On December 10, most of the positions on the outskirts of Nanjing City fell, and the devils were encircled on all sides, with more than 200,000 elite troops in nine divisions of the army, plus the support of naval and air force fighters and warships, encircled Nanjing like an iron barrel. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Matsui Ishone, the commander of the devils, gave the order to siege the city at 13 o'clock in the afternoon of December 10.

The 9th Division launched a fierce attack on Guanghuamen, the 114th Division, the 6th Division towards Zhonghuamen, and the 16th Division on Purple Mountain.

The Chinese defenders guarding the various defensive lines had already suffered heavy losses, and in the face of the flood of devil soldiers, they used their flesh and blood to fight the devils to the death, swearing to defend the city behind them.

Gui Yongqing's teaching corps defended the Purple Mountain, and they stubbornly resisted the attack of the devils by virtue of the preset position of reinforced concrete, and the corpses were killed all over the field.

After the outbreak of the Battle of Songhu, the teaching corps was rapidly expanded to 9 regiments, with a total of more than 40,000 soldiers, although it suffered heavy losses in Shanghai, but when it withdrew to Nanjing, it still had more than 30,000 people after reorganization, and its combat effectiveness was still strong.

But this time the devil went crazy, and the teaching corps of the "Iron Guard", known as the chairman, could not bear it.

At the beginning, in order to stabilize the morale of the defenders of Nanjing, the chairman of the committee asked the teaching corps to stay in Nanjing, and Gui Yongqing agreed without hesitation.

At that time, his idea was that Nanjing was the capital, and the whole country looked at it, and they taught the corps to participate in the battle to defend Nanjing.

But in the face of the crazy attack of the devils, Gui Yongqing's intestines were repentant, and Commander Tang Shengzhi wanted to live and die together in Nanjing, which was to drag him and the teaching corps to be buried together.

Gui Yongqing squatted in the underground bunker of the Purple Mountain, listening to the rumbling of the cannons outside, and he lowered his head and smoked a cigarette, he knew that this time he had miscalculated, but now that he was on the battlefield, no matter what, he had to fight hard.

"Chief Gui, let's withdraw, if we continue to fight, the brothers will all fight out."

The shells continued to fall outside the bunker, and the smoke and dust of the explosion were scattered, and the command of the teaching corps also trembled, and the staff officers persuaded Gui Yongqing, the commander of the teaching corps, to order the evacuation.

Gui Yongqing heard the persuasion of the staff officers, threw away the cigarette in his hand, and stood up on the ground: "Withdraw!" Now get out there! Behind us is the city of Nanjing, and we have no way out! ”

A staff officer reminded: "Chief Gui, our gendarmerie still controls some ferries, and we can cross the river......

When Gui Yongqing heard this, he immediately scolded the staff officer: "You have crossed the river, what should we do with tens of thousands of brothers?" Hundreds of thousands of residents of the city are doing this?! Have you ever thought about it, the little devils are not as good as beasts, and you can't bear to throw them to the devils to spoil them?! ”

The staff officers were scolded by Gui Yongqing, and they didn't dare to come out, they knew that Gui Yongqing was in a bad mood, and he was as quiet as a cold, and he didn't dare to persuade him anymore.

After Gui Yongqing was inexplicably angry, he lit his cigarette again, and he ordered the combat staff officer: "Call all regiments and tell them to resolutely resist, not to retreat, and if there is a mistake, come and see you!"

In the face of Gui Yongqing's death order, the various regiments of the precarious Purple Mountain position had to rely on favorable terrain and fortifications to repeatedly fight for positions with devils, and the two sides fought in darkness.

When the Purple Mountain position was under the pressure of collapse, it was also bloody at Zhonghua Gate and Yuhuatai.

The 114th Division of the Sixth Division led by Gu Shoufu will attack Yuhuatai and Zhonghua Gate, and Luo Zhuoying, deputy commander of the Nanjing garrison, personally went to the front line to command the troops to fight desperately and bloodily.

The Yuhuatai position, which is less than 2,000 meters wide, is the most fiercely contested battlefield, and the devil's aircraft and artillery bombard in turn, making Yuhuatai almost a scorched earth.

The 88th Division of Sun Yuanliang's Division, which guarded here, was originally a German armament division, and the Battle of Songhu was exhausted and replenished, and after five rounds of rectification, its combat effectiveness was not as good as before.

In the three-day bloody battle with the devils in Yuhuatai, Zhu Chi, commander of the 262nd Brigade under the 88th Division, and 6,000 officers and soldiers under the commander of the 164th Brigade, Gao Zhisong, were all martyred.

Although the Chinese defenders were stubbornly defending Yuhuatai, there were too many devils, and tons of shells poured down on Yuhuatai, and finally Yuhuatai was lost.

The devil soldiers, who occupied the commanding heights of Yuhuatai, immediately condescended and fired fiercely at the defenders' positions near the Zhonghua Gate, forcing the defenders to abandon their positions and turn to street fighting.

The fierce fighting entered the white heat, many of the commanders of the troops had been killed, and the troops still spontaneously resisted without a command, until all of them were martyred.

The ancient city of Nanjing trembled in the sound of gunfire, and the thick smoke of gunpowder was devouring its former glory.

The whistling devil planes continued to fly over Nanjing, and the aerial bombs dropped exploded countless exquisite houses into a large group of fire, and finally razed to the ground.

The guerrilla battalion led by Yang Ling rushed through the ruined streets, as far as the smoke could see, everywhere was the debris of the bombing, and the smoke was billowing everywhere.

The battlefield was fought everywhere in the city of Nanjing, there were gunshots and explosions everywhere, and the troops guarding Nanjing were constantly fighting with the advancing devil soldiers, and the battlefield was expanding and spreading to the city.

The command system on the battlefield has completely failed, the commanders of the front-line units have either been wounded and evacuated or have died heroic deaths, and most of the troops are in a state of no command.

Yang Ling was very anxious now, he didn't know how bad the battle situation had become, and he didn't know if the other city gates had been lost

He originally hoped to lead the guerrilla battalion withdrawn from the outlying positions to the troops of the 51st Division, after all, he had a relationship with Zhang Lingfu, the commander of the 305th Regiment, and staying with them, the brothers of the guerrilla battalion could be preserved to the greatest extent, and he wanted to take these brothers out alive.

But the battlefield had already been turned into a pot of porridge, and it was impossible to find where the 51st Division was on the chaotic battlefield, and later he heard from the gathered rout that Deputy Commander Liu Xing had arrived at Guanghuamen to command, so he immediately led the troops to move over.

Yang Ling's guerrilla battalion can also be regarded as the unit of deputy commander Liu Xing, and if you find Liu Xing, you can find out the current battlefield situation, and more importantly, Liu Xing is the deputy commander.

Yang Ling didn't want the tragedy in Nanjing City to happen, and if he succeeded in persuading the deputy commander Liu Xing, then he could issue an order in Liu Xing's name to avoid the tragedy.

The guerrilla battalion withdrew all the way and constantly gathered the scattered soldiers, and its strength increased rather than decreased, and rapidly swelled to more than 1,000 people.

Yang Ling did not refuse these stragglers, and all those he encountered were included in the team, and he now urgently needed to strengthen his strength, only if he was strong could he fight with the little devils and cover the evacuation of more residents.