Chapter 108: Ming City Wall
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6.108 Ming City Wall
Guanghuamen, the headquarters of the 18th Brigade of the Japanese Army. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Jing Shuxuan ushered in a storm on the phone, and his unauthorized use of troops in Guanghuamen finally provoked reprimands from the front army headquarters.
The reason why Matsui Ishine is angry at Jing Shuxuan now is mainly because the "radical" officers in the Central China Front have been singing the leading role, if Matsui Ishine immediately intervenes to stop the attack when the 18th Brigade has just launched an attack, then the division commanders below will definitely skip the level and report to Tokyo to beat him, His Majesty the Emperor is already very dissatisfied with the slow progress of the Central China Front on the Nanjing battlefield, if there is a telegram reporting Matsui Ishine in such a special period to Emperor Hirohito, Then the commander of the Central China Front will definitely be replaced.
Jing Shuxuanshi also saw Matsui Shigen's embarrassing situation, so he boldly disobeyed Matsui Shigen's order, such behavior is actually gambling, if he is now standing on the wall of Guanghua Gate when Jing Shuxuan, then Commander Matsui Shigen will use a praising tone to encourage the 18th Brigade Regiment's military exploits, but unfortunately, Jing Shuxuanshi has not been able to break through the Ming city wall until now.
Song Xilian was like a plaster stuck to Guanghuamen, and the two Nanjing garrison troops that fought with the 36th Division were not general, from the 21st attack to the present, Jing Shuxuan had already understood that his 18th Brigade alone could not take Guanghuamen, and just when he was about to discuss countermeasures with several wing commanders under his command, a call from the Central China Front Headquarters came in.
Matsui Ishine finally waited for a chance to vent! The clumsy performance of the 18 brigade made the "radicals" in the front army also change their positions, and Matsui Ishine, who had been holding the fire in his heart for several days, sneered at Jing Shuxuan on the phone, and Jing Shuxuan knew that if he still confronted Matsui Ishine, it would be a dead end, and he nodded vigorously into the telephone microphone, and the brigade commander hoped that his humble attitude could calm Matsui Ishine's anger and make his unauthorized attack a big thing. It's a trivial matter......
At this time, the commander of the 19th Infantry Wing, Hitomi Hidesansa, walked into the brigade headquarters of Jing Shuxuanshi, and during the daytime attack on the 22nd, Hitomi Hidesansa's right arm was hit by a bullet fired from the Ming city wall, and now his arm is still wrapped in a white bandage.
Seeing his subordinates coming over, Jing Shuxuanshi's "performance" began to become a little unnatural, although he was one of the main officers who supported the 18th Brigade to attack Guanghuamen, but Jing Shuxuanshi still didn't want people to see Xiu Sanzuo see his embarrassed appearance at the moment.
It was also very unpleasant to see Xiu Sanzuo when he saw Jing Shuxuan, and Jing Shuxuan's high-spirited appearance after the division headquarters meeting on the 20th was still vivid, and the 18th Brigade had been fighting for a long time in Guanghuamen for a few days, and their brigade commander was forced to become like this.
"Your Excellency Brigade Commander, thank you for your hard work!"
Seeing that Xiu Sanzuo came to Jing Shuxuanshi next to the phone, he made such a voice and then knelt on the ground, Jing Shuxuan was worried that Matsui Shigen on the other end of the phone would hear it, so he quickly covered the microphone.
"See you! Don't do that! I gave the order, you are just the executors, it is I who underestimated the combat effectiveness and determination of the Nanjing garrison, Song Xilian is a powerful character, and Huang Haoran, a strong general, really has no weak soldiers! Now I can understand the fiasco of the 114th Division in Lishui, it is not that Moji Suematsu underestimated the enemy, but Huang Haoran is too powerful! ”
The receiver of Matsui Shigen on the other end of the phone became quiet, because it was not face to face with Jing Shuxuan, Matsui Shigen didn't know what was going on in the 18th Brigade, and in a hurry, Matsui Shigen shouted into the phone microphone, Jing Shuxuan signaled to see Xiusan not to make a sound, and then let go of the hand holding the microphone and said loudly:
"Your Excellency Commander, there is a new situation in the Nanjing garrison of Guanghuamen, and I must go to the front line! I'm so sorry for the trouble you've caused! The 18th Brigade will fight to the last in time and will definitely take Guanghuamen! Please believe in the blood of the Yamato boy of the 18 brigade! ”
After finishing speaking, Jing Shuxuan handed over the phone to the staff officer of the brigade headquarters, and it seems that Matsui Shigen's anger will not subside, rather than continue to be scolded here, it is better to take down the Guanghua Gate first!
