The death of Heiyan Yoshikatsu did not affect the progress of this battle, which was already doomed, and in Niushou Mountain, the ancient battlefield where the national hero Yue Wumu once set up a fortress to break the Jin Army, all the officers and soldiers of the Fifth Brigade of the First Mechanized Division of the Rehe Regiment of the National Revolutionary Army, and all the officers and soldiers of the Fifth Brigade of the First Mechanized Division, Colonel Sun Guiming, and the brigade commander were all martyred.

Sun Guiming's death made Zhang Xuewu feel extremely sad, Sun Guiming is Zhang Xuewu's most proud brigade commander, is the division commander of the Sixth Integrated Division of the Rehe Army, Sun Guiming is different from Zhang Xuewu's northeast faction, this person's loyalty to Zhang Xuewu far exceeds his loyalty to the party-state, so Zhang Xuewu attaches great importance to this person, it can be said that the main reason why Zhang Xuewu brought Sun Guiming to Nanjing was to let him gild in Nanjing, but I didn't expect Sun Guiming to die in Nanjing in the end?

The first colonel and brigade commander of the Rehe Army who died in battle, Sun Guiming immediately became the brigade commander of the major general and brigade from the Ministry of Military Affairs, and the living people played for the dead, Sun Guiming's family received the highest pension and condolence money in the history of the Republic of China, and it was also a full distribution of 20,000 pieces of silver glittering ocean, Zhang Xuewu directly sent a telegram to the Rehe Provincial Ministry, demanding that Sun Guiming's orphans be immediately issued a pension of 200,000 yuan, which is ten times that of the central government.

The fierce counterattack of the defenders of Nanjing only lasted until dawn, and the Chinese defenders, who also suffered heavy casualties, retreated within the city walls. After all, Nanjing is the capital of China, and the last counterattack of the Chinese defenders seems to make Yue feel something?

After dawn, whether it is the Chinese defenders and the army, the entire city of Nanjing fell into silence, and a large area of corpses around the city wall of Nanjing made both the attacking army and the Chinese defenders tremble, it can be said that such heavy casualties make both the offensive and defensive sides have a sense of dying together? The ranks of the officers who died in the army were also promoted from Zhongzuo and Dazuo to generals, and four generals also sacrificed their lives in [***].

In the Yuhuatai counterattack, Sun Yuanliang, commander of the 88th Division, Zhu Chi, a major general of the 262nd Brigade, Gao Zhisong, commander of the 264th Brigade, and Yi Anhua, commander of the 259th Brigade, were all martyred.

Prince Hatohiko, who arrived at the front in person, looked at the corpses of the two armies mixed together in the forward position, and frowned slightly, the casualties of the troops were beyond the so-called bearing capacity of Prince Hatohiko of Asaka Palace.

Moreover, within the deadline given by Emperor Hirohito, the army failed to conquer Nanjing, and the army attacking Nanjing had reached nine divisions and three mixed brigades, three heavy artillery brigades and three tank wings, three special naval formations, and an army and naval aviation unit, totaling 49 squadrons of fighter planes.

After paying such heavy casualties, but not being able to capture Nanjing, the generals of the base camp and the staff headquarters of the army can be said to be puzzled, when did the combat effectiveness of [***] increase so much? Or has the combat effectiveness of the Imperial Army regressed?

After the fierce fighting, the city of Nanjing suddenly fell into a deathly silence, and Hao Wenbin, who assaulted the Zhonghua Gate, got an unexpected surprise, that is, the flag of the 23rd Infantry Wing of the Army. After a brief cleanup, the complete wing flag was found under the body of a lieutenant.

The absolute killing radius of the 105-millimeter high-explosive rocket is seven meters, that is, within this radius, even if it is not hit by shrapnel, the shock wave generated by the explosion alone can shock people to death.

After seizing a wing flag of the Yue Army, the ecstatic Hao Wenbin immediately reported to Zhang Xuewu, and Zhang Xuewu also immediately sent a relevant telegram to the Wuhan Xingying.

Zhang Xuewu sent a speedboat to Wuhan overnight, and the officials and men of the Wuhan camp seized this golden opportunity and hyped up propaganda, as if it was not Nanjing, the capital of China, who was besieged and fought bloodily, but their own Tokyo.

The Sixth Division, which was able to survive the loss of the wing flag several times, finally failed to escape this catastrophe, and the anger and crying of Hatohiko Asakamiya did not help, and Gu Shoufu did not have to be dismissed from office because of the Nanjing Massacre as in history, but there are striking similarities in history, that is, Gu Shoufu was tried by the International Tribunal for the Far East in history and shot by the Chinese military police in Nanjing, and this time Gu Shoufu, a militarist who was extremely loud, did not choose the glory of the samurai and apologized for his crimes. Instead, he ended his "glorious" life with a Browning pistol from Asakanomiya Hatohiko.

Because Gu Shoufu created a miracle in the miracle of the Imperial Army, that is, the wing flags of the four infantry wings belonging to a division were all lost, and even one was captured by the Chinese [***], this shame is the most unwilling to face by the army, and the navy has no such scruples, and the loss of the flag of the 23rd infantry wing made all the infantry wings of the entire Central Branch Dispatch Army who participated in the attack on Nanjing rumor, and hid their wing flags like the money jars of Zhou Papi's family.

