From to 1935 2020

"The Battle of Nanjing, the Japanese are about to lose..."

After a moment of silence, he said again: "We, we are about to leave China..."

In tank No. 217, Wu Mingjie moved away to give way to the gunner after blasting the unlucky flag-planting Japanese army away with one shot.

At this time, through the earphones on his head, Xu Guangda, the commander of the tank division, roared: "All tank soldiers, attack!"

"Ugh!"

Northeast tune, Hebei tune, Jiangxi tune, Fujian tune... Fanatical, from all over the country, the "Maozi language" wula sounds with full flavors sounded on the vehicle communication channel at the same time.

In Maozi language, what does Wula mean, in fact, everyone doesn't know, the Chinese meaning probably means fuck his mother!

In the tank, Wu Mingjie stretched out his feet, habitually kicked the driver's rear at the same time, and ordered: "Huzi, drive!"

After saying this, he was stunned for a moment—Huzi was the driver of his original No. 216 car, and he died when No. 216 car was destroyed half a month ago...

"Company commander, we didn't get shot, we have a communicator, stop kicking my ass!" experience.)

Kicking ass to direct the driver to drive is a habit developed by the early commanders of the Red Army because of the lack of on-board communication equipment.The driver who was kicked by Wu Mingjie was a newly trained third-generation tank driver. When he was learning to drive, the vehicle communicator had been popularized in the coach car, so he was not used to this kind of kicking command.

"Stop talking nonsense and drive!"

Wu Mingjie held back the tears that were about to flow, but also forcibly held back the habit of continuing to kick people's butts.

With a roar, the 217 chariot broke through the camouflage and broken wooden boards covering its body, tore through the darkness, and came to the sunny street with flashing cannon lights, and began to charge forward.

While charging, the 217 chariot spewed out the flames of the machine gun, and stopped from time to time to fire a cannon.Behind him, countless warriors were roaring and chasing after his chariot.Beside him, five urban combat T26s of the same model as him are also advancing side by side with him, with six crews and exactly 24 crew members.

"216, 217, 211, 198, 199, 200.......they are all here......."

Wu Mingjie, who was charging, had a feeling that those comrades and chariots who were gone had come alive and were marching with him!

From Yuhuatai to Zijin Mountain, inside and outside the city, the iron current was rolling, and the raging red tide soon submerged the newly raised Sun Flag.

At the same time, a grand concert was being held at the famous Broadway Theater in New York, USA.

Rich people and white-collar workers in New York, celebrities from all walks of life, are squinting their eyes with curiosity, listening to the chorus echoing in the theater.The audience also included Morgan, Knockefeller, DuPont and other famous people who really mastered the United States.

Performer/accompaniment: Moscow Song and Dance Ensemble.

Lead singer: Elena Yekaterina, winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine last year.

Before the singing began, the most beautiful Nobel laureate ever known for his intelligence and beauty, the seeker from the hell of the end-of-life, and the fire-bearer said to the audience in English:

"The name of this song is "Conquering Hell", dedicated to the defenders of Nanjing, China!"

Soon, the famous song, which was originally called "Conquering Paradise" and was played only once in the Shanghai Concession, rang in the ears of the devils in the capitalistic hell.

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PS: With reference to everyone's opinions in the previous volume, I try to write as little as possible about the war.The plot of the Anti-Japanese War basically entered the final stage in the second volume.

The main plot of the second volume will be transferred to Xiao Huang Ke and Elena in the United States, the interaction with the big boss Roosevelt, the changes in the world structure, and the final war preparations of China and the Soviet Union before the outbreak of World War II.

Regarding the ending plot of the Battle of Nanjing, it will be used as a detailed ending in the next volume.As for the battle on the Shandong battlefield, the plan is to end one chapter to speed up the conclusion of the plot.The ending of Chang Kaishen's fate will also be explained in the next volume.

-------------------- Chapter 261 -------------------

Leaflets were strewn all over the streets. Passers-by who picked up the pieces of paper nervously stuffed the paper into their arms and hid it. When they returned home, or went to a corner where no one was around, they watched it carefully.The police all over the street frantically confiscated these dangerous propaganda materials dropped last night.

