Su Li walked to the stage and walked among the soldiers, and said earnestly: "Brothers, our 12th Division was originally a glorious army, it fought the Northern Expedition and the Eastern Crusade, and made countless contributions in the national anti-warlord battle, and was called the 'Iron Army' by the people, but since Chen Zeen came to our 12th Division, what are we called by the people?" The 'Lai Pi Army' and the 'Bandit Army' are making money from above, and our brothers are starving below, not only deducting our military salaries, but also deducting our food expenses every day, just two nests and a bowl of porridge a day, and the brothers are robbing the people of food outside, and you don't want to, but what should you do if you are hungry? I had to grab it! Chen Zeen: Have we had a good life since they came? No! And now you want us to be traitors? No way! On the other side of the river was the National Youth League, which was famous in the defense of Pingjin, and their troops had strict discipline. We're going to go to them now, and we're not going to follow Lai Pi Chen. Su Li said and took out a red scarf and tied it around his neck and shouted, "Defect to the National Youth League!" Fight devils! Be an Iron Army! ”

"Defect to the National Youth League! Fight devils! Be an Iron Army! ”

"Defect to the National Youth League! Fight devils! Be an Iron Army! ”

The entire 311 regiment was full of such slogans, defecting to the National Youth League! Fight devils! Be an Iron Army! Everyone tied red scarves around their necks one after another.

Seeing three red signal flares appear in the sky above the other side of the river, Su Li nodded at one of the guards, only to see that the guards also raised their signal guns and fired three shots in a row. Three red flares also pierced the night sky, and then the splendor that had just been lost in the air flew into the distance.

Under the cover of night, the 311th Regiment quickly passed through the Guanghuamen Bridge, and the 312th Regiment immediately behind the 311th Regiment had not yet figured out why the signal flare was fired, but there was no gunshot, and when the 312th Regiment Commander came to his senses, the troops hurriedly advanced towards the Guanghuamen Bridge, and there was no longer half a figure in the 311th Regiment garrison except for Ding Dajian's body and a mess of debris. The commander of the 312th Regiment knew the seriousness of the matter and hurriedly informed Chen Zeen that the troops were hurriedly advancing towards the Guanghuamen Bridge, and when they reached the southern end of the bridge, they were blocked by the 1st Battalion of the 311th Regiment's palace.

Su Li came to the center of the bridge and saw that the southern end was starting, and he was a little worried, and the brothers of the 1st Battalion wanted to take a company of brothers back to have a look, but they were stopped by Ganling.

Gan Ling said: "You withdraw first, and we will bring people to meet the other brothers." Gan Ling was a man of few words and a doer, and after a simple word, he pulled out his shell gun and led the soldiers of the 2nd Squadron towards the southern end.

Guanghuamen Bridge is not a bridge, the bridge length is only about ten meters long, it is a stone arch bridge, the Czech ZB26 light machine gun can shoot to the opposite bank, the defensive position of the 1st Battalion of the 311th Regiment was originally the offensive position of the 311th Regiment attacking the Guanghuamen Bridge, and at this time it was turned into a defensive position for the 12th Division.

It is also strange to say that the equipment of the 311th Regiment is poor, the combat effectiveness is not high, and the soldiers are loose and sloppy on weekdays, and they did not think that the troops will go up as soon as they hear that they are going to defect to the National Youth League, and the combat effectiveness will go up as soon as they hear that they are going to defect to the National Youth League, and the soldiers have vented their grievances in the 12th Division for many years, and the ferocity of the fight has made the sharp knife battalion of the 312th Regiment unable to raise their heads.

Gan Ling came to the blocking position of the 1st Battalion of the 311th Regiment and shouted at the commander of the 1st Battalion: "You guys withdraw first!" ”

The commander of the 1st Battalion nodded and shouted, "The 1st Battalion withdraws." ”

The troops withdrew from their positions like a stream. Wu Boyi, who was directly under the detachment, saw in the telescope that the 311 battalion of the 1st regiment had withdrawn from the blocking position, so he ordered the mortars to carry out an accurate quadruple fire, and the covering 2 squadron also withdrew to the north end of the bridge. As soon as the 2nd Squadron arrived at the north end of the bridge, it was put into a combat position, and at the same time, the north bank of the Qinhuai River was constantly gunfired, and the soldiers of the 312th Regiment, who had just rushed to the bridge, were immediately suppressed by powerful fire and could not move under several bunkers.

