Chapter 13 Japanese Army Occupy Nanjing

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It’s not just Lu Jianxiong who is resisting in Nanjing!

Strictly speaking, on December 13, 1937, it was only today that Japan completely occupied Nanjing.

There is not much time left for Chen Xian, so I have to gather people.

This is also the best time period.

First of all, Chen Xian is the major of the Kuomintang army, and secondly, Instructor Li is the colonel of the Kuomintang army.

What you are talking about should be the safety area to the west, where is there a square and a bell tower?

After listening to Chen Xian’s question, the mouse thought about it and said it.

It seems that there are people who are familiar with it to do things.

Chen Xian said: Let’s go there.

Along the way, the three of them were safe and sound. With Chen Xian's Japanese officer uniform and his Japanese language, they met several Japanese squads on the way and fooled them.

Of course, I met refugees who fled along the way.

Chen Xian also pretended to turn a blind eye.

He couldn't save everyone, and he couldn't save so many people.

If you bring these refugees, it is very likely that sheep will enter the tiger's mouth.

The gain is not worth the loss.

About an hour or so.

Chen Xian, Xu Dapeng and mouse arrived near the safety zone.

Just as the three of them were walking on the roadside.

A bicycle came on the way.

A little Japanese rode on it, shouting excitedly in Japanese on his face.

This scene has also appeared in the movie.

But this sentence has not been translated.

Until now, Chen Xian heard clearly what the little Japanese was shouting.

The three of them did not stand beside them. It was not until the little Japanese walked away on their bicycles that Xu Dapeng asked: What was the little Japanese shouting just now, yelling loudly.

Chen Xian sighed and said: Japan has occupied the Presidential Palace in Nanjing, and Nanjing has been completely occupied by them.

Although it means that I know that Japan will occupy Nanjing, I feel it myself with a different mentality.

For Chen Xian, the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China was a shame, and the Japanese invasion of China was also a shame.

Of course, with the current force of the Kuomintang, it is Chiang Kai-shek's responsibility to be held in Nanjing so easily.

The Battle of Nanjing took place after the Battle of Songhu. The people guarding Nanjing City and the ones who fought against the Japanese on the battlefield of Songhu were the same Chinese army.

After the failure of the Battle of Songhu, the Chinese defenders who survived on the battlefield of Songhu went to Nanjing to defend Nanjing again.

Chiang Kai-shek actually knew whether Nanjing could be kept.

The Japanese army has excellent weapons and cooperates with sea, land and air. It is not a matter of overnight success to defeat such an army, but requires continuous combat.

In this case, the consideration must be to minimize casualties, exchange space for time, and ultimately use China's geographical advantages to defeat the Japanese army.

How to defeat the Japanese army with geographical advantages.

There are many cities in China and can fight against the Japanese army in multiple cities. Every time the Japanese army occupy a city, they have to divide their troops to guard it, so that the number of troops they can invest in the battlefield will be greatly reduced.

It was like many Japanese soldiers who attacked Nanjing, which were new recruits, like Masao Kakugawa.

Every time the Japanese army occupied a city, they would send Japanese troops to guard it.

The Eighth Route Army will launch an anti-Japanese revolutionary base behind enemy lines, so that the Japanese army will be attacked from both sides.

In time, it will be a matter of time to defeat the Japanese army.

Therefore, when you first started fighting with the Japanese army, the best solution was to avoid their elite troops and reduce casualties!

However, even if Chiang Kai-shek could not defend Nanjing City, he would still have to defend it, after all, Nanjing is the capital of the Kuomintang.

If he kept shooting, Chiang Kai-shek would probably be scolded to death.

The most important thing is that fighting in Nanjing will also arouse international public opinion and arouse the fighting spirit of the people. It is necessary to fight one battle and one defense and one battle.

Another thing is that Chiang Kai-shek has always had fantasies about Britain, the United States and other countries, hoping that they can interfere in China and Japan.

This is also what Chiang Kai-shek was most helpless. After all, China was an agricultural country and Japan was an industrial country at that time.

An agricultural country, against an industrial country, obviously does not have an advantage.

Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek decided to fight if he couldn't win.

Since he decided to fight, he had to find the commander-in-chief. Chiang Kai-shek originally wanted to take charge of Nanjing as the commander-in-chief himself.

It was in this situation that Tang Shengzhi stood up and asked Chiang Kai-shek to avoid it, leaving Nanjing City to guard him.

Tang Shengzhi meant that the anti-Japanese countries could not be without Chiang Kai-shek, but they could be without Tang Shengzhi.

I thought Tang Shengzhi could win glory for the country, but this time, his inaction led to the great defeat of the Chinese army.

At the beginning, Tang Shengzhi arranged the task of guarding Nanjing City quite well, and asked Hu Zongnan's first army to be the last line of defense. If anyone dared to retreat, he would be killed.

The First Army was the elite of the Kuomintang. When the Nanjing Defense War was in the Battle of Nanjing, the most important thing was that during the Battle of Shanghai, the First Army suffered too many casualties, and tens of thousands of Whampoa Army were defeated into a team of thousands of people.

Among them, the Battle of Songhu also reduced the number of veterans of the Japanese army.

The movie Eight Hundred is based on the story of the end of the Battle of Shanghai in 1937. Eight Hundred heroes stayed at the Sihang Warehouse, tenaciously resisted the War of Resistance for four days and four nights, and defended the last line of defense in Shanghai.

Tens of thousands of Whampoa Army are actually the direct troops of Chiang Kai-shek. This team was no longer capable of fighting after the battle of the Shanghai Battle and could only serve as a military supervisor.

In Tang Shengzhi's view, this is a battle of his back.

To rush forward is to kill the Japanese devils, to win glory for the country, to be a national hero, to retreat is a coward, to be a coward, to be unforgivable.

The Chinese defenders were all good. When facing the Japanese army with elite equipment, most of them could resist tenaciously. They defended for three days, and the Japanese army had not yet attacked Nanjing City.

At this time, Chiang Kai-shek felt that the purpose of defending Nanjing had been achieved and there was no need to make too much sacrifice, so he issued an order to withdraw from Nanjing City.

However, what was unexpected was that Commander-in-Chief Tang Shengzhi did not organize the army to evacuate effectively. After he held a meeting for the superior officers, he evacuated himself.

As soon as Tang Shengzhi retreated, the other commanders also evacuated firefighting, as if he was afraid that he would be shot dead by the Japanese army if he retreated. The commander retreated, and the result was that the army had no command and the retreat became an unorganized and undisciplined retreat.

It was this kind of retreat that gave the Japanese army a chance to attack.

The large number of retreating Chinese defenders were besieged and annihilated by the Japanese army, which led to a great defeat of the national army.

Of course, not all officers retreated, and a few officers such as Liao Yaoxiang and Sun Yuanliang were still with their army.

However, they did nothing to stay. They could only change into the clothes of the people and pretend to be ordinary people and evacuate from Nanjing.

If Tang Shengzhi made any mistake, it was that he ran away too quickly and ignored the lives and death of the people and soldiers. If he stayed and commanded the defenders to retreat in an orderly manner, the large army would definitely be able to be retained.