Now the two temporary reading brigades under his command can't be reinforced? Zhang Lingfu was anxious and did not act recklessly, because it had been almost two hours since he received the order to reinforce the headquarters of the 154th Division and the 156th Division along the Qinhuai River, and the battle situation on the front line was likely to have undergone great changes.

It was obviously too late to ask Zhang Xuewu for instructions, and Zhang Lingfu decided to disobey the foreign military orders, and spread the troops of the two brigades along the second-line positions outside the city wall combined with the people's houses, preparing to block the troops of the Yue army that broke through the Qinhuai River here, and cover the follow-up troops to occupy the first-line city wall position of Zhonghua Gate.

Zhang Lingfu's judgment was extremely correct, because at this moment, the First Division of the Sixth Division of the Sixth Army was violently slaughtering towards the Zhonghua Gate with the cooperation of more than 20 chariots! If Zhang Lingfu had not chosen to defend but had forcibly blocked the area through the artillery of the Yue army, it would have been very likely that he would have been defeated by the Yue army at this moment, and you must know that the field combat ability of the Chinese soldiers is still far inferior to that of the Yue army, and they are barely able to defend themselves, and it is difficult to win in the face of a well-trained Yue army in the field battle.

If Zhang Lingfu's reinforcements were defeated, then the 88th Division in the bloody battle of Yuhuatai would fall into the danger of being attacked on the back of the enemy, so Zhang Lingfu organized his troops to rely on the residential streets and fortifications to resist steadily, and constantly launched local small-scale counterattacks, exchanging human lives for time, and delaying until the reinforcements arrived.

After Zhang Xuewu received Zhang Lingfu's letter for help, he immediately came to the sand table, he had chosen to let the mechanized brigade carry out a surprise attack from the direction of Wulong Mountain and Purple Mountain, and give support to Gui Yongqing, who was holding the fortress of Qixia Mountain, but now it seems that this attack may be difficult to implement.

Zhang Xuewu finally decided to cancel the sortie and divide all the 49 jackal light tanks and 67 hound armored vehicles that could be put into battle by the mechanized brigade into five assault clusters, which were assigned to various directions in Nanjing to carry out counter-assault against the breakthrough troops of the Chinese army.

Except for the two brigades of the 103rd Division under Gui Yongqing in Qixia Mountain, the troops of one brigade and two regiments on the Jiangjunshan Fortress, and the Fifth Brigade in the Niushou Mountain tunnel, all the other units began to coordinate and retreat to the city wall position, preparing to make a final fight.

The two brigades commanded by Zhang Lingfu, who had stubbornly defended the city wall and did not retreat for half a step, relied on 20 anti-tank rifles to destroy nine Type 95 light combat vehicles of the Chinese army, and the destroyed Japanese military vehicles even ignited a raging fire.

The First Brigade and the Second Brigade of the Provisional Reading Force of Zhang Lingfu's unit were formed from the advance column of the Sichuan Army and the Guangxi Army, respectively.

The military discipline of the Guangxi Gui troops is still good, while the Sichuan army is a little hanging, which makes Zhang Lingfu, who was born in the Imperial Forest Army, very unaccustomed to it, and it can be said that the entire Nanjing that can enter Zhang Lingfu's eyes except for the Rehe Army is the teaching corps.

However, today's bloody battle of the city wall made Zhang Lingfu look at the Sichuan army with admiration, and those seemingly weak soldiers were still wearing tattered military uniforms, covered with a brand-new cotton vest, holding explosive bags or holding blasting canisters produced by Rehe, like dead soldiers who were going to die, they rushed to the chariots of the army and the most densely populated places without hesitation.

Some Sichuan soldiers with grenades strapped to their bodies jumped straight from the upstairs on the side of the road into the crowd of soldiers, detonated the grenades on their bodies, and in the muffled sound of explosions, the narrow streets were full of stumps and broken arms, and even some intestines hung on the hot barrels of the Type 95 chariots, making a barbecue sound.

The generosity of the Sichuan officers and soldiers made the headquarters of the Sixth Division of the Japanese Army like frightened birds, everywhere like grass and trees, and the chariots turned their turrets and fired frantically at the houses on the side of the road, in case a thin Chinese soldier suddenly rushed out.

"Lao Tzu's guns are not as good as turtle sons, but there is only one life! It's worth it for a life! "The Sichuan army faithfully fulfilled their oath to go out of Sichuan with their blood and lives.

Zhang Lingfu was also excited by the enthusiasm of the officers and men of the Sichuan army, but he soon realized that there seemed to be a lack of effective coordination and contact between the various departments of the Sichuan army. It seems that this force was cobbled together not so long ago? Although they are all experienced veterans, they rarely have coordinated tactics.

