However, it was already too late, and with the screaming sound of bombs breaking through the air, bombs fell from the sky one after another, and with continuous explosions, houses began to collapse. The house hit by the bomb suddenly fell into a sea of fire, and finally the dust returned to dust. Countless men and women hiding in their homes were buried alive in an instant.

One after another, Japanese planes swooped down, roaring over the city of Nanjing, dropping deadly bombs one after another. Boom-boom-boom explosions followed, followed by screams of terror and cries of pain from the loss of loved ones. At this time, the city of Nanjing was in chaos, because the fire caused by the bombing was raging in the city, and people fled in panic, but they could not find a safe place. At this time, some Nanjing citizens began to remember the leaflets distributed in the city a few days ago, and began to understand why the leaflets had to move them out of Nanjing, because Nanjing was facing a Japanese attack at any time.

This time, the Japanese army dispatched more than 100 planes to bomb the city of Nanjing, which was completely indiscriminate bombing and caused great harm to the people of Nanjing. Nearly 10,000 casualties and countless buildings were reduced to ruins, a painful lesson that was engraved in the hearts of the people of Nanjing. What Zhuo Fei didn't expect was that this large-scale air raid by the Japanese army made many Nanjing people begin to flee from Nanjing City, and the road to Rujiangmen was full of refugees who wanted to go to Xiaguan Wharf to cross the river.

When the Japanese plane appeared, Zhuo Fei and the others had already rushed to a place not far from Guanghuamen with the weapons and ammunition they had picked up, and they couldn't go any further, because there were too many national army troops gathered here in Guanghuamen. A large group of black dots appeared in the sky northeast of the position, and the shouts of the officers and veterans of the national army on the defensive line were one after another, calling for their men and the soldiers around them to prepare for air raids. Zhuo Fei didn't dare to slack off, while asking the truck to return to the safe area to stand by, and on the other hand, he wanted the routs who jumped out of the carriage to find a place to hide.

The black dots in the sky soon approached the defense line of the national army, and the dull humming sound of the Japanese planes made people feel uneasy from the heart, Zhuo Fei looked up and saw those Japanese planes swooping down from a height of hundreds of meters, these damn Japanese fighters were like a flock of crows rushing to prey on the corpses at this time. "Hidden! Take cover! A deafening roar sounded in his ears, and before Zhuo Fei could react, his arm was pulled hard, and the whole person immediately reclined on the ground.

Zhuo Fei turned his head to look, only to see that the man surnamed Niu, who had disappeared just now, was glaring at him angrily, and then crawled straight past him, shouting and beckoning the routs who had dispersed to pay attention to concealment. Zhuo Fei also wanted to turn over and get up, but suddenly heard a strange scream coming from the top of his head, because of the reclining posture, Zhuo Fei could naturally turn his eyes towards the sky without turning his head. I saw a Japanese fighter plane whizzing and diving down from the sky, and just a few seconds later, a number of Japanese fighter planes were whizzing and diving down.

The low altitude of the Japanese fighters' dive made Zhuo Fei, who was lying on the ground, smack his tongue, not only the plaster pill logo and wheels under the wings were clearly visible, but even the rivets on the fuselage could be vaguely distinguished, and the pylons on their belly and under the wings where bombs were previously hung were empty at this time. Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! The bombs that landed one after another exploded one after another, and the violent explosions like landslides and ground cracks continued to shake the earth, and the almost non-stop explosions became louder.

The smoke rising from the explosion was stronger than the heavy artillery attack of the Japanese army, and the national soldiers in Zhuo Fei's sight were almost shocked off the ground even when they were lying down, not to mention staying standing. The continuous and intense impact made Zhuo Fei feel as if his internal organs were about to burst, his hands tightly covered his ears, his mouth opened desperately, but his eardrums were still shaken by the explosion.

As the explosion took off, the dust and mud obscured the sight of the defenders, and they flew high into the air one after another, and under the action of gravity, they returned to the ground with strong kinetic energy, and the pain of falling directly on the soldiers' steel helmets was conceivable. The landslide and tsunami-like explosion lasted for three to five minutes, and more than a dozen Japanese fighters had swooped over Guanghua Gate, and the anti-aircraft guns of the defenders on the city gate kept roaring all the time, but there was no obvious effect.

In fact, Zhuo Fei, who covered his ears with his hands, closed his eyes most of the time, and only struggled to look up at the surrounding situation in the brief interval when the intensity of the explosion weakened slightly.

I persevered like this, and waited until the tremor on the ground gradually subsided, and then I struggled to stand up and sit up. Zhuo Fei was already deaf at the moment, and he couldn't hear anything other than the constant buzzing. Turning his head to look left and right, he saw Zhuo Yan, who was also covered in mud, turning over from behind a pile of rubble and sitting up, Zhuo Fei's hanging heart fell to the ground. Looking at the position of the national army in the distance with a telescope, Zhuo Fei was immediately stunned by what he saw, the two anti-aircraft machine guns that were still shooting at the air at the head of Guanghuamen City just now had already disappeared at this time.

