I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

This point is Wusongkou!" He pointed to the map as he had already prepared the draft, "Wusongkou is Shanghai's coastal defense and river defense fortress, guarding the flanks of the main channel of the Yangtze River, and is the gateway to Shanghai and Nanjing. As long as it is taken, our army will You can gain a firm foothold in Shanghai and break through the defense lines of the Chinese Army!"

"Your Excellency, Commander, which division do you plan to launch at Wusongkou?" Lieutenant General Yamashiro asked.

General Matsui looked at Lieutenant General Yamamuro, then at Lieutenant General Fujita, and said calmly: "The third division and No.11 division are both engaged in the landing battle at Wusongkou!"

Both division heads were taken aback.

Lieutenant General Fujita was very surprised: "Your Excellency, Wusongkou is just a small piece of land. The two divisions have about [-] troops. They are all deployed at once. The density of troops is too saturated, right? I'm afraid the troops will not be able to deploy! "

General Matsui smiled slightly and said: "Mr. Fujita, as I said just now, we must concentrate our forces on one point and not disperse our forces. Only in this way can our army break through the defense line of the Chinese army at the fastest speed and gain a firm foothold in Shanghai." !"

"But..." Lieutenant General Yamamuro said hesitantly, "Your Excellency, please forgive me, if two divisions are squeezed into one tiny space, wouldn't it be easy to be surrounded by the enemy on three sides on the shore? The troops can only fight to the death , the space for movement is too narrow, and if you want to push inland, it will be difficult, right?"

"Advancing inland is not the task of your two divisions!" General Matsui seemed confident, "Your task is just to gain a firm foothold at the Wusongkou landing site, and then rely on the assistance of the fleet behind you to attract the Chinese army like a magnet. .

When you attract enough Chinese troops, the next wave of troops will land at Chuanshakou (more than ten kilometers upstream of Wusongkou), and then detour and intersect to the rear of the Chinese army with lightning speed. Attack back and forth, surround and annihilate them! "

"Oh?" The two division heads hurriedly began to think.

"Two generals," General Matsui said in a meaningful tone, "you must keep in mind that our destination is not Shanghai, Shanghai is only our starting point, and Nanjing is our destination! If we want to capture Nanjing, we must take Chiang Kai-shek The elite troops in his hands were annihilated in Shanghai! Therefore, capturing Shanghai is not the most important thing, the most important thing is to wipe out Chiang Kai-shek's troops in Shanghai! By then, Chiang Kai-shek's troops will be wiped out, and Nanjing, which has no soldiers to defend, will be a threat to the empire. As far as the army is concerned, isn't it within easy reach?"

Lieutenant General Yamamuro and Lieutenant General Fujita suddenly realized: "Your Excellency, Commander, advice!" In fact, after fighting Shanghai, should we fight Nanjing?Although General Matsui got the acquiescence of Emperor Hirohito, there was no unanimous opinion among the high-level Japanese army. Therefore, General Matsui decided to "lay the foundation for the next easy victory of Nanjing in the Battle of Shanghai". Fight a war of attack and defense of the city, but a war of annihilation. The first goal is not to capture Shanghai, but to destroy the Chinese army in Shanghai as much as possible.

There are many ways to capture a city. It can be captured by destroying the city defenders, or by defeating or repelling the city defenders. General Matsui wants the former.

The logic is ready-made: if the Chinese army has 50 troops in Shanghai, the Japanese army captures Shanghai, wipes out 40 Chinese troops, and the remaining 40 Chinese troops retreat to Nanjing to stand in line. After all, the main force of the Chinese army is still there, and it is too difficult to attack Nanjing. After the Japanese army takes Shanghai, it should be done as soon as it is good; To start the defense in Nanjing, the conditions for the Japanese army to make persistent efforts to capture Nanjing are very good, and it is almost a matter of course. Under such circumstances, more and more people in the top ranks of the Japanese army will definitely support the attack on Nanjing after defeating Shanghai.

When General Matsui identified Wusongkou as the first landing point for the Japanese army, Jiang Weiguo was inspecting Wusongkou.

