After taking Yuhuatai, Wang Yaowu just sent a regiment to garrison there to prevent the Kuomintang from rushing out of the city to snatch Yuhuatai back, as for the other troops? ―――――― all in place...

Yuhuatai is not very far from Nanjing, in other words, since the artillery group of the National Social Army can hit Yuhuatai, then Nanjing City is naturally covered by the range of the artillery group.

Of course, this is limited to heavy artillery groups, and the range of 75mm mountain artillery groups is not enough, but even then it is enough.

However, just when Yan Guang was about to give an order to let the artillery group bombard Nanjing across thousands of mountains and rivers, he hesitated...

Because if this is done, many cultural relics in Nanjing City will inevitably suffer incalculable losses, which naturally includes the city wall of Nanjing City―――――― how to enter it if the city wall is not collapsed.

To be honest, as a northerner, there are not many things that make Yan Guang have an impression of Nanjing. And among them, there is the Nanjing City Wall...

Of course, Yan Guang left this impression, mainly because in October 2011, an aunt climbed the 20-meter-high Ming Dynasty city wall with her bare hands on the west side of Zhonghua Gate Castle in Nanjing...

To be honest, as a person who is somewhat afraid of heights (I didn't have it when I was a child, but then I was naughty and fell headfirst from a high place... Yan Guang still admires this aunt very much. After all, if it were him, even if he was only halfway up, his hands and feet would be weak...

And the photo of the aunt climbing the city wall also left a deep, deep, deep impression on Yan Guang...

As a time-traveler from later generations, Yan Guang has seen many cultural relics in this era. Of course, Yan Guang himself is not interested in cultural relics or anything, because he doesn't understand these things at all. However, as a superior person, especially in the current situation, there are naturally countless people who want to please Yan Guang, such as Zhao Weixi, the governor of Gansu, who was originally a figure who seemed to be loyal to Yuan Shikai, but Yan Guang had just won Wuchang, and Zhao Weixi had already sent someone to bring a whole load of antiques over, and there were really many things that belonged to treasures in later generations.

And people like Zhao Weixi, now there are really countless people, not to mention the governors of various provinces, and even some ordinary officials and businessmen have to send some things―――――― you can't accept it, because they all belong to the pro-Yuan Shikai family, if you don't accept it, they will think if you want to clean them up?

Nowadays, the antique cultural relics, which can be regarded as treasures in later generations, have been filled with several large warehouses in the Governor's Mansion of Yanguang. As for the ordinary goods? Nowadays it can only be calculated in tons...

In Yan Guang's era, he experienced the Eight-Nation Alliance, warlord melee, the War of Resistance against Japan, the ten-year catastrophe and the reform and opening up. In China, although there are still many cultural relics that have been preserved in time, this number is a little pitiful compared to the era in which Yan Guang is now...

Yan Guang is not interested in antique relics, this is true, but he does have a very special affection for these things.

It is precisely for this reason that Yan Guanghui accepted the cultural relics sent by officials of the Beiyang family.

Of course, Yan Guang didn't think about hiding these relics in his own home, hiding them in the dark cellar and never seeing the sky.

He had already thought about it, and when the situation in the whole country stabilized, he would open a national museum in Yanjing, and hand over all the cultural relics in his governor's mansion and the cultural relics collected in the future to be properly safeguarded. Although Yan Guang is a layman to antique cultural relics, he also knows that this kind of thing should be properly kept.

Similarly, in order to prevent these cultural relics from being stolen by big thieves, Yan Guang also plans to station an infantry regiment around the museum to be responsible for guarding figures.

Don't underestimate these thieves, on April 5, 2012, before Yan Guang crossed, of course, two Chinese cultural relics worth 2 million pounds were stolen from Durham University in the United Kingdom. On April 19 of the same year, that is, half a month later, 18 pieces of Chinese cultural relics collected in the Fitzwilliam Museum of Cambridge University were stolen again.

Putting aside who did these things, the safety of cultural relics is indeed a matter of concern...

It is precisely because of this that Yan Guang hesitates to continue the shelling...

It doesn't matter if Yuhuatai is destroyed, after all, there is not much historical value there, but if the city wall built in the Ming Dynasty is also destroyed...

Although Yan Guang was very worried, the generals below were very unimpressed with his concerns. In the eyes of people in this era, antiques are of course very valuable, especially those works of famous artists, or antiques that are golden and clear.

As for the artifacts?

Cultural relics are not as valuable as antiques.

And in the eyes of the people of this world, something like the Nanjing City Wall is not a good thing at all, and if it is demolished, it will be demolished, so what is there to hesitate?

