Suddenly, a series of piercing air raid sirens sounded throughout the city of Nanjing, and a large number of silver-gray Japanese planes appeared over the city of Nanjing, and the plaster flag under the wings was so obvious at this time, so terrified that the people of Nanjing. www.biquge.info The faces of some knowledgeable people in the crowd changed and they hurriedly shouted: "It's broken, it's an air raid siren, and the Japanese planes are coming to bomb our Nanjing City!" ”

"The planes of the Japanese? If they want to bomb the army and fortifications, they should not bomb our worthless places. Some people put on a look that they seem to understand, but in fact, their hearts are also cold at the moment. As soon as the words fell, the people on the street only felt the ground shaking under their feet. With a bang, the people on the street finally panicked, screaming and running in all directions.

However, it was already too late, and with the screaming sound of bombs breaking through the air, bombs fell from the sky one after another, and with continuous explosions, houses began to collapse. The house hit by the bomb suddenly fell into a sea of fire, and finally the dust returned to dust. Countless men and women hiding in their homes were buried alive in an instant.

One after another, Japanese planes swooped down, roaring over the city of Nanjing, dropping deadly bombs one after another. Boom-boom-boom explosions followed, followed by screams of terror and cries of pain from the loss of loved ones. At this time, the city of Nanjing was in chaos, because the fire caused by the bombing was raging in the city, and people fled in panic, but they could not find a safe place. At this time, some Nanjing citizens began to remember the leaflets distributed in the city a few days ago, and began to understand why the leaflets had to move them out of Nanjing, because Nanjing was facing a Japanese attack at any time.

This time, the Japanese army dispatched more than 100 planes to bomb the city of Nanjing, which was completely indiscriminate bombing and caused great harm to the people of Nanjing. Nearly 10,000 casualties and countless buildings were reduced to ruins, a painful lesson that was engraved in the hearts of the people of Nanjing. What Zhang Cheng didn't expect was that this large-scale air raid by the Japanese army made many Nanjing people start to flee the city of Nanjing, and the road to Rujiangmen was full of refugees who wanted to cross the river at Xiaguan Wharf with their families.

When the Japanese plane appeared, Zhang Cheng and the others had already rushed to a place not far from Guanghuamen by car with the weapons and ammunition they had picked up, and they could not go any further, because there were too many national army troops gathered here in Guanghuamen. A large group of black dots appeared in the sky northeast of the position, and the shouts of the officers and veterans of the national army on the defensive line were one after another, calling for their men and the soldiers around them to prepare for air raids. Zhang Cheng did not dare to slack off, while asking the truck to return to the safety zone to standby, and on the other hand, he wanted the routs who jumped out of the carriage to find a place to hide.

The black dots in the sky soon approached the defense line of the national army, and the dull humming sound of the Japanese planes made people feel uneasy from the heart, Zhang Cheng looked up and saw those Japanese planes swooping down from a height of hundreds of meters, these damn Japanese fighters were like a flock of crows rushing to prey on the corpses at this time. "Hidden! Take cover! A deafening roar sounded in his ears, and before Zhang Cheng could react, his arm was pulled hard, and the whole person immediately lay on the ground.

Zhang Cheng turned his head to look, only to see that the man surnamed Niu, who had disappeared just now, was glaring at him angrily, and then crawled straight past him, shouting and beckoning the routs who had dispersed to pay attention to concealment. Zhang Cheng also wanted to turn over and get up, but suddenly heard a strange cry coming from the top of his head, because of the reclining posture, Zhang Cheng could naturally turn his gaze towards the sky without turning his head. I saw a Japanese fighter plane whizzing and diving down from the sky, and just a few seconds later, a number of Japanese fighter planes were whizzing and diving down.

Not only the plaster pill signs and wheels under the wings were clearly visible, but even the rivets on the fuselage could be faintly distinguished, and the pylons on their belly and under the wings where bombs were previously hung were already empty at this time. Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! The bombs that landed one after another exploded one after another, and the violent explosions like landslides and ground cracks continued to shake the earth, and the almost non-stop explosions became louder.

The smoke rising from the explosion was stronger than the heavy artillery attack of the Japanese army, and the soldiers of the national army in Zhang Cheng's sight were almost shaken off the ground even if they were lying down, not to mention standing up. The continuous and fierce impact made Zhang Cheng feel as if his internal organs were about to burst, his hands tightly covered his ears, and his mouth opened desperately, but his eardrums were still shaken by the explosion.

As the explosion took off, the dust and mud obscured the sight of the defenders, and they flew high into the air one after another, and under the action of gravity, they returned to the ground with strong kinetic energy, and the pain of falling directly on the soldiers' steel helmets was conceivable. The landslide and tsunami-like explosion lasted for three to five minutes, and more than a dozen Japanese fighters had swooped over Guanghua Gate, and the anti-aircraft guns of the defenders on the city gate kept roaring all the time, but there was no obvious effect.

In fact, Zhang Cheng, who covered his ears with his hands, closed his eyes most of the time, and only struggled to look up at his surroundings in the brief interval when the intensity of the explosion had weakened slightly.

