From to 1935 2020

Before coming to China, Sokichi fired a full forty rounds of bullets with Springfield during military training. This was the most "important" military training he had ever received.Japan ordered 20 Springfield rifles from the United States, but the matching ammunition was only 6000 million rounds, and no further orders were made in the future. On average, each Springfield was equipped with [-] rounds of ammunition.The reason why no more orders were made was that after the start of the Nanjing Meat Grinding War, the Japanese army soon discovered that, after deducting training losses, they actually bought too many bullets.Because on the Nanjing battlefield, there were not many soldiers who bolted their rifles and were able to fire [-] rounds of rifle bullets and were still alive.Most people have no chance to use guns after they have consumed about one or two hundred rounds of ammunition.

"I don't know which owner of this gun I will be, and who will be his next owner?"

All kinds of distracting thoughts keep coming up.

"If you want to survive, you must survive no matter what. Ah Xiang is still waiting for me."

After December, the Japanese offensive in Nanjing became even more frenzied—in the past, the Red Army took the initiative to fight at night, but during this period, with the decline in the quality of the Japanese army’s source of troops, the Japanese army preferred night fighting—the reason was that the Japanese were fighting It was found that after dark, all kinds of bulky and fragile "throwing stone" weapons will be used in large quantities by opponents in the dark, frantically throwing a large number of incendiary bombs, and then take the opportunity to counterattack and regain them. (Using those equipment during the day because of the long preparation time, it is easy to be discovered by the Japanese army before launch and then killed with artillery fire)

Fighting hard all day during the day, occupying a position of several hundred meters, at night, the opponent's incendiary bombs washed the ground, severely damaged the defenders, and then regained it. The next day, the front line returned to yesterday's normal, and it was necessary to fight again and grind the meat again.

To change this unfavorable situation, the way is to take turns to attack day and night.And when attacking at night, the opponent's tanks are more likely to be bombed by human bombs.

The street fighting situation in Nanjing City, in the direction of the city defense command, which the Japanese army focused on attacking, became a round-the-clock attack day and night.

One hour after a meal is the time to digest and wait for the ice to work its magic.It is also a rare period of rest for soldiers on both ends of the front line.In the position of the Nanjing defenders a few hundred meters away, Chinese singing wafted at this time.

The first song is the Chinese song "The Great Wall Will Never Fall", which was sung by the defenders on the opposite side.The second song was "Song of the Showa Restoration" broadcast by the loudspeaker. The lyrics made Sokichi and Umeki's scalp tingle, while the third song was "Senben Sakura", which made the two of them reflect.Followed by a bunch of Japanese love songs...

For the cannon fodder of the second-class soldiers of the Dingzhong Division who are new to Nanjing, every song is a new song and a classic, and Zongji even thinks of his wife's fragrant body at home.

"I don't want to die, I don't want to die..."

Zong Ji remembered that when he was about to enter Nanjing during the day, a group of passing trucks were piled up with dead bodies, all wearing the military uniforms of Locust soldiers.On the road approaching Nanjing, there was a strange burnt smell in the air for a long time. At that time, Zongji couldn't smell what it was.

But after entering the city of Nanjing, he repeatedly smelled a similar smell, and smelled the same smell from a soldier who was splashed with gasoline flames and was burned at close range. Zongji knew that it was the smell of a burnt corpse.

As soon as the whistle sounded, Cao Chang's cursing interrupted Zong Ji's wild thoughts, and then he and Umeki were in a trance, listening to Oda Cao Chang's final pre-war encouragement.Sokichi didn't listen to a single word of what he said, because he had actually heard all of these contents during the 25 days of military training in Japan.On the contrary, the "anti-songs" he heard today shocked him even more.

The effect of ice began to take effect, and Sokichi, who was psychologically afraid of death and did not want to fight, began to concentrate his energy and concentration when he was rushed to the battlefield.

The support artillery in the rear began to fire.The number of shots was not much, and it stopped after two rounds-it was a day in the daytime, and no matter how economical the shells were, a lot of them were destroyed.It is already "generous" to attack such inaccurate support artillery at night for two rounds.

"Onboard!"

I don’t know who took the lead and roared, and the Japanese troops in Sokichi’s squadron formed a skirmish line and began to attack the frontal Communist army’s blocking position. The order given to them by their superiors was: to advance 500 meters and hold the position is victory.

Bang bang bang!