It's just that Yan Guang is the top boss of the National Social Army, and the people below naturally have to consider his opinion. So seeing Yan Guang there thinking about whether to collapse the city wall, or thinking of other ways or something, an officer came over and said.

"Governor, if not, send a telegram to Sun Yat-sen and them, asking them to lay down their arms for the comfort of the people in the city, and as a guarantee, we can guarantee that they will leave China safely. If they don't want to, we will bombard a section of the wall with artillery, blow up a gap, and then let the brothers rush in, otherwise the casualties of the brothers will be too great if we don't collapse the wall..."

Originally, this officer wanted to talk about the city wall, but think about it, in this era, there are antiques and money, how can there be money to consider? So in the end, I had to turn into the people. As for letting Sun Yat-sen go, will something happen? Everyone in the Kuomintang Army knows that Sun Yat-sen and Huang Xing can be defeated or driven away, but they can't be killed, at least they must not do it blatantly, let alone let people know that it was them, so letting Sun Yat-sen and them flee again is a good choice―――――― as for the aftermath? The Military Intelligence Agency has at least 100 people in this book, if you want to, why can't you?

And after hearing what the officer said, Yan Guang also nodded and praised.

"Good idea."

In Yan Guang's opinion, the possibility of the success of this idea is really not small―――――― he has often done this in the past...

Therefore, after listening to the advice of his subordinates, Yan Guang sent a telegram to the German consul in Nanjing through the German minister Marzan. Let him pass on his opinions to Sun Yat-sen and others of the Kuomintang.

The German consul was not surprised why Malzan would help in this matter, after all, he also knew a little about the relationship between the National Socialist Army and Germany. So after receiving Malzan's order, he went directly to the Jiangsu Governor's Mansion with Yan Guang's request.

After learning of the arrival of the German consul, Sun Yat-sen and others received him, although they did not know his intentions.

It's just that when the German consul said his intentions, the faces of Sun Yat-sen and others became ugly.

"Is Mr. Consul here to be a lobbyist?"

After listening to the German consul's intention, Sun Yat-sen, who originally came with a smile on his face, said with a cold face.

However, the German consul didn't care much about Sun Yat-sen's attitude, he just continued with a smile.

"I am just at the invitation of Governor Yan Guangyan to come here to convey his opinion to Mr. Sun and all gentlemen, as for other things, it has nothing to do with me..."

Hearing the German consul say this, although Sun Yat-sen and the others on the side looked better, they were also very limited.

Then the German consul continued.

"Mr. Sun, in my opinion, your Kuomintang has no chance of winning this war. It would be futile to continue to resist, and it would even cost many soldiers their own lives, as well as the people of the city...", the German consul paused. "Mr. Eye's opinion is beneficial to both parties, so why don't you just agree..."

Promise? The faces of those behind Sun Yat-sen already said everything, so after a few minutes, the German consul had to leave the Jiangsu Governor's Mansion with regret.

After learning that Sun Yat-sen and the others had rejected their conditions, Yan Guang shook his head with some regret.

Based on past experience, he originally thought that Sun Yat-sen would agree, after all, this kind of thing has happened many times in the past.

However, Yan Guang had already been mentally prepared for this after all, so after only a little regret, Yan Guang turned his head to Yue Chang.

"Tell me to go down and do according to the plan..."

"Yes!"

Just like the officer just said, it may be a pity to blow down the city wall, but if the city wall is not blown down, it is obviously impossible for the Nationalist Army to enter Nanjing, after all, the average height of the Nanjing city wall is about 20 meters, which is not so easy to climb.

So there is no way, Yan Guang can only take a compromise method, that is, to collapse the most inconspicuous section of the Nanjing city wall, and wait until the end of the war to repair it...

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Wang Yaowu was not as sentimental as Yan Guang, after getting Yan Guang's permission, Wang Yaowu had already asked the artillery to aim all the artillery at the Nanjing city wall in the distance―――――― there was the accurate direction indicated by the aircraft, and there was a follow-up correction service, Wang Yaowu was not worried that there would be too much deviation in the bullet point.

And while the artillery was ready, a whole division of troops had already moved into Yuhuatai.

Half an hour later, heavy shelling began.

Because more than 10 tons of leaflets had been scattered to Nanjing in advance, only one-fifth of the people in Nanjing were now left, so the artillerymen did not have to worry too much. Thus, with sufficient ammunition, the heavy shelling lasted for more than two hours.

