After the order to capture Nanjing was issued by the base camp of the Yue Army, Matsui Ishine commanded the Shanghai Dispatch Army and the Tenth Army, under the cover of aircraft and ship formations, to kill Nanjing in three ways. Among them, the 11th, 13th, and 16th Divisions attacked along the Beijing-Shanghai Railway, the 3rd Division and the 9th Division attacked through Suzhou and Jintan, and the 6th, 18th, and 114th Divisions of the 10th Army, as well as the subordinate Guoqi Detachment, attacked along the south bank of Taihu Lake from Yixing, Liyang, and Guangde respectively.

Zhang Zhizhong, commander-in-chief of the National Revolutionary Army's defense of Nanjing, in accordance with the plan he had deduced with Chen Cheng and Liu Yimin, adopted the methods of clearing the wilderness with strong walls, resisting step by step, attacking with small troops, and attacking and harassing in batches to confront the enemy and gain time for the main force to move to a favorable position.

Although the scale of the battle is not large, the tactics have become more flexible, and the active surname of the attack has been greatly enhanced, and all units are left with one blow, just take advantage of a little advantage, and there is no longer the phenomenon in history that hundreds of thousands or hundreds of thousands of troops are surrounded by the enemy and scattered on the way to transfer.

This tactic is a classic guerrilla tactic that has been passed down from the Red Army to the Eighth Route Army. It is a pity that [***] has not been trained in guerrilla warfare, and the use of guerrilla tactics is not in place; Second, after the Battle of Songhu, the vitality was greatly damaged, the loss of essence was too great, and the training of the newly replenished soldiers was insufficient; Thirdly, the army had a high degree of mechanization, pack-horse adaptation, quick response, and the ability to quickly pursue and block the army with the help of aircraft, resulting in many small units being stuck by the army after the attack and martyrdom.

However, the sacrifices of the martyrs were exchanged for the success of the slow attack of the Yue army, and when the Yue army attacked near Nanjing, not only did it suffer heavy losses, but also its morale was affected, which was very different from the momentum in history.

Zhang Zhizhong's countermeasure was actually very simple, that is, to exchange space for time, to entangle the enemy around Nanjing, to fight with the enemy in the streets of the city, and after further killing and wounding the enemy, he quickly evacuated and left an empty city for the enemy. In this way, our army has preserved its vital forces and has been given the opportunity to redeploy, although it has been defeated; It is said that the army has worked hard to rejuvenate the army, and the casualties are heavy, although the victory is still defeated.

In this way, the Yue army had a hard time on the way to Nanjing, and the planes in the sky could not find the [***] large troops, so they could not concentrate on bombing indiscriminately; Ground troops are inexplicably attacked at any time and at all times, and they cannot camp at night. Seeing that there was a blockade in front, thinking that this time I had met the main force of [***], I just thought about setting up the artillery, transferring the tanks, and making a classic assault, when the gunfire of the blocking in front suddenly stopped, and the enemy ran away again. In this way, the 200,000 troops of the Yue army attacked all the way, and dozens or even hundreds of battles had to occur in the sky, but unfortunately most of them were passively beaten, and they were all attacked by small units that were broken into pieces, and they did not even see the shadow of the main force of the [***] team, and the attrition was much greater than the offensive and positional battles at the beginning of the war, which made the army angry and inexplicable, and scolded the [***] team for becoming cunning.

Seeing that it was almost Nanjing, Matsui Ishine was overjoyed and waved the 3rd Division, 6th Division, 9th Division, 13th Division, 16th Division, 114th Division, and Kunisaki Detachment to surround Nanjing.

Chunhua town is in the southeast suburb of Nanjing, according to Nanjing city 18 kilometers, is not only the south gate of Nanjing, but also the traffic artery, said that the army must attack Nanjing must pass through here. Historically, the 74th Army fought fiercely with the Yue Kou here, and many soldiers died here.

There are striking similarities in history, and there are also changes. Similarly, the 74th Army was defending here, and Zhang Lingfu was still the commander of the 305th Regiment. The difference is that Zhang Zhizhong not only arranged the 74th Army here, but also arranged the teaching corps, determined to give the Yue Army a head-on blow here.

Historically, more than 2,000 people of the army met with the 74th Army in Chunhua, although the 74th Army fought bloodily, it still did not block the enemy's attack, and hurriedly retreated to the city with hatred, and then retreated north across the river.

Now the guiding ideology of operations has changed, and the deployment has of course also changed. According to Zhang Zhizhong's order, Yu Jishi, commander of the 74th Army, ordered Wang Yaowu's 51st Division to act as a frontal blocker, and the 58th Division and the Teaching Corps were respectively equipped with two wings, determined to destroy the enemy's vanguard here.

