December 12, 1937, Shuiximen, Nanjing, the position of the 51st Division of the 74th Army Zhou Zhidao, commander of the 151st Brigade, stood on the city wall, looking at the defensive positions outside the city gate with an anxious expression.
The officers and soldiers of the 151st Brigade were engaged in a fierce tug-of-war with the Japanese army.
Cheng Zhi, the commander of the 302nd Regiment, personally went into battle and led the remnants of the 1st and 2nd Battalions to hold the position.
The attacking Japanese troops continued to attack outside Shuixi Gate from both sides of the city wall.
On the city wall, the troops of Li Tianxia, commander of the 153rd Brigade, also fought back on the edge of the gap from Shuixi Gate to Zhonghua Gate.
Bullets from both sides were fired at each other.
Just in the morning, the 153rd Brigade had just cleared away the Japanese troops climbing along the city wall, and then another attack began.
Cheng Zhi held a Czech gun and fired at the attacking Japanese troops.
His soldiers also opened fire.
The Japanese troops at the front of the team fell like being cut into rice, followed by several tanks.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Cheng Zhi ordered the signal corps to report to the brigade commander Zhou Zhidao and ask for support.
On the other hand, he organized a death squad to attack the tank.
Hand grenades and steel-core machine gun bullets were fired out, and the steel-core bullets hit the tank with a clanging sound.
On the armor, small holes were punched out in the weak armor, and the speed of the tracks began to decrease.
Upon seeing this, Cheng Zhi gave the order: Attack the Japanese infantry first, kill their infantry, and then tanks will be ready.
The officers and soldiers on the position concentrated their firepower on the infantry, and the troops on the city wall also tried their best to support them.
The tank's covering infantry was gradually exhausted, and the tank began to change direction.
The 57mm cannon on the turret fired one after another in an attempt to use this as cover.
Artillery shells hit the fortifications of the 151st Brigade, and soldiers continued to die.
However, when most of them saw the tank being deflated, they stepped up their firepower and started beating them indiscriminately.
Steel-core bullets, ordinary bullets, and Type 24 heavy machine guns were spitting tongues of flame, strafing the tanks and Infantry around him.
This kind of imported bullet is usually reluctant to be used.
The heavy tank kept rotating its turret and body, and finally even ran around like a headless fly.
The steel-core bullet had made him realize the threat.
Suddenly, the entire tank began to roll over, and half of its body fell into the mud ditch on the roadside.
Inside, the turret was still rotating, but the tank's body could no longer come up.
It lay across the ditch, blocking the path of the following tanks.
The officers and soldiers of the 51st Division cheered, and Cheng Zhi laughed loudly: Blow up this big thing for me.
As soon as he finished speaking, the seriously injured battalion commander Cao Shuchu rushed out: "I'll go."
Running out with a bundle of grenades in his arms, Cheng Zhi ordered cover upon seeing this.
The fire net of the rifle machine gun tried its best to kill the Japanese infantry, giving Battalion Commander Cao an opportunity.
Cao Shuchu rushed towards the steel monster that had killed countless brothers, and hit him with 65 rifle bullets.
Cao Shuchu still insisted on moving forward, fell under the tank, and used all his strength to make a cluster of ten grenades.
The grenade was stuffed into the gap between the turret and the body, and the match cord was pulled.
Go to hell, there was a loud noise and a huge explosion that completely destroyed the tank, leaving only a pile of burning scrap metal, and took away Battalion Commander Cao.
When Cheng Zhi saw that Cao Shuchu was martyred for his country, he immediately jumped out of the trench and said, "Brothers, go ahead and kill them all."
The officers and soldiers on the position took advantage of the opportunity that Battalion Commander Cao fought for with their lives to launch a brutal counterattack against the Japanese army.
Bayonets, grenades, and blood dyed the moat outside Shuixi Gate red.
Zhou Zhidao on the city wall immediately lined up a platoon of special agents to go down to support, and the two sides started a fierce fight outside Shuixi Gate and Zhonghua Gate.
The strong Cheng Zhi used the Czech style to smash open a Japanese soldier, and a noncommissioned officer rushed behind him and struck him with the 95th command knife.
Cheng Zhi had no time to turn around and let the command knife hit his shoulder.
He endured it.
Feeling the excruciating pain, Cheng Zhi held the command knife and pierced it deeply into his shoulder.
The Japanese noncommissioned officer wanted to pull out the command knife but was helpless.
Cheng Zhi kicked him forward.
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The noncommissioned officer was kicked to the ground and the command knife fell into Cheng Zhi's hand.
