Tang Mengxiao has moved from Baiziting Apartment to the office of the Nanjing Garrison Commander-in-Chief's Office located in the Ministry of Railways. The situation of the war is in danger. Nanjing City is no longer a matter of being able to hold on, but a question of how long it can last.●⌒

At noon that day, He Jingzhi, deputy commander of the Third War Zone, had called him and conveyed the order to "evacuate the camera."

In the afternoon, Lao Jiang's telegram arrived, the camera evacuated, and the attack was taken back.

Tang Mengxiao then began to prepare for the evacuation matters, but the 100,000 defenders in Nanjing were fighting with the Japanese army. It was almost impossible for you to withdraw in an organized and orderly manner.

But when the situation is coming, we must consider evacuation, otherwise these 100,000 defenders will be wiped out.

To withdraw is to preserve strength.

If the war reaches this point, there is no hope of winning. On the contrary, if it continues, the 100,000 elite troops that have been tempered by the war will be completely destroyed.

If all the three most elite German and equipment masters in the national government are fighting for nothing, Chiang Kai-shek will feel very distressed.

At 8 o'clock in the evening, Chairman Jiang from Wuhan sent a second telegram, with the content roughly the same as in the afternoon, which was to ask Tang Mengxiao to evacuate Nanjing.

At this time, Tang Mengxiao was still considering how to retreat, but she had not yet made up her mind to withdraw. After all, the battle to defend the city only lasted five days.

If he holds on for ten days and half a month, then evacuate the camera, he will have an explanation to the superiors and subordinates at that time.

Although the city was in chaos at this time, the people still supported the ** War of Resistance. There were only a few criminals, and the situation was still within control.

After careful consideration, Tang Mengxiao sent a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek, believing that the Nanjing defenders could still last for three to five days.

If he could be given three days, he could arrange retreating matters calmly.

Tang Mengxiao's idea was good, and his wishes were good, but the speed of the battle collapse was beyond his expectations.

At nine o'clock, bad news came, and the Yamamoto unit of the 114th Japanese Division attacking the left position of Yuhuatai had advanced to Saihongqiao and fought fiercely with the remnants of the 88th Division.

At 5 pm, the Yangzhou Garrison Command and the Security Command were transferred to Huaiyin, northern Jiangsu, and the fortress garrison battalion retreated, while the Zhenjiang Fortress was lost.

The third Japanese fleet advanced to the city of Nanjing.

Although the other side of Urakou is still in the hands of the 1st Army, the Japanese Guozaki Detachment had crossed the Yangtze River and attacked Pukou along the north bank of the Yangtze River to reach the Jiangpu line and fight fiercely with the blocking troops.

The situation has become jeopardized.

Tang Mengxiao could only make up his mind to evacuate Nanjing, but retreat was not just a simple order. Corresponding arrangements were required, who would cover the retreat route of each army, who would retreat first, who would retreat, what kind of transportation means, etc.

We must also pass the orders to the troops and understand clearly so as not to cause great defeat and repeat the mistakes of retreating in the Battle of Songhu.

Tang Mengxiao thought about how to retreat, while on the Japanese side, Matsui Ishione, the commander of the Central China Front Army who was still ill, issued an order to attack Nanjing to the front-line troops.

After dark, the Japanese offensive slowed down slightly, but the artillery battle between the two sides did not stop. Gui Yongqing transferred the artillery position located in Fugui Mountain to the airport of the Ming Palace Museum and launched a fire with the Japanese artillery outside the city.

For a moment, there were rumbling sounds of cannons inside and outside Nanjing.

The Japanese army probably did not expect that the Nanjing city defenders would still retain such huge resistance when the war reached this point.

Although there are only dozens of artillery, which is too weak compared to hundreds of large artillery of the Japanese army, this tenacious will to resist deeply made the Japanese army feel a sense of fear. It is not a very pleasant thing to be an enemy of such a nation.

They urgently needed to destroy the will of the defenders and destroy the will of the resisters, so a secret order from the Shanghai Expeditionary Army headquarters "Kill all the prisoners!" was quickly spread throughout the Japanese siege troops.

This secret order, which had been issued, was only served to officers of the corps commander level, and now, an ordinary Japanese soldier knows it.

Invade Nanjing and kill all the Chinese people who resist!

There were only more than 800 people left in the Second Regiment of the Teaching Corps. After one afternoon of battle, more than 200 warriors scattered blood on the city wall.

The body was pulled down directly from the position, with a three-foot shroud, a straw mat, a big hole, and a concentrated burial, and this was the only way to deal with it.

I heard that Cheng Zhi, the commander of the 302nd Regiment who died heroically in Saihongqiao, was a dignified colonel. He just asked his fellow villagers and found a bathtub and buried it in a hurry.

When the war comes to this point, the burial corpse burials can no longer catch up with the corpse collectors. Sometimes one squad, one platoon, and one company is buried together.

"Report!"

"Have you found the secret passage?"

"We found it, our battalion commander took people down first." The correspondent soldier reported.

"Yasha Squad, gather!" Leng Feng suddenly stood up and ordered.

"Lao Leng, do you want to wait for Staff Wu?" Luo Yufeng reminded.

"It's nine-thirty now. She's gone for almost an hour and a half, so wait for another quarter of an hour." Leng Feng nodded.

"Go back and tell your battalion commander that you are not allowed to act without authorization!"

"yes!"

Fifteen minutes later, before Wu Xiaoyun came back, Leng Feng decided not to wait anymore, stood up and said to Luo Yufeng, Qin Yankun and the other two: "Old Luo, Lao Qin, I will leave the position to you. Before I come back, we must ensure that the city walls are not lost!"