"See you! The losses of the fighters of our brigade are already close to half, and according to the Nanjing garrison telegram intercepted by the intelligence department, there are at least 3 divisions of the Chinese fighting with us on the city walls! In addition to the big problem of the previous intelligence! We need reinforcements! ”
Jing Shuxuan couldn't wait to say after pulling up the people to see Xiu Sanzuo, his face no longer had the pity he had when he talked to Matsui Shigen just now, he, the brigade commander of the 18th Brigade, has always been a ruthless character, and after messing with the commander, Jing Shuxuan chose to continue his willfulness.
Seeing Xiu Sanzuo was obviously a little uncomfortable with Jing Shuxuan's face-changing skills, but he understood the meaning of Jing Shuxuan's words, his brigade commander had not given up, and the 18th Brigade still wanted to launch a new round of attacks on Guanghuamen.
"What is the attitude of the commander of the Jijia Division? The 6th Brigade has not had any large-scale operations, if the commander of the Jijia Division can transfer a wing from the 6th Brigade to help in the battle, the Nanjing Garrison should give up Guanghuamen, our losses in the past few days are indeed not small, but the losses of the Nanjing Garrison are more serious, now is our best opportunity to attack the city of Nanjing, as long as we can convince His Excellency the division commander, then there will be no problem at all! ”
What people said was similar to what Jing Shuxuan thought in his heart, but he was not sure that the commander of the Ji Jialiang Auxiliary Division would agree to his request, and the commander of the 6th Brigade Major General Akiyama Yoshiyoshi had always stood on the side of the commander of the Ji Jialiang Auxiliary Division, and Jing Shuxuan's attack on Guanghua Gate The head of the Ji Jialiang Auxiliary Division and the commander of the Akiyama Yiyun Brigade did not express support from beginning to end, and it is difficult to say whether the commander of the Ji Jialiang Auxiliary Division has any thoughts in his heart now facing the 18th Brigade, Jing Shuxuanshi is now most worried that his request for help will become an excuse for the commander of Ji Jialiang's auxiliary division to replace the 18th Brigade with the 6th Brigade, the Nanjing garrison of Guanghuamen is already at the end of the strong crossbow under the continuous operation of the 18th Brigade, and now let Akiyama Yoshiyoshi's 6th Brigade come to attack the city, isn't that for Akiyama Yoshiyoshi to pick up ready-made?
But if you don't ask for help from the division headquarters, who can you go to? Commander Matsui Ishine has made it clear that he wants to make the 18th Brigade look good, and if he can't take the Guanghua Gate and attack Nanjing City when he is announced, then the Central China Front Headquarters will definitely give the 18th Brigade small shoes to wear.
Looking at Jing Shuxuan's tightly knit brows, he couldn't help but say the suspicion in his heart when he saw Xiu Sanzuo: "What? His Excellency the division commander is not willing to support our 18 brigade? Could it be that His Excellency the Division Commander intends to make the 6th Brigade meritorious? ”
Jing Shuxuanshi nodded heavily, now even the three major leaders of the show can see that the division commander has other candidates in his heart, and Jing Shuxuanshi is even more sure that he can't ask the division headquarters for help! Gotta think of something else!
"Or ...... Contact the 3rd Division and the 16th Division? They are not far away, Zhongshan and Yuhuatai are difficult to fight, if you ask them for help, you should be rewarded, but the credit for entering Nanjing first will be awarded to the 3rd Division and the 16th Division......."
If the 6th Brigade takes over the position of the 18th Brigade, then the credit for entering Nanjing first has nothing to do with the 18th Brigade, in this way, it is better to cheapen the 3rd Division and the 16th Division, Guanghuamen is the attack point of the 9th Division, and the troops sent by the 3rd Division and the 16th Division will not be too many, and the biggest hero at that time will still be the 18th Brigade, at least half of it!
