Chapter 220: A different battle for defense of Nanjing (I)
Since the Japanese base camp issued an order to capture Nanjing, Matsui Ishione commanded the Shanghai Expeditionary Army and the 10th Army, under the cover of aircraft and ship formations, they came to Nanjing in three directions. Among them, the 11th Division, the 13th Division, and the 16th Division.
The division attacked along the Beijing-Shanghai Railway, the 3rd Division and the 9th Division attacked through Suzhou and Jintan, the 6th Division of the 10th Army, the 18th Division, the 114th Division and the affiliated Guoqi Detachment, respectively
Yixing, Liyang and Guangde attack along the south bank of Taihu Lake.
Zhang Zhizhong, commander-in-chief of the Nanjing Defense War of the National Revolutionary Army, adopted the method of strengthening the walls and clearing the fields, fighting step by step, small troops, and multiple batches of harassment and delaying, fighting against the hostilities, and gaining time for the main force to move to a favorable position.
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This time, the Kuomintang army no longer defended one city and one land, nor provided the Japanese heavy army group with the opportunity to encircle and annihilate it. Although the scale of the battle was not large, the national army, whose tactics became flexible, had greatly increased their enthusiasm for attack.
The troops left with one blow, just take advantage of the situation. There is no longer the phenomenon in history where the army often takes more than 100,000, hundreds of thousands of troops were besieged by the enemy and collapsed during the transfer.
This tactic is a classic guerrilla tactic that has been passed down from the Red Army to the Eighth Route Army. Unfortunately, the Kuomintang army did not undergo guerrilla warfare training and failed to use guerrilla tactics properly; secondly, after the Battle of Songhu, the vitality was severely damaged and the essence was lost too much
The training of new soldiers was insufficient; thirdly, the Japanese army was mechanized, with high degree of pack horses and fast reactions. In addition, with aircraft to assist in the war, they could quickly chase and block, resulting in many small troops being stuck by the Japanese army after attacking and died heroically.
However, the sacrifice of the martyrs resulted in the success of the Japanese attack speed. When the Japanese attacked near Nanjing, they not only suffered heavy losses, but also had their morale affected, which was very different from the unstoppable momentum in history.
Zhang Zhizhong's countermeasure is actually very simple, which is to trade space for time, fight with the enemy around Nanjing, fight with the enemy in the city, and then further kill the enemy, quickly evacuate and leave an empty city for the enemy. In this way, our army preserves its vitality,
The opportunity to redeploy was defeated even if the Japanese army was sent to work hard to raise troops, and the casualties were severe, and even if they were victorious, they still lost.
In this way, the Japanese army's life was difficult on the way to attack Nanjing. The planes in the sky could not find the large national army and could not be bombed in a concentrated manner; the ground troops would be attacked inexplicably anytime and anywhere, and they could not camp at night
An Sheng. Seeing that there was a blockage in front, he thought that he had met the main force of the National Army this time. He was just thinking of raising the cannons and adjusting the tanks to make a classic assault. The gunshots of the blockage in front suddenly stopped and the enemy ran away again
In this way, the 200,000 Japanese army attacked all the way, and dozens or even hundreds of battles occurred in the sky. Unfortunately, most of them were passively beaten, and they were attacked by small troops that were broken into pieces.
The shadow of the main force of the Chinese army was not seen. The reduction of personnel was much greater than the tough battle when the war started, which made the Japanese army inexplicably angry and scolded the Chinese army for becoming cunning.
Seeing that it was almost time to arrive in Nanjing, Matsui Ishione was overjoyed and waved the 3rd Division, 6th Division, 9th Division, 13th Division, 16th Division, 114th Division, and Guozaki Detachment surrounded Nanjing.
Chunhua Town is located in the southeast suburbs of Nanjing, 18 kilometers away from Nanjing. It is not only the southern gate of Nanjing and a major transportation route. The Japanese army must pass through to attack Nanjing. In history, the 74th Army of the National Army fought fiercely with the Japanese invaders here, and many
The soldiers died here.
History has amazing similarities and changes. What is similar is that the 74th Army defends here, and Zhang Lingfu still serves as the commander of the 305th Regiment. The difference is that Zhang Zhizhong not only arranged the 74th Army here, but also arranged the teaching corps, determined
Here I give the Japanese army a head-on blow.
In history, more than 2,000 Japanese troops met the 74th Army in Chunhua. Although the 74th Army fought bloody battles, they still did not block the enemy's attack. They hurried to the city with hatred, and then crossed the river to retreat northward.
Now the guiding ideology of combat has changed, and of course the deployment has also changed. According to Zhang Zhizhong's order, the commander of the 74th Army Yu Jishi ordered Wang Yaowu's 51st Division to serve as a frontal blockade. The 58th Division and the teaching corps respectively arranged two wings, determined to eliminate the enemy's vanguard here.