All the officers of the 23rd Wing, who lost the flag of the wing, committed suicide by disembowelment, and the remaining soldiers launched a desperate assault on the Zhonghua Gate on their own, with no artillery support, no chariot coordination, and no bombing cover.

It can be said that the counterattack of [***] and the loss of the flag of the 23rd Infantry Wing were a great shock to all the units of the Chinese army attacking Nanjing.

Looking at the collapsed city wall of Nanjing, especially the corpses of the officers and soldiers of the two Chinese and Chinese soldiers piled up at the location of the breakthrough, he said that he really couldn't move, because almost all the generals of the Yue army were very clearly aware that the breakthrough was just a beginning, and the really tragic street fighting had not yet begun.

On June 30, 1937, the wartime base camp announced that Prince Hatohiko of Asakanomiya would be transferred back to the Strategic Section of the Native Staff Headquarters, and General Tada Jun took over as the commander of the Central Branch Dispatch Army.

Hatohiko Asakanomiya, who took responsibility for the loss of the wing flag, can be said to have left with shame, although Hatohiko Asakanomiya was still able to enter the staff headquarters, but even his status as a prince was doomed to the highest decision-making level of the army for the rest of his life.

For Zhang Xuewu, it is an incomparable pity, because the two generals of the Yue Army that Zhang Xuewu wants to reimburse the most is Gu Shoufu, and the other is his Chaoxiang Palace Hatohiko, the culprit of the Nanjing Massacre who was exonerated by virtue of his royal status after the war, but Zhang Xuewu also knows that the time after the future is still long, and if one day the [***] team lands on the mainland, it will not be too late to completely liquidate.

Zhang Xuewu also knew that he was also whimsical, and now that the capital of his country was not guaranteed, he was still thinking about landing on the nest of the Japanese invaders?

Tada Jun, who took office, immediately adjusted the coordination between the various divisions and regiments, and temporarily withdrew the 6th Division and the 16th Division with heavy casualties to Jiangyin for rest and replenishment, and 30,000 veterans drawn from the mainland and the Kwantung Army were added to the troops, because in the Battle of Nanjing, the grassroots officers and veterans of the army were often the main targets of the sniper shooting, and Tada Jun pointed his troops directly at the Purple Mountain.

The tactics of Prince Hatohiko of Asakanomiya were regarded as extremely stupid tactics by Tada Jun, especially to attack a large city like Nanjing, which was held by the elite troops of the Central [***], Tada Jun merged the 11th Field Heavy Artillery Brigade and the 5th Field Heavy Artillery Brigade that had been heavily damaged, concentrated all the combat vehicles, and transferred the 13th Division, the 18th Division, the 101st Division, and the 114th Division to form an attack group, and with the cooperation of all heavy artillery fire and aerial bombardment, Focusing on attacking the front line of Zhonghua Gate, Tada Jun's tactic is to gnaw bones and come piece by piece.

Zhang Xuewu's tactical adjustment made Zhang Xuewu feel a huge crisis, because he could feel it from the overall tactics of the army, he had changed the commander, and he had carried out large-scale reinforcements, and the main force of the North China Front Army was now attacking the strategic point of Xuzhou after capturing Jinan, echoing the central branch of the army that attacked Nanjing.

The battle situation in Rehe is relatively stable, which makes Zhang Xuewu more relieved, and he captured a wing flag of the Yue Army, which was originally a relatively happy thing, but the comprehensive tactical adjustment of the Yue Army diluted Zhang Xuewu's joy a lot, and he has filled in two brigades in the direction of Zhonghua Gate, and in such a narrow area of urban defense, the defenders were bombarded by the fierce artillery bombardment of the Yue Army, and a regiment was almost consumed in an hour.

In order to reverse this passive situation, Zhang Xuewu used the rocket artillery vehicles of the mobile artillery regiment as a unit, and used jackal light tanks and hound armored vehicles as cover, and adopted the tactics of hitting and running, and fought guerrilla attacks with Yue himself near the Zhonghua Gate.

In the fierce battle of the second day, the city wall near the Zhonghua Gate has been collapsed in several places by the heavy artillery of the Chinese army, and the two Rehe military brigades led by Hao Wenbin have been playing the role of a firefighting team.

This is the first time Zhang Xuewu dispatched a death squad in the defense of Nanjing, and the general dispatch of the death squad means that the situation is quite critical Because the army is silent in other aspects, Zhang Xuewu did not dare to easily transfer the reserves of Purple Mountain, not to mention that the 88th Division and the 87th Division withdrawn from Juhuatai suffered great losses, and the remnants of the 88th Division were less than 1,000 people, and Zhang Xuewu reorganized it into a regiment as a reserve.

In order to clear out these infiltrated soldiers, Zhang Xuewu used three gendarmerie regiments, which were very tenacious, hiding in dark corners and shooting black guns until they were all killed, and the three gendarmes also suffered more than 500 casualties in order to clear these small soldiers.

