However, Zhang Xuewu was very helpless at the moment, because he was completely powerless in strategy, and Chiang Kai-shek, in all fairness, was also an extremely rigid and self-serving person many times, and he was afraid that he had to grasp a very good time to admonish him, especially to figure out Chiang Kai-shek's intentions, and make comments at the right time.

Zhang Xuewu can't be this grandson, he has the energy and effort and he still wants to think about the development and growth of the Baotou Industrial Zone, after all, the victory of the war does not depend on China itself, but the change of the environment of the international political bloc, although China's territory is vast, but the comprehensive national strength is very poor, so it is destined that China can only be a chess piece in the chessboard, not a person who plays chess.

The siege of the city of Nanjing reached its peak at five o'clock in the morning, and the various units of the Chinese army, which were besieging from the east, south, and west, repeatedly used artillery fire to bombard the positions of the Chinese defenders.

The Chinese defenders' officers and men fought back in the artillery fire, giving the attacking troops of the Japanese army huge casualties, and the soldiers of the Yue army in the impact fell to the ground one by one, and the follow-up soldiers blindly carried the rifles with cold shining bayonets and continued to rush up.

The soldiers of the two armies used submachine guns, rifles, pistols, bayonets, sapper shovels, steel helmets, stones, and even teeth as weapons, and in the wanton splashing of blood, some Chinese soldiers had a row of glorious bullets hanging on their chests, lurking in the craters in front of the position, and when the attacking formation of the Chinese army passed, they rushed into the Chinese army with two German-made grenades of the 24th type, and smashed them horizontally and vertically, and the soldiers of the Yue army who were hit in the back of the head rolled their eyes and screamed and fell to the ground.

When the Chinese soldiers wielding brain-stained grenades were impaled through the body by the Japanese army's bayonets or hit by bullets, they either pulled the grenades violently and died with the Japanese army when they thought it was time to finish.

He said that he is particularly fond of suicide attacks or attacks, from meat bomb attacks to human torpedoes, and then to kamikaze death squads, in this regard, he can be regarded as the ancestor of the Taliban terrorists of the younger generation, Zhang Xuewu's understanding is that his dog life is relatively worthless.

The 103rd Division of the Gui Yongqing Division of the Teaching Corps garrisoned the Qixiashan Fortress, and the Ye Zhao Division of the 160th Division responded on the left flank, and the Teaching Corps could be regarded as the elite of the elite among the various departments of the garrison in Nanjing.

In the face of the onslaught of the 13th Division of the Yue Army and the detachment of the Shigeto Detachment, the Qixia Mountain Fortress stood still, because the Yue Army learned that the garrison of the Qixia Mountain Fortress was the elite of the teaching corps of the army of the [***] team, so after several rounds of attack failures, he himself frantically released a large amount of mustard gas.

In fact, the teaching corps is subordinate to three infantry brigades, each of which has two regiments under its jurisdiction, and although the special service battalion, non-commissioned officer battalion, engineer battalion, transport battalion, and communications battalion have been changed to regiments, each battalion is actually only supplemented with three to five companies, which is far from the regimental structure of the 16 combat companies.

The so-called 103rd Division of the National Revolutionary Army was subordinate to the 5th Brigade and the 6th Brigade of the Teaching Corps, of which the 5th Brigade owed the 10th Regiment, and the 10th Regiment was transferred to join the defense of the Jiangjunshan Fortress, so the troops actually deployed on the Qixia Mountain Fortress were only more than three regiments, and the troops used for the front line were less than 15 combat companies.

Previously, Zhang Xuewu distributed a batch of gas masks to the teaching corps, and the teaching corps was also equipped with German-style and Czech-style gas masks, but after the bloody battle in Songhu and the expansion of the troops, the gas masks were naturally insufficient, and it was good that six or seven of the sixteen people in each reinforced combat squad could be equipped with gas masks.

It is important to know that the storage of gas masks should be very careful, in the heat of battle, the gas masks carried by soldiers are very easy to be damaged, causing them to lose their due function.

Zhang Xuewu could only reluctantly distribute all the necessary first mechanized division of his Rehe Corps, and the surplus part was also given to the teaching corps and the 74th Army headquarters, because the use of gas masks requires considerable training, and untrained soldiers can easily cause so-called suffocation.

When the news was immediately reported to Zhang Xuewu, Zhang Xuewu also chuckled in his heart, and immediately ordered all units of the air force to take off and attack the headquarters of Lieutenant General Kawaki Tongxia of the 7th Brigade of the Field Heavy Artillery Regiment of the Yue Army, which cooperated with the 13th Division of the Yue Army and the detachment of Taiwan's Chongto Detachment.

Faced with the strong smell of garlic and the faint green fog, some officers and non-commissioned officers who were equipped with gas masks at the front of the 5th Brigade and Division of the Well-trained Teaching Corps immediately handed over their gas masks to the machine gunners, ensuring the firepower of the machine guns is equivalent to ensuring the safety of the position, otherwise the loss of the position will also be difficult to live, and now all the units participating in the defense of Nanjing are holding their breath, because Zhang Xuewu, commander of the Nanjing garrison, hung up the "Flying Tiger Flag", the highest reward given to a unit by the Supreme Military Committee of the National Political Axe!

