On that day, the Japanese army about a wing attacked the forward position of Hushu Town, and after the defenders of the 51st Division resisted, they abandoned Hushu Town. At the same time, the Japanese army attacking Suoshu Town from Tuqiao Town returned to the Chunhua Town position to search, and a large number of Japanese planes bombed the Chunhua Town position in turn all day, and the defenders risked their lives to resist the war.

On the 7th, the first line of positions in front of Tangshui Town between Chunhua Town and Dongchang Street was broken through by Japanese cavalry, and the defenders were forced to retreat to the second line after dusk, holding Tangshan and Tangshui Town. The Japanese troops who invaded Chunhua Town attacked the defenders' positions with infantry, artillery, and aircraft, and the machine-gun bunkers were destroyed, and the defenders suffered many casualties.

On the same day, Matsui Ishine, commander of the Central China Front of the Japanese Army, sent planes to send a letter from the air to persuade Tang Shengzhi to surrender, but Tang Shengzhi ignored him and continued to order all units to do their best to hold on with the determination to live and die with the position, and never allow an inch of land to be abandoned lightly.

In the evening, the commander of the Japanese army in Shanghai, Hatohiko Asakanomiya, rushed to the front line in Nanjing, replacing Matsui Ishine, commander-in-chief of the Central China Front of the Japanese invasion of China, who was recuperating from lung disease, and served as the temporary commander-in-chief of the Japanese occupation of Nanjing.

By the 8th, the Japanese army had attacked to the outskirts of Nanjing, reached Qixia Mountain in the northeast, Dahu Mountain in the east, Tangshui Town and Chunhua Town in the south, and reached Solingguan and Jiangning Town in the southwest, and the defenders suffered heavy casualties along the way.

After Bai Fei learned the news, he scratched his heart and liver anxiously. Although he suggested to Tang Shengzhi on several occasions that the peripheral troops should be reduced to the periphery of Nanjing, relying on the favorable terrain to deal with the Japanese army. However, because he had repeatedly "offended" Tang Shengzhi before, his suggestions were not adopted. The angry Bai Fei almost took out Chiang Kai-shek's warrant, but Wang Weiguo said: "Tang Shengzhi didn't listen to the advice, emphasizing 'not giving up an inch of land, fighting to the death and not retreating', now although the outer defense line has suffered heavy casualties, but you can only say that there is a problem with his fighting methods, and you can't blame him for doing wrong, if it makes a big fuss, he only says that he will resolutely implement the resistance policy of the chairman, and you will appear very passive at that time..."

Bai Fei calmed down and thought about it, it was really like this. In desperation, he had no choice but to join forces with Xiao Shanling and Yu Jishi, and pulled Sun Yuanliang, Wang Jingjiu and others together to put pressure on Tang Shengzhi. After a war of words, Tang Shengzhi finally agreed to shrink the defensive line, and the outer defensive line was contracted to Wulong Mountain, Dashuiguan, Yaohuamen, Jubaoshan, Purple Mountain, Yuhuatai, Shangxinhe and other places.

Tang Shengzhi was forced to reluctantly succumb to the advice of Bai Fei and others, but after the order was issued, he said: "This practice of abandoning a large area of the position is not the original intention of my Tang someone, if I am held accountable afterwards, I will not be responsible." ”

Bai Fei said: "Commander Tang, don't worry, this suggestion was made by me, and if there is any responsibility, I will bear it with all my might." ”

Tang Shengzhi sneered: "I'm afraid you won't be able to afford it then..."

On the morning of December 9, the Japanese army continued to march towards Nanjing, and although there was no longer a brigade of ** teams resisting along the way, Japanese soldiers were constantly killed and injured by mines planted on the road. At first, the Japanese army did not care, and waited for the wounded to increase, so they paid attention to it, so they sent sappers to clear mines, but the Chinese snipers hiding in the shadows did not give them a chance, and sappers were constantly killed.

The Japanese commander had no choice but to order his subordinates to go around to arrest the Chinese civilians, intending to use them to mine them, but soon got the news that there were no civilians nearby at all.

The Japanese commander felt that the situation was serious and reported the situation. It didn't take long for Hatohiko of the Japanese imperial family, who had just taken office as the commander of the Shanghai Dispatch Army, to get the news.

