Qinglong Mountain is dozens of kilometers in circumference, and there are many caves on Qinglong Mountain, hiding tens of thousands of people, the Japanese want to search hole by hole, even if it is given three or five years, they may not be able to complete the search. Zhang Cheng, the www.biquge.info of the pen "Fun" Pavilion, is based in Qinglong Mountain, fighting guerrilla warfare with devils.

"Lao Liu, how are everyone?"

"Okay, okay, Captain Zhang's battle, but it opened Liu's eyes, disguised himself to attack the airport, piloted the Japanese plane, bombed the Japanese artillery position, and killed a horse gun, three in and three out, the Japanese who killed were frightened, and Zhao Zilong of the three kingdoms is nothing more than that!" Liu Lifeng could not contain the words of praise.

"Major Liu has promoted me, how can I compare with General Zhao Zilong, the victorious general!"

"Aren't you also a victorious general, from blowing up the Japanese artillery position to the present, how can Captain Zhang and his squad action team be defeated?" Liu Zhongming said.

"Lao Liu, you say that, I am really ashamed, these are all brothers who fought with their lives, and I can't do this alone." Zhang Chengdao.

"Captain Zhang is modest, but it's a pity that someone Liu has joined the military command, otherwise I would definitely follow Captain Leng and live up to what I have learned!" Liu Lifeng said.

"As long as it is anti-Japanese, it is the same everywhere, Lao Liu, your strength is not in military operations, and intelligence work is also very important." Zhang Cheng said with a smile, Liu Lifeng, an old fritter of a military commander, can believe his words for at most three points, and the rest is still observed.

"I see it's getting dark, have you eaten?"

"After eating, there is a fire in the cave, and I am not afraid of seeing it outside, the white rice that everyone eats, and the soup made from Japanese canned food, is not bad."

"Boss, I'll warm you up."

"Not busy. I'm not hungry yet???

On December 1, the Japanese army captured the Jiangyin fortress, and at the request of Matsui Ishine, the Japanese General Staff Headquarters issued the Continental Order No. 8: "The commander of the Central China Front must coordinate with the navy to capture Nanjing, the capital of the enemy country." Subsequently, the Japanese army occupied Zhenjiang, Jurong, Lishui and other places, and broke through the periphery of Nanjing and the defensive positions of Fukuo, and the troops approached the city wall of Nanjing, and Chiang immediately appointed Tang Shengzhi as the commander of the Nanjing garrison, commanding the 81,000 national army to resist the operation.

On December 4, 40 miles east of Jurong, a Japanese plainclothes reconnaissance team engaged in a brief exchange of fire with the outpost of the Nationalist army, and the peripheral battle of the Nanjing operation began. On December 5, the Japanese army engaged the 66th Army of the Nationalist Army, and on December 7, the Japanese army approached the city of Nanjing. Matsui Ishine sent a plane from the air to send a letter to Tang Shengzhi to persuade him to surrender. Tang Shengzhi ignored it and continued to order all troops to "do their best to hold on with the determination to live and die with the position, and never allow an inch of land to be abandoned." ”

The Japanese army's three-way offensive was like a bamboo, and the strategic points on the periphery of Nanjing fell one after another. Soon the Japanese broke through the first-line defensive positions on the outskirts of Nanjing. On December 9, the Japanese army entered the city of Nanjing, and used planes to throw an ultimatum from the commander of the Japanese "Central China Front" Matsui Ishine to the Chinese defenders to persuade them to surrender. Tang Shengzhi, commander of the Nanjing garrison, ignored Matsui's ultimatum and issued an order on the same day as "Wei Shen Zuo Zi No. 36" in reply. Trying to fight to the death in the spirit of "breaking the kettle and sinking the boat".

The purpose of the Japanese army's leaflets was to cause panic among the people in the city, and it was not only the defenders who saw these leaflets, but also the civilians who insisted on staying in the city. "Gentlemen, the Japanese army is about to storm the city, and out of humanitarianism, I think it's time." In Rabe's residence at No. 1 Little Pink Bridge, more than a dozen Westerners were gathering, and it was Rabe who was speaking at the moment.

