On December 9, the Guanghua Gate position in Nanjing.

The roar outside the city has almost never stopped two days ago. There are louder small-caliber medium-caliber artillery and dull heavy howitzers. The Chinese veterans who defended the city hate the latter the most. In Shanghai and Suzhou, they have suffered a lot from this thing. When fighting position wars, they often reimburse half of their company with one shell. Some troops were blown up before entering the battlefield. The most disgusting part of the heavy howitzers was not that they would blow people to pieces, but that even if people near the shell landing point avoid fragments in anti-aircraft holes or bunkers, they would be shaken to death. Many of the sacrificed brothers could not see any scars on the surface, but their internal organs had been shattered long ago.

On the wall of Guanghuamen, Xie Chengrui, the captain of the Second Regiment of the Teaching Corps, led his troops to defend the battle. With the tall city wall and the complex and solid fortification network outside the city, they had repelled many attacks by the Japanese army. The 36th Regiment of the 6th Division outside the city, who were angry outside the city called for heavy artillery support. The Japanese large-caliber artillery at Gaoqiaomen bombed the Guanghuamen position for half an hour. The positions outside the city were overturned by artillery fire, forcing them to give up the Zhongheqiao block and retreat to the city wall.

The advantage of guarding the city wall is that it is protected by the tall city wall. Condescending Chinese soldiers can use machine gun firepower and grenades to entertain Japanese soldiers charging in the open area. In some places, they even dug up some part of the filling in the middle of the city wall, put down the machine gunners, and took off two bricks of the city wall, and then became a ready-made castle machine gun bunker. They were suddenly sent to the Japanese, making them dizzy.

But there are also disadvantages. The Chinese soldiers on the city wall are still lacking in firepower. Many Japanese soldiers took the opportunity to rush under the city wall. This is a dead corner, and only grenades can be dropped to cause certain damage.

The brothers of the teaching corps were fighting fiercely, and with a "boom" not far away, dust was flying. Xie Chengrui turned his head and looked at a large gap. A section of the city wall was blown up, and the landslide behind the wall bricks collapsed like a gentle slope, forming a group of dusty Japanese soldiers screaming and climbing up the slope.

"Oh no," Xie Chengrui felt nervous. If the city wall was lost, a chain reaction would be followed. The Japanese army might use this as a breakthrough and rushed into the city directly. "Follow me!" Xie Chengrui picked up a flower mechanism and rushed over. The light machine gunner on the side also chased Xie Chengrui in a Czech style.

"Dadada" Xie Chengrui rushed to the gap, leaned against the wall brick, and shot a round of bullets. The soldiers behind also fired one after another. The "onboard" in the mouths of several Japanese soldiers climbing up the city wall fell back before they could shout, but the Japanese soldiers immediately followed and fired back. The city walls were crackling and crackling. As more and more Japanese soldiers rushed up the city wall, the guns were no longer useful. The soldiers on both sides fought each other and began hand-to-hand combat. Many soldiers around him fell down. Xie Chengrui's eyes were red in an anxious manner, and he threw out a grenade and knocked down two Japanese soldiers who were about to climb up. The soldiers beside him followed suit and threw the grenades and finally repelled the attack.

Not only Guanghua Gate, but also the 306th Regiment of the 51st Division guarding Shuixi Gate was also under great pressure. The regiment commander Qiu Weida also went to the front line to participate in the battle, and even organized suicide squads to counterattack to suppress the Japanese offensive. Under the heavy firepower of the Japanese army, almost all commanded the battle. Some commanded the battle on the front line, but more people directly joined the battle with guns.

At Yuhuatai, Brigade Commander Gao Zhisong personally brought the spies to the front line. During the war, Qi Heng watched Brigade Commander Gao from afar in the crowd to cheer everyone up: "Brothers, you can eat any suffering in the world and bear any sin, but you can't eat the suffering of the country's destruction! The sin of the slaves of the country cannot bear! Now that the Japanese army is here, whoever does not resist is committed the crime of the country's destruction. Brothers, for the sake of today and tomorrow of the Chinese nation, we must fight the invaders to the end!"

