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Chapter 124: Blockage by the 36th Division

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    Chapter 124: The 36th Division¡¯s Blockage (Please watch the new book)

    The gunfire rumbled outside the city, and the city was in panic. As the gunfire got closer and closer, everyone's heart was in their throats. Anyone who is not blind or stupid will know that the Japs will attack soon.  Enter Nanjing City.

    Although the Japanese government publicly stated a few days ago that they would restrain the troops on the front line and ensure that they would not carry out a massacre in Nanjing, many people who are familiar with the history of the Japanese army are still very worried because the little devils have a history of doing this.  .

    Looking back further, during the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, the Japs committed the horrific Lushun Massacre, in which 20,000 people were killed in the city, leaving only 36 corpse collection teams.  Then came the Russo-Japanese War. Although that war was between Japan and Tsarist Russia, the fighting area was on Chinese territory. As a result, it was the Chinese who suffered, and many villages were massacred.

    ?The next thing is the Jinan Massacre in 1928. In order to prevent the Nationalist Government from the Northern Expedition, the Japanese army brazenly sent troops to Shandong, China, and caused the Jinan Massacre in Jinan.

    Going a step closer, after the Japanese troops landed at Jinshanwei some time ago, their Sixth Division and 16th Division committed many evil deeds, especially the Sixth Division. Along the way from Shanghai to Nanjing, this division¡¯s  The Japanese were like hungry wolves. The common people in Songjiang, Kunshan and other places were slaughtered, and the beautiful Jiangnan towns were turned into ruins one by one.

    Under such circumstances, who would believe the Japanese guarantee?

    More importantly, even if the Japanese government comes forward to restrain their soldiers, will the Japanese who have already killed them be willing to listen?

    The answer is no. The already red-eyed Japanese devils may not care about the restraining orders of their government. Even after they invade Nanjing, stimulated by women and wealth, they may not care about the orders from the base camp.

    Of course, there are still scruples. Like ordinary local people in Nanjing, they may still have scruples, but that may not be the case for defeated troops and refugees. After all, even if these people are killed, no one may know about it, let alone no one will do it for them.  Refugees come forward.

    So as the Japanese army got closer and closer to the city gate, the refugees in the city became more and more panicked. Many refugees who seemed to have been numb at first were also anxious at this time, and they rushed to various city gates one by one, trying to get out of the city.

    Since the vast majority of the refugees were aware of the seriousness of the matter, when the soldiers of the Independence Brigade gathered the refugees in various districts and escorted them out of the city, these refugees were very cooperative, which made Li Guoyao relieved.

    But soon something happened on the front line that made him furious. The troops he was about to send out of the city were stopped at Yijiang Gate. The person who stopped them was the 36th Division of the National Revolutionary Army.

    After receiving calls from Lu Fengying, Xue Dengyu, commander of the Seventh Guard Regiment, and Lu Wenlong, commander of the Eighth Regiment of Northern Shanxi, who were preparing to leave the city to build fortifications, Li Guoyao was immediately angry. He was really a bastard for attacking his own people at this time.

    But Li Guoyao soon became quiet. The place where Lu Fengying and others were stopped was Yijiang Gate, which is the most important exit gate in the northwest of Nanjing. Since the beginning of November, it has become a key defense point for the national army.

    In order to ensure the safety of Yijiangmen, the Nanjing Garrison Headquarters placed Song Xilian's 36th Division here. This division was a direct line of Chiang Kai-shek's troops and one of the famous German weapon divisions.

    "It's just that Song Xilian's troops are not used to guard against the Japs. In other words, their main task is not to deal with the Japs, but to deal with the defeated troops in the city.

    Because according to the orders of the Nanjing Garrison Headquarters, no troops in Nanjing can leave the city without Tang Shengzhi's warrant, otherwise they will be severely punished.

    ??History, as the top military officer defending Nanjing, Tang Shengzhi knew that there were hundreds of thousands of troops and nearly one million citizens in Nanjing. At that time, Nanjing was surrounded on three sides, and the only escape route was the Yangtze River.  However, he ordered all ferries and fishing boats on the Nanjing River to be scuttled and the only two ferries to be transferred away.

