At noon on the 13th, the 24 Japanese heavy artillery units had just stopped shelling at the Yuhuatai heavy artillery position, and more than 100 artillery men were resting on a pile of shell boxes, and they had just received a telegram from the Nanjing front headquarters to suspend the attack on the urban area of Nanjing.

Now the Zhonghua Gate, Guanghua Gate and Zhongshan Gate are all controlled by the Japanese army, and they believe that the city of Nanjing is already the property of the Japanese Imperial Army.

Now we only have to wait for the complete annihilation of the defenders of Wulong Mountain and ensure that there are no Chinese troops on the periphery of Nanjing, and then we can rest assured that we can attack the urban area of Nanjing with all our might.

These artillerymen had already heard that the navy and air force attacking the Wulongshan battery had failed, so this time it was finally their turn to strike at the heavy artillery brigade.

The soldiers of the Heavy Artillery Brigade believed that even without the help of the navy, it would be easy for the well-equipped Japanese army to defeat the defenders of Nanjing, who were far less equipped than the Japanese army.

As the captain of the Japanese Heavy Artillery Brigade, Rukawa Todasa, he can be described as a spring breeze in the past two days. Since he was ordered to come to reinforce the Battle of Nanjing a few days ago, the two brigades of them finally arrived at the outskirts of Nanjing on the evening of the 11th.

When their two heavy artillery brigades had just arrived in Nanjing, they were personally received by General Matsui Ishine that night.

At the meeting, General Matsui Ishine gave them great hope, hoping that their arrival would immediately break the stalemate in Nanjing.

After all, the city of Nanjing, with its high walls and thick walls, is difficult to open up the situation in a short period of time with only 88,105 mm mountain artillery. In fact, the 75 mountain guns and various infantry guns and mortars of the Chinese defenders also caused great casualties to the Japanese army.

The arrival of the heavy artillery brigade was to increase the superiority of the Japanese artillery firepower. And Rukawa Tudasa also lived up to expectations, and on the morning of the 12th, they showed their skills at the Zhonghua Gate position.

With just a dozen heavy artillery shots, a wall of Zhonghua Gate was completely blasted open, and then these dozens of heavy artillery pieces began to name all important Chinese defensive positions in Nanjing.

Almost every shell took the lives of dozens of Chinese defenders. In just one morning, their two heavy artillery brigades wiped out at least a few thousand defenders of Nanjing.

For the Chinese defenders who fell on the ground in battalions, regiments, and even brigades, Rukawa Todasa also expressed his admiration for the stubborn resistance of the Chinese defenders.

When he saw that many Chinese generals, like ordinary soldiers, were charging at their Japanese positions with rifles, Rukawa Todasa was also deeply shocked.

In particular, I listened to the Japanese comrades-in-arms who attacked before, saying that such a deadly counterattack was being staged in almost all the battlefields outside Nanjing.

Those soldiers called Hanako in tattered clothes, some of them did not even have guns, but only held large knives, and dared to attack the Japanese positions.

There are also many wounded soldiers who are fighting to their last breath, and they also want to pull the Japanese troops around them to die together. They fought the Chinese defenders more than a dozen times, and each time the Chinese soldiers were repelled in a desperate form, regardless of casualties.

So the first lesson these veterans teach all recruits is not to be eager to capture alive the wounded Chinese soldiers who have fallen on the ground when fighting the Chinese soldiers.

The best action to see such a wounded soldier is to shoot him and then walk past him.

Hearing the experience of these veterans, Rukawa was deeply shocked. He couldn't help but ask, "Can a country with such tenacious soldiers really be conquered by their Japanese Empire?"

Soon after a simple lunch, the heavy artillery brigade of Liuchuantu quickly got into a car and transferred twenty-four heavy guns to the Yaohuamen position, which at this time no longer had a single Chinese defender.

In order to protect their heavy artillery brigade, General Matsui Ishine even sent a squadron of soldiers as the guards of their heavy artillery brigade, which shows how much Matsui Ishine values here.

While the heavy artillery brigade of Rukawa Todasa was still setting up an artillery position, a squadron of Japanese soldiers walked towards the Yaohuamen position with neat steps.

The squadron leader in charge of guarding the artillery position was a captain named Nakamura, and he saw the same team of 300 people approaching the artillery position from a distance, and immediately led the soldiers to meet it.

"Hello sir, I'm Captain Nakamura of the 9th Division, and this is an artillery stronghold, if you are passing through here, please take a detour." Nakamura found that although the other party only came with a team of 300 people, the leader turned out to be a Nakasa, and he had to salute the other party first.

"Very good, I am Xiong You Zhongzuo of the 10th Division, and I was ordered by the division commander to come to the Yaohuamen position to protect our heavy artillery brigade. Now that I've taken over here, you can return to your division. Captain Nakamura from the Japanese countryside didn't dare to ask more, but the task here was important after all, and he had to bite the bullet and say: "Report to the commander, our squadron was also personally assigned by the commander of the Ninth Division to come here to protect the heavy artillery brigade, so I can't easily evacuate here." Thank you for your understanding. ”

"What? Is it so difficult to protect a small heavy artillery brigade that it takes two squadrons of soldiers? When did our Imperial Japanese Army learn to be so wasteful?