Unfortunately, I don't know how many times the planes came over last night, and there were too many leaflets, and there were specific information about the battle in Nanjing everywhere.

As the most important focus of the Songhu War, the Battle of Nanjing, the Japanese army invested a total of 50 divisions with a total strength of more than [-] troops.In almost every city, "Jinghe men (cannons) (ashes)" were conscripted by the conscription office for twenty-five cents, and then thrown into that terrible meat grinder, Nagasaki and Fukuoka were no exception.

Soon, the news of the disastrous defeat of the Japanese army under the city of Nanjing spread around these two cities.Although the government has long established an information cocoon room for civilians, the Japanese army has become more and more difficult in China, and civilians can still feel it through various signs.

Taxes are getting heavier and food prices are getting higher and higher, let's not talk about these.Desperately recruiting troops, and then sending rookies who have been trained for less than a month to China, this situation itself can explain a lot of problems.Not to mention the large amount of foreign rifles imported, ordinary civilians can hide it, but people in the army cannot be fooled.

Although various places are still working hard to suppress, when they forcefully suppress the violent organizations of the people, they all know that the front line has suffered a disastrous defeat, and they start to be half-hearted. , what is missing at present is just a little spark.

In the Chichibu Palace, the table was pounding, and Yongren's impotent roar was also buzzing.

"What are the Second and Fourth Divisions doing? Why hasn't there been any progress yet? Four days have passed, why are their troops still in Jintan and Liyang?"

"Su Yu's troops captured Langxi and are seriously threatening Liyang from the southwest side. If the Second Division advances forcefully, he will cut off the way back."

"Aren't Su Yu's main forces all active in Danyang, Jingjiang, and Wujin in the northeast? Why did they suddenly go to Langxi in the southwest?"

"In the past few months, it was indeed Su Yu's main force who continuously attacked our army's logistics in Danyang, Jingjiang, and Wujin. But in the past four months, Li Runshi transported troops through the Yangtze River waterway, and used the reason of supporting Nanjing from Tongling, the upper reaches of Wuhu. Going south across the river, he has been taking the land route, crossing Anhui Province to replenish troops in their old base in Jiangxi. Then he replenished troops from Jiangxi to southern Zhejiang. He spent four months secretly hoarding troops and ammunition in southern Zhejiang. It was not until the end of December that the earth suddenly started to attack. Yasui (Second Division) reported that the strength of the Communist Army on the side and front of his line of defense was at least 20. He was constantly being attacked and intercepted from the front, and there were also a large number of Communist infiltrated troops in the area. He's making wild attacks from the rear, disrupting supply lines."

Shouichi Terauchi exaggerated a bit about the fact that the Su Yu tribe in the north received reinforcements from Jiangbei.In the past four full months, Li Runshi in the north did replenish cadres, officers, and veterans to the old Jiangxi base through this channel, but only about 1 people were transported—after all, he had to pass through the territory of Anhui and Jiangxi provinces.Even under the anti-Japanese flag, the Kuomintang army in the south is very afraid of the increasingly terrifying red regime in the north.The two sides wrangled for a long time, and in four months, only ten thousand people were allowed to cross the border.

Those who can really allow Li Yu to raise 20 main troops and 20 militia reserve troops in less than eight months from April to December have to "thank" the Japanese themselves.

In this plane, after successive defeats in the past, it finally broke into the Japanese beast army in the most affluent area in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Songhu, Jiangnan. When they entered, they had the most vicious mentality, like locusts, they wanted to come in wherever they went.In southern Jiangsu, northern Zhejiang, and central Zhejiang that were ravaged by them, the local civilians were robbed of all their food, and even their rations were not kept.The Jiangnan water town, which was originally a land of fish and rice, started famine in many places after the autumn harvest in September.I don't want to starve to death, so I have to go to the guerrillas.

The Suyu Red Army, which has been active in southern Zhejiang and northern Zhejiang, has no shortage of soldiers at all.Wherever they hit, civilians took the initiative to vote for red.The various atrocities committed by the Japanese army also forced the small local landlords to come to the Red Army. Because the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions are richer, the rate of gun ownership among the wealthy households is not bad. The son of a rich family, in the process, also took a gun and joined the Communist Party with hatred.

