Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Cellar

Zhonghua Gate was broken by the Japanese army, and the Japanese army had entered the city, and this sudden news was like five thunderbolts, so that Liu Goat was at a loss and didn't know what to do. Since the Japanese army broke through Guanghua Gate for the first time, Liu Shanyang has not had any hope of holding Nanjing, or he would not have taken Tangcheng and them to withdraw from the Guanghua Gate position in advance, but now Rujiangmen is not allowed to leave the city, and Zhonghua Gate has been broken by the Japanese army.

The Zhonghua Gate was broken by the Japanese army, which meant that the 88th Division stationed in Yuhuatai was also over, and the last reliance in Liu Goat's heart has been lost since then, and he doesn't know who else he can rely on, and who else can he rely on. Liu Goat, whose legs were weak, sat down against the wall, regardless of the cigarette and lit a big mouthful, Tang Cheng also sat down and looked at Liu Goat nervously, at this time, only this veteran ruffian could lead them to find a way to live.

"Boom" "Boom" Explosions sounded in the direction of Zhonghua Gate one after another, and about ten minutes later, Tang Cheng, who was looking for food everywhere, saw the fleeing national army rout on Zhongshan Road. Liu Shanyang casually pulled a few questions and asked, these defeated soldiers not only have people who teach the corps, but also people from the military police teaching regiment and the 87th Division, the Zhonghua Gate was indeed broken by the Japanese army, but only a small part of the Japanese troops entered the city from the Zhonghua Gate, and the reinforcements who arrived one after another were blocking the Japanese army in the area of the Zhonghua Gate.

"Are there any people from the 88th Division? Are there any people from the 88th Division? There has been no news of the 88th Division, which made Liu Goat very irritable, so he simply stood on the masonry on the side of the road with nine catties and shouted loudly, hoping that there would be people from the 88th Division among these routs, no matter what, Liu Goat wanted to return to his old army. Liu Goat shouted at the top of his voice for a long time, and no one paid attention to the rout soldiers who passed in a hurry, and no one from the 88th Division stood up to respond, which had to make Liu Goat suspicious. The defense area of the 88th Division is Yuhuatai, after Yuhuatai was broken by the Japanese army, the only place where the 88th Division could retreat was Zhonghua Gate, since Zhonghua Gate was broken by the Japanese army, what about the people of the 88th Division? It is impossible for the 88th Division, which has nearly 10,000 people, to die under the Zhonghua Gate City.

"Officer, don't shout, I estimate that the 88th Division should still be carrying the Zhonghua Gate and the little devils." Liu Goat's voice was hoarse, and finally a passing soldier muttered to him in a low voice. Liu Goat suddenly realized that these guys had run away from the Zhonghua Gate position in advance, and it was impossible for them to know the current battle situation of the Zhonghua Gate, so the Zhonghua Gate was not broken by the Japanese army at all, and the news of the loss of the Zhonghua Gate may be just a rumor.

With the news of the 88th Division, Liu Shanyang came to the spirit, called Tang Cheng to his side and discussed in a low voice, "I want to go to Zhonghua Gate, our 88th Division is now in Zhonghua Gate, we can't get out of the city by relying on a few of us, maybe we can go with the 88th Division." "Although Tang Cheng doesn't know the way, he also knows that the road from Zhongshan Road to Zhonghua Gate needs to pass through a small half of Nanjing, and there is a possibility that Japanese infiltration troops may appear everywhere in Nanjing City, so if the four of them want to reach Zhonghua Gate smoothly and join the 88th Division, the difficulty is not ordinary.

"Otherwise, let's just wait on Zhongshan Road, since the news that there is a boat outside the Rujiang Gate, since the people of the 87th Division know the Dao, I think the 88th Division should also know the Dao." Tang Cheng looked at Liu Goat's expression a little vaguely, for fear that his words would cause Liu Goat to be furious. "We haven't rested since we left Guanghuamen, and besides, we have no food, if we don't find some food and water, let alone go to Zhonghua Gate, it's probably difficult to stay here and wait for rabbits."

Tang Cheng is not a lie, since he left Guanghua Gate, he has already fought with the Japanese infiltration force twice, and his physical strength has been almost consumed, and then followed Liu Goat to Zhonghua Gate, Tang Cheng estimated that his physical strength would definitely not be able to support Zhonghua Gate. Not to mention that the food is okay, as soon as Tang Cheng talks about food and water, Jiujin's stomach begins to make a bone sound, and even Liu Goat himself covered his stomach, it seems that he is also hungry.

Liu Goat thought for a while, and finally agreed to Tang Cheng's proposal, and decided to wait for the 88th Division here on Zhongshan Road, and they couldn't be too far away from Rujiangmen, otherwise it would be a pity to miss the opportunity to get out of the city. The Nanjing City Defense Command did not order the evacuation of the people in the city before the war, so there were many civilians in the crowd in front of the Rujiang Gate, and Jiujin relied on the convenience of language to quickly determine the place where they could find food and water under the guidance of those refugees.

