On December 10, Japanese troops gathered in large numbers and simultaneously launched a fierce attack on Yuhuatai, Tongjimen, Guanghuamen, and the headquarters of the teaching corps retreating to the second peak of Purple Mountain.
The camera turned to Yuhuatai. On the morning of the 9th, the Japanese army stormed Yuhuatai with a regiment of troops. After suffering a disastrous failure, they mobilized another regiment to join the attack on Yuhuatai, and then stormed Yuhuatai again. In the afternoon, the 264th Brigade Brigadier Gao Zhisong personally led two battalions of the 528th Regiment to reinforce the Yuhuatai position. The Japanese army was repelled after losing six to seven hundred troops.
That morning, the Japanese army, eager to make an emergency landing on the Nanjing garrison, began strafing the Yuhuatai position with aircraft and artillery at seven o'clock. Suddenly, thick smoke billowed from the position, as if it was the end of the world.
The fierce bombing lasted for about half an hour. After half an hour, the Japanese army immediately sent two brigades to launch a fierce attack on Yuhuatai from both sides. Both sides suffered heavy casualties. Fortunately, the position was not lost and the position was still under the control of the officers and soldiers of the 88th Division. Hold on in your hand.
Even Sun Yuanliang ran back from the brothel in Confucius Temple to inspect the situation on the front line. Unfortunately, because the artillery position of the 88th Division was behind the mountain, it did not exert its due power and did not deal a devastating blow to the enemy.
Just before noon that day, Tang Shengzhi refused to answer Matsui Iwane's ultimatum and ordered artillery to bombard the Japanese positions in response. At the same time, the garrison commander ordered the troops in the city to build fortifications to prepare for the final street battle with the Japanese army.
On the same day, the fighting at Guanghua Gate intensified again. The garrison commander dispatched the 156th Division and part of the gendarmerie in the city to reinforce Guanghua Gate, and then used the 159th Division to control the vicinity of the Forbidden City of the Ming Dynasty to cope with the attack by the 156th Division. The 103rd Division, which was newly withdrawn from Zhenjiang to Nanjing, served as the garrison of the Zhongshan Gate city wall and was commanded by Gui Yongqing, the captain of the teaching corps.
Until sunset, the officers and soldiers of the 156th Division of the Guanghuamen garrison, under the command of Liu Xing, deputy commander of the Nanjing Garrison, organized death squads to burn all the Japanese troops who had curled up and sneaked into the city gate circle with grenades and gasoline. Burned to death, and then launched a fierce attack on Tongguang Barracks and expelled all Japanese troops here, and none of these death squad members returned alive.
It was precisely because of the sacrifices of these dozens of heroes that Guanghuamen and Tongjimen turned the corner.
However, on the same day, due to the fierce attack by the Japanese army, the right wing of the Yuhuatai position where the 88th Division was located was shaken at several key points in front of the position.
The 41st Division of the Second Army attacked the Japanese troops in the direction of Mengtang east of Nanjing, but the attack suffered setbacks and failed. At this point, the 41st Division and the 213th Regiment of the 36th Division began to retreat. and contain the troops.
At this point, the Nanjing Defense War has reached a more difficult and dangerous stage.
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On December 11, after the Japanese army failed to attack Guanghua Gate and Tongji Gate, they mobilized elite troops to attack Zhonghua Gate on that day.
Originally, there were defenders of the 88th Division outside Zhonghua Gate, but Japanese aircraft in small groups took turns bombing and strafing the positions outside Zhonghua Gate, making it impossible for the defenders of the 88th Division to gain a foothold here, so they were Forced to retreat into the city.
When the Japanese army saw this fighter plane, they immediately followed it. The defenders at the city gate immediately went into chaos. The ladders and city gates were unable to be evacuated in time. The Japanese army took the opportunity to rush in with more than 300 people.
Seeing that the situation was so critical, Luo Zhuoying, the deputy commander-in-chief of the Nanjing Garrison who was in charge of the Zhonghua Gate, came to the front line to direct the battle. The garrison troops and the Japanese troops fought fierce street battles in the Zhonghua Gate area, and finally killed all the Japanese troops who invaded the city. Only then did I have a chance to breathe.
The battle at the Zhonghua Gate made everyone sweat. If this place was breached, the city of Nanjing would be in danger.
The war at Zhonghua Gate was intense, and the news that it was almost destroyed by the Japanese army soon reached Song Xilian. In response, Song Xilian just sighed softly: "When Nanjing City is destroyed, it will be time for our 78th Army to enter the city. . Little Japan, just wait! I, Song Yinguo, and the Seventy-eighth Army will not surrender Nanjing to you in vain even if they die!"
