The heavens start from Changjin Lake
Chapter 747 Chaos
Appeared next to Commander Tang.
No wonder this person was sitting next to Commander Tang. After all, he was someone he even praised as the chairman of the committee. Almost everyone knew that if this person came to Jinling and the national government, his future career would be smooth.
If this person is loyal to the government, he can even directly control the Central Army and his status can surpass Chen Cheng.
These days, there are too many people who know how to fight, but there are too few who can use their small skills to make a big difference.
And this person is someone who can make a big difference with a small thing.
Commander Tang said: "Everyone knows about Xia Yuan's contribution during his stay in Songhu, but they don't know that in the Battle of Jinling, he participated in the Jiangyin battle. With a battalion of troops, he killed thousands of enemies and held the Jiangyin position for a whole day. At that time, he guarded Yuhuatai and led a battalion to meet the enemy. He held on for a day and killed thousands of the enemy. Then he held on to the Zhonghua Gate. The Japanese army broke through the city wall. He fought alone against more than ten Japanese soldiers and easily fought. Qiu Weida, the commander of the 51th Regiment of the 306st Division, saw it with his own eyes. It is an honor for the government and an honor for China to have such talents."
When the conversation changed, he suddenly asked everyone: "How long do you want to fight?"
This question was too sudden. Just now I was introducing the Songhu God of War, and now it suddenly fell on me. Everyone looked at each other, not knowing how to answer this inexplicable question, and they all stared in confusion.
He seemed to be asking rhetorically.
Didn’t you tell us to live and die with Jinling?How to ask how long we want to fight.
Of course Tang Shengzhi understood what everyone was looking at. After standing awkwardly for about half a minute, he had to carry the chairman out, coughed a few times and said, "Everyone, the chairman has an order!"
As soon as they heard the chairman's order, everyone stood up, legs together, bowed their heads and listened respectfully. Even Xia Yuan was no exception, doing as the Romans did.
After Tang Shengzhi read out the chairman's brief order on retreat, Chief of Staff Zhou then read out the retreat routes of each division and the time of arrival at the designated location.
After Chief of Staff Zhou finished reading, Tang Shengzhi waved his hand and announced the adjournment of the meeting without any further explanation.
If the army commanders and division commanders received the amnesty order, they rushed to the door. They knew that as soon as the retreat order was announced, Jinling City would definitely be in chaos. The troops who got out of the city first could avoid the danger of being pursued by the enemy.
In layman's terms, whoever runs faster will survive.
As for staying to block the attack, it was basically impossible. The Japanese army surrounded Jinling from all sides and attacked from three gates. Those who stayed to block the enemy could only resist one side, but not the other.As for deploying troops to stay to stop the enemy, that was even more impossible. The Japanese army began to attack across the board, using all aircraft and artillery.
They also relied on their numerical advantage and terrain advantage to be able to defend Jinling.
Moreover, if we hold on until this time, we don't have many troops in our hands, and those who stay will die.
Therefore, everyone had no intention of talking to Xia Yuan, and anxiously ordered the driver to increase the power. It was still dark, so they had to rush back to notify their troops.
According to Commander Tang's retreat route, the 87th Division, the 88th Division, the 74th Army, and the Teaching Corps retreated to Xianguan, and then concentrated in Chuzhou. The remaining troops had to fight their way out of their positions and retreat out of the city.
However, no matter which direction these 10 officers and soldiers break through, they are risking their lives.
Especially from Xiaguan, Tang Shengzhi ordered not to retreat a few days ago, ordered to guard to the death, and even ordered to burn all the ships. At this time, there were no ferries at Xiaguan Pier, and the enemy formed three or four circles of Jinling to surround it. Breaking out of these heavily guarded breakout circles is not easy.
But now, the order to retreat has been conveyed to all ministries, and the officers and soldiers below received the order and abandoned their guns and fled.Even many army commanders and division commanders did not return to their troops after leaving Tang Shengzhi's residence, and fled directly to Xianguan Pass.
