On 13 December, when the news of the great victory in Cihu Town reached Shanghai, the people in the concession rejoiced, but others did not know whose contingent the Hainan Escort Army was, and which of the local high-level people in Shanghai did not know?

Seeing the news that Li Tie's team with 5,000 escorts was able to wipe out as many as 9,000 Japanese troops in two days, and that there were few casualties of their own, the people of Shanghai still couldn't believe it.

It's not a dream, is it? Isn't this a war report deliberately created by the government in order to boost the people's morale? However, detailed data on the destruction of the enemy, including the enemy's number, military flag, and bombed vehicles. It is impossible to falsify this evidence.

Besides, if you falsely report your military exploits, the Japanese will not agree, but I am afraid that if you report the false military exploits on the front foot, the back foot will be debunked by the Japanese.

It's just that I have never heard the news of the Japanese army's great victory over the Nationalist Army, and when I heard the newspaper say that the Hainan Independent Regiment wiped out the Japanese army of 9,000 people, and even shot down 16 planes.

At the same time, there is also a super-valuable reward awarded by Commander Chiang to give the independent regiment a first-class meritorious service, but the people of Shanghai still dare not believe the news of this great victory.

It was not until the Japanese newspapers published the news about the setback of the Japanese army's attack on Cihu Town that Chinese people truly believed in this hard-won victory.

At this time, the Sino-Japanese battlefield was not without victories, and the victory at Pingxingguan in the first few months and the victory at Yangmingbao in the previous month also ended with the victory of the Chinese side.

However, the victory of Pingxingguan was very small, and it only wiped out more than 1,000 Japanese baggage troops, and the victory at Yangmingbao was not bad, not only destroying hundreds of devils, but also blowing up 24 Japanese planes at Yangmingbao.

However, both of these victories also came at the cost of huge losses for the Chinese side. At the same time, as an integral part of the entire Xinkou Campaign, the final Xinkou Campaign and the Taiyuan Campaign ended in the defeat of the Chinese side. This seriously affects the gold content of these two great victories, giving people a feeling of pulling out a big one in a file.

However, this time it was different, although it was inevitable that the Battle of Nanjing would fail in the end, but this time the Hainan Guards made a great show of might, annihilating more than 9,000 Japanese troops with 5,000 troops, and even destroying 16 fighters, and their own casualties were very small, listening to the telegram sent by the independent regiment, their own casualties were less than 1,000.

Is this still the Nationalist Army, which has defeated the Japanese every time they fight more and less? It's no wonder that the people couldn't believe it, and when they first saw this record, they thought that the newspaper had reversed it, and that the Japanese army's record was not China's record.

Who knows that this record is still true. All of a sudden, the independent regiment became famous, and then the reputation of the Hainan Escort Army became famous, and Tongjin immediately had a well-informed personnel publish the relevant situation of the Hainan Escort Army in the newspapers.

As a result, everyone was widely shocked that the current chairman of Hainan Province turned out to be Wang Yaqiao, the leader of the Axe Gang who was shocked in Shanghai back then.

What is even more excessive is that I heard that there are now 50,000 Hainan escort troops, and now they only sent 5,000 people to wipe out 10,000 Japanese troops. If all 50,000 people go to the front line, it will not be possible to destroy 100,000 Japanese troops, and if the number of Hainan guards is more.

Then you have to kill all the Japanese soldiers?

This is the thinking of typical ignorant people, who do not know how much preparation Li Tie and his Huaxing company have done behind the scenes in order to eliminate these Japanese troops.

For example, a few years ago, an ammunition storage depot was built in the mountainous area of Cihu Town, and those heavy weapons and equipment had to be secretly transported to the warehouse for storage.

At the same time, in order to effectively maintain confidentiality, how many relevant insiders were secretly split and sent to other places. However, as a battle related to the overall situation in the defense of Nanjing, even if Cihu Town achieved unprecedented results, it still could not change the dilemma that Nanjing was facing loss.

When the news of Cihu Town's victory reached the Nanjing Frontline Headquarters, the generals in the headquarters expressed their sincere admiration for the combat strength of the Hainan Independent Regiment.

However, it has been decided that the plan for the whole army to withdraw from Nanjing has been initiated, and now the officers and men of the 36th Division have begun to evacuate the people in Nanjing on the north bank of the Yangtze River day and night. The evacuation work this time was carried out in an orderly manner in batches and districts.

However, the only thing that dissatisfied Li Tie was that there were still a lot of people in Nanjing, no matter how the soldiers of the 36th Division persuaded them, they just didn't plan to evacuate Nanjing.

There was no choice but to let the people of Nanjing, who agreed to evacuate, evacuate first.

At this time, there were only a few small steamers that could carry 300 people and a few dilapidated bare fishing boats. And when the people retreated, they had to drag their families with them, and there were countless salutes.

Some people are reluctant to even throw pots and pans, and some people even bring all the chickens, ducks, geese and dogs at home, I really don't understand, they don't know that this is running for their lives?

Why are you still reluctant to throw away a single thing like you usually go to your relatives? Looking at the slow-moving retreat in front of him, Li Tie was also very helpless, and immediately announced to all the people of Nanjing that all the people of Nanjing who fled without any belongings, as long as they could successfully escape to the other side, they could go to any Huaxing company and receive ten yuan with their accounts as compensation for this escape.

