There are only four people left in the second company now, Zhou Fu, who was sent to the ambulance station, failed to wake up because of excessive blood loss, and they didn't even see Zhou Fu's most rearmost side in Tangcheng, and the bodies of all the dead and wounded will be buried in a unified manner, so when they rushed to the aid station in Tangcheng, all they saw was the leather waist bag that Zhou Fu never left his body. "Let's go, remember what we said last night, as long as you don't die, remember to burn incense and paper for the old brothers." The person has passed away, but the war is not over yet, Liu Goat, who has only rested for one night, saw a platoon of reinforcements sent by Xie Chengrui, which means that the second company is going to the battlefield again.

The reinforcements sent by Xie Chengrui looked like they hadn't fought before, and their eyes were more afraid and confused, and Liu Goat scolded Xie Chengrui for not being a thing. Fortunately, Xie Chengrui gave Liu Goat a face and promoted Tang Cheng's rank to sergeant, otherwise Liu Goat dared to rush to the regimental headquarters of the Second Regiment to scold Xie Chengrui.

"I said that the dog day was so kind to replenish the source of soldiers for Lao Tzu, and the dog day was defeated last night and was driven back to the city by the little devil." Liu Goat, who went to get the ammunition and came back, smiled happily, as if Xie Chengrui could grow two catties of meat after losing the battle. 30 Mauser rifles, 3,000 rounds of rifle ammunition, a Japanese light machine gun with 1,200 rounds of ammunition and a new Czech light machine gun with 2,000 rounds of ammunition, these are all the weapons and ammunition of the 34 people of the second company, of course, Liu Goat also got a few Japanese oval grenades for Tang Cheng.

"Ball, it's just right without grenades, so it's better that we don't have to play with the iron shell of the little devil." Nian Zi didn't find a grenade in the ammunition box, and was grinding with Liu Goat, but Liu Goat sprayed his face with saliva. Seeing Liu Goat scolding and chirping in front of those supplementary soldiers, Tang Cheng, who was wiping his gun, couldn't help but roll his eyes, there are people everywhere who teach the Second Regiment, if these whining words reach Xie Chengrui's ears, it may be difficult for the Second Company to apply for ammunition from the Second Regiment in the future.

Fortunately, Liu Goat is not a stupid person, seeing the dissatisfaction in Tang Cheng's eyes, Liu Goat casually said a few perfunctory words, and then took these supplementary soldiers to the city gate. The troops under the personal command of Xie Chengrui had withdrawn to the city at dawn, which meant that the 51st Division stationed in Chunhua Town had completed its retreat, and the area outside Guanghua Gate had become the control area of the Japanese army.

Before the Japanese army launched an attack on Guanghuamen, wiping the gun became the choice of most soldiers, and Tang Cheng, who had already wiped the barge gun, would deal with his Mauser rifle. Liu Goat's brand-new military uniforms and cotton coats for the four of them are very conspicuous in the city defense troops, but Xie Chengrui, who is busy arranging fortifications, has no time to come to Liu Goat's trouble, and the melee outside the city last night made the second battalion under Xie Chengrui's personal command lose his troops, and he has no energy to deal with Liu Goat at all now.

All the troops outside the Guanghua Gate were withdrawn, Xie Chengrui pressed all the troops he could mobilize on the Guanghua Gate, the Japanese army was still attacking, looking from outside the Guanghua Gate, the entire Guanghua Gate was silent, and it was completely impossible to see the strict battle inside the city gate. On the slope less than a kilometer away from Guanghua Gate, a telescope is staring at Guanghua Gate, the owner of the telescope is an intelligence officer of the 36th Wing of the Japanese Army, his task is to observe the defenders of Guanghua Gate closely, but unfortunately he has been lurking here for 2 hours, but he has not found anything practical.

"Yaga, damn the Shina people." The dejected intelligence Shaozuo slowly withdrew from the slope under a camouflage net, grabbed the kettle from the hands of the receiving soldiers, poured it violently, and poured the water in the kettle on his head as much as he could, completely ignoring the eyes of the soldiers around him. Although Xie Chengrui did not achieve 100% clear of the walls outside the city, it also made it more and more difficult for the Japanese army to find food and drinking water.

The 36th Wing, known as the Yuqingjiang unit in the 9th Division, has been smooth sailing since the landing in Shanghai and the battle, but since the beginning of the Nanjing Campaign, it has been unsmooth, first losing the battle of Chunhua Town, and then being blocked by Xie Chengrui's regiment stationed at Guanghuamen for three days. Although the division had already sent information about the defenders of China, and further fighting confirmed the authenticity of the division's information, no one in the 36th Wing, who served as the vanguard of the 9th Division, from Wing Commander Jiro Wakisaka to the soldiers below, believed that the Shina troops would be the opponent of the Imperial Japanese Army.