This is the sound of the spring when the big yellow crossbow in the hand of the grenadier in the opposite defender ejects and blasts the incendiary bottle.The manufacturing process of this kind of thing is extremely primitive: it is made of pottery or glass bottle, filled with half a bottle of low-quality gasoline, plugged with waste rubber imported from the United States, and a small piece of soil detonator like a firecracker is inserted into the bottle stopper, and the two people before firing Cooperation, one person to light the fuze and one person to control the launch.

The timing was well controlled, and the ejected Molotov cocktail exploded in the air, spewing a terrifying shower of meteors and fire to the ground.

The timing was not good, and when it hit the ground, it just splashed out a small fire circle with a small area.

Of course, the most terrible accident is that it explodes before it is launched, which is self-harm.This thing is actually a weapon that is very dangerous to one's own people, but war is so cruel.It's not that it can't be made more advanced, but the huge consumption of the cruel war makes all production simpler.

When Zongji attacked, the defenders on the opposite side fired sixteen Molotov cocktails at a time, four of which exploded in the air, and countless "Phoenix Fire" fell from the sky and sprinkled on the two unlucky devil soldiers.Those two recruits had no experience in dealing with this kind of primitive napalm at all, so they instinctively used their hands to fight the fire, but they got bigger and bigger...

The rest of the incendiary bottles hit the ground, shattered and splashed apart, and then the detonator exploded, causing only a small fireball, but illuminating the battlefield.

The sound of gunfire became intense in an instant, and then there was the whistling sound of shells being fired, and the scream of being shot.

The war lasted until the end of December, when the last elite [-]th division of the Japanese army that attacked Nanjing was exhausted, the new troops that joined the war were no longer able to talk about military tactics.

The rest are just brainless pigs.

"The little devil on the opposite side, the gun is inaccurate, the cannon is inaccurate, and the tactics are even less."

On the morning of the second day when Soji's troops entered the war, Ye Jianying sent the above telegram to the Central Headquarters according to Peng Shichuan's opinion. As front-line personnel, both of them had a deep understanding of the sharp decline in the combat effectiveness of the Japanese troops inside and outside Nanjing.

The newly formed 120th Division of the Japanese army under Soyoshi's headquarters attacked the direction of the former chairman's mansion overnight. Except for hundreds of corpses and three times the number of wounded left in front of the position, nothing was left.

Peng Shichuan suggested to his superiors that he was going to withdraw the defense line of the troops another 1000 meters at the former chairman's mansion within two days, and then launch a full-line counterattack at the last 500 meters.

"Is it the distance of one Chinese mile? Old Peng, you were also taken away by Xiao Huang."

Chairman Li, who was in Baotou, smiled after receiving the telegram, and replied: "Don't be so stingy, let Doihara enter the chairman's office for a day and then drive him away."

Two days later, Kenji Doihara hid far away, watching the Japanese soldiers who were planting the sun flag in the chairman's mansion with a telescope, but he was not in the mood to pose for a picture.

Without him, the city is full of snipers and cold artillery.At the same time, the T500 tank driven by Wu Mingjie stopped behind a new line of defense about [-] meters away from the former chairman's mansion, and hid in the ruins of a half-collapsed house, with the muzzle pointing directly at the former chairman. government direction.

Second-class soldier Sokichi was mixed in with a group of Japanese soldiers who were insensitive after victory, his eyes were dull.In two days, after eating several grains of ice, his brain nerves were no longer normal.

According to the instructions of his superiors, Zongji took the sun flag and found a relatively tallest ruins pile, and planted the sun flag on it.

Several nearby Japanese army reporters who were not afraid of death took pictures of this scene with their cameras.Several foreign buildings nearby, the non-combat zone, and the flashes of several cameras also flickered at this time.Journalists and military attaches stationed in Nanjing from various countries wanted to take pictures of this historic scene.

Taking pictures during the day is a very risky behavior, because this approach can easily be misunderstood as a sniper observer's telescope flashing, and then provoke a sniper.Even Schulz, a German and a secret ally of the Japanese, who stayed upstairs in the German consulate, only dared to secretly open the curtains to watch the battle during the day.

Sokichi who planted the flag did not know at this time that his behavior of planting the flag will become a very important part of history.

The flag of the sun fluttered in the cold wind blowing from the north to the south.

"boom!"

500 meters away, Wu Mingjie, the commander of No. [-] tank, fired the [-]mm shells that had been filled in the barrel by himself.

Sokichi, who had just finished planting the sun flag, had just reached the final peak of his life, was blasted into the sky with the flag.

