I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

Even so, the Japanese army really "spent their blood" for the Battle of Nanjing. Lieutenant General Okamura's tactics were indeed very good, but the war resources consumed were too large. Ishihara smiled mockingly: "It took so much money." It is absurd that war resources are used to attack Nanjing! If so many troops, tanks, planes, cannons and more precious time are used to attack the vast area outside Nanjing, at this moment, the imperial army has taken at least ten An occupied area of ​​[-] square kilometers!" He was not mocking Lieutenant General Okamura, but the senior officials in Tokyo and Lieutenant General Hatohiko who supported the invasion of Nanjing.

After the Japanese army set up the "temporary tank group assault force" on the Nanjing battlefield in twists and turns, Lieutenant General Okamura's mood became worse again, because he planned to use this "tank group" to attack the most important and most critical of the Nanjing army. , the most core Zijin Mountain position, but it turned out to be used in advance on the Tangshan Town battlefield.

On the battlefield of Tangshan Town, the blood was raging, and the Japanese army that was constantly filling in and the Nanjing army that was constantly filling in were fighting to the death.

Compared with the Japanese army, the officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army have a certain terrain advantage because they are "fighting at home", and they are also superior to the Japanese army in the firepower of light weapons in close combat. Therefore, they have a considerable advantage in this cruel exchange of human lives. Three Nanjing Army soldiers fell and were buried with at least five Japanese soldiers.

On a hill two or three kilometers away, Lieutenant General Okamura tried his best to persuade General Matsui: "Your Excellency! The chariot group really cannot attack! Their real battlefield is Zijin Mountain! Not in Tangshan Town! Your Excellency, As you know, taking Zijin Mountain is basically equivalent to taking Nanjing City, and our army's greatest hope for taking Zijin Mountain is to gather tanks! This is our trump card, and it should be used on the most important battlefield of course Use it now, the consequences are too serious! First, the Nanjing Army will be alerted and stimulated, and will strengthen anti-tank measures on the Zijin Mountain battlefield. At that time, we will not have the desired effect if we use this trick again! Second, the imperial army's chariots are very precious. If a large amount of them are consumed in Tangshan Town, how will they attack Zijin Mountain? Your Excellency, the real power of the chariots is to form a mechanized shock cluster in batches! Nearly [-] chariots If a car is thrown into a certain local battlefield in one go, its impact is considerable, and if half of it is lost, the impact will be greatly reduced!"

General Matsui pointed to the Tangshan battlefield in the distance, where the sound of killing was shaking and the artillery fire pierced the clouds: "Mr. Okamura, you can see that the enemy's resistance is very tenacious. If you don't invest in a group of tanks now, let alone Zijin Mountain Even Tangshan Town can’t be taken down!”

The interim commander-in-chief of the "Central China Front Army" tank group next to him, and the former commander of the 5th tank regiment of the Japanese Army, Hoshino Toshimoto, proposed: "The group may not all participate in the battle, but it can invest, for example, [-] light tanks to assist Tangshan. At any rate, the Town War Bureau can effectively assist the infantry units that are fighting hard!"

"Hoshino-kun!" Lieutenant General Okamura said in dismay, "Aren't you talking about the most inferior refueling tactic? We managed to hit so many tanks in one place. What's the difference between fighting on different battlefields?"

Colonel Hoshino immediately showed embarrassment: "Yes... I made a mistake!"

"Mr. Okamura!" General Matsui's tone became serious, "Don't be stubborn! I've already told you that although the imperial army won in Shanghai, they were beaten in disgrace. In addition to its political and political significance, it also has a strong purpose of winning and avenging shame.

do you understand?The imperial army needs to capture the capital of China, so as to avenge the shame of Shanghai!However, more than ten days had passed since the Battle of Nanjing, and the imperial army was still in great trouble. The battle was rough and bumpy, and almost failed to achieve any results that could be fought. However, [-] to [-] soldiers were killed or injured!Internationally, the cynicism and ridicule of the empire by the great powers can be described as one after another, and the Tokyo side was greatly ashamed and angry, and His Majesty the Emperor was also very displeased.

