On November 28, as Matsui had predicted, the Chinese defenders voluntarily abandoned the defensive lines around Wuxi and Jiangyin, and gave way to the entire road leading to Nanjing.

Seeing that the government of the Republic of China made such a stupid move again, Matsui Shigen still laughed happily?

On November 28, Japanese troops were stationed in Wuxi, Jiangyin and other places.

Because Wu Xi and other places were lost one after another, the Japanese army could naturally drive straight to Nanjing as planned.

After the Japanese army occupied Wuxi, it immediately carried out a short rest, and after replenishing all the supplies, the Japanese army took tanks and armored vehicles as the lead, and the large army began to march from Wuxi and other places to Nanjing.

At the same time as the large force was advancing towards Nanjing, the Japanese army sent countless small detachments and began to attack the Chinese defenders in various places along the way, in the hope of clearing the obstacles for the large army.

On the way from Wuxi to Nanjing, although they had to pass through more than a dozen lines of defense of the Chinese army, at this time the Chinese army responsible for the defense was only a few dozen people, and the most were only a few hundred people, and they were all miscellaneous troops withdrawn from various places.

Not to mention that these miscellaneous troops have no fighting spirit, and even the basic weapons and ammunition are insufficient, where are they the opponents of the elite detachments of the Japanese army.

Whenever these defenders encountered Japanese troops, they almost always fled, and even a regiment of men faced more than 100 Japanese troops, and abandoned their weapons and fled without firing a single shot.

Of course, these deserters did not dare to flee to Nanjing, and most of them fled to the surrounding areas not occupied by the Japanese army, and many of them directly took off their military uniforms and fled to the countryside in the form of ordinary people.

At the same time, on 1 December, Japanese planes began to bomb Nanjing frequently, and at this time there were no planes in Nanjing, let alone a few anti-aircraft guns, so they had nothing to do with the Japanese bombing.

From 1 to 5 December, the Japanese Air Force, which had gained absolute air supremacy, began to repeatedly bomb the outlying positions in Nanjing. Moreover, the vanguard units of the Japanese army had already arrived at the periphery of Nanjing, and began to engage with the defenders of the defensive positions on the periphery of Nanjing.

The Chinese troops defending the periphery of Nanking by Heaven generally lacked heavy weapons, and many of the soldiers were recruits with no war experience.

Therefore, the nearly 20,000 troops guarding the periphery were broken by the Japanese army, and soon on 5 December, nearly 150,000 troops of the five divisions of the Japanese army had arrived at the designated location on the outskirts of Nanjing as planned, and had completed the tactical intention of encircling Nanjing on three sides.

On the 6th, most of the Chinese defenders on the periphery of Nanjing, near Shanghai, withdrew into the city, and at the same time, the Chinese defenders in Nanjing also began to build fortifications and forts in various streets, preparing to inflict heavy casualties on the Japanese in street fighting.

Early in the morning of the 6th, outside Nanjing, at Yuhuatai, Qijingshan, Zhonghuamen, Guanghuamen, Zhongshanmen, Taipingmen, and other strategic places, Huaxing's convoys pulled infantry guns, mortars, and truckloads of artillery shells.

These cannons and ammunition were exactly what Li Tie pulled into Nanjing City at night a few days ago. That night, Li Tie pulled more than 100 carts of artillery and ammunition.

After entering Huaxing Middle School, it took 10 days to assemble hundreds of cannons under the assembly of hundreds of Huaxing workers.

No, taking advantage of the fact that the general offensive of the Japanese army had not yet begun, Li Tie immediately ordered the soldiers of the Hainan Escort Army to send this cart of ammunition to several important strongholds on the outskirts of Nanjing.

Li Tie knew that it was impossible to defeat the attack of nearly 200,000 Japanese troops with only these few hundred small cannons. After all, hundreds of small cannons are a drop in the ocean in front of the Japanese army.

But it is such a small artillery, and there are no people who can use it in many national army positions. This made Li Tie even more aware of the importance of elite soldiers.

Fortunately, whether it is their Hainan Guards or the Huaxing Guards, the most important thing is cultural education and the training of soldiers with one specialty and multiple abilities.

Today's Huaxing guards can generally speak a few words of Japanese, many soldiers are literate, and soldiers above the squad leader are required to be literate and can read maps.

For soldiers above the company commander, it is required to be able to speak the simplest Japanese, and at the same time, they must be proficient in machine guns and cannons.

Although Li Tie now has only 50,000 elite soldiers in his hands, he believes that if he is given a few more years, he will definitely be able to have more than 100,000 elite soldiers.

However, as a Chinese, many things are done knowing that they cannot be done, just like this time in order to change the tragic fate of the last generation of Nanjing soldiers and civilians. Knowing that Nanjing could not be defended, Li Tie still mobilized nearly 20,000 troops from Huaxing and Hainan to the greatest extent.

In fact, on the second day after his 10,000-strong Hainan Guards entered Huaxing Middle School, he took the initiative to find Tang Shengzhi and showed him that the troops of Huaxing Middle School were Hainan Guards.

Because the Hainan Guards are not yet part of the Nationalist Government Army, they did not participate in the early defense of the city this time.

However, in order to show that they were also here to fight the Japanese army, Li Tie assured Tang Shengzhi that his Hainan escort army would appear at Guan Jian's place at the moment of Guan Jian.

And Li Tie, who has Dai Li's guarantor, has also won Tang Shengzhi's trust. He also invited Li Tie to his headquarters so that the two armies could defend the city together.

