On 10 December, 400 Japanese planes flew again into the city of Nanjing and began carpet bombing of the positions of the Chinese defenders.

Then, under the protection of the Japanese infantry as usual, hundreds of tanks carried out a rampage attack on the Chinese defensive positions outside Nanjing, such as Yuhuatai and Bauhinia Mountain.

At this time, the defenders on all positions in China were also in full position, but the defense of Nanjing had only been issued for more than ten days, and it took a long time just to repair the fortifications on the ground.

The most important thing is the Nanjing fortifications, although they came from the experts of the Nanjing Architectural Design Bureau, but these experts did not really understand warfare, and they thought that as long as the bunkers were built strongly, they would be fine.

But what they didn't know was that no matter how strong the bunker was, it was only as fragile as paper paste under the bombardment of heavy artillery. Due to the serious shortage of bomb shelters and the serious underestimation of the intensity of the Japanese bombardment, the fighters of the defenders of several positions who had just been bombed by aircraft suffered great casualties.

In the first wave of bombardment alone, a third of the Chinese defenders were killed, and by the time the Japanese bombed back and forth several times, the Chinese defenders had already suffered more than half of the casualties.

However, the Chinese defenders, who had suffered heavy casualties, did not retreat, and everyone still held on to their positions. As soon as the bombardment ended, the mortars and infantry guns sent by Huaxing Company a few days ago were pushed out of the bunkers. The defenders, who had survived, immediately moved into positions and prepared for the attack of the Japanese infantry.

The Japanese spearhead, who had thought that there would be little resistance on the position, launched an attack on the Chinese defenders in a dense formation.

The arrogant Japanese army was ready to take the opposite position in one go, but the defenders on Yuhuatai and Bauhinia Mountain were all guarded by German armor divisions with rich combat experience, and they would not let go of the opportunity to attack the Japanese army.

The Chinese defenders in the two places invariably took advantage of the Japanese army's charge to the close side, and all kinds of light and heavy firepower were fired, and the Japanese soldiers who rushed to the front of the position were shot one after another and fell to the ground, and even the high-spirited Japanese tanks were smashed by the infantry guns fired from all directions.

All of a sudden, the attacking Japanese troops were stunned. The tanks turned around and fled from the Chinese defenders' positions, and the infantry returned fire while retreating to their own positions.

The attacking Japanese troops were clearly ill-prepared for the sudden appearance of heavy weapons by the Chinese defenders.

Seeing the reports of all the setbacks at all the offensive points, Matsui Ishine could not believe it, and he immediately ordered the heavy artillery brigade to advance and carry out point-to-point clearing of all the rebellious fortresses and Chinese positions.

Although Li Tie funded 200 mortars and infantry guns for the defenders of Nanjing, they were scattered to various strategic points in Nanjing, and the defenders in each important place were less than 10 infantry guns on average.

And where are the weak mortars and infantry guns that are the opponents of heavy artillery. Only two days later, on the night of the 11th of December, the artillery of several important strategic points on the periphery of Nanjing was completely lost.

Although the Chinese defenders fought bloodily and many soldiers even launched suicide attacks, Nanjing's outlying positions were still being lost little by little.

Under the bombardment of Japanese aircraft and heavy artillery, the positions of the Chinese army were often left with one in ten. Then in the face of the Japanese soldiers who rushed forward with the help of tanks and infantry guns, the position could only be reluctantly taken by the Japanese army.

Among them, the 88th Division stationed in Yuhuatai was besieged by two divisions of the Japanese army, and after two days of fighting, the 88th Division, which had just replenished most of its troops, suffered most casualties and had to withdraw to the city to rest again.

At the same time, the teaching corps stationed at Bauhinia Mountain and the 87th Division stationed at Zhonghua Gate, the southern gateway of Nanjing, still held their positions and never flinched despite running out of ammunition and food.

In the end, if it weren't for the timely rescue of the defenders in the city, the 87th Division and the Teaching Corps would have been wiped out long ago.

However, the war has been fought so far, although the Chinese army has suffered heavy casualties, but the Japanese army has not suffered much, although the Japanese casualties are not heavy, but their offensive has been effectively contained.

Until this time, the soldiers and civilians in Nanjing, from top to bottom, still no one thought that Nanjing could not be defended.

After all, Nanjing is the capital of the Republic of China, and the military and civilian resistance is very resolute. Moreover, Nanjing was backed by the Yangtze River at this time, and Lieutenant General Tang Shengzhi also reported the idea of fighting against the water, and decided to live and die with Nanjing.

In the previous life, the reason why the defenders of Nanjing collapsed was the same reason as the collapse of hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops in the Battle of Shanghai, that is, the back road was copied by the Japanese army.

In the original history, when the war was fought on the 11th, Guoqi Deng, commander of the 9th Brigade of the 5th Division of the Japanese Army, personally led a reinforced Guoqi detachment of 5,000 men to cross the Yangtze River at Cihu Town, 60 kilometers southwest of Nanjing, and went straight to Pukou, the back road of Nanjing, which led to the defeat of the defenders of Nanjing.

