Chapter 195: Kill out of the siege (Sixth)

"Blasting cannons!" After pouring all the shells onto the heads of the Japanese in the 114th Division who were attacking General Shan and Niu Shou Mountain, artillery battalion commander Li Weishan issued the order to bomb the cannons with tears in his eyes.

In order to break through with light equipment, we must give up the remaining five Krupp mountain cannons and shot downs that made outstanding achievements, and injure three anti-aircraft cannons of five Neon Army aircraft.

"Battery Commander!" Cannons are the life of artillery. Yu Feng, who was holding the detonator, looked reluctantly at the cannons standing on the artillery position, and could not take action.

"Bastard, do you want to leave these cannons for the Japanese?" Li Weishan ran to Yu Feng angrily and snatched the detonator in his hand. He turned around and shouted at the artillery brothers who were also full of tears and reluctant to leave: "Brothers, as long as we can rush out alive, there will be cannons. We will have more, bigger cannons, and more Japanese devils."

After saying that, Li Weishan took a last look at the artillery position, closed his eyes, gritted his teeth, and pressed the detonator. With a loud "boom", a huge fireball suddenly rose from the entire artillery position, and parts of the artillery could be seen flying in the fireball. Two lines of hot tears lay down from the faces of Li Weishan and all the artillery brothers.

Throwing away the detonator in his hand, Li Weishan raised the rifle in his hand and shouted loudly: "Now I order you to pick up the gun in your hand, join the ranks of infantry brothers, and break through!"

"Break through!"

Between General Mountain and Niushou Mountain, the junction of the two brigades of the 114th Division of the Neon Army that were attacking, there were shouts of killing all over the mountains and fields. The vanguard of the teaching corps who were responsible for the breakthrough mission, one regiment of nearly 3,000 officers and soldiers rushed down from the two hills. The Japanese who were attacking with all their might had no preparation at all. They were suddenly washed away from one to nearly two thousand meters of opening, dividing the two brigades into two. The troops that followed immediately launched defenses on both sides to cover the retreat of the large troops in the middle.

"Where did the Chinese army get so many troops? No, the Chinese army wants to break through! Hold them and order the troops to stop them." Momoji Momatsu saw the scene in front of him in the telescope. After a brief moment of stunnedness, he woke up and roared loudly.

"Your Excellency the division commander, the Chinese army has broken through our defense line. And you see, they are numerous, obviously not just the Eiyi Division and the troops opposite us. It is likely that they are defenders withdrawn from the city. We have no way to stop them." The Chief of Staff, Colonel Isoda Saburo, quickly persuaded him.

Shigeji Matsu was stunned, then squinted his eyes and looked at Saburo Isoda and said, "What do you mean is the Chinese army preparing to give up Nanjing?"

"Yes, the division commander." Isoda Saburo nodded quickly and said, "Now my great Japanese imperial army is at the city of Nanjing, the 18th Division has occupied Wuhu, the Guoqi detachment has crossed the Yangtze River from Dangtu, and the third fleet has also approached Nanjing from the Yangtze River. If the Chinese army does not retreat, it will inevitably be surrounded and annihilated by our great Japanese Empire."

Listening to Saburo Isoda being listed the achievements of other troops one by one, Shigeji Momatsu couldn't help but blush. Among the eight divisions attacking Nanjing, he was the 114th Division with the worst record and has not yet broken through the outer defense line of Nanjing, so that the troops in the city now break out in his direction.

Saburo Isoda noticed the change in the face of the division commander and quickly changed the subject: "Secretary Commander, since the Chinese army is about to start breaking through, we might as well continue the attack and take down the General Mountain in front and advance directly towards Nanjing."

In fact, even if Isoda Saburo said that Shigeji Matsu had long thought that this was a good opportunity for the 114th Division to take the opportunity to break through the current position and advance into Nanjing. However, just letting the Chinese army break through, Shigeji Matsu was unwilling to give up, and secondly, he was worried that the Front Command might hold him accountable in the future.

Seeing Shigeji Momatsu's face fluttering, Saburo Isoda continued: "Teacher Commander, Hua has an old saying: Don't chase the enemy. And according to the current situation, our army may not be able to block these Chinese troops who broke through. If this is..." Saburo Isoda did not say further, but the meaning is very obvious, I am afraid that you will not only not be able to stop it, but also suffer huge casualties.

"Order the 127th Brigade to occupy General Mountain at all costs and open up the outer positions of Nanjing. Order the 128th Brigade to do its best to prevent the Chinese army from breaking through."