So, we must act! He waved his hand indiscriminately, and shut up all the words that Admiral Okamura wanted to argue, "Master Hoshino, you can attack now!" "

"Hai!" Colonel Hoshino hurried away immediately.

What General Matsui said just now seems reasonable and well-founded, but in fact there is a lot of selfishness. He was the commander of the Shanghai dispatched army before, and now he is the commander-in-chief of the Central China Front Army. They all fought very badly. Although the Minister of War, General Sugiyama Moto, supported him, Tokyo was already dissatisfied with him. Right now, breaking through the defense line of Tangshan Town is the first step in conquering Nanjing. Victory, General Matsui is very likely to be dismissed and transferred back to China because of this. He is very unwilling. First, he has not yet been able to lead an army into Nanjing, and he has not fulfilled his long-cherished wish. Second, he is almost 60 years old. If he was dismissed due to poor performance in the Battle of Nanjing, the possibility of being restarted in the future will be very low, then his decades of military career will end as "the defeated general of the Battle of Nanjing", leaving a regret The stain of a lifetime, to put it bluntly, is simply not guaranteed at the end of the year. Naturally, General Matsui is very unwilling to fail at this point. In addition, there is another reason that is not easy to explain, and that is——after defeating Tangshan Town To fight Zijin Mountain, Lieutenant General Okamura’s chariot group tactics can only be used once. If it is not used in Tangshan Town, then the Japanese army will suffer heavy casualties if they capture Tangshan Town (there is no tank group, only infantry crowds can be used to charge the sea), Matsui The general will then be dismissed and investigated, and the successor will "pick up" the victory of Tangshan Town (General Matsui helped his successor conquer Tangshan Town at the cost of his own reputation, future and the lives of thousands of Japanese soldiers), and then Pick up ready-made ones directly, and use Lieutenant General Okamura's chariot group tactics to attack Zijin Mountain, win in one fell swoop, and take Nanjing. , and by that time, everyone will praise his successor and belittle him at the same time.

May I ask, what will General Matsui think?How could he be willing.

Being selfless is easy to say, but really hard to do.

Objectively speaking, General Matsui is not a selfish person, but he also has a very strong human weakness of greed for fame. When he received the order to attack Nanjing, he wrote in his diary ecstatically: "...In view of the overall situation, today's enthusiastic proposal has finally succeeded, and I am not very happy.

I have to obey the great order, fully investigate the existence of the imperial decree, only benevolent but powerful, and use the so-called sword of destroying evil and showing righteousness to kill Ma Su!" In this state of mind, it is better to let him die in Nanjing than to let him leave the Nanjing battlefield.

Following General Matsui's order, more than 160 Japanese tanks and more automobiles and cavalry armored vehicles rolled over the Nanjing Army's defense line in Tangshan Town in the wind and thunder. Five thousand Japanese infantry.

"A lot of tanks!" Hu Lian stared at this scene dumbfounded, and then saw the brothers dancing and screaming in groups among the firepower nets of the Japanese tank group.

"Don't panic! The anti-aircraft artillery fires! Bring the Molotov cocktail!" Rao Guohua shouted hoarsely.

The anti-tank soldiers controlling the anti-aircraft guns opened fire crazily. The 37mm anti-aircraft guns made in Germany burst into flames amidst the roar of the wind and thunder, and shot out fire meteors. Even the "most powerful" Type 89 tank of the Japanese army , and couldn’t bear the flames of the anti-aircraft guns of the March [-]th War. Armor-piercing bullets blasted the Japanese tanks continuously into groups of fiery molten steel. The mechanical parts fell apart in the explosion, and metal fragments roared and flew. The Japanese soldiers inside The armored soldiers were blown to pieces and died.

