Chapter 480: Empty City

"I can't break out!"

The slightly anxious voice of his subordinates did not change Xiao Shanling's expression.

The battalion under his command continued to persevere here for a full three hours, blocking the advancing Japanese soldiers from the position. At this time, the brothers should have successfully broken through.

However, his third battalion could not get out, and he was surrounded by the Japanese in the front and back.

There are only about a hundred brothers left in the Third Battalion, and the ammunition is about to be exhausted. Now everyone knows that it is just doing the final efforts of a Chinese soldier.

Xiao Shanling didn't think there was anything to be afraid of. He did all his responsibilities and was the best choice for him now.

"Brothers, everyone is gathered together, and they will die together." Xiao Shanling waved his hand to command the remaining soldiers.

The soldiers gathered around him. This was once a teahouse, which was said to be very famous. Folk stories say that Empress Ma, the wife of the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, often settled here during a private visit, ate a cup of tea, and listened to the sufferings of the people mentioned by the teahouse.

But Xiao Shanling knew that this was just a folk legend. Where did so many private visits come from intimately? Even if an emperor or queen really wants to leave the palace intimately, how many guards have to be mobilized to protect the safety?

But perhaps many years later, when the Japanese were driven out and the teahouse reopened, would the tea shop tell their stories?

Xiao Shanling smiled slightly, maybe he could.

"Seat, why are you laughing at?" Looking at the way the seat was, a platoon leader asked curiously.

"I was thinking just now that we are going to die soon, but after a hundred years, someone might be drinking tea here and saying, "In the past, there were a group of heroes and Japanese fighting here..."

Xiao Shanling's words aroused the curiosity of the soldiers. An elderly soldier leaned against the senkaku several steps: " senkaku, do you mean that we can become people in the story in the future?"

"Yes, I promise we can become people in the story in the future." Xiao Shanling gently patted the soldier's head: "Maybe you are Zhao Zilong riding a white horse and holding a silver spear in the story!"

The people around him burst into laughter, and the soldier also felt embarrassed to stick out his tongue.

"But, to be honest, I'm really a little afraid of death."

Xiao Shanling smiled slightly: "Who is not afraid of death in this world? Don't talk about you, even I am afraid of death. But no matter how afraid of death, we cannot show it in front of the Japanese. Why? Because we are Chinese, we are all Chinese soldiers. Anyone in this world can be afraid of death, but soldiers cannot..."

The gunshots outside sounded again, accompanied by some faint roar.

The soldiers all got up from the ground and threw themselves into their own positions.

Xiao Shanling looked outside and the Japanese actually moved two chariots. He smiled contemptuously, and there were only one hundred people who were seriously insufficient ammunition.

The Japanese were scared, and the Chinese soldiers really scared them!

Xiao Shanling chuckled softly, then picked up his submachine gun...

The battlefield suddenly became quiet, and the teahouse opposite was quiet and there was no sound at all. But even so, the Japanese pirate soldiers still did not dare to attack. They could not be sure that the army opposite had lost the power of resistance.

There were only the last three people left in the teahouse. Xiao Shanling, the platoon leader and the soldier who was "fearing death".

The ammunition was exhausted, Xiao Shanling was shot in his stomach. He fell to the ground and smiled and said to the "fear of death" soldier: "Little brother, help me get my pistol."

The "fear of death" soldier pulled out his pistol from his waist and put it in the hands of the genital seat.

Xiao Shanling checked the magazine, and at this time he saw the platoon leader saluting him.

"I will take the seat, and I will complete the final sniper mission, killing more than 30 Japanese pirates in front and behind. I will rule out all of them killed in battle. Now I will report to you that I will go to find my brothers..."

Xiao Shanling nodded, raised his hand and barely returned a military salute.

"Agree with the request, take this little brother with you!"

The soldier had already put a bayonet on it. When he walked to the door, he suddenly turned around and smiled: "Shense, my name is Duan Lizhu. When it comes down, don't forget my name!"

"I can't forget it, I can't forget it..." Xiao Shanling murmured.

He will never forget this soldier, his name, and his smile: "Duan Lizhu"'s smile has been firmly engraved in his mind at this moment and will never disappear again...

More than a dozen Japanese rush in. Xiao Shanling leaned against a table and fired several shots in a row. Several Japanese stumbled to the ground. The Japanese who had thought there were no living people in the teahouse were a little panicked and shouted and scattered.

