I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

"Gui Ting, Jian Hao, your troops are not only the essence of the National Army, but also the essence of my Ninth Army and the National Army participating in the war in Shanghai!" After a brief exchange of greetings, Zhang Zhizhong cut to the point, "How should the Shanghai Battle be fought? Opinions are very important, after all, you are the commanders of the frontline troops, compared to me who sit behind me and talk about military affairs on paper, you really understand the actual situation on the frontline!"

Jiang Weiguo was moved and said: "Junzuo, your group army headquarters was originally in Suzhou, but you are now in Shanghai. How can you say that you are 'sitting behind the scenes and talking about military affairs'?"

Zhang Zhizhong smiled again: "Let me first tell you about the mobilization of the main force of the national army.

According to the deployment of the Chairman and the Military Commission, in addition to our Ninth Army, the National Army that is heading or will soon go to the Shanghai front includes Gu Zhutong's Fifth Army, Zhang Fakui's Eighth Army, Liu Jianxu's Tenth Army, Luo Zhuoying, etc. The 9th Army of Liao Lei and the 5st Army of Liao Lei are expected to include about 8 divisions, 10 independent brigades or temporary brigades, and a large number of reserve troops in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, with a total strength of more than 15.

In addition, a large number of troops from the Sichuan Army and the Yunnan Army have also received orders to go to Shanghai and are setting off!"

"The 60 army can indeed have a good fight with the Japanese!" Many officers at the scene were full of energy and excitement.

Compared with the 60 troops sent to the Pingjin front, the 50 troops sent by the national army to the Shanghai front exceeded the latter in terms of quantity and quality, especially in quality. In Laiwan, the rest are all local armies, and they belong to several different factions. They go their own way, have their own ghosts, and are not united internally. Naturally, the overall combat effectiveness is greatly reduced. Among the 50 troops on the front line in Shanghai, except for the 60st Army, it is the Guangxi Army In addition, the rest of the troops are the Central Army. Although the 21st Group Army is a "local miscellaneous army", it is not a persimmon that is easy to pinch. This unit belongs to the Guangxi Army.

Precisely because they are very confident in their own strength, most of the generals and middle and high-level officers of the national army, including Zhang Zhizhong himself, are full of ambitions for the Shanghai war.

"With 60 troops, 30 will actually participate in the war!" Xiao Yao beside Jiang Weiguo seemed very disapproving, "Sirs, please don't ignore the issue of transportation.

Our country is a backward agricultural country with inconvenient transportation. It is not a trivial matter to gather all the hundreds of thousands of troops scattered all over the world in one place.

I doubt very much that the war in Shanghai was over when more than half of the troops were still on their way to the Shanghai front.

We transported troops to Shanghai by relying on the railway network, but we did not have so many railways and trains. The Japanese army transported troops to Shanghai by relying on the sea and ships. The sea is infinite, and the Japanese also have enough ships!"

The faces of Zhang Zhizhong and the others were gloomy because of Xiao Yao's pouring of cold water.

"Yes, we really need time!" Zhang Zhizhong sighed, "However, if the time goes on, the Japanese can also benefit, and if they can be more fully prepared, it will be more difficult for our army to attack!"

"What's more, the Japanese won't wait until we have made full preparations and countermeasures before being beaten!" Xiao Yao said, "Hundreds of thousands of troops flocked to Shanghai, and the Japanese knew at a glance that our army planned to open up a first in Shanghai." In the second battlefield, it is inevitable to startle the snake.

Therefore, the massing of the national army is a paradox in itself. If there are too many national troops assembled in Shanghai, the Japanese will definitely see through our strategic intentions. There are too few national troops assembled in Shanghai. Increase troops, the speed of our troops increase is not as good as that of the Japanese army, when the time comes, we will still lose the opportunity!"

"That's what I said, but..." Lieutenant General Liu Heding, the commander of the 39th Army, said, "We all know that this Sino-Japanese war must be a protracted war, and the Battle of Shanghai will definitely be a vigorous battle. It will be over in three to five days, so we don't need to worry too much about transporting troops. Although our country's transportation is very backward, we have plenty of time!"

