Chapter 304: Bloody Battle of Nanjing (9)
The smoke of gunpowder dissipated, and the entire Zhonghua Gate area turned into ruins. Of course, it was already ruins before this.
But now, even the broken outline has disappeared in this explosion. Perhaps, in the future, we can only feel the majesty of this majestic city pass from old photos.
In front of the position, Wu Xinhua breathed a sigh of relief. Although he was much older than Leng Feng and was still half a senior, when Leng Feng's stern rebuke came, he felt a little "fear" deep in his heart.
Of course, this "fear" comes from a sense of awe of capable strong people.
It’s not that Leng Feng is too strong. In fact, Leng Feng is usually a person who can get along well with him and can occasionally make jokes, but he is not good at speaking.
Leng Feng also knew that he was not an eloquent person, so he needed to organize every important meeting or speech in advance and write an outline so that he would not make mistakes.
The Japanese army needed time to reorganize the attack, which for the 4O Brigade, they also needed to repair the fortifications affected by the explosion and redeploy the combat plan.
Street battle is finally about to begin.
Both sides seemed to be accumulating the last strength, but the Japanese army was a little depressed. Yoshika Ryosuke finally recovered easily and immediately received a severe reprimand telegram from General Shinji Hata.
In the telegram, General Hata Shunji scolded him bloodily. Since the Chinese army had a precedent, why didn't he take any precautions in advance? If the Chinese army had appeared earlier and withdrew from the position, the conspiracy might be revealed and stopped in time.
Even if Yoshika Ryosuke is so wronged, he can't say anything. He proposed to concentrate his strength to attack. General Hata Shunji suppressed Fujita and transferred all the heavy artillery and chariots that were originally affiliated to the Third Division to the 9th Division. As a result, a shell was shot and he plowed the Zhonghua Gate inside and out.
Even the team of the top team did not show a single hair, and he had dozens of casualties in battle.
The heavy artillery troops of the 6th Army of the Great Japanese Empire were not here to plow the land for the Chinese!
If you move a little later, something will appear. When the shelling was launched, before dawn, smoke from the battlefield was spreading, and once the troops were pulled up, it would not be so easy to pull them down.
What's more, only sporadic Chinese soldiers were resisting this way. Can the warriors of the empire be stopped from making merits?
It’s not that there are any officers who are not right, but at that time, even if the command center makes a decision, it’s too late.
What's more, no one on the left expected that this "Leng Feng" would use the same trick again and designed this way under the Zhonghua Gate.
Is he a 'rat'? He is born to dig holes?
So many shells fell on the position, why didn't they use the explosives buried below?
Even if it is artificially detonated, it will not have such great power!
Damn Nakajima, how much explosive did you leave for the Chinese people in Nanjing?
Yoshisuke finally couldn't find a reason, and he hated Nakajima Atsugo, who had been pissed to death, and even the 16th Division hated him very much.
The hatred between the 9th Division and the 16th Division has been concluded.
"Secretary Commander, what should I do now? The soldiers are waiting for your decision." The 9th Division headquarters, the generals and above of the Colonel were all concentrated in Yoshika Ryosuke's military tent.
"Prepare to attack!" Although Ji Jialiangsuke was injured, he was also an injured tiger. The tiger would not give in easily.
"Attack, the division commander still wants to attack now?" Chief of Staff Hiroshi Nakagawa was startled. With such a huge loss, the soldiers would inevitably be depressed. At this time, isn't this asking for trouble?
"Didn't you hear the orders of our division commander? Attack, attack, do you understand!" Ji Jialiangsuke's face was swollen and red with excitement, and he whispered angrily on the edge of the camp bed.
"But the division commander. Where do we attack and how do we configure our troops?"
"Isn't the Chinese people giving up their strong city defense fortifications an opportunity for us? Although we suffered huge losses, we also opened the gate to Nanjing City and ordered the artillery to launch artillery into the city immediately, and the infantry then broke in!" Ji Jialiangfu got up from the camp bed and ordered sternly.
"Hayi!"
"Sir, is the division commander, is it an undifferentiated artillery bombardment?" asked Colonel Takeda Seiichi, the heavy artillery corps.
"Is this a matter of how many shells there are? How many shots are there and how many shots will be shot for me!" Yoshika Ryosuke almost yelled at Takeda.
"Hayi!"
Rumble
The Japanese artillery bombardment was launched once again an hour after the earth-shaking explosion of the Zhonghua Gate. This time, the Japanese artillery not only aimed at the positions of the national rescue division, but also carried out indiscriminate artillery bombardment on the houses in Nanjing.
For a moment, meteors flew over Nanjing City, and hundreds of shells fell down in one minute, and explosions came one after another. After suffering severe trauma, Nanjing City was once again ravaged by artillery fire from the invaders.
Those people who retreated to the north of the Yangtze River could see the sky-storming fires generated by the explosion and fire in Nanjing City, and Nanjing City completely turned into a sea of fire.
The ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, with thousands of years of cultural accumulation, may only be left behind after this war.
devil!"
"Japanese devils, I. Fuck. Your ancestors"
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The people looked at the bombed home on the other side and cursed angrily, and some even left tears of leaving their hometowns and falling to the end of the world.
"I want to join the army, I want to fight against Japan, we want to kill the Japanese."
