249: The Battle of the City Walls of the Battle of Nanjing (II)

Now the two temporary independent brigades under his command cannot be reinforced? Zhang Lingfu was anxious and did not act recklessly, because it has been almost two hours since he received the order to reinforce the 154th Division and the 156th Division along the Qinhuai River. The battle situation on the front line may have undergone major changes. The Japanese army used heavy artillery to carry out firepower, and the purpose of the purpose is probably to prevent its own reinforcements.

It was obvious that it was too late to ask Zhang Xuewu again. Zhang Lingfu decided to avoid military orders outside the country and deployed the two brigades along the second-line positions outside the city walls in conjunction with the houses, preparing to block the Japanese troops breaking through the Qinhuai River here and cover the subsequent troops to occupy the front-line city walls of Zhonghuai Gate.

Zhang Lingfu's judgment was extremely correct, because at this moment, a unit of the 6th Division of the Japanese Army was fighting fiercely at the China Sect with the cooperation of more than 20 combat vehicles! If Zhang Lingfu did not choose defense but forced his way through the Japanese artillery area, he might have been defeated by the Japanese army at this moment. You should know that the field capabilities of Chinese soldiers are far inferior to those of Japanese soldiers, and they are barely competent in defense. If they are in field battles, it will be difficult to win against a well-trained Japanese army.

If Zhang Lingfu's reinforcements are defeated, the 88th Division, which fought bloody Yuhuatai, would be in danger of being attacked from both sides. Therefore, Zhang Lingfu organized troops to rely on the residential streets and city walls to resist step by step, and continuously launched local small-scale counterattacks, exchanging lives for time, delaying until the reinforcements arrive.

After receiving Zhang Lingfu's letter of help, Zhang Xuewu immediately came to the sand table. He chose to let the Mechanized Brigade conduct an assault from Wulong Mountain and Zijin Mountain to provide support to Gui Yongqing, who was guarding the Qixia Mountain Fortress. Now it seems that this attack may be difficult to implement.

Zhang Xuewu finally decided to cancel this attack and divide all the 49 jackal light tanks and 67 hunting dog-style armored vehicles that the mechanized brigade can be put into battle into five assault clusters, which are respectively assigned to various directions in Nanjing to carry out counterattacks against the Japanese breakthrough troops.

The heavy artillery brigade in Jiangbei was also broken into pieces, and the Japanese army was shot in a fast-running manner with cold artillery tactics. Except for the two brigades of the 103rd Division of Gui Yongqing's troops in Qixia Mountain, one brigade and two regiments on the General Mountain Fortress, and the Fifth Brigade in the Niushou Mountain tunnel could not retreat, the rest of the troops began to retreat together to defend the city wall positions, preparing to make a final attempt.

The two brigades commanded by Zhang Lingfu, who was guarding the city walls, destroyed nine Japanese Type 95 light tanks with twenty anti-tank rifles. The destroyed Japanese tanks even ignited a raging fire. Faced with the anti-chariot rifles equipped by China, the Japanese army was helpless. The only way was to call for support artillery fire and carry out artillery bombardment on the civilian houses and street forts that China defended and destroyed.

The two units of the tentative Independent First Brigade and the tentative Independent Second Brigade of Zhang Lingfu were formed by the Sichuan Army Advance Column and the Guangxi Army. Although it had supplemented it with a certain number of weapons and equipment, its combat effectiveness was still a little worse than that of the direct troops of the Central Army.

The Guangxi Guangxi military discipline and appearance are good, while the Sichuan Army is a bit careless, which makes Zhang Lingfu, who was born in the Imperial Guard, very disliked. It can be said that the entire Nanjing, which can be seen by Zhang Lingfu, is the teaching corps in addition to the Rehe Legion headquarters.

However, today's bloody battle in the city wall made Zhang Lingfu look at the Sichuan Army with admiration. The seemingly weak soldiers were still wearing tattered military uniforms, wearing a brand new cotton vest, holding explosive bags or holding a blasting tube produced by Rehe, and rushed towards the Japanese chariots and the densest places like dead soldiers.

Some Sichuan soldiers with grenades tied all over their bodies jumped straight from the roadside into the Japanese crowd, detonating the grenades on their bodies. Amid the dull explosion, the narrow streets were filled with broken limbs and broken arms, and even intestines hung on the hot barrels of the Type 95 chariot, making a sizzling sound of barbecuing.

The generous efforts of the Sichuan Army's officers and soldiers made the Japanese 6th Division's troops look like frightened birds, and they are everywhere like plants and trees. The chariots turn their turrets and shoot wildly at the houses on the roadside to prevent the thin Chinese soldiers from rushing out suddenly.

"My guns and cannons are not as good as those of the turtle son, but there is only one person who can live! It is worth it to exchange for one life!" The Sichuan Army faithfully fulfilled their oath to go out to Sichuan to fight against the war with their blood and life.

