Chapter 180: Trapped City, Corpses Like Mountains, Blood Like a Sea
--- pay tribute to Zhang Chunru!
By six o'clock in the evening, all the Japanese troops in the city of Nanjing were killed, and several gates were returned to the Chinese. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info The devils in the city were not killed, but they all committed suicide, and many devils rushed to the houses on both sides of the street with bombs, causing great losses to the defenders.
Koji's No. 31 Battle Report was released: Among the Japanese generals who entered the castle, the Japanese soldiers who were killed and burned to death by me were as follows: the 9th Division, the 18th Brigade Brigade of Lieutenant General Yoshizumi Ryosuke, the 6th Brigade of Major General Iide Nobutoki, the 16th Division of Major General Akiyama Yoshito, the 30th Brigade of Lieutenant General Nakajima Imago, and the headquarters of Major General Sasaki Ichi. In addition, Major General Kusaba Tatsumi of the 19th Brigade escaped because he did not enter the city. The 3rd Division escaped because it did not enter the city.
This time, both China and Japan received the war report.
This time, they all believed.
The difference is that Japan withheld the message and did not send it.
The news of the Battle of Nanking was published in major newspapers all over the world. The whole process was broadcast in a timely manner.
In the city of Nanjing, the soldiers defending the city are dealing with the aftermath.
Troops extinguished the remaining fires in the streets, cleaned up the battlefields, and put in order the bombed-out fortifications. On the streets, all kinds of Japanese weapons were piled up. The corpses are also piled up.
At eight o'clock in the evening, Xiaolu issued the No. 32 battle report: Your Excellency General Matsui Shigen, our army, in line with the principle and spirit of humanitarianism, is ready to transport the corpses of your troops out of Nanjing City overnight and place them neatly on the Yuhuatai. Please do not attack our corpse carriers. Please go to Yuhuatai after 10 a.m. tomorrow to collect the body. In addition, the body of the general who committed suicide in your ministry has been sorted out, and I hope that the handover ceremony will be held tomorrow.
At ten o'clock in the evening, Xiaolu issued the No. 32 battle report: "Our army's defending troops killed more than 3,000 people in the fierce battle with the enemy who entered the city, and most of the martyrs died in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy, and the strength was fierce. Tribute to the great martyrs. China will never give in. ”
Time to pull back.
On the day when the enemy entered the city, Koji was in command from the headquarters. The headquarters is the headquarters of the original Nanjing base camp. The telephones of the various units are connected together and the situation is constantly reported.
This is completely a game set up by Xiaolu to take advantage of the arrogance of the devil.
The first hand of the layout is that the troops outside the city gradually retreat, showing weakness, so that the other party feels that he is not good. This is to lure the enemy deeper.
The second hand of the layout is to use a few telegraph machines to disseminate false information. The disinformation is mainly about the death of the generals of the garrison troops, this general today, and that general tomorrow.
If you want to lure a large Japanese army into the city, there is no way, this time it will be your turn, Lieutenant General Lu. I? Yes, you can't run away, come and die with me at once. Send two copies to the base camp: General Lu was wounded and asked to retreat. General Lu was killed in battle, and our defenders were retreating.
These stations were disguised as commercial and spy stations, and there were even telegrams saying that the defenders were defeated, selling fiat currency, buying gold, and so on.
And the success or failure of this bureau requires the cooperation of the Japanese army, in addition to the strict execution of orders by their own teams. Fortunately, the Japanese army cooperated very well.
After the devil just entered the city, Xiaolu evacuated the team according to the scope of the devil's search, so that the devil could not find himself. After the devil let his guard down, it gradually shrinks. When the devils began to assemble on a street, Xiaolu ordered the street fighting troops to quietly assemble on both sides of a street and enter the position. Seeing that the enemy is in a dense formation, it is required to concentrate all the Molotov cocktails.
The main street has been chosen a long time ago. The victor will definitely choose this blow to hold the entrance ceremony.
The devils don't have helicopters, and if they had, they would have seen such a strange scene, a few limited streets, where the Japanese were assembled proudly.
And on the inconspicuous small streets on both sides, there are people who are constantly quietly moving, gradually concentrating on both sides of the ceremonial street of entering the city. The soldiers quietly entered the houses on both sides of the road that had been laid out before, and quickly set up their positions.
On both sides of the street, there were some devilish gendarmes and sentries patrolling and setting up sentry, and some people happened to see people, and then they were killed.
The sporadic gunfire never stopped.
