Like Wu Yifang and Wei Tling, there are many citizens who were originally ready to leave but continued to stay in Nanjing, and the price of ferry tickets to cross the river has tripled at the Xiaguan wharf, but even so, they still need to wait in line to cross the river. At this time, the Nationalist army had already blockaded the Rujiang Gate, and now the only people who could take the ferry from the Xiaguan Wharf were the dignitaries in the city, and ordinary citizens who wanted to take the ferry to cross the river did not have to pay an additional toll to the Nationalist army guarding the Rujiang Gate.

In order to prove to Wu Yifang and Wei Tling that he was powerless, Lu Yuan personally drove the two to Xiaguan Wharf, which was still more than 200 meters away from Rujiang Gate, and the car was blocked by the crowd in front of Rujiang Gate. "See, the national army has blocked the Rujiang Gate, and ordinary people who want to go out of the Rujiang Gate don't even think about it, unless you can be like that big fat man, you have enough money to pay the toll to the national army guarding the Rujiang Gate."

Taking the telescope handed by Lu Yuan, and looking at the city gate in the direction of Lu Yuan's finger, Wu Yifang and Wei Tling saw a big fat man nodding towards the national army guarding the city gate in the telescope, and also saw the big fat man quietly stuffing two gold bars to the national army officer beside him. The officer of the national army took the gold bar handed by the big fat man and looked at it carefully, and didn't know what to say to the big fat man, so he waved his hand to let the soldiers behind him pull away and let the big fat man's family of four pass through the Rujiang Gate.

"You have all seen it, a small yellow croaker can ensure that two people pass through the Rujiang Gate, this is the toll fee for passing through the Rujiang Gate now, it is estimated that the price will not rise until tomorrow." Retracting the binoculars in the hands of Wu Yifang and Wei Tling, Lu Yuan smiled at the two. "There are hundreds of teachers and students in your women's college, and I'm afraid you won't be able to bear this toll alone, not to mention that the ferry fee on the Shimonoseki pier has also risen three times in a row."

Wu Yifang and Wei Tling were all dead, they never imagined that the situation in Nanjing would deteriorate to such an extent. The front of the Rujiang Gate was crowded with Nanjing citizens who wanted to go to Xiaguan Wharf to leave by boat, and Lu Yuan and his party had to turn around and return to the women's college. "Both, you know now why I prepared so much food and supplies, once the war breaks out in Nanjing, a large number of residents in the city will become homeless refugees, and these food and winter supplies will become their lifesavers at that time."

After seeing the chaos in front of the Rujiang Gate with their own eyes, Wu Yifang and Wei Tling no longer prevented Lu Yuan's people from transporting food and supplies to the women's college, and even the women's college even gave the students in the college a day off according to Lu Yuan's plan, and asked them to go home to inform their families, relatives, friends and neighbors to come to the college for temporary refuge. At this time, Lu Yuan's plan was already at the last moment, but all this he planned still needed time to verify.

"Captain Luca, maybe we shouldn't let the recruited guards wear German uniforms, the number of guards we have recruited has exceeded 300, and a German army of 300 people has appeared in the city of Nanjing, whether it is the Japanese army or the national army, we don't seem to be able to explain it." Finally let the women's college stand on the same line with him, and Lu Yuan, who returned to Xiaofenqiao, convened a meeting again, and Lieutenant Colonel Heru and Captain Luca naturally attended this meeting.

"Lu, I thought you would ignore this issue." Lu Yuan's hesitation is also something that Luka has been pondering for the past few days, if it is only the Bande army commanded by Heru, it is better to say, but the escort team hired by Lu Yuan has exceeded 300 people, which is already the strength of two companies. Luca has not been able to see Lu Yuan for the past few days, and he is also worried that this matter will provoke protests from the Nationalist government, after all, 300 armed German troops appeared in the city of Nanjing, which can be regarded as a disguised military provocation for the Nationalist government.

Lu Yuan didn't expect that his worries would also embarrass Luka, and then smiled at Luka and Lieutenant Colonel Heru, "I'm thinking, what if our escort team doesn't wear German uniforms?" It is not even equipped with German-made weapons. A Bander's army under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Heru could be used as our armed force in the open, and those guards wore only red cross armbands, and women were uniformly issued pistols, and men were issued with shotguns and shotguns, which could also gag the mouths of the Japanese soldiers. ”

Luka and Lieutenant Colonel Heru applauded Lu Yuan's suggestion, so that although the force of the refugee camp was weakened, at least it avoided being found by the Japanese at that time. "Lu, don't worry, my soldiers and I will ensure the safety of the refugee camp when the time comes, and the Japanese will not dare to clash with our Party Guard." Lieutenant Colonel Heru gave Lu Yuan a long-awaited reassurance, and Luka promised to deploy four machine guns to reinforce the camp's defensive firepower.

