The officers and men of the 51st Division in the ruins of the city tower had to hide in bunkers made of brick and stone bags and corpses, guarding against devils who might climb up from outside the city, and at the same time relying on these fortresses built on the city walls to avoid the broken bricks and stones flying everywhere. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoFrom time to time, mortar shells would hit directly into the masonry fortress, and the officers and soldiers hiding inside would be blown into a blur of flesh and blood.

During the day, the Japanese attack was completely frenzied, under the cover of mortars and grenadiers, long ladders were built up to the city tower one by one, and the siege troops in sight were like attacks in the era of cold weapons. The attacking devils were completely dead, they were naked, with grenades strapped to their bodies, and they didn't look at the grenades thrown from the castle tower, they just lowered their heads and climbed up. Not only did they attack the main position on the top of the towers, but they also targeted the firing ports on the walls; Many devils climbed up desperately, as if just to throw a bundle of grenades into the firing holes, and when the grenades were thrown in the back, they were often torn off the city wall by the blast of the air and screamed and fell into the crowd of besieging people.

When a grenade is thrown into the city, it explodes and shoots a spark from the firing port in the wall, leaving a smoke in the wall; That one shot will not come out for a long time...... The shattered corpses in the passage were trampled everywhere, and everyone who lived was deaf, some temporary, and many who were permanently deaf.

On the morning of December 11, the main forces of the 114th Division and the 6th Division of the Japanese 10th Army continued to attack Yuhuatai, and the second line position of the 88th Division was destroyed again, and the defenders were forced to hold the core position. The right flank of the Japanese 114th Division began to attack the Zhonghua Gate, and after the gate was destroyed by artillery fire, a small number of Japanese troops broke into the city for a time, but were annihilated by the troops of the 88th Division guarding the city wall. The Japanese infantry then under the cover of the tank, tried to rush across the Changgan Bridge in front of the Zhonghua Gate, Qiu Weida commanded the infantry to aim and shoot, destroying 2 Japanese tanks, at 14 o'clock, a corner of the Zhonghua Gate was collapsed by Japanese artillery fire, the Japanese army swarmed in from the gap, Li Tianxia, the commander of the 153rd Brigade of the 51st Division, led the 306th Regiment to start a white-knuckle battle with the intruding enemy, and wiped out the intruding enemy.

The officers and soldiers of the 306th Regiment are desperately guarding the section of the position that was destroyed by Japanese artillery fire during the day, and on the position full of ruins, the soldiers can only use rudimentary weapons and cover to fight for their lives with the attacking Japanese troops. "Boom!" There was a loud bang, and a thick smoke mixed with various debris and choking people suddenly rose with the explosion, and three or four national soldiers who were hiding behind the bunkers were carried to the ground by the air waves. In a narrow space, the explosion of large-caliber shells can stun and deafen most of the people affected, and those who faint often inhale a lot of smoke when they are unconscious, and they can never wake up again.

Once some stunned soldiers wake up and get used to the dim sight, they continue their inner cries in their silent world. Or they are all over the ground looking for their weapons, or they are staggering to their feet against the wall and continue to fight, they don't know why they are fighting at that moment, fighting is just an instinctive reaction.

A sharp whistle sounded, and the attacking devils retreated like a tide, and before the people in the position could react, another round of artillery fire fell. A soldier fell to the ground on his back, his eyes wide open and his mouth wide open, as if trying to get some air. His intestines were exposed, and there was a large bloody hole in his chest. The corpses piled up next to him no longer made him feel afraid. On the contrary, there is a strange sense of intimacy, and I even want to go up and touch the corpse, because I will soon become one of them.

The Japanese attacks were too frequent, and there were now less than half of the men on the position of the entire 306th Regiment, and the soldiers in the reserved reserves, who had gone out, were only sparsely lurking in bunkers, only waiting for the Japanese to reach the distance they were sure to kill before grenading or shooting. The 306th Regiment is subordinate to the 74th Army, although the current 74th Army has not yet won the title of Anti-Japanese Iron Army, but the soldiers of the 306th Regiment do not see the dense artillery fire like other units will collapse, they actually welcome those artillery fire, which means that the Japanese army will not rush over, not to mention that they have long put life and death aside.