At the same time, at the secret position near the Yangtze River in the north of Nanjing City, there was a sudden boom of artillery...

After 10 minutes of shelling preparations, intensive charge horns sounded frequently inside and outside the city.

The Red Army's full-line counterattack began.

In the evening of that day, Wu Mingjie drove his No. 217 tank and stopped at the place where Xunji had planted the flag. At the same place, he planted a red flag with a five-pointed star on it again.

His T[-] tank was full of bumps and holes, and the temporary armor plate was almost peeled off. It was a lion in a hundred battles at a glance.

With the setting sun, this time, more reporters took pictures of this scene from various angles.

At this time, Kenji Doihara's troops had been driven 500 meters away, and returned to the starting point two days ago.

The body of Zongji who planted the flag was lying on the ground a few meters away from his tank, his eyes were wide open, and he was dying.

He was blown up by a cannonball, and before he died, his fellow Tokyo Umeki grabbed his hand and said to him, "I will take care of your wife in the future, so don't worry."

After hearing this, Sokichi died.

Mei Mu took away his necklace, pendant, photos and other personal belongings.

A year later, Umeki returned to Japan with these relics and took out the tokens in front of Axiang.

A year and a half later, he married Ah Xiang, but that's another story.

Note: The story of Sokichi and Umeki comes from the famous early Japanese TV series "Axiang", and I changed the ending on purpose. …………………————————

On the last day, ask for a monthly pass, and write another chapter during the day tomorrow.

-------------------- Chapter 260 Conquering Hell--------------------

After the separation of the war in April, the waterway between China and the Soviet Union was cut off by the Japanese army. In the whole of northern China, the main source of arms and materials for the Red Army, except for a small amount of fuel and chemicals, can also be transferred through Shanghai, and most of them rely on the northern part of Baotou. A road of poor quality.

After the beginning of spring, this temporary road, which was just casually rolled by a steam roller, has been under construction all the time—using it as a basis for reference, a formal railway connected to the Siberian Railway will be built next to it.The Mongolian section is in charge of the Soviet Union, and China provides manpower.The road sections in China are under the responsibility of the CCP itself. The main job is to lay the stone foundation first. As for the steel rails, the steel rails shipped from the Soviet Union will be laid after the repairs in the north.In the process, China has mobilized more than 15 people to work on the Gobi grassland between China and Mongolia.

By December 1937, 12, this railway had been successfully extended to a distance of [-] kilometers from the border of Inner Mongolia, and the remaining railway connecting Suiyuan Baotou was only a matter of laying the tracks.

As the railway gets closer and closer to Baotou, the amount of munitions the CCP can obtain is also increasing.

When Peng Shi went to the central power generation, Chairman Li was in Baotou, and it was here that he personally inspected the completion progress of this most important international land transportation line.Here he met Stalin's special envoy Molotov who was traveling from the north to the south, and the other party also specially took the train to the car and went south along the Inner Mongolia Highway (by the way, inspect the railway and road conditions).

At the meeting, Molotov's convoy brought a full 3 large trucks.Fifty of these trucks are the Bellier GPE-37 heavy tank trailers ordered from France (the total working weight is [-] tons). This is a new heavy truck that the French have just developed, which can easily pull [-] tons of tanks. Running around the world, but the stingy French Army and the Ministry of Finance are reluctant to pay for it.Its only and largest overseas customer is China.The CCP came forward through the Soviet Union, and the two companies jointly placed an order for a hundred vehicles, and the Soviets even purchased the technical authorization of the chassis and the supporting diesel engine technology from the French. In the field of military industry, the Soviet Union and France have always had a traditional cooperation relationship.As an old imperialist country, the problem with the French military industry is that it has strange ideas and often misplaces the development direction of the technology tree. However, similar to the British, those traditional and accumulated basic technologies are very strong. They just "lack a short man" foreign women leaders".

After December, the Soviets used the first batch of 50 heavy-duty trailers just delivered by the French to bring the newly designed and produced T20 tanks (26 tons) to the CCP by road, and used the Renault tank trailers previously ordered by the CCP , At the beginning of December, hundreds of T60\T[-]\T[-] tanks were pulled from the land to supplement the loss.Because of bridge and road passability problems, T[-] tanks will be used in the north, while the rest will almost all be put into the southern battlefield.

In the street fighting in Nanjing in early December, Peng Shichuan was very passive on the surface. The defenders used a large number of "ancient and exotic" weapons on the battlefield. On the one hand, it is to show the enemy's weakness, so that Kenji Doihara has a strategic prediction of "I am about to win".