"Is that a refueling tactic?" Xiao Yao still didn't take it seriously, "After one hundred and eighty thousand people died on the front line, the one hundred and eighty thousand reinforcements from the rear just rushed over and filled them in? This would not be able to concentrate strength, but forcefully Divide the troops into several batches and let the enemy defeat them one by one.

In terms of the overall strategy of the war, we want to fight a protracted war, but in terms of the tactics of the Shanghai campaign, we need to make a quick decision, because Shanghai is very suitable for the Japanese army to take advantage of the three-dimensional firepower of land, sea and air. We will fight a protracted war with the Japanese army in Shanghai It is tantamount to attacking the enemy's strengths with one's own strengths, wasting military and national power in vain!"

Liu Heding nodded slightly, and Zhang Zhizhong also nodded in agreement. He looked at Jiang Weiguo: "Jianhao, what do you think?"

Jiang Weiguo had long thought about how to fight this "new Songhu battle", so he had a well-thought-out plan and said without hesitation, "First of all, Shanghai will definitely not be able to defend it!"

As soon as these words came out, the expressions of Zhang Zhizhong, Liu Heding and others changed slightly, but there was no big disturbance.

Objectively speaking, Jiang Weiguo's words are very harsh, and it can be said to be ugly. Although he is telling the truth, it is ugly. He seems to be pointing at a baby and saying "this child will definitely die", yes, this is the truth , but really can't be listened to.

Regarding the issue of whether Shanghai can hold its own, many people in the top ranks of the national army have the idea of ​​deceiving themselves and deceiving others, because people are unwilling to accept or face the cruel facts, and would rather rely on unrealistic fantasies to comfort themselves like an ostrich.

Chiang Kai-shek is the least willing to accept or face this fact. Except for Jiang Weiguo, if anyone said in front of him, "What will happen after Shanghai falls", he would definitely fly into a rage, and reprimanded him as "I have already thought about it before fighting." What happens after the failure is simply greed for life and fear of death, fear of the enemy like a tiger.”

Compared with Chiang Kai-shek, Zhang Zhizhong, a pragmatic front-line commander, is obviously more practical. He has repeatedly considered the outcome of the Shanghai campaign, and finally believes that "without the intervention of the great powers, the national army cannot withstand the Japanese army's iron heel in Shanghai alone." ", at this time Jiang Weiguo went straight to the point, although Zhang Zhizhong sighed helplessly, he also silently admitted.

"Shanghai will definitely not be able to defend!" Jiang Weiguo talked eloquently, "so our fundamental purpose of this battle is how to destroy the maximum Japanese army at the minimum cost, and buy a little more time so that the people in Shanghai and southern Jiangsu can get more Withdrawing to the interior, the essence of the national army cannot be put in a corner of Songhu for desperate consumption.

First of all, our army acted first, took out the Japanese Marine Corps headquarters, wiped out the Japanese forces in Shanghai, and built a complete Shanghai defense line; next, the Japanese invaded Shanghai in a large scale, and the main force of the Japanese army would land in Shanghai.

Shanghai Bund is a triangular peninsula, and there are too many places suitable for the Japanese army to land. Therefore, after the Japanese army made a comeback, our army's combat mode was land anti-landing warfare, but our army could not gather troops on the beaches along the river and the coast, it would simply become The live target of the Japanese naval guns should be a few kilometers away from the sea and the river, that is, the land outside the precise bombardment range of the Japanese naval guns should build an anti-landing defense line, wait for work, and hit the Japanese head-on!" He walked to the large wall on the wall. In front of the map of southern Jiangsu, "Yunzaobang, Shizilin, Chuanshakou, Wusongkou, Luodian, Baoshan, Yuepu, these villages and towns by the river and sea will be key positions, and heavy troops must be mobilized for defense, and the sooner they start The better!" Jiang Weiguo pointed out that each of these places is famous in history and is synonymous with mountains of corpses and seas of blood, especially Luodian, which was even known as "Flesh and Flesh Mill" in the Songhu Battle in the original history. When the Battle of Diandian was at its most intense, the national army participating in the war wiped out an average of one brigade a day, and the casualty rate and casualty rate were extremely alarming.