Wang Yaowu can be regarded as a famous general, during the Red Army, he was surrounded by the Red Tenth Army with a reading brigade, and he was able to turn defeat into victory, which shows that this person is not ordinary.

After Wang Yaowu accepted the task, he led his troops from Jurong to Chunhua Town, and decided that Ji Hongru's 301st Regiment and Cheng Zhi's 302nd Regiment would build a defensive line along Fangshan and Songshu through Chunhua Town to Shangzhuang, requiring that the position could resist medium-caliber artillery attacks; Zhang Lingfu's 305th Regiment was responsible for guarding the line from Gaoqiaomen to Heding Bridge (not included) and building a reserve position; Qiu Weida's 306th Regiment was in reserve, and the first regiment was placed in Hushu Town to prevent the enemy from attacking from the right flank.

Wang Yaowu's deployment was basically a defensive position in depth along the Beijing-Shanghai National Highway at that time. It just blocked the way for the Ninth Division of the Japanese Army to attack the south gate of Nanjing.

At the combat meeting, Wang Yaowu said: "It is a shame for us that the devil deceived people too much, and he actually hit Nanjing. Commander Zhang was determined to give Yue Kou a head-on attack here, and our division served as a frontal blocker, and the 52nd Division and the teaching corps served as the flank outflanks. You may not know that this is a plan discussed by Chief Zhang and Chief Chen when they were in Xi'an. Some time ago, Liu Yimin led his instructor to win a series of battles in Taiyuan and wiped out the four elite brigades of the Yue Army. The command knives of several major generals of the army are now on display at the Military Commission. Our 74th Army and the Teaching Corps are the elite of the [***] elite, and we will never be left behind when killing devils! Which kind of learner, Lao Tzu killed him! The regiments immediately strengthened the original fortifications and quickly entered the position, and Lao Tzu wanted to let the devils bleed here. ”

After the 51st Division entered the position, it found that the original defense fortifications were extremely badly repaired, and some places were purely made of earth. But time waits for no one, and the army is about to arrive, so it can only be simply reinforced.

On the morning of December 14, about a squadron of the search unit of the 9th Division of the Chinese Army rushed to Chunhua, but was immediately wiped out by the 301st Regiment, and only a few people escaped back to report the news.

Later, about 2,000 people arrived, equipped with more than a dozen cannons, and called for planes, and began to storm Chunhua Town.

At the beginning of the battle, the army was only a small unit to test the attack, and the 301st Regiment was still very strong. As the planes and tanks of the Japanese army entered the battle, the situation on the battlefield began to become tragic.

The 74th Army is the elite of the elite, and its weapons and equipment are much better than those of ordinary troops. Unfortunately, only four tanks were knocked out, and the battle defense artillery position was covered by artillery fire. The troops can only rely on flesh and blood to block the tanks of the army.

At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, Ji Hongru, the commander of the 301st Regiment, who was observing the enemy situation in the command post, was extremely anxious. It is said that the army does not have many troops, but its firepower is very strong, especially the planes, which are constantly circling over the position, dropping bombs and strafing them, and if the soldiers are not careful, they may be thrown high and torn apart by aerial bombs or shells. The marksmanship of the devil infantry is also very accurate, and whichever soldier raises his head a little higher will be hit immediately. The casualties of the troops were too great.

At this time, what Ji Hongru was looking forward to most was that it would get dark soon. He knew that as long as it was dark and the military planes could not participate in the battle, the military seat would order the 58th Division and the Teaching Corps to fight from both wings and cooperate with the 51st Division to make dumplings for these 2,000 devils.

The army attacked again, with four tanks at the head and hundreds of arrogant infantry behind.

Ji Hongru knew that if he could not withstand this attack of the Yue army, the position would be broken through. On the one hand, he asked Wang Yaowu for help, and on the other hand, he ordered all the personnel of the regiment headquarters to go to the position and resolutely beat the devil.

When Ji Hongru led the regimental guards to the position, the army had already attacked, and the machine guns on the tanks were blowing like the wind, so that the soldiers in the trenches could not raise their heads.

Seeing that the tanks of the army had reached the front of the position, the battalion commander guarding the position shouted: "Are there any brothers alive?" Blow up the tank for Lao Tzu! ”

More than a dozen [***] soldiers struggled out of the trenches with grenades, and a few were knocked over by the soldiers as soon as they showed up. The remaining soldiers, who appeared to be veterans, climbed out of the trench with grenades, made tactical maneuvers, dodged enemy bullets, and approached the tank. One of them rolled to a tank in three rolls and two rolls, pulled the grenade string and stuffed it under the tank, and before he could dodge, several bullets hit him, killing him directly to the ground. With a bang, the grenade exploded, and the tank stopped advancing with a whimper.

