Chapter 1391 A Breathing Space

More than 400,000 devils and millions of traitors directly attacked the less than 100,000 Chinese soldiers who stayed in Nanjing.

It is conceivable how great the advantage of the Japanese-puppet coalition was.

In fact, this advantage does not only include the number of people.

For example, the military quality of the soldiers.

Excluding these wretched traitors, at least five Chinese soldiers can barely deal with one devil.

The most important thing is that in terms of heavy weapons, China is simply at a disadvantage.

That's not all. China's rare heavy weapons were lost a lot during the Battle of Shanghai, the Battle of Jiangyin, and the early stage of the Battle of Nanjing.

This includes not only cannons, but also airplanes.

China's national strength is too weak, and its science and technology are not generally backward.

It was the period of the full-scale war of resistance, and it was still difficult for China to build airplanes.

Therefore, in order to have airplanes, China had to squeeze out as much as possible from its limited fiscal revenue and buy them from the international community.

On the other hand, the island countries have a lot of airplanes.

The most important thing is that the industrial level of the island country, especially the heavy industry level, is far better than that of China.

Although there is still a big gap between the island country and the European and American powers, the advantage for China is extraordinary.

Take airplanes as an example. Whenever a plane is shot down by China, the island country can always replenish it immediately through reproduction.

In fact, let alone airplanes, even warships that consume a lot of steel can be easily replenished by the island country.

In a word, the sky surrounding the huge city of Nanjing has become the private land of the devils.

In other words, the planes flying in the air and bombing everywhere are all devil planes.

The gap between them and the Central China Front Army is so big that although the Chinese soldiers defending the city are very determined, they are unwilling to make unnecessary sacrifices.

There is no way. They found that the outer positions of Nanjing City could not be defended, so they had to play a strategic retreat.

Ye Tian led the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army to confront the 16th Division head-on, and attracted the main force of the Central China Front Army, providing extremely favorable time and space for the retreat of various Chinese troops.

Rare opportunity!

If you miss this village, you will never have this shop again!

Realizing this, in addition to the Chinese troops that were originally planning to retreat according to the plan, other Chinese troops that did not intend to retreat too early also took the opportunity to retreat to Nanjing City.

The mobilization of many Chinese troops quickly entered the sight of the Japanese and puppet coalition forces responsible for attacking them.

The Japanese and puppet coalition forces were overjoyed when they noticed this.

Subconsciously, they wanted to hunt down these Chinese troops.

Unfortunately, ideals are full, but reality is very skinny.

So many troops were drawn to the battlefield to annihilate the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army.

Naturally, the various troops of the Japanese and puppet coalition forces wanted to hunt down the various Chinese troops, but they were definitely unable to do so.

What's more, once they were chased and killed, the various Chinese troops would turn around and launch a counterattack.

In this way, the Japanese and puppet coalition forces would definitely lose more than they gained.

For this reason, most of the Japanese and puppet coalition forces could only watch helplessly as the various Chinese troops retreated to Nanjing City.

Of course, it is not quite appropriate to say that the Japanese-Puppet Allied Forces watched helplessly.

Relying on the advantages of a large number of heavy weapons and strong military literacy of soldiers, the various Japanese-Puppet Allied Forces did not forget to take the opportunity to hunt down the Chinese troops.

Most of the Chinese troops retreated into Nanjing City relatively safely.

However, there was a Chinese unit that was very miserable.

Their luck was not very good and they were trapped in the siege of the Japanese-Puppet Allied Forces.

This unit was none other than one of China's elite units - the 88th Division!

A tree that stands out in the forest will be destroyed by the wind.

A person who is superior to the crowd will be destroyed by the crowd.

As a unit with the best combat effectiveness and weapons equipment in China, and also a German-equipped division, the 88th Division has long been closely watched by many Japanese troops.

Considering that after the annihilation of the 88th Division, it will definitely greatly deter other Chinese troops, the Central China Front Army is very concerned.

For this reason, in order to attack the 88th Division, the Central China Front Army simply used a bullying routine.

The 88th Division of China only has about 10,000 soldiers.

However, the number of Japanese soldiers who participated in the siege of the 88th Division was as many as 70,000 to 80,000.

Among them, the most active ones include two divisions.

The 6th Division and the 114th Division!

As we all know, a standard division of an island country, especially a Class A division, has a strength of 30,000 to 40,000 soldiers.

According to the combat effectiveness of the soldiers of the two countries, if China wants to face a Japanese division head-on, it must dispatch at least 150,000 troops.

To put it bluntly, the number of troops is five times that of the Japanese, but because of the serious inferiority of heavy weapons and soldiers' military literacy, China will still be very struggling.

With only one division of troops, facing the attack of two divisions.

It is conceivable how passive the battle situation is for the 88th Division.

According to the unified deployment of the city defense headquarters, the 88th Division is responsible for guarding the Yuhuatai position.

Considering the extremely unfavorable situation of being outnumbered by the enemy and weak by the enemy, the 88th Division deployed three lines of defense.

Unfortunately, facing the overwhelming advantage of so many devils, the first two lines of defense were easily broken by them.

There was no other way, the 88th Division had to retreat to the core position urgently and continue to hold on.

These two divisions were the trusted troops of Yanagawa Heisuke.

In fact, since receiving the order from the headquarters to form the 10th Army for the Battle of Shanghai, these two divisions were recruited by Yanagawa Heisuke.

Especially the 6th Division, in terms of combat effectiveness and the degree of fearlessness of the soldiers, it can surpass other divisions.

In order to repay Yanagawa Heisuke's kindness, the two division commanders have repeatedly urged the troops desperately.

The two Japanese divisions attacked urgently, and the position of the 88th Division was almost shaky and was about to be broken.

It must be said that the geographical location of Yuhuatai is not ordinary.

Yuhuatai is located 1 km south of Nanjing. Once it is conquered by the Japanese army, Nanjing will be in danger.

There is no way. No matter how passive it is, no matter how much loss it suffers, the 88th Division is still struggling.

What makes the 88th Division happy is that the terrain around Yuhuatai is very good, surrounded by low hills.

This terrain is very conducive to defense.

Otherwise, the 88th Division would never have been able to hold out for so long.

What made the 88th Division happy was that when the last position was about to be captured and Nanjing City was about to be hit head-on by the Japanese-Puppet Allied Forces, an unexpected surprise occurred.

Obviously, the unexpected surprise of the 88th Division was related to the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army.

In fact, like other Japanese-Puppet Allied Forces, the 114th Division and the 6th Division received transfer orders from the Central China Front Army.

The Central China Front Army Command strictly ordered these two divisions to participate in the pursuit and interception of the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army.

Naturally, after holding out for so long, the 88th Division got a chance to breathe.