In the two days after this meeting, Lu Yuan took Schuhman and others to continue to search for Japanese spies and internal agents in Nanjing. Relying on their own full-view map, Lu Yuan and others searched out most of the Japanese spies and internal agents lurking in Nanjing City in two days, and the prison of the military headquarters was once again filled with Japanese spies and internal agents who were screened by Lu Yuan using the full-view map.

Because of Lu Yuan's involvement, the Japanese army and the intelligence department of the Japanese army sent to Nanjing were almost all arrested, especially the intelligence team equipped with radio stations. Without intelligence from inside the city, the Japanese troops who had already appeared outside Nanjing did not have such a detailed understanding of the situation in the city, and the Japanese army could only rely on reconnaissance planes to conduct limited field reconnaissance of Nanjing's city defense, while the city defense units of the Nationalist army seized on this weakness of the Japanese army and always used the night to build the city defense fortifications.

Early in the morning of December 9, the Japanese army, which was ready to attack, used warplanes to drop leaflets on Nanking with an ultimatum, but the defenders did not pay any attention to this, and only the citizens in the city who had not had time to evacuate panicked. "It's finally getting started." Lu Yuan, who received the Japanese army's ultimatum, looked as usual, but after reading the leaflet, Lu Yuan announced that the refugee camp would be open to the public from today. After lunch, about 100 Nanjing newspaper boys hired by Lu Yuan rushed onto the streets and began to distribute leaflets printed in the refugee camps to citizens in the city who had not been evacuated according to the pre-divided areas.

In just one afternoon, hundreds of thousands of citizens in Nanjing who had not had time to evacuate learned about the refugee camp, and those who had the conditions made special phone calls to the Women's College and Xiaofenqiao to confirm the address of the refugee camp and the regulations for entering the camp. "We set the rules for entering the camp because we don't want the citizens of Nanjing to treat us as a good church, and everyone who enters the camp should see themselves as a part of this place. And we don't accept everyone here, at least the military is not allowed to enter the refugee camp, and the rules in advance are to avoid affecting the entire refugee camp due to emergencies. ”

As representatives of the women's college, Wu Yifang and Wei Tling also became members of the camp coordination group, and some of the 25 members of the coordination group agreed with and against Lu Yuan's explanation. "The Japanese army was menacing, and although the Nationalist army had already said that it wanted to live and die with Nanjing, in fact, most of the Nationalist troops stationed in Nanjing suffered heavy casualties in the battle of Shanghai. Even the German armament division, which was chaired by the committee, also had a large shortage of personnel, and once Nanjing was breached by the Japanese army, our refugee camp would be an isolated island surrounded by the Japanese army. ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, if the Japanese army comes to the door and uses us here as an excuse to take in the rout of the national army, how should we deal with it then? Do we hand over the soldiers of the national army who were taken in by us, or do we carry them to the death and deny the account? If it was forced by the Japanese army to hand over the soldiers of the national army, then we might as well not take them in in the first place. However, if the Japanese army is angered by this, the operation of the refugee camp may become more difficult due to the deliberate targeting of the Japanese army, so in order to avoid this situation, we must state in advance that the refugee camp will not accept soldiers. ”

"Yes, we set up the camp to help civilians who have been displaced by the war, and although we sympathize with the soldiers defending the city, I agree with the refugee camp's refusal to accept the soldiers if their presence will implicate the civilians in the camp." Captain Luca, who was dressed in civilian clothes, also made his voice heard at the right time, and Luca and Lu Yuan were on the same page on whether to accept soldiers in the refugee camp.

After some intense discussions and disputes, Lu Yuan finally persuaded the majority of the opposition, and after dinner, he hung a large notice in the form of words on the outside of the camp to clarify the attitude of the camp. On December 10, the Japanese army outside Nanjing launched an attack, first launching a full-scale attack on Yuhuatai, Tongjimen, Guanghuamen, and the third peak of the Purple Mountain, while the defenders also carried out a frantic resistance.

On the afternoon of 10 December, the situation in the south of Nanking was particularly severe, because the outlying positions outside the city had been largely lost in the tentative attack of the Japanese army the previous day, and the Japanese army was now able to attack the city walls. The main force of the two divisions of the Japanese army and the infantry, artillery, tank and aviation coordinated the attack, destroying the first line position on the right flank of the 88th Division of the National Army stationed in Yuhuatai, and the remnants of the 88th Division had to retreat to the second-line position.

The cannon roared outside the city, and Lu Yuan, who had already rushed to the women's college with Schuchman, stood on the roof of the library for a long time, and no one knew the direction of the entire Nanjing Battle to Lu Yuan, and it was this memory that was ahead of others that made Lu Yuan's chest full of grief and indignation at this time. From this moment on, China fell into an eight-year brutal war of resistance, because the massacre of hundreds of thousands of people also made the historic city of Nanjing an eternal pain in the hearts of Chinese.