Convinced that the Japanese gunman on the opposite side had been injured, Xu Shijiu personally carried the mortar and stood in front of the window. Carrying the mortar on his shoulder was a difficult technical job. Only Hu Jie and a platoon leader in the entire artillery company had this ability. Now that the platoon leader has died, Hu Jie was also seriously injured, Xu Shijiu could only take action personally.

Heixiazi stood nervously next to Xu Shijiu, ready to act as a meat shield at any time.

Xu Shijiu ignored Heixiazi, glanced at the Japanese machine gun nest in the gap opposite, then raised the cannon barrel slightly, and shouted without looking back: "Candy shell!"

The artillery soldiers who had been waiting behind Xu Shijiu with a shell in his arms, quickly stepped forward, lifted their feet and stuffed the shell into the gun port. The shell slid into the gun barrel and fired the fuse. Xu Shijiu quickly pressed down the gun barrel and aimed it directly above the Japanese machine gun nest at the gap. After a brief delay, he heard a loud sound. The gun barrel flew backwards, but the shells had already roared toward the gap a hundred meters away. Xu Shijiu was covered in his head and face by the smoke from the gun barrel.

When Xu Shijiu opened his eyes again, the Japanese machine gun nest built on the gap in the city wall had already disintegrated. Even the machine gun nest welded with steel plates could not resist the direct shot of the 82mm caliber mortar, let alone the simple machine gun nest built with bricks and wood in a hurry?

Once the Japanese firepower points in the gap were cleared, the remaining bunkers under the gap were no problem. After sacrificing four veterans, the 19th Brigade finally blew up the bunker. Xu Shijiu personally led the commando to rush up the gap along the collapsed pile of soil and launched a fierce hand-to-hand battle with the Japanese remaining soldiers guarding the gap.

This was the first hand-to-hand battle that broke out on the Fukuo position in Nanjing. Xu Shijiu and twenty-six veterans were killed at the cost of two. Six people were slightly injured and killed eighteen Japanese soldiers. At this point, the Japanese army that broke into Nanjing Wucheng has been cleared, but the city defense gap that was broken by the Niudao Brigade has not been completely blocked.

Because an infantry squadron of the Kagoshima Regiment (45th Infantry Regiment) occupied two solid villas outside the gap and was still fighting stubbornly. The 347th Regiment of the 58th Division attacked all night and failed to wipe out the Japanese army that had resisted stubbornly. Until dawn, only more than 400 people died in the regiment, and the regiment commander Shi Butian was seriously injured.

When Xu Shijiu personally led the commando to regain the gap in the city wall, the 347th Regiment outside the city also reached the last moment.

The 347th Regiment fought with the Japanese army outside the city all night, and more than 2,000 officers and soldiers in the regiment died of more than 400 people. The regiment commander Shi Butian was also seriously injured, and the casualties were severe. According to Western standards, the 347th Regiment should have revoked its troops, but according to the standards of the Easterners, the battle has only just begun!

Without saying that, the bloodiness of the 347th ball has been completely extinguished!

Even though the Japanese army transferred two armored vehicles, they were unable to shake the determination of the officers and soldiers of the 347th Regiment.

In the trenches, Yao Jiefu, deputy regiment and battalion commander of the regiment who was commanding the battle in place of Shi Butian, was making the final mobilization of the twenty suicide squadrons. The twenty suicide squadrons were covered with water-soaked quilts on their chests. They lined up into two columns. The two veterans standing at the end of the queue were covered with grenades. There were at least twenty.

Twenty veterans were silent, and the atmosphere at the scene was so depressing that it was suffocating. At this moment, no one knew what these veterans were thinking. They might be missing their wives and children at home, or saying goodbye to the world, but the most likely one was to roar in their hearts, why was it me and why did I choose me?

Even ants are greedy for life, let alone human beings? No one is willing to die!

The twenty veterans were unwilling to give up. Their eyes that seemed to be squirting fire were enough to tell everything. They didn't want to die. They were full of attachment to the world. However, when Yao Jiefu also stood at the front of the queue with a quilt bag, the twenty veterans closed their eyes one after another, with a sad and angry face. Forget it, even the officials were not afraid of death, so Lao Wuzi took the initiative!

"Brothers, I won't say anything extra." Yao Jiefu's left eye was blinded by the rushing. He didn't even let the medical staff bandage him. Let the blood flow all over his face. Yao Jiefu's only right eye showed a cold and firm look, and he swept through the faces of the twenty veterans one by one like a knife. Then he continued, "Today's battle, either Xiaoji Wuben was finished or we died. If Xiaoji Wuben wanted to step into Nanjing Wuben, there was only one way to go, that was to step over our bodies!"

"There are all." Yao Jiefu turned around and stood in front of the left column, clenched his fists on his waist, and made a running gesture. The next moment, his hoarse roar had already resounded throughout the position, "Run... go!"