Wang Yaowu is considered a famous general. During the Red Army period, he was surrounded by the Red Ten Army with an independent brigade and was able to turn defeat into victory, which shows that this person is extraordinary.
After Wang Yaowu accepted the mission, he led his troops to Chunhua Town from Jurong and decided to build a defense line from Ji Hongru's 301st Regiment, Cheng Zhi's 302nd Regiment along Fangshan, Songshu through Chunhua Town to Shangzhuang, requiring the position to resist the attack of medium-caliber artillery shells.
; Zhang Lingfu's 305th Regiment is responsible for guarding the line from Gaoqiaomen to Hedingqiao (excluding) and building a reserve position; Qiu Weida's 306th Regiment is the reserve team, and one is placed in Hushu Town to prevent the enemy from invading from the right wing.
Wang Yaowu's defense was basically a deep defense position along the Beijing-Shanghai National Highway at that time. It just blocked the way for the Japanese Ninth Division to attack the South Gate of Nanjing.
At the combat meeting, Wang Yaowu said: "The Japanese devils bullied too much and actually came to Nanjing. This is our shame. Chief Zhang is determined to give the Japanese invaders a head-on attack. Our division serves as a frontal blockade. The 52nd Division and the teaching corps.
As the two wings encirclement. You may not know that this was a plan that Chief Zhang and Chief Chen discussed with Liu Yimin when he was in Xi'an. Some time ago, Liu Yimin led his mentor to win the battles in Taiyuan and eliminated the four elite Japanese brigades.
The command swords of several major generals of the Japanese army are now placed in the Military Commission for visiting. Our 74th Army and the Teaching Corps are the elite among the elites of the national army. They will never fall behind when they kill the Japanese! Whoever learns from a coward, I will kill him!
The regiments immediately reinforced their original national defense fortifications and quickly entered the position. I want to let the Japanese dying into a river."
After the 51st Division entered the position, it was discovered that the original national defense fortifications were extremely poor. In some places, they were purely made of soil. But time didn't wait for anyone, and the Japanese army was about to arrive, so they could only be reinforced simply.
On the morning of December 14, the search unit of the 9th Division of the Japanese Army invited a squadron to Chunhua, and was immediately wiped out by the 301st Regiment and only fled back to report the news.
Then about 2,000 Japanese troops arrived, equipped with more than a dozen cannons, and called planes to start attacking Chunhua Town.
At the beginning of the battle, the Japanese army was just a small force to attack tentatively, and the 301st Regiment was still very strong. As the Japanese planes and tanks were put into battle, the situation on the battlefield began to become fierce.
The 74th Army is the elite among the elite, and its weapons and equipment are much better than ordinary troops. Wang Yaowu also transferred several war defense artillery to attack Japanese tanks. Unfortunately, he only knocked down four tanks, and the war defense artillery position was then
The Japanese artillery fire covered the troops. The troops could only rely on their flesh and blood to block the Japanese tanks.
At 4 pm, Ji Hongru, the commander of the 301st Regiment who was observing the enemy situation in the command post, was extremely anxious. The Japanese army had few troops, but their firepower was strong, especially the planes, which kept hovering over the positions and dropped bombs, and the soldiers were a little more.
If you don't pay attention, you may be thrown high and torn apart by air bombs or shells. The Japanese infantry's marksmanship is also very accurate. Any soldier's head will be hit immediately. The troops will suffer too much casualties.
At this time, what Ji Hongru hoped most was that it would get darker. He knew that as long as it was dark and the Japanese planes could not participate in the war, the marching officer would order the 58th Division and the teaching corps to strike out from both wings and cooperate with the 51st Division to deal with the 2,000 Japanese bags.
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The Japanese army launched another attack, leading by four tanks and behind hundreds of arrogant infantry soldiers.
Ji Hongru knew that if he could not withstand the Japanese attack, the position would be broken. On the one hand, he asked Wang Yaowu for help, but on the other hand, he ordered all the troops of the regiment headquarters to go to the position and resolutely defeat the Japanese.
When Ji Hongru led the regiment guards to the position, the Japanese army had already attacked. The machine guns on the tanks were like wind blowing, making the soldiers in the trench unable to raise their heads.
Seeing the Japanese tanks reaching the position, the battalion commander guarding the position shouted: "Are there any living brothers? Blast the tank for me!"
More than a dozen soldiers of the National Army struggled to climb out of the trench with grenades. Several of them were knocked over by the Japanese army when they showed up. The remaining few seemed to be veterans, and after climbing out of the trench with grenades, they were doing tactics.
