Chapter 227 The Bloody Land of the Battle of Nanjing (Central)

However, Zhang Xuewu was very helpless at this moment because he was powerless in strategy. Chiang Kai-shek was often an extremely stubborn person. He probably had to grasp a very good opportunity to advise him, especially to understand Chiang Kai-shek's intentions and make suggestions at the right time.

Zhang Xuewu could not be this grandson. He had the energy and time to think about the development and growth of Baotou Industrial Zone. After all, the victory of the war against Japan did not depend on China itself, but on the change of the overall environment of the international political group. Although China's territory and territory are vast, its overall national strength is very poor, so China is destined to be a chess piece in the chessboard, not a person holding the chess player.

The Japanese siege of Nanjing reached its peak at 5 a.m. The Japanese troops siege from the east, south and west repeatedly used artillery fire to bombard the Chinese defenders' positions. In cooperation with the assault with chariots, Japanese infantry lined up in dense storm formations repeatedly attacking the junctions of the Chinese defenders' units.

The Japanese artillery fire blew the Chinese defender's positions into a sea of ​​fire, and the Chinese defender's artillery fire also blew the Japanese offensive troops into pieces. The Chinese defender soldiers fought back in the Japanese artillery fire, giving the Japanese offensive troops huge damage. The Japanese soldiers hit the ground one by one were shot and fell to the ground. The subsequent Japanese troops blindly rushed up with rifles with a flash of cold light and flashing bayonets.

Even the outer positions on the front line of Qixia Mountain, which had a dangerous terrain, were once penetrated by the Japanese army. The soldiers of the Chinese and Japanese armies used submachine guns, rifles, pistols, bayonets, engineer shovels, helmets, stones and even teeth as weapons. In the blood that was splashing wildly, some Chinese soldiers had a row of glorious bullets hanging on their chests, lurking in the craters in front of the position. When the Japanese army attacked, they rushed into the Japanese army with two 24-type German grenades, smashing horizontally and vertically. The Japanese soldiers who were hit on the back of their heads rolled their eyes and screamed and fell to the ground.

When the Chinese soldiers wielding a brain-stained grenade were pierced by the Japanese bayonet or were hit by bullets, they either pulled the grenade violently and died with the Japanese army when they thought it was over.

People who love suicide attacks or attacks are particularly fond of suicide attacks, from meat bomb attacks to human torpedoes, and then to Kamikaze Death Squads. In this regard, people can be regarded as the ancestors of the younger Taliban terrorists. Zhang Xuewu's understanding is that people's lives are worthless.

The 103rd Division of the Gui Yongqing unit of the teaching corps guarded the Qixia Mountain Fortress, and the 160th Division of the Ye Zhao unit of the 160th Division was on the left wing. The corps can be regarded as the elite among the elite troops among the various departments in Nanjing. It is also comparable to the temporary first mechanized division drawn by the Rehe Legion before its expansion.

Faced with the fierce attacks of the 13th Division of the Japanese Army and the Chongtou Detachment, Qixia Mountain Fortress remained unmoved. Because the Japanese army learned that the elite troops of the teaching corps of the Central Army of the Army guarding Qixia Mountain Fortress were the elite troops of the Central Army, after several rounds of attacks, the people were crazy and expelled a large amount of mustard seed gas.

In fact, the teaching corps are under three infantry brigades, each brigade has the second regiment, the special agent battalion, the sergeant battalion, the engineering battalion, the transportation battalion, and the communication battalion. Although the numbers have been changed into regiments, each battalion only has three to five companies of troops, which is far from the regiment system of the sixteen combat companies.

The so-called 103rd Division of the National Revolutionary Army is under the Fifth Brigade and the Sixth Brigade of the Teaching Corps. The Fifth Brigade owed the 10th Regiment, and the 10th Regiment was drawn to the defense of the General Mountain Fortress. Therefore, there are only more than three troops deployed on the Qixia Mountain Fortress, and there are less than fifteen combat companies used for the front line.

Previously, Zhang Xuewu assigned a batch of gas masks to the teaching corps, and the teaching corps was equipped with German and Czech gas masks. However, after the bloody battle between the Songhu and the expansion of the troops, the gas masks were naturally insufficient. It was good that sixteen people in each strengthened combat squad could be equipped with gas masks, and it was already considered good that seven people were equipped with gas masks.

You should know that you should pay great attention to the storage of gas masks. In the fierce battle, the gas masks carried by soldiers are very easy to be damaged, causing them to lose their due effect.

Zhang Xuewu could only barely allocate a complete distribution of the First Mechanization Division, the temporary organization of the Rehe Legion headquarters, and the extra parts were also given to the Teaching Corps and the Seventy-Fourth Army headquarters, because the use of gas masks requires considerable training, and untrained soldiers can easily cause so-called suffocation.

Neither Zhang Xuewu nor Gui Yongqing were fully prepared for the large-scale release of poison gas in Nanjing. When the news was reported to Zhang Xuewu immediately, Zhang Xuewu felt a little shocked and immediately ordered all Air Force units to take off and raid the troops of Lieutenant General Kawaki Toshigashi, the 7th Field Heavy Artillery Brigade of the Japanese Army, who fought with the Taiwan Teng Detachment.

