However, the suppression of the fire of the Yue army could not defeat the heroic and fearless Chinese artillery, and they turned the artillery cluster into a single artillery position, and even if the Yue army found out, it was only the loss of one artillery, so the 105-mm artillery group and the 75-mm mountain artillery group were all dispersed, and they carried out a brave counterattack against the fire of the 150-mm howitzer group of the Yue army.

The breaking of the Qinhuai River meant the official start of the battle of the city wall in the defense of Nanjing, and Zhang Xuewu originally expected to hold on to the battle for key points for at least a month, but now it seems that it is very difficult to achieve, and he is not a fool, and after suffering a loss, he is quite active in adjusting his tactics, and the responses he makes are often very effective, and the quality of the individual soldiers of the Yue army is high, and the overall coordination is very effective, and these are the ultimate embodiment of the combat effectiveness of the Yue army.

Sun Guiming in the tunnel of Niushou Mountain desperately used the Fortis 20-mm four-barreled anti-aircraft gun and Maxine heavy machine gun to support the northern slope of Jiangjun Mountain under the firepower of the Yue Army, and the Chinese soldiers in the tunnel lined up in a neat line to take over the dead robe, in Sun Guiming's words, as long as there is still one person in the Fifth Brigade who is not killed, the firepower to support Jiangjun Mountain cannot be stopped.

Even so, the general mountain fortress is still full of dangers, the main peak position has fallen into hand-to-hand combat several times, the crazy army often carries out artillery bombardment when the two armies are fighting fiercely, in order to kill and injure a large number of the Chinese defenders' living forces, the army shouted long live and rushed up and down, and under the counterattack of the defenders' machine guns and grenades, they even rolled and climbed back, but in two minutes, the army was able to reorganize a new attack, and the defenders had no time to evacuate the wounded to replenish ammunition.

Under the fierce artillery blockade of the Yue army, the cost of transporting ammunition is quite large, Ye Yunfei on the Jiangjun Mountain Fortress and the two regiment commanders of the teaching corps are stubborn against the onslaught of the Yue army, they have no way to retreat, because once the General Mountain Fortress is lost, the mouth of the Niushou Mountain Tunnel will be directly exposed to the condescending direct fire of the Yue army, which is also the main reason why Ye Yunfei knocked out the 150 mm cannon of the Yue army at all costs, at least now the heavy artillery of the Yue army does not dare to drive straight in.

Originally, the 51st Division and the 57th Division of the 74th Army under Yu Jishi were stationed at the Gujiaying, Yangjiazhuang, Dashishan, and Liuzhuang lines, relying on the geographical advantages of the Qinhuai River branch to build fortifications, and the 58th Division was used as a reserve to build a second-line position at Guanghuamen.

Now that the positions of the 154th Division and the 156th Division have been completely lost, Yu Jishi wants to maintain the defensive line, he must resist and drive the infiltrated Yue army, and then use the tactical adjustment after nightfall to arrange for the troops to retreat and shrink the defense, Yu Jishi understands that at present, his 51st Division Wang Yaowu's headquarters and the 57th Division, which he personally served as the acting division commander, are entangled with the Yue army, and the losses of the troops calmly withdrawn will be very large, and the Yue army is the best at taking advantage of the victory to pursue, and an accidental retreat has become a rout, Then his prestige in Yu Jishi's life will really be ruined.

Therefore, Yu Jishi knew that he would rather fight the troops to the death, and he would never let the sheep on the way to retreat, so that he could choose the cheapest, there are too many such examples, because the morale of the army can be boosted.

Therefore, Yu Jishi decided to transfer one regiment each from the 51st and 57th Divisions in the already precarious defensive line, and one brigade from Feng Shengfa's 58th Division, to directly use it in the counterattack on the left flank, to annihilate all the Yue troops that had penetrated into the defense line, to destroy the Yue army's pontoon bridges at the right time, to block the Yue army's crossing of the river, and to gain time for the troops to retreat to the second-line position and reorganize into battle.

The city of Nanjing, where the sound of artillery was full of smoke, seemed to have signs of a sharp turn for the worse under the frantic onslaught of the army, and Zhang Xuewu was anxious about this, because today he received two telegrams with completely different contents, the first one was the chairman of the Supreme Military Commission, Chairman Jiang, and its content was basically the same as the content of the telegram sent to Tang Shengzhi in history, asking Zhang Xuewu to sacrifice all costs, for the status and reputation of the country and the army, and regard the Nanjing Battle as an opportunity to turn defeat into victory. That is to say, if the nation can be held for more than half a month, the internal and external situation will change greatly, and the field army will respond as scheduled from the outside line, form a counter-encirclement of the army, and actively carry out a large-scale campaign in Xuzhou, so as to prevent the North China dispatch army of the Yue army from coordinating with the Central China dispatch army.

In the face of the siege of as many as nine divisions and three mixed brigades of the Yue Army, coupled with the raging fire of the army's army and naval aviation and the artillery support of its three field heavy artillery brigades, the mechanized brigade belonging to the First Mechanized Division of the Rehe Corps, which was originally preparing for a large-scale counterattack, was also forced to wait in concealment.