Shigeji Matsu backed and walked back and forth twice. After weighing the pros and cons, he finally made up his mind, but he was not willing to let go of the breaking Hua army in vain, especially causing great losses to his division, which made him unable to break through the Nanjing outer defense line, and could not break smoothly under his nose. More importantly, if Matsui Ishien is investigated in the future, he has reason to complain that he did block it. But it cannot be blocked, which is another matter.

So a strange scene appeared. On the one hand, the teaching corps, as the vanguard, had already begun to break through between General Mountain and Niushou Mountain. It turned out that the 128th Brigade, which had attacked Niushou Mountain, quickly organized troops to intercept. However, only two kilometers apart, the 127th Brigade continued to attack the main position of General Mountain regardless of the teaching corps that were breaking through.

When Sun Wenhua and Yi Anhua led the guard battalion of the Rong 1st Division, the 259th Brigade of the 87th Division, and the nearly 5,000 remaining soldiers collected withdrew from the Zhonghua Gate under the cover of the 264th Brigade of the 88th Division led by Gao Zhisong, the attacking Sixth Division realized that the Chinese army had begun to break through.

Based on the same mentality as Shigeji Momatsu, more importantly, the direction of the Chinese army's retreat was also the 114th Division behind. Tani Suo was ordering the main force to quickly seize Yuhuatai and Zhonghuamen to advance into Nanjing city, and only sent Okamoto's 113th Regiment to pursue.

Now for Tani Suo, entering Nanjing City is the most important thing. So what was sent to pursue was just the newly added and reserved team. However, the captain of the 113th Regiment, Colonel Okamoto, attached great importance to the breakthrough of the pursuit of the Chinese army.

The First Third Regiment is the reserve force of the 13th Regiment whose number was cancelled. Since it was added to the Sixth Division, it has been discriminated against. Compared with other regiments, although some of the corps captains were killed or almost wiped out, the corps flag given by the Emperor was still there and the number was not cancelled. Moreover, since the launch of the Nanjing Battle, the First Third Regiment has been used as a second-line force, and its status is almost the same as the baggage corps and the engineer corps. Finally, it was difficult to catch a single attack on the flank of the General Mountain. Okamoto originally wanted to perform well and let the division commander, brigade commander and several other regiments take a good look. The First Third Regiment is still an invincible field corps, just like the 13th Regiment. However, at the critical moment of the attack, he was ordered to give up the attack and transfer back to cooperate with the Niujima Brigade to attack Yuhuatai.

This time, when Okamoto saw the division commander's disapproval when he ordered them to pursue the Chinese army breaking through the Zhonghua Gate, he secretly vowed that he would fight a beautiful battle and let the division commander take a look.

When Gao Zhisong and Yi Anhua's troops, the collapsed soldiers and the guard battalion were almost rushed to General Mountain by the Okamoto corps, the Fourth Regiment of the Third Brigade of the Teaching Corps, responsible for the protection of the palace, temporarily blocked the relentless Okamoto corps on the flank position.

"Brig Commander Gao, Brigade Commander Yi, the teaching team has opened a gap. You should break through quickly. We are responsible for cover." Although Gao Zhisong and Yi Anhua are only brigade commanders, their qualifications are all there, both Huangpu seniors, and Chen Xiuwen came out to greet them in person.

"Teacher Chen, I'm grateful, I..." Withdrawing to General Mountain and seeing Chen Xiuwen personally lead the troops behind the hall, Yi Anhua finally felt relieved. Thinking about his commander, he was looking at the other party's first division. Yi Anhua was very moved and could not say it for a moment after saluting Chen Xiuwen.

Although Gao Zhisong was only succeeded as the commander of the 264th Brigade after Zhu Chi was transferred to the 262nd Brigade. However, after evacuating to Nanjing, he had several dates with Shen Xiuwen and was familiar with Shen Xiuwen. Seeing this, he quickly advised: "Okay, Jichen. If you have any gratitude to Commander Chen, please wait until you go out and talk about it."

Due to the tight time, Gao Zhisong did not politely with Shen Xiuwen, but just frowned and reminded: "Luanfu, the chasing Japanese behind is not easy to deal with, you should be careful."

Chen Xiuwen nodded. Gao Zhisong's reminder was correct. At this time, the sound of gunfire coming from the flanking positions became more and more intense.

