128. Chapter 126
December 13, 1937 was a day of disaster for Nanjing and for both China. Five divisions of the Japanese army entered Nanjing, the capital of China. In the face of the unarmed citizens of Nanjing, groups of human wolves carried out inhumane killings in Nanjing City with 318-style rifles full of bullets and sharp bayonets. The Japanese army, regardless of men, women, and children, killed Chinese when they saw them. They are a group of man-eating beasts that wash the city of Nanjing in blood. The corpses of citizens were lying everywhere in Nanjing: there were old people, children, wounded and sick soldiers of the Nationalist army who could not walk, young women who were raped and then killed, their lower bodies naked, their bodies stained red with blood, their hair was loose, their faces were pale, and they stared at the sky with a pair of eyes that could not be closed.
Nanjing is crying, and the Chinese nation is crying. A heinous and inhumane massacre in human history was staged on the land of China!
Late at night, the fierce gunfire that had been ringing for a day gradually died out, and a string of red, green, and green signal flares flashed in the dark night sky from time to time, and several fires in Nanjing were burning. At this time, the traitors were indicating the targets of the bombing for the enemy planes.
The defending troops who received the order to retreat all withdrew their positions. Only a small number of covering troops were left on the city walls, and some officers and soldiers who had not received the order to retreat were still stubbornly holding their positions.
At 0:10 a.m. on the 13th, Hasegawa's troops, the vanguard of Tani Shofu's 6th Division, attacked Zhonghua Gate, the strongest of the 19 city gates in Nanjing. Immediately afterwards, the headquarters of Okamura in Japan also rushed into the city. At 3 o'clock in the morning, the Japanese heavy artillery bombarded the walls of Zhongshan Gate, and more than half of the defenders who did not retreat were killed or wounded. Under the heavy artillery, the permanent fortifications made of reinforced concrete could not withstand the bombardment of artillery fire. The shattered beams of the fortifications exposed not steel bars, but bamboo that had long since rotted. The surviving officers and soldiers were agitated and scolded Gu Zhenglun, the garrison commander who was in charge of building the fortifications.
After the heavy artillery fire, the soldiers of the Japanese troops Ono and Katagiri rushed through the barbed wire fence and moat with a wild scream. The news that friendly troops had invaded the city, like a silent order, stimulated the frantic nerves of these "Great Japanese Imperial Army", and they rushed to the city gate desperately.
The Japanese troops who were the first to rush into the city climbed up like wasps from the gap in the wall that had been blown down by artillery fire, despite the continuous explosion of mines under their feet and the condescending heavy fire of the retreating defenders on the city wall. Some of the Japanese soldiers yelled and ran over to remove the sandbags that sealed the city gates, while the rest of the Japanese troops viciously pounced on the Chinese defenders on the city walls. The Chinese defenders, who had lost their ability to resist, became prisoners of the Japanese army.
High on the city walls, stood a group of Chinese defenders who had laid down their arms, and their eyes were full of anger and trepidation, staring at the bayonets in the hands of the Japanese soldiers. "Yike......!" The screams of the Japanese soldiers echoed like wild beasts on the walls, blood splattered on the walls, and the captives were stabbed off the high walls one by one.
The trenches inside and outside the walls of Guanghuamen were filled with the corpses of the Chinese defenders, and the Japanese tanks rumbled over the corpses, rushed into Guanghuamen, and rushed past the Wuchao Gate......
Some officers and soldiers of the 87th Division of Yuhuatai, Zhonghuamen, because they did not receive the order to retreat, still fought tenaciously against the Japanese army in Yuhuatai and Zhonghuamen. In order to eliminate this stubborn and unyielding force, the Japanese army actually mobilized dozens of planes, more than 30 tanks, combat vehicles, and heavy artillery to continuously launch strong attacks on the position of the 87th Division. Among them were also the corpses of the Nationalist soldiers who had been killed in battle, and because of the Japanese planes and shells in the sky, heavy tank guns and heavy artillery poured down, the corpses on the position were covered with a sea of blood and mist. The Purple Mountain burned half the sky. According to the evil deeds of the human slaughterers, how many innocent lives were slaughtered and humiliated by the evil criminals in the dark night.
When Lin Feng learned that Chen Yiding, deputy commander of the 87th Division and commander of the 261st Brigade, was still fighting with the Japanese army with more than 1,000 officers and soldiers, he couldn't help but be surprised. At this moment, in addition to the wounded and sick and hundreds of thousands of citizens who can't walk, those who can run in the national army only hate that they have two feet less, and they have run without a trace. If the 87th Division is not withdrawn in time, there is a danger that it will be completely killed by the Japanese army.
Lin Feng's eyes were full of tears, and in the face of all kinds of atrocities committed by the evil criminals against the citizens of Nanjing after entering the city, as a Chinese soldier, he was powerless to return to heaven. This capital of the Six Dynasties, in the hands of the national army, was occupied by clowns of different races. There are hundreds of thousands of unarmed citizens in the city! The evil gangsters were ecstatic, took the guns in their hands, and began their sinful journey one by one......
Da Da Da ......
Lin Feng heard a fierce burst of gunfire! He picked up the binoculars and saw that Chen Yiding, the commander of the 87th Division, was still fighting stubbornly against the Japanese army, and he did not hesitate to take the Falcon special combat team to the 87th Division's station