Just when the 23rd Wing of the Japanese Army was in a bitter battle, the 47th Wing of the Japanese reinforcements (with 1 Brigade of Independence Mountain Artillery) arrived.

The battle history of the 47th Wing of the Japanese Army "The History of the Struggle of the Native Troops" reads:

"The walls and field positions were equipped with numerous fortified pillboxes, and the posture of concentrating all their firepower to meet the Japanese army made it impossible for the brave Japanese army to attack as simply as before. This fortified position was accompanied by the enemy's strongest elite soldiers of the 88th Division, which is enough to show that the enemy's determination to defend the city of Nanjing is extraordinary. ”

The increased strength of the Japanese army gradually reached 5 infantry brigades and 2 artillery brigades. However, the Chinese defenders stationed at Andemen only had the strength of two battalions of the 527th Regiment, and the regiment commander Li Jie ordered the whole regiment to stick to Andemen and live and die with the position.

The 47th Wing, which received the order, launched an offensive from the right flank of the 23rd Wing and the left flank of the 13th Wing. The attack to a place called "82 Heights" was met with a stubborn counterattack by the 2nd Battalion.

The battle history of the 47th Wing of the Japanese Army "The History of the Fighting of the Native Troops" recounts:

"The enemy's sniper skills, coupled with the accumulation of powerful firepower, made it difficult for the Japanese to advance the attack due to the increasing casualties. No matter how low the depression is, there will be enemy bullets that will continue to fly day and night, leaving our troops with nowhere to hide. ”

The 5th Squadron, which took the lead, suffered heavy losses, and the squadron leader, Captain Mitsuji Yoshida, was killed on the spot.

In order to take the "82 Heights", the 47th Squadron of the 11th Wing of the Japanese Army organized a death squad of 94 people to prepare for a night attack on the positions of the Chinese army.

Shouto's squadron was in the dark of night, and the battlefield was unfamiliar with the ground, and it was surrounded by enemies with superior strength and firepower, and the casualties continued to increase.

Lieutenant Shouto was also pierced by a bullet in the right thigh, was seriously wounded, and rolled into the trench. The squad leaders were also wounded one after another, and in the end, the old warrant officer Toshio Kurasaki was the leader, commanding the only 24 people who remained.

But after all, there was a huge disparity in strength, and under the overwhelming artillery fire of the Japanese army, more than 500 warriors under the commander of the 2nd Battalion, Chen Binsheng, all died on the battlefield. At about 22 o'clock on December 11, the Japanese army occupied the Andemen Heights.

In the central area of Yuhuatai, the main Japanese army stormed the core position of Yuhuatai, while the Chinese army used the pillbox fortifications to fight back desperately. The Japanese army, which had been frustrated, concentrated more than 100 artillery pieces and fired fiercely at the Chinese army.

The shelling lasted more than an hour. After the shelling, tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers stormed the positions of the Chinese army under the cover of more than 50 combat vehicles and armored vehicles.

The Japanese battalions concentrated all their light and heavy machine guns to cover the infantry charge, and the bullets were so dense that even flies flying in the sky could knock them out.

The Japanese army can be said to have really gone crazy, and they attacked the positions of the Chinese army 24 hours a day. In the most tragic battle of Luodian in the Battle of Songhu, the 3rd Brigade of the 44th Wing of the 11th Division of the Japanese Army fired about 200,000 infantry bullets in one month.

In the Battle of Yuhuatai, the 3rd Brigade of the 115th Wing of the 114th Division of the Japanese Army lost 118,000 rounds of ammunition in three days, and the 2nd Brigade lost 150,000 rounds of ammunition in three days.

In terms of artillery shell consumption, the 13th Division fired more than 20,000 rounds of 75-mm shells in one month of the Battle of Songhu, while the 6th Division attacked Nanjing and destroyed 9,540 rounds of shells of more than 75 mm in just eight days from the 6th to the 13th.

Although the Chinese army fought bravely and tenaciously, after all, the number of troops was too small, and by the night of the 11th, the 264th Brigade was close to the limit.

The 6th Division used 20,000 troops and hundreds of large and small artillery pieces, but it still couldn't capture this small hill after 3 days of fighting, which made Gu Shoufu rush to the unbelievable.

