Tang Mengxiao has moved from the Baiziting apartment to the office of the Nanjing Garrison Commander in the Ministry of Railways, and the war situation is in danger, and Nanjing City is no longer a matter of defending it, but a question of how long it can last.

At noon that day, He Jingzhi, deputy commander of the Third Theater of Operations, had already called him and conveyed the order to "evacuate the camera."

In the afternoon, Lao Chiang's telegram arrived, and the camera was evacuated in an attempt to attack the rear.

Tang Mengxiao only then began to prepare for the evacuation of related matters, but the 100,000 defenders of Nanjing City were fighting a fierce battle with the Japanese army, you have me, I have you, and it is almost impossible to withdraw in an organized and orderly manner.

But when the situation comes, we must consider evacuating, otherwise, these 100,000 defenders will be wiped out.

Withdrawing is to preserve strength.

When the war is fought at this point, there is no hope of winning, but if it continues to be fought here, these 100,000 elites who have been tempered by the war will be completely wiped out.

If the three most elite German mechanics in the national government are all spelled out, Lao Jiang is also quite distressed.

At 8 o'clock in the evening, Chairman Chiang of Wuhan sent a second telegram, the content of which was roughly the same as that in the afternoon, that is, to ask Tang Mengxiao to evacuate Nanjing.

At this time, Tang Mengxiao was still thinking about how to retreat, but he had not yet made up his mind when to withdraw, after all, the battle to defend the city had only been fought for five days.

If he holds on for ten days and a half and then evacuates, he will have an explanation from top to bottom at that time.

At this time, although there was chaos in the city, the people still supported the national army to resist the war, and there were only a few lawbreakers, and the situation was still under control.

After much deliberation, Tang Mengxiao sent a telegram to Lao Chiang, believing that the defenders of Nanjing could hold out for three to five days.

If he was given three days, he would be able to calmly arrange his retreat.

Tang Mengxiao's thoughts were good, and his wishes were also good, but the speed at which the battle collapsed was beyond his expectations.

At nine o'clock, the bad news came, the Yamamoto troops of the Japanese 114th Division attacking the position on the left side of Yuhuatai had advanced to Saihongqiao and fought fiercely with the remnants of the 88th Division.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, the Yangzhou Garrison Command and the Security Command were transferred to Huaiyin in northern Jiangsu, the garrison battalion of the fortress retreated, and the Zhenjiang fortress was lost.

The Japanese Third Fleet advanced to the city of Nanjing.

Although Pukou on the opposite bank was still in the hands of the 1st Army, the Japanese Kunisaki detachment had crossed the Yangtze River and advanced along the north bank of the Yangtze River to attack Pukou in order to reach the Jiangpu line and engage in a fierce battle with the blocking Nationalist troops.

The situation has become dangerous.

Tang Mengxiao could only make up his mind to evacuate Nanjing, but the retreat was not just an order, and corresponding arrangements had to be made, the route of the retreat of each army, who would cover, who would withdraw first, who would retreat, what means of transport, and so on.

It is also necessary to convey the order to the troops and understand it clearly, so as not to cause a major rout and repeat the mistake of retreating from the Battle of Songhu.

Tang Mengxiao thought about how to retreat, while on the Japanese side, the commander of the Central China Front, who was still ill, Matsui Shigen, gave the order to the troops on the front line to attack Nanjing.

After dark, the Japanese offensive slowed down slightly, but the artillery battle between the two sides did not stop, Gui Yongqing transferred the artillery position located in Fuguishan to the Ming Palace Airport, and fired at the Japanese artillery outside the city.

For a time, the cannon roared inside and outside the city of Nanjing.

The Japanese army probably didn't expect that the defenders of Nanjing City would still retain such a huge resistance when the battle was fought at this point.

Although there were only a few dozen artillery pieces, which was too weak compared to the hundreds of large artillery pieces of the Japanese army, this will to resist stubbornly made the Japanese army deeply feel a kind of fear, and it was really not a very pleasant thing to be the enemy of such a nation.

They desperately needed to break the will of the defenders and the will of the resisters, so a message from the Shanghai Dispatch Army Headquarters "Kill all the prisoners!" The secret order soon spread throughout the Japanese siege troops.

This secret order, which had been issued a long time ago, was only delivered to an officer at the rank of wing commander, and now, an ordinary soldier of the Japanese army knew about it.

Invade Nanjing and kill all the people who resisted!

There were more than 800 people left in the 2nd Regiment of the Teaching Corps, and in an afternoon of fighting, more than 200 warriors were spilled with blood on the city walls.

The corpse was pulled down directly from the position, a three-foot shroud, a straw mat, a big pit was dug, and a centralized burial was concentrated, and it could only be disposed of like this.

I heard that Cheng Zhi, the commander of the 302nd Regiment who died heroically in Saihongqiao, and the colonel of the dignified National Army, just asked his fellow villagers to find a bathtub and hurriedly buried him.

When the battle came to this, the people who buried the corpses could no longer catch up with the corpses, and sometimes a squad, a platoon, and a company were buried together.

"Report!"

"Did you find the secret passage?"

"Found it, our battalion commander led people down first." The Signal Soldier said.

"Yaksha Squad, assemble!" Leng Feng suddenly stood up and ordered.

"Lao Leng, do you want to wait for Counselor Wu?" Luo Yufeng reminded.

"It's half past nine, and she's been there for almost an hour and a half, so wait another quarter of an hour." Leng Feng nodded.

"Go back and tell you battalion commander that you are not allowed to act without permission!"

"Yes!"

Fifteen minutes later, Wu Xiaoyun hadn't come back yet, Leng Feng decided not to wait any longer, got up and said to Luo Yufeng and Qin Yankun: "Old Luo, old Qin, the position will be handed over to you, before I come back, I must make sure that the city wall is not lost!" ”

"Don't worry, the people are in the position!" Luo Yufeng nodded.

