Chapter 24: The Remnants

Wan Quance didn't know that Yuhuatai had been lost.

But Yoshizumi Ryosuke knew that the 6th Division had captured the positions of the Chinese defenders in front of them. And his own 9th Division blocked the defenders in front of him for three days.

Jiro Wakisaka had already tried his best, and almost half of his troops were lost, and the captain of the first brigade, Ito Zenmitsu Shosa, was killed in the castle.

Yoshizumi Ryosuke is angry now, he plans to change the 19th Wing to attack, and the Captain of the 19th Wing, Hitomi Hidesansa, can't wait for a long time.

When Ryosuke Yoshizumi said that he wanted Tsuruga Wing (19th Wing) to replace him, Wakisaka Jiro was furious.

When had he been so insulted, he pulled out his command knife without thinking about it, and stabbed himself directly in the stomach, but fortunately, the accompanying chief of staff grabbed the blade with his hand, so he did not succeed in killing himself.

Ryosuke Yoshizumi was so angry that he slapped him a few times in front of a room of officers, and scolded: "You are not worthy of being a samurai of the Great Japanese Empire!" ”

Wakisaka Jiro knelt on the ground, the parts above his neck were swollen red, and he said with a rough breath in his mouth: "Your Excellency, Division Commander, if this battle is snatched away by the people of the Nineteenth Wing, then Wakisaka Jiro will not hesitate to disembowel here, with the heavenly spirits of the warriors of the Thirty-sixth Wing who are shattered in front of the Guanghua Gate." ”

Yoshizumi Ryosuke's anger had not yet dissipated, and he said, "Is there less time for you?" Now Gu Shoufu's Sixth Division has captured Yuhuatai and Zhonghua Gate, while our Ninth Division is still in place. ”

"Your Excellency, Division Commander, please give me another night, if tomorrow morning when you open your eyes, the flag of the 36th Wing is not planted in the Guanghua Gate Tower, Wakisaka will commit suicide in front of the city gate." After he finished speaking, he turned and left. Completely ignored the strange eyes of the senior officers of the 9th Division of the Japanese Army.

Sun Yumin was lying on the stretcher and heard the deafening sound of artillery fire from the Guanghuamen earthquake, he was anxious, urging Li Tiedan and Liu Wenzhi to put him down, but under the threat of Lu Man's two big sparkling eyes, he didn't listen to his words.

The artillery fire only lasted a few minutes and began to extend, followed by fierce gunfire and shouts of killing, Sun Yumin thought to himself: It's over, the second regiment is finished.

The sound didn't last long before it fell silent.

From the field hospital next to the headquarters of the Fuguishan Teaching Corps to the Guanghuamen position, this is a short distance of a few kilometers. Before Li Tiedan and Liu Wenzhi could carry Sun Yumin to the ground, the gunfire and shouting of killing over there had stopped, and the night in Nanjing City was calm again.

The battle stopped, and so did the four men.

Lu Man asked, "What should I do?" Now it's too late to go back to chase the main seat, and for two hours, they don't know how far they have crossed the river. ”

Sun Yumin said: "Let me down, I can go." ”

Li Tiedan and Liu Wenzhi looked at Lu Man inquiringly.

She nodded, and when they had placed the stretcher on the ground, she lifted him up on the stretcher.

Sun Yumin stood up, the pain of the wound making him break out in a cold sweat. Most of his body was leaning on Lu Man, and if it weren't for her support and support, he would have fallen to the ground long ago.

He looked around, and then looked up at the sky.

Pointing in a direction, he said to the three people, "Go this way." He staggered and took the lead in that direction.

Lu Man hurriedly followed, and his hand supported him again.

Li Tiedan and Liu Wenzhi followed closely one after the other.

Suddenly, several more gunshots rang out in the street ahead, the familiar sound of a formal sound. A rush of footsteps came towards them, followed by the crisp sound of gunshots.

"It's our people." Liu Wenzhi, who was walking in front, turned around and said to Sun Yumin. "There are not many people, and there are many devils following behind, so I'm afraid it's hard to get rid of. What to do? ”

Sun Yumin had already heard it, he pulled out the shell gun he had brought from the wounded soldier in the hospital, and said, "What can I do." Dry! ”

Lu Man looked at the man in front of him, he was still breathing a second ago, and in the blink of an eye, he looked like a killing god. She didn't understand what had made him change so much in an instant. In her cognition, this is not something she understands and is familiar with.

Sun Yumin pointed to two positions, asked and told Li Tiedan and Liu Wenzhi how they should fight.

He stretched out his hand and pulled Lu Man behind him, and asked her softly, "Are you afraid?" ”

Lu Man didn't speak, she shook her head, signaling that she was not afraid, but she didn't notice that she was behind someone, and she couldn't see it when she shook her head.

Sun Yumin thought she was too scared to speak, so he whispered in her ear: "Don't be afraid, just wait for you to be behind me, devils are also people, see how I kill them." ”

Lu Man, this little girl, has been bold since she was a child, like a boy. At this time, she was very excited, and she didn't have the fear that Sun Yumin said at all.