On the 12th, this was the most powerful day of the Japanese attack, and the 88th Division had already suffered two-thirds of its casualties, and was unable to resist the Japanese army, which was ten times its size.

Throughout the morning, the Japanese army attacked the main position of Yuhuatai several times in a row, and the remaining officers and men of the 262nd and 264th brigades fought back desperately, barely repulsing the Japanese army.

By noon, only a few hundred of the two brigades had not been injured, and more than 100 of the 262nd brigade had not been injured.

At this time, the Japanese army was gathering its troops again, preparing for a decisive charge on the scale of more than 1,000 men.

The brigade commander, Major General Zhu Chi, ordered the fighters who were still alive to place all the remaining grenades in front of the positions, and hundreds of grenades were connected with fuses.

When the Japanese army charged again like a flood, Zhu Chi led the defenders to wait until they had charged within a few tens of meters, and suddenly all of them pulled out grenades, killing hundreds of Japanese soldiers on the spot.

The Japanese retreated again, but the 88th Division was also exhausted.

On the morning of the 12th, the Japanese 114th Division concentrated all its artillery and launched a fierce artillery bombardment on Yuhuatai.

In a subsequent Japanese charge, Brigade Commander Zhu Chi was hit in the abdomen by a Japanese artillery shell, and his intestines flowed out on the spot. Zhu Chi stuffed his intestines back into his stomach and prepared to continue commanding the battle, but because he was too seriously injured, he soon fell and passed out.

After waking up, Brigadier Commander Zhu Chi ordered the guards to immediately burn classified documents and maps, and bury him immediately after his death, so that the Japanese army could not get his body (the Japanese army would show off his achievements), and then he died a heroic martyr at the age of 33.

The place where he was martyred is now Meigang behind the second spring of Yuhuatai, a small hill only 30 or 40 meters high.

At the same time as Brigade Commander Zhu Chi was martyred, Hua Pinzhang, Colonel of the 262nd Brigade and deputy brigade commander, was also martyred by his side.

At the same time as Brigade Commander Zhu Chi was martyred, only 500 people remained in the hands of Brigade Commander Gao Zhisong of the 264th Brigade who were not injured. He led the troops to make the final resistance, and in the face of the Japanese army's crazy onslaught again, the officers and men of the brigade still had the fierce fire of bullets, and those who did not have bullets raised their bayonets in hand-to-hand combat, and finally the whole army was annihilated.

Brigade Commander Gao Zhisong was shot several times and died heroically. At the same time as the martyrdom of Brigade Commander Gao Zhisong, the commander of his 524th Regiment, Colonel Han Xianyuan, also died near him (the commander of the battalion of 800 warriors in the Shanghai Sixing Warehouse).

According to the Japanese army's "Kumamoto Corps War History", when inspecting the Chinese defenders' bunkers, they found that the doors of the bunkers had already been locked.

Yuhuatai thus fell; The Japanese army paid a huge price in casualties to occupy Yuhuatai

The two brigades of the 88th Division held out for four whole days under the siege of several times the enemy, annihilating more than 3,000 Japanese troops. The 88th Brigade and the 263rd Brigade of the 263rd Division were completely wiped out, except for 2,000 wounded and sick who were ordered to retreat.

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Previously, the Japanese army, which could not attack Yuhuatai, turned to attack the defense area of the 51st Regiment of the 305th Division, from dawn on the 10th to the morning of the 11th.

The Japanese army's roundabout troops went around to the Huayan Temple and Maoguandu on the 305 flank to attack, and Zhang Lingwu immediately threw the reserve into the Huayan Temple in the Qingxiang camp.

The battle for Huayan Temple was very fierce, repeatedly tug-of-war, the battalion commander Yu Qingxiang was seriously injured, and most of the battalion casualties, Huayan Temple was still not captured by the Japanese army.

On the 12th, the Japanese army that captured Yuhuatai condescended and took advantage of the favorable terrain to shoot down on the 305th Regiment of Huayan Temple.

On the evening of the 12th, the 51st Division learned that the 305th Regiment had suffered serious casualties, and ordered Zhang Lingwu to shrink his troops to Saihongqiao in the southwest corner of Nanjing City to join Zhou Zhidao's 151st Brigade.