Even Tang Shengzhi, after saying "take care" to Xia Yuan, hurriedly left with others.
Tragedy happened under such circumstances.
The army of one hundred thousand soldiers was leaderless for a while. The army commander and division commander had all fled. Why didn't you run away?The [-] troops fled along Zhongshan North Road, past Drum Tower, and Shanxi Road to Xianguan Pass.
At this time, Song Xilian's troops, who were maintaining order in Xiaguan, had not yet received notice that the troops could retreat from Yijiangmen. Even Tang Shengzhi had forgotten about it when he escaped.Therefore, Song Xilian's troops are still resolutely carrying out the orders issued by Shangfeng to prevent soldiers from escaping from here.
Yijiang Gate is tall and heavy, painted with a layer of red paint. Sandbags are piled in front of the gate, and a large scrapped truck is parked.
Tang Shengzhi once came to Xiaguan and gave Song Xilian many warnings and instructions. No deserter was allowed to go without his warrant.
Now, what did the defeated soldiers who came over say to the sentries guarding Yijiang Gate? The sentries did not believe what they said, and told these poor officers and soldiers who wanted to retreat: "The task now is to defend Jinling to the death, and no one can escape. Commander Tang has Order, without his approval certificate, no one can open the door and slip away."
In order to carry out this order, they also fired warning shots at the incoming officers and soldiers from time to time.
The fleeing officers and soldiers crowded, pushed, and cursed loudly. Some soldiers couldn't bear it and actually shot the sentry directly, which immediately caused an explosion.
One sentry fell down, and other sentries were so shocked that they also fired. Many people narrowly escaped death under the gunpoint of the Japanese. Who would have thought that Yijiangmen would die under the gunpoint of their own people.
At this time, Yijiangmen had fallen into chaos.
In order to escape, some people found ropes, or simply mopped their clothes off the floor, tore the quilts into strips, and tied them into ropes. Then they tied the rope to the tree trunk in front of the city gate. Crowds grabbed the rope and climbed up. Seeing this, some people rushed up to grab the rope and climbed up.
How could a slender rope withstand the climbing of so many people? It quickly broke and the soldiers in mid-air fell to their death under the city wall.
Foreigners and common people living in Jinling City witnessed this unprecedented rout.
Some foreigners recorded this incident: On the way to the Xiaguan River, the situation was extremely embarrassing, filled with rifles, bullets, belts, military uniforms, cars, trucks, etc. abandoned by the Chinese army.Countless vehicles were burning, a horrific scene of fire.The city gates leading to Xiaguan and the riverside were closed. The terrified soldiers used ropes, leggings, belts and cloth strips to hang down the city walls. Many people fell to their death.This is a tragedy that should not have happened.
The officers and soldiers who tried their best to escape to the riverside had no time to rejoice in their fate, but a more tragic situation was before them.On the river, the mighty water has three-foot waves even in the absence of wind, making bursts of waves and roaring continuously.They originally thought that there were a large number of ships waiting for them on the riverside, and there must be tea on the roadside to entertain them, but now everything has become a fantasy.
The river was deserted, with not a single boat. When the mountains and rivers were exhausted, someone found a wooden board and plucked up the courage to jump into the cold river. On a December day, the river was bitingly cold, not to mention the rapid loss of body temperature. It was not certain that they could not reach the other side of the river, but huge waves swept them into the bottom of the river.
Some officers hired a boat at a high price. Before he could leave the shore, the fleeing soldiers saw it, jumped into the cold river water, and swarmed up. The small wooden boat was packed with water, and they were not able to escape. When they reached the center of the river, the rolling waves swallowed them up.
Chinese Gate.
