On November 12, 1937, the Japanese army captured Shanghai, and Gu Shoufu commanded the 6th Division to advance from Songjiang along Jiaxing, Pingwang Town, Huzhou, and Guangde to Jinling in accordance with the order of the Japanese Central China Front (the Shanghai Dispatch Army and the 10th Army were formed on November 7).

Along the way, Gu Shoufu led Gu Shoufu's division to burn, kill, and plunder, and did all kinds of evil.

Japanese photojournalist Kono Kimiki Kono, who accompanied the 6th Division, described the sights he saw along the way:

"Along the river, the women who were hiding in the river with their heads bare, were pulled up and killed, and inserted bamboo poles into the Y part. On both sides of the road from Hangzhou Bay to Kunshan, such corpses lie everywhere. A large number of defeated soldiers captured in Kunshan seemed to have been killed with machine guns, and the corpses were piled up, the bodies of the deceased were torn apart, and the organs of the dead were exposed. ”

The photojournalists of Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun also went berserk, and some ran out to demand that they stop doing evil, saying that these were ordinary people, but the soldiers did not listen to them and continued to kill them.

"Robbery in Suzhou is even more terrifying. What the soldiers snatched, let the captives carry it. In the houses of the rich men, there was a 'knock' on the pillars. And he chiseled the pillars, and filled them with silver coins, and brought them out. Inside the walls, not only silver coins, but also treasures were hidden, and of course they were all robbed. What a bad thing the troops are in Tokyo! ”

"The women of Suzhou are very beautiful, and they are the production area of beautiful women. Soldiers rape as long as they get their hands on it, and they must kill them when they rape them. ”

Gu Shoufu's troops traveled 300 kilometers from Hangzhou Bay to Jinling, leaving behind the bestial behavior of burning and killing and plundering at Tanmen everywhere.

After Gu Shoufu sent planes to bomb it, under the big tree at the gate of the arsenal outside the Zhonghua Gate, four half-human-tall wolf dogs appeared, their outstretched tongues were like four flames, and their eight eyes flashed with green light like ghost fire, ghostly and terrifying.

Then out of the arsenal came a short, stocky commander, who was the vicious Tani Shoufu, who was also the owner of the four big wolf dogs.

Fighting with a big wolf dog is what sets Taniya apart from other officers.

According to Tani Toshio's diary, the Japanese officer was the shortest in the world, and he was the shortest among Japanese officers. He was worried that his subordinates would be disobedient, especially disobedient to his commands at critical moments, so he raised four big wolf dogs, and whenever he found anyone who disobeyed his orders, he instigated the wolf dogs to rush up and tear them apart.

Don't open the skin they bite, cry and cry for mercy, otherwise Gu Shoufu will never let the wolf dog stop.

Therefore, whenever his subordinates saw a wolfdog, their legs trembled and they were so frightened that they were urinating. So they obeyed Gu Shoufu one by one, and never dared to say a single 'no'.

Some junior officers, when they were called to Gu Shoufu, they hadn't heard what Gu Shoufu said, and when they saw the big wolf dog with teeth and claws, they would subconsciously nod and say, "Yes, yes, yes, I will do it!" ”

At this moment, Gu Shoufu followed the four big wolf dogs, standing under the tree, holding a telescope, and observing in the direction of Zhonghua Gate.

After the plane bombed, he whispered a few words to Sugiyama, the adjutant beside him, and Sugiyama ran towards the arsenal, and after a while, two officers followed him to Tani Shoufu.

The two officers, one is the bespectacled Wing Captain Sato, and the other is the Captain of the Shimada Wing.

When the two came to Gu Shoufu, the four wolf dogs barked at them twice with their teeth and claws, so frightened that the two of them shook their calves and stomachs and took a few steps back.

The short Tani Shofu showed a hint of imperceptible and smug smile, he pointed to the Zhonghua Gate, and said to Sato and Shimada: "Before dusk today, you must capture the Zhonghua Gate, if you can't rush in, you are their plate of food!" ”

He pointed to the four wolfdogs, waved his hand, and said, "Go and remember, it's before dusk!" ”

"Yes!" The two wing captains touched their heels, saluted Gu Shoufu, and turned around and ran away as if fleeing.

According to Gu Shoufu's arrangement, after the plane bombing, there was another burst of shelling.

After the heavy artillery fought, the hot barrel finally hung down tiredly, three red signal flares rose in the sky, and then, on the bridge outside the Zhonghua Gate, there was a square of 100 people, a total of 5 square Japanese infantry, holding bayonets, waw wow screaming and rushing towards the Zhonghua Gate.

When Sun Yuanliang discovered the fierce Japanese army, he ordered Li Shifa to lead more than 500 officers and soldiers to form a death squad to attack.

The first platoon of the Chinese army's death squad was 15 people, all armed with machine guns, and the soldiers of the death squad behind were all holding bayonets, shooting at the enemy as they walked.

When the Japanese army fought with the other side with bayonets, they generally did not shoot, and the fierce fire net of the Chinese army caught the enemy off guard, and the Japanese devils in front fell one piece, and the Japanese devils in the back continued to rush forward, and the Chinese army shot calmly and knocked down a large number of pieces.

