After discovering the tactics of the Chinese [***] team that must defend every inch of land, the Zhou Libing immediately decided to repeatedly engage in tug-of-war with the Chinese defenders on the outer position, so as to attract the vital forces of the defenders of the Chinese [***] team, after all, the terrain of the main peak position is extremely unfavorable to the Japanese army, and relatively speaking, the terrain of the outer position is relatively favorable to the Japanese army, although it is within the range of the artillery of the middle [***], but it is also within the range of the artillery of the Chinese army.

The Chinese artillery occupying the high ground originally had a certain advantage over the artillery of the Yue Army, so the mountain artillery wing of the 13th Division of the Yue Army was very cautious, and stayed outside the range of the 1005 mm howitzer group of the Chinese defenders.

Gui Yongqing stood in the underground headquarters of Qixia Mountain, his tightly knit brows never showed signs of loosening, and the entanglement and counterattack of the army in the outer line positions caused serious casualties to the teaching corps, and a battalion of troops filled it in, and it was all over in two hours, and such a speed of consumption of troops made Gui Yongqing extremely shocked.

Gui Yongqing pulled up the small flag planted on the sand table on the forward position, hesitated for a moment and inserted it back, because Zhang Xuewu had asked him to hold it for more than fifteen days before he could give up the peripheral position, because the in-depth defense system of Nanjing City seemed to have a lot of space, in fact, the defenders had given up the key positions on the outer line, and now the defenders were holding on to the city wall position, and it could be said that the defenders were almost unable to retreat.

If the Qixia Mountain Fortress is lost, then the Purple Mountain Fortress, the Wulong Mountain Fortress and the Yanziji Fort will be directly exposed to the attack of the Yue Army, Gui Yongqing naturally knows the important surname of the Qixia Mountain Fortress, otherwise, as the chief captain of the teaching corps, Gui Yongqing does not have to risk reaching the front line at all.

Fan Zheng Mizhao of the Tank Brigade of the 13th Division, who accompanied the attack of the 13th Division, looked at the infantry with solemn expressions outside the car and said disdainfully: "What's wrong! What are you cowards afraid of? When did the Imperial Army ever fear the enemy's bullets? Fight the bullets with your chest to fend off the enemy's sharp bayonets! It is said that this imperial army is invincible! ”

An infantry lieutenant on the side was also very angry that Fan Zheng Mizhao didn't have a backache when he stood and spoke, so he retorted: "Your Excellency Dazuo said it lightly, a fully equipped infantry brigade will attack the defense line of [***], and one attack will lose one-fifth of the troops, and you are all shrunk in the iron shell, but you want us to use our bodies to block bullets for you?" We are all equal in the face of enemy shells, and death is extremely fair to anyone! ”

Fanmasa Miaki patted the turret triumphantly and said, "How can it be fair?" Even if we charioteers died, we would die in this expensive coffin of 160,000 yuan, and you were sent back to the mainland in a square wooden box. ”

After the vehicle was warmed up, the ten Type 95 tanks and three ** tanks under the command of Miaki Fanzheng began to guide the infantry to carry out the attack.

In the rumbling artillery fire, flickers of explosions and gunpowder smoke rose from the outlying positions of the Chinese defenders, while the 75-mm field artillery groups and 105-mm howitzer groups of the Chinese defenders in the fortress were also shelling in the direction of the infantry attack.

A high-explosive shell of a 100-5mm howitzer that was whistling by accurately hit a moving Type 95 light tank, and the army chariot was like being hit head-on by a sledgehammer, and the raging fire of the Type 95 tank almost jumped on the spot, the riveted turret was torn open, and orange-red flames burst out of the gap.

After the two tracks of the chariot were all broken, it still ran a distance of seven or eight meters under the influence of the habitual surname, and the broken tracks made a piercing creak, and the infantry of the army who followed the chariot was swept down by the shrapnel that flew rampantly from high-explosive grenades, and a soldier of the Yue army who had a broken leg was holding the broken leg and howling.

A soldier with a bloody face was looking for his broken arm in the rain of shells and bullets that were constantly exploding, and the artillery fire of the army was also bombarding the defender's outer position at the moment, so it can be said that the teaching corps was killing 3,000 enemies and losing 800 themselves, and the brutal battle was raging.

When the chariots of the Yue Army rushed into the defending position of the Fifth Brigade of the Teaching Corps along the blown up anti-tank trench, and the 37-mm anti-aircraft guns of the German RPK deployed by the Teaching Corps on the second line began to fire accurately at the Chariots of the Yue Army, and the 95 Chariots of the Yue Army were continuously hit into bonfires, the remaining Chariots of the Yue Army began to reverse gears one after another and began to reverse, and the Chinese defenders of the Fifth Brigade of the Teaching Corps began to take the opportunity to attack the Chariots with cluster grenades, while the Yu Army who attacked the positions of the defenders began to desperately cover the chariots.

