After settling the matter of the women's college, the situation seems to have opened up, and Lu Yuan, who has leisure time at this moment, finally has time to meet with Luca. "Lu, your recent actions seem to be too obvious, I heard that the Nationalist Government has begun to notice you, do you need our consulate to warn the intelligence department of the Nationalist Government?" Luca always goes straight to the point when he speaks, and he doesn't give Lu Yuan a chance to say a few words at all.

He was targeted by the Kuomintang's intelligence department? The news that Luka told made Lu Yuan stunned for a moment, and then smiled at Luca. "It's okay, I don't have any handles here that they can catch, I'm saying that some of the things I prepared here have been moved to other places, even if they break in and search, I'm afraid they won't find anything of interest." Lu Yuan's refusal did not seem to surprise Luca's expectations, seeing that Lu Yuan's expression was still the same, Luka took out some intelligence information from his purse and handed it to Lu Yuan.

"Lu, you know the current relationship between the empire and Japan, so I can easily receive some information about the Japanese army here. I know that you are worried about the development of the situation, so this time, I have also brought you some information on the movements of the Japanese army in Shanghai, which you can use as a reference. In order to attract Lu Yuan's attention, what Luka said just now was actually a bit explicit, and Lu Yuan also expressed his gratitude to Luka in a timely manner.

In order to carry out the plan to defend Nanjing, the Nationalist Government had already imposed a news blockade on Nanjing, and both ordinary civilians and government functionaries did not know much about the changes in the war in Shanghai. Lu Yuan flipped through the information that Luka got and only looked at it, and the expression on his face had completely changed, on November 5, that is, yesterday, the Japanese army once again mobilized heavy troops to land from Jinshanwei and encircled the Shanghai National Army.

Although Shanghai was still under the control of the Nationalist army at this time, the actual strength of the Japanese army around Shanghai had reached 200,000, and after the Japanese army landed at Jinshanwei, it could outflank the rear road of the Chinese army in Songhu with a large force. According to the Battle of Songhu in Lu Yuan's memory, after seeing this latest information, Lu Yuan knew that the Battle of Songhu was about to end with the complete defeat of the Shanghai National Army. "Luca, thank you for bringing me this information, thank you very much." The Battle of Songhu was coming to an end, and Lu Yuan knew that a more tragic pursuit battle was about to begin, and hundreds of thousands of national troops were about to retreat aimlessly from the battlefield in Shanghai, while the Japanese army would pursue along the road.

Lu Yuan knew that the national army at this time lacked weapons, ammunition and even supplies, but these were not the reasons for the national army to retreat like a mountain, hundreds of thousands of national army troops because of the lack of command transmission and command disorder, from what should have been a normal retreat, evolved into a rout, and also made tens of thousands of national army elites consume in vain. Xu saw that Lu Yuan was in a bad mood, and Luka immediately said goodbye and left, leaving Lu Yuan in endless mourning.

It's not that Lu Yuan didn't want to stop all this from happening, but now he is just a civilian with no foundation, in the face of the various decisions made by the bigwigs at all levels of the national government, how can a powerless civilian prevent all this from happening. What he is doing for the civilians of Nanjing at the moment is already Lu Yuan's greatest ability performance, otherwise, Lu Yuan may have appeared on the battlefield in full swing alone.

Regardless of Lu Yuan's loss, the situation deteriorated further over time, and on November 6, after the successful landing of the Japanese follow-up troops at Jinshanwei, the Shanghai Dispatch Army and the 10th Army were combined to form the Central China Front, under the unified command of Matsui Ishine. The Japanese base camp stipulated that its combat area was to connect the east of the Suzhou-Jiaxing line, and the mission was to dampen the enemy's will to fight, and to obtain the purpose of ending the war, and to cooperate with the navy to eliminate the national army near Shanghai. After that, the 6th and 18th divisions of the Japanese army rushed to the Songjiang and Shanghai-Hangzhou railways respectively according to the pre-deployment.

On the night of November 8, the Japanese army broke into Songjiang City from the east, south and west with strong firepower, and the 67th Army of the Nationalist Army was completely annihilated, and the Japanese army occupied Songjiang. Immediately, the troops were divided into two routes, one along the east bank of Taihu Lake, through Zhejiang and Anhui to Nanjing, and the main force pointed to Fengjing Town, Jiaxing, and Pingwang. On the 9th, the Japanese army cut off the Shanghai-Hangzhou railway and highway, and at the same time, the 16th Division successfully landed at Baimaokou in Taicang, Jiangsu Province under the command of Nakajima Imago, and the forward pointed directly at the Beijing-Shanghai railway and highway, forming a trend of convergence. Six divisions of the Japanese army on the north bank of the Suzhou Creek had already crossed the Suzhou Creek as early as 31 October, and at this time they quickly moved closer to the Japanese troops landing on both routes, and the 700,000 Nationalist troops in the Songhu area were suddenly in a dangerous situation.