"Gentlemen, the war is cruel, but the Chinese civilians in the city are innocent. I would like to set up my current residence as a shelter for Chinese civilians who have been injured or lost their homes in the fighting. Rabe's proposal was approved by all, and he proposed to simply establish a safety zone on Canton Road and use the German flag as a warning to the Japanese army.

On December 10, the Japanese army saw that the Chinese team defending the city refused to surrender, and immediately mobilized heavy troops to launch a full-scale attack on Yuhuatai, Tongjimen, Guanghuamen, the third peak of the Purple Mountain and other positions, and the battle was more fierce than on the 9th. In particular, in the southeast of Nanjing, the situation was particularly grim because the re-established positions had been basically lost and the Japanese army directly attacked the city walls. The garrison headquarters urgently ordered the 156th Division of the 83rd Army to reinforce the garrison of Guanghuamen and Tongjimen city walls, and hurriedly built preparatory fortifications for street battles at various points in the city.

The 103rd and 112th Divisions, which had just been withdrawn from Zhenjiang into Nanjing, were commanded by Gui Yongqing, the commander of the Teaching Corps, and were responsible for the garrison of the city wall near Zhongshan Gate and the Purple Mountain position. That night, the 156th Division sent a small detachment to fall down the city and annihilated all the few Japanese troops lurking in the city gate. On the Yuhuatai side, the main forces of the two divisions of the Japanese army coordinated with the infantry, artillery, tanks and aviation to attack, destroying all the first-line positions on the right flank of the 88th Division of the Nationalist Army, and the remnants could only retreat to the second-line positions.

That night, the Japanese 18th Division occupied Wuhu, and on the 11th, the Japanese 16th Division stormed the positions of the Chinese army north and south of the Purple Mountain, Jinshan and the area south of it, and taught the corps to resolutely resist. After a fierce battle, the Japanese army made no progress, but its right flank troops captured the positions of Yangfang Mountain and Yinkong Mountain defended by the 2nd Army Corps, and advanced to the vicinity of Yaohua Gate. In order to make it easy for the 16th Division to attack and cut off the defenders' eastward retreat in a timely manner, the "Shanghai Dispatch Army" transferred the Yamada detachment from the 13th Division, which was waiting for ships to cross the river in Zhenjiang, and joined the battle from the right flank of the 16th Division to attack the Wulongshan and Shogunate Mountain forts.

The main forces of the 114th Division and the 6th Division of the Japanese 10th Army continued to attack Yuhuatai. The second line of positions of the 88th Division was again destroyed, and the defenders were forced to hold on to the core positions. The right flank of the Japanese 114th Division began to attack the Zhonghua Gate, and the city gate was destroyed by artillery fire. A small number of Japanese troops once broke into the city, but were annihilated by the troops of the 88th Division defending the city walls. A part of the left flank of the Japanese 6th Division advanced north along the east bank of the Yangtze River, repelled a battalion of the 2nd Military Police Teaching Regiment at Shangxinhe, and occupied the cotton embankment position outside the Shuixi Gate. The Japanese Kunizaki detachment crossed the Yangtze River near Cihu Lake in Dangtu Bei, marched north along the west bank, and moved towards Pukou. The 18th Division of the Japanese Army, which occupied Wuhu, was no longer involved in the attack on Nanjing because it was transferred to Hangzhou.

On December 12, from dawn, Japanese aircraft and artillery intensively bombarded the city gates, and the houses around the city wall collapsed and the city wall was opened. At 12 noon, Yuhuatai was occupied by the Japanese army, the second peak of the Purple Mountain fell, and the Zhonghua Gate and Zhongshan Gate were broken through by the Japanese army one after another. On December 12, Tang Shengzhi issued an order to break out of the siege and retreat, and the resistance of the Chinese troops collapsed. On that day, Tanigawa, the head captain of the 6th Division of the Japanese Army, was preparing for a general attack outside the Zhonghua Gate in Nanjing.