It couldn't be easier to choose between 50% and 0, and twenty minutes later, the two messengers with Jing Shuxuan's handwritten book left one after another, and the judgment of the people who saw Xiu Sanzuo was indeed right. The 3rd and 16th Divisions, which had not yet made a substantial breakthrough in their respective directions, expressed their willingness to cooperate with the 18th Brigade, and the courier returned with four full infantry brigades, and the 3rd and 16th Divisions each sent two brigades.
Jing Shuxuan, who had been replenished by troops, once again launched a fierce attack on Guanghua Gate!
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Shelling! It's shelling again!
Song Xilian's spirit has been in a state of extreme tension these days, Xie Wendong's independent 47 brigade evacuated Guanghuamen in the early morning of the 24th, close to eighty percent of the casualty rate has made Xie Wendong's troops completely incapacitated, passing through the defense area of the 99th Division, Xie Wendong handed over the hundreds of soldiers who could still fight under his hands to Shen Lao Er, he himself led three companies with the 36th Division, the special service regiment and the independent 47 Brigade of nearly 3,000 wounded and sick out of the water west gate to retreat to Wuhu, this is Huang Haoran personally gave Xie Wendong an order.
After more than 80 hours of fighting at Guanghuamen, Song Xilian's 36th Division has been sharply reduced to about 1,500 people, and now almost all the officers and soldiers on the city wall are subordinates of He Daru of the 99th Army Special Service Regiment, and his 8,000 guns are still about sixty percent, which means that in more than three days, the Nanjing garrison sacrificed more than 4,000 people in Guanghuamen.
The corpses transferred to the rear were cremated by the river after the registration was made, Huang Haoran did not have enough troops to bury these martyrs, he could only bury the ashes together and bury the officers and soldiers who fought side by side with the Japanese army, Wang Huanzhi copied a stone tablet from a landlord's house in Pukou, Huang Haoran asked the craftsmen in the army to engrave the words "Monument to the Heroes of the Anti-Japanese War" on it and stand by the river, in order to prevent the devil from destroying the mausoleum of these anti-Japanese war soldiers, The monument was deliberately placed far away from the place where the ashes were buried, and Huang Haoran ordered the staff officers of the headquarters to take pictures and set up markers, and when little Japan was driven away, he also built a cemetery for these soldiers.
Song Xilian compressed the remaining officers and soldiers of the 36th Division into a regiment, so that it was more convenient to command, the mountain artillery on the city wall was saved under the fire retaliation of the Japanese army, and there were a considerable number of mountain artillery shells in the military supplies transported from Wuhan, Huang Haoran concentrated all the remaining mountain artillery in the Ming Palace and cut an artillery position, and the shells fired from here could support the battlefield of Zhongshan Gate and Guanghua Gate at the same time, and the Nanjing garrison finally welcomed back the long-lost artillery.
The Japanese sappers have completely filled the moat outside the Guanghua Gate, and the devil's chariots and armored vehicles have driven to the Ming city wall one after another, and the Japanese infantry have reorganized themselves with these Iron King Eight as a cover, and a large number of ladders have been driven out, and the devils who can't break through the city gate step on the ladders to climb the city wall.
He Daru set his regimental headquarters directly on the Ming city wall, and the ammunition consumption of continuous combat was alleviated to a certain extent after the arrival of the transport ship in Wuhan, and in the face of the dense Japanese army under the city wall, grenades and gasoline bombs became the most convenient weapons, even if a child only learned to pull off the fuse, it could also cause great damage to the Japanese army, and the officers and soldiers of the special service regiment liked to do the most was to take a grenade and then pull off the fuse and "scatter" it under the city wall, this almost childlike naughty tactic made the devil have a headache, Japanese tanks can block bullets for infantry, but they have no way to take these explosives, shrapnel bounces out on the steel plate of the tank and causes a larger killing area, after a number of Japanese squads were wiped out, Jing Shuxuan ordered that the Japanese soldiers under the city wall must keep a certain distance from each other, but such a new problem has arisen again, the ladder is originally a siege equipment that requires group cooperation, and three or two Japanese soldiers can't control the huge ladder at all, In addition, the Nanjing garrison on the city wall kept pushing the devil's ladder with a fork, so from time to time there were devil soldiers in mid-air to stage a trapeze drama, falling from more than ten meters away, even if they were not dead, they were crippled, and this scene was not improved until the Japanese concentrated mortars and infantry artillery to suppress the Nanjing garrison on the city wall.
