Chapter 70: The City Breaks

"Boom ......Boom" A deafening roar woke Tang Cheng from his slumber, followed by a violent shaking of the mountains, and a huge roar of qi, Tang Cheng was violently lifted into the air before he could open his eyes, and flew out like a dead leaf, and then fell heavily into a pile of rubble under the city wall. Damn" Tang Cheng only had time to curse for half a sentence, and he was already filled with dust in the air.

A stench mixed with the smell of earth, blood, and corpses suddenly entered the nose, yes, it was the smell of blood, and there was a strong smell of corpses. A few meters away from where Tang Cheng fell, it was the place where the corpses of the fallen soldiers were dealt with, and even though it was December, the corpses covered under the coarse cloth had begun to emit the smell of corpses. This was the smell of battlefield and death, Tang Cheng seemed to be used to this smell, and just rubbed his neck and got up from the ground.

Shaking and holding on to the wall and walking a few steps, a feeling of dizziness made Tang Cheng's legs weak and sat on the ground, huge explosions sounded one after another, and the huge sense of crisis made Tang Cheng a little flustered, he seemed to be separated from Liu Goat, no Liu Goat, no nine catties, and no one of the people of the second company was in Tang Cheng's sight, in the Guanghuamen position full of guns and shouts of killing, Tang Cheng has now become a lonely person.

"What's wrong with me?" The explosions made Tang Cheng's heart feel like he had been hit hard, and he kept slapping his head with his hand, Tang Cheng wanted to find out the answer. The most memorable memory in his mind is the scene when the Japanese tank outside the city gate was destroyed by the anti-aircraft artillery, and then he was quietly pulled down the city gate by Liu Goat, and then, he didn't remember it with his kindness. Tang Cheng seemed to be startled by the thought in his head, and immediately stood up and looked left and right.

A suffocating scene of war suddenly leaped into his eyes, and as far as the eye could see, there were crumbling blackened streets, collapsed and burning houses, and corpses strewn all over the place. The sky was gloomy, the smoke was dense, and the streamers dragged the long tail flames from the sky continuously, and then suddenly fell down not far away, and suddenly there were clusters of dazzling strong lights, and then the earth shook violently, and Tang Cheng, who had finally gotten up, was suddenly overturned to the ground again.

"Brothers, fight with the little devils of the dog day, kill it." A hoarse but murderous roar suddenly sounded in Tang Cheng's ears. Turning his head to look, he saw some soldiers in light yellow coarse cloth uniforms rushing forward violently in a straggler formation, "Huh...... Rumble! A short, poignant scream was followed by a loud explosion.

A soldier just ran to Tang Cheng, his body was slammed, and then as if he was pushed down hard, he fell straight back, Tang Cheng lay on the ground and looked up, only to see that there was a small blood hole in the middle of the unlucky guy's forehead, but the skull behind his head was completely lifted by shrapnel, and the fleshy brain plasma mixed with blood plasma was suddenly smeared on the ground.

"Whew...... Rumble! A short, terrible scream was followed by a loud explosion. Tang Cheng lay on the ground and held his head in his hands, and when he raised his head again, he saw that there were already several large pits not far in front of him, and the pit was full of green smoke, and several national soldiers who had just broken into this position were gone, only one soldier was wailing miserably on the edge of the pit with his hands on the ground, but his torso below the waist was gone.

"Lying down" was accompanied by a fierce note like a burst bean, and the dazzling tongue of fire blew in front of Tang Cheng like the wind, and Tang Cheng, who had no time to react, knelt in place like a fool and didn't know how to dodge, seeing that the tongue of fire was about to pounce on Tang Cheng's body, with a loud shout, Tang Cheng, who was unable to give up, was thrown to the ground by a figure that flashed next to him. The snake-like gray pillar passed by Tang Cheng's legs, and as the snake continued to advance, a strong soldier with a strong body first slammed his body, and then fell straight to the back like a sawn down log, before he fell to the ground, his neck had been blown off by the bullet, and his broad chest was almost beaten into a sieve.

"Didn't you say that you should follow well? You can't even fucking do that, what else can you do? When the Japanese tank was destroyed by the 87th Division's anti-aircraft artillery, Liu Goat quietly took the people of the second company down to the city gate position. The madness of the Japanese army and the low morale of the defending troops made Liu Goat have a bad premonition, and the second company was only temporarily under the command of Xie Chengrui, and Liu Goat did not want to fill the second company into the Guanghuamen position.

Guanghuamen was fighting in the dark, and Liu Goat couldn't contact his old boss 88th Division, and the arrival of the 87th Division gave Liu Goat a new understanding of the situation in Nanjing. Although Liu Goat is a veteran ruffian, he is also a person who wants to live, seeing that Nanjing can not be held, Liu Goat started to think carefully, as long as he finds that Guanghuamen is about to be broken by the Japanese army, he will not hesitate to take Tangcheng and them to leave first.