In the 88th Division, Sun Yuanliang gave up command and went into hiding. The entire division lost command and fell into chaos. Most of them died in the Nanjing Massacre.In this battle, two of the three brigade commanders of the 88th Division under its jurisdiction were killed, three of the six regiment commanders were killed, 88 battalion commanders were killed, and the company and platoon commanders accounted for eight-tenths of all casualties.The 6000th Division had approximately 500 men before the war, but only [-] returned after the war.
Xia Yuan participated in the meeting and knew that what was about to begin was a great escape. He took the remaining soldiers of the 88th Division with him and only 36 wounded, which was only the strength of a platoon.
The 88th Division at Yuhuatai and Zhonghuamen were beaten like a piece of loose sand by the Japanese army.
Xia Yuan led these remaining soldiers to abandon their garrison at Zhonghua Gate and began to retreat into the city.
They retreated relatively late. After Xia Yuan left the conference room, he walked towards Zhonghua Gate without a car. When he arrived at Zhonghua Gate, it was already dawn and the Japanese attack arrived.
Xia Yuan led the remaining soldiers to repulse a wave of Japanese attacks and began to retreat into the city.
At this time, except for the section of Zhonghua Gate guarded by Xia Yuan, most of the Zhonghua Gate and other city gates had been breached by the Japanese army. A large number of Japanese troops poured into the city like locusts, carrying the burning flame of revenge and killing everyone on sight. , rape women whenever they see them, without caring about anything.
The remnant troops led by Xia Yuan saw an alley along the way, filled with corpses of Jinling people, with white flesh and blood, exposed organs, and twisted into deformed bodies.
There were men, women, and children, and the smell of blood permeated the alley.
Not even a place to step down.
The remnants of the 88th Division led by Xia Yuan had livid faces and clenched their fists hard. Even Xia Yuan was like this. Even though he was mentally prepared, his heart still couldn't stop after seeing so many Chinese corpses. Trembling, the seeds of hatred were deeply rooted in his heart.
When did the Japanese army start massacring Chinese people?
In fact, in the early days of the Battle of Jinling, the Japanese army had no intention of committing the Jinling Massacre.
The Sino-Japanese War attracted worldwide attention.
During the Battle of Songhu, the Japanese army attacked China. The resulting Battle of Songhu, coupled with a series of "performances" by Chiang Kai-shek, had tilted international public opinion towards China, which was detrimental to the Japanese army.
Therefore, when the Battle of Jinling broke out, the focus of the world was on China. What the Japanese troops did when they entered Jinling was bound to be seen by the whole world.
At this time, what Matsui Iwane wanted was to let a well-disciplined team enter Jinling.
But things always backfire.
On December 1937, 12, just as the Japanese army was approaching Jinling, Matsui Iwane's condition worsened at the Suzhou Field Command, and his chronic tuberculosis recurred again.
Matsui Iwane fell ill at the right time, because his command was about to be handed over to a member of the imperial family, the Asaka Palace.
According to the new order, Matsui Iwane was promoted to the supreme commander of the entire Central China battlefield, and Lieutenant General Asaka Miya Hatohiko, who had served in the army for 30 years, became the new commander of the Shanghai Expeditionary Force, responsible for commanding the troops around Jinling.
Since Chaoxiang Palace is a member of the royal family, the power in his hands far exceeds that of all the generals fighting on the front line of Jinling.The most important thing is that because he had been colleagues with Nakajima Kongo and Yanagawa Heisuke for three years in the Japanese Army Intelligence Office in Paris, his relationship with the two was much closer than that of Matsui Iwane.
During the Japanese mutiny in February 1936, Asaka Palace sided with the emperor's younger brother on a certain political issue and opposed Emperor Showa.Then among all the royal family lists, Emperor Showa still selected this guy who once stood with his younger brother and appointed him commander of the Japanese army in the Jinling area. Obviously, he wanted to give his uncle a chance to atone for his sins.
At the time, this seemed to be an insignificant personnel change, but later facts proved that it had a decisive impact on the lives of thousands of Chinese people.
