At noon on December 17, all eyes from all over the country were focused on Nanjing, the capital of the Nationalist Army, since the Japanese bombed Nanjing on December 1.

Negative news about Nanjing City came one by one, although Tang Shengzhi, the commander-in-chief of the Nanjing garrison, repeatedly stated that he wanted to live and die with Nanjing City.

At the same time, the Nationalist Government also stressed that it would turn Nanjing into a second Shanghai, and that the Nationalist Army could hold Nanjing for at least two months in order to wait for the arrival of more than 100,000 reinforcements from Yunnan.

However, at this time, not to mention that the warlords in China were not optimistic about the Battle of Nanjing, and even the people all over the country did not believe that the Nationalist Army was capable of holding Nanjing.

Because anyone with a little military knowledge knows that Nanjing at this time had no strong troops, no powerful equipment, no reliable natural hazards, and no available reinforcements.

Think about the battle of Shanghai, the morale is sharp, the equipment is also the most, and the entire 800,000 national army has not defeated the 300,000 Japanese army. How could Nanjing, which was now only 80,000 remnants defeated and defended, be the opponent of the 150,000 elite Japanese troops who had just come to attack with the might of a great victory.

As the broad masses imagined, it can be seen from the speed of the Japanese army's march from Shanghai to Nanking in early December that the desire to hold on to the Battle of Nanking for two months could only be wishful thinking on the part of the Nationalist Army.

In the eyes of the general public, it is a miracle not to say that it can hold for two months, but to be able to hold it for half a month.

Therefore, in the early days of the Battle of Nanjing, all the Chinese people were not optimistic about how the city of Nanjing could be defended, and all they cared about was to know how many days the city could be defended.

How many people did our national army lose, and how many Japanese troops did they kill in the end. At the same time, how many Nanjing people will survive in the last occupied Nanjing City.

At this time, the casualty statistics of the Battle of Shanghai had already come out. The 800,000 Nationalist army suffered 300,000 casualties, while the 300,000 Japanese suffered a total of 80,000 casualties.

Of these 80,000 people, nearly 40,000 were set up by the submarine brigade of the Hainan Escort Army in Hangzhou Bay. At the same time, the Hainan Guards defended the Shanghai Huaxing Industry for ten days and killed 10,000 Japanese troops.

Otherwise, only counting the achievements of the Nationalist Army, it took 300,000 soldiers of the Nationalist Army to kill 30,000 Japanese troops, and it can be said that the record is very poor, even with the help of the Hainan Guards, the record of the Chinese Army is still very unsightly.

However, the battle in Shanghai also let everyone know the existence of the Hainan Escort Army, and it turned out that there was such a special fighting force on the distant Hainan Island.

Especially when the navy of the Nationalist Army was completely annihilated, the navy of Hainan Island became the only navy in the whole of China, and it fought a great battle.

It's a pity that the Hainan Escort Army is Wang Yaqiao's team, so no one knows how many troops there are on Hainan Island.

However, judging from the impression that Hainan Island has always given the Chinese people a remote and sparsely populated population, the number of Hainan guards must not be large, and there will be 18,000 people who will die.

Therefore, although the strong achievements of the Hainan Guards in the Battle of Shanghai brought some hope to the Chinese people, no one would regard the Hainan Guards as a particularly powerful anti-Japanese force in China.

The common people still regard the national army and powerful warlords in various places as the real saviors, and they still believe that as long as the warlords of the whole country unite, it will be a matter of minutes to take out little Japan.

It was not until the Battle of Nanjing, when the Japanese army attacked the city of Nanjing with thousands of guns, hundreds of planes, and hundreds of tanks, and defeated the defenders of Nanjing with heavy casualties within two days, that the Chinese people were sober.

It turns out that the strength of the Japanese army is really so strong, and we Chinese want to defeat the Japanese army, it seems that we may not be able to defeat the Japanese army only by relying on numbers.

At the same time, at this time, the limelight of capitulationism in China was suddenly raised, and representatives of capitulationism in every city in the country made speeches, proposing to negotiate with Japan, and if necessary, to cede land and pay compensation, which would be better than the fate of destroying the country.

