As soon as the war report was released, the whole country was excited. The names of the three officers www.biquge.info Pen, Fun, and Pavilion immediately became national celebrities and heroes.

The top brass of the Kuomintang base camp knew in their hearts that this was the victory of the first day, and the victory had a deep imprint of the path. It is a completely different style from the style of the national government.

Everyone thinks that because this is the first day, the devil's team has not had time to unfold, especially after being harassed, the devil's army did not immediately enter the battle, and the victory had an element of luck.

At night, however, the defenders took the initiative, with small units attacking in three directions. The devil camp was in the empty houses of the people, the sentry was assassinated, the houses were blown up by packed explosives, and a large number of devils were killed in their sleep.

The devil did not dare to pursue, strengthened his vigilance, and continued to sleep. However, after dawn in the early hours of the morning, the camp was bombarded by mortars, and although the casualties were not large, breakfast was disturbed.

The reason why the three troops advanced and retreated freely, as if entering a no-man's land, first took the waterway and then the ridge, was entirely due to the help of the guide. The guide was very bold and familiar with the local terrain and roads, and the sneak attack force won a great victory.

The people of the three small units knew in their hearts who the guide was, but they were all grateful and did not say it.

In the morning, Xiaolu issued the No. 4 battle report: "From last night to early morning, our small troops, led by Major General Lan Yundong and Major General Lei Zhen of Wan Quance, took advantage of the night to attack the camp of the devils, and each killed a number of devils. In order to expand the results of the battle, the three teams returned to the devil's camp at 10 a.m. and continued to attack the enemy with mortars, inflicting powerful casualties on the enemy. Salute to the troops of the three heroes. China will not give in. ”

All major newspapers in major cities across the country published these war reports in a timely manner. For a time, the defense of Nanjing became the focus of national attention. Even the devil's command organization in Shanghai had to compare the reports of its subordinates with the reports in the newspapers to verify their accuracy.

At ten o'clock in the morning, two devil planes set out.

The airfield from which the devil took off was no longer an aircraft carrier, but a land airfield on the first line of Shanghai, so that the plane arrived in Nanjing not long after flying, circled over Nanjing for a long time, and went back.

An hour later, twenty planes sorted, ten to the Purple Mountain position, and ten to the Yuhuatai position, and when the planes dived and dropped bombs, the heavy machine guns on the ground suddenly began to fire. One enemy plane was shot down at the Yuhuatai position.

This time the plane was a single-wing plane, with high speed and a large amount of bomb, and the two positions were bombed to pieces. Before the plane flew away, the artillery on the ground began to bomb these two positions. After more than ten minutes of bombardment, the shelling stopped.

If the devils are on the position, they will find that there are people on the position shouting: "The bombing stops, the devils are coming, enter the position." ”

From the underground bunkers in the position, a large number of soldiers came out of the hiding holes in the communication trenches, some with rifles, some with machine guns, and some with heavy machine guns, and entered the combat position. Both positions are the same.

Coming from the direction of Yuhuatai was the 9th Brigade of the 18th Division, led by Major General Nobuyo Iide.

This time it was a squadron that charged.

The charging party reached a hundred meters in front of the position, and there was a gunshot on the position. Then three or four shots rang out, and there was no sound.

The Japanese were very disdainful and rushed up. The position was already obvious, and at fifty or sixty meters, even the bunkers could be seen clearly.

The Japanese shouted hooray and began to run.

At this time, shots were fired in the position. Several commanders commanding behind the first echelon were killed by a dozen shots. Then the machine guns began firing.

This charge lasted only ten minutes before it was knocked down. About two-thirds of the charging devils died in front of the position.

Then came the artillery fire. The artillery was over, and it was again an infantry charge. On this day, on the Yuhuatai, the enemy's charge was repulsed eleven times.

On this day, all the officers and men of the positional battle were convinced by Xiaolu's style of play and had great respect for the five combat instructors sent by Xiaolu. Although these five people turned out to be just ordinary company commanders and platoon commanders, and the highest was a battalion commander, their tactics saved the lives of a large number of soldiers.

