For Zhang Xuewu's order, Li Xinkai felt very incomprehensible, the lack of crude oil and refined oil in Rehe is a fact, the established refinery can only operate for a few hours a day, because the crude oil provided by the Soviets is very limited, and a large number of drilling and exploration equipment can only be idle in the warehouse, although Li Xinkai is not a geological expert, but he also knows that the exploration of things is just a matter of having a hammer and not a hammer, where can he have an accurate grasp?

Even Sun Jianchu and those people just said that there might be an oil layer, but they didn't expect the corps commander to make such a big determination? Not only to dispatch an armored detachment and special forces, but also to provide air cover? Three times a day meant that he would have to deploy at least twenty-four to thirty-two of the latest extended-range BF-109G multirole fighters for the task.

It must be known that the existing combat planes of the Rehe Flight Unit are only more than 370 units, which is equivalent to the transfer of nearly one-tenth of the combat strength, and many pilots and ground crews who have returned from Nanjing are waiting for new fighters to roll off the assembly line.

The implementation of Zhang Xuewu's orders has never been discounted from top to bottom of the Rehe Army, Zhang Xuewu also realized that the development of the Yumen Oilfield is absolutely important to the Rehe mechanized troops, if there is not enough oil as reserves and support, no matter how many mechanized troops can only be decorations, the Soviets in terms of crude oil and refined oil Karehe neck This point made Zhang Xuewu very uncomfortable, although the output of the Yumen Oilfield is not large, but it is more than enough to maintain the combat use of the Mechanized troops of the Rehe Army.

With sufficient fuel, Zhang Xuewu dared to plan a large-scale battle, whether it was offensive or defensive, it seemed full of confidence, in the face of the four-way onslaught of the army, Zhang Xuewu's instruction to Li Xinkai was to stick to the counterattack, because there were Tang Ziqiang's mechanized division and Zhanyang's fifth integrated division and five well-equipped and well-trained reserve divisions, and any of the troops did not dare to give up the tens of thousands of elite Rehe troops in the fortress fortress city in front of the lone army, and he said that he had deep scruples about Tang Ziqiang's mechanized division, The main reason for this is that the annihilation of the 11th Infantry Brigade of the 6th Division of the Yue Army by the 1st Mechanized Brigade of the 1st Provisional Division in Nanjing made the Yue Army aware of the powerful assault power and attack surname of the mechanized armored unit, and coupled with its mobile surname, Yue himself was very scruple about the mechanized division commanded by Tang Ziqiang, a tiger entrenched in the hinterland of Rehe.

The biggest crisis faced by Zhang Xuewu is not that Rehe was besieged by the Yue army, but the crisis situation in Nanjing at this moment, and the Yue army is also a large-scale all-out attack by the Fourth Route Army, and the Jiangjun Mountain Fortress and Qixia Mountain Fortress are all under siege by the Yue Army, Ye Yunfei and Gui Yongqing are gritting their teeth and stiffening.

The battle of Nanjing defense can be said to have entered the most critical battle of the city wall, around the thirteen gates of Nanjing City, Hanxi Gate, Xingzhong Gate, Victory Gate, Zhongshan Gate to carry out a series of fierce battles, among which the fiercest battle is where the Taiping Gate is, the Taiping Gate can be the main fortress Zhongshan, control the northern suburbs, since the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, has always been a place for soldiers to fight, the army has arranged a field heavy artillery 11th Brigade here, arrived at the attack with firepower.

And outside the West Water Gate, the army erected a ladder to climb the city wall was counterattacked by the defenders' cluster grenades, because the West Water Gate is facing the three mountains outside the city, so it is also called the Three Mountain Gate, which is the main road out of the west of Nanjing, so the army deployed heavy troops here to attack in turns, in addition to suppressing the Chinese defenders at the head of the city with firepower, the army hit the fire and repeatedly bombarded the urn city, trying to open a breakthrough.

The same fierce battle throughout the night also had the position along the Jubao Mountain held by the headquarters of the 88th Division, because it was named after the Yuhuatai of Jubao Mountain, which was the Zhonghua Gate that Zhang Xuewu was most concerned about, because in history the army was after breaking through the Zhonghua Gate, the long drive straight into the city of Nanjing, and arrived at the Xiaguan Ferry Wharf.

Compared with the worries of Zhonghua Gate, Tongji Gate is relatively relieved to defend Zhang Xuewu, because Tongji Gate is equipped with an urn city, its city wall can be called a magnificent building, the width of the city wall can be parallel to three cars, it faces Nanjing City Avenue, there is a Jiulong Bridge outside, next to the East Water Pass, this place is the confluence of the Qinhuai River and the Ming City, it is the place where the soldiers who have always attacked Nanjing must fight.

And Guanghua Gate is the only main gate in the south of Nanjing City that is still in the hands of the Chinese defenders, and it is on a central axis with the Hongwu Gate, Chengtian Gate, Fengtian Gate and other gates of the Ming Imperial City, it is a dangerous place to hold Nanjing City, and the defense should naturally choose a strong one, otherwise it is extremely easy to lose the big because of the small.

The whole city of Nanjing can be said to have fallen into the frenzied attack of the Yue army, the onslaught of the Yue army at all costs made Zhang Xuewu a little overwhelmed, the Chinese defenders in Nanjing City can hold the key points are extremely numerous, many points are directly exposed to the ground and air fire of the Yue army, under the huge power of the Meiji 38-style 150 mm field howitzer, all the civil engineering works are in vain.