"Don't worry, the person is in the position!" Luo Yufeng nodded.

"Room, be careful!" Qin Yankun reminded with concern. Leng Feng's word "dai" was removed. Just now, the appointment and the order to improve the military rank were delivered together.

Leng Feng is also a promotion from the front line.

"Conghu, let's go, Wei Quan, you won't go this time. Be optimistic about Lao Luo and don't let him do dangerous things anymore." Leng Feng left Guo Weiquan and gave him an order.

"Yes, I guarantee that I am optimistic about Deputy Luo Tuan."

When checking the gun and bullets, Leng Feng deliberately brought three more ammunitions. This time, the situation was uncertain, so bringing more ammunitions was a guarantee.

"Report to the captain, the Yaksha Special Operations Team has been assembled, please instruct!"

“Check the equipment!”

"yes!"

"One Type 38 rifle, three hundred bullets, one Type 38 bayonet, eight Japanese grenades, one kettle, one canvas bullet pack, one first aid pack, one dagger... it's over!"

"A single price for a machine is four, five hundred bullets, four grenades..."

"A grenade launcher, a southern pistol, thirty bullets..."

"complete!"

"Set out!" Leng Feng waved his hand and took the lead to walk out the door.

"Cruff!" A sound of brakes sounded outside the door. Wu Xiaoyun jumped out of the car and shook his hand eagerly at Leng Feng.

"Go and get the equipment quickly and I'll give you two minutes." Leng Feng signaled the team to stop.

Wu Xiaoyun rushed in. Two minutes later, carrying a sniper rifle, her long hair was tied around her head, tied it behind her head, and rushed out from inside.

"Walk!"

"Hey, Wu Xiaoyun, you..." A young woman in a black windbreaker got out of the car and saw a glimpse of it, revealing a round and fair melon-shaped face, with a trace of arrogance that was not inferior to a man in her eyebrows.

"Professor Zhou, right? I'm Leng Feng. Now we have a combat mission. Let's talk about it when we come back." Leng Feng walked over and said, "Wei Quan, take Professor Zhou to rest and have something to eat."

"Professor Zhou, please!"

Once Leng Feng finished his explanation, he ignored Zhou Xue's reaction and left with the Yasha Operation Team.

Ten minutes later, the inspection office inside Guanghua Gate.

Leng Feng led the Yaksha Special Operations Team to arrive here and entered a three-story building. The building had been blown up and the corridor was almost blocked by bricks and stones.

Liu Guichun led people to clear out a small path, which led to the deepest part of the building under the illumination of the flashlight.

"who?"

"I, Leng Feng!"

"It's the rank of the regiment!" The platoon leader, who was acting as the guard, walked out of the darkness. He saw that it was Leng Feng, and he breathed a sigh of relief without any reason.

"How long has Captain Liu been going on?"

"It's almost forty minutes." The platoon leader replied.

"Has there ever been any news?"

"No!"

"According to the normal propulsion speed, they have advanced at least five kilometers at this moment." Leng Feng murmured to himself, "From the straight line, they should be not far from the Engineer School."

"Take us to the entrance." Leng Feng ordered.

"Yes, the group seat!" The platoon leader agreed and led Leng Feng and his team to a deserted underground storage room quickly through an underground corridor. There was a smell of mold inside. A hole was opened in the wall of the storage room. Judging from the hole opening, it was obviously just smashed.

After entering, there was a wall. Obviously, when building this small building, I knew that the entrance to this secret passage existed. I specially built this wall in this storage room, but there was no entrance to the wall.

It is obviously to protect this secret. If the entrance is left, it is probably discovered by someone long ago, so it is not a secret.

The entrance walked forward seven or eight meters, and a long stone steps led to the ground. Although there was a moldy smell in the air here, there was almost no difficulty in breathing. Obviously, the ventilation in the secret passage was very good.

The walls of the secret passage are all made of bricks. Judging from the age, you have to push forward at least five or six hundred years. After entering the secret passage, you find that the secret passage is very spacious, and walking with four or five people is no problem.

It was so amazing to build such a secret underground project in that era, but there were many more projects in Chinese history than this.

Walking forward along the secret passage, I made a simple judgment that it was going southeast, and the compass I carried with me also showed that the direction of their secret passage was southeast.

The direction is not wrong, which means that this secret passage is most likely the secret passage leading to the Engineering School outside the city.

Of course, this secret passage was not built to lead to the engineering school more than 600 years later, but the later engineering school happened to be built at the exit of the secret passage.

This is just a coincidence, just like the entrance of the inspection center, it is a coincidence. The entrance is at Guanghua Gate. Obviously, this is not necessarily built entirely for escape, and it also has certain military purposes.

Once siege, the defenders in the city can leave the city through secret passages and then launch sneak attacks from the enemy's flanks to achieve the purpose of repelling the enemy and dismantling the siege.

Bang!

"Be careful!" Leng Feng lowered his head and saw a rusty weapon on the ground. It was a knife. The scabbard was gone, the blade was curled and covered with rust. There seemed to be traces of a knife chopping and chiseling on the walls of the secret passage.

“There are footprints on the ground!”

"It's Captain Liu and the others, they are the same shoes we wear."

“Come on.”

After walking for about five minutes, I felt that the ground became obviously wet. It was obvious that they were now under the moat, and they could still maintain a certain amount of dryness here. The waterproofing technology back then was still very advanced.

One minute later, the secret passage passed through the moat section, which turned a corner in front of the secret passage.
Chapter completed!