At the same time that the army artillery group bombarded Nanjing, Liu Guanxiong on the Yangtze River also led the Beiyang Fleet and He Wenjun's Sichuan Naval Division to launch an artillery bombardment of Nanjing.

The heavy bombardment made the whole city of Nanjing seem to shake, and the feeling of the sky falling is really desperate. And after the bombardment began, the Kuomintang troops also withdrew from the city wall, after all, if they remained on the city wall at this time, it would be purely a move to find death...

Nanjing City Wall is in Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, the main building was built in the Ming Dynasty, built according to the geographical conditions and the needs of military defense, is one of the largest ancient city walls in the world. Up to 25 meters at its highest point and 20 meters thick at its thickest.

However, such a city wall, under the bombardment of heavy artillery groups, even held out for less than half a minute.

Many of the city walls, at the same time as they were hit by 210mm howitzers, entire sections began to collapse. This also shows how fragile the walls of the Cold Weapon Age are in the face of modern firearms.

Because of Yan Guang's order, although Wang Yaowu slightly enlarged the scope of the shelling, on the whole, he still maintained the scope of the bombardment in a section near the Changgan Bridge.

So in just five or six minutes, the wall behind the Changgan Bridge had almost collapsed.

However, the artillerymen had expected this, so naturally, the artillery fire extended to the city of Nanjing. The Kuomintang troops who were far away from the city walls and concentrated in the city were bombed on their backs...

After more than two hours, almost half of the ammunition prepared by the artillery group had been consumed, and the area that had just been covered in Nanjing had almost become flat ground, and the Kuomintang troops in the area suffered heavy casualties.

However, Wang Yaowu did not have the slightest mercy, and after the artillery bombardment ended, he had already commanded Xiong Kewu's division of the Sixth Division concentrated in Yuhuatai to launch a fierce attack on Nanjing.

In the shelling just now, the artillery group almost blew a gap more than 200 meters wide in the wall of Nanjing City, and the gravel at the gap was also blown up over and over again, so the four infantry regiments of Xiong Kewu's department rushed very smoothly.

The Kuomintang defenders near the gap suffered heavy casualties due to the shelling just now, so when Xiong Kewu's troops rushed up, the Kuomintang troops responsible for guarding the area could not organize any effective resistance at all.

Fortunately, at this time, Nanjing finally gathered almost 50,000 men from the four divisions of the Kuomintang, although at least half of the division was lost when it was just in Yuhuatai, but there were still more than 40,000 people left in Nanjing.

Therefore, when Xiong Kewu's troops swept away the extremely slight resistance at the breach, after rushing into the city at a distance of more than 500 meters, they finally encountered resistance from the formation.

"Aim, aim, teach these bastards a lesson!"

Behind a bunker, an officer of the Shanghai Army commanded several Soviet soldiers below.

However, the soldiers of the Soviet army below were using the Hatch Kais machine guns supported by themselves to block the Xiong Kewu troops who rushed into the city.

Compared with the Makqin heavy machine gun, the Hatch Chase machine gun is really a big gap, especially the shield, which is the best place for Makqin to be the Hatch Cash. After all, in the case of a shield, Makqin can shoot without scruples, but Hatch Chase cannot, because of this, Hatch Chase was taught a hard lesson by Makqin during the Russian War.

However, despite this, the Hatch Chase is also a decent heavy machine gun, and it can be extremely powerful in tight places.

Therefore, in front of Hatch Cash, the National Socialist Army that rushed in suffered more than a dozen casualties as soon as they saw it.

"Okay, good job, I'll give you credit later!"

Seeing that the Soviet machine gunners had caused more than a dozen casualties on the Nationalist Army with just one shot, the officer of the Shanghai Army patted him on the shoulder excitedly.

The machine gunner was originally using his machine gun to aim at the rushing Nationalist Army, but when he slapped him on the shoulder, the muzzle of the gun jumped, and he actually swept another person. Seeing this result, the Soviet soldier smiled innocently.

It's just that just when the officer of the Shanghai army was about to let him aim in other directions, more than a dozen bullets suddenly hit the bunker in front of them.

"Get down."

After all, it is the person who often touches the machine gun, and the machine gunner and his assistant react quickly, especially the assistant who is responsible for supplying the ammunition, and at the same time as the bullet hits the bunker, he has already knocked the Shanghai army officer on the side to the ground.

When the officer of the Shanghai Army got up, he first straightened the military hat on his head, and then looked at the soldier who had just fallen on him.

"Thank you so much."

The assistant shook his head.

"Nothing."

Then he looked at the machine gunner.

"What was just that?"

There was a little worry between the words.

