Chapter 328: The Battle of Nanjing (6)

The winter sun slowly exudes a slight residual temperature and slowly disappears at the foot of the mountain, and the two ** teams that fought desperately during the day have collected their troops and returned to the camp, each of them or treating the wounded, or reinforcing the fortifications, or rushing to transport bombs, all preparing for tomorrow's big battle.

It was late at night, and the lights were still on in Su Tong's office, and he was still looking at today's statistical results. In today's battle, because the first units outside Nanjing were replenished in time, and the wounded and sick were also transported, the morale finally rebounded, and all support points were not lost.

Today, however, nearly 5,000 people were killed or wounded, and if the battle continued like this, the troops in Nanjing would have been exhausted in less than half a month. Moreover, after a day of fighting, the air supremacy in the sky had not yet been attributed, and more than 100 fighters of the two air regiments of the 1st Air Force Division lost 51 planes and 13 pilots in the battle of Jīlie, which more than 200 Japanese fighters passed.

Looking at such a high loss, Su Tong murmured and complained: "Damn Matsui Shigen, damn Prince Hatohiko of the Asaka Palace, when Lao Tzu's reinforcements arrive tomorrow, I want you to look good, this time Lao Tzu also transferred the Fourth Air Division, I think you are still arrogant, right?" ”

Just when Su Tong was distressed by the loss during the day, Matsui Shigen and Prince Hatohiko of Asaka Palace were also looking at the battle report during the day today, and the two of them were also full of sadness.

Today, the Army's losses in one day amounted to more than 4,000 men, and a company of soldiers disappeared from the Imperial structure. The army's losses are counted, after all, everything that can be called cannon fodder is a bargain, and the soldiers are no longer called up.

However, the loss of the air force made the two men tremble in pain, and after a day of air fighting, the loss of the 3rd Flying Division reached 106 planes and 89 pilots. That's half the number of fighters of the 3rd Flying Division. Lieutenant General Kimura, commander of the 3rd Flying Division, almost stormed the spot, claiming that he would refuse to send fighter planes to support the ground forces again unless he was removed from his post at the base camp until the troops were replenished.

Matsui Ishine and Prince Hatohiko of Asaka Palace finally persuaded the thunderous commander of the flying division to promise that the Fifth Flying Division would soon come for reinforcements, which made Lieutenant General Kimura promise to continue to send fighters tomorrow to help.

In the middle of the night, one after another airships landed on the airfield, they brought the fuel and ammunition of the fighters, as well as the supplies and supplies needed by the troops, and when the supplies on the airships were unloaded, they were loaded with the seriously wounded and sent to Chahar for treatment.

In order to deliver more supplies to Nanjing City, Su Tong transferred almost all the airships in Chahar, and a full 224 airships rushed to Nanjing City overnight to deliver supplies. Along with the supplies came the personnel and equipment of an infantry division.

In order to rush the transportation of supplies, She Nianci, deputy chief of staff in charge of transportation, organized more than 50,000 volunteers in Nanjing to rush supplies and soldiers to the outlying positions of Nanjing City overnight. By dawn, 5,000 tons of supplies had been delivered to various positions, including some weapons and equipment that the soldiers had never seen.

"Throne, throne, good thing!" Li Zhipeng, commander of the 106th Brigade, pointed to the four large-caliber M2 Browning Gaoping dual-purpose machine guns in front of the position, and said with an excited smile: "This thing can hit both flying and infantry, it's really a good thing!" ”

Song Xilian looked at the full array of weapons and ammunition and firearms in front of him, turned his head and said solemnly: "Brigade Commander Li, Chief Su has sent us so many good things, you have to hold your position well, don't embarrass our 78th Army." If I lose my position, I Song Xilian will know you, but my gun won't know you! ”

Li Zhipeng patted Xiōng's mouth, "Military seat, you can rest assured, with so many good things, if I Li Zhipeng can't hold the position anymore, I might as well find a piece of tofu and kill me." But," said this, Li Zhipeng smiled at Song Xilian, "Can you give us a few more mén of that 37 battle anti-aircraft gun, this thing is a devil's chariot, it is a dozen and a dozen." ”

Song Xilian glared at Li Zhipeng angrily and funny, "You xiǎozi, our army has only been assigned twenty-six mén battle defense artillery, I have already given you nine mén, you are still not satisfied, you xiǎo son chirp crookedly, my heart will not even give you the nine mén cannons." ”

"Come on, if you don't give it, forget it, why are you so fierce?" Li Zhipeng muttered a few times before closing his mouth.

After a night of intense preparations, early the next morning, the ** soldiers who had just taken over a large number of weapons and ammunition ushered in the attack of the Japanese army.

As soon as the Japanese attacked, they were hit fiercely by the defenders everywhere, and the dense rain of bullets was far from being comparable to yesterday. With the support of heavy machine guns, mortars, and artillery fire, the defenders everywhere became more and more courageous, and the 74th Army stationed at Purple Mountain even organized several counter-charges with the support of artillery fire, which caught the 9th Division by surprise.

