However, the Japanese firepower suppressed the brave and fearless Chinese artillery. They turned the artillery cluster into a single-aircraft position. Even if the Japanese army discovered it, it would only lose one artillery. So the 105mm artillery group and the 75mm mountain artillery group were all scattered, and bravely counterattacked against the firepower of the Japanese 150mm howitzer group.

The breaking of the direction of the Qinhuai River means that the battle of city walls of the Nanjing Defense Battle officially began. Zhang Xuewu originally expected to insist on the battle for key points of at least one month, but it seems difficult to achieve now. The Japanese are not fools. After suffering losses, the Japanese are quite active in adjusting tactics, and their responses are often very effective. In addition, the Japanese army's individual soldiers are of high quality and the overall cooperation is very effective. These are the ultimate reflection of the Japanese combat effectiveness.

Sun Guiming in the Niushou Mountain tunnel was desperately supporting the northern slope of General Mountain with the Japanese firepower and using Fords 20mm four-pin anti-aircraft guns and Maxine heavy machine guns. The Chinese soldiers in the tunnel lined up in an orderly manner to wait for the robes who were killed. In Sun Guiming's words, as long as there was one person in the Fifth Brigade who was not dead, the firepower to support General Mountain could not be stopped.

Even so, the General Mountain Fortress was still full of dangers. The main peak position was several times trapped in hand-to-hand combat. The crazy Japanese army often launched artillery attacks when the two armies fought fiercely in order to kill and destroy the vitality of the Chinese defenders. The Japanese army shouted long live and rushed up and down, and rolled and crawled backwards under the counterattack of the defenders' machine guns and grenades. In just two minutes, the Japanese army could reorganize a new attack. The defenders had no time to send the wounded to replenish bullet medicine.

Under the fierce artillery fire of the Japanese army, the cost of transporting bullets was quite high. Ye Yunfei on the General Mountain Fortress and the two regiment commanders of the teaching corps fought against the Japanese attack. They had no way to retreat, because once the General Mountain Fortress was lost, the Niushoushan tunnel entrance would be directly exposed to the Japanese army's condescending direct firepower. This is also the main reason why Ye Yunfei killed the 150-mm Japanese cannon at all costs. At least now, the heavy artillery of the Japanese army dared not drive in.

The loss of positions of the 154th Division and the 156th Division completely exposed the left wing of the 74th Army to the Japanese attack. The 51st Division, which was originally under the command of Yu Jishi of the 74th Army and the 57th Division were guarding the Gujiaying, Yangjiazhuang, Dashishan, and Liuzhuang. Relying on the geographical advantages of the Qinhuai River branch, fortifications were constructed, and the 58th Division was used as a reserve to build a second-line position at Guanghuamen.

Now that the positions of the 154th Division and the 156th Division are completely lost, if Yu Jishi wants to maintain the defense line, he must resist and drive away the infiltrated Japanese troops, and then use tactical adjustments after nightfall to arrange for troops to retreat and shrink defense. Yu Jishi understands that at present, Wang Yaowu, the headquarters of his 51st Division, and the 57th Division, who was acting division commander, are fighting with the Japanese army into a regiment. The loss will be very great when retreating calmly. Moreover, the Japanese army is best at pursuing victory. If one accidentally retreats, it will become a collapse. Then Yu Jishi's lifetime reputation will be destroyed.

Therefore, Yu Jishi knew that he would rather fight the troops to fight all over the army than to let the sheep be released on the way to retreat, so that the Japanese could pick up the cheaper ones. There were too many such battle examples because the morale of the army could not be extinguished.

So Yu Jishi decided to draw a regiment from the 51st and 57th Divisions in the already jeopardized defense line, and a brigade from Feng Shengfa's 58th Division to directly use it for the left-wing counterattack war, annihilated all the Japanese troops infiltrated into the defense line, destroy the Japanese pontoon bridges at the right time, block the Japanese army's crossing the river, and invest time to reorganize the troops to retreat to the second-line positions.

