At this time, the Japanese army had already taken their steps to attack Nanjing!

On December 2, the Japanese 9th and 16th Divisions captured Jintan and Danyang respectively, and then the 114th Division occupied Liyang. At the same time, the Japanese 3rd Division assembled in Suzhou and was positioned as a second-line division, following the route of the 9th Division.

The next day, on December 3, the main forces of the 9th and 16th Divisions of the Shanghai Dispatch Army advanced along Danyang to Jurong.

On December 4, Sun Yuanliang's division of the 88th Division of the Nanjing garrison and the No. 1 tank of the 3rd Company of the Army Armored Corps suddenly encountered the Japanese army head-on in the south of Nanjing!

Neither side apparently expected to encounter each other suddenly, and after a chaotic battle, Sun Yuanliang chose to retreat. The Japanese army was afraid of being ambushed and did not pursue them.

After a day of repair, on December 6, Chapter 722 The Bloody Battle of Jinling (Part I) The Japanese army began to launch a full-scale attack on Nanjing!

"Chirp...... Rumble! Rumble!! The 3rd Flying Regiment of the "Bombardment ......" day took Longhua and Wangbin airfields as its bases, and Guangde and Changzhou as the advance airfields, and violently bombed the main positions!

Although they have suffered many losses, the troops in Nanjing just haven't learned to be obedient! Even the fortifications were only permanent fortifications set up near the city of Nanjing, but in fact the periphery had no defense capability at all!

Under the bombardment of the Japanese army, it was shattered in a short time! After the bombardment, the Tiangu detachment of the 10th Brigade of the 11th Division of the Japanese Army stormed Zhenjiang, but in a few hours, the Nanjing defenders were defeated and killed along the Yangzhou-Fairy Temple towards the Jiangbei Canal!

The Nanjing garrison was forced to retreat, and then Tang Shengzhi urgently deployed the 74th and 83rd armies to defend the main positions, and the 72nd and 78th armies and the teaching corps were deployed in the last defensive positions such as Lion Rock, Yuhuatai, and Purple Mountain!

In the early morning of December 7, Nanjing.

In the morning sun, the airport ushered in a convoy, and the guards near the airport were more vigilant! But I saw the car slowly stop. But I saw a figure walking down from the car.

This person is the current head of the Nanjing State Government - Chairman Jiang Zhongzheng Chapter 722 The Bloody Battle of Jinling (I)! Jiang Zhongzheng said a word with a calm face, watching Nanjing in the mist slowly board the plane with his wife, with a roar! The plane rose from the ground and flew towards Lushan, Jiangxi......

"Tutu Tu Tu ...... Rumble! Rumble!! The sound ......of gunfire, shouts and fighting resounded throughout Nanjing! At this time, the Japanese 114th Division had already occupied Moling Pass, and the 6th Division hurriedly marched to the flank of the 114th Division. The joint attack on the first-line positions of Yuhuatai was carried out, while the Nanjing troops guarding Yuhuatai relied on fortifications to resist stubbornly.

When the moling was closed, the fire "crackled...... and burned half the sky! Those who stayed behind to watch the shop died everywhere, and the rampantly laughing Japanese soldiers frantically searched and killed in Moling Pass!

Several women screamed and ran away. Behind them were a few Japanese soldiers with guns! They laughed wildly and rushed towards the women!

After a while, he grabbed a woman, and suddenly! Their eyes flashed with the green glow of a beast, and several Japanese soldiers howled and frantically tore the woman's clothes......

"Don't...... I beg you...... Don't......" The louder the woman's cry, the more excited these Japanese soldiers seemed to be! And the people behind the doors trembled and did not say a word.

They just watched, watched the woman being abused! The Japanese army is a beast, a group of beasts without humanity! The woman tried to push the Japanese out of the way. But in exchange for a gun butt!

Her hand was smashed off and her face was whipped hard! Japan is crazy to vent her animal desires, her body is twisted and defiled......

Still no one spoke, and the people at the door trembled! Let the ladies of the family hide and guard the door by themselves. They are all ordinary people with no identity and no background.

Those with identity and background have already retreated to Chongqing. Only they can't dodge at all.

"Wha......" the Japanese soldier laughed wildly. By the time they had spoken, the woman's eyes had lost their look. She ** her body, and her originally watery eyes have lost their brilliance.

She stared blankly at the sky, wondering why she was like this...... Five more days. She's about to get married. The groom is the king of the next village.

That's a simple man, and he will smile when he sees people. He could hunt and often come to his house with pheasants to drink with his father. He also knew some words, which he learned from the village Xiucai with his own wild objects.

He went to join the army, because Master Xiucai said: Where is the country without a home?! Then, he listened to Master Xiucai's words and went to the army. Master Xiucai gave him a gun and helped him propose to his father.

Dad agreed, and in five days...... I married him in five days......

The Japanese soldiers seemed to be very dissatisfied with the woman's heart-rending cry, and angrily scolded a few words and pulled out their bayonets, "Brush!" He cut off her breast.

She cried out in pain! The people behind the doors trembled and fell to their knees. They sobbed under their breath......

"Giggle......" Some unknown cries came out of her throat, and the Japanese soldiers laughed wildly again! But the woman's gaze began to clear, and she no longer screamed in pain, but looked up at the Japanese soldiers.

These Japanese soldiers were also stunned for a moment, and after a while, they howled, "Red deer!!" Wielding a bayonet and a rifle butt, he stabbed at this woman!

"Click...... Bang! Bang......" After a while, the woman's body became a blur of flesh and blood...... The Japanese army is not satisfied! Their eyes were now full of bloodthirsty light, and they unloaded their bayonets and thrust them into the woman's lower body!

As if they had gone mad, they laughed wildly and slit open the woman's abdomen with a bayonet. Pick out the intestines and internal organs and scatter them all over the ground! At the same time, the doors of several houses were smashed open!

The rampant Japanese army laughed frantically and rushed into these people's homes to wreak havoc, and the entire Moling Pass was crying! Countless people were slaughtered, and their bodies were thrown out like garbage......

Refusing to be humiliated, one girl rushed out of the house and jumped into the icy river. But what awaited them was the sound of gunfire and grenade explosions from the exasperated Japanese troops......

Countless people were arrested and tied to wooden stakes and brutally tortured by the Japanese army, and some people were tied to the river by the Japanese army like livestock and their heads were cut off......

The entire Moling Pass is full of corpses...... Those heads, those entrails that were discarded were everywhere. Wailing, screaming and the frantic laughter of the Japanese soldiers are the main themes here......

"Sudden ......" Wang Dazi in Yuhuatai didn't know that his fiancée was dead. Although he was very worried about her, but now that the battle was fighting, the big man Wang didn't have the heart to think about it.

He joined the army in the late stage of the Battle of Songhu, because of his good marksmanship and the fact that he looked very honest, he was gradually promoted to become a machine gun squad leader.

"Boom! Boom ......" A few shells exploded around him, and he didn't care about it, who was used to it! After lying down and dodging the shells. He pressed the trigger again, and it was a crazy strafing shot at the Japanese troops attacking below!

"Wang Weiguo!!" Suddenly, his name was called! The big man Wang originally had no name, and his nickname was Gou Yu. Later, when he learned to write, his old Mr. Xiucai named him "Weiguo" and asked him to join the army to fight devils.

"Here!!" Wang Weiguo replied loudly. Turning to look at the herald. He recognized this as the herald of the regimental commander, but he didn't know how he had come here.

"Your platoon commander was killed just now! Now you are the acting platoon commander, commanding the whole platoon to fight! ”

Wang Weiguo was not surprised, and responded loudly: "Yes!! ”

Coming down from Songhu, he had seen too many things like this. Perhaps the brother you spoke to just now will be a mutilated corpse the next. Even, some are just pieces of minced meat.

"The whole platoon obeys my orders! Hold your ground and don't retreat! Violators are shot!! "Wang Weiguo came down from Songhu. That's what I hear the most. But at the same time, he also added his own words.

"My Wang Weiguo's words are here! Rush, Lao Tzu is the first to rush! Retreat, Lao Tzu is the last to retreat! Follow Lao Tzu to kill the enemy, don't blame Lao Tzu for not being emotional!! ”

"Yes!!" Wang Weiguo is quite authoritative here, although he is not an old seniority. But his ability to fight is recognized by everyone. The last time he was withdrawn from Songhu, he was also the rear guard of the whole regiment.

