On the evening of December 11, another sniper team sent out by Jiangdong looked at the city of Nanjing from a distance.

The leader of this sniper team was a veteran who asked Jiangdong for cigarettes before departure, named Deng Dahai.

In a few days, they disrupted the heavy artillery positions of the two Japs and greatly weakened the Japs' artillery fire. Only one of the three members of the sniper team was kissed by a Japs bullet during the retreat.

Captain Deng Dahai did not follow Jiang Dong's previous instructions and choose an opportunity to cross the Yangtze River from the upper reaches after completing the mission. Instead, he took two team members and sneaked back outside Nanjing.

Deng Dahai blindly estimated the battle situation in Nanjing. He expected that Nanjing could be defended for at least a few months. He brought his team back to do his part.

Now they are trapped more than 1 kilometer away from Guanghua Gate in Nanjing, watching the defending national army and the Japanese soldiers fight hard.

"Captain, what are they going to do?" the injured team member asked Deng Dahai.

Deng Dahai looked at Guanghua Gate. At this moment, more than 100 of the defending national army brothers were using ropes to climb down from the city wall.

"They are death squads and they are going to fight the little devils to their death!"

On the Guanghua Gate of Nanjing City, the 156th Division of the 83rd Army is responsible for the defense of this section of the city wall.

Since the afternoon, the brothers have discovered that there will be sudden cold shots under the city wall, and some brothers will be killed if they are not careful.

After repeated testing, everyone discovered that there was a group of little Japs hidden in the gate hole of Guanghua Gate.

It was a blind spot for the defending national army brothers, but the little devils would secretly shoot at the city.

After some discussion, the brothers of the 156th Division came up with a solution.

On the one hand, they poured two barrels of gasoline from the city wall, and the gasoline flowed along the wall into the city gate. After lighting it, several little devils turned into roast suckling pigs.

On the other hand, the 156th Division sent a suicide squad of 150 people. Taking advantage of the time when the fire was burning, they grabbed the rope and fell from the city wall.

When the little Japs panicked, the suicide squads swarmed up and beat a small group of Japs in the city gate into bloody gourds.

Deng Dahai and others cheered silently from a distance. When they thought that the suicide squads would return to the city wall after completing their mission, the pictures in the scope made them feel uneasy for a long time.

These 150 suicide squads, when they fell from the city wall, all of them were determined to die.

After killing all the Japs in the city gate, everyone smiled at each other and resolutely charged towards the Japs group not far away.

In the end, due to being outnumbered, 150 brothers fell on the road of charge.

Each of them was shot in the chest and never left their backs to the little devils. They should have had a chance to live, but in order to prove the bloody nature of the Chinese soldiers, in order to let the Japanese little devils who dared to invade see the Chinese clearly

Because of their integrity, they decided to die.

Please remember, they are from the 156th Division of the 83rd Army of the National Revolutionary Army!

"Let's go!" Seeing the tragic scene of the defensive brothers, Deng Dahai said gently to the two players.

These two young team members understand what a death squad is today, and maybe one day they will join it without hesitation.

The three-person sniper team detoured through Gaoqiao Gate, turned towards Niushou Mountain, and looked for a suitable place to cross the Yangtze River from the upper reaches.

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The battle in Nanjing continued. By noon on December 12, almost all peripheral positions were lost.

The defenders relied on city walls or houses and used their flesh and blood to deal with the attacking Japs, and they still have high fighting spirit.

But the performance of the officers will forever be nailed to the pillar of shame in history.

Chairman Chiang Kai-shek, who had taken refuge in the headquarters in Wuhan, informed the garrison commander Tang Shengzhi through the commander of the Third War Zone Gu Zhutong on the 11th that he could retreat if the war became impossible.

However, on December 12, the Chairman personally called Tang Shengzhi. The phone call revealed his hope that Nanjing would be the capital of the Republic of China and that he hoped to hold on to it for a while longer.

Such inconsistent words put Tang Shengzhi in a dilemma.

He finally made up his mind to retreat from Nanjing in the early morning of December 12, and ordered the headquarters staff to start preparing a retreat plan in the early morning.

At 17:00 that afternoon, a group of mid-level and senior generals responsible for the defense of Nanjing were summoned to the headquarters for a meeting.

At this meeting, Tang Shengzhi conveyed the order to retreat.

Although the staff gave the retreat plan to each officer, 90% of them did not retreat as required in the retreat plan.

