Hearing the latest battle reports on the three city gates in Nanjing, and knowing the heavy casualties of the defenders and the extremely small casualty ratio of the Japanese army, the hot-headed generals in the front-line command finally calmed down.

Until this time, everyone understood that with the addition of the Japanese heavy artillery wing, Nanjing really couldn't hold it.

It's just that at this moment, no one is embarrassed to put forward the idea of retreating first, after all, when Li Tie suggested that everyone retreat in the morning, the generals present were still patting their chests and wanted to fight the Japanese army to the end.

It's only been a noon, and everyone suddenly changed their minds, and no one is embarrassed to put it on anyone.

On the afternoon of the 12th, Tang Sheng took advantage of the gap between the Japanese attack to once again call all the generals above the division level to the headquarters, and heard the sound of heavy artillery rising from time to time in the distance, and everyone was silent at the conference table.

There is a chance to defend the city and can inflict heavy casualties on the enemy and there is no chance to defend the city at all, even if the whole army is destroyed, you can't hurt the enemy a few hairs are two kinds of thoughts. It is impossible to say that the generals at this time did not shake the morale of the army.

Tang Shengzhi asked the generals present in a deep voice, who still has the means to change the current unfavorable situation. The generals present lowered their heads one by one and did not speak.

Seeing this scene, Tang Shengzhi was also very helpless, he thought that Nanjing would be able to hold out for at least a few months, but who knew that from the launch of a full-scale attack by the Japanese army, the defeat of the whole army had been revealed in less than three days.

Tang Shengzhi is also a person who can afford to let go, even if Nanjing has been confirmed to be undefendable, then what he has to do now is to try to retain more vitality for China, so that more soldiers can withdraw from Nanjing.

So he issued an order issued by Commander Chiang on the spot, informing everyone that if they held out for two more days, on the night of the 14th, all the defenders were ready to withdraw from the city of Nanjing.

Li Tie also personally attended the meeting for the withdrawal of troops, and in the previous life, because the defenders of Nanjing did not set a specific order for withdrawal, the result was congestion at the Xiaguan wharf.

At the same time, because the 36th Division did not receive the order to withdraw, the 36th Division, as the supervising team, also fought with the retreating army.

As a result, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians were congested at the Shimonoseki wharf, and were bombed by the Japanese army, and finally had to retreat to the city. As a result, the crazy Japanese army was killed.

In order to avoid this from happening, Li Tie specially reminded General Tang Shengzhi to call the commander of the 36th Division to the headquarters to attend the withdrawal meeting, and after consultation, it was finally decided that the defenders of the inner city would retreat first on the night of the 14th.

Then the outer defenders gradually retreated, striving to completely withdraw from the city of Nanjing overnight, and all the retreating national troops walked down the dock. The Hainan Guards would remain in the city of Nanjing, giving the defenders of Nanjing three days to retreat.

Originally, everyone did not agree to let the Hainan Guards take on this task, believing that the Hainan Guards with no actual combat experience would not be the opponent of the Japanese army.

But just when everyone was arguing about this, Wang Qi, who was waiting outside the conference room, sent a telegram.

After receiving the telegram, Li Tie smiled with satisfaction, and he announced to the generals present that just this morning, the Hainan Independent Regiment stationed in Cihu Town had just eliminated 16 planes that had been bombing Cihu Town.

Just when the generals present were taken aback, they only heard Li Tie say again, there is a second good news, the Hainan Escort Army has just ambushed nearly 5,000 soldiers and horses of the 13th and 47th Wings of the 11th Division of the Japanese Army at a distance of 15 kilometers from Cihu Town.

The Hainan Guards have adopted a variety of means, such as the widespread distribution of landmines, supplemented by mortar bombardment, and cold gun attacks, and have firmly dragged the soldiers of these two wings near Cihu Town. It is believed that the news of the elimination of these two wings by the Hainan Escort Army will come soon.

Hearing such a brilliant record of the Hainan Escort Army, the generals who had just used the reason that the Hainan Escort Army had no actual combat experience had to keep their mouths shut.

Seeing that no one objected to the withdrawal plan, Tang Shengzhi ordered that the people of Nanjing City should be mobilized to leave Nanjing immediately from now on, and the 36th Division, which was originally the supervising team, took over the task of helping the people of the whole city to retreat.

While the meeting for the retreat of Nanjing was still being held in an orderly manner, the soldiers of the 13th Wing of the Japanese Army, who had been blown up by dozens of mines again in a hilly area 10 kilometers from Cihu Town, were about to go crazy.

Twenty kilometers from Cihu Town, their 13th and 47th Wings were ambushed by unidentified forces, and hundreds of mines and grenades were detonated at the same time.

Then there were dozens of mortars that launched a surprise attack on the soldiers of the two wings from both sides of the road.

That's not all, on the small hillside around, thousands of ambushes suddenly appeared, causing hundreds of casualties among the soldiers of the two wings at once.

However, these Chinese soldiers in ambush did not look like soldiers at all, and when the soldiers of the two wings finally set up mountain artillery and prepared to counterattack, the more than 1,000 Chinese troops fled after only a few shots.

The Japanese soldiers of the two wings had no choice but to dismantle the mountain artillery again, pack up again, and continue to advance. But who knew that the road to Cihu Town had become very unquiet since then.

Either walking and walking, dozens of mines were detonated, or dozens of mortar shells suddenly fell from the sky. Or maybe there were bursts of cold gunfire on both sides of the road.

