Chapter 453: Chinese soldiers!!!

The defense work in Nanjing has been basically completed.

Eight divisions, including the logistics support troops and other units, began to defend Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China.

With the evacuation of the main forces of the Third War Zone, Changzhou, Wuxi, Jiangyin and other places fell into the hands of the Island Army one after another. By mid-December, the Island Army had completed its attack on Nanjing.

Subsequently, the main force of the island army attacked Nanjing along the Shanghai-Nanjing Railway and Danyang, Jurong to Nanjing. One captured Zhenjiang and crossed the Yangtze River north to Yangzhou, Liuhe and Shuikou Town areas; the other set out from Guangde, Liyang and Changxing areas, pursued Wuhu, Taiping and Moling Pass in multiple directions, and crossed the Yangtze River to Pukou, and the encirclement of Nanjing was narrowed day by day.

On December 17, the first shot of the Nanjing Defense Battle was fired!

At dawn on the 17th, two regiments arranged by the 159th Division encountered the island army in Jurong. The battle broke out instantly. The forces of the two regiments, personally controlled by Luo Cequn, the major general and deputy commander of the 159th Division, fought hard with the enemy until the position was still lost at night.

On the 18th, a large number of planes of the island army bombed Jurong, and then attacked Jurong with the power of a brigade of the Hundred and 14th Division of the Mosong Matsuji.

In the afternoon, the front line of Jurong lost its position. Luo Cequn personally organized a force to fight back, fought for more than two hours, and recovered the lost position. In this battle, the two regiments of the 159th Division lost more than 400 people in one day.

A regiment of reinforcements arrived in Jurong at night, and then launched a night attack on the island army without any rest, killing more than 170 Japanese pirates, which was probably equivalent to the losses themselves.

On the 19th, the island army began to carry out retaliatory shelling and used poison gas bombs at the same time.

After more than an hour of artillery attack, the large island army began to attack again, and all positions were in danger. In the afternoon, the ground troops of the island army, relying on the air superiority, seized all front-line positions in Jurong, and Luo Cequn was forced to order the troops to retreat to the second-line positions to defend.

The island army did not want to stop the attack, and once again attacked the Chinese army with poisonous gas bombs, causing great losses to the Chinese army.

At night, the Nanjing Garrison Command ordered the abandonment of Jurong, and the 159th Division looked for an opportunity to break through on its own.

The commander of Luo Cequn personally organized a breakthrough, but just when most of them were fighting hard to break through the encirclement of the island army, the commander of Luo Cequn unfortunately encountered the enemy's main force.

At this time, there was only one guard platoon left by the commander of Luo Cequn. The guards advised him to put on civilian clothes and perhaps escape the pursuit of the island army. Luo Cequn shouted.

"I am a revolutionary soldier, how can I change to the costumes of the people to save my life? Since the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, no major general or above officer has died in the 159th Division. Today it starts from me. This place is where you and I die!"

Under the command of Luo Cequn, the guard platoon fought hard with the enemy squadrons for seven hours under the command of Luo Cequn. More than 50 enemies were killed with the enemy squadrons.

At 6 a.m. on the 20th, all the soldiers in the guard platoon were killed, and Luo Cequn's division commander was seriously injured.

With both legs broken, Commander Luo fired his bows left and right with both guns, constantly killing and trying to capture his Japanese alive.

The Japanese who gradually surrounded him obviously knew that the opposite was a high-ranking official from the Chinese army. They were deliberately trying to catch them alive and didn't want to kill the opponent just like that.

The commander Luo had all the bullets, was seriously injured and could not climb. He took off the two rings on his hand and swallowed them into his stomach. He was afraid that he would not die, so he fucked the stone and hit his head several times...

When the island army appeared, Commander Luo was bleeding and dying. He looked at the Japanese pirates with a smile and finally took his last breath.

The commander of the Island Army said afterwards: "Since entering China, he has been fighting for many days. I have never seen an officer as brave and strong as Luo Cequn, the 159th Division..."

Luo Cequn, deputy commander of the 159th Division and major general, was the first senior general to die for his country since the beginning of the Nanjing Defense War.

In the battle of Jurong, more than 600 Japanese pirates were killed and injured, and more than 1,200 Chinese troops were killed and injured in Jurong. Luo Cequn, the major general and deputy commander of the 159th Division, died and injured.

The commander of the island army was extremely dissatisfied with this result. He thought that after the main force of the Chinese army retreated, there would be no obstacles to advance from now on, but he did not expect that a small Jurong would persist for more than three days, causing him to lose his troops and generals.

Nanjing is clearly close to you, but it seems to be far away...

After the recovery, a corps of the island army attacked the frontier positions of Hushu Town. The Chinese army guarding the area fought hard day by day. The troops of a company in the most frontier positions were defending for a day. All the company from the company commander to the soldiers were killed, and no one survived.

When the position became quiet, the island army still couldn't believe that there was no resistance on the position, and cautiously sent soldiers to reconnaissance repeatedly, so they dared to step onto the position.

Zhu Chi, the former commander of the 262nd Brigade of the 88th Division, was transferred to the 51st Division as the brigade commander and was ordered to guard Hushu Town.