In the face of the frantic attack of the army, the fierce battle for the city wall of Nanjing has exceeded Zhang Xuewu's expectations, Zhang Xuewu is a little in a hurry, in history Nanjing both benefited and suffered from its unique geographical location and extraordinary feng shui good environment, the ancient city of Nanjing has suffered more than once from the disaster of war, but it has also repeatedly reorganized from the rubble and smoke, which is also due to its unique geographical location, but in the face of the modern new war model, Nanjing's advantages of developed land and water have become its biggest weakness and dead hole.

However, even when the Central Plains was occupied by foreign races, the Han nation was about to suffer a catastrophe, and the Han people usually chose Nanjing as a base for recuperation, determined to go on the Northern Expedition and restore the glory of China.

In history, there was the success of the second Northern Expedition of the Ming Dynasty and the Republic of China, and the three Northern Expeditions of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Xiao Liang and Liu Song were successful. At the beginning of the Southern Song Dynasty, the ministers all discussed to Jiankang as the capital to show the restoration of Kuang, unfortunately Song Gaozong had no intention of the Northern Expedition and decided to be in Hangzhou, but under the pressure of public opinion and the righteous indignation of the ministers, Jinling was still set as the capital, even if the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom took Nanjing as the capital, but also to expel foreign rule, so Nanjing is regarded as the revival of the Han people, the ancient city of Nanjing has a special status and value in Chinese history, but now the ancient city of Nanjing has also become a lonely city.

None of the faint monarchs and ministers in history dared to abandon Nanjing, the place of rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and it is no wonder that Chiang Kai-shek insisted on holding on to it with all his might, and Nanjing would be lost in his own hands? Zhang Xuewu unknowingly fought a cold war.

This is absolutely impossible, even if the Yue army is storming the city wall, Zhang Xuewu still has a relatively sufficient mobile force to deploy at the moment, but in the face of the absolute superiority of the ground and air firepower of the Yue army, the casualties of the reinforcements themselves are probably inevitable.

However, what Zhang Xuewu was most worried about was that the battle of the city wall of Nanjing was tantamount to the army gradually compressing the maneuver space of the defenders, although from time to time there were fighters of the air force and the Soviet Volunteer Air Force to aid China arrived in the skies over Nanjing, but it was only a drop in the bucket, and the army had gradually mastered the air supremacy over Nanjing.

In fact, Zhang Xuewu had already prepared and expected this situation to a certain extent, after all, the air force is fighting for comprehensive national strength, relying on imported weapons and fighting hard with others, even if it can rely on the superiority of fighters to succeed for a while, in the end, due to the large-scale military embargo and blockade of Europe and the United States, the loss of one plane is one plane, and the damage of one part cannot be replaced, and the Chinese Air Force is in an extremely disadvantageous position.

Zhang Xuewu once thought about transferring part of the Rehe Air Force to support the Nanjing battlefield, but in the face of the huge army aviation and naval aviation of the Imperial Army, how many fighters could be dispatched to form a level of strength with the Yue army in the skies over Nanjing? Zhang Xuewu didn't have a number in his heart, and now Rehe was also attacked by the Yue army, and he was also on the cusp.

To say that Zhang Xuewu hated nothing more than the Americans at the moment, just when the army was besieging Nanjing, the US political axe once again approved a low-interest loan of $250 million, so that the book could be used to buy American machine tools and other industrial products, in order to stimulate the economic recovery of the United States, Zhang Xuewu knew that before the outbreak of the Pacific War in 1942, the Americans were likely to provide more than $500 million in loans again, and these loans were used to let the company buy American industrial products.

The Americans are out of self-interest, while the Chinese are bleeding and dying! International politics is so cruel, weak China has no friends, and a lonely China is destined to resist alone.

Under the coordinated attack of the 6th Division's Tani Shoo and the 101st Division's Ito Masakashisho, the 18th Division's Nakajima Sadao Division and the 114th Division's Sumatsu Shigeru Division, with the 24 Type 38 150-mm howitzers of the 7th Field Heavy Artillery Brigade Kawaki Tongxia Division, were supported by firepower, and were attached to the 5th Tank Wing of Reading Li, to attack the Chinese defenders' positions along the Qinhuai River in the south of the city.

The officers and men of the 154th Division and the 156th Division of the defending troops along the line fought to the death and did not retreat, and they were determined to defend one house and one street and one street, and they stubbornly held on to the remnants and waited for reinforcements.

Zhang Lingfu was exchanged for howitzers by Zhang Xuewu from Yu Jishi, and Zhang Lingfu himself was very strange why the commander of the dignified Rehe Army would name and exchange twelve 105mm heavy guns for himself? He is just a little-known little colonel commander, and he is worthy of Zhang Xuewu, the high-ranking commander of the Nanjing garrison, so concerned? Zhang Lingfu felt very incredible.

What immediately surprised Zhang Lingfu was that Zhang Xuewu actually handed over the reserves of the five Reading Force Brigades to him to command, and the colonel commanded the colonel or major general of the same level? Zhang Lingfu was very surprised, because he was not Zhang Xuewu's Rehe team after all, and he could entrust himself with the reserve team that played a crucial role in determining the battle situation, and Zhang Lingfu was more or less secretly proud and excited.

(To be continued)