At this time, more than an hour had passed before the start of the shootout, and the 314th Regiment that attacked the Hanzhongmen Bridge had lost half of its losses, but it had not even broken through the center line of the Hanzhongmen Bridge. The defense was originally a way of fighting with leisure and waiting for work, coupled with the teaching of the National Youth League, the combat effectiveness of the column was not ordinarily strong, and one detachment firmly guarded the Hanzhong Gate bridgehead, and for a time the battle of the Hanzhong Gate Bridge fell into a stalemate.

Chen Zeen was still fantasizing about the "good days" after the Japanese entered Nanjing City at the Shuangqiao Division, and a correspondent ran over to report that the commander of the 311th Regiment had been killed, and the whole regiment "mutinied" and defected to the National Youth League. When Chen Zeen heard this, he almost jumped from his chair to the beam of the house, and hurriedly ordered the 312th Regiment and the 313th Regiment to leave one battalion each to guard the position on the south bank, and the rest of the troops reinforced the Hanzhongmen Bridge, and they must break the defense of the National Youth League in Hanzhongmen within half an hour.

The Qinhuai River is in the shape of an "L" and the Hanzhongmen Bridge is the largest bridge on the longitudinal river, the Hanzhongmen Bridge connects the Hanzhongmen into Hanzhong Road, and directly penetrates Zhongshan East Road and Taiping North Road, which is the closest route to the Presidential Palace. The longitudinal river is the widest river on the Qinhuai River, and it is impossible to swim across the water under the suppression of the strong firepower of the National Youth League, and at this time the Hanzhongmen Bridge seems to have become the key to determining the victory, at least in the eyes of Chen Zeen. Therefore, Chen Zeen took the risk and secretly transferred the regiment directly under him with the strongest combat effectiveness, and only one battalion of troops guarded the Changhong Road position.

The strength of a battalion of the 12th Division is only three or four hundred, far less than the strength of a battalion of the National Youth League, which also happened to fall into Shen Shaofan's arms. Shen Shaofan was waiting for Chen Zeen to transfer the main force to one place, and carried out a major counteroffensive to encircle the 12th Division in the west of the Qinhuai River; The narrow strip of land on the south bank annihilated it in one fell swoop.

Let's say that the war on the Qinhuai River has reached a turning point, and the riots in the center of Nanjing have subsided to a life-and-death juncture. Because Shen Shaofan arranged the troops of the two columns of teaching and pre-cadre in the east of the Qinhuai River; On the north shore, the burden of quelling the riot in the center of the city fell on the spy company; On the shoulders of the reconnaissance company and the guard company, especially the riot forces and Qian Dabao's pistol platoon in the Guanghua Road area, launched white-hot street battles and close combat, and even Chen Chen's rifle company of the organ column was also engaged in the counter-chaos battle at Guanghua Gate. Some of the riot forces attacking Guanghua Road were members of the Japanese special high-tech special task force, and the combat effectiveness was also quite strong, and the battle situation entered a critical moment, and the National Youth League suffered heavy casualties among the troops who quelled the chaos on Guanghua Road, and the battle line once retreated to the T-shaped intersection of Guanghua Road and Alfalfa Garden Street, which was only 100 meters away from Shen Shaofan's courtyard. It seems that the purpose of those thugs is very clear, which is the Shen family's courtyard on Alfalfa Garden Street. There are three entrances to Alfalfa Garden Street, except for Guanghua Road, which must be passed over the bridge of the moat, where it is equipped with guards, and it is difficult for two squads of fire to approach, so the thugs attacked Guanghua Road instead, all the way to the T-junction.