Zhang Lingfu was also excited by the passionate sensation of the Sichuan Army soldiers, but he soon realized that there seemed to be a lack of effective coordination and connection between the various departments of the Sichuan Army. It seemed that this army was pieced together not long ago. Although they were all experienced veterans, they rarely had the tactics of coordination.

Zhang Lingfu didn't know that the more than 4,000 officers and soldiers of the Sichuan Army were recruited from the entire Sichuan Army. Before leaving, they had three days off. The fifty oceans that served as soldiers and the one hundred oceans that served as officials had already been paid. Liu Xiang meant that the Sichuan Army advance team would make the Sichuan Army famous. Such a unit that was drawn into veterans naturally had no tactical coordination.

Zhang Lingfu soon learned from the documents of the Japanese captain who was shot dead in his life that the Japanese army was attacking madly towards the direction of Zhonghuamen was the 47th Infantry Regiment of the 11th Infantry Brigade of the Sixth Division.

What made Zhang Lingfu very strange is that the two infantry regiments of the 11th Infantry Brigade, which was under the 6th Division of the Japanese Army, had been killed by the mechanized brigade of Zhang Xuewu's temporary first mechanized division? Little *** was so shameless that he was beaten and wiped out completely. This time, he added it again?

After a while, several Japanese soldiers captured during the street fighting were sent to Zhang Lingfu. The behavior of these men was a little different from that of ordinary Japanese soldiers, and they often shouted some inexplicable words that seemed to be in Japanese.

Zhang Lingfu immediately sent someone to screen and found out that this group of Japanese troops was actually drawn by the Pyongyang garrison troops stationed in the Korean army. It was transported to Shanghai half a month ago to reorganize the 47th Infantry Regiment formed by the Korean royals. When he learned that these prisoners were so-called Korean royals, Zhang Lingfu waved his hand and said, "Dispose it according to Commander Zhang's previous instructions. Look at these boneless things, without ancestors, and without personality, it will be disgusting!"

Since the Battle of Shanghai, the *** people passed by basically blood flowed. It was no longer a new thing for the Japanese army to massacre cities and destroy towns. Nanjing was so fierce that when the prisoners fell into the hands of the Japanese army, they might die in a miserable way. The day before yesterday, a soldier who was looted by the Japanese army was burned to death by the Japanese army with gasoline in front of the position. The same was true for the officers and soldiers of all levels of the Chinese defenders, and they killed all the people.

In fact, the order to not keep the prisoners was issued by Zhang Xuewu, because the Japanese officers and soldiers at this moment were all psychopaths cultivated by the corrosive and infiltration of the Bushido spirit since childhood. I am afraid no one knows how difficult it is to transport and manage such prisoners. Want to turn these prisoners into free human resources to use them? That is an impossible task.

If the war lasted for three or five years and had captured the Japanese army in large numbers, Zhang Xuewu would consider using the human resources of a large number of Japanese prisoners, because the overall quality of Japanese officers and soldiers at that time began to decline significantly. In 1937, there was no single case of Japanese soldiers surrendering, and even prisoners were difficult to capture. In 1942, surrendering and being captured were commonplace, and even Japanese soldiers took the initiative to help disintegrate the Japanese army and do propaganda work.

Zhang Lingfu's desperate defense made the new commander of the 47th Infantry Regiment, Hitoichi Kazuka, extremely annoyed. The 47th Infantry Regiment is now carrying a huge shame. Hitoichi Kazuka is naturally extremely dissatisfied with his promotion to become the captain of such a unit.

The 47th Infantry Regiment is a unit that burns all the flags of the corps. If it is a simple attack, it is considered a shameless military honor, and the opponent beats the entire army to the point of burning the flags of the army, it is a different matter.

Before His Majesty the Emperor re-issues his corps flag, the Forty-seventh Infantry Regiment did not exist in its establishment, and no one who served as the commander of such a unit could be happy.

Nearly half of a squad of chariots were destroyed. Once the chariots were destroyed, it would block the streets. Chinese soldiers would take advantage of their familiar terrain to penetrate from both sides, and terrible bullets were flying everywhere. If you were not careful, grenades with blue smoke might appear at your feet.

Moreover, Hitan Hoichi was very dissatisfied with the combat effectiveness of the newly formed 47th Infantry Regiment, because most of the non-commissioned officers and officers were reserve personnel who had not been trained for a long time, while the soldiers were Korean soldiers drawn from the Korean army. Although these Korean imperialists were wearing imperial uniforms and were not much different from ordinary imperial men, their combat quality and will were far inferior to those of the imperial men.

The 47th Infantry Regiment interspersed with the blocked infantry could only compete with Zhong*** for every house or street bit by bit. Whenever he watched his clumsy subordinates be knocked down by Zhong***'s machine guns, Kida Hikaru felt like he was going crazy.

But madness cannot solve the problem. Hitan Haoyi had to apply to the division and request that a squadron of field artillery be dispatched to implement tactical guidance.
Chapter completed!