Not only Guanghuamen, but also in several other main attack directions, the Japanese army also did not make the slightest progress.

What is different from that time and space is that the sequence of the Japanese troops besieging Nanjing has changed, and among them, Nakajima Imasago's 16th Division was not incorporated into the Shanghai Dispatch Army, but remained in North China to fight. In its place was the 101st Division. In several other directions, the Yamada detachment was recalled to Shanghai for reorganization because of the heavy blow it suffered at Pukou, and its combat position was replaced by the 11th Division. In the direction of Yuhuatai and Zhonghua Gate, the 3rd Division was the main attack, while the 114th Division was attacking Tongji Gate and Wuding Gate. As for the 6th Division, which Ouyang Yun hated the most, it still followed the old historical path, mainly attacking Jiangdong Gate, Sanxia River, and Huashen Temple.

It was only before yesterday that the Japanese troops learned that the main force of the Daoist Nationalist Army had withdrawn southward, and only the remaining two integrated divisions of the Sichuan Army remained in Nanjing, followed by the Cadet Army and the former Nanjing garrison.

Except for the 9th Division and the 11th Division, which had suffered a great loss at the hands of the Cadet Army, the other Japanese troops were very excited, thinking that the time had come to grab the credit, so once they received the order to attack Nanjing, they rushed towards Nanjing without exception, lest the honor of attacking Nanjing first would be robbed by other troops.

The Japanese gave the defenders the opportunity to expand their gains, and in fact, except for the 9th Division, which suffered the greatest losses due to an accident, in several other directions, except for the 11th Division, all other Japanese divisions suffered heavy blows. Among them, Gu Shoufu's 6th Division also lost a full brigade in the direction of Jiangdong Gate.

The tenacity of the defenders clearly surprised the Japanese army. Also, not long ago, the Chinese army was still defeated by the Japanese army with one blow, and only the wolf ran for its life, why did it become fierce when it entered the city of Nanjing in the blink of an eye? This made the Japanese division and regimental commanders led by Tani Shofu puzzled, they remembered the base camp's admonition to be vigilant against the student army, and after being angry, they calmed down, and made the same choice as Yoshizu Ryosuke, and began to bombard frantically, hoping to rely on the far dominant artillery to defeat the defenders' fortifications and will in one fell swoop, so as to reduce the casualties of the soldiers as much as possible.

The shelling lasted more than an hour. Then, 12 Japanese planes carried out saturation bombing on the positions of the defenders of Guanghua Gate and Jiangdong Gate, until the defenders' positions behind the two city gates were destroyed to the ground, and then Shi Shiran left Nanjing.

The shelling, which lasted for an hour, and the continuous bombardment, really dealt a great blow to the defenders. Taking Guanghuamen as an example, the fortifications relied on by Yang Chengjun's Xuebing Company and Fan Neng's Sichuan Soldier Company were completely destroyed, and nearly 200 people in the two companies were killed, and only 13 people including Fan Neng survived. Of these, six others were seriously injured.

As for the machine gun company in the house behind the fortifications, although it retreated in time, it still killed more than 30 people......

For the losses in the defensive battle of Nanjing, although Ouyang Yun had calculated and mentally prepared, the shelling of this scale was not something he could bear. He was even a little afraid, if the Japanese army insisted on this means of warfare, would it really be necessary for him to hold on?

In the city of Nanjing, not everyone is willing to evacuate. Among them, some people have naturally been prepared to be traitors for a long time, and some people, especially some old people, are unwilling to evacuate because of nostalgia for their homeland. It is said that for such people, the officers and men who carry out the evacuation work should mainly be persuaded to do so. However, it was the former Nanjing garrison that carried out the evacuation work. The officers and men of these units are accustomed to being arrogant and domineering, and they do not at all sympathize with the people's feelings and adopt gentle measures, but only know that they are blindly strong, and this has aroused the resentment of the people, and even some citizens who were willing to evacuate have refused to evacuate because of this.

The reason why Ouyang Yun wanted these two divisions subordinate to the Central Army to carry out this task was originally to consider that their combat strength was the lowest, and they could not take charge of front-line operations and carry out evacuation tasks, just to make the best use of their personnel. Who knew that this kind of thing would happen in Ludao, and it would bring the evacuation work to an impasse. At about 11 o'clock in the afternoon, he learned the news from Wu Keren, who was in charge of this work, and in desperation, he had no choice but to ask the troops in charge of the second line of defense to also transfer personnel to join the work, with a view to completing the work of persuading the people to leave as soon as possible.

The continuous shelling and bombardment of the Japanese completely destroyed the first line of defense that the defenders had worked so hard to build. No sooner had the bombing stopped, and the Japanese planes had not yet moved away from the skies over the city of Nanjing, and their ground offensive began again.

Guanghuamen, Xie Chang'an and Zhu Zaiting had just rescued Fan Neng and other surviving officers and soldiers from the first line of defense, and the Ninth Division launched another onslaught.

This time, it was still a Quirrell, three armored cars drove the way, and a squadron of devils followed behind, cautiously rushing into Guanghua Gate.

The houses behind the first fortifications were the second line of defense for the defenders, but there were few concrete buildings in this area, so after continuous shelling and bombardment, they basically collapsed and became a ruin. This ruin even blocked the entrances of two bomb shelters, and in these two bomb shelters, there was enough to hide a battalion of defenders.

