In this operation, the Japanese army had already made up its mind that it was necessary to break through the outer defense line of Nanjing today, which was the death order of the Japanese army general Matsui.

Matsui's meaning was that he would fight a quick battle and never drag it out, because he was afraid that the battle in Nanjing would develop into a battle of millions of people, just like the war in Shanghai.

In this case, the overall strategic deployment of the Japanese army will inevitably be affected.

Therefore, Matsui gave a death order, as long as the first line of defense is not broken, there can be no truce, and when the defense line is breached, the troops can be repaired.

To this end, Matsui mobilized all the bombers and tanks to go to the front line, and it was bound to violently destroy the first line of defense in Nanjing.

The battle began at three o'clock in the morning and lasted from night to sunrise, and it was still a dead end.

Tang Zhi and others, who were stationed in Nanjing, held a meeting overnight and came up with a set of plans to prepare for a counterattack on the Japanese army.

At the same time, the 66th Army was ordered to move from Tangshan Town from south to north, the 41st Division to shoot from north to south at Wulong Mountain, and the 2nd Regiment of the 36th Division with a chariot company to carry out a combined attack on the enemy who had broken through to Hutang and Dahushan from west to east with a mixed division, the 41st Division with a part of the 41st Division from north to south from Wulong Mountain, and the 2nd Regiment of the 36th Division with a chariot company to carry out a combined attack from west to east on the enemy who had broken through to the vicinity of Hutang and Dahu Mountain.

General Matsui immediately took countermeasures against the battlefield information transmitted back by the communications corps.

The Matsui faction directly sent troops to storm from the middle, that is, to launch a fierce attack on Tangshan Town and Qixia Mountain, so that the mixed division of the 66th Army could not get out of it, and easily resolved the possibility of being besieged.

After the siege was resolved, Tang Zhi and others stationed in Nanjing immediately discussed a tactic again, using the reserve 2nd Regiment of the 36th Division to resist the attack of the Japanese army that had occupied Fuxing Bridge in the area west and south of Dongliu.

Trying to reoccupy the Fuxing Bridge, and then sending troops out of the city to besiege the Japanese troops who were attacking Nanjing, the two sides fought fiercely at the Fuxing Bridge.

On the other side, the Japanese army general Matsui transferred the Japanese 6th Division, which was originally in the Huzhou area, to the area west of Moling Town, and deployed on the left flank of the 114th Division, joining the battle to attack the first line of defense in Nanjing.

From the three o'clock in the morning attack, both sides did not rest for a moment, and both adopted the method of cross-attacking.

A brigade or a wing attacked first, and after two hours of fighting, this unit retreated, and the next unit immediately took over, and both sides attacked in this way.

I don't know how many Japanese planes and tanks were destroyed, but there were still planes and tanks constantly thrown into the battlefield.

And the fortifications of the Nanjing Guard, I don't know how many times they were destroyed, and when they hit the back, they became, the people in front of them fought, the people behind built them, and they were scrapped and continued to cultivate.

In the end, the corpses on the battlefield were directly piled up and turned into temporary small strongholds.

The old city walls have completely collapsed in some places, collapsed in the middle in some places, and more places are full of cracks by artillery fire.

Real war, to describe it in any word, pales too pale.

The two sides have been fighting like this, and when the Japanese army destroys the fortifications, our army will charge without their lives, and then cultivate the fortifications.

It is easy to destroy, but it is difficult to cultivate, and the fortifications that our army has built with great difficulty will be destroyed after several rounds of bombing by Japanese tanks and aircraft.

In this way, after fighting until 3 o'clock in the afternoon, after 12 hours of non-stop fighting, the fortifications of our army were finally completely destroyed.

At four o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, the Japanese army put 15 tanks and eight bombers into Tangshan Town, and with the full cooperation of the ground and air forces, the mixed division finally could not withstand the Japanese attack and was declared lost.

At 4:20 p.m., our army suffered serious casualties and insufficient troops, and Chunhua Town was also declared broken.

At the same time, the Numata Detachment of the 26th Brigade of the 13th Division of the Japanese right flank had repelled the 111th Division of the 57th Army and occupied Jingjiang, the Tiangu Detachment had entered Zhenjiang, the Kunisaki Detachment of the Japanese left flank had advanced to the vicinity of Dangtu, and the 18th Division was advancing towards Wuhu after capturing Xuancheng.

At this point, most of the first line of defense on the periphery of Nanjing was occupied by the Japanese army.

In view of the above situation, the Nanjing Garrison Commander's Headquarters immediately decided to concentrate its forces to hold Nanjing and make corresponding arrangements.

On the one hand, he ordered the defenders of the first-line position to retreat to the reconscriptive position; On the one hand, the 103rd and 112th Divisions of Zhenjiang and the nearby 82nd Army were ordered to quickly withdraw to Nanjing.

At four o'clock in the afternoon of the 8th, the 2nd Division of the 48th Army had arrived in Nanjing, and the 156th Division of the 83rd Army had also withdrawn to Nanjing, and its 154th Division was still on the way to retreat.

At the same time, the Nanjing Garrison Commander's Headquarters issued an order of "Wei Shen Zuo Zi No. 28" to make arrangements for the defense of the fortified positions.

At the same time, the gendarmerie also instructed the 2nd Regiment to defend the city wall position from Shuixi Gate to Hanzhong Gate and the Shangxinhe embankment position outside the city, the 2nd Regiment of the Military Police to defend Qingliang Mountain in the city, and the 10th Regiment of the Military Police to defend the Ming Palace Airport in the city.

After the first line of positions on the periphery of Nanjing was broken through, because the defenders retreated hastily, and the fortifications were all destroyed, there were no corresponding protective measures, which led to the Japanese army taking advantage of the situation to follow and pursue, so that some of the reconstructed positions were completely broken by the Japanese before they were firmly occupied.

By half past five in the morning of the 9th, the 16th Division of the Japanese "Shanghai Dispatch Army" entered the area of Qilinmen and Cangbomen;

The 9th Division advanced to the outside of Guanghua Gate and occupied the Daxiao Field and Tongguang Barracks;

The 114th Division of the 10th Army advanced to Yuhua Tainan;

The 6th Division advanced to the west of Yuhuatai, and its left flank occupied Dasheng Pass.

The 60th Army of our army retreated to the area of Dashuiguan and Yanziji for rectification; The 74th Army retreated to the inside and outside of the Shuixi Gate and was reassigned to the garrison of the city wall.

At this moment, the battle has been fought for 26 hours, the sound of gunfire has hardly stopped for a moment, and the road from the outer city to the hinterland is full of corpses, both from our army and from the Japanese army, and the corpses of our army occupy a large proportion.

On the 9th, at six o'clock in the morning, the Japanese army suspended its attack, and the gunfire finally stopped.

From 3 a.m. on the 8th to 6 a.m. on the 9th, for 27 hours, the number of dead and wounded of our army reached tens of thousands, and if all the corpses were piled up, they would be as high as a hill, and all the blood shed would be the size of a swimming pool.

Is it miserable? Does it hurt? Is it worth it?

It's miserable, it's painful, but it's worth it!

For the family and the people, no matter how much blood is shed, it is worth it, I think this is the belief of the soldiers!

Our homeland is guarded by such a group of people, and being silently guarded by such a group of people, are they not afraid of death? Don't they want to be like ordinary people?

They are also afraid of death, and they also want to be like ordinary people, let tall people carry them, but they can't, because they are soldiers, and if they don't resist, the country will be completely finished.

At this point, this battle is not over yet, this has just begun.