The place where the anti-aircraft machine gun was originally set up was shrouded in gunsmoke that had not yet dissipated, and Zhuo Fei saw more than one national soldier struggling to dig into the collapsed position with the tools in his hand to try to rescue the people below. "Prepare for battle, the Japanese army is coming, the Japanese army is coming." The hoarse shouts of the veterans spread at an alarming speed, but there were also many soldiers like Zhuo Fei, who were temporarily deaf due to the bombing of the planes, who were indifferent.

"Hidden, hidden, the devil plane is here again." The man surnamed Niu, who had pulled Zhuo Fei before, kept shouting in the smoke and ruins, and several Japanese fighters swooped in at high speed from an altitude of several hundred meters, and their chic movements were like eagles soaring in the nine heavens, and the weak firepower rising from the ground could no longer stop them from diving and strafing. The power of aircraft strafing is different from the Japanese ground attack, and after the defenders' ground fire can no longer contain the Japanese fighters' dive attack, the defenders on the ground will become a live target for the Japanese fighters to dive and strafe.

Dense raindrops of cannon bullets scattered down from mid-air, and the defenders who had just experienced the bombardment and were still a little confused were torn to pieces by the Japanese machine guns. The angry defenders raised their guns to shoot at the Japanese fighters, but they didn't know that the rifles in their hands were not enough to deal with the Japanese planes, so more defender soldiers could only point at the Japanese fighters when the Japanese fighters flew overhead, pointing at the Japanese fighters and scolding.

The Japanese fighters that swooped down once again blew through the defenders' positions like the wind, and the wings of these Japanese fighters soon appeared with a burst of gunfire, and the dense barrage of bullets pounced on the entire Guanghuamen position, like a huge thunderstorm. "Hidden, hidden." Zhuo Fei shouted and shrank to the base of the broken wall with his rifle. When countless cannon bullets fell from the sky and pierced into the dirt or human body, Zhuo Fei, who closed his eyes tightly, felt like a dead leaf shivering in the wind.

For those in war, death can sometimes be a relief, but those who are alive still have to fight for survival. Tossing the defenders' positions into ruins, the satisfied Japanese fighters finally left, and in the urging of the officers and veterans, the heads wearing German steel helmets began to emerge one after another on the defenders' positions that had escaped the catastrophe, and most of the soldiers were nervous and panicked but had to make an indifferent look and raise their guns to aim at the Japanese troops who were rushing outside the city.

"Get up, get up, stay here and wait for death." Zhuo Fei, who had regained a little consciousness, rushed to the street and kicked and beat the rout soldiers who were lucky enough to survive one by one. "We don't have heavy weapons, and going to Guanghuamen to help in the battle can only disrupt the defensive rhythm of the national army's troops, so we retreat, find a place to wait, and wait to fight street battles with the Japanese troops who broke into the city." The gunfire and shouts of killing in the Guanghuamen position had already resounded, and Zhuo Fei and the hastily assembled rout soldiers emptied an ammunition truck that had fallen on the side of the street and was unattended, and then retreated back along the deserted street.

Hansen is right, today is indeed a good weather, I am afraid that the Japanese army outside the city also thinks so, so the Japanese troops outside Guanghua Gate mobilized heavy troops to launch wave after wave of attacks on Guanghua Gate. Outside the city, the 36th Infantry Wing of the 9th Division of the Japanese Army launched a fierce attack on Guanghua Gate, and the Chinese defenders inside the city wall included the 932nd Regiment of the 156th Division of Guangdong, the 3rd Battalion of the 2nd Military Police Regiment, the reinforced platoon, the 1st and 3rd Engineer Battalion of the Teaching Corps, the non-commissioned officer battalion, some officers and soldiers of the 51st Division, the 3rd Company of the Combat Vehicle, the 3rd Platoon of the Combat Vehicle, and the militia. There are also the officers and soldiers of the 259th Brigade, 260th Brigade, and 261st Brigade of the 87th Division of the National Army who withdrew from the archway, engineer school, Shimenkan, and Haifu Lane outside the city, as well as some officers and soldiers of the 305th and 301st regiments of the 51st Division who retreated from Gaoqiaomen.

If you simply compare the strength of the two sides, the national army defending the city is not much different from the Japanese army outside the city, but the Japanese army outside the city not only has large-caliber artillery, but also aircraft and tanks to help the battle. In the face of wave after wave of continuous attacks by the Japanese army that had the advantage in firepower, the national army troops who had already suffered a large number of casualties on the city could only desperately block the opponent, but as the battle continued, the defenders of Guanghuamen were almost unable to withstand the attack of the Japanese army outside the city.

At about 5 o'clock in the morning, the 36th Wing of the 9th Division of the Japanese Army attacked for the first time the position of the city wall that had been collapsed by artillery fire 600 meters to the right of Guanghua Gate. The defenders drew a large number of troops, and almost relied on the life-for-life style to force back the Japanese troops who had attacked the position. Soon after Zhuo Fei retreated, the Japanese 36th Wing attacked the defenders' positions again, and this time, the defenders failed to push back the Japanese troops who had entered the position.