[Volume 57] Chapter 702: Chapter 391 Bloody Battle in the City Wall (2) (1)

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Chapter 391 Bloody Battle in the City Wall (2)

The city wall is a towering and huge city wall around the city. These crystallizations of the wisdom of the ancient Chinese working people and the ancient Great Wall cannot resist the three-dimensional modern attacks of the Japanese invaders. However, the city wall, together with the flesh and blood of the middle-aged people who guard it, can still play a certain role.txt e-book download txt.

The solidity of the city walls in Nanchang is rare in China. Gao Fei remembers that the walls of the ancient city of Nanchang were destroyed before the Nanchang Battle in history. In fact, it is not entirely true. The seven gates of the ancient city of Nanchang all face south. The construction of the city in the Ming Dynasty relied on clever engineering design and construction. At the beginning of the city building, the project adopted a combination of city gates and castle fortifications. On the basis of the city gates of the previous generations, the construction of the urn city was built. The blood sacrifice of mountains and rivers of the Anti-Japanese War 70291

The urn city is made of huge bricks made of tung oil, lime, and glutinous rice juice, one third lower than the city wall. The urn city is equipped with a gate weighing thousands of kilograms. In wartime, the gate can be lowered to trap the enemy. The city wall built in the early Ming Dynasty uses thick firewood-burned stone bricks, while the city walls in the east and west are also made of blue and red bricks. The city walls from Deshengmen to Huiminmen are even built of city wall bricks weighing more than ten kilograms.

The city wall was built in Ming Dynasty for a total of 7,200 meters. This city wall has been preserved for more than 500 years and has not yet fallen. It is divided into seven gates, Guangrun Gate, Zhangjiang Gate, Desheng Gate, Yonghe Gate, Hue Gate, Jinxian Gate, and Huimin Gate. Since the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty and the construction of the Republic of China, the population of Nanchang's urban area has increased dramatically and the traffic has changed greatly. Therefore, the Nanchang City Wall was gradually demolished, but it was only a small part. Fortunately, these walls were preserved due to the resistance of local knowledgeable people in Nanchang.

The real earth-shaking changes in Nanchang were the construction of a new world and the later destruction of the four old ones after the founding of New China, which completely disappeared like the gates and bell towers of Beiping and the archway.

The ancient and solid city walls of Nanchang became the last line of defense that the defenders depended on, because the officers and soldiers of the defenders knew very well that Nanchang had become an isolated city now. The loss of outer positions and the steep situation of no friendly troops supporting them made them tense up, because if the city walls were lost, then what awaited them would be extremely fierce street battles, and Nanchang must not be thrown away from the hands of the New First Division. The New First Division must become the first unit to defend the Japanese main attack target.

So the Chinese and Japanese armies fought desperately around the city wall positions on the east and south sides. The 21st Independent Chariots of the Japanese army attacking in the east became expensive bonfires 200 meters away from the city wall. The burned black and deformed Japanese chariot soldiers and the Japanese 95 chariots that were beaten seemed to describe the tragic battle. The Japanese chariots that charged in groups did not take any advantage. It was obvious that the firepower of the anti-chariots of the Chinese team exceeded everyone's expectations.

The Xinyi Division is not an ordinary army, and it must be dealt with carefully. The sentence of the Chief of Staff Miyata Toshijiro stopped in the ears of the commander of the Saito Yahei Division was particularly harsh. Faced with the enemy's extremely tenacious combat power, the fierce firepower and light weapons firepower far stronger than the Imperial Imperial Army. Those fortifications I saw for the first time, the ingeniously organized firepower projection point, this is simply a pre-designed slaughterhouse! How to deal with it carefully?

More than 1,300 yellow-green corpses in various directions were the price paid by the Sixth Division to attack the East City Wall position of the City. Because they had already entered the range of the 75mm caliber mountain cannons of the China Team, so the 75mm caliber mountain cannons of the China Team could open fire without any scruples, but as the most effective type 92 infantry cannons that support firepower, heavy mortars and 75mm caliber mountain cannons did not dare to shoot rashly, because the heavy howitzers of the China Team were not vegetarians.

The offensive and defensive war in Nanchang has become the largest bleeding place in the Sino-Japanese War so far. The four Japanese divisions were equipped with heavy artillery, chariots, chemistry, engineers, and nearly 110,000 troops of the Marine Corps besieged Nanchang City. The troops of the Chinese defenders, the New First Division, were stationed in the city and did not give up any inch of land.

The fierce battle lasted until the early morning of April 4th. The Japanese offensive had already shown a tired attitude. The fierce fight made the Japanese feel that this was not an attack, but a death with the other party?

April 4 is a very special day for the Chinese. On this day, Chinese people will worship their ancestors and those who passed away. The traditional Chinese Qingming Festival began in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years. Qingming Festival was an important solar term at the beginning. Because the temperature rises as soon as Qingming Festival arrives, it is a good time for spring plowing and planting. Therefore, there are no more than Qingming Festival farming proverbs around Qingming Festival. Later, since Qingming Festival and Cold Food Festival are close to the days of cold food, and Cold Food is a day when people banned fires and sweeping tombs. Gradually, Cold Food and Qingming Festival are combined into one. Cold Food has become a nickname for Qingming Festival and also a custom of Qingming Festival. On Qingming Festival, there is no fireworks to move, and only cold food is eaten.

This is a day when the dead should be respected. However, in the early morning, Nanchang City was bombed violently by the Japanese army. The defenders could not make fires and cook. Since the 88-mm anti-aircraft artillery shot down three Japanese reconnaissance planes, the Japanese reconnaissance planes no longer come, but more bombers came. Nanchang City was bombed with rubble, and the fire in the west of the city had been burned for two days and two nights and had not yet been extinguished.

The Japanese division commander, brigade commander, and corps commander at the forefront were all a little overwhelmed because the opponents in this battle were too tenacious, especially the huge casualties caused by those magical artillery fire to the attacking Imperial Army units, which was beyond the maximum ability of all commanders.

Okamura Nishiji, who was in charge of Wuhan, could no longer sit firmly on Diaoyutai and arrived in the Nanchang front line in person. He wanted to see how these outstanding division commanders under his command commanded the brave and brave Imperial Japanese Army to fight. In fact, Okamura Nishiji had another big problem that needs to be solved when he came to Nanchang, that is, the 6th Division, the 22nd Division, the 101st Division, the 106th Division and many subordinate officers from the Narita Detachment of the Marine Corps jointly demanded that the attack on Nanchang be stopped.

In the history of the Japanese Army, the entire army was wiped out since the Russo-Japanese War and even the □□ Incident, but it was the first time that the subordinate officers took the initiative to ask for an attack to stop. The casualties of the Imperial Team that attacked Nanchang were indeed beyond the expectations of Okamura Yasuji, and the tenacity of the enemy was also astonishing. Generally speaking, the Imperial Army, which was more unfavorable than Nanchang, also defeated the attack and there was never such a situation in Nanchang.
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