"Director Sun, your mission was completed very well this time. You should take these brothers with Brigade Commander Gao first, and Brigade Commander Yi retreated first, and the guard battalion stayed." Sun Wenhua actually came back with nearly 5,000 defeated soldiers, which surprised Chen Xiuwen. These soldiers were enough to supplement his losses since the Nanjing Defense War. Moreover, Sun Wenhua led the guard battalion to assist the municipal government, and the police department was also very good at completing the civilian evacuation task. Chen Xiuwen couldn't help but look at Sun Wenhua with admiration, and at the same time he also secretly sighed that Dai Li's subordinates were indeed elites.

"Yes, Master, you should be careful too." Sun Wenhua saluted Chen Xiuwen.

Sun Wenhua's rare sincere gaze surprised Chen Xiuwen and was slightly moved. He restrained the smile on his face and gave him a serious salute.

Although the "cooperation" teaching corps of the 114th Division was successful in breaking through the front, there were more than 40,000 troops to retreat. Calculated by the speed of one regiment protruding from the 128th Brigade every hour, more than ten regiments would take more than ten hours. Since the breakthrough was carried out in darkness, there was no threat from the Japanese aircraft. If it was dawn, it would inevitably be air strikes from the Japanese. Therefore, it is necessary to break through the 128th Brigade as much as possible before dawn, exit Moling Pass, and enter the hilly area on the right side of Lishui. This will not only effectively avoid the Japanese air strikes, but also have the support of Rong Yi regiment, which will completely break out of the Japanese encirclement.

When it was dawn, the large army finally highlighted the defense line of the 128th Brigade. Chen Xiuwen led the guard battalion, the special service battalion and the fourth regiment of the 3rd Brigade of the 3rd Brigade of the 3rd Brigade of the 3rd Brigade of the 3rd Brigade of the 3rd Brigade of the 3rd Brigade were alternately covered and retreated to the foot of the General Mountain. At this time, the first and second regiments of the 127th Brigade that had been blocking the 127th Brigade on the General Mountain also retreated. The flank blocked the 128th Brigade was Zhou Suping's Rong Third Regiment.

"As soon as the sky is dawn, the Japanese plane is coming. The special agent camp will replace Rong San Regiment, add the first regiment, add the second regiment, Rong San Regiment, and Commander Sui, you will quickly retreat to Moling Pass. I will take the guards behind the camp." In a hidden place at the foot of the mountain, Chen Xiuwen summoned the chief officers of all the troops to have a meeting.

"No!" As soon as Chen Xiuwen finished speaking, he was opposed by everyone.

"Master, if you want to withdraw, you should withdraw first, I will stay." Huang Likui, who was wrapped in gauze on his head, said first.

"There are many casualties in the replenishment group and the replenishment group. Let's stay with our Rong 3rd regiment." Zhou Suping also said.

"Master, I..."

Before the second regiment commander Wang Shaoping finished speaking, Sui Youlan, the commander of the Fourth Regiment of the Third Brigade of the Teaching Corps, interrupted: "Teacher Chen, everyone, don't fight any more. You Rongyi's Division is already very helpful. I am the command of our attendance to the rear of the palace. You all retreat first, and the blocking of the flanks and the rear of the palace will be completed independently by our regiment."

Chen Xiuwen smiled and waited for Sui Youlan to finish speaking, and said, "Captain Sui, don't fight. Your regiment has blocked it for one night, and there are many casualties and must retreat. Otherwise, I would not be able to explain to your commander and chief of staff." As he said, Chen Xiuwen reached out to stop Sui Youlan from speaking, his face turned solemn, and continued, "Captain Sui, although you are not my army, I am the highest commander here now, and you must obey my orders."

When treating Huang Likui and others, Chen Xiuwen was not as polite as Sui Youlan. He pointed at them and said sternly: "What's wrong with you today? You have gained abilities, right? What is the most important thing in our Rongyi Division?"

"But……"

Huang Likui opened his mouth and said, but Chen Xiuwen shouted sternly and said, "Tell me, what is it?"

The three of them were shocked at the same time and replied in a low voice: "Abide by the order."

"Speak louder, I can't hear it."

"Abide by the order!" the three of them replied loudly in unison.

"Very good. It seems you still know. I order you to implement my order right now. The special agent camp takes over the Rong San Regiment position, and the guard battalion follows my palace. Seize the time and retreat immediately. Otherwise, when the Japanese plane arrives, we will be done." After saying that, Chen Xiuwen slowed down and said, "Since our army was established, I have a promise to all my brothers, that is, not to abandon or give up. If it is a retreat, my division commander must stay at the end."

"Yes." Huang Likui, Zhou Suping, and Wang Shaoping responded loudly. The crystal clearness flashed in each of them, and they were full of respect for their teachers.
Chapter completed!