Especially at the same time, the elite teaching corps of the elite has been holding its breath with the provisional No. 1 Mechanized Division of the Rehe Army these days, and the appearance of Lao Tzu No. 1 in the world of the provisional No. 1 mechanization has deeply stimulated the officers and soldiers of the teaching corps.

In particular, the provisional First Mechanized Division has already achieved the combat exploits of attacking an infantry brigade and regiment of the whole army, and only the officers and men of the Teaching Corps, who have always given people a look at their faces, have felt a serious sense of crisis, and after all, the final decision on who will be the Flying Tiger Banner will be determined after the Battle of Nanjing, and the teaching corps of the Provisional First Mechanized Division of the Rehe Corps is also very angry about the weapons and equipment of the Provisional First Mechanized Division, which is the pride of the sky, especially after these Zhang Xuewu also supplemented them with a large number of artillery and light and heavy automatic weapons. The officers and men of the teaching corps always felt that they had taken other people's hands short, as if they owed the Rehe Legion.

Lieutenant General Hatohiko of Asakanomiya succeeded General Ishii Matsune as the commander of the Central Branch Dispatch Army and the former commander-in-chief of the enemy in Nanjing.

On the second-line positions such as Guanghua Gate, Zhonghua Gate, and Yuhuatai, the Chinese [***] team is firmly reinforcing the established fortifications, and on the first-line positions, the Chinese defenders are actively preparing for the fierce and abnormal attack on the various units of the Xianggong Hatohiko Army.

The heavy artillery brigades of the two [***] Rehe Corps in Jiangbei plus the 10th Artillery Regiment of the Yanziji Fortress were enough to form an absolute firepower against the offensive headquarters of the Yue Army.

The effective killing radius of a 150-millimeter high-explosive grenade is about 260 meters, and the effective killing radius of a 75-centimeter grenade is about 50 meters.

However, the dense gunfire on three sides of Nanjing City had already resounded, and the headquarters of the 10th Regiment of the 5th Infantry Brigade of the 1st Mechanized Division, which was temporarily organized to hold the position of the Niushou Mountain Fortress, braved the artillery fire of the Yue army to withstand the onslaught of the Yue army wave after wave, and the Yue army also abandoned the corpses before the Niushou Mountain Fortress.

Although the Niushou Mountain Fortress is the so-called fortress in the name, its main fortifications are just civil fortifications built by assault, and several main supporting pillboxes are also built by using the ruins of the Ming Army's Tun Fortress in the Ming Dynasty, and in the face of the 150 mm heavy artillery fire of the Yue Army, the bearing capacity of the civil fortifications is extremely limited.

The 75-millimeter artillery group of the defenders was also forced to shift their positions frequently under the threat of heavy howitzers, and the fighters of the Chinese and Chinese armies who fought from time to time in the air pushed the battle to the top.

From time to time, downed fighter planes tumbled into the river or the ground with billowing black smoke, and white parachutes opened in the air from time to time.

The Chinese Air Force's Hawker III, the Bf-109F of the Rehe Air Force Division, and the N-16 of the Soviet Volunteer Air Force for China's Aid to China Air Force, these three fighters are only close to the Hawker Type 3 and his own Type 94 and Type 95 fighters, and the other two types of fighters, especially the BF-109F fighters equipped by the Rehe Flying Tigers, can far exceed the surnames of the Yue Army fighters, so the BF-109F, which is known as the Black Reaper, has almost reached the point where the pilots of the Army and Navy Aviation Units talk about it.

After the Chinese fighters fled, the few observation balloons that the Chinese army had not had time to put away to correct the artillery fire were beaten into clusters of fire, and the observers on them were smashed into meat cakes, and the fighters of the Chinese Air Force, which were still unsatisfied, began to strafe the ground, and the formation of the Chinese army's attack suddenly became chaotic, and the panic lasted for more than 10 minutes, and the Chinese army began to concentrate machine guns to carry out anti-aircraft fire in an organized manner.

Sun Guiming's face in the command post of the Niushou Mountain Fortress looked very bad at the moment, from the early morning when the army launched a general offensive to the present, the forward troops have continuously repelled the 27 attacks of the army that are more and more crazy one after another.

The first battalion and the fourth battalion of the 10 th Frontier Regiment were filled in one after another, and the forward position on Niushou Mountain was like a bottomless pit, and a combat company was exhausted after 10 or 20 minutes of filling in, and one battalion could not hold out for two hours, and the fourth battalion was reinforced for only one and a half hours, so they called the regiment headquarters to ask for reinforcements.

How can it go on like this? The rate at which this kind of troops are being consumed is simply shocking! In particular, after the Chinese army suffered heavy losses in the West Delo trenches, the Chinese army frantically adopted the tactics of artillery fire and slow advance, especially when the Chinese and Chinese armies were fighting together, the Chinese army used artillery fire to carry out indiscriminate artillery bombardment.

Compared with the bloody battle of Songhu Luodian, which is an inch of mountains and rivers and an inch of flesh and blood, the battle for the garrison position of Nanjing City is even better.

(To be continued)