When there was a trace of the Japanese army at the foot of Niushou Mountain, a small group of Japanese troops were also found near Jurong and Zhenjiang, and the Japanese troops on the northern, middle and southern roads hit the periphery of Nanjing almost at the same time, and the 301st Regiment of the 51st Division stationed in Songshu was even attacked by the 2nd Brigade of the 36th Infantry Wing of the 9th Division of the Japanese Army, with heavy casualties.

Xiao Ri's three-way army and eight divisions were all riveted to compete for the great merit of being the first to fall into Nanjing!

The next day, that is, on December 5, the 13th Division of the Japanese Army on the North Road, the 16th Division and the 9th Division of the Japanese Army on the Middle Road, and the 6th Division and the 114th Division of the Japanese Army on the South Road launched a fierce attack on Longtan, Tangshan, Chunhua Town, and Niushou Mountain at the same time.

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Hongjue Temple, the headquarters of the 19th Brigade.

Li Shuanggun finally refused Xu 19's solicitation, and learned that the 23rd Group Army had withdrawn to Tongling and Hukou to deploy defenses, so he rushed over with 12 veterans to return to Jianjian, although Xu 19 felt regretful, but did not embarrass them, and even asked Cao Mancang to prepare dry food for Li Shuanggun and them for seven days, and each person was given 200 rounds of ammunition.

Not long after sending Li Shuanggun away, there was a huge roar of aircraft engines in the southeast sky, and a moment later, dozens of Japanese bombers pierced through the clouds and swooped down directly towards Niushou Mountain.

At first, they dropped dozens of bombs and may not be able to blow up a target, but now, on average, every two bombs can hit one, hundreds of heavy bombs roar down, and the permanent fortifications under Niushou Mountain are suddenly blown apart.

Xu Shijiu's speculation unfortunately became a fact, Xiao Rijian had indeed obtained the deployment map of the fortifications on the periphery of Nanjing, not only the specific location, defense strength and other data, but even the specific completion date of each fortification, the construction troops, and who the acceptance chief was.

Therefore, this round of bombing by the Japanese air force can be described as very targeted, and the effect is also very good, and even several underground hidden parts were destroyed by 500 kg heavy aerial bombs, but fortunately, after Feng Shengfa was reminded by Xu 19, he did not deploy the troops in the preset defense fortifications, thus greatly reducing casualties.

Feng Shengfa also reminded Wang Yaowu, the commander of the 5L Division, but Wang Yaowu was a little unimpressed by this, and as a result, he suffered heavy casualties under the bombardment of the Japanese army, and the 66th Army and 83rd Army of the Guangdong Army guarding Tangshan and Jiuhua Mountain, and the 2nd Army Corps guarding Qixiashan and Longtan also suffered heavy casualties, and the Japanese army had already suffered thousands of casualties before the Japanese army launched a ground offensive

Xu Shijiu climbed to the top floor of the Hongjue Temple Tower, looked down condescendingly, and saw that the east, west, and south foothills of the Zutang Mountain had been completely shrouded in the dust and gunpowder smoke produced by the explosion, and the strong shock wave was transmitted through the mountain, and even the Hongjue Temple Tower, which was extremely strong at the base of the tower, was shaking violently, making people worry that it would collapse.

"Captain, why did you come up?" Gao Shenxing, who was watching from the top of the tower, frowned.

"It's okay, Xiao Ri's current bombing focus is on the defense fortifications at the foot of the mountain, and their family background is just that, but there are no extra aerial bombs for them to squander." Xu Shijiu held a telescope and looked blindly at the bottom of the mountain, and said, "What's more, Xiao Rijian also believes in Buddhism, and they dare to throw bombs on the logo of the Red Cross, but they may not dare to throw bombs in the temple." ”

As he spoke, several Japanese bombers whizzed over Hongjue Temple after dropping bombs, and Xiao Ri really didn't throw bombs into the temple, and he didn't even use machine guns to strafe them.

Xu Shijiu said proudly: "Look, I'm not wrong, right?" ”

Gao Shenxing pursed his lips and said: "Captain, you are wrong this time, Xiao Ri Jian did not throw bombs at the Buddhist temple, but not because they believe in Buddhism, but because they covet Chinese culture has been deeply rooted in the bone marrow, my teacher once told me that when the Eight-Nation Alliance entered the Old Summer Palace, Westerners smashed everywhere, and only Ri Jian himself was protecting cultural relics in every possible way. ”

"What do you say, Xiao Ri will still protect culture?" This Xu Shijiu is really the first time I have heard of it.

Gao Shenxing said: "Yes, Xiao Ri Ben does know how to protect cultural relics, because they know the value of these cultural relics, they want to transport these cultural relics back to the Japanese book in a complete way, so that future generations can trace the source, just say that this pagoda under our feet, if possible, Xiao Ri Ben will also try to dismantle and transport it back to Japan and rebuild it." ”

"Shen Xing, I really don't see that you know a lot about Ri Yan himself?" Xu Shijiu was a little surprised.

