Chapter Eighty-Eight: Bloody Nanjing (7)

In the direction of Taipingmen in the east of the city, the 33rd Wing, which commanded the attack, completely stopped the attack. Looking at the quiet direction of attack, Wang Yaowu asked Wu Yuzhao beside him: "Chief of Staff Wu, aren't the devils attacking?" ”

Wu Yuzhao said: "Impossible, they should have sent planes to bomb, we defend like this, the biggest threat is the planes, but unfortunately there is no anti-aircraft fire." ”

Wang Yaowu said: "Isn't Commander Xiao an anti-aircraft artillery company? ”

Wu Yuzhao shook his head with a wry smile: "Division Commander Wang, there is only one company, only six anti-aircraft guns, even if it can be used, what should I do with the fifty-eighth division?" Captain Xue was not allowed to move, it was only used to block the frontal attack of the devils and fight street battles, and when it was used at this time, it became the target of Japanese aircraft. ”

Wang Yaowu didn't know how to use anti-aircraft guns in street battles, but Xue Ru has always had strange tactics, that is, what kind of tricks he has. Since it can't be used, I am also very frustrated and helplessly said: "Then what should I do?"

Wu Yuzhao said: "Open the gate and release the water, and let the devils in to fight." ”

Wang Yaowu was already convinced, and he didn't know what other tactics the Snow Fox Corps had, so he said: "You come to command, listen to you." ”

Wu Yuzhao was not polite, this was not the time to be polite and modest, and immediately ordered all the soldiers in the city to withdraw to the city and enter the second line of fortifications in the city. said to Dai Zong beside him: "Grasp the timing and don't let the devil see it." ”

Dai Zong nodded: "Don't worry, no problem." "I left in a hurry.

More than an hour later, the roar of airplanes was heard in the sky, followed by the explosion of Japanese artillery shells, this is the coordination of infantry artillery, and the ground-air coordinated operation, Noda Kengo Daisa also knew that the air force planes could not last, and received a notification from the headquarters that the 114th Division in the direction of Shuiximen encountered the same situation.

A squadron of light bombers, each dispatched to assist in the attack on both sides, made sure that they succeeded. In the direction of Guanghua Gate, Zhongshan Gate and Zhonghua Gate, the battle has reached a fever pitch. The Chinese army was desperately resisting, and Tang Shengzhi put the main force into the frontal defense. The Imperial Army had already stormed into the city, but was unfortunately repelled by a counter-charge. The wall of the Zhonghua Gate in front has collapsed, and the imperial army is attacking, and it is expected to break through the frontal position, so that they must contain the forces on both sides and not reinforce the middle.

Lieutenant General Nakajima Imago ordered the 16th Brigade to intensify the attack on the 36th Division's position on Shogunate Mountain, and at the same time coordinate the 3rd Division to intensify the attack on the Oolong Mountain position and cover the navy's passage through the coastal defense artillery blockade area.

Just when Xue Ru and the others were studying the calculating devils from both sides, the entire Nanjing City was already under heavy artillery fire, and the battle was fierce. Tang Shengzhi and Zhou Wei couldn't take care of the positions on both sides, anyway, the 58th and 51st divisions did not have an emergency report, that is, they could still withstand it.

Luo Zhuoying was very strange, the two sides in the middle said that there were two divisions, but the 74th Army did not have the strength of a single division in total, how could there be no report in the face of the attack of the two wings?

Soon it became known at the staff office that the Snow Fox Corps was put into battle. Xue Ru is only about 3,000 people, what can she do to make the sides as stable as Mount Tai. I was very curious and wanted to send someone to find out, but I didn't have time at all.

Before he could spare time, the front reported that the teaching corps finally could not hold out, and the casualties had already exceeded sixty percent, and it was already a miracle that such an army did not collapse. Gui Yongqing and Qiu Qingquan ordered the two divisions to retreat to the city, and all the positions around the Purple Mountain were lost, and Nanjing was completely surrounded on three sides, southeast and west. Only the north side has not been surrounded, but on that side is the choppy Yangtze River.

"It is reported that the wall of Zhonghua Gate has collapsed in three places, and the Japanese army has attacked and entered the city, and the 88th and 87th divisions have asked for reinforcements."

Tang Shengzhi knew that Gu Zhutong had informed him to retreat, and he did not carry it out. I had to say: "Order to teach the corps to reinforce Zhonghuamen, and Huang Jie's 83rd Army will all reinforce Tongjimen and Guanghuamen." ”

Liu Xing said: "The commander can't go on like this, we will fight it all." ”

Tang Shengzhi didn't know that it seemed that the chairman didn't want to take responsibility, so he had no choice but to die in Nanjing. This frightened him, the commander of the garrison, there was no possibility of dying on the battlefield. It was with this certainty that he dared to volunteer to stay and stick to Nanjing. But it seems that this time it is over.

