On the night of December 8, the Japanese army and the 301st Regiment that attacked Chunhua Town fought each other, but they were all scrapped and withdrawn. The 3rd Division, which came later, immediately organized its forces and began to chase after the 301st Regiment that had retreated to the halfway point, including the 7th Company of the 306th Regiment of Sangou.

These troops had not yet arrived at the preset second-line positions of the 51st Division, and had to order the 305th Regiment to make a sortie to withstand the pursuit of the Japanese 3rd Division.

The Shaanxi Lengwa of the 305th Regiment once again played the role of the reserve after the break, and Zhang Lingwu, the commander of the regiment, led his troops to go retrograde, advancing to Dongshantun and Shangfang Towns behind Chunhua Town, covering the retreat of the main force of the division headquarters.

That night, the Japanese, under the cover of tanks, launched a fierce attack on the positions hastily established by the 305th Regiment, and the improvised fortifications were also destroyed under heavy enemy fire.

Zhang Lingwu, the commander of the 305th Regiment, who was brave enough to defeat the 301st Regiment and Ji Hongru, quickly organized a death squad, personally led the team, and launched a counter-charge against the enemy.

For the national army with backward weapons, grenades and bayonets are the best weapons for everyone in melee night combat, and the death squad is full of grenades, holding bayonets, rushing into the enemy group, regardless of whose life and death, constantly throwing grenades, and constantly charging.

What is called going forward and succeeding, that is, the comrades-in-arms in front of them fall, it is regarded as a stepping stone for the people behind, and the comrades-in-arms in the back step on the remains of their brothers, not afraid of life and death, and move forward bravely.

In the continuous counter-charge of the 305th Regiment's death squads, the Japanese were forced back by the fragments of grenades and the bayonets of the Nationalist army.

During the killing, the head of the regiment Zhang Lingwu was shot in the arm, and the blood did not stop, but after being hurriedly bandaged, he immediately continued to fight, and his subordinates and guards strongly persuaded the regiment commander to withdraw across the Yangtze River with the wounded soldiers to the rear for medical treatment.

Zhang Lingwu said angrily: "In the past, Xiang Yu's army was defeated, and he still didn't want to cross the Wujiang River, how could I cross the Yangtze River because of injury?" When you fight the enemy to the death, you must fulfill your oath. ”

The regimental commander was wounded and did not retreat, and the news spread throughout the regiment, and the example was in front of him, and the soldiers all fought hard, and constantly hedged against the enemy's charge.

At this point in the battle, there was no tactics to speak of, even the regiment commander went into battle to kill, and the soldiers below had no reason not to give up their lives to rush to kill.

The Japanese army did not expect that all the elite of the Chinese army had been destroyed in Shanghai, and now there is still such a brave army.

However, hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops continued to gather one after another, hoping to take advantage of the momentum of the pursuit of victory to crush the Chinese army in one fell swoop, take the capital of China in one fell swoop, end the war in China, force China to surrender, and achieve immortal achievements.

Therefore, no matter how brave and desperate the Chinese army is, it still has to attack first, hoping to seize the first credit for defeating Nanjing, the capital of China.

People, if they are just a person, a simple person, will not be so willing to forget about death, even if they are ants, they still steal life, let alone people.

However, as long as there is the belief of the country and the nation, this person is not a simple person, he, they, can go forward desperately, fight, and sacrifice their lives for the sake of faith, just for the capital behind him, the symbol of the country.

If the capital is gone, the country will be no longer a country, and the country will be destroyed, rather than being a humiliating slave of the country, it is better to die on the battlefield as soon as possible, at least, I have resisted, and I have spent this life heroically and gloriously.

It was precisely because of the desperate rush of the 305th Regiment that it withstood the enemy's pursuit, won the precious time for the retreat of the main force of the division headquarters and entered the preset position in the city of Nanjing.