Wing Captain Wakisaka Jiro arrogantly thought that since Shanghai, which was heavily guarded by the Zhina, could be defeated in one battle, it was not surprising that his 36th Wing broke through the city gate of Nanjing. Driven by arrogance, Wakisaka Jiro directly sent his search team straight to Kohwamon without even sending a sharp soldier. "Let the honor of being the first to conquer the Nanjing City Gate be recorded in the name of my Wakisaka Jiro!" This was the bold words of the wing captain Wakisaka Jiro when the search team set off, but it was a pity that his search team was blocked by Xie Chengrui outside the Guanghua Gate for three days.

The defeat of the search team made Wakisaka Jiro begin to face up to his opponent, but unfortunately he did not have a lot of information related to Xie Chengrui, so after forcing back the second battalion commanded by Xie Chengrui, Wakisaka Jiro did not attack Guanghua Gate at the first time, and he also needed to conduct necessary reconnaissance on the Shina defenders guarding Guanghua Gate. It was clear that the intelligence sent by Wakisaka Jiro had not been able to detect useful information, and after consulting with his officers, Wakisaka Jiro decided to launch a tentative attack on the Kohwa Gate in order to help the artillery units lock on to the opponent's mid-range fire.

The scream that sounded in mid-air was the signal to open the curtain of battle, "Japanese artillery bombardment, hidden, hidden." "The defenders on the city wall quickly ran towards the city gate, and only a few observation posts were left on the empty city wall, and the second company was of course the first to hide in the cave of the hidden soldiers." Boom, "boom", "boom" A series of explosions sounded, Tang Cheng, who was hiding in the hiding cave, looked at the city bricks above his head with some concern, this was the first time he was hiding from the Japanese artillery bombardment in a place high above the ground, if he could choose, Tang Cheng was still willing to hide in the anti-artillery hole.

"Don't look at it, this wall is very strong, and the little devil's heavy artillery can't collapse when it comes." Before Liu Goat's words fell, he heard a muffled sound of hula outside the Tibetan Soldier Cave, and the battlements on the city wall collapsed a corner, and the city bricks that fell from the city wall made Liu Goat blush immediately. As with the previous Japanese artillery bombardment, the explosions seemed to be endless, and the soldiers of the national army hiding in the hiding holes all shrank their heads and waited honestly without receiving the order of the observation post on the city wall.

The Japanese shells from outside the city kept falling on the positions of the defenders, and the city gates were full of explosions, fires, huge air and layers of air, and dirt and stones were constantly splashing around the soldiers. The officers' shouts of "hidden, hidden" rang in the ears of the soldiers, but the sound was quickly drowned out by the explosion of the shells.

The reinforcements of the second company were obviously not very accustomed to this kind of shelling, some of them were lying on the ground of the hiding hole with their ears tightly covered and did not even dare to raise their heads, and some of them were crowded around in a panic in an attempt to find a safer place to hide, but often before they could find it, they were already rewarded with an old punch by the angry veterans. The soldiers who had taken refuge in the caves before the Japanese shells exploded were safe for the time being, but the soldiers of the Nationalist army who had no time to hide were miserable, and when the shells came, they threw their bodies high into the air, and when they fell again, the flesh and blood were already glued together with the soil.

As the Japanese shelling continued, the casualties of the defenders began to increase, but the officers under Xie Chengrui had no way to address the soldiers' fear of shelling. Shooting, hand-to-hand combat, shelling, all these things that soldiers have to go through. Some soldiers survived, and accumulated a lot of experience to become veterans like Liu Goat. The next time they are faced with this situation again, they know how to deal with it, but some people will never have a next time, and their young and enthusiastic lives will be buried here forever.

The continuous Japanese artillery bombardment suddenly stopped, and suddenly, the Guanghua Gate, which had been shrouded in smoke, became a deathly silent, frightening silence. "The Japanese army has come up and is ready to fight." The observation posts on the city walls did not bother to spit out the rubble and bricks in their mouths, and shouted at the troops below the city who were hiding from the Japanese shelling. "All in position, ready to fight!" The officers' voices rang out one after the other, quickly breaking the silence.

The soldiers were driven out of the hiding hole by the officers, and before they could even shake off the dirt off their bodies, they hurried into their combat positions with their guns. The bodies of the fallen soldiers were close by, but none of the soldiers who came out of the hiding hole had time to determine whether the dead under Japanese fire were people they knew, because they did not have time, because the Japanese began to attack.

In Liu Goat's binoculars, groups of Japanese soldiers with guns in their hands, they strode forward layer by layer, and the soldiers behind followed the footsteps of their companions in front, fearless of death and frenzied and swift attempts to approach the position of Guanghuamen. Mixed between them, Commander Cao and the lieutenants brandished their command knives and chirped a ghostly cry that no one could understand, driving the soldiers to launch an even more fierce and deadly charge.

The heavy machine guns, light machine guns, and rifles on the positions of the 2nd Regiment constituted a crossfire, and the machine gunners all pursed their lips tightly, waiting for the officers to give the order to open fire. Tang Cheng, who was also ready to shoot, subconsciously looked to his left and right, and he could even feel the determination of the soldiers around him to resist to the end, and everything was ready to wait for the Japanese soldiers to get closer.