Rujiang Gate is the rear gate of Nanjing Ming City Wall, located in the northwest section of the city wall of Gulou District, Nanjing, between two mountains.

At this time, on the tower of Rujiang Gate, Xiao Yushan and a group of officers stood here to observe the enemy situation.

Although everyone heard Zhao Zilong say that there were two wings when the devil came, but now when they saw a large group of earthy yellow people in the distance, about one or two kilometers away, they couldn't help but show a slightly nervous look.

"Guys, get ready for battle." Xiao Yushan frowned and shouted at everyone.

The regimental commanders and battalion commanders who had been left behind to assist in the operation immediately dispersed to command their own troops.

"Camp Commander Wang! Will those two infantry guns in your battalion still work? When Wang Zhong was about to leave, Xiao Yushan stopped him.

"Huh?" Wang Zhong was speechless for a while.

He had been busy directing everyone to repair the fortifications, and he didn't bother to look at it. But he thought that Zhao Zilong was inspecting the infantry artillery with Zhang Long and Zhang Hu at that time, so he immediately pointed at Zhao Zilong in the distance and shouted, "Brother! Come over here. ”

Zhao Zilong was pondering, thinking about what method to use to break up the devil's attack, and as soon as he heard the call, he immediately ran over: "Brother Wang! What's up? ”

"Do you know those two infantry guns still work?"

"There was a little bit of a problem before, but now it's fixed."

"If it works, it's good to work." Xiao Yushan frowned, and immediately said, "Camp Commander Wang!" While the devils are gathering, how about you ask them to give the devils a few shots? ”

"Okay." Looking at the team of devils, Wang Zhong's eyes suddenly lit up, and he nodded immediately.

"Wait." When Wang Zhong turned around to run, Zhao Zilong suddenly reached out and grabbed him.

"What's wrong?" Wang Zhong paused and asked.

Xiao Yushan also looked over in surprise.

Zhao Zilong frowned, he had been sensing the movements of those devils before.

Just now, through the eight-fold monoculars, he clearly saw that behind the team of devils, there were two squads pulling infantry guns in a row. I counted them, and there were sixteen in total.

Seeing those devil gunners adjusting the muzzles, and the devil ammunition men nervously carrying the shells, Zhao Zilong's face suddenly changed, and he immediately shouted: "Commander Xiao! The devils are now concentrating their artillery to bomb our side, and you order everyone to retreat. ”

The maximum firing range of the Type 92 infantry gun can reach 2788 meters.

Now everyone is within the bombardment range of artillery, so Zhao Zilong has to tell everyone to retreat in order to avoid it.

Xiao Yushan also picked up the binoculars and looked at the situation in the distance.

Although he was only four times the size of the telescope, he couldn't see it so clearly, but he could also see the actions of the two teams of devils.

He saw that these devil artillery were very arrogant, and they actually lined up artillery arrays on Zhongshan Avenue, completely ignoring them.

Xiao Yushan immediately ordered those regiment commanders and battalion commanders to lead the team to retreat.

As soon as they heard that the devils were going to bombard with artillery, except for a few soldiers who were left to hold the city wall, the rest of the personnel quickly retreated in the direction of hiding behind the two hills or going to the lower dock.

The crowd on the other side of the Shimonoseki pier, after hearing the order, followed everyone and retreated.

"Rujiangmen is about two kilometers away from Xiaguan Wharf, how can the devil's cannon hit here?" When a regimental commander heard this order, he said disapprovingly. This man did not participate in the previous anti-siege of the Okamoto United.

"That's right." Immediately someone else chimed in.

These national troops who had not participated in the war before, they didn't believe it, and when they saw everyone leaving, they thought they could cross the river quickly.

Boom......

In less than half an hour, a continuous burst of cannons was heard outside the city gates.

Suddenly, one after another cannonballs flew into the sky and landed on the wall of Rujiangmen to the side of Xiaguan Wharf.

Boom Boom Boom......

With one explosion after another, clouds of gunpowder smoke rose from the ground, enveloping the earth.

The three or four thousand national troops who remained at the dock were suddenly blown down by a few shells that fell here.

The regimental commander, who was always self-righteous and did not obey orders, although he was not killed, was hit by shrapnel in the thigh and fell to the ground screaming in pain.

The others were immediately frightened and fled back.

And those national troops who obeyed the order, fortunately, were reminded by Zhao Zilong, so everyone avoided it early, so no one was injured.

Except for a few gendarmes who had to hold on to the city wall of Rujiang Gate, a few of whom were unlucky enough to be hit by shells or grazed by shrapnel, the vast majority of the brothers and gendarmes of the national army were unharmed.

Looking at the cannonballs falling from the sky below, Zhao Zilong, who was with Zhang Long and Zhang Hu, frowned even tighter.

They have moved two Type 92 infantry guns to the mouth of a small cave three or four hundred meters away from the Rujiang Gate. From here, you can't see what is happening outside the gate, but there is a thick layer of mud at the entrance of the cave, so even if a cannonball from a devil falls on it, it will not be affected.

"Zhang Long! Can you hit the devil's cannon? At this time, Wang Zhong ran over and asked.

"I can't see outside." Zhang Long shook his head and said, "Unless the cannon is removed from the hole." ”

Looking at the cannonballs that fell from time to time outside the entrance of the cave, Wang Zhong's face was a little ugly. Then, he looked at Zhao Zilong, who was resting with his eyes closed: "Brother! Is there no way? ”

"I'll try." Zhao Zilong didn't open his eyes, just nodded, and immediately sensed the distance.

Because the sound of the devil's constant cannon is very loud, he can easily sense the specific location of those devil artillery.

"Little Tiger! Brother Zhang! The distance is 1,200 meters, the azimuth XXX, and the devil artillery is in that place. Zhao Zilong immediately opened his eyes and shouted.

Zhang Long and Zhang Hu hurriedly turned the gun shaft and adjusted the direction of the gun, and the other two ammunition men each picked up a shell.

Zhang Hu first adjusted the direction of the muzzle, and as soon as he saw that the shell was loaded, he immediately grabbed the cannon rope and pulled it suddenly.

Rumble!

A black round cannonball shot out.

Zhang Long, who was here, also pulled up the cannon rope.

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"Yaga! Hurry up and blow up those soldiers. ”

At this time, on the devil artillery position outside the Rujiang Gate, a fat devil artillery squad leader was constantly urging his subordinates to shoot.

He looked through the binoculars and saw clouds of black smoke rising from inside and outside the city walls in the distance, and his heart was extremely happy.

Suddenly, he saw two small black shadows flying out of there one after another, and he couldn't help but be stunned. Because of the explosions, he didn't hear the cannon firing.

"Mother! When the two black shadows flew closer, he saw that it was a cannonball, and he was immediately frightened and screamed in grief.

Bang! Bang!

One shell fell in the middle of these sixteen infantry guns, and another fell to the far left.

After the two explosions, three infantry guns were blown apart, and several of the surrounding artillerymen were already scattered with flesh and blood, and fell to the ground and could no longer move.

Although the devil artillerymen separated each infantry gun by about ten meters, the others were not affected, but they were also frightened and stopped their movements for a while.

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