While the Hainan Army Fleet was engaged in a fierce battle with the French Far East Fleet, the fierce battle in Nanjing in the north did not slow down because of the Hainan Army's "lure the snake" operation. Instead, the battle became more intense because of the signal that the Hainan Army might increase its troops and move north.
This battle to defend Nanjing is like a game of Go. Although it is divided into two camps, the players participating in the game are indeed divided into three parties. The center is of course the National Army guarding Nanjing City, and their periphery is the attacking Japanese troops.
, while the Hainan Army was behind the Japanese troops. The three parties formed a large cross-regional battlefield around Nanjing City and launched a series of local battles.
If we want to use tactics to describe this battlefield, it would be encirclement and counter-encirclement. The Japanese army attacking Nanjing City surrounded the National Army troops resisting in Nanjing City. Because there was no way out, the National Army could only resist desperately. The Hainan Army was watching covetously from the outermost periphery.
They stared closely at the Japanese army. Although there were not many troops and they could not annihilate so many Japanese troops, their powerful combat effectiveness still made the Japanese army in South China feel that they were at their backs.
Naturally, the Hainan Army's desire to move north to mobilize troops to join the war could not be hidden from the Japanese intelligence agencies and the Military Command Bureau, which had been closely watching the Hainan Army's movements. Let's not talk about the Nationalist Government's entangled attitude towards the Hainan Army's increase in troops.
The Japanese army in South China, which had overwhelmed the Hainan Army, knew that an extremely bad situation had arisen after learning that the Hainan Army was about to mobilize troops north to join the war.
The combat effectiveness of the Hainan Army is obvious to all. Even if the mobilized units are not the elite units of the Hainan Army, judging from the advanced weapons and equipment of the Hainan Army, even if the combat effectiveness of the newly mobilized troops is not strong, it will not be much lower.
Moreover, even if they can only fight one-on-one with the Japanese troops, the strength of the Japanese troops in South China, which has just passed the Songhu Battle, is not sufficient. If one or two divisions are now restrained, the situation of the Nanjing Battle will be in doubt.
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Therefore, under the pressure of the Hainan Army to increase its troops, the trapped Japanese troops launched an extremely crazy offensive against the city of Nanjing. The most intuitive thing to see was the frontline troops of the National Army defending Nanjing City. The recent offensive attitude of the Japanese army is extremely crazy, and it is also
No longer paying attention to the level of casualties as before, the entire army was pressed in at every turn in an attempt to break through the National Army's defense line.
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Nanjing Yuhuatai is located about one kilometer away from the Zhonghua Gate of Nanjing City. The terrain near Nanjing City is gentle and there are almost no highlands, but it is not without them. The only one is the Yuhuatai Hills close to Nanjing City.
Because Yuhuatai is close to Zhonghuamen and is the only high ground here. If the artillery is mounted on the top of Yuhuatai, it can attack the National Army positions defending Zhonghuamen, so this has always been a place that Chinese and Japanese troops have to compete for.
The fierce battle never stops.
As the sound of gunfire gradually weakened, the figures of Japanese soldiers in khaki uniforms disappeared. This was another crazy attack by the Japanese army that was disrupted by the soldiers of the 112th Division of the National Revolutionary Army defending Yuhuatai.
Speaking of the 112th Division of the National Revolutionary Army, many people may not remember it, but if we talk about its predecessor, everyone should still remember it - the Hainan Teaching Group.
Before the Battle of Songhu, Li Weidong had dispatched an elite unit to escort a large amount of ordnance to Zhang Zhizhong, commander of the Ninth Army and frontline commander of the Battle of Songhu. However, after this unit completed its mission, Li Weidong did not transfer them back.
It allowed them to join the battle order of the National Army.
The Nationalist Government was also very fond of this elite force and tried every means to control them through constant wooing and mixing. But what they actually didn't expect was that the soldiers of the Hainan Training Corps were all genetic soldiers who were only loyal to Li Weidong.
composition, and these people have now grown into the backbone of the 112th Division.
For example, the current commander of the 112th Division, Wang Jingguo, is from the Hainan Army, and this secret is also a highly confidential document in the Hainan Military Intelligence Department that only Li Weidong's authority level can view.
"Guard battalion! Carry Jiang Daya to the field hospital for me! If he dares not to listen, he will be kidnapped!" Wang Jingguo ordered angrily from the 112th Division headquarters.
Although staying within the firing line with minor injuries has always been an important example for military commanders to set an example, but if a person has no less than seven or eight minor injuries all over his body, then he is not in good spirits, but looking for death.
Obviously, the Jiang Daya mentioned by Wang Jingguo is such a person.
Jiang Daya's original name was not 'Daya'. Others only knew that his surname was Jiang and that he had a very 'distinctive' big tiger tooth, so they gave him the nickname 'Jiang Daya'. Over time, other people
No one even remembers his original name.