The Zhonghua Gate was hot, and most of the other positions in Nanjing were also like this, and the defenders were fighting the Japanese army with their blood and lives. The defenders fought fiercely, and the Japanese army was also not happy, and the Japanese army that won the victory in the Songhu battlefield was like a rainbow, chasing north from Shanghai all the way to Nanjing, and the Japanese troops had won countless victories, but they did not expect to encounter such a tragic battle outside Nanjing.

However, the Japanese army was still glad that before the Battle of Nanjing began, the Japanese army had already assigned a number of small units to disguise themselves as refugees and sneak into the city of Nanjing, and in addition, they had broken through the city defense of Nanjing several times during the day, and now there were many Japanese troops in the city of Nanjing who broke through the city defense and infiltrated into the city. Unbeknownst to the besieging Japanese, the Chinese defenders would order the withdrawal of their troops from Nanking the very next day, and they were now simply waiting for the Imperial forces that had infiltrated the city to cause complete chaos in the city.

The Japanese attack did not stop even after nightfall, and the night sky of Nanjing City was almost red by the flames of war, and the thick smoke in the sky seemed to be pressed down at any time. The rumbling of cannons continued, as if they were getting closer and closer, and a small group of people in the city bypassed what they thought was dangerous and ran all the way to the southern city. As they came out of a small alley and were about to cross a road, they suddenly found a bunch of armed people resting at the exit of the alley.

The siege that lasted for several days made the devils very tired, even the Japanese troops who had infiltrated the city, and about half a squad of Japanese infiltrators were stopping at a street corner to rest at the moment. Although they knew that they might encounter and engage with the Chinese troops in the city, the exhausted Japanese soldiers did not care at all, after all, their main mission to infiltrate the city was to create panic.

"Oh no, they're little devils." Suddenly, some people with weapons appeared at the corner of the street, and in the panic, some of the people who saw each other's clothes clearly screamed. How did the Japanese soldiers enter the city? These people who tried to run to the safe area of Nancheng to take refuge were stunned, but they did not know that it was this exclamation that had made the Japanese soldiers who stayed at the street corner discover their existence. "Bang" "Bang" These Japanese soldiers, under the leadership of a soldier, raised their rifles in their hands and knocked down four or five people crowded outside the alley in one go, and the rest of the people ran in a panic and fled the same way.

With the sound of a dense burst of gunfire, the dozen or so Japanese soldiers who were chasing into the alley were all beaten into a sieve, and with a few explosions, the gunfire outside the alley stopped. By the time the refugees who had shrunk together dared to walk out of the alley, the battle had already ended, and a dozen devils were lying on the ground. The ground was covered with blood, and the big pool of blood exuded a strong fishy smell, making it look like a slaughterhouse.

The smoke of gunpowder after the explosion made people's eyes smoke tears, and the scorching air mixed with a large amount of dust and incompletely burned sulfur and fire nitrate made people want to cough when they breathed, but the refugees with squinted eyes found that they could still distinguish the corpses of the Japanese soldiers in the distance by their vague outlines, and there was a standing one in the center of the corpses of the Japanese soldiers in the distance, but that person was not a Japanese soldier, and he didn't look like a refugee, because the person also had a gun on his back.

I saw that the man was holding a long knife in his hand, and when he saw the corpse of the Japanese soldier, he stabbed it over! "Poof!" "Poof!" …… Stabbed again and again, the friction between the blade body and the bones made people listen to the creepy sound. The smoke cleared, everyone saw clearly, "Ah" everyone was stunned. What kind of person is this? The body was covered with blood stains and carrying a large bag, the face under the steel helmet was dark and unclear, the knife in his hand was still dripping blood, and the whole person was like a demon from hell.