Cheng Zhi reluctantly pulled out the command knife on his shoulder, stabbed the corporal directly, and nailed him to the ground with one blow.
Cheng Zhi swung his command sword, slashing left and right.
Several Japanese soldiers who wanted to attack were cut down by him.
The morale of the soldiers was also boosted.
They fought desperately with the Japanese army, and the Japanese infantry gradually became exhausted.
Battalion Commander Hu Hao, who was covered in blood, held the official uniform and fought with the Japanese army.
All along the city wall from Shuixi Gate to Zhonghua Gate became a battlefield, and the 153rd Brigade troops guarding the city wall line also started hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese army.
The city wall was blown down yesterday, leaving only a short section, which greatly increased the difficulty of defending the city.
In addition to fighting with the 302nd Regiment, the Japanese army rushed towards this gap at the same time.
The officers and soldiers of the 153rd Brigade fought desperately to defend, firing mortars and heavy machine guns desperately at the breach and the perimeter.
Outside and above the gap in the city wall, there were officers and soldiers of the two armies fighting each other everywhere.
Li Tianxia, the commander of the 153rd Brigade on the city wall, saw that the situation was critical.
Under the order of the division commander Wang Yaowu to stick to the position, he also rushed forward with his special agent platoon.
The brigade commander went into battle.
What else are the soldiers afraid of?
Li Tianxia held a medium-sized formal rifle with a bayonet and fought hard.
The box cannons of the secret service platoon and the guard followed and charged fiercely.
Some soldiers waved machetes and cooperated with the brigade commander, charging and killing.
The city wall was originally unsupported.
Seeing this, the officers and soldiers increased their efforts and tried their best to kill the opponents in front of them.
Some even rolled down the city wall with the Japanese in front of them, widening the gap for the reinforcements, fell to the ground and got up to continue fighting.
The houses outside the city were set on fire, and soldiers from the two armies gathered outside the city wall to fight fiercely.
Division Commander Wang Yaowu was anxiously listening to the reports from the front not far from the battlefield in the city.
"The war is urgent, the troops are insufficient, and the casualties are heavy."
This is the word he has heard most these days.
These are bothering him.
The division headquarters tried its best to recruit a special agent platoon and handymen to fill it in.
However, this was only a drop in the bucket.
"The first line of position is lost, fight with all your might to regain it."
He didn't know how many times he had heard this and how many times he had given the order.
Commander Yu just called again, saying that the 88th Division troops in the Zhonghuamen area were unsustainable and asked him to prepare early.
"Hey, what should we do?
The friendly forces retreated and all available troops were sent out.
So many people were killed and wounded in the periphery.
One of the regiment commanders and one of the regiment subordinates were killed.
Yesterday, the big man Zhang of the 305th regiment was seriously injured.
The following brothers There will be more casualties," Wang Yaowu said to the staff officer beside him with a Shandong accent.
In fact, he was telling it to himself.
He glanced at the staff officers: "Everyone, including the handymen at the division headquarters, attachments, and cooks, except for the necessary security personnel, all go to get their weapons.
If you pull them up and don't have a gun, go up to the front and pick it up."
After receiving the order.
The staff members immediately went to take action.
The group went to the logistics office to get a lot of weapons, including half-old and brand-new Zhongzheng guns, as well as Hanyang-made rifles that had been eliminated.
A bunch of bayonets were also distributed, especially for those who couldn't shoot.
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If not, you can fight with a bayonet.
Wang Yaowu nodded, and the improvised team, led by several staff officers, rushed towards Shuixi Gate.
The phone rang again, and what Wang Yaowu received was still heavy casualties and the frontline position was not safe.
The next news made him even more sad.
Brigade commander Li Tianxia, regiment commander Cheng Zhi and others personally engaged the enemy.
Although they barely repelled the Japanese troops, the first line of positions was no longer able to be defended, so they had to retreat to the second line of defense outside the city gate and moat.
The Japanese troops along the city wall also Already managed to fight back.
Regiment commander Cheng Zhi was injured, battalion commander Cao Shuchu and several company commanders were killed, and nearly 500 officers and soldiers suffered casualties.
Wang Yaowu threw away the phone in his hand.
Those were the veterans and old brothers who supplemented the Second Brigade.
Those were the soldiers he personally brought out, and they were comparable to the new recruits who supplemented them.
These veteran brothers in the north are going to be wiped out.
He smashed the table helplessly, tears bursting from his eyes.
Outside the water west gate, there is a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood
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