Ji Hongru saw that it was the third company commander of the first battalion, with tears in his eyes, and shouted, "Third company commander!" "Raising the shell gun is a shuttle, knocking the three devils who are about to pounce into the trench to the ground. Then he threw away his pistol, bent down, picked up a rifle with a bayonet on it, and pounced.

The soldiers of the regimental guard platoon saw that the regiment commander pounced, and immediately pounced, killing into the group of devils.

As soon as the little devil saw that the Chinese soldiers had stepped forward to fight with bayonets, he immediately shouted, crackled and retreated the bullets, and pounced on them.

The remnants of the 301st Regiment on the position, seeing that the regiment commander and the guard platoon had entered the enemy group, also jumped out of the trench and joined the battle group. At this time, the soldiers of both sides were killed together, and the enemy's artillery and aircraft were helpless, and both sides were in the position with bayonets.

When Zhang Lingfu led the 305th Regiment to reinforce it, the enemy had just broken through the position of the 301st Regiment. Zhang Lingfu gave an order, and the 305th Regiment opened fire with all its light and heavy weapons, and brutally beat the attacking army back.

When I went to the position, there were corpses everywhere, and the commander of the 302nd regiment, Ji Hongru, was lying in a pool of blood, with a bayonet stuck in his body, and his bayonet was also nailed to the heart of a short and fat little devil.

Zhang Lingfu tried Ji Hongru's snort, and there was still salvation, so he hurriedly ordered to carry it down for rescue. Then he ordered the troops to enter the position to take over.

In this battle, it was almost dark from the morning when it was defeated, and the 301st Regiment suffered more than 1,400 casualties in Chunhua Town, and the establishment could basically be canceled.

In this wave of attack, although the army was disabled by the 301st Regiment, its own casualties were also very large, and after being attacked by the 305th Regiment, it retreated, prepared to camp, and waited for the arrival of the main force.

The sun finally set, and the devil's plane went back to sleep. At this time, Zhang Zhizhong no longer hesitated, and ordered Yu Jishi to command the 74th Army and the Teaching Corps to close the net, and be sure to completely annihilate the enemy's vanguard in front of him.

Since the beginning of the Songhu Anti-Japanese War, the army has always been arrogant, and it was never dreamed that the [***] team that was pursued all the way dared to kill a horse pistol. Therefore, although the attack did not go well, he did not retreat to move closer to the main force, but stood guard in place, waiting for the reinforcement of the main force in the morning.

As soon as Zhang Zhizhong gave the order, Yu Jishi immediately ordered the 58th Division and the Teaching Corps, which were secretly waiting on both flanks, to outflank the enemy, and the 302nd, 305th, and 306th regiments of the 51st Division attacked on all fronts to encircle and annihilate the enemy.

Wang Yaowu, commander of the 51st Division, immediately issued an order to resolutely eliminate the Yue Kou and avenge the brothers of the 301st Regiment, and waved the three main regiments to rush towards the Yue Army.

Zhang Lingfu is a legend all his life, and after being captured by Liu Yimin in the battle of Hanyang Town, he can be regarded as having seen what a firepower saturation strike is. After being released, he still suspected that his wife was having an affair, shot his wife, and was dealt with by military law.

At the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, Wang Yaowu asked him out and kept him as the head of the 305th Regiment. This person is definitely a fierce general in the war, and he was not convinced, but since he met Liu Yimin, he knew that there was a sky outside the sky. When I heard that Liu Yimin's troops wiped out 40,000 devils in one battle, I wanted to fight a beautiful battle and compare with Liu Yimin. Helplessly, after the Battle of Songhu began, all the battles were positional warfare, and the troops were struggling under the indiscriminate bombardment of the planes, artillery, and naval guns of the Japanese army. Seeing the way Nanjing defended the battle, he knew that the time had come to make meritorious contributions.

Zhang Lingfu gathered his troops and told the brothers in a biting manner: "In battle, you must survive step by step, and you must die at any time!" With the determination to die in a glorious battle, it is able to fight for life in a desperate situation! After saying these half-written words, Zhang Lingfu stopped dropping his bookbag, picked up the submachine gun, and roared: "Brothers, if you take the handle, you will go with Lao Tzu to kill the dog, let's go!" He led his troops and rushed forward.

Although it was already dark, and although the army was very arrogant, the training of the army was there, and the tactical quality and will to fight were there. When the devil found out that he was surrounded by the main force of the [***] team, he asked for tactical guidance on the one hand, and quickly entered the position on the other hand, resisting desperately.

