readx;? The guard battalion sat in a modified truck, followed by an armored regiment, and rushed straight towards Yaohuamen with Wang Haitao. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 InfoWhen I came to Xiaozhuang, a heavy artillery regiment of the teaching corps was engaged in an artillery battle with the Japanese heavy artillery wing on the position. The Japanese heavy artillery wing also entered the city at this time, although the Japanese 240 heavy artillery exceeded the German 150 heavy artillery, but now the Japanese heavy artillery wing only has eight heavy guns, and the heavy artillery regiment still has more than 20 heavy guns, obviously the heavy artillery regiment has the upper hand.

These tanks of the armored regiment could cope with general artillery fire, but the Japanese 240 heavy artillery was enough to destroy all the tanks, including a dozen heavy tanks. When Wang Haitao learned that the rest of the 48th Division and the 2nd Militia Brigade were blocking the Japanese 18th Division here in Jubaoshan, he immediately ordered the troops to assault in the direction of Jubaoshan.

Before arriving at Jubaoshan, Wang Haitao heard the dense gunfire in front of him, and fearing that the Japanese artillery fire would cause damage to armored vehicles and modified trucks, Wang Haitao only let all 32 tanks launch a surprise attack on the Japanese army. As the rumbling chariot approached the position, the defenders on the position looked nervously behind them.

When they saw the tank car painted with the national emblem of the blue sky and white sun, cheers erupted at the same time. The tank convoy did not stop at the position, and continued to rumble past the position, and attacked the Japanese army. The Japanese troops who were attacking the position did not expect that the defenders in the city would use their chariots to carry out a surprise attack at this time, and the heavy artillery of the heavy artillery wing had all been destroyed and could not shell the chariots of China. In such a situation, the Japanese infantry in front was confused.

The Japanese commander on the front line asked the soldiers to block the Shina chariot on the one hand, and on the other hand, he asked the 92nd infantry gun to be transferred. The tanks were shooting at the Japanese with heavy machine guns while assaulting, and the Japanese infantry who were unprepared and had no positions were swept down in pieces. The 92 infantry guns came up and fired at the tank, but this kind of shell heavy tank didn't care at all, but a salvo of the vehicle-mounted artillery made several 92 infantry guns of the Japanese army into parts.

Seeing that they could not stop these tanks, the Japanese began to retreat, but the tanks did not stop, and continued to strafe the fleeing Japanese soldiers with machine guns after the Japanese troops. The defenders on the position saw that the Japanese had fled and were about to pursue, but Wang Haitao stopped them. When Ma Dengying, the commander of the 48th Division, came to Wang Haitao, he was covered in gunpowder dust and a blackened face, so that Wang Haitao almost didn't recognize it.

Ma Deng Ying saluted and said, "Commander Wang, I am ashamed of my humble position and failed to defend Yaohua Gate. Wang Haitao didn't blame him, but said: "Commander Ma, this Nanjing city can't be defended, all your officers and soldiers cover the heavy artillery regiment to retreat in the direction of Xiaguan, and rest after crossing the river from the pontoon bridge, leave it to me here." ”

Ma Dengying said hurriedly when he heard this: "Commander Wang, the Japanese army may re-attack at any time, you can lead people to withdraw first, and our 48th Division will stop the Japanese army here." Wang Haitao smiled and said: "I won't withdraw first, your 48th Division has been fighting here for many days, and the losses are not small, just withdraw first, here with my armored regiment can also block the Japanese army for a while." ”

Ma Dengying couldn't persuade Wang Haitao, so he could only say: "Then Commander Wang, take care." After finishing speaking, he saluted Wang Haitao, turned around and commanded the troops to retreat. Wang Haitao continued to chase the tank with the remaining armored vehicles and guard battalions. The tanks kept driving the Japanese 18th Division out of Yaohuamen before stopping.

After Wang Haitao caught up, he asked the armored regiment to pay attention to air defense, and the guard battalion assisted the armored regiment in blocking the attack, which was handed over to Wu Jianzhou, the commander of the armored regiment, with full command. After getting into a light armored car, he drove towards Yanziji. On the Yanziji position, since the 87th Division defeated the Japanese marines, no Japanese army has ever attacked again, and Wang Haitao arrived here when he was anxious about the situation at Yaohuamen.

After meeting Wang Jingjiu, the commander of the 87th Division, Wang Haitao told Wang Jingjiu the current situation and asked Wang Jingjiu to keep one regiment on the position, while the rest of the officers and men crossed the river from Xiaguan with the division headquarters. Wang Jingjiu still wanted to persuade Wang Haitao to cross the river first, but after Wang Haitao refused, Wang Jingjiu must leave the 259th Brigade behind, and ordered the brigade commander Shen Fazao to ensure the safety of Commander Wang, and then withdrew from the position with the division headquarters and the 261st Brigade.

At this time, the defenders in the city also began to retreat in the direction of Xiaguan, and the first to reach Xiaguan were the two brigades of the 159th Division, where two regiments of the gendarmerie were fully armed to maintain order, and there were two pontoon bridges and more than a dozen ferries, so there was no chaos. The 159th Division had just crossed the river, and the Heavy Artillery Brigade of the Teaching Corps, as well as the 51st Division, the 48th Division, and the 2nd Soldiers' and Civilians Brigade, had all arrived at Xiaguan.