In the dark, Sun Yumin saw her folded hands, thinking that she was praying for something, but he didn't see that this little girl was holding a small and delicate pistol in her hand.

A group of national soldiers ran through the street in front of them, and Sun Yumin calculated that there were about fifteen or sixteen people. The person at the end, Sun Yumin, was very familiar with them, it was Zhang Xiaohu, and they put their guns back while running. Sun Yumin didn't see Zhou Hainan's figure, and he couldn't help but chuckle in his heart, not daring to think about the bad side.

Li Tiedan, a fool, saw Zhang Xiaohu and actually called out his name softly: "Huzi!" ”

In the dark, Zhang Xiaohu's whole body trembled when he heard this voice. However, he deserved to be the person next to Sun Yumin, he was only shocked for a moment, and then led people to speed up and run forward, and in the process of running, the Czech style in his hand also hugged a shuttle bullet backwards.

The footsteps of the Japanese soldiers chasing behind were getting closer and closer, and the murmuring of island birds also clearly reached Sun Yumin's ears. The wound in his lower abdomen began to ache again, and beads of sweat appeared on his forehead again. A fresh scent reached his nostrils, and the sweat from his forehead was wiped away.

Sun Yumin turned his head and saw that it was Lu Man who helped him wipe off his sweat with his handkerchief, and the smell of fragrance obviously came from the handkerchief.

Sun Yumin smiled in gratitude, and then immediately returned his attention to the upcoming battle.

A squad of about forty or fifty devil soldiers, led by a second lieutenant officer, pursued Zhang Xiaohu and the others relentlessly.

Little did they know that a net of death was quietly opening up to them.

Six grenades rattled in the hands of Sun Yumin and the three of them, and white smoke came out from the bottom of the grenades.

One, two, three.

Sun Yumin silently counted three numbers in his heart, and the two grenades in his left hand were thrown by him into the middle of the ghost soldiers who were running in front of him, and several grenades flew out of the shadow corners of the side front and the opposite street.

The huge flames and sounds spread outward from among the devil soldiers, and this small group of Japanese soldiers was terrified by several sudden grenades, twenty or thirty devil soldiers fell in a pool of blood, and a few seriously injured were screaming loudly. The second lieutenant who led the team luckily dodged the grenade and quickly fell to the ground, shouting something in Japanese.

As soon as Sun Yumin threw out the grenade, he pulled Lu Man and ran to the back of the house, and then changed direction from the back of the house and ran to the street where Huzi and the others were running.

Lu Man was still worried about whether he could survive his injury, but judging by his swiftness and running speed, it didn't look like the performance of a seriously injured person at all. Her curiosity about the captain of the National Army with a terrifying scar on his face also intensified.

The devil soldiers crawling on the ground fired indiscriminately in all directions, completely unaware that the people who attacked them had already run away.

At the end of the street was the road where Sun Yumin and the others had just come, and Li Tiedan and Liu Wenzhi were already waiting for them there.

"What about them?" Sun Yumin asked.

"I don't know, we didn't see any of them when we got here." Liu Wenzhi replied.

Sun Yumin was thinking about Huzi's purpose when he suddenly heard a sound of footsteps coming from the front.

In the dark night, if it weren't for the occasional light from a distant explosion, it would be difficult to see people's faces even from five or six meters away.

The four of them split into three places and hid in the night as they had just ambushed the Japanese army.

In the faint light, Sun Yumin saw that it was actually the Huzi who had just run over there.

Sun Yumin didn't know what the hell they were doing, but looking at their anxious appearance, they must have encountered a lot of trouble. So he shouted softly: "Huzi, come here!" ”

Zhang Xiaohu was ordered by Wan Quance and Zhou Hainan to withdraw from the battlefield with more than a dozen soldiers.

Walking on the street, Zhou Hainan's step-by-step words still rang in his ears all the time: "Huzi, you take the guard squad and reconnaissance squad of the second battalion and withdraw down." ”

Zhang Xiaohu refused to live or die, and he said again: "Huzi, the second regiment of this battle will definitely be inescapable." We can't let the 2nd Regiment let the 2nd Battalion be wiped out in our hands like this, and we must leave seeds for the 2nd Regiment. Now the regiment commander is still in the corps hospital, you take them with you to join the iron gallant Wenzhi to protect the regiment commander's withdrawal from Nanjing. ”

In desperation, he had to withdraw from the position with less than twenty people.

As soon as I walked to the street of Michi, the battle began on the position there.

Doesn't the devil stop fighting when it's dark?

Looking at the huge fires and explosions that erupted from time to time on the battlefield, as well as the familiar military trumpets and shouts of killing, Zhang Xiaohu and the more than 20 people he led gritted their teeth.

As the gunshots became smaller and the sound of the fighting became farther and farther away, Zhang Xiaohu's heart was horizontal, and he turned around and ran back.

