Chapter 235: The passionate blood of the Nanjing defense war (I)

After discovering the tactics that the Chinese team must defend in an inch of land, Huozhou Libing immediately decided to repeatedly fight the Chinese defenders on the external positions, attracting all the living forces of the Chinese team's defenders. After all, the terrain of the main peak position is extremely unfavorable to the Japanese army. Relatively speaking, the terrain of the outer positions is relatively beneficial to the Japanese army. Although it is within the range of the Chinese gun, it is also within the range of the Japanese gun.

The Chinese artillery occupying high places originally had a certain advantage over the Japanese artillery, so the mountain artillery corps of the 13th Division of the Japanese army seemed very cautious and stayed outside the range of the 105mm howitzer group of the Chinese defenders. Its artillery did not occupy the advantageous firepower, so Huozhou Libing decided to repeatedly compete with the Chinese defenders for the peripheral positions.

Gui Yongqing stood in the underground command center of Qixia Mountain. His frown showed no sign of letting go. The Japanese army's entanglement and counterattack on the outside positions caused serious casualties in the teaching corps. A battalion's troops were filled in and they were all wiped out in two hours. Such a speed of consumption of troops shocked Gui Yongqing.

Gui Yongqing pulled up the small flag on the sand table on the front line, hesitated for a while and then inserted it back, because Zhang Xuewu had asked him to guard for more than fifteen days before he could give up the outer position. Because the deep defense system of Nanjing City seemed to be very large, in fact, the defenders had given up the key positions on the outside line. Now the defenders are defending the city wall positions, and it can be said that the defenders are almost indecisive to retreat.

If Qixia Mountain Fortress is lost, then Zijin Mountain Fortress, Wulong Mountain Fortress and Yanziji Fortress will be directly exposed to the attack of the Japanese army. Gui Yongqing naturally knows the importance of Qixia Mountain Fortress. Otherwise, as the captain of the teaching corps, Gui Yongqing would not have to take the risk of arriving at the front line in person.

Colonel Fanmami Aki of the Japanese chariot brigade, who was attacking by the 13th Division, looked at the infantry outside the car with a solemn expression and said disdainfully: "What's wrong! What are you cowards afraid of? When did the Great *** Imperial Army fear the enemy's bullets? Facing the bullets and using your chest to resist the enemy's sharp bayonets! The Great *** Imperial Army is invincible!"

An infantryman named Nakasa was also very angry at the fact that Miaki Bamasaki was standing and talking without a pain in his back, so he confronted him: "Your Excellency Colonel is said lightly. An infantry brigade full of people attacked the defense line of the ***, and one fifth of its troops would be lost in one attack. You are all huddled in the iron shell, but you have to use your body to block bullets for you? We are all equal in front of the enemy's shells, and death is extremely fair to anyone!"

Fan Masaki slapped the turret proudly and said, "How could it be fair? Even if we chariot soldiers die, they will die in this expensive coffin of 160,000 yen, and you are sent back to the local area in a square wooden box."

After the vehicle was preheated, the ten Type 95 chariots and three *** chariots commanded by Miaki Masashi began to guide the infantry to attack.

Amid the rumbling artillery fire, explosion flashes and smoke rose from the periphery of the Chinese defenders, and the 75-mm field artillery groups and 105-mm howitzers in the fortress were also bombarding the Japanese infantry's attack.

A high-explosive bomb of a 105-mm howitzer that flew by, accurately hit a moving Type 95 light chariot. The Japanese chariot, which was head-on by a sledgehammer, almost jumped up on the spot. The riveted turret was torn apart, and the orange-red flames rushed out of the gap.

After all the two tracks of the Japanese chariot were broken, they still ran seven or eight meters away under the action of inertia. The broken track made a harsh creaking sound. The Japanese infantry following the chariot was swept down by shrapnel flying from high-explosive grenades. A Japanese soldier with his broken legs was howling with his broken legs.

A Japanese soldier with blood on his face was looking for his broken arm in the constant explosion of artillery shells and bullets, with a confused and numb look on his face. The Japanese artillery fire was also bombarding the defenders' external positions at this moment. It can be said that the teaching corps killed 3,000 enemies and suffered 800 damage to themselves, and the cruel battle was going on fiercely.

When the Japanese chariots rushed into the defending positions of the Fifth Brigade of the Teaching Corps along the anti-tank trenches that had been destroyed. The 37mm war defense artillery of the Teaching Corps was deployed on the second line. The 37mm war defense artillery of the German-made RPK began to accurately shoot the Japanese chariots. After the Japanese 95 chariots were hit continuously and became bonfires, the remaining Japanese chariots began to reverse gears one after another. The Chinese defending officers and soldiers of the 5th Brigade of the Teaching Corps began to take the opportunity to launch attacks on the Japanese chariots with cluster grenades, while the Japanese army attacked the defending positions began to desperately cover the chariots.

