Special Forces of Crossing: Cloud's Anti-Japanese

Chapter 615 Bloody Battle ([-])

Not only Guanghuamen, but in several other main attack directions, the Japanese army also did not make the slightest progress.

What is different from that time and space is that the sequence of the Japanese army besieging Nanjing has changed. Among them, the 16th Division of Nakajima Kesaogo was not incorporated into the Shanghai Expeditionary Army, but stayed in North China to fight.It was replaced by the 101st Division.In other directions, the Yamada Detachment was recalled to Shanghai for reorganization because of a heavy blow in Pukou, and its combat position was replaced by the 11th Division.In the direction of Yuhuatai and Zhonghuamen, the main attack is the 3rd Division, while the attack on Tongjimen and Wudingmen is the 114th Division.As for the 6th Division, which Ouyang Yun hated the most, it still followed the old path of history, focusing on Jiangdongmen, Sanchahe, and Huashen Temple.

It was only the day before yesterday that the various units of the Japanese army knew that the main force of the national army had withdrawn to the south, and only the two remaining reorganized divisions of the Sichuan Army were left behind in Nanjing, followed by the Xuebing Army and the original Nanjing garrison.

This information has just been detected, except for the 9th Division and the 11th Division, which have suffered a lot from the Xuebing Army, the other Japanese troops are very excited, thinking that it is time to claim credit, so once they receive an attack Nanjing's order, without exception, rushed towards Nanjing, lest the honor of being the first to invade Nanjing would be snatched by other troops.

The underestimation of the Japanese army gave the defenders an opportunity to expand their results. In fact, except for the 9th Division, which suffered the greatest loss due to an accident, other Japanese divisions, except the 11th Division, suffered losses. Heavy blow.Among them, Tani Hisao's 6th Division also lost a full brigade in the direction of Jiangdongmen.

The tenacity of the defenders obviously exceeded the expectations of the Japanese army.That's right, not long ago, when the Chinese army encountered the Japanese army, it was still defeated in one blow, and only the wolves ran for their lives. Why did they become fierce when they entered Nanjing in a blink of an eye?This made the division-level commanders of the Japanese army headed by Hisao Tani puzzled. They thought of the admonition of the base camp about being vigilant against the cadet army. After being angry, they calmed down and made the same choice as Yoshizuki Ryosuke and started to go crazy. In order to reduce the casualties of soldiers as much as possible, relying on the far-dominated artillery to defeat the fortifications and will of the defenders in one fell swoop.

This round of shelling took more than an hour.Then, twelve Japanese planes carried out saturation bombing on the defender positions of Guanghua Gate and Jiangdong Gate, until the defender positions behind the two city gates were destroyed to the ground, and then Shi Shiran left Nanjing.

The shelling and continuous bombing that lasted for an hour did indeed deal a great blow to the defenders.Taking Guanghuamen as an example, the fortifications relied on by Yang Chengjun's Xuebing Company and Fan Neng's Sichuan Bing Company were completely destroyed, and nearly 200 people from the two companies were killed. In the end, only Fan Neng and other soldiers survived. 13 people.Among them, six others were seriously injured.

As for the machine gun company in the residential area behind the fortification, even though they retreated in time, more than [-] people were still killed...

For the loss of Nanjing's defensive battle, although Ouyang Yun had calculated and prepared psychologically, this scale of bombardment was not something he could bear.He was even a little scared. If the Japanese army insisted on this kind of combat method, would it really be necessary for him to stick to it?
In Nanjing, not everyone is willing to evacuate.Among them, some people have long been prepared to be traitors, and some people, especially some old people, are unwilling to evacuate because they are nostalgic for their homeland.Ordinarily, for such people, the officers and soldiers performing the evacuation work should focus on persuasion.However, it was the former Nanjing garrison that performed the evacuation.The officers and soldiers of these troops are used to being arrogant and domineering. They don't care about the people's feelings and take gentle measures. They only know how to be strong. In this way, they aroused the resentment of the people, and even some citizens who were willing to evacuate refused to evacuate because of this. up.

The reason why Ouyang Yun asked these two divisions subordinate to the Central Army to carry out this task was because they had the lowest combat power and could not take on the frontline operations, and the evacuation task was just to make the best use of them.Who knew that this kind of thing would happen, but it brought the evacuation work to a deadlock.At around [-]:[-] noon, he learned the news from Wu Keren, who was in charge of this work. In desperation, he had to ask the troops in charge of the second line of defense to also transfer people to join this work, hoping to complete the work of persuading the people to leave as soon as possible. .

The continuous shelling and bombing of the Japanese army completely destroyed the first line of defense that the defenders worked so hard to build.The bombing had just stopped, and the Japanese planes hadn't left the sky over Nanjing City, and their ground attack started again.

Guanghuamen, Xie Changan and Zhu Zaiting had just rescued Fan Neng and other surviving officers and soldiers from the first line of defense, and the Ninth Division launched another fierce attack.

This time, it was still a Qiluo, three armored vehicles opened the way, followed by a squadron of devils, and rushed into Guanghuamen cautiously.

The residential houses behind the first fortification were the second line of defense for the defenders. However, there were few concrete buildings in this residential area, so after continuous shelling and bombing, they basically collapsed and turned into ruins.The ruins even blocked the openings of the two air-raid shelters, and in these two air-raid shelters, a battalion of defenders was hidden.

