Lao Liu Tou's death was a heavy blow to the Second Regiment and the Second Battalion, and the morale of the already low morale became more and more depressed.

After a morning of bloody fighting, the Japanese army left hundreds of corpses in the castle, and the 2nd Regiment also paid heavy casualties.

Sun Yumin did not have the joy after the victory in the battle, and the surviving officers and soldiers of the second battalion stood around the body of Lao Liu Tou with their old battalion commander.

Old Liu Tou slept very kindly.

The oil-stained uniform on his body was now stained with black-brown dried blood. I don't know where the crumpled military hat I wore all day long on my head has gone, and there is an occasional tuft of black hair in the silver thread. With a faint smile on his thin cheeks, he did not have the slightest regret and pain of leaving this world.

Secretary Qian Jin is now the director of general affairs of the Second Regiment, but the officers and soldiers of the old Second Battalion still call him the chief of affairs. Old Liu Tou and his cooks also called him so. But now Qian Jin can no longer hear his hoarse voice, and he can no longer hear the world's shouting ho-ho.

Lao Liu Tou has been a cooking squad leader under Qian Jin for six years, earlier than many of the commanders of the old first and second battalions. With the help of Lao Liu Tou over the years, Qian Jin has saved a lot of thought and effort. I am relaxed, but Lao Liu's people are thinner, their backs are hunched, and their hair is whiter.

Now I saw him lying in front of him, lying calmly, not moving. Although he was sad in his heart, he was happy for him, and he finally didn't have to get up at three or four o'clock every day, and he didn't have to talk about the cooking class and the officers and soldiers of the old first company and the second battalion like a housekeeper's wife.

Sun Yumin tore off his brand from Lao Liu's neck and put it in Qian Jin's hand. The four company commanders lifted the stretcher where Lao Liu's body was kept, Qian Jin and Zhou Hainan gently supported it on both sides of the stretcher, and Sun Yumin lifted a Czech style and fired at the sky.

Dada......

The crisp sound of gunfire began, and all the officers and men of the Second Regiment on the position picked up the guns in their hands and pulled the trigger towards the sky.

Qingshan buries loyal bones everywhere, why should the horse leather shroud be returned! ①

Chen Yun and the others spent their days in the basement.

The stone has also changed from fidgeting at the beginning to being insensitive.

Deng Xiufen also relaxed her vigilance and stopped paying attention to him.

Now she has been sticking to Chen Yun, often muttering in her ear: "Chief Sun is a real dragon, and the devil can't kill him." He will also say: "Brother Sun is a tiger general, only he has the share of beating the devil, and there is no point where the devil fights back." ”

Chen Yun always yelled at her, and then was alone in a daze, no longer listening to what this best friend next to her was saying.

The power of the devil's heavy cannon is very great, and everyone in the underground can feel the trembling of the earth.

Although it is said that in the tunnel, there is no distinction between day and night in the basement, but people in it can still distinguish between day and night.

When the heavy artillery on her head basically did not stop this night, Chen Yun felt even more uneasy, and she was about to ask Zhang Quan to go to the second battalion position again to have a look, when Shi stood up and said, "Xiufen, whether you agree or not, I will go up and have a look!" I won't stop you if you die, but I can promise that I will kill myself by your side as soon as I come back. ”

When Shi Shi saw Sun Yumin, he was sitting on the ground in a daze, with a broken branch in his hand on the ground, constantly writing and painting, and after writing and painting, he wiped it clean with his feet.

Zhou Hainan and Liu Wenzhi sat around him, and no one looked up at him.

"Battalion commander, I'm back." Stone spoke to Sun Yumin.

"Hmm." Liu Wenzhi, Zhang Xiaohu, Li Tiedan, and Zhou Hong replied at the same time. The four of them still didn't look up, and no one even answered that they had hit the gun, and no one looked at who was talking.

Sun Yumin didn't look up or speak.

Under the astonished gaze of the stone, he suddenly raised his head as if he thought of something, and asked, "Why did you come back?" Who got you back? What about them? He asked three questions in one breath.

"They're all right, they're just worried about you, let me take a look." Stone replied.

When Sun Yumin heard the stone's answer, his head drooped again, and the wooden stick began to write and draw on the ground again.