    Then the Yijiang Gate leading to the river was closed, the escape routes were blocked, and people were prohibited from entering and exiting, causing a large number of Nanjing citizens to be stranded in the city and unable to be evacuated!  !

    What's even more shameless is that in order to show his "determination and will" to "swear to live and die with Nanjing", he deployed supervisory teams at Yijiangmen and the north bank of the Yangtze River to intercept the defenders who retreated without authorization and kill them without mercy. The one who carried out this order was  Song Xilian and his 36th Division.

    But what was unexpected was that less than three days after the siege of Nanjing began, Tang Shengzhi realized that he could no longer stand it. He hurriedly ordered the staff to issue a vague retreat order to each unit, and then jumped on his own private mission in advance.  The small fire boat left behind crossed the river to escape, but did not notify Yijiang before escaping.?And the supervising team on the north bank of the Yangtze River.

    What's more, what's even more terrible is that the supervising teams deployed in Yijiangmen and Jiangbei before the war did not receive the order to retreat, which caused extremely tragic consequences.  When the defeated army moved towards Yijiang Gate, the 36th Division, which was responsible for intercepting the deserters, actually banned the defeated army from passing on the grounds that it had not received the order to retreat. The defeated army could not argue and forced a breakthrough.

    As a result, the two sides engaged in a shocking battle inside and outside Yijiang Gate.

    In order to open a gap, the defeated army used tanks, mortars and machine guns originally intended for street fighting to force a breakthrough. The two sides launched a "fierce battle" at Yijiangmen.

    When the defeated army finally killed the Sandu team and opened a passage to escape, the corpses on the ground were already piled up in unknown layers. Xie Chengrui, the commander of the second regiment of the first brigade of the teaching corps who was later promoted to major general, was breaking out of the siege at Yijiangmen.  He fell to the ground and was trampled to death by the defeated soldiers.

    What is even more heartbreaking is that before the war, in order to show its determination to "swear to live and die with Nanjing," the garrison headquarters ordered the river to be blocked, the only two ferries to be transferred away, and all the ferries to be confiscated and scuttled.  The defeated army finally rushed to the riverside, but found that it was impossible to cross the vast river, so they had to build rafts to cross the river.

    In the north of the Yangtze River, the supervisory team and artillery deployed before the war to intercept the defeated army did not receive the order to retreat. They followed the original order and killed those who crossed the river without mercy!  Ever since!  Thousands of artillery fired together and bombarded indiscriminately. Countless people were killed when the defeated army crossed the river, and most of the only ferries and rafts were damaged.

    The defeated troops fought fiercely for the ferry on the river, and engaged in fierce gun battles and struggles. Many people tried to swim to the other side by holding on to branches, wooden boards and other floating objects. As a result, the river water was so cold that it penetrated the bone marrow and countless people froze to death.

    The Japanese warships and gunboats cruising in the river also took the opportunity to shoot wildly at the soldiers and civilians who swarmed across the river. By the time the surviving defeated troops swam to the other side, it was unknown how many people had been accidentally killed in the river.

    Since there was no ferry, by the early morning of the 13th, except for the 74th Army, which was well organized and had mastered a small steamer in advance, allowing 5,000 people to cross the river, two-thirds of the garrison troops were still unable to cross the river.  Shot to death by the superior firepower of the pursuing Japanese troops, tens of thousands of people were killed in the mighty river. Their blood soaked the river, and their corpses were floating in the river and blocked in the river. It was a terrible tragedy!  !

    Although during the day, Li Guoyao received an order from the garrison headquarters to escort a large number of refugees and ordinary people out of the city on the grounds of preventing the Japanese army from massacre, and dispatched a vanguard force of 1,500 people towards Xiaguan.

    That time, because there was an order, Song Xilian's troops did not stop them. But now, because there is no order, and Li Guoyao's troops are leaving the city this time with three regiments of nearly 8,000 people, Song Xilian's troops will naturally not allow them to pass.  .

    Angry is angry, but Li Guoyao cannot order the troops to break through. Firstly, it is not necessary. Secondly, if he breaks through now, it may cause a series of serious consequences.

    After much thought, Li Guoyao decided to immediately go to the Nanjing Garrison Headquarters to meet with Tang Shengzhi, Luo Zhuoying and others.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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