The streets near Rujiangmen were already piled with corpses, and the air was filled with a strong and pungent smell of blood, where the military police and police commanded by Xiao Shanling once again repelled the Japanese attack. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

These Japanese soldiers, like wolves smelling fishy, saw that the Chinese army was retreating, and hurriedly chased after them.

Faced with the tens of thousands of residents who had not yet crossed the river, Xiao Shanling, the mayor of Nanjing, had to organize troops along the streets and alleys to block the Japanese army through street fighting, so as to buy time for the retreat of the soldiers and civilians gathered on the beach of the Xiaguan River.

"Gather ammo! Rescue the wounded! ”

Xiao Shan ran out of bullets in the delicate Browning pistol, and he threw it away, and at the moment he was carrying a seventy-nine rifle, stepping on sticky blood, and commanding on the battlefield.

Neither the gendarmes nor the police were exhausted, rummaging through the dead bodies to collect weapons and ammunition in preparation for the next battle.

Looking at the beaten corpses on the ground, Xiao Shanling secretly wiped his tears, many of them were gendarme brothers who had followed him for many years, but now they were lying in this cold night, never waking up again.

He is now not only the deputy commander of the gendarmerie, but also the commander of the Nanjing Police Force, the commander of the Capital Guard, and the mayor of Nanjing.

He had never held so many titles at the same time, and with the escape of Tang Shengzhi, the commander of the garrison, and others, he became the supreme governor of Nanjing.

Tang Shengzhi and the others can escape, but he can't, he can't lose his hundreds of thousands of residents to flee for their lives, they will be poked in the backbone, and those seemingly shining titles are weighing heavily on his shoulders at the moment.

When all the high-ranking generals fled and ran away, Xiao Shanling knew in his heart that someone had to stay and preside over the overall situation, and now all the burdens were on him alone.

Fortunately, there were still troops such as the 74th Army and the battalion commander named Yang Ling on the Xiaguan River Beach organizing the retreat, which made him very pleased, and he thought that he must thank them when the time comes, thank them for saving countless people in Nanjing.

"Let the commanders of the second and tenth regiments come and see me."

The cold wind mixed with the smell of blood made Xiao Shanling feel cold and swish, and he wrapped his bloody military uniform and gave orders to the heralds.

Although the Japanese army was repulsed by them again, Xiao Shanling knew that the Japanese army would definitely pounce again, and he wanted to rearrange the defense.

Soon, several dusty officers stepped on the corpse and rushed to Xiao Shanling to salute.

Xiao Shanling frowned: "I asked your head to come over, what are you doing here?"

A gendarmerie captain and company commander replied: "Sir Xiao, our regiment commander died an hour ago."

"What about your battalion commander, what about the staff officer?"

The commander of the gendarmerie captain replied in a low voice: "They are all dead, and now I am commanding the troops."

Looking at the other lieutenant and captain in a hurry, Xiao Shanling felt a heartache, these gendarmerie units were all the old foundations he had saved for all these years, and he didn't expect to be wiped out in the first battle, his heart ached.

"Sir Xiao, the brothers are almost finished, and if they continue to fight, they will be extinct, I beg you, withdraw—" Someone looked at Xiao Shanling, who was silent, and plucked up the courage to speak.

Someone chimed in and said, "Yes, Sir Xiao, all the troops have withdrawn, and no one will remember us if we continue to fight like this."

Xiao Shanling took a deep breath, pointed to the direction of the crowded Xiaguan and said, "If we withdraw, what will happen to those people?" Throw them unarmed to the Japanese, can you bear it?! ”

"Chief Xiao, if we don't block it first, you have to evacuate, it's too dangerous here!" There were military officers who suggested.

Xiao Shanling shook his head: "We are the last line of defense against the Japanese army, and behind us are countless people, how can I abandon and evacuate alone, what is the difference between that and deserters, don't say this again."

"How many more do we have?" Xiao Shanling asked.

"There are still more than 300 people in our 2nd Military Police Regiment."

"We still have more than four hundred left in the Fifth Regiment of the Gendarmerie."

……

"There are more than 200 policemen."

More than 1,000 brothers from the three military police regiments and the police department, there were only so many people left after only two hours of fighting, and Xiao Shanling's eyes were red.

He held back his tears, and a few surviving company commanders ordered: "Reorganize the rest of our brothers, and let's continue to fight!"

"Yes!" Several company commanders saluted and left.

