No one can tell how many arrows and frost the heavy walls of Nanjing have hit after they were built.

But how can the age of cold weapons and hot weapons be the same? The bombs dropped by Japanese planes caused damage to the city wall that has not been there since ancient times.

The huge pillars of smoke were flying into the sky, as if the bricks and stones on the city wall were burning.

As a result, people who saw the Japanese bombing in Nanjing ignored the Japanese army dropping an air bomb on the water tower.

The focus of people's attention is of course the city gate and city wall, because there is the hope of defending Nanjing City.

At this time, the water tower was filled with choking smoke and dust.

The Japanese aviation bomb only exploded a corner of the water tower, and the dust and gravel poured out from the hole in the middle of the floor.

When the dust gradually fell down, you could vaguely see a person lying down and being hung under the hole.

After a while, the dust naturally became much less, and the man moved, so he moved twice like a swing, but the belt hanging on him was relatively short, so it was not violent.

Am I still alive? The man grinned and felt the pain on his body. It was Shang Zhen.

When Shang Zhen had this first thought, he woke up, and then he felt a pain from his left shoulder to his right hip.

Shang Zhen, who was in mid-air, turned his head and raised his head with great difficulty. Only then did he realize how lucky he was.

It turned out that when he jumped down from the hole, he really didn't collide with the remaining steel bars in the hole. At the moment he fell, who would have thought that the gun belt of the box cannon he was wearing was hanging from the broken part of a steel bar.

With the previous one he grabbed the steel bar with his hand when he fell down, and the box of guns was hung, he finally did not fall straight down from the hole.

Although he became a half-baked man, he didn't fall and he was bleeding after all.

"Ph", Shang Zhen felt the discomfort in his mouth and wanted to vomit something.

But what he spit out was not saliva but dust. I think it was because he didn't close his mouth when he was screaming, and then the dust poured in.

Since the gun of his box cannon was cross-body, the pain of the gun belt still hurt him.

While Shang Zhen was glad that he had escaped his life, he suddenly thought of another problem. It was said that a violent explosion would cause internal injuries to people, and he didn't know what happened to him.

As he tried to breathe, he felt the qi and blood surging in his body.

If you don’t die, you will be lucky, and if you think too much, it will be in vain.

Shang Zhen thought, then stretched out his right hand and grabbed the gun belt hanging on the steel bar. Then he handed his left hand up. With the help of the gun belt, Shang Zhen finally climbed up from the hole again.

When he climbed all his body on the floor, he lay down flat.

You always need to take a breath after the disaster.

There was still dust floating above, but the visibility was already there, and Shang Zhen saw the sky filled with gunpowder at the corner of the house.

The situation was too critical at that time. Shang Zhen didn't know where the Japanese aviation bomb had exploded, but a corner of the building located above him had already collapsed. Otherwise, how could he see the sky?

The ancient Chinese often said that things are right but people change, but for Shang Zhen, people are still things but their appearances are gone, and this is war.

Shang Zhen carefully checked himself and found that his eyesight was good and he could hear it. Although the place where he was strangled was painful, he did not feel that there was too uncomfortable in his body.

So he sat up and finally climbed up from the deformed ladder, returning to the original position.

But when he was about to hide in that place, he heard another loud "boom" sound in front of him.

The explosion scared Shang Zhen's body to move, and when he looked forward, he saw another splash of bricks and stones in the Guanghua Gate ahead.

This time it was a heavy artillery, and Shang was shocked and thought of it.

Although Shang Zhen was a veteran, he had never participated in that kind of extremely cruel position war. The Japanese artillery he had seen mostly refer to infantry artillery and mountain artillery. For example, in the Battle of Songhu, he had never experienced it once.

However, since he is a veteran, although he has not experienced it, it does not mean that he has not heard of it. Now, seeing the explosion in front of him, he feels that the caliber of the Japanese army used cannon this time, at least 105mm or above 150mm.

The Japanese army used such heavy artillery, and I think it was because they knew the thickness of the Nanjing city wall. Is it because they wanted to blow up Guanghua Gate?

As Shang Zhen thought, the sound of cannons in front was endless. Before the smoke and dust spread out from the bombing of the plane had just disappeared, a new column of smoke rose into the air.

It is hard to imagine how the defenders were able to get over the fierce artillery fire of the Japanese army.

Shang Zhen had never experienced such positional wars, but he could also guess that most of the casualties of the Chinese army should have been caused by enemy artillery fire.

Half an hour later, the shelling finally stopped.

After the cannon bombarded the infantry, Shang Zhen knew that the Japanese army was going to launch an attack on Guanghuamen.

Sure enough, more than half an hour later, Shang Zhen heard gunshots coming from the front, and in his telescope, the figures of Chinese officers and soldiers guarding the city also appeared.

And now Shang Zhen can only watch the battle quietly.

Although now behind the city wall is Nanjing City, it is the Chinese people in the city.

But if Shang Zhen was asked to defend his position, he would not go if he could.

He felt that the way he fought with the Japanese army was more about ambushing and sneak attacking the Japanese army, rather than taking the Japanese army's attack in the front.

Because he couldn't do it, he admired the defenders at this time.

Soon he saw in the telescope that injured were lifted down from the city wall one after another.

The gunfire sounds, and I think the fights are particularly intense.

Shang Zhen was there observing until noon.

He was in a bad mood just because others were holding the Japanese attack in front of him, but he became a bystander.

However, this situation changed at noon. Shang was shocked to find that a defender suddenly pushed the gasoline barrel onto the city wall.

What did they do to push gasoline barrels on the wall?

Shang Zhen felt confused, and when he saw the officers and soldiers lifting, pushing or carrying gasoline barrels, it was obvious that there was gasoline in the barrel.

How can gasoline be brought to the position at this time? If the Japanese army fired a shot, the lethality generated by the explosion will naturally double.

The defenders could not have known this superficial common sense. Just because of surprise, Shang Zhen used a telescope to look carefully. At this time, he found that the officers and soldiers tilted the gasoline barrels towards the city.

Since the water tower is higher than the city wall, Shang Zhen was able to see the action of the defenders clearly.

But why did they do this? Shang Zhen could only imagine and speculate.

But before Shang Zhen could figure it out, he saw the officers and soldiers reported to Guanghua Sect suddenly retreating.

Could it be that the Japanese army had already attacked the city, and the defenders poured the gasoline and set it on fire?

You know, Shang Zhen then saw flames rising below the city wall, which was the gate opening of Guanghua Gate.

Guanghua Gate was not completely closed by the defenders. They built a large security guard there. As for how many Japanese tank guns were received on the security guard, Shang Zhen was unknown.

Shang Zhen was thinking about the battle situation when he suddenly heard loud cheers from the officers and soldiers coming from the front.

At this time, he suddenly realized that the officers and soldiers did not use gasoline to pour the Japanese troops attacking the city, but poured the gasoline into the door hole of Guanghua Gate below.

As for why we did this, do we still need to ask? Some Japanese troops must have rushed into the doorway. Their defenders could not reach the Japanese troops, so they simply poured the gasoline and set it on fire.
Chapter completed!