Chapter 56: Playing a Big Game (2)

The searchlights of Nanjing City illuminated the positions outside, and occasionally the singing of sleepless soldiers could be heard.

Under Matsui Ishone's arrangement, the Japanese had broken through the defensive line, and at this time the Japanese soldiers were crawling in the trenches, and hundreds of thousands of troops gathered in Nanjing, Matsui Ishone had never been so proud.

The most rearly defensive line outside Nanjing was broken by him, and Nanjing at this time was exposed in front of him like a virgin, although Matsui Shigen seemed to maintain his composure, but in front of this ancient city full of prosperity, Matsui's most rearmost sense was gone.

At this moment, Matsui Stone feels as if he has been hallucinating, and the great Amaterasu has been praising himself, and he is definitely a great existence that will go down in history.

The megaphone was on the position, and it was filled with Matsui Ishone's proud and enthusiastic voice, "The soldiers of the Great Japanese Empire, the war for more than half a year has made us lose a lot of things, including your health, your youth, and your comrades-in-arms, but it has also brought us endless gains, the living space of the empire has been infinitely expanded by us, our children and grandchildren will be able to proudly survive under the blue sky, and we can shepherd them to our heart's content in the territory of the Chinese people." ”

"And you, my most powerful warriors, are also the most direct beneficiaries, and each of you will go down in the annals of the Empire, and the base camp will remember the merits of Japan, and Japan has reaped the most beneficial harvest of life."

"Now I want to say that the happiest moment is coming, the capital of China is in front of us, there are endless treasures in it, and there are endless beauties to enjoy, as long as you break through their capital, everything will be enjoyed, and the wealth and beauties will be yours, fight, warriors."

Although Matsui Ishine is not liked by those senior commanders, but in the minds of Japanese soldiers, his status is still very strong, those ordinary soldiers know best how difficult war is, and know how difficult it is for Matsui to lead them to this point, so after Matsui Ishine's speech ended, the battlefield was completely boiling.

Everywhere there were cheers for the Great Japanese Empire.

Nanjing made the Japanese completely lose their most rational rear, and the Sixth Division attacked desperately like crazy, in a vain attempt to become the first unit to enter Nanjing, and the Chinese army retreated continuously, retaining only the most rear-end trace of defense.

For the Chinese troops, Nanjing is indeed very not optimistic, Liu Yuan kept concentrating his forces, giving up too many defensive lines, the Japanese were on the periphery of Nanjing, all the external defensive lines were abandoned, and now the only thing that can fight is Nanjing, a battle fortress. The Central Army in the city of Nanjing could only be bitterly supported.

This time Gui Yongqing was on fire, and his central teaching regiment dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese, and the angry Japanese launched a fierce attack on Bauhinia Mountain, but Gui Yongqing had a large number of artillery left by Liu Yuan in his hand, and dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese army.

At this time, there were finally no ordinary people left in Nanjing, and the old turtledove was doing the best efforts to rescue all the people from Nanjing, and Nanjing really couldn't hold it, because his camp director had given up on him.

At one o'clock in the morning of March 15, 35, on the Wuhu battlefield, Nie Rongzhen concentrated 500 artillery pieces of more than 100 millimeters and hundreds of tanks to launch a powerful attack on the Japanese army, and Nie Rongzhen commanded the Southwest Army to launch a powerful attack.

In the bloody battle for three hours, the Japanese army suffered heavy losses, and the lives of the soldiers in the southwest army opened the passage, and He Long personally commanded an elite division to adopt the Japanese army's favorite central breakthrough tactics against the Japanese army, and successfully broke through the strategic depth of the Japanese army.

Lu Han commanded the Southwest Task Force to carry out a surprise attack on the left flank of the Japanese army, although the combat effectiveness of the Yunnan soldiers was very average, but with the support of equipment and geographical advantages, the speed of progress was very fast.

The Wuhu generation of Chinese troops gathered more and more, and the troops under the command of Lan Yundong also began to attack the 114th Division, putting strong pressure on the Japanese army.

After fierce battles until dawn, the left and right flanks of the Chinese army broke through, and both Lu Han and Lan Yundong successfully broke through the Japanese defense line and began to divide the Japanese army on the battlefield.

Matsui Shigen was depressed to find that when he was salivating at the most Nanjing, Liu Yuan actually carried out a large-scale attack on his 114th Division, so many troops were just to destroy one of their own divisions, and it was only seven hours tight, the defense line of the 114th Division completely collapsed, and the commander of the 114th Division was stopped by the chief of staff several times when he wanted to commit suicide, and he was mobilizing the remaining troops of the last day, hoping to wait for Matsui Shigen's rescue.

The battle went on until 12 o'clock at noon, the Japanese wing responsible for defending the right flank was surrounded by Lan Yundong and the Southwest Army with the troops, and the Japanese army desperately broke through, but it was completely shattered in the encirclement of Lan Yundong, Lan Yundong finally took a bad breath, and the captain of the 75th Wing of the Japanese Army, Kiyuro Toyoda, died on the battlefield.

The angry Chinese soldiers took the heads of the Japanese soldiers and made them into small towers, because they had heard that the Japanese soldiers were very superstitious, and your lord's head was an extremely terrible thing in their religious beliefs.

The form of the battlefield changed very quickly, the 114th Division did not expect that it would come to this point, and Gu Shoufu, who temporarily led the 13th Division, received a distress letter from the 114th Division, and there was no way at all, because his actions were completely restricted by Matsui Shigen, and he himself had been thinking about taking Nanjing, where there were reinforcements to save the 114th Division.

Matsui Shigen has not yet taken Nanjing, he received such a bad message, very excited, but he is still hesitating, he is weighing whether to take Nanjing City before going to rescue the 114th Division.

However, Tsukada opposed his approach, and he suggested that Matsui Ishine immediately mobilize elite troops to the southern front, and at the same time mobilize the unsurrounded troops in the southern front area, such as Wuxing, Nanxun and other places, to rescue the 114th Division of the southern front.

Matsui Shigen knew very well that those troops did not add up to 5,000 people, and they could not save the 114th Division at all, so they could only send a large force, but the duck was in front of the mouth, and if he didn't take a bite, he really didn't want to.

However, Matsui Shigen still came to his senses, he knew that relying on Gu Shoufu alone could not save the 114th Division, once the soldiers on the southern front could not change, and he still could not take Nanjing, then Liu Yuan would completely collapse the battle situation on the southern front after annihilating the 11th Division, and then wave the division to cooperate with Nanjing, which would definitely be a heavy blow to himself, and the advantage that the empire had worked so hard to gain would definitely be ruined.

So Matsui Ishiki immediately ordered Gu Shoufu to go south with illness, focusing on the battle situation on the southern front, and Matsui Ishigen felt too lost at this time.

Nanjing is like a stripped beauty standing in front of herself, picking it up for herself, but suddenly there is a message that her hometown is on fire, which is really not alive. At the same time, Matsui Shigen was also secretly thinking, General Liu Yuan, don't let me be captured, I will definitely beat you up when the time comes.