Chapter 35 Defending Nanjing II

Lao Shen had just received news that in the afternoon, Commander-in-Chief Tang ignored Matsui's ultimatum and issued an order of "Wei Shen Zuo Zi No. 36" as an answer on the same day. The content is:

(1) The current occupation of the re-position by this army is the final battle to hold Nanjing, and all units should do their best to hold on to it with the determination to live and die with the position, and must not lightly abandon an inch of land or shake the whole army.

(2) All ships acquired by the armies shall be handed over to the Transport Command for safekeeping, and they shall not be detained without permission, and Song Xilian, commander of the 78th Army, shall be assigned to take charge of the command. Along the river, the constitution and the police strictly prohibit stragglers from crossing the river by boat without permission, and violators will be arrested and severely punished. If you dare to resist, stop it by force.

This order blocked the retreat of hundreds of thousands of troops, which was enough to show the determination to defend the city. At the same time, Lao Shen also told Zhang Ziwen that in the afternoon, the troops of the 9th Division of the Japanese Army, with the direct support of the artillery fire of the devil's position, stormed the defensive position of the 260th Brigade of the 87th Division and the defensive position of the Teaching Corps of the Guanghuamen Wai Engineer School, and captured the Engineer School at about 10 o'clock. In the afternoon, relying on tank and artillery fire, the devils attacked the city gate three times, and some small units broke into the city, and the gendarmerie responded quickly to defeat the devils. Lao Shen asked Zhang Ziwen to pay attention to the sneak attack of devils, but there were still devils left in the city.

Now Nanjing is no longer as prosperous as before, and under the baptism of artillery fire, Nanjing has become declining and lonely.

"Urgent telegram, Wei Shen telegraph ordered my 103rd Division to take over the Zhongshan Gate position nearby, complete the replacement before 10:30 on the 10th, and return to the command corps for control."

Zhang Ziwen did not know that the division headquarters had received an order from the Nanjing Defense General Staff and was enjoying the rare sunshine.

"Company Commander Zhang, the regiment headquarters ordered our four battalions to go to Zhonghua Gate in ten minutes, please prepare your company."

Zhang Ziwen wondered why he belonged to the 618 regiment again, didn't the division headquarters give a direct order in front of him?

"Okay, you go back first, and tell the battalion commander that we'll be ready."

"Xiaobao asked everyone to pack up their things and gather in five minutes."

"Brother Wen, the old pole took the two of them and didn't know where to go."

Xiaobao told Zhang Ziwen that the old pole was gone, Zhang Ziwen was startled, don't touch the devil who burst into the city and was killed, the old pole is a platoon leader.

"How can this person say that if he can't see it, he won't see it, you ask Zhang Li, let Zhang Zhang send someone to find it, and tell them to go directly to Zhonghua Gate, we won't wait for him."

The sixth and seventh companies have already formed their teams, and the ninth company is still in a mess, so Zhang Ziwen hurriedly sorted out the team.

Lao Shen ran over with the guard platoon, Zhang Ziwen asked the Ninth Company to follow, and the 618 Regiment had all gone out in the first ten minutes, leaving only the division headquarters and the division directly under the team behind.

Zhang Ziwen has looked back several times, and the old pole has never come back, how can he bring it in a row after a while.

At about 9 o'clock, the 4th Battalion rushed to Zhongshanmen, and the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the 618th Regiment in front had already begun to change guards with the soldiers of the training team, half of whom were strong men captured near Nanjing, and only half were student soldiers and instructors of the Central Military Academy. This half of the strong men only learned to shoot guns, and they couldn't even do foot drills, which is the reason why they were called soldiers, and half of the entire Nanjing were soldiers.

"Xiaowen, take someone with me."

Before it was the turn of the fourth battalion to change guards, Lao Shen took the fourth battalion to the north.

"The upper walls of the four battalions."

Lao Shen took the lead and climbed up, and the brothers of the teaching corps in the city had already gone north, and the Purple Mountain was their position.

The current location of the fourth camp is the north of Zhongshan Gate, which used to be called cornucopia, and out of here is the Purple Mountain.

"Even the elder pole hasn't come back yet."

Zhang Ziwen just threw Ma Xiaobao on the ground, and the cannonball smashed on the city wall, and it took a few minutes for the cannon devils to stop, and before he could get up, there was already a fight in the south.