No one in the bunker paid any more attention to him, and no one spoke. Ever since Sun Yumin asked him a question, the four goods have raised their heads and looked at him twice, and no one has made a sound since then.

The stone felt extremely depressed, and his heart was extremely desolate. Everyone else has forgotten, and even Huzi ignores himself, isn't it that he didn't participate in the battle in the past few days. That damn task of guarding the schoolgirls, whoever loves to go, I don't want to go back anyway.

Stone sat at the door of the bunker sulking.

When Zhou Hainan came back, he saw him and asked from afar, "Why are you here?" ”

After asking him why Shi was sulking, he told him about Lao Liu's sacrifice, and everyone's mood was not high because of this, not for any other reason.

Shi was relieved, and immediately became sad, he was a veteran of the first company, and he was taken care of by Lao Liu.

Zhou Hainan told him about everyone's promotion in the line of fire, and asked him to complete the tasks assigned to him by the regiment, and when he came back in the future, he would also be a company commander and lead soldiers like a tiger.

Shi didn't listen to Zhou Hainan's fooling, he just wanted to see off Lao Liu Tou now. After patiently listening to the chatter of Deputy Zhou Tuan, the stone ran away and ran to the former battalion headquarters cooking class.

"No need to go, Lao Liu's head has already burned." Zhou Hainan shouted behind him, but Shi didn't hear a word.

Zhou Hainan told Sun Yumin and the four goods in the bunker that he had not yet received the ammunition.

Li Tietang jumped up on the spot: "TMD, how can you fight without ammunition?" Retreat early and count the ball! ”

Sun Yumin patted him and asked, "How much ammunition do we have?" ”

Liu Wenzhi stood up and replied: "A multi-cardinal number." ”

"I have to add the batch that the regiment deputy pulled back in the early morning." Zhang Xiaohu added.

Sun Yumin frowned, and asked again: "Did the people from the logistics department say when there will be ammunition replenishment?" ”

Zhou Hainan shook his head and did not speak.

Today is the twelfth day.

Today, in history, all positions of the frontal defense line of Nanjing City will be broken, and the same is true of Guanghuamen.

Sun Yumin knows this history, of course, he knows very well that it is no problem to keep a day with the ammunition in his hand, but he doesn't want to retreat like this, he wants to hold on for one more day, give the retreating soldiers and civilians one more day, so that Nanjing City can be a little less painful.

Wakisaka Jiro was reprimanded by Yoshizumi Ryosuke at the division headquarters, and was scolded by his superior, Major General Shoshotoki I, the commander of the 18th Brigade.

As soon as he returned to the brigade headquarters, Jing Shuxuan sprinkled the anger he had received in the division on him, and shook Wakisaka's big mouth several times in a row.

He was on fire and had nowhere to vent, so he was so angry that he slammed things in the room.

The chief of staff of the 36th Wing and several group leaders were so frightened that they did not dare to speak outside the door.

After a while, Jiro Wakisaka walked out of the door, and at the door he asked, "Which of you can take the Guanghua Gate today?" ”

Masao Kawashima's second brigade has suffered heavy casualties in the past two days, and when he heard this, he immediately retreated, for fear of being named again.

This move made Wakisaka Jiro's nameless fire rise all of a sudden, and when he walked over, he slapped him in the face a few times, and scolded in his mouth: "The face of the samurai of the Great Japanese Empire has made you lose everything." ”

A young officer next to him stood up and said, "Your Excellency, Kawashima-kun's soul has already scared away the soldiers of Shina, so don't be angry with him anymore." ”

Wakisaka Jiro glanced at Shaosa, who was speaking, and saw that it was Ito Zenmitsu, the captain of the first brigade, so he stopped what he was doing and motioned for him to continue.

Kawashima Masaki was very grateful to Shaozo who had come forward, and when he saw Wakisaka Jiro's attention on him, he hurriedly retreated far away.

"As long as my first brigade goes out, I will definitely capture Guanghuamen today. If he doesn't complete the task, Ito is willing to apologize! "Shozo officer Ito Yoshimitsu boasted about Haikou.

Jiro Wakisaka smiled with satisfaction and boasted, "Yosai, Ito-kun is a true warrior. Today, the 1st Brigade will attack with the 1st Brigade and the tank squadron will cooperate in the attack. ”

"Hey." Ito and another officer were ordered to go.

