1937 is destined to be a year that will be remembered by history.

For Lu Yuan and the Chinese nation, even if the wheel of history has shifted slightly, even if he is a traverser, the wheel of history has shifted slightly, but some things seem to be destined to happen.

November 28.

In the morning, Guo Nu was killed in the Japanese artillery bombardment, and in the afternoon, nearly 3,000 soldiers were left.

In the face of the Japanese army pouring into the position like a tide, several battalion commanders actually led hundreds of defenders to surrender to the Japanese army at the last moment in order to protect themselves.

No one saw those battalion commanders and the hundreds of soldiers again, anyway, when the Chaoxiang Department broke through the Tiger Killing Pass and made a detour to Pingguandu Sanshan Ridge, there was no prisoner in the array.

The fall of the Tiger Killing Mouth actively or passively caused the collapse of the entire line of defense.

Along the Wuhu route, due to the lack of command from the commander and the fear of war on the part of some generals, the entire front collapsed as recorded in the history books.

The news that Rao Guohua committed suicide and martyrdom and the death of the entire Sichuan army came, and the whole country mourned, and both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party published a long editorial on the topic of Rao Guohua and the Sichuan army, calling on all the soldiers and civilians to learn from General Rao Guohua and the Sichuan army, resist the Japanese invaders, and fight hard!

The prestige of the Sichuan tiger resounded all over the country, and some people even said that there would be no army without Sichuan!

The Sichuan army, from being contemptuously called the Sichuan rat and the beggar army when it left Sichuan to go to the battlefield, and the team that everyone looked down on, has become a fragrant bun that all the troops compete for.

Guangde fell, between the Japanese army and Nanjing, there was no hindrance, and the other way, the Japanese navy went upriver along the Yangtze River. The army blocked along the coast, and the battle of Yuhuatai was earth-shattering, tons and tons of shells poured towards the position, although the soldiers fought desperately and bloodily, but could not stop the pace of the Japanese army's advance.

History seems to be moving in its original trajectory, but it has really shifted.

From the time of the fall of Tiger Kill Pass on November 28, the Japanese army broke through the Jiangyin defense line in Changzhou and swooped down on Nanjing while trying to replenish supplies on the spot on the plains of the Danyang generation in Zhenjiang.

Then they found that everywhere they passed, all the houses were scorched earth, and there was not a single person, not a grain of food, and what was even more terrible, the country. The army transferred nearly 100,000 troops from the troops stationed in Nanjing, combined with the tens of thousands of troops evacuated from the defense line, and began to block layer by layer on the Danyang Plain in Zhenjiang!

Battles of all sizes, no less than hundreds of battles occur every day on the Zhendan Plain within a radius of hundreds of miles!

The Japanese army could not get supplies, the weather was cold, the combat effectiveness was greatly weakened, and the exchange rate of casualties on the battlefield between Japan and China gradually climbed from 1 to 8 at the beginning to 1 to 3, or even 1 to 2!

The battle situation is extremely unfavorable!

As a last resort, General Matsui Ishine of the Japanese Army had to give an order, ordering tens of thousands of Japanese troops along the Changzhou line to hold on to the Okada Division, and then dispatch part of the Ushijima Division to rush to the rescue, and the Japanese Navy also sent ground troops to land and carry supplies to the front line of Zhenjiang Danyang!

The Japanese forces attacking Nanjing were greatly weakened. The number of troops was also nearly half less than in history, and the defensive pressure on Nanjing was greatly reduced.

The center of gravity of the battlefield has shifted from the battle for Nanjing City to the icy Zhendan Plain.

No one would have imagined that this war would be fought like this, and the domestic public opinion press described the battle here as a great victory, and the Nationalist Government advocated the country even more fiercely. The decisive role played by the army in this battle, and the incompetent and boiling public resentment against the national government was greatly reversed in this battle.

For a time, Chairman Chiang's reputation reached its peak.

The war that no one remembers has developed to this extent is only caused by a guy named Lu Yuan who attacked the Japanese army's baggage troops in the middle of the night in the middle of the snow, and burned the Japanese army's supplies with a group of Jedi survivors.

It is also because of the seemingly hot victory here, people almost ignore that the Ushijima Division and the Japanese Navy are stepping up to break through the defense line on the periphery of Nanjing, coercing Nanjing, and at the same time rushing to help and supply, intending to encircle Wei to save Zhao, so that tens of thousands of troops such as Asaka Okada on the plain can get out of trouble.

In the city of Nanjing, as the commander-in-chief of the Nanjing Defense Campaign, Tang Shengzhi was able to most deeply feel how heavy the pressure was on defending Nanjing, destroying ships, blocking the road leading to the Xiaguan Wharf, and the people of the city were only allowed to enter but not leave, and tried his best to create an atmosphere in which the city was in the people and the city was dying.

At the same time, Nanjing was strictly ordered to defend all departments and defend to the end, without his order, no one was allowed to evacuate the position, and those who violated the order died!

At the same time, he asked Chairman Chiang for help and asked for support, he knew that Nanjing was originally short of garrison strength, and now nearly 100,000 people had been transferred to the Zhendan Plain to try to encircle and annihilate the Japanese army of the Okada Department of the Asahika Department, and now the number of troops responsible for guarding Nanjing was less than 80,000, which was not enough to resist the Japanese army.

Chairman Chiang and the People's Republic of China. The military has been deploying the Battle of Wuhan, and Nanjing has always been a chicken rib in his heart, and it has no strategic value at all.

Now, although the battle on the Zhendan Plain gave them a little hope, they knew better that once the reinforcements from the surrounding area arrived, once the Japanese army got up from the quagmire, Nanjing would be even more unfortunate!

Therefore, Chairman Chiang gave Tang Shengzhi a way in a secret telegram, trying to hold on as much as possible to involve the Japanese troops, buy time for the troops on the Zhendan Plain to fight the Japanese army, and when they really can't hold on, they will abandon the city!

Hearing this order, Tang Shengzhi wanted to cry without tears, so he could only order the troops to step up defense, and at the same time call on the people of the whole city to participate in the construction of various fortifications, and prepare for the time when the Japanese army attacked, all the people would fight a street battle and turn Nanjing into a battlefield!

However, the people of the whole city have been misled by the battle situation on the plains, and they are blindly optimistic, thinking that the Japanese army will definitely suffer a big loss this time, and then there will be a chance to hold peace talks, and this war will end in a tiger's end.

Therefore, inside and outside the city of Nanjing, there are two completely different scenes.

Even though you can hear the faint sound of artillery fire, you can see a large number of wounded being transported into the city from time to time, and you can see the hurried army shuttling by, but the people are still living in peace, and some are even preparing for the New Year that will come soon.

Hell and heaven are blended together in the city of Nanjing at this moment.

On December 3, Lu Yuan entered the city of Nanjing in batches with a team that had changed into civilian clothes and guns wrapped in layers of cloth, and saw those stern-looking soldiers and dense sentry posts, and then saw the people in the city living their own lives, laughing and scolding in all kinds of lives, and almost cried out without a wow.

It is always difficult for people to predict the coming of disaster, but when it does come, it is too late.