On December 10, the army bombarded Guanghuamen.

The 259th and 261st Brigades of the Chinese defenders rose up to resist. Lieutenant General Gui Yongqing, commander of the Central Teaching Corps, immediately transferred the artillery regiment into the city and set up a position in the Ming Imperial Palace. Yi Anhua, commander of the 259th Brigade, was ordered to garrison the right flank position of Zhonghua Gate, and before the war, he sent his wife and children back to his hometown in Jiangxi, and there was only one parting message:

"Wait for my death pension!"

At 3 o'clock in the afternoon of the 10th, in the face of the stubborn defense of the [***] team, the army that had nothing to do was actually like the [***] team, and organized a death squad.

Subsequently, the army death squad advanced to the front line of the Guanghuamen moat.

At about 8 o'clock in the evening, the enemy army rushed from outside the city to the city gate cave outside Guanghua Gate. However, the city gate was strong, and there were only more than ten people led by Jun Cao who rushed into the city gate cave.

The regiment commander Xie Chengrui personally led the soldiers to carry many barrels of gasoline to the arrow tower of the city wall that night, loosened the mouth of the gasoline barrel in the middle of the night, and threw it at the entrance of the cave in the city, and then immediately threw the fire, and the moat suddenly ignited a raging fire, and most of the more than 10 enemy soldiers were burned.

At dawn the next day, Xie Chengrui led a platoon of soldiers to suddenly open the city gate, and more than a dozen machine guns shot at the enemy troops who entered the city wall first, and most of the enemy were immediately killed. One of them was not dead, and he was immediately carried on a stretcher to Fugui Mountain.

Outside the Zhonghua Gate, Yuhuatai.

The hill Yuhuatai, which is about six or seven miles long outside the Zhonghua Gate, is said to be a "undulating hilly area". The terrain here is complex, with barbed wire, trenches, firing points and pillboxes, and it is a natural fortress in the south of Nanjing.

Guarding Yuhuatai was the 88th Division of the National Revolutionary Army. There were only two brigades in this division, and the commander of the 262nd Brigade, Major General Zhu Chi, was ordered to defend the right flank position, and the 264th Brigade Gao Zhisong was to guard the left flank. The two major generals and brigade commanders were both infantry students of the third phase of Huangpu, and both were promoted to brigade commanders after the Husong Anti-Japanese War.

The two trenches more than 30 miles long from Hongtu Mountain to Yuhuatai had just been dug up, and the army first bombed them in formation by planes, and then the artillery fired in unison, and the fortifications were blown to pieces. The officers and men on the positions braved the gunfire and returned fire on the charging enemy.

Attacking Yuhuatai and Zhonghua Gate was the elite 6th Division of the Yue Army. The short, stocky and 56-year-old division commander Toshio Tani participated in the Russo-Japanese War and the European War.

Thousands of shells exploded on the Yuhuatai position. According to the information provided by the army after the war, on December 10 and 11, they launched 30 raids on Yuhuatai.

The 528th Regiment guarding the hill on the left flank fought hand-to-hand with the Yue army, fighting bloody day and night. Lin Mijian, the commander of the second battalion, known as the "Bantam Tiger," held a bayonet and fought with the army for two days and two nights. He entered the battle wounded, bleeding from his eyes and stabbing dozens of enemy soldiers.

At 7 o'clock in the evening of the 10th, Lin Mijian, who was covered in blood, fell forever.

Han Xianyuan, the commander of the 524th Regiment, led his soldiers to block the army on the right flank, and his blood was sprinkled all over the hills. Corpses were everywhere, and the sound of killing moved the ground. 11 At night, the sky and the earth were dark, and in the midst of artillery fire, he and the battalion commander Fu Yiting were hit by shells.

The blood of martyrs stains the earth!

12 said, it is the rain of blood and tears in Yuhuatai.

In the early morning, dozens of planes and dozens of heavy artillery pieces of the Chinese army jointly bombarded for more than two hours, and most of the warriors on the positions became immortal ghosts.

The gentle and quiet Brigadier Gao and the simple and erudite Brigadier Zhu both sacrificed their lives heroically that morning! These two loyal generals had nothing outside of their bodies, and each left behind a wife and two children, and both left behind more than 2,000 thread-bound books.

