can you talk to me about family life today, he is not usually such a person!

"Shiqun, I came to you today to give you a task." Just when Li Shiqun was wondering, Xu Enzeng finally turned to the topic.

"Hehe, I obey Chief Xu's orders." He happily agreed, but Li Shiqun's heart was pounding, and he didn't know whether it was a curse or a blessing.

"Good! I know that you have always been a firm obedient to orders. ”

Xu Eun stood up from his seat and took a big drag on his cigar.

"We will soon be transferred to Hankou, but our work cannot stop there, I have discussed with Director Chen Lifu and decided to send you as the left-behind director in Nanjing."

"This, that ......" This news is like a bolt from the blue, it came too suddenly, Li Shiqun looked at Xu Enzeng, and didn't know how to answer.

"You don't want to accept this task?" Xu Enzeng's tone was not as kind as before.

"No, no...... I want to ...... If ......," Li Shiqun spoke, and became slurred.

"Shiqun, what do you want to say?" Seeing Li Shiqun's appearance, Xu Enzeng asked with a cold face.

"Chief Xu, if Tang Shengzhi can't hold Nanjing, what should I do?" Li Shiqun finally boldly said what he thought in his heart.

"Oh, this, by that time, you will be lurking in Nanking and fighting in the heart of the enemy." Xu Enzeng pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, glanced at Li Shiqun, and said lightly.

"Okay, I'll accept the mission!" Li Shiqun knew that he could not shirk this task.

"Hehe, I just said that Brother Shiqun will accept this task, this is a good comrade!" Xu Enzeng smiled, stepped forward, and patted Li Shiqun's shoulder affectionately.

Next, Xu Enzeng gave instructions on the issue of funds and personnel.