After learning that the Japanese fleet had arrived, Jiang Weiguo knew that the real big battle would start in more than ten hours. He was very worried about various important military sites, so he inspected them one by one.

General Matsui praised "Shanghai's defense work has been comprehensive and remarkable." In fact, this is the credit of Jiang Weiguo. He listed all the places where fierce bloody battles took place in the Songhu Battle in the original history, and then " Insinuating" told Zhang Zhizhong, a senior general, that the national army would prescribe the right medicine when building a defense line in Shanghai.

In addition, General Matsui estimated correctly that the short period of nine days was indeed too tense for the national army, but he underestimated the enthusiasm of the Chinese people to support the army and resist Japan.

Shanghai had a population of more than 350 million (about 5 foreigners) before the big relocation, but it was reduced to more than 300 million at this time, but it is still a populous city.

When Mayor Yu Hongjun posted an announcement all over Shanghai to recruit labor for the army according to Jiang Weiguo's order, more than 30 people signed up overnight, and a large number of citizens continued to sign up every day. The prime of life serves the army spontaneously and bravely. Such a strong manpower makes the construction of fortifications by the national army a rapid progress.

In just seven or eight days, Wusongkou and other important military areas were completely wiped out.

The Shanghai Municipal Government has prepared 300 million yuan in remuneration funds in advance, promising that each citizen will receive one yuan in wages for a day of work. After nine days, the 300 million yuan has hardly been moved, because no one has received wages.

"Let's save the money to reward the soldiers of the national army who fought the enemy bravely!" said the citizens.

The 300 million yuan was spent less than 1 yuan, because some workers were sick or injured at work, and the city government insisted on subsidizing them, which cost more than 8000 yuan.

In fact, the municipal government not only spent no money, but also "earned" a lot of money, because all walks of life in Shanghai and even the whole country rushed to raise funds for the army and the government. Beaches are blooming everywhere, and the number of responders is gathering and increasing day by day.

In just one month, people from all walks of life in Shanghai donated more than 3000 million yuan in cash, which is equivalent to the value of [-] new fighter jets. In addition, there are tens of thousands of gold and silver items and a large amount of foreign currency. , It is piled up like a mountain, countless.

Epic and moving scenes are everywhere in Shanghai: people who actively donate formed a long winding queue, including ordinary people with cloth and vegetables, well-dressed upper-class people, and even ragged beggars.

"The war of resistance to the end!" "The war of resistance must be won!" The slogans were like a tsunami and torrent, shaking heaven and earth, and resounding through the sky.

"Oh, what a good citizen, what a compatriot!" Jiang Weiguo was deeply moved again.

Of course, there are bad guys too.

During this period, various troops and the people of Shanghai successively captured hundreds of despicable traitors. Some of these traitors secretly spied on the national army's intelligence, and some set fires, poisoned them, spread rumors, and carried out various sabotages.

For these scum who recognized their thieves as their fathers, all the troops took countermeasures of executing them and displaying their corpses to the public.

Seeing that the sky was getting dark, Jiang Weiguo picked up a tweeter and shouted in the crowd: "My compatriots, I am very grateful for your efforts and contributions. Thank you! Now, the Japanese have come, and they are about to attack Shanghai, so Please stop working and go home quickly. It is best to evacuate Shanghai with your family.

My fellow citizens, hurry up!But pay attention to order, don't panic, the Japanese won't be able to occupy Shanghai for a while, you have time to evacuate slowly!"

The working citizens were very astonished, and then put down their labor tools one after another, and said goodbye to the officers and soldiers of the national army working together on the scene: "Brothers in the national army, we are leaving first! You must be careful!" "Be ruthless!" Beat the Japanese hard! We are waiting for your good news!" "Please take care of yourself!" "You are all good!"

"Jiang Weiguo!" A familiar voice came from behind Jiang Weiguo.

Jiang Weiguo turned around with difficulty: "Liu Dacai, what do you want from me?"

