With the participation of thousands of young people in Jiangpu Town, the speed of the Baoshan regiment's rush to repair the bunker fortifications was greatly accelerated.

It is really a fluke to say, originally with the strength of the Baoshan Regiment, if it only relied on the hastily built civil fortifications as defensive support, it would be impossible to stop the Kunisaki detachment, and even Bai Chongqi's estimate of three days could not hold out, the Kunisaki detachment is the elite of the army, and its mobility and combat effectiveness are really not ordinarily strong!

But now, the situation is very different, due to the beauty of the sky, a sudden heavy snowfall, greatly delayed the marching speed of the Kunisaki detachment, due to the melting snow caused by the muddy roads, the mechanization of the Kunisaki detachment has become a burden, can not help but sigh, Yue Weihan's luck is really not ordinarily good.

What's more, there is also a war correspondent Zhao Xinyi who is very good at mobilizing the masses!

In less than two days, Comrade Zhao Xinyi, who was nominally a war correspondent, but was actually an underground party member, mobilized all the masses in Jiangpu and Pukou towns and nearby villages, and the young and strong people were responsible for repairing the fortifications, while the women and children were busy boiling water to cook rice, serving tea and water, and under Zhao Xinyi's mobilization, many people demolished their houses and took out bricks to build bunkers, and even the elderly people also donated their own longevity materials to build national defense fortifications.

In the face of such enthusiastic Jiangpu people, the [***] officers and soldiers of the Baoshan Regiment were even a little at a loss!

To say, the mass base in Jiangnan is not bad in the first place, and there will be no complaints when you go to a camp or something in a big family, and when the troops pass through the villages, there will occasionally be people carrying tea and holding hard-boiled eggs to work the army, but no one has ever seen such a hot scene as now.

Chi Chengfeng happened to be at the headquarters of the 1st Battalion, and said to Cao Xinglong at the moment: "His grandmother, our Lao Chi has been fighting for more than ten years, and this is really the first time I have seen such a scene, why are these people suddenly so enthusiastic?" ”

"I've seen a lot of scenes like this." Cao Xinglong seemed to recall the past, and said with some emotion, "When we followed the old battalion commander on the Northern Expedition, we fought everywhere we went, and the people really welcomed us at that time, but unfortunately after the defeat of Wuhan, such a scene has never been repeated." ”

Chi Chengfeng said: "Da Long, I heard that these ordinary people were instigated by that war correspondent?" ”

"What agitation, it's called propaganda!" Cao Xinglong frowned and said, "Reporter Zhao is indeed very capable in publicity, if she can stay in our Baoshan regiment for a long time, so that no matter where she goes, our regiment can quickly get the support and support of the local people, and the difficulties it faces will be much smaller." ”

"His grandmother's, that's what she said." Chi Chengfeng touched his chin, and suddenly said, "This reporter Zhao is also very beautiful, why don't you just let Tuanzuo marry her, so that she can stay in our Baoshan group?" ”

"Alright, don't bother with it." Cao Xinglong didn't have a good breath and said, "Last time, you didn't have enough about this girl?" ”

"Hey, Tuanza is because his face is tender, I don't believe he is not moved." Chi Chengfeng said disapprovingly, "The little white face is like this." ”

"I don't have the time to talk to you, hurry back to your own position." Cao Xinglong drove Chi Chengfeng out as he spoke, and told him while rushing back, "Lao Chi, remember that the fortifications must be repaired according to the specifications mentioned by the regimental seat, and when the fortifications are repaired, remember to bury explosives, the lead must be buried deeply, and double wires must be arranged!" ”

"Yes, yes." Chi Chengfeng said impatiently, "Isn't it just to repair a broken fortification and bury a broken explosive, and you can't make a mistake." ”

Cao Xinglong said again: "We must also pay attention to air defense, don't let the little devil's plane find flaws, and don't hurt the people." ”

"Gotta get it, are you bothered?" Chi Chengfeng grabbed his military hat and left, muttering as he walked, "The little devils' bombs are not blowing in the wind, so they are reluctant to throw them on the head of our Baoshan group." ”

………… Chi Chengfeng's nonsense eventually became a fact.

In fact, the devil's reconnaissance plane had already discovered that the Baoshan regiment was building fortifications in the vicinity of Jiangpu Town, because the more than 3,000 officers and men of the Baoshan regiment plus 4,000 or 5,000 people were rushing to repair the fortifications on the icy and snowy ground was really too conspicuous, and the devil's reconnaissance plane had already discovered it at an altitude of more than 1,000 meters.

However, due to the cover-up work of the Baoshan Regiment and the limitations of high-altitude reconnaissance, the little devil's reconnaissance plane never found out that the Baoshan Regiment was building a solid masonry reinforced fortification, but only regarded it as an ordinary civil fortification, so it did not attract enough attention, and later, it even stopped reconnaissance altogether.

Until the main force of the Kunisaki detachment arrived, the devil's bombers did not come to bomb once.

It really made Chi Chengfeng say, Xiao Yue is an island country, almost all resources rely on overseas imports, plus the navy has taken away most of the resources, the resources left for the Yue Ben Army can be described as quite limited, and heavy aerial bombs are luxury weapons for the Yu Ben Army, unless there are important tactical targets, they will not dispatch bombers.

………… Besides, Yue Weihan's snow guerrillas brought great difficulties to the march of the Liutian brigade.

Yue Weihan's snow guerrillas not only sabotaged roads and blew up bridges, but also often planted mines on roads!

Under Yue Weihan's point, Tang Dashan's modified mines are more strange than the other, what trigger mines, tripping mines, and serial mines are endless, in order to clear mines and detonate, the engineer team of the Liutian Brigade was almost wiped out, and the marching speed of the entire brigade was like a snail crawling, and it was less than ten miles forward in a day!

The most fatal thing is that the snow guerrillas often attack the garrison at night in groups of three or five.

Under the command of Yue Weihan, these guerrilla groups were like wild wolves, and they would bite hard at every opportunity, and the little devils were unable to guard against them, and they could not be suppressed, and sometimes, they would be attacked dozens of times in one night, so that the entire Liutian brigade slept in thick cotton coats at night, and had to carry 38 large covers in their hands when they went to the latrine.

Coupled with the melting of snow and the muddy roads, the mechanized equipment of the Liutian Brigade became a burden, from Hexian County to Qiaolin Township, the Liutian Brigade only walked for less than half a day, but from Qiaolin Township to Jiangpu, the Liutian Brigade walked for four and a half days, and it was not until the evening of the fifth day that the exhausted Liutian Brigade advanced to the southern suburbs of Jiangpu Town.

………… The march of the Yanagida brigade was not smooth, and the main forces of the Kunisaki detachment were no better.

Although the main force of the Kunisaki detachment was not attacked by the snow guerrillas, there were also endless people from all walks of life who were looking for trouble with them along the way, most of them were small bandits, there were also local security forces that were routed by the imperial army, and even a "strange" armed force attacked the headquarters of the 11th Wing, but fortunately there was no loss.

Wing Commander Yamada Daisa of the 11th Wing reported that the armed men used a variety of weapons, including broadswords and spears, and dressed like bandits, but their organizational discipline was clearly several levels superior to that of the bandits, and their combat effectiveness was much stronger than that of the bandits.

In addition, the melting snow caused the roads to become muddy, and the Kunisaki detachment was a highly mechanized corps, and the road conditions affected them far more than other infantry brigades, so it took the main force of the Kunisaki detachment a full five days to arrive in Hexian from Chaohu, and at this time, the forward Yanagida brigade had just entered the southern suburbs of Jiangpu.

The repeated exhortations of the front headquarters still worked, and although Major General Kunisaki Noboru never took the Baoshan regiment seriously, he did not rashly order the Yanagida brigade to attack, but ordered the Yanagida brigade to closely monitor the enemy in front of it and wait for the main force of the detachment to arrive before attacking.

………… At noon on December 28 in the 26th year of the Republic of China (1937), the main force of the Kunisaki detachment finally arrived in Jiangpu.

At this time, seven and a half days had passed since the Baoshan regiment rushed to Jiangpu and rushed to repair the fortifications, and due to the abundance of raw materials such as ash and masonry, under the rush of more than 3,000 officers and soldiers and more than 4,000 people, at least hundreds of masonry and cement bunkers of all sizes were built along the highway line!

The field fortifications of the battalions have also been reinforced with cement, although they may not be able to block the direct fire of the anti-aircraft guns or the shelling of the 105 mountain guns, but there is no problem at all in resisting the artillery fire of light mortars and grenadiers, as for the 105 mountain guns, there are special anti-artillery holes dug in the trenches, so there is no need to worry too much.

All in all, the Baoshan regiment has built a solid concrete defense line outside Jiangpu Town, and now it depends on whether the Kunisaki detachment has this steel tooth to crush this concrete defense line!

………… Unlike the relative calm of Jiangbei, the city of Nanjing on the other side of the river has become a hell on earth at this time!

The Baoshan Regiment, which in his opinion could only hold out for three days, has remained unscathed, and in his opinion, the defenders of Nanjing, who could only hold out for 10 days at most, have not yet reached the point of exhaustion.

Seven days ago, two heavy artillery brigades of the Chinese army blew up the Zhonghua Gate and the Guanghua Gate respectively.

Immediately, the vanguard of the 6th and 9th Divisions swarmed in through the gaps in the walls.

Lieutenant General Gui Yongqing, who was in charge of guarding the Zhonghua Gate, adopted the strategy of luring the enemy into the depths, lured an infantry squadron of the vanguard of the 6th Division into the city, and then ambushed the troops and annihilated them all in one fell swoop! Sun Yuanliang, who was responsible for guarding Guanghua Gate, chose to defend the gap in the city wall and fight hard with the enemy, but was bombed indiscriminately by heavy artillery and aircraft of the Yue army, and suffered heavy casualties!

After fierce fighting until the evening, the 6th and 9th Divisions of the Chinese Army broke into the city one after another, and the tragic street fighting officially broke out!

After that, until the complete fall of Nanjing, no matter day or night, no matter when and where, as long as there are people, there will be gunfire, as long as there is gunfire, there will be fighting, the heroic Nanjing soldiers and civilians and the devils of the book fought house by house, every broken wall and every ruin has become a battlefield for the two armies to fight over repeatedly, and every step forward of the army has to pay a huge price!

………… At the same time, several Western adventure reporters who did not hesitate to sneak into the city of Nanjing at the risk of their lives also transmitted the tragic scene of the street battle in Nanjing back to the entire Western world in a way that was almost live broadcast by combining photos and words...... Although the ancient Chinese nation looks like a terminally ill old man, it can always radiate strong cohesion and vitality at the critical moment of life and death, and deal a fatal blow to any enemy who dares to offend!

(To be continued)