After blowing up the Japanese medical supplies, Xia Yuan quickly retreated with a few people.

After the previous night raids, they found a strange point, that is, with several night raids, the Japanese army had a countermeasure.

For example, in this night attack, the Japanese soldiers never took off their clothes when they slept, and when the explosion sounded, the Japanese soldiers quickly assembled.

The road is one foot high, and the magic is one foot high.

Xia Yuan had already discovered this, so in the next few night raids, he did not let the group attack the Japanese infantry, but destroyed the Japanese army's supplies as much as possible, mainly trucks, fuel, and artillery shells, first collected a part of it and loaded it on his body, and then quickly evacuated after the attack.

No procrastination, no mud and water.

Therefore, in these night attacks, they did not have casualties.

Most of the reasons were due to the rapid change of Xia Yuan's thinking, the formulation of the plan was very perfect, and the plan of attacking the Japanese garrison at night was also very smooth, and there were no accidents in the whole process.

The result of the successful night attack on the Japanese garrison was an even more frenzied retaliation by the Japanese army.

The next day, the Japanese sealed off the streets, tightly controlled them, and sent a large number of soldiers into the ruins to search.

It's a pity that the search of the Japanese army was destined to fail, and Xia Yuan and them had already fled with them, far away from the Japanese garrison.

But nothing is absolute, and in the next few days of hiding in Tibet, they were discovered by the Japanese army again.

"The people of China are here!"

The Japanese soldiers opened fire, attracting more Japanese soldiers.

The nine of them were once again surrounded by Japanese troops.

In addition, their injuries were not completely healed, and there were not many people who could move, and after half a day of withstanding the Japanese attack, only four of the nine people remained.

Instructor Li knew that he couldn't run away this time, and said to Xia Yuan: "Chief Xia, you go first, we will cover you, and you must avenge us in the future." ”

Xia Yuan stared at Instructor Li's dark face, raised his head to look at the swaying figure of the Japanese army in the ruins, and grinned: "What are you talking about frustrating, you guys are hiding here, and I will lure the Japanese devils away." ”

"No, it's too dangerous." Instructor Li said immediately.

"You also know the danger? Wouldn't it be more dangerous for you to stay, don't mother-in-law, mother-in-law, it's decided, I haven't been caught by the Japanese devils yet, and even if they want to catch me, it will have to pay a terrible price. Xia Yuan unloaded the medicine and ammunition on his body and left them for them, "These things don't have much effect on me, after you leave, go to the church, there is still a truck there, I have already repaired it, if there is a chance, the co-pilot of the truck has a pass, you can try to get out." ”

"What about you?" Instructor Li asked.

"Me? You don't have to worry about that, take care. Xia Yuan carried a gun, quickly walked along the ruins away from the hiding place of several people, and then stood on the broken wall of a house and shot at the Japanese army.

He shot and killed two Japanese soldiers, and the same hiding place was exposed to the noses of the Japanese devils.

"Quick, the people of China are there!"

"Attack!"

"Catch it alive!"

Hundreds of Japanese devils ran over when they smelled it.

"It's really a dog's nose." Xia Yuan didn't like to fight, he put away his gun and quickly ran along the ruins, he observed the surrounding situation as he ran, taking in the surrounding terrain, and at the same time observing the pursuing Japanese army.

Bunkers are laid out with grenades for dark mines.

The Japanese army chased too slowly, and they lost their targets several times, but it was Xia Yuan who took the initiative to expose them, so that this group of Japanese devils chased after them closely.

In his words, this group of Japs is a herd of pigs.

After breaking through Ming Jin, coupled with the system's blessing of the four-dimensional attributes of the body, Xia Yuan's speed was very fast, and he ran with all his might, like a black lightning.

As he ran, he took time to shoot at the Japanese soldiers.

Chasing and chasing, the Japanese army found that something was not right, this person didn't look like he was injured, and his speed was very fast, more than one person high broke the wall, stepped on the wall in two or three steps, and easily climbed over. When they arrive, they also need to take the human body.

As a result, as soon as he climbed over the wall, the soldiers above were killed by the Shina people.

When they climbed over the wall, they found that they had distanced themselves from the people of China.

He was like a monkey, scurrying around the ruins, making difficult moves from time to time.

It wasn't like running away, it was more like using light skills, flying around the ruins.