In front of the 37th Brigade of the National Rescue Division, thousands of young and strong people surrounded early in the morning, all of whom were from Nanjing, and the people who lost their homes and relatives in the war.
The young and strong men who retreated to Jiangbei also rushed over to hear the news. Many of them helped build fortifications on their positions and understood the principle of defending their country. These people naturally became the best candidates.
As the number of people accumulates, the number of people in charge of the 37th Brigade Station can't bear it anymore. He quickly called Liao Sen to ask for instructions. Liao Sen had no good idea, so he could only ask Leng Feng for instructions from telegram.
Leng Feng and Qiu Qingquan discussed that so many people could not refuse the enthusiasm of anti-Japanese war, but the national rescue guru was absolutely unable to eat so many soldiers, so only the top of the mountain could solve this problem.
Moreover, it is estimated that young people will be recruited to the army at the top of the peak, and the vacancies are very large.
The telegram was directly called to the first and second groups of the attendant's room, and Lin Wei immediately forwarded the telegram to Lao Jiang.
When Lao Jiang saw this, he saw that this was a good thing. There were so many young and strong people, and with the deep hatred of the destruction of their home, he fought against the Japanese. He must have been brave. There were still 20,000 people, so he could be reorganized into two B-type divisions.
Aren’t some of the disbanded teaching corps reorganized their troops in Kaifeng?
Isn’t there any soldiers when I sent these 20,000 people to Kaifeng?
However, 20,000 soldiers are not that easy to get. As the saying goes, if you eat someone's soft-mouthed person, you have to save them if you get someone's soldiers. So Chiang gave Gui Yongqing an order, asking him to send someone to accept the soldiers.
When Gui Yongqing saw that this was not the one who accepted the soldiers, it was clearly for him to go to rescue him.
Although it is very dangerous, you have to go. This is the old foundation of the National Rescue Team when the War of Resistance and War is at least the same as the old foundation of the teaching team. If he doesn't go, the officers and soldiers of the teaching team will be completely disappointed.
However, the reorganization work was urgent, and as soon as he left, his work had to stop. So he asked the deputy commander, Leng Feng's old boss, to take a brigade out of Kaifeng, and head south along the Longhai Line to support Leng Feng.
Leng Feng had no hope of this support force. But since he came, there was no reason to turn it off.
However, when Jiang Jiang learned that Gui Yongqing had not gone to Pukou in person, he called him and scolded him in person, and only the two people involved knew about it.
Leng Feng later learned about this from other channels and felt mostly cold.
It is obvious that Chiang Kai-shek asked Gui Yongqing to come over to control the national army who saved the war of resistance and picked peaches. However, Gui Yongqing, a fool, failed to understand Chiang Kai-shek's true intentions, but sent Zhou Zhenxiang, who had a good relationship with Leng Feng and Qiu Qingquan.
Zhou Zhenxiang is a major general like Qiu Qingquan. Qiu's position and power are slightly stronger when teaching the corps. Of course, Zhou is also the brigade commander of the First Brigade. Therefore, the two are actually not much different. Zhou is Gui's confidant and Qiu is Gui's friend.
Gui Yongqing thought Zhou was fine, but Lao Jiang didn't think so. Qiu played a very small role in Nanjing. Leng Feng was the one who really made great efforts. If Qiu hadn't been his old commander, he would probably have nothing to do with him in this period of Nanjing.
Now that I have given him half of all the credit, I can be regarded as repaying the kindness of the support.
Qiu is a student of Lao Chiang, and he can still maintain his feelings with teachers and students, and will not do anything too outrageous, but Leng Feng is different. When Leng Feng entered the school, Lao Chiang was already the chairman and the commander of the army. At this time, even Lao Chiang was still the principal, which was much more distant than when Huangpu was founded.
An uncontrollable young general was like a wild horse that had broken his reins. He had to have a reins that bound him. Although Lao Jiang found this reins, he had to take some thought to tie him up.
Leng Feng is not in the mood to speculate on Chiang Kai-shek's mind. It is better to have reinforcements. Even if he cannot arrive in time, at least he can restrain some of the Japanese troops, which is also helpful.
So Leng Feng was grateful to Zhou Zhenxiang for leading a brigade to Pukou.
Faced with the indiscriminate artillery and bombing of the Japanese army, Leng Feng had a plan long before preparing for street fighting, which was to disperse cover. No matter how many Japanese shells there were, they could not cover the entire city of Nanjing.
Many sturdy dungeon fortifications in Nanjing City are the best places to avoid bombing. The Japanese army did not know the situation in the city, and their bombing could only be in chaos.
Just like now, I just want to breathe a sigh of relief.
After the bombings, it is hard to say how many attacking capabilities the Japanese army still have remained. Of course, there are specialists to regulate the number of Japanese artillery bombings. Based on this data, we can speculate on the number of artillery shells that the Japanese army may still have remained.
This is all with professional intelligence counselors, but there is a shortage of personnel within the national division. Sometimes, Leng Feng also needs to deal with it himself, and the workload is amazing.
(To be continued.)
ps: It’s mid-month, and it’s time to pay the ticket. I heard that there are rewards for military classification monthly tickets. Whether to eat meat or drink porridge depends on whether the brothers can support it! ◆The place comes to the clouds and the pavilion to get the view. ◆
Chapter completed!