Chapter 12: Annihilate the Devils in One Regiment!

  Soon Zhang Mingyu and the soldiers jumped into the enemy's fortifications, turned over the light and heavy machine guns left by the devils, and blocked the devil's way. Another team was arranged by Zhang Mingyu behind to be responsible for blocking the enemy.

  This is a typical pincer movement! In fact, Zhang Mingyu saw that the devils did not use a large number of planes to bomb Nanjing, there are two possibilities: one is that the devil's fleet retreated, and the other is that they took into account the neutral foreign concessions in Nanjing and the safety zone formed by international relief organizations. If the devils dispatched planes to wildly bomb Nanjing, if they accidentally bombed the concession, it would cause an international dispute.

  Zhang Mingyu also made up his mind to get rid of the 28th Division, especially the soldiers from the original Training General Headquarters who were more determined to get rid of the 28th Division. Because in the Battle of Shanghai, the Training General Headquarters had suffered a lot at the hands of the 28th Division, it can be said that they wanted to avenge their previous defeat in the Battle of Shanghai.

  As long as the 28th Division can be annihilated smoothly, and a large number of devils are killed, Zhang Mingyu should also prepare to withdraw from Nanjing! If not, our protagonist will really die defending Nanjing, glorious death in battle? Don't joke, if he dies, who will write the sequel?

  In front of the 28th Division, the Chinese garrison troops who were "defeated and disintegrated" retreated, but to be honest, the defeat of these retreating Chinese garrison troops was not fake. These were the troops left behind by other National Army units to cover their retreat, or in harsh words, they were the troops left behind to wait for death, with little combat effectiveness. When assigning tasks at the beginning, Zhang Mingyu had already told them that if they couldn't hold off the Japanese army, they could retreat, although someone would have to sacrifice themselves during the retreat. How can you annihilate this despicable 28th Division without shedding blood or losing lives?

  "Ah Kua! Don't run!"

  "Kill those damned Chinese!"

  Gunfire crackled back and forth, the Japanese troops in pursuit shooting forward as they chased after them. The defeated troops ahead occasionally had someone fall down with a gunshot wound, the fleeing troops ahead were indeed collapsing. This made the Japanese not suspect at all that they were being led into a dead end, let alone consider that those devils would take revenge for their "great" regimental commander and think this was an ambush.

  As the sound of gunfire drew closer and closer, Zhang Biao walked up to the third floor and looked out from a window with binoculars. He saw that his own defeated troops were running down the street below, with a large group of devils hot on their heels, not far behind. Almost every time a gunshot rang out, one soldier fell to the ground.

  Soon, these defeated troops rushed into an abandoned factory and drilled in from the pre-arranged exit, entering the ambush fortifications. The more than 700 Japanese soldiers who were pursuing closely behind also followed them in.

  Seeing the enemy had entered the ambush circle, Zhang Biao shouted: "Fire!"

  Just then, Zhang Haisheng, who was nearby, had already taken aim at the head of ōshima Chūsa. Upon hearing the order, he pulled the trigger and fired a scorching bullet that accurately hit ōshima's head. The bullet flew out from behind, blowing away half of his occipital bone, with skull fragments mixed with blood plasma and brain tissue bursting out of the cranial cavity. Jiang Ye Chūsa, who was about to take a step forward, immediately stood still, his command knife falling to the ground, before collapsing straight down.

  Four heavy machine guns set up inside the factory building immediately let out a roar, and four tongues of fire rushed towards the devils like the scythe of death, catching the devils off guard as they were pursuing, and more than ten of them were knocked down at once.

  At the same time, more than 200 devils who had not yet entered the factory were also shot and killed by bullets fired from both sides of the building. Rifles, light machine guns, and submachine guns all roared together. Standing on the street with no obstacles to protect themselves, those devils could not dodge the bullets coming from all directions, standing there would soon be shot dead, and even lying on the ground could not escape the bullets fired from both sides of the building.

  The devils' reaction was still quite quick, they all crouched down, trying to use everything that could be hidden to protect themselves. However, this area had been cleaned up too cleanly, and even a small stone or a small brick couldn't be found. Those devils could only rely on the bodies of other devils as cover.

  Some devils tried to rush into the houses on both sides of the street, but were blown up by hand grenades thrown from upstairs and splattered with blood.

  At this time, Kusunoki Masashige was sitting in the command center, vaguely hearing the intense gunfire coming from the city, and said with excitement: "It seems that Hirakawa has already found the Shina people and is fiercely fighting them. I believe it won't be long before he annihilates the entire Shina army."

  Fierce battles are raging within the city of Nanjing. The enemy's grenade launchers and machine gunners were particularly targeted by Zhang Haisheng and over a dozen other sharpshooters. Under their "special care", not a single grenade launcher was able to fire a grenade, while those crooked machine guns were basically silenced after firing just a few rounds, struck down by bullets that seemed to come out of nowhere.

