On 5 November, Xie Jinyuan's regiment at the Sixing Warehouse successfully escaped from the British Concession after resisting the attack of two wings of the Third Division for 10 days.

On the same day, the great victory in the Battle of Hangzhou Bay greatly boosted the morale of the Chinese army, and at the same time, the Hainan Escort Army once again came into the sight of the whole Chinese.

On November 6, spurred on by the victory in the Battle of Hangzhou Bay, Chinese troops across Shanghai even launched a series of counterattacks. It is a pity that in the temporary battlefield of Shanghai, for the Chinese army, which had no danger to defend, and for the Chinese army, which was desperately short of heavy weapons, Ling was no match for the Japanese army by virtue of his flesh and blood.

With the help of hundreds of Japanese planes and dozens of warships, the Japanese Shanghai dispatch army resisted the counterattack of the Chinese army and defeated the Chinese army again.

Then, the Shanghai Dispatch Army, affected by the Battle of Hangzhou Bay, had to suspend the pursuit of the Chinese army and seize the time to stabilize the defensive line, hoping that the new reinforcement of the Tenth Army would stabilize the morale of the army in the next few days before launching an attack on the Chinese army.

On 7 November, three days after the Battle of Hangzhou Bay, in order to better command the Shanghai Dispatch Army and to revive the morale of the Tenth Army, which had just suffered heavy losses, Japan unified the Shanghai Dispatch Army and the Tenth Army into the Central China Front, and appointed Senior General Matsui Ishine as commander-in-chief of the Central China Front.

On 8 November, due to the loss of Taiyuan and Ren County in Shanxi, the five commanders of the Chinese Shanghai Front Command, Zhang Fakui, commander-in-chief of the Eighth Group Army, and Zhu Shaoliang, commander-in-chief of the Ninth Group Army, were the five commanders of the Chinese Shanghai Front Command.

Liu Jianxu, commander-in-chief of the 10th Group Army, Luo Zhuoying, commander-in-chief of the 15th Group Army, and Xue Yue, commander-in-chief of the 19th Group Army, unanimously agreed that they should retreat immediately and no longer fight with the Japanese army in Shanghai, which was in no danger to defend.

However, at this time, Commander Chiang again telegraphed to the Shanghai Front Command, demanding that the front-line troops should hold out for at least three more days, in order to wait for the end of the Nine-Power Pact meeting and the representatives of various countries to intercede.

However, the war did not depend on the will of the individual, and on November 9, the Japanese 10th Army, which had landed at Hangzhou Bay, finally emerged from the shadow of death.

The 10th Army, which had nearly two divisions and regiments, with the help of more than 140 surviving aircraft, began to frantically attack the front line of Suzhou and Jiaxing.

It may also be that the naval battle at Hangzhou Bay greatly stimulated the Japanese soldiers of the 10th Army, who survived to the death, and were not afraid to die when attacking the Chinese defenders in Suzhou and Jiaxing.

If it weren't for Nanjing's timely dispatch of dozens of planes to help in the war, Suzhou and Jiaxing would have been occupied by the Tenth Army.

Fortunately, the people in Suzhou and Jiaxing spontaneously organized a front team of tens of thousands of people, which could be regarded as able to block the crazy attack of the Tenth Army.

In fact, at this time, the Shanghai Dispatch Army also encountered a shortage of ammunition, so after the first wave of attacks did not take Suzhou and Jiaxing, the Japanese troops of the Tenth Army postponed the attack.

However, the Chinese troops in the downtown area of Shanghai did not know that the Japanese army was running out of ammunition, and they saw that the last way out of Shanghai was about to be blocked by the Japanese army, and the troops of hundreds of thousands of people in the urban area of Shanghai were already in chaos.

If it weren't for the severe suppression by the commanders-in-chief of the various group armies, it would have caused a mutiny in the troops long ago.

Seeing that their troops were about to be overwhelmed, several commanders of the group army immediately jointly suggested to Commander Chiang that they must withdraw their troops immediately, otherwise hundreds of thousands of soldiers would be in danger.

In the past few days, Commander Chiang has not been idle, and he has been in contact with the representatives of the Nine-Power Pact through various channels, hoping that the representatives of various countries will support him to put pressure on Japan together.

However, instead of mediating the war between China and Japan, the representatives of these countries blamed the Chinese army for being the first to cause the battle of Shanghai, and even held that the Chinese side should be solely responsible for the battle of Shanghai.

It was only at this time that Commander Chiang was completely dead to the expectation of the delegates of the Nine-Nation Conference to intervene, so he had to agree to the joint request of several commanders-in-chief of the group armies to agree to the withdrawal of all Chinese troops from Shanghai.

However, Commander Chiang did not order how the various troops retreated smoothly. In Chiang's opinion, as long as he agreed to the withdrawal, the commander-in-chief of the five armies would naturally negotiate a reasonable order of retreat.

It's a pity that he forgot that although these five group armies were all led by his cronies, there was also competition among his cronies. Everyone was afraid that they would escape slowly, and they were annihilated by the Japanese army and rushed to escape first.

As a result, none of the five armies would leave enough troops to cover the entire Shanghai army. However, just when the commanders-in-chief of these group armies were looking for various reasons, hoping that other group armies would leave cover and take the lead in slipping away.

The 5,000-strong Hainan guards stepped forward, and they took the initiative to express their willingness to guard several major communication arteries leading to the suburbs of Shanghai to resist the pursuit of the Japanese army.

The fleeing Chinese army was roughly divided into two groups, one via the Beijing-Shanghai line through Kunshan, and Wu Xi to the north, first north and then to Nanjing.

