249 The Battle of Nanjing to Defend the City Wall 2

Now the two temporary reading brigades under my command can't be reinforced? While Zhang Lingfu was anxious, he did not act recklessly, because it has been almost two hours since he received the order to reinforce the headquarters of the 15th Division and the Ozone Division along the Qinhuai River. The battle situation on the front line is likely to have changed significantly. It is said that the purpose of the military heavy artillery is likely to stop his own side. Reinforcement.

Obviously, it was too late to ask Zhang Xuewu for instructions again. Zhang Lingfu decided to accept the foreign military order and spread the troops of the two brigades along the second-line positions outside the city wall with residential houses, preparing to block the Japanese troops that broke through along the Qinhuai River and cover the follow-up troops to occupy the front-line city wall of the Chinese Gate.

Zhang Lingfu's judgment is extremely correct, because at this moment, a part of the Sixth Division of the Japanese Army is fiercely killing Zhonghuamen with the cooperation of more than 20 chariots! If Zhang Lingfu did not choose defense but forcibly blocked the area through the Japanese artillery, he would probably have been defeated by the Japanese army at this moment. You should know that the field ability of Chinese soldiers is far from that of the Japanese army, and the defense is barely competent. If it is a field battle, it is difficult to win against the well-trained Japanese army.

If Zhang Lingfu's reinforcements are defeated, then the 88th Division of Yuhuatai will fall into the danger of being attacked by the enemy. Therefore, Zhang Lingfu organized troops to rely on the residential streets and city fortifications to resist, and constantly launched local small-scale counterattacks, exchanging human lives for time, and delayed to the reinforcements. Arrived.

After receiving Zhang Lingfu's letter of help, Zhang Xuewu immediately came to the sand table. He chose to let the mechanized brigade carry out an assault from the direction of Wulong Mountain and Zijin Mountain to give support to Gui Yongqing, who was firmly guarding the Qixia Mountain Fortress. Now it seems that this attack may be difficult to implement.

Zhang Xuewu finally decided to cancel this attack and divide all 49 jackal light tanks and 67 hound armored vehicles that can be put into battle into five assault clusters, respectively assigned to all directions of Nanjing, for counter-assaults against the Japanese army's breakthrough troops.

And the heavy artillery brigade in Jiangbei was turned to zero, and the Japanese army was shelled in a fast-running way with cold artillery tactics. Except for the two brigades of the 103rd Division of Gui Yongqing in Qixia Mountain and the troops of two brigades and two regiments on the General Mountain Fortress and the fifth brigade in the tunnel of Niushou Mountain could not retreat. The rest of the ministries began to cooperate to retreat to the city wall position and prepare for the last fight.

The two brigades under the command of Zhang Lingfu, who defended the city wall without retreating, successively destroyed nine Japanese Army Type 95 light chariots with 20 anti-tank rifles. The destroyed Japanese Army chariots even ignited a blazing fire. In the face of the anti-war vehicle rifles equipped by Zhong [***], the Japanese army was helpless and the only thing to do was to do. The method is to call for support artillery, and carry out artillery bombardment to destroy the stubborn houses and street forts in China.

Zhang Lingfu's temporary reading first brigade and the second temporary reading brigade are formed from the advance column of the Sichuan army and the Guangxi army respectively. Although a certain number of weapons and equipment have been added to them, their combat effectiveness is still a little worse than that of the direct troops of the Central Army.

The military discipline of the Guangxi troops in Guangxi is still good, while the Sichuan army is a little careless, which makes Zhang Lingfu, who was born in the Yulin Army, very uncomfortable. It can be said that the whole Nanjing, which can enter Zhang Lingfu's eyes, except for the Rehe Army, is the teaching team.

However, today's bloody battle of the city wall made Zhang Lingfu look at the Sichuan army with new eyes. Those seemingly weak soldiers were still wearing tattered military uniforms, wearing a brand-new cotton vest, holding explosive bags or holding explosive tubes produced by Rehe, as if they were going to die. The soldiers generally rushed to the military chariots and the most densely populated places without hesitation.

Some Sichuan soldiers with hand grenades jumped straight into the Japanese army crowd from the upstairs by the roadside and detonated the grenades on their bodies. In the hoarse explosion, the narrow streets were full of limbs and broken arms, and even intestines hung on the hot barrel of the Type 95 chariot, making a buzzing barbecue sound.

The generosity of Sichuan officers and soldiers made the troops of the Sixth Division of the Japanese Army like a frightened bird, like grass and trees everywhere. The chariot turned the turret and shot at the houses on the roadside to prevent the thin Chinese soldiers from suddenly rushing out.

"I'm not as good as the turtle's son, but there is only one life for one person! It's worth it to trade a life for one life!" The Sichuan army faithfully fulfilled their vows to go to the Sichuan Anti-Japanese War with their own blood and lives.

The blood of the soldiers of the Sichuan army made Zhang Lingfu excited, but he soon found that there seemed to be a lack of effective coordination and contact between the various departments of the Sichuan army? It seems that this army was put together not long ago? Although they are all experienced veterans, there are few coordinated tactics.

