Chapter 230: Blood-stained Niushou Mountain in the Battle of Nanjing (middle)

"What?" Hearing that the troops were about to give up the frontier positions and the mountainside positions, Guo Xiangfei, with bloodshot eyes, turned over from the stretcher, Guo Xiangfei glared at Sun Guiming and shouted: "My brothers surnamed Sun, I have all sacrificed their lives on the position. When you are the brigade commander, you will say to retreat? How to retreat? How do you let me face the brothers who died for the country? Sun Guiming! You must give me an explanation today. If you dare to be a coward, you will definitely not agree to the gun in my hand."

Sun Guiming blushed and roared angrily: "Guo Xiangfei!***Your uncle, let your mother's stinky farts. I will take a step back and let me die without a burial place. Let the Fifth Brigade see who dares to take a step back?"

Guo Xiangfei stared at Sun Guiming and cried loudly: "Then you take us back! Travelers! The remains of hundreds of brothers in my battalion are still there! Don't our Rehe Legion have a vow? Never abandon, never give up? We didn't leave a single brother's corpse in the bloody battle in Chengde!"

Sun Guiming suddenly glared: "Guo Xiangfei! Are you still a soldier? Loyal bones are buried everywhere in the green mountains, but I want to wrap my body around the horses and leaves! Where is the land not buried? We sacrificed our lives on the land of the motherland. As the commander of the army said, when we sacrificed, the national flag behind us was still flying high. This is the highest honor and realm of our soldiers. Don't ignore the overall national interests for your own personal honor."

Guo Xiangfei, covered in blood, was carried down. Looking at the frontier position with the plaster flag floating in the distance, Guo Xiangfei burst into tears! Sun Guiming stood in the command center and looked at the staff members who were packing up their things and preparing to enter the tunnel. One hundred attacking explosives were buried in the command center, and electric detonation devices were installed, and a lot of mines were buried nearby, which were all surprises left to the Japanese army.

Without the front and mountainside positions, the main peak position of Niushou Mountain was soon blown into a sea of ​​fire by the Japanese heavy artillery. The first company of the 5th Brigade Guard Battalion guarded the top position. All the officers and soldiers of the company fought to the death under the leadership of the company commander Wang Guangde. Unfortunately, the power of the Japanese heavy artillery was too great. The old fortifications a hundred years ago could not resist the fierce bombardment of the Japanese army. In the ruins of scorched earth, Chinese soldiers braved the shrapnel flying in a row to fight the Japanese army's fierce attack. Captain Wang Guangde and all 172 people from the entire company died for their country.

The rapid loss of the main peak position of Niushou Mountain was greatly beyond Sun Guiming's expectations. In order to maintain the honor of the Rehe Legion, Sun Guiming placed his most powerful sword company on the main peak position. The entire guard battalion had five combat companies. According to Sun Guiming's estimate, he persisted until at least until dawn tomorrow. In Sun Guiming's opinion, the Rehe Legion could not be the first unit to lose its position anyway.

As a result, in just forty minutes, the entire company he sent was wiped out, and Wang Guangde, Sun Guiming's favorite company commander, also sacrificed his life for the country.

It was obviously impossible to send troops to counterattack and regain the position. In desperation, Sun Guiming immediately ordered all the troops to enter the tunnel. In the wet and cold tunnel, Sun Guiming looked at the rows of minor and serious wounded people greeted each other to check the injuries. Sun Guiming remembered that when he was digging these tunnels, he once complained to Zhang Xuewu that the tunnel was too narrow and could not fit into his two regiments.

At that time, Zhang Xuewu reminded Sun Guiming to be vigilant about the military and firepower of the people, because the people were no longer the Japanese army that lacked preparations for attack and clothes for cold protection outside Chengde City. After four years of vigorous development and lying on firewood and tasting gall, the army's military strength of the *** Empire had a significant improvement, and the Japanese army's military headquarters also realized the great role of heavy artillery and chariots in attack and defense.

It can be said that Sun Guiming was also determined and prepared to completely underestimate the Japanese firepower and attack. However, the small land of Niushou Mountain is indeed not suitable for defense, lacking in-depth configuration, and also lacking effective firepower suppression of the Japanese heavy artillery troops. Since the Japanese army launched the general attack, on the one hand, all Japanese fighter jets were dispatched to compete for air supremacy in the battle areas between the two sides of Nanjing. On the other hand, the Chinese Air Force and the Flying Tigers, and the Soviet Volunteer Air Force bombing the Japanese heavy artillery troops was extremely insignificant.

When Ye Yunfei learned that the troops of Niushoushan Fortress were about to retreat into the tunnel, he put down his telescope helplessly. The Fifth Brigade of the Garrison Command under his command, plus the Second Brigade of the Teaching Brigade, a field gun group with thirty-six 75mm field guns and a howitzer group with 28 105mm howitzers, not only did the terrain of the General Mountain Fortress be relatively dangerous, but its fortifications were also built in a standardized manner, especially a large number of permanent trenches and fire support points, because the General Mountain Fortress, Qixia Mountain Fortress, and Wulong Mountain Fortress were both model display sites for the Nanjing section when the Wufu Line was built.