The turrets and parallel machine guns on the chariots of the Yue army were firing aimlessly and frantically, and the Chinese defenders who assaulted the chariots of the Yue army were hit by the machine gun strafing of the Yue army, and a cloud of blood mist burst out of their bodies.

The teaching corps did not have the third-level anti-tank firepower of the Rehe Corps, so it could only dispatch death squads under the cover of RPK 37-mm anti-aircraft guns to cooperate with the sabotage of the Yuejun combat vehicles, otherwise the fixed artillery anti-aircraft guns would not have an advantage in the continuous engagement with the combat vehicles.

The advantage of the battle defense gun is its hidden surname and sudden surname, but once the battle defense gun fires, its position is already exposed.

The Chinese soldiers first used the Czech-made ZB-26 light machine gun to strafe the cavalry with steel core bullets, and several groups cooperated with the bombs to disperse the soldiers of the cavalry who were covering next to the cavalry, and the Type 95 light combat vehicle equipped by the cavalry used a narrow track with a width of 25 centimeters, so as long as two or three German-made Type 24 wooden-handled grenades were used, the tracks of the combat vehicle could be blown off, and if a five-kilogram explosive package was used, the entire combat vehicle could be overturned to the ground.

All thirteen chariots attacking the Chinese defenders were blown up or destroyed by the Chinese soldiers, and Masa Miaki died in his expensive coffin of 160,000 yuan, and the burning flames burned Fanzheng Miaki and his crew beyond recognition, leaving a small piece of charred corpse.

Although the Chinese defenders, who were absolutely weak in terms of strength, tried their best to resist the Yue army, but in the end, after a remnant battalion of the defenders was killed and wounded, the artillery fire of the Yue army began to extend as much as possible, and the soldiers who occupied the peripheral positions began to frantically strengthen their positions, and they even piled the bodies of the officers and soldiers killed in the two armies into the fortifications, because the soldiers of the Yue army knew that soon the Chinese defenders were about to launch a counteroffensive, because the teaching corps, which was the elite backbone of the [***] team, seemed to have a special attachment to the forward positions. If a large number of the Chinese defenders' vital mobile forces can be consumed in the outer positions, then it will inevitably reduce the difficulty of the troops attacking the position of the main peak of Qixia Mountain.

When the forward position changed hands, Gui Yongqing hesitated and picked up the phone again and again to connect to Zhang Xuewu's special line, Gui Yongqing is a famous general in the Central Army, and the teaching corps in charge of him is also the basic cadre of [***], known as the army within the army, and it is also the only unit that is fully equipped with German standard infantry divisions.

Now Gui Yongqing is complaining again and again, Zhang Xuewu is really a little unbearable, but this is only a battle is not enough, the defense troops of Niushou Mountain have already retreated into the tunnel, although the general mountain fortress has repelled the attack of the army, the fifth brigade has also suffered more than half of the casualties, especially when fighting for the outer position, the fifth brigade has lost a large number of troops.

The teaching corps is the lifeblood of Gui Yongqing and even [***], and the first division of the provisional division is not the lifeblood of his Zhang Xuewu? Abandoning the battle for the outside position? Zhang Xuewu was also hesitating, Nanjing City said that it was big, but it was said that it did not have so much tactical space for it to squander.

Gui Yongqing was also aware of Zhang Xuewu's worries and hesitation, and giving up the positions around the main points less than two days after the start of the war was equivalent to putting the Yue army into the city wall position, so that the Yue army could drive straight into the first line of the Purple Mountain, which was undoubtedly bad news for the defense of Nanjing.

Zhang Xuewu took a deep breath and said to Gui Yongqing: "Order the defenders of the outer line of Qixia Mountain to retreat at least the second line and the main peak position, use artillery fire to close the road that the Yue army must pass through to attack the Purple Mountain, and frequently use small troops to attack from the flanks to contain the main force of the Yue army, so that it does not dare to attack the Purple Mountain and Wulong Mountain, Yanziji and other places. ”

Gui Yongqing also knew that Zhang Xuewu had given himself a great favor, and this kind of favor could only be done once, Zhang Xuewu took a deep breath and said to Gui Yongqing: "Captain Gui, the central authorities have now completely given up the erroneous proposition that they are ready to go to war with Yue himself, and the purpose of our previous Taoguang Yang was to paralyze Yue himself, but it is a pity that he did not give us too much time, so Chairman Jiang instructed us to be determined to be desperate and sacrifice everything to fight a defeat in three or four years in the case of isolation, to consume my own vigor and strategic reserves, we must not hesitate to sacrifice our most elite troops to take the lead, step by step bloody battles, defeat after defeat still have to be defeated again and again, there is one place to defend one place, there is no other way! Captain Gui, behind you is Nanjing City, neither you nor I can retreat! Your teaching corps and my Rehe Legion are both elite units, and in the face of the crisis of the country and the nation, what can you do with your bones and blood? I am determined to turn the tide! In the face of the country's and nation's righteousness, no one can hesitate, or even take a step back, the general died in a hundred battles, once there is a green mountain to bury the bones of the faithful, why bother to return the horse leather shroud! ”

(To be continued)