Almost every attack of the Chinese army was very short-lived, and they always seemed to change places with one shot, and only one way to attack one place.

In short, from 20 kilometers to 5 kilometers from Cihu Town, they have encountered no less than 10 attacks on the short 15-kilometer road, and almost every kilometer they will encounter a pre-arranged attack.

This made the Japanese troops of the two wings march very slowly, and from the morning to the present, it was almost dark, and they came to the five-kilometer section of Lincihu Town.

The two wing commanders also wondered why their 1,000-strong mechanized vanguard was not attacked at all, but their large force of 5,000 men was repeatedly attacked.

Although each of the ten attacks did not achieve much success, by now more than 300 people have been killed and more than 700 have been wounded.

That is to say, in this short fifteen kilometers, they have already lost a thousand people in battle. There are still five kilometers of road to go, and I don't know how many more soldiers will have to face this sudden attack.

The two wing commanders thought for a long time and came up with a way to encircle Wei and save Zhao, and they sent a telegram to the leading mechanized troops, telling them not to wait for the convergence of the large forces, but to attack Cihu Town first, and share the pressure of the Chinese army for them.

Perhaps after the attack of the thousand men, these Chinese troops had to retreat to Cihu Town to participate in the defense, and there was no longer the energy to harass the march of the two wings.

They only hope that their mechanized brigade will quickly occupy Cihu Town, so that their 5,000 tired army can enter Cihu Town and have a good rest.

Only in this way can they have the physical strength to cross the Yangtze River faster and attack the rear of the defenders of Nanjing.

But the ideal is very plump, and the reality is indeed very skinny. The two wing commanders were hoping that the mechanized brigade would attack quickly, but the soldiers of the mechanized brigade were indeed hoping that the soldiers of the two wings would come to reinforcements quickly.

Because the Japanese mechanized brigade, which arrived at Cihu Town at noon, found that on the hill in front of them, the Chinese army had a lot of anti-aircraft artillery.

Seeing so many squad guns, the vanguard, with only twenty tanks and a thousand soldiers, did not attack rashly, and they prepared to wait for the main forces behind them to converge, and then use the long-range attack capability of the mountain artillery to knock out these squad guns before attacking.

Otherwise, their tanks alone would not be enough for the anti-aircraft guns on the opposite side. At the same time, the soldiers of these mechanized brigades also found that on both sides of the road to Cihu Town, a full ten anti-aircraft guns were adjusting their muzzles little by little.

I don't know why these Chinese troops flattened the muzzle of the anti-aircraft guns, are they trying to use these anti-aircraft guns to attack our army tanks?

These people are too stupid, as soon as the anti-aircraft guns are flattened, they lose their flexibility and can only fire in one direction, and our chariots are not dead things, will we stand still and let you fight?

A mechanized infantry captain actually thought of the use of anti-aircraft guns flattening. It's a pity that he only guessed the beginning, and he didn't guess the ending.

Just when he thought that after the mainland troops of the two wings converged, they would attack Cihu Town together, but he did not expect the Chinese soldiers on the opposite side to take the lead in attacking.

Even when the Chinese army attacked, the captain wondered if it had always been their Japanese army who had launched the attack first. When will the Chinese army also take the lead in attacking?

It's a pity that this idea of his was only fleeting, and then, he had to take the soldiers around him to run away, and it turned out that the ten flattened anti-aircraft guns on the opposite side had already launched an attack first.

The anti-aircraft gun, which was thought to be powerless, emitted a huge force at the entrance of Cihu Town, and it turned out that the shells of this anti-aircraft gun did not need to hit the Japanese army to cause lethality.

These anti-aircraft shells fired in the hidden direction of the mechanized brigade, whether they were missed or crooked, and they exploded separately as soon as they reached the place where the mechanized brigade was assembled.

Thousands of small steel balls in each shell are fired at high speed in all directions, which is equivalent to thousands of bullets coming to the center and blooming in all directions.

All of a sudden, thousands of Japanese soldiers were hit by countless small steel balls, and the lucky ones were only beaten into the flesh one by two, and the unlucky bastards were all hit by the steel balls and were directly killed.

As soon as the captain saw that these anti-aircraft guns had been so harmful, he immediately commanded nearly 20 tanks in the whole brigade to frantically attack the defenders of Cihu Town.

At this time, he suddenly found that there was only one entrance to Cihu Town, and there were ten anti-aircraft guns at the entrance.

It's a pity that his reaction is slow again, and ten anti-aircraft guns are too easy to deal with their twenty tanks. Before the captain could give the order to turn around, an anti-aircraft shell had pierced his tank and exploded inside.

There was a bang, and the tank was blown to pieces. The corpse of this captain turned into thousands of flesh foam and flew across the battlefield.

At this time, the two Japanese wings that were only one step away from Cihu Town finally arrived near Cihu Town, and listening to the sound of artillery from time to time, the two captains couldn't help but praise:

"Look at how loud the Empire's tank guns are, where is the explosion of those mortars like mosquitoes.

Warriors of the Empire, let us take Cihu Town, kill all the soldiers and civilians in the town, and avenge the Guoqi detachment. Avenge our comrades who have just been ambushed and died. ”

The commander of the 13th Wing happily pointed his command knife towards the small hillside of Cihu Town, and thousands of Japanese soldiers rushed up the hillside with a roar, preparing to rush into Cihu Town and kill the territory.