When Xu 19 returned to the 19th Brigade station near Zhonghua Gate from the division headquarters, it was already the early morning of the 12th.

At this time, the news that the supreme leader had ordered the retreat had already spread, and the veterans of the 19th Brigade had already known, before Xu 19 returned, the troops had already spontaneously completed the assembly, and when Xu 19 came back and gave an order, the troops could be pulled out immediately, where to go? Of course, I went to Shimonoseki Pier and crossed the river by boat

Because at this time, Nanjing had been surrounded by the Japanese army on three sides, and only the Yangtze River in the north had not been sealed by the Japanese army.

Seeing Xu Shijiu, Gu Wei, Lu Yong, One-Eyed Dragon and Gao Shenxing greeted him, and Gu Wei asked, "Captain, are you going to pull out now?" ”

Xu Shijiu ignored Gu Wei and strode to the front of the queue.

Gu Wei was stunned, and then stood behind Xu Nineteen, at this time, he didn't realize what was going to happen next, and the veterans of the Nineteenth Brigade who were standing in line also didn't realize that a mortal battle with no reinforcements, no retreat, and even no hope of life was waiting for them.

Xu Jiu's grim gaze swept over the faces of the more than two hundred veterans standing in line one by one, and then shouted: "If you are an only son in the family, you will be out of the ranks." ”

Six or seven veterans came out of the ranks, with faces full of uncertainty.

Xu Shijiu didn't have half an explanation, and then shouted hoarsely: "Those who have studied in middle school, out of the ranks!" ”

There were seven or eight more soldiers out of the ranks, including the small engineer Li Mu, and the student soldier Shu Tongwen, oh yes, there were three female soldiers, in addition to Wang Yulan and Cao Jiao, there was another female soldier, and after the street battle that day, this beautiful female soldier followed the 19th Brigade, to be precise, Gao Shenxing.

Xu Shijiu had no choice but to let her stay in the health team temporarily.

Xu Shijiu took a deep breath and yelled again: "Those under the age of eighteen and over the age of forty are out of the ranks!" ”

This time, only one veteran stepped forward, and he was none other than Cao Mancang, the secretary general, who had just turned forty years old this year, which was already considered an advanced age in the army.

When Xu Nineteen's gaze swept over Cao Mancang's face, his eyes finally showed a touch of imperceptible sadness, the veteran of the Nineteenth Route Army who went to Shanghai with him back then, there were only two people left, he and Cao Mancang, if he missed today, I am afraid that there will only be Cao Mancang left, and the Nineteenth Route Army will finally become history.

Cao Mancang had already realized that something was wrong, and suddenly shouted: "Captain, I'm not leaving!" ”

Gu Wei and other officers and more than two hundred veterans looked at each other, let's go? Where is the captain going to let these people go?

The mystery was soon revealed, Xu Nineteenth strode up to Shu Tongwen, and said in a deep voice: "Ah Wen, from now on you are the commander of the 4th Company of the 19th Independent Brigade, I will hand over these dozen soldiers to you, and then give you two tasks, first, go to Confucius Temple to pick up our wounded, and second, take them to cross the river with the main force of the division, and we must take them across the Yangtze River alive." ”

Shu Tongwen was stunned for a moment, then quickly stood up and replied loudly: "Yes!" ”

Xu Shijiu turned to look at the black blind man again, and said loudly: "Heizi, from now on you are Awen's guard, and your task is to ensure his safety!" ”

"Captain Da Yan, this ......" The black blind man was very embarrassed.

Xu Shijiu snorted and said coldly: "This is an order!" ”

"Yes!" The black blind man shuddered, snapped and stood upright, and then shouted with a hideous expression, "As long as my black blind man still has a breath, I will never let Deputy Squad Leader Shu lose a single hair!" ”

"Wrong, it's Company Commander Shu!" Xu Nineteen waved his hand, and shouted at Shu Tongwen, "Let's go!" ”

After a while, Shu Tongwen and the black blind man hurriedly rushed to the Confucius Temple with this small army of more than ten people to pick up the wounded of the 19th Brigade such as Ergua and Li Zihan.

At this time, no matter how slow the brain is, people have already come back to taste.

Gu Wei grabbed Xu Shijiu and said hurriedly: "Captain, aren't we leaving?"

"I'm not leaving." Xu Shijiu nodded, and sighed again, "We have to stay, after the break!" ”

When the words landed, not only did several officers change their faces, but the faces of the more than 200 veterans lined up changed even more, the battle situation in Nanjing has collapsed to this point, what does it mean to stay and break off? It means to send to death!

"That's right, if you stay and break it now, it will be sent to death!" Xu Jiu paced in front of the queue, his tone revealing a chilling coldness, "But have you ever thought about what the situation will be like if no one stays?" ”

No one said anything, and many veterans' chests were bulging, obviously, they were holding their breath in their hearts.

Think about it, there are more than 5,000 people in the entire 58th Division, and more than 10,000 people in the 74th Army, why should the 19th Brigade stay?

Xu Shijiu's cold gaze swept over the veterans' faces like knives, and he shouted: "If you don't want to think about it, I'll think for you, if you don't want to say it, I'll say it for you!" If no one breaks off, let Xiao Ri catch up with his ass, more than 5,000 people in the entire 58th Division, and more than 10,000 people in the entire 74th Army, don't even think about crossing the Yangtze River, don't even think about living! ”

Gu Wei couldn't help but retort: "But Captain, you also said just now, there are more than 5,000 people in the 58th Division, and there are more than 10,000 people in the entire 74th Army, anyone can stay and break the rear, why does it have to be our 19th Brigade?" It's not fair, it's not fair! ”

"Fair? There is never fairness on this shijie! Xu 19 said coldly, "You also said that there are more than 10,000 brothers in the entire 74th Army, and anyone can stay behind the break, Weishenme can't be you, Weishenme can't be our 19th Brigade?" Since you have come out to be a soldier, since you have put on this military uniform, you must take the responsibility that you must bear! ”

As he spoke, Xu Shijiu took out the Browning pistol that Feng Shengfa gave him from his trouser pocket, raised it towards the more than two hundred veterans, and then said, "Do you see this pistol?" Browning's, shijie famous gun, this hand gun was given to me by the division before leaving, but I only need a bullet, do you know that this is weishenme? ”

The eyes of the two hundred veterans focused on the pistol in unison.

