Chapter Ninety-Three: The Bloody Lonely City (1)
Nanjing Zhonghua Gate, because of the majestic and famous in the Nanjing City Gate, in the Zhonghua Gate Castle built in the Tibetan Soldier Cave and the horse race track and other military facilities.
After continuous repairs in the Tang, Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties, Zhonghua Gate has become a strong fortification in Nanjing. On December 1, 1937, the Japanese army divided its troops from Moling, Jiangning and other places to attack Zhonghua Gate, and the battle to defend Zhonghua Gate began. The Yuhuatai position outside the Zhonghua Gate in the southern suburbs of Nanjing bore the brunt. On the morning of December 9, the 6th Division and the 4th Division of the 16th Army launched an attack on Yuhuatai. The Japanese army first launched a tentative attack on the Yuhuatai position with the strength of one company, but the 88th Division of our army resisted and repelled the Japanese army. In the afternoon, the Japanese attacked again with the strength of two wings, and fought with the Gao Zhisong Division of the 264th Brigade of the 88th Division of our army, and both sides suffered heavy losses, but the Japanese failed to capture the position. On the 10th, the Japanese army with a brigade and the support of a large number of aircraft and heavy artillery launched another attack on the Yuhuatai position outside the Zhonghua Gate, and the defenders engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese army and suffered heavy losses. On the afternoon of the 11th, the Andemen was lost, and the Yuhuatai position was exposed to Japanese fire. On the 12th, the Yuhuatai position was lost, and the commander of the 262nd Brigade of the defenders, Zhu Changchi, and the commander of the 264th Brigade, Gao Zhisong, were killed.
On the same day, the Japanese army launched an attack on Zhonghua Gate, and the defenders of the 88th Division took advantage of the Japanese army to cross the Qinhuai River and launched a counterattack on the Japanese army, and the Japanese army suffered heavy losses. The Japanese deployed artillery positions on the Yuhuatai and Andemen heights, and the defenders of Zhonghua Gate were hit by heavy artillery fire, although the Japanese army used the coordinated tactics of infantry to launch a general attack on Zhonghua Gate, and climbed to the top of the city many times. The defenders of Zhonghua Gate took advantage of the city wall to throw hands with the Japanese, and once engaged in hand-to-hand combat, and both sides suffered heavy losses. On the 13th, the defenders were forced to retreat due to their isolation and lack of ammunition and food, and were pursued by the Japanese army, almost annihilating the entire army, and finally only more than 400 soldiers retreated.
Zhongshan Gate, formerly known as Chaoyang Gate, was built in the Ming Dynasty and guarded an important passage from Nanjing City to Xiaolingwei. The most elite unit of the Nationalist Army, the Teaching Corps, was stationed here and established a defensive position at Xiaolingwei. On December 9, the Japanese army launched a full-front attack on the position of the teaching corps, but the defenders bravely returned fire and fought fiercely for a day to repel the Japanese attack. During this period, the Japanese army attacked Gwanghwamun Gate and instructed the headquarters to quickly support and engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy and annihilate him. On the 10th, the Japanese army, led by armored troops, launched an attack on the defenders of Xiaoling, but was hit by the artillery fire of our defenders and retreated. On the same day, the southeast wind hung on the position, and the Japanese army used *** and poison gas bombs to give the defenders on the Xiaolingwei position a heavy blow, Xiaolingwei was lost, and Zhongshan Gate was exposed to enemy fire. On December 12, the Japanese army failed to persuade them to surrender, mobilized heavy firepower to attack Zhongshanmen, but was forced to retreat due to the exhaustion of ammunition and food, isolation and heavy losses.
The person who attacked the Zhonghua Gate was called Onimu, with the rank of lieutenant general, he was not tall, with a thin horse face, and a pair of extremely vicious eyes. He was a great believer in the Emperor of Japan. In the 918 Incident, at 10:20, after Kawamoto detonated the ** near the Wicker Lake railroad tracks, he was a member of the Kwantung Army death squad, after rushing into the North Daying Camp, he killed eleven Northeast Army members who did not resist the North North First Battalion, and then, in the invasion of the three eastern provinces, he was known for his brutality and ruthlessness, and countless Northeast soldiers and civilians died under his knife. Became a veritable killer king. Deeply appreciated by the militarist leader Tu Feiyuan, the official to the great Zuo. After the 77 Lugou Bridge Incident, the Japanese military headquarters transferred him from the northeast to Shanghai, and he was promoted from Dazuo to lieutenant general. In the Battle of Songhu, he acted as the vanguard of the war against China, and hundreds of Chinese soldiers died under his saber. During his tenure as the head of the Shanghai secret service, he invented skinning and shredding tools to deal with the underground party and anti-Japanese rebels. He was a close relative of the emperor and a typical fanatical militarist. He is fierce and tenacious, insidious and cunning. After coming to Nanjing, he was the commander-in-chief of the attack on Zhonghua Gate and Yuhuatai. In the war, the Japanese army invested more than 20,000 troops. In addition to the 87th and 88th Divisions, a total of more than 20,000 people, plus three regiments of the gendarmerie, and several thousand members of Gui Yongqing's teaching team served as the side response of the Zhonghua Gate. In fact, the strength of the national army guarding Zhonghua Gate and Yuhuatai was more than twice that of the Japanese army.