The speed of the people of Nanjing, who got Li Tie's promise, suddenly became much faster, after all, it was not worth a total of pots and pans of the ocean for ten oceans, and this kind of account can be counted by a fool.

So from the night of the 12th, the speed of the people in Nanjing City to flee was much faster, and everyone flocked to the Xiaguan wharf, but fortunately, the three small steamers at the wharf were transported 24 hours a day, and tens of thousands of people could be transported away in a day.

However, this capacity is still too slow compared to the tight time, and the entire Nanjing City has agreed that the people who leave the city are 200,000 people, and the people of Nanjing City cannot be evacuated without five or six days of effort.

On the Yangtze River outside Nanjing, due to the bombing of Japanese planes every day, there were no ships coming and going. Fortunately, the Hainan guards at the Xiaguan wharf also set up dozens of anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns to protect the safety of the river near the Shimonoseki wharf.

And before that, Li Tie also took into account the problem of ships. While contributing the two small steamers he had hidden, he mobilized all over the homes of dignitaries and nobles in Nanjing, asking them to hand over their escape tools.

At this time, Kong Lingwei did her best, and she also contributed the little steamer that her father secretly left her to escape. Moreover, Kong Lingwei insisted on waiting for Li Tie and his Hainan escort army to evacuate Nanjing before evacuating together.

On the night of the 12th, two small steamers that had been secretly stored were opened in the wharf warehouse of the Nanjing Huaxing Shipping Company.

With the addition of this group of small steamers, the evacuation work on the 13th was much faster.

However, the plan did not change quickly, and in the early morning of the 13th, the positions in the city of Nanjing were still fighting to the death against the Japanese army.

The Xu Yuanquan Division of the 2nd Army Corps of the Garrison Headquarters, which was holding the Wulongshan Fort in the Yangtze River valley east of Nanjing, retreated without a fight, and they secretly withdrew from the Wulongshan Fort on the night of the 12th.

After Xu Yuanquan got off the Wulongshan Fort, he secretly led the 41st and 48th Divisions of his headquarters to cross to Jiangbei from Zhoujiasha and Huangnidang Wharf on the civilian ships controlled there in advance. Go to Jiangxi for rectification through Anhui.

Two hours later, the fortress troops of the Wulong Mountain Fort, after learning that Xu Yuanquan's troops guarding them had fled, the fortress troops were also ready to blow up the fortress guns and then evacuate the Wulong Mountain Fort.

Unfortunately, when the fortress troops were about to escape by bombing their cannons, a group of uninvited guests infiltrated the Wulong Mountain Fort and captured all the fortress troops.

When the news that Xu Yuanquan's troops, who were supposed to be the last to evacuate and cover the flanks of all the Nanjing troops, escaped from the Wulongshan Fort without a sound, reached the Nanjing Front Command.

Tang Shengzhi was so angry that he directly lifted the table, and he loudly scolded Xu Yuanquan, the defender of Wulong Mountain, and scolded him for being a sinner of the party-state, even if he chased him to the ends of the earth, he would kill this deserter.

It was at this time that several unfavorable news came one after another, and some formed armies in the vicinity of Yuhuatai and Bauhinia Mountain fled without a fight. And threw the Central Army in these places on these positions and was attacked on all sides.

On the afternoon of yesterday's meeting, after returning to his headquarters, Gui Yongqing, who was the ace of the Nationalist Army's teaching corps, directly handed over all military power to Qiu Qingquan, chief of staff, after conveying the order to Tang Shengzhi ordering the entire army to retreat, and he himself went to Xiaguan alone and fled among the people of Nanjing.

And like him, there are still many generals who left their troops and fled alone, and some even took their troops away. As a result, many positions of the Chinese defenders, who were in the middle of the battle, were greatly vacant. As a result, the Japanese army took advantage of the situation. Even if the besieged Chinese army fought to the last man, it could not stop more and more Japanese soldiers from pouring into the city of Nanjing.

Tang Shengzhi had no choice but to order the defenders outside the city to withdraw to the city first. But in this way, the Wulongshan Fort will inevitably fall into the hands of the Japanese army.

Without the Wulongshan Fort to hold the waters east of the Yangtze River, the Japanese fleet could go upriver along the Yangtze River, directly enter the Xiaguan Wharf, shell the Xiaguan Wharf, and prevent the retreat of the military and civilians in Nanjing, which would cause immeasurable casualties.

Now in the Nanjing Frontline Headquarters, the generals present once again experienced the feeling of being pitted by their pig-like teammates. I have the intention to go to Oolong Mountain to defend it, but the fortress guns in the fort of Oolong Mountain are not something that ordinary soldiers can understand.

Now everyone can only pray that the Japanese army has not found out that the defenders of the Wulongshan Fort have fled, so that their fleet will come later, and it will also give the soldiers and civilians of Nanjing a few more days to escape.

Looking at the command post, the generals were as anxious as ants on a hot pot. Li Tie coughed lightly: "Don't panic, everyone, in fact, there is a regiment of our Hainan Escort Army lurking there in the Wulong Mountain Fort."

The order they received was to assist the defenders of Oolong Mountain in guarding the Oolong Mountain Fort. If the defenders of Oolong Mountain had fled, they would have been the first to know the news.

At the same time, we will also be stationed in the fort as quickly as possible to guard it, so please believe that the Oolong Mountain Fort is still in our hands. ”