"Stop looking, you can't help them, let's save your own life first." Liu Yangyang was a little annoyed and took Tang Cheng to the other side of the city. From here, he could already see the messy Xiaguan.
Pier. More ropes were hung from the top of the city, and more people climbed up the top of the city along the ropes. At this time, Liu Yangyang was already planning how to get down from the other end of the city.
It is absolutely impossible to jump directly to Yijiangmen, which is more than ten meters tall. The two ropes Jiujin obtained have been occupied by others and it is impossible to get them back. Therefore, Liu Yangyang must find other ways to get down. Finally, there is someone better than Liu Yang.
The goats asked the calculating people to go to the top of the city. They brought up the tarpaulins used to cover the carriages of two of the trucks. They cut the tarpaulins with bayonets to form ropes that were rough but strong and enough for several people.
At the same time, use such a rope to climb down to the top of the city.
"Let's build a team to protect the rope first, and then put it in later, otherwise none of us can leave." Faced with more and more defeated soldiers climbing to the top of the city, Liu Yangyang and his group climbed up the city with a tarp.
The guys at the head struck up a conversation. Facing the three of them who were still fully armed, the defeated soldiers who were only trying to survive with their bare hands had no advantage at all. After Liu Yangyang consciously lowered his stance, the other party agreed to fight with Liu Yangyang and the others.
They teamed up to escape, and the order of going down to the city was spaced. If one person went down from their side, someone from Liu Yangyang's side would also go down.
Relying on force and a sharp tongue, Liu Yangyang found a way to survive for himself and Tangcheng, but this does not mean that they are safe when they leave the city, because they only left Yijiang Gate.
There was a river across the other side from where the heavy troops were gathered. Jiujin and Tangcheng, who had descended from the city first, had been squatting by the rope until Liu Yangyang also came down. The two of them secretly breathed a sigh of relief. At this moment,
Tangcheng truly accepted Liu Yangyang in its heart and gave Liu Yangyang the same position as Xie Bo.
"Let's go to the river, hurry up." Before Tang Cheng could recover, Liu Yangyang, who had jumped down from the rope, had already passed by and ran towards the river. He and Jiu Jin could only follow Liu Yang.
The goats chased after them slowly. The riverside is not a safe place. From the perspective of Tangcheng, the riverside seems to be even more miserable than inside Yijiangmen. You can see people crying and yelling with their families everywhere.
Refugees and broken armies.
At sunrise, the flowers on the river are as red as fire, and the river in Tangcheng's sight is glowing red at this moment. Not only is the river red as fire, but the waves on the river are also red, because it is basically the color of blood, and the source of blood is on the river.
Floating corpses. Before Liu Yangang and Tang Cheng, the garrison troops who had retreated to the river found that they had no boats that could cross the river. The panicked troops, especially those who were better at water, many just looked for them casually.
He jumped into the river with a wooden tree stump.
In order to fight for a wooden table that can float people, and for a wooden basin that can float on the water, panic-stricken soldiers in military uniforms fight each other on the river beach. They forget that they were once
Brother Paoze fought side by side with the Japanese army. Before they crossed the Yijiang Gate in Tangcheng, the river beach was already in chaos. Many scattered army officers could no longer restrain their troops. Many officers even directed their troops to fight for the river crossing.
equipment, snatching the chance of survival in Jiangbei.
For those equipment and things that can defeat the general, the defeated soldiers on the riverside have already been fighting together, either in small-scale fights between a few people or a dozen people, or in melees between hundreds of people, until one of the parties takes away the fighting items.
That's it. But no matter whether it's the winning side or the losing side, after every battle, there will always be some bleeding guys or a few corpses. Some of the corpses seen in Tangcheng were wearing military uniforms.
Even more desperate than the panicked soldiers were the common people, some dragging their children and daughters, and some even carrying poultry and livestock. They were desperate when they reached the river bank: Even the soldiers could not cross the river, so who would care?
You can catch them. From time to time, you will see a few adults and a group of children standing there with tears on the river bank. When they fled, they all used baskets to carry the small ones and drag the big ones to escape, but their carrying poles and baskets were all empty.
They were robbed by those in military uniforms, and they could not even take so many children home.
The cold river water slapped against the riverbank, and the sound it made was like scraping bones under the north wind. It made people feel embarrassed when they heard it. People with their children and their daughters stood in a row along the riverside.
The large phalanx shrank in the cold wind. Groups of refugees who were in a dilemma huddled together, watching the embarrassed defeated soldiers fighting and entangled by the river, and watching those who they had relied on for protection snatching away their livestock.
Barbecuing, they can't see the direction, the way to survive, or tomorrow.
Naturally, there are boats along the river. There are six large ferries parked on the shore. However, they are blocked by a large group of soldiers with live ammunition. No ordinary people are allowed to get on. These ferries are intended to be withdrawn from Yifengmen and Yijiangmen.
Used by the Central Teaching Corps and the 36th Division. These ferries, which do not drag any wooden rafts, only take about forty minutes to reach the other side of the Yangtze River. Everyone knows at a glance that they are the safest means of transportation. Whenever there are soldiers forming a team
Before arriving at the ferries, people would panic; they all speculated that after these ferries left, there might no longer be any ships coming from Jiangbei.