As soon as the bombing stopped, Zhu Zaiting and Xie Changan immediately asked Fang Dake to lead the remaining two companies of his battalion to excavate the two air-raid shelters after receiving the report from the lookout post.In order to prevent the Japanese army from attacking at this time, Qian Guangming dispatched six tanks to surround Guanghuamen in a fan shape.

As soon as the Japanese Chilo tank appeared, the two of the six Jiguang tanks closest to Guanghuamen opened fire at the same time. There were two loud bangs, and the Chilo tank was immediately surrounded by fireworks and turned into a burning pile. of scrap iron.

So, like the first attack, the Japanese army was destroyed again because of Qiluo, and the successor troops were blocked outside Guanghuamen.Two shells destroyed Qiluo. From the perspective of saving shells, the six Jiguang vehicles stopped running, and at the same time, the machine gunners blocked Guanghuamen with bullets.With the coordination of six Qubing-style general-purpose machine guns, Guanghuamen was immediately sealed tightly, and the Japanese attack this time was also contained.

This is the case for Guanghuamen, and several other directions.Except for the direction of Mufu Mountain, where the defenders had to rely on solid fortifications and the Japanese army to shoot at each other, the scene of Guanghuamen was staged without exception.

The attack was repulsed again, but what is exasperating is that the Chinese people were actually carrying out rescue work at a distance of more than 99 meters from Guanghuamen—this made Ryosuke Yoshizuki so angry that the roots of his teeth itched.He thought, it would be great if he had a Type 99 squadron.Compared with the Jiguang tank of the Academy of Soldiers, Quirrell is too fragile-even the frontal armor can't stop the opponent's shot!Before the Type 99 tank appeared, the Jiguang tank was an insurmountable steel trench for the Japanese army. The timely appearance of Type 99 gave great confidence and expectations to generals like Ryosuke Yoshizuki who had fought against the Xuebing Army.However, in the Battle of Pukou, a regiment of Type 9 tanks produced by the empire with all its strength was wiped out in the first battle. This made the Jiguang tank once again become a lingering shadow over Ryosuke Yoshitake's heart. . "Your Excellency, division commander, should the heavy artillery regiment carry out shelling again?" The chief of staff of the [-]th division walked up to Ryosuke Yoshizuka and asked.

Without Type 99, the Japanese army can only deal with Jiguang tanks with heavy artillery and heavy attack aircraft.However, since the violent shelling and bombing just now failed to deal with the Jiguang tanks in Guanghuamen, the Chinese must have a good way to evade it—Ryosuke Yoshizuki thought so, and did not adopt the opinion of the chief of staff. "Let's withdraw the troops first!" After he finished speaking, he stared at the city wall of Nanjing towering in front of him, frowning and meditating.

On the first day of the battle, the most thrilling places took place on the water surface of Xiaguan and Zhongshan Wharf.

Ouyang Yun dared to implement the evacuation plan because the Japanese Third Fleet suffered a devastating blow at the Jiangyin Fortress.However, because the chairman felt sorry for the navy, he let all the navy's ships withdraw to Hankou, which led to the complete Japanese navy in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.Therefore, in Pukou, the cadet army would fight away from the riverside because of the scruples of the few Japanese gunboats.For the same reason, he had to allocate part of the small artillery to garrison Zhongshan Wharf to guard against the Japanese gunboats, which were not considered powerful; at the same time, he deployed all the air defense forces here to prevent the wanton bombing of Japanese fighter planes. The most important thing is to protect the evacuated people as much as possible, and make the objective conditions of the Nanjing Massacre no longer exist as much as possible.

Even if the Nanjing Massacre really happened, it would be in the future. This created a problem for Ouyang Yun, that is, he couldn't be humane with others.Therefore, when Zhu Zaiting asked him why he didn't use artillery to suppress the Japanese artillery fire, he had to make that explanation.

The artillery stationed at Zhongshan Wharf has only one self-propelled artillery regiment, all of which have a diameter of more than 120 mm, in order to be able to threaten the Japanese gunboats.It is naturally not enough to rely on this artillery regiment with more than [-] artillery pieces, because the shore artillery is incomparable with the naval guns in terms of caliber and range. Therefore, the self-propelled artillery regiment can play a role only when the Japanese gunboats are unprepared .Once the Japanese gunboats were prepared and out of the shelling range, the self-propelled artillery regiment could only watch the Japanese gunboats wreak havoc.In order to minimize the threat of the Japanese gunboats to the evacuated people, Ouyang Yun gritted his teeth and turned the officers and soldiers of a squadron of the Broadsword Regiment into a water ghost team. .

Not many people knew of Ouyang Yun's decision, only the senior generals of the Xue Bing Army.Among them, even a well-known patriotic general like Li Hanhun couldn't help asking questions. In his opinion, people will definitely die in a war, and is it worth sacrificing elite fighters like Langya to save civilians who are helpless? ?
Ouyang Yun actually had no way to answer this question.Because he couldn't balance the interests involved, but once he thought of the five bloody characters "Nanjing Massacre" in his mind, he felt that even if it wasn't worth it, he should do it.

Everything is just to avoid this tragedy from happening!As a time traveler, it seems that he can only do so much.

(End of this chapter)