After the war in Songhu in September, the [-] Red Army backbones who went south helped Su Yu to prop up the troop frame after the large-scale expansion. It came out - although the quality is still not very good, but in the rhythm of "better than bad", what they have to deal with during this period is also not the elite devils, but the quality is getting worse and worse after the Nanjing Mill Grinding Meat , the same severely undertrained Japanese recruits.

As far as weapons are concerned, the Japanese army fighting the security war in the rear of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, heavy weapons and artillery shells, were given priority to supply the Nanjing battlefield, and their equipment did not have much advantage over Su Yu's troops.At first, when the 14th Division was still fighting in the security war, it was able to suppress Su Yu's troops, but the biggest mortal enemy, after the No.[-] Division of Doihara was transferred, they were replaced by the [-]nd and [-]th Divisions Jiangsu and Zhejiang law and order war.

These two divisions were beaten and disabled under the city of Nanjing. There were not many soldiers left, and all the heavy weapons were left in Nanjing.After November, the remnants led by him fought against Su Yu's troops, but they still didn't gain much advantage.In addition, the discipline of the Japanese army in the early stage was extremely bad, and all the people voted for red. They were just like the Japanese army in Shandong with insufficient troops.

On December 25, when the Red Army counterattacked.There are three main attack areas for counterattack forces. .

The first is the inner city of Nanjing, needless to say.

Secondly, in the direction of the outer city, the Yuhuatai-Zhonghuamen front is the key breakthrough point.Peng Shichuan gathered nearly a hundred tanks to attack here at once, and all the heavy artillery were concentrated in this direction to bombard violently.The 104th Division of the Japanese army attacking here was destroyed in one wave. This division was originally a C-class division that had only been trained for three months. The preparation looks mighty, but the actual core is virtual.

And during this period, the Japanese army's supply of artillery shells on the Nanjing front line has actually reached the end of the rope.Most of the shells transported from China, some of them would be blown up by Su Yu’s guerrillas on the road, and after they were finally transported to the city of Nanjing, most of them were taken by the troops attacking the main city—this is also the concentration of Japanese troops. An important reason why the nominally three divisions attacked this line of defense but were unable to take it down after fighting for a month.

When Peng Shichuan counterattacked, the 104th Division, which was the main attack, had actually used up all the shells in its hands.In the direction of Yuhuatai-Zhonghua Gate, to the west is the 114th Division that Wuhu attacked, to the east is the 104th Division, and to the southeast is the 120th Division. The 120th Division was originally a newly added division. It was thrown to Nanjing at the beginning of the month. The entire army has 5000 people, and the proportion of combat soldiers exceeds 25%. It looks very scary, but in fact it is a standard cannon fodder rifle division. Five are recruits with an average training time of [-] days.

After a few days of fighting in Nanjing, the Ministry has long been heartbroken.On the day of the big counterattack, nearly a hundred tanks gathered together and made a violent assault from here. The six-kilometer front was easily pierced by the Red Army within three hours—Nanjing has many waters and rivers. Thanks to the Japanese army for the convenience of the attack, I filled up the two rivers that hindered the attack with a large number of sandbags, which greatly facilitated the Red Army's short-term assault in a small area around Guanghuamen.

The Red Army heading south from the north, after punching through the defense lines of the 104th and 120th divisions with a straight punch, they were not in a hurry to annihilate the two Japanese troops who were defeated by the armored brigade on the spot. Assaulted overnight, and its forward attacked under Zijin Mountain that night.

The Japanese army deployed two divisions, the 37th Division and the 57th Division, in the direction of Zijin Mountain and Tianbao City.These two divisions seem to be numbered first, but in fact, after experiencing the endless attrition war in the early stage, the original soldiers are also exhausted, and now the core is also composed of rookie soldiers who have "trained for a month" Mainly, like the Japanese army in the direction of Yuhuatai in the west, they are facing the difficulty of insufficient shells.

