The earth trembled violently, the villages and woods where the bullets were shot rose with thick smoke, and the fire was full of fire, and even a rain last night could not stop the raging flames.

In the smoke screen, the Japanese army, which had not yet been completely annihilated, tried to use cover to break out of the encirclement, and the calm Yu Ying judged the enemy's intentions and quickly issued an order for the two regiments to put the enemy down about 50 meters in front of the position and fight again.

Piercing kung fu, the Japanese army arrived at the ambush point.

Seeing this, Yu Ying shouted that the time had come, "Fight!" ”

Fierce bullets were like raindrops tilting towards the enemy, whizzing towards the enemy, grenades fell one after another in the enemy group, explosion, the enemy responded to the end, crying and screaming together, this group of enemies was soon in the fierce gunfire, Yu Ying with two regiments of annihilation.

The small victory in the first round did not make Commander Ye breathe a sigh of relief, he said to Yu Ying: "This is probably just a tentative attack by the Japanese devils, this failure will not stop them from continuing to attack Jinling, they will come again, we must hurry up and prepare for a worse battle." You don't let you clean up the battlefield, drink some water, eat something, and get ready to fight again. ”

Japanese artillery fire stopped, and the previous shelling was simply to relieve the scouts.

The scouts were completely wiped out, and the shelling of the rear of the Japanese troops ceased.

After waiting for more than an hour, I still didn't see the Japanese attack, the more like this, the more bottomless everyone was in their hearts, according to the past, the Japanese devils suffered a loss, and they couldn't help it for a long time, and they used artillery bombardment and sent infantry to rush over, but this time, from the scouts were eliminated, and they waited for almost two hours, and they didn't wait.

It wasn't until about nine o'clock in the morning that the Japanese army, which had been brewing for two or three hours, finally set out.

First the artillery was prepared, and the raindrops of shells fell on our positions, and in an instant, the entire Tangshan was covered by fierce artillery fire, a large number of bunker fortifications were destroyed, and there were also many casualties.

Yu Ying judged that after the artillery fire, the infantry team would definitely follow.

The Japanese army used this offensive mode in the Songhu battlefield, and the Tangshan battle must also be such an offensive mode.

Sure enough, after the shelling, the Japanese artillery who had just lowered the hot barrel of the cannon was the turn of the infantry.

The enemy's infantry, like a surging yellow wave, scattered with dozens of tanks, and launched a fierce attack on the national positions in an inconsistent manner.

Yu Ying gave the order to block the attack, covered by artillery fire, the soldiers who were covered with dirt shook off the dirt on their bodies, quickly entered the firing position, and began to design at the enemy, the hateful bullets formed a net of fire, scattered to the enemy group, and the enemy was beaten on his back.

However, the enemy's pause was temporary, and the rolling tanks and armored vehicles began to shell the hill, and the bullets of the heavy machine guns formed an impermeable network of fire, sweeping across, breaking tree trunks, splashing the soil of the position, and many soldiers were shot and lying in the trenches, screaming miserably.

It was a tragic resistance war.

The Japanese attack was like a wave, wave after wave.

The infantry in front halted for a moment, and soon reorganized the ranks, which were more and more numerous, rushed over like a tidal wave, and retreated in great stride, leaving behind a mass of corpses and screaming wounds.

In this way, with the coordination of the infantry tank, the enemy repeatedly charged; Well, more than 10 times, all of them ended in failure.

Towards noon, Ye Zhao received a report that Commander Tang had arrived at Tangquan Village on the west side of Tangshan and asked him to go to Tangquan Village to meet Commander Tang.

Tangshan is the defense of Jinling, the first battle between China and Japan, Commander Tang, as the commander of the garrison of Jinling, naturally has to go to the first battle between China and Japan to check the current situation, after learning the situation, Ye Zhao immediately took out a big horse from the military headquarters and galloped towards Tangquan Village with the guards.

Tangquan Village is about 5 kilometers away from the military headquarters, and it takes a while to get there on a fast horse. At the intersection of Tangquan Village, he saw dozens of soldiers with German submachine guns guarding the small village.

pondered in his heart: "Tang Shengzhi is not small. ”

Ye Zhao has not dealt with Tang Shengzhi, and he has only heard of this, it is said that he did not deal with Lao Jiang before, and later Lao Jiang took over the military power and retired in the national government.

It was also this time that the Japanese army attacked Jinling and obtained military power.

Ye Zhao was vigilant about this Commander Tang, and when he entered the village, an officer saw him and greeted him: "Commander Tang has accompanied the chairman to visit you, and they are waiting for you in the ancestral hall in front." ”

"What, the chairman is here too!?" Ye Zhao was taken aback, and then he understood why this village was heavily guarded.