The turrets and machine guns on the Japanese chariots were shooting aimlessly and crazy. The Chinese defenders who assaulted the Japanese chariots were hit by the Japanese chariots, and blood mist splashed out from their bodies. If they failed to attack in one attack, they continued to drop bombs from the flanks. The Chinese soldiers knew very well that if these Japanese chariots that broke into the positions were not eliminated, the positions would be difficult to defend.

The teaching corps does not have the third-level anti-tank firepower of the Rehe Legion, so they can only dispatch suicide squads under the cover of the RPK 37mm war defense artillery to cooperate in attacking the Japanese tanks. Otherwise, the war defense artillery with fixed artillery positions will not have an advantage in the continuous combat with the tanks.

The advantage of war defense artillery is its concealment and suddenness, but once war defense artillery fires, its smoke will undoubtedly expose its position.

Chinese soldiers first used Czech-made zb-26 light machine guns to strafuse the Japanese chariots with steel core bullets. Several groups cooperated to disperse the Japanese soldiers who were covering the Japanese chariots. The Type 95 light chariots equipped by the Japanese army used narrow tracks 25 cm wide, so only two or three German-made Type 24 wooden handle grenades can blow off the tracks of the chariots. If a five-kilogram explosive pack is used, the entire chariot can be overturned to the ground.

All thirteen Japanese tanks attacking the Chinese defending positions were blown up or destroyed by Chinese soldiers. Colonel Fanmami Aki died as he wished in his expensive coffin of 160,000 yen. The burning flames burned Fanmami Aki and his crew members to unrecognizable, leaving a small piece of corpse like charcoal.

Although the Chinese defenders, who were absolutely weak in military force, tried their best to resist the Japanese army, in the end, one of the remaining barracks of the defenders was exhausted, the Japanese artillery fire began to extend their strength, and the Japanese soldiers who occupied the outer positions began to strengthen their positions frantically. They even built the bodies of the officers and soldiers who died in the two armies into the fortifications, because the Japanese soldiers knew that the Chinese defenders were about to launch a counterattack soon, because as the teaching corps of the elite and basic Chinese team, they seemed to have a special persistence in the frontier positions. If they could consume a large amount of vitality and mobility power of the Chinese defenders in the outer positions, it would inevitably reduce the difficulty of the troops attacking the main peak position of Qixia Mountain.

After the position changed hands, Gui Yongqing hesitated and picked up the phone and connected Zhang Xuewu's dedicated line. Gui Yongqing was a famous general in the Central Army. The teaching corps in charge were also the basic cadre of the ***. It was called the army in the army and was the only unit equipped in full accordance with the German standard infantry division.

Now Gui Yongqing is complaining repeatedly, and Zhang Xuewu is really unable to withstand it, but the war is not enough, and Niushou Mountain's defensive forces have retreated into the tunnel. Although they cooperated with the General Mountain Fortress to repel the Japanese attack, the Fifth Brigade has suffered more than half of the casualties, especially when competing for the external position, the Fifth Brigade lost a large amount of troops.

The teaching corps was the *** of Gui Yongqing and even the ***. Isn’t it the tentative first division the *** of Zhang Xuewu? I gave up the battle for external positions and stick to the key points? Zhang Xuewu was also hesitating. Nanjing City said it was big, but Xiao Qi did not have so much tactical space for him to squander.

Gui Yongqing also knew Zhang Xuewu's concerns and hesitation. Giving up the positions around the key points less than two days after the war started was equivalent to putting the Japanese army into the city wall position, so the Japanese army could march straight into the front line of Zijin Mountain, which was undoubtedly bad news for defending Nanjing.

If this continues, defending Nanjing for two months will not only become an empty talk, but may not be able to defend even for half a month. Zhang Xuewu took a deep breath and said to Gui Yongqing: "Order the defenders on the outer positions of Qixia Mountain to retreat at least the second line and the main peak positions, use artillery fire to block the necessary routes for the Japanese army to attack Zijin Mountain, and frequently use small troops to attack from the flanks, restrain the main forces of the Japanese army, so that they dare not go deep into the attacks of Zijin Mountain, Wulong Mountain, Yanziji and other places."

Gui Yongqing also knew that Zhang Xuewu gave him a great favor, and this kind of favor could only be once. Zhang Xuewu took a deep breath and said to Gui Yongqing: "Captain Gui, the Central Committee has now completely given up the wrong idea of ​​preparing to go to war with the people. Before, our goal of keeping a low profile was to paralyze the people, but it was a pity that the people did not give us too much time, so Chairman Jiang instructed us to be determined to take a gamble, and sacrifice everything to fight three or four years of defeat in isolation and helplessness, consuming the people's aura and strategic reserves.
Chapter completed!