Sun Yumin found something wrong in the bunker, today's attacking Japanese troops are much more ferocious than yesterday, attacking from morning to afternoon, even at noon.

The explosive package buried in the gap had been detonated in the morning, although it killed many Japanese soldiers, but it blew down the city wall a few meters wide, and the machine gun fire on Zhou Hong's side was completely exposed to the enemy's field of vision.

Sun Yumin asked them to withdraw, but Zhou Hong knew that as soon as they withdrew, the suppressed firepower would be greatly weakened, as long as a wave of charges regardless of losses, the other two temporary positions would immediately be withdrawn, and the pillboxes in the city gate would directly face the Japanese army.

Therefore, he could not withdraw, and he believed that with the Maxim heavy machine gun in his hand, he could suppress the Japanese army outside the gap.

When it was already unknown how many Japanese troops rushed in through the gap, Makqin operated by Zhou Hong began to perform jaw-dropping again, and rows of devil soldiers were killed by heavy machine guns.

Sun Yumin himself didn't want to withdraw the firepower in Zhou Hong's fortification, but he didn't expect that a mistake in the morning would completely expose their fortification. He was not afraid of the Japanese army's charge, nor was he afraid of the Japanese army's Type 97 heavy machine gun, which was called the pheasant's neck, and the Taisho 11 light machine gun, which was called the crooked handle. He was afraid of the Japanese mortars and grenadiers, and even more afraid of the Type 92 infantry guns.

Fortifications that are directly exposed to enemy fire are difficult to preserve under enemy fire, let alone improvised fortifications stacked with sandbags.

What to do? What to do? Sun Yumin was anxious.

Just in his hesitation, Li Tiedan, who was on the city tower, shouted at Zhou Hong below: "Withdraw!" Evacuate! ”

But in the deep, hoarse roar of Maxine, where could he hear any other sound. Li Tie was so anxious that he jumped from the four or five meter-high city tower.

At the moment when he jumped, the two Type 92 infantry guns hidden behind the devil soldiers showed hideous faces, two fires erupted from the muzzles, and two huge explosions came out from the fortifications where Zhou Hong was.

By the time Li Tiedan fell to the ground, the temporary fortifications had become a pile of ruins, and the ground was littered with machine gun spare parts and human limbs and stumps.

Li Tie dutily searched for the ruins like crazy, braving the enemy's bullets to piece together on the ground.

Sun Yumin was stunned, and at the moment when he hesitated, at the moment when he waited for a while, one of the battalion commanders who fought the most under his command was buried under the enemy's shelling. He slapped himself hard, and was about to call the other two people in the temporary fortifications to retreat, but he saw Li Tietan jump down from the building, regardless of what he was looking for on the ground.

Sun Yumin had not yet come out of the pain of losing Zhou Hong, but he saw that this thing was looking for it there as if he was desperate, and he was angry.

He also rushed out of the pillbox with a Czech-style machine gun, shouting: "Good! Good! You don't want your own lives, then I'll be with you. ”

Zhou Hainan had never seen Sun Yumin so excited, so he rushed out and shouted fiercely: "Li Tiedan, do you want to kill everyone?" ”

Li Tiedan heard the shouts that were close at hand, and then he woke up like a dream. But when he saw Sun Yumin charging at the enemy with a machine gun, he did not hesitate to pick up an undamaged Czech one on the ground and rushed out with Sun Yumin's side.

Zhou Hainan saw that these two fools were going to play with their lives, so he hurriedly shouted to the trumpeter behind him: "Blow the trumpet!" ”

Dididi......

Youyang's charge horn sounded at the Guanghuamen position, and everyone except the heavy machine gunners and machine gunners in the pillboxes rushed towards the enemy with their weapons in their hands.

Many soldiers on the castle tower did not have time to run down the stairs, so they jumped down from the castle tower in the same way as Li Tiedang, followed behind the leading commanders with bright bayonets, and killed the enemy in the middle of the enemy.

Li Tie ran out of Czech-style bullets, learned from Sun Yumin to pick up a 38 cover with a bayonet from the ground, and killed among the devil soldiers. In the corner of his eye, he found that Sun Yumin had stabbed a ghost soldier to death with a knife, and was about to applaud him, but he saw a Japanese officer's command knife pierced into his lower abdomen.

