The walls of Zhonghua Gate and Shuixi Gate also collapsed, and the army took the opportunity to pour in. At this time, the officers and men of the 88th Division tried to find a boss and ask for instructions, but they couldn't find it.

"Take the position back! Fight with the little devils! The officers and soldiers of the 306th Regiment stationed here roared in unison and rushed straight up. Beside him were clones who rarely spoke in battle.

"Urgent report, the Zhonghua Gate has been lost again! Sun Yuanliang took people to Rujiangmen. The confidential secretary's words surprised Tang Shengzhi.

He carefully looked at the battle report, and after reading it three times in a row, he closed his eyes slightly and pondered for a moment before saying, "Summoning the commanders of all armies and divisions to have a meeting!" ”

Zhou Wei read the contents of the retreat plan placed in front of everyone. Then, everyone looked at Tang Shanren together.

"Let's talk about any opinions!" Tang Shanren said, "If you agree, sign your name on the evacuation plan distributed at the meeting!" ”

If you sign it, it's a collective resolution, and it's not a matter of one person.

"I'm against evacuation!" Gui Yongqing said, "At this time, the city of Nanjing is not at the most critical juncture, and it can still be guarded, why should we evacuate now?" My left flank defense area is fine, Guanghuamen has also withstood the attack of Yukou, and the position outside the city is also standing. Only the Zhonghua Gate is somewhat dangerous, but the reserves at the northern foot of the Purple Mountain have not been mobilized, and they can be directly transferred to support the Zhonghua Gate. ”

Retreat requires infamy, and if you are not careful, you will have to carry a black cauldron. Although Gui Yongqing is a celebrity under Lao Jiang, but with the position of the captain of the teaching corps, the first army in the world will withdraw before it is defeated, and I am afraid that it will cause a lot of wind and rain in the future. Of course, it's not clear whether you really want to keep it. Anyway, in the original history, after returning to the command post in the basement of Fuguishan after the meeting, he informed the staff of the retreat task, that is, he left the chief of staff Qiu Qingquan to deal with the documents, and he went to Xiaguan alone to evacuate.

"This is the chairman's telegram!" Tang Shanren read the content of the telegram word by word, and gave the original to everyone to see. When they had seen it, they said no more.

"Adjournment!" After Tang Shanren let out a slightly tired sound, the senior officers of all armies, divisions and brigades began to withdraw.

The retreat was a foregone conclusion, and he began to think about the future of the retreat, when he shouted out to live and die with Nanjing City. Didn't you withdraw all the way from Songhu to Beiping? There are many people who have withdrawn, and the key is how to deal with what is behind them. Although he didn't know why Lao Chiang suddenly said to retreat and send that telegram, maybe the promise of the Soviets to send troops had changed. But he understands one thing, if he wants to clean up the things behind him, he must bring back Lao Jiang's lineage.

"If you can't break through all of them, you can cross the river when there is a ferry and assemble in Chuzhou!" Seeing the officers with Whampoa-faced faces walking past him, he added.

There were many people who heard this, and their eyes suddenly lit up. As a result, a fairly rigorous evacuation plan was torn open.

If the original plan is followed, all the troops will break through from the front, and although the army is powerful, the strength is not large, and the real encirclement is not tight enough. In a desperate situation, although the Central Army broke through head-on, although the main force may be roughly retained. But at this time, as soon as the back road opened, the momentum of the war had been vented. With this verbal order, all the troops were able to make excuses and withdraw from the rear.

So, people who knew that there was a boat in Shimonoseki flocked over together.

Although the time for the evacuation of the troops was planned to be after 11 o'clock in the evening, after the meeting, people had already begun to evacuate.

The 2nd Army Corps is responsible for holding the Oolong Mountain Fortress and covering the evacuation of other teams, which should be the last to evacuate. However, in the afternoon of the same day, Xu Yuanquan led his 41st and 48th divisions from Zhoujiasha and Huangnidang Wharf to take civilian ships that had been controlled there in advance, and crossed to Jiangbei at the earliest, and went to Jiangxi via Anhui for rectification.

Wang Jingjiu, commander of the 71st Army, and Shen Fazao, commander of the 87th Division, did not return to the command post at all, and directly crossed the river with the retreating headquarters.

Hu Qiru, commander of the 2nd Brigade of the Teaching Corps, learned of the retreat relatively early, and without waiting for the end of the meeting, he immediately informed the commander of the 3rd Regiment by telephone that he was ordered to go to Xiaguan to contact the 36th Division and go to Xiaguan alone on the pretext that he had been ordered to contact the 36th Division. Many other high-ranking officers also evacuated early in order to take a seat on the evacuated ship.

As a result, the senior officers are gone, and many of the people below are still in the dark, each doing their own thing. But the news of the ship in Shimonoseki had already spread, and officers from all walks of life who had been given cheap actions began to flock to Shimonoseki.

"There is an order from the headquarters, and no one is allowed to pass it!" At Rujiangmen, Song Xilian's troops blocked the troops who wanted to pass through to Xiaguan, and the machine guns of the black hole were pointed directly at everyone.

"Commander Tang has a password! You can cross the river by boat! Someone in the crowd shouted, and the surrounding officers and soldiers were even more surging. The gates of the city were closed, and even the weeping people were not allowed to let them go.

"Clerk military order, instruct all armies to break through from the front!" One of the majors defending the gates shouted.

"There are a large number of devils in the front, how can you break through?" Someone shouted, the clerical military order has long been spread, but facing the devils, the casualties must be very large, and even if you break out, people are sleepy and horses are lacking, and the lone soldiers are hanging out, and there is no danger to appear, where can it be compared to following a large team!

"Are you still soldiers? When you are a soldier, you want to fight devils, and if you break through head-on, you are afraid of devils? The major shouted loudly, and as far as his eyes could see, many officers and soldiers bowed their heads.

"Sir, we are ordinary people, let us go, will we? Please, sir! An old man leaned forward and shouted.

The major looked at a young woman beside him who was holding the child, hesitated, and let him go with a thousand thanks.

But the crowd behind shouted, "We are also the people, let us go!" Everyone embraced each other, and immediately the door was crowded, and the soldiers in front of them also took advantage of the situation to rush over.

"Phew!" After a warning from the sky, the major shouted: "No one who is a soldier is allowed to pass!" ”

"The Zhonghua Gate is broken, the devil is coming, and if you don't run, you will die!" Someone shouted in the crowd. The crowd that had just been suppressed by the gunfire immediately became a sensation again, and they all rushed forward.

In the crowd, I don't know who fired the gun first, and as soon as the gunfire rang out, the crowd that was stimulated immediately lost control, and gunshots began to sound on both sides.

"Da Da Da!" At this time, the machine gun went off. But the target is mostly open space, and I don't dare to point at the crowd all at once.

"Rush over to Shimonoseki, there is a boat there!" Someone shouted. The crowd was even more frantic and rushed in unison. Bullets can't penetrate such a thick wall of people. They just thought that they could rush to Shimonoseki and leave by boat. But what they didn't know was that there weren't many ships in Shimonoseki, and they weren't prepared for them.

"Ah, don't squeeze! My feet, my ......" instantly, the sound was drowned out in the noisy crowd. As long as you fall to the ground and face the trampling of countless feet, life can already be decided......

The cries of babies, the screams of women, and the screams of the old and weak falling to the ground were drowned out by the roars of the people under the sound of gunfire.

"Boom!" No matter how strong the door is, it can't stop the crowding, and the Rujiang Gate is washed open by the flow of people.

(It's finally a day today, I'm very happy, thank you for your great support, and I will continue to do three more tomorrow.) ）