In five minutes, a round of bullets was finished, and the enemy took advantage of the Chinese army's loading of bullets to rush over, and the two sides fought each other in short quarters and began to fight with bayonets.

For a time, the sound of the impact of bayonets and the fighting between the two sides were earth-shattering.

The citizens of Jinling were not on the front line, but they could hear the tragic voice and feel the tragedy and tragedy of the battlefield.

Sun Yuanliang found through the telescope that the Chinese army was far inferior to the Japanese army in fighting bayonets, even if their death squad had occupied a numerical advantage, but in terms of technology, it was still inferior to the Japanese army, often three soldiers, only one Japanese soldier could be stabbed to death.

In just ten minutes, this group of death squads suffered countless casualties, and they were killed by the Japanese army.

He hurriedly shouted: "Bigsword team, bigsword team!" ”

The formation of the 88th Division Broadsword Team began in the Battle of Songhu. During the Battle of Songhu, the 88th Division felt that the Japanese were good at fighting bayonets, and in order to deal with the Japanese, Sun Yuanliang learned from the 29th Army in the battle of Lugou Bridge and organized a broadsword team of 200 people.

This broadsword team repelled many enemy attacks, slaughtering them all over the field.

Before the defense of Jinling, he personally organized the broadsword team to practice 8 times, and also taught everyone to sing the "Broadsword March".

The 88th Division's broadsword team sang: "The broadsword is cut off on the heads of the devils, brothers of the 72nd Army, the day of the Anti-Japanese War has come, the day of the Anti-Japanese War has come, there are anti-Japanese volunteers in front, and there are people all over the country in the back."

In the lyrics, it turned out to be the 29th Army, and Sun Yuanliang took the time to go to the Pudong Building in Shanghai to sing this song to the songwriter Mai Xinxue, and then changed the 29th Army to the 72nd Army.

The song was loud and tragic, and they shook the world, wept ghosts and gods, and swallowed mountains and rivers with heroic spirit, brandishing big knives and cutting off the heads of devils.

They slashed left and right, shocked the four fields, and cut down the devils of two teams in a row, even Xia Yuan, who was watching the battle, felt quite shocked, this big knife team is all heroic, powerful people, most of them have a kung fu foundation in their hands, and they are steady, forming such a big knife team, which is quite deterrent to the Japanese devils.

After Xia Yuan withdrew from Yuhuatai, he stayed on the Zhonghua Gate and held the Zhonghua Gate with the defenders.

The Japanese devils killed by the broadsword team were scattered and knelt on the ground and begged for mercy.

This situation is really rare on the battlefield.

Gu Shoufu was so angry that he screamed when he saw the troops retreating one after another, and he immediately transferred thirty tanks, so that the broadsword team could not resist and could only retreat to the top of the castle tower.

The enemy tanks were menacing, Sun Yuanliang immediately ordered the artillery to fire at the enemy tanks, the bombardment lasted for half an hour, the eight tanks in front turned into a pile of scrap metal, the back tanks could not come up, could not get around, rushed up and were bombarded by the tanks of the national army, and could only turn around and return the same way.

Seeing two attacks, they failed to take advantage.

Gu Shoufu couldn't hold back, regrouped his forces, concentrated firearms, and launched another attack.

He admired Clausewitz in Germany and believed in unlimited violence to annihilate the enemy's fighting power. He first bombarded the Zhonghua Gate with artillery shelling, and the continuous shelling for half an hour turned the streets and alleys near the Zhonghua Gate into a sea of fire, and the soldiers and civilians who had no time to escape were killed under the fire of the Japanese army, piles of flesh and blood were exposed to the air, and the clothes and cotton wool that had not yet been burned out were emitting scorched green smoke, and the bloody bayonets and broken gun handles stood on the scorched earth, shining with a terrifying color in the sun.

As a rule, after the artillery bombardment, the infantry will charge at the enemy position.

However, Gu Shoufu broke the routine and caught the army off guard, and he concentrated his fire on the city gate for about 5 minutes of heavy artillery bombardment, the city gate was blown open, and he ordered three infantry phalanxes to rush into the city gate.

The military situation was extremely critical, Sun Yuanliang ordered the officers and soldiers of the whole division to encircle and annihilate, and called the 74th Army of the friendly and neighboring troops for help.

Yu Jishi, commander of the 74th Army, immediately ordered the 308th Regiment in the direction of Tongjimen to increase its strength quickly.

Qiu Weida, the commander of the 306th Regiment, led the troops to Zhonghua Gate, and when he saw Sun Yuanliang, he heard his voice shouting hoarsely, and his face was full of sweat and tears, and he understood that the situation at that time had reached a critical moment.

The Japanese broke through through the Zhonghua Gate, and the defenders of the 72nd Army were struggling to hold back the enemy.

Qiu Weida immediately ordered his troops to assist the 88th Division in encircling and annihilating the enemy.

He first used one battalion to block the city gate that was damaged by the Japanese to prevent the subsequent enemy from entering the city, and then used two battalions to fight the enemy with bayonets.

