Chapter 45 Accident

At 4:30 a.m. on December 13, just as the 103rd Division was about to bypass Qingliang Mountain, it heard the sound of artillery fire from Purple Mountain, and then gunfire began to be heard in the city of Nanjing. I didn't expect that Purple Mountain would fight at this time, and the teaching corps had the same idea as the 103rd Division, intending to highlight Nanjing, but the teaching corps still had the strength to break through head-on, which was also known to Zhang Ziwen later.

Xiao Shanling didn't sleep all night, thinking about how to contain the Japanese army in the city, and the remnants of the thousands of defeated soldiers and gendarmes gathered were still firmly in his hands in the area north of Shuiximen to Caochangmen. Hearing the movement of Purple Mountain, he planned to help the teaching corps, after all, most of them were students, and he had given them lectures, so the gendarmerie began to take the initiative to attack the Japanese troops in the city.

"Who's standing?"

The 103rd Division went around to a junction outside Qingliang Mountain and encountered the sentry post of the gendarmerie brothers, and the brothers in front of them subconsciously leaned up when they saw that it was their own brothers.

Waiting for Wan Shijiong to go up, the brothers had already confronted the gendarmes with their guns, Zhang Ziwen sighed in his heart, worthy of being a gendarme, the brothers of a class faced more than 300 people in the 103rd Division, and they had no cowardice.

"Brother, I am Wan Shijiong, the commander of the 103rd Division 618, and now I have thought about Qingliangshan going out from the grassland gate, can it be convenient?"

Wan Shijiong is polite enough, if the other colonels estimated that they would have directly fired the guns of the gendarmes on the opposite side, who would care so much when they fled for their lives.

"Didn't the 103rd Division cross the river this afternoon? Why are you still here? ”

Wan Shijiong's words on the opposite side shocked Wan Shijiong, and the division headquarters had withdrawn without informing him.

"Does the little brother know the details? Can you tell us? ”

"This afternoon, more than 100 people from your 103rd Division carried your Division Commander Dai from me to Rujiangmen, and now they have already crossed the river."

"Carrying? Little brother, are you sure? ”

"It was said by the chief of staff of your division, it seems that the surname is Wang"

Ma's, it's Wang Shuhuai, and he is doing things.

"Thank you, little brother, can you let us go now?"

"I've already called our commander, and when our commander comes, you tell our commander."

Wan Shijiong didn't speak again after several fruitless inquiries, waiting for Xiao Shanling to come over. Xiaoshan Lingzi Tienong, Yiyang County, Hunan Province, graduated from the Third Infantry Section of Baoding, Deputy Commander of the Military Police of the Nanjing Garrison of the National Revolutionary Army Army, and Major General of the National Revolutionary Army.

After waiting for a while, a man with a beard, thick eyebrows and big eyes, who looked a little like Chairman Jiang came to Zhang Ziwen in a car. At this time, he held six important positions - deputy commander of the national gendarmerie, director of the capital police, mayor of Nanjing during the war, acting commander of the Nanjing garrison, commander of air defense, and commander-in-chief of crossing the river.

"You 103rd Division?"

General Xiao asked in a questioning tone, obviously what the person just said was the real situation.

"Report to Commander Xiao, Wan Shijiong, the commander of the 618th Regiment of the 103rd Division, is now leading his troops to prepare to withdraw from Nanjing."

In the face of a high-powered and daring general, Wan Shijiong did not dare to make a mistake in front of him, and Wan Shijiong was not the kind of person who had no one in his eyes.

"How many people are there now?"

Hearing this, Zhang Ziwen's heart tightened, this is to send a task to the 103rd Division.

"Three hundred and fifty-two."

"Okay, come with me, after this fight, I'll have someone take you across the river by boat."

Xiao Shanling didn't wait for Wan Shijiong to reply, he turned around and got into the car directly, and under the gaze of General Xiao's guards, Wan Shijiong could only wave his hand and follow.

General Xiao Lingshan directly brought the 103rd to Shuiximen, and the gendarmes of Shuiximen were fighting fiercely with the devils, and the 103rd Division was directly put into the last position of Shuiximen.

At eight o'clock in the morning, the 103rd Division had been fighting for three and a half hours, and Xiao Shanling took the guards and the reserve troops of the gendarmerie unit to replace the 103rd Division from its position.

Because it was a night battle, the dead brothers were not injured much, most of the dead brothers were killed by the devil's artillery fire, and in these three and a half hours, the 103rd Division suffered more than 100 casualties, and the wounded brother Xiao Shan ordered them to be sent to Xiaguan with a troop transport vehicle, and the 103rd Division was left with nearly 200 people, which was also the reason why the brothers in the gendarmerie had strong firepower and took on most of the devil's firepower.

