Chapter 272: The Restoration of Nanjing (2)
However, Wu Xiaoyun didn't think so, although Leng Feng's order had to be carried out, the result of the battle must not only be to occupy the Capital Hotel, but to completely annihilate the people inside.
Although she left a way for the Japanese soldiers inside to survive as instructed, it is difficult to say whether they have a chance to use it.
"Counselor Wu, let's attack."
Wu Xiaoyun shook his head slightly, before the time came, the gunfire in the building had only reached the third floor, and it was obvious that the resistance inside was very fierce, and rushing in at this time would produce huge casualties.
She is well aware of the shortcomings of the National Salvation Division, and cannot make unnecessary sacrifices, and win the greatest victory with the smallest casualties, which is one of the principles of tonight's action.
"Staff Officer Wu, urgent battle report, a Japanese army of about two hundred people is advancing rapidly along Zhongshan North Road in the direction of Rujiangmen!"
Wu Xiaoyun frowned slightly, Japanese army, where did the Japanese army come from?
"Intelligence shows that it is a Japanese military police unit stationed in Nanjing."
Wu Xiaoyun's face changed slightly, the Capital Hotel had already cut off the internal and external power supply and wired communication, even if it was wireless communication, it would take at least five or six minutes from the order to the dispatch.
But now that less than five minutes have passed since the attack, how has the efficiency of the Japanese army become so fast, or have they had some special telephone lines for external communication that have not been discovered?
Whatever the reason for the Japanese to come so quickly, there is only one option now, to send a blocking force immediately.
"Battalion Commander Shi, please send a platoon to immediately block the Japanese reinforcements, and be sure to stop the enemy for more than twenty minutes!" Wu Xiaoyun immediately gave an order to Camp Commander Shi with gestures.
Battalion Commander Shi knew that the stakes were important, so he originally left a company of reserves and transferred a platoon to block the Japanese army. Not a big problem.
Fujikawa assembles the gendarmerie. After converging with Masao Ikeda. They ran all the way along Zhongshan North Road, but what they never expected was.
The headquarters of the Dispatch Army, the Capital Hotel, was also attacked, and the fierce gunfire, the skyrocketing fire and thick smoke all showed that the enemy was attacking.
"Shaozuo, what should I do?" Fujikawa was a little scared. What the hell is going on tonight, where did these Zhina troops come from, aren't they in Qinglong Mountain outside the city?
"Fujikawa-kun, you and I are divided into two roads, you go through this road and take a detour......"
"What about you, Shaozuo?" Fujikawa asked in surprise.
"I'll lead people on, and you and I will attack at the same time to relieve the siege of the headquarters." Masao Ikeda ordered quickly.
"Hay!"
Masao Ikeda didn't know what was going on, but he had the same instincts as Kenji Dohihara. Tonight's action was planned and premeditated.
This is not a simple attack.
The Chinese chose to attack at this time. It was unexpected.
A few minutes later, Masao Ikeda exchanged fire with the first battalion, three companies, and one platoon of the blocking detachment.
The blocking troops entered the advantageous positions on both sides of the road in advance, launched a surprise attack on the Japanese troops, and suppressed the crossfire, so that Ikeda Masao could not lift his head at once.
It seems that the Chinese army that attacked the headquarters of the dispatch army was definitely not a grass platform, but a well-trained elite army.
How did they get into the city of Nanjing?
Masao Ikeda couldn't figure out whether the Chinese would still be able to fly away.
"Hit, hit me hard!" The platoon commander of the third company who commanded the interception grabbed a southern pistol and kept shooting, and the ballistic fire was like a meteor flying down, beautiful and cruel.
As the battle began, it entered the stage of life and death, and people continued to fall, both Japanese and national salvation divisions.
The Central Military Academy of the Army, now the headquarters of the 16th Division of the Japanese Army.
"Moses Moses, what, can't be reached, the telephone line of the Dispatch Army Command is considered to be cut off......"
"Immediately transfer a squadron to support the dispatch command!" Nakajima has experienced many bad situations in his life, but there has never been a time when I felt bad like tonight.
This feeling has been lingering since I received the news that Rujiangmen had been attacked.
"Report to the commander of the division, the Zhina army was found outside the Zhonghua Gate, there are thousands of people, they have rushed to Saihongqiao, and they are storming the Zhonghua Gate!"
"What, storming the Zhonghua Gate, just relying on the belongings of the Zhina people, there is no heavy artillery, and they still want to attack the heavily defended city, it's just a dream......"
As soon as the word "dream" came out, a loud noise was heard, and the earth shook.
A shell from a 150 howitzer fell in the barracks of the Central Military Academy, and half of a squad of a guard at the regimental headquarters of the 16th Division did not even have a chance to leave a last word, so they went directly to see Amaterasu.
