Nanjing, the fierce defense battle has reached the last moment, the Japanese army began to launch a fierce attack on the Nanjing city wall, and once broke through to the city, ** began to retreat, the situation was chaotic.

Zhongshan Road was full of soldiers preparing to retreat. People neighed and horses roared, mixed with many ordinary people who were preparing to retreat.

A group of wounded soldiers, with dull eyes, slumped on the ground, helplessly looking at the crowded crowd in front of them.

Several soldiers took off their military uniforms, and they didn't know where to throw their guns, and changed into civilian clothes.

"Run, it'll be too late if you don't run."

"The officials are all gone, let's stay and do a ****."

"I heard that there is a ship in Shimonoseki."

"Yes, there are a lot of boats at Shimonoseki Grand Pier that you can run from there."

I don't know whose rumor it is, but it is rumored in Nanjing that a large number of ships can cross the river at Xiaguan Wharf, and countless people flow to Xiaguan.

At the Shimonoseki wharf, a company commander of the 36th Division stood in front of the city gate and shouted hoarsely to the crowd of people who wanted to rush out of the city: "Don't retreat!" Don't retreat, whoever wants to run, our guns are not vegetarians...", he said as he took a pistol and honked into the air.

I don't know who in the crowd on the opposite side shouted "%¥#@, rush", and rushed forward with the flow of people, and the company commander was caught off guard and was trampled to the ground.

"Da Da...", the defenders' machine guns remembered, and several of the leading ones were knocked down, and the crowd stopped again. The company commander, who was almost trampled to death, struggled to his feet, his face covered in blood, and shouted to the crowd, "No one wants to run without an order from the headquarters!" No one..."

Song Xilian's face trembled painfully when he heard the gunshot, but it was true that he did not receive an order to retreat, and his 36th Division was deployed in Xiaguan to prevent the soldiers from retreating without permission. And the Chinese Nanjing Command, when it hastily issued the order to retreat, actually forgot to notify the 36th Division!

Finally, the crowd began to rush forward again, Song Xilian looked at the Rujiang Gate, which was almost the same as water and fire, and there were already many soldiers on the city wall not far away who had fallen down the city with cloth ropes. He silently turned his back, and the adjutant understood, and ordered the soldiers to remove the fence, and immediately, the crowd poured out like a flood that burst the embankment.

However, people went through a lot of hardships to get to Xiaguan only to find that there were only a few wooden boats on the river, and as soon as some of the wooden boats docked, the crowd rushed over, and the soldiers who tried to escape shouted angrily, and the people on board coldly refused. Suddenly, the small wooden boat overwhelmed and capsized and fell into the water.

Some soldiers did not know where to find a plank, regardless of the cold water of the river in winter, lying on the plank and trying to cross the river, the three-kilometer river surface had not yet drifted 100 meters, a wave hit, and the personnel immediately disappeared.

Song Xilian looked at everything in front of him helplessly, and suddenly a voice in his ear said, "Yin Guo, didn't you say that there is a ship in Xiaguan?" Where's the ship? ”

Song Xilian saw that it was Gui Yongqing who was teaching the corps, and he said angrily: "I don't even know about retreating, who arranged the ship in advance." Now there are so many people, how can they be evacuated without a ship! ”

Yu Jishi, commander of the 74th Army, also came over: "Let's build a raft, don't wait for the boat." ”

"Can a raft cross the river? Is it in time? ”

"A dead horse should be a live horse doctor." After Yu Jishi finished speaking, he was about to order the adjutant to arrange personnel to cut down trees and build rafts. Suddenly the crowd cheered.

"There's a ship, big ship! Big Steamer! ”

The whine of the steamer, the black smoke coming out of the chimney, one, two, three... Every time a ship appeared, the crowd on the shore let out a cheer.

There were 13 ships, and Song Xilian saw that several generals looked at him with questions on their faces, shook his head, and said, "I didn't arrange it." ”

Of course, it wasn't arranged by Song Xilian, Xu Ming stood on the bow of the boat first, saw the crowd on the shore, and knew that it was the right time.

