Because the Ministry of Military Affairs gave priority to replenishing weapons and equipment, Zhang Mingyu's reading regiment now has a total of 20 Makqin heavy machine guns and 60 Czech light machine guns for more than 500 people in the regiment! More than 400 rounds of ammunition for medium formal rifles, an average of 100 rounds per person! Ten grenades! Each platoon is equipped with three light machine guns and one heavy machine gun! There is also an artillery battery with more than a dozen mortars and anti-aircraft guns. This was probably quite terrifying firepower in [***] at the time! This kind of firepower is beyond the reach of even the elite wing of the devils, and I remember that the Kamei squad that was annihilated at the beginning only had two crooked light machine guns! You must know that the Kamei squad is a field unit subordinate to the 20th Division of the Japanese Army! It is said that the elite troops of the army.

With the beginning of the Battle of Jiangyin, the Kuomintang authorities also began to organize the Battle of Nanjing! Tang Shengzhi was appointed as the commander of the Nanjing garrison, commanding 150,000 [***] to defend Nanjing! Those who participated in the defense of Nanjing were the most elite troops of [***]! They are all elite troops who have retired from the Battle of Shanghai! There are 36th, 87th and 88th divisions, as well as the Central Teaching Corps composed of students of the Central Military Academy! Among them, the 36th, 87th and 88th divisions were all-German equipment ace divisions trained by German generals. In addition to this, a tank regiment, which was rare at that time, was deployed! And Zhang Mingyu's as a special unit, Tang Shengzhi left them in the headquarters as a reserve!

On December 1, 1937, the base camp issued the "Mainland Order No. 8": "The commander of the Central China Front must coordinate with the navy to capture Nanjing, the capital of the enemy country for which the "Mainland Order No. 8" was issued by the base camp.

On the same day, Tang Shengzhi, commander of the Nanjing garrison, held a press conference and tragically announced, "Coexist and die with Nanjing!" Swear to defend the city of Nanjing! Defend the Mausoleum of the Father of the Nation! "The 150,000 [***] soldiers all held on to the last person who died in battle, and they would never retreat!

On December 8, the army occupied all the peripheral positions in Nanjing, forming a three-sided encirclement of Nanjing! The next time, the commander of the army, Matsui Shigen, airdropped a letter of persuasion to Nanjing City! Demand that the defenders of Nanjing surrender to the Yue army before December 10! But the defenders of Nanjing simply ignored him!

Tang Shengzhi replied to the order of "Wei Shen Zuo Zi No. 36" on the spot, which reads: "The current occupation of the Fukuo position by this army is the final battle to hold Nanjing, and all units should do their best to hold on 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. Trying to fight to the death in the spirit of "breaking the kettle and sinking the boat".

Seeing that the defenders of Nanjing refused to surrender, the army launched a general attack on Nanjing on December 10! During this period, Zhang Mingyu asked Tang Shengzhi to fight many times, but Tang Shengzhi refused to use it again!

The 6th Division of the Army took the lead in attacking the easier Guanghua Gate! The one in charge of guarding the Gwanghwa Gate is the Teaching Corps! Guanghuamen has been broken through by the army many times! But it was soon taken back by the teaching team! The 88th Division and other units also resisted stubbornly, and the attack of the Chinese army was blocked.

Reading the regimental headquarters!

Seeing that Zhang Mingyu was back, Zhang Biao and the others asked, "How is the head of the regiment?" Did you say yes? ”

"Nope! Stay on standby! Zhang Mingyu took a puff of cigarette and replied weakly.

"Captain! You said that this little devil like a son of a is about to fight under the city of Nanjing, and other troops are fighting with the little devil, but our brothers are watching here! It's so uncomfortable! I don't know if his Tang Shengzhi's brain was kicked by a donkey! Zhang Biao complained and scolded.

"Yes! Regiment leader, the brothers who beat the little devils never frowned, you give the order! Let's go straight out of the city and the little devils! Zhang Haisheng said.

"What time is it?" did not answer Zhang Haisheng's words! Zhang Mingyu asked rhetorically. ”

Today is December 12! Zhang Biao replied!

December 12, in history, Tang Shengzhi made a verbal promise tonight to take the lead in retreating! As a result, 150,000 [***] dragons were leaderless, and they turned from retreat to rout. Then the army entered the city and caused the Nanjing Massacre, which shocked China and the world!

"No, I'm going to stop this from happening!" Zhang Mingyu roared angrily in his heart.

