Chapter 101: Jinling Mourning (Ask for subscription, monthly pass!) )
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"Company Commander Sun, after the blocking mission is completed, will you break through with us, or will you evacuate on your own?" Leng Feng ordered someone to call Company Commander Sun, who was left behind by the 87th Division to take up the task of blocking the attack.
"Chief Leng, Adjutant Ma has already said that everything in the department is under your command!" Company Commander Sun knew that it was difficult to stop the powerful Japanese army with his strength, and he had to rely on the Second Regiment of the Teaching Corps.
"In that case, if I ordered you to abandon your position, would you?"
"Give up the position, Sir Leng, don't stop the Japanese army?"
"No, the task of blocking the Japanese army is completed by others, and your company, together with most of my regiment, is preparing to break through!"
"Now?" Sun Lian was taken aback.
"Of course not, when is the time to break through, we will have a detailed plan, if you agree, we will be honest with the plan, if you don't agree, you can also act with me, and you will not participate in our breakthrough plan!"
"Didn't Chief Leng personally command the breakout operation?"
"The breakout plan is commanded by Commander Luo Dai and Director Qin, and my task is to block and relate to His Palace, and not to leave Nanjing for the time being?" Leng Feng said solemnly.
"I ......" Company Commander Sun hesitated, although he accepted Leng Feng's command, he also received an order to let him stop the Japanese army, once the task was completed, he also had to leave.
"The 87th Division has been walking for almost two hours, your blocking mission has been completed, and if you want to chase your old troops, we will not stop you." Luo Yufeng said slowly.
"Sir Leng, I'm sorry. I want to go after my old troops. "After a difficult psychological struggle, Company Commander Sun. In the end, he chose to chase his old troops.
"Adjutant Ma told me. They should be on the side of the coal port and then retreat to Jiangbei. Leng Feng sighed slightly, the road was chosen by himself, and no one could stop him.
"Thank you, Chief Leng!" Company Commander Sun faced Leng Feng, saluted a military salute, and said solemnly.
"Take care all the way!" Leng Feng returned a military salute.
Company Commander Sun led the company to withdraw from the walled position and chased after the old troops.
"There aren't that many ships at the coal docks. I really don't understand why he chose to take this path? ”
"People subconsciously choose the easiest path, but they don't know that the easiest is the hardest, we choose to break through, it seems to be the hardest, but the survival rate is the highest." Leng Feng sighed.
"Yes, I hope Company Commander Sun and them have good luck." Qin Yankun sighed, although they could leave the company of the 87th Division behind, they might not appreciate it, and even felt that the teaching corps wanted to take this opportunity to swallow the company.
This thankless work. There are also things that will affect friendly relations, and no one wants to do them.
Let alone. Now no one knows what road lies ahead, and it is better to go their own way.
"It's almost time, Lao Luo, Lao Qin, let's separate for the time being!" Leng Feng glanced at his watch and said.
"Old Leng, take care!" Luo Yufeng stepped forward, held Leng Feng's hands tightly, and said movingly.
"Take care!"
"You are operating underground, don't make too much noise, hold on until tomorrow night, I estimate that the large-scale entry of the Japanese army into the city will be tomorrow afternoon, so that the Japanese army enters the city, their encirclement of Nanjing City will be relaxed, and it is the best time to break through tomorrow night!" Leng Feng admonished.
"While the Japanese army is celebrating its victory, it suddenly launches a breakthrough and has a great chance of rushing out!" Luo Yufeng said.
"After rushing out, you must move quickly in the direction of Qinglong Mountain, and after rushing out, turn into the direction of Langxi and Guangde, where the Japanese garrison is weak, and you can even rest and recuperate while hurrying." Leng Feng said.
"What about you, you can't keep fighting in the streets of Nanjing, right?"
"I will judge according to the situation, withdraw from Nanjing at any time, and then go north!" Leng Feng said.
"Going north, what are you doing going north?"
"I judge that there will be a big battle in the Xuzhou area, and I plan to join in the fun." Leng Feng smiled.
Luo Yufeng and Qin Yankun laughed, thinking that Leng Feng was joking.
"If you get out of danger and settle the wounded, you can also go north to find me, don't we have a radio station, we can contact at any time, just remember the contact code, every night at twelve o'clock, twelve o'clock can not be contacted, then the next day at twelve o'clock at noon." Leng Feng said.
"Understand, don't worry, when we break out of the encirclement and settle the wounded, we will go north to join you, and if necessary, we can also take you out of Nanjing City!"
"No, it's not too difficult for me to get out of Nanjing City." Leng Feng smiled slightly, he had already thought of a way out.
"You already had a plan?"
"Of course, if this is not the case, how can I stay and deal with the Japanese?" Leng Feng smiled.
"If I had known this was the case, I would have ......"
"Even if there is a safe way out, it is very dangerous, and I don't want more people to know about it, otherwise it will shake the morale of the military." Leng Feng said solemnly.
"I understand, since that's the case, we can be relieved."
Seeing Luo Yufeng and other officers and soldiers of the Second Regiment enter the secret passage, Leng Feng ordered the entrance of the secret passage to be blown up (there is another exit), and then led people to continue to the city wall position and confront the Japanese army across a moat.
In the direction of Zhonghua Gate, the battle between the defenders and the Japanese army continued, and the two sides seemed to be in a state of stalemate.
