The city of Nanjing was dark at night, and it was another dark night after the start of the defense battle. The citizens of Nanjing, who were trapped in the city, and the refugees who poured into the city from other places, looked over their heads in fear, fearing that they would not know when the shells would fall. Due to the control of lights, the whole Nanjing was dark, without the slightest light, and even the bright moonlight in the sky of the past had been hidden in the clouds.

From time to time in the distance in the sky, the sound of gunfire rang out, and occasionally the rumbling of artillery could be heard from afar. In addition to the rumbling sound of military vehicles passing by, the huge city of Nanjing no longer sees the bustling color of the past. But the good thing is that at least for now, the ancient capital of Nanjing is still under the guard of the Chinese army. The drum tower in the center of the city still stands on the grass, and some refugees who have nowhere to go have to hide nearby, praying that they will not be killed by stray bullets.

The city of Nanjing was dark at night, and it was another dark night after the start of the defense battle. The citizens of Nanjing, who were trapped in the city, and the refugees who poured into the city from other places, looked over their heads in fear, fearing that they would not know when the shells would fall. Due to the control of lights, the whole Nanjing was dark, without the slightest light, and even the bright moonlight in the sky of the past had been hidden in the clouds.

From time to time in the distance in the sky, the sound of gunfire rang out, and occasionally the rumbling of artillery could be heard from afar. In addition to the rumbling sound of military vehicles passing by, the huge city of Nanjing no longer sees the bustling color of the past. But the good thing is that at least for now, the ancient capital of Nanjing is still under the guard of the Chinese army. The drum tower in the center of the city still stands on the grass, and some refugees who have nowhere to go have to hide nearby, praying that they will not be killed by stray bullets.

This is the center of the international security zone, and at least here, where most people can get some shelter, and in comparison, it is still relatively safe here. In the silence of the night, the whole of Nanjing seemed to be quiet, there was no too fierce gunfire, but orange fires flashed from time to time in the distant sky, where the front line of fierce battles flickered. The battle situation was indeed more intense, especially in the southeast of Nanjing, where the Japanese army had cleared the Fukuo position and approached the city wall on the first line of Yuhuatai. The garrison commander's headquarters urgently transferred the 156th Division for reinforcements, and Shen Fazao's 87th Division, after receiving reinforcements, finally withstood the onslaught of the Japanese army, and after blocking the city gate, the battle line tended to stabilize.

On the afternoon of December 10, the Japanese 16th Division, which occupied Tangshan, broke through the defense line of the 66th Army, attacked the high ground around Maqun and Xiaolingwei garrisoned by the Teaching Corps, and approached the main peak of Purple Mountain; The Japanese 6th Division broke through the defense line of the 58th Division and attacked the Yuhuatai position defended by the 88th Division due south.

The most tragic battles were Yuhuatai, Purple Mountain and Guanghuamen. "Every inch of mountains and rivers and every inch of blood", in order to defend the dignity of the nation, some Chinese soldiers with conscience fought to the death with the Japanese army. The teaching corps, which held on to the Purple Mountain, stood still when the Japanese army cast ***, and an officer burst out with a final roar in the raging fire:

"The Purple Mountain is the Purple Mountain, not Mount Fuji!"

It's a pity that a day later, most of Yuhuatai was lost, and only the military police regiment led by Xiao Jian and his Falcon special combat team were still fighting hard. The main peak of the Purple Mountain was captured. The Japanese army was forming a four-sided encirclement of Nanjing. Tang Shengzhi felt embattled. Chiang Kai-shek repeatedly sternly told him to break through and evacuate Nanjing, he wanted to cry without tears, he knew that once the Nationalist army retreated, 700,000 residents of Nanjing would lose protection, and the consequences would be unimaginable, and he did not dare to think about it.

On the iron gate of the Zhongshan Gate, the 20th Infantry Wing of the 16th Division of the Japanese Army wrote in white lacquer: "At 3 o'clock in the afternoon of December 13, Showa 12, the Ono troops occupied. "For the first time in history, the imperial capital was occupied by a foreign army in the true sense of the word.

