"Sir, the devils are like crazy today, we are not the opponents of the devils at all!"

Retreating underground, Li Jichang told Leng Jie about the morning's situation.

In fact, Li Jichang didn't say it, Leng Jie also knew it, after all, he was also in the neighborhood near Zhonghua Road in the morning, and he had also experienced it himself.

It can be said that the entire ground battle, the teaching of the 2nd regiment fought badly.

No way, there are too many Japanese troops, and reinforcements are timely. Although Leng Jie taught them some street fighting methods, they were all first-time fighters and had no experience, so many people couldn't adapt to street fighting.

Five battalions of nearly 2,000 troops, I don't know if there will be half of them left today, but Leng Jie feels that there is a great chance.

The entire south of Xinjiekou was beaten into a pot of porridge, and fierce battles were fought everywhere.

However, the Japanese army had the upper hand, and in the back, the Japanese army's attention was not on the Chinese army near Zhonghua Road, but on Xinjiekou, a place that made the Japanese army grit their teeth with hatred on the radio.

"It's normal, this is the 36th Brigade of the Japanese Army, and the commander of that brigade is not a good stubble." Leng Jie patted the other party's shoulder and comforted.

The place where Leng Jie and the others are actually in the sewer, if it is usual, it is estimated that it will stink at this time.

But now it's not so exaggerated.

Because the citizens in the south of the city basically ran to the safe area in the north of the city, there was no domestic sewage discharged. In addition, it is winter again, there is still snow in the sky, and there is a strong smell of gunsmoke, although the smell is still there, but it is not to the point that people can't bear it.

The weather was indeed a bit cold, and Leng Jie and the soldiers who followed him were wearing thick winter military uniforms, but Leng Jie was wearing a dark green tweed officer's uniform.

In fact, according to Leng Jie's previous military rank, there was no tweed military uniform, which was worn by officers at the general and colonel level of the Central Army. However, in the warehouse at Xinjiekou, there are a lot of winter military uniforms, as well as tweed military uniforms, Leng Jie found a set to wear on his body, and even the badges and collar badges of the major rank were taken off from the other officers who sacrificed.

Even if it was cold, they did not dare to make fire, which would easily attract Japanese troops.

However, the sewer where Leng Jie and the others are resting now is relatively wide, and above it is Nanjing Municipal No. 1 Middle School.

Originally, this was the place where the second regiment was taught to focus on defense, but unfortunately, it was captured by the Japanese three hours ago, and most of the two companies that were holding on were lost, and the rest escaped into the ground.

Leng Jie originally wanted to lead people to recover this position, but now it has become a gathering place for the Japanese army, with thousands of Japanese troops on it, as well as many tanks and artillery.

It would be very expensive to regain this place during the day, so Leng Jie planned to find a way to recover it at night.

Although the 36th Brigade of the Japanese Army encircled and suppressed the Chinese army in a carpet manner, it still did not wipe out the Chinese troops in the urban area south of Xinjiekou, and a considerable part of them escaped into the ground, coming out to attack from time to time, and fighting guerrilla warfare with the Japanese army.

After resting underground for a while, as soon as night fell, Leng Jie led more than 300 soldiers gathered to attack the Japanese camp at Nanjing Municipal No. 1 Middle School.

Although in the end, due to the reinforcements of the surrounding Japanese troops, it could not be recovered, but it caught the Japanese army by surprise, killed and wounded more than 400 Japanese soldiers, and blew up 12 Japanese tanks and more than 20 mortars and infantry guns parked in the open field, and a large amount of ammunition was also destroyed.

However, Leng Jie's people also suffered a lot of losses, and hundreds of people died in battle.

It can be said that the failure of this night attack also means that in the later battle, in the southern part of the city, the Chinese army will not be able to launch a large-scale night attack unless it receives some more reinforcements.

Thinking of reinforcements, Leng Jie knew that he needed to go to the safety zone in person.

When Leng Jie returned to Xinjiekou with the people of the spy company, he found that Xinjiekou was even more unoptimistic.