When the 103rd Division withdrew to the reserve position, Zijin Mountain could no longer hear the sound of artillery, Zhang Ziwen wanted to know whether the teaching team had broken through the encirclement, and he felt that the teaching team had repeatedly supported the artillery fire of the 103rd Division's position.

Qu Yi also followed Hao Shou, Zhou Haoren also died, Dali and Cai Wen were injured, under the care of Zhang Qing and Lao Wang, they withdrew to Xiaguan at six o'clock in the morning to cross the river, if it went well, it would be time to get on the train in Pukou.

Only Zhang Ziwen, Lao Gongzi, Xiaobao, Ma Qi and Zhang Li are left in the Ninth Company. The first battalion of the 618th Regiment was gone, and Wu Zijian was shot in the leg and went to Xiaguan to cross the river with dozens of wounded soldiers of the 103rd Division.

The guns in front are still non-stop, and during the day, it is even more unfavorable to the Shuiximen position, and the devil's artillery fire has been brought into greater play.

"Xiaowen, this is as you wish, we estimate that we will have to die in Nanjing."

Lao Shen joked with Zhang Ziwen at this time, and Zhang Ziwen knew that Lao Shen was hopeless.

"But seeing that I have a son, my Shen family's bloodline will not be broken."

After Lao Shen finished speaking, he proudly took out a photo of his son from his jacket pocket and showed it to Zhang Ziwen, Zhang Ziwen suddenly felt that everyone was the same, and they always remembered the best things in the face of death.

"I didn't bring it to you."

Zhang Ziwen is very disgusted with Lao Shen's down-and-down posture, or it can be said that Zhang Ziwen doesn't want to see him like this, because Lao Shen, a silent person, is suddenly like this, and he already has the will to die. In the past few days, Zhang Ziwen has experienced ups and downs in his heart, and he has become accustomed to the changes in his own situation.

The 103rd Division waited until after eleven o'clock before Xiao Shanling led people back from the front.

"Why didn't you get out of the city?"

Xiao Shanling's words made Wan Shijiong stunned, and Wan Shijiong knew that he had wasted three hours of precious time.

"I thought you had already withdrawn, you withdrew first, I took the brothers to block for a while, and when you got to the riverside, you went to the gendarmerie and told them that you were from the 103rd Division, and naturally someone would arrange for you to cross the river." Xiao Shanling was still clean and neat, and after speaking, he began to lead people into the reserve position.

Wan Shijiong, who reacted, took the rest of the brothers and ran to Rujiangmen, and now the 103 brothers are running with their lives. Unexpectedly, the 103rd Division finally withdrew its troops from Nanjing City alive.

This is the last time Zhang Ziwen saw General Xiao Shanling, and goodbye is already a posthumous photo in the newspaper.

On December 13, 1937, General Xiao Shanling led his soldiers to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese army in Xiaguan, fighting fiercely for 5 hours. Xiao Shanling was also righteous and awe-inspiring, raised a gun to martyr the country, stained Jinling with blood, and fulfilled the promise of "vowing to live and die with Nanjing" with his own righteous deeds, at the age of 45.

It was already twelve o'clock when the 103rd Division reached Xiaguan, Xiaguan was crowded with people, the river was full of people crossing the river, and there were corpses drowned in the Yangtze River floating on the bank, Zhang Ziwen hated Tang Shengzhi even more in his heart.

Wan Shijiong searched for a long time and didn't see anyone from the gendarmerie. As early as when the 103rd Division was still eating, the men of the gendarmerie had already gone to the area of the Lion Rock Fort and Shogunate Mountain to resist the Japanese army with their lives, and buy time for the people crossing the river in Shimonoseki.

"General Xiao won't lie to us, will he?"

After searching for a while, he didn't find the gendarmes, but the riverside was crowded with brothers crossing the river, and Wan Shijiong muttered to himself, but no one dared to answer.

The old pole, pulling Zhang Ziwen's clothes, gestured to the south, Zhang Ziwen turned around and asked how many old poles there were, and the old pole gestured to a hundred.

"Commander, if you believe me, follow me to the south."

When Zhang Ziwen said this, Wan Shijiong stared at him for more than ten seconds, and finally looked at the people and brothers in Xiaguan, and asked Zhang Ziwen to lead the way, Zhang Ziwen didn't know the specific location, and let the old pole go ahead to lead the way.