Under the arrangement of the gendarmerie, the heavy artillery brigade crossed the river from a reinforced pontoon bridge, the 48th Division crossed the river by ferry, and the 51st Division and the militia brigade crossed the river from another pontoon bridge. There was a pontoon bridge, and the speed of crossing the river was still very fast, but when the troops were crossing the river, several Japanese planes flew in the sky, and the antiaircraft artillery battalion following the heavy artillery brigade gave up the opportunity to cross the river, and set up antiaircraft artillery positions on the spot to shoot at the air. The bombs dropped by Japanese planes under the interference of anti-aircraft guns all fell into the river, and the pontoon bridge was unharmed.

In order to prevent the Japanese planes from dropping bombs again, the antiaircraft artillery battalion simply did not leave and took up the task of air defense at the bridgehead. After the defenders took the initiative to remove the city wall, the Japanese soldiers cheered and rushed up the city wall, but when they were about to rush into the city, bullets suddenly shot from the streets inside the city gate, and the Japanese troops who rushed into the city first suffered a loss, and countless Japanese soldiers were shot and fell in ecstasy.

The regiment of the teaching corps of Tianbao City outside the Zhongshan Gate withdrew into Zhongshan Gate under the cover of the 271st Brigade of the 90th Division, and when the 271st Brigade also withdrew from the Zhongshanmen city wall, all the troops guarding Nanjing withdrew into Nanjing City except for the teaching corps and the troops on the Yanziji position who were fighting in the streets. These troops ran in the direction of Xiaguan one after another, and even the 92nd Division withdrew in the direction of Xiaguan under the leadership of division commander Cheng Guangyao, and only after the 271st Brigade learned that Wang Haitao was still in Yanziji, the whole brigade ran to the direction of Yanziji to reinforce it.

As soon as the 271st Brigade arrived at Yaohuamen, it heard fierce gunfire, and the brigade commander Tang Shoukuan immediately ordered the whole brigade to reinforce Yaohuamen. The guard battalion here in Yaohuamen was relying on the armored regiment to block the Japanese 18th Division, which had already entered the city, but was driven out by the chariot troops of China, which made the division commander, Lieutenant General Ushijima Sadao, very annoyed.

After inviting planes to help in the battle, the Japanese 18th Division launched another attack on the defenders of Yaohuamen. The total number of Japanese planes was quite large, but they were asking for help in the war everywhere, so they could only be used in a scattered manner. There were only more than 10 Japanese planes that came to Yaohuamen to help in the battle, but both armored vehicles and tanks had anti-aircraft machine guns, and the guard battalions were equipped with six or seven heavy machine guns.

After half of the planes were shot down, the Japanese planes that had polished the bombs flew away, destroying a light tank, a heavy armored vehicle and two light armored vehicles in the armored regiment, one of which exploded and the vehicle and its crew were killed.

Without the help of aircraft, the 18th Division of the Japanese Army had no way to take the armored regiment, the heavy artillery wing was gone, and the 75-caliber mountain guns of the mountain artillery wing of the division were useless to the heavy tanks of the defenders.

The Japanese troops who had captured the city wall were also making slow progress, and these Japanese troops were fighting with the teaching corps from house to house and alley to lane. In a few months, these street fortifications were taught to be built by the Corps to be strong and easy to use, and when street battles were fought, the automatic weapons in the hands of the Instructor were far superior to the Type 38 rifles in the hands of the Japanese army.

The Japanese artillery was useless in street fighting, and some troops pushed the Type 92 infantry guns to the front to deal with these fortifications, but often only a few shots were fired, and these 92 infantry guns were blown up by mortar shells flying from nowhere. Several hours passed, and the Japanese advanced only a few hundred meters at each city gate.

When Wang Haitao returned to Yaohuamen, the 92nd Division also arrived at Xiaguan Wharf, and after the division commander Cheng Guangyao contacted Wang Haitao through the radio, he learned that Wang Haitao was still here in Yaohuamen, and immediately wanted to take the 92nd Division back to Yaohuamen, Wang Haitao stopped Cheng Guangyao and let Cheng Guangyao lead the 92nd Division to take over the defense line of the 36th Division and let the 36th Division cross the river.

Cheng Guangyao received the order and immediately led his troops to the defense line of the 36th Division. The 36th Division was under little pressure here, and the 101st Division only sent a wing to attack the position of the 36th Division, and most of the troops went to attack Jiqingmen and Shuiximen. After the 92nd Division came up, the 36th Division withdrew under the leadership of the division commander Song Xilian.

It was getting dark, and the defenders in the city were almost withdrawn, Wang Haitao asked the 271st Brigade and the defenders on Yanziji and the brigade left by the 87th Division to retreat, and everyone else retreated according to the order, only the 271st Brigade refused to retreat, Wang Haitao had no choice but to let the 542nd Regiment of the 271st Brigade stay, and let the brigade commander Tang Shouwan retreat with the other two regiments, and told Tang Shoukuan to get in touch with the military headquarters of the 90th Army immediately after crossing the river, and obeyed the arrangement of the division commander Tang Renxin. Tang Shoukuan reluctantly took the troops away.

After dark, the officers and men of the teaching corps also began to speed up the speed of retreat, at this time there was no light in Nanjing City except for the firelight, and in the darkness, the Japanese army did not dare to go deep quickly, so they could only stop and garrison on the spot. Wang Haitao boarded the Yanziji Fort position, in a short time, the heavy artillery and anti-aircraft guns on the position could not be transported down the mountain by the officers and soldiers, but for Wang Haitao, this matter was very simple, but after a while, Wang Haitao put all the artillery into the storage ring.

After checking that there were no missing items, Wang Haitao also led his troops to retreat in the direction of Xiaguan Wharf. When Wang Haitao arrived at Xiaguan Wharf, one brigade of the 92nd Division had already crossed the river, and the other brigade was also ready to cross the river, and the original position was handed over to a military police regiment to guard.