Faced with the worry of the strong smell of garlic and the light green fog, some officers and non-commissioned officers at the forefront of the Fifth Brigade Division of the well-trained Teaching Corps immediately handed over their gas masks to the machine gunners. Ensuring the firepower of the machine guns was equivalent to ensuring the safety of the position. Otherwise, the position would be lost and life would be difficult to survive. Moreover, the departments participating in the Nanjing Defense War are now holding their breath because the Nanjing Garrison Commander Zhang Xuewu hung the highest reward "Flying Tiger Flag" given to a unit by the Supreme Military Committee of the National Government!

Especially at the same time, the elite teaching corps, the elite teaching corps, has been breathing a sigh of relief with the temporary mechanization division of the Rehe Legion's headquarters these days. The temporary mechanization look of the world's best manipulative has deeply stimulated the officers and soldiers of the teaching corps.

Especially the temporary first mechanized division has achieved the military achievements of attacking and completely wiped out a Japanese infantry brigade. The officers and soldiers of the teaching corps, who have always only looked at people, felt a serious sense of crisis. After all, they have to wait for the final battle of defense in Nanjing to make a conclusion. The weapons and equipment of the temporary first mechanized division of the Rehe Legion are also jealous of the teaching corps. Especially after Zhang Xuewu added a large number of artillery and light and heavy automatic weapons to them, the officers and soldiers of the teaching corps always felt that they had taken the hand short, as if they were owing the love of the Rehe Legion.

The Japanese army spared no effort to capture Nanjing. Lieutenant General Hirohiko Asakamiya, after General Matsune Ishii, served as the commander of the dispatched army of the Zhong Branch and the commander-in-chief of the front enemy in Nanjing. The capture of Nanjing has become a common decision by the *** Empire government and the military headquarters.

On the second-tier positions such as Guanghua Gate, Zhonghua Gate, Yuhuatai, etc., the Chinese team firmly strengthened the established fortifications and on the front-tier positions, the Chinese defenders were actively preparing for the fierce and abnormal attacks on the Japanese army's Asakamiya Hirohiko.

The heavy artillery brigade of the Rehe Legion of the *** Army in Jiangbei plus the 10th artillery regiment of the Yanziji Fortress was enough to form absolute firepower against the Japanese attacking troops.

The effective killing radius of 150 mm high-explosive grenade is about 260 meters, and the effective killing of a 75-centimeter grenade is about 50 meters. Japanese soldiers braved the artillery fire of the Chinese defenders and attacked tenaciously. The bayonet was facing the bayonet. The mind of the Chinese people would definitely dare to face any danger.

However, the dense guns and cannons on three sides of Nanjing were already heard. The 10th Regiment of the Fifth Infantry Brigade of the tentative First Mechanized Division, which was defending its position in Niushoushan Fortress, braved the Japanese artillery fire everywhere, withstood the Japanese attacks one after another. Before Niushoushan Fortress, the Japanese army also abandoned their bodies.

Although Niushoushan Fortress is called the fortress in its name, its main fortifications are just civil fortifications built through surprise. Several main support groups of bunkers were also built using the ruins of the Ming army's military camp fort in the Ming Dynasty in the Ming Dynasty. Faced with the Japanese army's 150 mm heavy artillery firepower, the civil fortifications was extremely limited.

The Japanese direct aiming artillery fire could easily destroy the firepower points of the defenders on the edge peaks. The defenders' 75mm artillery group was also forced to frequently transfer positions under the threat of Japanese heavy howitzers. The fighter jets of the Chinese and Japanese armies who fought from time to time in the air pushed the battle to a climax.

From time to time, the shot down fighter planes rolled into the river or the ground with rolling black smoke, and white parachutes opened from time to time in the air.

The performance of these three fighters is only Hawk-3 and the Type 94 of the *** 95 fighter, and the performance of the other two fighters, especially the BF-109f fighter equipped by the Rehe Flying Tigers, has far exceeded that of the Japanese fighter, so the BF-109f, known as the Black Death God, has almost reached a state that makes Japanese Army and Navy Aviation Force pilots frightened.

When the Japanese fighter plane fled in panic, the observation balloons used to correct artillery fire that the Japanese army had not had time to put away were beaten into fire groups, and the Japanese observers on it were thrown into meat pie. The fighter planes of the Chinese Air Force, who were still unsatisfied, began to strafuse the Japanese attack formation. The panic lasted for more than ten minutes before the Japanese army began to concentrate machine guns to carry out air shooting.

Sun Guiming, who was in the command post of Niushoushan Fortress, looked very bad at this moment. From the early morning of the Japanese army launched a general attack to the present, the frontier troops have repelled the Japanese army's 27 more crazy attacks one after another.

The first and fourth battalions belonging to the 10th Frontier Regiment were filled in one after another. The frontier positions in Niushou Mountain were like a bottomless pit. A battle company filled in for more than ten, and it was exhausted in twenty minutes. One battalion could not last for two hours. The fourth battalion had only an hour and a half to reinforce, and then called the regiment headquarters to request reinforcements.

How can this continue? The consumption speed of this force is simply shocking! Especially after the Japanese army suffered heavy damage in the West Dero trenches, the Japanese army frantically adopted the artillery fire Xu Jin tactic, especially when the Chinese and Japanese armies were fighting together, the Japanese army used artillery fire to carry out indiscriminate artillery bombardment.
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