Chapter 251 The Last Counterattack of Nanjing Defense War on

Zhang Lingfu has never fought such a suffocated war. The two wings of the Japanese army surround the attacking troops to cooperate with the frontal enemy in three ways. With the firepower of his two temporary reading brigades, he could not compete with the Japanese army at all. The Japanese army's 75mm wild cannons were pushed within 100 meters for forward shooting, plus the rampage. In the military chariot, the whole situation immediately turned sharply.

Not to mention the huge casualties of the army, he was also followed by the Japanese army. Zhang Lingfu wanted to rectify the army and reorganize the defense several times, but it was a pity that he did not give him this opportunity at all.

Niu Dao's full tail follower launched a rapid attack, and once put aside the front of the 47th wing of the infantry, because the middle [***] has been in a state of collapse. As long as you seize the opportunity and don't give the other party time to rectify, you can easily follow this force to attack Xishuimen, Zhonghuamen, The front line of Guanghua Gate, especially the Zhonghua Gate during this period, as long as it can break through the city wall defense and enter the real stage of street battle, then the capture of Nanjing is just around the corner.

Just as Niu Daoman commanded his 36th Infantry Brigade and cooperated with the 47th Wing of the 11th Infantry Regiment, following Zhang Lingfu's attack, the two armored assault groups commanded by Qiu Qingquan and the counterattack forces of up to five brigades had reached the front lines of Zhonghuamen and Guanghuamen respectively, and the other two assault sets. The group set out from the Xiaoling Guard of Zijin Mountain, recaptured the lost engineering school at night, and attacked in the direction of Qixia Mountain, and retreated back to the urban area in response to the remnants of the 103rd Division of Gui Yongqing's teaching team.

Due to the loss of air sizing power, Zhang Xuewu could only be forced to give up part of the outer positions to shrink his troops to prepare for a street battle. The nearly month of the battle for the outer positions made the elite main forces guarding Nanjing suffer to varying degrees, including the eighth to defend Yuhuatai. The 18th Division and the 36th Division, which guarded the Zijinshan defense line, are the heaviest. Qixia Mountain, which Gui Yongqing's command of the teaching team, has reached the end of the crossbow. Zhang Xuewu's plan is to hold on to Nanjing for three months, but in fact, even he himself does not think it is feasible to hold for three months, because the strength he has not enough to target the south. Beijing launched a periphery battle.

So at the beginning of the Battle of Nanjing, he took the outer line of Nanjing's city wall as the key point of repeated competition with the Japanese army. In fact, Zhang Xuewu did not place his hope on the counterattack of the main force of [***]. He also made the same wishful thinking mistake as Chiang Kai-shek, that is, to place some of his hopes on the directness of the Soviet Union. Send troops.

Zhang Xuewu once read the decrypted archives of later generations. At that time, among all countries in the world, the Soviet political axe was the only country that expressed its willingness to actively support China's anti-Japanese war.

Before the Battle of Nanjing in history, Marshal Voroshilov, an important figure of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, secretly said to the delegation during the visit in Moscow that when China's Anti-Japanese War reached the critical moment of life and death, the Soviet government axe sent troops and would never sit idly by.

To this end, Chiang Kai-shek called Voroshilov and Stalin to express his gratitude, hoping that the Soviet political axe could give more help. At a time when China's political axe has now exhausted its last and greatest strength for national survival and international obligations, [***] The main force has had to retreat to Nanjing, the capital of the country, only waiting for the friendly Soviet Union. With the support of strength, I hope that the Soviet political axe will make a decisive decision, revitalise the teacher with righteousness, and help China in deep trouble.

And the Soviet Union also gave a lot of assistance to Zhang Xuewu's Rehe, and even sent some technical arms into Rehe to help them resist the attack of the Japanese army. These actions made Zhang Xuewu also think that if he could hold on to Nanjing for two months, the Soviet political axe might come out. Now that troops are sent directly to help China, will the whole pattern of World War II also change dramatically? However, Zhang Xuewu is a little disappointed at this moment, because in addition to increasing aid, the Soviet side has almost no sign of sending troops directly from the Far East, except for increasing aid.

Moreover, nearly 300 fighters of the second batch of Soviet volunteers to aid China are all close to Rehe to participate in the war, which shows that the Soviets care about Rehe, a strategic buffer that can contain a large number of Japanese troops, not for the purpose of completely helping China's anti-Japanese war. Zhang Xuewu also realized that the Soviet Union sent troops directly. Maybe the surname is so insignificant.