Li Tie was frightened, and shouted in his mouth: "Tuanza! He ran to him, and the 38 big cover in his hand had been thrown out by him as he ran, and the bayonet nailed the Japanese officer who had attacked him to the ground as a chest.

Liu Wenzhi also found the Japanese officer who was sneaking up, and he rang the box gun in his hand, but there was a crisp hollowing sound, and the bullets ran out. Damn, how could it be that there were no bullets at a critical moment, Liu Wenzhi said in his heart. His feet also ran towards Sun Yumin quickly.

Zhang Xiaohu also found out about the situation here, he shuddered, rushed over there desperately, and shouted: "Tuanza!" The shell gun in his hand kept firing at the Japanese officer who had been stabbed to death by Li Tieqian until he ran out of bullets.

Li Tie Dan stretched out his hand and was about to pull out the bayonet that had pierced Sun Yumin's entire lower abdomen, Liu Wenzhi hurriedly grabbed his hand and scolded in his mouth: "If you want to die, you can dial it!" ”

Li Tie hurriedly withdrew his hand when he heard this, and asked anxiously, "What should I do then?" ”

"Send it to the hospital!"

Li Tietang stretched out his hand to pick up Sun Yumin, while Liu Wenzhi reached out to hold the command knife that remained in Sun Yumin's body, and the two of them strode towards the corps hospital.

Zhou Hainan and Zhang Xiaohu led the soldiers of the second regiment to drive out the Japanese troops who rushed in.

The 2nd Regiment held the Guanghuamen position again.

After this battle, it was completely dark.

Zhang Xiaohu and Zhou Hainan looked at the gap not far away with red eyes, looking at the battlefield where Sun Yumin was injured.

This battle was too hard, the regiment commander was seriously wounded, the battalion commander Zhou Hong was killed, and the entire second regiment had less than 200 soldiers left, and they were about to run out of ammunition and food.

"What should I do with the two of myself? Who will teach us! Zhou Hainan was talking to himself, completely ignoring the soldiers watching him from inside the bunker.

(1). Qingshan buries loyal bones everywhere, why should the corpse be returned in the horse leather. These are two lines of the great man's poem, which I borrow here.

Attached: List of senior officers of the Nationalist Army who died in the Battle of Nanjing

Xiao Shan Order: Major General of the Army, Deputy Commander of the Nanjing Garrison, Commander of the Military Police, Mayor of Nanjing, posthumously awarded the rank of Lieutenant General of the Army

Gao Zhisong: Major General of the Army, commander of the 264th Brigade of the 88th Division of the Army, posthumously awarded the rank of Lieutenant General

Luo Cequn: Major General of the Army, Deputy Commander of the 159th Division of the 66th Army of the Army, posthumously awarded the rank of Lieutenant General

Zhu Chi: Major General of the Army, commander of the 262nd Brigade of the 88th Division of the Army

Yi Huaan: Major General of the Army, commander of the 259th Brigade of the 87th Division of the Army

Yao Zhongying: Major General of the Army, Chief of Staff of the 156th Division of the 83rd Army of the Army

Situ Fei: Major General of the Army, Chief of Staff of the 160th Division of the 66th Army of the Army

Li Lanchi: Major General of the Army, Deputy Commander of the 112th Division of the 57th Army of the Army

Liu Guoyong: Major General of the Army, Deputy Brigade Commander of the 174th Brigade of the 58th Division of the 74th Army

Lan Yundong: Chief of Staff of the Army Major General of the 10th Division

Wan Quance: Major General of the Army, Chief of Staff of the First Brigade of the Central Military Academy Teaching Corps

Posthumously awarded Major General:

Lei Zhen: Deputy Brigade Commander of the Third Brigade of the Teaching Corps

Xie Chengrui: Commander of the 1st Brigade and 2nd Regiment of the Teaching Corps

Hua Pinzhang: Deputy Brigade Commander of the 88th Brigade of the 262nd Division

Han Xianyuan: Commander of the 88th Regiment of the 262nd Brigade of the 524th Division

Huang Jifu: Deputy Brigade Commander of the 66th Brigade of the 159th Division of the 477th Army

Cai Rubai: Commander of the 66th Regiment of the 160th Division of the 956th Army

Cheng Zhi: Commander of the 302nd Regiment of the 51st Division of the 74th Army