So when Li Tie wanted to deliver 200 infantry guns and mortars to the defenders of Nanjing on December 6, he was truly grateful to Tang Shengzhi.

Tang Shengzhi even issued an order to all troops on the spot, that is, the Hainan Guard, as an independent defense force in Nanjing, could build fortifications anywhere, and all troops should actively cooperate.

And after getting the news that the big boss of Huaxing, the great god of wealth of the Republic of China, was defending the city with them, the morale of the defenders in Nanjing was finally greatly boosted.

The defenders all believed that the delicate and expensive Li Tiecai would not stay in the dangerous Nanjing for no reason, didn't they see that Commander Jiang was packing up his things and leaving? He must also firmly believe that the city of Nanjing can be defended.

got the news that Li Tie, the great god of wealth of the Republic of China, decided to stay and defend the city, and unknowingly, the defenders of Nanjing greatly strengthened their sense of identity with Li Tie.

Everyone no longer simply regards him as a businessman, but really regards Li Tie as their leader, a brother who can go to the country with them.

And receiving so much artillery and ammunition at once, even if they are not very good at using it, all the defenders are convinced that they are enough to inflict heavy casualties on the Japanese army.

The Chinese soldiers guarding these strategic points received artillery and ammunition from Huaxing, and their morale was boosted again.

On 7 December, in the presidential palace in Nanjing, Commander Chiang first praised Li Tie's great sentiment of serving the country wholeheartedly, and then handed over all military affairs to Tang Shengzhi, and then led a group of government officials to leave Nanjing by plane.

On the day that Commander Chiang left Nanjing, Dai Li flew away immediately after Commander Chiang's plane, but his sister Dai Da and Miss Kong Er did stay.

In the words of the two eldest ladies, their Rose Legion has not drunk enough of the blood of the Japanese, and they have not yet made enough achievements in battle, so they will not escape from the battle.

Seeing his daughter so disobedient, Kong Xiangxi had no choice, anyway, he had already confessed, once Nanjing couldn't hold it, even if only one person could run out of Nanjing, then this person would definitely be Miss Kong Er.

In the end, Dean Kong secretly left Miss Kong Er a speedboat, and also left Nanjing City with Commander Jiang.

On the day that Commander Chiang and his entourage left Nanjing, the Japanese army dropped a large number of leaflets to Nanjing to persuade them to surrender, and threatened that if the Chinese army dared to resist and the city was broken, they would masshouse the city for three days, hoping to disturb the morale of the troops in the city.

Li Tie saw that the people in the city had received Japanese leaflets and had no intention of leaving Nanjing, and he was also very anxious.

Li Tie directly dispatched a 1,000-strong Hainan escort army to form hundreds of propaganda teams to mobilize the people from house to house to leave Nanjing, even if it was to the countryside.

In order to successfully coax these people in Nanjing, Li Tie even used the method of grafting flowers and trees, and wrote and acted in many bloody photos of Japanese soldiers robbing and killing people in Shanghai.

Seeing such a brutal and vicious act of the Japanese army in Shanghai, many people in Nanjing could not sit still, and they began to flee to cities near the countryside of Nanjing, and tens of thousands of people left Nanjing in just two days.

At the same time, the propaganda photos concocted by Li Tie also greatly stimulated the defenders of Nanjing, seeing the ferocity of the Japanese army, the main defense of Nanjing was the elite of the German armor division of the Nationalist Army withdrawn from Shanghai.

They hated the Japanese army even more, and at the same time, they blamed themselves even more, it was their own defeat in Shanghai that caused such great harm to the people of Shanghai.

As a result, the defenders of Nanjing were not only not intimidated by the Japanese leaflets, but strengthened the determination of the soldiers in Nanjing to defend Nanjing to the death.

On 8 December, all 180,000 Japanese troops had arrived at the city of Nanjing. Li Tie had also made all the preparations, and the 10,000 Hainan guards began to deploy in the area of Shangyuanmen and Xiaguan Wharf, the exit of Nanjing.

It was very strange to see the sudden addition of tens of thousands of Hainan escort troops, and the officers and men of the 36th Division, who were responsible for guarding the deserters in Xiaguan.

They found that the Hainan Guards had unloaded huge triangular pieces of iron from the car and assembled them together with components.

Each of these components weighs hundreds of pounds, and is built like a pyramid at various crossings upstream and downstream of Xiaguan, and each pyramid can hide three soldiers.

On the edge of the pyramid, there are three firing ports that are narrow on the outside and wide on the inside. As the saying goes, there are many people and great strength, and it took 10,000 soldiers only two days to arrange hundreds of such large-scale all-steel fortifications on the left and right ends of the Xiaguan Wharf and on several important streets at the exit of Nanjing City.

Seeing the strange fortifications built by the Hainan Guard, the soldiers who didn't understand just watched the excitement, but there were also veterans of a hundred battles, and they were all cold at just a glance.

"It's a big killer."

On December 9, Matsui Ishine personally sent an envoy to meet Tang Shengzhi and persuade him to lead his troops to surrender.

However, Tang Shengzhi tore up the letter of surrender in front of the envoy, expressing his willingness to live and die with Nanjing, and his determination to resist the Japanese attack to the death.

On 9 December, the Japanese army, having found that the persuasion to surrender had been ineffective, had made all preparations for an attack, and the next day, the Japanese army immediately launched a full-scale attack on all parts of Nanjing.

Unlike in previous lives, this time the Japanese attack did not go well, and the Chinese army, which had thought that there were not many heavy weapons, suddenly used mortars and infantry artillery.