"Shanghai is not big, but it is not small!" Zhang Zhizhong said, "If our army wants to pre-emptively strike, we can't start the attack, and we can't gather heavy troops to the edge of Shanghai before the battle. The strength of the Ninth Army, which wanted to quickly destroy the Japanese Marine Corps Headquarters and at the same time build an anti-landing front, was indeed a bit stretched in terms of personnel!"

"You can't have both fish and bear's paws!" Liu Heding shook his head, "Forcibly having both, I'm afraid you will be beaten!"

"What I just said was just the key points along the river and coast in the north of Shanghai!" Jiang Weiguo changed the subject, and his fingers moved up and down the map. "The Hangzhou Bay in the south of Shanghai should not be underestimated either!" He pointed to the south of Shanghai and the north of Hangzhou Bay. Jin Shanwei, "In the middle and late stages of the battle, if hundreds of thousands of national troops gathered in Shanghai, then Shanghai would be surrounded by a natural peninsula surrounded by water on three sides. The Japanese army, which possessed absolute command of the sea and superiority in the sea, would definitely launch landings in the north and south of Shanghai. Carry out a comprehensive roundabout encirclement of the national army in Shanghai, gather and annihilate the elite national army on the Shanghai battlefield in one fell swoop, so the south of Shanghai along the river and coast should also be heavily armed!"

Zhang Zhizhong nodded again and again: "The Japanese do have this strength. Shanghai is surrounded by water on three sides, which is really not good for our army!"

"Jianhao, what do you mean..." Liu Heding asked, "The main force of the national army participating in the war in Shanghai should deploy defenses along the river and coast, and place troops on the riverside and seaside to launch anti-landing warfare instead of street fighting in urban areas?"

"Of course!" Jiang Weiguo said with a smile, "There are only a few thousand devils in the urban area of ​​Shanghai. How can we get our main force with hundreds of thousands of troops? Why do we need to kill chickens? The 128th Regiment is more than enough to deal with them!"

Liu Heding looked at the map, and he looked at Zhang Zhizhong thoughtfully: "Junzuo, do you think our battle in Shanghai resembles the battle of Constantinople nearly 500 years ago? Constantinople (Istanbul) It’s a three-sided coastal city, and so is Shanghai!”

"Yes, it's very similar!" Zhang Zhixin's head was awakened and his eyes lit up. "In the Battle of Constantinople, the Byzantine army defending the city had only 8000 officers and soldiers, while the Ottoman army that attacked the city had more than 53 troops." In the end, although Constantinople fell, the defenders persisted for a full [-] days, and with few enemies, the weak fought the strong, killing and injuring the enemy army several times their own, and personally led the army to fight against the enemy. Emperor Constantine XI of the Byzantine Empire refused to abandon the city and his people to escape alone before the war, and finally died in the fierce battle.

If, if we can fight like this in Shanghai, even if Shanghai is lost, we will be honored to lose, and we will be worthy of the country and the people!"

"Yes!" Liu Heding nodded, and looked at Jiang Weiguo again, "General Li Zongren and others suggested to build defense lines in Suzhou, Changshu, Wuxi, Changzhou, Jiangyin, Zhenjiang and other places from Shanghai to Nanjing to conduct a planned retreat and carry out gradual resistance. ,what you think?"

Jiang Weiguo looked at Xiao Yao, Xiao Yao shook his head: "'Perform a planned retreat' is inevitable, and 'execute steady resistance' is not necessary.

After the fall of Shanghai, the next battle will be in Nanjing. We should put our limited military, material and energy resources in Nanjing, and not disperse them. 'Practice steady resistance' will both consume and disperse military power!"