Since the Soviets did not send troops, there was no need for Zhang Xuewu to consume a large number of reserve troops to repeatedly compete with the Japanese army for the outer front positions of the city wall, constantly attract the Japanese army with the inner front positions of the city wall, and use the large-scale killing of the Japanese army in street battles to reduce the advantages of the Japanese army in terms of ground and air firepower and give full play to their own side. Advantages in light weapons and anti-tank weapons.

Therefore, Zhang Xuewu was determined to launch a large-scale counterattack, so that the garrison outside the city gave up the meaningless competition, and contracted the defense line to the city wall positions along the Zhonghua Gate, Guanghua Gate and Xishuimen in Zijin Mountain, and used a large number of fortifications such as the city walls and street forts in the city.

However, Zhang Xuewu's abandonment is also selective. For example, the Oolongshan Fortress and the Swallowji Fort are all deployed to the troops of the whole division to compete with the Japanese army repeatedly.

Take a city to kill the city! Zhang Xuewu has determined to turn Nanjing City into the tomb of the Japanese army. Since the fall of Nanjing may be inevitable, a complete establishment will not be left to the enemy. He uses many solid buildings in the city as key points to repeatedly compete with the Japanese army. He defends during the day and sends counterattack troops at night to restore the lost positions during the day.

Liang Baohua is the colonel commander of the strategic artillery unit of the Rehe Army. Liang Baohua is a seventh graduate of the artillery department of the Central Army Military Academy. He once went to Germany for further study. After graduation, he returned to China and was awarded the rank of lieutenant colonel. As a result, he did not see the heavy artillery on the left and the right did not see the heavy artillery. In a hurry, Liang Baohua spent all his savings to dredge in the military and political department. To the hot river.

As a result, he was promoted to the ground as soon as he arrived at Rehe. Liang Baohua was from Hunan. As a soldier, he could not stand this kind of incompetence. However, in order to be the commander of the sixth regiment of the strategic artillery, he also accepted it. Originally, he was prepared to be equipped with 150mm large-caliber heavy howitzers. As a result, due to The hail rocket launcher was lined up in advance, and the number of Liang Baohua's heavy artillery regiment was directly cancelled and changed to the first mobile artillery regiment. For this reason, Liang Baohua was not happy and sulked for a few days.

After receiving the equipment, after the first regimental fire attack at the Baotou shooting range, Liang Baohua loved these babies who made a harsh roar. He was extremely proud of his ability to go to Nanjing Liang Baohua at that time, because the provisional first mechanized division was nearly 200,000 carefully selected troops of the Rehe Army. Among them, the absolute elite main force, the selected officers and soldiers need to have certain standards for their height and professionalism.

At that time, many defeated officers and soldiers were jealous and called it a beauty pageant. You know, it was entering Nanjing! In the golden powder land of the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, Nanjing's fat powder is the most fragrant. It's not like the soldiers everywhere in the hot river. Even if you occasionally meet a girl, you will blush!

At that time, the only army that entered Nanjing without a standard formation was the first regiment of mobile artillery. Liang Baohua was so angry at that time that he almost went to the sky. As a result, Liang Baohua's regiment, who didn't know why, did not catch the Chinese soldiers at all, nor was he received by Chairman Jiang and the military and political officers. Even entering the city was The city was covered with canvas in the middle of the night.

The Nanjing War has been fought for a full month. As a result, the first regiment of mobile artillery has not fired a single shot. Liang Baohua was so angry that he couldn't sleep in the middle of the night. His mouth was full of bubbles and couldn't eat anything. Several invitations were driven back, and the whole regiment could only sigh in the underground fortifications of the stop horse camp.

Liang Baohua is not convinced at all. The 6th regiment of the original strategic artillery for training is also one of the twelve regiments. Now Nanjing has reached a critical juncture. The battle of the city wall is in full swing. Almost all the reserve teams in the city have gone up, and even the gendarmerie regiments of the general reserve have invested two, stunned. It's not as his first regiment of mobile artillery.

Liang Baohua has figured it out that if Nanjing lost his artillery regiment, he would directly raise his gun and kill himself, and Cheng Ren was martyred!