When more than 20 people returned to their positions, they saw Wan Quance and Zhou Hainan and more than a dozen soldiers surrounded by Japanese troops in circles. The bright bayonets on the 38 big covers reflected the firelight on the battlefield and emitted an eerie and cold light.

Wan Quance and Zhou Hainan both suffered gunshot wounds, and blood was still oozing from the wounds, but they still stood in the center of the battlefield with their heads held high.

A bald Japanese soldier with a bare shoulder and a menstrual belt on his head, pointing at Wan Quance with a command knife in his hand, said in blunt Chinese: "Soldiers of Zhina, you have done your best, and it is not your fault that you lost your position, your mission has ended." Now please lay down your weapons and surrender to the Imperial Japanese Army! We pledge to treat you humanely. ”

Zhou Hainan scolded: "Bah, Lao Tzu would rather die on the battlefield than need any humanitarianism from you." Little devils, you guys, Lao Tzu kills one to return to the capital, kills two and earns one. ”

The Czech style in Zhang Xiaohu's hand fired.

Da Da Da ......

The crisp sound sounded again in the Guanghuamen position, and the Japanese soldiers who were surrounding Zhou Hainan and other soldiers were caught off guard one by one.

Although Zhang Xiaohu and the others only had less than 20 people, they had three Czechs, and the other soldiers were veterans of the second battalion, and this wave of attacks instantly caused thirty or forty casualties to the Japanese army.

However, the tactical literacy of the Japanese army was very high, and this time it did not disrupt them, and the bald Japanese commander immediately squatted down as soon as he heard the Czech voice, and saw that with only such a little firepower, the Chinese soldiers actually dared to take the initiative to fire. I was very annoyed in my heart, waved the knife in my hand, and shouted in my mouth: "Kill and give!" ”

Hundreds of Japanese soldiers rushed towards them with guns, and the crooked machine guns also began to suppress Zhang Xiaohu's firepower.

Zhou Hainan knew that it was Zhang Xiaohu who went and returned, he saw that the Japanese army began to counterattack in an instant, and he felt bad in his heart, if he didn't do something, Zhang Xiaohu and they would not be able to escape today.

Thinking of this, while the attention of the Japanese soldiers surrounding them was attracted by Zhang Xiaohu and others, he rushed to the side of a ghost soldier, pierced the bayonet in his hand into the chest of the ghost soldier, and quickly pulled a grenade from the fallen ghost soldier. At the same time that he stabbed the devil soldier to death, more than a dozen bayonets of the devil soldier also pierced his body.

Although Wan Quance is the chief of staff, he has also risen step by step from a grassroots officer. He was also very anxious when he saw Zhang Xiaohu and them firing. I didn't know what to do, until I saw Zhou Hainan do it, and he was also shocked in his heart, thinking: That's it, that's it. The path you choose, you have to go on your own. He also raised the pistol in his hand, and in the chamber of the gun was the last bullet he had left for himself.

The remaining soldiers of the second regiment saw that the two commanders around them, one was stabbed by the devil soldiers, and the other raised their guns to kill themselves, and they all roared angrily and rushed towards the bayonets of the Japanese army, and naturally all of them were killed.

Zhou Hainan was stabbed several times, he struggled to stand up, the middle of his left hand stood on the ground to support his body, his blood-red eyes glared angrily in the direction of Zhang Xiaohu, and his mouth overflowing with blood closed one by one, and he used all his strength to shout out a sentence: "Hurry up!" ”

This voice was like thunder, waking up Zhang Xiaohu, who was still bent on saving everyone who was besieged; This voice was like a fierce north wind, freezing and waking up Zhang Xiaohu, who was still dreaming of being able to repel the Japanese army.

After Zhou Hainan shouted these words, Zhang Xiaohu endured the pain in his heart and evacuated the battlefield with his soldiers.

Even if there was a loud noise from behind him, Zhang Xiaohu and his soldiers did not turn back again.

During the run, Zhang Xiaohu seemed to hear a familiar call, but he didn't dare to stop, not because he was afraid of death, but because he couldn't live up to the last wish of Zhou Hainan, the deputy head of the regiment, and he must leave seeds for the second regiment.

The explosion of a grenade was heard behind him, and he knew that the call he had just made was not his hallucination, but his own people helping to stop the Japanese troops who were chasing them.

Even though they knew that there were reinforcements, Zhang Xiaohu and the others still didn't stop, until the ghost soldiers suddenly murmured in front of them.

Zhang Xiaohu said in his heart: It's bad, it's also a devil here, isn't it just our position that has been lost?

How did he know that in the afternoon, Yuhuatai and Zhonghua Gate had been lost, and now the city of Nanjing was full of Japanese troops.

Zhang Xiaohu ran back with these soldiers again, and finally heard the familiar call in the dark.

"It's a group." A soldier whispered.

"That's right, it's the group." Everyone can confirm it.

Zhang Xiaohu couldn't tell the difference, hearing this familiar call, his tears instantly wet his eyes.