readx;? Dai Zhiqi didn't expect to make so many preparations, just because a round of bombing by Japanese planes destroyed the positions outside the city, and the officers and soldiers outside the city also suffered heavy losses, but they had to withdraw to the city after holding for two days. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 If the Japanese planes bombed it a few more times, would this Zhenjiang City still be able to hold it?

Looking at Wan Shijiong's anxious eyes, Dai Zhiqi could only nod in agreement. Seeing that Deputy Division Commander Dai agreed, Wan Shijiong immediately sent people outside the city to convey the order for the troops to withdraw to the city. The defenders outside the city heard the order and withdrew to the city in an orderly manner. Wan Shijiong also asked his subordinates to seal the south gate and north gate of Zhenjiang City.

In the afternoon, the Japanese planes once again came to the sky over Zhenjiang City, and this time Wan Shijiong, who had already been prepared, immediately organized light and heavy machine guns on the city to shoot at the air, perhaps by luck, this time they actually shot down two Japanese planes, but the bombs dropped by the Japanese planes not only fell outside the city and on the city, but also threw many into Zhenjiang City, and these bombs not only caused casualties among the people, but also caused several fires in Zhenjiang City.

The walls of Zhenjiang are still very strong, and after being hit by bombs in a few places, they only collapsed into gaps, but did not collapse. Seeing that the bombing of the planes did not cause the city wall to collapse, Nakajima asked the heavy artillery of the 1st Heavy Artillery Brigade to come and support the city wall of Zhenjiang and the defenders on the wall. The power of the 150 cannon is still not small, and the city wall has been damaged by aerial bombs, so the two city walls finally could not bear to collapse at night.

Seeing that the opportunity had come, Lieutenant General Nakajima Imago ordered the Japanese to immediately attack the gap in the collapsed wall. Wan Shijiong also immediately organized officers and soldiers to plug the gap, and the two sides fought hard at the gap. When it was almost dark, the defenders gradually became a little difficult to resist, and suddenly killed hundreds of officers and soldiers from the city, and with the help of these hundreds of officers and soldiers, they could be regarded as repelling the Japanese attack.

On the night of that day, all the officers and men of the 103rd Division were reinforcing the city wall as long as they were able to move, as if the two places had collapsed, and Dai Zhiqi was commanding on the one hand, and on the other hand, he was considering whether Zhenjiang City should be abandoned. After getting in touch with the radio station of the Independent Heavy Artillery Brigade, the Independent Heavy Artillery Brigade sent dozens of trucks to transfer the seriously wounded of the 103rd Division to Nanjing City first, and then the Heavy Artillery Brigade blew up five 240 heavy howitzers and pulled the rest of the 150 cannons to Tangshan.

After more than ten days of rest, Wang Haitao sent them guns, ammunition, and military supplies after resting in Xiashu Town, and at this time they had recovered part of their vitality. Hearing the fierce fighting in Zhenjiang City, the army commander Deng Longguang sent a telegram to Wang Haitao asking for war. At the same time, there was also Dai Zhiqi who sent a report to Wang Haitao.

In a telegram from Dai Zhiqi to Wang Haitao, he reported the situation of the battle in Zhenjiang City in the past two days and asked for permission to withdraw from Zhenjiang City. Wang Haitao first telegraphed back to Commander Deng Longguang, telling him that he was about to abandon Zhenjiang City, and asked the 83rd Division to establish a defensive line in Xiashu Town, take over the 103rd Division withdrawn from Zhenjiang, and then move to Tangshan.

Later, he sent a telegram back to Division Commander Dai Zhiqi, agreeing that the 103rd Division would withdraw from Zhenjiang City, and that he had ordered the 83rd Army to respond in Xiashu Town. The last telegram was sent to Commander Ye Zhao of the 66th Army, informing him that Zhenjiang was about to be abandoned, and that the next target of the Japanese army was Tangshan Town, and asked Commander Ye Zhao to inform the troops stationed in Tangshan Town to get ready.

At this time, the 478th Brigade of the 160th Division of the 66th Army was stationed in Tangshan, and the brigade commander Deng Zhicai was a close confidant of Ye Zhao, the commander of the army and the commander of the 160th Division. To say that this Ye Zhao is a person who is determined to follow Lao Jiang closely, Lao Jiang also trusts this person very much. On the battlefield of Shanghai, the 66th Army suffered heavy losses because of Ye Zhao's command error, and after withdrawing, Lao Jiang personally named the 66th Army to replenish personnel, guns, ammunition and military supplies, so the current 66th Army is still very combative.

In Zhenjiang City, Dai Zhiqi led the 103rd Division to withstand the attack of the Japanese army for a whole day, until eight o'clock in the evening, the main force began to withdraw from Zhenjiang City from the west gate, and the soldiers of the two companies at the head of the city did not quietly retreat to Xiashu Town until twelve o'clock in the night. The 83rd Army in Xiashu Town also retreated in the direction of Tangshan after receiving the 103rd Division. After more than ten days of fierce fighting, the Zhenjiang City Room was lost.

In the three Japanese troops, Zhenjiang took the lead, which made the commanders of the two divisions of Nakajima and Ushijima Sadao extremely excited, originally Lieutenant General Nakajima Imago was ready to continue to attack, but was persuaded by Lieutenant General Ushijima Sadao, both divisions lost their artillery wings, and they also lost a lot of losses in more than ten days of fierce fighting, it is better to rest in Zhenjiang City, and wait for the fifth division and chariot troops to come up, and then continue to attack Nanjing City, Nakajima Imado let the troops stop and recuperate.

