Chapter 363: The First Regiment of Jinling Breakout
As a five-battalion super-formed regiment in front suffered huge casualties in the assault, Zhang Sixing used the super-formed regiment on the original city wall to be sent to the battlefield again.
During the whole process, five of the ten tanks of the armored forces remained, which were also withdrawn by Zhang Sixing's order.
The tank crews of the tank company were good, although they did not flinch when they attacked forward in the face of the dense artillery of the Japanese army. The regiment that attacked the main attack in front was also good, and when it withdrew to the vicinity of the city wall, almost only a third of its strength returned.
Of course, the delta wing led by Hansen did not spare the Japanese artillery, and at this time, the artillery of the 10th Division only dared to use cars to maneuver, and then launched one or two rounds of artillery and hurried away.
This is similar to the artillery of the Guo Army in the daytime to avoid the Japanese planes, after all, no matter how powerful the artillery is, it can't go to the sky. And it was still night, and the Japanese didn't know where the planes that dropped bombs in the sky were.
Of course, those who are familiar with the "Four Elements Demon King" must be able to guess that it is probably the kind of hateful delta wing. But how such a light thing flies, they are afraid that they will have to study it carefully to figure it out.
Silent planes are abominable, but what is truly abominable are the cluster bombs they drop. It seems that all those handsomely cheap porcelain grenades are thrown down, but how can they be easily combined into cluster bombs? The Japanese still have to study this matter carefully.
When Zhang Sixing saw the rifle battalion that had been withdrawn from the battlefield to fight the main attack, although he was often on the battlefield, he couldn't help but tremble when he saw a regiment of more than 3,500 people being beaten to only one-third left.
After all, they were dealing with Japan's permanent divisions, that is, the 28,000-strong divisions recorded in history. It can be seen that this attack, which mainly uses stragglers, has played a tragic situation that only elite troops can fight.
Facing such a soldier who had survived the bloody battle, Zhang Sixing ran down the city tower and came to them.
Although after a bloody battle, there were more than a thousand soldiers who survived in front of them. Zhang Sixing could feel that when they came back from the flesh and blood battlefield, they had a completely different look in their eyes than at the beginning.
Walking from one end of the team to the other, Zhang Sixing let out a voice and asked,
"How about it, can you still fight, do you dare to fight against devils."
"Dare, dare, dare ......"
The soldiers raised their weapons and shouted together.
"Okay, I don't have any soldiers under the Four Elements Demon King, you are all good, you are all heroes who defend your family and country, and you are all good men who protect your family."
After saying the words to boost morale, Zhang Sixing patted the regiment commander on the shoulder,
"Now immediately replenish the skirmishers and ammunition from the city, the battle is still going on tonight. As an experienced and cohesive unit, you are the well-deserved first regiment of the Jinling Breakout, and you will be the sharp knife in the hands of my Zhang Sixing. ”
Hearing Zhang Sixing's words, the regiment commander's eyes were filled with tears, and his face was covered with blood and sweat. Although he was exhausted and dying, although he knew that he would have to carry out a deadly attack later, the spontaneous fighting spirit in his heart became more and more high.
The first battalion of the Jinling Breakout Siege, this name may not be much now. But in the future, when the Jinling Massacre occurs and hundreds of thousands of martyrs and civilians shock the world, then this name is the proudest and most courageous spirit in the underworld.
As the reorganized companies in the city rushed out, the first regiment of the Jinling Breakthrough was soon replenished again. However, Zhang Sixing did not send them to the battlefield again, because at this time, he had two more regiments in his hands, plus a regiment of 1,500 people.
The two regiments were based on the military police training regiment as the backbone, mixed with a large number of stragglers.
The regiment was a melee unit consisting of a communications battalion of the military police, plus many young recruits.
Of course, such troops can't fight tough battles, so Zhang Sixing put them together with the military police radio training group to protect the people who will inevitably follow in the future.
Although they still lack cohesion at the moment, they have the fighting qualities of the gendarmerie training regiment itself, and the first veterans and then the young recruits are singled out, and these two regiments are still somewhat combative.
However, at this time, the number of stragglers heading to Zhonghua Gate was obviously smaller, and Zhang Sixing, who had returned to the city, estimated that the stragglers he could gather tonight were probably more than 30,000 people.
As for the others, they were crammed on the river, sinking and floating in the guns of the 36th Division and the enemy gunboats. Or throwing away weapons and ammunition and squeezing into the safe zone became a reason for the Japanese to enter the safe zone.
Many people say that when you can't pay the medical bills in the hospital, then national events and social dynamics have nothing to do with you.
There is a reason for this, but there is a false kernel.
It's like a soldier in Jinling City, when his own life is not safe, so is it wrong for him to flee into the safe zone?
But his entry gave the brutal Japanese an important reason to enter the safe zone and slaughter with impunity.
Of course, the brutality of the Japanese was shameless, as the Germans had already demonstrated.
But the question is, is it really what a soldier should do to give the Japanese this excuse? If this is correct, then are the soldiers who break through from the front and sink on the river too stupid?
Therefore, whether or not you can afford to pay for medicine in the hospital is not a reason to commit a crime or betray the country and collaborate with the enemy, which is inconsistent with the cultural tradition of the Chinese people rooted in the bone marrow.
It was in Zhang Sixing's hands that six five-battalion regiments appeared, each with more than 3,500 men.
A regiment was being led by Major General Luo Yousheng, commander of the Military Police Regiment, near the Zhonghua Gate to defend against an attack by the Japanese Sixth Division, which might come at any time.
The other five five-battalion regiments all fought in a circle on the defensive line of the Japanese 18th Division and completed it. From Zhang Sixing's point of view, even if these five super-formed regiments cannot be compared with the regiments of the German armor division, they are still worthy of a battle.
At 11 o'clock in the evening, the front line of Zhang Sixing's front was relatively calm. The Japanese only used machine guns to hold back unhurriedly, slowly approaching the troops who did not break through, but their remnants of artillery and grenadiers did not fire again.
After all, even if there are more than 400 guns, can the artillery outrun those "silent bombers" in the sky? As long as you fire, you will be bombarded by those guys and the artillery will be completely wiped out, and if you continue to fire, there may be still artillery left, but I am afraid that there will be no artillery left.
And the goal of consuming the strength of the 18th Division of the Japanese Army, Zhang Sixing had already achieved it before 12 o'clock at midnight.
On the eve of the breakthrough of the troops, at this time a group of cavalry appeared in front of the Zhonghua Gate, where there were about five or six thousand stragglers. And they have been picked many times, mostly old, weak, sick and disabled.
Looking at the more and more people under the city, Zhang Sixing still felt that the power he had at hand was a little insufficient.
After all, if there were only six regiments, then forming a protective formation would at least cause less damage to the people leaving the city.
Zhang Sixing, at the head of the city, looked at the truckloads of ammunition and gasoline that had been discarded nearby and returned from various places by the stragglers, and he was thinking about how to take all these things away for him.