After the devil commander's convoy entered the city, Xiaolu decisively ordered to fire, and then ordered to throw **, and then, he kept reminding all the commanders on the phone to shoot according to the technical essentials. After receiving the call, hundreds of commanders constantly shouted loudly, directing the combat actions of the soldiers.
In this way, the battle was won. At eleven o'clock in the evening, the whole of Nanjing was reoccupied.
In the evening, Lao Jiang personally called to congratulate him. Then, northern Shaanxi also called to congratulate.
The next morning, Lao Chiang called and asked to go out of the city to attack the enemy.
Xiaolu replied to the secret telegram: "Thanks to the devil for underestimating the enemy, our department narrowly won." The casualties of the department this time were huge, and there were less than 5,000 people who could fight, and they were all tired soldiers, and they did not intend to let the devils know. ”
In fact, Xiaolu still has 35,000 men to fight, but at present, the entire army is exhausted, more than half of the troops have gone out of the city to fight, and only 5,000 have not left the city.
On December 16, Nanjing, the battle reached the eighth day.
Today's truce. According to the agreement, the Japanese army held a white flag and came to Yuhuatai to collect corpses. Chinese soldiers also carried white flags and pulled corpses in carts.
In order to film the Japanese army's entry ceremony, Japan Manying had four cameras, two of which were captured by the defending troops. Today, the two cameras are used to film the ceremony of the exchange of bodies between the two armies. In addition, the garrison also sent more than a dozen people to shoot the scene with cameras.
The most solemn part of the ceremony was the handover of the body of the Japanese general who committed suicide.
The handover ceremony lasted until 5 p.m.
While receiving the corpses outside the city, Xiao Lu's troops had been busy this day, and the Purple Mountain position had been recovered, and Xiao Lu sent a team of five thousand to repair the Purple Mountain's fortifications. In addition, the fortifications under the Gwanghwa Gate are also being repaired.
That night, all the film was sent across the Yangtze River overnight and sent to Xuzhou for processing. Later, this documentary was screened in various major cities, and many people overseas also saw it. Later, historians used movies to discover a lot of historical details.
At present, there are about 20,000 enemies outside Nanjing, the 3rd Division that did not participate in the ceremony of entering the city, and the remnants of the 19th Brigade. In addition to these troops, the Japanese army was still gathering other troops, and they were constantly pressing on Nanjing. A large number of burned soldiers were transported.
Xiaolu estimated that the enemy would prepare for a heavy load in order to gather troops, and it was possible to cease fighting in one to two days. Japan is not the United States, and although they have more supplies than China, they are not inexhaustible.
However, this time the seized materials made the defenders make a lot of money. Except for a few elite German firearms, most of the troops use old weapons, and it would be nice to have some explosives. There are also insufficient bullets, and the combat effectiveness depends on broadswords. Today, most of the troops have been replaced with Japanese-style weapons, and the old ones are buried.
Xiaolu invented a coded telegram for the enemy, and continued to transport the corpses of devils outside the city.
Sure enough, the enemy army ceased fighting for these two days and gathered troops. However, the devils encountered great suffering in the process of transporting troops, almost all the roads were destroyed, not only dug up, but also filled the dug ditches with water. The Japanese army had no choice but to arrest local people to build roads. However, this place was repaired, and the place was dug up again.
What is different from before is that in the bushes, bamboo forests, and reeds on both sides of the road, cold guns are heard from time to time. The one who puts the cold gun shoots and runs away. Two days later, the number of dead and wounded was in the thousands.
Xiaolu got the news that several advance teams near Nanjing were cooperating with him. These advance detachments had secretly combined a large number of Red Army troops who had remained in Jiangnan to fight guerrillas, and armed the Red Army with Japanese weapons obtained on the battlefield.
The New Fourth Army has been established, and all advance teams are under the banner of the New Fourth Army. This point, after Zhou Gong's consultation in Wuhan, Nanjing also recognized it.
Taking advantage of the enemy's truce, Xiaolu sent 4,000 wounded to Jiangbei. It took half a day to send the wounded across the river, and Xiaolu personally walked by the river to send the first batch of wounded across the river. The wounded were very moved when they saw that the supreme commander had personally come to see them off.
Several wounded senior officers were also sent away.
Soon, the intelligence department of the national government came to ask these officers how many people were still in the city and how long they could support them. After the past few days, these officers almost all said that there were not many troops in the city, and the fighting was very hard, and they hoped to send troops in for reinforcements.
Later, these officers became good friends with Yan'an, and they were not very successful in the Nanjing government.
The intelligence department in Wuhan judged that there were still 1 to 20,000 people in Nanjing who were fighting at the right time. According to their street fighting tactics, it can be supported for a long time.