Ming Imperial Palace, the barracks of the Japanese Heavy Artillery Wing, Du Shan reached out and wiped his sweaty face, and shook his big hand tightly with Xie Zaoshi, the commander of the artillery battalion who came to receive the Japanese heavy artillery.
"Camp Commander Xie, I'll leave it to you below!"
"Captain Du is polite, from now on, let the Japanese see the demeanor of our Chinese artillery!" Xie Zaoshi laughed, capturing the Japanese heavy artillery was a key to tonight's operation.
Basically, as long as the heavy artillery is controlled, it is equivalent to being invincible.
"We still have a tank brigade to solve, you are safe and pay attention to yourself, the Japanese army will definitely give up their heavy artillery easily." Du Shan reminded.
"Release, our artillery is not vegetarian either." Xie Zaoshi smiled.
"Battalion commander, it's started, it's ......"
"Hear me, where did you hit?" Xie Zaoshi asked the soldier who reported with a dark face.
"I, I didn't pay attention to ......" The soldier who operated the cannon blushed, just now he was only concerned about testing the cannon, forgetting to calibrate the Zhuyuan, and he didn't know where the first shell went.
"You scumbag, do you know how expensive this cannonball is?" Xie Zaoshi scolded, "Even if it's a test gun, you have to find a target, whether it's accurate or not, let's shoot it first, haven't I taught you?" ”
"Battalion commander, I was wrong!"
"Thinking you're a first-time offender, forget it this time. Fast. Not ready for battle yet. Xie Zaoshi scolded. In fact, how can he look half angry, twenty-four 150 howitzers, although he is now a battalion commander, but according to the establishment of the Central Army, he must at least be the commander of an artillery regiment.
Looking at the complete heavy artillery snatched from the Japanese, his heart was about to jump out with excitement, it was like twenty-four stunning beauties in front of him, and the cannon clothes that were being torn off were like the light veils draped on the beauties. Slowly faded. Go, revealing the beautiful posture of the ice muscle and snow skin inside.
"Battalion commander, where is our first target?"
"Zhonghua Gate, three rapid shots!"
"Yes!"
"Goal, Zhonghua Gate...... Reload, fire! ”
Twenty-four cannonballs rose into the air, streaked through twenty-four extremely beautiful arcs in the night sky, and flew in the direction of Zhonghua Gate.
The Japanese troops who were attacked on the Zhonghua Gate position and were struggling saw the shells flying from the rear, and let out joyful cries one by one, and the end of the people of China had arrived.
"Liang Dong. It's the heavy artillery of the Japanese, lie down quickly! "On the battlefield of Songhu. Wu Xinhua, who had been bombed by heavy Japanese artillery, screamed in horror.
The Japanese heavy artillery was too powerful, and when one shot came down, there was a large pit of more than ten meters, dozens of casualties, and several rounds of artillery bombardment, and a regiment of Sichuan troops was beaten to pieces, and the casualties were heavy.
Therefore, for the heavy artillery of the Japanese army, Wu Xinhua and the Sichuan army of the seventh detachment under his command had an instinctive fear.
The forward commander of the seventh detachment of the Sichuan Army, a company commander of the Sichuan Army, who was also frightened and inexplicable, shouted desperately as ...... as he charged.
The officers and men of the 7th detachment of the Sichuan Army hurriedly looked for cover one by one and prepared to dodge the shells, but the Japanese troops on the city wall position rushed down from the preparation with excited screams.
The Japanese commander was very smart, and it was rare to seize such a good record, and the attack formation of the Chinese army would definitely collapse and disperse under the blow of heavy artillery, and this was a favorable time to counterattack and expand the results of the battle.
The offensive and defensive sides are about to make a big reversal!
Only Liang Dong looked at the cannonballs flying from the east, his expression was calm, and he did not panic at all.
"Chief Instructor Liang, quickly hide ......"
"Look!" Liang Dong stretched out his hand and pointed lightly, and a scene that shocked all the officers and soldiers of the seventh detachment of the Sichuan Army appeared, all the 150 heavy artillery shells fired from the city not only did not fall on their heads, but all of them smashed down on the Japanese position!
The Japanese troops who were preparing to charge after the shelling, without the slightest defense, were bombed and cried wolf, suffered heavy casualties, and after a round of shelling, there were not many Japanese troops left on the frontal walled position!
"What's going on?" Wu Xinhua looked at this scene tremblingly, he couldn't believe his eyes, how could the Japanese bomb their own people?
The commander of the Japanese army, a Japanese second lieutenant on the position, was thrown in the air by the air wave generated by the explosion, and was thrown directly in front of the attacking seventh detachment of the Sichuan army.
