Chapter 29: The Battle of the Defending the City III

"It's time to eat~"

Lao Wang shouted at the door of the enemy building, and now Lao Wang has made the rice in each row to pick it up, but Lao Wang will directly send it to the second row, because Zhang Ziwen has been eating in the second row.

"Lao Wang, what are you eating today?"

Bao ran to the door when he heard the meal, and Ma Xiaobao was very keen on eating.

"Yo, there's a fish? Where did it come from? ”

"Qu Yi and Hao Shou went down to the river to get it." Lao Wang's tone was proud, he could let the brothers eat good things, and Lao Wang had the capital to be proud.

"Hurry up and get a bowl and I'll send it to Brother Wen." The brothers in the second row lined up, and Zhang Ziwen heard the sound of the brothers' mouths.

"Remember to leave me some."

"Brother Wen, there are fish today." Xiaobao held a big bowl, the fish soup was poured on the rice, and there were some pickles on the rice, and a few pieces of fish were put on it, not to mention that in this case, more than half of the people in this period were already satisfied with such a big bowl of rice.

"I heard it, give it to me, why don't you hurry up, it's too late, be careful that you don't have to eat."

Qu Yi and Hao Shou, two veterans of Guizhou, did not let them go to the battlefield, but they also changed the law to help the brothers.

"Leave some for Lao Tzu."

Hearing the sound of the brothers outside the door grabbing food, Xiaobao hurriedly ran out.

Xiaobao looked at Zhang Ziwen sadly, eating rice without a bite, and the brothers had already robbed the fish and soup with slag just now.

"Don't blame me, who told you not to get two bowls, just get one bowl for me first, and won't get two bowls and leave one bowl for you. These hungry wolves are your soldiers, don't you know yet? ”

Zhang Ziwen sat on a stool with a gun, Xiaobao was blocked by a group of brothers just now, and when the brothers got out of the way, there was only a little rice left.

"Who knew that these hungry wolves would get their hands on it directly, and they wouldn't be afraid of being burned."

"It's not that you don't know, the brothers can only eat when they come to Zhenjiang, and now the devils are hitting the south gate, the brothers must want to eat enough, maybe the devils will come to the east gate in a while, once the devils attack, we don't know if we can eat hot rice."

Zhang Ziwen has been studying this scope for several days, but he can't figure out what makes it able to see so far.

Xiaobao simmered and didn't speak, and Zhang Ziwen continued to wipe the gun.

"Company commander, company commander" I had just wiped my gun, and Hao Shou hurriedly ran in.

"What's the matter, so urgent, say it slowly."

"Lao Wang saw that the Eighth Company seemed to have withdrawn."

"Really?"

The Eighth Company is a reserve team, this devil doesn't know when he will come up, Lao Shen is getting the Eighth Company there, it is impossible to say that the Eighth Company ran away by itself, Jiangyin has called.

"What the old king saw with his own eyes can't be faked."

"You go back, remember to take care of Sun Liang, and I'll go to the battalion commander to take a look."

Zhang Ziwen ran to the city tower and asked Lao Shen, the Eighth Company was because of the heavy casualties at the south gate, and there was no movement at the east gate and north gate, so the division headquarters transferred the eighth company and two companies of the security regiment to change the guard, so that the brothers at the south gate could breathe a sigh of relief.

"Now there is still no movement on our side, I'm worried that the devil is cheating."

Lao Shen looked at the map and had a deep understanding of the treachery of the Japanese before the war between China and Japan.

"The devils are now storming the south gate, but our northeast line has not moved, yesterday afternoon West Street, the Dantu area has been occupied by the devils, and has also stormed Yushan Fort, Jingxian Mountain. It stands to reason that the devil should storm Jinghyeon Mountain, and our east gate will not last long if it is so condescending. ”

"Maybe I'm worried about going up to Jingxian Mountain and being shelled by Yushan Fort?"

As long as the Yushan Fort does not fall, the artillery can support the position on the northeast line of Zhenjiang, except for the Yushan Fort itself, but it can still fight the devil's camp to surround Wei and save Zhao, and the defense force of the Yushan Fort itself will not be weak to that.

"Cannon? By the way, did you find a problem? ”

Lao Shen suddenly asked Zhang Ziwen, Zhang Ziwen thought about it, and what was wrong with the devil was that there was no powerful artillery attack until now.

"What you are saying is that from the time the devil hit Zhenjiang to the present, he has been shelled by us all the time......"

"Yes, the devil's artillery ability has always been stronger than mine, and this time he has been beaten by us all the time, and he still doesn't fight back. But what is the reason why the devil has not fought back? Lao Shen began to think about it, and Zhang Ziwen also thought about it for a long time, but he didn't have a clue.

"Where is the 13th Division?"

Zhang Ziwen looked at the map that the 13th Division in Jiangyin was still in the Jiangyin and Jingjiang areas.

"On the day we retreated to Zhenjiang, the 13th Division continued to attack Jingjiang and marched north, depending on the situation, it wanted to attack Taizhou by land."

