"Thank you, sir, begging my girl's life, why don't you stay with us for a few days, and then go out when you find a house." ”

Li Tian refused to be retained by the little girl's relatives and walked onto the drizzly streets of Nanjing, not knowing where to go for a while.

The small businessman's family also voted for relatives and left the address for Li Tian to find.

But he discarded the address, he was just a passerby, and he didn't want to have too much contact with these people.

When I walked to the Yangtze River, I found that the boats were very busy, and many people fled to the other side.

However, the speech of Tang Shengzhi, commander of Nanjing's urban defense, was repeatedly broadcast on the radio, and he tragically said that he would live and die with Nanjing, which made many Nanjing citizens wait and see.

Li Tian finally got on a ferry, perhaps subconsciously wanting to stay away from the catastrophe, but because he had no money to give to the ship, he was detained by the boatmen on the boat.

He looked at the face in front of him distorted by anger, and suddenly smiled, he was living in a miserable era, and it was also a great era to defend the nation.

"I'm sorry boss, I'm willing to work as a boatman for a few days to get paid. ”

Li Tian's angry boat old avenue really made the other party angry.

During this time, there were many people crossing the river, and the boat boss was a little tired.

After three days, on December 8, 1937, the Japanese army finally surrounded the city of Nanjing.

Because Li Tian repeatedly requested, the boat boss drove the ship to the other side of Nanjing to anchor, but unexpectedly evaded Tang Shengzhi's order to bomb the ship.

He said to Li Tiandao with emotion, "You kid is really blessed, and even my boat is safe, so follow me in the future." ”

Li Tian shook his head bitterly, and said in a deep voice, "I don't want you to thank me, but when there is a period of time in the future, I hope you can set up a boat to save people on the other side, and save as many people as possible." ”

The ship's boss said in surprise, "Do you think that Nanjing will be lost, and the ghosts will never massacre the city, after all, people also have to be faced." Are there a lot of foreigners in the city?"

Li Tian didn't want to say more, as long as the boat boss promised to take the risk to save people, after getting the other party's oath, he jumped into the Yangtze River.

The boat boss looked for a while, and found that Li Tian's trace appeared on the shore of Nanjing, touched his head and said, "What a strange person, he ran to my boat just to jump into the river, this world is really chaotic." ”

Li Tian climbed ashore from the water, and the Kuomintang soldiers who blew up the boat found that he could actually swim across the Yangtze River. Immediately arrested him.

Take a steel helmet and put it on the person's head, this is considered a soldier of the national army, and there is no place to reason, as long as you dare to run, you will shoot the deserter.

It doesn't matter to Li Tian who is a soldier, as long as he can contribute to the country and the nation, it is actually the same everywhere, but there is no energy point.

"Boom Boom"

The Japanese army bombarded the city wall of Nanjing, and the whole city trembled in the continuous artillery fire, and the defending troops and the Japanese army fought fiercely. The gunshots were as dense as frying oil and adding water.

Li Tian was forced to put on a wide Nationalist military uniform, issued a Zhongzheng rifle with only five bullets, and was placed on guard in the Xinjiekou area of Nanjing, saying that it was a secret operation to guard the Nationalist Government.

Watch as several trucks escorted by soldiers drive into the bank. Li Tian recalled the records in the history books, as if the government of the Republic of China had concentrated the vaults of many banks around it and was ready to send them to the other side.

As a result, it was deposited in the three largest banks, but it was lost because of the collapse. In the end, the Japanese army was cheaper.

Looking at the Xinjiekou Square not far away, most of the gold bricks in the entire Nanjing city are stored there.

They are the Bank of Communications. Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the Bank of the Continent three inside the vault.

Li Tian looked up at the sky, several whistling Japanese planes circled back and forth, and pedestrians on the street fled wildly.

He was not worried that the Japanese plane would drop bombs, because in history, Japan attached great importance to espionage and intelligence, and presumably the current operation of the Nationalist Government to collect the treasury has long been in the hands of others.

