The sound of gunfire did not stop in Nanjing!

Nanjing is trembling, the capital is crying!

But there are some stupid GIs who never give up, even at the last minute!

They know what kind of fate they will encounter, but they still do not look back!

The 1st Battalion of the 302nd Regiment is such a group of stupid soldiers.

A full 4 hours have passed, and under the guidance of the 6th Company, these 128 brothers have been here for a full 4 hours!

With tragedy, with heroic, no matter what words are used, they can no longer be described!

The position was filled with gunsmoke, and the air was filled with a strong smell of blood. The stupid GIs were out of bullets, out of grenades, and there were only 47 of them left.

They don't care, they don't care at all.

They didn't even bury the bodies of their brothers, there was no need for that, and soon, they would join up with these brothers who had gone before themselves on the Yellow Springs Road.

"Monk!"

"Here!" A soldier with a large shaved head stood up.

Xu Jingming looked at the soldier: "You are also from Sichuan, right?" ”

"Yes! Sichuan Mianzhu! ”

Xu Jingming smiled faintly: "Then I'll give you a task, go to your fellow countrymen of the 6th Company of the 26th Division of the Sichuan Army, and tell them that our department was ordered to retreat, let them retreat immediately, and our department is responsible for helping them cover for 20 minutes!" ”

"What?" The monk was stunned: "Company commander, we didn't receive an order to retreat?" ”

Xu Jingming smiled: "Silly brother, the 6th Company has helped us fight until now, 4 hours have passed, do you really want them to help us for 6 hours?" We are all mortal people, but there is no need for their Sichuan army brothers to die with us. ”

"I'm not going!" The monk said sullenly, "Why should I be a deserter? Battalion commander, let me die with you! ”

Xu Jingming shook the monk's shoulder hard: "Brother, brother, thank you." But there is always someone who wants to get the news out. Besides, it's an order, go for it! ”

The monk's eyes turned red, he raised his hand, saluted the battalion commander with all his strength, turned his head and left.

Just as he stepped out of the position, he suddenly heard the voice of the battalion commander and all the brothers from behind:

"Monk, when the Anti-Japanese War is won, don't forget to come to the grave to see us!"

The monk did not dare to turn back, for fear that if he turned back, tears would fall in front of the brothers

The monk found the 6th company, and as soon as he opened his mouth, Gao Fei knew that it was Xu Jingming who was lying to himself. However, his own 6 companies could no longer fight. The remaining ammunition can't even hit a single block. If you go on, you will only be buried here.

Assisting the 1st Battalion in completing the task behind the palace has long been completed. Now preserving the troops is the most important thing, and there are more important things waiting for the 6th Company to do!

"Withdraw!" Goofy almost gritted his teeth and burst out of the word.

The battle flags were put away, and all the brethren stood by Goofy's side with their weapons.

"All of them!" The voice of political trainer Yu Wenzheng sounded in the ears of the brothers: "Salute to Saihongqiao!" ”

The brothers raised their hands and gave the final military salute in the direction of Saihongqiao and the 1st Battalion!

"Kill for the country!" Xu Jingming stood up with a rifle with a bayonet on it.

"Kill for the country!" Forty-seven brothers stood up with rifles loaded with bayonets.

On the opposite side, there was a swarm of Japanese troops, and it was an army with bayonets!

But these 48 warriors are fearless! Bayonet to bayonet! Fight for life with life!

On December 12, the Nanjing garrison began to retreat.

When the whole army withdrew, the 51st Division's Saihongqiao position left a small force behind the palace, the remaining officers and soldiers of the 1st Battalion of the 302nd Regiment, who performed the heroic last scene in this tragedy with their lives.

At this time, there was no hope of resistance, but the 1st Battalion continued to fight alone under the leadership of the battalion commander Xu Jingming.

Xu Jingming was seriously injured and fell into a coma, but was rescued by local citizens and sent to the hospital for treatment.

The 74th Army, which is a trump card unit in the National Revolutionary Army, after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, their combat effectiveness and sacrifice spirit are awe-inspiring!

