There are only four people left in the Second Company. Zhou Fu, who was sent to the rescue station, could not wake up due to excessive blood loss. Tangcheng and the others did not even see Zhou Fu for the last time. The bodies of all the casualties will be buried together.
, so when Tang Cheng and the others rushed to the rescue station, all they saw was Zhou Fu's leather pocket bag that never left his body. "Let's go, remember what we said last night, as long as they are still alive, remember to burn incense and paper for the old brothers."
." The man had passed away, but the war was not over yet. Liu Yangyang, who had only rested for one night, saw a platoon of reinforcements sent by Xie Chengrui, which meant that the second company was about to go to the battlefield again.
The supplementary soldiers sent by Xie Chengrui looked like they had never fought before, and their eyes were more filled with fear and confusion. Liu Yangyang looked at them and scolded Xie Chengrui for being nothing. Fortunately, Xie Chengrui gave Liu Yangyang some face, and Tang Yangyang looked at him.
Cheng's military rank was promoted to sergeant, otherwise Liu Yangyang would have dared to rush to the regiment headquarters of the second regiment and scold Xie Chengrui.
"I asked you why you were so kind to replenish my troops. After working for a long time, you were defeated last night and were driven back to the city by the Japs." Liu Yangyang, who had gone to get the ammunition and came back, was beaming, as if
Xie Chengrui gained two kilograms of meat after losing the battle. 30 Mauser rifles, 3,000 rounds of rifle ammunition, a Japanese light machine gun with 10 rounds of ammunition and a 80% new Czech light machine gun with 00 rounds of ammunition.
Machine guns, these were the weapons and ammunition owned by the 34 people of the Second Company. Of course, Liu Yangyang also obtained several Japanese oval grenades for Tangcheng.
"Ball, it's better if there are no grenades. It's better for us not to risk our lives with the little devil's iron shell." Nianzi didn't find the grenade in the ammunition box. He was quarreling with Liu Yangyang, but Liu Yangyang sprayed saliva on his face.
Seeing Liu Yangyang scolding and complaining in front of the reinforcements, Tang Cheng, who was cleaning his gun, couldn't help but roll his eyes. There were people teaching the Second Regiment everywhere. If these complaints reached Xie Chengrui's ears,
, I’m afraid it will be difficult for the Second Company to apply for ammunition from the Second Regiment in the future.
Fortunately, Liu Yangyang was not a fool. Seeing the dissatisfaction in Tang Cheng's eyes, Liu Yangyang casually said a few words and took these supplementary troops to the city gate. The troops under Xie Chengrui's personal command had withdrawn to the city at dawn.
, this means that the 51st Division stationed in Chunhua Town has completed its retreat, and the area outside Guanghua Gate has become the control area of the Japanese army. Through the lens of the telescope, Tangcheng has seen the khaki uniforms of the Japanese army from a distance.
Before the Japanese army launched an attack on Guanghuamen, wiping their rifles had become the choice of most soldiers. Tang Cheng, who had already wiped his shell gun, would deal with his Mauser rifle. Liu Yangyang and the four of them wore brand-new military uniforms and cotton
The coat is very conspicuous among the troops defending the city, but Xie Chengrui, who is busy setting up fortifications, has no time to trouble Liu Yangyang. The melee outside the city last night caused the loss of the second battalion under Xie Chengrui's personal command. He has no energy at all now.
Go talk to Liu Yangyang.
All the troops outside Guanghua Gate withdrew. Xie Chengrui put all the troops he could mobilize on Guanghua Gate. The Japanese army had not yet attacked. Looking from outside Guanghua Gate, the entire Guanghua Gate was silent and there was no trace of the city.
The formation inside the gate is waiting. On the slope less than one kilometer away from Guanghua Gate, a telescope is staring at Guanghua Gate. The owner of the telescope is an intelligence major of the 36th Regiment of the Japanese Army. His mission is to observe Guanghua Gate up close.
Unfortunately, he had been lurking here for 2 hours and found nothing practical.
"Baga, damn the Chinese." The dejected intelligence major wore a disguise and slowly withdrew from the slope. He grabbed the kettle from the responding soldier and poured it all over, and then poured the water in the kettle over himself.
on his head, completely ignoring the looks of the soldiers around him. Although Xie Chengrui did not achieve 100% solidification and clearing of the fields outside the city, it also made it more and more difficult for the Japanese army to find food and drinking water. Such a pot of water could last a day for a Japanese army.
The drinking water ration was wasted by this intelligence major.
The 36th Regiment is known as the Yuqingjiang Force in the Ninth Division. It has always been smooth and invincible since it landed in Shanghai. However, it has not been smooth since the beginning of the Nanjing Campaign. First, in the battle to attack Chunhua Town.
failed, and then was blocked by Xie Chengrui's regiment stationed at Guanghua Gate for three days. Although the division had already distributed intelligence about the China defenders, and further battles further confirmed the authenticity of the division's intelligence, he served as the vanguard of the Ninth Division
From the commander of the 36th Regiment, Colonel Jiro Wakisaka, to the soldiers below, no one thought that the Chinese troops would be an opponent of the Imperial Japanese Army.