  Their vitality was suppressed, the devils' riflemen tried to raise their guns and fire, but were immediately hit by the machine gun's ruthless bullets. Countless bullets came pouring in like a rainstorm, those corpses used as cover by the devils were pierced by bullets coming from all directions, soon those corpses were riddled with holes, the bullets that penetrated the corpses continued flying and hit the devils behind them.

  This time the devils were lightly equipped for pursuit, and all the artillery failed to keep up. Without artillery, it was impossible to attack those solid buildings.

  Of course, those artillerymen who were abandoned by the devils at the back were now being attacked by Li Gang's guard platoon. More than 20 guards with American submachine guns rushed into these devilish fleeing soldiers, and the unarmed devilish artillerymen were like sheep, being swept to the ground one by one by the dense bullets of the submachine guns.

  More than 200 devils outside the factory were killed, and the rest began to flee back to their original route. More than 200 devils who entered the factory area were also killed, and the remaining more than 400 devils rushed out of the gate and ran towards their retreat route.

  Just rushed out of the factory gate, and was attacked by bullets shot from buildings on both sides, more than 50 devils fell to the ground, and the remaining devils ran towards the retreat direction without caring about anything.

  However, the enemy's retreat had been cut off long ago. Seeing the devils retreating back to their original position, Zhang Mingyu gave a loud order: "Fire! Give those dog-day eastern devils a good beating!"

  The two captured heavy machine guns, the two 38-style heavy machine guns, the six crooked-handled light machine guns and the two Czech-style light machine guns brought by Zhang Mingyu and others fired fiercely at the devils.

  These fleeing devils never thought that their retreat route had been cut off, and when they heard the sound of gunfire, they still thought it was their own army exchanging fire with the enemy. As a result, those devils did not know whether to lie down or charge forward at this time.

  More than ten machine guns fired in unison, and the bullets swept away like autumn wind blowing down leaves, instantly knocking down more than fifty devils who were charging forward. The devils, who had been stunned by the shooting, only then realized that their retreat route had been cut off! As a result, these devils scrambled to the ground, using their rifles to make weak counterattacks.

  This is the ghost child behind, Zhang Biao led the ambush army has been chasing up, Zhang Biao holding a Czech-style walking in the front of the team, the machine gun in his hand spit out a fiery tongue, those crawling on the ground The devils were killed one by one.

  Seeing the enemy has no way to retreat, Zhang Mingyu gave the order to annihilate this 28th Regiment: "Brothers! All of you go up and chop those little devils! We must completely annihilate this damn Japanese regiment!"

  The Pingguo United Team, which originally had more than 2,000 people, was left with only over 1,000 people after the Battle of Guanghua Gate, roughly equivalent to a large battalion.

  After entering Nanjing city this time, they encountered snipers along the way, were bombed by hand grenades, and were lured into a encirclement to be beaten up. At that time, only more than 400 devils were left.

  After Zhang Mingyu gave the order, all the warriors rushed out from all sides and launched an attack on the surrounded Japanese regiment. The desperate Japanese troops, knowing they could not avoid their fate of extinction, began a fierce struggle.

  The dying Japanese soldier's marksmanship was still quite accurate, and more than a dozen machine gunners had been replaced behind him.

  "Report!" A Japanese staff officer walked in, "A logistics unit following the 28th Brigade was just attacked! According to reliable sources, the 28th Infantry Brigade has been surrounded by the Chinese!"

  "Hachigah! Does that Shina fellow want to swallow our 28th Infantry Brigade in one gulp?" Kaju Toshio's face changed color.

  Kyujiro hastily asked: "Where is the reinforcement of Shimotonosei? Can we rescue the 28th Brigade?"

  At this time, Shimizu Shigetaro was also making almost frantic efforts to rescue the 28th Brigade.

  The Independent Guard Battalion has charged for the sixth time. The first five charges were all repelled, although the defenders suffered heavy casualties, but still like an iron nail, stubbornly nailed to the position, and repeatedly repelled the devils of the Independent Battalion with infantry artillery, field artillery, mortar and heavy machine gun fire support.

  The streets were littered with bricks, stones and rubble, and the bodies of devils were scattered all over the place. The defenders were no better off, as the original 88th Division soldiers who were desperately blocking the enemy in buildings and alleys also suffered heavy casualties. The devils' marksmanship was so vicious! As long as they exposed their heads for a slightly longer period of time, they would be hit by the devils' sharpshooters. There were also mortar shells and grenade launchers that directly shot into the windows, sacrificing many soldiers.

  Shimamoto Masakazu glared with bloodshot eyes and swung his baton repeatedly: "Kill! Kill!"

  The surrounded 28th Regiment was within reach, but the Independent Battalion couldn't charge to another block just over 500 meters away. Houses set on fire by shells still stubbornly shot out deadly bullets, knocking down the advancing devils one by one.

  Just as the 28th Infantry Regiment was about to be annihilated, the attack of the devils on the periphery had become almost frantic. The first line of defense had no soldiers left to guard it. When the devils charged up, the last two wounded soldiers detonated the explosive packs on their bodies and jumped into the crowd of devils from the second floor, blowing themselves and more than a dozen devils to pieces.