On the night of the 11th, when the battle in Nanjing was in full swing, the major general of the Guoqi detachment, the head of the detachment, Guoqi Deng, had just come to the periphery of Cihu Town as promised.

Guo Qi Deng looked at the quiet Cihu Town and couldn't help but say with disdain: "Chinese generals, the tactics are not good, this place is close to the mouth of the Yangtze River, they don't even send heavy troops to garrison here, and there is only one company of Chinese soldiers stationed here, it's really too careless."

After a while, we will quietly enter the village, do not shoot guns, capture the Chinese soldiers here alive, and then cross the Yangtze River at night.

As long as we occupy the ferry on the other side of the river without bloodshed, we will be able to appear on the outskirts of Pukou early tomorrow morning.

As long as the defenders of Nanjing knew that we were north of the Yangtze River, their morale would be in turmoil, and then our fleet would bombard the city of Nanjing from north to south, and they would have no choice but to surrender. ”

"General Kuniki is worthy of being the best military strategist of the Imperial Japanese Army. The weakness of the Chinese army was evident at a glance, and they only sent a company of soldiers to garrison it, thinking that this chain bridge was a dangerous thing to do.

And as long as there is a battle here, the Chinese defenders on the opposite side can destroy this chain bridge at any time. That's why they are so bold and don't set up heavy protection.

But now that it's getting dark, as long as we can quietly kill the defenders here, and then send a large force to sneak across the bridge overnight, we can be absolutely sure to rush across the chain bridge.

As long as we successfully cross the Yangtze River this time, the first hero of the capture of Nanjing will be our Guoqi detachment.

Don't look at the strength of other divisions, but there are no three or five days, and they don't want to attack Nanjing City, and there are fierce street battles waiting for them when they enter Nanjing City.

Even if they eventually won the street battle, they would have only a limited share of the credit, and attacking a city with only 80,000 defenders with 150,000 men would be victorious.

Like our Guoqi detachment, as soon as 5,000 men and horses appear on the north bank of the Yangtze River, they will cut off the back road of the Nanjing defenders. Sasuke Osa, chief of staff of the Ninth Brigade, flattered.

"Don't worry, Sasuke-kun, the commander of our Fifth Division is already very old, and the military department intends to let him retire at the end of this year.

Therefore, as long as the first merit of the Battle of Nanjing is won by our detachment, I will definitely stand out among the commanders of several brigades, and the position of the commander of the Fifth Division will be no one else.

As long as I become the commander of the Fifth Division, I will definitely promote you to take over as the brigade commander of the Ninth Brigade, and you will take over as the commander of this brigade, so that I can better suppress the other guys who are competing with me for the commander of the Fifth Division in the future.

Therefore, we must actively cooperate in the future. "Kuniti Noboru made a promise to his chief of staff in Sasuke Daisa.

"Thank you, General Kuniki, Sasuke will always be your sincerest ally." Sasuke Osa was overjoyed when he heard Kuniki's assurance.

The two of them had a final discussion on the next action, and after thinking that they were foolproof, then, with a wave of their big hands, the five thousand men and horses behind them began to slowly advance towards Cihu Town.

Soon a squadron of soldiers slowly infiltrated the town of Cihu and literally captured the Chinese defenders in the town without firing a shot.

Then the 5,000 men and horses of the Guoqi detachment immediately blocked the town of Cihu and immediately seized the chain bridge at the ferry.

Then thousands of people secretly assembled at the docks, and even set up dozens of infantry guns, ready to deal with emergencies.

Then he ordered a squadron of men and horses to begin to climb quietly up the chain bridge, and they would slowly move towards the opposite side until they came into close contact with the Chinese defenders.

A squadron of soldiers was seen rushing up the chain bridge and soon reaching the opposite bank through the dangling deck.

And until this time, the Chinese defenders guarding the rope bridge on the opposite side had not reacted at all, and Major General Kuniki Noboru and Sasuke Osa couldn't help but smile with satisfaction.

A few dozen meters later, the vanguard of the Guoqi detachment of 1,000 men and horses will rush to the shore, and it can be said that his first merit is about to be obtained.

However, just as the squadron was about to touch the fortifications on the opposite bank, it saw countless lights suddenly lit up on both sides of the bridgehead on the opposite bank.

At the same time, the sound of hundreds of machine guns sounded in his ears, and the soldiers of this squadron opened their eyes wide, and five heavy machine guns were lined up on the front of the entire rope bridge.

At this time, the thousands of Japanese troops at the ferry crossing of Cihu Town saw that a lot of flares were fired at once from the positions of the Chinese defenders on the other side of the Yangtze River.

I watched the flares illuminate the rope bridge, and at the same time, many flares were fired towards the place where I was standing at the pier in Cihu Town.

Kuniti Noboru and Chief of Staff Sasuke exclaimed at once: "It's not good, it's an ambush." ”

At this time, hundreds of light and heavy machine guns on the opposite shore had already knocked down half of the Japanese troops on the rope bridge, and just when the commander of the Guoqi detachment had just shouted that something was wrong, countless gunshots and artillery suddenly sounded around him.