As soon as the bombing stopped, Zhu Zaiting and Xie Chang'an, after receiving the report from the lookout post, immediately asked Fang Dake to lead the remaining two companies of his battalion to excavate the two air-raid shelters. In order to prevent the Japanese army from attacking at this time, Qian Guangming dispatched six tanks to encircle Guanghua Gate in a fan shape.

As soon as the Japanese Quirrell tank appeared, the two closest to the Guanghua Gate of the six Jiguang opened fire at the same time, and with two loud "booms", the Quirrell was immediately surrounded by fireworks, and then turned into a pile of burning scrap metal.

So, as in the first attack, the Japanese army was once again destroyed because of Quirrell, and the follow-up troops were blocked outside the Guanghua Gate. Two shells destroyed Quirrell, and from the point of view of saving shells, the six Jiguang stopped running, and at the same time let the Heavy block the Guanghua Gate with bullets. With the cooperation of six disease-type general-purpose machine guns, Guanghuamen was immediately sealed, and the Japanese army's attack was also contained this time.

Guanghua Gate is like this, and several other directions. Except for the direction of Shogunate Mountain, where the defenders had to rely on strong fortifications to shoot at the Japanese army, the other scenes of Kohwamon were staged without exception.

The attack was repulsed again, but the angry thing was that the people of China were actually carrying out rescue work more than 300 meters away from Guanghua Gate - which made Yoshizu Ryosuke so angry that the roots of his teeth itched. He thought that it would be nice if he had a squadron of Type 99. Compared to the Cadet Army's Jiguang tank, Quirrell was so brittle - he couldn't even block a shot from the frontal armor! Before the Type 99 tank appeared, the Jiguang tank was an insurmountable steel trench for the Japanese army. The timely appearance of Type 99 gave generals like Yoshizu Ryosuke who had fought with the Cadet Army a lot of confidence and expectations. However, in the Battle of Pukou, the Type 99 tank of a wing of the empire that the empire had done its best to build was completely annihilated in the first battle, which made the Jiguang type tank once again become a lingering shadow hanging over Yoshiju Ryosuke's heart. "Your Excellency, Division Commander, did you want the Heavy Artillery Wing to carry out shelling again?" The chief of staff of the 9th Division walked up to Ryosuke Yoshizu and asked.

Without the Type 99, the only thing that the Japanese army could deal with Jiguang tanks was heavy artillery and heavy attack aircraft. However, since the fierce shelling and bombardment just now failed to solve the Jiguang tank in the Guanghua Gate, presumably the people of Shina must have a good way to evade it—Yoshizu Ryosuke thought so, and did not take the advice of the chief of staff. "Let's withdraw the troops first!" After he said this, he stared at the Nanjing city wall standing in front of him, frowning and pondering.

On the first day of the battle, the most thrilling places took place on the surface of Shimonoseki and Zhongshan Wharf.

Because the Japanese Third Fleet suffered a devastating blow in the Jiangyin fortress, Ouyang Yun dared to implement the evacuation plan. However, because the chairman of the committee felt sorry for the navy, he was stunned and ordered all the navy ships to withdraw to Hankou, which led to the lower reaches of the Yangtze River completely becoming the world of the Japanese navy. Therefore, in Pukou, the Cadet Army would fight far away from the river because of the fear of the few Japanese gunboats. For the same reason, he had to detach a small part of his artillery to garrison the Zhongshan wharf in case of the Japanese gunboats, which were not very strong; At the same time, all air defense units were deployed here to prevent wanton bombing by Japanese fighters, in order to protect the evacuated people as much as possible and to make the objective conditions of the Nanjing Massacre no longer exist as much as possible.

Even if the Nanjing Massacre really happened, it would be in the future, which presented Ouyang Yun with a problem, that is, he could not communicate with others. Therefore, when Zhu Zaiting asked him why he didn't use artillery to suppress the Japanese artillery fire, he had to make such an explanation.

The artillery stationed at Zhongshan Wharf had only one self-propelled artillery regiment, all of which had a gun diameter of more than 120 mm, in order to be able to threaten the Japanese gunboats. It is naturally not enough to rely on more than 20 guns of this artillery regiment, because the shore artillery is incomparable with the naval artillery in terms of caliber and range, so the self-propelled artillery regiment can play a role, only when the Japanese gunboats are defenseless. Once the Japanese gunboats were on guard and out of the range of shelling, then the self-propelled artillery regiment could only watch the Japanese gunboats wreak havoc. And in order to minimize the threat of Japanese gunboats to the evacuated people, Ouyang Yun gritted his teeth and turned the officers and soldiers of a squadron of the Broadsword Regiment into a water ghost team - their combat mission was to find an opportunity to board the Japanese gunboats and blow them up or simply occupy them.

Ouyang Yun's decision, not many people know the Dao, only including the senior generals of the Xuebing Army. Among them, even a well-known patriotic general like Li Hansoul couldn't help but ask, in his opinion, fighting a war will definitely kill people, and is it worth sacrificing elite fighters like Langya to save powerless civilians?

Ouyang Yun actually had no way to answer this question. Because he couldn't balance the interests involved, but once he thought of the five bloody words "Nanjing Massacre" in his mind, he felt that even if it wasn't worth it, he should do it.

All just to avoid this tragedy! As a traverser, it seems that he can only go so far.