The 22nd Division of the Japanese Army of the Central Route Army finally waited for the division's Yeshan Artillery Wing, and with the assistance of the Yeshan Artillery Wing, the 22nd Division attacked in front of the main position relying on Liyang City in ten days. The main position outside Liyang City is not like other positions, which Wang Haitao led the 90th Division to start building as soon as it entered here, and it took nearly three months to repair it before and after, using a large amount of cement, steel bars, steel plates and other materials, and the bunker fortifications were built according to the standard that could withstand several rounds of heavy artillery shells.

The traffic trenches are covered, and the sandbag fortifications are also covered with coarse wood, which is covered with steel plates and then compacted with earth. In front of the position, barbed wire, mine arrays, anti-tank trenches and other fortifications were arranged, and the firing points were also divided into light and dark, all of which were designed according to the firepower of the 90th Division. Fortunately, after the 91st Division took over, although the firepower was insufficient, it was sufficient. Guo Rudong put the 560 Regiment, which was second only to the guard regiment in combat effectiveness of the whole division, on this position, and the city was originally defended by the guard regiment and the 563rd regiment, but after the guard regiment was transferred to Jurong, there was only one 563 regiment in the city, and some of them were empty. However, now that the 561st Regiment has been withdrawn, division commander Guo Rudong is a lot more steady.

The 561st Regiment fought and withdrew from the first line of defense, and when it withdrew to Liyang City, a regiment lost one-third, except for the seriously wounded, only more than 1,000 officers and soldiers could continue to fight, Guo Rudong comforted the regiment commander Fu Bingxun, and asked him to rest with the 562nd Regiment first, as the general reserve of the whole division, and go up at the critical time when needed.

The 22nd Division of the Japanese Army also suffered heavy losses in the attack of more than 10 days, and when it attacked the main position outside Liyang City, the two wings of the 66 Brigade and Regiment, one company and one organized brigade, and the other two brigades did not have many people left. The other wing was slightly better, with one and a half brigades left. Faced with another position that seemed difficult to overcome, the commander of the 22nd Division's Tsuchihashi Division made another difficulty.

The third division of the Japanese army was still blocked under Damao Peak for ten days, and the wing commander of the 68th Wing tried his best to still fail to capture the main peak position of Damao Peak, because there was a section of natural danger with a length of more than 50 meters in front of the main peak position, which was an uphill road sandwiched between two mountains, with a width of only two meters and cliffs on both sides.

As long as you cross this dangerous path, it is an open field on the main peak, that is, the main peak position of Damao Peak. At the end of the natural danger, the third company of the second battalion placed a heavy machine gun and two light machine guns, as well as a reinforced squad of soldiers, and the Japanese army had many soldiers, but they were never able to pass this natural danger. When the division of troops wanted to launch an attack on Maoshan Town, the mortars on the position of the main peak of Damaofeng could strike at the attacking Japanese soldiers.

Such a predicament made the Third Division, from the division commander Lieutenant General Fujita Shin to the wing commander Takashi Takamori Osa, unable to do anything. Lieutenant General Fujita could only hope that the 22nd Division could capture Liyang City and thus flank Maoshan Town, so that the two divisions would converge and then launch an attack on Nanjing from Jurong. However, Liyang City also had strong fortifications, and the 22nd Division had already lost a lot of troops, so when would it be possible to capture Liyang City? Fujita saw that Maoshan was really difficult to attack here, so he simply handed over the task of attacking Maoshan to Major General Riichiro Katayama's Fifth Brigade, and he himself turned to Liyang City with the rest of his troops.

The 66th Brigade of the 22nd Division was no longer able to attack, and the commander of the division, Lieutenant General Jiichi Tsuchihashi, could only replace the 67th Brigade as the main attack. Twenty minutes of artillery bombardment before the offensive was necessary, but in the face of the fortifications on the positions, only God knows how effective these twenty minutes of shelling would be. After the shelling, a squadron of infantry launched an attack on the position.

Only more than 100 officers and men of the 1st battalion and 1st company of the 560th Regiment were defending the position, but four heavy machine guns were placed on the position. There were more than 10 light machine guns, plus the submachine guns in the hands of the squad leader, and the firepower on the position was very fierce. Seeing that the Japanese had only 100 people, the commander of the first company ordered two heavy machine guns and two light machine guns plus rifles in the hands of the soldiers to fire, and the rest of the fire was not to be exposed.

The heavy machine guns on the Japanese heavy machine gun positions, the mortars on the artillery positions of the wings, and the 92 infantry guns all fired at the positions, but these weapons did not pose much threat to the officers and men of the company hidden in the fortifications. Considering that the marksmanship of the fighters was really poor, the commander of the first company only gave way to fire when the Japanese infantry came within a hundred meters of the position.

At the order to open fire, two heavy machine guns, two light machine guns, and more than 100 rifles all fired bullets at the attacking Japanese troops. The Japanese offensive formation was also very open, and although the shooting on the position also knocked down many Japanese soldiers, the remaining Japanese troops still bent over and attacked forward while shooting. All the way to the barbed wire fence seventy meters in front of the position.

The barbed wire is tied to a wooden stake more than one meter high, in the Japanese artillery fire, many wooden stakes have been blown up, so there are several gaps in the barbed wire, the Japanese infantry in front of the barbed wire, naturally concentrated on the gap, which also gives the defenders on the position a chance, several light and heavy machine guns concentrated fire to block several gaps in the barbed wire, the Japanese casualties increased suddenly, the Japanese squadron leader saw that it was not good, and hurriedly commanded the soldiers to retreat.