The Feilei cannons also let out bursts of roars, whistling towards the Japanese tanks, the pancake-shaped explosives were blown up after the thunder fireball, so that the Japanese tanks' armor was scorched as black as charcoal, and the craters were like hemp, and then they slammed into motion like a dead beast. It was not blown up, but the armored soldiers inside had been stunned by the shock wave.

The machine gunners on the ground were also fighting desperately. In the rainstorm-like firepower net, the Type 89 tank with thicker armor was hit with potholes, and the Type 94 tank with thin armor that was basically iron was punched full of holes. The armored soldiers inside It became a bloody hornet's nest.

"Brothers! Go!" shouted the infantry defenders, all holding Molotov cocktails, and rushed towards the Japanese steel wolves fearlessly.

In the arc-like bullet fire of electric welding, the officers and soldiers who were hit head-on by the Japanese tank firepower network were covered in blood mist. fire man.

In the heart-piercing screams, the rest of the infantry angrily threw Molotov cocktails at the Japanese tank. The Japanese tank hit by the Molotov cocktail ignited raging fire and billowing smoke. The tank became an oven for the armored soldiers inside. The mechanical equipment was burned out by the high temperature, the tank was paralyzed, and the armored soldiers crawled out screaming and screaming with black smoke, and quickly died in the hail of bullets.

(It is worth mentioning that during the Battle of Songhu in the original history, the national army was helpless with the Japanese tanks, but the Japanese tanks were not very powerful, and Molotov cocktails were enough to deal with them. Chiang Kai-shek sent a telegram to the frontline generals, asking them to follow the example Just as the Republican Army used glass bottles and gasoline to make Molotov cocktails against National Army tanks during the Spanish Civil War, the National Army does not seem to have a large-scale and organized record of using Molotov cocktails against Japanese tanks.

It can be seen from this that the tactical thinking of some generals of the national army is very rigid.

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"What a huge loss!" Colonel Hoshino, who personally drove a Type 89 tank to supervise the battle, was behind the group. Looking at the scene of fighting in front of him, he couldn't help but feel terrified. The Nanjing Army's fighting will was like steel and rock. Tanks, they used machine guns, anti-aircraft guns, flying mine cannons, and Molotov cocktails to cause great losses to the Japanese tank group, especially the Molotov cocktails, which were as numerous as hand grenades. Teams of Japanese tanks were killed by the Molotov cocktails flying all over the sky of the Nanjing Army. Burned into a steel fireball, not only that, but also many brave officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army rushed to the Japanese tanks with cluster grenades and explosives and died with them, although the Nanjing Army itself paid a heavy price and was killed by the tank guns , were shot to death by tank machine guns, were run over by tank tracks, were killed by tank bodies...there are thousands of people, but the Japanese tanks have lost one-third, which made Hoshino very sad, "General Okamura is right! This tactic can only be used once, because after one use, there are not many tanks that can be used again! In addition, the tanks of the Imperial Army are too fragile... However, this is the end of the matter, if you return without success , everything will be in vain! So many chariots have been lost, if you still can’t take Tangshan Town, all previous efforts will be wasted!” He hissed cruelly, “Keep up! Keep going!”

Lieutenant General Hatohiko Asakamiya, who was also on the battlefield, watched the battle situation almost tense and motionless. He was furious and murderous, and gave death orders to every regiment captain and every captain of the 2nd and 6th divisions. Order: "If you still can't take Tangshan Town tonight, you all go to seppuku! The empire doesn't need wine bags and rice bags!"

Under the order of death, the Japanese army attacked frantically at the local area almost at the expense of blood, and several regiment captains charged in person.

The red-eyed Japanese tank group continued to rush forward regardless of losses, and the bloody battle lasted for more than an hour, at the cost of losing nearly a hundred tanks (one of the important factors for the loss of Japanese tanks is that the Nanjing Army has a complete trench defense line, many After the Japanese tanks rushed to the Nanjing Army's position, they would drive into the trenches and be unable to move, thus becoming a living target), and the Japanese Army finally broke through the Nanjing Army's Tangshan Town defense line in an all-round way.