Shen Shaofan was in control of the overall situation in the Shen family's courtyard, he looked at the map and said: "Order the teaching column, no matter what the pressure is, you must hold on until dawn (dawn: roughly around 4:30 and 5:00 in the morning). Ordered the 1 detachment to go to support the Hanzhongmen Bridge. ”

Sun Zhiyu said: "Is it to let the artillery shoot two cannons on the west side of the Hanzhongmen Bridge to ease the pressure of the directly subordinate detachment!" ”

"No! Such prosperity on both sides of the Qinhuai River, if we hit the innocent people with two cannons, won't we become sinners for the ages! Shen Shaofan said categorically: "It can only reach the firepower of the mortar level." ”

Sun Zhiyu actually knew this truth, but he was always worried that the detachment under his direct command would become the second 2nd battalion, and the Hanzhongmen Bridge would become the second 13507 heights. All this time, the 2nd Battalion was almost completely wiped out, and the shadow on the 13507 Heights has always surrounded Sun Zhiyu, an excellent army in this way, without him in a battle, it was then that he realized that war was the most cruel and devastating disaster on earth.

Shen Shaofan and Sun Zhiyu have different personalities, although he also cares about his subordinates, he is more concerned about the overall situation. This is also the reason why Sun Zhiyu is willing to serve only one post of chief of staff under Shen Shaofan, Sun Zhiyu is too emotional, so after many battle plans are drawn up, Shen Shaofan must be the final deciding factor, because he has no way to send his comrades to death. Although he understood that war was cruel, he still couldn't watch his brothers fall. Shen Shaofan would be very calm in every battle, and he would give orders that had been drawn up one by one, his purpose was to win a war, not to think about anything else, and the injuries and deaths of the personnel seemed insignificant at that time. Therefore, the generals under Shen Shaofan admired their leader, and he had the demeanor of a general.

Shen Shaofan looked at the time and said, "There is still half an hour to launch a general attack, and the thugs in the center of the city must be cleared within half an hour." Speaking of this, Shen Shaofan asked, "How is the situation in the city?" ”

"Report! The rioters in the North District have almost been eliminated, and the reconnaissance company is clearing out the remnants of the enemy hiding in the homes of the common people one by one. Fierce fighting in the southern area, in Xijing Road, the guard company, and the commander of the Song Company were engaged in street battles with the enemy, and every house was repeatedly contested. The Western Special Service Company has driven the enemy to the vicinity of Pier 4 and will soon be wiped out. A staff officer replied.

"Hmm!" Shaofan was very satisfied with the result, but soon frowned and asked, "What about the Eastern District?" ”

"East End...... Eastern District ......" staff officers did not dare to answer.

"Report! The situation in the East District was severe, and we were retreated to the T-junction of Alfalfa Garden Street and Guanghua Road. Qian Dabao rushed in with the smell of war smoke and gunpowder: "Those people are not like ordinary thugs, they seem to be people with military qualities, and most of them are Japanese." ”

Zhang Wenshan said: "When you arrive at the intersection, it's very close to here!" ”

"Nonsense!" Shen Shaofan said: "Our command center was originally one of their targets. ”

Zhang Wenshan said: "Do you want to go to the basement to avoid it?" ”

"What to avoid? Tell the woman to go to the basement to avoid it, and the gentlemen will come with me. With that, he carried an MP40 submachine gun and headed for the gate.

SUN Zhiyu; ZHANG Wenshan; Chen Chen and other officers and staff officers; Correspondent; The male clerks all took guns and followed Shaofan out together, including the cooks, and they also came to Alfalfa Garden Street. Some of the female soldiers also took out the pistols they had on their waists and took Shen Shaofan's wife, Gu Xiaodie, into the basement.

Shen Shaofan took the lead in carrying a submachine gun and swept wildly at the thugs who rushed up, using his agile body to cross each bunker and come to the T-junction, with Qian Dabao and Lei Fei following behind them.

Shen Shaofan looked at the situation and said, "Dabao, how many people do we have now?" ”

"It's probably **hundred!" Qian Dabao said.

Shen Shaofan looked around again, the pistol platoon set up an inverted 'L' shaped sandbag simple fortification at the T-shaped intersection to seal the entire intersection of Guanghua Road and Alfalfa Garden Street, and there was a five-story building at the T-junction, which was the commanding height of the entire intersection.