In the defense of Nanjing, the most tragic battle was at Zhonghua Gate. Onagi never dreamed that the Chinese army would resist so stubbornly. He thought that he would be able to take the Zhonghua Gate with 20 tanks, more than 10 tanks, more than 2,000 Japanese troops, and dozens of planes to support him in the air for the last time. And made a military order in front of Matsui Shigen, not to capture the Zhonghua Gate, and to apologize. Unexpectedly, more than a dozen tanks and combat vehicles turned into scrap metal, and more than 2,000 imperial warriors returned to the western sky. He ended up in a fiasco. He silently drew his saber, knelt on the ground, held it high, and stabbed the sharp tip into the abdomen......
"Slow!" Matsui Shigen arrived, looked at the shirtless, skinny monkey-like oniki, and said coldly: "Kiki-kun, stupid!" Matsui Shigen said coldly: "Do you think that seppuku can occupy Nanjing?" The Anti-Japanese Federation wants your life, you have escaped it again and again, and now you kill yourself, I can't save you once and not save the second time. For the sake of those who have made great achievements for the Empire, atone for your sins! ”
"Hey!"
Matsui Ishine lifted the ghost wood up from the ground, and the ghost wood asked: "The Zhonghua Gate is about to be occupied, but I didn't expect to kill a strange army, who are they?" The combat effectiveness is so powerful. ”
"Report to the general, they are an ace unit in Tang Shengzhi's hands, called the Falcon Special Combat Team."
"Who is the captain of this special operations team?"
"I don't know."
"You know this person, his name is Xiao Jian, and he is a top student of our non-commissioned officer school."
"It was him! Yaga! Ghost Wood held the saber in his hand, with a murderous look on his face, and went down with a knife, cutting off a bayberry tree with a thick bowl mouth in front of the temporary command post. Fiercely said: "He is my murderer, the most wanted criminal of the Great Japanese Empire." He snatched Chimiko away from Takagi. I'm going to kill him! Destroy the Falcon Squad! ”
"Ghost Wood, no matter how much it costs, you must break through the China Gate! If you can't capture the Zhonghua Gate, you can apologize, I won't save you, I will be the guard. "Matsui Ishone's eyes are full of murder.
"Hey!" Oniki broke out in a cold sweat.
"Report!" Mei Mako said loudly. She was sent by Matsui Ishine to assist Oniki in attacking the Zhonghua Gate.
"Report!" Mei Mako said loudly. She was sent by Sasaki to assist Oniki in attacking the Zhonghua Gate.
"Speak!"
"According to our reconnaissance, Tang Shengzhi, the commander of the Nanjing garrison, personally supervised the battle at Zhonghua Gate. The Falcon Special Operations Team was also used to assist in the operation. The mysterious unit that appeared on the battlefield just now was the Falcon Special Operations Team. The captain's name is Xiao Jian, and he graduated from the Japanese non-commissioned officer school. ”
Oniki said coldly, "I already know. He was the only one to be honored by the emperor. It is also a shame for the non-commissioned officers and students of Japan! The earth-shattering explosion just now was like a terrible nightmare, and as soon as he remembered his dozens of tanks, more than a dozen chariots, and thousands of imperial warriors, he was wiped out in ashes at once. Xiao Jian's power is slightly visible. Emperor, why do you want to allow Chinese to study in Japan? Isn't that shooting yourself in the foot? The earth-shattering explosion just made his carefully arranged siege plan to take down the Zhonghua Gate and enter the city immediately. Turned into infinite fear. "Mei Mako, where is Takagi Shaosa?" That's when he remembered his shadow squad, captained by his son Takagi. In the war against China, he never paid attention to the combat quality of the Chinese army. He relied on strength, and he was never afraid of the Chinese army. In the Battle of Songhu, he was thirsty for killing all the way, killing the national army and retreating, and his hands were stained with the blood of countless Chinese.
"Takagi Shaosa has captured a Chinese officer, and he has shot and killed two adjutants of our Imperial Japanese Army by himself, and Takagi Shaosa is interrogating them."
"All the dead and dead, skinned him alive! In extraordinary times, there is no forgiveness for the hostile elements! Ghost Mu's face was full of murder, and he said to himself: "Tang Shengzhi, your death time has come. I'll kill you! After a pause, the ghost wood slashed at the stump again, and immediately, the stump was torn into two pieces, revealing snow-white flesh, and in the evening curtain, a white light emitted.
In the hands of Onimu, the Shadow Force, an elite soldier selected by the Japanese War Department from hundreds of thousands of Japanese soldiers, trained a total of 300 soldiers, and caused deep damage to the national army in the Battle of Lihu. The troops have not been able to figure out how many such troops there are in the devils? Commanders and command posts specializing in hunting each other. Due to its secretive actions and fierce combat effectiveness, it is difficult to discover its true face due to its pigmented clothes that change with the environment. That's why it's called the Shadow Army. Since its formation, it has never lost a battle. Due to the ghost wood's attack on the most important strategic point in Nanjing, Zhonghua Gate. Gu Shoufu assigned him a hundred shadow troops to assist him in attacking Zhonghua Gate. Since he underestimated the combat power of the Chinese army and did not use shadow troops, he did not believe that the Chinese army had no air support, and some of the tanks had already been beaten to scrap metal. How can you stop the hungry wolf attack of the Japanese army? However, he miscalculated this time and suffered a dumb loss. Oniki decides to use the shadow force against Xiao Jian's Falcon Special Forces.
Ghost Wood gritted his teeth and said, "Xiao Jian, your time of death has arrived. ”