December 9, at eight o'clock in the morning, the Japanese army headquarters.

At this moment, General Matsui sat on the main seat, looked at the Japanese officers on both sides of the conference table, and said softly, "Although the first position in Nanjing has been breached, the city of Nanjing is still holding on and has not been captured by us, so we must not take it lightly. ”

"General, I don't think it's appropriate!" A lieutenant general proposed: "There is an old Chinese saying that if you are greedy, you can't chew too much, and the soldiers will fire with all their might for a day and a night, and the current state is not good, and if you force an attack, I am afraid that the soldiers will be in turmoil and have a bad impact on the long-term war." ”

"I think what Lieutenant General Kawasaki said has a point." Another lieutenant general replied, "Relaxation is the royal way to lead the troops, general, blindly forced, I'm afraid the soldiers won't be able to accept it." ”

"Nonsense!" Matsui slapped the table and shouted, "If our soldiers are tired, aren't their soldiers tired?" ”

"Fighting a war, fighting is the time difference, fighting is resilience, this kind of suffering can't be endured, how can we talk about conquering the land of the East?"

"The Nanjing Guards have just experienced a big defeat, and their morale is definitely not high, so we must take advantage of his illness and ask for his life, and the artillery fire cannot stop for a moment, and we must take Nanjing in one go."

"General............" Lieutenant General Kawasaki opened his mouth to persuade again.

"I've made up my mind." Matsui directly interrupted Kawasaki's words and said loudly, "Just according to what I said at that time, within three days, I will completely attack the city of Nanjing." ”

"Yes!" Everyone responded.

"Now I'm going to make a battle plan." Matsui got up as he spoke, pointed to the hanging map of Nanjing, and began to command.

"Ninth Division, listen to orders!" Matsui shouted.

"Yes!" A lieutenant general stood up.

"You let the artillery regiment go to Gaoqiaomen to establish a position, and then attack the engineering school outside Guanghua Gate."

"Yes!" The lieutenant general was ordered to salute and leave.

"Tenth Division, listen to orders!"

"Here!"

"You lead the troops to attack Dangtu!"

"Yes!"

“………………”

Matsui kept giving orders with a clear mind, and the officers who had been ordered saluted one by one and left, seizing the time to arrange.

After a while, Matsui finished the arrangement and explained to the signal soldiers, "Let the air force set off and continue to deliver the letter of surrender to the city of Nanjing." ”

"Yes!" Hearing this, the signal soldier hurried to give the order.

Since ancient times, attacking the city is the bottom and the heart is the top, Matsui obviously has a lot of research on the art of war, and he likes the trick of attacking the heart very much.

In fact, Matsui didn't want to persuade Tang Zhi and others to really surrender, his real purpose was to make the hearts of the people in Nanjing impetuous, to cause panic among the people, and also to cause panic among the soldiers, so as to achieve the purpose of hitting the morale of the defenders.

As long as there is a little effect, Matsui's purpose is achieved.

At 8:20 a.m., several Japanese bombers appeared again over the city of Nanjing, and the bombers flew several times over the city of Nanjing, scattering countless letters of persuasion to surrender.

After the letter of surrender fell, it immediately caused a sensation in the city of Nanjing, and countless people were panicked, and many soldiers who were not determined to fight also gave birth to the psychology of fearing war.

The content of the letter of persuasion is still the same, surrender and do not kill, if you resist stubbornly, when the city is broken, you will be killed!

After Tang Zhi saw the letter of persuasion, he immediately called a meeting of all senior officers.

"Now that the situation in Nanjing is grim, and the Japanese army is constantly sending letters of persuasion to surrender to destroy the hearts of our army, what do you think is good?" Tang Zhi looked at the officer below and asked with a frown.

"Naturally, it's a dead end." A division commander stood up and said, "As you said that day, Nanjing is a symbol of our country and the location of Mr. Sun's mausoleum, and we must not give up easily." ”

"Must be kept!" Another division commander also agreed: "Our army has 150,000 people, just defend a Nanjing city, I can't believe it, people outside the city are there, and people are dead in the city." ”

"Yes, I'd rather die than retreat!"

"I also agree to stick to it, and resolutely not to be a slave to the country."

“………………”

All the officers expressed their positions one after another, and their rhetoric was fierce, and they were bound to live and die with Nanjing.

"Okay, since everyone thinks like this, then let's defend Nanjing, it's a big deal for all the staff to die in battle." Tang Zhi made the final decision.

After speaking, Tang Zhi paused and said, "Since we have decided to defend, we must have a method and a strategy." ”

"The Japanese army issued a letter of persuasion to surrender, but it was nothing more than trying to disturb our army's morale, disturb our morale, and use a strategy to attack our minds."

"Let's talk about how we should deal with the Japanese army's methods?"

"Let's do this." A brigade commander said clearly: "The Japanese army wants to hit the morale of our army and disturb the morale of our army, and we will also directly issue a document to reply to the Japanese army." ”

"The content of the document is to express our determination and our determination to live and die with Nanjing, so that all soldiers can see the attitude of our leaders."

"As long as we express our position, as long as we are resolute, the military spirit will not disperse."

"Yes!" Tang Zhi thought for a moment and said to the signal soldier, "Bring paper and pen." ”

"Yes!" The communications soldier answered, and hurried to prepare paper and pen.

Subsequently, Tang Zhi directly began to write a document on the spot, the name of the document was "Wei Shen Zuo Zi No. 36" order.

The content of the order "Wei Shen Zuo Zi No. 36" is as follows:

The current occupation of the re-establishment position by this army is the final battle to hold Nanjing, and all units should do their best to hold on to it with the determination to live and die with the position, and must never lightly abandon an inch of land or shake the whole army.

Second, all ships acquired by the armed forces were to be handed over to the Transport Command for safekeeping, and they were not allowed to be detained without permission, and Song Xilian, commander of the 78th Army, was assigned to take charge of the command.

Third, the constitution and police along the river strictly prohibit stragglers from crossing the river by boat without permission, and violators will be arrested and severely punished. If you dare to resist, stop it by force.

The intention of this order is to use the spirit of "breaking the cauldron and sinking the boat" to stimulate the morale of the soldiers, gather the morale of the army, and prepare to fight against the water, leaving no way back at all.

Sure enough, after the order, the soldiers of the whole army suddenly had a backbone in their hearts, and the commander decided to live and die together in Nanjing, and the soldiers were no longer afraid.

After Matsui saw Tang Zhi's order, he smiled disdainfully, and then ordered again, and his subordinate troops were all in place and ready to attack again.

At 9 o'clock in the morning, the troops of the 9th Division of the Japanese Army took the lead in launching an attack on the defensive positions of the Engineer School and the Teaching Corps outside the Guanghua Gate.

As early as half an hour ago, the artillery regiment of the 9th Division of the Japanese Army had built a special artillery base at the Gaoqiao Gate, and the position where the muzzle of the gun was facing was the engineering school outside the Guanghua Gate.

Less than three hours later, the battle broke out again!