And when Peng Shichuan hit this outflanking right hook from Yuhuatai, another left hook from the third direction was also thrown at the same time - on the 25th day, at Jiangxin Island and Bagua Island On the section of the Yangtze River in between, a large number of wooden boats, fishing boats, and small steamers frantically crossed south on this day, bringing in tens of thousands of counterattack reinforcements.In the direction of Xiaguan-Taiping Gate, the same large number of Red Army poured out here to support Zijin Mountain from the outer city, and surrounded the 37th Division that was attacking here on both sides.

The 37th Division could not withstand the offensive of the Red Army from the south and the north, and was driven into the Zhongshan Gate. In the early morning of the 26th, the two Red Army successfully joined forces.

Including the unlucky 37th Division that attacked Zijin Mountain, the Japanese army of six divisions, more than 10 people, was surrounded by the counterattack Red Army on the 26th in the main city of Nanjing.

During this period, the Japanese army actually still had some troops around Nanjing: for example, the defeated 104th and 120th divisions.Because of the location, the 29th Division in the direction of Yanziji and the 54th Division in the direction of Tianbao City were blocked on the periphery.In addition, the 114th Division west of Yuhuatai was not surrounded either.

The Tokyo headquarters sent a telegram to order these Japanese troops who were blocked on the periphery to continue to attack Nanjing and rescue the [-] troops of Kenji Dohihara who were besieged.

The so-called heaven and earth have the same power when they come and go, but heroes are not free when they are transported away.The wall fell and everyone pushed, the devils collapsed, and the warlords also knew that they were eager to pick peaches to show their presence.

In the past four months, the warlord troops in the west, Li Zongren, Chen Jitang, and even the Hunan Army, who have been focusing on preserving their strength and only launching symbolic attacks on the Japanese army in Wuhu, saw that the Japanese army was gone on the 26th. , and finally became active.

They have been raised for four months, and they can be regarded as a strong army. There are 20 people from several coalition forces.The same dilapidated 114th Division couldn't stop the siege of the gang of warlords who had fallen into trouble, and quickly retreated. Wuhu was quickly lost, and the main force was forced to retreat to Jiangjun Mountain.

If at this time, the 114th Division continues to retreat eastward recklessly, it can still easily jump out of the encirclement net of Nanjing, but a telegram from the base camp forcing it to respond to Kenji Doihara's breakout still forces the 114th Division to also jump into it. In this big pit.

Since the 25th, the Yangtze River waterway between Jiangxinzhou and Bagua has been boiling. Countless ships have been going back and forth on both sides of the Yangtze River day and night. Every four hours, tens of thousands of Red Army troops have landed at the Nanjing Wharf.

In the direction of Guanghuamen, the four dilapidated Japanese divisions, including the 114th Division, failed to break through the temporary encirclement line formed by the Red Army during the two days from the 26th to the 27th. After rushing across the Yangtze River and entering the Nanjing battlefield, the hope of the Japanese army to rescue the Japanese army in the city has disappeared.

In this short period of three days, the direction of Tokyo also demolished the east wall to make up for the west wall, transferred troops from Zhejiang and southern Jiangsu, and transferred all the troops that were fighting Su Yu's Red Army there, and even A newly formed 144th division that was originally planned to be sent to the northeast was also sent to Shanghai by sea, with the purpose of rescuing the six dilapidated divisions that were deeply trapped in Nanjing at all costs.

At this point in the war, besides the will, the competition is shells, steel, and the deployment of troops.Kenji Doihara commanded the Battle of Nanjing for more than a month. No matter how hard Peng Shichuan fought on the front line in the early stage, he used shells sparingly and sparingly.He stockpiled shells for a whole month, prepared hundreds of tanks with good performance, and waited for the moment of the big counterattack.

Four months after the Battle of Nanjing, the Red Army surpassed and suppressed the Japanese army for the first time in terms of artillery fire density.In terms of air support, the air power of the whole country is concentrated in Nanjing.More than two hundred aircraft were providing air support, repeatedly bombing the breakout and relief Japanese forces.For this battle, Stalin also added a large number of new aircraft to the Red Army at the end of November, as well as a large number of novice pilots-taking the experience of attack aircraft pilots from the Japanese army without air defense forces, this kind of good thing Stalin liked to do most .