Tens of thousands of Japanese troops from the 2nd and 6th divisions flooded the entire town of Tangshan like a flood.

On the battlefield of Tangshan Town, "corpses were everywhere, and the vegetation was completely red."

In this fierce battle, more than [-] Japanese soldiers were killed or injured, and the Nanjing Army also suffered more than [-] officers and soldiers (a large number of officers and soldiers were killed or injured by the Japanese aircraft bombardment, artillery bombardment, and tank attack).

"Second son..." Ji Zhangjian, who was squatting in a large bomb crater, called Jiang Weiguo and reported tearfully, "The defense line has been breached! Brothers have tried their best! I really can't stop it!"

"Don't blame yourself too much!" Jiang Weiguo comforted, "I order to abandon Tangshan Town and retreat to Zijin Mountain!"

Ji Zhangjian wiped his tears: "Okay, okay, I understand!" He immediately called Rao Guohua and other generals: "All retreat! Withdraw to Zijin Mountain!"

Lieutenant General Rao Guohua did not withdraw. His 145th Division of the Sichuan Army had a total of more than 4000 troops before joining the war. At this time, it was exhausted. The remaining people were less than 800, and most of them were in the wounded soldiers' hospital in the city. Less than 50 people are still with him.

On the one hand, he saw that the position fell, and on the other hand, he saw that the soldiers from his hometown who came out of Sichuan with him had all died in battle. Rao Guohua, who was extremely sad and angry, glared at the overwhelming Japanese army and shouted: "William II was so powerful back then. , not to mention you little Japan! No matter how rampant you are today, you will eventually be shattered!" After saying this, he shot himself and became the first general of the Nanjing Army to die in battle.

In the early morning of December 12, the Japanese army captured Tangshan Town, one of the three positions outside Nanjing City, and rushed to the foot of Zijin Mountain.

Chapter 264 War City (4)

"Today, December 12, is a day of joy and sorrow.

What is worrying is that the defense line of Tangshan Township has just been breached by the Japanese army. The outlying positions of Nanjing City, which used to stand on three legs and formed horns with each other, have now collapsed.

Without Tangshan Township, Zijinshan became cold-hearted and began to be directly attacked by the Japanese army.

Zijin Mountain defends the eastern front of Nanjing City, Yuhuatai defends the southern front of Nanjing City, and Longtan Town defends the northern front of Nanjing City. As for Pukou District in the north of the Yangtze River, it is also very important and cannot be missed. On the one hand, Pukou District defends the western front of Nanjing City. On the one hand, the land transportation lines in Nanjing City are completely blocked at this time, and we can only rely on air transportation and Yangtze River water transportation. With Pukou District in our hands, the Yangtze River waterway can still be in our hands.

The three brigades of the 77th Division, the 771st Brigade is in Pukou District, the 772nd Brigade is in Longtan Township, and the 773rd Brigade was originally in Tangshan Township. When they evacuated to Zijin Mountain, there were only more than 8000 people, and more than half of them were lost.

Zijin Mountain is the first main position of Nanjing City. The Japanese army seems to have confirmed this point. They no longer besiege Nanjing City from all sides, but take key breakthroughs. The breakthrough point is Zijin Mountain.

The Japanese army didn’t make much effort to attack Pukou District and Longtan Town, so I plan to transfer some troops from Pukou District’s 771 Brigade and Longtan Town’s 772 Brigade to Zijin Mountain. There is a fortress of Wulong Mountain near Longtan Town. , should be fine.

well!General Rao Guohua was still killed (the word "still" was deleted later), his father ordered him to be promoted to the second-level general of the army, and he was posthumously awarded a Baoding Medal. I have sent someone to fly General Rao's body Transported away from Nanjing and transported back to his hometown in Ziyang County, Sichuan Province, his 145th Division of the Sichuan Army was completely wiped out, leaving only more than 700 wounded soldiers in the whole division.

