Prince Hatohiko of Asaka Palace looked at the many generals beside him with a gloomy face at the moment, today is the last night of His Majesty's imperial order to capture Nanjing, I originally thought that I would break through the defense of Nanjing's city walls and barely attack Nanjing City, but I didn't expect that the army still has the military strength to counterattack?

Rumble! Boom Boom! Rumble! Boom!

At this moment, Nanjing City seems to have been earthquaked, especially the countless small bright spots flying in the sky outside the Zhonghua Gate? What kind of weapon is that? Many generals of the army held binoculars and looked at those small highlights that flew fast?

With the dense continuous explosions outside the Zhonghua Gate, Gu Shoufu almost fell to the ground! Because Gu Shoufu had just proudly declared that the 36th Infantry Brigade under the command of Major General Mitsuru Ushijima had launched a general attack on the Zhonghua Gate, it was already a matter of foresight to capture the Zhonghua Gate and open the gate of Nanjing.

The main forces of the 36th Infantry Brigade under the command of Ushijima Mantsu and the 47th Infantry Regiment under the 11th Infantry Brigade are all trapped in the street battle outside the Zhonghua Gate at this moment, and the Chinese have the habit of building houses against the city wall, which is a different regional but the same custom inherited by the Chinese people in successive dynasties, just like leaning against a big tree to enjoy the shade, in ancient times, especially during war, these houses would be demolished and burned before the battle to protect the safety of the city wall, but in modern times, In the face of modern three-dimensional warfare, the practical effect of the city wall has been reduced to a minimum, so no one pays attention to the slums that are next to the wall or moat.

But it was the labyrinthine buildings of these slums that blocked the advance of the Yue army, and the remnants of the two temporary brigades led by Zhang Lingfu were retreating to the slums outside the Zhonghua Gate at this moment, in order to stop the continuous pursuit of the Yue army, Zhang Lingfu ordered people to light a fire, and the remaining Chinese soldiers in the fire were fighting bloodily.

Zhang Lingfu received an order from Zhang Xuewu, asking him to lead the guard platoon to immediately enter the Zhonghua Gate and report to Hao Wenbin? Zhang Lingfu was very strange about Zhang Xuewu's order, since the radio was connected, why didn't he give the order directly? Why did you let yourself report to Hao Wenbin, who was preparing troops to counterattack inside the Zhonghua Gate? If reinforcements are coming, why are they so slow to do so?

Xu Xu, the brigade commander of the First Brigade of the Provisional Reading Force, glanced at Wang Hexin, the brigade commander of the Second Brigade of the Provisional Reading Force, who was also covered with gunsmoke, and smiled gloomily: "Commander Zhang, you will obey the order!" Now that at least tens of thousands of people have entered the army, if the Zhonghua Gate counterattacks, there will be no casualties of more than 10,000 people, and they will not want to annihilate the Yue himself, even if they defeat the infiltrated army, no 3 or 5,000 casualties can be done? ”

Zhang Lingfu was slightly stunned, and immediately understood everything in it: "This is a big counteroffensive of the whole situation!" We have nearly 2,000 brothers here! Can they all be regarded as outcasts? ”

Wang Hexin took a deep breath and said: "It doesn't matter if you sacrifice or not, Songhu will kill in the dark, when will it not consume a whole division?" It's worth it for our two thousand remnants to exchange for 10,000 main forces of little devils, it's really worth it, if you don't survive the brothers, please tell me Brother Zhang in front of Commander Zhang Xuewu, our brothers are also worth it, so we will reward a major general's bare plate belt! Anyway, the corpse was transported back to his hometown, and it was regarded as a glorious ancestor, right? Otherwise, if you have been a soldier all your life, you will not be a general when you are dying, and you will really have no face to see your hometown fathers! ”

Zhang Lingfu said disdainfully: "You also underestimate me Zhang Lingfu, wealth and danger are sought, and the soldiers eat this bowl of rice with their heads, who are we afraid of?" If the little devil dares to come, let him let the horse come, and the big cannonball will not be killed, and the annoying Hades will not accept it. ”

Zhang Lingfu dragged the frequency of Zhang Xuewu's headquarters directly through the radio, and asked to live and die with his department, if he survived, he thanked Zhang Xuewu for his kindness, and killed more devils to serve the country.