"Tuanza, be careful!" Qin Yankun reminded with concern, Leng Feng's word "generation" was removed, and just now, the order for appointment and rank promotion was delivered together.

Leng Feng can also be regarded as a promotion in the line of fire.

"Cong Hu, let's go, Wei Quan, you won't go this time, be optimistic about Lao Luo, don't let him do dangerous things again." Leng Feng left Guo Weiquan behind and gave him an order.

"Yes, I promise to be optimistic about Deputy Luo Tuan."

Check the gun, bullets, Leng Feng deliberately brought three more base ammunition, this time in the past, the situation is uncertain, bringing more ammunition is a guarantee.

"Report to the captain, the Yaksha special operations team has been assembled, please instruct!"

"Check your gear!"

"Yes!"

"One Type 38 rifle, 300 rounds of ammunition, one Type 38 bayonet, eight Japanese grenades, a water bottle, a canvas bullet pack, a first aid kit, and a dagger...... Complete! ”

"One flower machine, four unit prices, five hundred bullets, four grenades, ......"

"One grenadier, one southern pistol, thirty rounds of ammunition......"

"Done!"

"Let's go!" Leng Feng waved his hand and took the lead towards the door.

"Crunch!" There was a sound of brakes outside the door, and Wu Xiaoyun jumped out of the car and waved his hand eagerly at Leng Feng.

"Hurry up and get the gear, give you two minutes." Leng Feng motioned for the team to stop.

Wu Xiaoyun rushed in, and two minutes later, carrying a sniper rifle on his back, his long hair was coiled on his head, tied behind his head, and rushed out of it.

"Let's go!"

"Hey, Wu Xiaoyun, ......" A young woman in a black windbreaker got out of the car, and at a glance, she revealed a round and fair melon seed face, and there was a trace of arrogance between her eyebrows.

"Professor Zhou, yes, I'm Leng Feng, now we have a combat mission, let's talk about it when we come back." Leng Feng walked over and said, "Wei Quan, take Professor Zhou to rest and eat something." ”

"Professor Zhou, please!"

As soon as Leng Feng finished explaining, he didn't pay attention to Zhou Xue's reaction at all, and left with the Yaksha operation team.

Ten minutes later, inside the Guanghua Gate, the inspection office.

Leng Feng arrived here with the Yaksha task force and entered a small three-story building, which had been blown down, and the first floor of the corridor was almost blocked by masonry.

Liu Guichun led people to clear a small path, and under the lighting of the flashlight, it led to the deepest part of the small building.

"Who?"

"Me, Leng Feng!"

"It's Daidanza!" The platoon commander who served as a guard walked out of the darkness and saw clearly that it was Leng Feng, and some breathed a sigh of relief.

"How long has Camp Commander Liu been down?"

"It's been almost forty minutes." The platoon commander replied.

"Is there any news?"

"Nope!"

"At the normal pace of advancement, they are advancing at least five kilometers at the moment." Leng Feng muttered to himself, "Judging from the straight-line distance, they should not be far from the Engineer School." ”

"Take us to the entrance." Leng Feng commanded.

"Yes, Daidanza!" The platoon commander agreed, and led Leng Feng and his party quickly through an underground corridor to an abandoned underground storage room, where there was a smell of mold, and a hole was opened in the wall of the storage room.

After entering, there is a sandwich wall, obviously, when this small building was built, it was known that this secret passage entrance existed, and this sandwich wall was specially built in this storeroom, but there was no entrance to enter the sandwich wall.

Obviously, it is to protect this secret, and if the entrance is left, I am afraid that someone will have discovered it a long time ago, and it will not be a secret.

Seven or eight meters forward from the entrance, a long stone staircase led to the ground, and although there was some musty smell in the air, it was hardly difficult to breathe, and it was clear that the ventilation in the secret passage was very good.

The walls of the secret passage are all made of bricks, judging from the age, it must be pushed forward at least five or six hundred years, and after entering the secret passage, I found that this secret passage is very spacious, and it is not a problem for four or five people to walk.

At that time, it was remarkable to build such a secret underground project, but in Chinese history, there are many more remarkable projects than this.

Walking along the secret passage, I made a simple judgment that it was in the southeast direction, and the compass that I carried with me also showed that the direction of their secret passage was southeast.

The direction is not wrong, which means that this secret passage is most likely the secret passage leading to the engineering school outside the city.

Of course, this secret passage was not built to lead to the engineer school more than 600 years later, but the later engineer school was built right at the exit of the secret passage.

This is just a coincidence, just like the entrance to the inspection office, it is all a coincidence, the entrance is at the Guanghua Gate, obviously this may not be completely built for escape, it also has a certain military purpose.

Once the city is besieged, the defenders of the city can exit the city through secret passages and launch a sneak attack from the enemy's flank to achieve the purpose of repelling the enemy army and breaking the siege.

Bang Dang!

"Watch your step!" As soon as Leng Feng lowered his head, he saw a rusted weapon on the ground, it was a knife, the scabbard was gone, the blade had been curled, full of rust, and there seemed to be traces of knives and axes on the walls of the secret passage.

"There are footprints on the ground!"

"It's Camp Commander Liu, and they are the same as the shoes we wear."

"Keep up."

After walking for about five minutes, I felt that the ground was obviously wet, and it was obvious that they were now under the moat, and it was still possible to keep it dry to a certain extent, and the waterproof technology was still very advanced.

A minute later, through the secret passage of the moat, the secret passage turned a corner in front of it.

Twenty minutes later, a faint explosion could be heard outside, and the secret passage was beginning to slope upwards, indicating that the exit was almost there.