My father announced that the 145th Division would be rebuilt. Everyone knows that although the rebuilt 145th Division still belongs to the Sichuan Army in name, it is staffed by the Central Army from top to bottom. Teacher, I really don’t know how General Rao would feel about this matter under Jiuquan. Probably, this is the Chinese characteristic at this time!I suddenly discovered a historical law, when the country is in crisis, the more patriotic people die, and the more traitorous people live longer.

Is not it?When foreign invaders invaded the country, the more patriotic people stood up and died heroically, while the more traitorous people retreated and evaded, and then dragged on to survive.

Could it be that this is a kind of reverse 'survival of the fittest'?I vaguely understand that if China now has 1 patriots and 1 traitors, after a few years of anti-Japanese war, there will only be 1 patriots left, because those [-] have already died on the battlefield , and the number of traitors is estimated to be [-], or even more, because they will not go to the battlefield!Perhaps, this is the fundamental reason why the longer the War of Resistance lasts, the more traitors there are, and the stronger voices of traitors! …Father sent me a top-level confidential telegram from Wuhan today, telling me a very important thing. My God, I was really taken aback.

My father told me that Song Zheyuan sent Chief of Staff Zhang Yueting to report to him, claiming that Han Fuju planned to unite Song Zheyuan, Liu Xiang, Lu Army, Northwest Army, and Sichuan Army to "peace Japan against Chiang and repeat the Xi'an Incident."

What are they going to do?The Sichuan army seized Chongqing and prevented the central forces from entering Sichuan (although the national government had moved to Chongqing, the central army was still in Wuhan and had not yet entered Chongqing), Song Zheyuan and Han Fuju's troops seized Henan and blocked Tongguan.

His father said that Song Zheyuan was unwilling to do this, so on the one hand, he was perfunctory to Han Fuju and on the other hand, he sent Zhang Yueting to inform him. He was very worried that local powerful factions such as Li Zongren and Long Yun would also be involved. If that was the case, the party state would be completely destroyed. He planned to get rid of Han Fuju and Liu Xiang.

Oh My God!I was really shocked, because these real insider histories were completely different from what I knew before (this and the following words were later deleted), General Liu Xiang is a person I respect very much, and the history books also He was highly praised and praised, because the great contribution of the Sichuan Army to the War of Resistance is well known. Before he died, he said, "The War of Resistance will remain unswerving to the end, that is, if the enemy does not withdraw from the border, the Sichuan Army will swear every day." Not returning home' is even more ambitious and full of anger. How could he do such a thing that harms the interests of the country and violates the righteousness of the nation?I know that General Liu Xiang fought both against Japan and against Chiang. However, during this period of national calamity, my father was the supreme leader of the country. Without him, the War of Resistance could not go on smoothly. Jiang.

Is this the real history?Could this be the real reason for Liu Xiang's sudden death in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War?Could it be that this is the real reason why Song Zheyuan was not held accountable for losing his teacher, losing ground and humiliating the country because he did not betray his father at the critical moment even though Song Zheyuan was defeated in the North China battlefield in the original history?After all, Song Zheyuan's culpability for losing Pingjin, Hebei, and Chahar is not less than that of Han Fuju who lost Shandong.

Could this be the real reason why Han Fuju was arrested and shot by his father in the original history?His loss of land is only a secondary reason, the main reason is that he also tried to betray his father during the Anti-Japanese War?Oh my God!History really cannot be read carefully.

…(The following words were later deleted) The reason why today makes me happy is because today is December 12th!In the original history, Nanjing fell on this day, and the Nanjing Massacre also started on this day.

However, because of my efforts, the city of Nanjing stood still on this day. The Japanese attacking the city had suffered a total of 5 casualties, and the number of dead should be no less than [-]. Although the Japanese army had just broken through the defense line of Tangshan Town, the overall situation on the battlefield was still beneficial to us.

I am very relieved, I am very happy, I am very happy, even, I am very proud and proud. Every time the suffering of my compatriots is reduced, and every time the Japanese casualties are increased, I am proud and proud.