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Xu Shijiu led the commando to the gap in the city wall and used a bayonet to defeat the remaining Japanese soldiers on the gap. Then he saw a tragic scene that he could never forget in his life. A battalion commander, with twenty suicide squadrons, rushed out of the trenches, and launched a decisive charge towards the two Japanese armored vehicles ahead.

The light and heavy machine guns on the Japanese armored vehicles opened fire wildly, and the red tongues of fire erupted from the muzzle were clearly visible even in broad daylight. The battalion commander and another veteran who rushed to the front of the queue were hit by dozens of bullets in an instant. The water-soaked bag on their chest was blown away and smoked. The powerful impact of the bullet caused their bodies to lose balance. The whole person began to lean back and tilt uncontrollably, but their legs were still desperately moving forward, forward, and continued to move forward...

The battalion commander finally fell down and fell about twenty meters away. At the cost of his life, he sent the ten suicide squadrons behind him forward twenty meters. Through the telescope, Xu Shijiu could even see the battalion commander's expression clearly. His expression was ferocious, and his mouth was still closing, and he was still yelling.

Xu Shijiu's tears were falling, and he couldn't hear it, but he could read through his mouth that the battalion commander was clearly yelling: "Brothers, rush, rush..."

Immediately after the battalion commander, the first veteran fell down soon.

Then there was the second, the third, and the fourth... The light and heavy machine guns on the Japanese armored vehicles opened fire like crazy, and the scorching bullets were poured over like water. Obviously, the little Japanese in the armored vehicles also realized the danger. These Chinese soldiers did not hesitate to charge forward with their own lives, with only one purpose, that is, to close to blasting.

Gao Shenxing also rushed into the gap with the guard platoon. Seeing the tragic scene that was being staged outside the city, the man who was as cold as steel was finally moved. His Adam's apple twitched twice, and turned around and said to Li Mu, the soldier following him in a somewhat dry tone: "Remember this scene, this is a soldier, a real Chinese soldier!"

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The chief of staff of the Japanese 6th Division, Shimoko Kazuki, stood more than a thousand meters away, Shimoko Kazuki, Tani Shouo, and other senior Japanese generals all witnessed this tragic scene with their own eyes. Shimoko Kazuki held the telescope and shook his hands, and his tone was also filled with unprecedented solemnity: "I didn't expect that Zhiwu was so bloody!"

"It seems that the Chinese soldiers are suffering from blood." Niu Daoman's tone was also solemn, "I seem to have seen that in the next street battle in Nanjing, the imperial army will suffer tenacious resistance. The streets and alleys of Nanjing will be filled with the blood of the imperial soldiers. The division commander seems that Nanjing is more difficult to fight than Shanghai."

As if he was going to bet on Niushima's remarks, the old Japanese man had just finished speaking, and two loud "boom" sounds came from the front. Twenty Chinese soldiers used their lives to relay, and finally sent the two suicide squadrons with no more than twenty grenades tied around their waists to the two Japanese armored vehicles, and then exploded.

Manta Nishima and Kazuki Shimono put down their telescopes and looked back at Tanisuo.

The air at the scene suddenly became extremely solemn, but Tani Suofu smiled, and she smiled very easily. Facing the two worried subordinates, Tani Suofu said with great ease: "Niujima Sangwu, Shino Sangwu, I don't know if you have studied the ancient history of the Zhiwu person. I found that the Chinese soldiers have a very interesting feature."

Huojima, Shimono Kazuki looked at each other, and at this time he discussed China's history?

But Tansuo continued on his own: "I found that the Chinese army, to be precise, the Han army, had a very prominent feature, that is, when they had an excellent and powerful commander, they could quickly evolve from a group of sheep into a group of wild wolves, but when they lost their commander, they would soon degenerate from wild wolves to sheep."

"What about?" Shinoko Kazuki said thoughtfully.

"For example, the Han army." Gu Shoufu said, "Before Wei Qing and Huo Qubing, the Han army was a group of sheep. They could only eat the Hun cavalry. However, after Wei Qing and Huo Qubing appeared, the Han army immediately changed from sheep to wolf. The Hun cavalry had no advantage in the Han army, and was eventually expelled from the Far East and fled to Europe.

For example, when the Song army was in the Song army, how powerful was the Song army? It was easy to shake the mountains, but it was difficult to shake the Yue family army. This was the helpless sigh made by the Jin army at that time. If it weren’t for the Jiangnan chaebols, the Song army would have succeeded in the Northern Expedition, but after Yue Fei’s death, the Song army quickly transformed into a sheep. In just over 30 years, the Southern Song Dynasty was destroyed by the Mongols.”

Shimono Kazuki said: "It seems that's true, but what does the division commander want to explain?"

Gusuo said: "What I want to say is that no matter how bloody the Chinese soldiers are, no matter how hard they can fight, they are not afraid, because they have a large group of senior generals who are afraid of life and death, and a cowardly and incompetent supreme commander!" After a pause, Gusuo said confidently, "Look, as long as Zijin Mountain changes hands, the Chinese army will collapse."
Chapter completed!