Those defeated soldiers and refugees who had given up hope tied large pieces of wood into rafts, and then called their friends and family to climb onto the rafts and cross the river on their own. Those extremely simple rafts were all crowded.
There are people on the raft, and the wooden drainage line is pressed until it is almost full of water. Every wave comes and the people on the raft get wet, as if everyone is sitting on the water. Those who are together as a family will use their clothes.
Tie the whole family together with a rope, and then tie the strongest person to the raft.
The luckier rafts were connected to the ferry with long ropes and relied on the power of the ferry to cross the river. The rafts that were not lucky had to rely on human power to row across the river. Many strangers who were not relatives followed suit and joined forces to cross the river.
They were also lucky enough to get the opportunity to cross the river, but the number of rafts was relatively limited, and there were more helpless people waiting anxiously on the shore. Every raft leaving the shore made them more anxious, but it also made them more anxious to move forward.
They were excited as they took a small step; their helplessness and hesitation made the cold river bank even colder.
"The fight is about to begin." Tangcheng, who followed Liu Yangyang towards the river bank, was suddenly shocked by the sound of fierce fighting that suddenly broke out behind him. In fact, not only Tangcheng, but also the defeated soldiers who climbed down from Yijiangmen City could hear it.
When they came out, the direction where the gunfire rang out was the Yijiang Gate guarded by the Thirty-sixth Division, which they had just climbed over. A battle was breaking out at Yijiang Gate, and the troops of the Thirty-sixth Division tried their best to intercept the attackers and attack them.
It was almost all the defeated soldiers who broke through the outer defense and dispersed into the city to join the defenders.
Before life and death, all the defeated troops blocked by the 36th Division in Yijiang Gate chose to live. Rather than saying that the 36th Division was obeying the orders of the garrison headquarters to guard Yijiang Gate, it was better to say that they were cutting off the city.
All Japanese soldiers have hope. So after the commotion at Yijiang Gate, and after the troops of the 36th Division guarding Yijiang Gate opened fire in panic, the defeated troops of the various ministries blocked by them at Yijiang Gate suddenly launched an attack on them.
These broken soldiers tried to break through the Yijiang Gate and reach the riverside.
On the one hand, they were striving for the right to survive, and on the other hand, they were trying to stick to the city gate in accordance with the orders from above. Without the orders of the superiors, how could the defeated soldiers fire their guns at their brothers? Without the orders of the superiors, the Thirty-sixth Division
How could he block the city gate and force his Paoze brothers to fight the Japanese? Before Tang Shengzhi crossed the river, he issued an order for all troops to retreat, but he did not cancel the 36th Division originally stationed at Yijiang Gate to block the city gate.
No one was allowed to retreat. When the Thirty-sixth Division saw the retreating troops, they could only execute the order to block it. The troops who received the order to retreat naturally fought back and crossed the border.
Facing the machine gun firepower deployed by the 36th Division troops under Yijiang Gate, the defeated coalition forces even dispatched a few tanks. These tanks, which were originally intended to serve as mobile fortresses and counter-charge arrows in street battles, did not aim their cannons at the Japanese.
But they were rushing towards the Thirty-sixth Division and fighting fiercely. Just as the Japanese troops were swarming in from various city gates, the Chinese soldiers at Yijiang Gate were fighting each other. They were preparing to kill each other from the blockade of their robes.
Pave a bloody path to win the right to live.
The defeated soldiers and the common people who were fighting in Yijiang Gate did not know that at the point where they were preparing to cross the river, all the ferries that could be collected had already been reduced to ashes in the raging fire. One of Tang Shengzhi's orders was to burn all the ferries and not allow a single one.
The soldiers and civilians crossed the river because when he was the commander of Nanjing city defense, he said that he would swear to live and die in Nanjing. Unfortunately, Tang Shengzhi had already crossed the river first. He deceived the entire Nanjing people and all the anti-Japanese troops stationed in Nanjing, and he also ordered the burning
Almost all ferries.
Tang Shengzhi's order to retreat was printed and hurriedly issued before he left. Many of the people blocked in Yijiang Gate by the 36th Division were dispersed after learning that Chief Tang had escaped.
People were not ordered to retreat. There were also some people who had already been intercepted by the Japanese when they received the order to retreat because the troops behind them had received the order to retreat first and were intercepted by the Japanese. The hearts of these defeated soldiers who had gone through so much trouble to get to Yijiangmen were
Full of resentment after being deceived and abandoned. Faced with the unreasonable blockade of the 36th Division, they were filled with resentment and could only fight back on the spot to win a way out for themselves.
"Stop looking, let's go quickly. When we get to the river, we will think of other ways to cross the river." Tang Cheng, who was standing blankly looking at Yijiang Gate, was kicked hard by Liu Yangyang. Then he came to his senses and followed Liu Yangyang in a panic.
Zhang rushed towards the chaotic riverside. The thunderous sound of artillery made Nanjing city chaotic. Soldiers and civilians walking towards the north could be seen on every street, because they all knew that the only way to escape from Nanjing was to cross north.