In the evening, Xiaolu issued the fifth battle report: "Yuhuatai Liu Guo used his troops to repel the earthlings' charges eleven times, killing and wounding more than 2,000 enemies, and our side suffered 500 casualties. Tribute to the great martyrs. Hats off to the great troops. China will not give in. ”

In the morning, the Purple Mountain's positions were also bombarded indiscriminately by planes and artillery.

There are two devil troops attacking Purple Mountain, one is the 19th Devil Brigade, led by Major General Kusaba Tatsumi; The other was the 6th Brigade, led by Major General Akiyama Yoshito. All of them were from the 16th Division, led by Lieutenant General Nakajima Imasago Imasa.

The topography of the Purple Mountain is more prominent, with staggered positions and winding traffic trenches. There are more troops that stop, and the power of the earthlings to attack is stronger. The devils from both directions attacked together, and the guarding army also fought back from both directions.

The devil's attack was repulsed twelve times, and there were also dead and wounded in front of the position.

In response to the battle of the Purple Mountain defensive position, in the evening, Xiaolu issued the No. 6 battle report: "In the Purple Mountain defensive position, Luo Cequn, Lan Yundong, and Xie Chengrui's troops repelled the earthlings twelve times, killing and wounding more than 4,000 enemies, and our side suffered 800 casualties. Tribute to the great martyrs. Hats off to the great troops. China will not give in. ”

The 16th Brigade of the 30th Division was led by Major General Sasaki Ichichi. Sasaki to one, the father of the Manchurian Army, has just come to the southern battlefield.

The offensive line of the 30 Brigade was Gwanghwamen.

The troops of Major General Lei Zhen of Guanghuamen. Their positions are completely different from the previous ones. Historically, the defenders had a single position on the city wall, while the devils had a single attack on the city wall.

This time, the position was fortified on and under the walls. A large number of trench bunkers were scattered on the flat ground under the city walls.

The battle of Gwanghwamen was more tragic than the battle in history,

The positions on the walls were completely blown up by aircraft and artillery. The walls don't look like anymore. The positions under the city walls were not the focus of the earthlings' bombardment, and the losses were not too serious.

The attacking enemy was fierce, and the time between the two charges was very short. By the afternoon, all the devil's shells had been fired.

Tanks were dispatched, twenty in all.

According to the predetermined plan, the defending troops dispatched a death squad of 100 people, and under the cover of the fire of the position, they blew up all the tanks with hundreds of Molotov cocktails.

Regarding the battle of the Guanghuamen defensive position, in the evening, Xiaolu issued the No. 7 battle report: "In the Guanghuamen defensive position, Wanquan Thunder Zhen's headquarters repelled the earthlings ten times, killed and wounded more than 2,000 enemies, and blew up 20 enemy tanks. Our side suffered 1,000 casualties, and the 100 death squads that bombed the tanks inflicted serious damage on the enemy's tanks, and only eight survived. Tribute to the great martyrs. Hats off to the great troops. China will not give in. ”

The command position of Xiaolu this day kept changing, two jeeps, pulling him and his radio, as well as several of his staff officers. A lot of the manuscript was done in a moving car. Every time Xiaolu went to a position, he had to report the latest battle situation and ask that the battle report be reported to every soldier.

In the evening, Xiaolu dispatched the troops resting in the city, transported the baggage to the positions outside the city, sorted out and buried the corpses, and the staff team of the headquarters sent out the list of dead soldiers in clear code throughout the night. In addition, a large number of death information of Japanese soldiers, including the number of deaths, and so on, were sent out in large quantities.

The Japanese army's numbers can always be obtained on the battlefield, and analyzing these numbers, the detailed plans of the Japanese army to increase troops are known to the world, and there are no secrets at all.

In fact, during this day, Xiaolu sent out countless coded telegrams, all of which were in contact with the base camp and Yan'an. The base camp was very unhappy with Xiaolu's invention of the coded telegraph, but because a large number of newspapers had been reprinted, it could not be recovered.