No one knows what happened to the Japanese army at that time, but they do know a little bit about what was later explained in the trial of Matsui Iwane and his colleagues.
Matsui Iwane was worried that this new member from the imperial family would abuse his power and do something that would harm the Japanese army, so he issued a series of moral orders to the troops attacking Jinling.
He ordered his troops to stop and repair a few kilometers outside Jinling City, allowing only a few well-disciplined troops to enter Jinling and complete the occupation.
In this way, the Japanese army performed well in front of the Chinese, thereby winning their trust in Japan.He also called a meeting of his staff in front of his bed and announced:
"The entry of the imperial army into a foreign capital is a major event in our country's history. It will definitely attract the attention of the whole world. Therefore, the troops entering the city must strictly observe discipline and let them know in advance what they need to remember and where the rights and interests of foreigners in Jinling City are. They must not be robbed. If necessary, guard posts will be posted. Robbery and arson, even if they are unintentional, will be severely punished. Gendarmerie and auxiliary gendarmerie should be sent into the city with the troops to prevent illegal acts."
It can be seen from this that Matsui Iwane has a good strategy and vision. He is very aware of the impact of entering a foreign capital, which is quite noticeable around the world.
Therefore, what the Japanese troops did in Jinling City must be strictly guarded and anything that would insult the face of the imperial troops must not occur.
However, illegal events brewing elsewhere are beyond Matsui Iwane's control.
On December 12, Chaoxiang Palace left the news by plane, and arrived at the front line three days later. In an abandoned country villa about 5 miles southeast of Jinling, not far from the field headquarters, Chaoxiang Palace met with him in Paris. Colleague General Nakajima.
Nakajima suffered a flesh wound on his left hip and was recovering. Nakajima told the Asaka Palace that the Japanese army would defend about 30 Chinese soldiers near Jinling and that preliminary negotiations were underway to indicate their intention to surrender.
Most of these troops were local troops who retreated from the Songhu Battlefield and came from various provinces. With the failure of the Songhu Battle, their escape can be described in one word.
chaos! (End of chapter)
No wonder this person was sitting next to Commander Tang. After all, he was someone he even praised as the chairman of the committee. Almost everyone knew that if this person came to Jinling and the national government, his future career would be smooth.
If this person is loyal to the government, he can even directly control the Central Army and his status can surpass Chen Cheng.
These days, there are too many people who know how to fight, but there are too few who can use their small skills to make a big difference.
And this person is someone who can make a big difference with a small thing.
Commander Tang said: "Everyone knows about Xia Yuan's contribution during his stay in Songhu, but they don't know that in the Battle of Jinling, he participated in the Jiangyin battle. With a battalion of troops, he killed thousands of enemies and held the Jiangyin position for a whole day. At that time, he guarded Yuhuatai and led a battalion to meet the enemy. He held on for a day and killed thousands of the enemy. Then he held on to the Zhonghua Gate. The Japanese army broke through the city wall. He fought alone against more than ten Japanese soldiers and easily fought. Qiu Weida, the commander of the 51th Regiment of the 306st Division, saw it with his own eyes. It is an honor for the government and an honor for China to have such talents."
When the conversation changed, he suddenly asked everyone: "How long do you want to fight?"
This question was too sudden. Just now I was introducing the Songhu God of War, and now it suddenly fell on me. Everyone looked at each other, not knowing how to answer this inexplicable question, and they all stared in confusion.
He seemed to be asking rhetorically.
Didn’t you tell us to live and die with Jinling?How to ask how long we want to fight.
Of course Tang Shengzhi understood what everyone was looking at. After standing awkwardly for about half a minute, he had to carry the chairman out, coughed a few times and said, "Everyone, the chairman has an order!"
As soon as they heard the chairman's order, everyone stood up, legs together, bowed their heads and listened respectfully. Even Xia Yuan was no exception, doing as the Romans did.
After Tang Shengzhi read out the chairman's brief order on retreat, Chief of Staff Zhou then read out the retreat routes of each division and the time of arrival at the designated location.