Outside Nanjing’s recaptured Guanghua Gate, Xu Guangda transformed the hundreds of tanks that had assaulted there into a group of swimming iron-clad fortresses, constantly smashing any delusions of the Japanese army to break out of the siege—the water network around Nanjing is so disgusting that it is difficult for tanks to attack. Protrude.However, the last tank formed a mobile fortress, but it was the Japanese army's rescue and breakout troops who were seriously lacking in powerful battle tanks.

When the Japanese army failed to break through the siege on the 26th, the number of troops blocking the Japanese army in the direction of Gwanghwamun increased by 2 overnight. Another 27 people were added on the 4th.On the 28th, as more than [-] Red Army troops crossed the Yangtze River and more tanks were transported to the city of Nanjing, the iron hoops of the encirclement became "thicker and thicker". save.

Not only that, the three dilapidated Japanese divisions 114, 104, and 120, which were desperately attacking Guanghuamen, were bitten by the Red Army on the 28th. After tearing off a large piece of meat, the remnants of the three divisions, with only ten thousand people in total, threw away the heavy weapons in their hands, retreated frantically and fled, completely abandoning Kenji Doihara in the city.

-------------------- Chapter 262 New Year (second update) --------------------

On the 27th, the Chen Jitang-Li Zongren coalition forces, who beat the dog in the water, easily "recovered" Wuhu, which was voluntarily abandoned by the Japanese army, after a slight exchange of fire.

On the 28th, the Suyu Red Army Headquarters, which launched a major counterattack from southern Zhejiang, also took Jinhua with ease. Thirty days later, as a large number of Japanese troops were forced to go north to rescue Kenji Doihara, Wenzhou and Taizhou also took over Jinhua in the next few days. fell into the hands of the Red Army.

In the new year of 1938, after January [-], Hangzhou and Shaoxing, the capitals of Zhejiang Province, were also liberated and recovered by Su Yu's Red Army in the past few days.The Japanese army's front in the south of the Yangtze River is in a state of rapid and complete collapse.

In order to rescue Kenji Tsuchihara who was trapped in Nanjing City, the Tokyo Military Headquarters was desperate. Yong Ren appointed Yasui Toji as the front-line commander to form a rescue army.He took over the defeated army that had retreated from the front, formed a "huge" force with 16 divisions and a total strength of more than [-] troops, and forced them to attack Nanjing to rescue the Doihara tribe that was about to fall into extinction.

However, the situation is as Li Yunshi said to Molotov in Taiyuan:

"Yasui's rescue division, that is, the number of division numbers is scary."

All the heavy weapons were left in Nanjing, the ammunition was insufficient, the quality of the soldiers was poor, the training was poor, the morale was low, and they didn't even have air supremacy. Strategically, the rescue army commanded by Yasui Toji rushed into the city of Nanjing to save people. , it would be good not to fall headfirst into the big pit in front of you.

"Are you kidding? Li Runshi has moved all his belongings in Jiangbei here. Troops go south every day on the Yangtze River. There are at least 40 Communist troops in Nanjing now? It's just us... ..."

Being driven into the sedan chair, Fujiji Yasui watched as his men numbered as high as [-] divisions of rescue troops, but a mouthful of old blood almost spewed out three feet high.

Among the fourteen divisions, one-third are empty-frame divisions that have been disabled, and one-half are half-disabled divisions.Of all the divisions, none of the divisions has a complete heavy weapon establishment-in fact, these 144 divisions are strictly evaluated according to the standards of the Japanese army. Now there is no Type A division. Class B divisions went to evaluate, and barely three divisions could be classified as Class B, and the rest were all Class C divisions.The only one that is fully staffed is the newly added 25th Division, which is a wonderful rifle division. It has a large number of people, but it is almost all "[-]-day training and mobilization".