Yanagawa Heisuke, commander of the 10th Army of the Japanese Army, said: "Now that I have encountered the same situation with several large armies, it seems that the Chinese army is trying to delay time. ”

Hatohiko smiled contemptuously: "It's just a mantis arm blocking the car, and I ordered to vigorously search for the people around China, and if you can't find it, use cannonballs to open the way." ”

The news passed on, and soon, there was a constant rumbling of artillery around Nanjing, and the Japanese army extravagantly opened the way with shells, although a lot of ammunition was wasted, but the speed of the march was no longer affected.

By the morning of the 10th, the Japanese soldiers were approaching the city, and Tang Shengzhi began to worry in his heart.

This is a Japanese plane flying over the city of Nanjing, ready to submit a letter and an ultimatum to the squadron. Bai Fei stared at the plane hovering in the sky, and muttered: "You ran away on December 7th, this time you give Lao Tzu a try..."

As he spoke, he nodded to the dumb man, and the air defense soldier, who had been preparing for a long time, immediately pulled the trigger, and a missile immediately flew out, hitting the Japanese plane that was delivering the message.

Before the plane exploded, stacks of paper were thrown down from it, and after the officers and soldiers defending the city picked it up, they saw that it was written a letter of persuasion to the officers and soldiers defending the city and the garrison commander Tang Shengzhi, so someone immediately sent the paper to the headquarters.

Tang Zhisheng received the letter of persuasion to surrender, and after a few hasty glances, he listened to the attendant say: "Sir, after the plane spilled paper just now, it was shot down. ”

"What?" Tang Shengzhi was shocked, and when he learned that he was done by Bai Fei, Tang Shengzhi didn't speak for a long time.

However, after the Japanese army's plane to deliver the message was shot down, the news quickly reached the ears of Hatohiko Asakanomiya. Hatohiko of the Asaka Palace was furious: "Bagayanu, toast and don't eat and drink, and order the troops to attack the city immediately." ”

After the order was issued, the Japanese army launched a full-scale attack on Yuhuatai, Tongjimen, Guanghuamen, Purple Mountain and other positions. Among them, the 6th Division and Division of the Japanese Army attacked the direction of Yuhuatai; The 9th Division attacked in the direction of Guanghuamen; Part of the troops of the 16th Division and the 3rd Division attacked Purple Mountain and the surrounding Yaohuamen Wulong Mountain.

Due to the contraction of the battle line on the side of the squadron and the abundance of troops, as soon as the battle began, the two sides fought very fiercely. Among them, the 88th and 87th Divisions stationed in the south of Nanjing were particularly brutal in the first line of Yuhuatai and Guanghuamen.

Zhu Chi, commander of the 262nd Brigade of the 88th Division, held Pingyan, which was 4 kilometers away from Yuhuatai, with two regiments, and one regiment held Yuhuatai, and the brigade headquarters was set up on Yuhuatai Mountain. In the fierce battle, in the face of the enemy's dense and crazy group charge, Zhu Chi personally went to the front-line position to command the operation, and held the enemy with infantry firepower, the enemy suffered heavy casualties, and when the position was critical many times, General Zhu Chi personally led the death squad to kill the enemy group, and the soldiers doubled their courage, and then rushed into the enemy group, not afraid of sacrifice, and fought with the enemy with flesh and blood.

Although Zhu Chi's division repelled the Japanese attack many times, but the Japanese army was numerous, and the aircraft, artillery and tanks were all out, and the defenders suffered heavy sacrifices, so Sun Yuanliang sent the 264th Brigade to the Song Division, and only one regiment directly under the entire 88th Division was responsible for guarding the Zhonghua Gate.

Sun Yuanliang jumped to his feet in a hurry, and kept sending messages to Bai Fei to ask him to save his life.

Bai Fei received the news, sighed lightly, gathered his subordinates, explained the relationship, left Wang Weiguo to guard Xiaguan and Jiangmian, and took the 2nd battalion, 3rd battalion and special combat team to the south for reinforcements.