Under the guidance of the officer, he entered the ancestral hall, and in front of the ancestral hall, there were loaded guns and guards with submachine guns, everywhere, and there were some eyeliner planted by agents, and the entire ancestral hall was airtight.

The bald head sat on the stool in the ancestral hall, drinking tea, and when he saw Ye Zhao coming, he put down the steaming teacup and said: "Tangshan is the first battle of the Jinling Defense War, you can't be sloppy, how are you fighting?" But what's wrong. ”

Without waiting for Ye Zhao to answer, Commander Tang preemptively said: "The chairman of the committee came to guide the operation in the rain of bullets, you should hurry up and report, don't delay the time." ”

Ye Zhao nodded, and then gave a brief report on the situation in Tangshan and this morning's battle, and after listening to it, he said seriously: "We are powerful in Shanghai, but you fought bravely in Shanghai, although we suffered a little military loss, but politically we did win, which can be regarded as a defeat but still honorable." At present, the international community believes that the Chinese military is truly remarkable and supports us morally. ”

The so-called morality is just a nice word, similar to verbal support, but the real war still depends on China itself.

After a pause, the bald head continued: "They are against Japan, which is a good thing. Why do we want to defend Jinling, because Jinling is our capital, with great significance and greater political influence, so we must defend it, and we must defend it with our lives, I hope that your 66th Army will be determined, stick to Jinling, hold Tangshan, and hold the east gate of Jinling. ”

Ye Zhao heard this, clenched his fists and said, "We must follow the instructions of the chairman and guard the east gate of Jinling." ”

The bald head said: "This is not enough, you must unite the whole army, work together, strive for the final victory, fight to the last soldier, and you can't give up." ”

"Yes!"

Ye Zhao bid farewell to the chairman and Commander Tang, returned to Tangshan, and conveyed the chairman's instructions to the divisions.

The 66th Army vowed to hold Tangshan.

After the Japanese army hit a wall in the highway attack, they decided to attack on both flanks of the highway, taking the highway, the target was too exposed, there were mountains and rivers on both sides of the highway, and there were also dense villages, so it was not in their interest to carry out the attack, and they could find the two wings of the attack, and they could use the mountains and forests and villages to cover up.

The enemy, attacking from the left flank, chose the Yangsan stele as a breakthrough.

Yangshan stele is a famous scenic spot in Jinling, as early as the early years of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang divided the sons as kings, and Zhu Yuanzhang was critically ill, passed the throne to his grandson, that is, Emperor Jianwen.

Zhu Di, the king of Yan, was powerful, had a heavy army, raised troops in Kyoto before 1399, went south to capture Jinling, Emperor Jianwen died in the public, and Zhu Di was the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty. In order to wash away the infamy of rebellion and usurpation, Zhu Di mobilized hundreds of thousands of migrant workers to build a monument for Zhu Yuanzhang to make a biography of his merits, in order to show that he was a genius and the first filial son.

He was in Yangshan near Tangshan, and chiseled a stele on the mountain, and chiseled into three parts: the stele body, the stele base and the stele amount.

This monument is so large that it ranks first in the world. The monument is 45 meters high, 11.5 meters wide, and 4.5 meters behind. Weighs 5620 tons.

The stele base is more than 7 meters high, about 13 meters long, and there was a folk song that sang: "The east flows to the west, and the stone locks the tomb; The east also flows, and the west also flows, but it can't be moved; To move it, unless the mountain moves. ”

These three steles, estimated to weigh 20,000 tons, Yangshan stele project is so big, the mining work is very hard, most of them are undertaken by 'prisoners', every day it is stipulated that a number of stones should be chiseled, and the task cannot be completed, and they will be executed that night and take off the head.

The grave village at the foot of Yangshan was named after the 'mass grave' where the corpses were abandoned at that time.

After meeting with the chairman of the committee, Commander Ye immediately ordered Zhang Desheng, deputy commander of the 78th Brigade, to take two battalions of cases to Yangshan Monument and Tomb Village to block the enemy.

The battle continued until dusk, when the troops of both sides temporarily rose to fire.

Zhang Desheng ordered the troops, using the night as a cover, to hide in the Yangshan stele and the grave village, so that the troops could temporarily repair, and he held a meeting of the two battalion commanders, believing that the darkness of the night was the best time to approach the enemy and destroy the enemy, and with the support of the two battalion commanders, he asked the two battalion commanders to return to the unit to prepare that night.

The Japanese army had an encounter with the Nationalist army during the day, and the fighting between the two sides was fierce, so it was thought that the Nationalist army would definitely have to rest that night to deal with the Japanese offensive tomorrow.

So, that night, the Japanese soldiers hastily ate dinner one by one and fell asleep.