"Qianli, where did your ship come from, was it arranged by the Military Commission?" As soon as Song Xilian saw Xu Ming coming ashore, he couldn't wait to ask.

Xu Ming originally wanted to deny it, but after thinking for a while, he said with a smile: "I am here to rescue Er and others by the decree of the Jade Emperor." ”

After joking, Xu Ming saluted Song Xilian and all the officers (who called him a low rank), and said: "Xu Ming, the commander of the new regiment of the 62nd Division of the 28th Army, has come to report and ask for instructions." ”

Everyone thought that Xu Ming was ordered to arrange the retreat, otherwise how could there be so many big ships at such a time. Yu Jishi, who was the most qualified, said: "Since the ship was brought by you for thousands of miles, I will listen to you if you retreat, you just have to give orders." The rest of the crowd nodded yes.

Xu Ming knew that this was not the time to excuse himself, so he said: "Okay, I, the regiment commander, will give orders to the generals." ”

"General Song Xilian, your 78th Army (36th Division) will be responsible for the order rectification on the south bank of the Yangtze River, and ensure the order of boarding the ship and retreating at the city gate."

"General Gui Yongqing, please go to the first part of your teaching corps, go to Jiangbei to receive you, and reorganize the troops ashore."

"General Xiao Shanling, please send a group of gendarmes to inform the troops who will have time to retreat in the future, and arrange for them to retreat as soon as possible."

"General Yu Jishi, please transfer the wounded soldiers from your troops."

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As soon as Xu Ming finished speaking, a deep voice suddenly said, "Commissioner Xu, what is the task of my troops?" ”

Xu Ming saw that it was Ye Zhao, the commander of the 66th Army, and Xu Ming smiled and said: "General Ye, you are late, now there is nothing to do with you, your troops can only retreat." ”

The ship was divided into three parts, the wooden boat was organized by Qin Lieping, the 103rd Division, the 112th Division and other miscellaneous armed forces were withdrawn, and the two steamers were responsible for transporting the elderly, women and children on the shore; The rest of the retreating soldiers, the "Chase" transported heavy weapons.

Xu Ming saw that the retreating crowd was in order, and was thinking about more specific arrangements, when he suddenly saw two more small steamers. He looked at Song Xilian and Yu Jishi, and the two old men were both red, slightly embarrassed.

Xu Ming suddenly remembered something and said to Song Xilian: "Commander Song, there is no problem here for the time being, I want to go to Wulong Mountain." ”

"What are you doing over there, it's too dangerous." Song Xilian immediately refused.

"Commander Song, if the Wulong Mountain fortress is not defended, we will not be able to withdraw." Xu Ming was thinking about this matter just now, and the important reason for the serious losses in the historical Nanjing retreat was the abandonment of the Wulongshan Fortress, which led to the eastward advance of the Japanese fleet and blocked the Yangtze River in Xiaguan, making it impossible for a large number of personnel to evacuate.

Song Xilian was staying to speak, when suddenly a person next to him said, "I'll go to reinforcements in Wulong Mountain." ”

Xu Ming looked at it and saw that this person had a sickly face and a thin body, but his eyes were resolute and his demeanor was resolute.

Song Xilian knew that Xu Ming didn't know, and introduced: "This is Xie Ruihua, the commander of the First Brigade and the Second Regiment of the Teaching Corps. ”

Xu Ming looked at the head of Xie Ruihua who was far away, and silently saluted a military salute. Xie Ruihua had brought less than 400 men with him to reinforce him, and he had just learned that the attacking Japanese army at Wulong Mountain had at least one brigade.

There are boats in the river, and there is no panic in my heart, and the hearts of the people by the river have settled down.

"Xiao Qiu, how is the data of the retreat now?"

