Chapter 41 The Battle of Nanjing

It was already seven o'clock after Zhang Ziwen finished talking with Dali, and after hearing that there was no movement on the city wall, Zhang Ziwen asked Lao Wang and Lao Shen where they were in the afternoon, and only touched the location when they learned the location.

After walking from the house for a few minutes, Zhang Ziwen saw a fire on the street, and walked over to confirm that it was his brother.

"Who?"

The people who are still in Nanjing basically don't go out at night, and suddenly someone will definitely want to investigate.

"Nine Consecutive Zhang Ziwen."

"Hello Company Commander Zhang~"

The sentry saluted me Zhang Ziwen, it is okay to salute here, the position is not respectable, the devil will think it is a big official, and then the devil will greet him directly, I don't know how he died, many officers in the Battle of Songhu were killed by the devil with a cold gun.

"Do you know that Camp Commander Shen is there?"

Zhang Ziwen didn't know where Lao Shen was in the past now, so he handed the cigarette to the sentry and inquired by the way, if the sentry didn't know, he would ask Yu Tao again.

"Battalion Commander Shen is in the big courtyard in front ......"

The sentry of the Seventh Company pointed out the way to Zhang Ziwen, and Zhang Ziwen also saw a courtyard at the end of the street.

"Thank you, brother"

Zhang Ziwen patted him on the shoulder to show encouragement, then said hello to Yu Tao and went to find Lao Shen.

The guards at the entrance of the fourth battalion knew Zhang Ziwen and went in directly, without checking as they did at the division headquarters.

"Lao Shen, Lao Shen ......"

"What are you shouting, I'm not here, this is Camp Commander Wu, do you know!"

Zhang Ziwen saw that it was Wu Zijian, but Zhang Ziwen didn't see him in the third battalion, but Wu Zijian had to be the acting battalion commander in the third battalion, why did he come here.

"Don't look at it, Battalion Commander Wu was sent by the regiment commander to the division headquarters to organize the rout in Nanjing, and it took a day to collect more than 100 rout soldiers who didn't find the troops, and now they just came back."

No wonder Zhang Ziwen saw a group of chaotic soldiers outside the courtyard just now, and now he knows that it was brought back by Wu Zijian.

"Battalion Commander Shen, Company Commander Zhang, I will take the brothers back to report to the regiment commander first."

"Okay, I have something to say to Xiaowen, so I won't send it to you."

Lao Shen sent Wu Zijian to the door, Wu Zijian became the battalion commander, and Zhang Ziwen felt that he was not as kind as before.

"How is Lao Shen doing today?"

"Tell me about the situation on the city walls?"

Zhang Ziwen talked about the Ninth Company's retreat from the enemy with oil drums, and also talked about the approximate casualties of the first and second battalions.

"More than two hundred? Then there are only more than 200 people on the city wall now? ”

Zhang Ziwen nodded, indicating that what Lao Shen said was correct, plus there were no more than two hundred and sixty people on the Nine Links City Wall.

Lao Shen looked at the map for a while, but he didn't know what he was calculating, and after looking at it for a while, he told Zhang Ziwen.

Today, the Japanese 16th Division stormed the Purple Mountain and the southern city wall of Nanjing, our army resisted fiercely, and the Japanese army made no progress, but its right wing troops captured the positions of Yangfang Mountain and Yinkong Mountain defended by the Second Army Corps, and advanced to the vicinity of Yaohua Gate. The main forces of the 114th Division and the 6th Division of the Japanese Tenth Army continued to attack Yuhuatai. The second line of the 88th Division's position was breached, and the 88th Division was forced to hold the core position of Yuhuatai. The right flank of the 114th Division of the Japanese Army began to attack the Zhonghua Gate, and the city gate was destroyed by artillery fire. A squadron of Japanese troops broke into the city, but was annihilated by the 88th Division's troops defending the walls. A part of the left flank of the 6th Division of the Japanese Army marched north along the east bank of the Yangtze River, repelled a battalion of the 2nd Military Police Teaching Regiment at Shangxin River, and occupied the cotton embankment position outside the Shuixi Gate. The Japanese army Guosaki detachment crossed the Yangtze River near Cihu Lake in Dangtu Bei, marched north along the west bank, and moved towards Pukou, and the Japanese troops in Zhenjiang also had a tendency to move towards Nanjing, and the Japanese army seemed to intend to annihilate all the more than 100,000 troops in Nanjing.

"The devil's appetite is too big, sixty or seventy thousand people want to eat more than 100,000 of us, even if the firepower is strong."