"Commander, commission telegram" Zhou Wei came over and handed Tang Shengzhi a telegram.

Tang Shengzhi took it and looked at it, and he couldn't care about the question of whether he offended Chiang Kai-shek, and immediately said to Liu Xing and Luo Zhuoying: "The commission orders us to abandon Nanjing, immediately draw up a retreat plan, and convene a meeting to deploy the retreat when it is completed." ”

As he spoke, he handed the telegram to Luo Zhuoying and them, the telegram was indeed a telegram from the commission, and the key sentence was: "When the situation cannot last for a long time, the camera can retreat." This is not an order to retreat, but when Tang Shengzhi said this, no one would object. It was as if it was the commission that ordered the retreat.

Zhou Wei and the two deputy commanders immediately began to study the retreat plan, arrange the direction of retreat according to the situation, and arrange the holding troops to block the pursuit of the Japanese army. This side studied the retreat plan, and the battle in the direction of Taipingmen also began. The four bombardment planes flew very low, and they had already seen the fortifications built inside the city wall, and immediately flew low and fell.

A dozen kilograms of aviation * is not very powerful, but it is still very effective against such sandbag positions. The position was destroyed in the explosion, and the corpses flew with the explosion. The Japanese air force was very excited, proud of its precision bombing.

But if they could get close to see those corpses, they would be so angry that they would vomit blood, because they were not the corpses of the national army, they were the corpses of the Japanese soldiers who died in the city, and they were bombed by the devils themselves.

In fact, there was no one on the entire city wall, and Dai Zong, who was hiding in the distance, stared at the plane with a * detonation handle in his hand. When I saw the devil plane dive and drop the bomb again, I pressed down the handle, and a series of explosions blew up, and the Taiping Gate was blown up, and the city wall collapsed within a distance of twenty or thirty meters, and a gap appeared. It is only four or five meters above the ground, and there are slopes made of gravel and dirt.

This situation did not dazzle Kengo Noda, and ordered the 3rd Brigade to attack the gap. Not only was there no defensive position, but there would be no strange defense, and the 3rd Brigade was immediately ordered to attack, and at the same time the 2nd Brigade was ordered to follow, and he himself led the 1st Brigade and the wing headquarters with heavy casualties to move forward, preparing to break through the gap into the city in one fell swoop.

The Japanese were killed, and they could not have imagined that it was the city wall that the Chinese army blew up by themselves. This is Xue Ru's blocking tactics, this is a person's normal heart, and it is also a person's psychological weakness, and it is difficult to think of it as a trap when he suddenly sees the benefits. Thousands of meters of city walls, who knows where the devils are attacking? If there are planes watching in the sky, mobilizing troops to defend, they will become targets for planes.

When the devils who are in a hurry to attack find the collapsed city wall, they will not give up this easy place to attack, and they will definitely want to break through here. And the 51st Division in the city does not need to disperse its forces to defend everywhere, as long as it plugs this gap.

Hidden in the heights, holding a telescope and watching the devils outside the gap, swarmed. Wang Yaowu sighed: "It's really cunning like a fox, and the name of Captain Xue Snow Fox is well deserved!" ”

Wu Yuzhao is proud and admired, he is so smart that he can count it in the heart of the devil, is there still no victory in such a war? More than 3,000 troops from the city were surrounded by machine guns, rifles, grenadiers, and mortars.

This is not an accidental gap, but a deliberate trap. In the middle is an open field, surrounded by a network of firepower, the 51st Division is not a snow fox, they have heavy weapons.

Brigade Commander Chibon Wild Thistle Nakasa commanded his 3rd Brigade to kill in, and when he saw that there was no Chinese army, he was overjoyed, and thought that the opportunity had come, and immediately led the entire brigade to attack inside.

Zhang Lingfu was in a hurry, but he couldn't see the order to attack. Of course, Wu Yuzhao didn't want to attack, because the observer reported that there was a brigade behind. It's hard to get back into the game, how can a brigade be, it's best to come in all, it's a wing.

The 2nd Brigade that followed closely behind finally came in halfway, and he couldn't wait any longer, after all, there were only more than 3,000 people in the 51st Division, at this time Wu Yuzhao regretted it very much, if he knew this, he would transfer the 2nd Regiment of the Military Police over?

Even Xue Ru didn't expect the devil to be so cooperative, and he didn't want to think about it, how could the ceiling drop the pie, if the pie suddenly fell, it was basically a trap. Can an airplane as small as * blow up a city wall? Xue Ru thought that the devil would definitely send a small number of troops to test it.