Zijin Mountain is ten or even twenty times harder to fight than Tangshan Town, but Zijin Mountain is a Songshan that can be magnified more than ten times!I remember the battle of Songshan in the original history. The Japanese army also hollowed out Songshan. The 8000 national army attacked Songshan where only more than 15 Japanese troops were stationed. They fought ten times, and nearly [-] people were killed or injured. The Japanese army was wiped out and Songshan was captured. , Zijin Mountain must be stronger than Songshan!I am very confident that Zijin Mountain will become the second Iwo Jima, and it will be at least five times magnified!Just at the time when I was writing my diary, the artillery group on Zijin Mountain was roaring like hell. In just [-] minutes, the troops defeated the Japanese army’s first tentative attack on Zijin Mountain, and defeated the Japanese army one by one. United.

Well done brethren!This makes me more confident!It has been fighting for thirteen days, and the troops have suffered a total of about 9000 casualties. Among them, more than 100 people were killed or died of serious injuries, more than 300 were seriously injured and disabled, and more than 500 were dead. Can heal wounded soldiers.

The casualty ratio made me a little unacceptable, mainly because I didn’t expect the Japanese bomber fleet to have precision bombing capabilities at night, and the Japanese army’s mechanized assault on Tangshan Town, throwing so many tanks and artillery at once caught the brothers by surprise.

According to Xiao Yao's proposal, each unit began to carry out the plan of 'war training', with squads as units to recruit new recruits, that is, the young and middle-aged civilians in the city.

The specific method is that if there are originally ten regular army soldiers in a squad, at this time two or three young and middle-aged civilians are added. After half a month without dying, they become like regular army soldiers. Although their marksmanship, bayonet fighting and other combat skills are not the same, their spirit, will, and psychology will be sublimated into regular army soldiers to supplement the loss of regular army troops.

To be honest, the defenders of Nanjing City are actually not 20, but [-]. Those civilians are also true heroes who are not lost to the soldiers.

...Let's talk about private matters after talking about official matters. Yangmei is pregnant, my God!What an idiot I am!I'm so sorry for her, she didn't tell me, and I didn't notice it, and I took her to the front line, causing her to be shelled and bombed by the Japanese army in the air-raid shelter with me, and was almost hit by the shock wave Shocked to death, I am really afraid that she will be injured, how can I say, hurt the fetal gas?What should I do if I have a miscarriage?well!I planned to arrange for her to leave Nanjing by plane, but she refused to leave, and she refused to leave very firmly. Alas, I can’t take her with me anymore, so hurry up and arrange a peaceful place for her to recuperate. She is really, so old You didn't tell me what happened, why did you keep it from me?I just can't figure it out.

We must make good compensation to her in the future.

At the very least, she must be a regular wife!" ——Excerpt from "Jiang Weiguo's Diary on December 1937, 12"

"Stomach cut!" Lieutenant General Jiu Yan ordered with a livid face in Tangshan Town, which had been razed to the ground in the flames of war.

Ono Xuanming, the commander of the 16th Regiment of the 19th Brigade of the 20th Division, who was ordered to have his abdomen cut open by Lieutenant General Yu Yanwang, suddenly turned pale.

Half an hour ago, the Japanese army who captured Tangshan Town hurriedly dispatched the 20th Regiment, which had just rushed from Longtan Town to Tangshan Town, to Zijin Mountain in order to achieve the effect of "soldiers are expensive and fast". Behind the Nanjing Army in Zijin Mountain, they broke through the Zijin Mountain defense line in one go.

As a result, after the three artillery groups on Zijin Mountain fired a volley, they successfully turned Dazuo Ohno from the captain of the regiment to the captain of the regiment. The entire regiment had nearly 1000 troops, and nearly half of them were reduced to ashes by the artillery. There were still more than [-] soldiers. People are at the foot of the Zijin Mountain, the firepower network of the Nanjing Army's machine gun group in the trench position, and the hail-like mortar shells, infantry artillery shells, mountain artillery shells, and field artillery shells that roared down from the middle of the Zijin Mountain. Sinochem turned into corpses and rotten flesh all over the mountains and plains.