The Heavy, who was still in his position, was keeping his eyes on the crosshairs, but he understood what he meant when he heard his assistant's voice. But by this time he had already pulled the trigger, so he had to shout loudly without looking back.

"Don't worry, it's not Makqin."

That's right, although he hadn't used Makqin, he had also heard of the power of the 12.7mm Makqin, which was unique to the National Social Army. The power of the dozen bullets just now is good, at least not much worse than his own Hatch Cars, but compared with the legendary 12.7mm caliber, it is far worse.

Thinking of the other type of light machine gun that the National Social Army was equipped with, the machine gunner quickly understood that there was a machine gunner with a Madsen light machine gun on the opposite side who was facing him.

"Is the light machine fast artillery..."

Recalling rumors about the light machine gun, the Heavy desperately searched for Madsen's traces.

Just as he was searching for a very suspicious place, a flash of fire suddenly flashed in that place...

"Oops."

Knowing that it was the gunfire from which the machine gun fired, the Heavy's first reaction was to lie on the cover, but his speed was too slow compared to the speed of the bullet. So before he could lie on his stomach, a bullet had already hit him.

Luckily, the bullet didn't hit him, it just hit him in the shoulder. But even so, he won't be able to use the machine gun, at least for a short time.

And after discovering that he was only shot in the shoulder, the Heavy who slipped under cover kept muttering.

"Bodhisattva bless, fortunately it's an 8mm Madsen, not a 12.7mm Makqin, otherwise, don't want even a shoulder of mine, and if you can't get the whole person..."

At the same time as the machine gunner fell down and muttered to himself, the Nationalist Army on the opposite side also rushed up one by one. Apparently, they all got the news that the Heavy had been dealt with.

However, they are still very careful in their movements, after all, many times, the machine gunner's assistant can also be a machine gunner, even if it is a person who has never fired a gun, as long as he knows how to pull the trigger and move the muzzle, he can still exert great lethality, especially when Hatch Kes uses a magazine instead of a chain...

In fact, just as they thought, just as the Heavy slipped and fell, the assistant on the side had already grabbed it and started Hatch Chase again. While he was doing this, he also shouted loudly to the Shanghai army officer who was still sitting on the ground.

"Quick, get me two magazines."

The officer of the Shanghai Army who reacted hurriedly responded.

"Oh, okay!"

However, just as the officers of the Shanghai Army were rummaging through the ammunition boxes for magazines, and the assistants were there to suppress the rushing Nationalist Army with Hatch Cash, a black goo of winter suddenly flew over―――――― like a grenade.

40mm grenade launcher ...

Before the assistant and the officer could react to what it was, the machine gunner, who was still thanking the Bodhisattva, had already exclaimed.

"Grenades."

But before he could get up from the ground, several of the same things flew from the sky again.

Six in a row, of course, six could not have fallen in the same place, after all, the caliber of 40mm, gave the grenade launcher quite extraordinary recoil. But even then, three grenades landed inside the machine-gun bunker.

"Boom..."

Three times in a row, it's quite a Hatch Kais, it's not bad, although it's a little damaged, but it looks like it's at least usable.

But the machine gunner and his assistant, as well as the loud Shanghai officer...

On this battlefield, where people die tragically every moment, of course, no one will pay attention to their fate, so when the Kuomintang Army that rushed forward found that they were dead, they continued to rush forward, and in front of them, countless Kuomintang troops were still waiting for them.

On the roof, in the corner, in the house...

Sun Yat-sen and Huang Xing knew very well that they were by no means the opponents of the National Social Army in a head-on battle, so the only thing they could do at this time was street fighting...

And street fighting, precisely one of the most brutal wars in the world, many times even more brutal than positional warfare―――――― except for the Somme, which is no longer cruel, but massacre...

Every time the officers and men of the National Socialist Army take a step forward, they have to pay a certain price.

Sometimes a bullet came out of the house and took the life of a young man, and sometimes it was simply a bundle of grenades thrown down.

Quite directly, a lot of young lives were taken away from them...

Of course, not all Kuomintang troops were so stubborn. There were also quite a few Kuomintang troops that were advancing while receiving those Kuomintang troops who were willing to surrender. After all, not everyone sees death as home, and not everyone can be careless...

And the National Socialist Army, in this process of receiving and purging, is constantly advancing like the core area of Nanjing...

By the end of the first day, Xiong Kewu's troops had already taken one-fifth of the city, but his sixth division had also paid more than 3,000 casualties...

The street fighting was really tragic. Especially when they are inferior in all respects, this is the only means for the weak―――――― provided that the defenders of the city have enough perseverance...

(To be continued)