Qiu Linquan opened the notebook, calculated a little, and said to Xu Ming and the officers: "The first wave of transportation has ended, a total of more than 7,400 people have been transported, the time is 1 hour and 5 minutes, and it is expected that by 7 o'clock tomorrow morning, 110,000 people can be transported; By noon tomorrow, 14 to 150,000 people will be transported. ”

The defenders of Nanjing are only about 100,000, and Xu Yuanquan's second army has been evacuated from Zhoujiasha and Huangnidang first, Xu Ming calculated, it is now 5 o'clock in the afternoon, even if the Japanese army closes the river tomorrow morning, the main force of the army can retreat.

How much the people can retreat depends on how long Xie Ruihua's Wulong Mountain fortress can be defended.

Xu Ming thought of Xie Ruihua, this thin body was so majestic in his heart, and he said to Song Xilian: "Commander Song, I'll go to the city to see how the wounded soldiers are withdrawing." ”

Wounded soldiers are the most difficult to evacuate, often one wounded soldier needs two people to help retreat, and it is even more difficult to retreat in a dangerous city where people are panicking.

Song Xilian nodded and advised: "I'll send a company to assist, you should be careful for thousands of miles, especially in the direction of Zhongshan Gate and Guanghua Gate." ”

Xu Ming walked to the city, which was already a mess, with items scattered underground, shoes and clothes and hats that had been trampled on, and even discarded gun parts, all showing the chaos of the retreat.

There was a rumbling cannon sound from the direction of Zhonghua Gate and Yuhuatai, which was the key direction of the Japanese army's attack, Xu Ming vaguely remembered that there was once a very beautiful plum forest there, but under such fierce artillery fire, I don't know if there is a day when it will bloom.

Holding back the resentment in his heart, Xu Ming walked past buildings destroyed by Japanese planes or heavy artillery to the Drum Tower Hospital, where more than 2,000 wounded soldiers were located.

Xu Ming was vaguely familiar with an officer, and when he got closer, he saw that it was actually the famous Wang Yaowu in later generations. Wang Yaowu saw Xu Ming and said: "There are too many wounded soldiers, and it is difficult to withdraw." ”

Xu Ming approached the hospital and saw that the lightly injured people walked slowly with crutches and bandages, and the slightly heavier ones supported each other to move forward, and the hundreds of people led by Wang Yaowu could only carry the seriously injured and carefully transferred.

Xu Ming thought of an idea and said: "Commander Wang, it's not a way to transfer the wounded like this, God knows when the devil will come, I think I'll find some people to intercept the evacuated soldiers nearby, and every two retreating soldiers must take a wounded soldier away." ”

Wang Yaowu nodded and said, "I'll go, I'm the division commander, and the soldiers will listen to the order." ”

Tossed until midnight, Xu Ming and Wang Yaowu even carried the stretcher themselves, and finally transferred all the wounded soldiers. In the city of Nanjing in this time and space, the order of the army's retreat finally slowly improved.

Speaking of which, the most important thing in the retreat is the stability of people's hearts, and historically, because of the lack of enough ships, the people's hearts are panicked, and the situation is getting worse and worse. Now, because of the ships, there are a large number of regiment commanders, brigade commanders and even division commanders in the city who are responsible for order, and the situation is finally under control.

Seeing the two defeated soldiers take over Xu Ming and Wang Yaowu's stretchers, Xu Ming was finally able to catch his breath and shake his sore arms under the movement of his hands.

In the distance, the burning buildings had not yet been extinguished, the air still smelled of gunsmoke, and the sound of artillery had disappeared, only sporadic gunfire could be heard from time to time. Fortunately, the Japanese army did not launch a large-scale attack that night, and what Xu Ming feared most did not happen.

As soon as they walked through a street, Xu Ming and the others suddenly heard a quarrel.

"Be obedient, if you don't retreat, it'll be too late."

"Didn't you say that you want to live and die with Nanjing?" An angry voice came.

Immediately followed by an even more excited voice: "We will not withdraw, the officials are afraid of death, we are not afraid, Nanjing is our grave." ”

The heralds who asked them to retreat tried to persuade them again, and saw a group of people approaching.