After Chief of Staff Zhou finished reading, Tang Shengzhi waved his hand and announced the adjournment of the meeting without any further explanation.
If the army commanders and division commanders received the amnesty order, they rushed to the door. They knew that as soon as the retreat order was announced, Jinling City would definitely be in chaos. The troops who got out of the city first could avoid the danger of being pursued by the enemy.
In layman's terms, whoever runs faster will survive.
As for staying to block the attack, it was basically impossible. The Japanese army surrounded Jinling from all sides and attacked from three gates. Those who stayed to block the enemy could only resist one side, but not the other.As for deploying troops to stay to stop the enemy, that was even more impossible. The Japanese army began to attack across the board, using all aircraft and artillery.
They also relied on their numerical advantage and terrain advantage to be able to defend Jinling.
Moreover, if we hold on until this time, we don't have many troops in our hands, and those who stay will die.
Therefore, everyone had no intention of talking to Xia Yuan, and anxiously ordered the driver to increase the power. It was still dark, so they had to rush back to notify their troops.
According to Commander Tang's retreat route, the 87th Division, the 88th Division, the 74th Army, and the Teaching Corps retreated to Xianguan, and then concentrated in Chuzhou. The remaining troops had to fight their way out of their positions and retreat out of the city.
However, no matter which direction these 10 officers and soldiers break through, they are risking their lives.
Especially from Xiaguan, Tang Shengzhi ordered not to retreat a few days ago, ordered to guard to the death, and even ordered to burn all the ships. At this time, there were no ferries at Xiaguan Pier, and the enemy formed three or four circles of Jinling to surround it. Breaking out of these heavily guarded breakout circles is not easy.
But now, the order to retreat has been conveyed to all ministries, and the officers and soldiers below received the order and abandoned their guns and fled.Even many army commanders and division commanders did not return to their troops after leaving Tang Shengzhi's residence, and fled directly to Xianguan Pass.
Even Tang Shengzhi, after saying "take care" to Xia Yuan, hurriedly left with others.
Tragedy happened under such circumstances.
The army of one hundred thousand soldiers was leaderless for a while. The army commander and division commander had all fled. Why didn't you run away?The [-] troops fled along Zhongshan North Road, past Drum Tower, and Shanxi Road to Xianguan Pass.
At this time, Song Xilian's troops, who were maintaining order in Xiaguan, had not yet received notice that the troops could retreat from Yijiangmen. Even Tang Shengzhi had forgotten about it when he escaped.Therefore, Song Xilian's troops are still resolutely carrying out the orders issued by Shangfeng to prevent soldiers from escaping from here.
Yijiang Gate is tall and heavy, painted with a layer of red paint. Sandbags are piled in front of the gate, and a large scrapped truck is parked.
Tang Shengzhi once came to Xiaguan and gave Song Xilian many warnings and instructions. No deserter was allowed to go without his warrant.
Now, what did the defeated soldiers who came over say to the sentries guarding Yijiang Gate? The sentries did not believe what they said, and told these poor officers and soldiers who wanted to retreat: "The task now is to defend Jinling to the death, and no one can escape. Commander Tang has Order, without his approval certificate, no one can open the door and slip away."
In order to carry out this order, they also fired warning shots at the incoming officers and soldiers from time to time.
The fleeing officers and soldiers crowded, pushed, and cursed loudly. Some soldiers couldn't bear it and actually shot the sentry directly, which immediately caused an explosion.
One sentry fell down, and other sentries were so shocked that they also fired. Many people narrowly escaped death under the gunpoint of the Japanese. Who would have thought that Yijiangmen would die under the gunpoint of their own people.
At this time, Yijiangmen had fallen into chaos.
In order to escape, some people found ropes, or simply mopped their clothes off the floor, tore the quilts into strips, and tied them into ropes. Then they tied the rope to the tree trunk in front of the city gate. Crowds grabbed the rope and climbed up. Seeing this, some people rushed up to grab the rope and climbed up.
