Chapter 230 The Blood-stained Niushou Mountain of Nanjing Defense War

"What?" Hearing that the army was going to give up the front position and the mountainside position, Guo Xiangfei, whose eyes were congested, turned over from the stretcher. Guo Xiangfei glared at Sun Guiming and roared, "Sun, all the brothers of my battalion have died in the position. When you were the brigade commander, you will move your mouth, and you will say withdraw as soon as your mouth is closed? How to withdraw? How do you let me face the brothers who died for the country? Sun Guiming! You must give me an explanation today. If you dare to take a step back as a bastard, I will never agree with the box gun in my hand.

Sun Guiming blushed and roared, "Guo Xiangfei! I said your uncle, let your mother fart. I took a step back and let me die. Who dares to take a step back up and down in the fifth brigade?

Guo Xiangfei stared at Sun Guiming with tears and shouted, "Then you can take us back!" It's a brigade! The remains of hundreds of brothers in my camp are still there! Didn't our Rehe Legion have an oath? Never give up, never give up? In Chengde's bloody battle, we didn't lose the bones of a brother!"

Sun Guiming suddenly stared and said, "Guo Xiangfei! Are you still a soldier? The loyal bones are buried everywhere in the green hills, but please return the shroud of Ma Ge! Where is the land that doesn't bury people? We died in the land of our motherland. As the commander said, when we died, the national flag behind us was still flying high. This is the highest honor and realm of you and our soldiers. Don't ignore the interests of the whole country for the sake of your own personal honor.

Guo Xiangfei, who was covered in blood, was lifted down and looked at the front position with the plaster flag in the distance. Guo Xiangfei burst into tears! Sun Guiming stood in the headquarters and looked at the staff who were packing up and preparing to enter the tunnel. The headquarters was planted with a hundred explosives with the surname of attack, an electric detonation device, and a lot of mines were planted nearby, which was a surprise for the Japanese army.

Without the two positions of the front and the mountainside, the main peak position of Niushou Mountain was soon blown up into a sea of fire by the heavy artillery of the Japanese army. The position on the top of the mountain was guard battalion of the fifth brigade. The officers and soldiers of the whole company resisted desperately under the leadership of the company commander Wang Guangde. However, the army's heavy artillery was too powerful, and the old fortifications a hundred years ago were fundamental. Unable to resist the fierce artillery bombardment of the Japanese army, Chinese soldiers braved the wanton shrapnel to resist the fierce attack of the Japanese army. Captain Wang Guangde and all one hundred and seventy-two people were martyred.

The extremely fast loss of the main peak position of Niushou Mountain was also greatly beyond Sun Guiming's expectation. In order to maintain the honor of the Rehe Legion, Sun Guiming placed the sharp knives of his most excellent guard battalion on the main peak position. According to Sun Guiming's estimation, the five battle companies of the guard battalion will persist at least until dawn tomorrow. In Sun Guiming's view, the Rehe Legion could not be the first army to lose its position.

As a result, the company he sent was destroyed in just 40 minutes, and Sun Guiming's favorite company commander, Wang Guangde, also died for the country.

It was obviously impossible to send troops to counterattack and recapture the position. In desperation, Sun Guiming immediately ordered all the troops to enter the tunnel. In the wet and cold tunnel, Sun Guiming looked at the rows of minor and serious wounded greetings one by one to check the injuries. Sun Guiming remembered that when digging these tunnels, he once Zhang Xuewu complained that the tunnel was too narrow to fit into his two groups at all.

At that time, Zhang Xuewu once reminded Sun Guiming to be vigilant about his military strength and firepower, because he said that I was no longer the Japanese army who lacked preparations for the attack and cold-proof clothes outside Chengde City. After four years of vigorous development and tasting gallbladder, they said The army's military strength of the empire has been greatly improved, and the military headquarters of the Japanese army has also realized the great role of heavy artillery and chariots in attack and defense.

It can be said that Sun Guiming is to completely underestimate the determination and preparation of the Japanese army's firepower and attack, but the land of Niushoushan bullets is indeed not suitable for defense, lacks depth configuration, and also lacks effective firepower suppression of the Japanese army's heavy artillery. Since the Japanese army launched the general attack, on the one hand, all the military fighters have been dispatched to fight for it. The air s control of the warring areas between the two sides in Nanjing, on the other hand, is caused by the inconspicuous bombing effect of the Chinese Air Force, the Flying Tigers and the Soviet Volunteer Air Force on the heavy artillery.

Ye Yunfei learned that all the troops of Niushoushan Fortress were about to withdraw into the tunnel, and he had no choice but to put down his telescopes. The fifth brigade of the grison command, plus the second teaching brigade, a group of wild artillery with 36 75mm wild cannons and a tor with 28 105mm howitzers. The artillery group, Jiangjunshan Fortress not only has a dangerous terrain, but also has a standardized construction of the main body, especially a large number of permanent trenches and fire support points, because Jiangjunshan Fortress, Qixiashan Fortress and Oolongshan Fortress are the model display sites of the Nanjing section when the Wufu Line was built at that time.

