At the beginning of his stay, Ouyang Yun had considered such a problem. If the Japanese army wants to encircle and annihilate itself regardless of it, will it still stick to its original intention and ensure that the vast majority of the people in Nanjing will be evacuated?

Ouyang Yun is not a saint, even if he is a saint, the ass decides the head, he can not care about life and death, but he can't help but consider the safety of his subordinates and the Sichuan Army and the Northeast Army.

Before Lao Chiang convened the meeting, Liu Xiang, the top leader of the Sichuan army, was sent to Hankou for medical treatment because of illness. As for the Northeast Army, although the young marshal made him energetic, but if these two divisions were really exhausted, what face would he have to go to see the young marshal again? There is also a very important point, the Nanjing garrison is not monolithic, if there is a situation of siege, even if the student army and the Northeast Army and the Sichuan army can survive the national disaster together, what about the central army? Although Wang Tianfu, Fu Kaixing, and Wang Xu (the three division commanders of the Central Army) strongly requested to join the front-line troops when assigning front-line combat tasks, Ouyang Yun did not dare to entrust them with important tasks in view of historical experience.

The so-called second set of combat plans was drawn up for breaking through the encirclement. Once this happens, then the defenders will abandon the first-line positions and turn to fight with the Japanese army in street battles, using the complex terrain in Nanjing to consume the Japanese army, and at the same time, they will organize two divisions to cross the Yangtze River north to ensure the safety of the retreat.

Whether it is Zhu Zaiting, Xie Chang'an, or Qian Guangming, although the commanders of these three divisions and brigades rushed out of the country with indomitable progress and quickly achieved a suppressive advantage, there was always a shadow in the hearts of the three of them. The 9th Division spent a huge amount of money to blast the Ming city wall about 200 meters long, if it only has the current means, wouldn't it be too child's play?

Japanese people aren't so easy to do, are they?

After Liu Zheliang used the walkie-talkie to convey Ouyang Yun's order, Qian Guangming began to control the formation and advance speed of the troops, and at the same time, issued a "blasting order".

The "Blasting Order" was issued by Ouyang Yun after the discovery of the new Japanese tank in the First Battle of Pukou - once the tank is incapacitated, then the crew has the responsibility to carry out a complete blast on it to ensure that some key equipment does not fall into the hands of the Japanese army.

At that time and space, the rise of Japan was to cause the Japanese to excel in imitation and innovation capabilities, and in view of this, Ouyang Yun now had to adjust his previous strategy - to help the little devil become stronger? Let's stop in moderation, if the other party is stronger than himself, then the country is finished, won't he Ouyang Yun become a historical sinner? That's going to stink for thousands of years.

On the defensive side, there were only two regiments of infantry actually put into the battlefield, and after the battle just now, the total of these two regiments was now only about 1,200 people. Twelve hundred men followed closely behind the tank formation, because with the cover of the tanks, they no longer had to do the hard work of stabbing around. All they need to do now is follow behind with their guns and pick up the fish that slipped through the net.

After the tank regiment slowed down, the infantry, on the other hand, slowed down. Kuang Cheng led people to run wildly for about ten minutes to reach the battlefield, and then, a company of people scattered, and quickly conveyed Ouyang Yun's order.

At this time, the Japanese army began to retreat. When Xie Changan, Zhu Zaiting and others, who had already received the order, saw it, they immediately realized that the little devil might be poisoned, so the two regiment commanders gave an order, and the defenders did not advance but retreated, and they also ran to the back. In this way, a ridiculous scene appeared on the battlefield, the two warring sides who were fighting in the middle of the battle actually rushed to the rear at this time, and if this strange scene fell in the eyes of someone who did not know the truth, he would still think that the two sides were playing "cultural fighting".

A few minutes later, thunder sounded from afar, and the sound of shells breaking through the air became the most piercing sound on the battlefield, whether it was the Japanese army or the Chinese army, everyone's faces immediately changed.

The tank phalanx was the key target of the Japanese artillery from the beginning, when one tank after another was knocked down, and even a violent explosion occurred and turned into a burning fire, Qian Guangming witnessed this scene, and said in his heart that this is not good, if it is not done, it will be the fate of the destruction of the whole regiment. "Everyone spread out and stayed away from each other. I repeat once again that as soon as you lose the ability to maneuver, you will immediately carry out the blasting! Don't feel distressed, brothers, as long as you can go back alive, the tank will be driven by you. ”

The heavy shelling lasted a full twenty minutes, from the battlefield into the city. Yoshiju Ryosuke was ruthless this time, and even ordered all the shells to be destroyed, and the tank regiment suffered heavy losses in this shelling, and only thirteen of the more than 50 tanks were finally withdrawn to safety, including two seriously wounded.

In Qian Guangming's command post, soon, the self-propelled artillery brigade that had been ordered to arrive at position No. 3 called and reported to Ouyang Yun that it was ready to counterattack.

Ouyang Yun handed the phone to Bai Xiaofeng, an artillery staff officer. The latter was responsible for surveying Japanese artillery positions. Bai Xiaofeng had been observing and calculating the shooting of Zhu Yuan as early as when the Japanese army fired the first shot, and when he took the phone, he immediately reported the data. A few minutes later, in the southeast direction of Zijin Mountain in the city of Nanjing, a dull thunderclap sounded - twenty minutes after the Japanese heavy artillery wing was in power, the artillery of the Cadet Corps finally began to return fire.