"There are not enough planes, almost no tanks, and ammunition is scarce, and on the opposite side of us - there are at least 40 Red Army (estimated) in the direction of Nanjing, and in the direction of Wuhu, Chen Jitang and Li Zongren are also pressing over now. Su Yu's troops won't accept them after taking Hangzhou They are also pressing against us. After they captured Langxi, they are threatening our flank with Chen Jitang's coalition forces. Sun Yiqing, Ye Huo, and large groups of guerrillas are infiltrating and destroying our rear. Today they bombed two in the canal. The ammunition ship..."

Yasui Toji desperately complained to his superiors, explaining his difficulties.

He alone can't stand the pressure of the Tokyo base camp. Fortunately, he has a smart man named Jing Ming from the Fourth Division by his side, and he also has the experience of "collective disobedience" with several other division heads who have experienced Nanjing Hell. Everyone understands They couldn't resist the indiscriminate order of the base camp to "give away their heads", but they had a way to secretly release water to protect themselves.

Yasui Toji's rescue division pretended to attack Nanjing for a few days, but in fact everyone knew it well, and all of them "struck steadily" and resolutely refused to advance rashly.Kenji Doihara can't be saved and will be punished by Tokyo, but it's better than putting himself in it, getting promoted after death, and lying down in the Yasukuni God's Toilet to eat the incense of the world, right?

Although Yongren slapped the table in Chichibu Palace and scolded non-stop, urging rescue telegrams to fly in like snowflakes, but the rescue division, after January [-], following the Red Army and Su Yu's troops going south from the north, joined forces in Langxi, Toji Yasui continued to launch attacks on the flank of the rescue Japanese army and tried to deploy a second encirclement net. Realizing that he would become the next Kenji Doihara if he did not voluntarily retreat, he finally led his army to retreat to the northeast.

On the [-]th, the Japanese army abandoned Muyang. On the [-]th, Zhenjiang, a satellite city northeast of Nanjing, was also voluntarily abandoned by the Japanese army.As the control area of ​​the remnants of the Japanese army in Nanjing became smaller and smaller under the steady attack of the Red Army, Yasui Fujiji's rescue force was also getting farther and farther away from Nanjing.

Matsui Iwane, the supreme commander of the East China Front Army hiding in Songhu, is already making a "defeat" plan for a complete withdrawal from Songhu.At this point in time, every Japanese ship leaving Shanghai was filled with wounded soldiers sent back from the previous Nanjing battle.The four-month-long Nanjing Meat Grinding War, not counting those sent to North Korea and Taiwan, now has more than 18 Japanese casualties stranded in the Songhu area.

Just as it was only a matter of time before the Doihara Army in the besieged city of Nanjing was annihilated, it was also a matter of time before Matsui Iwane got out of Shanghai, and it would not be long.

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明治维新后，日本新年就改成了阳历。每年的12月29日--1月3日为全国休假日。日本人把12月31日称之为“大晦日”，也就是除夕日。

For the 1938 Japanese troops besieged in Nanjing, the "Spring Festival" in [-] was definitely the most miserable year.

In the inner circle and the outer circle, more than 30 anti-Japanese allied forces (the Red Army was formally called the Anti-Japanese Democratic Allied Forces, referred to as the Anti-Japanese Alliance), surrounded more than [-] Japanese troops who were short of medical care and food.

The idea of ​​breaking out, in the last few days at the end of December, after the breakout troops were crushed by the row of "Kindergarten Domineering Uncle" and "Iron Armored Overlord" in the Gwanghwamun area with the infantry, the Japanese army, who even shot out all the shells, He no longer expected to break through on his own.

On the day of Peng Shichuan's counterattack on December 12, the Japanese army controlled 25% of the area in the city. By the New Year's Day on January [-], the Japanese army in the city with less than [-] troops had reduced its control area to [-]%.

Li Runshi, who knew very well that "the Japanese chief had no more soldiers to use", was still Peng Shichuan. At this time, his attention was no longer on Kenji Doihara, the "dead bone in the tomb", but how to use Nanjing as a bait. Dig a big hole and trap more Japanese rescue troops.

"Surround but not attack, squeeze slowly" is the attitude of the Red Army towards the Japanese army in the city after the New Year.