Chapter 206 When I fell down, the national flag was still flying

As the absolute main force of the Eleventh Infantry Brigade of the Sixth Division of the Japanese Army, Major General Tokutaro Sakai, the commander of the brigade, is in high spirits at this moment. The strengthened 13th Infantry Regiment and the 47th Infantry Regiment under his command are advancing in a neat line with a four-way column, except for a small number of reconnaissance cavalry. In addition, the troops in the march of the army seemed to be very relaxed. The team of more than 8,300 people were discharged for a few miles, and the relaxed state of the army was like coming to travel!

The bloody battle in Shanghai has ended. The Japanese army has suffered more than 50,000 casualties, while the [***] team has suffered at least 300,000 casualties, and many of the severely damaged troops are the elite German armed central army of the Chinese national political axe. If there is a war in Shanghai, I'm afraid that the Nanjing National Political Axe should surrender, right?

Sakai Tokutaro rides on the horse proudly. It can be said that the modernization of the army is far less than that of the navy. Even the armored division of the army basically relies on animal power to pull the horse. From the end of 1934, the Kwantung Army is ready to equip each division with an automatic fleet with 260 trucks, but Until the outbreak of the war, only ten divisions were equipped, and the Sixth Division was very honored to have an automatic fleet.

However, some people are happy and some people are naturally sad. The car has always been the main target of the China Army's attack, so another brigade of the 6th Division, that is, the 36th Infantry Brigade, the commander of the brigade, Major General Niu Daoman, took on the division's heavy supplies, automatic vehicle regiment, field hospitals and other trivial matters, and pushed forward with the main force. At this moment, we are still gathering in Zhenjiang!

In Sakai Tokutaro's opinion, when Niushima and nearly 19,000 people climbed to Nanjing, he had entered Nanjing proudly. What a glory it would be to capture the capital of China?

Tokutaro Sakai also hesitated repeatedly on the question of whether to wait for the main force of the division. He also asked Toshio Tani, the head of the division, on this question. The answer given by Toshio Tani made Tokutaro Sakai stunned and became extremely happy.

You should know that the 6th Division is an A-type division. The whole division is composed of the 11th Infantry Brigade and the 36th Infantry Brigade. The two brigades are respectively under the 13th Infantry Regiment, the 47th Infantry Regiment, the 23rd Infantry Regiment and the 45th Infantry Regiment respectively. In addition, it is assigned to the 6th Cavalry Wing, the 6th Field Artillery Wing, the 6th Engineers Wing, the 6th Light and Heavy Wing, the 6th Automatic Vehicle Link, the Communication Brigade, and the Field Hospital, with a total strength of more than 26,000 people.

It takes time to gather and supply the huge troops, and what Gu Shoufu and others lack is precisely time. The most important thing is that Gu Shoufu is not in a hurry to make contributions and only to send out the troops of a brigade, but that his ammunition supplies can barely maintain a brigade. Food and food can only be collected on the spot. Therefore, the 11th Infantry Brigade went all the way to Nanjing.

Can you even see many women in the army column of the Japanese army? These women were plundered by the Japanese army along the way for them to vent their animal desires. Often these women will be killed the next day. The burning of corpses is the most commonly used by the Japanese army, and the effect of destroying evidence is also the best and most direct way.

The 23rd Infantry Brigade of the 18th Division of the Japanese Army, Major General Ueno Guipu, the commander of the brigade, is also commanding his subordinates of the 55th Infantry Regiment and the 56th Infantry Regiment. They are going straight to Nanjing at night. There is a posture of entering Xianyang first as the king. The commander of the brigade, Ueno Guipu The major general stood in front of a Buick car with a posture of pointing out the country. According to the Japanese military standard configuration of the brigade commander level, there is no so-called car matching at all, only horses for use. This black Buick car was captured from the [***] team.

The two joint captains of his subordinates, Saburo Fujiyama, and Colonel Nofu Changde, are also in high spirits. Since the Battle of Shanghai, except after Jiangyin was blocked by the level of the Chinese army division, it can be said that it is a flat river, especially after passing Zhenjiang, there have been few sporadic attacks, or Perhaps the bloody battle in Shanghai has scared the timid and timid China people.

Although there is information that the Chinese army is preparing to hold on to Nanjing, most of the Chinese troops that participated in the Shanghai War have suffered at least one-third of the casualties. According to international practice, this means that a unit has been severely damaged. If more than two-thirds or three-fifths of the enemy is given casualties, it can It can also be used to give it a blow to annihilate or annihilate it.

Since the main force of the China Army was hit hard in the bloody battle in Shanghai, how much combat effectiveness can they have after the so-called remnants? Maybe the people's defense of Nanjing was just to make a look? In front of the chariots of the imperial army, the Chinese were only crushed.

