Nanjing City, early in the morning, the Special Operations Company still followed its usual routine, rising early for training.

Bayonet drill was a must, the first subject of the Special Operations Company's daily morning training.

While the soldiers were still training in bayonet practice, Qian Youcai ran over.

He knew much more about yesterday's battle than the average person: he knew that the entire Nanjing defense line had retreated again and again, with nowhere left to retreat.

His heart filled with anxiety, he made a special trip to see if the Special Operations Company was still there.

Although three vehicles of the Special Operations Company were still parked in the Qian residence.

That was not enough to calm Qian Youcai's restless heart; he had come secretly.

He had expressed his concerns to Old Master Qian, who had scolded him severely, accusing him of judging a gentleman's heart with a petty man's mind and disdaining to associate with him.

The look of disgust on the old man's face made Qian Youcai feel as if he might have been picked up by the old man.

Qian Jiao also chimed in from the side, "Petty man!"

As the petty man, Qian Youcai had to worry about the lives and future of his entire family, which was why he had come early in the morning to take a look.

He saw Lin Fan personally participating in the bayonet drill, and he was so shocked that he almost forgot what he had come to do.

It wasn't until Lin Fan asked him what was the matter that he reacted: "When are you going to pick up the goods?"

Actually, what he wanted to ask Lin Fan was: "When are you running away?"

Lin Fan thought for a moment: "The city is still holding on, so we can't go at this time.

The various teams still need to collect supplies from those warehouses."

Qian Youcai wore a bitter face: "Are you really going? I heard some people say that the Japanese devils will protect the city after they enter.

They won't disturb the people, and they won't commit massacres.

They will also abide by the Geneva Convention for soldiers who lay down their arms."

Lin Fan sneered: "Will they also let government officials stay in their positions to serve the citizens, and will the soldiers who accept reorganization receive military pay?"

"You know about that too?" Qian Youcai finally believed it.

"If you believe it, you're dead!" Lin Fan said coldly.

"If such propaganda were useful, there would be no war! What does the Nine-Power Treaty say?

You wouldn't not know, would you?

Chiang Kai-shek believed it, and he didn't choose to resist during the September 18th Incident.

And what was the result? The Nine-Power Treaty only sent an observation team, wrote a report, and then there was no follow-up.

During the August 13th Incident, Chiang Kai-shek also pinned his hopes on the intervention of the Nine-Power Treaty.

And what was the result?

The Japanese devils have already reached Nanjing, and he is still fantasizing about mediation!

Reality will slap him hard in the face."

Qian Youcai's chubby face twisted up: "So, none of the current rumors can be believed?"

"This is a psychological warfare tactic; it's just a smokescreen released by the Japanese devils through spies in the city.

It's used to weaken the resistance of the people in the city."

Qian Youcai laughed: "Apart from you soldiers resisting, there's no one else resisting in this city.

What resistance is there to weaken?"

Lin Fan knew that during the War of Resistance, Sichuan conscripted more than 3.4 million soldiers, accounting for slightly less than one-tenth of Sichuan's total population at the time.

If one-tenth of the people in Shanghai and the Jiangnan area, which were ravaged by the Japanese devils this time, had also joined the army to resist the Japanese.

The Japanese devils would really have been unable to move an inch.

Lin Fan could only smile bitterly: "It's a miracle that our hometowns are being defended by us outsiders.

Although this is not our hometown, it is our country, and the sons and daughters of China will never allow the Japanese devils to run rampant on our land."

Qian Youcai said in a low voice: "Can't you leave earlier?"

Lin Fan said solemnly: "Hold on until the last moment; maybe there will be a miracle?"

In fact, through yesterday's battle, Lin Fan already knew: a miracle was not likely to happen.

The National Revolutionary Army soldiers still holding their positions had lost their previous fighting spirit.

Continuous failures had caused their morale to drop to rock bottom.

It would be impossible to recover without several months of training.

Unless they could win a few major victories.

That was already impossible in the city of Nanjing.

Even the Special Operations Company had only caught the Japanese devils by surprise yesterday.

Such battles would only happen once or twice; they wouldn't continue like that.

Yesterday, the Japanese devils had no heavy artillery support!