From November 9, the Japanese army successively repelled the scattered resistance of the Shanghai National Army, and successively captured Hongqiao Airport, Longhua, Fengjing, and Qingpu. On November 11, the Japanese army advanced to the bank of the Suzhou Creek, and the Nationalist troops in the direction of Nanshi and Pudong were ordered to withdraw from their positions. On the same day, Yu Hongjun, the mayor of Shanghai, issued a letter to the citizens, sadly announcing the fall of Shanghai, the largest metropolis in the Far East. The three-month Battle of Songhu came to an end, and for the citizens of Shanghai, the suffering did not end because of the end of the war, but for the citizens of Nanjing, the letter to the citizens 300 kilometers away seemed to pierce the sky.

Hundreds of thousands of Nationalist troops were anxious to evacuate the Songhu area, and in the face of the Japanese troops following and pursuing, the retreating Nationalist troops quickly lost their order, and many Nationalist soldiers even threw away their weapons and military uniforms to blend in with the refugees. Time waits for no one, it is already mid-November at this time, and Lu Yuan knows that there is only one month left before the start of the Nanjing War. "Principal Wu, I don't want to explain too much, Shanghai has been lost, and the Japanese army is following the Nationalist troops who have withdrawn from Shanghai to Nanjing, you had better seize the time to persuade the school board to move the school, don't waste the time that is still abundant."

Seeing Wu Yifang and Wei Tling again, Lu Yuan no longer had the good temper he had when he last met, and as soon as they met, he said that he wanted Wu Yifang and Wei Tling to lobby the school board to move the school to Jiangbei. "Lu, relocating a school is not as simple as just talking about it, there are many aspects involved, especially the relocation of the school is very troublesome, we know that what you say may be correct, but we cannot guarantee that the school board will agree to the relocation of the school." and Weitling, who looked at each other angrily, Wu Yifang, who was the principal of the women's college, was quite reasonable.

It's just that Wu Yifang's answer didn't satisfy Lu Yuan, and he immediately stretched out his hand and patted the table and shouted, "Principal Wu, do you really want to see those students of yours become the playthings of the Japanese army at that time?" Do you know how many people have died in Suzhou? How many schools were destroyed by the Japanese army? Seeing that his words still couldn't make Wu Yifang and Wei Tling change their attitudes, Lu Yuan got up extremely lonely and stood up, just whispered to the two of them before leaving.

"Maybe you don't believe what I'm saying now, but don't worry, soon you'll be able to see and hear for yourself. There are a lot of students in Suzhou who are also refugees, and I believe that they will soon be in Nanjing, and I think you should know what happened in Suzhou very quickly. Lu Yuan's words made Wu Yifang and Wei Tling confused, but both of them felt a little bad from the change in Lu Yuan's tone.

"Ignore their objections, and from today onwards, we will do our best to transport our food and supplies to the women's college for storage. The place here is big enough, and as long as we plan properly, there will definitely be no fewer refugees here than Xiaofenqiao. Wu Yifang and Wei Tling refused to help him put pressure on the school board, and Lu Yuan had to plan for the worst, if the women's college failed to retreat from the river before the Japanese army attacked the city, then he would build this place into a second refugee camp.

Time passed day by day, and on November 20, the Nationalist Government suddenly announced the relocation of the capital to Chongqing, which became the straw that instantly suppressed the psychological defense line of many Nanjing citizens. Although Tang Shengzhi, the newly appointed commander of Nanjing's urban defense, threatened to live and die with Nanjing, there were still many Nanjing citizens who fled to Jiangbei with their families, but there were still many Nanjing citizens who entered a wait-and-see state, after all, there were still a large number of national army troops in the city.

"Maybe at this time, what should we do, it's too tiring to wait." Lu Yuan, who had already prepared everything, was sullen, with the Japanese army pressing forward step by step and the big stupid tricks released by the Nationalist Government, many civilians who were originally ready to leave Nanjing were patient, but these were not what Lu Yuan wanted to see. With Lu Yuan's proposal and Hogg's implementation, some leaflets praising the brutality of the Japanese army began to appear in the already panicked city of Nanjing, and with the appearance of these leaflets, some timid Nanjing citizens finally chose to flee across the river.

Leaflets encouraging citizens to escape the river appeared in the city for no reason, and Tang Shengzhi, as the commander of Nanjing's city defense, was naturally furious, but he did not find out who distributed the leaflets. Approaching the end of November, with the successive defeats and retreats of the Nationalist troops and the fall of Wuxi, Changzhou, Guangde and other places, the intention of the Japanese army to attack Nanjing has been undoubted. With the further approach of the Japanese army, the Xiaguan Wharf outside Nanjing once again appeared in a frenzy of crossing the river day and night, and it was at this time that the women's college finally made the decision to relocate the school.

"It's night, it's already too late, if you just screen and transport teachers and students across the river, I can provide you with boats right now. But you also have to sort out the school materials and a lot of books and equipment, which takes a lot of time, and the Japanese don't set aside that time for you. Facing Wu Yifang and Wei Tling, who came to the door, Lu Yuan, who had already calmed down at this time, said that he could not do anything, which made Wu Yifang and Wei Tling very regretful that they did not follow Lu Yuan's advice and make plans and preparations early.