How could a slender rope withstand the climbing of so many people? It quickly broke and the soldiers in mid-air fell to their death under the city wall.
Foreigners and common people living in Jinling City witnessed this unprecedented rout.
Some foreigners recorded this incident: On the way to the Xiaguan River, the situation was extremely embarrassing, filled with rifles, bullets, belts, military uniforms, cars, trucks, etc. abandoned by the Chinese army.Countless vehicles were burning, a horrific scene of fire.The city gates leading to Xiaguan and the riverside were closed. The terrified soldiers used ropes, leggings, belts and cloth strips to hang down the city walls. Many people fell to their death.This is a tragedy that should not have happened.
The officers and soldiers who tried their best to escape to the riverside had no time to rejoice in their fate, but a more tragic situation was before them.On the river, the mighty water has three-foot waves even in the absence of wind, making bursts of waves and roaring continuously.They originally thought that there were a large number of ships waiting for them on the riverside, and there must be tea on the roadside to entertain them, but now everything has become a fantasy.
The river was deserted, with not a single boat. When the mountains and rivers were exhausted, someone found a wooden board and plucked up the courage to jump into the cold river. On a December day, the river was bitingly cold, not to mention the rapid loss of body temperature. It was not certain that they could not reach the other side of the river, but huge waves swept them into the bottom of the river.
Some officers hired a boat at a high price. Before he could leave the shore, the fleeing soldiers saw it, jumped into the cold river water, and swarmed up. The small wooden boat was packed with water, and they were not able to escape. When they reached the center of the river, the rolling waves swallowed them up.
Chinese Gate.
In the 88th Division, Sun Yuanliang gave up command and went into hiding. The entire division lost command and fell into chaos. Most of them died in the Nanjing Massacre.In this battle, two of the three brigade commanders of the 88th Division under its jurisdiction were killed, three of the six regiment commanders were killed, 88 battalion commanders were killed, and the company and platoon commanders accounted for eight-tenths of all casualties.The 6000th Division had approximately 500 men before the war, but only [-] returned after the war.
Xia Yuan participated in the meeting and knew that what was about to begin was a great escape. He took the remaining soldiers of the 88th Division with him and only 36 wounded, which was only the strength of a platoon.
The 88th Division at Yuhuatai and Zhonghuamen were beaten like a piece of loose sand by the Japanese army.
Xia Yuan led these remaining soldiers to abandon their garrison at Zhonghua Gate and began to retreat into the city.
They retreated relatively late. After Xia Yuan left the conference room, he walked towards Zhonghua Gate without a car. When he arrived at Zhonghua Gate, it was already dawn and the Japanese attack arrived.
Xia Yuan led the remaining soldiers to repulse a wave of Japanese attacks and began to retreat into the city.
At this time, except for the section of Zhonghua Gate guarded by Xia Yuan, most of the Zhonghua Gate and other city gates had been breached by the Japanese army. A large number of Japanese troops poured into the city like locusts, carrying the burning flame of revenge and killing everyone on sight. , rape women whenever they see them, without caring about anything.
The remnant troops led by Xia Yuan saw an alley along the way, filled with corpses of Jinling people, with white flesh and blood, exposed organs, and twisted into deformed bodies.
There were men, women, and children, and the smell of blood permeated the alley.
Not even a place to step down.
The remnants of the 88th Division led by Xia Yuan had livid faces and clenched their fists hard. Even Xia Yuan was like this. Even though he was mentally prepared, his heart still couldn't stop after seeing so many Chinese corpses. Trembling, the seeds of hatred were deeply rooted in his heart.
When did the Japanese army start massacring Chinese people?
In fact, in the early days of the Battle of Jinling, the Japanese army had no intention of committing the Jinling Massacre.
The Sino-Japanese War attracted worldwide attention.