"Taizhou is meaningless for the Japanese army to attack Nanjing, I am worried that they will go up the river and go straight to Yangzhou, and then we Zhenjiang will not be able to retreat to Jiangbei."

"No, now there are only two or three small fish left in the navy, and the 13th Division can go down by boat and go straight to Zhenjiang, and it won't take long to take the waterway from Jiangyin to Zhenjiang."

Because of the North China Front's failure to cooperate with the Japanese army's base camp, the Central China Front had many problems and could not coordinate at all, and the Japanese navy and land forces also had contradictions, resulting in the dispersion of Japanese troops.

"What the hell is going on? What exactly did the Japanese army want to do? Lao Shen sat down in a chair.

"Report, I was ordered by the division headquarters to convey the battle report."

A division guard ran in and informed Lao Shen of the news of the fall of Jurong.

"What? Jurong is lost? Lao Shen took the battle report and threw himself on the map again.

"You see, Jurong has completely fallen this afternoon, and now our Zhenjiang has become the same as Jiangyin, it has become a lonely army, and Zhenjiang can no longer be defended."

From December 3rd to 6th, after four days of fighting, the 18th Division and the 9th Division of the Japanese army broke through the alert and advance positions of the defending 83rd Army and the 66th Army, occupied Jurong, and advanced to the area of Huangmei, Tuqiao and Hushu Town west of Jurong, and a part of the army took the vicinity of Mengtang and Dahu Mountain from the right flank; The 114th Division broke through the alert and advance positions of the defending 72nd Army and the 74th Army, occupied Lishui, and advanced to the area of Moling Pass, Lulang Town and Jiangning Town north of Lishui. The 6th Division on the left flank was advancing towards Moling Pass, and the Kunisaki Detachment and the 18th Division were attacking Dangtu and Xuancheng. In the Tiangu detachment on the right flank and the offensive towards Zhenjiang, the 13th Division also divided into a part and began to march along the Yangtze River to Zhenjiang on the 6th.

"The division headquarters didn't give an order, and this city can't be defended and shouldn't be defended."

Military orders are like mountains, and death will die on the road to carrying out orders.

"Correspondent, go and inform the 6th Company of the Security Regiment and the 6th Company of the 618th Regiment that from now on double the sentry posts, and everyone is ready for the Japanese army to attack the city." The correspondent received the order and went out.

"Now we have to prepare for the worst......"

"Trapped in Zhenjiang?" The worst outcome Zhang Ziwen could think of was this.

In the middle of the night, I suddenly heard the sound of cannons from the direction of the Yangtze River, which woke Zhang Ziwen up from his dream.

At two o'clock in the morning, the time was clearly seen in the dim light, and the brothers were awakened by the artillery fire. Zhang Ziwen walked to the city wall, and at night he could see the Jiaoshan and Yushan forts near the river continuing to pour artillery fire into the Yangtze River, and suddenly the artillery fire exploded directly on Yushan and then smashed into the Jiaoshan fort. The devil's artillery came out, and Zhang Ziwen's heart was relieved of most of it, otherwise the devil would attack the east gate and suddenly put the cannon mount out, and the east gate was estimated to be blown up in less than an hour.

Yushan Jiaoshan Fort was suddenly bombarded by the devil, dumb fire for a long time, the devil seems to have figured out the fort, the first two days did not have to find out the location of the fort, now there is no test firing to directly hit the artillery fire on the fort position, Zhang Ziwen can't help but worry about the fort, without the fort devil's warship can come up, then Zhenjiang will really become a lonely city, but Zhang Ziwen does not know that at this time the devil warship is still in Jiangyin to clean the channel.

"What? Worried about the fort here? Rest assured, unless the devil hits the fort or hits the cannon directly, with the fortifications of the fort, the devil will not want to hurt it in the slightest. ”

Lao Shen came over and said that Lao Shen had full confidence in Zhenjiang, an important garrison town in Nanjing.

Sure enough, as Lao Shen said, the devil's cannon was finished, and the Yushan Fort smashed two test-fired shells at the Dantu, followed by a round of intense shelling. At the same time, Jiaoshan Fort continued to want to shell the Yangtze River, but the sound of the cannon was getting closer and closer to Zhenjiang, and the devil was forcibly crossing.

"The division headquarters has an urgent order, and the devils are forcibly landing in the area of Yinjia Village, so that your troops are ready for battle. Camp Commander Shen, please sign. ”

The headquarters of the 103rd Division had telephones with all important parts of Zhenjiang, and it has now been determined that the devils have forcibly landed.

"Please reply to the division commander, all the officers and men of our fourth battalion are ready for battle, please rest assured that our division will hold its position."

"Correspondent, now you go to the Jinghyeon Mountain position and ask the defenders of the position, do you need our support?"

This was already formulated by Zhang Ziwen and Shen Qiyu, and if the devil attacked the East Gate, he would definitely attack Jingxian Mountain and Yushan Fort first. If the devils did not take Jinghyeon Mountain, they would not dare to attack the east gate easily, which is also the reason why the 103rd Division dared to send only one battalion of troops to defend the east gate.