When a series of huge explosions came from Zhonghua Gate and Guanghua Gate, not only the entire Jinling Orphan Volunteer Army who were conducting reconnaissance were shocked, but also all the residents, civilians, refugees, and defeated people in the city.
The soldiers, as well as the stragglers in the city, also heard these shocking explosion sounds at the same time.
Including the Thirteen Chai sisters, their expressions changed dramatically and they listened in fear. However, at this time, Instructor Li from Thirteen Chai was also lurking in the city with the 20 remnant soldiers under his command.
They did not follow the main force of the teaching corps and evacuated from the capital city of Nanjing. Like the remaining troops of the teaching corps after the death of Zhonghuamen, they were all skirmishers.
However, most of the teaching team members were killed after surrendering to the Japanese after seizing their weapons and equipment.
What happened was that Gui Yongqing, the captain of the teaching corps, received Commander Tang’s evacuation order at five o’clock in the afternoon on the 12th, so after the evacuation meeting ended,
Captain Gui immediately conveyed Commander Tang’s retreat order to his direct line officers.
Then, he took the lead in making an emergency escape,
As for the teaching team members at the bottom, there are tens of thousands of officers and soldiers who have not yet received the order to evacuate, and are still fighting desperately with the Japanese in various positions.
It wasn't until these remnant teaching soldiers who fought desperately learned that all the higher-ups above had fled,
They also collapsed in an instant, and more than 10,000 people surrendered to more than 130 Japanese soldiers at the Shogunate Mountain position. They were then escorted by the Japanese army to the nearby riverside where they were brutally slaughtered.
The entire riverside was dyed red, and all the remnants of the teaching soldiers who had surrendered were disarmed and captured, and they were all killed in this way.
It was also because of this that this elite ace unit of the teaching corps, which had better weapons and equipment than the German weapons unit, was crippled.
"Instructor Li" is the captain of the teaching team and one of the instructors in the teaching corps. After being separated from the main force, he led his men to continue to guard Nanjing City for the sake of the dignity of the soldiers, preparing to continue to fight to the death against the Japanese invasion.
"Captain! What were those explosion sounds just now?"
"Didn't it mean that Zhonghua Gate and Guanghua Gate were already breached and occupied by the Japanese army?"
"Moreover, the Japanese troops have already advanced to the Taiping Gate. Are they about to invade the city?"
"But why are there such terrifying series of explosions at Zhonghua Gate and Guanghua Gate?"
"Are there still our troops on that side fighting the Japanese troops?"
When He Feiyang's clone troops detonated a series of explosive packs and time bombs, killing and wounding batch after batch of Japanese occupying troops, the huge explosion sound produced stopped,
Zhang Pusheng, the teaching team member who followed the team leader, Instructor Li, asked with a surprised look on his face.
"I don't know! Maybe we can go over there and take a look. If there are other troops fighting against the Japs, we might be able to contact them and fight against the Japs together!"
"We must fight to the end. We will never surrender to the Japanese. We would rather die than surrender!"
"Now let's go to the Taiping Gate first and take a look at the situation there, and then see if there is any way to get through there and go to the Zhonghua Gate and Guanghua Gate!"
"I don't know what's going on with our Second Teaching Regiment and other teaching troops who are holding on to that side?"
"Is there anyone alive, or is there anyone who has escaped?"
After being silent for a while, Instructor Li responded decisively.
"Yes! Captain!"
The instructor Zhang Pusheng was also determined and nodded in agreement.
Immediately, they were also prepared to move cautiously towards the Taiping Gate area to observe what the fighting situation was on the other side.
But these teaching remnants did not know that when Commander Tang convened the senior officers of the armies defending the capital and held an emergency evacuation meeting, the army commanders and division commanders of each army immediately left the headquarters and rushed to prepare for the evacuation.
Preparation, even the teaching corps and senior officers of the 87th Division, who were still fighting the Japanese army, began to know the order to evacuate.
Of course, the low-level officers and soldiers under my command were still clueless and were still fighting fiercely with the Japanese troops. However, some well-informed logistics personnel quickly burned documents, supplies, and packed up their belongings and headed towards
Escape from Xiaguan area, prepare to use all the tools that can cross the river, prepare to cross the Yangtze River, and then rest and recuperate at the Chuzhou shelter on the Jinpu line.
So at this time, once the Zhonghua Gate and Guanghua Gate were lost, the order in the city immediately fell into chaos without high-level command of the operations. The morale of the military was suddenly weakened, and the people were panicked.
So, a big chaos broke out,
Many skirmishers and broken troops, or the national troops who were still defending, were suddenly leaderless, fighting on their own everywhere, either panicking and preparing to surrender to the Japanese army, or trying to find ways to escape.