Yan'an praised Xiaolu. Xiaolu asked Yan'an to command the Songhu advance force to conduct harassment warfare behind enemy lines, and to destroy the enemy's communication routes as much as possible.

The method of directing the battle in the various out-of-town positions was telephone. The trail can be connected to each command at each command center, and the command is smooth.

What pleased Xiaolu the most was that both officers and soldiers began to obey Xiaolu. After the battle of this day, according to the words of the base camp, the results were brilliant. Many officers and soldiers raised their eyebrows. Now, officers and enlisted men are aware of the latest developments throughout the defense of the war, which fundamentally avoids the historical mistake of confusion of command.

However, I know my own bitterness. There are still deserters in some units, but the direction of deserters is Nanjing, and in such a short period of time, hundreds of people have been caught.

Thus began the Battle of Nanjing. The next day, the Japanese army invested more troops, and the bombing time of the air force was greatly extended, and after the continuous bombing by the planes, the Yuhuatai position completely changed, and almost all the trenches were blown up. The Purple Mountain position was also blown up beyond recognition. The positions of the Guanghuamen city wall and the positions under the city were also bombed indiscriminately.

On this day, Japanese military planes bombed all morning, and after noon, artillery continued to bomb. By three o'clock in the afternoon, the bombardment stopped and the infantry charged.

The attacking Japanese troops were counterattacked on various positions. The counterattack is quirky, similar to the Jiangyin counterattack, but more elusive. The design of the position is tricky, and the soldiers on the way to attack have nowhere to hide. There is still a strong vitality on the sparsely bombed position, is it because the power of the aerial bombs has become smaller, or has the defensive position become stronger? How could they build reinforced concrete fortifications in a short time?

At night, according to statistics, our troops suffered nearly 3,000 dead and wounded, while the enemy only suffered 2,000 dead and wounded, and the battle was extremely fierce. Taking advantage of the night, the seriously wounded were constantly transported out of the city and transported to Jiangbei.

On the third day, Xiaolu put the main force of the Northeast Army, which had been repaired for several days, into three positions overnight, and the Northeast Army was a survivor of the battlefield, with high combat effectiveness, and the defensive strength of the three positions was greatly strengthened.

The devil's aircraft and artillery sorties today are obviously insufficient, obviously due to insufficient ammunition supply. The casualties on the defending side were not great, but the casualties on the attacking side increased, and by night, the ratio of casualties to the ground was 1,000 to 4,000.

On the sixth day of the battle, that is, on December 14, the casualties of the devils had reached 25,000, and the casualties of our army were 13,000. The positions outside the city entered a stalemate.

Both sides have felt each other's laws, and there is nothing they can do about each other. The Japanese bombarded the positions every morning, and after the bombardment, the guards in the city did not know where to come out to counterattack.

In the eyes of the attacking Japanese army, the defenders could no longer hold on, because the strength of the counterattack was getting smaller and smaller. Under the bombardment of these days, the positions outside the city are no longer as powerful as they were in the past few days.

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1. Lan Yundong (1899-1937) Chief of Staff of the 10th Reserve Division of the National Revolutionary Army. A native of Liling, Hunan. In 1924, he entered the first phase of the Whampoa Army Military Academy. He was martyred in Nanjing in December.

2. Wan Quance (1902-1937) Chief of Staff of the First Brigade of the National Revolutionary Army Teaching Corps. Guangxi Cangwu people. He entered the Wutang of Xijiang, Guangdong, and later entered the research class of the Central Training Group. In December 1937, the 1st Brigade defended the left side of the Purple Mountain Engineer School, Xiaolingwei, Xishan, and Zhongshanmen, and Wan Quance assisted the brigade commander Zhou Zhenqiang in fighting the enemy from December 8, and the main position was never lost. By December 11, at the height of the fighting, he was killed and martyred.

3. Lei Zhen (1901-1937) was a colonel and deputy brigade commander of the Third Brigade of the National Revolutionary Army Teaching Corps. A native of Pujiang, Sichuan. On December 12, 1937, he led a lone army to encounter the Japanese Guards Division and was martyred in a bloody battle. Posthumously presented to Major General.