"Good!" The chief of staff answered, and immediately left with a few guards.

Seeing that everyone was busy, Zhao Zilong was not idle.

He looked around, and after sensing that there was nothing abnormal in the moat and the residential area, he called Wen Bin and Zhang Hu, took thirty grenades, climbed down the city wall, circled, and came to the other side of the moat.

At night, the silver light shone on the surface of the river, shimmering faintly. The water was muddy, and there was an unpleasant putrid stench.

"Brother Zhao! Do you want us to bury grenades here? Wen Bin asked a little strangely.

"Yes, you tie these grenades together in groups of six." Zhao Zilong nodded and said.

He was tied with a rope tied to him, pulled by Zhang Hu and Wen Bin, and then climbed down under the piers of a blown up bamboo bridge.

"Brother Zhao! If you hide grenades like this, won't it be easy for devils to find out? Wen Bin asked again.

"No, it won't." Zhao Zilong shook his head.

"I'll cover it up with dirt," he explained, digging a hole in the mud by the river with the triangular stab, and looking at the riverbank, I don't know that there is a grenade hidden here." Even if the devil sappers build a bamboo bridge, it is not easy to find. ”

There was originally a wooden bridge on the moat, and when the devils attacked the city in the past two days, four more bamboo bridges were built, but they were all blown up by Zhao Zilong and Zhang Hu with a grenadier.

Therefore, Zhao Zilong hid a grenade bomb under the five destroyed bridge piers.

After doing all this, Zhao Zilong and the others immediately went back to the city wall.

"Brother! What did you just do? Wang Zhong looked at Zhao Zilong's body with a lot of mud and asked with some surprise.

"A couple of bombs were hidden by the river." Zhao Zilong pointed to the moat.

"Blow up the bridge?" Wang Zhong looked at the empty moat, and was even more puzzled.

"You'll find out tomorrow." Zhao Zilong's mouth tugged and chuckled.

"Hey! Brothers, come and help. At this moment, the shouts of the chief of staff came from the road.

This time, the chief of staff brought two trucks to bring two antiaircraft guns, as well as two barrels of kerosene, two or three hundred pounds of iron nails, and more than a dozen iron nets.

As soon as Zhang Hu saw the anti-aircraft gun, he was the first to rush over, and everyone stopped their work one after another to move the materials.

Zhao Zilong asked everyone to find wooden boards, cut them into the size of shoeboxes, and nail dozens of iron nails into each piece. The nails are all passed through the planks, revealing the tips of the nails.

He then asked some of the national soldiers to bury more than 100 planks in the mud from the city wall to the moat, exposing the tips of the nails. The other half, which was nailed to both sides of the plank, was soaked in kerosene.

"Little Tiger! What are you doing? ”

Seeing Zhang Hu and a national gunner circling around the anti-aircraft gun, Zhao Zilong walked over and asked.

This time the chief of staff brought two anti-aircraft guns and also brought a gunner. Zhang Hu had previously been in the artillery company and knew each other. "Brother Zhao!" Zhang Hu scratched his head and replied, "We are discussing, where to place these two cannons." ”

"Hmm." Zhao Zilong looked around, and his brows couldn't help but tighten.

He knew that anti-aircraft guns were large and easy to be spotted by the enemy, and that they had long barrels and were slow to move, making it difficult to aim if the target moved fast.

He remembered the German general Rommel, who first chose an ambush point, then hid a dozen anti-aircraft guns on both sides, and then used a small number of tanks to lure the British tank group into the ambush circle and bomb and destroy it in a concentrated manner.

Now that they are guarding the city walls, the devils will definitely attack, and this is a good ambush point.

The devils come to attack, no more than ten tanks at most, and they have two anti-aircraft guns to deal with it. But the most important thing at the moment is how to prevent the devils from discovering the location of the anti-aircraft guns early.

Zhang Hu and the gunner of the national army have been discussing, but to no avail.

Zhao Zilong also frowned and scratched his head from time to time, and he couldn't find a better place.

In the end, Zhao Zilong asked Zhang Hu to place two anti-aircraft guns in the enemy tower of the city wall, which had collapsed most of the side.

Here, you can not only fully see the environment outside the city, but also cover it with those fragments of wall bricks, so that it is not easy to be found from the outside. But the problem is that if you are discovered by the devils, you are vulnerable to attack.

However, there is no better choice.

Everyone was busy until midnight, and finally they could rest and rest.

Sun Jian saw that the repairs had been completed, so he left in a hurry after explaining to Wang Zhong and the others.

Seeing that everyone was so tired that they fell asleep, but Zhao Zilong was tossing and turning from time to time, always thinking about tomorrow's battle.

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The devil's camp outside the Zhonghua Gate.

"Yo Si! Very good, with this information, we will definitely be able to capture the Zhonghua Gate. Taro Okamoto took the telegram and said happily.

The third captain and Adjutant Murayoshi, who were standing in front of him, also smiled.

"But ......," Taro Okamoto said, his tone changed.

"Osa Okamoto! But what? The third captain was stunned and immediately asked.

"Although we know the situation of the defenders and the deployment of the fortifications of the Zhonghua Gate, if we want to storm it, we may have to sacrifice a lot of imperial warriors."

"Osa Okamoto! Didn't we apply for the transfer of six tanks? When the time comes, tomorrow we will first bombard the gap in the corner of the city wall with cannons, which are all piled up with stone sandbags and can be easily blown open.

Just blow up that gap, and then bomb it with tanks to suppress the Chinese army, and then organize a group of death squads to attack with all their might. ”

The third captain confidently continued: "Moreover, we have received information that the Chinese army is already short of ammunition. Tomorrow we only need to crush the Chinese army with heavy firepower, as long as we wait for those of our warriors to rush into the gap and rush into the city walls, that army will definitely not fight and will not fight itself, and then we will launch a full-scale attack. ”

"I heard that Commander Asaka issued an order for all parts to launch a full-scale siege tomorrow." Adjutant Murayoshi interjected.

When the third captain heard this, he said again: "Okamoto Daisa! This time, we must capture Nanjing City before other troops, so that we can wash away the shame of our previous defeat, and we will not be blamed by Commander Chaoxiang. ”

"That's right." Taro Okamoto nodded vigorously and smiled. The sullenness he had suffered from the successive failed sieges of the city seemed to have disappeared.

Afterwards, Taro Okamoto immediately called the third captain and Adjutant Murayoshi to go down and prepare.

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Wuhan base camp.

"Chairman! This is a telegram from Nanjing. The chief of staff had several telegrams in his hand and handed one to Chairman Chiang first.

The chairman of the committee took it and looked at it, and he saw that it was a report that Tang Zhixin and others had preliminarily negotiated to start retreating on the 14th.

"It is not a hurry to prepare for another retreat in two days, and it is not too urgent, I hope that he can withdraw the main force of the large army from Nanjing City. At that time, we will have troops to deploy for the Battle of Wuhan. The chairman nodded and said.

"Chairman! Here's another copy. The Chief of Staff immediately handed another telegram.

"Oh? How did you send two telegrams? The chairman raised an eyebrow, and although he was surprised, he still took it.

"That Zhao Zilong didn't accept Commander Tang's commendation, and he also said that he wanted everyone to retreat?"

When the chairman saw this, his eyes couldn't help but widen, and a trace of surprise and anger appeared on his face.

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