On the night of December 11, the Japanese army attacked the city of Nanjing all night long, from Shuixi Gate to Saihongqiao in the west, from Zhonghua Gate in the south to Guanghua Gate in the east, and then to Purple Mountain in the northeast.

Only the Yangtze River in the north (formerly known as the Yangtze River, the name of the section of the Yangtze River from Nanjing to Shanghai into the sea) was temporarily not attacked by the Japanese army, and was guarded by the 36th Division of the 78th Army, and also prevented the deserters of the Nanjing garrison from escaping from the river to the north of the river.

At the Zhonghua Gate, the 7th Company and the 3rd Battalion of the Three Dogs guarded together, withstanding the continuous shelling of the Japanese army and the strafing of the 92 Heavy Aircraft, even during the day, it was full of smoke.

At night, it was even darker, not because of the darkness of the night, at night the Japanese flares kept hitting the sky, almost as bright as the day, but the smoke of the shells could not be dispersed, and it was not long before there would be a burst of shelling.

Even with such fire suppression, it still can't completely suppress the cold guns on the city tower, it's too difficult, the devil's sappers don't dare to go up to the moat to build bridges, even if there are no cold guns, they can't stand the grenades that keep being thrown.

The Japanese army had to send an infantry death squad, rushed to the edge of the moat, jumped directly into the river, and wanted to cross the river, but I didn't expect that this section of the moat was quite deep, and the water from the Qinhuai River was still relatively turbulent.

In the winter, the devils also fought, and at first they thought they could swim over, and hundreds of death squads jumped into the moat like dumplings under the cover of artillery fire.

Unexpectedly, the water was turbulent and cold, and the devils themselves were short, and many of them lost their tops all at once, and they were washed away by the water.

It is estimated that if you don't drown, you will be frozen half to death, and when your hands and feet are numb, you won't be able to climb ashore, and you can only freeze to death or drown in the water. Unexpectedly, in the middle of winter, he came from thousands of miles away and committed suicide by jumping into the river.

Later, the devils also learned to be obedient, and the devils who swam across the river each carried a long pole and had a strength to jump into the water, even if they were washed by the water, they could use the long pole to poke into the bottom of the water or the shore, and climb to the opposite shore with strength.

The observation post on the castle tower had already discovered that it would allow these devil kings who swam from the Sea of Japan to go ashore easily, and suddenly, grenades from the front flew down like raindrops.

From the village on the side of the city wall, the defenders were also ambushed, and the flank shots were even more deadly, waiting for the devils to enter the water.

Once in the water, barely covering and rolling their bodies to avoid bullets, they simply became live targets, and under the machine gun fire on the flanks, most of these devils were shot in the moat, and for a while, blood stained half of the river.

The defenders on the flanks also fought hard, and at this time, once the personnel exposed to firepower at this time, it would bring a catastrophe, but not a few minutes later, the Japanese shells, like rain, fell on the heads of the defenders in ambush, and the whole village was immediately razed to the ground.

Under the cover of superior artillery fire, the devil finally swam a part of the people up to the other side of the moat, hid in the city gate and entered, because the city wall is very thick, the thickest part is 6 zhang, almost 20 meters thick, generally more than 10 meters thick.

With such a thick city wall, the city gate has become a long tunnel, which used to be called the city gate hole, and the gate of the city gate hole can only be closed a few times, and it cannot all fill the entire city gate hole.

Therefore, once the devils went ashore, it was impossible to stay under the city wall and wait to be killed, so they quickly hid in the city gate hole.

In the hole of the city gate, it is a very safe place, the defenders on the city tower have no way to hit, and the defenders in the city tower dare not open the city gate, for fear that the devil will rush in.

Seeing that hundreds of devils were hiding in the hole of the city gate, Lao Hu on the city tower was as anxious as an ant on the hot nest, and immediately called various company commanders to a meeting to discuss how to kill this group of little devils like water rats.

Now it is impossible to hang people on the city wall, first, they will become a live target for the devils, and second, now the devil's artillery has begun to blow up the city wall little by little, trying to blow up a hole in the city wall, so that the devils who have broken through to the city gate hole can climb up.

In the end, everyone decided to use fire attack, and quickly transferred two large oil drums filled with gasoline to the city, poked a few holes, and threw them directly from the top of the city gate hole.

The wall more than 20 meters high, similar to a place six or seven stories high, smashed the oil drums, and immediately broke them, flowing gasoline all over the ground, and at the same time, a torch was thrown from the castle tower.

All of a sudden, the gate hole was set on fire, and in the meantime, the sandbags that had blocked the gate inside the gate had been moved.

Now the city gate suddenly opened, and a heavy machine gun and five light machine guns fired quickly at the devils who were squeezing in to avoid the fire.

It is conceivable that later the big potato came up and said that since the fight against the devil, it has never been so cool, and the bullets fired by the five machine guns in an instant, forming a wall of bullets, pressed over at high speed.

In just a few seconds, hundreds of devils all died under such a dense and supersaturated attack, and many devils were beaten into meat sauce.

After the fight, there was almost no need to check, and there was no time to clean the battlefield, for fear that the devils would rush in from the main entrance, after all, the gasoline would soon be burned out, and the gate would be closed again, followed by several gates inside, closed one by one.

After this fire and bursting strafing of the city gate hole, the devil no longer dared to hide in the city gate hole easily, looking at the pile of meat sauce inside, he would rather die outside than go in and be beaten into meat sauce.

The Japanese infantry tied together a bamboo ladder about ten meters long and erected it on the city wall, but the bamboo ladder was still two or three meters away from the top of the city wall.

The devil is really dying, and he plans to climb up the ladder like the ancient people attacked the city, although the top of the front is constantly fired by the devil's heavy machine gun, suppressing the defenders and not getting close.

But there are grenades, and Sangou told everyone to put the grenades in a good position under the command of the observation post, delay for two seconds, and then throw them down.

The grenade just exploded in the middle of the city wall, constantly killing and injuring the devil who climbed on the bamboo ladder, and fell down, like a hemp bag, with a bang, the devil who fell bleed through seven holes and immediately died of shock.

On the side of the city wall, Xiucai took Xia Chen and them to kill the devils one by one with rifles, and the bamboo ladders of the devils were more and more common, and Xiucai used the dummy bullets given by the three dogs to fight.

This kind of explosive flowering bomb is not used to hit people, Xiucai uses it to hit bamboo ladders, specifically hitting the middle parts of those bamboo ladders, one by one.

Originally, the long ladder was full of devils, and it was trembling, but it was hit by a dummy bullet from Xiucai, and it was interrupted by a snap in the middle.

A large string of devils fell down like meat skewers, screaming and screaming, and all of them fell to their deaths, and those who didn't fall to death were also killed by the three dogs with their grenades.

Anyway, the grenade is useful regardless of whether it is delayed or not, and the normal grenade without delay will also explode under the root of the city wall, either killing the devil, or blowing up the bamboo ladder crookedly and breaking it.