Shells from hundreds of mortars fell on the place where the soldiers of the Kuniki detachment gathered. And that's not even the worst of it.

Just as the soldiers of the Guoqi detachment were about to scatter and hide, there was a sudden loud explosion, and many soldiers felt that their bodies were thrown into the sky all of a sudden.

It turned out that in the open area of the dock, an unknown enemy had already planted hundreds of mines that could be detonated at any time.

"Boom, boom

Poor Major General Kuniki Noboru and Sasuke Osa had already gone to see Amaterasu at the time of the first wave of artillery attacks, and the Kuniki detachment, which had lost its command, was even more in disarray.

In the dark night, many soldiers scurried around, shooting everywhere, and many Japanese soldiers with good water characteristics jumped directly into the Yangtze River, preparing to escape from this dangerous place.

However, there were also a small number of Japanese troops who were in danger, and they automatically gathered together to find favorable terrain and prepare for attacks from all directions.

While these soldiers were still in a mess, a loud charge sounded from all directions, and then with the fierce shelling, thousands of Huaxing guards who had escaped from Shanghai charged the Japanese soldiers at the ferry with a strong machine gun.

The battle went smoothly, and the 3,000 Huaxing escorts perfectly ambushed the Guoqi detachment at the ferry port of Cihu Town. The thousands of Japanese troops at the ferry and the hundreds of Japanese troops on the chain bridge were almost all wiped out, and only a small group of less than 100 Japanese troops left in Cihu Town saw that something was wrong and took advantage of the chaos to flee in the direction of Nanjing.

The 3,000 Huaxing guards rushed to the ferry, killed all the Japanese soldiers who were still resisting one by one, and then unceremoniously pushed the corpses into the Yangtze River, and then began to search the ferry for any fish that had slipped through the net.

It was at this time that the defenders on the opposite bank came over from the chain bridge. As soon as the regimental commander arrived here, he shouted:

"Yang Shuai, Yang Shuai, your kid isn't dead, is he?"

"Yue Xiaofei, what kind of are you shouting? If you die, Lao Tzu can't die. A handsome young man wearing the uniform of the commander of the Hainan Guard Corps said.

"Look, I'm not worried about you, am I worried? I said a long time ago, let our regiment set up an ambush here, and you go to the other side to set up an ambush, but you have to rob me, I see that you are fighting fiercely here, and I am afraid that you will suffer.

No, I'll help you as soon as I wipe out the Japanese devils on the bridge, who knows that your Huaxing Escort is really sharp.

In less than an hour, more than 4,000 Japanese soldiers have wiped you out, which is as simple as chopping melons and vegetables.

I will definitely be really messing with you in the future, and fighting with you is enjoyable. Yue Xiaofei, the former head of the National Army, who also escaped from Shanghai Huaxing Supermarket, said.

"After ten days of preparation, so many explosives and mines, hundreds of mortars and hundreds of machine guns, we were again attacking in this incomparably open area.

If we can't finish down these thousands of Japanese troops in a short period of time, then our Huaxing Escort Army's reputation for so many years will be in vain.

I might as well find a piece of tofu and kill me, so that the captain of our Huaxing Escort Team, Captain Wang Qi, knows about it and slaps me to death. "Yang Shuai didn't think it was a great deal to kill thousands of Japanese soldiers.

Seeing that the Huaxing guards in front of him were throwing corpses into the river, Yue Xiaofei ordered the thousands of soldiers behind him to immediately join the ranks of cleaning up the battlefield.

The two walked to the place where Guoqideng was killed, and the head of Yue Xiaofei sighed vigorously: "You can't be careless at any time?" This guy is really unjustly dead, he came all the way to die, you say that his death is not unjust. Hey, Yang Shuai, look, this guy is still a major general, I thought he was a big Zuo at most? ”

Yang Shuai walked up to Guoqi Deng's corpse and took a good look: "Well, it's really a major general." Oh, we killed a Japanese major general, it is estimated that tomorrow their Japanese army will go crazy, we have to hurry up and build fortifications, it is estimated that their planes will have to bomb early tomorrow morning. ”

"What are you afraid of, don't we have anti-aircraft guns? I've only heard of this thing before, but I've never seen it, but I didn't expect your Huaxing Escort Team to be so rich, and even have this thing. Yue Xiaofei said with a sense of emotion.

"Don't mention the Huaxing Escort Force, from now on, you and I, the 5,000 people, are the independent regiment of the Hainan Escort Army, brother, I am the head of the independent regiment, and you have also become the deputy commander.

From now on, we will be a well-known army. Today's battle is the first battle of the establishment of our independent regiment.

Now that our independent regiment has killed a reinforced wing of the Japanese army in the first battle, it can be regarded as a good start. Therefore, immediately send people to rush to make the military flag, and tomorrow we will show the banner of our independent regiment. Yang Shuai said happily.