Although Chiang Kai-shek issued an order to retreat, he then sent a letter to the commander of the Nanjing garrison, Sheng Zhi, and the deputy commanders Luo Zhuoying and Liu Xing, hoping that Tang Sheng Zhi would stay in Nanjing for a longer time.

There is such a passage in the telegram: Our army still wants to hold out in Beijing for a long time. We should spare no sacrifice to enhance the status and reputation of our family and army, and to be the only cardinal for the transformation of our revolution from defeat to victory. If Nanjing can keep one more day, that is, the people will add an extra layer of glory; If we can hold on for more than half a month, the internal and external situation will change greatly, and our field army will be able to respond as scheduled and will not be encircled by the enemy. I wish to remember the life and death of millions of citizens in Nanjing, and stick to the plan. Forehand open. Twelve.

However, when Tang Shengzhi received Chiang Kai-shek's first retreat message, Tang Shengzhi gave the order to retreat, and the army only hated the loss of two legs.

Lin Feng saw that Tang Shengzhi led nearly 100,000 national troops like lost dogs, and hurriedly retreated, as if it was a great escape. It's not organized. In several Nanjings, only the national army that had not received the order to withdraw was still fighting hard with the devils. The rest are all unarmed civilians.

Lin Feng and his team members had already taken off their military uniforms and changed into civilian clothes. In the city of Nanjing, he watched every move of the Japanese army.

Tang Shengzhi looked back at the city of Nanjing on the other side, but saw the flames soaring into the sky, and the explosion of aircraft bombs and gunfire could be heard in the distance, and the Purple Mountain trembled in pain like a wounded giant in the flames of the sky. The ancient capital of the Six Dynasties cried in the flames of war. The 700,000 citizens of Nanjing died under the butcher's knife of the devils, all because of the great China, which could not withstand the attack of a small island country, which was a great shame for the Chinese army.

Suddenly, Tang Shengzhi felt that he had also fallen into the boundless flames. As the commander of the Nanjing garrison, he shoulders the heavy responsibility of guarding the head of the country and the lives of millions of people in Nanjing. Now, like a lost dog, leaving millions of citizens to a group of inhumane little Japan to kill, Tang Shengzhi feels like a knife stuck in his heart as a soldier.

As soon as I looked up, a fire blocked the way.

The wooden bridge in front of him was on fire, and the bridge deck had not yet burned out, and the guards on the side couldn't help but say something, and rushed over with Tang Shengzhi's board car. By the time Tang Shengzhi came to his senses, the fire had already been left behind. At 7 o'clock in the morning of the 13th, the exhausted group arrived in Yangzhou, but they were empty, and Gu Zhutong had already moved to Linhuai Pass with his troops. It's not bad, he still thought in his heart that Commander Tang, who was surrounded by the enemy, left six cars before leaving. Tang Shengzhi was secretly glad in his heart that hundreds of people got into the car and went straight to Chuzhou......

After the order to retreat was given at 5 p.m. on 12 December, the commanders of the various units were like deflated balls, thinking only about how to get out quickly. When some people returned to the headquarters, they conveyed the order to retreat, and they did not care about organizing the retreat of the troops, leaving behind thousands of officers and soldiers, and ran away first; After the meeting, Sun Yuanliang, the commander of the 88th Division, did not return to the headquarters to convey the retreat order at all, and slipped away.

The retreat order clearly stipulates that each unit will break out separately, and the direction and assembly area of each unit are specified. However, only two units, the 66th Army and the 83rd Army, complied with the order.

Two divisions of the 66th Army broke through to the south from the northern foot of the Purple Mountain, taking advantage of the darkness after dark. The soldiers wittily searched for the weak point of the Japanese forces and rushed out of the gap in the Japanese encirclement. They concentrated their machine guns in front, rushed all the way to kill, and fought and walked, and the troops passed through the east side of Machang Airport, Chunhua Town, Jurong, and Liyang, and finally fought their way out of a bloody road and safely arrived at Nanning in Anhui.

The 83rd Army broke through from the vicinity of Qixia Mountain that night and was also successful.

The two units that carried out the order to break through survived. And a large number of troops who refused to obey orders got into a dead end. The other ministries all thought that fleeing to Jiangbei was still a way out. Ignoring the order, they all flocked to the east, and fled by the way. From Zhongshan North Road to Jiangmen, the road was crowded with soldiers and horses and ordinary people from all walks of life who were vying for their lives, and vehicles, equipment, and people and horses were crowded and trampled on each other. A single retreat order caused the 100,000-strong army to be blown apart like a gust of wind, and the soul was scattered.

The crowd rushed to the Jiangmen that led to Shimonoseki, the only access from the city to the riverside wharf. Suddenly, the crowd panicked. It turned out that in front of him were dozens of machine guns, black holes, muzzles and loaded soldiers, holding bright bayonets. The officers and men of the 36th Division were carrying out Tang Shengzhi's order and organizing the troops to retreat to the river.

The crowd was stunned for a moment, then rushed forward like crazy.

"Da da da ......" machine guns rang off, and bullets flew over the heads of the crowd.

"Horn Horn Horn ......" rifles and pistols rang out. However, this time it was shot in the direction of the city gate. Some of the officers and men in the crowd and the officers and men of the 36th Division in the city opened fire.

As soon as the guns rang out, the crowd rushed to the city gate like a flood that had burst its banks, but the gate was only opened, and the gate was narrow, and the flow of people stepped over the people who had been squeezed to the ground, and rushed towards the river without their lives. A wounded soldier who was squeezed by the door turned red-eyed, pulled the grenade he was carrying, and with a "boom", blood and flesh flew in the city gate. The smoke cleared, and countless pairs of feet ruthlessly stepped over the remnant broken arm, swarming by. The wounded soldiers on the side of the abandoned road shouted at the backs of their comrades who fled without looking back: "It's really sad that you have all fled, and you have thrown us here and let the Japanese soldiers kill us!" Fuck, I knew it was like this, who would fight! ”

Among the nearly 100,000 national troops who fled, less than half of them crossed the river, and they were all like headless flies, chased and beaten by swarming devils on the banks of the Xiaguan River. The corpses are all over the place along the coast of Xiaguan, and the floating corpses are all over the river, which is unbearable. Because of Chiang Kai-shek's retreat order, it has become a historical hatred!! As the commander-in-chief of the three armies, why did Chiang Kai-shek give this retreat order? Nanjing is the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, with nearly one million citizens, more than 100,000 national troops, two German armor divisions, and nearly 100,000 well-trained elite national troops. Did you resist the will that went? When you suppressed the Communist Party, why would you rather kill a thousand by mistake than let one go! Fighting a civil war, you are extremely cruel, fighting an external war, and becoming a turtle with a shrunken head. This is the greatest sorrow of the national army! The long song should cry, 300,000 undead in Nanjing, Chiang Kai-shek has an unshirkable responsibility!