Move, dodging the enemy's bullets and approaching the tank. One of them rolled three times and two times before rolling to a tank car, pulled the grenade and stuffed it under the tank car. Before he could dodge, a few bullets came
, beat him to the ground directly. With a rumbling sound, the grenade exploded, and the tank stopped moving forward with a sob.
When Ji Hongru saw that it was the third company commander of the first battalion. He had tears in his eyes and shouted "Third Company Commander!" He raised his shell gun and turned over the three Japanese who were about to pounce into the trenches to the ground.
He threw away his pistol, bent down, picked up a bayonet and rushed on it.
The soldiers from the guard platoon of the regiment headquarters saw the regiment commander pounced on him, and followed him and rushed into the group of Japanese soldiers.
When the Japanese saw the Chinese soldiers coming forward to fight for bayonets, they immediately shouted, and withdrew the bullets and rushed forward.
The remaining soldiers of the 301st Regiment on the position saw that the regiment commander and the guard platoon broke into the enemy group, and they all jumped out of the trenches and joined the battle group. Now, the soldiers on both sides fought together, and the enemy's artillery fire and planes were unable to do anything.
Then, both sides saw bayonets on the position.
When Zhang Lingfu led the 305th Regiment to reinforce, the enemy had just broken through the 301st Regiment's position. With Zhang Lingfu's order, all the light and heavy weapons of the 305th Regiment opened fire and forced the attacking Japanese troops back.
When he went to the position, he saw corpses everywhere. Ji Hongru, the leader of the 302nd Regiment, was lying in a pool of blood, with a bayonet inserted into his body. His bayonet was also nailed to the heart of a short and fat Japanese.
Zhang Lingfu tried Ji Hongru's breath and was relieved, so he hurriedly ordered to carry it down and rescue him. Then he ordered the troops to enter the position to take action.
In this battle, the 301st Regiment suffered more than 1,400 casualties in Chunhua Town, and basically the establishment can be abolished.
Although the Japanese army broke the 301st Regiment in this wave of attack, they suffered heavy casualties. After being hit by the 305th Regiment, they retreated and prepared to camp and wait for the arrival of the main force.
The sun finally set, and the Japanese planes went back to sleep. At this time, Zhang Zhizhong no longer hesitated and ordered Yu Jishi to command the 74th Army and the Teaching Corps to close the net, and to ensure that they wiped out the enemy's vanguard troops in front of them.
Since the beginning of the Battle of Shanghai, the Japanese army has been arrogant and never dreamed that the Chinese army, which was pursued all the way, dared to kill and retaliate. Therefore, although the attack was not smooth, it did not retreat and move closer to the main force, but was on the spot and waited.
The main force will reinforce tomorrow.
When Zhang Zhizhong ordered the order, Yu Jishi immediately ordered the 58th Division and the teaching corps that were hidden and stood by on both wings to encircle the enemy. The 51st Division's 302nd Regiment, 305th Regiment and 306th Regiment attacked the entire line and surrounded and annihilated the enemy.
Wang Yaowu, the commander of the 51st Division, immediately issued an order to resolutely eliminate the Japanese invaders and avenge the brothers of the 301st Regiment, and waved three main groups to rush towards the Japanese army.
Zhang Lingfu has been a legendary person all his life. After being captured by Liu Yimin in the battle of Hanyang Town, he saw what a firepower saturation strike was. After being released, he still suspected that his wife had an affair, shot her and was dealt with by military law.
At the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Wang Yaowu asked him out and was guaranteed to be the commander of the 305th Regiment. This man was definitely a powerful general in the war and was not convinced. He only realized that there was a heaven outside the sky after meeting Liu Yimin. This time he heard that Liu Yimin's troops were eliminated in one battle.
The 40,000 Japanese soldiers wanted to fight a beautiful battle and compete with Liu Yimin. Helplessly, after the Battle of Songhu began, they fought positional wars. The troops struggled under the bombardment of Japanese planes, cannons and naval guns.
, where can I have the opportunity to show my ambitions? Seeing the Nanjing defense strategy, I know that the time is coming to make contributions.
Zhang Lingfu gathered the troops and told his brothers in a verbal way: "You must survive step by step in combat, and you will die at any time if you are determined to die in battle! If you have the glorious determination to die in battle, you can fight to survive in a desperate situation!" After saying this, half of the text
After a while of the words, Zhang Lingfu stopped dropping the book bag, picked up the submachine gun, and shouted: "Brothers, I'll take the hand and go with me to kill the dog god, go!" He led the troops and rushed up.
Although it was already dark and the Japanese army was arrogant, the training of the Japanese army was placed there, tactical quality and fighting will. When the Japanese found out that they were surrounded by the main force of the Chinese army, they asked for tactical guidance while quickly entering the position and resisting to the death.