One after another fire dragons roared from the direction of the Purple Mountain, and in the hiss of "aggressiveness", Zhu Zaiting and more than 30 Sichuan soldiers invariably stopped and looked up.

"Brigade, it's our artillery!"

"The artillery of the Xuebing Army has finally become powerful, he NND, why didn't Ouyang Yun, the turtle son, go earlier? If it had been earlier, my brother might not have died. The man who spoke was a strong man with a fleshy face, holding a bloody arm in his left hand and a young Sichuan soldier covered in blood and missing his left arm on his back.

Zhu Zaiting ignored the soldiers around him, he turned his head to look behind, the Japanese artillery was still raging, and the nearest explosion point to them was twenty meters away. The smoke and dust from the explosion obscured the sky, and at this moment, it was less like a human being, more like hell. He did not initiate the charge, but without his call, it is estimated that the current situation would not have taken place. At that time, if you held on, you should be able to hold on, right? Thinking like this, he didn't know whether his previous decision was right or wrong - there were nearly two thousand people who went out, and now he came back, he looked at it carefully, and he was very silent in his heart - it added up to five hundred people. In order to cover the retreat of the infantry as much as possible, Qian Guangming ordered the tank regiment to withdraw from the battlefield at the least. Now the tank regiment is still under artillery fire.

"The little devil is so ruthless that he even dares to blow up his own people."

"Ge Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu didn't die, this time I made a lot of money, I slaughtered at least five. Big blackheads, how many did you slaughter? ”

The big black head was the guy with a meaty face, with anger in his eyes, tears still hanging from the corners of his eyes, and he hissed and roared: "No matter how much Lao Tzu slaughters and there is another bird, Lao Tzu's brother is dead-5555...... Let me go back and explain to my mother! Ouyang Yun, the turtle son, since the student army has a cannon, why don't you take it out earlier! ”

The sound of shells bursting through the air flew in, and a battalion commander walking behind the most clump shouted: "Lie down! Then he pounced on Zhu Zaiting and pressed him under him.

This shell exploded five meters away from them, and with a loud "boom", three people in the team of more than 30 people were killed on the spot, and five others were wounded by shrapnel.

The explosion woke up Zhu Zaiting, and after he got up, he picked up a wounded man and shouted: "Brothers, if you want to live, run away!" ”

The artillery of the Cadet Corps has not appeared frequently so far, and it is for this reason that Ichiro Hatoyama, the commander of the heavy artillery wing of the 9th Division, commanded the troops to continue the shelling, and he did not realize that they would also be subjected to retaliatory shelling.

The self-propelled guns of one brigade of the Cadet Corps amounted to a staggering fifty-four. However, a heavy artillery wing of the Japanese army had three heavy artillery brigades, each of which had 12 150-mm cannons, adding up to only 36 guns. Fifty-four doors against thirty-six doors, and there is no intention to fight unintentionally, and the results are self-evident. After five rapid shots from the self-propelled guns of the Cadet Corps, only three artillery pieces remained on the Japanese artillery position.

Hatoyama Ichiro luckily escaped this round of covered artillery bombardment, he saw that the situation was not right, thinking that once he encountered the tank troops of the Cadet Army again, he would need heavy artillery to deal with it, so he decisively ordered to withdraw from the position, and used three trucks to drag three cannons to escape from the position where the fireworks were raging.

Just after all the Japanese artillery was dumbfounded, Bai Xiaofeng made a decisive decision and decisively commanded the artillery brigade to carry out a round of pursuit of the retreating Japanese 6th Brigade.

Akiyama Yoshiyoshi's 6th Brigade had only three brigades left before attacking Gwanghwamon, and one brigade was wiped out yesterday, and only two brigades took part in hand-to-hand combat this time. The devils of the two brigades hung up five or six hundred when they attacked each other with the infantry led by Zhu Zaiting and Xie Changan, and later they were ravaged by the tank regiment led by Qian Guangming and lost more than 500 people, and more than 300 people were swallowed up by their own artillery, and there were only six or seven hundred people left.

For Yoshiju Ryosuke, the appearance of the artillery of the Cadet Army was undoubtedly another accident. And this unexpected appearance also made him have to reconsider whether the previously formulated combat plan is still necessary to continue. Unlike Gu Shoufu and others, he fought many battles with the Cadet Army, and he knew the characteristic of the Cadet Army's artillery unit - that is, its terrible mobility. At the current level of technology, self-propelled guns are definitely high-end weapons. After the Second Battle of the Great Wall, the Kwantung Army once tried every possible way to obtain the relevant technical parameters of self-propelled artillery, but because the Cadet Army gave up North China to fight in Fujian and Guangdong, all the arrangements of the Kwantung Army failed.

After moving from Pukou to Nanjing, Ouyang Yun hid most of the artillery division tightly. His original idea was to use it as a killer weapon, but after the Japanese reconnaissance planes made repeated reconnaissance sorties and found only one on the riverside, he thought that most of the artillery of the Cadet Corps had already gone to Wuhu and even returned to Fujian and Guangdong. This is the unscrupulous shelling.

Now, the artillery of the Cadet Army is showing its magnificence, and Yoshizu Ryosuke naturally does not dare to ignore it, and the battle plan he has drawn up has to be temporarily put on hold.

By about 10 o'clock in the morning, the battle on the Nanjing battlefield centered on Guanghuamen had temporarily stopped.