Qiao Youhua nodded thoughtfully: "That's right, as soldiers, we can throw our heads and spill blood for the country, without regrets, but we must not die in vain because of some people's conspiracies!"

We have to live, because we will continue to resist Japan and continue to serve the country! Because our lives do not belong to any one person. ”

"There are no ships at Xiaguan Wharf, even if there are ships, we can't retreat from Pukou, no one can say, will the commission order the Jiangbei troops to disarm and capture us!" Gui Yongqing frowned and said, "So, right now, how we should break through is a difficult problem. ”

"Pukou can't get through, so I can only break through from the front." Liu Xingdao.

"Frontal breakout? Now that Nanjing City is surrounded by Japanese troops on three sides, no matter which direction it is used to break through, I'm afraid it won't be so easy, right? Gui Yongqing said with a solemn face.

The two glanced at each other and turned their eyes to Qiao Youhua, who was staring at the map.

After a long time, Qiao Youhua slapped a picture on the map and said, "We are breaking through from the west of the city!" After successfully breaking through, they advanced along the Yangtze River in the direction of Wuhu. ”

"There are two Japanese divisions in the west of the city, and it will be difficult to break through the encirclement of the Japanese army." Liu Xing said worriedly.

"As far as I know, these two divisions are the 6th and 11th divisions, and the 11th division has been fought against by our teaching corps in Shanghai, and it is well-equipped, well-trained, and powerful!" Gui Yongqing frowned.

"There is still a chance, first of all, the Japanese army does not know that our rear road has been cut off, and on the premise that there is still a retreat from Pukou, the Japanese army will not think that we will break through from the front!

This is a surprise opportunity in the art of war.

Moreover, the Japanese army has been besieging Nanjing for a long time, and all the troops are very tired and eager to attack the city of Nanjing, once we break through, they will definitely rush into the city of Nanjing, instead of mobilizing troops to pursue us, so as long as we join forces and concentrate on breaking through the encirclement of the Japanese army in one or two layers, we can basically successfully break through! Qiao Youhua analyzed.

"Well, that makes sense!" After listening to this, Gui Yongqing nodded and said.

"And when are we going to act?" Liu Xing asked.

"Before the operation, we still need to repel another attack by the Japanese army, tonight the Japanese army has launched two attacks in a row, both of which were repulsed by our army, at most one more, the Japanese army will not attack overnight tonight, after all, they are also people, not iron." Qiao Youhua said.

"Brother Liu doesn't have to go, follow me to Guanghuamen, Brother Frank, you go back immediately, after repelling another attack by the Japanese army, immediately lead all the officers and soldiers of the teaching corps to rush to Deqingmen, I will wait for you over there!" You and I join forces and break through from the west of the city! Qiao Youhua said.

"Okay, I'll go." Gui Yongqing answered, immediately picked up his helmet, and turned to leave.

"Brother Liu, let's go to Guanghuamen too! Adjutant Liu, pack up and come with us. Qiao Youhua also instructed.

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At the same time, in the divisional command of the 6th Division of the Japanese Army.

The current division commander Tani Toshio was furious, and the two Japanese soldiers in charge of the attack bowed their heads with their heads bowed, bearing the unprecedented anger of their division commanders.

"Baga Yalu, a bunch of stupid pigs! The imperial army wasted so many shells, you didn't even manage to capture the city walls, a bunch of rice buckets! "Gu Shoufu can't help but be angry.

The artillery wing directly under the 6th Division bombarded indiscriminately for nearly an hour, and as a result, the two wing commanders in charge of the attack went so far as to say that they had been blocked by the heaviest fire, and the attacking troops suffered heavy losses and had to stop the attack.

How unreasonable!

"Your Excellency, Division Commander, do you know that the people of China are very cunning, they took the initiative to abandon the fortifications of the city wall long before the bombardment of the imperial army, retreated to the city, and built a new line of defense relying on the residential buildings, and shrouded the entrance to the city just within their absolute effective firing range.

As soon as the imperial army entered the city, it was ambushed by the fire that the people of China had planned for a long time, and the losses were quite heavy! A devil Dazuo said with a sad face.

"Yes, Your Excellency, our opponents have become more cunning and more difficult to deal with!" Another devil, Dazuo, also nodded.

"Yaga! This is not a reason for your repeated failures! Let me go back and prepare for the next attack, this time, no matter what, you must attack the city of Nanjing, otherwise you will all apologize to His Majesty the Emperor! Gu Shoufu was ruthless and roared angrily.

"Hay!" The two devils hurriedly bowed their heads in response, turned around with their sabers on their shoulders and left.

"Order the artillery to adjust the angle of fire and continue the shelling, this time, we must completely wipe out the people of China!" Gu Shoufu commanded the chief of staff on the side with a gloomy face.

"Hay!" The chief of staff, who had been silent, bowed his head sharply and immediately took the order.

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Just ten minutes later, the Japanese army began the artillery bombardment again, repeating their tactics that had not changed for 10,000 years, artillery bombardment, infantry rushing, infantry rushing, artillery bombardment again!

Because it was late at night, the Japanese army's land-based and sea-based aviation units could not participate in the battle, otherwise Qiao Youhua's breakthrough operation would have nothing to hide, and at the same time, it would also have to be hit by the combined ground-air firepower of the Japanese army, and the losses would be very heavy.

Now, although the 70,75mm caliber guns equipped by the divisional and regimental artillery wings of the Japanese army seem to be quite powerful, in fact, they cannot even collapse the ancient city wall of Nanjing, let alone cause any effective damage to the officers and soldiers of Longya hidden outside the area covered by their artillery.

If measured by the artillery standards of European countries at this time, the field artillery and mountain artillery that the Japanese army is proud of can only be regarded as light small artillery, and you must know that the caliber of German mortars is 82mm.

In Europe and the West, less than 100 millimeters is nothing.

It may be that the Japanese shells have almost been consumed by now, and the Japanese shelling only lasted for more than half an hour before stopping.

Immediately afterwards, they launched another attack on the city of Nanjing.

This time, the Japanese army was a little more cautious than last time, and after approaching the city gate, the Japanese 6th Division outside the Guanghua Gate did not rush in from the city gate, but carried the bamboo and wooden ladders they had temporarily looted, climbed up to the city head, and built a simple light machine gun fire point on the city head.

Then, they swarmed in through the city gates.

However, when they rushed to the position where the Longya officers and soldiers had ambushed them before, they found that this place had already been covered by their own artillery fire, and it was reduced to ruins, and not a single soldier could be seen.

Puzzled, the devil attacking force that had entered the city climbed over the ruins that had clogged the streets, and continued to move forward.

When the large group of devil infantry had just crossed the ruins that had been ravaged by artillery fire and walked forward less than two hundred meters, the dead buildings in front of them suddenly burst into gunfire, and countless scarlet and dazzling flames erupted from the windows and corners of those buildings.

At this time, the light machine gun fire points they had on the city walls could no longer provide them with effective fire support.