Fifteen days later, a large number of artillery shells and tanks from the north and south arrived. (The commander of the No. 217 vehicle received the new tanks during this period.) Peng Shichuan still deliberately suppressed the amount of shells, and continued to make him feel a "repeat" Persevere for a while, and the other side will collapse if you persist for a while." Fantasy thinking.

The actual situation is that Peng Shichuan on the opposite side has been hoarding ammunition in the rear, accumulating strength, and transporting the 36 107-caliber 1930 cannons sent by the Soviets for the coastal defense of the Yangtze River from the north bank of the Yangtze River to the south bank. Waiting for the unveiling of the card at about the same time, Stud took away his troops trapped in Nanjing in a wave.

When meeting Molotov, Li Runshi told him: We will launch a full-line counterattack against the Japanese army in Shandong and Nanjing at the end of December.As a cooperation, the Soviet Union will launch a winter offensive in North Manchuria at the same time. During this period, the Soviet Red Army in the Northeast has completed the transfer of command and defense. Zhukov led most of the main force to temporarily retreat to the second-line reserve team. The command is handed over to Rokossovsky and the new troops to get a wave of experience.

As for the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance, after a year of infiltration and sabotage behind enemy lines to harass and train troops, the Red Army in the south continued to send officers for blood transfusions and integration.Yang Jingyu (commander-in-chief) Zuoquan (political commissar) led the anti-union forces, with a total strength of 12. They have also completed preparations for the war and will play a greater role in this wave of winter offensives.

When Li Yunshi and Stalin met in Moscow, the original plan of the two sides was to fight until the third year, that is, around June 1939, before the Japanese threat on the Eastern Front was completely resolved.But judging from the current situation, this time point can be advanced by half a year.

On December 25th, the day of the major counter-offensive, Kenji Tuhara invested troops in the main city of Nanjing and its surrounding [-]-kilometer area as follows.

In the direction of Yuhuatai in the outer city, there are three divisions (114, 104, 120), two divisions in the direction of Zijinshan-Tianbao City (37, 54), and one division in the direction of Yanziji in the northeast (29).The strength of the six divisions looks scary in terms of total numbers, but in fact, after the terrifying war of attrition in the early stage, every division participating in the war is broken, and the combined strength of the two divisions is not yet at its peak. The number of editors is large, and the quality is even more incomparable.For example, the 104th Division, which suffered the most losses, was called a division. Its actual combat strength did not even have a single brigade, and it had long been beaten to nothing in the disastrous war of attrition.

The devil soldiers of the six divisions, the total combat power is not as good as the two divisions when the peak was fully staffed in the past. The reason why the morale has not collapsed until now is due to the crazy drug use of the subordinates and the crazy gambling of the superiors. Sex, holding on to the fantasy of winning if you persist a little longer.As for those who entered the main city of Nanjing, it was the other six divisions that were also dilapidated and suffered heavy losses.

"The little devil is dying soon. The Japanese army divisions inside and outside Nanjing seem to have many numbers, but in fact they are just numbers that are scary." (Peng Shichuan's sentiment.)

The Flesh Mill that lasted for more than three months has long exhausted the original elite soldiers and veterans. Now the Japanese soldiers who are fighting on the front line can be called "veterans" after completing three months of training. Most of them only completed one month. The rookies who were trained in a hurry were thrown to this flesh and blood mill, and the Red Army had the advantage of geographical advantage and positional protection to fight fortified battles.

Yuhuatai, Zijinshan, and Yanziji were fierce battles between the two sides. The Japanese army only seemed to have the upper hand in the attack on the scene, but in the actual battle, the ratio of casualties in the exchange of casualties has changed to the Red Army. The advantages are growing.

Half a month before Peng Shichuan launched a major counterattack, the Chinese and Soviet troops in the northeast deliberately moved frequently at this time, showing signs of launching a winter offensive.The Japanese were so frightened that they were forced to reinvest a large amount of resources into the Northeast. After December, Kenji Doihara, who fought on the front line in Nanjing, frequently asked the country for shells and supplies.But Yongren, who wanted the Northeast and wanted Nanjing, had nothing to give up on this stinky piece of meat in Shandong, except for sending him two divisions, the "Rifle Division" whose individual price was "twenty-five cents" In addition, there was no other strong support. On the contrary, even the supporting air force was reduced, so that the Japanese army fighting in the city had to calculate the artillery support before the attack. Open hands and feet.