The fighting continues, but Nanjing is much better than the situation in Songhu. Not to mention that most of the fortifications on the position were permanent fortifications, and the most important thing was that the Japanese warships could not be driven. Naval artillery support is not possible.

"Chirp...... Rumble! Rumble!! Boom ...... "Although there are no naval guns." But the heavy artillery of the Japanese army was not bad! As long as the attack fails, they will be bombarded indiscriminately against the position!

"Kill the devil!!" Wang Weiguo roared with red eyes on the battlefield, and the soldiers under his command kept smashing grenades at the Japanese soldiers who tried to rush up!

Not much. The two sides strangled and made a mess! Wang Weiguo was tall, he took the lead, brandished a machete, roared and rushed down the position to intercept those Japanese soldiers! The platoon commander applied it like this, and the soldiers below were naturally unbearable!

A group of people roared and slaughtered the Japanese troops below, bayonets and broadswords reflected on the position!

And the same is true for the rest of the Lion Rock and Purple Mountain positions. The strangulation of both sides, you live or die! Wounded soldiers were constantly screaming and being sent to the rear.

Looking at the wounded soldiers who were constantly being sent, the remaining personnel who were hiding around were a little anxious. If you continue to fight like this, it is estimated that it will not be long before Nanjing City will be broken! Even Tu Qianjun's troops in Nanjing were a little ready to move.

"Don't worry......" Seeing this situation, Huo Qingyun smiled slightly and said softly: "When it's time for us to go out, we will go out." But not now......"

I don't know why, though. But in the Wehrmacht, the first thing they learned was to obey orders! Unconditional obedience to orders! Everyone pressed their doubts and quietly waited for the battle order.

This is the difference between veterans and recruits, who know that they need to recharge their batteries before the war. When you need to be yourself, the commander will always inform you to go into battle.

Instead of worrying about it, it is better to keep your spirits up and try to survive the battle.

Recruits don't understand this, they get nervous and excited. It's even about to move, but it's never going to think of recuperating. Even if you think about it, you can't do it. You can't wait for the notification calmly like a veteran.

But only a few battles have been experienced. They will mature and form a new group of veterans.

However, this cannot be blamed on the soldiers of the Wehrmacht, although they are veterans, but their determination to fight the Japanese army is not comparable to the troops of the Nanking State Government.

The 1st Army, the proudest unit of the Wehrmacht! They carry the special glory given by Tu Qianjun, and their war history is almost the war history of the entire Wehrmacht!

They have never failed! And this elite from the First Legion is ready to fight, but it is also reasonable. The troops of the DPRK fought brilliantly, but the 1st Army Corps, on the contrary, did nothing.

Especially them, not a single one of them in this unit would consider themselves not elite! They desperately want to fight the Japanese army! On the battlefield, tell the brutes from the land of "barbarians" who is the real pride of the sky!

December 7th. The Japanese Central China Front issued the following guidelines for the capture of Nanjing: 1. Advise Kaesong to seek a peaceful way to enter the city......

7. (2) Particularly strict regulations on military discipline and discipline in the troops, so that the Chinese people will respect and obey the mighty Japanese army......

Tang Shengzhi looked at the losses reported by the various departments with a gloomy face in his headquarters, and the peripheral positions were definitely unable to hold. The Japanese artillery fire was too fierce, and the Nanjing troops, whose fortifications were not very good, simply took their lives to fill it!

Tang Shengzhi is an old-fashioned officer. Still didn't expect to engage in street fighting. In fact, the most suitable methods to counteract fire are fortifications and street fighting. In street battles, due to the chaos, the attacker's firepower will be greatly reduced.

It's a pity that Tang Shengzhi thought of withdrawing the outer positions. Evacuation but lack of preparation led to chaos! Let the Japanese army take the opportunity to approach the city of Nanjing!

"Chirp...... Rumble! Rumble!! Boom ...... "There was a sea of fire near the Zhonghua Gate, and the Japanese fighters were constantly bombing here! And the snowflake-like letter of persuasion also fell from the sky.