After a passionate speech, the brothers below were excited. Even the recruits who had not performed well before, raised their arms and shouted: "Fight to the end! Fight to the end!" But the officers all understood that it was rare for all the brigade commanders to come to the front line. On the first day, the Japanese army's attack was frustrated, so they would definitely not give up, and their defense would definitely be more difficult.

On December 10, Nanjing Garrison Headquarters.

"Report! The 6th and 114th divisions of the 10th Japanese Army captured Niushou Mountain and began to attack Yuhuatai side by side after General Mountain." A staff officer ran to Liu Xing and said loudly.

Liu Xing extinguished the cigarette in his hand and frowned: "Let Sun Yuanliang's 88th Division resist. If the Yuhuatai is lost, the Zhonghua Gate and Yuhua Gate will be directly exposed under the Japanese army's nose!"

"yes!"

At this time, in the command of the 264th Brigade, Gao Zhisong and Liao Lingqi were both heavy. How to fight? At the beginning, the troops defending the Yuhuatai Highlands were only one brigade and two artillery companies. Zhu Chi's 262nd Brigade was still a reserve team at the Zhonghua Gate. They just learned that the enemy they were about to face were two divisions equipped with tank heavy artillery and supported by aircraft.

"Notify all regiments, battalions, and companies that the people are in positions. No matter who they are, they are not allowed to take a step back without orders!" Gao Zhisong conveyed the order to the staff officer on the side, and then pulled out the pistol. "Old Liao, we are going to get on too." Liao Lingqi did not speak, but silently opened the pistol's insurance.

On the front position of the 3rd Battalion of the 527th Regiment, Qi Heng and other veterans also began to curse the Japanese artillery. Early this morning, the Japanese artillery soldiers threw shells into the position as if they were injected with chicken blood. The planes in the sky came to join in from time to time, dropping bombs and diving. Nearly half of the fortifications of the Eighth Company were blown into the sky. The artillery in half a morning caused the Eighth Company to lose more than the soldiers of the previous three days.

"Company Commander, this morning, our company died in total, six seriously injured, six slightly injured, and two Czech-style players were missing. In addition, the platoon leader of the machine gun company and a Maxim position exploded. I went over and saw that there was nothing left, so I picked up some machine gun bullets." The sound of cannons stopped for a moment at noon, and Deputy Company Commander Zhang hung an arm and said with his arms hanging down to Qi Heng and said.

"In addition to the thirteen who died in battle and eight seriously injured, the number of people has been reduced by almost one-third now. Listening to the sound of gunfire this morning, I guess the Japanese will make big moves in the afternoon, so that brothers, please stop having lunch and hurry up and repair the fortifications." Qi Heng said as he turned his head to look at Mao Qiuchang.

Mao Qiuchang was gnawing the steamed buns. When he saw the company commander give an order, he didn't have time to swallow the steamed buns in his mouth, stuffed the rest into his pocket, and saluted vaguely, turned around and crawled over half of the sandbag that had been blown to pass the order.

"This kid has only been accustomed to the war in two days." Deputy Company Commander Zhang joked.

"Oh, those who can't adapt are all lying there." Qi Heng used his chin to nude a row of corpses behind him that had not had time to be buried. "How about your arm? Should you take it down first?"

"It doesn't matter, the stray bullet is fired. If the bullet passes through, it's not a big problem. It's just that I can't use it and can't fight the bayonet." Deputy Company Commander Zhang looked at his right arm wrapped in gauze. "We have too few medical soldiers. Look, even veterinarians are coming to treat the disease." Qi Heng looked at his gaze. The newly-engraved medical soldier Wang Shouyi was busy bandaging a soldier's leaked chin.

"You bully others again. After all, this kid's family also runs a clinic. Be careful that he won't treat you next time."