At a time when the people of the whole country were pessimistic and disappointed, at noon on the 17th, the first news from Nanjing greatly aroused the hearts of the masses in the war of resistance.

The defenders of Nanjing annihilated 8,000 Japanese troops with 3,000 defenders at the Wulongshan Fort, and even shot down 12 enemy planes, repelled the attack of the Japanese Third Fleet, and captured countless supplies.

The newspaper listed the number of Japanese troops to be annihilated, the number of people, and the damaged equipment one by one.

Seeing this incomparably detailed newspaper, the Chinese people really believed that Nanjing was still in the hands of the Nationalist Army, because although the news of the great victory in Cihu Town a few days ago came out, and they also saw the newspaper.

However, because Commander Chiang did not vigorously publicize it, and the Japanese army's reply was also ambiguous, many people could not believe that the victory in Cihu Town was real.

Although in the end, with the passage of time, everyone has believed in the great victory of Cihu Town, but only the elimination of 9,000 Japanese troops is really harmless for the nearly 150,000 Japanese troops in the entire Nanjing.

Therefore, the good mood of the people was only maintained for a short time, and then it was defeated by the harsher reality.

But now it is different, the original independent regiment annihilated the Japanese army with 5,000 and 9,000 people, it can be said that the blind cat met the dead mouse, but it was just a flash in the pan of the Chinese army.

But today's battle of Wulong Mountain Fort is so thrilling, the 3,000 defenders have to deal with the flying in the sky, and the swimming in the water has to deal with the Japanese army all over the ground. How many hardships does it take for an army to accomplish such a feat?

What the? Or the Hainan Guards, are Wang Yaqiao's troops all iron-clad? Why did they go through the process like this?

Before the people of all parts of the country could digest the good news of the victory in Oolong Mountain, another more exciting news came.

Just a few days ago, two squads of the Hainan Escort Army's Special Operations Brigade not only captured two heavy artillery pieces, but also bombarded the Japanese headquarters with heavy artillery, so that the Japanese army's command system has not returned to its pre-war level.

At present, the 10,000-strong troops of the Hainan Guard Army are in charge of the work of the entire palace in Nanjing. This morning they had just repelled dozens of Japanese attacks.

Now the Japanese army has stopped attacking, and the task of evacuating the people in Nanjing has also been a complete success, more than 200,000 Nanjing people have successfully evacuated to the north of the Yangtze River, and tens of thousands of people have been evacuated to the countryside of Nanjing.

In addition to tens of thousands of Chinese defenders, there are only a few thousand old and sick people who are unwilling to leave Nanjing, and now the Hainan Guards and tens of thousands of national troops are occupying less than a quarter of the city of Nanjing and fighting with the Japanese army.

It is believed that the defenders of Nanjing will resist to the end and deal a heavy blow to the arrogance of the Japanese army.

Seeing that there were 10,000 Hainan guards defending in Nanjing, the confidence of the people everywhere was greatly increased, and a few thousand Hainan guards could kill nearly 10,000 Japanese troops, and now there are 10,000 Hainan guards and tens of thousands of elite national troops in the city, how many Japanese troops do they have to destroy?

At the same time, more people also greatly appreciated Commander Chiang, or Commander Chiang was highly respected, and the Hainan Guards went to Nanjing to help defend, which shows that Commander Chiang's popularity is still good.

Moreover, I heard that there are also troops in Yunnan, Sichuan, Shaanxi and other places that are rushing to the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, and they may soon be able to rush to Nanjing, and it is not impossible for the Chinese army to be defeated in one fell swoop.

No wonder Mr. Lu Xun must change the thinking of the Chinese, the Chinese spirit of Ah Q is really too harmful, and before the troops from all over the country have arrived in Nanjing, they are already dreaming of destroying all the Japanese troops outside Nanjing.

In any case, the news of Nanjing's successive victories greatly encouraged the Chinese people, and the people of various cities took to the streets to petition the government in solidarity with the defenders of Nanjing and the Hainan Guards.

