The battle on this side of the gap was quite tragic, and Division Commander Xu took the lead and commanded his men to launch a counterattack against the devils on the position, which was a great encouragement to the officers and soldiers of the 88th Division who almost lost the will to fight.

The seriously wounded soldiers lay on the ground to reload the other brothers, unscrewed the caps of the grenades, and the devil shells whistled again, knocking down the walls near them, and the broken bricks and bricks smashed down on the brothers, and immediately buried the wounded soldiers alive in them, and all of them were killed and martyred.

"Quick, quickly set up a machine-gun plane to fight devils!" An officer of the 88th Division brandished a pistol and shouted to his subordinates, and a group of devil bombers appeared in the air in the southeast direction, and the scarlet plaster flag on the wings looked even more dazzling in the sunlight, like the bloody mouth of a hideous beast.

Several Czech machine gun mounts roared into the air on the shoulders of several soldiers of the 88th Division, spraying out hot tongues of fire, and those devil bombers who pounced on them didn't care at all about the light machine gun bullets fired into the air from the Zhonghua Gate position below, but quickly scattered in the nearby mid-air, and immediately swooped down towards the city wall below in a group of two!

A burst of machine guns hit, and the 20mm machine gun shells instantly interrupted the bodies of the soldiers of the 88th Division who were desperately shooting at the air on the city wall, and the powerful impact of the machine gun shells ejected the broken soldiers' wreckage far away, and the flesh and blood were blurred, and the city wall was stained red with the blood of Chinese soldiers at that time!

Immediately after that, huge aerial bombs roared and dropped near the Zhonghua Gate position, blowing up large craters several meters square on the position, and the soldiers of the 88th Division nearby were blown away without a trace.

There are constantly **** brothers who have been shot and fallen to death, and there are constantly **** tactics torn into countless pieces by the air waves set off by shells and bomb explosions, there are miserable howls and moans of wounded soldiers everywhere, and there are bloody and blurred stumps and broken bones everywhere, and the entire Zhonghua Gate Tower has become a sea of blood and fire at this moment, a real hell on earth!

Although the battle has become such a tragic scene, and their comrades-in-arms continue to die and die, these Chinese soldiers who are resisting on the battlefield still fight to the death, desperately reloading and shooting with the weapons in their hands, and desperately throwing grenades at the devils who rushed up under the city wall.

At this time, the Chinese soldiers who resisted the attack of the devils were completely supported by their own instincts, and the huge difference in weapons and equipment between the two sides made this battle extremely tragic.

A platoon of brothers pounced to plug the gap, most of the brothers died there, the corpses were stacked on top of each other, almost blocking the gap in the city wall, some of the brothers who died in battle still maintained a posture of resistance when they were dying, the corpses were next to each other, leaning against the gap in the city wall, still standing facing the little devil.

At this time, Gu Shoufu, who was watching the battle with a telescope in the back, also felt that this Zhonghua Gate position was not easy to gnaw, and the Chinese soldiers on the city wall were stubborn and more tenacious than he expected, which was different from the information he had received before.

A few dejected devil officers ran down and reported to Gu Shoufu: "Your Excellency, Division Commander, the resistance of the Shina Army in front is too fierce, the Yamada squadron is completely wiped out, and there are less than thirty people left in the Kano squadron. ”

Gu Shoufu originally wanted to scold these subordinates for being incompetent, but when he heard that the troops in front of him had suffered heavy losses, he said unwillingly: "Stop the attack immediately and retreat to the outer position to rest!" ”

A large number of devils retreated like a tide, but the Chinese soldiers on the tower of the Zhonghua Gate City did not have any cheers, and the commander of the independent division Xu was also hit in the abdomen by a bomb fragment, and the blood flowed, and the health soldiers hurriedly stepped forward to check and bandage, and when they saw the injury, the health soldiers shouted at the top of their voices: "Master, fortunately, fortunately, the liver was not injured, and I went down for surgery immediately!" ”

Division Commander Xu pushed the health soldier away and shouted: "Don't shout, what's the big deal with such a little skin injury, go and rescue other wounded soldiers!" ”

The medical soldier refused to leave, insisted on taking the division seat down for treatment, but the division seat resolutely refused, and the officers under his command came over and persuaded the division commander to get off the line of fire, and the major officers of the 88th Division instructed a few of his subordinates to carry the division seat down on a stretcher, but the division commander still refused to get on the stretcher, pulled out his pistol and shouted to the major: "You all leave me alone, the devil will come up soon, go and organize the defense, and waste time on me, an old man!" ”

When the major saw that Division Commander Xu's attitude was so resolute, he had to smile bitterly, saluted Division Commander Xu, waved his hand and led his subordinates back to his position, and the division commander instructed an officer next to him: "Help me up, how many brothers do we have?" ”

"Report to the division, the independent division repelled three onslaught attacks by devils, thirty-five people were killed, sixty were wounded, and eighty-eight people could still fight with guns!" The officer reported.

"Very good, the brothers fought very well, and played with the momentum of our Chinese soldiers, look at those brothers who are blocked in the gap, with them, Nanjing City will never be broken by devils!" The division commander's eyes suddenly shone brightly, he still firmly believed that he could hold the national capital Nanjing, but he didn't know that at this moment, the main force of the division of the Nakajima devils on the side of Cangbo Gate in the east of the city had begun to launch a tidal attack on the Chinese army position, on the city wall near the Xiaguan Wharf in the west, a large number of devil soldiers had begun to climb up to the city wall, and the head of Pan guarding the Rujiang Gate and the remaining men and horses of the tax police regiment were desperately blocking the attack of the little devils. The cruisers, destroyers and gunboats of the devil's Third Fleet on the Yangtze River north of the city began to launch artillery bombardments on the outlying positions of Nanjing!

Zhao Yongfu here in Baguazhou received a message from the brothers who were reconnoitring on the river: "Three devil gunboats and two big warships are coming towards Baguazhou!" ”

As soon as Zhao Yongfu heard that the devil warship was coming, he understood that the little devil was going to attack Nanjing City, the Yangtze River waterway was the only channel for the military and civilians to retreat in Nanjing, although the troops at hand could not ensure the smooth flow of all the nearby waterways, but it was necessary to keep the retreat between Xiaguan Wharf and Baguazhou! Otherwise, if the waterways here are completely blocked by the devils, it will really be completely blocked by the devils in the city of Nanjing.