"A little kid, how dare he?"

"Hahaha."

Laughing and chat seemed to dilute the tension before the war. Looking at the veteran who was shoveling soil beside him, Qi Heng thought: He would be quite like the gardener in his family, and he might call him a gardener in the future.

"Swish~" Another familiar sound of shells passing through the air. Then there was the roar of the observation whistle: "Do not to the cannon!" In fact, he didn't need to shout, regardless of the new recruits and veterans, the soldiers who had been bombed for two days had already been familiar with the anti-cannon holes.

"Blasting, blowing, fucking, do the Japanese shells don't have any money?" A recruit cursed and crawled into the anti-cannon hole. "What, don't you wet your pants now, and you'll curse me?" The veteran in the cave started to make a fuss. The recruit was not afraid: "When the Japanese are talking about guns, do you know how to shoot artillery and bully us without cannons?" "However, there are, but the artillery brothers are reluctant to let the shells go home to get married." The veteran was also annoyed by the bombing and began to blame his artillery. "Don't be afraid when the Japanese come up later. I'll cut you with my pants." The squad leader slapped the recruit. The recruit replied: "I'll let the Japanese pee pee later. Squad leader, go and cut the Japanese." "Hey, I'm a genital, if you don't pee, you'll still be a man."

...

After the shelling, the dusty officers and soldiers came out of the hole and began to exchange fire. Qi Heng held a rifle and squatted behind the sandbags in the trench with the soldiers. Deputy Company Commander Zhang was holding a thief with the shell gun in his left hand and lay in the bullet crater on the machine gun position. Deputy Envoy Liu personally operated a Czech light machine gun. Every time the battle started, grassroots officers like them often played the role of soldiers, and many regiment commanders and brigade commanders and even division commanders would rush to the front line...

I don't know which side fired the gun first, in short, after a gunshot, the gunshots on both sides made loud noises, and the Japanese in yellow clothes charging began to shout "Onboard". The Chinese army, which was charred by the smoke of gunpowder, responded with various swear words. Unlike the attack the day before, this time the Japanese used the long live charge tactic again, and a large group of soldiers carrying rifles and carrying bullets from the National Army rushed to the front. The Japanese army's continuous bombing had destroyed more than half of the fortifications of the National Army, and there were only a few sparse groups of barbed wire in front of the position. The Japanese army, without these obstacles, rushed over like crazy, and two Maxim heavy machine guns fired red.

The gun barrel was removed, but the violent rain of bullets failed to stop the charge of the Japanese army. Instead, they were targeted by several Type 92 heavy machine guns and had to launch heavy machine guns. Without the suppression of the heavy machine gun fire, the Japanese army behind dragged up several Type 92 infantry cannons and began to destroy the defenders' machine gun fire points one by one with the grenade launcher. Major Deputy Battalion Commander Liu Zhi held the Czech style and shot behind a charred and smoke-filled tree stump, knocking down four or five Japanese soldiers who wanted to rush over. A Japanese machine gunner lay on the ground and fought back with a crooked handle, killing a magazine. Not only did he have no results, he instead put the life of a deputy gunman.

Qi Heng fully utilized his advantage of second place in shooting when studying in the military academy. He hid behind the cracks of the sandbags and knocked down five Japanese devils for five consecutive shots. Mao Qiuchang was shocked and shouted. Deputy Company Commander Zhang could only shoot with his left hand, and his accurate head was much worse. He only hit one in half a day, and was dragged back by the Japanese medical staff. Seeing that the Japanese offensive was not diminished at all, he was approaching the front of the position, Qi Heng shouted "Get the bayonet!" while pulling out the bayonet from his waist and stuck the muzzle. The Chinese soldiers who were shooting stopped and used the bayonet. Seeing that the Chinese army stopped shooting, the captain led by the Japanese stood up straight and stretched out the command knife. A group of Japanese soldiers rushed up with bayonets.

