As soon as the brothers of the teaching regiment heard Ge Sanmin's words, their originally desperate and helpless mood was rekindled with hope, and one of the colonels asked: "This brother benevolent, we have so many people here, plus your independent brigade, there are seven or eight thousand men and horses, how many boats are there on the ferry?"
Ge Sanmin listened, and he didn't know what to say for a while, the place where the steamer was stored was found, but in his estimation it might not be too much, there were more than a dozen steamers up to the sky, and at most two or three hundred people could be loaded across the river, and seven or eight thousand people had to be transported to the other side of the Yangtze River, which had to be transported continuously for several days, and they had to secretly cross the river at night when there were no planes.
And during the half-crossing of the river, you have to be on guard against the devil's warships at all times, so even if you successfully break through to the Yangtze River, there will not be many people who can evacuate to the other side alive, and it depends on their own creation.
"Brother, now we don't have to think about crossing the river, let's prepare first, I'll contact the brigade, and you can break through with me later, and then we will talk about breaking through the encirclement."
At this time, the fat man in the back also arrived with a thousand people, Ge Sanmin counted it, their people plus the people who taught the regiment, now the total strength here is nearly more than 4,000, and they are almost able to catch up with the scale of the previous independent brigade.
For the convenience of commanding the operation, Ge Sanmin proposed that from now on, the 4,000 people would be commanded by the fat man, because the fat man was a colonel, one level higher than his lieutenant colonel, and the fat man did have a set of battles, Ge Sanmin was still quite convinced.
The fat man excused himself, and then Ge Sanmin was annoyed and said, "Fatty, if you push it back and forth again, I won't care if something happens later." ” The fat man couldn't do it, nodded and agreed, at this time, Zhou Wu had already received the news of their rendezvous with the teaching corps, and sent a message by radio.
"You have done a very good job this time, I have decided that the large force of the Independent Brigade will immediately attack the devil's position in the north of the Purple Mountain, you break through from the south to the north, be sure to tear a gap before dawn, and after breaking through, immediately turn to the east and rush to the ferry where the steamer is stored."
"If the time is really too late, immediately build fortifications on the spot, block the devils chasing after the tail, and wait for dark before crossing the river to the north."
As soon as the fat man received the order, he immediately ordered his brother to hurry up and prepare, it was already more than four o'clock in the morning, and there were still two hours to break through.
Suddenly, the fat man heard the rumbling sound of cannon fire from the north side of the Purple Mountain, needless to say, it must be a large army attacking the encirclement of the little devils.
After Zhou Wu gave the fat man the order to break through, he immediately ordered the large army to immediately attack the devil's position located north of the Purple Mountain, Zhang Ercheng's howitzer battalion was in full swing at the moment, and all the shells in the warehouse were sent to the devil's position.
The shells exploded into a cloud of soaring flames and gunsmoke, which echoed the flames and smoke in the west of Nanjing.
The devils in the west have already begun a brutal massacre, and those little devils who are crazy with the light and smoke of gunpowder are pouring gasoline on the common people, lighting fires and burning them alive.
A large number of innocent people and soldiers who had laid down their weapons were being escorted to the Shimonoseki wharf by the little devils, slaughtered with machine guns, oriental knives, and bayonets, and the corpses were directly kicked into the rolling Yangtze River, and the ordinary people covered in flames screamed and rolled into the Yangtze River, and soon disappeared.
The devils with a strong animal nature began to rape and ravage the women, and many women were immediately stabbed to death after being ravaged by these beasts, and their disheveled and even naked corpses could be seen everywhere on the streets of Nanjing.
At this time, the city of Nanjing was a hell, a hell of blood and fire, mixed with the wild laughter of devils and the heart-rending screams of the common people.
Zhou Wu still didn't know that there was a massacre at the Xiaguan Wharf, and his mind was how to break through the encirclement of the devils before dawn and rescue the trapped Teaching Corps.
If Zhou Wu knew that there was a massacre in the west, he might have disobeyed the military order and risked killing there, even if he had exhausted the independent brigade, he would have to rescue some civilians.
Although Zhou Wu also saw that the fire rising in the west and the smoke of gunpowder were a little wrong, he never expected that tonight, on the evening of December 12, 1937, the little devil would begin a large-scale massacre of Nanjing.
Zhang Ercheng's artillery battalion is still firing shells at the devils, he has never been so generous as now, and the shells are shot out without money.
Zhang Ercheng kept four 100-mm field guns and first used large and small mortars to bombard the devil's position, first, to prepare artillery fire before the charge, and second, to open a passage for the stormtrooping troops.
Zhou Wu saw that the time was almost up, so he ordered on the phone: "All the independent brigades are there, charge towards the Purple Mountain position" Under Zhou Wu's order, the large army of the Independent Brigade, under the personal leadership of Ming Zheng and Ding Ning, shouted and launched a large-scale attack on the devils on the Purple Mountain.
The fire on the position was soaring, the smoke of gunpowder was filled, and the sound of killing shook the sky, and the independent brigade quickly approached the devil's position in a scattered formation.
The barbed wire fence and other obstacles on the devil's position had long been shattered by artillery shells and ceased to exist, and many of the mines planted in front of the battle were also detonated by shelling.
The commando team No. 400 warriors led by Battalion Commander Huang were armed with rapid-fire weapons and grenade explosives, and were agilely jumping back and forth in front of the position, and soon leaned in front of the devil's position.
The little devil who was stunned by the shell immediately reacted, and under the urging of the officer holding the Toyo sword, various fire points on the position sprayed fierce tongues of fire at the rushing national army.
Where the fire shone brightly, many brothers fell on the way to the charge, unable to get up again, and embraced the land forever.
Zhou Wu saw in his telescope that the charge in front was blocked, and many soldiers were suppressed by the fire points of the little devils on an open ground two hundred meters in front of the position, and the situation was quite dangerous.
If the little devil concentrated his artillery fire on the open field at this time, the consequences would be unimaginable, and he must immediately pull out the firing points that were frantically spraying tongues of fire.
"Lao Zhang, hurry up and take out your treasures, and knock out the devil's firepower for me within ten minutes" Before Zhang Ercheng received Zhou Wu's order, he saw that the situation in front was not good, and he was thinking of a way, and now as soon as he had an order, he immediately issued an order to the artillery.
"Four 100 guns pay attention, the firing point of the target devil's position, the direction is 15 degrees south-east, the firing angle is 30 degrees, the half-medicine packaging medicine, and the blasting shell is ready" The artillery was in a hurry, and only two minutes later, all the gun positions were ready, Zhang Ercheng raised the small flag and waved it downward, and the four 100-mm field guns let out an earth-shattering roar at the same time.
The huge recoil caused the cannon to slam back, and then snapped back into place, leaving two deep holes behind the turret, and the red shell shell exited the chamber with a sneering white smoke, and fell to the ground with a clang.
The artillerymen then brought in shells and loaded them into the chambers, closed the bolts, and prepared for a second fire.
Zhang Ercheng is worthy of being a professional, and the first shell hit the fire point on the devil's position, and four shells knocked out three machine gun fire points.
Seeing this, Ding Ning immediately jumped up and said, "Brother, rush me." t1706231537: