After the regimental headquarters built fortifications on the front line of Guanghua Gate, Yang Longfei was invited to the Zhonghua Gate position to observe the fortification of the brother troops, which was already the afternoon of December 7.

When Yang Longfei drove to the right flank position of Zhonghua Gate, he was pleasantly surprised to find that in addition to the 67th Regiment of the brother troops fortified here, there was also a team of old acquaintances stationed here, and this person was Yi Anhua, the commander of the 259th Brigade of the 87th Division.

As soon as the two met, they saluted each other and shook hands to show respect. Yang Longfei teased: "Okay, Lao Yi, how long will we be apart before we meet again?" I heard that your 259th Brigade fought well in Shanghai, and took out a devil's nest on a street in the city and got a lot of good things, right? ”

Yi Anhua said with an exaggerated expression: "Then where can you compare to your sixty-seventh division?" I heard that your division fought a tough battle with the devils in Luodian, and three officers at the regimental level were killed in battle, and two brigade commanders became bare-bones commanders. I heard that the people over there are dying in the sea, and if I hadn't seen you here today, I wouldn't have believed you were still alive...... Brother, it's good to see you! ”

"Each other, alas, I heard that you were wounded while firing a machine-gun position on the Japanese, and that you were hit by three ricochets in your left arm. How's it going? It doesn't affect your brother's play, right? ”

"Hey, it's been ten years of fighting, what battle haven't you seen? It's okay, I was bitten by a mosquito a few times, and I can still afford to hold a machine gun! It's your brother, let me ask you, the Japanese army outside has surrounded Nanjing City to death, and birds can't fly in, how did you kid get in? Brigadier Yi Anhua confidently moved his lower arm.

Once he talked about his heroic deeds, Yang Longfei's face looked extremely proud, and he said proudly: "That's no way, the bird can't fly in, but let's just come in." I'm afraid you won't believe it, our regiment came in from Tangshan, and collided with the 18th Division of the Japanese Army on the way, and had a fight with the dog! As a result, the defenders on the tower of the city were quite face-saving, afraid that our regiment would fight hard, and as soon as they struck, they would send several rounds of concentrated artillery to the dog's day, otherwise our regiment would have to be entangled by devils for a while......"

Brigadier Commander Yi Anhua laughed out loud when he heard this, he punched Yang Longfei in the chest, and scolded with a smile: "Don't blow it, you kid, who can the entangle you?" The whole Whampoa department of your kid is a well-known dog skin plaster, it's good if you don't pester others, who dares to pester you? Isn't that unpleasant for yourself? ”

Yang Longfei withdrew his smile, and his face became serious: "To get back to the point, is your brigade sure that the defense area will be arranged here?" I heard that the 6th Division of the Japanese Army and a 14th Wing are concentrated outside this city gate, and it is said that it is also equipped with field heavy artillery, and this right flank position is guarded by one of your brigades, I think I can choke enough......"

Brigadier Yi Anhua looked around and pulled Yang Longfei aside, and said openly: "I'll tell you the truth, brother, if it really starts, my troops will be finished in half a day at most, I also heard about the wild artillery, I also went up to the battlement of the city tower just now to take a look, and the wild cannon is specially used to deal with our city wall." I saw the devil's cannon barrels, they were piled up like woods, and I couldn't count them, which made my heart roll, good guy, if this round of artillery fire came, it would be strange if we could bear it in this broken brick house! In good conscience, I am pessimistic about the battle at hand. ”

"It is understandable that it is not only the Japanese Central China Front that has come back, but even the Japanese Shanghai Dispatch Army, which has fought with us in Shanghai before, has also come to join in the fun, and the Third Division, Sixth Division, Ninth Division, Sixteenth Division, and Eighteenth Division under this command are also here...... These are the elite of devils! Don't say anything else, let's take Gu Shoufu, the commander of the Sixth Division of the Devil, say it, this old boy is a ruthless character, when the '813' battle started, this kid made a detour to Hangzhou Bay and landed, and stabbed Lao Tzu in the back, I was almost not caught up by him, now I think about it I am in a cold sweat, Lao Yi, you have to be careful, especially when fighting with the Sixth Division of the Devil, pay attention, that old bastard will be the most bad! ”

"Don't worry, brother, it's a big deal to die!" 813 'Died so many brothers, we can come out alive is already earned, Lao Tzu, I will give my life here if I can't help this time, and I will pull a few pads on my back when I die! ”

"Well done, brother. That's right, we've slaughtered so many devils in Shanghai, it's already fucking enough, and it's just a few more pads at this time! Yang Longfei hugged Yi Anhua excitedly, patted each other's backs to comfort, "Good brother, no matter how difficult it is, if you can hold on for one more minute, you can hold on for one more minute, you remember, I am at the other end of Guanghua Gate, if any of us can't hold it, we will run over to find each other, and we will die together!" ”

"I love to hear this, don't worry, Lao Yang, brother, I will try to hold on for a while, I really can't hold on, I'll go to you, it's not lonely for our brothers to go on the road together......"

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An hour later, the first round of Japanese artillery bombardment began, and the field artillery groups outside the city were densely lined up like tree trunks, and the muzzles of the black holes were aimed at the walls of Zhonghua Gate and sprayed hundreds of shells that were hot enough to melt people. The sky covered with purple glow was suddenly covered by a dense group of bullets like crows, and it was not until the moment it fell that a deafening loud bang erupted......

