Chapter 459: The Gate of China

"Commander, the island army has a very fierce offensive, very fierce!"

The huge explosion almost drowned the city of Nanjing.

Nanjing is not an easy place to defend. Once Zijin Mountain in the east and Yuhuatai in the south of the city are lost, they will only rely on thick city walls to guard it.

Xie Chengrui's 305th Regiment, which had just been supplemented, was placed on the front line again.

The island army, who was also red-eyed, rushed to Nanjing, and did not take the attack of this small Chinese army seriously. Various artillery fires aimed at the position of the 305th Regiment and blasted wildly, trying to use its superior firepower to quickly wipe the weak opponent from the road ahead.

As soon as the artillery was stopped, the infantry of the Island Army rushed towards the position of the 305th Regiment under the cover of six fighting vehicles. The temporary thin fortifications on the position were destroyed by the enemy's fierce artillery fire, and blood-stained corpses and broken arms and limbs were scattered all over the ground. The soldiers of the 305th Regiment had nowhere to hide, and many had to crawl in the shallow pits blown out by the enemy's shells and fired back at the rushing island army.

The enemy infantry relied on the cover of the chariots to approach the position step by step. After a brief attack, the offensive and defensive sides met in front of the formation, and blood splattered in the clanging places of swords and guns, and people kept falling down.

At this point, the war almost returned to a cold weapon fighting state that was blood-for-blood and tooth-for-tit. As a regiment commander with considerable tactical command, he had to ask his subordinates to fight bravely and sacrifice hard in melee combat. Any detailed modern tactical deployment has lost the significance of discussion.

At this time, Xie Chengrui could only set an example to demonstrate to his subordinates the fearless courage of being in the position.

Xie Chengrui jumped out of the trench with a machine gun, and like a madman, desperately shot the groups of Japanese rushing up with a machine gun. His subordinates were all influenced by him, and they rushed out of their hiding place with a "screaming" scream.

This was a cruel battle. Without plane cover and artillery support, Chinese soldiers were completely using their flesh and blood to support every position.

The defensive positions of the 305th Regiment are the front lines of Collector Lane, Maoguandu, Xinzha and Yangzhuang in Yuhuatai.

At this time, inside and outside the city gate, the sky was dark and the sound of gunfire was endless. There was another day and night of melee fighting, and it was fought until the morning of the 12th. Seeing that the front position could not be captured for a long time, the island army avoided the main force of the 305th Regiment and attacked Huayan Temple, Jiangjiaying and Mao Guandu on the flank of the defense line.

Xie Chengrui will immediately enter Huayan Temple in Qingxiang Camp to strengthen defensive forces.

The battle for Huayan Temple was repeated and fierce. Battalion Commander Yu Qingxiang was seriously injured in the battle, and more than 400 casualties in the entire battalion were injured and killed. However, Huayan Temple was finally firmly in the hands of Zhang Lingfu, and the 305th Regiment became a strong barrier in front of the Zhonghua Gate in Nanjing.

At noon that day, bad news came from the south. The troops guarding the front of Yuhuatai were broken through by the enemy, and the flanks of the 305th Regiment were immediately exposed to the guns of the island army.

The island army occupying Yuhuatai was condescending and used the favorable terrain to shoot wildly at the 305th Regiment of Huayan Temple. After being hit by a sudden blow from behind, Zhang Lingfu gradually felt struggling under the attack of the enemy on both sides, but he still stood at the forefront of the position and led his troops to fight hard.

According to the Fifty-first Division’s battle report:

"At noon on the 12th, because my Yuhuatai defenders retreated first, my Maoguandu and the Huayan Temple position were attacked from both sides, but they still struggled to fight and did not dare to abandon their inch of land."

During the battle on the 12th, Zhou Zhidao, the brigade commander of the 151st Brigade, commanded the brigade's only main 302nd Regiment to destroy four island troops, kill more than 500 island troops, and seize more than ten light and heavy machine guns and more than 40 rifles.

However, Cheng Zhi, the commander of the 302nd Regiment, and Zheng Pusheng, the battalion commander of the first battalion of the regiment, died heroically, and more than 1,700 officers and soldiers were injured and killed in the regiment.

Li Tianxia, ​​the commander of the 153rd Brigade, commanded the 306th Regiment to guard the city wall west of Zhonghua Gate. Due to the lack of support from the left-wing friendly forces, although the 306th Regiment tried hard to fight fiercely with the enemy who had climbed into the city wall, it was finally difficult to fight against the weak force. Li Tianxia and the regiment commander Qiu Weida were both injured, battalion commanders Wan Qiong and Hu Hao died heroically, and the entire regiment also suffered more than 1,300 casualties.

Among the thirteen city gates in Nanjing, Zhonghua Gate is located in the south, and is the "South Gate" of Nanjing. What you are proud of is the twenty-seven hidden military caves in the three city gates.

"Teel the enemy into the city, please let you get into the trap." The Zhonghua Gate was designed as a "barrier city" to lead the enemy into the second city gate and into the trap set up by the Tibetan military cave. Nanjing's offensive and defense has been like this since ancient times.