Are the generals in the command stuffed with feces in their heads? Don't you know that the battle in Nanjing is tight now? I now order you to immediately withdraw from the artillery positions, which are now my defense zone. "This Nakasa seems to be very unreasonable.

Captain Nakamura felt very aggrieved, and he estimated that the General Headquarters must have given the same task to two different divisions when issuing orders.

It stands to reason that this kind of chaotic situation rarely happens, but now is the time of war, all mistakes can happen, the other party's level is too high, he did not refute it, but he can't withdraw the army privately, he wants to report the situation here to the brigade, and he is afraid that the brigade commander will be angry.

In desperation, Captain Nakamura suddenly thought that the commander of the heavy artillery brigade was Osa, so it was better to let him assess which squadron to leave in charge of defending. In this way, once Rukawa Tudasa sends himself back to the division, he will have a reason to send him to the top.

Thinking of such a perfect solution, Captain Nakamura immediately communicated his thoughts to Nakasa in front of him, and Nakasa in front of him also thought that there was no way, in short, it would take less than two squadrons of imperial elites to protect these twenty or so guns.

So the lieutenant ordered the squadron to rest for a while, and at the same time let these old soldiers from Tokyo entertain these soldiers from the countryside and let them see the wealth of the Tokyo soldiers.

So the soldiers of this squadron stepped forward one after another, took out all kinds of cigarettes, and communicated cordially with Nakamura's squadron. And this Kumamoto Nakasa, with a few soldiers, followed Nakamura all the way to the improvised command post of the artillery position.

At this time, Rukawa Todasa had just set up the cannon and the parameters of the cannon were being adjusted, when he heard Captain Nakamura, who was in charge of guarding outside the tent, come to report that the 16th Division had also sent a squadron to defend it.

He wanted to ask Rukawa Todasa to decide for himself which of the two squadrons would be better to keep.

Hearing that there would be such a situation, Rukawa Tudasa was very angry, he had long heard that the staff officers of the command headquarters often passed orders indiscriminately, and for this reason they had been criticized by their superiors more than once, but they didn't expect that today's road matter would let themselves be put on the table.

Rukawa Osa lifted the tent and saw Squadron Leader Nakamura and a haughty Nakasa standing outside the door. It was extremely bad for this Nakazo to give his first impression, and he didn't salute his chief when he saw him.

With a look of contempt, he just glanced at the saber on Nasa's waist, and he had to endure the anger that was about to get angry, it turned out that he saw the chrysanthemum logo engraved on Nakasa's command knife, which was a yellow chrysanthemum, which could only be owned by members of the royal family.

"Damn, I'm running into the legendary Tokyo Old Soldier again. I can't leave them behind, or they won't protect me, but I will protect them. ”

Rukawa Todasa pretended not to recognize the identity of this Nakasa, and he said calmly: "There are also cases of the empire passing on wrong orders from time to time, since Captain Nakamura and they have already arrived here first, then the artillery position should be defended by them. ”

The officer who was known as Kumamoto Nakasa looked very relaxed when he heard that he did not need them to defend him, and at a glance he knew that they did not want to defend the artillery brigade at all.

Rukawa Tudasa saw the stinky problem of these old soldiers at a glance, and when the Nakasa in front of him came to the tent, he didn't look at him squarely, and several soldiers behind him were even more excessive, and they even wandered silently towards the heavy artillery position.

Rukawa Osa had to stop him, but just as he yelled at the soldiers not to go to the heavy artillery. Nakasa Kumamoto in front of him suddenly came behind Captain Nakamura and slashed his neck with a palm.

Then he saw Captain Nakamura fall to the ground softly, but at the moment when Nakamura fell to the ground, he seemed to see this Captain Nakamura looking at the artillery position not far away with a surprised expression.

Then Rukawa Todasa also looked curiously at Captain Nakamura's gaze, and he found that the soldiers who had followed Kumamoto were holding short knives in both hands, and kept slashing their own artillery.

What's even more terrifying is that these people killed people so fast, in just the blink of an eye, more than a dozen artillerymen had fallen next to the heavy artillery.

What is even more exaggerated is that after these people killed all the artillerymen around them, they immediately rushed towards the artillery who was on the ammunition box, and they kept throwing all kinds of flying knives from their hands while rushing towards the unarmed artillery.

Just when Rukawa Todasa finally reacted that these Japanese soldiers had a problem and wanted to draw their pistols and fire a warning shot, Kumamoto Nakasa suddenly appeared in front of him.

Then there was another hand knife, and he was also knocked unconscious, but the moment he fell to the ground, he suddenly saw that at the entrance of the guard unit of the squadron of the artillery position not far away, more Japanese soldiers with double knives were slashing and killing Captain Nakamura's soldiers.