328. The Bloody Battle of Chunhua Town

In the forced charge, the 301st Regiment engaged the Japanese in close contact, using bayonets and grenades to meet the enemy, although it broke through the heavy defensive line and blew up several 92-step guns, but its own personnel were constantly attrition.

Both sides sent wave after wave of death squads, and it was winter, shirtless, and one wave died, and then the second wave was filled, and both sides were red-eyed.

What kind of style of commander will bring out what kind of style of troops, when Ji Hongru, the commander of the 301st Regiment, was a hard commodity who didn't want to fight in a war, so under his leadership, the 301st Regiment was also full of blood, and everyone didn't want to die.

The order from above is to defend Chunhua Town, the people are in the town, and now the town is not there, only the peripheral positions are left, if even this position is lost, then Chunhua Town will really be finished, and the 301st Regiment will also be finished.

Everyone knows what this order is, and they know the current situation, so Commander Ji led the team several times, led the death squad to charge and counter-charge, and crushed the Japanese army again and again.

However, the Japanese army is also determined to win Chunhua Town, a key choke point in the southeast of Nanjing, once this choke point is opened, there is no danger to defend within 20 kilometers of Nanjing in the west, and the Japanese army can reach the Nanjing City Tower (Fukuo Position) in half a day.

Behind is the capital, as a soldier, as the guardian of this country, the 74th Army, the 51st Division, and the 301st Regiment are already irreversible, and it is the duty of soldiers to defend the country and the capital.

The brave and unusually brave Regiment Commander Ji also held a bayonet, led the whole regiment of soldiers, rushed to the position one after another, and strangled the Japanese army, and the devil's 92 rifles, tanks, heavy machine guns and other heavy firepower were all unusable because of the ginseng on both sides.

The seven companies of the three dogs also followed the charge, and at this time, the advantage of the seven companies with more grenade equipment was reflected.

Sangou ordered, no matter who it is, when fighting with the devil, as long as there are 92 rifles and tanks, whether there are their own people or not, they will use grenades to blow up, even if they take their own lives, they will blow up the nemesis of the enemy's two national defenders.

This battle has been fought to the extreme, and countless soldiers will not hesitate to destroy the enemy.

None of those who went into battle shirtless wanted to go back alive, but only wanted to kill a few more enemies, blow up a few more cannons or tanks before they died.

Warriors guard the country, Chunhua Town belongs to the east gate of the capital Nanjing, even if you die, you can't let the devil open this gate, people are in the position, they die in battle, even if the position is lost, people will die.

There are constantly people on the battlefield who pull the glorious bullets, hugging the devil and blowing it up together, or when they are dying, they see the devil getting close to him, and they want to blow it up.

Constant explosions sounded in the crowd, and a cloud of blood mist on the battlefield bloomed like a blood flower, which was also a firework made of blood, and in the last moment of life, it was in full bloom, and the phoenix nirvana was nothing more than that.

Captain Ji was already a bloody man, but he still kept rushing forward, and the devil saw that this person was so brave, and he didn't care about his own people, he threw out a grenade, and in the explosion of the grenade, Captain Ji fell to the ground regretfully.

The regiment commander fell to the ground, and the guards had already fought to the old captain alone, and he was also injured many times, but he was seen by his comrades not far away, and everyone shouted to snatch the regiment commander down.

From this place, the position was full of horns to avenge the regiment commander, and the hot-blooded soldiers were even more desperate to move forward, fearless of life and death, all like madmen, going everywhere to catch devils, and they wanted to die together.

From morning to night, the whole position was fighting, the devils relied on the large number of people, constantly adding fuel to the in, and launched three major attacks in the middle, almost rushing the national army out of the outer positions of Chunhua Town.

The last time, that is, the time when Regiment Commander Ji fell, he was held back by the last breath of the national army, and even rushed back, it was late, and both the enemy and us were exhausted.

The Japanese reserves were also exhausted, and even the teams that could not succeed in making a detour to the flanks were withdrawn and refueled into the main position in the center.

Since the two wings can't open the gap, it's like blooming in the middle, but it still can't be beaten, and a large number of troops are also needed on the side of Fangshan, so at night, the devil finally retreated.

This battle did not stop for the whole day, and it was fought in the dark; Ji Hongru, the commander of the 301st Regiment, was seriously injured and carried down, and the 12 company commanders of the entire regiment suffered 9 casualties, and more than 1,400 casualties below the platoon level.

Among them, none of the five battalions guarding Chunhua Town survived, the whole regiment was almost wiped out, and the combat effectiveness was almost lost.

The Seventh Company, which was guarding the Xishantou position to prevent the Japanese army from making a detour on the left side, was not much better, because Sangou saw that the frontal position was struggling, and also sent two platoons of the second platoon and the third platoon to support, but as a result, almost all of the two platoons were sacrificed, but fortunately, the platoon commander survived.

The 51st Division's battle report on this battle that year has a cloud:

On the morning of December 8, about 2,000 new troops and more than 10 artillery pieces of the enemy from Hushu joined the battle from Xiawangshu to Chunhua, and at the same time the main force copied from Shangzhuang to break the mouth mountain and cut off our way back.

Under the cover of aircraft, artillery, and tanks, the frontal troops attacked Chunhua fiercely, and the intensity of the battle and the intensity of the artillery fire were unprecedented. However, the defenders of Songshu and Chunhua, although they were still desperately supporting in the rain of gunsmoke and bullets, fought hand-to-hand with the enemy and charged, and the sound of killing shook the sky.

They held out until 9 p.m. and were still in a stalemate with the enemy near Chunhua. On that day, Ji Hongru, acting commander of our 301st Regiment, was seriously wounded, nine company commanders were killed or wounded, and more than 1,400 were killed or wounded below the platoon commander.

The enemy also suffered heavy casualties, and corpses were scattered all over the field; In this battle, I captured 13 enemy battle flags and killed and wounded more than 2,000 enemies.

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Due to the continuous arrival of the follow-up troops of the Japanese army, most of the 114th Division attacked the Fangshan defense where the 302nd Regiment of the 51st Division was located, and the defenders of Chunhua Town would not retreat and would fall into the enemy's encirclement.

That night (December 8), the 51st Division received an order from General Tang, the commander of the Nanjing garrison, to abandon the Chunhua and Fangshan positions and move to the Jiangning River Dingqiao (not included) and the Matian line (the Qinhuai River bank south of Nanjing).

The 7th connected to the order, set up camp overnight, and at dawn on the 9th, it broke away safely and entered the new line position. In fact, there was nothing to talk about starting the camp, everyone fought a whole day of fierce fighting, and when they left, they were almost dragged away under the cover of the third battalion of the 306th regiment.

It was no longer possible to retreat like before, attacking and killing at night first, and then retreating secretly immediately, and there was no strength. The devil was also powerless, and when he saw the retreat of the national army from afar, he just had no strength to chase after him, so he could only watch the national army retreat.

However, the enemy attacking at the Fangshan position was not as fierce as Chunhua Town, and still had the strength to pursue the retreating troops of the 302nd Regiment, and the 51st Division transferred the 305th Regiment to cover.

The 305th Regiment, which was originally responsible for the defense of the line from Gaoqiaomen to Heding Bridge, was ordered to be replaced by the 87th Division on the evening of the 7th; The position of the regiment should be used to build a position on the left flank of the head of the pipe to cover the battle of the troops.

On the evening of the 8th, the 305th Regiment fought fiercely with the enemy near Guantou and Shangshang Town. Zhang Lingwu, the commander of the regiment, was wounded, five company commanders were wounded, and more than 600 were killed or wounded below the platoon commander.