However, the island army flew over the Zhonghua Gate with two or three hundred fighter jets and more than ninety anti-aircraft guns bombed day and night. You can hide "three thousand soldiers and ten thousand tents of grain". After three days and three nights, the west gate of the Zhonghua Gate, which is to the west of the city wall, opened a gap of nearly 100 meters, and the Chinese defenders collapsed and fell with the city wall, and the island army rushed in crazily. The various tricks of hiding the military cave in the cold weapon era were useless.

When airplanes and cannons invaded, what the Chinese soldiers rely on to resist was the city walls of the Ming Dynasty.

Just as the island troops poured in, all the Chinese soldiers joined the counterattack.

They fought against enemy aircraft cannons with bayonets, and they fought against enemy tanks and chariots with their lives!

The brothers of the 956th Regiment of the 160th Division of the 66th Army were transferred up. They had only one task, which was to drive all the Japanese pirates who rushed into the Zhonghua Sect out of here.

At this time, the brothers in the group had already forgotten what life and death were. The only thing they thought was how to re-control the Zhonghua Sect in their own hands.

Crazy, the position was completely crazy. The Chinese soldiers were crazy, and the Japanese soldiers were crazy. The Japanese pirates who occupied the city gate refused to give up this. The chargers had only one idea, that is, they must be recaptured here even if they were killed!

There is no national justice or the honor of soldiers, as if these soldiers are their duties.

The duty of a soldier is that when you need to die, you must not hesitate at all!

No one can forget the soldiers who survived the tragic battle.

They remember that their regiment commander rushed up, and their regiment commander was Cai Rubai. He graduated from the Guangxi Army Cadre Training Institute. He didn't see him bravely, but now, he is like the bravest lion in his head, fighting the Japanese pirates in the most desperate battle!

"Really, I have never seen Captain Cai like this. He rushed up with a bayonet and stabbed a Japanese devil to death with a raised hand.

Another Japanese stabbed Captain Cai in the thigh. Captain Cai staggered forward and saw that he was about to fall, but Captain Cai rushed forward a few steps, but he stood up and didn't fall down. Then he turned around and picked the Japanese to death.

At that time, the brothers wanted to go up to help Captain Cai, but there was really no way. The brothers were fighting with the Japanese. No one could care about each other. Not to mention the regiment commander, it would be the same if he even had a division commander.

I watched Captain Cai be surrounded by three Japanese devils. Captain Cai, Captain Cai, when did he practice bayonet fighting? He was just lazy and refused to move. He always thought he was strong and was not afraid of anyone when he met him, but I just watched him being stabbed into his body by a few Japanese devils...

But Commander Cai is really a man, a real man. He didn't fall down at that time. He hugged a Japanese man's body and rushed forward desperately, stabbing Commander Cai from another Japanese man. However, Commander Cai used such a force, and the bayonet kept piercing the chest of the Japanese man he was holding from his body."

"Grandpa, what happened to Captain Cai later?"

"Die, Captain Cai died later. He killed three Japanese devils. He died unjustly. He is the commander of the National Army, colonel!"

Cai Rubai, colonel leader of the 956th Regiment of the 160th Division of the 66th Army of the National Revolutionary Army. He graduated from the Guangxi Army Cadre Training Institute. On January 12, 1939, he died heroically in a fierce battle with the island army in the Zhonghuamen Army. He was promoted to the major general of the National Revolutionary Army.

This battle took place in the China Sect, the brothers of the National Army won, and all the people of the island rushed in were driven back.

Almost all the brothers of 956 were killed. The regiment commander was killed, the regiment commander was killed, the three battalion commanders were killed, and almost all the company commanders were killed, and no platoon commander was left...

The whole team battle was dark and there were only twenty-one people left.

There are only twenty-one people left in the group of more than one thousand people!

The Japanese also left 700 corpses here, stacked with the bodies of the 956th Regiment's fallen soldiers.

"Brother, brother!"

Suddenly, a shrill cry sounded.

An eighteen-nine-year-old soldier stumbled over and kept turning over the corpses, looking for something in the corpses like crazy.

No one persuaded him, and the brothers just stared at him in a daze...

Ye Zhao, commander of the 66th Army and commander of the 160th Division, came over. He called a surviving soldier from the 956th Regiment to ask what happened. The soldier smiled desolately and told the military captain.

"The only brother of Wa is this. He has been raised by his brother since he was a child. His brother is the first battalion commander. He died, died. He was stabbed to death by a few Japanese. Wa is pitiful. Wa has never left his brother in his life..."

Ye Zhao also smiled sadly.

He didn't know how to persuade his subordinates, and in fact he didn't need to persuade him. Any words seemed so pale and powerless here...

When he saw Cai Rubai's body, tears couldn't stop flowing from his eyes. This was an incompetent commander.

He is lazy and will never move when he shouldn't move. He is too lazy to move even the trainer. He will be scolded by himself every time, but now he is dead, and he is dead when he fights the Japanese.

Ye Zhao really wanted Cai Rubai to be alive now, and then he could tell Cai Rubai loudly.

"You are a good commander, no one is better than you. If you live, you have to live well. You can command a division or even an army in the future..."

But his subordinates could never hear it again, and he had been buried here forever.
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