"Do you know this is weishenme?" Xu Shijiu swept his gun and shouted, "Let me tell you, this bullet is not for hitting little devils, it is for myself!" After staying this time, the old man didn't plan to leave alive! After that, Xu Shijiu said murderously, "I put the ugly words in front of me, who dares to escape from the battle, there is no forgiveness!" ”

More than 200 veterans all looked miserable, Xu Shijiu, the captain of the colonel, did not hesitate to die, what could they do? That's it, desperately count the ball!

Xu Shijiu put away the Browning pistol, and pulled the hem of the German military uniform vigorously, Zuihou looked up to the sky and roared hoarsely: "All of them, the goal is to race Hongqiao, run...... Walk! ”

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It was fast in the morning of December 12th.

At this time, the turmoil in the city of Nanjing was already very serious, how serious was it? It was so serious that there was a large-scale stampede in Rujiangmen, and Xie Chengrui, the commander of the 2nd Regiment of the 1st Brigade of the Teaching Corps of the Central Military Academy, was trampled to death by his own soldiers in Rujiangmen.

There is also the Shimonoseki wharf, hundreds of thousands of people flocked to the wharf, but there are only a few ferries on the wharf, and the officers and soldiers who did not have time to get on the boat dragged the side of the ferry to death, did not get on the boat and drove away, the officers and men on the ship were in a hurry, and even slashed with knives and bayonets and stabbed with machine guns, and the comrades-in-arms who had fought bloodily in the same trench began to kill each other at this time!

Also, thousands of soldiers of the national army could not grab the ferry, not even a piece of wood, in desperation, they jumped into the icy river, trying to swim across the river, zuihou these soldiers of the national army all froze to death in the river, in the cold winter Layue swimming across the Yangtze River, it is simply looking for death, no matter how good the water is, it is also a death!

At this time, if you have a bird's-eye view of Nanjing from above, you can find that almost all the people are running towards Xiaguan, only a small army is facing the flow of people out of the city from the Zhonghua Gate, and is rushing to Saihongqiao, this small force is naturally the 19th Brigade, Xu 19 received the task from Feng Shengfa and is walking forward with the troops.

Along the way, there were constantly routs from the front line to give way to the roadside.

"Brother, where are you going?" A rout kindly reminded, "There are no more of our troops ahead." ”

"Yes." A captain came out of the small unit, smiled miserably at the rout, and said, "It is precisely because there are no more of our troops in front of us that we have to go forward." ”

"What are you doing here?" Another rout asked.

"Don't do it, I'm ordered to break off."

"After what's broken, that's to die."

"Then what should I do, someone has to stay behind to break the queen, right?"

The rout stopped talking, inexplicably, he suddenly raised his right hand and saluted the standard military salute to the small army that slowly drove in front of him, and someone took the lead, so that the rout soldiers who went to the side of the road also followed the military salute, and then watched this small army of no more than 200 people go south, south, and south against the retreating tide of soldiers......

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The confusion of the Nationalist army soon attracted the attention of the Japanese army.

When the meteorological observation team reported the movements of the opposite national army to Gu Shoufu, the old devil quickly concluded that the national army was going to give up Nanjing, and immediately said excitedly to his chief of staff, Shimono Yihuo: "Shimono-san, if nothing else, it should be that the leader of the branch Jiang has given an order, and the Chinese army has decided to give up Nanjing, hehe."

Tani's inference was quickly confirmed by the intelligence services, who had intercepted the Nationalist army's cables.

"Yo-shei, yo-shei." Shimono Ichihuo was also so excited that he rubbed his hands again and again, and said, "The retreat of the Shina army at this time is simply extremely stupid, and there is no more stupid decision than this." ”

Gu Shoufu daxiao said: "The leader of the branch Jiang has always been like this. ”

Shimono Yihuo said again: "Division commander, I seem to see that thousands of the Chinese army has laid down their arms and surrendered to the Imperial Army of the Great Day, originally, if these Chinese troops defend Nanjing and fight street battles with the Imperial Army, the Imperial Army will occupy Nanjing, I am afraid that it will also pay an extremely heavy price, but now, Nanjing is at your fingertips."

Gu Shoufu said proudly: "It is said that the 18th Division and the 9th Division are not going well in Purple Mountain and Guanghuamen. ”

Shimono Yihuo smiled and said: "It seems that the great achievement of the first capture of Nanjing still has to fall on the head of our 6th Division." ”

Before Shimono Yihuo's words landed, a sharp gunshot suddenly sounded in front of him, and then an operational staff officer ran over and reported to Gu Shoufu: "Division commander, the direction of Saihongqiao has been stubbornly resisted by the defenders of China, and the offensive of the 45th Infantry Wing has been frustrated. ”

"Nani?" Gu Shoufu said in disbelief, "There are still defenders in Saihongqiao? ”

Shimono Kazuho and the commander of the 36th Infantry Brigade who had just rushed over, Ushijima Mitsuru also looked at each other, at this time, the Chinese army in Saihongqiao still didn't withdraw? Didn't crash either?