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The combat effectiveness of the 74th Army and the Teaching Corps is nothing to say in the sequence of the National Army. When the Japanese army spoke with cannons, the combat effectiveness of these two troops was not so obvious. When the Japanese planes rested, the cannons were in the dark.
The role of the inside was greatly reduced, and the Japanese army became a turtle in the jar. The combat effectiveness of the teaching corps and the 74th Army, trained by German consultants, was shown. Whether it was firepower cooperation or tactical movements, they seemed to be precise. The Japanese army kept shrinking its defense circle.
However, at this time, the Japanese army was full of trained veterans. Not to mention their strong combat power, they were also very tenacious in fighting spirit and fought to the death. The cannons and grenade launchers were all in battle, the light and heavy machine guns were shot treacherously and cunningly, and the rifles were basically
The gun bite the flesh, which caused great casualties to the national army.
Worried that time would delay for a long time, Japanese reinforcements arrived, Yu Ji made up his mind and scolded the Japanese devils as if they were not human beings. They were so tenacious and did not surrender. At the same time, they personally brought the guards to supervise the battle with their pistols, strictly ordering regardless of all casualties, and the whole line
Centripetal assault and wiped out the Japanese invaders.
Yu Jishi was Chiang Kai-shek's nephew, and he was not very capable of fighting. The key is that Zhang Zhizhong's combat plan is feasible. With the strength of the 74th Army and the teaching corps, he could not take over without the enemy planes and guns raging.
It would be a joke if the 2,000 Japanese soldiers were alone. The army commander didn't need to be the commander, just buy a piece of tofu and kill him.
So Yu Jishi came straight to the front line.
Seeing the commander coming up to fight desperately, all the soldiers of the 74th Army units and the teaching corps knew that they had made meritorious efforts to kill the enemy and attacked fiercely. The artillery fire of each unit was also concentrated to launch a general attack on the cover of the troops.
Zhang Lingfu led the 305th Regiment to rush forward. Due to the strong firepower of the Japanese army, the troops were also suffering great casualties. Yu Jishi's death order was issued, and Zhang Lingfu immediately threw off his coat and no longer considered concealing. He put the entire regiment's light machine guns.
The submachine guns gathered together to form an attack arrow. He took the lead, walked at the front of the team with the submachine gun, and rushed up with the entire regiment facing the enemy's rain of bullets.
Zhang Lingfu led the 305th Regiment to fight, and forced himself to break out of the Japanese defense circle and penetrated into the last core position of the Japanese army.
This Japanese army was the Seventh Regiment of the 9th Division of the Japanese Army from Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. Historically, after the Japanese army captured Nanjing, the Seventh Regiment served as the vanguard of the Nanjing Massacre, killing people, setting fires, raping gang rapes, and doing all kinds of evil.
Like Japanese troops such as the Sixth Division, they were the culprit of the Nanjing Massacre.
Due to the arrival, history has changed. This brutal hungry wolf fell into the encirclement of the Chinese army before he could see the Nanjing walls while pursuing the Chinese army.
Looking at the Chinese army surrounding them from all directions, listening to the deafening sound of gunfire and shouting for killing, the leader of the Seventh Regiment, He Zun's male colonel, felt a chill in his heart. It seemed that his elite Seventh Regiment was afraid.
I couldn't see the sun tomorrow morning. I originally wanted to come to China to enjoy the beauty of virgins and snatch gold and silver, but I didn't expect that it would be broken so soon. At this time, Kawasaki Ichi's heart felt a little regretful. If I had known this,
It would be better to accompany your wife and children at home. When the cherry blossoms bloom in spring, take your wife and children to enjoy the cherry blossoms, drink sake, and soak in the hot spring. How comfortable it would be! Damn Amaterasu, Damn Emperor, Damn
The military headquarters are all fucking dirty liars!
There was no time left, and the Chinese army had already rushed up. He Zuo Yian no longer hesitated and ordered the military flag to burn and send a jade-breaking farewell to the division commander.
Although I had regretted it, Kawasaki Ichino knew that I had to die a little more heroic, so that I could get a death penalty for my family. So, after sending a telegram and ordering the radio station to be destroyed, Kawasaki Ichino Colonel pulled it out
After taking the command knife, he took the guards around him to meet the Chinese army rushing into the position.
The 305th Regiment led by Zhang Lingfu was rushed in. Zhang Lingfu did not hesitate at all for this Japanese colonel waving the sword. He raised his hand and made a shuttle, making a man's eyes bulge out, and a stream of blood oozed out of the corner of his mouth, and he fell softly.
On the ground.
The guards of Kawasaki were all killed just after firing one shot. What was not possible was that a bullet hit Zhang Lingfu, who was already covered in blood, and he also sat on the ground.