The Special Operations Company was capable, but a team of more than a thousand people could not possibly defend the entire city of Nanjing.

The War of Resistance could not be completed by one person or a few people.

It required the entire country, all groups, all parties, and all ethnic groups to unite and fight together to win the victory.

At 7:25 a.m., Sun Yuanliang, commander of the 88th Division, ordered: "The Special Operations Company will move to the vicinity of Yuhuatai as a reserve force, ready to attack at any time."

Lin Fan led the Special Operations Company to a position one thousand meters behind Wuding Gate, where the entire company rested and awaited orders.

At this time, some wounded soldiers who had come down from the battlefield saw such a well-dressed team.

They couldn't help but ask strangely: "What unit are you from?"

"The Special Operations Company of the 542nd Regiment of the 88th Division," Liu Laopao answered proudly.

The Special Operations Company had fought three consecutive battles yesterday, and it had made quite a name for itself, which also made the officers and soldiers of the Special Operations Company very proud!

The wounded soldier was stunned: "I'm from the 542nd Regiment! Where were you when we were fighting fiercely at Wuding Gate?

Our entire regiment of more than 1,600 people is now only seventeen left.

Bah! You're not worthy of being from the 542nd Regiment!"

Liu Laopao was immediately speechless!

If the casualties of the 88th Division had not been so great, Sun Yuanliang really wouldn't have wanted to use the Special Operations Company.

Having suffered from the bombardment of the defending army's heavy artillery yesterday, the Japanese devils attacking Nanjing finally urged the Sixth Field Heavy Artillery Brigade to come up.

Yesterday, the Japanese devils' attacks on Guanghua Gate, Tongji Gate, and Yuhuatai were all interrupted by heavy artillery fire.

Especially in front of Guanghua Gate, the 9th Division not only lost a large battalion of infantry, but they also lost twelve tanks and the entire regiment's artillery.

Today, they began to retaliate in this direction. The new unit joining the battlefield was a heavy artillery regiment under the Sixth Field Heavy Artillery Brigade.

This regiment had eighteen Type 89 150mm heavy cannons, thirty-six 100mm howitzers.

In addition, there were twelve 240mm howitzers.

The commander of the heavy artillery regiment, Tokumu Daito, carefully listened to the detailed report of the 9th Division's battle yesterday. He learned that the defending army in Nanjing City also had heavy artillery, and at the same time, he could find letters like "USA" from the fragments of those heavy artillery explosions.

Commander Tokumu Daito had a bold prediction in his mind: could the team in Nanjing City be the same one that robbed the Imperial heavy artillery regiment in Nanzha Town last time?

Had they dragged the heavy artillery here to fight against the Imperial Army, using the Empire's cannons, the Empire's imported shells, to strike the Empire's warriors!

This was intolerable! Absolutely intolerable!

For safety, Commander Tokumu Daito did not set up the heavy artillery position too far forward this time. His heavy artillery position was set up at Gaoqiao Gate, which had already been occupied.

This place was five kilometers away from Guanghua Gate and seven kilometers away from Yuhuatai; even Yijiang Gate at the northernmost part of Nanjing City was within the range of the artillery.

This was a good position to bombard the entire city of Nanjing.

Tokumu Daito's regiment arrived at Gaoqiao Gate at dawn on the 11th. When they arrived, an engineering battalion was on standby.

This was an engineering unit that the 9th Division had specially prepared for their arrival, so that the heavy artillery regiment could enter the position as quickly as possible.

The entire 9th Division was already impatient.

At 8:17 a.m. on November 11, 1937, all the heavy artillery of Tokumu Daito's regiment entered the position.

The observation balloon of Tokumu Daito's regiment rose into the air, a full 500 meters high, which was much higher than Li Deben of the Special Operations Company had climbed yesterday.

Subsequently, the 150mm heavy artillery of Tokumu Daito's regiment began to bombard.

The first to be bombarded were Guanghua Gate, Yuhuatai, and Tongji Gate, the places where the Japanese devils had been bombarded by heavy artillery yesterday.

Sergeant Okanotani Sei stood on the high observation balloon, constantly directing the heavy artillery on the ground to adjust the bombing direction.

The Tokumu Regiment on the ground was also constantly adjusting according to his command.

The fierce battle that had started yesterday had never really stopped.

At 8:00 a.m., the defending soldiers on the Guanghua Gate city wall saw that the Japanese devils had finally retreated.

Before they had time to rest, they were subjected to a fierce artillery attack.

The sound of these shells exploding was heard by the officers and soldiers of the Special Operations Company who were waiting for orders in the rear.

The shells exploded in the direction of Guanghua Gate, Tongji Gate, and Yuhuatai.

Finally, someone discovered the observation balloon in the distant sky. The imported Swiss rangefinder that the Special Operations Company had brought back from Jiangyin Fortress measured the distance at 6,500 meters.

It was within the firing range of the anti-aircraft artillery.

An anti-aircraft gun immediately entered the firing state. Lin Fan personally took action. He was very confident in hitting such a fixed target.

Sergeant Okanotani Sei was watching the smoke of war everywhere around the entire city of Nanjing in the sky. Warriors of the Empire were attacking in every direction.

But the power of the heavy artillery bombardment under his command was the greatest. From here, he could see that some of the city walls in the bombarded areas were collapsing.

At this moment, the corner of his eye caught a light in the distance, flying towards his position.

The light was red, and it was coming so fast. Before Okanotani Sei could react, it was already close.

Okanotani Sei could hear the sharp sound of the shell compressing the air as it flew.

Then the shell hit the gondola he was standing in, with a loud bang.

Okanotani Sei felt as if he was wrapped in a waist of hot air, and at the same time, countless hot seeds pierced through his body.

Then he saw the balloon above his head continuing to rise into the sky, as if it would continue to rise into heaven.

Okanotani Sei's body fell from the sky to the ground as if it had lost speed, and fell all the way down!

The fierce artillery fire of the Japanese devils had blown down a large section of the solid city wall. This made the defense of the 88th Division even more difficult.

It also made the defense of the entire Nanjing Garrison Area even more difficult.

The 74th Army's 51st and 58th Divisions, who were bravely resisting the Japanese devils in Jurong and Chunhua, saw that the situation was extremely unfavorable.

They immediately sent soldiers to build a pontoon bridge at the Sanhucha River Estuary. As soon as the 74th Army's engineers started work, they immediately attracted the attention of the 36th Division officers and soldiers who had been patrolling the river bank.

Song Xilian's 36th Division was ordered to defend Yijiang Gate, and not to allow any troops to retreat from here, and of course not to allow any teams to build bridges on the Yangtze River.

Tang Shengzhi, the commander of the garrison area, had issued an order early in the morning: to coexist and die with Nanjing, and not to allow a single soldier to cross the river.

In order to do this, all the ships in the entire Nanjing Jiangnan Company were sent to Jiangbei.

In order to prevent the small boats from smuggling across the river, hundreds of small wooden boats were gathered together and set on fire.

Lin Fan blew up the observation balloon of Tokumu Daito's regiment, but it did not affect their continued bombardment of the Nanjing city wall.

At this time, the Special Operations Company received the latest order: to quickly enter the Yuhuatai position and take over the position of the 262nd Brigade of the 88th Division.

This brigade was the most elite team of the 88th Division and was the foundation of division commander Sun Yuanliang.

In the recent artillery bombardment by the Japanese devils, they suffered heavy casualties.

After the Special Operations Company rushed to the position, the 262nd Brigade quickly withdrew from the battlefield and retreated towards Xiaguan under the leadership of division commander Sun Yuanliang.

When more than 2,000 people arrived at Yijiang Gate, they were stopped by the 36th Division's guarding team.

Sun Yuanliang was furious: "I am a dignified lieutenant general division commander, and you, a small lieutenant, dare to stop me here?

If you don't let me pass, I will kill you!"

The one guarding here was a platoon leader of the 36th Division. Platoon Leader Xu Chengzhe ordered: "Machine guns ready! Anyone who dares to force their way through will be shot!"

Sun Yuanliang was so angry that he drew his pistol and pointed it at Xu Chengzhe's forehead: "Open the door or not?"

