The endless moat, with corpses soaked in the river water, and corpses everywhere in the grass, including national army troops and Japanese troops, but the constant attacks and advancing troops on the river bank.
It was a steady stream of Japanese soldiers and horses.
The sound of guns and artillery nearby was deafening. The communications troops, transport team members, and orderly soldiers of the national army were all holding guns and crackling, and they were carrying out desperate counterattacks against the Japanese army. However, the dark Japanese troops from the Purple Mountain were
They still continued to launch attacks one after another, constantly charging down from the Purple Mountain.
Groups after groups, overwhelming, are full of Japanese troops, and the teaching corps stationed in Zijin Mountain is constantly trying to fight these incoming Japanese troops, or planning to fight a bloody path from the supervising troops behind, and be defeated.
And escape.
There were even many officers and soldiers of the teaching corps who put on plain clothes used by civilians and threw all their weapons and equipment into the fire to prepare for their escape or surrender to the Japanese.
These are the elite troops of the national army, and they are also one of the most tenacious troops that fought to the last moment. But even so, they still failed. It was also because many of the originally heroic surviving officers and soldiers had the idea of surrendering and fleeing.
But in the face of these officers and soldiers of the teaching corps who had fought bravely, those who were supervising the battle still stopped these officers and soldiers, or shot them.
As for the officers and soldiers who surrendered to the Japanese army, they were shot and killed without mercy by the Japanese army.
Even in the face of a steady stream of surrendering officers and soldiers, numbering thousands or even tens of thousands, they are all emotionally excited and inhumane. To teach these surrenders to the officers and soldiers of the corps, or to the officers and soldiers of the Chinese Army,
Merciless killing.
And after finishing the killing, these Japs were still shouting "Long live the Generalissimo!" and other crazy Japs words. At the same time, these Japs troops were also emotional and excited, putting their sun flags before they occupied
The places where they came down were plugged in everywhere and fluttering in the wind.
But for the unarmed, weak, and frightened national army officers and soldiers who were captured by them, these inhumane Japanese troops transported them to the riverside in car after car, using heavy machine guns.
and rifles for killing.
Even in addition to using machine guns, these Japanese troops also laid landmines on the city walls or in designated killing zones, laying a large number of landmines, driving all the pitiful surrendered national soldiers in, and detonating them with one pull.
Just blow up hundreds of national soldiers and soldiers at once,
In short, faced with the Japanese's inhumanity and various endless killing techniques, many soldiers, soldiers and civilians of the country were killed.
There are horrific and shocking killing scenes everywhere.
However, the battle is not over yet. The battle against the Japanese attack in the city is still sporadic and continues.
At least the Chinese Gate has not been completely breached.
The battle at Xinghuamen is still going on, and the battle in the Purple Mountain area is not completely over yet.
Matsui Iwane Headquarters,
Matsui Iwane is making strict and final military deployments and issuing a series of military orders to the front lines for attacking Purple Mountain, Yuhuatai, and China Gate.
Although he had already formulated these offensive plans and strategies a week ago, he still needs to make modifications as the battle situation changes at any time.
Therefore, he also carefully discussed the latest revised combat deployment with the Japanese staff department, and after deliberation, he made a comprehensive announcement to his troops.
"The first order is that all Japanese troops must advance according to the original combat deployment and advance to the front-line combat zones shown in the document "Chinese Operation No. 27" on time to prepare for the final offensive and city-breaking operations.
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"The second order is that we must continue to persuade the Chinese army to surrender, fully surrender, open the city gate, and allow our army to enter the city peacefully, so as to reduce our army's casualties!"
"The third order is that each division must deploy at least one brigade of elite troops as the backbone troops to enter the city and carry out operations to sweep away the China Army in various areas!"
"The fourth order is that once the city gate is breached, each mopping up force must be in the designated combat area. They cannot accidentally injure friendly troops of each division, nor can they act at will and privately!"
"The fifth combat order is the combat deployment before and after the city is conquered. The road map that must be conquered and occupied is Gonghemen, Gongyuan Road, Zhongzheng Street, Zhongzheng Road, and Hanzhong Road."
"The sixth order is the combat deployment of various Japanese troops. The dispatched troops must occupy the front gates such as Zhongshan Gate, Taiping Gate, Heping Gate, and Xinghua Gate within three days!"
"The Japanese Tenth Army must fully occupy the Republic Gate, Zhonghua Gate, Shuixi Gate and other city gates within three days!"
The reason why Matsui Iwane chose these gates was
That's because these city gates are the main thoroughfares in and out of the capital, and they are also key military locations heavily guarded by the national army.
Therefore, Matsui Iwane also handed over the most difficult combat mission to the Japanese 10th Army of the Yanagawa Department.
So the main force of the Japanese 10th Army that is currently attacking Purple Mountain and fighting Yuhuatai is because these are the peripheral barriers leading to the 'China Gate'. If these two places are lost, it means that the capital will be
A big hole was torn open by the Japanese army,
It is also because of this that the 88th German Arms Division and the teaching corps, more than 30,000 of the most elite troops, are all guarding here.
Therefore, the Japanese army not only dispatched cannon groups to carry out armor-piercing shells to bombard the solid fortifications of the national army, but also dispatched a large number of tanks and chariots to continuously sweep, and even continuously dispatched groups of Japanese aircraft to carry out violent bombardments.
Indiscriminate bombing still failed to completely capture Purple Mountain and Yuhuatai.
It was not until the 88th German Arms Division suffered heavy casualties that
After a large number of effective forces in the teaching corps were all disabled,
In these two places, the Japanese army combined the forces of two divisions, that is, after the Sixth Division and the Sixteenth Division launched one round of desperate battles and another round of charging operations.
Only then did they occupy most of the area, and were able to mobilize a lot of troops to attack the Zhonghua Gate.
The remaining elite Japanese troops continued to mop up the few remaining troops, escaping into the mountains and forests to resist tenaciously the teaching corps, and the very few Sichuan troops left behind by He Feiyang.
Therefore, the battles between the Sixth Division and the Sixteenth Division were still concentrated on the mopping up of Purple Mountain and Yuhuatai, and the attack on the Zhonghua Gate area.
In this regard,
Seeing that after two days and two nights of fighting, they still could not capture Purple Mountain, Yuhuatai, and Zhonghuamen, Matsui Iwane and Prince Asaka Palace Hatohiko immediately stepped up their battle orders and gave them to the Sixth Division and the Sixteenth Division.