On December 9, late at night, the 305th Regiment, which had been carrying day by day, received an order from the division headquarters to withdraw to its position in the urban area of Nanjing and occupy the first line of Zangjia Lane, Xinzha and Yangzhuang in Yuhuatai.

On the same day, the 58th Division guarding Niushou Mountain was attacked by more than 40 tanks of the enemy, and the regiment commander was seriously wounded, the battalion commander was killed, and more than 800 casualties were inflicted, and the troops were forced to retreat in the direction of Banqiao Town.

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On December 9, the 306th Regiment withdrew to Nanjing City, guarding the line from the South Gate of Zhonghua Gate to the east of Guanghua Gate, and the seventh company of Sangou was stationed at the China Gate with the third battalion.

Sangou, who was commanding seven to hurriedly clear the shooting boundary, load sandbags to strengthen the city wall and shoot holes for protection, the battalion headquarters informed him to go, and Sangou received the notice and immediately left.

Sangou also felt a little strange, he had just come from the battalion headquarters, why did he call him back again, what can't he talk about on the phone?

After entering the camp headquarters, Sangou immediately understood what was going on, it turned out to be her, it was Yang Muhua who came, she was originally generous and dignified, but now she is as thin as the wind, when she saw Sangou, she didn't make a sound, and her big eyes were red because of her thinness.

Lao Hu and Niu Gu at the battalion headquarters walked out in an interesting way, leaving only Sangou and Yang Muhua, looking at Sangou with a slag beard and a messy hair and a thin dog-like body, Yang Muhua couldn't help but want to reach out and touch the towering cheekbones on Sangou's face.

"You, you? What are you doing here? ”

Sangou was thinking about guarding the position of the city wall, but he didn't expect it to be Yang Muhua, so he couldn't react at once, and couldn't help but speak incoherently.

"I've been inquiring about your news, the news of your troops, and I heard about the wounded soldiers in the Field General Hospital this morning, and I know that your troops have arrived at the Zhonghua Gate."

Yang Muhua didn't answer Sangou's question, he said to himself, and said anxiously, for fear that time would pass too quickly and he hadn't finished speaking.

"Why did you go for such a long time? Why haven't you left the city yet? It's dangerous here, and you can't stay in Nanjing. ”

Sangou didn't listen to Yang Muhua's anxiety, but expressed his meaning more anxiously; In fact, when I entered the city with the retreat of the troops, I really wanted to see her, and I was very urgent.

This way, nine deaths, I have seen too much life and death, and I have always been ready to die at any time, I just want to see her before I die, perhaps, in this way, there will be no regrets in this life.

However, there is a lot of desire to see her at this time in this place, it is too dangerous, no one knows how long Nanjing City can be defended, a month? Half? A year? Sangou himself didn't know.

Even if it can hold on for so long, even if it waits for the troops of the whole country to besiege and repel the enemy, then the city of Nanjing will be reduced to ruins, and everyone who stays here may die.

In case, in case Nanjing City can't be defended, as a soldier, he died in the capital of his motherland, died as he deserved, and there was no complaint, but Yang Muhua was a common man after all, and he couldn't be buried here.

Or, if you have a knife, a gun and a brother in your hand, whether it is a breakthrough or a retreat, there is still a fight, and it is possible to fight for your life.

However, Yang Muhua is just a weak girl, an unarmed commoner, like an ant in front of the Japanese army of tigers and wolves.

Can you rest assured? No, so, although Sangou has not received a reply from Yang Muhua recently, she is actually fortunate in her heart, maybe she can't receive her letter on the way to another country, so she can't reply.

As long as she doesn't stay in the city of Nanjing, everything is easy to say, since she is not there, there is no need to look for it, go and wait, go to see, besides, busy military affairs, how can you go to the vast sea of people to find her, how can you let your children have personal feelings, and spoil military affairs.

But now, she didn't leave Nanjing City, and actually came to the door, really, what happened; Sangou suddenly became very agitated and impatient.