Does the little devil think that the 103rd Division is easier to bully than the teaching corps? As soon as it was replaced, it rushed to attack.

"Get up for me, the devil is coming." Zhang Ziwen saw through the battlement that the devil came up by himself, and quickly checked his gun.

For a while, the gunfire was everywhere, the fourth battalion was beaten by the devil and couldn't raise its head, the devil's gunfire was just smaller, Zhang Ziwen put the gun rack on the battlement and saw three tanks driving towards the fourth battalion, there was a crescent moon lake in the south, and the devil tank could only attack from the north, Zhang Ziwen sighed that he was really unlucky.

"Xiaobao, you touch it and tell Old Shen that the devil has a tank and ask what to do."

Zhang Ziwen passed through the scope, the bullets of the brothers only hit the devil's tank, and the thick armor of the tank would only have some sparks, and it was okay for the devil to hide behind the tank.

Zhang Ziwen had no choice but to continue to observe the devil tank, trying to find a place to start, but after looking for a long time, he didn't find a place to start, the devil had reached a position of more than 100 meters from the city wall, and the brothers could throw grenades if they were closer, but now no one could throw them so far.

"Brother Wen, Brother Shen said that he sent someone to ask for support...... Before Xiaobao finished speaking, the city wall suddenly shook, and a huge explosion sounded, and when he looked back, he saw a little green smoke coming from the muzzle of the devil tank, followed by a few more cannons.

"Have the brethren prepare grenades."

Artillery cover, infantry assault, this is basically the most conventional way of fighting, but this is the way of fighting of the devil and the Central Army, unfortunately the 103rd Division has no artillery.

Without a scope, Zhang Ziwen could see the Japanese army crawling forward with a ladder, condescending, Zhang Ziwen thought to himself, the little devil was his own bullet and did not drink blood. Following the sound of the machine gun, the two devils were holding heavy machine guns to suppress the fire of the brothers, aiming at the front shooter of the devil's machine gun, pulling the trigger, and preparing to learn about the evil karma of this little devil. Unexpectedly, it was just a spark jumping on the machine gun wound, and the river wind was too big to calculate the amount of correction at all. Fortunately, the devil is not afraid of death, and continues to shoot, Zhang Ziwen just wanted to hit the second round of shells in front of the city wall intensively, there was a dull sound, Zhang Ziwen hurriedly put away the gun and leaned against the back of the wall, and then the sand and soil blown by the air wave went up the wall, and for a time the cannon sound in front of the Zhongshan Gate position was deafening.

The artillery fire covered the whole two minutes, and when I poked my head out, I saw that the few houses on the edge of the city wall were gone, and the devil's tank left two on fire, and the ground was full of craters of different sizes.

"Brother Wen, how many shells do you need for such a dense artillery fire, and how much is it worth!"

Xiaobao poked his head out to see this scene and couldn't help but sigh.

"When did you become a money fan?"

"Brother Wen, look at those craters, this is more fierce than the little devil plane bombing our position."

Zhang Ziwen looked over, three huge craters were in front of the city gate, how many large-caliber shells this was.

"Okay, don't look at it, the devil won't come up for the time being, you go and let Lao Wang and them cook the meal, and then send it up for the brothers to eat first, and then send someone to see where the old pole is." At this time, Zhang Ziwen is unstable in his heart, the old pole has to be steady, and cold-bloodedness and experience are what he lacks. There are some things that Zhang Ziwen doesn't want to do, such as dealing with tanks, using the brothers to get corpses and letting the brothers hold the explosives package, this order Zhang Ziwen really can't give it.

After eating, Xiaobao counted the situation of each platoon, just now the devil assaulted, seven more brothers became heroes, two brothers were sent to the hospital, Zhang Qing was powerless. One of the two seriously injured was Cao Deyi, Cao Deyi pounced on Gao Zhitong himself when the devil shelled him but was hit in the thigh by the shrapnel of the devil's shell, Zhang Qing couldn't stop the bleeding, saying that he had cut the main artery, and he was carried to the hospital with the people's team after a simple bandage, and he didn't know whether he was dead or alive.

Bang~Bang~, the sound of cannons came from the city wall, Zhang Ziwen hurriedly braved the cannon fire to climb the city wall, and the devil came up again.