On December 9, after the Japanese army captured the outskirts of the city, they sent military planes to the sky over Nanjing to release the Chinese translation of Jing Shigen's words to the defenders, "A proclamation to Tang Shengzhi, commander of the Nanjing garrison, to persuade him to surrender". Surrender by noon the next day, or a general attack will be launched.

At the same time, the Japanese Kunisaki detachment occupied Taiping and crossed the Yangtze River and advanced towards Pukou. The 3rd Flying Regiment of the Japanese Army intensively bombed Zhonghua Gate!

"Kill the enemy!!" There were bursts of roars from the battlefield, and countless soldiers and Japanese soldiers fought together! No one retreats, everyone fights hard!

But there is no organization, no experience in confrontation with mechanization, so the troops suffer a big loss! Countless soldiers were consumed in such battles. All they could do was to temporarily resist the Japanese attack with their own lives.

But what fought back at them was the endless artillery fire and bombardment of the Japanese army!

December 10th. At 11 o'clock in the morning, the commander of the Nanjing garrison clearly rejected the Japanese army's request to surrender!

At the same time, King Hatohiko angrily commanded the Japanese army to launch a large-scale attack on Nanjing, while the garrison was demoralized and dispersed after endless shelling and bombardment......

The Japanese 18th Division had advanced to Wuhu at this time, and at the same time the 16th Division occupied Cangbo Gate and Xia Qilin Gate. and attack the nearby Purple Mountain......

On the 11th, Tang Shengzhi, commander of the Nanjing garrison, sent a telegram to Jiang Zhongzheng, who was in Lushan:

"From December 9 to 11, the Japanese army approached from Gwanghwamun three times. …… Beginning at noon on the 11th, bad news spread frequently, and the Yuhuatai area, Andemen, and Fengtaimen fell into the hands of the enemy, and quickly ordered the 88th Division to go to the front line and fight side by side with the 74th Army and the 71st Army......"

On December 12th, "boom boom boom...... Turbulence...... "Numerous sounds of bombardment, shelling and the roar of machine guns rang out over the positions! The roar of shouting and fighting continued to sound in the Purple Mountain and Yuhuatai in the southeast of Nanjing!

However, the Japanese tank units had already arrived, and with the strength of the tanks' armor, they launched an attack on the garrison.

"Boom boom boom ......" after a shelling. Wang Weiguo has been blown unconscious. On the battlefield, there are only a few people left. Head Han Xianyuan looked at the devastation and roared: "Kill the enemy......"

In the roaring cannon, blood spilled on the rain flower platform...... The brigade commander Zhu Chi took his guards to the position, and finally fell under the bayonet with a lot of blood. In the afternoon, the fighting came, and the Purple Mountain and Yuhuatai fell. None of the defenders surrendered, and all of them were killed......

Sun Yuanliang's 88th Division Command Battle Details:

"On the morning of the 12th, the enemy attacking along the Jingwu Railway was approaching Saihongqiao. Because Yuhuatai is the enemy's main attacker, although all our officers and men fought bravely and hard, there was no food and ammunition outside, no reinforcements inside, and the enemy was carrying chariots, planes, and artillery......

In the morning, Han regiment commander Xianyuan, battalion commanders Huang Qi, Zhou Hong, and Fu Yiting were martyred successively; In the afternoon, brigade commanders Zhu Chi and Gao Zhisong, regiment commanders Hua Pinzhang, battalion commanders Su Tianjun, Wang Honglie, and Li Qianghua also killed themselves or died in battle. All the more than 6,000 officers and soldiers died bravely and heroically......"

"Do you think Lao Tzu is a monkey?! You can conjure up a soldier by plucking a single hair and blowing a breath?! Resist!! I only have this sentence, either die on the battlefield or come back and shoot you!! ”

Tang Shengzhi snorted and sent the telegram "Smack!" The sound was buckled on the telephone, and his face was pale! I can't say a word, how can I say it?! Could it be that the chairman of the committee didn't send a single dog hair?!

Before the war, he boasted about Haikou, saying, "Yunnan's troops are about to leave for the front." As long as you can lead your troops to hold Nanjing for half a month, our million-strong army will be able to form an encirclement and annihilate the Japanese army in one fell swoop! ”

Yunnan's troops did have an army of more than 40,000 people rushing towards Nanjing, but Jiang Zhongzheng was not at all at ease to let Yunnan's troops come! There were many difficulties and obstacles along the way.