This stunned the Japanese devils who were chasing behind, and they shot indiscriminately, but the man's back was like an eye, and when the bullet was about to hit, the man dodged in an incredible posture.

"Nani, what the hell is that!"

Xia Yuan's escape skills directly stunned the Japanese devils.

Landing from the top of the three-meter-high wall, tumbling and unloading, he rushed forward quickly with a gun.

His physical fitness is getting stronger, his senses are becoming more terrifying, and his ability to dodge bullets is also improving.

It's pretty scary.

"The four-dimensional attribute has broken through 2, and the improvement is huge, especially the agility part, which can not only improve body coordination, but also enhance the ability to bounce, reaction, and improve one, which can be described as an all-round improvement."

Xia Yuan ran fast, extremely fast.

He had already lured the Japanese army away, and there was no need to stay and wait for the Japanese devils, fearing that they would not be able to catch up, so he deliberately stopped and waited for this group of Japanese devils.

Lying in the corner of the ruins, Xia Yuan was finally able to take a breath, take a break, and walk along the ruins.

He didn't know where he was going next, it was obviously impossible to go back, the Japanese devils had already formed an encirclement of him in the rear, and if he went back, there was no doubt that he would fall into the encirclement of the Japanese devils.

Xia Yuan carried a gun and ran along the street, in the opposite direction.

Along the way, you can see a large number of citizens brutally murdered by Japanese devils, and their bodies are scattered on the streets.

There are shattered, incomplete, and complete, but the miserable ones are as if they are all painted with a layer of blood, like a passage to the underworld.

He saw that some citizens had rough palms, as if they had often used guns and had been soldiers.

Xia Yuan recalled the night of the retreat.

As the order to retreat was given, the defense line of Jinling City began to crumble, and a large number of soldiers began to flee, scrambling to escape from Jinling.

In advance the prepared ferry, only able to accommodate the passage of about two divisions of troops.

But that night, five divisions were told to retreat.

Even some of the soldiers were not notified of the retreat.

In order to stop him from escaping, these soldiers raised their machine guns and opened fire on hundreds of comrades, and in the chaotic retreat, the roads were crowded with a large number of soldiers, and some Chinese tanks crushed countless Chinese soldiers and drove forward until someone blew them up with a grenade.

Even in the tragedy of this large-scale retreat, there were comical moments, when the soldiers tried to blend in with the common people in order to avoid being captured by the Japanese, they broke into the shops and snatched the clothes of Pingming, and took off their uniforms in public, and the streets were soon filled with half-naked soldiers, as well as half-naked policemen, who also threw away their uniforms so as not to be mistaken for soldiers.

Some wandered the streets wearing only a pair of underwear and a top hat, most likely stolen from the home of a wealthy government official. In the initial phase of the retreat, the army maintained a semblance of order, with groups of Chinese soldiers moving forward in formation while taking off their uniforms and changing into civilian clothes.

But when the retreat turned into a rout, it became urgent to loot civilian clothing.

Soldiers were seen pounced on passers-by and tearing off their clothes from behind for their own.

There was only one way to avoid the Japanese army and evacuate Jinling safely.

That is, to cross the Yangtze River through the wharf north of the city, where a fleet of ships is waiting for the first soldiers to arrive.

To reach the wharf, the soldiers had to first rush to Zhongshan Road, the main road, and then pass through the Rujiang Gate, the northwest city gate, to reach the Xiaguan Wharf, located on the northern outskirts of Jinling.

However, there was an incredible congestion in front of the Rujiang Gate, with more than twice as many people retreating, many in trucks, carriages, and sedans, all trying to force their way through the seventy-foot-wide openings in the city walls, and the crowds out of the city changed from the initial trickle to the surging river at five o'clock in the afternoon.

In the second half of the night, the surging river turned into a torrent of people, and rifles, machine guns, and grenades piled up on the road, which were discarded by the soldiers in order to reduce their own weight and speed up their journey.

Officers argued over which equipment should be destroyed and which should be crossed with the troops, and the soldiers drove tanks onto their boats, which capsized many ships and sank to the bottom of the river.

As the night wore on, the soldiers began to cross the river on their own, abandoning all their tanks and other equipment, and as the number of ferries dwindled, the violence intensified, and at last tens of thousands of soldiers competed for two or three ferries, some of them squeezing onto the deck, some firing into the sky in an attempt to scare off the others.