The combat effectiveness of the 74th Army and the Teaching Corps is nothing to say in the [***] sequence, and when the military aircraft and artillery speak, the combat effectiveness of these two units is not so obvious. As soon as the planes of the Chinese army rested, the role of the artillery in the dark night was greatly reduced, and the army became a turtle in an urn again, and the combat effectiveness of the teaching corps and the 74th Army, which had been trained by German advisers, was displayed. Whether it is firepower coordination or tactical movements, they all appear to be clear-eyed. The battle made the army constantly shrink the defensive circle.

However, at this time, the army was full of long-trained veterans, not to mention their strong combat power, and their will to fight was also very tenacious, and they resisted desperately. Cannons and grenadiers were all on the battlefield, light and heavy machine guns were fought annihilating and cunning, and rifles were basically guns and guns, which brought great casualties to [***].

Worried that the time would drag on for a long time, Yu Ji was ruthless, and while scolding the devil for not being human, he was so stubborn and refused to surrender, and at the same time personally carried a pistol and brought the guards up to supervise the battle, and strictly ordered to ignore all casualties, a centripetal assault on the whole front, and completely annihilate this force.

Yu Jishi is Chiang Kai-shek's nephew, and it is not that he is very capable of fighting, the key is that Zhang Zhizhong's combat plan is practical and feasible, with the strength of the 74th Army and the Teaching Corps, without the enemy's planes and naval artillery raging, it will become a joke if he can't take down this tired and lonely army of less than 2,000 people. The commander doesn't have to be a soldier, just buy a piece of tofu and kill him.

So, Yu Jishi came directly to the front line.

Seeing that the army commander came up and worked hard, all the units of the 74th Army and all the officers and men of the teaching corps knew that it was at this moment that they had killed the enemy and made meritorious contributions, and they attacked fiercely. The artillery fire of various units was also concentrated to cover the general attack of the troops.

Zhang Lingfu led the 305th Regiment to the front, and due to the strong firepower of the army, the casualties of the troops were also very large. As soon as Yu Jishi's death order was issued, Zhang Lingfu immediately threw off his coat, and no longer considered concealment, gathered the light machine guns and submachine guns of the whole regiment to form an attack arrow, and took the lead, holding a submachine gun, walking at the front of the team, and rushing forward with the whole regiment to meet the enemy's bullet rain.

Zhang Lingfu led the 305th Regiment to fight this way, and he forced a bloody way out of the defensive circle of the Yue army and stabbed into the last core position of the Yue army.

This army is the Seventh Wing of the Ninth Division of the Army from Ishikawa County. Historically, after the Chinese army captured Nanjing, the Seventh Wing acted as the vanguard of the Nanjing Massacre, killing people and setting fires, forcibly destroying and destroying, and doing all kinds of evil, and was the culprit of the Nanjing Massacre, just like the Sixth Division and other units of the Yue Army.

Due to the arrival, history has changed, and this ferocious hungry wolf fell into the encirclement of the [***] team before he saw the city wall of Nanjing.

Looking at the middle [***] team surrounding from all directions, listening to the deafening sound of gunfire and shouting of killing, the captain of the seventh wing, Kawasaku Ichiman, felt a chill in his heart. It seems that his elite Seventh Wing is afraid that he will not be able to see the sun tomorrow morning, and he originally thought of coming to Zhina to enjoy the beautiful virgin and snatch gold and silver, but he did not expect that the jade would be shattered so soon. At this time, Kawasaku had a trace of regret in his heart, he knew that this was the case, it was better to accompany his wife and children at home, and when the cherry blossoms bloomed in spring, take his wife and children to enjoy the cherry blossoms, drink sake, and soak in the hot springs, how comfortable it should be! Damn Amaterasu, damn the Emperor, damn the military, all fucking bunch of filthy liars!

There is no time, the [***] team has rushed up. Kazuo Kazuo no longer hesitated, and ordered the military flag to be burned and sent a jade crushing message to the division commander.

Although he regretted it in his heart, Kazuo Kazuo knew that he had to die a little more heroically, so that he could fight for a war death pension for his family. So, after sending the telegram and ordering the smashing of the radio station, Kasaku Kazuo Osaku pulled out his command knife and led a few guards around him to meet the [***] team that rushed into the position.

It was the 305th regiment led by Zhang Lingfu who rushed in, and Zhang Lingfu did not hesitate at all about this devil who wielded a command knife, and raised his hand to be a shuttle, which made the eyes of a man in Hezuo bulge, and a stream of blood oozed from the corner of his mouth, and he fell to the ground softly.

Kazuo Kawasaku's guards were all killed before they could fire a single shot. No, a bullet hit Zhang Lingfu, who was already covered in blood, and he also sat on the ground.

(To be continued)