As a result, in the evening, Liang Baohua received a call from Zhang Xuewu. Zhang Xuewu directly ordered Liang Baohua to shoot me twice at the set ruler target area outside the Chinese Gate within 20 minutes!

Liang Baohua didn't even think about it. He directly patted his chest to ensure that he would resolutely complete the task. The first regiment of mobile artillery, which held a breath, maneuvered to the predetermined launch position in the rumbling of gunfire on all sides of Nanjing City. The standard operation time for manual loading of the hailed 105mm 48 rocket launcher was 32 minutes. Rehe The Corps Artillery Joint Command shortened this time to 28 minutes, but in actual training, the Chinese artillery once again shortened this time to 14 minutes. You should know that every minute is very important for the artillery. In artillery warfare, it means reducing the possibility of enemy discovery and accelerating the department. Team transfer speed.

Liang Baohua took off his arms and stood on a rocket launcher. He looked at the 286 people of the whole regiment and said, "Mr. Zhang said that this war is related to the survival of the country and national freedom. We are the killers hidden in Nanjing. Tonight, we want those two-legged beasts to know what mobile artillery is and what it is. Rocket cannon! It's better to die than to be a subjugated slave! Born in the whole country, dead in Nanjing! The troops listened to my order to launch each cannon for 30 minutes and three shots! Let's show off our military power! Revitalize the soul of our army!"

Sun Guiming, who guarded the tunnel of Niushou Mountain, gathered nearly a thousand people, pushed away several hidden exits, waited for the shelling of the Jiangbei Heavy Artillery Brigade at night, and then counterattacked the main peak of Niushou Mountain. The water in the tunnel had been cut off for two days, and the officers and soldiers could not even drink urine. People could hold on for seven days if they didn't eat, but they didn't drink. The water could only last for 72 hours. Sun Guiming was forced to finally ask Zhang Xuewu for artillery support. With the remnants, he counterattacked the main peak occupied by the Japanese army, attracting the attention of the Japanese army and mobile troops, and covering the general Shan Ye Yunfei's breakthrough.

Sun Guiming directly said to Zhang Xuewu by telegram that the fifth brigade was the elite of Rehe. He must not die in the tunnel with aggrieved thirst. If he wanted to die, he had to face the gun of the Japanese army. The only requirement was that the commander of the army gave a heavy artillery as a cover.

Zhang Xuewu agreed to Sun Guiming's combat plan. Niushoushan's tunnel defense battle was planned by him, and he also sent Sun Guiming and nearly 6,000 subordinates into a desperate situation. Now these subordinates for Guo Chengren only asked to concentrate artillery fire to counterattack the Japanese army in order to die decently. Zhang, the supreme commander, The eyes of learning martial arts were unconsciously blurred at this moment.

Zhang Xuewu ordered the Wulongshan Fortress, Yanziji Fortress, Jiangbei Artillery Group, the artillery battalions of each brigade and division, and all mortars of which are more than 60 mm caliber, to carry out a fierce shelling of the enemy in front of them for an hour at 19:00 p.m. on June 25, 1937, and cooperate with the main force to attack in an all-round way.

It is very dangerous to use all the large-caliber artillery to counterattack the Japanese army without control. However, compared with the German-made 350mm heavy field howitzer of the German-made 32-caliber Rhine Metal Company's 150mm heavy field howitzer, its range can only be sad. To describe, Zhang Xuewu also planned to take the opportunity to find the heavy artillery firing position of the Japanese army, give it a heavy hit, and reduce its threat to our army in street battles.

Zhang Xuewu knew very well that this would be the last large-scale counterattack of the Chinese [***] team in the Nanjing Defense War. After the counterattack, it officially marked that the Nanjing Defense War had entered the street battle stage. As the highest commander of the Nanjing Defense War, Zhang Xuewu slowly closed his eyes. He was too tired these days. He knows that every decision he makes now will be evaluated by future generations, and every tactical implementation may be evaluated repeatedly in detail, but history has no if. Those who sit in peacetime and have not even killed a few chickens in later generations are not qualified to evaluate all this.

All the sacrifices today are for the reading power of the country and the freedom of the nation tomorrow. Let the fire of war wash away all the lead! History is the most just. No one can annihilate the true axiom and history, and let the blood prove it. For the sake of the unyielding spirit of the Chinese nation, let the blood of all enemies verify the courage of [***] people.