"Bagaya Road, the chariot squadron hurry up and use the chariot to blow up all the positions of the Zhinamen for me!" The sharp counterattack of the defenders made Major General Nobuyoki Ide, the commander of the 18th Brigade who came to supervise the battle, feel that the majesty of the imperial army had been provoked.

Under the order of Jing Xuanshi, sixteen ** chariots slowly pressed towards the position of the 74th Army. Wang Yaowu, the commander of the 51st Division, sneered after seeing this scene from the telescope: "If you came here yesterday and still had a headache, you might have to lose a lot of brothers, but today Lao Tzu will not worry about you." ”

The soldiers of the 302nd Regiment at the front saw that the Japanese tanks were coming again, and some of the soldiers looked at the regiment commander Cheng Zhi in anti-condition, because these times in the past were the time when everyone grabbed lots and decided who to shoot out to blow up the tanks.

Just as they were looking at the chief, Cheng Zhi smiled, "You rabbits, are you thinking about going out to blow up tanks again?" Don't worry, we don't need to go out today, those tanks will naturally be hit. ”

At the moment when Cheng Zhi spoke, several short anti-aircraft guns were launched on the position, and the gunners took out shiny and slender shells from the bullet boxes behind them and pushed them into the chambers.

"Boom"

The continuous explosions of the **-type chariot greatly surprised the Japanese army, who did not expect that the defenders would still have the scarce goods of the Nanjing government such as battle defense artillery.

"Kill and give"

Seeing that the chariot attack was ineffective, the Japanese had no choice but to attack again with infantry

"Report to Your Excellency the two commanders, the commander of the Ninth Division, that their attack has been blocked, and to request air support." A staff officer walked in and reported to Matsui Ishine and Prince Hatohiko Asakanomiya, who were sipping tea in the office.

"You tell Yoshizumi Ryosuke that the Fifth Flying Division will be there soon, so please be patient."

"Hey!"

Looking at the back of the communications staff officer going out, the corners of Prince Hatohiko of the Asaka Palace lù a trace of hideousness, "Matsui-kun, the position of the branch has been attacked for a long time, I see if I will order the front-line troops to use special ammunition to open a way out?" ”

Matsui Ishine was shocked when he heard this, "No, if a special bomb is used, this will cause a large-scale retaliation by the Chahar army, have you forgotten the 50,000 imperial soldiers who died innocently and tragically in Vladivostok?" What's more, the base camp has already issued an order, and special ammunition is not allowed to be used without the approval of the base camp! ”

"Hmph, I just said this because I haven't forgotten, now that our troops' attack is blocked, if we don't take decisive measures, then the longer the time drags on, the more blood will be left for the warriors of our empire." Prince Hatohiko of Asakanomiya has always scoffed at this order of the base camp, in his opinion, poison gas is the same as bullets, it is a weapon to kill, poison gas can kill, bullets can also kill, why can you kill people with bullets, and killing people with poison gas is a sign of cruelty?

"No, as long as I am the commander of the Central China Dispatch Army, I will not give such an order, Your Excellency, you will give Chahar an excuse for the large-scale use of poison gas! You must know that their level of gas warfare is higher than ours! Matsui Shigen said this not because he was kind, but because he knew that if he launched a poison gas war at this moment, he would not be the opponent of the Chahar army, but would anger Su Tong and bring disaster to his side.

"Your Excellency, I once again tell you in my capacity as the commander of the Central China Dispatch Army that if Your Excellency insists on going your own way, I will report this matter to the base camp, and I think that Prince Zaihito of the Idle Palace will personally send you a message, and perhaps His Majesty the Emperor will also send you an order."

Matsui Ishine mentioned Empress Hirohito, and Prince Hatohiko of Asakanomiya shut his mouth stupidly, he could defy the orders of the base camp, but he would never dare to ignore the emperor's instructions, if he provoked the emperor to be angry, he would not be able to eat and walk around.

At this moment, the entrance of Mén was suddenly violently pushed open, and a staff officer rushed in and reported loudly: "Your Excellency, two commanders, the reinforcements of the people of China are coming, and our Third Flying Division and the Third Flying Division are almost completely wiped out!" ”

"Nani!" Matsui and Prince Hatohiko stood up in surprise, and said at the same time in disbelief: "Has the reinforcement plane of the Shina people arrived?" How much? ”

"I don't know, but according to the soldiers on the front line, their fleet is overwhelming, there are three or four hundred!"

Just when Matsui Ishine and Prince Hatohiko of Asaka Palace received the information, Le Yiqin, who had just arrived by plane, led more than 300 fighters of the 1st and 4th Air Divisions to chase and kill the fighters of the 5th Flying Division of the Japanese Army.

Just now, when the remaining more than 50 fighters of the 1st Air Division were fighting with the Japanese 3rd Flying Division, Le Yiqin suddenly arrived and surrounded the Japanese regiments