In the capital, there are more than 100,000 Japanese troops attacking here, which is twice as many as the more than 50,000 Japanese troops who broke through the city gate. In addition, there are dozens of warships assisting in operations.
, and conducted air combat and bombing operations with a large number of Japanese aircraft groups.
The top Japanese commanders who attacked Songhu and the capital were the Commander of the 3rd Navy Fleet, Kiyoshi Hasegawa, the Commander of the Central China Front, Matsui Iwane, Prince Asaka Miya Hatohiko, who succeeded the Commander of the Songhu Expeditionary Force, and the Commander of the 10th Army, Yanagawa Heisuke.
.The commander of the Japanese Sixth Division, Lieutenant General Hisao Tani, and the commander of the Sixteenth Division, Lieutenant General Nakajima Imago, were one of the most brutal and ruthless Japanese main forces in the Battle of the Capital.
They were inside the city, burning, killing, looting, and doing all kinds of bad things.
Attack from Songhu all the way to the capital,
Except for the waterways, everything was flat and flat. This allowed the Japanese tanks and tanks to launch mechanized attacks unscrupulously. They quickly directly attacked the Purple Mountain area and successfully occupied most of the areas there.
Until now, they are attacking Zhonghua Gate and Guanghua Gate.
The battle has entered a fierce state,
Both the enemy and us are red-eyed from the killing,
The positions of both sides were littered with batch after batch of corpses. The corpses were piled up like hills, covering every inch of the positions attacked and held by both sides, and blood flowed like rivers.
Inside Commander Tang’s headquarters,
Commander Tang received an urgent call from Gu Zhutong, Chief of Staff of the General Staff Headquarters.
"What! You want me to withdraw now!"
"And you have to cross the river tonight?"
"But now the main force of the Japanese army has almost breached Zhonghua Gate and Guanghua Gate. Now is the most critical moment. Should I evacuate here now?"
"Now once I, the coach, evacuate, what will happen next when I come here?"
"And isn't my reputation going to be bad?"
"I must live and die with the city!"
"I won't evacuate like this!"
When Commander Tang heard the call from Chief of Staff Gu Zhutong,
He immediately lost his composure and responded emotionally.
"Well! Then Commander Tang can make his own decision!"
"Your spirit is commendable, but unfortunately I was only ordered to convey to you the order to evacuate. This is an order from the commission!"
"Now I have conveyed it to you, so you can figure it out yourself!"
"I'll evacuate first!"
However, Chief of Staff Gu Zhutong responded indifferently.
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Commander Tang.
For a moment, he was highly emotional, choked up by the other party's indifferent attitude, his face turned red,
It's very embarrassing, I can't find the steps.
"Damn it! Do we really need to evacuate?"
"I'm not willing to give in at all! But if we don't evacuate, if the Japanese army breaks through the city gate, as the coach, I'm afraid I won't end up well!"
"Is it possible that my lifelong reputation will be lost in this battle?"
"It's so abominable! I didn't expect that with so many troops, we can't even defend such a city. I'm really helpless!"
When Chief of Staff Gu Zhutong hung up the phone without hesitation,
Commander Tang was also in a very depressed and irritable mood, gritting his teeth.
Unfortunately, in the end, the decision he made was to leave the capital as soon as possible and cross the river.
But before leaving here,
However, he conveyed the order to evacuate to the senior generals inside the city, making it an embarrassing matter to fight to the last inch of the capital and fight to the last soldier.
Especially not long ago, Commander Tang's sworn and righteous words of rejection in response to Matsui Iwane's persuasion to surrender are still lingering in his ears.
"That old Japanese guy Matsui wants me to surrender? None of them have any! He doesn't treat me as a human being at all! Go tell Matsui Iwane that as long as I am still here in the capital, I will never surrender to these damn Japanese troops.
' Two words, even if I die, I will never surrender!"
When Commander Tang's car team quickly left his mansion under the cover of a group of guards,
Commander Tang, who was riding in the car, also closed his eyes with a heavy heart, still recalling Matsui Iwane's persuasion to surrender to him.
Finally, he sighed deeply and continued to ride in the car queue in a bad mood, crossing the river towards Xiaguan.
At this time, both the German Arms Forces and the senior generals of the Teaching Corps received combat orders to evacuate at about the same time.
"Evacuate? Evacuate now?"
"What a fool! Didn't the man named Tang say he wanted to live or die with the city?"
"All my battalion commanders have died in battle and sacrificed their lives for the country. Of the more than 1,400 brothers in my regiment, only dozens of remnants are left dead. How can I evacuate now? How can I pay homage to those who fought to kill the Japanese and defend this place?
Brothers in a city, want to give an explanation?"
"How do I explain it?"
“A dog-day evacuation!”
When Commander Qiu Weida, the commander of the 306th Regiment of the teaching corps that was adhering to the Zhonghua Gate, received the order to evacuate,
He immediately became filled with grief and anger, crying bitterly.
None of the officers and soldiers in his regiment were afraid of death. They used their guns and bodies to repel the Japanese troops who were desperately attacking at the Zhonghua Gate again and again.
Keep the Japanese troops under the city wall and at the city gate.
Make it impossible for these damn Japanese troops to break through the city gate smoothly and enter the city.
However, when almost the whole group was exhausted,
But he received such an order to evacuate now?
He is not reconciled at all!
The order to evacuate was genuine, and there were instructions from Chairman Chang behind it.
But he was not reconciled at all!
However, senior leaders such as Captain Gui of his teaching corps, as well as senior leaders such as the 88th German Arms Division, breathed a huge sigh of relief after receiving the combat order that they could finally evacuate.
And he immediately expressed his willingness to evacuate immediately.
Therefore, after receiving the evacuation order, these senior generals quickly took their close relatives and immediately took cars and rushed to Xiaguan to cross the river.
I'm afraid that if it's too late, things will change and I won't be able to evacuate even if I want to.
Especially now that we are seeing the Japanese army gathering more and more, and they are becoming more and more crazy and attacking with all their might.
Everyone knows that it is only a matter of time before the city is destroyed.
Therefore, it is safer to leave before the city gate is breached. Otherwise, there will be nowhere to run if you want to.
Moreover, these senior generals have wanted to evacuate here for a long time, just because they did not get the order to evacuate.
Even before the battle, they did not agree to stick to this undefendable city.
If it hadn't been for President Chang's order, I'm afraid the senior generals of these troops would never have stayed here.
Because everyone knows that this is an unwinnable battle.