In the temporary official residence of the highest authorities in Wuhan, Chiang Kai-shek and a group of senior military and political officials did not rush to Yucheng, but listened to my war report on Nanjing in the war hall. Celebrities and senior officials from all walks of life downstairs were frequently raising their glasses to celebrate [***] guarding Nanjing for a whole month. The red grapes in the cup seemed to It's like the blood flowing from front-line soldiers.

I said that my war reports were all about where I occupied today, how many Naguns were destroyed, or killed a certain general of the China Army, etc. The faces of the participants were not good-looking, especially the blue-faced Chiang Kai-shek. He vowed to promise Zhang Xuewu to lead Yunnan, Sichuan and other places to the south in 20 days. Beijing reinforcements, but now it has been ten days, and all the reinforcements scheduled for reinforcements have been incorporated into the hodgepodge of the fifth war zone. Li Zongren is commanding the largest miscellaneous army cluster in Chinese history to gather in Xuzhou to prevent the east-west fronts of the Japanese army from converge.

After listening to his own war report, Chiang Kai-shek took a look at Qian Dajun beside him and said, "Do you have the war situation and war report of Nanjing?"

Qian Dajun shook his head helplessly and said, "According to my own war report, they seem to have broken into the Nanjing city wall. There are no less than ten generals at the two levels of our battle division and brigade. I'm afraid there are not many Nanjing city guards!"

He Yingqin waved his hand and said, "Zhang Xuewu is the best at sticking to it. What he is best is to fight in the street fighting. Now it is just the abandonment of the outer city wall. The real street battle has not yet begun. In Chengde, Zhang Xuewu's lonely army can still stick to it. Now the troops and ammunition are still abundant, so there are not many? This is a move to raise the morale of the bandit and destroy the prestige of our army.

Qian Dajun said helplessly, "I'm just talking about the matter. Mr. He doesn't have to worry about it. I also hope Nanjing can stick to it for two months!" All the equipment of the 26 infantry divisions recently purchased from the Soviet Union has arrived, and the morale of our army's equipment is bound to be greatly boosted.

Zhang Xueliang, the special military and political adviser of the government sitting in the last seat, also smiled and said, "I know my cousin. He is a hard bone. Those who guard Nanjing are all the elite direct troops of Huangpu. The combat effectiveness can be said to be the strongest [***]. Nanjing will not be easily lost. I just added the Japanese military war report. The number of announced annihilation of our army, plus today's more than 20,000 people, are more than 700,000 before and after. I'm afraid that each of our Nanjing garrison will die a few times. Can you believe what you say?

The people present suddenly burst into laughter, and Chiang Kai-shek's face turned slightly and said, "Order the 89th Army, the 94th Army, the 97th Army, the 98th Army, the 100th Army and other departments to complete the assembly within six days to prepare to respond to the Nanjing garrison. The troops who could not reach the designated position within the deadline, long The officers sent the military law to the strict and important.

Everyone knows that these armies are the latest new troops supplemented by Chiang Kai-shek with Soviet weapons. In the First Battle of Shanghai, Chiang Kai-shek took the opportunity to annex many local faction troops. After retreating from Nanjing, he disrupted the establishment and reorganized a group of new troops. Under the national justice of the Anti-Japanese War, whether it was Li Zongren, Bai Chongxi and Liu Wen Hui, Liu Xiang, Yunlong and others can only be dumb and stubborn.

After the brief meeting, Chiang Kai-shek appeared in front of Chinese and foreign reporters with a large group of military and political officers with a smile on his face. Zhang Qun's witty words made people feel that the capital of China was under the siege of the enemy's army at this moment, and tens of millions of people were displaced and starved on the streets.

A bottle of British champagne, European egg tarts, caviar biscuits, foie gras, and smoked beef, all of which make people feel a glimmer of war.

June 25, 1937, 19 o'clock! Nearly a hundred red flares suddenly rose from all over Nanjing! Prince Hatohiko of Asamiya and almost all the division commanders walked out of the tent and looked at the red flares in the night sky.

Gu Shoufu looked at the red flare and muttered to himself, "Isn't the Chinese army ready to fight back? How is this possible? They are already in danger. At this time, launching a counterattack is tantamount to committing suicide? Zhang Xuewu won't do this! No rational commander will do this!"

(to be continued)