The Japanese second lieutenant was stunned, and the officers and soldiers of the seventh detachment of the Sichuan army were also a little dumbfounded, not knowing what to do, and when he got up, the distance between the two sides was only three or five meters.
What's going on?
"Dog's little devil, kill!" A Sichuan soldier who lost his fellow villagers in the Battle of Songhu had red eyes, and he didn't think much about it at all, and directly pounced on the Japanese second lieutenant.
"Kill!"
The Ming Imperial Palace, the heavy artillery position of the National Salvation Division.
"Adjust a close position backwards, a salvo!" Xie Zaoshi calmly ordered.
"Yes!" The herald waved the order flag in his hand to convey Xie Zaoshi's order.
Knock Knock......
Before the Japanese troops at the Zhonghua Gate could figure out what was going on, the second round of shells fell again, this time not to extend the blow forward, but to the back, that is, the shells not only hit forward, but backward.
If this is not deliberate, there is only one possibility, the Japanese heavy artillery wing in the city has mutinied, and their own people will fight their own people.
"General Wu, order the troops to charge, our men have already captured the position of the Japanese heavy artillery wing, this is the artillery battalion of the National Salvation Division is cooperating with us to attack the city!" If there is still a possibility that the first round of shelling will be missed, and this second round of such accurate shelling cannot explain the problem, then there is a real problem.
Obviously, Xie Zaoshi and his artillery battalion had successfully taken over the Japanese heavy artillery wing.
The duty officer who Leng Feng let go at the beginning, I didn't expect it to play such a big role today, if it weren't for him, it would really not be easy for the artillery battalion to take over the Japanese heavy artillery wing easily.
Then I have to ask where the Japanese heavy artillery wing went, of course it was captured, Du Shan and Xie Zaoshi did not kill anyone, artillery belongs to the technical arms, Leng Feng specially explained, as long as the officers and soldiers are detained separately, if there is trouble, kill the leader, and if there is no trouble, do not kill people for the time being.
The 15th Wing of the Independent Field Artillery, Wing Commander Sumita Benshiro Osa, abbreviation: Stupid Death Osa.
Of course, he is not really stupid, it can only be said that his luck is not very good, just in time, he was deceived out of the barracks by Du Shan using Chizhong, and then smoothly entered the wing headquarters, controlled the wing headquarters in one fell swoop, and then gathered the troops, disarmed, and took down the heavy artillery wing without much effort.
Before the Japanese artillerymen could figure out the situation, they themselves became prisoners, tied up one by one, and imprisoned in their own barracks.
The officers were also detained separately, and the Japanese army had no ability to resist at all, so who would take the lead?
The Japanese troops stationed at Zhonghua Gate were dazed by the shells of their own heavy artillery wing, and they did not understand what was going on, and when the call reached the headquarters of the heavy artillery wing, no one answered at all.
Of course, this is intentional.
The headquarters of the 16th Division was also stunned by the first shot, this was obviously a shell fired by its own heavy artillery wing, how could it hit its own division and regimental headquarters?
This gun is easy to misfire, understandable, I haven't heard that artillery is also easy to misfire, even if it's not careful, then it won't be able to fire at your own people, right?
Nakajima was so annoyed that he immediately ordered the communications and intelligence department to find out the situation.
However, the news he received was the same as that of the defenders of Zhonghua Gate, that the telephone of the independent heavy artillery wing stationed in the Ming Imperial Palace could not be reached, and there was no answer to the radio call.
Out of the sensitivity of the military. sense, Nakajima felt that something was wrong, and immediately sent a liaison team to the Ming Palace to see what was going on.
Before his liaison detachment reached the West Chang'an Gate, it was loaded into the forward battalion of the second detachment led by Ju Youlin, and after a fierce exchange of fire, it was wiped out in less than two minutes.
Subsequently, fierce gunfire was also heard in the direction of Zhongshan Gate, and the battle seemed to ignite the entire city of Nanjing at once.
The whole city of Nanking was filled with gunfire, east, west, north and south, and then, almost all wired communications were cut off.
Some armed elements occupied key places such as post and telecommunications buildings and power plants.
The Japanese troops in the city were all stunned, some did not know what was going on, did not know where to go, and those who were attacked only knew that they were passively fighting back, and those who were not attacked, did not understand the situation, and did not dare to come out of the barracks easily.
Because they don't know what kind of blow awaits them if they step out of the barracks, and the defense of the barracks is at least more than the streets outside.
Maybe it's not the same to hold on and wait until dawn tomorrow, when everything is clear.
However, this may be just wishful thinking.
On this Chinese New Year's Eve, Nanjing City is much more lively than usual, and the sound of guns and cannons replaces the fireworks set off by the people for the New Year. (To be continued.) )