The 74th Army informed the 51st Division to go to the Xiaguan Wharf, and they prepared a small steamer that could transport people to Jiangbei in batches, and the 58th Division also went there.

Sangou received a notice from the division headquarters that all the soldiers of the 51st Division crossed the Yangtze River to Jiangbei to gather in Chuzhou, and the 306th regiment headquarters was responsible for carrying Regiment Commander Qiu, who had been shot in the leg, to the Xiaguan ferry.

Lao Hu of the third battalion took the rest of the soldiers to cover the regimental headquarters first, and the devils had already followed, and there were now more than 100 people left in the third battalion.

Lao Hu had to build a temporary defensive position at the bridgehead north of the Zhenhuai Bridge, but fortunately, there were two bunkers that had already been poured, on the left and right sides of the bridgehead.

On the dilapidated city tower of Zhonghua Gate, there is a battalion of two companies on it, which is besieged by devils, and after the Japanese army poured into Zhonghua Gate, they immediately divided a part of their troops and came towards Zhenhuai Bridge, thinking of crossing the bridge and entering the city to pursue the national army.

It was now the night of the 12th, the flares were flickering brightly and dimly, and the flames were blazing on the tower of the Zhonghua Gate City, and the brothers of the battalion above were still fighting.

The devils were doing a transcendent attack, and when a group of devils were rushing to the bridge deck of the Zhenhuai Bridge, Lao Hu gave an order, and more than 100 guns opened fire together, and the first dozen devils in front of them were immediately knocked over to the ground.

The Japanese did not expect that there were still defenders here, so they immediately covered up, pulled mortars from behind, and began to bombard the positions of the defenders at the bridgehead.

Lao Hu had long expected the heavy firepower of the devils, and divided more than 100 people into three groups, one left and one right, and there were dozens of people in two bunkers, and used light machine guns to do crossfire.

The remaining reserve of dozens of people set up two machine guns on both sides of the street a few hundred meters away from the bridge, and at the same time, several shooters like Xiucai were also equipped in the reserve, so as not to expose their firepower for the time being.

The mortar of the devils all hit the streets in front and the bunkers on both sides, almost no effect, more and more devils swarmed in, and the pressure on the city tower of the first battalion and two companies increased.

Although the firepower of the third battalion has done a little support for the city tower, it still belongs to the car and water, and in the back, they can no longer take care of them, because there are more and more devils, and the firepower is escalating more and more.

The two broken companies on the tower had already begun to fight hand-to-hand with the devils who climbed up the tower, and under the illumination of the flares, the soldiers of the third battalion could see it clearly.

The soldiers of the first battalion no longer care about their own life and death, most of them want to die quickly, and before they die, try to kill a devil as a capital, but they can't get it, so they fall down from the city tower more than 20 meters high with the devil in their arms.

It was really shocking, the sword and sword shadow on the city tower, the flesh and blood were flying, the sound of killing was everywhere, many soldiers of the national army, who fought for several days and nights in a row, were really powerless, so they pulled out the last grenade on their bodies and died with the enemy.

These brothers were all sacrificed one by one under their own noses, and they gritted their teeth at the sight of the three dogs, and they couldn't wait to pounce on them and tear the devil to pieces.

But now if you want to cover the retreat of the regimental headquarters, you have to bite as much as possible here and drag the footsteps of the devils to pursue.

Seeing that the last soldier on the city tower died with the enemy in the last grenade firelight, the city tower slowly fell silent, like a bloody blue sky and white sun full of red flags, swaying broken flags, slowly falling in the wind.

Zhonghua Gate, Zhonghua Gate, the castle tower that fought fiercely for four or five days in a row, finally ended its mission and lowered its once noble head.

As soon as the Japanese army conquered the Zhonghua Gate, they pressed forward, and the front was the Zhenhuai Bridge, hundreds of devils were fighting for the bridge, and the devils on the city tower were also condescendingly shooting at the defensive positions here.

There are only two bunkers that can play a little role, withstanding the bombardment of the devil's rifle shells and mortars, and there are two light machine guns in each bunker, firing non-stop, holding down the devil's progress.

The seventh company, as a reserve, did not fire on both sides of the street a few hundred meters away, and the three dogs were still waiting, calculating the time, calculating where the regimental headquarters was estimated to be now, and how to cross the alley and find the regimental headquarters......

The Japanese army couldn't help Zhenhuai Bridge for the time being, because small arms really couldn't handle the bunker, and several demomen of the death squad wanted to jump into the river and swam over to blow up the bunker, but they were all shot by machine guns in the river.

But the devil didn't give up, and immediately pulled in a 92-step cannon from outside the city, I'll go, the elder of the third battalion looked at it, sweating all over, and my life was resting.

Lao Hu immediately ordered all the firepower to be aimed at the 92 infantry cannon, but unfortunately, there was a steel shield in front of the infantry cannon, and the devil also set the 92 infantry cannon in a trench, which had a little dead angle for shooting.

Seeing that the muzzle of the 92 rifle was slowly moving down, facing a bunker, Lao Hu had to order everyone to escape from the bunker, at such a close distance, the infantry approached and fired flat, and the gun holes of these bunkers were vulnerable in front of 70mm shells.

After a few cannons, the two bunkers were smashed, without the bunkers, there was no protection, and there were less than 100 people left in the eighth and ninth companies of the third battalion, led by Lao Hu, who did not retreat, but faced the devils who rushed over, and all carried out a counter-charge counterattack.

Lao Hu, who has fought all his life, knows that if he retreats and escapes at this time, it is estimated that he will be eaten by the devils, because the long-range firepower of others will always follow behind, constantly attacking.

Once you retreat, you can't organize your forces to resist, even if you cover each other step by step, it's based on the strength of your troops, and now there are only so many remnants left, how to cover each other, you know, this is facing the pursuit of hundreds of enemies.

There is no way, but to squeeze everyone and the Japanese army on the narrow Zhenhuai Bridge, in order to have an equal chance of equal strength with the enemy in a limited local space, and at the same time, to avoid the pursuit of the devil's 92 rifle guns.

Hundreds of people, all crowded on the Zhenhuai Bridge to fight, Sangou saw it, immediately beckoned everyone to go to support, and halfway through, they were drunk back by Lao Hu.

"Go back, you shit, you won't be allowed to come out without my order."

Lao Hu is reasonable, now the capacity of the bridge deck is only hundreds of people, and it is useless to have more, but it will suffer from the artillery fire of the enemy on the opposite side.

And the seventh company of the three dogs has always been the meat of Lao Hu's heart, although the other troops of the third battalion have been defeated, as long as the seeds of the seventh battalion are kept, the third battalion can be rebuilt, because the seventh company is the spirit of the third battalion.

At the same time, the third battalion is responsible for protecting the regimental headquarters, and now if the seventh company also comes up, what if the regimental headquarters is caught up by the enemy? If the regiment commander and the regiment headquarters are taken by the devil, it will be all the responsibility of his old Hu.

Therefore, he is now determined to retain the last bit of seed strength of the Seventh Company, and at the same time let them finally withdraw to the city to protect the regimental headquarters.