Each of the several main attack divisions of the Japanese army had at least one company or more of heavy artillery. This was rare in the previous two Great Wall War of Resistance, which shows the determination of the Japanese army base camp to take Nanjing quickly. Although the defenders were well fortified, they played a huge role in the first day of fighting, largely withstanding the damage of Japanese artillery. However, over time, sooner or later these fortifications will be blasted and crushed.

The reason why Ouyang Yun was willing to stay in Nanjing was to evacuate the people as much as possible. However, as the capital of China, Nanjing's population is so large that at the current rate, there is not a week that cannot be completed. A week, can the defenders hold out for a week? If the Japanese army did not have artillery, Zhu Zaiting believed that this goal could be achieved. But now the problem is that the Japanese not only have artillery, but also absolute air supremacy.

It is no secret that the Cadet Corps had powerful artillery and tank crews. And Ouyang Yun did not take out the artillery on the first day, but he was taboo about the Japanese aviation.

Facing Zhu Zaiting's questioning, Ouyang Yun replied: "The artillery will definitely go to the battlefield, but not now. I will not send artillery until the Japanese air force is dispatched. It's not that we can't afford to lose artillery, but that our army doesn't have many shells. When it doesn't matter, you can only rely on yourselves. ”

The Cadet Army went north to Jiangsu, bringing a total of five base shells. This is also the maximum number that the logistics troops can carry, and they originally expected to be replenished after arriving in Nanjing, but they did not expect that the number of heavy artillery of the Central Army was limited, and the stock of 150 mm caliber shells was scarce. As a result, Ouyang Yun had to hide the artillery in the hope that it would play a role at a critical moment.

Hearing Ouyang Yun's explanation, Zhu Zaiting's face immediately changed. He was about to fight, but he heard Ouyang Yun say to Xie Changan: "Hurry up and build fortifications at night." Whether we can persist to the end depends on our preparations. Sweat more, bleed less! Remember! ”

"The battle of the death squad on the city wall was fought very well, and the soldiers who died in battle should hand in the list as soon as possible. The little devils think very highly of themselves, and the battle loss ratio they can accept should be one to three, so after this battle, they will no longer consider suppressing it from the city wall, but they must guard against their dogs jumping over the wall and using poison gas bombs or something. ”

"The Japanese army is far superior to me, for the sake of the people of Nanjing, I hope you can sacrifice and hold on. It only takes five days, and after five days, we will be able to make a mobile retreat. ”

"Yes," Xie Changan nodded repeatedly.

Zhu Zaiting looked at Ouyang Yun's young and energetic face, and was a little moved in his heart. The Sichuan army is poor, and even if there is a willingness to pay pensions to the soldiers who died in battle, it is extremely limited. Counting on the central government? I don't know what year and month it will take to wait for the road.

What Ouyang Yun is most afraid of now is the Japanese air force, but the more he is afraid of it, the more wreaking havoc the Japanese army's air force will be. He had just come out of the joint command of the Seventh Brigade and the Sichuan Army, and was about to go to Qian Guangming, when the sound of the engine of the fighter plane was heard in the sky, and in the faint clouds in the east, more than a dozen black spots appeared. After more than two hours of fighting, the Japanese air finally appeared on the battlefield.

At this moment, the battle is still going on in Guanghuamen. The Japanese Quirrell, which was destroyed in the doorway, now became the biggest obstacle to the Japanese attack, and the Japanese continued to attack like a tide in order to clear out the tank, but in the end, they were all repelled by the combined counterattack of Qian Guangming's tanks and infantry. At this moment, the Japanese army should be poor in donkey skills and ready to use fighters to suppress the tanks of the Cadet Army. The existence of the tanks of the Cadet Army is equivalent to the addition of several fixed fortress batteries, which not only directly threatens the tanks of the Japanese army, but also puts psychological pressure on the Japanese infantry. Just imagine, after paying huge casualties, you just rushed out of the dark doorway, and immediately had to face several black hole muzzles, as long as you are not completely blinded by bushido, you should feel frightened, right?

At present, there are only two arms that the Japanese army can pose a threat to Jiguang tanks, one is the heavy artillery unit, and the other is the aviation unit.

The problem of concealment of tank units was particularly emphasized by Ouyang Yun. Because the Japanese army did not expect the Chinese side to directly abandon Nanjing, it was not until a day after the main force of the Nationalist army completely abandoned its position that the Japanese troops outside Nanjing detected this enemy situation. And when their army pressed the border and surrounded Nanjing from three directions, Ouyang Yun had already organized troops to repair the protective fortifications of the tank overnight.

According to the pre-war deployment, as soon as the Japanese air force joined the battlefield, all exposed tanks would immediately return to the concealed fortifications. And in the process, the infantry of each defensive section will have to bear the full pressure of the attack. Undoubtedly, this will be the best time for the Japanese army to form a breakthrough.

