Early in the morning of November 30!

Zhou Weiguo drove his troops and lined up in four columns to go out of the East City Gate in an orderly manner.

There were more than 30 trucks full of supplies falling behind the team.

When the people met in the early morning, they were talking about it because this was the most neat unit they had seen these days. And the guys in their hands were the most advanced German equipment.

There are more soldiers coming and going in Nanjing, and the people have begun to clear the various weapons.

At this time, a discerning person saw the number of the troops and said in surprise: "The 87th Division is the 87th Division's troops."

"The 87th Division is a direct unit. What do I say, is it so well-equipped? All of them are German-style equipment?"

"Wait, what do you think behind it? That's the gendarmerie?"

"It is the independent regiment of the Third Gendarmerie Battalion."

"I'm good, isn't that legendary figure in the Independent Group - Dragon Boat Festival team? Why did they walk with the people from the 87th Division?"

"Tsk tsk, this is a powerful alliance!"

"Yes, yes, you see, there are so many people, at least more than a thousand people."

"Look, there are still cannons behind, and there are eight? Grandma's is bound to fight a big battle!"

"Yes, the Japanese devil who beat the little girl to death!"

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The people were talking a lot, but no one dared to come forward to chat with him at this moment.

Because it is obvious that this is a well-equipped and well-trained unit and those stragglers are completely different from those stragglers.

They all have murderous aura in their eyes, which is a momentum that makes the enemy feel frightened when they see it, so let alone these ordinary people.

But they felt at ease with such a unit. With such a unit here, can the Japanese really fight to Nanjing?

At this time, all the people watched them and prayed for them in their hearts, hoping that they could kill more Japanese devils and return triumphantly as soon as possible.

Of course, this is because the people do not know the tragic battlefield ahead. Just last night, the battle near Jiangyin Fortress had basically ended, and only some areas in Shanxi have not been captured by the Japanese.

The Japanese Fifth Division also launched a crazy attack on the Changzhou area, and many defense lines outside Changzhou had fallen.

In this regard, the injured Commander Huo of the 112th Division and the Commander He Zhizhong of the 103rd Division were both very troubled.

Needless to say, He Zhizhong only knew how to execute orders, but he saw that the Japanese army was coming in a fierce manner and even a little timid. However, with the order from Dragon Boat Festival before, he could not retreat. What's more, Commander Huo from the 112th Division was in charge.

Commander Huo looked at the military map and felt that something was wrong. The Japanese Fifth Division was very fierce. In less than a day, he occupied several important defense lines such as Fangshan, Xiayang Town, Beimo Town, etc.

Commander Huo predicted that on the afternoon of the 30th, the Japanese vanguard troops would arrive at the Womachuan position 30 miles away from Changzhou. The battle in Changzhou may start at any time.

He Zhizhong and Commander Huo said: "Now we are short of troops, and there are only two regiments in the Womachuan position, and there are no artillery as support, so it can't last long."

Commander Huo had no words, so how could he not know that the Womachuan position was insufficient and there was no artillery support?

But at this time, he could not draw out any more troops.

In the battle of Jiangyin Fortress, the 112th Division suffered heavy losses and the 103rd Division also suffered casualties. Later, the forces of the two divisions lost their power because of the Dongshan Fort, the Eshan Fort, etc. The former garrison troops took over the Huangshan Fort, and the Xishan Fort continued to deal with the Japanese army. The 112th Division of Commander Huo and He Zhizhong's 103rd Division jumped out of the encirclement in time and deployed defenses with the original garrison troops on the front line of Changzhou.

But I didn't expect that the Japanese army had transferred the elite Fifth Division.

This Fifth Division is not only strong in combat but also very cruel.

After encountering the tenacious resistance of the defenders during the attack on Lingqiu, Shanxi, the Fifth Division had nowhere to vent its resentment and extended its claws to the unarmed people.

After invading Lingqiu City, Shanxi, the officers and soldiers of the Fifth Division closed the city gates and carried out a large-scale search for the whole city. They collectively shot 600 residents in Dayun Temple, Grandma Temple and other places. The Japanese army also gathered women and committed collective violence, and the rebels killed them on the spot.

After that, the Japanese army arrested people every day and killed more than 400 residents. The Japanese army launched a massacre in various parts of Lingqiu County, killing more than 100 old and young villagers in Donghenan Village, killing more than 30 villagers in Xiaozhai Village, and killing more than 20 more people in Guangou Village and Tangzhiwa Village.

Immediately afterwards, the Fifth Division created the tragic Meihua Town tragedy in Hebei.

On October 11, the Fifth Division reigned to attack various places in Hebei, killing, burning, robbing and plundering everywhere, just like in Shanxi, and doing all kinds of evil.

Two brigades of the division were again frustrated when they attacked Meihua Town in Gaocheng. About 5,000 Japanese troops surrounded Meihua Town at dawn on the 12th, creating the tragic Meihua Town tragedy.

While the Japanese army was killing people everywhere in the town, they arrested all the young and middle-aged people, fired machine guns, and filled the puddles. At the same time, the Japanese army also forced more than 100 young women arrested to the Fenfang compound in the town, and collectively committed violence, then cut off the organs on their bodies, opened their abdomen, and tortured and killed them one by one.

On the 13th and 14th, the Japanese army pushed 62 farmers, including Zhang Li, into the burrow pit and buried them alive, tied more than 200 young and middle-aged people to the open space outside the east gate, and chased them to death with bayonets in batches, poured them with gasoline, burned them alive, or chopped off their heads, and threw them into the puddle.

They tied more than 200 women and children under the wall of the Nanmen Village to ask about the whereabouts of the Chinese army. Seeing that the people were silent, the Japanese army first pulled out four little girls, split them in half, and then shot all the women and children.

The atrocities of the Japanese army continued until the evacuation at noon on the 15th. This village, which originally had 550 households and 2,500 people, was killed 1,547 people and 46 households. It was recorded as the Meihua Town tragedy comparable to the Nanjing tragedy.

Therefore, the heinous crimes committed by the Japanese Fifth Division are simply unspeakable, and no Chinese soldier will tolerate such a force raging on Chinese territory.

And it is precisely because of this that Commander Huo did not want the tragedy to happen again in Changzhou.

He is evacuating people in Changzhou, including Baijia Town, which is adjacent to Changzhou.

Baijia Town is not as big as Changzhou, and the permanent population is only three to four thousand. However, Commander Huo felt that if the Japanese suffered a loss in Changzhou, they would not let it go. So he ordered a battalion soldiers to reinforce there and evacuate the people in the city.

However, Commander Huo did not know that the fifth division's version of Hengzheng Shiro also noticed the town.

He ordered the 21st Infantry Regiment to quietly bypass Womachuan and seize Baijia Town.

Although Baijia Town is not very strategic, it can threaten Changzhou's supply line. Once Baijia Town is lost, the 21st Japanese army's 21st Regiment can not only divide troops to attack the flanks of Changzhou's defenders, but also cut off the retreat of Changzhou's defenders at any time.

Once the retreat is cut off, the Changzhou defenders will inevitably be in chaos.

Without supplies and unable to retreat, Changzhou is a dead city. Even an iron army will be disintegrated as a result!
Chapter completed!