Qi Heng held the rifle gun in his right hand, holding the rifle in his left hand, shouting "Brothers, follow me!", and jumped out of the trench. Seeing a National Army officer jumping out, the Japanese Captain waved his hand to signal the soldiers on both sides to retreat, and used his left hand to strike Qi Heng. When Qi Heng saw this arrogant guy, he said to Mao Qiuchang beside him: "Be careful, leave this Japanese officer to me." Then he changed the bayonet rifle to his right hand and rushed forward. The Japanese Captain grinned and held the knife in both hands and walked quickly. Qi Heng was not nervous. He raised his hand with his left hand and shot it on the knee of the Japanese Captain's knee. The grin on the Japanese Captain's face turned into astonishment and pain. He staggered to the ground, and Qi Heng caught up with two steps. He made up for the "slap" two shots, and ended the guy.

"I have a gun and what kind of knife to play with you?" Qi Heng muttered, and walked up and shot down a Japanese soldier who was fighting. Mao Qiuchang took away the sword of the Japanese officer, and followed Qi Heng with one pistol and the other hand. Not far away, Deputy Company Commander Zhang, whose arm was injured, cooperated closely with two veterans. When he saw the Japanese, Deputy Company Commander Zhang first shot down, and the veteran followed and finished the knife. The small group of three people had almost no enemy in one go.

But compared to veterans, the new recruits' ability to fight the sting is much worse. Often, two new recruits besieged one Japanese but are killed. Some veterans have to face two or three Japanese. They are weak and fall under the enemy's bayonet with hatred. The flank of the Eighth Company is the position of the third platoon, and the third platoon has the most new recruits. They seem a little helpless in the face of hand-to-hand combat. Liu Zhi faces a squad of new recruits not far away in front of him. The Japanese have already rushed into the position. In desperation, he half-kneeled beside the wooden stake and pulled the trigger.

The shuttle bullets swept over, and the group of Japanese who had not had time to celebrate were all swept down. But the Japanese's Type 92 infantry cannons in the distance also found him. A shell came over. The ammunition hand on one side just threw Liu Zhi to the ground, and the shell exploded beside the two. Liu Zhi felt that his head seemed to have turned into a ball of cotton, his body was light, and he couldn't tell whether it was smoke or clouds in front of him. He wanted to push away the ammunition hand pressing on his body, but he could not find his left hand...

After the battle, Qi Heng was covered in blood and leaned on the sandbag exhausted, and the captured Japanese sabers were thrown aside. Tian Xiaoban sat next to Qi Heng and wiped his gun silently. The position of the Eighth Company had just been broken. If it weren't for the regiment spies brought by Tian Xiaoban, a platoon of reinforcements from a platoon of reinforcements from the regiment, the Eighth Company might have been finished. The third platoon was wiped out, and the ammunition hand saved the life of Deputy Liu Ying with his life. However, Deputy Liu Ying became a real six-finger this time, and his left hand and two legs were blown away; Deputy Company Commander Zhang and two veterans were both sacrificed, and a Japanese man pulled a grenade before his death and took it away.

A three-person team; the last Maxim that came to support the machine gun company turned into a part, and the Maxim of the Eighth Company was also penetrated into the cooling tube and could not be fired for a while; the Czech light machine guns in the entire company suffered heavy losses in the Japanese's targeted attack, with only six left, and a crooked handle from the Japanese, the firepower was reduced by half. According to Tian Xiaoban, not only Qi Heng and others, but also the battalions of the entire brigade suffered heavy losses. Even Brigade Commander Gao Zhisong personally fought a hand-to-hand battle, and one ear was bitten by the Japanese, but the 262nd Brigade as a reserve team still did not come up.

"If the Japanese continue to attack like this, I don't know if Yuhuatai can still be held in our hands before dark." Qi Heng thought, lit a cigarette that Mao Qiuchang took out from the Japanese with his blood-stained hand.
Chapter completed!