After listening to Qiao Youhua's battle plan, Gui Yongqing's face changed slightly, and he was in awe, and immediately said: "Colonel Qiao is dedicated to the country, loyal and courageous, and my Central Teaching Corps is not a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death, and is willing to stay and join hands with your troops to fight the enemy, advance and retreat together, and live and die together!" Swear to live and die with Nanjing! ”

"Okay, the general's righteousness is thin and cloudy, Qiao admires it! To be able to join forces with such an elite division as the Central Teaching Corps to fight the enemy, my Longya officers and soldiers are honored! Qiao Youhua said from the bottom of his heart.

If every unit in China is like the Central Teaching Corps, and every commander can be like Gui Yongqing, why should he be afraid of the Japanese invaders?

Sun Yuanliang and others secretly scolded Gui Yongqing for being crazy, and hurriedly said goodbye and left, they admired Qiao Youhua, but it didn't mean that they were willing to stay.

After everyone left, Gui Yongqing snorted disdainfully: "Hmph, a group of corpse vegetarian guys!" ”

"General Gui, it is enough for you and me to join forces, this huge Nanjing City will become our best battlefield, the last grave of the Japanese army in Central China, and the little devil will definitely pay the price of blood for every step forward!" Qiao Youhua invited with a solemn hand: "Please General Gui come in, and we will discuss the next defensive battle plan together." ”

Gui Yongqing nodded happily and followed Qiao Youhua towards the headquarters.

An hour and a half later, the Japanese army, which had surrounded the city on three sides, once again launched another attack on Nanjing from all directions.

With Qiao Youhua's promise, the troops who retreated into the various gates of Nanjing City rose up to resist one after another, and repelled the devil's charge again and again with tenacious resistance.

At the same time, some officers and men of the Central Teaching Corps and most of the officers and men of the Dragon's Tooth Task Force began to build street fighting fortifications in the city and prepare for street fighting.

Two hours later, the Japanese attack was repulsed again, leaving behind thousands of corpses that retreated like a tidal wave.

The troops of the divisions and armies held out on the fortifications of the city until nightfall, and by this time the officers and men of the Longya Regimental and the officers and men of the Teaching Corps had basically completed the preparations for the street fighting fortifications.

They were ordered to rush to the gates to hand over the city fortifications with the divisions, and the remnants of the divisions withdrew towards Xiaguan Wharf in a tense and orderly manner in accordance with the battle plan formulated by Qiao Youhua.

By eight o'clock in the evening, the Xuanwu Gate, Taiping Gate, Zhonghua Gate, Guanghua Gate, Zhongshan Gate and other gates of the city fortifications were basically handed over.

Among them, the teaching corps was responsible for the defense of Xuanwu Gate, Taiping Gate and Lion Mountain Yanziji Fortress, and Qiao Youhua led nearly 1,000 officers and soldiers of the Longya Task Force to be responsible for the defense of Zhonghua Gate, Zhongshan Gate, and Deqing Gate.

In the theater headquarters, Qiao Youhua let Tang Shengzhi and Luo Zhuoying go and let them withdraw to Xiaguan with the 88th Division and other troops.

The theater headquarters was also disbanded, and all the communications personnel were withdrawn with Tang Shengzhi except for some people from Qiao Youhua's task force and the teaching corps.

Qiao Youhua saluted Gui Yongqing and said: "Captain Gui, it's time for us to separate, remember, don't fight the Japanese army at the head of the city, take the initiative to abandon the fortifications at the head of the city if necessary, let the little devils enter the city, rely on the buildings of Nanjing City, and resist step by step!"

This can greatly offset the superiority of the Japanese air force and artillery, and finally we will meet at the Shimonoseki pier! ”

Gui Yongqing helped his glasses and said, "Brother Youhua, how many years older than you, if you don't dislike it, just call me Brother Frank." ”

"Okay, Brother Frank, take care." Qiao Youhua is not a mother-in-law, so he changed his words very happily.

"Take care, we'll keep in touch!" Gui Yongqing took the initiative to salute.

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At nine o'clock in the evening, Qiao Youhua took Liu Yidao and others to Guanghua Gate, the main direction of the Japanese army.

It has always been the main direction of attack of the Japanese army, and it is also the place where the battle is most intense.

If the Japanese army wanted to enter Nanjing City, Guanghua Gate and Zhonghua Gate were the most suitable directions, so Qiao Youhua handed over the defense of Zhonghua Gate to Jiang Haidong and Liu Jianhua, Deqing Gate to Wu Ming and Ma Biao, and he sat in Guanghua Gate.

A few stars rarely appeared in the night sky tonight, adding a bleak beauty to the dark night sky.

From time to time, there were gusts of biting cool wind blowing on the city, and Qiao Youhua had already taken out military cotton clothes from the quartermaster warehouse for the officers and soldiers of the dragon tooth and put them on, but there were still many soldiers who were so cold that they couldn't help shivering, and the steel spear in their arms was even more cold and couldn't be started.

Qiao Youhua stood quietly behind a battlement wall like a nobody, holding his telescope with night vision device function to observe the quiet outside of the city.

At the same time, Jiang Haidong also held his Type 88 sniper rifle with night vision and took the trouble to monitor the situation outside the Zhonghua Gate.

As a deputy sniper, Ma Biao also has a telescope with a night vision function, and it is good that he is being held by Wu Ming, an assault soldier, at this moment.

Ma Biao sat under the battlement wall and smoked, asking from time to time: "How is it, Four Eyes, is there any situation?" According to the beating nature of the little devil, he will definitely take advantage of the night to sneak attack tonight and strive to attack the city of Nanjing in one fell swoop. ”

"There has been no movement for the time being, and this is not for sure, the little devil was attacked head-on by the divisions that came during the day, and the losses were not small, plus he was very tired from fighting for days, maybe he would not come to the sneak attack tonight." Wu Ming kept holding the binoculars to monitor back and forth, and replied.

As soon as the two of them finished speaking, Wu Ming suddenly vaguely discovered something, immediately lifted his spirits, opened his eyes wide and held the telescope to look in the direction he had just seen.

Under the effect of infrared night vision devices, he saw several figures quietly moving towards Deqing Gate.

Wu Ming immediately stretched out a hand and patted the steel helmet on top of Ma Biao's head sitting below, and said in a low voice: "Look, the little devil has appeared." ”

"Huh?" Ma Biao immediately came to his senses, quickly turned over, dodged the telescope and looked out.

"Prepare for battle!" Wu Ming ordered in a low voice.

Hundreds of dragon-tooth officers and soldiers on the city wall rolled over like an electric shock, sticking out the muzzles of black holes outside the city wall.

At the same time, Qiao Youhua and Jiang Haidong also discovered the traces of the Japanese army's sneak attack troops, and as soon as the order was given, the impatient Longya officers and soldiers who had been waiting for a long time turned over one after another.

Although the current Dragon's Tooth Task Force has less than 1,000 troops, it has more light and heavy machine guns than ever before, because a large number of weapons and ammunition are stored in the munitions warehouses in Nanjing.

In addition to light and heavy machine guns, the Dragon's Tooth Task Force is also armed with a staggering number of MP18 submachine guns, commonly known as flower machines, which are basically one for all riflemen except for light and heavy machine gunners, grenadiers and artillerymen.

The German-made MP18 submachine gun is powerful and ideal for close-quarters combat, and is the best light weapon in street fighting, just like the 20-shot box gun.