Compared with Leng Jie's side, he can escape underground to deal with the Japanese army, even Guo Qi's side can escape underground, but it will be difficult to recapture Xinjiekou.

There are many reinforced concrete buildings near Xinjiekou, which are conducive to defense, and the weapons and ammunition in the underground vaults of the Central Bank and the Bank of China cannot be transferred in a short time, so Guo Qi's baggage regiment must hold on.

But it was the 47th Wing of the Japanese Army that attacked them, not more than 3,800 people in the full formation, but there were also two brigades of more than 1,600 people.

In addition, the 45th Wing of the Japanese Army also sent a brigade to attack Xinjiekou.

The Nanjing Municipal No. 1 Middle School that Leng Jie attacked just now was the wing headquarters of the 45th Wing of the Japanese Army, otherwise there would not have been so many tanks and artillery.

The three Japanese brigades combined had more than 2,000 people, while Guo Qi's baggage regiment only had more than 1,000 people, and they were weak.

Although he was able to hold his position with strong fortifications, he lost more than 500 men, or a third of his troops.

"Commander Leng, you led people to fight the battle in the south just now, right?" Seeing that Leng Jie had a strong fresh smell of blood, Guo Qi could be sure.

The battle movement of Nanjing Municipal No. 1 Middle School was very large, and so many weapons and ammunition of the Japanese army were blown up, and it was a big night, and the fire was too obvious.

Not only Guo Qi, but also other soldiers in Xinjiekou and near Xinjiekou saw it.

Maybe the people in the safe zone also saw it, after all, it was only a few kilometers away, so they couldn't see it.

Leng Jie nodded, "It's a pity that there are too many devils, I thought it was an ordinary brigade headquarters, but after fighting for a long time, I realized that it was the wing headquarters of the 45th Wing of the Japanese Army."

I was a little unwilling to retreat like this, so I blew up the devil's tank and those things. Xinjiekou is okay here, right? ”

"It's okay, the Japanese army won't be able to capture this place for a day or two. There's a question, Captain Leng, you might need to know! Guo Qi hesitated for a moment and said.

"What's the matter?" Leng Jie was a little puzzled.

"Our roads to the security zone were blocked by the Japanese army. It is reported that the two brigades of the 16th Division of the Japanese Army have entered the city of Nanjing, the 19th Brigade is north of the security zone, and the 30th Brigade is between us and the security zone. In addition, the Japanese 9th Division also sent at least one wing of troops into the city to assist the 16th Division.

Since you left early this morning, Captain Leng, less than a hundred people have escaped from the safe zone. It's not that the rest don't want to come out, it's that the Japanese army is blocking the way. Guo Qi explained.

"What? Is this going to be a safe zone? Leng Jie said with a solemn expression.

"Quite possibly!" Guo Qi nodded heavily, "The Japanese army must have been scared when they saw the rout in the safety zone coming out to resist in a steady stream, so they wanted to strangle the danger in the cradle."

Without supplies from the routed troops in the safe zone, we wouldn't be able to hold out here for long. Commander Leng, if we can, I suggest that we break through in two days at the latest, otherwise it will be even more difficult to break through if it is too late. ”

Leng Jie didn't expect the Japanese army to act in advance, and he was a little hesitant in his heart.

Now that he has broken through, he can go out with two or three thousand people at most, but the results of the others can be imagined.

Thinking of this, he was also a little unwilling!

After thinking about it for a while, Leng Jie made up his mind, "Head Guo, wait for me for two days, and I will go to the safety zone in person."

In the next two days, I will order the rest of the 2nd Regiment to partially strengthen the defense of Xinjiekou. Even if we break through, we need to use this place to attract the attention of the Japanese army. ”

It was also on this night that the military commander's people found Leng Jie and brought an order.

In fact, it was an order from the people in Wuhan who pacified them, which was roughly to promote Leng Jie to the commander of the second regiment. Therefore, Leng Jie can be regarded as getting rid of the position of acting head of the regiment.

However, he also set a precedent, that is, the fastest speed from captain to lieutenant colonel, before and after a month.