But at this time, Tang Shengzhi still had a glimmer of hope in his heart. I hope Jiang Zhongzheng can send troops! He still believes that Jiang Zhongzheng is still willing to defend Nanjing!

But after waiting for thousands of times, what came was a phone call from Gu Zhutong: "The chairman asked me to tell Meng Xiao to cross the river and go north at night, so that the defenders could break through the siege......"

"I'm going to break through a**!!" Tang Shengzhi's eyes were red, and he shouted at the phone regardless of it: "It's like this below, you told me to withdraw?!" How do I withdraw?! What do I withdraw?! The chairman himself told me! Otherwise, this order will not be accepted! I want a telegram!! ”

After speaking, Tang Shengzhi "Smack!" I hung up the phone! His face was rather ugly. At this time, he finally knew that Jiang Zhongzheng did not have the determination to defend Nanjing at all!

Himself, who is the one who carries the black cauldron......

Jiang Zhongzheng, who was in Lushan, was silent. He didn't see the intervention of the nations he was expecting, and he didn't wait for the support he wanted. Jiang Zhongzheng was silent, he was thinking about whether it was worth it for him to keep it like this......

In fact, the situation on the 12th was not so bad, and the specific situation in the early morning was that the direction of Zhonghua Gate was not lost; In the direction of Guanghuamen, the Japanese attacked, and the positions of the 261st and 260th brigades of the 87th Division outside the city "stood still" (261 Brigade Commander Chen).

The 87th Division's Zhongshanmen position was not lost; There is less pressure in the direction of the West Gate of Water. The defenders were the 51st Regiment of the 306th Division. On the afternoon of the 12th, the Japanese army broke through the city wall between the Zhonghua Gate and the Shuixi Gate, but it was eliminated by the 306th Regiment death squad, and the enemy did not attack on the night of the 12th!

But Chairman Jiang Zhongzheng made an astonishing decision: abandon Nanjing!

"I'm in command of the whole picture. Had to leave for a while, I'll be back in the future! Ladies and gentlemen, Nanjing is the capital, the international view, and the location of the Prime Minister's mausoleum, I hope that under the command of General Tang, you will be determined to defend Nanjing to the death if you do not succeed, so that people are in Nanjing, and live and die with the city! ”

This was the speech of Mr. Jiang Zhongzheng, chairman of the NPC National Committee, before he left Nanjing. It's a pity that he seems to be breaking his promise......

On the same day, Tang Shengzhi received a certificate from Jiang Zhong: "Commander Tang, if the situation cannot last, you can retreat in order to sort out and counterattack in the future." Telegraph.

Take a look at this telegram. Tang Shengzhi's head buzzed, like five thunderbolts exploding at that moment! He didn't expect Jiang Zhongzheng to be so crisp and direct! But if you don't withdraw sooner or later, now the defending troops are mixed up with the Japanese army, how can you withdraw? Where to retreat? Once the order is issued, there will be the Yangtze River in front and the chasing troops in the back, wouldn't it be a big chaos? Once this happens, who will be responsible for this?

My plan at that time was to stick to it! I didn't expect that Jiang Zhongzheng would order him to retreat! Didn't he Jiang Zhongzheng say it?! This is a temporary departure, and you must be determined to become a benevolent person if you don't succeed......

"As the supreme commander, you should have made arrangements for the withdrawal of troops and deployed the route for the withdrawal of troops, but now you are panicking at the end of the matter, how did you become a commander? Don't be verbose, you have to cross the river tonight, the devil is almost there, you only have one day to escape at most, tomorrow, Pukou is the world of devils! You can do it yourself!! ”

This was Tang Shengzhi's phone call to Gu Zhutong in a panic, but the other party told him more directly: You can do it yourself!

At 17 o'clock on December 12, the Nanjing Garrison Headquarters.

Tang Shengzhi convened a meeting of the generals above the middle division of the Nanjing garrison in his headquarters, and the topic of the meeting was simple: retreat! Briefly explaining the current war situation, Tang Shengzhi asked if everyone could continue to hold on. And Tang Shengzhi himself is already in chaos...... rq！！！