"You mean..." Liu Heding looked at Xiao Yao, "The southern part of Jiangsu between Shanghai and Nanjing, and the tens of thousands of square kilometers of land, have given up without a fight?"

"Ok.

Anyway, you can’t keep it!” Xiao Yao’s attitude is clear, “Nanjing is the highlight.

After the fall of Shanghai, the national army wanted to "collapse thousands of miles", try not to resist every step of the way, so that the Japanese army could chase the national army smoothly all the way until they approached the city of Nanjing, so that the Japanese army was successfully lured to Nanjing.

Of course, the national army is not really 'a thousand miles away', but a 'planned retreat'!"

"I understand what you mean!" Liu Heding said, "Take the initiative to show weakness and lure the enemy to go deep.

But if the Japanese army did not attack Nanjing when they drove straight in and approached Nanjing, wouldn't Suzhou and other places be lost in vain? "

"Impossible!" Xiao Yao seemed to have [-]% certainty, "The capital of the enemy country is right in front of us, and our own side is attacking the city all the way, invincible, how can there be no reason not to attack the city?"

"The Japanese are not idiots. They know that you are doing a lot of construction work in Nanjing and emptying the Zijin Mountain!"

"So what if you know? At that time, the Japanese army will [-]% 'know that there are tigers on the mountain, and they will go to the mountain of tigers'.

The whole world is staring at Nanjing, how can the Japanese get cold feet? "

Liu Heding nodded and stopped asking questions.

"Junzuo!" Jiang Weiguo looked at Zhang Zhizhong, "The first step in the Shanghai campaign was to destroy the Japanese Marine Corps headquarters, the second step was to launch an anti-landing operation, and the third step was to achieve major results and continue to fight. An orderly and general retreat when it is in our favor, that's all!"

Zhang Zhizhong looked at Jiang Weiguo: "Are you sure you can take down the Japanese headquarters in one fell swoop by yourself?"

Jiang Weiguo is very sure, he is full of confidence: "[-]% sure!"

Zhang Zhizhong nodded: "Okay, then I will put the main force of the troops along the river and the coast, you can go ahead and do it!"

The mobilization of the national army in the Battle of Songhu is as follows: the national army intends to strike first, but in order to prevent surprises, the participating troops cannot arrive in Shanghai together. The first batch of participating troops is Zhang Zhizhong's 9th Army. The national army’s combat missions in the early stage of the Songhu Battle were undertaken by the 9th Army, but the 9th Army in history failed to defeat it after fighting for six days and six nights. "There are Japanese troops outside of Shanghai, and there are also Japanese troops in Shanghai", which made it impossible for the national army to form a complete line of defense and completely launched a melee with the Japanese army; at this time, if the 128th regiment can easily pull out the Japanese army headquarters and wipe out Shanghai The Japanese army in the territory and the defense line of the national army in Shanghai can form a complete body, and the 9th Army and the troops of the 5th, 8th, 10th, 15th, and 21st Army that have arrived one after another can wait for work by the riverside and seaside in Shanghai. The situation has always been that the national army has the initiative, so the battle will naturally be much easier, the results will be greater, and the battle losses will be smaller.

In the next half an hour or so, Jiang Weiguo, Zheng Dongguo, Zhang Zhizhong, Liu Heding and others conducted in-depth discussions on all aspects of the combat details in the early stage of the war, corrected many shortcomings, made up for many deficiencies, and reached a lot of consensus.

Finally, Jiang Weiguo remembered something, and he said to Zhang Zhizhong: "Jun Zuo, if... well, if my father gives you some unreasonable orders, you can... consult with me!"

Zhang Zhizhong was taken aback for a moment, and then quickly understood: "Okay, I understand!" He realized something, and a knowing smile appeared on his face.

Jiang Weiguo also smiled, and the two of them knew each other.

As we all know, Chiang Kai-shek has a characteristic that is very similar to Hitler, that is, he likes to bypass the front-line commanders, and use the telephone to remotely mobilize the front-line troops on his own initiative and cleverness. During the Battle of Songhu, Chiang Kai-shek regarded the military as a political victim many times, and made repeated indecisive and self-willed mistakes, which eventually caused heavy losses on the battlefield.

