After all the soldiers of Song Changchun's battalion were generously martyred, the 667th Regiment counterattacked the South Gate that night and restored the South Gate position.

Under the cover of the heavy artillery of the Jiangyin fortress, the army had almost nothing to do about Huashan, forming an extremely rare difference in the strength of the enemy and our artillery on the Chinese battlefield during the Anti-Japanese War, and the advantage was actually biased to the [***] side, and the grief and indignation of the 13th Division can be imagined.

In the face of open-air batteries with only camouflage nets, there were many Han annihilators guiding the direction during the air raids, and the navy of the Yue army could not even hit such a dead target, which shows the inferior level of its technology.

After two and a half months of practice, the artillery finally mastered the technique, and in the air raid on the 26th, they opened the record and finally shot down one plane.

The tough resistance of the 667th Regiment Huashan shocked the 13th Division. Hagi Prefecture temporarily halted the attack on the 112th Division and managed to make a detour. Because Wuxi had already fallen, the 13th Division crossed the Qingyang area, bypassed the Huashan position belt, and made a detour to the side of Jiangyin County.

The 13th Division advanced to the southwest of Jiangyin County. Ogisu moved artillery to Wuxi to keep it out of range of the Jiangyin fortress, and raised observation balloons in Wuxi to shell the forward troops of [***]. Although Commander Xu Kang relieved the threat of the artillery of the Yue Army to the fortress itself, the 112th Division was still attacked by the artillery of the Yue Army, which made Commander Xu feel uneasy, and the 112th Division continued to appeal to the fortress for artillery support.

After discovering that the military balloon was 27,000 meters away from the range of Radio C, Commander Xu submitted an application to the Aviation Committee to send planes to shoot balloons. However, at the end of November, the Chinese Air Force had already suffered some battle losses and was busy with air battles in the capital, so this appeal was not answered until the 112th Division began to withdraw to the county town on the 29th.

Huo Shouyi, commander of the 112th Division, adjusted the deployment and transferred the 672nd Regiment of the division's reserve to the county seat, so that Li Deming, commander of the 336th Brigade, could control the whole brigade to carry out urban defense operations. The 336th Brigade formed a long-depth position in the southwest of the county to prevent the Japanese army from attacking the fortress.

After the air raid was over, the artillery of the army was divided into two routes, braving the artillery fire of the Jiangyin fortress to shell the county town of Jiangyin and the defenders of Huashan in Wuxi. After the artillery bombardment, the forward of the 13th Division, under the cover of chariots, launched an attack on the southwest of Jiangyin City.

The battle to defend Jiangyin County begins!

A tragic scene appeared in Jiangyin County.

336 Brigade Headquarters.

"Yes, Master, I'm Li Deming!"

On the other end of the phone was the voice of Huo Shouyi, the commander of the 112th Division:

"Li Deming, do you know the meaning of my name?"

"I don't know!"

"My name is Huo Shouyi. Huo, is my ancestor's surname, there is no way to change it. To keep righteousness is to uphold morality! What is Morality? For soldiers, it is morality to resist foreign aggression and spill blood on the battlefield! You have to keep this morality too! Li Deming, live and die with Jiangyin City! ”

"Yes, live and die with Jiangyin City!" Li Deming put down the phone, then turned around with a grim expression:

"Order, stick to morality, and defend Jiangyin! Order all the ministries to block the gates of Jiangyin for me! ”

"Brigade." The chief of staff reminded in a low voice from the side: "The 6th company assigned to us by the headquarters has not yet entered Jiangyin. ”

"6 companies?" Li Deming was stunned for a moment, then reacted, and sighed softly: "What role can a small 6th company play when it arrives?" It's okay if they didn't come in, don't die here with us. ”

With the issuance of the order, the officers and soldiers of the 336 Brigade blocked the city gate with sandbags, and defended Jiangyin with the determination to sacrifice to the end!

The people of Jiangyin City silently watched the [***] soldiers busy carrying sandbags, and they all knew that they couldn't get out, but these lovely people had the same enthusiasm as the Chinese people. Instead of complaining, they joined the queue to block the gates.

The offensive of the Japanese army has begun!

The Chinese defenders in Jiangyin County carried out intensive attacks on the enemy with all kinds of light and heavy firepower, and suppressed the charging army to the death.

The sound of artillery sounded earth-shattering outside and inside Jiangyin, and the entire Jiangyin was shrouded in artillery fire.

On the tower of the city, the soldiers of the 336th Brigade fought desperately, and those civilians automatically joined the ranks of transporting ammunition and transporting the wounded.

In history, Jiangyin has been attacked by foreign enemies more than once, but every time, it is the army and the people who are united in fighting to the end and defending the county seat!

This is a phenomenon that is difficult to explain, but well explained.

Jiangyin City is not big, and the city walls are far from being strong, but no matter how powerful the attackers are and how advanced their weapons are, in the face of this small county town, they always lose their troops and sigh.

Every time in the face of foreign invasion, Jiangyin fills the battlefield with human lives, and every time the city is broken, Jiangyin is almost slaughtered, and every time it is almost killed.

But as long as a Jiangyin person can survive, the fierceness and blood surname in the Jiangyin people's surname can be inherited!

Jiangyin is beaten by iron, and the people are beaten by iron [***]!

Strings of tongues of fire sprayed out from the castle tower, and bundles of grenades were thrown from the castle tower. The soldiers shouted loudly and encouraged loudly. Every single one of them knew they couldn't get out alive, but they didn't care!

This is the responsibility, the responsibility of the [***] people!

What fear did the army feel, what was powerless. They saw with their own eyes that one by one, at the most critical juncture of the Jiangyin defense battle, jumped off the city wall with explosives, and then died together in the sound of explosions!

The belief that he once won began to waver in the hearts of the Yue Jun. What kind of opponent they are facing!

The army roared and pounced again and again, but was defeated again and again.

"Jiangyin, for the imperial soldiers, is simply a terrible disaster," wrote in a letter to the family of an officer of the Imperial Army:

"Sadly, many of my colleagues were also full of doubts about whether they would be able to win this battle, and even doubted whether they would be alive, which had never happened since the battle against China began."

Jiangyin, a historic city that stands tall in the fight against foreign aggression, will tell every foreign invader:

This is the iron-clad Jiangyin!