Zhang Lingfu did not know very well that the more than 4,000 officers and men of the Sichuan army's advance team were recruited from the entire Sichuan army's death squad, and they had taken a three-day vacation before leaving, and the 50 yuan of ocean for being a soldier and 100 yuan of settling-in allowance for being an official had already been distributed.

Zhang Lingfu soon learned from the ID of the lieutenant officer who was killed that the unit of the Yue Army that was frantically attacking in the direction of Zhonghua Gate was the 47th Infantry Wing of the 11th Infantry Brigade of the 6th Division.

What made Zhang Lingfu very strange was that the two infantry wings of the 11th Infantry Brigade under the Sixth Division of the Yue Army had already been killed by the mechanized brigade of the provisional First Mechanized Division of Zhang Xuewu? Xiao Yue is really fucking shameless, his front foot was completely annihilated, and this time it was all added?

After a while, several soldiers who were captured in the street battle were sent to Zhang Lingfu, and these people behaved a little differently from ordinary soldiers, and they often shouted something that didn't seem to be a language, inexplicable?

Zhang Lingfu immediately sent someone to screen it, only to find out that this batch of Chinese troops was actually drawn from the Pyongyang garrison of the Korean army, and was shipped to Shanghai half a month ago to be used to reorganize the 47th Infantry Wing reorganized by the Korean emperors. ”

Since the beginning of the Songhu War, the realm he has passed through is basically a river of blood, and it is not a new thing for the army to slaughter the city and destroy the town, and Nanjing has been fought so fiercely that when the prisoners fall into the hands of the army, I am afraid that they will die extremely miserably, and the day before yesterday, a soldier who was plundered by the army was burned alive with gasoline in front of the position, and the officers and soldiers of the Chinese defenders at all levels are also the same, and they are all killed by the army.

In fact, the order not to leave prisoners was issued by Zhang Xuewu, because at this moment, the officers and soldiers are all neuropaths that have been corroded and infiltrated by the bushido spirit since childhood, and how difficult it is to transport and manage this kind of prisoners, I'm afraid no one knows, and wants to turn these prisoners into free human resources for use? It was simply an impossible task.

If the war lasted for three or five years and a large number of prisoners were captured, Zhang Xuewu would consider making use of the human resources of a large number of prisoners, because the overall quality of the officers and men at that time began to decline significantly, and in 1937 there was no case of soldiers surrendering on their own initiative, and it was difficult to capture even prisoners, and in the Chinese battlefield in 1942, surrendering and being captured became accustomed to it, and there were even soldiers who took the initiative to help dismantle the army to do propaganda work.

Zhang Lingfu's stubborn defense made the new commander of the 47th Infantry Wing, Koichi Kita, very annoyed, and the 47th Infantry Wing was now burdened with a huge humiliation, and Koichi Kita was naturally very dissatisfied with his promotion to the commander of such a unit.

The 47th Infantry Wing is a unit that burns all the flags of the wing, and if it is a simple attack in which all the people sacrifice, it is considered a noble martial honor, and the other side is so defeated that the whole army is burned and the military flag is burned.

The 47th Infantry Wing did not exist in terms of organization until His Majesty the Emperor re-awarded the flag to him, and it was impossible for anyone to be happy with the rank of commander of such a unit.

A brigade of tanks was nearly half destroyed, and the narrow streets would clog the streets once the tanks were destroyed, and the Chinese soldiers would take advantage of their familiarity with the terrain to infiltrate from both sides, and everywhere there were terrible bullets flying sideways, and if you were not careful, you might have a grenade with green smoke popping out at your feet.

Moreover, Koichi Kita was very dissatisfied with the combat effectiveness of the newly formed 47th Infantry Wing, because most of the non-commissioned officers and officers transferred were reservists who had not been trained for a long time, while the soldiers were Korean soldiers drawn from the Korean army.

The 47th Infantry Wing, which was interspersed with blockage, could only fight with the middle [***] repeatedly little by little for every house or street, and every time he watched his clumsy subordinates being knocked down by the machine guns of the middle [***], Koichi Kita had a feeling of going crazy.

However, madness could not solve the problem, and Kida Hiroshi applied to the division and asked for the dispatch of a squadron of field artillery to carry out tactical guidance.

The 6th Field Artillery Wing was also very dissatisfied with the request of the 47th Infantry Wing, because it was very dangerous to reach for fire support, because the shield of the 38-Type 75 mm field gun was only 5 mm thick, and at a distance of 200 meters, the steel core ammunition equipped with the middle [***] could effectively penetrate it.

(To be continued)