Quietly notified everyone in the second company, and then led them to withdraw from the city gate position, all this seemed to be going very smoothly, in order to avoid being taught the second regiment to see through their little tricks, Liu Goat took Tang Cheng to tear down the city gate and then stayed under the city wall, making a temporary rest and recuperation. Who knew that it was because of this stay, after leaving the city gate 2 intersections, Liu Goat found that Tang Cheng was not in the queue, and asked everyone to say that he didn't know what to do, Liu Goat had to return to the city gate with hatred to find Tang Cheng, and happened to save Tang Cheng's life.

Tang Cheng lowered his head meaninglessly and didn't dare to look at Liu Goat's face, but he knew that Liu Goat's face must be ugly at the moment, if he hadn't fallen asleep under the city wall, maybe Liu Goat wouldn't have run back to find him. "What are you doing on the ground? Playing dead? Get up and walk with Lao Tzu, and wait until the place is cleaning you up. Looking at Tang Cheng's appearance that he had already made a mistake, Liu Goat kicked Tang Cheng angrily, and then he couldn't help laughing.

"Quick, follow me, if you lose it this time, you can live by yourself." Before Tang Cheng could give Liu Goat a smile, the latter suddenly changed his face, snatched the Mauser rifle and the satchel containing grenades and grenades in Tang Cheng's hand, and ran into an alley near the left with his feet. Tang Cheng, who didn't know what was going on, was a little confused, but he didn't dare not follow, or Liu Goat would really have left him alone.

As soon as the two of them ran more than ten meters away, there was already a panicked shout in their ears, and when Liu Goat rushed into the alley with Tang Cheng without danger, the mournful whimper of the hand-cranked air defense siren also sounded at the same time. "Keep running, don't stop, don't leave here, we're all going to eat the bombs dropped by the little devil's plane." As soon as Tang Cheng's pace slowed down, he attracted Liu Goat's reprimand, Tang Cheng had no choice but to endure the discomfort in his chest, and used his strength to follow Liu Goat closely, running towards the depths of the alley.

What appeared in the sky were several Japanese fighters with plaster patterns on their wings, and Tang Cheng in the alley subconsciously squinted his eyes and looked up at the sky. At this moment, someone outside the alley suddenly cheered loudly, only to see two fighter jets with the blue sky and white sun logo on the wings flying from the opposite direction, their posture was light and vigorous, the speed seemed to be very fast, and in a blink of an eye, they swept over the Guanghua Gate, and the blue sky and white sun sign under the wings made the entire Guanghua Gate thunderous.

This was the first time in a few days that the figure of our fighter plane appeared here at Guanghua Gate, and many soldiers on the battlefield joined in the cheers, some waving their rifles or steel helmets, and some waving their arms excitedly. I saw these two national fighters rushing towards the Japanese fighters with a pleasant humming sound, and took the lead in making a "da-da-da" cannon sound. Since it was daytime, standing on the ground and looking up, only the traces of bullets with tracer bullets could be faintly recognized, but this did not prevent the soldiers on the position from cheering and cheering for their fighters.

Fighting is fighting, and they don't tilt the scales of victory with the large number of cheerleaders on that side, and in this short air battle, the Japanese army, which clearly had the advantage in the number of fighters, locked in the final victory. The Nationalist fighters fired first, but the six Japanese fighters immediately swung their wings sharply to dodge, and the first round of firing of the Nationalist fighters did not hit a single enemy plane. This made the soldiers of the national army watching the battle on the ground, including Tang Cheng who was in a small box, couldn't help but hang their hearts.

The two Nationalist fighters, which were at an absolute disadvantage in numbers, quickly pulled up their noses, but the speed of the Japanese fighters seemed to be even faster than them, and they found that they had been stacked and targeted, and the Nationalist fighters immediately changed to level flight and turned sharply. The long shot, which lasted for four or five seconds, caused one of the Nationalist fighters to fold its wings in the air, and then tumbled and fell to the ground like a bird with broken wings, and finally turned into a large ball of fireball with a loud bang.

The Nationalist soldiers on the ground let out a sigh in unison, and the remaining Nationalist fighter plane was lonely, and after a few rounds, it was firmly bitten by the Japanese fighter and finally fell to the ground, and the sky of Guanghuamen now belonged completely to the Japanese. Huge aerial bombs with a sharp whistling sound fell from the Japanese bombers that arrived after them, and large clouds of dust and mud were suddenly stirred up on the ground at the city gate and the surrounding areas, and craters of different sizes appeared here at Guanghua Gate, and the collapsed city wall that had been repaired with sandbags collapsed again.

"The city is broken, and the little devils have entered the city." The tsunami-like shouts from the main city gate made Liu Goat and Tang Cheng stop in unison, and after glancing at each other, Liu Goat dragged Tang Cheng forward desperately, if Guanghua Gate was really broken by the Japanese army, staying in the city could only be a dead end, Liu Goat remembered what the people of the 87th Division said that day, he was going to take the people of the second company to Rujiang Gate, where there was a boat to cross the river.