With the permanent fortifications of reinforced concrete as the main body and the field civil fortifications, the whole fortress fort completely eliminates the shooting dead corner, and the guard force is extremely sufficient. In particular, two 12-inch large-caliber naval guns dismantled from Jiangchu and other ships are installed in the A-shaped No. 1 and B-shaped No. These naval guns are Experienced naval personnel, the first landing of naval officers and soldiers to resist the enemy can be said to have high morale.

It can be said that the "dragon" in the Nanjing garrison fortress fort is the Oolongshan fort, the "lion" is the lion mountain fort, the "elephant" is the elephant mountain fort, and the "general" is the general mountain fort fortification fortress guard group with the four main support points. These four forts were then built by Zhang Xuewu's assault. A large number of anti-tank and anti-infantry trenches have been built, combined with the civil field fortification system, supplemented by heavy troops. In particular, Yanziji Fortress and Oolong Mountain, Zijin Mountain, etc. are all within the range of artillery fire. No matter whether the army concentrates its forces to attack any fortress, the defenders on the rest of the fortress fort can use artillery fire. Accurate support.

After capturing Niushou Mountain, the Japanese army tried to transport heavy artillery to the top of Niushou Mountain. As a result, it was bombarded by four 12-inch cannons and three high-explosive grenades on Fortress A and B1 Fortress of General Mountain, and two Type 38 150mm howitzers were also bombed into a pile of scrap iron.

However, the loss of heavy artillery is irrelevant to the commander of the 16th Division of the Japanese Army, which has damaged the five infantry brigades. The most important thing is that the Xuyu flag of the Imperial Army has been raised on the top of the top of Niushou Mountain. The 16th Division, as the Imperial Army, besieged many divisions and detachments in the capital of China. , the first of the reading mixed brigade to break through the defense line of the China garrison first, at least annihilate the troops of one division, and the honor of breaking through the Nanjing defense circle first will belong to the 16th Division.

Nakajima looked proudly at his chief of staff, Colonel Sanfu Nakazawa and said, "Mr. Nakazawa, please send a telegram to His Royal Highness Prince Hatohiko of the Imperial Palace. I said that the 16th Division of the Imperial Army took the lead in breaking through the absolute defense circle of Zhang Xuewu, the capital of China, Nanjing, and occupied Niushou Mountain. The warriors of the 16th Division are expanding their results!"

Colonel Sanfu Nakazawa, Chief of Staff of the 16th Division, was overjoyed and said, "Your Excellency, I'm afraid His Royal Highness Prince Hatohiko of Chaoxiang Palace will apply for a medal for you this time!"

Nakajima Jinwu said with a smile on his face, "Mr. Nakazawa, we are here for the great emperor to realize the unity of Greater East Asia. All the Asian forces that hinder us from realizing Asians are the enemies of our empire. Our enemies can only have one end in the end, that is, they will be completely eliminated. Zhang Xue Wu has some ability. It's a pity that it's not the cold Chengde here. The 16th Division has said that the imperial army is not what it used to be. Zhongzejun, look at it! In less than a week, the flag of the empire will be flying over Nanjing. Everything in Nanjing belongs to the great emperor [***] people, and everything in China!"

Nakazawa Sanfu was slightly stunned and said, "Sir, the decision of His Royal Highness Prince Hatohiko of the Imperial Palace is actually a little inappropriate. After all, His Royal Highness Prince Hatohiko of the Imperial Palace is a royal family. His proxy command is just a form and process. Is he really carrying out his order to lift military discipline? The consequences will be very serious, and the public lifting of military discipline in the capital of a country will be accompanied by a large number of annihances and robberies, which will have a great impact on the reputation of the emperor.

Nakajima Jinwu waved his hand indifferently and said, "The soldiers made sacrifices to win. As the victors, they have the right to dominate the defeated. This is the law of natural selection. As a victors, they naturally have the right to enjoy everything of the defeated. What are the women? Even if it's tens of thousands, what can it do? Zhongzejun, you have chosen a lot of beautiful China women along the way, as long as they are handled cleanly afterwards. After all, this is a war, and the death of soldiers in battle is normal. The death and injury of civilians can only be regarded as an accident!"

Since the division commander has such an indifferent tone and tone, Sano Nakazawa knew that it was inconvenient to say more, so he could only sigh helplessly. Individual looting and violations are normal in the war, because the nerves of soldiers wandering on the edge of death have always been extremely tense, so once released It's easy to do something out of the ordinary when it's loose. Such an example in war is really normal.

After receiving the report of Nakajima Jinwu, the commander of the 16th Division, the cloud on the face of Prince Hatohiko of the 16th Division finally dispersed. Prince Hatohiko of Asakamiya, with a smile, quickly stepped to the sand table and found the position of Niushou Mountain in front of the sand table with a baton. It can be said that from the early morning of yesterday to now, Hatohiko of Chaoxiang Palace The sand table has been almost printed in my mind.

The important surname of Niushoushan is naturally self-evident. The six divisions besieged Nanjing, one detachment, three heavy artillery brigades, two reading wild artillery detachments, and three chariot regiments, all the troops suffered huge losses and made no progress. Chaoxiang Gong Jiuyan himself was also anxious.

(to be continued)