"Don't be afraid, we are Chinese, we are here to save everyone" With the words, a person jumped from the wall of the alley, and the person who spoke reached out and made a touch on his face, revealing a slightly young face and greeted everyone, and everyone saw clearly that it was the young man and the person who made the knife just now with a black leather mask on their faces. Jumping from the alley wall was naturally Zhang Cheng, the one who carried a long knife to mend the corpse of the Japanese soldier was Da Niu, the two of them left Guangzhou Road all the way to the gallop, along the way have encountered many groups of refugees, but it is the first time to meet the Japanese soldiers who infiltrated into the city.

Seeing Zhang Cheng's appearance and familiar Chinese clearly, the panicked people in the alley finally stopped panicking, but there was still a strong look of vigilance in their eyes. "We are Chinese, and we are here to save you." Zhang Cheng stretched out his arms to the refugees in the alley and repeated his words again. "Xiaofenqiao, who of you knows how to get to Xiaofenqiao on Guangzhou Road?" Seeing that the refugees in the alley were not panicking, Zhang Cheng asked with a smile.

The refugees who were asked by Zhang Cheng were silent at first and did not answer, and after about ten seconds, an arm was slowly raised in the crowd, and a deep voice belonging to an adult sounded, "I have been, I am a rickshaw puller, there is no place in Nanjing City that I have not been." ”

Zhang Cheng was immediately overjoyed, pointed to the middle-aged man who was talking, and asked the other party to come forward and talk to him. After comforting his relatives and friends, the middle-aged man broke his wife's hand and grabbed him tightly, and walked out of the crowd to meet Zhang Cheng. Zhang Cheng, who saw the performance of the middle-aged man's relatives and friends, laughed again, "Don't be afraid, we are here to save you." Mr. Rabe, who lives at No. 1 Xiaofenqiao on Guangzhou Road, has joined forces with some foreigners to set up a safety zone on Guangzhou Road to help civilians like you who want to escape the fighting. ”

"Since you know the route to Xiaofenqiao, then I will appoint you as the temporary commander of these people, and you have to help them rush to the safety zone of Xiaofenqiao as soon as possible." As soon as Zhang Cheng's words fell, the refugees in the alley immediately rejoiced, especially the middle-aged man who claimed to be a rickshaw driver, who was even more overjoyed, and it would not take an hour to rush to Xiaofenqiao from here.

"Still, I'd like to ask you to do me a favor." Zhang Cheng's sudden change of words made the jubilant alley immediately fall silent, these refugees had already seen the methods of Zhang Cheng and the two of them just now, and they were afraid that Zhang Cheng would make some demands to blackmail them. "The national army defending the city is almost overwhelmed, and the Japanese army is about to break the city, but there are still many civilians like you in the city. I would like to ask you to inform the civilians who are still hiding at home along the way when you move towards Xiaofenqiao, and tell them the news that Xiaofenqiao has set up a safe zone. ”

"But what if those people don't want to listen to us? We can't tie them with ropes and carry them away, can we? "Some of the refugees raised objections, and Zhang Cheng did not roll his eyes at the refugees who raised objections, in fact, this is another characteristic of the Chinese who are at work, always thinking that if I nest at home and do not provoke you, you should not and will not come to me for trouble."

"Then you don't need to tell them that if you want to survive, you must get to Little Pink Bridge before dawn. The Japanese army has already suffered a lot of casualties in the siege of the city, and once you enter the city, you will definitely take out the anger of civilians and wounded soldiers, if you think that you will be fine if you hide at home, it is a big mistake. The Japanese soldiers will break into your house, kill your family and steal your belongings, and when the Japanese enter the city, they think that everything in the city has become the property of the Japanese, do you think you can reason with a group of robbers with weapons? ”

"You don't have to be patient with them, just knock on the door along the road and tell them the news about the safe zone, and you don't have to stay too long for those who don't believe in it. Remember, you must rush to Xiaofenqiao before dawn, after dawn, the Japanese army outside the city will launch a general attack, and the guns are not long-sighted. Zhang Cheng carefully admonished one side again, and then disappeared into the night with a big cow carrying a big bag.