"Division Commander", when everyone saw Wang Yaowu, they saluted one after another, ignoring Xu Ming, who was in a suit and leather shoes but dirty.

"Retreat is an order, and it is the duty of a soldier to obey an order." Wang Yaowu said in a hoarse voice.

"Sir, we don't want to withdraw, we are from the 87th Division, all the way down from Shanghai, and we don't want to withdraw anymore." A platoon commander was led by this group of people and said with tears in his eyes.

"Sir, let's break off, kill one devil to save the capital, kill two and earn one."

Xu Ming looked at this group of soldiers and sighed very emotionally, there may be many unqualified officers in China, and even greedy for life and afraid of death, but the vast number of soldiers are good, for the seemingly invincible Japanese army, the Chinese nation relies on these loyal and brave soldiers to drag the opponent into the quagmire.

Xu Ming walked over and said, "Are you really not afraid of death?" ”

Wang Yaowu saw that more than a dozen soldiers on the other side did not know Xu Ming, and said, "This is Commissioner Xu, the special commissioner of the Military Commission. ”

Legend has it that Wang Yaowu is very sociable, and sure enough, as soon as the words came out, he lifted Xu Ming to a step, if Xu Ming is a regiment commander (or a miscellaneous army), I am afraid that in Nanjing, where high-ranking officials are everywhere, and the generals are full of streets, it is very unconvincing.

The soldiers said: "We are not afraid of death, Sir Xu, we will fight with the devil." ”

Xu Ming nodded appreciatively and said, "I have an idea, it must be completed by people who are not afraid of death, but after it is done, it can be left in history!" ”

After saying this, even Wang Yaowu next to him was very surprised, what could be so important?

Xu Ming now had an idea, that is, to use all conditions to fight the Japanese army, and when he heard the words of these soldiers, he remembered the entry ceremony of Song and Jing Shigen in Nanjing.

This is not only a shame for Nanjing, but also a shame for China.

Xu Ming said: "The characteristics of the Japanese army, the occupation of a provincial capital will be a parade, the occupation of our capital will hold a ceremony to enter the city, this ceremony is very important for the Japanese army, all their high-ranking officials, a large number of Japanese journalists and many soldiers will be present, your task is to make trouble." ”

"Do you want us to drop bombs? Let's do it! "Yin Bongji, a former Korean and deceased soldier, threw a bomb in Shanghai's Hongkou Park, killing and injuring a bunch of high-ranking Japanese officials, this incident is very famous in China, and "Ta Kung Pao" published an article "Come by warship, lie in a coffin and leave."

Xu Ming found a wooden stick and said while gesturing, "No, you can't get close to the Japanese army, the Japanese army held an entry ceremony, I don't know from which gate to enter, but it will definitely end in the National Government Building, and they will raise the Japanese flag." ”

"At the same time, the devil will play the national anthem of Japan, called "Jun no Dai," Xu Ming hummed the melody of the song and continued: "When you hear this song, the senior Japanese officers and senior generals will definitely attend, and then you will use mortars to ......."

Wang Yaowu is a person who understands and knows the impact of this matter, as long as it is done, the Japanese army's flaunting of martial arts may become an international laughing stock. He said solemnly: "Brothers, if they take even one shell during their ceremony, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and all Western countries will report it, and this is a remarkable feat, and the government will definitely build a great monument to you in your hometown." ”

"87 Platoon Commander Wu Zhulin, 261st Battalion, 622nd Regiment, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division!"

"Liu Qingyuan, squad leader of the 267st Company of the 622nd Regiment of the 62nd Regiment of the 2nd Division!"

"Corporal Yu Wei, Corporal Yu Wei, 3rd Battalion, 622nd Regiment, 261st Brigade, 1st Division, 1st Division!"

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There were a total of 23 people, Xu Ming wrote down the names and ranks of everyone, and saluted them solemnly with Wang Yaowu.

The 23 warriors also returned the salute neatly.