Xiao Jian took his special combat team and the military police regiment handed over to him by Xiao Shanling, and stubbornly defended the main position of Yuhuatai. Both sides have been occupied by Japanese troops.

This is the center of the international security zone, and at least here, where most people can get some shelter, and in comparison, it is still relatively safe here. In the silence of the night, the whole of Nanjing seemed to be quiet, there was no too fierce gunfire, but orange fires flashed from time to time in the distant sky, where the front line of fierce battles flickered. The battle situation was indeed more intense, especially in the southeast of Nanjing, where the Japanese army had cleared the Fukuo position and approached the city wall on the first line of Yuhuatai. The garrison commander's headquarters urgently transferred the 156th Division for reinforcements, and Shen Fazao's 87th Division, after receiving reinforcements, finally withstood the onslaught of the Japanese army, and after blocking the city gate, the battle line tended to stabilize.

After Xiao Jian eliminated Onimu's shadow department, when Onimu saw in the telescope that the shadow troops were beaten by Xiao Jian's Falcon Special Combat Team, he was so angry that he scolded Takagi for being a stupid pig, a completely stupid pig. If he wasn't his own son, it wouldn't be too much to kill him ten times. In fact, if Oniki hadn't seen that the shadow troops were the elite of the Japanese military headquarters and the emperor's battle flower, he would have wanted to bombard the array in front of Yuhua Terrace into a no-man's land.

Onagi endured. So angry that his thin donkey face turned the color of pig liver.

As soon as Xiao Jian left, Yuhuatai became a sea of fire, and the ghost wood mobilized all the heavy artillery that could be mobilized to pour into Yuhuatai, the thick city wall of Yuhuatai was blown down, and the ancient city wall of the Six Dynasties was tormented in the artillery fire, and the city was chaotic for a while, and the citizens faced this precarious city, and their frightened faces were full of pain. From time to time, citizens have been killed by stray bullets outside the city, which has added to the horror of the citizens.

Xiao Jian stood in a wooden house not far from Yuhuatai, looking at the artillery fire in the sky, although he fought a battle of annihilation on the position in front of Yuhuatai, but the situation of the war became more and more unfavorable to the national army. The Japanese army was far superior to the Nationalist army in military strength, and the war was completely developed in favor of the Japanese army. Nanjing is already embattled. Today, in addition to Yuhuatai, part of the positions of Zhonghua Gate and Purple Mountain are still in Chinese hands, and the rest of the positions are almost lost. The Yuhuatai side is still fiercely and repeatedly fighting. The rest of the positions are a foregone conclusion.

In the entire Nanjing position, the battle of Yuhuatai was the most tragic, and the number of casualties on both the Chinese and Japanese sides was the largest. The entire position was completely scorched, and the dead and wounded fighters could be described as a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.

Oniki is a typical war maniac, militarist. In the Battle of Songhu, his hands were stained with the blood of countless Chinese. If he once attacked the city, he would implement a bloody three-light policy like the Battle of Songhu. The Chinese seemed to dig up his ancestral grave, in Shanghai, the Japanese army ** had not yet allowed the slaughter of the village, he was the first to carry out a barbaric bloody massacre, in Shanghai, everywhere he led the army, leaving behind burned houses and corpses of men, women and children. It's horrific and outrageous.

Bloody shrouded in Nanjing, there are more than 700,000 residents in the city, this group of inhuman wolves, once invaded Nanjing, it will become a bloody slaughterhouse for the Japanese army.

Tang Shengzhi has always regarded Yuhuatai as a key war zone, and Xiao Jian eliminated the shadow troops of the ghost wood. Angry enough that the ghost wood vomited blood, the shadow troops were a decapitating sword in his army. The goal is to kill Tang Shengzhi, and now the shadow troops have all become the souls of the Xiao Sword Falcons. He was not reconciled! He's going to get revenge!

At 13 o'clock on December 10, Matsui Ishone issued an order to attack the city. With more than 200 combat aircraft, more than 500 tanks and combat vehicles, and thousands of artillery pieces, the 9th Division launched a fierce attack on Yuhuatai, the 114th Division and the 6th Division towards Zhonghuamen, and the 16th Division on Purple Mountain.