Bai Fei said: "Brother Weiguo, I will leave the artillery battalion to help you defend, Xiaguan is extremely important here, in case of a mistake, we will all die without a place to be buried." ”

Wang Weiguo said: "Don't worry, I understand." The safety of these pontoons must be guaranteed. ”

On that day, the Japanese army about a wing attacked the forward position of Hushu Town, and after the defenders of the 51st Division resisted, they abandoned Hushu Town. At the same time, the Japanese army attacking Suoshu Town from Tuqiao Town returned to the Chunhua Town position to search, and a large number of Japanese planes bombed the Chunhua Town position in turn all day, and the defenders risked their lives to resist the war.

On the 7th, the first line of positions in front of Tangshui Town between Chunhua Town and Dongchang Street was broken through by Japanese cavalry, and the defenders were forced to retreat to the second line after dusk, holding Tangshan and Tangshui Town. The Japanese troops who invaded Chunhua Town attacked the defenders' positions with infantry, artillery, and aircraft, and the machine-gun bunkers were destroyed, and the defenders suffered many casualties.

On the same day, Matsui Ishine, commander of the Central China Front of the Japanese Army, sent planes to send a letter from the air to persuade Tang Shengzhi to surrender, but Tang Shengzhi ignored him and continued to order all units to do their best to hold on with the determination to live and die with the position, and never allow an inch of land to be abandoned lightly.

In the evening, the commander of the Japanese army in Shanghai, Hatohiko Asakanomiya, rushed to the front line in Nanjing, replacing Matsui Ishine, commander-in-chief of the Central China Front of the Japanese invasion of China, who was recuperating from lung disease, and served as the temporary commander-in-chief of the Japanese occupation of Nanjing.

By the 8th, the Japanese army had attacked to the outskirts of Nanjing, reached Qixia Mountain in the northeast, Dahu Mountain in the east, Tangshui Town and Chunhua Town in the south, and reached Solingguan and Jiangning Town in the southwest, and the defenders suffered heavy casualties along the way.

After Bai Fei learned the news, he scratched his heart and liver anxiously. Although he suggested to Tang Shengzhi on several occasions that the peripheral troops should be reduced to the periphery of Nanjing, relying on the favorable terrain to deal with the Japanese army. However, because he had repeatedly "offended" Tang Shengzhi before, his suggestions were not adopted. The angry Bai Fei almost took out Chiang Kai-shek's warrant, but Wang Weiguo said: "Tang Shengzhi didn't listen to the advice, emphasizing 'not giving up an inch of land, fighting to the death and not retreating', now although the outer defense line has suffered heavy casualties, but you can only say that there is a problem with his fighting methods, and you can't blame him for doing wrong, if it makes a big fuss, he only says that he will resolutely implement the resistance policy of the chairman, and you will appear very passive at that time..."

Bai Fei calmed down and thought about it, it was really like this. In desperation, he had no choice but to join forces with Xiao Shanling and Yu Jishi, and pulled Sun Yuanliang, Wang Jingjiu and others together to put pressure on Tang Shengzhi. After a war of words, Tang Shengzhi finally agreed to shrink the defensive line, and the outer defensive line was contracted to Wulong Mountain, Dashuiguan, Yaohuamen, Jubaoshan, Purple Mountain, Yuhuatai, Shangxinhe and other places.

Tang Shengzhi was forced to reluctantly succumb to the advice of Bai Fei and others, but after the order was issued, he said: "This practice of abandoning a large area of the position is not the original intention of my Tang someone, if I am held accountable afterwards, I will not be responsible." ”

Bai Fei said: "Commander Tang, don't worry, this suggestion was made by me, and if there is any responsibility, I will bear it with all my might." ”

Tang Shengzhi sneered: "I'm afraid you won't be able to afford it then..."

On the morning of December 9, the Japanese army continued to march towards Nanjing, and although there was no longer a brigade of ** teams resisting along the way, Japanese soldiers were constantly killed and injured by mines planted on the road. At first, the Japanese army did not care, and waited for the wounded to increase, so they paid attention to it, so they sent sappers to clear mines, but the Chinese snipers hiding in the shadows did not give them a chance, and sappers were constantly killed.

The Japanese commander had no choice but to order his subordinates to go around to arrest the Chinese civilians, intending to use them to mine them, but soon got the news that there were no civilians nearby at all.

The Japanese commander felt that the situation was serious and reported the situation. It didn't take long for Hatohiko of the Japanese imperial family, who had just taken office as the commander of the Shanghai Dispatch Army, to get the news.

