Chapter 185: The Fall of Nanjing

I have to sigh with emotion.

Devils just don't have humanity.

Otherwise, he would not have ruthlessly used more than 100 lives as bait for fishing to pour ecstasy soup into the hundreds of thousands of troops defending Nanjing City.

Then again.

The devil's ecstasy soup tactics were really successful, and it completely played a role in the dark, and after the small-scale firefight, many people were filled with a kind of blind optimism.

In the hearts of these people, they think that even if Nanjing City will fall into the hands of devils in the future, it will be a few months later, and even if the little devils occupy Nanjing City, it will be a few months later, and the little devils will not be able to occupy Nanjing City without paying tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of lives.

Under the blind optimism of the defenders, the devils began to attack the Jiangyin fortress on December 1, 1937.

Same.

That is, on the day when the devils captured the Jiangyin fortress, the headquarters of the Devils' Far East Dispatch Army issued an operational order to attack Nanjing, and the defense of Nanjing officially began.

On December 2, 1937, the Nanjing Gateway, which was originally planned to be defended for about ten days, was the Jiangyin defensive line, and after less than a day's defense, it fell into the hands of the devils. In the defensive battle of Jiangyin Fortress, the First Fleet and the Second Fleet, the main forces of the National Navy, which were at a disadvantage, were all sunk in this naval battle.

The fall of Jiangyin Fortress marked the loss of the only water barrier to defend Gyeonggi as the only national conquest of Nanjing, and also meant that the gateway to Nanjing was wide open, and the devil warships cruising on the Yangtze River could unscrupulously fire all kinds of large-caliber shells towards the city of Nanjing.

The large-caliber cannonballs fired by the devil warship from the Yangtze River fell on the city of Nanjing like raindrops, and while blowing up countless buildings, it also woke up hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Nanjing who were immersed in illusory events like a heavy hammer, making everyone begin to face up to the facts, the fact that the devils are strong and the national army is cowardly.

On December 8, 1937, six days after occupying the Jiangyin Fortress, the devils fully occupied the first-line defensive positions on the periphery of Nanjing, and began to attack the outer positions.

On the 12th, the 6th Division of the Devils broke into the Zhonghua Gate but failed to go deeper, although the Devils did not completely capture the Zhonghua Gate, but it caused panic among many citizens in Nanjing, making Nanjing chaotic all of a sudden, whether it was rich or not, all with large bags and small bags in vain attempts to leave Nanjing, and some inseparable people poured into the concession in advance.

In the afternoon of the same day.

General Tang, who declared before the war that he wanted to live and die with Nanjing, broke his word and hastily convened the generals above the division level to discuss the retreat and the related matters of the evacuation of Nanjing.

According to the retreat arrangement, except for the 36th Division, which covered the headquarters and the troops directly under it to cross the river from Xiaguan, all other units had to break through from the front.

There is nothing wrong with this retreat plan.

But the mistake was that General Tang was worried about the sky, worried that the central military would lose too much in the breakout, so that he could not explain to the principal. Therefore, the order was temporarily changed, and verbally issued an order to the 87th Division, the 88th Division, the 74th Army, and the Teaching Corps that "if they cannot all break through, they can cross the river when there is a ferry." This inconsistent order made the already chaotic Chinese army even more confused, and also made their retreat more and more undisciplined.

Retreating.

Only the 66th and 83rd armies, which belonged to the Cantonese system, broke through to the front under the leadership of army commanders Ye Zhao and Deng Longguang, and they successfully broke through the encirclement of devils after paying a huge price, highlighting the city of Nanjing.

Except for the 66th Army and the 83rd Army, most of the commanders of other units did not completely convey the retreat arrangements downward, so they left their troops and went to the riverside to take the boats controlled in advance, and fled Nanjing first.

As everyone knows.

The 36th Division, which was responsible for blockading the Rujiang Gate, did not receive an order from the headquarters to allow the garrison troops to retreat, and immediately clashed with these garrison troops who retreated from the city to Xiaguan out of their own duties, and many of them were either killed or trampled to death.

On the evening of the 12th, General Tang and members of the headquarters fled from the Xiaguan Coal Port to Jiangbei on a small steamer reserved in advance, after which about 5,000 people from the 74th Army and the 36th Division also crossed the river by boat from the coal port, and the 1st Division and the 156th Division crossed the river in a wooden boat under their control at Xiaguan.

So far.

The Battle of Nanjing came to an end.

If Admiral Tang could follow the advice of the dog baby, I am afraid that there would be no tragedy in the future. If Admiral Tang hadn't been transferred out of the new second battalion of Gouwazi, who was originally defending Rujiang Gate, because of the adjutant's words, maybe not so many people would have died. If the troops in Rujiangmen had not been replaced and all the means prepared by the new second battalion of Gouwazi for the escape of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Nanjing City had been destroyed, so many people would not have drowned in the Yangtze River because they wanted to live.

Pity.

in this world.

There are no ifs, and there are no regrets about taking medicine.

So to speak.

In this battle to defend Nanjing, the new second battalion of Gouwazi stationed at Qili Bridge was an innocent spectator from beginning to end, watching the devils attack, watching the soldiers of the national army defend, watching the officers flee, watching the national army become stragglers, and watching the city of Nanjing fall into the hands of the devils.

Next.

I'm afraid it's the hellish Nanjing Massacre.

Thinking of the dog baby here, I couldn't help but close my eyes.

But soon.

The dog's eyes suddenly opened again, and while his eyes showed a fierce light, he also made a decision in his heart, and he was determined to lead the team to implement something that many people couldn't believe when he said it.

Both save people.

Save the countless soldiers and civilians trapped in the city of Nanjing, so that they can live.

This plan is very simple, that is, the dog baby led the team to set off, taking advantage of the gap that the devil had just taken Nanjing City and had not yet gained a firm foothold, and captured the west gate of Nanjing City.

Plainly.

It is to turn the west gate of Nanjing City into an escape channel for hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Nanjing City.

This plan was not decided by the dog baby on a whim, but the dog baby planned after careful consideration, during the period when the devil attacked Nanjing City, the dog baby was unwilling to act as an innocent spectator, he as the commander of the new second battalion, sent more than a dozen requests to the Shangfeng Command, and I don't know what was going on, and the dozen or so requests he sent were all like a stone sinking into the sea. It is precisely because of the absence of these requests for war that the dog baby has an extremely bad idea in his heart, and then calculates it alone, and then has this so-called rescue plan.