He pulled the trigger and there were no bullets inside. Looking at the Japanese hiding in a panic, Xiao Shanling smiled contemptuously again.

He took out the last bullet from his shirt pocket and slowly pressed it into the chamber of the gun.

The last bullet is always left to yourself!

He smiled and slowly stuffed the gun into his mouth...

Xiao Shanling, deputy commander of the Gendarmerie Command and acting director of the Capital Police Department, chief of staff of the Nanjing Garrison Command, and graduated from Yiyang, Hunan. He graduated from the third phase of the Baoding Army Officer School.

While covering the retreat of Nanjing defense forces, they were unfortunately shot and injured. They drew their guns and committed suicide with the last bullet, and died heroically for their country.

This is the highest-level officer who died in the Nanjing Defense War. Xiao Shanling and the third battalion commanded by him are forever engraved on the Nanjing city tower...

After the gunshot, the Japanese did not believe that there were no Chinese soldiers in the teahouse.

They set their guns randomly, and then burned the teahouse that caused them to lose their troops and generals with a fire.

The fire was burning, but in the fire, the smiles of Xiao Shanling and his brothers were clearly visible...

"The last" a group of troops evacuated, and the organized resistance in Nanjing had ended. From December 29, 2018 to March 30, 28, the Nanjing urban defense forces resisted here for three months! From city defense to street fighting, the heroic Chinese army has been fighting for the dignity of the country!

During the entire Nanjing defense battle, the Zhongdao Army paid an unimaginable price.

In terms of the Chinese army, only generals at or above were killed.

Xiaoshan Ling, Gao Zhisong, Yi Anhua, Luo Cequn, Yao Zhongying, Situ Fei, Liu Guoyong, Zhu Chi... After the war, there were stating a total of two lieutenant generals and seventeen major generals (including ratification).

More than 100,000 Chinese soldiers were killed 63,000 and disabled 18,000. In other words, the entire 100,000 army was almost vacant here. If the retreat order was issued later, or even one person could not come back alive...

A war where the proportion of casualties far exceeds the proportion of disability!

The Japanese pirates also suffered heavy losses.

From the battle outside the Nanjing city, to the city defense war, and then to the street fighting, a total of 38,000 people were killed and more than 30,000 were injured. Among them, more than 200 officers at all levels were shot dead under the corps commander.

In three months, more than 100,000 lives were lost in Nanjing!

The results of the battle were simply unbearable for the Japanese pirates.

In the empty city of Nanjing, until all the Chinese troops evacuated, gunfire still sounded from time to time. It was because the Chinese soldiers who had lost contact with the troops and did not receive the order to retreat were still fighting there.

"No order, no step back!"

This is an order jointly issued by the General Command and the Command!

The soldiers did not know that the troops had evacuated, and they were still fighting the Japanese pirates on their positions. They were still waiting there, waiting for the retreat order that they could not know when, but they would never wait...

Among them is the "high heel sniper". He has long lost contact with his troops. In fact, whether to retreat or not is meaningless to him. From the day his brother died in front of him, he has long regarded himself as a dead person.

There are also many soldiers like him who are doing the same things as him.

They are all waiting for the retreat order that will never be sent again...

"Meaning, where is the meaning?" Yamamoto Hiroji's expression was indescribably weird, and he was frustrated: "How much does it cost to pay here? But what did we get?"

"We got an empty city, a dead city." Matsui Ishione looked even more depressed and sad than him.

"Now we can proudly declare that after the Empire suffered tens of thousands of soldiers' casualties, we finally took an empty city into the hands of the Empire. Then, our government will continue to promote the 'holy war', and the people will cheer for seizing the enemy's capital, but they do not know that we have actually suffered the most severe failure..."

Yes, they encountered a heavy failure here, even though they took Nanjing into their hands.

But the government and the people will not see this. The enemy's capital has been seized, so the enemy's surrender is just around the corner.

Let the "Long Live" voices in the island country come more violently.

When the cheers pass, they will soon know what they will face.

"I swear that during this period, Zheng Yong has accomplished everything he wants to do. What he now thinks is not how to regain Nanjing, but how to organize superior forces and give us already very tired soldiers a heavy and fierce blow."

Yamamoto Hiroji's face was gloomy and hesitant. He might have vaguely seen the terrible things that were about to arrive. He stood there motionless with the command knife.
Chapter completed!