Zhang Tianhai watched this scene silently without saying a word, and then quietly asked Liu Houming to go to the regiment headquarters in Xiaguan, and asked Guo Qiliang to be ready to assemble troops to enter the city at any time. Once he received the order, he must move as quickly as possible The kind that is concentrated!
At this time, there was no place in Nanjing that was not filled with the smell of sulfur, carbonic acid and gunpowder. Japanese planes were bombing indiscriminately in the sky all day long, and the Nationalist soldiers underground were on the verge of collapse. ——Everyone hopes that troops will come to the rescue, but there is not a single shot or a cannon in sight. The whole of Nanjing is full of despair, and these officers and soldiers have no hope of survival.
Many grassroots units have been wiped out, including the orders issued by the garrison commander's headquarters. On the surface, it seems that a corps or a division has moved up, but in fact there are only one battalion of soldiers left. At the same time, they have no artillery. , even the rifles are not matched.
From the hundreds of thousands of troops before the war, to the present, there are less than 80,000 left, and these are still 80,000 who are not fully equipped and were beaten to pieces by the Japanese army!
On this day, the Japanese troops on the eastern front stormed Purple Mountain, and also sent a detour to attack the area from Dashengguan to Jiangxinzhou, and fired at the side of the 74th Army in an attempt to outflank and siege the Nanjing defenders from the rear.
Judging from the map, the Nanjing defenders are already a lone army trapped in Nanjing. They have no support. They must defend until the city of Nanjing is broken, or even live or die with Nanjing!
Also at around two o'clock in the afternoon on this day, the left wing position of the 88th Division Yuhuatai was completely destroyed by the enemy. The enemy took advantage of the opportunity before the defenders of the 88th Division could fully react and broke through the Yuhuatai position and took charge. Zhu Chi, commander of the 262nd Brigade, and Gao Zhisong, commander of the 264th Brigade who were guarding Yuhuatai, quickly led their troops to drive away the Japanese troops, but the effect was not good.
"Old Zhu, it seems that we all have to be loyal to the country this time." Before the Japanese attack, Gao Zhisong hid in the trench and said to Zhu Chi. He was from Cenxi, Guangxi, and he usually said everything in his hometown. It's vernacular, so his Mandarin is not standard either.
"Who says otherwise? We are almost out of ammunition and food now. These little Japanese set up machine guns after occupying our positions. If we want to take back those positions, the price will be too high." said Then, Zhu Chi handed Gao Zhisong a cigarette.
Gao Zhisong took the cigarette and lit it with the burning stick next to him. He said: "Yes, we don't have much ammunition now, and foreign aid has been cut off. We are afraid that we will use these few remaining ammunition to fight back. We don’t have any strength left, so let’s just wait for the little Japanese to come up and then we can greet them. This way we can kill more people. As for our lives, let’s save our lives for hand-to-hand combat with the little Japanese!”
Gao Zhisong is not tall, and is even a little thin, but this does not affect his spirit of not being afraid of death and daring to die.
"Brother Zhisong, you are also from our Huangpu Phase III. From the Northern Expedition to the present, we have not died in the hands of our own people. It is an honor to die in the hands of the enemy." Zhu Chi He is from Xiushui, Jiangxi Province. When he applied for the military academy, he also came with the hope of changing the destiny of this country.
"Yes, many of our Huangpu classmates died in the Songhu and Nanjing battlefields, including our juniors, who also sacrificed a lot. Our Huangpu troops... are about to be wiped out..." Gao Zhisong said softly Sighed.
"Think on the bright side in everything. I hope our sacrifices are valuable. Our descendants can remember this great Patriotic War and remember that when the motherland was in poverty and poverty, there was a group of people who made sacrifices for the motherland." China and worked hard..." Zhu Chi said calmly.
"Let's hope, our China will not be destroyed. The people we protect with our lives will make our motherland stronger." As he said that, Gao Zhisong looked up to the sky and grinned, with his white teeth in the smoke-filled sky. Especially conspicuous in the battlefield.
If you want to get promoted and make a fortune, please go elsewhere. If you are greedy for life and afraid of death, don't come here. This sentence has never been empty words, but those who believe in this sentence will die quickly...
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PS: Another update. To be honest, when I wrote this update, Xiongying felt extremely heavy. This period of history is one that is slowly being forgotten by the world. What we need to remember is that these are the people who are in crisis in the country. The soldiers who stepped forward at the critical moment, not the current "national army".
Ahem, I said a bit too much.