The 4 infantry battalions of the 3rd Division and the 16th Division provided the 18th Brigade with a new tactic, and Captain Adachi of the 3rd Division suggested using explosives to blow down a section of the Ming wall, which Jing Shuxuan immediately adopted.
The two Japanese military trucks that suddenly appeared on the moat made He Daru feel the danger, he quickly ordered mortars and heavy machine guns to concentrate fire on the two military trucks, under the powerful fire that poured down on the city wall, the Japanese military truck running in front of it had a huge explosion, 1000 kilograms of explosives exploded with great power, He Daru even felt that the Ming city wall under his feet was shaking, some soldiers stood unsteadily under the shock wave of the explosion and fell to the ground, many people temporarily lost their hearing, A large crater was formed four or five meters away from the center of the explosion, and the devil's truck was blown to pieces, and the truck behind it was also affected, and the cab was blown into twists.
"Give me the truck in the back! Blow up the little devil next to you! ”
He Daru now that he already knows that the devil wants to blow up the city wall, he should simply strike first! He ordered the defenders on the city wall to concentrate their firepower to encircle and suppress the second Japanese truck that could not be driven, after understanding the plan of the Nanjing garrison, the Japanese army behind the truck immediately began to scatter and flee for their lives, just now the first truck has given them a demonstration, there is no living person left in more than ten meters, and now they are facing an explosion of the same scale, and the little devils only hate their father and mother for giving them two legs!
If you run fast, you can live, and if you run slowly, you can only go to the Yasukuni Shrine, two 82mm mortar shells hit the truck compartment one after another, and the explosives stacked in the compartment by the Japanese army finally got angry, and the back of the truck flew to a height about the same height as the Ming city wall and then fell heavily, if that little devil was smashed by this big guy, it would be really choking!
He Daru's ears sounded like a train, it seems that the hearing will not be restored for a while, after these two big explosions, the Japanese attack stopped, He Daru took the opportunity to smoke a cigarette and take a rest, he is now completely intoxicated with the joy of fighting with the Japanese army, the original decision to betray the 1st Army by the river was right, if he He Daru followed Li Tiejun across the river now I am afraid that he will be poked by the people to scold the soft bones, and follow the 99th Army to have meat to eat, Although this sentence circulated in the Nanjing garrison is a bit vulgar, it really makes sense.
In the past few days, the little devil who has fallen in front of Guanghua Gate has two or three thousand, and there must be a thousand and eight hundred people assigned to the head of the special service group, just with this record, he may be able to get a military commander to do it in the future, He Daru thought about it, and accidentally burned his fingers by a cigarette.
The devil still hasn't moved, so he should be holding back some bad ideas......
This calm lasted for more than 30 minutes, and the devils on the east bank moved again, this time the 18th Brigade adopted the old tactics, the chariots covered the infantry charge, and the artillery suppressed the fire of the defenders on the city wall.
Everything seems to be back to the normal track, the devil is attacking, He Da is like a guard, the locust-like bullets are intertwined in the sky, some are shot up by the Japanese army, and some are shot down by the Nanjing garrison, these small things made in the munitions factory take a lot of lives from Guanghuamen every minute, and the people who are dying are lucky, and those who are more unlucky than them are those who are seriously injured but do not die, the hospitals of the 99th Army in the Gulou National Security Zone have long been overloaded, Even if a large number of civilians were ordinary medical personnel to help, it was impossible for Huang Haoran to prepare a medical force for an army to meet the needs of tens of thousands of wounded soldiers in the Nanjing garrison, which is why he asked Xie Wendong to take the wounded to Wuhu.
There is an extreme shortage of doctors, medicines, and even wards, and the wounded who have been brought down from the line of fire are even kept in the open courtyards.
Even if they can't get timely treatment, the wounded of the Nanjing garrison do not have a trace of complaints, for them who are soldiers, it is a very lucky thing to be carried to the hospital and then die, at least, their bodies have a place to park, on the battlefield of Songhu, I don't know how many anti-Japanese soldiers are lying on the side of the road for the brutes to bite, China and Japan have been fighting in Shanghai for three months, and those stray wild dogs are obviously fat!
In Nanjing, at least they don't have to expose their bodies on the streets, these soldiers who have shed their blood for the country only have such a small request......
General Huang didn't lie to us, he died... There really is a place to bury! (To be continued.) )