The Japanese army invaded China for war money, so how could it not be eyed by this piece, so not only would it not bomb, but on the contrary, it would also protect the private property in the eyes of the Japanese imperial family.

On this day, Nanjing City was frightened and frightened, and Li Tian was valued by the chief who hid in the bank safe house early because of his stunned appearance, and was quickly promoted to the head of the Xinjiekou City Guard.

That night, there was a wild rumor everywhere that Tang Shengzhi, the commander of Nanjing's urban defense, escaped in the last small motorboat.

Li Tian looked at the soldiers of the 800 National Army who came to find him, regardless of their anxious eyes, and quietly ate the canned beef in his hand.

"Sir, my brother is the captain of Commander Tang's guard, and he personally said that people had fled, and he didn't even bring his own guards. ”

Li Tian took a sip of beer from an unknown old brand, and then continued to fight with canned beef.

"Sir, let's run away, or it will be too late. ”

"Phew, none of these officials have a good thing, they don't take our lives, Lao Tzu won't do it!"

"Yes, don't do it, go to the common people and go home to farm!"

......

Li Tian calmly finished eating, and found that more than 300 people had left, and 500 people were looking at him.

He suddenly laughed, if China had not had such martyrs who had the courage to sacrifice, the whole nation would have died long ago.

"Why don't you leave, maybe you can escape with your life like those people?"

Li Tian stood up and walked among these national troops, and asked in a gentle tone, his eyes full of appreciation and admiration.

These soldiers looked at each other embarrassedly, and said with a dry smile: "Of course it's good to be able to escape, but the ship is blown up by Commander Tang, and you can't cross the river." ”

Li Tian had the urge to vomit three liters of blood, daring to love these people was too shrewd, and he looked down on the consciousness of the Kuomintang soldiers.

"In short, I won't escape, just stay here in Xinjiekou Square, the Japanese army doesn't want to set foot in, and dare to fight with the devil Come with me. ”

After he finished speaking, he walked out of the gate of the fortified fortress and walked towards the Continental Bank, and when he turned around, he saw five hundred soldiers coming with him.

It is precisely because there will always be warriors who sacrifice for the country and the nation that China has been invaded and occupied countless times in the past 5,000 years, and has been reborn as a great country.

Li Tianzheng wanted to say a few words of thanks, but he only heard the gunfire by the Yangtze River, and some cannons sounded, breaking the dead silence of the night.

When he was in Y City University, he would go to the Iron and Blood Network to wander around, and he had studied various posts about the Nanjing Massacre, and knew that this was the fire of the fleeing Nationalist army and the troops defending the river, but in the end he rushed to the riverside and was only trapped on the river beach.

Listening to the sound of gunfire, the five hundred left-behind national troops also changed their expressions greatly, for fear that the Japanese army would attack the city at night, and they were afraid that they would not be able to keep up with the fleeing troops.

Everyone has a little expectation in their hearts, maybe the other side will send a boat to pick up people, and they may get on the boat and go to the other side.

Li Tian no longer hesitated, and said loudly to the five hundred soldiers, "I won't stop you if you want to escape, and if you don't want to be a deserter, guard the outside of the bank, and I will find a way to guard the Xinjiekou Square area, so that the devils don't step into a single soldier!"

He tore off the uniform of the national army in front of everyone, revealing the black special combat uniform inside, and entered the Continental Bank, one of the three major banks, with a sand eagle in his hand.

The fierce battles along the Yangtze River became more and more intense, and there were shouts one after another.

"The defense line of the 36th Division has been broken, and the Rujiang Estuary can pass through!"

"Everyone, hurry up, there will be a boat to pick you up if you escape to the river......"

The 500 national troops looked at each other, and then gradually some people lost their guns, changed into civilian clothes and left, and finally only more than 300 people remained. (To be continued......)