December 31, afternoon. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

At present, the city occupied by the troops of the commander of the Nanjing garrison is the north of the city. The Japanese army had resumed occupation of the Japanese embassy, and the international zone was under Japanese control.

The Yangtze River to the north has been blocked by Japanese gunboats, and it is obviously a dead end. Well, at present, there are two ways for the Chinese to retreat, one is to the southwest, along the Yangtze River. One is to go northeast and along the Yangtze River.

There is no other way.

The Japanese are studying the Chinese, and they are concerned about two questions, first, how many opponents are left? Second, the opponent should be retreating. The Japanese were sure that if they retreated, their opponents would definitely take these two paths.

At present, there are 50,000 Japanese in the city and more than 100,000 in various places outside the city. Today, the Japanese army has basically occupied the large and small cities in the area from Nanjing to Songhu. There is no way out by going south. Therefore, the Japanese judged that the only way out for the Chinese was to go southwest, go southwest, and then find a boat to cross the river.

In the past few days, the Japanese army has deciphered the telegram of the Chinese defenders, which asked the base camp to prepare ferries in the area of Jianye southwest of Nanjing, and asked them to send people to cross the river at Zhenjiang to harass the rear road of the Japanese army and cover the retreat of our troops. We have a lot of wounded, we move slowly, and so on.

Analysis of the deciphered telegrams also revealed that the defenders actually numbered only a few thousand.

Moreover, the Japanese also deciphered that the Wuhan base camp sent a telegram back, asking them to hold out for another month.

Then, the Japanese also deciphered the next telegram, which was sent by the defenders of Nanjing: a counterattack was being prepared, a final counterattack.

The Japanese analyzed the telegram and concluded that the Chinese government had abandoned these people. Now, the army in Nanjing is an outcast.

The rest is not clear. Unbeknownst to them, the commanders of the defenders of Nanking had seen the telegram and were completely disappointed with the government this time. On the one hand, they gave up on the local government, and on the other hand, they arranged a path for them to escape.

The Japanese army didn't know that Lao Chiang's telegram helped Xiaolu and helped him do the final persuasion work. After reading the telegram, everyone no longer hesitated, actively arranged, and acted in accordance with the retreat plan.

However, the Japanese judged that the defenders of Nanjing might have a breakthrough move.

The Japanese believed that the defenders of Nanjing were likely to break through to the northwest side of the city of Nanjing, and that they would retreat to the southwest after leaving the city.

The Japanese army mobilized its troops, one in the city of Nanjing, and the other in the southwest of Nanjing, to intercept the Chinese defenders.

The Japanese army was most concerned about when the defenders would retreat, and the pressure in the city was intensified to ask them to retreat as soon as possible.

However, at one o'clock in the afternoon of the 31st, the defenders left the city from the north of Nanjing, passed through the railway station, and defeated all the Japanese troops in the northeast. The small group of defenders then occupied the railway station on the spot and cleared the passage to the east and north.

The information was immediately reported to Shanghai.

Shanghai immediately sent back an order to reconnoiter the west of the city and observe the activities of the defenders in the northwest. Only the Jianye area had just been occupied, and the defenders had the conditional opportunity to retreat from there. They believe that the operation on the northeast flank is a feint and a tactical deception, because breaking through to the northeast is a dead end.

The reconnaissance was carried out immediately, and an hour later the results of the reconnaissance were reported to Shanghai: the northwest city of Nanjing was calm, and only a few troops were found.

The Shanghai command of the Japanese army issued an order: first, to transfer troops to the Jianye area to intercept the defenders. Second, mobilize troops to the Jiangning Town and Ma'anshan areas to intercept the defenders. Third, the planes reconnoitred the situation in the area from Pukou to Hexian on the other side of the Yangtze River. Fourth, the aircraft reconnoitred the activities of the defenders in the Qixia area.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, the defenders in the west of Nanjing suddenly launched an attack on the Japanese troops on the opposite side, and several captured tanks and dozens of mountain artillery infantry guns opened fire on the Japanese troops on the opposite side.