Frightened Crossing swung his axe and slashed at the fingers of the soldiers clutching the sides of the ferry, trying to break away from the surging crowd that stormed the boat.

That night, countless people died while trying to cross the river, and many did not even squeeze out of the city gates.

That night, a fire broke out on Zhongshan Road, and the fire quickly spread to piles of discarded explosives, engulfing countless houses and cars.

The horses trapped on the road were frightened and neighed, adding to the confusion of the crowd. The terrified soldiers crowded desperately, hundreds of people were pushed into the flames, and many others were crowded into the narrow tunnels of the city walls, trampled miserably.

As the gates were congested and hellish fires raged nearby, the soldiers who had broken free from the chaos ran desperately under the walls and tried to climb over them, and hundreds of soldiers tore their clothes into strips of cloth and tied them together with belts and leggings to make rope ladders, and they climbed the walls one by one, and threw their rifles and machine guns from the recesses of the battlements, and many fell from the walls to their deaths.

Even Commander Tang was congested on the way to the dock, and Tang Shengzhi looked through the window of the black car he was riding in, aiming at this extremely mixed scene.

The car struggled through the chaotic crowd, and he even heard the fleeing soldiers cursing at him: "You are still sitting in the car at this time." ”

People shouted loudly, not knowing that it was Tang Shengzhi, the commander-in-chief of the garrison Jinling, who was sitting in the car.

He closed his eyes as if he hadn't heard.

The car crawled slowly like a turtle to the point, he was supposed to arrive at the pier at six o'clock in the afternoon, but when he finally arrived at the pier, it was already eight o'clock in the evening, and a large number of soldiers crowded on the pier had gathered to get on board.

The person in charge of Commander Tang's safe evacuation also wasted a lot of effort to find Commander Tang.

Commander Tang and the two deputy commanders boarded a small motorboat powered by coal, and until about nine o'clock in the evening, they had been waiting for the two staff officers who had not arrived, and they could not wait after all in the chaotic night.

On the small motorboat, Commander Tang heard the cacophony and screams of people fighting each other, mixed with the deafening sound of Japanese artillery fire.

That's what he saw.

Jinling in flames.

In the distance, the sky was red and reflected by the flames, as if the blood color was overwhelming, filling half the sky.

Commander Tang, who was full of humiliation, looked at it with a lot of thoughts, and the Jinling he saw at the last sight was in dire straits.

The citizens are frantically saving themselves, and his soldiers are desperately clinging to driftwood, beautiful on the cold and dark river.

This scene deeply pierced his heart.

Not even in the decades since, he has experienced such a dark day.

Until the next day.

Some citizens learned that the defenders had fled and the city of Jinling had fallen.

But at this time, Jinling had already been surrounded by the Japanese army, and even on the river, there were Japanese warships moored.

It was surrounded on three sides and blocked by Japanese warships on one side.

Some of them took the risk and tried to escape from the blockade of the Japanese army, which was almost impossible, and the Japanese had already begun to kill people everywhere in a frenzy, and they received orders to dispose of all prisoners.

Where will these people leave Jinling.

Jinling was in turmoil, the massacre was carried out, and the Japanese army had to destroy the evidence and clean up all the corpses afterwards.

The elderly, children, and people who are economically destitute or too weak to flee safely.

These people have lost the protection of the government, have no personal resources, and do not see a way out of the future, so they can only hope that the Japanese will treat them well.

Many told themselves that once the war was over, the Japanese would treat them with courtesy.

Some even believed that the Japanese would be better rulers, after all, when they needed help the most, the government abandoned them, tired of the war, tired of being bombed and besieged, when the Japanese army roared into Jinling with tanks, artillery and trucks, there were indeed a few groups of Chinese who ran out to welcome the invaders.

However, when the Japanese army entered Jinling City, what they longed for became delusional, and the Japanese army entered Jinling City and killed people when they saw them.

On March 6, 1938, the American physician Wilson recorded his experience of seeing a doctor in Jinling City: "Two days ago an elderly man came to the hospital from Molingguan Town. Japanese soldiers came to him every day to ask for girls and livestock. On 12 February, several Japanese soldiers, angry at his inability, tied him up and hung him about 3 feet above the ground, untied his clothes, and set him on fire below. ”

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