Zhang Lingfu didn't know that more than 4,000 officers and soldiers of the Sichuan army's advance team were recruited from the whole Sichuan army. Before leaving, they took a three-day vacation. The 50 yuan of soldiers and 100 yuan of the official's house expenses had been paid. Liu Xiang meant to let this Sichuan army advance team play the power of the Sichuan army. Well, such a force composed of veterans is naturally not tactically coordinated.

Zhang Lingfu quickly learned from the documents on the body of the Japanese army captain and officer who was killed that the Japanese army was attacking crazily in the direction of Zhonghuamen was the 47th Infantry Regiment of the 11th Infantry Brigade of the 6th Division.

What makes Zhang Lingfu very strange is that the two infantry regiments of the 11th Infantry Brigade under the 6th Division of the Japanese Army have long been killed by Zhang Xuewu's mechanized brigade of the temporary No. 1 Mechanization Division? Xiao Yi was really shameless, and his front foot was completely annibalmed. This time it was added again?

After a while, several Japanese soldiers captured in the street battle were sent to Zhang Lingfu. These Japanese soldiers' behaviors were a little different from those of ordinary Japanese soldiers, and they often shouted some words that seemed to be inexplicable?

Zhang Lingfu immediately sent people to conduct a screening, and then figured out that this batch of Japanese troops was actually transferred from the Pyongyang garrison of its Korean army. Half a month ago, they were shipped to Shanghai to reorganize the 47th Infantry Regiment, which was composed of the Korean imperial people. When they learned that these prisoners were the so-called Korean imperial people. Zhang Lingfu waved his hand and said, "Disposal of it according to Commander Zhang's previous orders. It's disgusting to see these things without bones, ancestors and personality!"

It is said that since the beginning of the Shanghai War, the territory I have passed has basically flowed into a river of blood. It has not been new for the army to slaughter the city and destroy the town for a long time. Nanjing has fought so fiercely that when the prisoners fall into the hands of the Japanese army, I am afraid that they will die extremely miserably. The day before yesterday, a soldier who was plundered by the Japanese army was burned alive with gasoline in front of the Japanese army's position. The same is true of the officers and soldiers at all levels of the Chinese garrison, who are all killed.

In fact, the order not to leave prisoners was issued by Zhang Xuewu, because at this moment, the officers and soldiers are all neuroticians cultivated by the erosion and infiltration of the samurai spirit. I'm afraid no one knows how difficult it is to transport and manage these prisoners. How to use the human resources of the fee? That's an impossible task.

If the war continues for three or five years, after a large number of prisoners, Zhang Xuewu will consider using the human resources of a large number of Japanese prisoners, because the overall quality of the officers and soldiers at that time began to decline significantly. In 1937, there was no case of the active surrender of the soldiers, even prisoners. It was difficult to capture the captives, and in the Chinese battlefield in 1942, they surrendered and were captured, and even Japanese soldiers took the initiative to help disintegrate the Japanese army to do propaganda work.

Zhang Lingfu's death guard made Koichi Kitada, the captain of the newbu bing's 47th Wing, very angry. The 47th Infantry Regiment is now carrying a great shame. Naturally, Koichi Kida is extremely dissatisfied with his promotion to the commander of such a unit.

The 47th Infantry Regiment is a force that has burned the flag of the wing. If all the sacrifices in a simple attack, it is a noble Wuxun, and the whole army is destroyed by the other side and burned the flag, it is another matter.

Before His Majesty the Emperor re-issued the flag of the wing, the 47th Infantry Regiment did not exist at all. No matter who served as the captain of such a force, he could not be happy.

Nearly half of a large group of chariots have been destroyed. Once the chariots are destroyed in the narrow streets, they will block the streets, and Chinese soldiers will take advantage of their familiar terrain to penetrate from both sides. There are terrible bullets flying everywhere. If you don't pay attention, you may be a grenade with smoke coming out at your feet.

And Hiroshi Kitada is very dissatisfied with the combat effectiveness of the newly formed 47th Infantry Regiment, because most of the non-commissioned officers and officers transferred are reservists who have not been trained for a long time, and the soldiers are North Korean soldiers drawn from the North Korean army. Although these North Korean emperors wear imperial clothes and Pu There is not much difference between the emperor [***] people, but his fighting quality and will are far inferior to those of the emperor [***] people.

The blocked infantry 47th wing can only compete with each house or street bit by bit. Every time he looks at his clumsy subordinates being knocked down by machine guns, Kida Koichi has a feeling of going crazy.

But madness can't solve the problem. Hiroshi Kitada applied to the division to dispatch a squadron of wild artillery to implement tactical guidance.

The Sixth Field Artillery Regiment is also very dissatisfied with the request of the 47th Infantry Regiment, because it is a very dangerous thing to implement fire support, because the shield of the Type 38 75mm field gun is only five millimeters thick. At a distance of 200 meters, the steel core ammunition equipped in [***] is It can be effectively penetrated.

(to be continued)