One retreated directly to the west, through the fighting Suzhou, and the Jiaxing line towards Nanjing, as in the original history, although there were already 5,000 Hainan guards and tens of thousands of miscellaneous troops behind them blocking the Japanese pursuers.

However, these troops believed that none of the 800,000 troops could stop the 200,000 Japanese troops, not to mention that there were only tens of thousands of miscellaneous troops now, and it was equally impossible for them to stop the Japanese army.

So on the two escape routes, hundreds of thousands of soldiers crowded on several roads fleeing to Nanjing. Combined with the people of Shanghai, who also fled to Nanjing, and refugees from all over the country, millions of people were unable to move at all when they squeezed several highways.

At this time, more than 400 planes of the Japanese army's navy and land aviation began to frantically bomb these Chinese troops and civilians who were fleeing for their lives on the highway, causing huge casualties to the Chinese troops and civilians.

In just two days, from the beginning of the withdrawal of Chinese troops from Shanghai on 9 November to the occupation of most of Shanghai on 11 November, as many as 100,000 soldiers and civilians died under Japanese bombardment on these roads.

On 11 November, most of Shanghai had been occupied by the Japanese army, except for the concession in the autumn, but there were still a few important strategic points, which were in the hands of the Chinese army because they were necessary passages in and out of Shanghai.

And it was the 25,000 troops and 5,000 Huaxing guards left by the five major armies that guarded these passages.

The 25,000 men were guarded on the five most important passages in Shanghai, each with a few blocks to the left and right, and on each passage were 5,000 Nationalist government troops and 1,000 members of the Huaxing Escort dressed in the Hainan Guard.

On these five passages, there are exactly five Huaxing companies' industries standing there, they are Huaxing supermarket, Huaxing car dealership, Huaxing warehouse, Huaxing security company and Huaxing club, five Shanghai landmark buildings.

At this time, the area guarded by the Chinese army centered on these five buildings not only directly controlled the most prosperous dozen neighborhoods outside the Shanghai concession, but also controlled several important passages in and out of Shanghai.

On 11 November, when the 3rd and 11th Divisions, which were in charge of pursuing the Chinese army, came to these five places defended by the Chinese army, they found that these five places had already been built into fortresses by 30,000 Chinese defenders.

If they don't wipe out all the Chinese defenders in these five areas, they don't want to smoothly pursue the hundreds of thousands of Chinese defenders.

The 30,000-strong contingent was scattered among thousands of ruins and ruins in dozens of blocks, preparing for street battles with 50,000 Japanese troops.

As a result, the famous Shanghai Resistance Battle was fought between 30,000 so-called Chinese miscellaneous troops and 50,000 Japanese elite divisions.

Just when the Shanghai Resistance War was about to break out, at this time, at an airstrip in the French Concession of Shanghai, Li Tiezheng said goodbye to the mother and son of the thousand-tailed scorpion.

Just three months ago, when the Battle of Songhu had just begun, the first child of Li Tie and the thousand-tailed scorpion was born in the sound of artillery fire.

It may be that God has pity on Li Tie and the thousand-tailed scorpion for many years of hard work, their first child is a boy, Li Tie, who already has two baby daughters, finally has a third child and the first son.

And the birth of this son has also brought more sufficient motivation to the senior management of the entire Huaxing Group, with this son, everyone is no longer worried that Li Tie's career will not be inherited.

Therefore, the elders of Huaxing, including Tie Dan, were sincerely happy for Li Tie, and even the Hundred Changing Mouse and Tang Mengxue, who were far away, also sent congratulatory telegrams.

It's a pity that just in time for the outbreak of the Battle of Songhu, Li Tie has no time, let alone the mood to celebrate the birthday of his first son. However, in order to commemorate the birth of his first son, and also to express his determination to the Sino-Japanese war, he gave this son a very gentlemanly name, Li Zhan.

Although he was in the French Concession, Li Tie was not worried about the safety of his family, but Li Tie, who knew the future trend of the Sino-Japanese war, still decided to send the mother and son of the Thousand Tails Scorpion and the mother and daughter of Xu Meiqi to Chongqing.

Li Tie's first housekeeper, Tie Dan, had already prepared everything for Li Tie's family in Chongqing, just waiting for them to move in.

The thousand-tailed scorpion asked Li Tie again, hoping that he could go to Chongqing with his family, but Li Tie once again rejected the thousand-tailed scorpion, and Li Tie asked her to take good care of her family in Chongqing. The thousand-tailed scorpion is the eldest woman of the Li family, and Chongqing is not a paradise for others, such a big family, they need a housemother to guard.

And the decisive thousand-tailed scorpion is really the best choice.

Seeing Li Tie resolutely reject himself, the thousand-tailed scorpion found for the first time that Li Tie had grown up and was already a man who stood up to the sky. Thinking about it again, yes, Li Tie is twenty-seven years old, but he is not a real man.

So the thousand-tailed scorpion, who was a little reluctant, took the whole family and flew directly to Chongqing on a plane sprayed with American logos.

Watching the plane slowly disappear into the sky, Li Tie asked Wang Qi beside him, "How are things prepared?" ”

"Boss, don't worry, there are our people in all blocks, if it's just going to reach the point where you say a week of guarding, there should be no problem.

It's just that we are likely to sacrifice 5,000 Huaxing guards for this, is it worth it? Wang Qi thought that it was not worth sacrificing the 5,000 guards that Huaxing had cultivated with great difficulty to protect the defeated and fleeing soldiers.

"Wang Qi, first there is a country and then a family, and the country is gone, what is the use of having a home?" Li Tie said in a deep voice.