The task of air cover was carried out by the Kisarazu Brigade of the Japanese Air Force. They met again in the sky over Nanjing. 13 "The old opponent of the Shanghai air battle - the 4th brigade of the Chinese Air Force hero Gao Zhihang. Most of the members of the 4th Brigade are air heroes who are loyal, defend the country, and have made repeated achievements. At this time, the enemies were very red when they saw each other. The original planes of the Kisarazu Brigade were almost all wiped out by the 4th Brigade. All that was flown this time was a re-replenished Type 96 aircraft.

The 4th Brigade was also supported by volunteer pilots of the Soviet Air Force, who fought side by side. Chinese and Soviet pilots bravely met the Japanese planes. The fighters painted with the blue sky and the white sun and the Japanese planes painted with the sun flag flew up and down, and they became a ball. The rumbling of artillery in the air was heard on the ground, and it was impossible to distinguish which side was firing, and only when they could clearly see the sun flag sign on the plane dragging the smoke down, did the officers and men defending the city and the people cheer together.

The teaching corps defending the Purple Mountain was like a floodgate, resisting the enemies who were surging like a tide in front of Nanjing. The teaching corps relied on the preset position of reinforced concrete to stubbornly block the enemy. The Japanese army was littered with corpses in front of the position, but a large number of Japanese troops continued to swarm up, and the teaching corps suffered heavy casualties. At this time, Gui Yongqing's order came from the phone, only a short 16 words: "Resolutely resist and can't retreat, if there is a mistake, come and see you." ”

Under the pressure of this death order, the teaching corps was in a hurry, relying on powerful terrain and fortifications, using a small number of troops to maneuver around the enemy, and the troops took turns to rest, which not only reduced casualties, but also recuperated and recuperated. This trick really worked, and the Japanese army lost its troops and still couldn't move an inch.

The cunning Japanese army knew that the hard bone of the teaching corps was difficult to gnaw, and they also learned to be obedient, and treated them in the same way. A small number of troops were also left to contain the teaching corps, and concentrated their forces to attack the engineer school defended by the 87th Division on the flank, and one battalion of the defenders could not resist and retreated into the city. The Japanese army occupied the engineering school and suddenly broke into the outside of Yuhuatai.

At this time, Wang Jingzhi, the commander of the 87th Division, was squatting in the basement of Fugui Mountain, without a staff adjutant by his side, and he was smoking a cigarette with his head bowed. When the news of the loss of the sapper school came, he jumped up, threw away his cigarette, and was speechless for a long time.

"Senior Commander Wang, I'm afraid this situation should be reported to the commander as soon as possible!" Qiu Qingquan, chief of staff of the teaching corps next to him, reminded him.

Wang Jingzhi woke up like a dream this time and hung up the phone of the commander's management department, and as soon as the engineering school was lost, Yuhuatai in Nanjing City was the first to be exposed to the Japanese army. What Wang Jingzhi heard on the phone was Tang Shengzhi's scolding. As soon as he put down the phone, he didn't call anywhere, and shouted to the 260 Brigade Headquarters on the phone: "Tell Brigade Commander Liu to come to see me immediately!" ”

After a while, Liu Qixiong, the brigade commander wearing a gray cotton military uniform and a soldier's belt, arrived.

"Why did you lose the sapper school!" Wang Jingzhi asked.

"We have retreated from Shanghai, and half of the people have not been accommodated, and in addition to the hard fighting in the past few days, many officers and men have been injured either dead or wounded, and there are actually only more than one company of the Engineer School, so we ......," Liu Qixiong replied unhurriedly.

"Go back! Organize the rest of the people and wait for orders. In fact, Wang Jingzhi is also clear about these situations, what else can he say? What kind of order did he listen to, Wang Jingzhi didn't say, in fact, he didn't know it himself.

The Japanese army attacking Yuhuatai pushed out the mountain artillery and bombarded the city gate, the city gate was torn down, and the mud and sand in the wall suddenly poured out...... Then hundreds of tanks and tanks pressed over the position...... The Chinese soldiers guarding Yuhuatai almost used suicidal fighting methods to die along with the Japanese tanks and tanks. On the position, tanks and tanks collapsed together in wailing. More than 1,000 Japanese soldiers climbed up with the 38 big covers, and the officers and soldiers of the defenders raised their bayonets to meet them, and the sound of swords and swords on the city wall shook the sky.