During the Battle of Songhu in the original history, Chiang Kai-shek made up his mind at the beginning, planning to strike first, and the morale of the generals Zhang Zhizhong and the officers and soldiers on the front line were also high. As soon as he rushed to the Japanese position, Chiang Kai-shek called, "What? The troops have already attacked? Hurry up, stop the attack!" Zhang Zhizhong was puzzled, "Why?" Chiang Kai-shek replied: "The League of Nations just agreed to send four countries from the United States, Britain, France and Italy The investigation team composed of representatives conducts mediation, and the war can still be avoided, so don't fight it."

It is conceivable how depressed Zhang Zhizhong was, and how aggrieved the soldiers of the national army on the front line were.

During the battle, the Chinese troops were mobilized several times not according to the battlefield situation and the development of the situation, but according to the movement of the League of Nations and changes in the international situation.

At the end of the battle, seeing that the situation had deteriorated completely, the Nationalist Army had to retreat, but Chiang Kai-shek issued an order, "Don't withdraw, and hold on for a few more days!" Zhang Zhizhong asked, "Why?" Chiang Kai-shek replied, "The League of Nations is about to hold a vote. Before that, we must continue to persevere and gain greater support from the international community."

As a result, the national army, which could have withdrawn earlier, had to struggle to continue.

Later facts also proved that the so-called League of Nations was useless at all. Except for the Soviet Union and Germany, which supported China for different purposes, the other major powers were either insensitive and short-sighted, or feared Japan and watched from the other side. However, the Chinese soldiers Unnecessary sacrifices were made on the battlefield, and more blood was shed.

Looking around the whole of China at this time, only Jiang Weiguo can stop Chiang Kai-shek from "doing stupid things".

In the battle of Songhu in history, although the Chinese army fought very tenaciously, bravely and heroically, they did not get corresponding rewards.

Objectively speaking, the Chinese army is indeed weaker than the Japanese army, but most of the national troops participating in the Songhu Battle were elite. The morale of the Chinese army in the early days of the War of Resistance was very high, and they would never lose to the Japanese army. The reason why they failed to achieve brilliant results is that The most important reason is that more than one low-level mistake was made, even a very low-level mistake.

Chiang Kai-shek was stubborn, did not consider the objective situation, pinned his hopes too much on the League of Nations and the great powers, did not use military as his goal, but used politics as his goal, and fought the war for foreigners, only thinking about how to fight well. It is not how to fight reasonably (in fact, Chiang Kai-shek was also forced to help. He knew that China could not defeat Japan alone, so he could only put his hope on the League of Nations and the big powers); The army adopted the doctrine of beating in strategy, the doctrine of reckless tactics in tactics, and the doctrine of suicide in battle. The Battle of Songhu was fought very fiercely, telling the world that "Chinese soldiers are not afraid of death", and at the same time telling the world that "Chinese soldiers are not afraid of death". Armies don't win battles, they fight to the death."

Everything is difficult at the beginning, and the beginning is very important. If you can get off to a good start, then you will be able to get twice the result with half the effort. This is exactly what Jiang Weiguo is going to do at this time.

Since he already had experience on the front lines in Pingjin, Jiang Weiguo was not too nervous during the seven or eight days of the final countdown to the fire of Songhu being ignited. "The Battle of Songhu is already familiar to him.

Everything is ready, just wait.

However, Jiang Weiguo had smooth sailing on the Pingjin front, but not necessarily on the Songhu front.

The next morning, Kan Weiyong and Yang Jiang came to Jiang Weiguo in a hurry.

"What happened?" Jiang Weiguo's heart skipped a beat, he knew something bad must have happened after seeing the expressions of Kan Weiyong and Yang Jiang.

"Something went wrong!" Yang Jiang pursed his lips tightly, with a look of self-blame and guilt, "Boss, come with us!"