Its permanent fortifications of reinforced concrete are the main body, and combined with field civil fortifications, the entire fortress turret completely eliminates shooting dead spots and has sufficient guard forces. In particular, two twelve-inch large-caliber naval guns were installed on Jiang Chu and other ships in the No. 1 A and No. 1 B. The naval guns were operated by experienced naval personnel. The naval officers and soldiers who landed on the enemy for the first time were highly morale.

It can be said that the "Dragon" in the Nanjing garrison fortress is the Wulong Mountain Fortress, the "Liu" is the Lion Mountain Fortress, the "Elephant" is the Xiangshan Fortress, and the "General" is the fortification fortress garrison group with four major turrets as the main support points. These four major turrets were later constructed by Zhang Xuewu, and a large number of anti-tanks and defensive infantry trenches were built. In conjunction with the civil and field fortification system, it was supplemented by heavy troops. Among them, Yanziji Fortress, Wulong Mountain, Zijin Mountain, etc. are all within the range of artillery fire. No matter whether the Japanese army concentrates its forces to attack any fortress, the defenders on the other fortress can use artillery fire for precise support.

After the Japanese army captured Niushou Mountain, they tried to transport heavy artillery to the top of Niushou Mountain, but were bombarded by four twelve-inch cannons on the Fortress A and B No. 1 of General Mountain, three high-explosive grenades, and the second-type 38 150 mm howitzer was also blown into a pile of scrap iron.

However, the loss of heavy artillery is no longer important to the commander of the 16th Division of the Japanese Army, who had lost five infantry brigades. The most important thing is that the Imperial Army's Rising Sun Flag has floated on the top of Niushou Mountain. The 16th Division, as the Imperial Army besieged many divisions and detachments in the capital, was the first among the independent mixed brigades to break through the defense line of the *** defender first, and annihilate at least one of the *** divisions and forces. The honor of breaking through the Nanjing defense circle will belong to the 16th Division.

Nakajima Ashigo looked at his chief of staff, Colonel Nakazawa Miho, said: "Nakazawa, please send a telegram to Prince Hirohiko Asakamami. The 16th Division of our Great *** Imperial Army was the first to break through the absolute defense circle of Zhang Xuewu, the capital of Nanjing, and occupy Niushou Mountain. The heroic warriors of the 16th Division are expanding their results!"

Chief of Staff of the 16th Division, Colonel Nakazawa Miho said happily: "Secretary Commander, I'm afraid that Prince Hirohiko Asakaguchi will apply for a medal for you this time!"

Nakajima Ashigo said with a smile on his face: "Nakazawa, we are here for the great Emperor of Heaven to achieve the integration of Great East Asia. All the forces that hinder us from the Asian realm are enemies of our Great Empire. Our enemies can only have one end in the end, that is, they will be completely eliminated. Zhang Xuewu is a little capable. It is a pity that this place is not Chengde, which is cold and frozen. The 16th Division has become the Great Imperial Army, and you can watch it! In less than a week, the flag of the empire will be flying over Nanjing. Everything in Nanjing belongs to the great Great Emperor and the *** people! "

Nakazawa Mio was slightly stunned and said, "Grand Commander, Prince Hirohiko Asakamiya's decision is actually somewhat inappropriate. Prince Hirohiko Asakamiya is a royal family after all, and the command of the army he acts as a proxy is just a form and process. Is it really executing his order to lift the military discipline? The consequences will be very serious, and when the military discipline is publicly lifted in the capital of a country, it will be accompanied by a large number of *** and robberies, which will have a great impact on the reputation of the emperor."

Nakajima Imago waved his hand without caring at all: "The soldiers have achieved victory after sacrifice. As the victors, they have the right to dominate the losers. This is the law of heaven that can be chosen by heaven. As the victors, they naturally have the right to enjoy everything about the losers. What are the few women? Even if there are thousands or tens of thousands? Nakazawa Jun, you have selected beautiful women all the way, as long as they are handled cleanly afterwards. After all, this is a war, and it is normal for soldiers to die in battle. The casualties of civilians can only be regarded as an accident!"

Since the division commanders were indifferent tone and tone, Mifu Nakazawa knew that he was not convenient to say more, so he could only sigh helplessly. Some plunder and violations were normal in war, because the nerves of the soldiers who were wandering on the brink of death were always at an extremely nervous level, so it was easy to do extraordinary things once they relaxed. Such examples were really normal in war.

After receiving a report from the commander of the 16th Division, Akashima Akashiro, the clouds on Prince Hirohiko Asakamiya's face finally dissipated. Prince Hirohiko, who had a smile on his face quickly walked to the sand table and used his baton to find the location of Niushou Mountain in front of the sand table. It can be said that from the early morning yesterday to now, Hirohiko Asakamiya has almost printed the sand table into his mind.
Chapter completed!