I persevered until the tremor on the ground gradually subsided, and then I struggled to stand up and sit up. Zhang Cheng was already deaf at the moment, and he couldn't hear anything other than the constant buzzing. Turning his head to look left and right, he saw that the big cow, which was also covered in mud, was turning over from behind a pile of rubble and sitting up, Zhang Cheng's hanging heart fell to the ground. Looking at the position of the national army in the distance with a telescope, Zhang Cheng was immediately stunned by what he saw, the two anti-aircraft machine guns that were still shooting at the air just now at the head of Guanghuamen City had already disappeared at this time.

The place where the anti-aircraft machine gun was originally set up was shrouded in gunsmoke that had not yet dissipated, and Zhang Cheng saw through the telescope that more than one national soldier was struggling to dig into the collapsed position with his tools in an attempt to rescue the people below. "Prepare for battle, the Japanese army is coming, the Japanese army is coming." The hoarse shouts of the veterans spread at an alarming speed, but there were also many soldiers like Zhang Cheng, who were temporarily deaf due to the bombing of the planes, were indifferent.

"Hidden, hidden, the devil plane is here again." Several Japanese fighters swooped in at high speed from an altitude of several hundred meters, and their dashing movements were like eagles soaring for nine days, and the weak firepower rising from the ground could no longer stop their dive and strafing. The power of aircraft strafing is different from the Japanese ground attack, and after the defenders' ground fire can no longer contain the Japanese fighters' dive attack, the defenders on the ground will become a live target for the Japanese fighters to dive and strafe.

Dense raindrops of cannon bullets scattered down from mid-air, and the defenders who had just experienced the bombardment and were still a little confused were torn to pieces by the Japanese machine guns. The angry defenders raised their guns to shoot at the Japanese fighters, but they didn't know that the rifles in their hands were not enough to deal with the Japanese planes, so more defender soldiers could only point at the Japanese fighters when the Japanese fighters flew overhead, pointing at the Japanese fighters and scolding.

The Japanese fighters that swooped down once again blew through the defenders' positions like the wind, and the wings of these Japanese fighters soon appeared with a burst of gunfire, and the dense barrage of bullets pounced on the entire Guanghuamen position, like a huge thunderstorm. "Hidden, hidden." Zhang Cheng shouted and shrank to the base of the broken wall with his rifle in his arms. When countless cannon bullets fell from the sky and pierced into the dirt or human body, Zhang Cheng, who closed his eyes tightly, felt like a dead leaf shivering in the wind.

For those in war, death can sometimes be a relief, but those who are alive still have to fight for survival. Tossing the defenders' positions into ruins, the satisfied Japanese fighters finally left, and in the urging of the officers and veterans, the heads wearing German steel helmets began to emerge one after another on the defenders' positions that had escaped the catastrophe, and most of the soldiers were nervous and panicked but had to make an indifferent look and raise their guns to aim at the Japanese troops who were rushing outside the city.

"Get up, get up, stay here and wait for death." Zhang Cheng, who had regained a little consciousness, rushed out into the street and kicked and beat the routs who were lucky enough to survive one by one. "We don't have heavy weapons, and going to Guanghuamen to help in the battle can only disrupt the defensive rhythm of the national army's troops, so we retreat, find a place to wait, and wait to fight street battles with the Japanese troops who broke into the city." The gunfire and shouts of killing in the Guanghuamen position had already resounded, and Zhang Cheng and the hastily assembled rout soldiers emptied an ammunition truck that was lying crooked on the side of the street and was unattended, and then retreated back along the deserted street.

Song Hu is right, today is indeed a good weather, I am afraid that the Japanese army outside the city also thinks so, so the Japanese troops outside Guanghua Gate mobilized heavy troops to launch wave after wave of attacks on Guanghua Gate. Outside the city, the 36th Infantry Wing of the 9th Division of the Japanese Army launched a fierce attack on Guanghua Gate, and the Chinese defenders inside the city wall included the 932nd Regiment of the 156th Division of Guangdong, the 3rd Battalion of the 2nd Military Police Regiment, the reinforced platoon, the 1st and 3rd Engineer Battalion of the Teaching Corps, the non-commissioned officer battalion, some officers and soldiers of the 51st Division, the 3rd Company of the Combat Vehicle, the 3rd Platoon of the Combat Vehicle, and the militia. There are also the officers and soldiers of the 259th Brigade, 260th Brigade, and 261st Brigade of the **87th Division who withdrew from the archway, engineering school, Shimenkan, and Haifu Lane, as well as some officers and soldiers of the 305th and 301st regiments of the 51st Division who retreated from Gaoqiaomen.

If you simply compare the strength of the two sides, the national army defending the city is not much different from the Japanese army outside the city, but the Japanese army outside the city not only has large-caliber artillery, but also aircraft and tanks to help the battle. In the face of wave after wave of continuous attacks by the Japanese army that had the advantage in firepower, the national army troops who had already suffered a large number of casualties on the city could only desperately block the opponent, but as the battle continued, the defenders of Guanghuamen were almost unable to withstand the attack of the Japanese army outside the city.