The Japanese troops west of the city could not stand the heavy artillery fire and retreated westward.

Then, instead of leaving the city, the defenders fired artillery fire at the Japanese-occupied areas of the city. The artillery fire intensified. Because of the proximity, a large number of heavy machine guns also opened fire together. The Japanese occupation forces held out for half an hour, did not support, and retreated.

Nanjing, which was already broken, is now even worse, with broken walls everywhere. Xiaolu was rescued and never went to Nanjing, but Nanjing was re-established for a few years, and it never returned to the weather of the year.

The defenders' artillery fire extended, and the tanks pursued south.

A detachment of infantry followed the tanks to the Japanese positions, and a large number of Molotov cocktails were thrown at the Japanese positions, and after half an hour, the Japanese positions began to burn, and the fire burned the Japanese troops back.

The fierce attack of the Chinese defenders dizzy the Japanese army. Because in recent days, the defenders have attacked with little intensity. The military strength is very weak, and the Japanese army has become accustomed to playing hide and seek with them, going around in circles, dodging their cold guns, and has not fought a big battle for several days, and now they are suddenly attacked, and they are somewhat caught off guard.

The movements of the Chinese defenders were immediately transmitted to the Japanese command.

The Japanese command in Shanghai immediately replied: Urgent mobilization, the Chinese defenders will break through today and tomorrow. Order the troops in the city to assemble, increase the pressure on the Chinese defenders in the city, and pursue them if the opponent breaks through.

The fighting in Nanking is still ongoing. The Chinese defenders were already closing in on the Japanese embassy.

At this time, the movements of the Chinese defenders came to an abrupt halt, the tanks retreated, the infantry retreated, and set off to the northwest.

The pursuing Japanese found that the Chinese defenders had abandoned most of the artillery, and most of the artillery had become infantry, and were also retreating.

However, the convoy reached the northwest of the city, turned around and went out of the city, and ran to the Xiaguan wharf. Several tanks retreated into the gate and opened fire on the city, and then, with the driver withdrawing, the tanks exploded, blocking the gate.

The Japanese reconnaissance went up to the city wall, saw that the group of defenders had arrived at the Shimonoseki wharf, started two ferries, and carried a few cannons on it.

The Japanese reported what they saw.

The command was a little confused, this force only had a few hundred people, could it be that there were only a few hundred people left in the city of Nanjing?

At this time, two ferries and more than a dozen speedboats at Xiaguan Wharf quickly rushed to the center of the Yangtze River and rushed to the Pukou Wharf on the opposite bank.

Several gunboats received orders from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and sailed to the dock of Xiaguan to prepare to attack the ship and destroy the hundreds of men.

At this time, the pursuing Japanese troops on the south bank reached the shore, and they fired their rifles into the sky and signaled.

When the ferryboat and speedboat reached the center of the river, they saw a gunboat pressed down.

The Japanese soldiers on the gunboats saw these broken ships and immediately prepared for battle. The commander looked at the ferry with a telescope and saw that there were people on the ferry facing his direction, waving flags, Isha being the Japanese flag. The commander immediately asked the artillerymen to observe with their binoculars, and sure enough, it was the Japanese flag.

The commander hesitated, called the signalman to signal the light, and asked what was going on. The signalman gave a light signal, but the other party did not answer, but just waved the Japanese flag. In the twilight, nothing is clear.

The gunboat got closer to the ferry, and I saw a few people in Japanese clothes gesturing at them, and the shouts in their mouths were heard. However, mixed with the roar of the machine, what is shouted cannot be heard clearly.

These bastards in the army don't even know the flag language, they are indiscriminate!

The two ferries slowed down, and the boats were still heading at full speed toward the opposite shore.

The Japanese troops on the south bank brought in several mountain guns and aimed at the ferry.

At this time, the three ships had gathered dozens of meters closely, and the Japanese soldiers saw that the other party began to get cables, as if they were about to come up.

The Japanese commanders were even more confused. The other party was obviously wearing the clothing of a soldier of the Imperial Japan.