The captain of the regiment, Jiro Wakisaka, arrogantly believed that since Shanghai, which was heavily guarded by the Chinese, could be defeated in one battle, it was not surprising that his 36th regiment broke through the gates of Nanjing. Driven by his arrogance, Jiro Wakisaka
He sent his own search brigade straight to Guanghua Gate without even dispatching top soldiers. "Let the honor of being the first to conquer Nanjing City Gate be recorded in my name, Wakisaka Jiro!" This is when the search brigade set off,
The heroic words of the commander Jiro Wakisaka, but it was a pity that his search team was blocked by Xie Chengrui from the Guanghua Gate for three whole days.
The failure of the search brigade made Jiro Wakisaka begin to face up to his opponents. Unfortunately, he did not have much intelligence related to Xie Chengrui, so after forcing back the second battalion commanded by Xie Chengrui, Jiro Wakisaka did not immediately launch an attack on Guanghua Gate.
, he also needed to conduct necessary reconnaissance on the Chinese garrison guarding Guanghua Gate. Obviously, the intelligence major sent by Wakisaka Jiro failed to detect useful intelligence. After discussing with his officers, Wakisaka Jiro decided to launch an attack on Guanghua Gate.
A tentative attack to help the artillery unit locate the opponent's center of fire.
The screams in the air were the signal to start the battle, "Japanese shelling, cover up, cover up." The defenders on the city wall quickly ran towards the city gate, leaving only a few observation posts on the empty city wall.
Of course, the Second Company was the first to hide in the Hidden Soldier Cave. "Boom", "Boom" and "Boom" series of explosions sounded. Tang Cheng, who was hiding in the Hidden Soldier Cave, looked at the city bricks above his head with some worry.
, this was his first time to avoid Japanese artillery fire at a place high above the ground. If he could choose, Tang Cheng would still be willing to hide in an anti-aircraft cave.
"Don't look at it. This city wall is very strong. Even the Japs' heavy artillery can't collapse." Before Liu Yangyang could finish his words, he heard a muffled roar outside the Tibetan Soldier Cave, and a corner of the battlements on the city wall collapsed.
When he came down, Liu Yangyang immediately blushed at the bricks that fell from the city wall. Just like the previous Japanese bombardments, the explosions seemed to be endless. Without receiving the order from the observation post on the city wall, he hid behind the wall.
All the Japanese soldiers in the Tibetan Soldier Cave were sitting there with their heads down.
The Japanese artillery shells fired from outside the city continued to fall on the defenders' positions. There were explosions and fires everywhere at the city gate. Huge air waves were set off layer by layer. Mud and stones continued to hit the soldiers.
There were splashes all around. "Hide, hide," the officers' shouts kept ringing in the ears of the soldiers, but the sound was quickly drowned out by the explosion of artillery shells.
The supplementary soldiers of the second company were obviously not used to this kind of shelling. Some of them covered their ears tightly and lay on the ground in the hiding place without even daring to raise their heads. Some of them crowded in the crowd in a panic.
They tried to find a safer place to hide, but often they were beaten by the angry veterans before they could find it. The soldiers who hid in the caves before the Japanese shells exploded were still safe for the time being, but those who
The Japanese soldiers who had no time to hide were in dire straits. As soon as a cannonball came over, their bodies were thrown high into the air. When they fell back down, their flesh and blood had already been glued together with the soil.
As the Japanese bombardment continued, the casualties of the defenders began to increase, but Xie Chengrui's officers had no way to solve the soldiers' fear of the bombardment. Shooting, close combat, and encountering shelling, all these as long as the soldiers
You have to experience it. Some soldiers survived and accumulated a lot of experience and became veterans like Liu Yangyang. When they face this kind of situation again, they know how to deal with it, but some people never
There will be no next time, their young and passionate lives will be buried here forever.
The continuous Japanese bombardment suddenly stopped. Suddenly, the Guanghua Gate, which had been shrouded in smoke, became deathly silent, terrifyingly quiet. "The Japanese troops are coming up, ready to fight." The observation post on the city wall did not bother to spit out.
With rubble and bricks in his mouth, he shouted hissingly at the troops hiding from the Japanese bombardment below the city. "Everyone is in position and ready to fight!" The officers' voices sounded louder and louder one after another, quickly breaking the silence.
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The soldiers were driven out of the hiding place by the officers. They didn't even have time to shake off the dirt on their bodies, so they hurriedly entered their fighting positions with their guns in hand. The bodies of the fallen soldiers were nearby, but they could get out of the hiding place.
None of the soldiers in the cave had time to determine whether the person who died under Japanese artillery fire was someone they knew, because they did not have time because the Japanese army began to attack.
Japanese soldiers in khaki military uniforms were pouring toward Guanghua Gate in dense numbers. In Liu Yangyang's telescope, groups of Japanese soldiers were holding guns.
With their footsteps, they tried to approach Guanghuamen's position in a frenzied and swift manner without fear of death. Among them, Captain Cao and the lieutenants waved their command swords and made ghostly screams that no one could understand, driving the soldiers.
Launch an even more violent and desperate charge.
The heavy machine guns, light machine guns and rifles on the teaching position of the Second Regiment formed a crossfire. The machine gunners all pursed their lips tightly, waiting for the officers to give the order to fire. Tang Cheng, who was also ready to shoot, subconsciously
Looking to his left and right, he could even feel the determination of the soldiers around him to resist to the end. Everything was ready, just waiting for the Japanese soldiers to get closer.