Toshiro Toshiro, a Japanese senior soldier from the No. [-] Squadron of the First Battalion of the Wing, described it in his "Diary of Toshiro" written later:

"...Although I was mentally prepared to be loyal to the emperor and dedicate myself to the empire like most Japanese soldiers at that time, I still felt fear. This is an innate and instinctive fear. The day after tomorrow No amount of brainwashing education can erase people's innate fear of death.

After the 2nd and 6th Divisions launched a strong attack on Tangshan Town again that night, the 20th Wing I belonged to originally launched a feint attack in Longtan Town to attract the attention of the Nanjing Army in Longtan Town, and then received an order to go to Tangshan Town for reinforcements.

Along the way, the picture was like hell. The extremely fierce gunfire made the night sky glow red, and the shocking red light enveloped the sky and the earth. The city of Nanjing was like an island in a sea of ​​flames, and the surrounding area was already in flames. , but it remained motionless. There was a thunderous roar of planes in the night sky. It was said that our bomber fleet was violently bombing Tangshan Town. At the same time, there were continuous bursts of artillery fire. Tangshan Town was like a typhoon composed of flames. In the eye of the typhoon, explosive fireballs are densely blooming, rising, and expanding, and the ground shakes people's legs. It's hard to imagine what kind of terrible battle is going on there. At the same time, the thought of us being thrown into that fiery hell In such a battlefield, I do feel a little panicked.

By the time we arrived at Tangshan Town, the sound of guns and explosions had already erupted into cheers. With the flickering lights of the fire, we saw a Sun Flag flying high above the town. The 2nd and 6th Divisions Tangshan Town has been captured, and immediately, we couldn't help cheering together, everyone shouted 'Long live His Majesty the Emperor' and 'The Imperial Army must win', I also shouted slogans, because I had a fluke in my heart that made me feel shameful at the time Thoughts, luckily the battle is over, otherwise I would have been in this terrible fight.

However, our regiment quickly received a new order, and the commander of Asai Squadron shouted to us, "The Chinese army in Tangshan Town is fleeing in the direction of Zijin Mountain. The regiment commander ordered us to chase after it!"Come on everyone! 'We hurriedly ran towards Zijin Mountain, [-] kilometers away.

The night was bright, artillery fire, flames from burning buildings, tracer bombs, and flares made the night red and white. The Zijin Mountain in the distance was like a huge monster, quietly dormant, as if it would roar at any moment.

When passing through Tangshan Town, I couldn't help but feel terrified. The town has been completely turned into ruins and rubble. The trenches and trenches in the city have been filled with dead people and filled with blood, and the mountains and plains are full of dead people in layers and densely packed!It's creepy.

I can be sure that the 2nd and 6th divisions must have paid a very heavy price for capturing this palm-sized town.

The corpses of the fallen Imperial Army and the Nanjing Army almost covered the town, and many places even piled up into hills of dead people. The death patterns were all kinds of strange, even in various poses. Some of them were basically intact, but the vital parts were pierced by bullets or shocked by shock waves so that the seven orifices bled to death.

There was a constant sound of surprise in the line, because we stepped on dead people everywhere, everyone's military boots were filthy, covered with blood and flesh, and some people even stepped on a dead man's stomach that had been blasted open by a shell Inside, a string of bloody intestines hung from the military boots when the feet were pulled out.

The battlefield is full of chariots, armored vehicles, and cars, all of which seem to be ours. Some of them have been torn apart, and various parts and fragments are scattered all over the place, including the remains of the crew members. The personnel were burnt to charcoal. I saw one of our destroyed chariots, with the corpses of three chariot soldiers lying on it. The corpses were burning, and they had been burned into barbecues. The smell' made me almost vomit, some of the vehicles were intact, but the crews inside were dead, the bodies sat motionless inside, bleeding from noses, mouths, ears.

