The War of Resistance

No one can tell how many arrows and frosts the thick walls of Nanjing City have endured since they were built.

But how can the era of cold weapons be the same as the era of hot weapons? The bombs dropped by Japanese planes caused damage to the city wall that had never existed since ancient times.

A huge column of smoke rose into the air, as if the bricks and stones of the city wall were burning.

In this way, people in Nanjing who saw the Japanese bombing ignored the fact that the Japanese dropped an aerial bomb on the water tower.

The focus of people's attention is of course the city gate and the city wall, because there is the hope of defending the city of Nanjing.

At this time, the choking smoke was filling the water tower.

The aerial bomb of the Japanese army only blew up a corner of the water tower, and the dust and debris poured down from the hole in the middle of the floor.

When the pervasive dust gradually fell, a person could be faintly seen hanging under the hole lying on his stomach.

After a while, the dust naturally decreased a lot, and the man moved, so he moved twice as if on a swing, but the belt hanging him was relatively short, so it was not violent.

Am I still alive? The man grinned, he felt the pain in his body, it was Shang Zhen.

When Shang Zhen had this first thought, he woke up, and then he felt a sharp pain from his left shoulder to his right hip.

Shang Zhen, who was in mid-air, turned his head up with difficulty, and only then did he realize how lucky he was.

It turned out that when he jumped down from that hole, he really did not collide with the remnant steel bars on the hole. At the same time, when he fell, who would have thought that the gun belt of the box cannon on his body was Hanging on a broken steel bar.

Thanks to the one he used to grab the steel bar with his hand when he fell earlier, and the one hanging from the box gun belt, he finally didn't fall straight from the hole to the ground.

Although he became half-baked, he didn't fall to the ground after all.

"Bah", Shang Zhen felt the pain in his mouth and wanted to spit something out.

It's just that what he spit out was dust instead of saliva. Presumably he didn't close his mouth when he yelled, and then the dust poured in.

Since the gun of his box cannon was slung across his body, the strangle of the gun belt was still there.

While Shang Zhen was thankful that he had escaped with his life, he suddenly thought of another problem. It was said that violent explosions would cause internal injuries to people, so he didn't know what happened to him.

He tried to breathe, and felt the qi and blood in his body surging.

Immortality is fate, and it is futile to think too much.

Thinking about it, Shang Zhen stretched out his right hand to grab the gun belt hanging on the steel bar, and then he handed over his left hand, and by climbing on the gun belt, Shang Zhen finally got out of the gun again. Climb up that hole.

When he climbed his whole body onto the floor, he lay down flat.

After a catastrophe and the rest of your life, you always need to take a breath first.

There was still dust floating above, but the visibility was already there, and at this moment Shang Zhen saw the sky filled with gunpowder smoke at the corner of the room.

The situation was too critical at that time, and Shang Zhen didn't know where the Japanese aerial bomb had blown up, but the corner of the building above him had been blown down, otherwise how could he see the sky?

The ancient Chinese often said that things are right but people are not, but according to Shang Zhen, people are still things but they are completely different now, and this is war.

Shang Zhen checked himself carefully, and found that his eyesight was good and his ears could hear. Although he said that the strangled place was painful, he didn't feel that there was any uncomfortable place in his body.

So he sat up, and finally climbed up the deformed ladder again, returning to the original position.

It's just that when he was about to hide in that place, he heard another loud "boom" in front of him.

The explosion frightened Shang Zhen's body, and when he looked forward, he saw another brick and stone splashed from the Guanghua Gate in front of him.

This time it's—heavy artillery, Shang was shocked and stunned before he thought of it.

Even though Shang Zhen is a veteran, he has never participated in that kind of extremely cruel positional warfare. The artillery of the Japanese army he has seen mostly refers to infantry artillery and mountain artillery, such as the naval artillery used by the Japanese military for aerial bombs in the Songhu War. He has never experienced a violent bombardment of the defenders.

But since he is a veteran, although he has not experienced it, it does not mean that he has not heard of it. Now that he saw the explosion in front of him, he felt that the caliber of the cannon used by the Japanese army this time should be at least 105mm or 150mm or more.

The Japanese army used such heavy artillery, and they also knew the thickness of the Nanjing city wall. Could it be that they wanted to blow up Guanghuamen?

While Shang Zhen was thinking, the sound of the guns in front could not be heard, and before the smoke from the plane bombing was cleared away, a new column of smoke rose into the sky.

It is hard to imagine how the defenders endured such fierce artillery fire from the Japanese army.

Shang Zhen has not experienced the specific situation of this kind of positional warfare, but he can also guess that most of the casualties of the Chinese army should be caused by the enemy's artillery fire.

Half an hour later the shelling finally stopped.

After the artillery bombarded the infantry and the infantry rushed to the artillery, Shang Zhen knew that the Japanese army was about to attack Guanghuamen.

Sure enough, more than half an hour later, Shang Zhen heard gunshots coming from the front, and in his binoculars, the figures of Chinese officers and soldiers guarding the city also appeared.

And now Shang Zhen can only watch the battle quietly.

Although it is said that behind the city wall is the city of Nanjing, and it is the Chinese people in the city.

But if Shang Zhen is asked to defend the position, he will not go if he can.

He felt that his way of fighting the Japanese army was more about ambush and sneak attacks against the Japanese army, rather than fighting the Japanese army's attack in front.

Because he couldn't do it himself, he admired the defenders at that time.

Soon he saw in the binoculars that the wounded were being carried down from the city wall one after another.

There were bursts of gunfire, and the fight here was extremely fierce.

Shang Zhen has been watching there until noon.

He was not in a good mood, just because others were fighting the Japanese attack in front, but he became a bystander.

But this situation changed again at noon. Shang Zhen was surprised to find that the defenders suddenly pushed the gasoline barrel to the city wall.

What are they pushing petrol cans on that wall for?

Shang Zhen felt confused, and seeing the way those officers and soldiers were carrying, pushing or carrying the gasoline barrel, it was obvious that there was gasoline in that barrel.

How can we get gasoline to the battlefield at this time? If the Japanese army hits a cannonball, the lethality of the explosion will naturally double.

It is impossible for the defenders not to know this extremely simple common sense. Just because of surprise, Shang Zhen watched carefully with binoculars, and at this moment he found that the officers and soldiers tilted the gasoline barrels towards the city.

Since the water tower was higher than the city wall, Shang Zhen could clearly see the defender's actions.

Just why are they doing it? Shang Zhen could only imagine and speculate.

It's just that before Shang Zhen could figure it out, he saw the officers and soldiers who had reported from Guanghuamen, and all of them retreated suddenly.

Could it be that the Japanese army had already attacked the city, and the defenders poured gasoline on it and set it on fire?

Not to mention, Shang Zhen immediately saw flames rising from the lower part of the city wall, which is the opening of Guanghua Gate.

Guanghua Gate was not completely sealed by the defenders. They built a large fortress there. As for how many Japanese tanks were hit on the fortress, Shang Zhen did not know.

Shang Zhen was thinking about the battle situation, when he suddenly heard the loud cheers of officers and soldiers coming from the front.

It was only at this time that he suddenly realized that those officers and soldiers did not pour gasoline on the besieging Japanese army, but poured the gasoline into the opening of Guanghuamen below.

As for why you do this, do you still have to ask? There must have been Japanese soldiers rushing into the doorway. Their defenders couldn't reach the Japanese soldiers, so they simply poured gasoline down and set them on fire.

Oops, this trick is really good. Zhang Zhen seemed to have seen, under the burning gasoline, there were Japanese soldiers rolling and shouting under the door.