Before the big counterattack on the 25th, throughout December, including the Nanjing outer city battlefield, the following parties reported the number of opponents’ tanks participating in the battle, T27/T 60/T37, plus a small amount of front-line modified vehicles (SU45, SU60) , some of the bean tanks captured, the total number of the opponent's armored forces has always been maintained at around [-] - this number is actually very close to the total number of vehicles ([-]) that Peng Shichuan "controlled" and put into the battlefield.

Because there were a large number of Japanese army eyeliners in Nanjing during this period, in order to cover up the specific number of tanks he was transporting to the Nanjing battlefield, Peng Shichuan has always used the method of mice to move houses, transporting a small amount of tanks across the river every day, and putting some of them into the front line to supplement the loss. Part of it is secretly hidden to accumulate energy.

On the opposite side, Doihara received reports from the Japanese troops in front that they had destroyed more than [-] opponents' tanks (severely exaggerated the water injection, and the tank returned to the battlefield after being repaired). Doihara himself counted the number of people and confirmed the wreckage It's over a hundred.

"Persist a little longer, hold on a little longer, after taking down the headquarters, I will declare that we have won the Battle of Nanjing, and then, then..."

Before the Nanjing City Defense Command fell, Doihara had such a mentality to force the troops below to attack.

From the 22nd to the 25th before noon, Doihara, who attacked Nanjing, was pleasantly surprised to find that the communist army on the front line fired fewer shells and used fewer tanks, and the defense line in the city that could not be chewed was loose. , the number of counter assault raids at night is also decreasing day by day.

Overjoyed, Doi Dohara ordered an all-out attack. In two and a half days, the Japanese army, which had been progressing slowly, expanded its occupied area in Nanjing. More than seventy percent of the area.The troops of the attacking Chinese department were already standing 200 meters away from the ruins of the inner city wall of the Zhonghua Gate during this period. During this period, the city wall of the Zhonghua Gate was like the Gaoqiao Gate. After the bombardment, it has long since ceased to exist.The Japanese army attacking Zhonghua Gate inside the city and the Japanese army attacking Zhonghua Gate outside the city could see each other with the naked eye.

At the beginning of the big counterattack, Kenji Doihara was looking at the Japanese soldiers who were planting flags, and was receiving good news from the direction of Yuhuatai: the direction of Yuhuatai-Zhonghuamen, three joint attacks from the east, west and south. The division has successfully cut off the connection between the two. The Japanese army is breaking through to the north, interspersed, and will soon be able to cut, surround, and annihilate the defenders of the two places...

Doihara, who had finally received a piece of good news, was in a binoculars at the time, and saw the Japanese soldiers who were planting the flag and were blown up into the sky with the flag just after planting the flag. Just as he was stunned, he was facing the Shimonoseki ferry in the north. , Yuhuatai in the west, Zijin Mountain in the east, in three directions, red, yellow, and green smoke flares were fired into the sky at the same time, pulling out three colorful trails in the shape of a character in the sky.

A few seconds later, the Nanjing area, inside and outside the city, was simultaneously overwhelmed by deafening and continuous gunfire.

The counterattack time set by the Chinese Communist Army was the moment when the Japanese army planted the flag at the chairman's mansion.

All the artillery of the communist army on the opposite side fired at the same time. ,

From the Schneider artillery with a maximum caliber of 155 mm, to ordinary mortars, and even the "Tiger Crouching Cannon" that exists as a cultural relic in Nanjing City, they all fired at this time (the gun is used to launch incendiary bombs).On the front of the confrontation between the Chinese and Japanese armies, the "giant slingshot" usually only ejected in large numbers at night. The iron drums exploded and ignited, and were ejected onto the heads of the Japanese soldiers. Many belt pullers didn't even have military uniforms on them.

Boom, boom, boom!The dense and violent explosions almost broke the eardrums of foreigners in the consulates of various countries in the city.

December 1937 was winter, and this month in history was the darkest and coldest month in Nanjing.

But on the 25th, the sound of spring thunder sounded ahead of schedule...

No. 185 Huju North Road, Nanjing, in the British Embassy in Nanjing. Less than two months after taking office, the new ambassador, Sir Carl, watched the fireworks exploding in a large area on the surrounding Japanese controlled positions, and heard the frequent thunder outside. The continuous shelling sound, as well as the assault number that was almost inaudible covered by the sound of the shelling, was stunned for a long time.

After a while, he said to the counselor beside him: