On December 10, a large number of Japanese troops gathered, and launched a fierce attack on Yuhuatai, Tongji Gate, Guanghua Gate, and the headquarters of the teaching team retreating to the second peak of Zijin Mountain.

The camera turned to Yuhuatai. Since the Japanese army attacked Yuhuatai with a force of a corps on the morning of the 9th, and suffered heavy defeat, they mobilized another corps to increase their attack on Yuhuatai, and then attacked Yuhuatai again. In the afternoon, Gao Zhisong, the commander of the 264th Brigade, personally led two battalions of the 528th Regiment to reinforce the Yuhuatai position. The Japanese army was repelled after losing six or seven hundred troops.

That morning, the Japanese army, who were eager to make a forced landing in Nanjing, began to strafuse the Yuhuatai position with planes and cannons from 7 o'clock, and the position suddenly became thick smoke, just like the end of the world.

The fierce bombing lasted for about half an hour. After half an hour, the Japanese army immediately sent two brigades of troops to launch a fierce attack on Yuhuatai from both sides. Both sides suffered heavy casualties. Fortunately, the position was not lost, and the position was still held in the hands of the officers and soldiers of the 88th Division.

Even Sun Yuanliang ran back from the brothel in Confucius Temple to inspect the situation. Unfortunately, because the artillery position of the 88th Division was behind the mountain belly, it did not exert the power of the artillery as it should and did not give the enemy a destructive blow.

Just as noon approached, Tang Shengzhi refused to reply to Matsui Ishigen's ultimatum and ordered the artillery to bombard the Japanese positions in response. At the same time, the commander-in-chief of the garrison commander ordered the troops in the city to build fortifications and prepare for the final street battle with the Japanese army.

On the same day, the war at Guanghua Gate became fierce again. The commander-in-chief of the garrison commander dispatched the 156th Division and one of the gendarmerie units in the city to reinforce Guanghua Gate, and then controlled the vicinity of the Ming Dynasty's Forbidden City with the 159th Division to support the troops of the 156th Division. The 103rd Division, which was withdrawn from Zhenjiang to Nanjing, served as the garrison of the Zhongshan Gate, and was commanded by Gui Yongqing, the commander of the squadron leader of the teaching corps.

Until dusk, the officers and soldiers of the 156th Division of the Guanghua Gate defender, under the command of Liu Xing, the deputy commander of Nanjing garrison, organized suicide squads to burn all the Japanese grenades and gasoline that were curled up and penetrated into the city gate circle with all the Japanese grenades and gasoline. Then they launched a fierce attack on the Tongguang Barracks and drove all the Japanese troops here. None of the members of these suicide squads returned.

It is precisely because of the sacrifices of these dozens of heroes that Guanghua Gate and Tongji Gate are safe.

However, on the same day, due to the fierce attack of the Japanese army, the right wing of the Yuhuatai position where the 88th Division was located was shaken, and the key points before the position was lost.

The 41st Division of the Second Corps attacked the Japanese army in the Mengtang direction east of Nanjing, but the attack suffered setbacks and failed. At this point, the 41st Division, together with the 213th Regiment of the 36th Division, began to retreat and accommodate the troops.

At this point, the Nanjing defense war has reached a more difficult and sinister stage.

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On December 11, after the failure of the attack on Guanghua Gate and Tongji Gate, the Japanese army mobilized elite troops to attack Zhonghua Gate that day.

Originally, there were defenders of the 88th Division outside the Zhonghua Gate, but Japanese planes bombed and fired in groups of three or five at the positions outside the Zhonghua Gate, instructing the defenders of the 88th Division to be unable to gain a foothold here, so they were forced to retreat into the city.

Seeing this fighter, the Japanese army immediately followed. The defenders were immediately in chaos at the city gate. The ladders and the city gate were not closed. The Japanese army took the opportunity to rush in more than 300 people.

Seeing that the situation was so critical, Luo Zhuoying, deputy commander of Nanjing garrison who was in charge of the Zhonghua Gate, came to the front line to command the battle. The defending troops and the Japanese army engaged in a very fierce street battle in the Zhonghua Gate area, and finally killed all the Japanese troops who were attacking the city, and had a chance to breathe.

The battle of the Zhonghua Gate made everyone feel worried. If this place is broken, Nanjing City will be in danger.