Gao Shenxing looked at the Japanese bombers roaring and circling in the sky and said: "As early as after the 128th Shanghai Anti-Japanese War, my teacher had already said that there would be a war between China and Japan. ”

Xu Shijiu nodded and said, "No wonder you speak Japanese so well." ”

Gao Shenxing sighed and said: "No matter how good you speak Japanese, what's the use, Xiao Ri has finally hit Nanjing." ”

"There's no way around it." Xu Jiu shook his head and smiled bitterly, "Who let us have a weak government and a fucked leader?" ”

Gao Shenxing was silent.

Xu Shijiu did not say nonsense, it is an indisputable fact that the Nationalist Government is weak and can be bullied, and now China and Japan have already started a full-scale war, and the lands of North China and East China have also fallen on a large scale, but the Nationalist Government has not officially declared war with Xiao Riben? Looking at ancient and modern China and foreign countries, the national government is only afraid that it is also unique, right?

As for saying that Chairman Chiang is fucking, there is no way to defend it.

Xu 19 glanced at the Zhongzheng sword that Gao Shenxing wore on his waist, and didn't say anything more, since the outbreak of the Battle of Songhu in mid-August, because of Chairman Jiang's overstepping intervention and indiscriminate command, it has caused great passivity to the national army, these Gao Shenxing are not unclear, but after all, he is a cadet of the Army University, and the concept of loyalty to the leader has long been integrated into the bone marrow.

More than half an hour later, the Japanese bombardment ended, and the dust and gunpowder smoke shrouded in the foot of the mountain gradually dispersed, when Xu Shijiu raised the telescope again to look down, he saw that a small group of Japanese soldiers had opened a straggler line at the southern foot of Zutang Mountain with bayonets, and the dark green steel helmet reflected a dim cold light under the light of the morning sun.

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As soon as the Japanese bombardment was over, 150 veterans of the 3rd Company came out of several air-raid shelters and quickly entered the trenches and skirmishers along the communication trenches.

Xiao Ri was still the same old thing, first using an infantry squad to carry out a tentative attack.

Xiao Ri was very cunning, the skirmish line was very open, the distance between individual soldiers was at least more than ten meters, and he rarely walked in a straight line when marching, and from time to time he would fall to the ground without warning and do some basic tactical evasion actions, but Xiao Ri was completely redundant, because the officers and soldiers of the 3rd Company had no intention of shooting at all.

At a distance of four or five hundred meters, unless it is a heavy machine gun, a light machine gun and an infantry gun firing at this distance can only be a waste of ammunition.

The more than 100 officers and men of the 3rd Company are all veterans of a hundred battles who have survived the Songhu battlefield, and all of them are very calm; some are squatting in the trenches and smoking, some are sitting on the ammunition boxes and are stunned, some are spreading grenades in front of them and unscrewing the caps, and some veterans use bayonets to cut crosses on the warheads, which are said to enhance the lethal effect

Replaced by a recruit egg, at this time, I was afraid that I was so nervous that I couldn't breathe evenly.

The one-eyed dragon put down the telescope in his hand with some indignation, he just saw Gao Shenxing standing on the top floor of the Hongjue Temple tower from the telescope and waved the flag to him, asking him to abandon the position and let the Japanese army go deeper, needless to say that this must be the order of the captain, he immediately took out the box cannon and ordered the officers and soldiers of the 3rd company: "Brothers, just put a few shots and withdraw with the old man." ”

"What, withdraw?"

"What do you say?"

"Withdraw the fart, withdraw it, it hasn't started yet."

"It's going to run away, how can you get it out?"

More than 100 veterans of the whole company were all blown up in an instant when they heard this, what kind of battle is this fighting? Xiao Ri is still hundreds of meters away, and he hasn't fought yet, so he will withdraw? A few days ago, it took so much physical effort to dig trenches, and there was a use for birds? The point is that if this thing gets out, they will have no light on their faces.

The one-eyed dragon was on fire and yelled: "It's all fucking ears stuffed with donkey hair, withdraw!"

After that, the one-eyed dragon took the box cannon and fired two shots at the front, turned around and ran, and more than 100 veterans got up with a curse, followed by a row of guns in front of him, and then turned around and retreated to the second line of defense like a swarm.

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Dongshan Bridge, the forward observation post of the Japanese army.

Two armored vehicles were parked on the side of the road, and more than a dozen junior and senior lieutenant officers were standing on a small hill on the side of the road, and every ten meters around the hill there were Japanese soldiers, which could be described as five steps and one post, ten steps and one sentry, and this large commander was the wing commander of the 23rd Infantry Wing of the 6th Division of the Japanese Army, Okamoto Zhenchen.

Seeing the Chinese army on the opposite position fleeing without a fight, Okamoto Zhenchen couldn't help but show a contemptuous smile on his face, put down his binoculars and turned back to a few Shaozuo officers behind him and said: "The fighting spirit of the soldiers of Shina has disappeared, and the imperial army has collapsed before they even launch an attack in the real sense. ”

When several young officers heard this, they naturally echoed in unison.

Okamoto raised his right hand to interrupt the flattery of several officers, and said to his adjutant Second Lieutenant Utada, "Utasan, immediately send a report to the division headquarters that our 23rd Infantry Wing will occupy Niushou Mountain before noon, and before dark today, our Wing will definitely be able to fight outside the Zhonghua Gate." ”