Ueno Kamepu pointed to the distance in the night and said, "Fujiyama Jun, Ye Fujun! The emperor [***] is the most noble honor, and the dream of 2,000 years will be realized by us! The glory of the capital of Matachina will belong to His Majesty the Great Glory Emperor, the Imperial Army of the Empire, and our 18th Division. Order all troops to speed up their progress. I will apply for a medal for the troops under Nanjing first.

Fujiyama Saburo and Nofu Changde looked at each other and took a deep breath. Almost at the same time, they nodded and said, "I would like to serve His Majesty the Emperor. Long live His Majesty the Emperor!" Long live the Empire! Long live the imperial army!"

In the night, there was a burst of shouts of His Majesty the Emperor's long live, and the speed of the troops increased in an instant. Some officers and soldiers ran and fell straight to the ground, foaming and dying on the side of the road, and there were many tired soldiers.

For Major General Caochang Chenji, the commander of the 19th Infantry Brigade of the 16th Division, how can the capital of the China people be invaded by an impact? The fiasco of the battle of Chengde made the grass field Chenji very cautious. After all, Nanjing has much more urban defense and deep defense forces than the small Chengde. Thanks to Zhang Xuewu's isolation in Rehe, if Zhang Xuewu should be led to defend Nanjing? He couldn't even imagine what kind of painful experience the Imperial Army would experience again.

The 9th Infantry Regiment and the 20th Regiment of the 19th Infantry Brigade of the 16th Division did not advance as quickly as the 6th Division and the 18th Division. If they were not afraid of the anger of the division commander, Caochang Chenji was even ready to camp for the night.

The three-way army of the Japanese army made a rapid advance to Nanjing with the strength of a brigade, and Zhang Xuewu at this moment summoned all the officers above the company of the troops of the Nanjing Garrison Command to carry out the last general mobilization training of the Nanjing Defense War.

In the campus, Zhang Xuewu saluted the direction of the temporary first division and said loudly, "Brothers! Our brothers think that they have embarked on a journey. They will fight against the three divisions of the Japanese army for us, and let the Japanese invaders show me the power of China! Let's see what it means to be a bandit in the wild!"

Zhang Xuewu couldn't see the stage clearly in the night. Even if he lit a lot of torches, Zhang Xuewu looked around Gui Yongqing, Yu Jishi and others and said, "I have a dream, that is, to walk in the shade with my lover with my children in the shade, filial piety to parents, a cow in 30 mu of land, and a hot kang for my wife and children. This is my ideal. Maybe everyone will laugh at my simple ideal? I don't want to be a prince, I don't want to be a great minister, and I don't want to be famous in history! As soldiers, the general died in a hundred battles and returned the body of the horse leather! If I am a king and a marquis, if I am a great minister, if I am famous in history, how many white bones do I need to accumulate my glory? Everyone is raised by my mother's parents. I just want an ordinary life.

Zhang Xuewu paused for a moment and waved his fist and continued, "But it's such a small ideal that I don't want to give it to me now. They deliberately ignited the fire of war. They intend to destroy my China and destroy my race!" It is said that the bandit has burned, killed and plunder since the beginning of the war, and annihaled everything. For five thousand years in China, we have never been completely defeated by foreigners. We have not been, and we will never have them in the future. Maybe our weapons are not as good as those of the Kou, but our blood is hot. We still have flesh and blood. Nanjing is the former prime minister's. The place where the mausoleum is located, where the capital of the Republic of China is located, is absolutely not allowed to be involved in the army and beasts. You and I are soldiers. In the face of the invasion of the enemy, we know that guns and guns and guns are not as good as the enemy. If we are defeated repeatedly, we will fight again and again. The sacrifice has come to the last moment. Behind us is our father and relatives, and the front is at our feet. Who wants their relatives to be killed by themselves? Sister's wife and daughter were humiliated by Kou? Who wants to betray their ancestors and change their names to forget? Born in Si, born in Si, born in Si, we are going to die in Si today! My greatest wish is that when I fall, the red national flag behind me is still flying high. In the face of external humiliation and invasion, weapons and national strength are not as good as the enemy, it is the greatest glory of our soldiers to be able to die on our own land!"

Zhang Xuewu's voice is getting louder and louder: "I have brought all the coffins. Today, the whole army implements the company sitting method of our Rehe Legion. The squad leader retreats to kill the squad leader, the platoon leader retreats but kills the platoon leader, and the company commander retreats to kills the company commander. If the officers are killed, anyone can shoot me if I retreats! I will die in Nanjing if I don't win this battle. Let's encourage you! If Nanjing is lost, I will go to the ghost gate!"

Fight against the Japanese invaders! Bloody battle to the end! Fight to the last soldier! Vow to coexist with Nanjing!

In the shocking slogan! Zhang Xuewu looked at the generals with very serious expressions behind him. He was the first to go to a bright red national flag and solemnly wrote: Zhang Xuewu, the commander of the Nanjing gaffold, survived with Nanjing! People are in the city, and people are lost in the city! The generals standing behind Zhang Xuewu had no choice but to leave their names one after another, and the representatives of the divisions and brigades also came up to sign.

(to be continued)