"Brothers, now we need to do another very dangerous thing, we may lose our surname, do you dare?" Zhang Mingyu said to Zhang Haisheng and the others in front of him.

"Commander, just say something! Brothers, if you frown, you are all a bad breed! I believe that we don't have a single kind of reading group, right? Zhang Biao said.

"To the commander, just give your orders!" ……

"According to the information I have learned, Commander Tang will flee tonight, Nanjing will be lost, and 150,000 [***] brothers and hundreds of thousands of Nanjing citizens will be slaughtered by the Yue army! If we want to stop this, we must keep Tang Shengzhi! Do you dare? ”

"Fuck it! Hundreds of thousands of brothers are fighting with devils in front, he, the commander-in-chief, wants to be a deserter, you can give the order, I will kill him! Zhang Biao shouted after hearing this.

"Then quickly assemble the troops!"

In a few moments, the reading force group is assembled!

Zhang Mingyu issued a combat order: "Battalion Commander Zhang led the first battalion to quickly control the headquarters with me, and Haisheng, you led the second battalion to quickly control the Nanjing newspaper office and radio station!" ”

"Yes!"

Zhang Haisheng led the second battalion to quickly move in the direction of the newspaper office and radio station! Zhang Mingyu led a battalion towards the headquarters! walked through the street and came to the Nanjing Number Command, at this time Tang Shengzhi was burning materials with his secretaries and staff officers and preparing to escape! Zhang Mingyu rolled up his sleeves and took a submachine gun to take the lead towards the headquarters! The guards of the guard headquarters spotted Zhang Mingyu's troops and immediately raised their guns and shouted: "Stop advancing, otherwise we will shoot!" Zhang Mingyu didn't answer him, the submachine gun in his hand suddenly clicked, and hit the guards who shouted, as soon as Zhang Mingyu fired, all the brothers in the battalion behind him fired, and the guards were shot and fell to the ground one after another! Zhang Biao held a Czech-style fierce fire at the guards, after finishing out the guards at the door! A battalion of fighters quickly rushed in! "Zhang Mingyu doesn't want to kill the guards, but if they don't kill them, they won't let Zhang Mingyu bring someone in with a gun."

The [***] general, who was holding a meeting inside, was shocked when he heard the gunshots, and Tang Shengzhi asked, "Where did the gunshots come from?" What's going on? ”

"Smack"! The door to the conference room was kicked open, and a group of heavily armed soldiers rushed in, "All are not allowed to move, put down your weapons!" Zhang Mingyu walked in with a submachine gun in his hand.

"Captain Zhang, what do you want to do? Do you want to commit treason? Tang Shengzhi asked with a shudder.

"Prevent your mother's shit!" You just want to commit treason! Zhang Mingyu scolded.

"From the beginning, you are not allowed to leave the headquarters at a single step!" Zhang Mingyu said coldly to Tang Shengzhi and the others.

"Report!" Battalion Commander Zhang has taken control of the newspaper office and the radio station! A soldier of the second battalion ran over and said!

"Good! I see."

"Immediately order all units of our army to strictly hold their positions, and not to retreat without an order!" Zhang Mingyu said to Tang Shengzhi.

"But the order to retreat has been given! And this is an order personally given by the chairman of the committee, Zhang Mingyu, you have to think clearly about what you are doing now! You're disobeying the commission's orders! Tang Shengzhi said threateningly.

"Since I do this, I know the consequences, if what I do today can save the lives of hundreds of thousands of my soldiers and civilians in Nanjing, he said that even if the chairman shoots me, Mingyu will not hesitate!" Zhang Mingyu said resolutely.

"What do you say? What hundreds of thousands of surnames? ......" Tang Shengzhi asked.

"Do you know that you ordered a retreat without authorization, and said that after the army entered the city, it would launch a massacre in Nanjing!" Zhang Mingyu roared. Thinking that the lives of more than 300,000 soldiers and civilians were in danger, Zhang Mingyu took out a pistol and pointed it at Tang Shengzhi's head, his eyes were red and shouted: "Immediately order the troops to be stationed in place, otherwise Lao Tzu will collapse you!" ”

Tang Shengzhi was frightened half to death, the signal corps sent the order out, because at this time the leaders of the various units knew the order to retreat, most of them abandoned the troops and fled alone, only the 88th Division and the 87th Division of Yuhuatai and the teaching corps to defend Guanghuamen received the order, and the other troops except for a few who were fighting bloody battles with the enemy, most of them lost their commanders and retreated to the city, and they flocked to Rujiangmen.