The war in the China Sect was in a tight spot, and the news that it was almost broken by the Japanese army soon reached Song Xilian. In response, Song Xilian just sighed softly: "When the city of Nanjing is broken, it's time for me to enter the city. Little Japan, you can wait! Even if I, Song Yin Kingdom and the 78th Army, will not give Nanjing to you in vain!"

Zhang Tianhai silently saw this scene, without saying a word, and then quietly asked Liu Houming to go to the regiment headquarters in Xiaguan, allowing Guo Qiliang to gather troops into the city at any time. Once he received the order, he would gather at the fastest speed!

At this time, there was no place in Nanjing that was not filled with the smell of sulfur, carbonic acid and gunpowder. Japanese planes bombarded the sky all day long, and the soldiers of the National Army underground reached a time of collapse. Everyone hoped that there would be troops to rescue, but they could not see a single shot. The entire Nanjing was full of despair, and these officers and soldiers could not see hope for life.

Many grassroots troops have been exhausted, including the orders issued by the commander-in-chief of the garrison commander. On the surface, it seems that one army or division has been launched, but in fact the troops are only one battalion. At the same time, they have no cannons and even the rifles are not qualified.

From more than 100,000 troops before the war, to the present, there are only less than 80,000 people left, and there are still 80,000 people who are not fully equipped and beaten by the Japanese army!

On this day, the Japanese army on the eastern front attacked Zijin Mountain and also sent a force to attack the area from Dasheng Pass to Jiangxinzhou, and shot at the side back of the 74th Army, attempting to encircle and siege the Nanjing defenders from the rear.

Judging from the map, the Nanjing defenders are already an isolated army trapped in Nanjing. They have no support. They must defend until the city of Nanjing is broken, and even live and die with Nanjing!

It was around 2 o'clock that day that the left wing positions of the 88th Division Yuhuatai were all blown up by the enemy. Taking advantage of the fact that the defenders of the 88th Division had not yet fully reacted, the enemy took advantage of the ease with which the commander of the 262nd Brigade, Zhu Chi, who was responsible for guarding Yuhuatai, and Gao Zhisong, the commander of the 264th Brigade, hurriedly led his troops to drive away the Japanese troops in the unit, but the results were not good.

"Old Zhu, it seems that we have to be loyal to the country this time." Before the Japanese attack, Gao Zhisong hid in the trenches and said to Zhu Chi beside him. He is from Cenxi, Guangxi and usually speaks vernacular in his hometown, so his Mandarin is not standard.

"Who said no? Now we are almost out of ammunition and food. These little Japanese have set up machine guns after occupying our positions. It is too expensive to seize those positions." As he said that, Zhu Chi handed Gao Zhisong a cigarette.

Gao Zhisong took the cigarette and lit it with the burning wooden stick next to him. He said, "Yes, we don't have much ammunition now, and the foreign aid has been cut off. I'm afraid I don't have much strength to fight back with these few ammunitions left. Just wait for the Japanese to come up and we'll call them again. This will kill more. As for our lives, let's keep it in hand-to-hand combat with the little Japanese!"

Gao Zhisong is not tall and even a little thin, but this does not affect his spirit of not being afraid of death and being brave.

"Brother Song, you are also from our third phase of Huangpu. We have been fighting from the Northern Expedition until now. Finally, we have not died at the hands of our own people. It is also an honor to be able to die at the hands of the enemy." Zhu Chi is from Xiushui, Jiangxi. When he first applied for the military academy, he also came to change the fate of this country.

"Yes, our Huangpu classmates were in Songhu and Nanjing battlefields, including our juniors, and many of them sacrificed. Our Huangpu troops... are about to be exhausted..." Gao Zhisong sighed softly.

"Think about everything better, I hope our sacrifices are valuable. Our descendants can remember this great Patriotic War and remember that when the motherland was in a down and poor state, a group of people worked hard for China..." Zhu Chi said lightly.

"I hope that our country will not be destroyed. The people we protect with our lives will make our motherland stronger." As he said that, Gao Zhisong grinned to the sky, and his white teeth were particularly conspicuous in the battlefield full of gunpowder.

Please go elsewhere if you are promoted and wealthy. Don’t enter the door if you are greedy for life and fear death. This sentence is never empty. It is just that those who regard this sentence as their faith will die soon...

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PS: Another update. To be honest, when writing this update, the eagle was in a very heavy mood. This period of history is a history that is slowly forgotten by the world. What we must remember is that these soldiers who stood up in the face of national crisis, rather than the current "national army".

Ahem, I've said a little too much.
Chapter completed!