Zhang Xuewu was furious and decided to use his own way to treat his own people, and the Rehe Corps was equipped with a large number of submachine guns and anti-tank rifles, using directional steel ball mines and other weapons, infiltrating the defense line of the army in squads, fighting small ambushes, and using piecemeal methods, relying on infiltration and counterattack to recapture the positions lost during the day and at night.

Duo Tianjun was very surprised that Zhang Xuewu was able to quickly adapt to his tactics and make tactical adjustments very quickly, because this requires a very high so-called military literacy, and it requires well-trained subordinates.

The positions occupied during the day are often lost at night, and the artillery fire of the [***] is extremely accurate, especially the terrible hail rocket artillery, like the Jackal light tanks and Hound armored vehicles, although they have not been captured intact, but the wreckage has been transported to the mainland and Xinjing for research and imitation.

What makes Tada Jun very helpless is that he feels that he seems to be following the old path of Prince Hatohiko of Asakamiya, and his tactical rhythm seems to be mastered by the other party? This shocked Tada Jun incomparably, and what surprised him even more was that his tactical rhythm was more likely to be mobilized by the opponent? Is Zhang Xuewu's adaptation surname too strong, or is his tactical loophole too big?

Tada Jun has read Zhang Xuewu's information hundreds of times, an unknown little guy who rose from the Manchurian Incident? Suddenly appeared in front of the world with an image that turned the tide? How different are its tactical characteristics from the style of many Chinese generals?

In particular, Zhang Xuewu's foresight in the use of new weapons made Tada Jun extremely uneasy, Zhang Xuewu's advanced vision in strategy made many people in the staff headquarters extremely shocked, the battle of Chengde has now become a compulsory classic example of the Imperial Army University, it can be said that Zhang Xuewu has studied himself to the bones, and every step is in front of the Imperial Army, so that the 200,000 army has not been able to gnaw down the city that is only less than 20,000 [***] fortified, The ill-prepared Imperial Army suffered the biggest defeat since the reorganization of the Imperial Army in the bitterly cold weather, and the Battle of Waterloo of the Army was said to repeat the mistakes of Chengde in Nanjing.

In the eyes of Tada Jun, the level of China's Whampoa Military Academy is only equivalent to that of Lu Xiao in the Empire, that is, the preparatory department of the non-commissioned officer school, and Tada Jun does not think that the Whampoa Military Academy or even the Central Army University can cultivate a tactical genius and strategist like Zhang Xuewu.

What is amazing is that Zhang Xuewu sent a large number of his deployments to Germany and the United States to study, but he did not have any relevant study experience? The result of working behind closed doors can only be closed and backward, and Tada Jun knows very well that over the years, no matter what war the soldiers have, they love to add "the battle of national fortune" and other words that make Tada Junren shocking and bloody, in fact, it is because the book is too small, the resources are extremely scarce, and they can't afford to lose.

From the Meiji Restoration's Qing War, the Russo-Japanese War, and even the risky Manchurian Incident, to the all-out punishment war launched for revenge, it seems that every time the Great Empire is engaged in a huge gamble, as the former chief of staff, Tada Jun was originally going to take over the post of commander of the Chinese Dispatch Army, but due to the unexpected mistake of Prince Hatohiko of Asakanomiya, the imperial army and even the imperial family were covered with great shame.

The job of Tada Jun is to clean up the aftermath for His Royal Highness Prince Hatohiko of Asaka Palace, which is commonly known as wiping his ass, and the honor of winning the Chinese capital did not expect to fall on his head? This is also something that Tada Jun never dreamed of before, compared to the position of the commander of the Chinese dispatch army is insignificant, Tada Jun's goal is the marshal, but the marshal of the Imperial Army is very strict about the qualifications, even to the point of harshness.

In addition to the requirement of a clean background and a great contribution to the Empire, the personal resume must have served as the position of the third chief, or served as the emperor's former military attaché chief of the chamberlain, and what Tada Jun needs now is the great honor of capturing Nanjing, the capital of China.

Tada Jun thought that as long as he could bring enough casualties to Zhang Xuewu's defenders, then Zhang Xuewu would retreat, and Zhang Xuewu's troops would give up Nanjing Beidu under unfavorable conditions, but the onslaught of the past few days made Tada Jun shake his original plan.

The Zhonghua Gate has become history in the history of Nanjing, almost a section of the city wall is intact, the five infantry brigades of the attacking army in large groups continue to attack each previously determined breakthrough point, the Chinese defenders are desperately resisting in the fierce artillery fire of the Chinese army, the 75-millimeter artillery of the two armies have adopted the tactic of bayonets, and they have opened fire on each other almost at zero distance.

From time to time, the 150-millimeter heavy howitzers of the army will carry out a round of suppressive firing, and his own shells will also be transported across the ocean, Prince Hatohiko of the Asakanomiya is not a family and does not know the price of firewood, rice, oil and salt, he can seem to be afraid of the logistics demand, but Tada Jun, who knows that the real family of this empire, cannot be without scruples, and every shell is very precious.

(To be continued)