The Japanese army launched a fierce attack on the Nanjing Fukuo position and the city wall in turn with the strength of five divisions, and around noon, under the heavy artillery bombardment of the Japanese army, the Japanese army broke through the Zhonghua Gate, and the 88th Division defending this place immediately withdrew. At this point, the fall of Nanjing was a foregone conclusion, and order in the city began to fall into chaos. The defenders of Nanking had begun to waver. The order for the Nationalist army to withdraw from Nanjing was only known to the top leaders of the garrison units, and the officers and soldiers defending the city below the top level were still kept in the dark, and all units were still caught in a bitter battle with the Japanese army.

Night finally came, Nanjing, which had been filled with war for a day, after nightfall, there were tracer bullets crossing the sky from time to time in the slightly quiet night sky, and there was the sound of cold guns and cold cannons. The streets were sparsely populated, but there were still some young and strong civilians who gathered under the plane trees at the corners of the streets and alleys, regardless of the danger and cold, and did not know whether they wanted to escape, or were so bold as to smash the door under the shells and break into the house, hoping to pick up a bargain

"Big brother, did you really decide to only take Da Niu with you? I mean, somebody else, and whispered. ”

Zhang Cheng just smiled, got up and stood by the window, looking out the window, Zhang Cheng's heart was full of bitterness. "Others organize the evacuation of refugees and take them to the international safe zone". At present, there are at least about 400,000 people in the city of Nanjing who have not left. As soon as he thought of this, Zhang Cheng couldn't help but smile bitterly, there are indeed many people who have crossed the river from Xiaguan Wharf these days, but there are also many refugees who have fled into the city with the rout.

Zhang Cheng couldn't help but shake his head, took Song Hu's wine glass and took a sip, the wine was in his stomach, and Zhang Cheng suddenly felt the pride in his chest. Nanjing, I'm with you. Little Japan, I'm here, I'm waiting for you here.

Zhang Cheng originally wanted to wait for the Japanese army to break through the city, and then look for an opportunity to find trouble for the Japanese army, but now, the city defense is in danger, and most of the refugees in the city do not know about the establishment of the international safety zone, and these helpless refugees also need to be notified. The sound of gunfire outside the window came and went, and although the density of guns was much weaker than during the day, Zhang Cheng knew that there was not much time left for the refugees in the city.

Zhang Cheng and Da Niu prepared weapons, Mauser sniper rifles, Thomson submachine guns, Japanese-style 50mm grenadiers, and modified Mauser pistols, these are the weapons that Zhang Cheng used on this outing. Zhang Cheng personally put on a steel helmet for Da Niu, and also helped Da Niu carefully adjust the belt of the submachine gun to the best distance. "Big Niu, are you afraid?" smiled and asked Da Niu, waiting for Da Niu to shake his head without hesitation, Zhang Cheng smiled. Putting the Mauser rifle behind his back, and then hanging the Mauser pistol with the butt on the three-point gun belt, and walking out of the courtyard with the big bull, Zhang Cheng turned around and stood solemnly and saluted Song Hu and the others.

The defenders on the Zhonghua Gate were fighting the Japanese with their lives, not only attacking the enemy with bullets, grenades and masonry, but even stacking the corpses of their comrades on bunkers for protection. The defenders, especially those who reinforced the bunkers, were lightly wounded, and those who could shoot and could shoot were placed in the shooting holes or in the forts to deal with the Japanese soldiers who might climb up and turn in at any moment. In the face of such a desperate battle of the officers and soldiers defending the city, and in the face of such a scene, even the Japanese army with high morale would be terrified.

"Boom!" "Boom!" …… There was another round of shelling, and the shells from the Japanese army fell on the position, turning over almost the entire ground, and the continuous explosions made the smoke of gunpowder rush into the air in the dark night. How many shells were fired that night? I'm afraid that even the Japanese army itself can't figure it out, the artillery wing directly under the division of the 6th Division of the Japanese Army is already the fifth cluster shelling, but every time the Japanese army charges, they find that there are still people resisting on the position, and how many Chinese soldiers are there on the defensive position in front of them?