Liu Wugou kept a stern face, showing a routine expression: "I am entrusted by the school leaders, I hope you... will arrange an additional ship for our school to go to Wuhan!" After the battle in Shanghai, Jiang Weiguo knew that the Japanese would soon With a large-scale counterattack, the next Songhu battle will far exceed the Shanghai battle in terms of scale and intensity, and it will be unprecedentedly destructive to Shanghai. Therefore, he asked Zhang Zhizhong, Yu Hongjun and other high-level officials to issue final, The relocation notice with a strong attitude includes the Shanghai Zhonghua Women's Vocational School where Liu Wugou is.

At this moment, train tickets and boat tickets to leave Shanghai are naturally hard to come by, and air tickets are even more expensive. Originally, Liu Wugou's school was allocated boat tickets, but they could only be taken with them. Luggage left, and at the same time, there were a lot of books, equipment, equipment, etc. in the school. Naturally, it was difficult to take these things away, and they had to be loaded on another ship, but at this time it was as difficult as possible to get a ship. Liu Wugou had an "unusual relationship" with Jiang Weiguo, so Liu Wugou was asked to come "through the back door".

Liu Wugou is obviously very bad at and unwilling to do this kind of "back door" thing. After all, this kind of thing is against her ideology. She is deeply educated in Western style, and she is full of pretense to pursue fairness, justice, etc. Thought, of course, she hates the behavior of "going through the back door", which is linked to the traditional Chinese bad behavior and violates the morals of modern civilization. However, due to the face of the school leaders and her unwillingness to discard those items in the school, she must not Don't be reluctant.

However, because Liu Wugou couldn't let go of his arrogance, he was clearly begging Jiang Weiguo, but his expression and tone were rigid.

Jiang Weiguo breathed a sigh of relief: "I thought it was something, it turned out to be such a trivial matter.

Got it, I'll arrange it right away!"

Liu Wugou looked at Jiang Weiguo, with three points of gratitude and seven points of ridicule in his eyes: "How many people can't even hope for a boat ticket, and you can get a whole boat by just saying a word lightly.

Having power is good!No wonder so many people seek power by any means!"

Jiang Weiguo was speechless.

"Do you not have the confidence to defend Shanghai?" Liu Wugou suddenly asked Jiang Weiguo.

"Why do you think so?" Jiang Weiguo wondered.

"You have been repeatedly asking us to evacuate Shanghai!" Liu Wugou had a scrutiny in his eyes, "Is it because you don't have the confidence to hold on to Shanghai?"

Jiang Weiguo shrugged: "Shanghai will definitely not be able to defend, so we have no intention of defending Shanghai..."

"What?" Liu Wugou was taken aback, "You didn't intend to defend Shanghai from the beginning?"

Jiang Weiguo had no choice but to correct Liu Wugou's mistake in using words: "Defend to the core, hold on, these two words have different meanings in military terms.

We want to hold on to Shanghai, but because Shanghai cannot be held on, we can't hold on to Shanghai..."

"How can you have such negative and pessimistic thoughts?" Liu Wugou suddenly became angry, "The war has not yet started, but you are already holding the idea of ​​​​defeating for sure! The people of Shanghai support you so much! How many people have destroyed their homes and relieved their difficulties?" No complaints and no regrets! But you have already decided that this battle will definitely fail! You are too irresponsible!"

"No!" Jiang Weiguo was annoyed immediately, "We are not pessimistic, but based on objective reality..."

"Nonsense!" Liu Wugou unceremoniously planned Jiang Weiguo's defense, "It is a very simple truth, but you deliberately changed the concept! No matter what you do, if you are full of confidence before doing it, your chances of success will naturally increase. Like you, you have already decided that you will fail before fighting the enemy, so how can you defeat the enemy? It is precisely because you do not think that you can defeat the enemy, and you have the idea of ​​​​fearing the enemy and giving up lightly, so that you really The enemy cannot be defeated!"

"My God!" Jiang Weiguo realized that he was completely afraid of Liu Wugou, "All right, all right, I admit that I can't beat you, so hurry up and do your work, I have something to do too!" He raised his legs and prepared to run away .

"You are not allowed to avoid my question!" Liu Wugou pulled Jiang Weiguo angrily and anxiously.

"Brother Wei!" Sun Tao drove over, "The navy is looking for you!" Ouyang Sihai's head poked out from the window of the co-pilot: "Brother Weiguo! Hurry up!" Then he saw Jiang Weiguo who was "pushing" Liu Wugou, stunned for a moment, then showed a weird smile, "How about...I'll come back another day?"

"Stop talking nonsense!" Jiang Weiguo hurriedly climbed into the car, "Let's go!" He was surprised to see that Ouyang Sihai had already worn the rank of major, and then praised, "Not bad! It's really a major!"

"Maybe after tonight I will be like you!" Ouyang Sihai said with a smile.

Jiang Weiguo's heart skipped a beat: "Is the navy planning to..."

Ouyang Sihai put on a serious and dignified expression: "Yes, let's go to the headquarters to discuss the specific situation. Mr. Chen and the others are waiting for you!"

After driving for more than 40 minutes, Jiang Weiguo and Ouyang Sihai rushed to the former naval enemy headquarters at Shanghai South Railway Station. Almost none of the senior naval officers such as Chen Shaokuan, Ouyang Ge, Chen Xunyong, and Chen Ce were there. meeting at the highest level.

It stands to reason that Jiang Weiguo has nothing to do with the navy, but Chen Shaokuan and others are waiting for him. Needless to say, Jiang Weiguo has great final decision-making power when there are differences within the navy. Various strategies of the navy and air force", Chen Shaokuan and others also need him to "point out the maze".

"Second son!" Seeing Jiang Weiguo's arrival, Ouyangge looked very energetic and radiant, "The navy is preparing to launch a thunderous assault on the Japanese fleet entrenched in the Ma'an Islands tonight!"

Jiang Weiguo was taken aback: "Still using torpedo boats?" He looked at the scene and found that Ouyang Ge was full of spring and radiant, but Chen Shaokuan, Chen Xunyong, and Chen Ce looked gloomy, and seemed to have a special mood.

"Of course!" Ouyang Ge nodded, "The battle of the Huangpu River not long ago has proved that as long as it is used properly and dares to fight hard, a small torpedo boat can still sink a large ship of [-] tons! Right now, a large number of Japanese ships are gathered in the Ma'an Islands , This is a great opportunity for our army to attack again! With so many Japanese ships, our army will take the initiative to attack, and the results will be brilliant! Such a good opportunity, it would be a pity to miss it!"

"Senior Ouyang, I solemnly remind you again!" Chen Shaokuan said lukewarmly, "The Japanese fleet is not a fish to be slaughtered by you.

First of all, the Japanese fleet has strong firepower, and secondly, the Japanese army has an unforgettable understanding of our torpedo boat formation and a high degree of vigilance after the battle of Huangpu River. Their fleet must be heavily defended.

If our torpedo boat formation kills the past, there will be no return, and it will be difficult to succeed as easily as in the last Huangpu River battle!"

"Mr. Chen, your words are too arbitrary and subjective!" Ouyang Ge didn't take it seriously, "First of all, although the Japanese fleet is very powerful, the Japanese must never have imagined that we would take the initiative to attack again, and it would be on the ocean! They will kill them tomorrow, and we will kill them tonight! This in itself can catch the Japanese by surprise again! Secondly, we are not a simple torpedo boat formation attacking alone, with the cover of the fleet and the bait, the torpedo boat formation will definitely get twice the result with half the effort!"

"That means the fleet has never returned!" Chen Xunyong said sullenly.

"The fleet should be like this! The enemy has already arrived, so why do we still have to run away and save our strength?" Ouyangge was plausible, he was confident and well-founded, "Isn't the fleet ready to fight to the last man and ship? Right now, It is time for the fleet to fulfill its oath and serve the party and country!"

Jiang Weiguo understood.

Ouyangge plans to send a torpedo boat formation to raid the Japanese fleet assembled in the Ma'an Islands tonight. It is natural that the last battle on the Huangpu River was the result of the bloody battle of the torpedo boat troops. Encouraged and stimulated, Ouyangge naturally wants to make persistent efforts He has made great achievements. He has gained both fame and fortune through the victory of the Battle of Huangpu River. He will definitely not be satisfied with this. He wants to go to the next level. At the same time, he is more or less overestimating the torpedo boat, so he wants to use the torpedo boat to attack the Ma'an Islands Secondly, Ouyang Ge knew that simply sending a torpedo boat formation to attack the Japanese fleet would have a very low success rate, so he thought of a "good way". His solution was to let Chen Shaokuan's surface fleet take the initiative to attack, thereby attracting Japanese firepower and covering the torpedo boat formation .

Obviously, the torpedo boat formation will suffer heavy losses, and the surface fleet will be completely wiped out.

Of course, Chen Shaokuan was unwilling to accept Ouyang Ge's battle plan, because the surface fleet belonged to him.

Suddenly, Jiang Weiguo smelled a different smell, and a flash of lightning flashed in his mind: "Understood! Ouyangge is so poisonous! The battle plan he drew up will allow him to be promoted and become famous. , Second, it can take the opportunity to make Chen Shaokuan's fleet a stepping stone for his torpedo boat force.

At that time, Chen Shaokuan's fleet will most likely be wiped out, and if the torpedo boat unit has achieved results, the credit will naturally go to the torpedo boat unit. Fleet, destroy Chen Shaokuan's fleet, thereby weakening the power of Chen Shaokuan's lineage!"

"It's another damn faction fight!" Jiang Weiguo was furious.

Chapter 173 Sea and Air Battle (3)

This night, the Saddle Islands turned from an almost uninhabited desert island into a bustling sea city. The ships were like clouds, the waves were thundering, the crowds were weaving, and there were hundreds of foreign ships and several people. The arrival of tens of thousands of foreigners made the place shrouded in a noisy and chilling atmosphere. The lights were like stars and brightly lit. Every Japanese warship turned on its lights, and bonfires were everywhere on the islands, reflecting the islands and the surrounding sea and sky. It is brightly lit, and this is done to prevent "the enemy from carrying out sneak attacks at night."

The ships in the Japanese fleet that arrived here had a clear division of labor and performed their own duties. The busy scene was like the scene of the Shanghai port before the war. The ships carrying the troops put the Japanese officers and soldiers who had been turbulent and depressed at sea for a long time on the island. Breathing air on the shore, the ships carrying supplies are unloading the piles of supplies on the island, some of the ships began to return in a steady stream, returning to Japan to prepare for the next batch of personnel and supplies, the returning fleet formed on the dark sea An endless band of light is like a caravan of camels in the desert.

In the parked fleet, battleships, aircraft carriers, and heavy cruisers dropped anchor one after another to rest, while light cruisers and destroyers stood around for vigilance.

Among the waves more than 1000 meters away, a periscope protruded furtively out of the sea, peeking at the Japanese fleet not far away.

"It's so fucking much!" The owner of the eyes behind the periscope couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

The speaker was Captain Wang Lang, the captain of the submarine u-1023 of the Chinese Navy. He stared intently at the Japanese fleet, feeling very itchy in his heart: "Damn it! There are so many big fish! I can't eat chopsticks! I'm so hungry!"

At this time, the Chinese Navy has 33 submarines of various types, all of which Jiang Weiguo asked for from Hitler with his three-inch tongue. Among them, 12 are on the way back to China from Germany, and 5 mini-submarines have retreated into the inner lake of the Yangtze River. , and 16 more are active at sea, including 12 combat submarines, 2 transport submarines, and 4 minelaying submarines.

The submarine general base is located in Sansha Bay, Fujian Province.

After the start of the war, Jiang Weiguo gave "important guidance" to the submarine force. The purpose was: not to attack Japanese warships (because that would be death), but to attack Japanese transport ships (in principle, there is no warship escort).

Chen Shaokuan was kind, and except for 2 combat submarines that stayed on the coast of Fujian Province for base defense, the remaining 10 combat submarines all went to the front line.