Yanagawa Heisuke, commander of the 10th Army of the Japanese Army, said: "Now that I have encountered the same situation with several large armies, it seems that the Chinese army is trying to delay time. ”

Hatohiko smiled contemptuously: "It's just a mantis arm blocking the car, and I ordered to vigorously search for the people around China, and if you can't find it, use cannonballs to open the way." ”

The news passed on, and soon, there was a constant rumbling of artillery around Nanjing, and the Japanese army extravagantly opened the way with shells, although a lot of ammunition was wasted, but the speed of the march was no longer affected.

By the morning of the 10th, the Japanese soldiers were approaching the city, and Tang Shengzhi began to worry in his heart.

This is a Japanese plane flying over the city of Nanjing, ready to submit a letter and an ultimatum to the squadron. Bai Fei stared at the plane hovering in the sky, and muttered: "You ran away on December 7th, this time you give Lao Tzu a try..."

As he spoke, he nodded to the dumb man, and the air defense soldier, who had been preparing for a long time, immediately pulled the trigger, and a missile immediately flew out, hitting the Japanese plane that was delivering the message.

Before the plane exploded, stacks of paper were thrown down from it, and after the officers and soldiers defending the city picked it up, they saw that it was written a letter of persuasion to the officers and soldiers defending the city and the garrison commander Tang Shengzhi, so someone immediately sent the paper to the headquarters.

Tang Zhisheng received the letter of persuasion to surrender, and after a few hasty glances, he listened to the attendant say: "Sir, after the plane spilled paper just now, it was shot down. ”

"What?" Tang Shengzhi was shocked, and when he learned that he was done by Bai Fei, Tang Shengzhi didn't speak for a long time.

However, after the Japanese army's plane to deliver the message was shot down, the news quickly reached the ears of Hatohiko Asakanomiya. Hatohiko of the Asaka Palace was furious: "Bagayanu, toast and don't eat and drink, and order the troops to attack the city immediately." ”

After the order was issued, the Japanese army launched a full-scale attack on Yuhuatai, Tongjimen, Guanghuamen, Purple Mountain and other positions. Among them, the 6th Division and Division of the Japanese Army attacked the direction of Yuhuatai; The 9th Division attacked in the direction of Guanghuamen; Part of the troops of the 16th Division and the 3rd Division attacked Purple Mountain and the surrounding Yaohuamen Wulong Mountain.

Due to the contraction of the battle line on the side of the squadron and the abundance of troops, as soon as the battle began, the two sides fought very fiercely. Among them, the 88th and 87th Divisions stationed in the south of Nanjing were particularly brutal in the first line of Yuhuatai and Guanghuamen.

Zhu Chi, commander of the 262nd Brigade of the 88th Division, held Pingyan, which was 4 kilometers away from Yuhuatai, with two regiments, and one regiment held Yuhuatai, and the brigade headquarters was set up on Yuhuatai Mountain. In the fierce battle, in the face of the enemy's dense and crazy group charge, Zhu Chi personally went to the front-line position to command the operation, and held the enemy with infantry firepower, the enemy suffered heavy casualties, and when the position was critical many times, General Zhu Chi personally led the death squad to kill the enemy group, and the soldiers doubled their courage, and then rushed into the enemy group, not afraid of sacrifice, and fought with the enemy with flesh and blood.

Although Zhu Chi's division repelled the Japanese attack many times, but the Japanese army was numerous, and the aircraft, artillery and tanks were all out, and the defenders suffered heavy sacrifices, so Sun Yuanliang sent the 264th Brigade to the Song Division, and only one regiment directly under the entire 88th Division was responsible for guarding the Zhonghua Gate.

Sun Yuanliang jumped to his feet in a hurry, and kept sending messages to Bai Fei to ask him to save his life.

Bai Fei received the news, sighed lightly, gathered his subordinates, explained the relationship, left Wang Weiguo to guard Xiaguan and Jiangmian, and took the 2nd battalion, 3rd battalion and special combat team to the south for reinforcements.

Bai Fei said: "Brother Weiguo, I will leave the artillery battalion to help you defend, Xiaguan is extremely important here, in case of a mistake, we will all die without a place to be buried." ”

Wang Weiguo said: "Don't worry, I understand." The safety of these pontoons must be guaranteed. ”