Zhang Lingfu is indeed a fierce general in the eyes of Zhang Xuewu, but unfortunately his surname is too prominent, and he is not very good at being a man.

Zhang Xuewu gave Liang Baohua an order to shoot, so there was a scene seen by the previous scene seen by Prince Hatohiko and other generals of the Chaoxiang Palace.

Rows of 105-millimeter rockets landed in a large area of houses and shops outside the Zhonghua Gate, exploding and burning everywhere, as if the earth was about to collapse as if it was bursting, and under the flash of the explosion, the living Chinese soldiers were still fighting to the death with the Yue army.

Dead bodies were everywhere, broken internal organs and severed limbs everywhere, and in the rubble, the headquarters of the 36th Infantry Brigade and the 47th Wing of the Japanese Army were blown up, and it was the first time they had seen such a fierce artillery fire, especially when the shells hit the ground, and the whole earth shook and shook.

Liang Baohua, who had stripped off his arms, roared and loaded his ammunition after the launch, and the two of them, who had already prepared the ammunition, carried a 100-5 mm caliber rocket and artillery shell and ran at a rapid speed, and the two shouted a trumpet to fill the 17-kilogram warhead and 79-kilogram rocket into the red-hot launch tube.

The so-called salvo of multiple rocket launchers is actually not really fired at the same time, but the first firing of the first tube on the left of the upper layer, and the second firing of the second tube on the right of the lower layer are fired alternately in order, and the temperature of the launch tube that has just been launched often exceeds 100 degrees, and the loader will inevitably be burned by it, but even if the skin and flesh are scalded, the loaders are still shouting the horn bare-chested, and quickly loading one 100-5 mm high-explosive rocket into it.

Nine minutes and fifty-seven seconds! Liang Baohua glanced at his watch with satisfaction and shouted: "All gun positions are ready, salvo!" ”

Another round of overwhelming rocket counterattacks, Ushijima, who had just survived, looked at the small bright spot that was launched again from the city and was dumbfounded, can he still be so lucky this time? Rumble! The violent explosion of a 105 mm high-explosive rocket swept a distance of more than 10 meters, and Mitsuru Ushijima and several staff officers who were trying to cover him were hit by wanton shrapnel like rag dolls, rolling out of the ground for more than 10 meters, and their entire bodies were twisted and deformed.

Looking at the small bright spots that appeared again, as well as the explosion like the sky falling apart, Asakanomiya Hatohiko and the others didn't need anyone to say, and they knew that they must be a new weapon that must be in the [***], and Hatohiko Asakanomiya gritted his teeth and said: "Order the 11th Brigade of Koizumi Wenren's field heavy artillery, you must destroy these new weapons in the [***] for me, Zhang Xuewu, a despicable and sinister bastard, still hides such a powerful new weapon?" Zhang Xuewu must be killed in Nanjing, otherwise he will become the Empire's greatest enemy. ”

Hatohiko Asakanomiya ordered Koizumi Onhito's 11th Brigade of Field Heavy Artillery to shell the Zhonghua Gate [***] new weapon firing position?

Fujita Jin, the commander of the Third Division of the Army, couldn't help frowning slightly, but seeing that some of his colleagues realized something, no one spoke? Fujita Shin also understood everything, a smart person obviously would not touch the moldy head of Prince Hatohiko of Asakanomiya in anger this time.

Although the firing range of the Type 38 150 mm heavy howitzers equipped with the heavy artillery brigades is far smaller than that of the German-made 32 times the 150 mm heavy howitzers equipped by the Chinese defenders, the recent continuous air raids seem to have dealt a great blow to the heavy artillery units of the Central [***], and it can also be found through the counterattack artillery fire on the north bank of the [***] River, that the heavy artillery units that should have been used in a concentrated manner have been dispersed, and it is not an easy task to concentrate the scattered heavy artillery again in a short period of time. So Fujita Jin thinks that he may be too nervous about the new weapons of Naka[***], and some plants and trees are just soldiers.

