Although the city gate is open, but so many people are crowded together, how can they easily get out? It's just a matter of survival, who can still take care of order, when they are in the city, the soldiers can still maintain the establishment of the army, but as soon as they pass the city gate, everything is in chaos. At this time, who still knows if you are an officer or not? The more crowded it is, the more it can't be squeezed out, and the dead corpses that have been trampled under their feet have become stumbling blocks.

"Damn, they're all crazy!" Li Jiang flicked his hat and said, he, the division commander, could no longer command the soldiers, and everyone was frantically squeezing forward, lest they fall behind.

He looked at the high city walls and suddenly said, "Go up to the castle tower!" With that, he led a dozen or so relatives around him to climb the city tower. The defenders on the city tower were also a little at a loss in the face of the chaos under the city, and they didn't know what to do.

"Is there a rope?" Li Jiang asked a soldier.

The man shook his head blankly.

Li Jiang looked down, gritted his teeth and said, "Untie the leggings, connect them, and put them down!" Hearing this, more than a dozen people behind him hurriedly complied.

"Let's go!" Looking at the double-strand gaiter rope that had been fixed on the city wall for a short time, Li Jiang looked at the gunfire that was still ringing in Guanghuamen in the distance, and after silently reciting a blessing in his heart, he turned around and was the first to go down the city wall along the gaiter rope. When he landed, more than a dozen relatives behind him also slid down. More and more people gathered on the city wall, and many people followed suit, but the screams of falling to the ground from time to time also warned people that this method is not for everyone.

Guanghuamen was still in the midst of a fierce battle, and although some of the 156th Division left, Xie Chengrui's regiment remained.

Xie Chengrui, who was sick and a little weak before the war, was originally going to leave, but Meng Xiang remembered this martyr who let others squeeze him down and was trampled to death. Niu Yi had already been notified to keep him. Xie Chengrui naturally would not be a hero because of Niu Yi's words, and disregard the lives of his officers and soldiers. But after Zhao Shuxing told everything they needed to say about their evacuation plan, Xie Chengrui was moved and agreed to stay.

Also left behind was Yi Anhua. Although his superiors, Wang Jingjiu, commander of the 71st Army, and Shen Fazao, commander of the 87th Division, didn't even say hello and ran away by themselves, many of the officers and soldiers below already knew about it. After Yi Anhua found out, he just sat there for a while, and then he got busy again and instructed his soldiers to continue to defend.

Seeing that the first battalion and Xie Chengrui's regiment were not leaving, they naturally did not leave.

"Guanghua Gate can't be guarded." Huang Huamin's endorsement Niu Yi and others said. Xie Chengrui, Yi Anhua and others were silent. Since the beginning of the retreat in the city, everyone understood that Nanjing City could not be saved, let alone Guanghuamen. When they were defending to the death, the officers and soldiers could still fight hard, but when others withdrew, they were left behind, and the fluctuations in their hearts naturally increased. It is fashionable for a long time, but after a long time, the morale of the army will be unstable.

"We have to think about how to retreat? Retreat over there? Huang Huamin said.

"What about Guanghuamen?" Yi Anhua interjected that after the withdrawal of the senior generals, Yi Anhua's major general and brigade commander would be regarded as the biggest officer.

"The jade is burning!" Huang Huamin said and handed over a plan. The two looked at each other, glanced at each other, and nodded in acquiescence.

"And where are we going to retreat?" Huang Huamin said again.

"Do you have a specific plan?" Yi Anhua naturally saw what Huang Huamin meant at once.

"Brigade, you have such good eyesight!" As the battalion commander under Yi Anhua, he suddenly smiled.

"Say it well!" Yi Anhua knew that he was comforting himself, and then laughed.

"Yes, Brigade!" Huang Huamin said in a slightly upright posture.

……

"There is definite news, the people in the city have begun to be in chaos." Higami Shuzo said to Jiro Ribaka with a smile.

"But the Guanghua Gate on the other side is not messed up!" Jiro Kazaka said with a straight face, this time attacking Kohwamon, his team suffered the greatest loss.

"And the Zhonghua Gate has been repulsed again!" He added.

Thanks to the efforts of the 306th Regiment's death squad and the 1st Battalion, the gap in the Zhonghua Gate was blocked again. Although the casualties were heavy, the Zhonghua Gate returned to the hands of the Central Army that remained behind.

"It's time for Zhonghua Gate to evacuate!" Meng Xiang in the distance couldn't help but mutter. There is no reference opinion from others, so he can only ponder it himself, but every step involves the life and death of countless people, so he can't be careless. Every step of the plan was thought out repeatedly, and for several nights in a row, the only three or four hours of sleep I had were awakened by nightmares.

A plan is always a plan, there are some things that Meng Xiang doesn't know, and some things that deviate from the original track.

"Zhongshan Gate has fallen!" Rat Er said suddenly.

"What?" Meng Xiang was surprised. If his memory is correct, it was definitely not Zhongshan Gate that fell first. History has been skewed, and that time ......

"Execute the evacuation plan in advance!" Meng Xiang shouted at Rat Er.

The people who finally ran to the Shimonoseki pier found that there were fewer boats and more people. In order to get rid of the luck of the retreating army, Song Xilian directly ordered the ship to be burned after the personnel of the 36th Division and the headquarters crossed the river. Perhaps he thought in his heart that soldiers should face the enemy head-on according to the paperwork plan, and should not flee cowardly. But under the premise that the top and bottom are all running away, how can you ask these soldiers who fought in Songhu and Nanjing?

His burning of the ship cut off the soldiers' retreat, and directly made a large number of soldiers desperate and chose to surrender.

His move offended a large number of officers and soldiers and the various forces behind them, so he was directly dismissed from his post after the war and idle for a period of time.

There are quite a few ships left. It wasn't just the people at the headquarters who stole the boats, many of them were left behind, but compared to the hundreds of thousands of people who flocked to the Shimonoseki dock together, these boats were far from enough.

The people who come together are undoubtedly the best targets. The devil's planes were constantly circling and diving in the air, and when the troops withdrew through the city gates, there were still bulky guys with anti-aircraft weapons and the like, and it would be nice to be able to walk with machine guns. Even two or three anti-aircraft guns on the positions outside the city quickly fell silent under the bombardment and strafing of the aircraft.

"Ahh The screams rang out in unison, and the people huddled together had nowhere to hide. Many officers and soldiers were so angry that they stood upright and raised their rifles to shoot, but the myth that the rifle shot down the plane was a myth after all. Most of the anti-aircraft guns in various parts of the city also stopped firing, and his planes became even more rampant.

"Da Da Da!" Suddenly, the anti-aircraft machine gun began to fire, and a plane dragged black smoke and fell into the river. The tens of thousands of people who saw it around cheered together, and the sound directly scared the devil's plane. In the net of fire of the anti-aircraft machine guns, another one was planted. The pilot parachuted directly, but landed in the crowd by the river, and before the captured officers and soldiers could pass, he had already been torn into pieces by the crowd who rushed by.

Other planes also seem to have scruples, and actions such as dive shooting are no longer unscrupulous. And the fire net of the anti-aircraft machine guns at the first place is still diligently guarding the sky above people's heads.

"It's the vanguard!" Seeing the, someone in the crowd shouted. The distinctive emblems on their uniforms are known to many people in the city.