Shen Shaofan shouted: "Dabao, call a few brothers to the roof of the building, bring a heavy machine gun, take down all the anticipation surfaces in front of me, take them to the corner of the moat, and then greet them with mortars." ”

"Can't go up! Which building they have occupied, we have already folded several brothers in that building. Qian Dabao also shouted at the top of his throat.

"What?" Shen Shaofan was startled, and at this moment, a bullet passed by Shaofan's side, and he saw a soldier fall in response. Shen Shaofan immediately realized what they had encountered, and hurriedly put sandbags all over his body.

Shaofan looked at Qian Dabao and pointed to the roof of the building and said softly: "There is a sniper on the top." Are there any of our snipers here? ”

Qian Dabao shook his head, Shaofan gritted his teeth and patted the ground and said, "Give me a rifle." ”

At this time, a soldier from a rifle company handed him a German-style Mauser T98 rifle, Shaofan took the gun, pulled down the bolt and said, "Who of you is the fastest here?" ”

"Report! I! A soldier from a pistol platoon said, "You? Shaofan looked at the soldier and looked like he was only ten ** years old, and Shaofan said with questions: "What's your name?" ”

"Report to the Captain! My name is Xiaosi, I used to be a thief, and others called me a four-legged snake, because I ran fast, so I was never caught. The warrior replied sincerely.

Shaofan looked at Xiaobao, and Qian Xiaobao nodded. Shaofan said: "Okay! You change into my clothes and wait for me to order me to tell you to run, you run towards our headquarters, remember not to run straight, but to run to the S line. ”

"Hey!" Xiao Si nodded, took off his clothes, and changed into Shaofan's major general's uniform.

Shaofan picked a few clever soldiers and told them to wait for his gunfire to stop, and immediately enter the building with him, and be sure to take down that building.

After everything was ready, Shaofan glanced at Xiao Si, and Xiao Si ran desperately to the headquarters at a very fast speed. A sniper on the roof of the building saw that it was a person with the rank of major general, thinking that it was Shaofan, so he wanted to shoot him, but Xiao Si's speed was too fast, and he missed the opportunity to aim for a while, and the sniper was willing to let go, so he committed a sniper's taboo, exposing his position and poking his whole body out, Shen Shaofan saw the opportunity to shoot a shot, only to see the sniper on the roof of the building screamed, the bullet pierced through his head, the whole body popped back half a meter, fell to the ground, and a sniper rifle fell on the edge of the cement railing on the roof.

As soon as the gunfire fell, the four soldiers and Lei Fei crossed the dense fire blockade with Shaofan, and the fish jumped into the hall on the first floor of the building. As soon as Shaofan entered the hall, he saw several bodies in civilian clothes and the bodies of two pistol platoon soldiers lying in the hall, which showed that they had fought here.

Shaofan looked around, threw the rifle in his hand aside, took out the MP40 and Mauser shell gun and grenade from the corpse of a pistol platoon soldier, and said: "You remember, everything must be under my command here, the six of us are a team, a group of three, one group advances, and one group covers the staircase, to see my gestures, we have to search all the rooms here, ensure that all the enemies in this building are destroyed, and then control the commanding heights." Do you understand? ”

"Understood!"

"Good! Lei Fei you take two people as a group. And two more with me. Let's start with the first layer. Is there a flashlight? Shaofan asked.

"Yes!" A soldier handed the flashlight to Shaofan.

Shaofan took the flashlight and shook it a few times, turned it on, pulled out a Mauser shell gun from his back on the mp40, held a flashlight in one hand and a shell gun in the other, and six people alternately covered every room, each room search, very cautious, in this environment, you have to raise your spirit by twelve points, because you don't know when to shoot a bullet from a dark corner and kill you. Fortunately, this is a department store, there are not many rooms, plus it closes at night, and there are no company employees in it. Everything went smoothly, they came to the fourth floor, as soon as they went up to the fourth floor, they saw the corpses of two pistol platoon soldiers lying at the entrance of the corridor, Shaofan immediately realized that there would be danger on the fourth floor, and he immediately signaled the soldiers not to rush into the unknown corridor, because they didn't know how many guns were facing them inside.