In addition to dead people and vehicles, a large number of guns and weapon parts are scattered everywhere on the battlefield.

Obviously, the battle that just ended must be very tragic. In fact, this is also the reason why our 16th Division troops were responsible for chasing the fleeing Nanjing Army, because the 2nd and 6th Divisions were exhausted and severely injured. It was impossible to continue fighting for a while.

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...The situation is very chaotic. Although the imperial army has captured Tangshan Town and the Nanjing Army in the town is fleeing, there are still many small units of the Nanjing Army resisting in various parts of the town. The imperial army must wipe them out. Between the city and Zijin Mountain, the enemy and the enemy almost have me among you and you among me. The imperial army chasing the Nanjing army and the fleeing Nanjing army were mixed together, and battles broke out from time to time.

We were a little dizzy and didn't have a specific marching route. We just ran to Zijin Mountain, which was very eye-catching under the firelight in the distance.

Our squadron is advancing, and more than 100 soldiers are also advancing tens of meters away. We thought they were also the imperial army, but someone suddenly exclaimed, "China Army!"It's the Chinese Army!Look at their helmets! We hurriedly looked, and sure enough, those soldiers were wearing German-style steel helmets, and they were a Nanjing army that was fleeing, and they also found us almost at the same time.

This is really absurd. The two sides ran towards Zijin Mountain together tens of meters away, but they didn't realize that the other party was actually an enemy for several minutes.

Asai Squadron Leader hastily yelled, "Destroy them", and we started fighting immediately. The Nanjing army also attacked us.

Immediately, I understood one thing. The Nanjing Army in Tangshan Town was retreating, not a "route" as the officer said. They were not in chaos.

Although Captain Asai Squadron is a very brutal person, he is indeed a qualified imperial soldier. He screamed and rushed to the front of the squadron, but suddenly fell backwards like a paper man that was bounced off, his face blooming. It was a sniper from the Nanjing Army who opened a bloody hole the size of a fist.

We hurriedly looked at the Maori squad leader. The squadron leader was gone, so we could only rely on the squad leader. Unexpectedly, the Maori squad leader, who was unstoppable when he raped Chinese women, panicked at this moment. He lay on the ground and shouted, "Attack !attack! 'We rushed towards the Nanjing army while despising him. The two sides first fired at each other, then threw grenades at each other, and finally launched a hand-to-hand battle.

The two sides fought together, and Captain Maoli suddenly screamed like a pig being killed. A wounded soldier from the Nanjing Army fell to the side of Captain Maoli who was hiding on the ground, and then he grabbed him and grabbed him. It was the thing in his crotch, which made him go crazy with pain. I moved closer and hurriedly shot and killed the wounded soldier of the Nanjing Army. Captain Mao Li still screamed like a pig. His right hand was still firmly grasping Captain Mao Li's vitals. Captain Mao Li almost collapsed and pulled out his bayonet, cutting and cutting off the right wrist of the wounded soldier from the Nanjing Army, pulling and pulling, and finally freed the opponent's hand from the wound. He got that thing off, but he also passed out. Makino Juncao sent me and the second-class Fukuoka soldier to carry Captain Maoli to the hospital behind.

This order saved three of our lives.

When we turned back and ran 300 meters, Fukuoka suddenly shouted in horror, "Toshiro, look at that mountain." Before I could look, my ears were already filled with the sound of heavy artillery shells breaking through the sky. The air whizzed and churned violently, like a gust of wind blowing from the sky, overwhelming and unstoppable. In the gust of wind, there were heat waves like boiling water, a large amount of soil, and the pungent smell of gunpowder smoke. It was like a certain demon god was about to come into the world. There was a burst of dazzling white light, followed by a big explosion, which almost deafened my ears. The explosion was so strong that it seemed that the earth was exploding. The smoke screen that covered the sky covered all kinds of flashes.