On November 22, the Central China Front of the Japanese Army ordered the 10th Army to continue to advance on Wuxi and Huzhou, and on the same day, the Japanese army began to storm the Jiangyin Fort, because most of the defense units of the Nationalist Army were newly defeated divisions on the battlefield, and their combat strength was insufficient, and the fortifications of the two defense lines of Suchang and Xicheng did not play a role unexpectedly, so the advance of the Japanese army was quite smooth. The 10th Army, with the 13th Division as the vanguard, followed up with the 9th Division, which lost more than half of its strength in the Shanghai operation, and the 16th and 11th Divisions, which were relatively intact in combat strength, and launched an offensive on the Xicheng Line.

On November 24, the Shigeto detachment broke through the Chengxi defense line in the middle section, cut off the highway between Jiangyin and Wuxi, and began to encircle Wuxi and the southern part of Jiangyin Fortress by land, and the battle situation in southern Jiangsu took a sharp turn for the worse. On November 25, the Japanese "Shanghai Dispatch Army" broke through the positions of the 74th Army and the 39th Army, and the left and right flank armies of the Japanese army converged at Zhoushanbang in Wuxi, and broke into the city, so that Wuxi, an important city in the south of the Xicheng defense line, fell; The 10th Army broke through the defensive line of the 7th Army and occupied Huzhou; After the 10th Army captured Huzhou and Changxing, it ordered the 114th Division to continue to pursue in the direction of Yixing and Liyang. After the loss of Wuxi, the Chinese army abandoned the Chengxi line, and retreated along the Beijing-Shanghai Railway to the western suburbs of Wuxi and Changzhou, and most of them retreated to the south, passing through Yixing to Xiaofeng and Ningguo on the Zhejiang-Jiangxi border.

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, Qin Feng 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 arrest some so-called communists and go back to the police, saying that the incident was a deliberate attempt by the CCP to create a riot to undermine the people's desire to defend their territory in Nanjing.

Qin Feng, who got the news, couldn't help but snort, and at night that day, more leaflets began to be distributed in the city of Nanjing, and this time the military commanders had no way to find the root cause, because most of these leaflets were directly stuffed into the cracks of the 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 at this moment, if the Japanese army took advantage of the victory to break through the Xicheng line, it would be able to encircle Nanjing, the capital of China, with the army of the South Road advancing across the Taihu Lake.

Smith finally played his role, and learned from the German embassy that the Xicheng Line was about to be broken by the Japanese army through the German embassy, and Smith immediately informed Qin Feng, and that night, this news was printed by Qin Feng and distributed 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. Martin and Catherine, who have been idle and have nothing to do, were now put to good use by Qin Feng, and with the contract that had been signed a long time ago, Catherine and Martin 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. Catherine came back to complain that the ship company had arranged only two small steamboats, but Qin Feng 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 those two steamboats on the Xiaguan Wharf that are transporting people across the river, what Qin Feng 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 Qin Feng 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 dock of Xiaguan, two steamboats belonging to British shipping companies 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 Catherine and Martin.