The reason for the stillborn counterattack in Zhang Xuewu's plan was that in the case of losing air supremacy, the armored troops' sortie was simply a target for Yue himself, and if it was covered and attacked by the heavy artillery of the Yue army, I am afraid that the mechanized brigade, the ace unit of Zhang Xuewu's honor guard, would pay an unimaginably heavy price.

Fortunately, good news continued to come from the Rehe side, first of all, the flight units of the Rehe Army made an all-out attack, attacking the four field airfields of the Yuezhi Army in Jinzhou and Mukden at 1 a.m., and the Kwantung Army Flying Division and the Kuda Special Flying Unit, as well as the Fifth Flying Division transferred from the mainland, suffered huge losses; according to the assessment of the Rehe Army Flying Units, at least more than 60 planes were destroyed on the ground at the four field airfields, and the number of damaged planes was basically the same, but it is said that the Kwantung Army said that three reconnaissance planes were destroyed. The Kwantung Army has become accustomed to not shouting pain after being slapped hard, so Zhang Xuewu doesn't care about this, how much is destroyed or injured, he said that he knows very well in his heart, and the battle of public opinion with numbers does not have the slightest meaning in it.

And the four-way army that attacked Chaoyang, Chengde, Chifeng, and Zhangjiakou was blocked by the heavy artillery of Jiancheng, and even Umezu Mijiro exclaimed that the heavy artillery fire of the Chinese army was too fierce! Never before has there been such heavy artillery fire!

In addition to the five integrated divisions of the front-line troops, the Rehe Army also formed five second-line troops of three brigades and six regiments to supplement the casualties of the front-line troops.

Zhang Xuewu is a good hand at digging corners, and several of his cadres can be called masters of digging corners, forty percent of the soldiers of the main force of the Rehe Army are from various departments of the Northeast Army, and the officers and soldiers who shout every day to fight back to their hometowns can be described as fierce soldiers, and the most asked by the homesick officers and soldiers from the Northeast is when will we counterattack!

The Rehe Army has a youth army composed of patriotic and anti-Japanese youths from all over the country, and this unit has a regular establishment number given by the Ministry of Military Affairs, the first division of the new Youth Army of the National Revolutionary Army, this number is deliberately won by Zhang Xuewu, but Zhang Xuewu has been placed in Baotou in this unit, and all the sergeant majors, sergeants, and non-commissioned officers are veterans of a hundred battles.

The officers and soldiers are all young students from all over the country, the proportion of college students accounts for more than 17 percent, the rest are high school graduates, the whole division is equipped according to the model of armored divisions, two tank regiments are equipped with 110 "Jackal" type 2 light tanks, 28 "Leopard" type medium tanks, 36 "Stinger" 75-mm self-propelled field guns mounted on the Leopard chassis, and one armored infantry regiment is equipped with 179 Hound armored vehicles and command vehicles. An air defense battalion under the division is equipped with 48 Forts 20-mm four-barreled antiaircraft guns mounted on Calvins half-tracks imported from Germany, and 24 48-barreled 105-mm hail rocket launchers equipped with "jackal" chassis, as well as a fuel transport battalion, a maintenance battalion equipped with 12 combat vehicle repair vehicles, a communications battalion, and an armored reconnaissance battalion.

The formation of this secret force Zhang Xuewu has always been formed in the name of the Sixth Security Corps of Baotou Industrial Zone, Tang Ziqiang always asked Zhang Xuewu to make trouble, because Tang Ziqiang knew the production of combat vehicles and the production of some new equipment in Baotou Industrial Zone, and his unit was the only mechanized division of the Rehe Army, but these weapons and equipment completely disappeared as soon as they left the factory? This made Tang Ziqiang very puzzled, and the consumption of fuel also made Tang Ziqiang wonder if there was another sword hidden in the Rehe Army?

However, Zhang Xuewu of this youth army unit is not used for actual combat, he can afford to equip so many armored troops, but he cannot afford to use them, in the interior of Rehe, he can transport his troops to any place within 24 hours through the dense railway network, if the armored troops leave the railway only rely on self-movement, with the domestic road conditions, I am afraid that it will not be more than 1,000 kilometers to carry out a major repair and frequent maintenance and maintenance, this workload is a task difficult to complete for the maintenance battalion with the army.

Another point is that refined oil products have limited the use of Zhang Xuewu's mobile troops, Zhang Xuewu can still import a large number of aero engines and diesel engines from Germany by taking advantage of Zhou Ying's connections, and some can also be purchased from Sweden at a high price, but the Americans who are only interested in profit have nothing to sell, plus the generous assistance of the Soviets, Zhang Xuewu's Baotou military factory has been able to produce a small number of diesel engines on its own.

Zhang Xuewu has a complete set of crude oil refining equipment and chemical preparation factory, but there is no stable supply of crude oil, the Soviets provide extraction equipment for crude oil, etc., and are even willing to provide refined oil and crude oil, but the amount provided by the Soviets is not particularly generous, Zhang Xuewu can feel that the Soviets are also stuck in their necks, such as the alloy armor plates produced by the Soviets, the quantity and speed of their supply are not fast, and the Soviets are even willing to provide their latest medium tanks, But unwilling to provide technology and reserve materials for Rehe to produce on its own?

(To be continued)