The city of Nanjing, with the sound of artillery fire, seemed to have signs of a sharp turn of decline under the Japanese army's crazy attack. Zhang Xuewu was anxious because today he received two telegrams with completely different contents. The first one was Chairman Jiang, the Supreme Military Commission. The content was basically the same as the telegram sent to Tang Shengzhi in history. Zhang Xuewu asked Zhang Xuewu to sacrifice all costs. For the status and reputation of the country and the army, he regarded the Nanjing Battle as an opportunity to turn defeat into victory. If Nanjing could defend one more day, that is, the nation would add another layer of glory. If he could defend more than half a month, the internal and external situation would inevitably change greatly. The field army would support it from the outside line as scheduled, form a counter-encirclement of the Japanese army, and actively carry out a large-scale battle in Xuzhou to prevent the Japanese army's North China Expeditionary Army from meeting with the Central China Expeditionary Army.

Faced with the siege of up to nine Japanese divisions and three independent mixed brigades, coupled with the rampage of the Japanese army and the naval aviation force and the artillery support of its three field heavy artillery brigades, the mechanized brigade of the temporary formation of the First Mechanized Division of the Rehe Lehe Legion, which was originally planned to launch a large-scale counterattack, was also forced to conduct concealed standby.

The reason for Zhang Xuewu's counterattack in the plan was that when he lost air supremacy, the attacks of the armored forces were simply targeted by the Japanese. If they were covered and attacked by the Japanese heavy artillery, I am afraid that the ace troops of the Mechanized Brigade, Zhang Xuewu, would pay an unimaginable heavy price.

Fortunately, good news came from the Rehe Army. First, the Rehe Army Flight Force launched a full-scale attack and attacked the four field airports of the Japanese army Jinzhou and Fengtian at the early morning. The Kwantung Army Flight Division, the Kuda Special Flight Force, and the Fifth Flight Division dispatched from the local area suffered huge losses. According to the evaluation of the Rehe Army Flight Force, at least more than 60 Japanese aircraft were destroyed on the ground at the four field airports, and the injured Japanese aircraft were basically equal to the number. However, the Japanese, known as the Japanese, were destroyed by three reconnaissance aircraft. The Kwantung Army was used to being slapped in the face and stopped crying out pain, so Zhang Xuewu didn't care about this. The Japanese knew very well that the public opinion war between the entangled and the numbers had no meaning in it.

The Japanese army attacked Chaoyang, Chengde, Chifeng and Zhangjiakou four armies were blocked by the heavy artillery in Jiancheng. Even Meijiro Umezu exclaimed that the heavy artillery of the Chinese army was too fierce! I have never seen such fierce artillery fire!

In addition to the five reorganized divisions of the front-line troops, the Rehe Legion formed five second-line troops of the Third Brigade and the Sixth Regiment to supplement the casualties of the front-line troops. Previously, young people with aspiring from all over the country and grassroots officers who came to join Rehe to demand a fight against the Japanese had already completed the reorganization, especially the large number of young officers who were deliberately left to Zhang Xuewu by Zhang Xueliang to become the foundation of these troops.

Zhang Xuewu is a good player in poaching, and his generals are a master in poaching. 40% of the main troops of the Rehe Legion are from various units of the Northeast Army. The officers and soldiers who shout to fight back to their hometown every day can be said to be preparing for war every day. The most common question for Northeast soldiers, who are homesick, is when will we counterattack!

The Rehe Legion has a unit of the Youth Army composed of patriotic anti-Japanese youths from all over the country. This unit has a regular organization number given by the Ministry of Military Affairs and Political Affairs. The new first division of the Youth Army of the National Revolutionary Army was specially formed. This number was deliberately won by Zhang Xuewu. However, Zhang Xuewu of this unit has been placed in Baotou. All the sergeant commanders, sergeants, and non-commissioned officers are veterans who have experienced many battles.

The officers and soldiers are all young students from all over the country. The proportion of college students accounts for more than 17%, and the rest are high school graduates. The entire division is equipped with the armored division model. The two Tank regiments are equipped with 110 "Jackal"-type second-type light Tanks.
Chapter completed!