Xiao Shanling waited until they left, and sat down against the wall as if he had been drained of strength.

Looking at the mountain of dead corpses, I couldn't help crying, these are his brothers in life and death, it's gone, but they have to block the enemy.

"Sir Xiao, the devil is coming up again!" Soon, the observation post on the roof shouted again.

Xiao Shanling wiped his tears, stood up again, and restored his image as an iron-blooded soldier, he ordered loudly: "All in place!" Get ready for battle! ”

This time, the attacking Japanese army brought in several tanks as the lead, and drove along the street with a roar, and the obstacles and debris on the street could not stop the steel monster in the slightest.

The Japanese tanks roared, crushing the ground and beating the corpses, and soon the chains were covered with minced flesh and began to drip blood.

"The demolition team goes up and blows it up!" Xiao Shanling hid behind the sandbag and ordered loudly.

The demolition squads, which consisted of gendarmerie death squads, immediately climbed out of the breastwork with explosives packs and strode towards the Japanese tanks.

The machine gunner loaded inside the Japanese tank immediately pulled the trigger: "Da Da Da-"

The machine gun spewed tongues of fire, and the air-tearing bullets slammed into the chests of the demolition team soldiers, sending up a rain of blood, and their bodies were shattered, and they were all lost before they could reach them.

Seeing the gendarmes who rushed out one by one fall under the guns of the Japanese soldiers, Xiao Shanling's eyes were red, and he smashed his fist on the sandbags with anger, and the sandbags were smashed out of the holes.

"The second group! Above! ”

The second group of gendarmes with explosive bags rushed out again, without hesitation, and they also suffered heavy losses, but the last man lit the explosives bag and pounced on the tank.

Bang!

The flames of the explosion engulfed the gendarme brother and the Japanese tank, and the ground shook, and the air of the explosion caused the rubble on the houses on both sides to fall with a clatter, and the Japanese tank was blown up.

"Eight Ga Ya Road!" Seeing that the tank car was blown up, the Japanese commander shouted angrily and immediately ordered the tank car behind to rush forward.

The tank behind it was crushed forward as it opened fire, and the bloody chain spun fast, and with a bang, it bombarded a machine gun position of the gendarmes, and several machine gunners and machine guns were shattered, and the stumps fell everywhere.

"Pour gasoline!"

"Throw a grenade!"

Roars erupted in the darkness, and someone threw a grenade at the tank with a wave of his arms, which was soon shot by the Japanese riflemen hiding behind the tank.

The gendarmes hiding on the roofs poured a can of gasoline and threw down torches, and a huge wave of fire rose and the streets were lit up.

In the scorching fire, the Japanese tank soldiers scrambled to crawl out, but were quickly beaten into a sieve by bullets.

"The devil has burst through the flanks!"

When Xiao Shan ordered them to hit the Japanese tanks head-on, they did not know that a large number of Japanese troops wearing steel helmets had outflanked them from the ruins on the flanks.

Before many of the gendarmerie soldiers lying on the ground could react, the sharp bayonets had already poked down, and the screams were heard one after another.

The gendarmes and police hurriedly opened fire, and the two sides leaned against the buildings and scuffled, and everywhere there were shouts, screams and gunshots, and the smell of blood in the air became stronger and stronger.

"Sir, we're out of ammunition." Soon, the gendarmes ran out of ammunition.

Xiao Shanling put on the bayonet with a click, and shouted: "Kill yourself, today is also!" Kill the enemy! ”

He shouted that he had rushed out first, and the encouraged gendarmes and policemen took bayonets one after another, and a white-knuckle battle ensued in the streets.

The fire was dazzling, and several policemen were blocked in a courtyard by more than a dozen Japanese soldiers, and the two sides rushed into each other fiercely, almost at the same time stabbed each other through each other, kicking their eyes, but neither of them would fall down first, until they were knocked away by the people behind.

A burly gendarme with a broadsword and three Japanese soldiers fought together, although his body was full of blood holes, blood continued to flow, but he was still undiminished, he had to cut down the three Japanese soldiers before he collapsed against the wall, looking at the brothers who were fighting in the firelight, he no longer had the strength to stand up, and soon lost his breath.

The two sides fought desperately in these narrow alleys, slashing with broadswords, stabbing with bayonets, smashing with rifle butts, clashing and screaming everywhere, blood gushing, and the gendarmes and police used their flesh and blood to preserve the last dignity of the city.