Xiao Jian's special combat team has always been sticking to Yuhuatai, and Tang Xinzhi gave a death order: people are in the position! At the critical moment, when Xiao Jian led the Falcon Special Team and the teaching team guarding Yuhuatai to penetrate the chest of the last Japanese soldier with bloody bayonets, hundreds of Japanese corpses and thousands of Chinese soldiers' corpses lay up and down the city wall.

The fighting intensified. Yuhuatai was broken through by the Japanese army many times, and the commander's department urgently ordered the 156th Division to reinforce Tongjimen and plug the gap in Yuhuatai. Deputy Commander Liu Xing personally went to the front line to command, and the gap was finally blocked. The officers and soldiers had just breathed a sigh of relief, when suddenly a burst of gunfire rang out, and the guard post on the city wall fell to the ground in response. Strangely, this shot did not come from below, but from under the city walls.

It turned out that a group of Japanese soldiers hid in the hole in the city gate, and the defenders' firepower was out of reach, and they couldn't blow it up even if they threw their hands down. The enemy, however, could kill and wound the defenders on the walls from concealment. It was getting dark, and the officers and soldiers defending the city were so anxious that they were at a loss. I don't know who said: "Burn these turtle grandchildren!" ”

Yes! Everyone gathered gasoline and poured it down the city wall to the entrance of the door. Then, dozens of daredevils quietly hung ropes from the city wall and landed on the ground, and a burst of hands ignited gasoline, and the enemy in the city gate cave burned in the flames and screamed, and no one survived.

The task was completed, but these dozens of warriors did not climb the rope, they had already held the belief that they would die, and pounced on the Japanese troops reinforced by the Tongguang barracks outside the city, and beat the Japanese soldiers with their heads in their hands. The warriors rushed bravely, and finally all fell to the ground outside the Guanghu Gate.

After the Japanese failed in attacking Yuhuatai and Tongjimen, on the 11th, the 6th Division of the elite troops Tani Shofu and the 114th Division of Shigeharu Suehua attacked Yuhuatai and Zhonghuamen. Deputy Commander Luo Zhuoying's husband commanded the first line, and engaged in fierce street battles with the Japanese army in the area of Zhonghua Gate, and wiped out all the enemies who broke into the city.

From 7 o'clock in the morning, Japanese planes, artillery, and tanks bombed the Yuhuatai position, which was less than 2,000 meters wide, and the Japanese troops of the two wings repeatedly attacked. After 3 days of fierce fighting, thousands of Japanese soldiers were left dead in front of the battle. The 88th Division of Sun Yuanliang's Chinese defenders also paid a huge price, and more than 6,000 officers and soldiers below the commander of the 262nd Brigade Zhu Chi and the commander of the 164th Brigade Gao Zhisong were all martyred.

On December 12th, from dawn, Japanese planes and artillery intensively bombarded the city gates, the ancient and strong city walls were blown up to the ground, the buildings around the city walls collapsed, the city walls were opened, and the defenders in the city could clearly see the steel helmets of the Japanese soldiers.

At 12 noon, half of Yuhuatai was occupied by the Japanese army; The second peak of the Purple Mountain also fell; The 2nd Army Corps was forced by the Japanese Kunisaki detachment to the riverside from Oolong Mountain to Kichijoan, and there was no way back. Many of the cities at Zhonghua Gate and Zhongshan Gate were destroyed by Japanese artillery fire, and Japanese troops poured in like a tide through the gaps in the city wall and overflowed into the city. Hundreds of Chinese soldiers, who were killed in battle and had no one to command, spontaneously met the enemy and used their bodies to block the enemy.

Yuhuatai remained firmly in the hands of the Chinese defenders.

Xiao Jian counted the casualties, the Falcon Special Combat Team also lost more than half of the battle to defend Yuhuatai, and the Military Police Corps also suffered heavy casualties. But the position he held remained firmly in his hands.