Even if the Japanese broke through the walled positions, it would be extremely difficult for them to advance in depth at this moment.
First of all, their soldiers have been fighting for a day, and they are very tired, and when they come up with a new group of soldiers, they have to familiarize themselves with the environment again, this is at night, not during the day, and the Japanese commanders do not dare to rush in easily.
Therefore, the two sides entered a peculiar phase of stalemate, but this will certainly not last, once dawn, the Japanese army will definitely find out the reality of the defenders, and when the time comes, it must be the time for the Japanese army to attack in a big way.
On the Guanghuamen position, there was only Leng Feng's integrated battalion and Yaksha squad, on the left was in contact with Wang Yaowu's 51st Division, and on the right was Ye Zhao's troops of the 66th Army of the Guangdong Army.
The Cantonese army also began to prepare for a breakthrough. From Tongji Gate to Guanghua Gate to Zhongshan Gate. On the long walled position. There are more than 300 people, and those who are empty can sing empty city plans.
Leng Feng knew that he was dancing at the tip of a knife, and this was also discovered by the Japanese army, and the two or three hundred people under him really couldn't stop it.
In the moat at night, thousands of attempts were piled up on the bank, and clusters of flames were scattered on the corpses. Miserable shaking in the cold wind.
Half water, half blood, blood to be coagulated, the river no longer flows.
At this moment, the road leading to the Nanjing Xiaguan Wharf at the Rujiang Gate was crowded with people fleeing the city of Nanjing, including retreating defenders and ordinary people fleeing.
At this time, the doorways on both sides of the Rujiang Gate have been blocked, leaving only a small path in the middle to enter and exit, and barbed wire has been pulled up.
The 36th Division has not yet received the order to retreat, and stopping all the routs is the last military order they have received!
And so a fierce conflict broke out.
Soldiers who have long lost their fighting spirit. Desperate to rush to the city walls, they climbed up in every possible way. Clothes were torn into strips of cloth and hung on the trunks of trees at the city gates, and many people fell to their deaths under the city walls because they could not bear the weight.
In order to reduce weight, the soldiers threw away their weapons and ammunition, and the roads were littered with discarded rifles, bullets, cars, trucks, etc.
Burnt corpses littered the ground, clogging the roads with scrapped cars and armored vehicles.
The defenders who had escaped to Xiaguan had not had time to rejoice in their fate, and an even more tragic situation was placed in front of them.
On the surface of the river, it was pitch black, the mighty river, there was no wind and there were three feet of waves, making bursts of waves, rolling up a piece of scarlet blood foam, which was disgusting.
The retreating officers and men thought that when they arrived at the river, a large number of ships would pick them up and take them to Jiangbei, but in fact, there was not a single boat on the river, it was empty, and there were only the tall black shadows of the Japanese warships on the river several kilometers away.
Some people howled and cried, some people sat on the edge of the river, looking at the river in a daze, and some were desperate, holding a wooden plank and jumping down the cold and biting river.
When a big wave came, he was swept to the bottom of the river, and no one was seen coming up again.
An officer hired a small boat at a high price, and before he could get on the ship's company, dozens of people swarmed up, and the small wooden boat was squeezed into the water, and trembled and headed towards the north of the river, but before the boat could reach the center of the river, it had already sunk into the river......
As soon as they docked, countless people rushed up to the dock and grabbed them, and the people on board angrily cursed the crowd on the shore who did not let them sail, and those with weapons even shot at the unarmed people.
The boat finally started, and more people clinging to the edge of the boat, and as the ferry sailed into the river, more fell into the water, and finally were swallowed up by the surging river.
The stragglers and wounded scattered from the front line, the miscellaneous troops in the rear, and the heavy vehicles squeezed the water along the river, and the Japanese ships on the river in the distance kept strafing with machine guns, and the flares were angry in the sky, and the shells came down with a piercing scream.
The dull sound of explosions came and went, and the cracking fireballs exploded one after another, and thick black gunpowder smoke rose suddenly.
The whole riverside is in chaos, and there is no order at all.
Coal port, naval dock, garrison commander's department Zhou Lan detained a small steamer to transport supplies, which was also his precautionary measure.
Tang Mengxiao and other generals from the garrison commander's department came, hurriedly boarded a small steamer and headed to Jiangbei, and behind them, there were more than 100,000 officers and soldiers guarding the city.
What will be their fate?
The mayor of Nanjing, the commander of the garrison, Xiao Shanling resolutely stayed by the river to direct the retreat, and did not retreat to Jiangbei with the army.
The city of Nanjing is even more chaotic, and the people have run to the international safety zone to seek a little shelter.
The routers, who threw away their weapons, were blocked inside the city and could not get out, and they were also squeezed into the international safety zone with the refugees.
For a time, the number of people in the international security zone doubled, and the logistics were overwhelmed.
By this time, the International Security Committee could no longer find any government officials who could help them settle and provide food.
The Nanjing garrison chief's headquarters was burned, Tang Mengxiao's mansion in Baiziting was also missing, and many important military and government facilities in the city were on fire.
From the very beginning, perhaps no one expected these miscellaneous troops to be able to hold Nanjing, but no one expected that they would be defeated so quickly.
In just a few days, from the periphery to the Fukuo, and then to the fierce battle of the city wall, the tragic battle for the defense of the capital ended in a hurry.
Tonight, the whole city of Jinling is crying! (To be continued......)