The Japanese army is advancing step by step, aiming at Nanjing!

Nanjing, the former headquarters of the Kuomintang, has long since moved its capital to Wuhan.

Within the Kuomintang, the controversy over the Battle of Nanjing was divided into two factions, one faction was in favor of abandoning, after all, Shanghai had fallen, and the Japanese army had outflanked them from Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui, and there was almost nothing to defend in between, and the fall of Nanjing was almost a foregone conclusion.

However, if Nanjing is handed over to the Japanese without fighting a war, there will definitely be public resentment boiling in the country, and no one at the top level of the Kuomintang will dare to take such a risk.

It's just that on the side of **** generals, no one is willing to lead troops to battle at all!

This is a battle that must be lost, and no general is willing to bear this kind of infamy, become a sinner of the nation, and become the object of the people's scolding!

Under such circumstances, General Tang Shengzhi became the commander-in-chief of the defense of Nanjing, commanding nearly 300,000 officers and soldiers, fortifying layers of troops along Nanjing, and releasing a bold statement: "The city is in the people, and the city is dead!" ”

The battle for the defense of Nanjing gradually kicked off.

The military situation was urgent, and all units urgently went to the front line to block the Japanese army

The Sichuan Army, an army that came out of the Chinese mainland, became an indispensable force on the Nanjing defense line.

On the 14th, Tang Shizun, deputy commander-in-chief of the 21st Army of the Sichuan Army, led nearly 40,000 troops to the south bank of Taihu Lake, preparing to resist the 18th Japanese Mission and the puppet Manchurian Jing'an Army composed of the Northeast puppet army of nearly 30,000 people.

Guangde Defense Zone.

As soon as they entered the position, the exhausted Sichuan troops immediately began to dig trenches and build dark forts, knowing that their equipment was too far behind the Japanese army, and the only way was to build the strongest fortifications to block the Japanese attack.

In the pre-war headquarters not far behind the position, a middle-aged man in a straight military uniform was reading the newspaper, which was the military newspaper sent back after the Shanghai battlefield, he saw the brilliant results achieved by the Sichuan army on the Shanghai battlefield, and saw the contribution of his fellow villagers to this devastated country, his eyes moistened!

As a native of Sichuan, he felt sorry for the Sichuan soldiers who died on the battlefield in Shanghai, and at the same time, although Shanghai fell, it could not erase the light of the heroic battles of the Sichuan troops on the battlefield in Shanghai!

He is also from Sichuan, and he is proud of them!

His name is Rao Guohua, forty-three years old, and he is the commander of the 145th Division.

"Assemble!"

In the sound of the military trumpet, the roar of the assembly sounded, and more than 5,000 people gathered together to listen to the instructions of the division.

"Brothers, Shanghai has fallen, and the Japanese are rushing towards us, are you afraid?" Rao Guohua yelled.

The Sichuan troops on the field did not speak, but just looked at the dilapidated weapons around them, no one was afraid of death, and they even discussed in private that Chairman Chiang knew that the Sichuan army was backward in equipment and lacked training, but let them fight with the Japanese army on the front line, clearly to use the hands of the Japanese army to cut off the power of the Sichuan army.

"No one is not afraid of death, and I am also afraid of death!"

Rao Guohua shouted: "However, we are soldiers, and now, the grim moment to test us has come, we must win glory for the country and shed the last drop of blood...... I know that our equipment is backward, and even the Central Ace German Armament Division can't defeat the Japanese army, how can we win - but I want to tell you, the most important thing in fighting a war is whether you want to win or not! ”

"I want to win, I don't want to win!"

"Brother Pao, that's a ...... that will never be sloppy"

The Sichuan army shouted, the country is ruined, there is no soldier who does not want to defeat the Japanese devils, even if it is just a battle, as long as he does not die, this battle will be enough to blow for a lifetime in the future!

"A bunch of melon babies!"

Seeing those soldiers who fought like chicken blood, there was one person with a disdainful face, his name was Liu Ruzhai, the commander of the 145th Division, and a relative of the deputy commander-in-chief Tang Shizun, this battle was just a good opportunity for him to gild, as for the war, he didn't care much at all.

"Let me read to you the results of our Sichuan army on the battlefield in Shanghai!"

Rao Guohua raised the newspaper in his hand and read it aloud: "The 26th Division of the 20th Army, they wore straw sandals and single clothes, stationed in the area of Dachang Town in the bleak wind and cold rain, and in the face of the repeated bombardment of Japanese aircraft and tanks, they repelled dozens of Japanese attacks, annihilated more than 2,000 enemies, and more than 8,000 people under the division commander Liu Yuqing, when they withdrew from the battlefield, only 600 people remained!" ”

"However, they blocked the position of nearly 10,000 Japanese troops to the death, and when they withdrew from the position, they did not lose an inch of land!"

When the position fell, the regiment commander Xiang Wenbin personally led the troops to charge into battle with a big knife and recaptured the position, and the commander of the 152nd Regiment Xie Guji led a total of 300 people from the wounded and patriotic students to rush to the position at the last moment of withdrawing from the battlefield...... Even the division commander, General Liu Yuqing, personally went into battle to fight to the death with the Japanese army, captured the Japanese army commander Matsumoto, greatly strengthened the prestige of our army, and greatly curbed the arrogance of Xiaori......"

When he said this, Rao Guohua's eyes were full of tears, and many of the soldiers of the Sichuan army were choked and wept, but more people clenched their fists, they seemed to see the appearance of compatriots from Sichuan like themselves on the battlefield of blood and fire, dragging their injured bodies and rushing towards the dense devils with bayonets.

They thought that if they had that opportunity, they would never back down!

"There is a soldier named Lu Yuan, who killed more than 100 devils alone in the battle of Dachang Town, and his whereabouts are unknown, and many Sichuan soldiers died with the Japanese army with grenades!"

"Shanghai, we were defeated, but our Sichuan army was not defeated, and they did not disgrace our Sichuan people!"

Rao Guohua shouted: "I also hope that you, like the Sichuan army on the battlefield in Shanghai, will die in front of the battle, and death will not disgrace us Sichuan people, I will set an example for you!" ”

"We won't disgrace the Sichuan people!"

Everyone roared, and a dazzling light shot out of their eyes, that was the hatred of the Japanese army, that was the pride of being a Sichuan person, the face of the Sichuan people, and they would never let themselves be lost in Guangde!

"Is Rao Guohua's turtle son crazy?"

Only Liu Ruzhai frowned, and said in his heart that looking at this Rao Guohua's appearance, I am afraid that he has a will to die, and he can't follow him too much, the regiment in his hand is his own family, and it is the capital of his own promotion and fortune, but he can't let this guy reimburse himself, if necessary, he has to think of a way!

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