Nanjing City, garrison headquarters.

Since the army had already begun to advance to the outlying positions of Nanjing, the principal generals of the various units had already returned to their respective units to command the operation, and the garrison headquarters was left with Commander Tang Shengzhi, Deputy Commander Liu Xingli, and several operational staff officers. Another deputy commander, Luo Zhuoying, went to the front line to supervise the battle.

Tang Shengzhi and Guan Xingwei were discussing the military situation in front of the simulated sand table, when a communications staff officer ran in quickly, saluted and reported to Tang Shengzhi: "Commander, the Wuhu direction has been attacked by the 18th Division of the Yue Army, and there is no way to verify the specific situation in the direction of Dangtu. ”

Tang Shengzhi raised his head when he heard this, glanced at Liu Xing in horror, and said: "Regardless of the authenticity of Tu Jie's report for the time being, send a telegram to the Wuhu defenders to order them to hold on to Wuhu!" ”

"Yes!" The communications staff officer suddenly complied, and immediately turned and left.

After seeing the communications staff officer leave, Tang Shengzhi asked Liu Xing: "Tiefu, what do you think of the great victory of the Pheasant and the Security Regiment?" (Tiefu, Liu Xing)

"Brother Meng Xiao, at this moment of military emergency, we should not have the time and energy to investigate whether the Pheasant and Ji security regiment lied about their war exploits, since they can send this good news, then it means that they may indeed be in the middle of the battle, the top priority I think we should immediately send a telegram to this security regiment in the name of the Nanjing Garrison Theater Command, ordering them to stick to Dangtu, and not to let Kou cross the Yangtze River westward, otherwise they will be severely punished!" Liu Xing suggested.

Liu Xing is a veteran general of the Hunan Army, and he is also an old subordinate who followed Tang Shengzhi back then, although the two are bosses and subordinates, but the relationship is indeed like brothers, and for Liu Xing's suggestions, Tang Shengzhi, who has no military acumen, has always obeyed.

"Well, just do what you say!" Tang Shengzhi pondered for a while, then nodded in agreement.

"Okay, I'll go and send out the telegram myself!" After Liu Xing finished speaking, he turned around and walked towards the telecommunications room next to him.

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The position of the Ma'anshan Security Corps.

As soon as the artillery bombardment of the army ended, the officers and men of the first battalion hiding in the anti-artillery shelters rushed out of the air-raid shelters one after another, except for some anti-artillery holes that were directly hit by devil shells, all the soldiers inside were killed, and most of the officers and men in the anti-artillery shelters were safe and sound.

As soon as the officers and men stepped out of the anti-artillery holes, they entered the positions one after another under the leadership of the officers at the grassroots level, and at this time the forward positions were filled with gunpowder smoke, and some officers and men were choked by the pungent gunpowder smoke and coughed again and again.

At the same time, the devil's attacking force was rushing towards the position of the security regiment under the leadership of a Nakasa officer.

Due to the smoke barrier, the officers and soldiers at the front could not discover the whereabouts of the devils in advance.

As soon as the shelling was over, Wang Dingsheng rushed to the front-line trench with the guards, and he wanted to calm the army and command the battle by the way. Wang Dingsheng was comforting a wounded soldier in the trench, when suddenly the guards behind him pointed to the front of the position and shouted in horror: "Camp, devils, there are many devils." ”

"Huh?" Wang Dingsheng immediately got up when he heard the sound, and saw that a large group of devils were rushing towards this side, and they were less than three hundred meters away from his own position.

This time the devil is not a squadron, but a full infantry brigade, nearly 1,000 people lined up to charge at the same time, and the scene is still very spectacular.

Wang Dingsheng looked at it at a glance and saw that the mountains and fields were full of devils.

"Quick! Fire now! All infantry companies, machine gun companies, artillery platoons opened fire at once! Wang Dingsheng hurriedly ordered loudly.

"Bang bang bang...... Da Da Da ...... Suddenly, ......" After receiving the order, the officers and men of each company immediately opened fire, and the dense bullets immediately whizzed and flew towards the devil crowd.

The machine gun company and artillery platoon, which had been hiding behind the position of the first battalion, also began to exert their might, and under the combination of dozens of light and heavy machine guns into a crossfire network, the devil soldiers who had already accelerated their charge were shot one after another and fell to the ground.

Some of the devil soldiers shot back while rushing, trying to shoot at the opposite squadron, but they soon found that the opposite squadron seemed to be equipped with automatic weapons, and they only fired the first round of bullets, followed by several rounds of bullet rain on them.