But Xue Ru didn't know that the Zhonghua Gate in front had been destroyed in three city walls, and the collapse here did not make the Japanese army suspect. Besides, did anyone blow up the city wall by themselves? Unexpectedly, let Noda Kengo Osaku command two brigades to attack, and he led the entire wing headquarters and other arms to follow. This is the moment of the decisive battle.

With the sound of gunshots like popping beans, the devils rushing in front fell like red sorghum fields swept by a strong wind, and they fell in pieces, almost without aiming, just shooting. The gap is only so big in total, thousands of devils, too dense, this is not a war, not a battle, it is a massacre.

The soldiers of the 51st Division had never fought such a bitter battle, and they still slaughtered the Japanese devils they hated the most. Non-stop shooting, loading, and shooting. The devils in the back didn't know that the front had been wiped out, and they were still attacking forward.

In fact, it is not difficult to understand that there are Chinese troops in the city, and they will inevitably resist the blockade, and it is normal to be blocked. When blocked, the instinctive reaction of the Japanese was of course to break the defenders and attack forward.

Of course, the commander of the 2nd Brigade commanded behind would not think of retreating, but to attack forward and support the 3rd Brigade, who knew that the city was an ambush position.

The firepower was so powerful, and the intensity and speed of the shooting made it impossible for the overly dense Japanese troops to deploy. Although the Japanese army was well-trained and skilled in tactical maneuvers, it was inevitable that they would be suddenly attacked and the chaos would be short-lived.

The captain of the brigade, Chibon Wild Thistle, was unfortunately killed, and the devil who had no command lost the motivation to attack for a while, and turned around to defend. Keli is an open field, and there is no shelter, so I can only retreat when I am in a hurry.

The devils in the back were attacking, and the scene was even more chaotic, and the ambushed Chinese troops did not charge, but shot.

The captain of the back, Kojima Khan Shaozo, finally understood that he had been fooled, although he didn't know that this was a deliberately blown up city wall, but he judged that it was prepared and well guarded, and immediately led the team to retreat.

The devil in front couldn't resist and fled backwards, and this time it turned into a rout, Zhang Lingfu had rich combat experience, and immediately shouted: "Charge." ”

The sound of the trumpet sounded in the city, and the officers and men of the 51st Division jumped up and killed the devils. The defeat was like a mountain, and the Japanese army was no exception, and the 305th Regiment of the 11th Division was chased and killed.

The 51st Division was exposed, and was immediately killed and injured by the devils who counterattacked, and the angry Wu Yuzhao shouted: "Stupid pig, stupid, come back, come back." ”

Wang Yaowu was also very excited, and wanted to rush out to kill the enemy in person, but when he saw Wu Yuzhao's angry look, he asked puzzledly, "Why?" ”

Wu Yuzhao accepted Xue Ru's thoughts, he didn't want to kill the troops and the devils desperately, he could fight the devils and save himself, who would do it for a life? To fight a war is to take advantage.

The devils have strong combat effectiveness and are well-trained, and the two sides are engaged in pursuit battles, which are actually not suitable, they are all single-shot rifles, and at most five bullets. After shooting, it was a bayonet, and it was too late to load the bullet.

That's why Xue Ru is equipped with so many pistols, which can be used for pursuit battles without fighting bayonets. The 51st Division did not have pistols, there was no point in such a pursuit battle, and the bayonet battle of the Chinese army was not good.

If I can kill you, why should I fight against you? This is the idea that Xue Ru instilled in Snow Fox.

The troops did not pursue far, and although Wang Yaowu did not understand why, he still ordered the troops to stop the pursuit and retreat to the city.

Hearing Wu Yuzhao's explanation, Zhang Lingfu's face turned red, indeed, this pursuit did not achieve much success, the 51st Division suffered more than 100 casualties, if it did not attack, although it could annihilate some devils less, there may be no casualties on his side, it was a complete victory.

Wu Yuzhao didn't say anything more, after all, he was like this before, but he had just learned it for a few days. said to Wang Yaowu: "Clean up the battlefield, it is estimated that the devils will not attack again today, arrange for soldiers to block the gap in the city wall, and I will go to see how Captain Xue and them are doing."

This was arranged, and the soldiers of the 51st Division immediately raised the prepared sandbags and began to plug the gap in the city wall. Wu Yuzhao didn't know how big the results were, and when he returned to the central headquarters of the Datong shop, when he came back, he saw that Xue Ru was there, and asked, "How is Shuiximen?" ”

Xue Ru smiled: "It is estimated that Shigeharu Suematsu is shedding tears."

As soon as he heard this, Wu Yuzhao knew that it must be a brilliant result, and hurriedly said: "Tell me quickly, what is the devil like?" ”