In an area of less than two square kilometers, the 1st Mobile Artillery Regiment completed three salvos in 30 minutes and successfully withdrew from the firing position.

You must know that although the "Hail" rocket uses a short body, weighing only 79 kilograms per round, the loading time is also strictly required, and it can be said that Liang Baohua is risking the risk of overheating and exploding the ammunition to fight for the loading speed that this theoretical value has never reached, and the failure to overheat the ammunition and the explosion is completely luck, and in Liang Baohua's words, fighting a war is life.

A lot of theoretical things can only exist in theory forever, but in fact, the excellent and brave Chinese artillerymen really did it, but they also paid a high price, almost everyone was deeply burned in five or seven places, and the expression on everyone's face looked very weird? Can't tell if it's pain or joy? Looking at the smoke and fire outside the Zhonghua Gate, Liang Baohua smiled happily for the first time after entering Nanjing.

Moreover, Liang Baohua took out a badge engraved with hail rocket launchers from his pocket and put it on the identification badge on his left chest, which is a unique logo of the Rehe Corps, which has not been worn for secrecy before, and the officers and soldiers of the Mobile Artillery Regiment are also considered to be the logistics troops of the Rehe Corps, because only they do not have the identification symbol on their chests.

Within 30 minutes, the mobile artillery regiment dropped 3,456 rounds of 105-millimeter high-explosive rockets on an area of 2 square kilometers, and less than 100 of Zhang Lingfu's 2,000 officers and men survived.

The losses of the Yue army cannot be counted for the time being, but in such a dense and narrow area, the Yue army invested three infantry wings to try to swallow the remnants of Zhang Lingfu in one bite and occupy the Zhonghua Gate in one fell swoop.

In Ushijima's military career, this is the first time he has completely miscalculated, I'm afraid even Ushijima himself didn't expect it, just this miscalculation made him lose his surname directly? After a lifetime of careful calculation, the last move was wiped out, this is the most appropriate portrayal of Ushijima Man.

It can be said that the 36th Infantry Brigade and the 47th Infantry Wing of the Yue Army were counterattacked by the sudden fierce firepower, and the fire outside the Zhonghua Gate made Qiu Qingquan look extremely excited, and Hao Wenbin was also very excited, because the fierce fire of the mobile artillery regiment covered all the three infantry wings of the Yue Army.

In such a narrow area, the two armies were entangled with each other, and at this time, the artillery was always the patent of Yue, but this time Ushijima was unexpected, and the Chinese [***] actually launched an overwhelming fierce artillery bombardment, so dense firepower that the troops who entered its range did not have any reaction at all, there were explosions everywhere, shrapnel flying everywhere, and some only fragmented corpses.

Hao Wenbin took the opportunity to immediately cooperate with Qiu Qingquan's armored assault group to attack the headquarters of the army in front of him from the Xishui Gate, Zhonghua Gate, and Guanghua Gate. Come on! The wing flag of the 45th Infantry Wing was lost in the shelling of the middle [***]! ”

By the time the news was reported to Prince Hatohiko Asakanomiya, the acting commander of the Central Branch Dispatch Army, ten minutes later, it was not only the wing flag of the 45th Infantry Wing, but also the wing flag of the 23rd Infantry Wing, which belonged to the 36th Infantry Brigade.

Hatohiko Asakanomiya, who was shocked into a cold sweat, was already a little trembling, and he also knew that anything could happen on the battlefield where the battle situation on the front line was chaotic, and it was understandable that Ushijima Mitsuru would concentrate the entire brigade on continuous attacks to seek a breakthrough, but he encountered a new weapon in the middle [***]?

Again, the 11th Infantry Brigade of the 6th Division encountered a counterattack by the troops of the Rehe Army of the Central [***], and almost lost the wing flag, thanks to the timely Fengburn, this time it turned out to be the 6th Division? And it's two sides again? Gu Shoufu, this damn old bastard, is trying to kill himself?