Walking south along Zhongshan Road for less than a mile, Tangcheng and they saw a gray western-style building on the side of the road that was higher than the shop, and the person who asked Jiujin said that it was a Western-style restaurant opened here by foreigners, and they would definitely find food in it. If there was no Liu goat, Tang Cheng might have thought about it, but Liu goat was a ruffian at all, regardless of Sanqi Twenty-one and Jiujin two people directly crashed into the door and broke into this French restaurant called Moonlight.

Unlike Jiujin's question, Tang Cheng found that this was not a restaurant, but a bar, similar to Mike's bar in Shanghai, just a place to drink, chat and listen to music. Liu Goat jumped into the bar and rummaged through, but only found a few bottles of foreign wine, but there was no food at all, "go upstairs to see" Liu Goat was of course unwilling, and then took Tang Cheng and them down the stairs to prepare to go up to the second floor.

"Found" The corner of the first floor sounded Tang Cheng's surprise, just like the dilapidated building in Shanghai, this small western-style building also has a basement, after Tang Cheng found out that this was a bar, he concentrated on finding the entrance to the cellar, and the cellar of Mike's bar often stored sausages, bread and other food. With the help of Jiujin, Tang Cheng and Liu Goat lifted the thick wooden board behind the bar, and a step down to the bar appeared in front of everyone, "Maybe you will find something to eat" Tang Cheng looked happy, he had already smelled the smell of sausages from the smell in the cellar.

Holding the candlestick found by the Sichuan army boy in his left hand, Tang Cheng was the first to enter the cellar along the steps with a shell gun in his right hand, the cellar was far bigger than Tang Cheng imagined, and after seeing the wooden box containing wine in a row, Tang Cheng finally found the basket containing red sausages in the candlelight, especially fortunately, there seemed to be a few apples and a large piece of bread in the basket. "Just eat here, fill your stomach first and then go up." Liu Goat, who came down at the last of the year, stopped Jiujin from wanting to carry the basket up, and put the wooden board on top of his head back in place, so that no one would know that the four of them were in the cellar.

"It's a pity that you can't fry the sausages, so the dry chew tastes worse." Tang Cheng ate a mouthful of sausages and apples, and only at this time did Tang Cheng look like a 19-year-old again. The Sichuan army kid who still didn't talk much sat with Jiujin, and the two of them gobbled up sausages like a game, and they ate the sausages in a few bites, if it weren't for the more sausages in the basket, Liu Goat would definitely limit the amount of each of them.

A large basket of sausages and apples was eaten by Liu Goat and the four of them, and the rest of the food was also burdened by Jiujin with a tablecloth, and Liu Goat even found a bottle of foreign wine from the wine box in the cellar and put it in his pocket. "That's brandy, you can't get used to it, let's come here, the whiskey is good." Liu Goat's action of loading wine happened to be seen by Tang Cheng, and then he handed over a small bottle of whiskey and replaced the brandy that Liu Goat had already put in his pocket.

When he came out of the cellar, he was the first Liu goat, but the sudden gunfire caused Liu goat on the steps to shrink back from the cellar mouth. Tang Cheng just took out his shell gun and stood close to the side of the steps and looked up, Jiujin tightly grasped the burden wrapped in sausages and apples, but the Sichuan army kid was already shrunk by Jiujin in fright and trembled. The battle on the cellar was like a pot of boiling water that had just been boiled, and Liu Goat, who was churning so fiercely, did not dare to act rashly, not only did the gunfire have no gap, but there were also successive explosions, these sounds were extremely loud through the echo transmission on the first floor, and Tang Cheng even felt the trembling of the wooden steps in the cellar.

Liu Goat was still half-squatting on the steps, quietly lifted a little wooden plank at the entrance of the cellar, and listened to the movement outside through the cracks, until he heard the words 88th Division in the noisy shouting outside, and then Liu Goat decided to go up from the cellar to find out. There was no one in the bar above the cellar, and the sound of gunshots and explosions came from the street outside the bar, as if the battle was taking place on the street, Liu Goat quietly entered the bar from the cellar, and then leaned down to the outer edge of the bar with his left foot in front and his right foot in the back, his head tilted sideways, and aimed the muzzle of the machine gun in his hand at the storefront of this bar.

Liu Goat, who slowly stepped forward, stopped against the door of the bar, and more than a dozen figures on the street outside appeared in his sight, it was four hesitant looking soldiers of the national army who were shooting at people, and the Japanese soldiers who were shooting at them were lying behind the masonry not far from the bar with the help of cover at this time. There were still three corpses lying not far from the four national soldiers, and it seemed that these national troops were pursued all the way by these Japanese soldiers.

Liu Goat silently calculated his shooting range, and when he found that these Japanese soldiers were now within the shooting range of the flower mechanism in his hand, Liu Goat immediately dodged out of the gun and pulled the trigger. And in the whole shooting process, he always stood at the door with his left and right feet diverging back and forth, and Liu Goat shot all the bullets in the flower machine, so close and sudden that the Japanese soldiers had nothing to hide.