The enemy's artillery positions advanced to Yuhuatai.

Amid the roaring sound of artillery, the tanks and infantry of the Yue army rushed towards the Zhonghua Gate wall. The officers and men of the 88th Division, which retreated to the city gate, and the 51st Division, which defended the city, fought hard to block the fire with machine guns, rifles and grenades.

Qiu Weida, the regiment commander who commanded on the city tower, found two tank vehicles of the Japanese army covering the infantry and driving onto the military bridge over the Qinhuai River.

He called the artillery to aim directly, the shells flew away with a whistling whistle, and the tank staggered a few times with the blazing fire, and fell off the Qinhuai River on the left and right. The infantry, which had lost its cover, retreated.

At this moment, the city gate opened with a clatter, and the two or three hundred elite defenders who rushed out roared like a whirlwind to pursue the retreating army!

Yuhuatai is still broken through by the army!

Due to the breakthrough of the 88th Division guarding the front of Yuhuatai, the flank of the 305th Regiment was suddenly exposed to the guns of the Yue Army.

The Yue army occupying Yuhuatai was condescending and took advantage of the favorable terrain to shoot wildly at the 305th Regiment of Huayan Temple.

Faced with a sudden blow from behind, Zhang Lingfu gradually felt struggling under the enemy's two-sided attack, but he still stuck to the front of the position and led his troops to fight without retreating.

Wang Yaowu learned that the 305th Regiment had suffered heavy casualties, and ordered Zhang Lingfu to shrink his troops to Saihongqiao in the southwest corner of Nanjing City to join Zhou Zhidao's 151st Brigade. The 3rd Battalion, which was far away on the other side of the east side of the city, was separated by the army outside the Guanghua Gate, and Liu Guangyu led the 3rd Battalion through Huaxi Gate, Hongwu Gate, Taiping Gate, etc., and ran more than 70 miles around the city before arriving at the Saihongqiao lying across the Qinhuai River.

Zhang Lingfu, who had been wounded for many days, hardly slept in the fierce battle, blood loss, injuries and extreme fatigue, when he met with the headquarters, his face was pale and his strength gradually became exhausted.

When the army commander Yu Jishi saw Zhang Lingfu's appearance, he could not say that he forced Zhang Lingfu to leave his post temporarily, and immediately went to Jiangbei to treat his injuries, and ordered the commander of the 305th Regiment to be represented by Chang Xiaode, a lieutenant colonel attached to the regiment.

"I have the intention to kill the thief, but I can't go back to the sky!" Zhang Lingfu was almost escorted to the small steamer by Yu Jishi's guards, and he grabbed the hand of the acting head Chang Xiaode: "Brother Xiaode, my 305th regiment, please!" ”

Chang Xiaode gave a military salute dignifiedly: "Tuanzao, don't worry, I will definitely bring the 305th regiment back to you!" ”

"Where's Goofy?" Zhang Lingfu suddenly asked loudly: "What about Gao Fei?" ”

Chang Xiaode was stunned for a moment, and then slowly shook his head: "We have lost contact with Jiangjiaying and Huayan Temple. ”

Zhang Lingfu's lips trembled a little, and the moment he walked on the small steamer, he suddenly turned around and said: "If you find Gao Fei, you must find Gao Fei, I, Zhang Lingfu, owe him Gao Fei!" ”

The river boat transporting the wounded dragged the white waves and slowly sailed towards the center of the river, leaving behind the city of Nanjing, which was in the fierce battle.

It is the beginning of the lanterns, and the lights in the city are drowned in the rain of bullets and the fire that appears and disappears from time to time.

With more than ten years of combat experience, it is not difficult for Zhang Lingfu to judge from the recent battle situation, there is no suspense about the outcome of this battle, thinking that the capital will fall sooner or later, and the brothers in the city are still resisting to the death, and they have the intention to kill the enemy, and they have no power to return to heaven, Zhang Lingfu is sad and wants to cry.

After Zhang Lingfu crossed the river to heal his wounds, the remnants of the 305th Regiment, under the leadership of the acting regiment commander Chang Xiaode, retreated to Shuiximen and continued to fight with the 302nd Regiment in Saihongqiao.

What about Goofy? Where exactly have Goofy and the 6th Company he commanded gone!