Jiang Weiguo took Xiao Yao, Yang Jiang, and Kan Weiyong to drive to the banks of the Huangpu River in Jiangwan Town, Hongkou District, which is located at the starting point of the tunnel. After arriving, following Kan Weiyong's gestures, Jiang Weiguo was very surprised to see in the car that "China Domestic Products Company Jiangwan A residential area dozens of meters away from the construction site of the new factory area in the town is in full swing. Hundreds of local aborigines are dragging their children and children, carrying big bags and small bags to salute their homes and leaving their houses.

At first, Jiang Weiguo thought that those residents were moving. After all, the Pingjin frontline was already in full swing, and the rumors of the war became more and more intense. People from all walks of life in Shanghai knew more or less that the land they lived in was likely to become the second largest soon. As a result, there are more and more Shanghai residents supporting the old and the young and leaving their hometowns.

After looking carefully, Jiang Weiguo also saw many people in worker uniforms at the scene.

"Secretary, I've already found out!" Yang Jiang was very efficient, and he also saw Jiang Weiguo's doubts, "Those workers are Japanese, and they say they are members of Japan's Toyota Boshoku Corporation. To establish Toyota Motor Corporation, both Establish a head office in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, and a branch office in Shanghai, the largest international city in the Far East.

The homesteads of the Shanghai residents you see have been bought by Toyota. There are about [-] households and the total land area is more than [-] mu. This is the site of the automobile branch that Toyota intends to establish in Shanghai.

As you know, the vast majority of industrial and commercial enterprises and nine out of ten celebrities in Shanghai have already left Shanghai, and many people in Shanghai have also left. As a result, the price of land and housing in Shanghai is getting lower day by day. I found out that Toyota acquired Those Shanghai people paid three times the market price for their homesteads. Those ordinary people were worried that they would not be able to keep their houses and sell their land after the war broke out. Since someone bought their homesteads at three times the price, they certainly wished for it. , so it was sold overnight.

Those workers were hired by Toyota, saying they were going to build a car factory here!" (Toyota used to produce textile machines, and later transformed into producing cars.

Toyota Motor Corporation was established on August 1937, 8 in the original history. It was almost bankrupt, but it caught up with Japan's war of aggression against China, and the company prospered because it received a large number of military vehicle orders from the Japanese military.

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Jiang Weiguo's heart sank suddenly. He raised his binoculars and looked at the busy Japanese.

Xiao Yao calmly said: "Yingzuo, do you think it's a coincidence that the Japanese bought land near the starting point of our tunnel to build a factory?"

Jiang Weiguo shook his head with difficulty, he didn't want to deceive himself.

Xiao Yao nodded: "Our tunnel has been exposed!"

Chapter 160 Shanghai (8)

Sitting in the car, Jiang Weiguo lit a cigarette and smoked it vigorously to suppress the panic that began to surge in his heart, while trying his best to activate his brain that had been disturbed by various distracting thoughts: Exposed!exposed?How can this be!

The Japanese Special Marine Corps Headquarters in Shanghai is a very strong and complete fortress group. For the Chinese army, which lacks heavy artillery firepower, lacks aerial bombing capabilities, lacks sea control, lacks sufficient ammunition, and lacks strict training, it can conquer it. The difficulty of tunnel blasting is indeed extremely high, and the original history has proved this point. Because of this, Jiang Weiguo strongly agreed and supported Xiao Yao's tunnel blasting plan, saving time, trouble and effort.

Objectively speaking, this is also the only way for the Chinese army to quickly eradicate this cancer after the war begins.

Jiang Weiguo put a lot of energy and effort into this plan. He thought it was seamless, and now there is only a mere week before the last moment.

To use an analogy, Jiang Weiguo is like a student taking the college entrance examination. He has completed the answer sheet and double-checked it. He is sure that there are no problems, so he is in a leisurely mood. However, 3 minutes before handing in the paper, he finds that the final big question appears at the beginning of the answer. He made a mistake - this had to make him panic.