At this moment, Song Xilian, the commander of the 36th Division, received the news and arrived here by jeep.

He said with a smile: "Brother Yuanliang, why be angry with a small platoon leader?

He is just carrying out orders. This order was issued by Commander Tang. The little soldiers under my command are just carrying out the commander's orders.

Don't make things difficult for them."

Sun Yuanliang said angrily: "I have fought all the way from Shanghai to Nanjing. My team of more than 10,000 people has been replenished seven times.

If we continue to fight like this, there will be no veterans left in the 88th Division.

Brother Xilian! Let your brother off! Let your brother leave some seeds for the 88th Division."

Song Xilian said with a wry smile: "My 36th Division is no better than Brother Sun's. We are all the same.

It's just that Commander Tang has spoken, and no soldiers are allowed to cross the river.

The 36th Division has received this order and has to carry it out.

Brother Sun, while your position is still there, please go back quickly.

Holding Nanjing City is more important than anything else?"

"Do you still believe that you can hold it?" Sun Yuanliang was angry.

"We soldiers only obey orders, do our best, and leave the rest to fate!" Of course, Song Xilian knew the current situation, and he could not answer directly.

"Brother Xilian, you are going to ruin the backbone of the National Revolutionary Army! Which of the defending teams in this Nanjing City is not an elite team that has survived hundreds of battles?

There is still time to retreat now. These officers and soldiers can all become seeds of the War of Resistance.

Are you going to lock them all up alive in this Nanjing City and let them all die?"

Song Xilian was silent!

"Okay! Okay! I'll go back!" Sun Yuanliang turned around hatefully.

"Go back!"

With an order, the more than 2,000 men of the 262nd Brigade turned around and rushed back to the position from which they had just departed.

When the Special Operations Company had just entered the Yuhuatai position, they were subjected to a fierce attack by the 6th Division.

Last night, all the senior officers of the Japanese devils' attacking Nanjing team were reprimanded by Lieutenant General Asaka Yasuhiko.

They also received a promise that they could plunder the city for seven days.

This order was passed down to the ears of every soldier overnight. Today, these Japanese devils were no longer being asked to attack by their officers.

Instead, they were actively requesting to attack. Their thinking had changed, and the attacks of these Japanese devils became even more ferocious.

The soldiers of the Special Operations Company immediately felt these changes: if the combat effectiveness of the Japanese devils yesterday was five, then the combat effectiveness of these Japanese devils today could be multiplied by at least three.

After the second observation balloon raised by the Tokumu Daito Regiment was shot down again, the Tokumu Daito Regiment could only continue to bombard the three fixed positions.

At the same time, they requested the air force to observe the situation in these places.

The heavy artillery squad of the Special Operations Company also raised an observation balloon at this time. Li Dequan once again ascended into the air. From 200 meters in the air, he directed the heavy artillery squad to fire at the Japanese devils' heavy artillery position.

Commander Tokumu Daito finally discovered the heavy artillery of the defending army in Nanjing City appearing again.

This time, he immediately ordered all the artillery under his command to fire at this National Revolutionary Army's heavy artillery team.

He wanted to destroy this team in Nanjing City.

Hui Jianming, according to the information transmitted by Li Dequan, constantly adjusted the firing elements. The shells gradually approached the heavy artillery position of the Tokumu Daito Regiment.

The heavy artillery squad attracted the Japanese devils' artillery fire, allowing the 87th and 88th Divisions, which had been suppressed and unable to breathe, to finally catch their breath.

Lin Fan commanded the Special Operations Company to seize the time to push the defense line forward.

Their defense line in Yuhuatai was simultaneously facing the joint attack of the 6th Division and the 9th Division.

Now that there was no heavy artillery bombardment from the Japanese devils, the 1st Platoon, 2nd Platoon, and 3rd Platoon immediately launched an attack and counterattacked towards the Tiexinqiao direction.

Colonel Takano Musashi, the commander of the 47th Infantry Regiment of the 6th Division, commanded the three battalions under his command to attack Yuhuatai and Zhonghua Gate.

Attacking Yuhuatai was the Honinbo Haruo Battalion. Battalion Commander Honinbo Haruo personally commanded the soldiers to charge at the front line.