After arranging the retreat, Tang Shengzhi took a small ferry that had been prepared and fled to Jiangbei that night.

Many officers never returned to their troops after receiving the order to retreat, leaving their brothers who were still struggling to hold on and ran away alone.

The defensive brothers who were on the front line fighting the Japs to the death found that their friendly forces on the left and right began to retreat around 19:00 in the evening, and they realized that the headquarters had given an order to retreat.

Due to the inconsistent timing of receiving orders, no troops continued to retreat as planned, and some of the frontline brothers did not receive orders to retreat at all, causing the entire city of Nanjing to fall into chaos.

At 7 o'clock in the evening, the retreating soldiers and civilians went straight to Xiaguan Pier along Zhongshan Road. The streets were crowded with people, and the cries and shouts came one after another.

The tragedy is yet to come,

The 36th Division was ordered to block two of the city gate openings at Yijiang Gate, so hundreds of thousands of people could only swarm out through one gate.

Some veterans who had been fighting on the front line since the Battle of Songhu did not die from the bullets and artillery shells of the Japs, but were trampled to death by their companions at Yijiangmen.

Many officers and soldiers saw that they would not be able to get out of the city gate for a while, so they hung ropes from the city wall and climbed down.

There are two or countless people for one person, and the city wall beside Yijiang Gate is covered with people, squirming and panicking, like a nest of ants frantically running for their lives.

Panic and fear spread among the crowd. Yijiang Gate is both a gate of life and a gate of death.

He Dingyuan is responsible for the blocking task in this area. He has 600 brothers and 200 young men under his command.

Seeing the tragic situation in Yijiangmen, the brothers were frightened and filled with sorrow and sadness. Why is this happening?

The panic among the people and soldiers even affected He Dingyuan's brothers. People's herd mentality is very scary.

When Jiang Dong arrived at Yijiangmen, the tragedy had already lasted for half an hour.

Facing the soldiers and people who were losing their minds and falling into a state of madness, Jiang Dong did not dare to let his brothers go up to maintain order. If he went up at this time, he would probably be beaten to death by the insurrectionary soldiers.

While Jiang Dong was in a state of despair, a young man ran over and reported to him.

"Sir...the other two door openings...actually...can actually be opened!"

"What did you say?" Jiang Dong's tone immediately rose a few degrees when he heard it.

"Sir, Mr. Ding has given instructions... that the city gate must be open at any time, so when the officer sealed the door, we sneaked in a few brothers. The center of the sandbag is actually empty. As long as the outer two layers are moved, the three city gates can be opened.

You can pass through the door!" the young man said tremblingly.

"Why didn't you tell me earlier? Didn't you see so many people died?" Jiang Dong said angrily.

The young man’s lips were trembling:

"Sir...I...I...I'm scared!"

These young people who have never been on the battlefield are really frightened by such chaotic scenes.

Jiang Dong sighed and didn't plan to blame him, "What's your name?"

"The young...Mr. Ding's subordinate is named Zhang Liu!"

"Well, Liu Zi, you are very good. Hurry up and take my people to open the city gate. If this continues, I don't know how many people will die!"

He Dingyuan personally led people to follow Zhang Liu. They held guns in their hands and cluster grenades on their chests. When they encountered civilians and soldiers blocking the road, they hit them with their rifle butts mercilessly.

Finally, a path was opened, the sandbag at the top of the city gate was opened, and the cluster grenade was thrown in.

"It's going to explode, stay away, stay away!" He Dingyuan shouted loudly.

But the surging crowd didn't hear his voice at all.

"Boom boom..."

After the two explosions, the sandbags blocking the city gate on both sides were easily exploded.

The crowd was startled by the explosion. When the smoke cleared and they could see the situation clearly, countless people cheered and rushed out of the city.

He Dingyuan originally wanted others to move the sandbags away, but when he saw the situation, he stopped caring.

Those bags containing river sand were broken under the feet of countless people, and the sand was compacted to the ground.

On both sides of the Life Passage, the brothers of the Jiangdong Regiment silently watched the surging crowds and soldiers.

Compared with the people who were panicking and choosing their own way, these brothers had no expressions on their faces, but they were proud and proud in their hearts.

They feel extremely lucky and secure to have a regiment leader who can lead them to victory.

It allowed them to avoid the fate of dying in confusion and gave them the courage to fight for themselves, their country, and their nation.
Chapter completed!