In the narrow streets and alleys, full of rubble and ruins, both sides stepped on the corpses and fought hard, even the wounded on both sides were lying on the ground, rolling and fighting, they pulled each other's wounds with their hands, the wounded were no longer able to moan, let alone shout, but with the last bit of strength, in the slippery and greasy bloody thirteen scuffles together.

Qiu Weida held a big knife in his hand, rushed into the street with the guards, and slashed three Japanese soldiers one after another, but saw a familiar figure in front of him, tall and tall, facing the attack of more than ten Japanese soldiers, he grabbed the bayonet stabbed by the Japanese army with his bare hands and grabbed the bayonet stabbed by the Japanese army like lightning, and pinched the opponent's neck with the other hand, and twisted slightly, and heard the creepy sound of brittle bones.

The Japanese soldier was limp on the ground and did not move.

His hand was like a spiritual snake, when the Japanese devil fell, he actually took off the bayonet, lightning turned around and grabbed a rifle that stabbed him, his chest shrank back slightly, the bayonet was pressed against his clothes, and he held the bayonet and inserted it into the throat of the other party with his backhand, and the moment he pulled it out, although the blood soared.

He kicked him down, pinched the bayonet and threw it forward, and the bayonet sank into the body of a Japanese devil like a throwing knife.

With one face, he easily killed three Japanese soldiers, and his movements were smooth and strong.

At this scene, the guards around Qiu Weida opened their mouths wide, their eyes widened, and their minds were full of questions, who is this person, he is so powerful, you must know that they are also people who practice martial arts, and it is okay to face three or two ordinary Japanese soldiers, but once the number of Japanese soldiers increases, it will not work.

And this person did not change his face, and faced more than ten Japanese soldiers with ease, without panic, and even did not fall behind, and easily killed three Japanese soldiers.

In the face of the remaining Japanese soldiers, he rushed into the enemy group like a tiger descending the mountain, a pair of big hands are killing weapons, he seems to have eyes on his back, the Japanese army's sneak attack was steadily blocked by him, and the bayonet was always inserted into the body by the slightest, but it was always a little bit worse.

This reflexes and control of distance can be called rebellious.

And the most horrific thing is the strength of this person's killing.

They use bayonets to kill people, and it is quite difficult, but this man is barehanded, grasping the enemy's bayonet with one hand, and grabbing the throat of the Japanese devil with the other, which requires not only a strong heart that can remain calm in the face of danger, but also has a terrible reaction speed and strength.

Empty-handed white blades are not something that anyone can do.

Especially at this life-and-death moment, when the Japanese devils attack from the front and attack from behind.

They thought they could kill two or three Japanese soldiers by practicing martial arts, but in such a situation, they thought they couldn't do it.

This man did it easily.

When this person easily killed more than ten Japanese soldiers, everyone was even more stunned.

Until they saw this person's face clearly, everyone exclaimed: "Songhu God of War!" ”

This person is Xia Yuan, who came down the city wall to support, the Japanese army bombarded the city gate with heavy artillery, and it was expected to blow up the city gate, the Japanese army gathered a team of more than 1,000 people, swarming into the city, and soon broke through the defense on the city wall and entered the city. Fierce battles were fought with the defenders of the city.

Xia Yuan withdrew from Yuhuatai, with few troops left, and he could no longer support the next battle, and the heavy responsibility of defending Yuhuatai was placed on the 88th Division.

Therefore, he was able to enter the city with the remnants of the army to defend.

With his defensive line, it was stable, and the Japanese troops who attacked were all killed by a platoon of soldiers led by him.

"Brother Xia!"

Hearing the familiar voice behind him, Xia Yuan calmed down the tumbling qi and blood in his body, turned his head to look, saw that it was an old acquaintance, wiped the blood stains on his face, and said, "Why are you here?" ”

The person who came was an old acquaintance of the 51st Division, Qiu Weida, the commander of the 306th Regiment, who gave him a lot of support at the beginning.

"Come to support the 88th Division." Qiu Weida walked over with someone, looked at the bloody corpses on the ground, and said: "Your combat power is getting more and more powerful, sometimes I wonder if you are a human being, you can kill all of them in the face of more than a dozen Japanese devils alone." ”

Qiu Weida has also joined the army for many years, and he has never seen any scenes, but he has never seen a person with strong combat effectiveness like Xia Yuan, and he has never seen it in the entire army.

It's hard to believe.

Qiu Weida handed over a handkerchief and motioned for Xia Yuan to wipe it.

"No, if you don't kill them, they'll kill our people, and it's better to kill them all." Xia Yuan grabbed the bayonet without changing his face, stuck it in the corpse of the Japanese devil under him, took the handkerchief, and thanked him.

"You're welcome." Qiu Weida smiled and asked, "How is the situation here?" ”

"It's under our control for the time being, and there are quite a few over there." Xia Yuan pointed in a direction.

"Okay, when the battle is over, I'll ask you for a drink." Qiu Weida laughed, waved his hand and led the soldiers beside him towards the direction Xia Yuan pointed.

"Clean up the battlefield." Xia Yuan put away the handkerchief, picked up the bayonet inserted in the corpse of the Japanese devil, and shouted.