At dawn on November 5, the newly formed Japanese 10th Army, under the command of Yanagawa Heisuke, was escorted by the fleet to make a sudden landing at Caojing Town, Quangong Pavilion, Jinsi Niang Bridge and other places near Jinshanwei in Hangzhou Bay, outflanking the southern part of the Chinese army's defense line in Songhu. After the six divisions of the Japanese army on the north bank of the Suzhou Creek forcibly crossed the Suzhou Creek on October 31, they quickly moved closer to the Japanese troops who landed on both routes, and the 700,000 Chinese troops in the Songhu area were suddenly in a dangerous situation.

On the evening of 8 November, the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government ordered a comprehensive retreat, and all troops withdrew from the battle in Shanghai and retreated to the area west of Nanjing and Jiaxing in Suzhou by two routes. Due to the haste of the order, the command was out of control, and the result of the great retreat turned into a full-scale rout.

After the Japanese landed in Hangzhou Bay, the high command felt the seriousness of the situation and began to pay attention to the defense of Nanjing. After the Japanese captured Shanghai, because the 10th Army was not firmly resisted by the Chinese army, and the troops suffered few casualties, they took advantage of the victory to advance westward, unwilling to abide by the operational geographical restriction line stipulated by the General Staff Headquarters, and decided on the night of November 15 to "pursue Nanjing independently and decisively with the main force of the army." In mid-November, Chiang Kai-shek convened three successive meetings of senior staff in Nanjing. At the third meeting the next evening, Chiang Kai-shek clearly agreed with Tang Shengzhi's proposal and decided to "stick to it for a short time", which was expected to be held for one to two months. After the policy of holding on to Nanjing was decided, the General Headquarters adopted a series of strategic and campaign measures. On November 20, Tang Shengzhi issued martial law, and the Nanjing area entered a wartime state.

On December 1, the Japanese army captured the Jiangyin fortress; On the same day, at the request of Matsui Ishone, the Japanese General Staff Headquarters issued Mainland Order No. 8: "The commander of the Central China Front must coordinate with the navy to capture Nanjing, the capital of the enemy country."

In accordance with the orders of the Front Army, the Japanese 10th Army deployed the 114th Division to attack and advance along the Liyang and Lishui highways to the south of Nanjing; The 6th Division also attacked and advanced in the direction of Nanjing along the Guangde and Honglanbu roads, and after the 114th Division; The Guozaki detachment entered and occupied Taiping along the Guangde and Langxi roads, and then crossed the river to the vicinity of Pukou in a roundabout way, cutting off the road for the Nanjing defenders to retreat north; The 18th Division attacked Wuhu through Xuancheng and cut off the westward retreat of the Nanjing defenders.

At this time, Nanjing, due to the fall of Jiangyin Fortress, completely entered a wartime state, the wounded barracks walking outside were cleaning up and relocating into the city, and the 150,000 troops who participated in the defense of Nanjing were urgently building and perfecting fortifications according to their own orders.

Except for the 41st and 48th divisions, the rest of the troops garrisoning Nanjing were all remnants of the Songhu battlefield, and were now receiving new recruits to prepare to participate in the more brutal defense of Nanjing. The troops that were not in the vicinity of Nanking were forcibly conscripted by the garrison and incorporated into new units, and the severely damaged remnants needed a large number of veterans and officers to replenish their troops.

"What's going on with the five of them"

A colonel officer looked at Feng Ye and the four remnants lying on the bed and asked the doctor.

"I was seriously injured and needed to continue to recuperate, and now I have not reached the conditions to return to the battlefield."

The doctor replied with the examination record.

"Aren't all your injuries healed, why can't you go to battle?" the officer asked in surprise.

In the current troops, even minor injuries are not injuries, and it is a question why these five soldiers are still here after being injured

"According to the physical examination records, the five of them can't even walk 500 meters on their own, let alone anything else."

The doctor took out the examination record from the clip and handed it to the officer.

"Forget it, I'll look for the others and see if there are any who can return to the battlefield."

The officer handed the clip to the doctor in frustration, turned his head and left, now that the various units were frantically searching for wounded soldiers in the hospital, he could not delay too long for these few wastes.

"Hey" The doctor sighed, the inside of the body of the few soldiers in front of him was too badly destroyed, and now the most effective should be the traditional Chinese medicine that nourishes the body, but the wounded soldier hospital lacks those precious Chinese herbal medicines.

"Feng Yi, several of you have all healed from your external injuries, what you need now is Chinese herbal medicine that can nourish your body's vitality, we don't have it here, so now you continue to stay in the hospital and it is just a slow time."

The doctor woke up Feng Ye, who was sleeping, and explained the current situation.

"Doctor, thank you, just say anything you want"

Feng Ye was already familiar with the doctor in front of him, and opened his eyes to express his gratitude.

"You have also seen the situation in the hospital, not only the shortage of beds, but also the officers of various units are now frantically searching for the lightly wounded, and you have several waves of officers here."

"I want to say, you see if you have any relatives or friends in Nanjing, you had better go home and recuperate, as long as you have sufficient nutrition, your body should be able to recover quickly."

The doctor paused, expressing what he meant.

"But we can't go too long now, how can we go" Feng Yi frowned and asked,

His body now looks like it's nothing, but it seems that he has no strength to walk for a long time, let alone anything else.

"If you have a place to go, the hospital's trucks can deliver your supplies. I'll have someone clean it up for you, and I'll send you away."

The doctor was already a little impatient, so he asked Feng Ye to hurry up and prepare.

"Brother Feng, where can we go, I don't have any money, I'm afraid it's a problem to even eat."

Chen Hua looked at Feng Ye with a sad face.

"Just come with me, you can't stay here, the doctor is right, our current situation only needs to recuperate, and now the troops are still screening the lightly wounded, if we don't leave now, I'm afraid we will be forcibly pulled away by them and sent to the battlefield."

Feng Yi frowned and said, hoping that his family's grain store in Nanjing had not closed yet, so that he would have a place to stay.

Nanjing is the capital of the Nationalist Government, and if the Feng family wants to continue to maintain the relationship with the upper echelons, it is natural to set up stores in Nanjing, and the rice grain store is the most ordinary store in this era.

Feng Yi is a native of Guangzhou, his hometown Panyu, his grandfather stood in the right position in the Xinhai Revolution, donated a lot of money and grain to the revolutionary pioneer Mr. Sun Yat-sen, after the establishment of the Republic of China, the Feng family can naturally enjoy the fruits of victory, Mr. Feng stayed in the position of president of the Guangzhou Chamber of Commerce for fifteen years, and naturally made the Feng family the first local rich businessman in Guangzhou.

Feng Yi is the eldest son of the Feng family, who received the best education of this era since he was a child, graduated from a church school opened by foreigners, and English naturally became Feng Yi's second language.

As a local family in Guangzhou, the infighting of the big family of the Republic of China naturally exists in the Feng family compound, and it is becoming more and more intense, because the old man is too old, so big that he seems to be going to go west at any time, and in the face of the huge family property, the descendants of the family are almost shirtless.

Feng Yi is a victim of family infighting; In Mr. Feng's original plan, after graduating from the Feng Ye Military Academy, he would return to Guangzhou for local development, but the Battle of Songhu broke out, and the military academy canceled the quota for serving the society every term, which was the decision of the National Government, no matter how much money it was.

Old Man Feng naturally would not give in, and sent the family elite to let them abscond from Nanjing with Feng Ng, and then go abroad secretly, and then go home when the limelight passed, as a result, Feng Que was betrayed by the people who came to answer him, and became the most hated deserter by the soldiers, and he was also a deserter who had never been on the battlefield.