After all the frontier positions were lost, he commanded his troops to retreat into the second-line position to continue to resist. At this time, the retreat order had not arrived, and Brigade Commander Zhu Chi was ready to die for his country.

The soldiers of the island army wearing steel helmets flocked to us, and the planes and cannons kept washing the positions.

When the island army gradually approached, with the order of Brigade Commander Zhu, the Chinese defenders on the position fired together, and at the same time, the troops on both wings of the position counterattacked in time. Under three attacks, the island army, which had just been arrogant, was quickly defeated.

The island army, unwilling to fail, learned through intelligence that a brigade commander of the National Government was commanding the battle here, and soon judged that the Chinese army had deployed at least one entire brigade force here.

But they were wrong. There was no brigade in Hushu Town, and some were only the power of two and a half battalions!

No matter what, they would not have thought that the division commanders and brigade commanders of the national army appeared in the most dangerous front-line positions, personally commanded the troops on the front-line combat, and were all ready to die for their country...

When the island army was re-adjusting and the position was briefly quiet, Brigade Commander Zhu ordered the soldiers to renovate the trenches and use the night as a cover to collect weapons left by the Japanese. At the same time, he ordered all the grenades in the army to be concentrated for use as landmines.

The engineer brothers began to act.

They buried boxes of grenades in the ground and picked up rifles...

When the genius was dawn, the island army launched another attack. Cluster grenades kept ringing outside the position, blocking the island army's offensive route again and again.

In this small Hushu Town, Brigade Commander Zhu and the troops under his command blocked the enemy for six days!

There was only one spy company left in his hand, and there was no hope of breaking through.

In fact, from the first minute of being ordered to stay in Hushu Town, Brigade Commander Zhu had already been ready to bury himself in the position...

The soldiers silently wiped their weapons and prepared to welcome the new attack of the island army.

Brigade Commander Zhu pulled out his pistol, took out a handkerchief that was no longer white, and carefully wiped it. When he stopped moving, he seemed to have thought of something, put the gun, and took out a photo from his shirt pocket.

It was a photo of myself and my newlywed wife. The wife in the photo was so beautiful.

Before the intense preparations for the Nanjing Defense War, the division temporarily approved his three-day vacation. After returning home, he hurriedly completed the wedding with his current wife.

He didn't want to get married, and at this time every soldier would be killed anytime and anywhere, and he was unwilling to drag down the girl.

But his current wife, who was still a big girl at the time, gave up the girl's face and resolutely ran to the position. She found the commander and told Zhu Chi in front of the commander.

"You are dead, I will help you be a widow, I will help you to be filial, I will serve our parents, I will help them to take shit and urinate, and they will beat me and scold me, I will definitely not retaliate. If I can help you get pregnant, I will pull your old Zhu family's children alone to grow up, I just beg you to marry me now..."

Everyone, including the teacher and Zhu Chi, cried. The big man cried loudly. No one thought there was anything wrong with this girl saying this!

The commander kicked Zhu Chi hard and ordered him to marry the girl immediately, and criticized Zhu Chi for three days off at the most nervous time.

The teacher said very roughly.

"The surname Zhu, don't do anything else for me these three days. Just stay in bed with the big girl all day and give me a whole baby. We soldiers died without much, but we can't let ourselves be defeated?"

Zhu Chi and the eldest girl's faces were red. They just followed the command of the teacher and really stayed in the room for three days without taking a step out of the door...

Three days later, the girl left, and she smiled so brightly.

"I am content with a man like you. Don't worry, I will definitely be able to conceive you with a baby. You, the Zhu family, will definitely not be broken!"

Zhu Chi took out a pen and wrote a few words on a piece of paper. The artillery bombardment of the island army began again. He had no choice but to put away the paper and pen.

The island army rushed up layer by layer. Zhu Chi ordered the soldiers to open the covers of dozens of boxes of grenades, connect the fuses with ropes, and place them at the front of the position. When the island army attacked the front of the position, hundreds of grenades exploded, and the island army suddenly flew with flesh and blood...

All the ammunition was exhausted, and the island army rushed up, and Hushu Town was about to be lost.

Zhu Chi commanded the soldiers to make the final resistance. He originally wanted to send a telegram to the division headquarters, but the radio station had long been broken and his contact with the division headquarters had been interrupted.

In fact, there is nothing more. Who is going to go back alive if the war is over?

When Zhu Chi fell down, the Japanese were covered with bullet holes. He was a little regretful when he died. He didn't know if his wife helped him get pregnant?

Why did the order to retreat not come? Is it because the radio station was broken? Or is the division commander ready to use Hushu Town to gain time for the defense of the entire division?

Unfortunately, no one can answer these questions anymore...

The evening clouds were low and blood was in full bloom. The Chinese soldiers lay quietly on the position they had been holding on for six days, and seemed to be able to hear God sighing.

"Brigate, brigade, division command, division command!"

Suddenly, a soldier stumbled and covered in dust appeared on the position. He was searching in the corpse like crazy. When he finally found Zhu Chi's body, he hugged the body of the brigade commander and burst into tears.

"Travel, retreat, the division headquarters ordered you to retreat, retreat, why can't you wait for a while? Do you know, sister-in-law has already helped you get pregnant. Ticket, please open your eyes and take a look!"
Chapter completed!