The 74th Army, formed in Zhejiang on September 1, 1937, was formed by Wang Yaowu's 51st Division: Zhou Zhidao's 151st Brigade, Li Tianxia's 153rd Brigade and Yu Jishi's 58th Division: Wu Jiguang's 174th Brigade and Qiu Weida's 172nd Brigade. The army has 8 regiments and 21,000 people. Among them, the artillery battalion of the 58th Division had 6 105mm howitzers, which were quite powerful heavy artillery at that time, and they showed their might in the Battle of Songhu.

Soon after the formation of the army, he joined the Battle of Songhu. As soon as the battle began, the Qiu Weida Department of the 306th Regiment let the 300 troops cross the corpse of Luodian, and the 74th Army became famous in the first battle.

Fighting Cao Wangmiao again, the commander of the 305th regiment rushed out of the trench with a gun and led the team to rush violently, this regiment commander is called Zhang Lingfu.

As soon as the Battle of Songhu ended, the 74th Army, which had time to be replenished in the future, immediately entered the battle to defend Nanjing!

In the defense of Nanjing, its elite 51st Division fought fierce battles with the Yue army in Hushu Town, Tangshan Town, Shuhua Town and other places, and repelled the attacks of the Yue army many times, and after the fall of Nanjing, the 1st Division was ordered to break through, and the whole division withdrew to Pukou with only 4,000 people.

According to the "Order for the Breakthrough of the Capital Garrison" issued by Tang Shengzhi at 3 p.m. on the day of the retreat, the 74th Army's breakthrough territory should be on the line of Tiexinqiao-Guli Village-Lulang Bridge, but at this time, the whole city was in chaos, and the road leading to Xiaguan Wharf was crowded with soldiers and civilians vying to cross the river.

Wang Yaowu, commander of the 51st Division, recorded:

Yu Jishi and the others who participated in the meeting arrived at the commander's headquarters, and Tang Shengzhi immediately distributed the printed breakout order to the commanders of all armies and divisions, and soon dispersed the meeting. At this time, it was already dark, and Yu saw that the situation was urgent, so he immediately sent Staff Officer Li of the military headquarters to send me the order, and instructed our division to immediately try to cross the river, and after crossing the river, assemble near the Chuzhou station. I immediately ordered the 151st Brigade to tie up a wooden platoon near Baguazhou to cross the river, and the 153rd Brigade and the troops directly under the division tried to cross the river at Xiaguan, and after crossing the river, they assembled near the Chuzhou station

I walked out of the Rujiang Gate and walked to the Xiaguan River, and saw a lot of people on the wharves, like ants on a hot pot scurrying around; There were only a handful of boats in the river, and the shipless troops grabbed the boats when they saw them, and some of them fought with each other for boats or wooden platoons and opened fire; some use a door panel or a log to cross the Yangtze River; Some people saw that there was no hope of crossing the river and hid in the homes of ordinary people in disguise.

I crossed the river without a boat, and when I was in a hurry, I met Adjutant Zhang of the military department, and he hurriedly said to me, 'The army commander and Feng Shengfa have already crossed the river, and when the army commander saw that the battle had been lost, he had already sent someone to prepare a small steamer in Pukou, which could carry more than 300 people at a time, and asked me to pick you up and the troops. ’

At the same time, I immediately sent Zhao Ruhan, director of the division headquarters, to lead a part of the armed troops to coordinate with Adjutant Zhang of the military headquarters to transport the officers and men of the 74th Army. About 5,000 men who had been transported overnight and managed to come by themselves lost all their weapons. By dawn on the 13th, the enemy's warships were already on a rampage on the river of Baguazhou in Xiaguan, patrolling back and forth, and firing with their cannons at our officers and men who had crossed the river using boats, wooden platoons, door panels, logs, and so on. Many were rammed and drowned by enemy artillery fire and enemy ships. ”

Wang Yaowu's pen is the most realistic record of the scene of the retreat of Nanjing at that time!