The wall of Zhonghua Gate suffered an unprecedented heavy damage, the parts hit by the cannonballs were exposed large or small holes, and one of the city walls was blown open with a wound about three meters long and two meters wide......

"Quick, plug the hole for Lao Tzu, set up the machine gun......" Brigadier Yi Anhua jumped out of a bombed wall, his face covered with bloody scratches, his forehead was smashed by bricks and blood oozed from it, he threw his hat everywhere and threw himself into the counterattack......

As soon as the shelling of the Zhonghua Gate fell, the Japanese Ninth Division, which was responsible for the main attack on the Guanghua Gate, also launched the first round of offensive, and the attack formation composed of more than ten combat vehicles was lined up one after another, accelerating towards the Guanghua Gate city wall......

Yang Longfei, who was in charge of the defense of the city wall, also ordered the officers and soldiers of the whole regiment to launch a counterattack, and the 25th Regiment outside the city gate was divided into two groups of combat units and launched a counteroffensive against the Japanese army in a fan shape. One group was under the command of the regiment commander Yang Longfei, and the other group was under the command of the deputy regiment commander Zhang Shan.

The 25th Regiment is worthy of being a particularly strengthened unit in the Third Theater of Operations, not only in terms of the establishment of the team to achieve full loading, but also equipped with weapons that are rare in the combat units of the National Army at that time, the whole regiment is equipped with a total of five Czech light machine guns, five Type 92 heavy machine guns, two Makqin heavy machine guns, each soldier is equipped with a uniform "Zhongzheng" type rifle, and each person is equipped with two M24 type wooden handles*, two Type 97*, all officers and men are almost armed to the teeth.

"Brothers, the time has come to kill the enemy and make meritorious deeds! Aren't you complaining that you haven't killed enough devils in Shanghai? It's time to have fun! Orderly, come here...... You find a booklet to keep accounts for the brothers, who killed a few devils to remember for Lao Tzu, and when this battle is over, Lao Tzu will be rewarded one by one! Yang Longfei was competing with the chaotic sound of gunfire.

"Yes, Tuanza!" After receiving the order, the orderly took out a notebook and hunched his waist to shuttle through the fortifications on the left and right flanks, recording the soldiers' personal "battle results" one by one.

The battle soon heated up, and the two Japanese tanks bore the brunt of the destruction on the bundles of bundles* thrown by the defenders. Unwilling to be defeated, the Japanese soldiers rushed out of the chariot and rushed to the position of the Chinese defenders with the light machine gun in their hands......

The Japanese army quickly made adjustments to the simple attack, and they organized a temporary death squad as quickly as possible: an officer death squad led by an army chief and selected from the ranks of second lieutenant and above The officer death squad composed of young Zhuang soldiers, holding light and heavy machine guns gathered from the entire division, launched a suicidal frenzied attack on the Chinese defenders, and the powerful bullet group covered all Yang Longfei's troops in the fortifications, and everyone could only curl up behind the sandbag bunker for temporary concealment.

Yang Longfei, who has always dared to fight, endured the invasion of the rain of bullets, and yelled: "Don't stop, if you can't show your head, give me a fucking * greeting, and if you can't get up, jump into the moat and throw it at Lao Tzu, damn it, blow it up for me!" Blowing up one is one, blowing up one is enough for a book! ”

Yang Longfei's words undoubtedly played a certain role in inspiring the soldiers, the soldiers jumped into the moat behind them that had long been dried up, and untied all the standard * tied to their bodies, after getting Yang Longfei's throwing order, the soldiers pulled out the insurance one after another, and threw * out of the fortifications with all their might......

I don't know if I don't bomb it, this explosion is earth-shattering, and the explosion cluster composed of hundreds of * almost reshapes the piece of land that the Japanese officer death squad is stepping on. * After landing, the waves of air swept one Japanese soldier after another into the air, tearing them to pieces, and countless broken arm wreckage fell from the air, as if it was raining flesh...... Those who know think that this is a battlefield full of artillery fire, but those who don't know may think that they have entered an open-air slaughterhouse when they pass by afterwards.

The total annihilation of the officers' death squad symbolized the bankruptcy of the first wave of attacks of the Japanese Ninth Division. Lieutenant General Yoshizumi Ryosuke, the commander of the division stationed on the high slope opposite, was so angry that his face was distorted, and he gritted his teeth fiercely and asked, "What kind of unit is this?" Under the dense fire network organized by our officers' death squads, they were able to come up with the idea of using clusters* to carry out volleys against our death squads? I don't marvel at how clever the enemy is at this tactic, but what I find most incredible is how fast they react. We were only one hundred and fifty meters away from the enemy, but this sprint distance that was enough to break through in more than ten seconds made all my officer death squad shattered, and no one survived. Investigate, which unit of the Chinese defenders is this? ”

Major General Matsumoto Plain, chief of staff of the division, knew in a low voice: "I'm sorry, Your Excellency the division commander, since the battle began, we have not captured a single Chinese soldier alive, and more strictly speaking, we have not even touched the edge of their fortifications. ”

"How can this be reasonable, after fighting for a long time, even one of my officer death squads has been wiped out, and I still don't know who the opponent is? Well, judging from the number of people, the enemy is just a reinforced regiment! Order the 3rd and 6th Wings to annihilate this isolated enemy as quickly as possible, remember to keep a mouthful, I have something to ask for personally......"

"Yes, Your Excellency Division Commander!"