Is the Sixth Division addicted to losing the military flag? Why did the General 6th Division lose its flag? This damn bad luck division, Hatohiko Asakanomiya hated Gu Shoufu at the moment for the Sixth Division, and when he thought of the incident in which Gu Shoufu broke the Niushou Mountain outside the city wall of Nanjing for the first time, Hatohiko Chaoxiang was suddenly a little angry.

However, what makes Asaka Palace Hatohiko still have lingering palpitations is that thanks to the wing flag of the 47th Infantry Wing has been burned before, there will be no military flags to lose, if three military flags are lost at a time, then it will be really lively, Asaka Palace Hatohiko is very glad that thanks to the 47th Infantry Wing, there is no military flag to lose, and then Asakanomiya Hatohiko also found out? It seems that your own requirements are too low, right?

Asakamiya Hatohiko knew very well that if the military flag was lost, then he Asakanomiya Hatohiko would be nailed to the pillar of shame of the Imperial Army of the Great Emperor forever, how could this kind of thing happen? Hatohiko of Asakanomiya warned Gu Shoufu that if he lost the flag of the wing, then please cut himself off and apologize!

Gu Shoufu, who did not have any troops to deploy, quietly left the headquarters, and Gu Shoufu's figure slowly disappeared into the darkness alone, one lost four wing flags in a row in less than forty days, two of which were burned, and two are still missing? If the lost military flag is captured by Zhong [***], then Gu Shoufu will only have one way to choose from disembowelment.

Although it was the 6th Division that lost the military flag, the wing flag was related to the honor of the entire Imperial Army, and the overall honor of the Imperial Army was pinned on this side of the wing flag, so Prince Hatohiko Asakanomiya immediately ordered that the 18th Division, which was originally planned to be the 6th Division, intersperse with the division of Sadao Nakajima, which was supposed to protect its flank, immediately transfer the 55th Infantry Wing and the 56th Infantry Wing under the jurisdiction of Major General Ueno Kamepu of the 23rd Infantry Brigade and the 11th Brigade of Field Heavy Artillery. The 1st Brigade and the 2nd Brigade of the 2nd Tank Wing carried out a counter-assault on the Zhonghua Gate front, and it was necessary to find the two wings of the military flags that were lost in the heavy artillery fire.

In the face of the counterattack carried out by the Central [***] from the direction of Zhonghua Gate, the commander of the 55th Infantry Wing, Notomi Shotoku, and the commander of the 56th Infantry Wing, Fujiyama Saburo Nakasa, could only lead the troops to cooperate with the first brigade and the second brigade of the second wing of the combat vehicle on the hard top, for the sixth division lost the military flag again, Notomi Shotoku and Fujiyama Saburo and others were no longer so shocked, but they also understood that this time was different from the 11th Infantry Brigade was raided by the elite headquarters of the [***] Rehe Corps.

At that time, the flag squadron had plenty of time to burn the military flag and destroy the flagpole, and bury Fengjie, the reason why it was dangerous this time was because the two infantry wings of the 36th Infantry Brigade and the 47th Infantry Wing outside the Zhonghua Gate were subjected to unprecedented artillery fire, if the flag protection squadron was unlucky and was knocked out in the first round of artillery fire, then the possibility that the flag of the wing was lost or even captured by the [***] is very large.

The order was issued directly by the headquarters of the Central Branch Dispatch Army to the 55th Infantry Wing and the 56th Infantry Wing, and Major General Nokamepu, the brigade commander of the 23rd Infantry Brigade, and the division commander of the 18th Division, Nakajima Sadao, did not know it.

As a result, there was a serious imbalance in the attack of the 18th Division, and the counterattack troops of the Chinese defenders seized the opportunity to intersperse and divide them into a fierce pursuit.

The 55th Wing and the 56th Wing of the Infantry Army, which counterattacked towards the Zhonghua Gate, collided head-on with the two armored battle groups commanded by Qiu Qingquan and the 1st and 3rd Brigades of the Provisional First Mechanized Division of the Rehe Corps commanded by Hao Wenbin.

(To be continued)