This Jiang Daya was accidentally discovered by Wang Jingguo when he was cleaning the battlefield again. It can even be said that he was dug out from the pile of dead people. Because his original army organization had been broken up, Wang Jingguo simply kept him in his army.
inside.
Although his appearance is not good-looking, there is a saying that is right: "A person cannot be distinguished by his appearance." Although Jiang Daya is a bit dull, he is extremely brave in combat and is well-known throughout the army for not being afraid of death in battle.
He took the lead and led the troops to be the first to break through the enemy's defense line. He was regarded as a tiger general under Wang Jingguo.
And Wang Jingguo was really reluctant to lose this tiger general in Yuhuatai. So this time he gave a death order, asking the guard battalion to send Jiang Daya to the field hospital for treatment. If he still did not obey the order, he would be treated as a division commander.
In the name of the police, he was taken to a field hospital.
For a cruel battlefield, tranquility is very short-lived. But even this short rest time is extremely precious to the soldiers of a fiercely fighting regiment. They leaned tiredly on the edge of the trench.
The commander of the Yuhuatai frontline position was replaced by Deputy Battalion Commander Liao Yangyi. As for the original "real battalion commander" Jiang Daya, he was forcibly taken away by the division guards because he once again disobeyed the order to withdraw from the battlefield.
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Just when the medical soldiers had just finished bandaging the wounds of the slightly injured soldiers, they heard someone suddenly shouting: "The Japanese are coming up again!"
Immediately afterwards, there was a piercing whistle of artillery shells approaching from a distance, and various fireballs fell on the Yuhuatai position. The bursting fireballs once again turned the already broken position over and over, and thick smoke once again obscured the entire position.
"Assault!" A Japanese major-level officer waved his command sword and ordered the troops to move forward.
Encouraged by the Japanese officers, the desperate Japanese soldiers charged forward shouting: "It's okay! It's okay!!"
"Hold still! Don't be anxious! Put the Japanese closer and then fight!" Liao Yangyi ordered, holding up the shell gun.
Although the effective range of the Mauser rifle reaches 800 meters, without systematic shooting training, most soldiers are unable to hit targets even about 200 meters away. Therefore, in many battles, the National Army troops in order to reduce ammunition
It was only after the Japanese troops were put in that the shots were fired.
"Hit!" The distance gradually narrowed, and the lying Chinese soldiers could already see the faces of the Japanese soldiers clearly. At this moment, Liao Yangyi ordered loudly. It was like a signal, and the position was like fried beans.
gunshots.
"Ta...ta...ta...!" Seeing that the Japanese soldiers were approaching the position, a water-cooled heavy machine gun was set up, and a low roar sounded from the ruined position.
The heavy machine gun that suddenly appeared fired a metal storm at the advancing Japanese soldiers. The Japanese soldiers at the front fell down like wheat, just like a dancing fire snake that suddenly swallowed a piece of Japanese soldiers in its belly.
"Prepare grenades!" Seeing that the Japanese army was very close to the position, and the crazy Japanese army did not care about casualties, Liao Yangyi ordered the bombardier to prepare grenades.
"Throw it!" With an order, dozens of grenades flew out of the position and landed among the crowd of Japanese soldiers.
"Boom boom boom...!" Immediately after a series of explosions, blood mist mixed with steel shrapnel and human body parts rose up one after another, and then scattered on the war-torn battlefield.
However, accidents always come with any possibility. A brother next to Liao Yangyi was hit in the chest by a sudden bullet while leaning out to throw a grenade, and the grenade that had been pulled out fell to his side.
On the battlefield, if the soldiers on the side had not reacted quickly and grabbed Liao Yangyi, the grenade would have definitely killed him.
"Boom!" After the explosion, the disgraced Liao Yangyi stood out from the dust in his mouth and cursed: "Did that bastard throw the grenade? If I know, I will let you wash the smelly socks of the whole camp!!"
"Batalion Commander, it's Liuzi! However, he..." The soldier who answered did not continue, because Liuzi, who was only seventeen years old this year, had already died, and the honest boy who liked to laugh fell to this place forever.
On the battlefield full of their blood, they fell asleep.
There was a period of silence, because there were too many words accumulated in Liao Yangyi's throat, and he could no longer say them out.
"You little devil! I'm going to fuck your grandma!!" Liao Yangyi, with scarlet eyes, squeezed past a machine gunner and cursed angrily.
Point the machine gun at the crowd of Japs who are clustered together and shoot fiercely. The bullets spurt out, lashing out like a tongue of fire and reaping the lives of the Japs. The few Japs who react slowly are beaten into a twitching hornet's nest in a pool of blood.
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