Just when a dozen black dots in the sky turned into a dozen big birds, in the direction of Guanghua Gate, Zhonghua Gate, Jiangdong Gate, and Tongji Gate, the rumbling cannon sound rang out again. Amid the deafening sound of the explosion, the fortifications built by the Xuebing Army and the Sichuan Army, including the left-behind troops of the Central Army, fell into artillery fire in sections and sections, and from time to time, one or two screams were heard from the flames. That means that another fortification was destroyed by artillery fire, and the Chinese soldiers inside were mercilessly killed.

The cannon sounded, and Liu Kui and the others immediately drove Ouyang Yun and the soldiers of the guard regiment to quickly retreat into the nearest air-raid shelter. Such air-raid shelters abound in Nanjing, and many of them have been opened up as hiding places for artillery and tank units. Near the defense section, it was even carved out and sat in the cantonment cave.

After the rumbling of artillery, the Japanese attacked again. This time, because there were fighters in the sky to help clear the defenders' tanks, the Japanese attack was particularly ferocious. Take Guanghuamen as an example, Yoshizu Ryosuke dispatched a brigade this time, with more than a thousand devils.

Taking advantage of the shelling just now, the Japanese finally dragged the scrapped tank out of the doorway. And this time, it was still a Quirrell that fought in the front, and three armored vehicles followed behind.

The Japanese tanker unit suffered a near-devastating blow in North China, and its earlier armored vehicle models were once eliminated by the Japanese military headquarters. However, I don't know which Japanese army was the first to apply it to the Nanjing battlefield, and it played a key role. So in the ensuing battles, this series of armored vehicles was reactivated, such as the Ninth Division, which was equipped with a full brigade of armored vehicles.

As soon as the Japanese Quirrell tank came into the sight of the defenders, Fan Neng, the company commander of the Sichuan Army, instinctively began to organize a death squad and prepared to blow it up with cluster grenades. Fan Neng did this by drawing on the experience of the Chinese defenders in the Battle of Songhu. Of course, that was without anti-tank weapons.

Yang Chengjun, the company commander of the Cadet Army, had no experience in this area, and it was a little strange to see him like this, so he ran over and asked, "Company Commander Fan?" What are you doing? The little devil can't rush over, so quickly organize a death squad, do you want to countercharge? ”

Yang Chengjun said this because his company was equipped with forty anti-tank grenades. And the task they received before the war was to hold their ground, which is why such misunderstandings arise.

Fan Neng also misunderstood his words, he was a loud voice, and shouted at the moment: "Mallet! Lao Tzu is going to deal with those turtle shells, if we don't blow them up, how can we snipe the devils in the back-" After saying this, he turned to the daredevils and said, "Brothers, don't worry, wait for the dog's day to get closer and go up." Everyone else listened and prepared for fire cover. ”

At this moment, the Japanese Quirrell had stopped and started firing cannons, and the direction of the barrel was the fortifications in front of it.

Yang Chengjun finally understood his thoughts, and sighed secretly in his heart: The Sichuan army is really pitiful, it doesn't even have a decent anti-tank weapon, on the other hand, we are now even eliminated from anti-tank guns and anti-tank guns. You can't say this explicitly, otherwise it would be too shabby. He patted Fan Neng on the shoulder and said, "Brother, it's okay, these turtle shells will be handed over to us." ”

"Huh?" Fan Neng answered, turned around and looked at the position of the Xuebing Army, but didn't see any weapons that could solve the turtle shell, and said puzzledly: "What better way does your baby have?" ”

"We have anti-tank grenades!"

"Anti-tank grenades? Grenade? ”

"It's a grenade, it's a tank bomb!"

"A grenade to blow up a tank? Isn't it just a cluster grenade?! ”

"No, you just wait and see!"

Fan Neng thought about it and agreed.

As the Quirrell got closer and closer to the position, the armored vehicles behind it also dispersed. The Japanese troops behind began to scatter and charge on both sides, and the battle began.

The first to roar from the defenders' position were the four Maxims, all of which were placed in four bagged concrete bunkers, and this roar immediately hit a group of devils, and at the same time attracted the fire of the Quirrell and three armored vehicles. A 37mm cannon was mounted on the armored vehicle, and a Quirrell and three armored vehicles opened fire at the same time, and the explosion "boomed", enveloping the four earthen bunkers in a cloud of smoke.

The fortifications of the Cadet Army were very strong, especially the four earthen forts. Although the gunners of the Japanese tanks and armored vehicles were very accurate, they could not achieve a single blow. On the contrary, after their firepower was attracted, Yang Chengjun waved his hand, and more than a dozen anti-tank grenades flew out.

Seeing those black bumps that were smaller than bowls smashed into the four devil chariots, even though he knew that the Dao probe was more dangerous, Fan Neng couldn't help but straighten his neck and stared intently. Those black bumps are the so-called anti-tank grenades, right? But with such a small thing, can it really blow up those turtle shells? Fan Neng expressed serious doubts.