In the former enemy command post of the 11th Wing, Yuichi Nagano, who was watching the attack of the 1st Infantry Brigade with binoculars in both hands, became more and more frightened the more he looked at it, and finally couldn't help roaring: "Yaga Yalu, how can the firepower of the people on the opposite side be so strong?" According to such a firepower allocation, the people of China on the opposite side had at least three divisions! What are our artillerymen eating? Did all the shelling that lasted nearly 10 minutes just now miss? ”

Several combat staff officers on the side were even more confused and couldn't answer.

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At the same time that Yuichi Nagano was surprised by the strong firepower of the security group.

On the position of the artillery battalion at the rear of the security regiment's position, the commander of the artillery battalion, Wang Xuanzhu, strode up to the tractor where Qiao Anbang was located with an excited expression, stood up and saluted: "Report to the regimental seat, the shooting Zhuyuan has been calibrated, please instruct!" ”

"Have you determined the exact location of the devil's artillery position?" Qiao Anbang jumped out of the tractor and asked.

"Yes, it's calibrated and ready to fire." Wang Xuanzhu replied loudly.

"Very well, it's time to give the little devil a taste of being bombed!" Qiao Anbang looked at the 105mm howitzer that had already raised its muzzle, and was excited, and ordered: "Shell the artillery position of the army for ten minutes, and be sure to destroy all the artillery positions of the devils, and not even leave a single person with artillery!" After bombarding the artillery positions of the devils, they immediately carried out indiscriminate shelling of the sortie positions and the rear of the devils, and the shelling lasted for ten minutes. After the incident, all the artillery immediately got on the towing vehicle and hid in the mountains and woods. ”

"Yes! Mission completion guaranteed! Wang Zhuzhu snapped up and stood up, and immediately turned to leave.

Seeing Wang Xuanzhu leave, Qiao Anbang turned to Wang Gensheng behind him and said: "Gensheng, pass on my order, after the shelling is over, the first battalion, the second battalion, the third battalion, and the guard company will immediately launch a full-scale counterattack against the army!" The reconnaissance company and the armored commando team crossed the frontal position, attacked the rear of the devil in a roundabout way, attacked the command hub of the devil, and Lao Tzu wanted to completely annihilate this dog's Kunisaki detachment in one fell swoop! ”

"Yes!" Wang Gensheng stepped forward and immediately turned around and left.

At this time, the fierce battle in the forward position had entered a white heat, and although the first battalion occupied an absolute firepower advantage, the well-trained devils were not vegetarians, and they were not afraid of death and braved the rain of bullets to charge one after another.

From time to time, soldiers in the trenches were hit by whistling bullets, and the whole person either fell straight backwards or lay on the trench.

Soon, however, soldiers pulled apart the bodies of their comrades and placed them in their positions to continue the fight.

In the forward trenches, Wang Dingsheng was already red-eyed, he picked up a Thomson from the hands of a fallen soldier and fired desperately at the devils who were swarming outside the trenches.

The dense rain of bullets suddenly knocked several hideous-looking devil soldiers to the ground.

"Brothers, give me a hard beating! Whoever dares to take a step back and lose his position, Lao Tzu will kill him! Seeing that the devil was getting closer and closer, Wang Dingsheng roared loudly while strafing.

Opposite, the former enemy command post of the 11th Wing.

Wing Captain Yuichi Nagano saw this with both hands holding the binoculars, and said with a smug smile: "Yo Xi, no matter how powerful the firepower of the Shina pig on the other side is, it is so vulnerable to the attack of our heroic imperial warriors, a group of rabble!" In Yuichi Nagano's view, as long as the attacking troops rush into the ** position on the opposite side, the ** firepower advantage will not be able to be brought into play, and their own side can defeat the enemy in front of them with their superb stabbing skills and win the battle.

However, at this moment, ......a sharp and piercing sound suddenly sounded, and Yuichi Nagano was horrified to find that dozens of fire balls dragged a long tail flame from the rear of the opposite ** position quickly rose into the air, and then slammed down towards his own position through a perfect arc in the air.

How could Yuichi Nagano, who was born in the army, be unfamiliar with this kind of voice? Just as Yuichi Nagano had finished his thoughts, those dazzling balls of fire roared over their heads and smashed down behind them.

Immediately after that, Yuichi Nagano heard a deafening explosion behind him, "Boom...... Boom ......" red flames rose into the sky, followed by a series of explosions that shook the mountains.

"That's? Artillery positions? Yuichi Nagano looked shocked, and slowly turned his head, not believing the facts in front of him.

As a wing commander, he clearly knows that once he loses artillery, it means that from now on, his own troops will be completely suppressed by the opponent and lose the initiative on the battlefield.