During the Battle of Songhu, the Japanese army attacked China. The resulting Battle of Songhu, coupled with a series of "performances" by Chiang Kai-shek, had tilted international public opinion towards China, which was detrimental to the Japanese army.
Therefore, when the Battle of Jinling broke out, the focus of the world was on China. What the Japanese troops did when they entered Jinling was bound to be seen by the whole world.
At this time, what Matsui Iwane wanted was to let a well-disciplined team enter Jinling.
But things always backfire.
On December 1937, 12, just as the Japanese army was approaching Jinling, Matsui Iwane's condition worsened at the Suzhou Field Command, and his chronic tuberculosis recurred again.
Matsui Iwane fell ill at the right time, because his command was about to be handed over to a member of the imperial family, the Asaka Palace.
According to the new order, Matsui Iwane was promoted to the supreme commander of the entire Central China battlefield, and Lieutenant General Asaka Miya Hatohiko, who had served in the army for 30 years, became the new commander of the Shanghai Expeditionary Force, responsible for commanding the troops around Jinling.
Since Chaoxiang Palace is a member of the royal family, the power in his hands far exceeds that of all the generals fighting on the front line of Jinling.The most important thing is that because he had been colleagues with Nakajima Kongo and Yanagawa Heisuke for three years in the Japanese Army Intelligence Office in Paris, his relationship with the two was much closer than that of Matsui Iwane.
During the Japanese mutiny in February 1936, Asaka Palace sided with the emperor's younger brother on a certain political issue and opposed Emperor Showa.Then among all the royal family lists, Emperor Showa still selected this guy who once stood with his younger brother and appointed him commander of the Japanese army in the Jinling area. Obviously, he wanted to give his uncle a chance to atone for his sins.
At the time, this seemed to be an insignificant personnel change, but later facts proved that it had a decisive impact on the lives of thousands of Chinese people.
No one knows what happened to the Japanese army at that time, but they do know a little bit about what was later explained in the trial of Matsui Iwane and his colleagues.
Matsui Iwane was worried that this new member from the imperial family would abuse his power and do something that would harm the Japanese army, so he issued a series of moral orders to the troops attacking Jinling.
He ordered his troops to stop and repair a few kilometers outside Jinling City, allowing only a few well-disciplined troops to enter Jinling and complete the occupation.
In this way, the Japanese army performed well in front of the Chinese, thereby winning their trust in Japan.He also called a meeting of his staff in front of his bed and announced:
"The entry of the imperial army into a foreign capital is a major event in our country's history. It will definitely attract the attention of the whole world. Therefore, the troops entering the city must strictly observe discipline and let them know in advance what they need to remember and where the rights and interests of foreigners in Jinling City are. They must not be robbed. If necessary, guard posts will be posted. Robbery and arson, even if they are unintentional, will be severely punished. Gendarmerie and auxiliary gendarmerie should be sent into the city with the troops to prevent illegal acts."
It can be seen from this that Matsui Iwane has a good strategy and vision. He is very aware of the impact of entering a foreign capital, which is quite noticeable around the world.
Therefore, what the Japanese troops did in Jinling City must be strictly guarded and anything that would insult the face of the imperial troops must not occur.
However, illegal events brewing elsewhere are beyond Matsui Iwane's control.
On December 12, Chaoxiang Palace left the news by plane, and arrived at the front line three days later. In an abandoned country villa about 5 miles southeast of Jinling, not far from the field headquarters, Chaoxiang Palace met with him in Paris. Colleague General Nakajima.
Nakajima suffered a flesh wound on his left hip and was recovering. Nakajima told the Asaka Palace that the Japanese army would defend about 30 Chinese soldiers near Jinling and that preliminary negotiations were underway to indicate their intention to surrender.
Most of these troops were local troops who retreated from the Songhu Battlefield and came from various provinces. With the failure of the Songhu Battle, their escape can be described in one word.
chaos! (End of chapter)
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