"Long live the Emperor!"

"Kill, give!"

"Onboard!"

These few words may be the sound that can be heard at any time at Xinjiekou at this time, and there are in several directions, so you can imagine how many Japanese troops there are.

The Japanese troops attacking the Central Bank headquarters building and its nearby positions were a brigade of the 45th Wing, and Kanda Masang, as the commander of the wing, personally supervised the battle in the back.

In contrast, the Central Bank Headquarters building was suitable for defense, because its reinforced concrete buildings, ordinary grenadiers and artillery of the Japanese army, when the angle was wrong, did not play a big role at all.

And because it was a street fight, mountain artillery was inconvenient to use, including mortars.

The Chinese army is not on the streets, but in the buildings on both sides, the curved ballistics of mortars, it is difficult to inflict effective damage.

On the contrary, the 92 infantry guns that could be fired horizontally and the grenadiers that were easy to carry were more effective, but even so, the Japanese attack was very difficult.

Heavy machine guns were mostly set up in the Central Bank headquarters building and in nearby concrete buildings, although the 92 infantry guns could threaten heavy machine guns.

But a few heavy machine guns could block the entire street, and the Japanese troops, although they were numerous, did not have much advantage in equipment. Because they faced the Chinese army with the best light weapons in China at this time, compared with the Japanese army, there was no generation difference.

On the contrary, the Japanese artillery could not be used, which led to the serious reduction of the superiority of the Japanese army.

Ordinary bullets could not penetrate the concrete wall at all, and the rifles everywhere also made it impossible for the Japanese grenadiers to get too close.

With the cover of light and heavy machine guns, Li Jichang wantonly harvested the heads of the Japanese army on the battlefield, and the Japanese army did not have time to deal with him.

"At three o'clock, there are dozens of devils!"

Just when Li Jichang was looking for the next target, he found that a devil suddenly appeared in the direction of three o'clock, and hurriedly shouted.

It turned out that the Japanese army saw that the frontal attack was not possible, so they began to circle the rear from the side, but fortunately, Li Jichang found it with sharp eyes.

"Come a platoon, go to the flank defense, quick!"

In the entire battlefield, there was not a single active Japanese tank. It's not normal, but it's also normal.

The reason for this is that the Japanese often use Type 94 tanks, as well as a small number of Type 89 and Type 95 tanks, but in today's battle, there are no Japanese tanks joining the battle.

Normally, it is because there are the wreckage of more than a dozen Japanese tanks on the streets of Xinjiekou. These tanks were destroyed in yesterday's battle, and they were destroyed by Molotov cocktails or explosive packets, and after realizing that tanks were not suitable for street fighting, the Japanese abandoned the use of tanks.

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Not far away, on the building of the Central News Agency, Guo Qi was observing the battle outside.

Since the headquarters of the Central Bank and the headquarters of the Bank of China had become meat grinders, Guo Qi had no choice but to move his headquarters to the Central News Agency building, for security reasons and to facilitate his command.

The two buildings with a large amount of ammunition were the focus of the Japanese attack, and in just a few hours in the morning, thousands of corpses were left here on both sides, and the number is still increasing!

Even if Leng Jie sent reinforcements from other places, the Chinese army near Xinjiekou was only worth a thousand. At this rate of casualties, it may be that by tomorrow night, there may be less than 500 Chinese soldiers still alive in Xinjiekou.

At this moment, the phone rang, and a soldier hurriedly picked up the microphone, "This is the command headquarters!" ”

"Command, this is the Central Bank Headquarters building. The Japanese attack is too fierce, I need support, I need support! Chen Wei's voice came from the microphone.

"Sir... The communications soldier held up the phone and looked at Guo Qi.

Guo Qi grabbed the microphone and said in a deep voice, "I'm Guo Qi." Battalion Commander Chen, I don't have reinforcements here, your troops must hold on, and wait for the ammunition in the underground vault to be transferred! ”

Chen Wei's army actually did not have more than one battalion, but several units were combined, because the officers of several other units died a lot in battle, and there was no way but to integrate into Chen Wei's battalion.

On the other side of the phone, Chen Wei hesitated for a while, and finally said, "Yes, sir, I promise to stick to the central bank headquarters building until the last moment." ”

Soon, the army holding the headquarters of the Bank of China also sent a telegram asking for help.

Stationed at the headquarters building of the Bank of China was Guo Qi's baggage group. It stands to reason that he should have favored his own troops, but he still didn't.

In fact, there was no way, except for the soldiers who were holding on to the other two buildings, he had less than five hundred men on his hands.

Among them, more than 200 were carrying weapons and ammunition from the headquarters of the Bank of China and the Central Bank of China, hiding them in sewers.

It means that there are actually less than 300 people around Guo Qi.

This is the only army he has left, and if they are all used, what will happen to tomorrow's battle?

Now he can only pin his hopes on Leng Jie's side, and he can bring out more soldiers, so that Xinjiekou can hold on.

"How many people are coming out of the safe zone?"

"There were hundreds of people coming out, but the Japanese army was also attacking that street, and those hundreds of people were pinned down, and there were actually only more than 100 people who arrived at Xinjiekou." An officer next to him said.

"Assemble these people as soon as possible, and send reinforcements at any time!"

"Yes, sir!"

After the officer left, Guo Qi looked at the security zone and muttered, "Commander Leng, look at your side!" ”

When Guo Qi was worried, soldiers kept coming out of the security zone and joining the resistance, and the fighting situation in Xinjiekou improved a lot.

Taking advantage of the interlude period of the Japanese attack, Guo Qi used these soldiers who came out of the security zone as reinforcements, and replaced many soldiers in two meat grinders.

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Leng Jie, whom Guo Qi had been talking about, was at Jinling University at this time, because it was one of the largest security zones, which housed a large number of refugees, and there was no shortage of soldiers of the national army who had laid down their arms.

So this has become a more important stop for Leng Jie, and many of the people he sent out have also mixed in here, and they have contacted many people who want to go out to resist.

His task was to persuade the men to leave the safe zone, follow them to Xinjiekou, and take them out of Nanjing.

Not everyone is willing to trust Leng Jie because they feel that the safe zone is safer.

For these people, even if Leng Jie wanted to persuade them, he couldn't persuade them.

There's a truth to the saying: you can't wake up someone who is pretending to be asleep.

That night, when Leng Jie wanted to return to Xinjiekou, a person came in a hurry.

"Cold... Sir Leng, great... The big thing is not good, the Japanese army is going to do it! ”

"Hands-on? What's going on? Leng Jie said in a deep voice.

"There was a Japanese army that stormed a shelter to capture the Nationalist soldiers who had laid down their arms."

"What? How many Japanese troops were there? In what location? Leng Jie hurriedly asked.

"About a squadron, just in the Chinese Women's High School...