At this time, outside the city of Nanjing, the Japanese army, which had just stopped its offensive, held an emergency meeting again to discuss specific matters on how to attack the Hainan Escort Army's defense area.

In view of the fact that the defense area of the Hainan Escort Army would indeed be difficult to conquer for a while and a half, Matsui Ishine ordered that regardless of the defense area of the Hainan Escort Army, it should be compressed directly from the vicinity of Nanjing's Beicheng District and the center of the Hainan Escort Army from all sides.

Strive to drive all the defenders of Nanjing to the defense area of the Hainan Escort Army in the shortest possible time. This can increase the logistical pressure on the Hainan Escort Army, and may also disrupt the defensive position of the Hainan Escort Army.

Once all the Chinese soldiers had been compressed into a small area, Matsui would give the order for all the planes to bomb together.

Seeing that all the generals understood their orders, after the meeting ended, he secretly left the brigade commander of the artillery brigade and secretly told him.

"Go and take out all the special bombs in the warehouse, once the aircraft bombing effect is not good, in the end you can only use special bombs to solve the Hainan Guards." ”

Seeing Matsui Ishone's extremely solemn expression, the commander of the artillery brigade nodded heavily. Neither of them paid attention, and Nanzao Yunzi, who was packing up the papers, was beside the two and listened to the conversation between the two clearly.

Just when Matsui Shigen was busy dispatching troops and preparing to encircle the Hainan Guards in Nanjing, Li Tie had already flown to Chongqing on his own plane.

In Chongqing, Li Tie went to the underground air-raid shelter in the Huaxing Industrial Park, and he first expressed his condolences to the foreign experts of the Huaxing Laboratory who had moved to the Chongqing Industrial Park.

Then he secretly came to the telegraph room and sent several top-secret telegrams to the two bases in Hainan and Hong Kong: "The matter has come to the last moment, and we are ready to implement the torch plan." ”

Soon there was a response from both bases: "Guaranteed to complete the mission." ”

Watching Li Tie start the torch plan, the thousand-tailed scorpion beside him asked cautiously, "Is it necessary to implement the torch plan?" When you made this plan, I thought you were joking, but I didn't expect you to be serious. ”

"There is no way, at this time, we can't be benevolent, and besides, we can't watch 10,000 Hainan Guard soldiers being wiped out by the Japanese army and ignore them.

In order to kill and wound the Japanese army, but also to save the defenders of Nanjing, we can only implement this torch plan. Li Tie insisted.

"I just think that doing this will hurt the heavens and the peace, after all, this weapon has only just been researched, and we have only tried it a few times on a small scale, and I have palpitations when I think of the damage of that weapon." The thousand-tailed scorpion that became a mother has become very emotional, and she is no longer the female bandit leader who only thinks about fighting and killing all day long.

Just as Li Tie and the Thousand Tailed Scorpion were still discussing whether to implement the torch plan, an urgent red cipher message was transferred to Li Tie.

Li Tie opened it and glanced at it, his face changed suddenly, and then, with a gloomy face, he handed the telegram to the thousand-tailed scorpion.

The thousand-tailed scorpion took a look, and it turned out to be a secret telegram sent by Nanzao Yunzi, which said that the Japanese army was preparing to encircle the Nanjing defenders, and drove all the Nanjing defenders to the defense area of the Hainan Escort Army, as long as all the Nanjing defenders were driven to the defense area of the Hainan Escort Army, they would use special ammunition to deal with the Chinese defenders.

Li Tie saw that the thousand-tailed scorpion had finished reading the cipher, and asked, "This time, you don't think that the torch plan will hurt the heavens, right?" ”

The thousand-tailed scorpion shook his head and didn't understand why Li Tie asked, "What kind of bullet is this special bomb?" Why is your reaction so big? ”

"Special bombs are gas bombs!" Li Tie said solemnly.

As soon as he heard that the special bomb was a poison gas bomb, the face of the thousand-tailed scorpion also became gloomy: "No wonder you keep saying that the Japanese deserve to die, they do have a way to die." This time, we will not only implement the torch plan, but we will also expand the scope of the plan. "The thousand-tailed scorpion is shining.