After Zhang Ziwen finished speaking, he found that Lao Shen didn't speak, and he felt a little uncomfortable.

"What's the matter, can you really eat us?"

Even more than 100,000 pigs, 60,000 or 70,000 devils may not be able to catch them, let alone hundreds of thousands of soldiers with guns.

"The defenders of Nanjing have suffered tens of thousands of casualties since the beginning of the battle, and now there are an estimated 100,000 troops with combat effectiveness, and more than 40,000 troops of the 36th Division, 51st Division, 58th Division, and the Military Police Regiment are trapped in the city of Nanjing, and there are only more than 60,000 people fighting with the devils.

After Lao Shen objectively told the situation in Nanjing, Zhang Ziwen found that the situation was not so optimistic.

"What if we can use the 51st Division or the 58th Division as a surprise soldier to rush out? Zi definitely can't think of it. ”

"Let's not talk about anything else, do you think Commander Tang will do this? Does he have the guts? Besides, how to rush out? ”

"He said that he would live and die with Nanjing, so he wouldn't be so afraid of death."

Tang Shengzhi Tang Shengzhi was born in 1889, a native of Dong'an, Hunan, the word Meng Xiao, believed in Buddhism, entered the Baoding Army Military Academy in 1912, and entered the Hunan Army after graduation. Courageous, daring, like to do things on their own, unwilling to be left behind, with a strong desire for power, with a very obvious tendency towards romanticism and idealism"

Lao Shen looked at Zhang Ziwen after speaking, and said it in a colder tone.

"This is what Guangming Bao said about him two years ago."

Zhang Ziwen almost didn't scold, the general who believes in Buddhism is really funny. Such an anecdote in later generations, ask you to believe in Buddhism? A: No, I don't believe it, so why don't you kill?

"Alas~, then you said that Nanjing can still hold for a few days?"

What Zhang Ziwen said was refuted by Lao Shen, so he had to ask this question, hoping that Zhang Ziwen would not want to be shorter than the estimated three months.

"Judging from the current attrition of personnel and the offensive strength of the devils, we can hold out for at least fifteen days."

Lao Shen's words shocked Zhang Ziwen, and Zhang Ziwen didn't expect Lao Shen to believe his brother so much in fifteen days.

"Fifteen days? No way. ”

"You see how many men we spent defending a section of the wall in a day, and then multiply it by fifty to be the number of brothers we have sacrificed today, and not all troops have the will to die. From the beginning of this morning to the present, we have sacrificed more than 300 people, then Nanjing has sacrificed more than 10,000 and 20,000 people, this is a division, thirteen divisions have knocked out one in one day, you can calculate it yourself"

"Okay, I'll go back, according to your calculations, maybe I won't see you tomorrow."

Zhang Ziwen stood up and walked out the door, and Lao Shen's words made Zhang Ziwen almost collapse.

"Xiaowen, remember to come back alive, don't forget your uncle and aunt."

When Zhang Ziwen heard his parents, he felt a thousand feelings in his heart, how could he not think of his family at this time, but how could he say it as a last resort when the national general was trapped in a soldier.

"Shen Qiyu, don't forget that you still have a wife and children"

Lao Shen's wife just gave birth to a son at the beginning of the year, and it was a letter that Zhang Ziwen brought to him when he entered the 103rd Division.

After saying that, Zhang Ziwen pulled his legs and left, and Shen Qiyu said that Zhang Ziwen was afraid that he couldn't help it, and it was time to take the old pole and them as deserters.

What Zhang Ziwen is thinking about is how to make the brothers suffer fewer casualties, anyway, his pension has been paid, although this money is not counted for his parents, but it is also an honor, let me also have an explanation for this family, which can make Zhang Ziwen's heart full and make him less "distracting".

Life for 19 years, reading and writing and reading articles, driving the sun to kill the enemy and report the country, this life can be regarded as doing everything that should be done, and the husband is not afraid of death.

Didn't Wang Changling also write that in the Qin period, the bright moon and the Han period, the Long March has not yet been returned. But to make the dragon city fly will not teach Humadu Yin Mountain.

Zhang Ziwen swore in his heart that as long as the 103rd Division was still there and Zhang Ziwen was still there, he would never let the little ghost step into Nanjing City from him.

At two o'clock in the morning, what Zhang Ziwen was most unwilling to happen happened, Tang Shengzhi would formulate a retreat plan that would kill tens of thousands of people, and the time of retreat would be two days later, instead of the three months that Zhang Ziwen thought and the fifteen days that Lao Shen said.