Who would have thought that a group of soldiers of the national army quickly approached the Japanese devil station between the mountains and forests, and after approaching, they faintly heard the snoring sound of the Japanese devil station, this was the best time to attack, and the soldiers of the two battalions of the national army launched a charge together, and bullets and grenades poured into the Japanese garrison like a storm.

How did the Japanese army expect that the night attack of the national army would come so suddenly, and they were awakened by the sound of gunfire, and many people were still confused, and then they saw a large number of national army officers and men wearing national army uniforms and steel helmets rushing out of the jungle, and they rushed into the Japanese garrison, swept left and right, and completely annihilated this Japanese army in less than half an hour.

He also caught Japanese prisoners of war, and through Japanese prisoners of war, he learned that the Japanese troops attacking Tangshan were the 16th Division of Nakajima Imago, and they were used by the Japanese base camp to reinforce the Songhu battlefield in the later stage of the Songhu Campaign.

Basically, they did not participate in the Songhu Campaign, and the unit was completely organized, and its combat effectiveness belonged to the first class.

Nakajima Imago is a top student of the Japanese Army University, after graduating from the Army University, because of his excellent grades, he stayed in school as a tactical instructor, he was good at attacking in the Korean War of Aggression, and his peers gave him the title of "offensive expert", and Nakajima Imago has a strong temper and is extremely conceited, and this attack on China is to make himself Yang Ming.

The Japanese army attacking the Yangshan monument had only one squadron, and Nakajima learned that night that the Japanese troops of this squadron had been completely annihilated by the Shina people, and he overturned the table in anger, and jumped like thunder, and his eyes spewed angry flames, and the light of hatred, which was enough to swallow everything.

The defeat in this battle was a great shame for him, and he decided to personally organize a brigade of troops the next morning to counterattack the Yangshan monument.

The next day, a brigade of the Japanese army, under the cover of 15 tanks, launched a fierce attack on the national army in the stele of Yangshan Mountain, the dense artillery sound with unrivaled potential energy, made a palpitating howl, a strong shock came from the earth, the affected Chinese soldiers all had their heads buzzing, their ears were buzzing, and the sounds heard became very hazy.

Zhang Desheng was in the bunker, his head was buzzing with the sound of a huge cannon, and Venus burst out in front of him, suddenly, he felt that there were insects crawling on his face again, and he grabbed it with his hand, his hands were full of blood, he was shocked in his heart, and the person also fainted.

Zhang Desheng was seriously injured in the head and was carried to the rear for rescue.

The new deputy brigade commander Li Renwei was ordered to take over the command of Zhang Desheng and fight against the Japanese army, but a bad news came, the strength of the two battalions, the casualties reached as many as 500, and if the fight continued, the two battalions would be wiped out by the Japanese army sooner or later, and he immediately picked up a telescope to observe the surrounding terrain.

To the north and west of the Yangshan stele, is the wide Jiuxiang River, the enemy is determined to win the Yangshan stele, a group of troops to increase here, the tank opened the way, the soldiers of the national army are not afraid of death, to blow up the Japanese tank in the way of human bombs, such a tragic battle, is what he does not want to see.

Observing the terrain, he thinks that this place is quite unfavorable to them, and the terrain of Yangshan stele is complex, which is not conducive to advancing and retreating, especially when the enemy is strong and I am weak, this place should not be long.

Li Renwei decided to adopt the method of 'golden cicada shelling' to get rid of the enemy and withdraw from the Yangshan stele.

At this time, the soldiers of the Nationalist Army, who had been fighting fiercely for a day, basically ran out of ammunition, and Li Renwei immediately ordered the troops to take cover alternately, and went to the pile of Japanese corpses on the position to pick up weapons and equipment and replenish ammunition. Having made all preparations, the enemy attacked again.

Li Renwei ordered the officers and men to violently counterattack with grenades, and a large number of grenades were thrown, creating a large area of gunpowder smoke after the explosion on the battlefield, and Li Renwei immediately ordered the troops to withdraw from the battle.

When the smoke cleared and the Japanese army attacked the Yangshan stele, the Chinese army could no longer be seen, and they disappeared as if they had evaporated from the world. They rushed to the wide Jiuxiang River, but still could not find the Chinese troops.

The battle at Tangshan was particularly tragic, and the 66th Guangdong Army faced the attack of a Japanese first-class division and regiment, and resisted the fierce attack of a first-class division of the Japanese army without fear of death.

Even though the government adopted the plan of resisting first and then retreating, when the order was issued, groups of soldiers who were not afraid of life and death rushed to the position and fought with the Japanese army.

When the battle of Tangshan was in full swing, Chunhua Town, about 30 miles southeast of Jinling, this is a typical ancient town in the south of the Yangtze River, the town is surrounded by ponds, water network lakes, and many small Qiao, some people call Chunhua Town Xiaoqiao Town again. (End of chapter)